The Pat McAfee Show Live | Friday October 17th 2025

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night. Bengals Steelers football. >> We're doubling it up right there because. football was so beautiful last night. We. saw the uh seven total touchdowns. between the two quarterbacks last night. Steelers battled the Cincinnati Bengals. in Cincinnati. I was actually in person. in the crowd watching that thing. An. electric electric environment. I know. another electric environment this. weekend. Pat will be down in Athens, Georgia. Pat, what's happening down. there, buddy? Where you at? >> Hey, it's an honor to be here. I'm at. the Buttsmere Heritage Hall, which. obviously houses all the sports admins.

And behind us, we have the track team. currently practicing, I think, for their. last season here as they have a new. state-of-the-art track facility right. down the road. And we're going to see. some real athletes running behind me. And obviously, this game's a top 10. matchup deep in the heart of Georgia. here in Athens in SEC football. Cannot. wait for that. But let's go back to last. night. I did not know you were going to. be in the jungle. I I did not know you. were going to be in Andrew Witworth's. jungle for a night as the Pittsburgh. Steelers came to town as five and a half. point favorites. Then it was four and a. half point favorites in the middle of. the show, then five and a half again.

And I'll tell you what, early in that. game, it felt like the Pittsburgh. Steelers were going to do what we. thought they were going to do at the. beginning of this show yesterday, which. was absolutely run away with it. But. don't let Joe Flacco get hot. Obviously. Aaron Rogers and this Pittsburgh. Steelers offense has been getting better. and better as the year went on. He's. throwing dots all over the place. DK. Metaf stepping over people, not getting. personal fouls because they're saying. that's not that big of a deal because of. how smooth it was, how athletic it was, and how great of a play it was. It was. Thursday night football prime time. Aaron, it looked like it was 20 years. ago. Aaron Rogers, he's running all over.

the place, showing he still got it and. John Smith, who had a penalty earlier on. the drive, gets a massive touchdown. Early it was like, wait a minute, are. the Pittsburgh Steelers going to make. this look too easy? Then let's go to. before the half, second quarter. Boom. Jamar Chase, Joe Flacco. Jamar would. have 16 uh receptions on the evening and. obviously he even dropped one which Joe. Flacco lost his mind but if you got. Jamar Chase on your team you're going to. throw him the ball. Aaron's going to. throw the ball to the other team. AJ, what the hell's going on here? >> Yeah, I don't know. This is uh I think. maybe got caught up in the moment. Maybe. throw it up and get DK. Give him a.

chance, right? Maybe get some PI down. the field. I don't know. But these guys, you I'm sure so like I said, I was there. in person watching him. These guys both. were slanging it, man. Like first off, Joe Flacco, watching him in the pocket. and watching his super quick release and. how smooth he was blew my mind. It. really didn't. I And I was I played. against Joe 10, 12 years ago, 15 years. ago, whatever it might be now. I was. blown away at the quarterback. performance, I think, on both sides last. night. >> Absolutely. The old men brought it and I. like the show of respect afterwards. A. couple hits on the chest by both of.

them, a little pat on the head from Joe. Flacco, Aaron Rogers. It was a nice, you. know, interaction of respect because if. you can play football at that position. for this long, obviously there's a. greatness that's in your brain and a. greatness that is in your body. And I. think that greatness is exactly what. Tomlin was talking about whenever he. said, "Hey, Andrew Barry, what the hell. are we doing?" Why? And a little tap on. the head, I think, is awesome. You know, Joey Flaco just doing one of these, you. know, cuz he is Italian, so he might. want to go in for a, you know, a little. >> Yeah. >> smooch on bow. You know, it could have. been a grati piggo situation there. We. don't know. But obviously the respect.

between the two is fantastic. But Joe. Flacco, the respect that Mike Tomlin has. for him, very real. And I think Mike. Tomlin last night, you said he played. against Joe Flacco 15 years ago. Mike. Tomlin did too. And he was having. flashbacks of whenever he was with the. Baltimore Ravens and they were running. wild in those Ravens Steelers games were. insane both in Pittsburgh and in. Baltimore. And Jay Flacko is liable to. do absolutely anything. And last night. was a Joey Flacco masterpiece. He said. afterwards he didn't even know some of. the play calls. I I didn't even know. what was going on there. And he beat.

this Pittsburgh Steelers defense. Let's. go to one half of the hammer. Dod. Cowboys AP Tone. Pittsburgh Steelers. defense last night seemingly. non-existent. Joe Flacco didn't even. know the play calls. Tone didn't even. know what he was doing out there. >> Yep. Uh Steelers got flacked last night. Um when he got traded to the Bengals. tiein, I knew it was going to be one of. us whether it was going to be that first. game on a Sunday or that second game on. that Thursday night football. Um, it got. we got we got flacked and uh you know. Tomlin knew that was going to happen and.

you know I think I hope Tomlin listened. to this show yesterday cuz we talked a. lot about the emotional quotient which. is you know basically your thoughts and. your emotions seep into other people's. thoughts and emotions. He was talking. about Joe like it was prime Tom Brady. and it seep it seeped into this defense. last night and they treated it like. that. They were afraid of him all night. long. They sat back. They let him do. whatever he wanted. just an absolute. masterclass from the defensive staff and. the defensive um backfield as a whole. just o overall they looked like the week.

one and two of the defense um you know. Edelman came out last year and said we. always knew what the Steelers were going. to do. Jamar Chase came out last night. and said it as well. So you know maybe. there's some things that needs to be. changed on that side of the ball. Um. also the the record on Thursday Night. Football, maybe Thursday Night Football. is the problem. I don't know. But just. overall an absolute disaster class and a. very very frustrating night for the. Steelers fans. >> Yeah, I could imagine that being the. case cuz the first few games the defense. didn't look great and everybody in. Pittsburgh was saying, "Uh, this defense. not good enough to win a Super Bowl. I.

know we're winning games here, but this. defense ain't it." Especially with all. the money that was being spent on that. side. Then you guys get some massive. wins over Carson Wentz and Dylan Gabriel. and everything starts looking good. Tone. and all of a sudden the Steelers defense. is back. I read those tweets were sent. to Tone yesterday. So that is just me. talking [ __ ] to tone and also all the. Pittsburgh. I guess you can kind of take. that as a jab as well because a lot of. people seemingly thought that this was. possible with Joe Flacco and the. offensive weapons that they have. Which. takes us to the toxic table at Boston. Connor. Hey Con man. Now you knew that.

sweet feet footsteps Joey Flacco could. pull a zone option for himself whenever. he doesn't even know the play call and. then he said he figured it out and it. was too late to actually do a shift that. would have helped him. So, he actually. just kept Jamar there and ended up just. picking up this first down, backed up at. his own 10 in the fourth quarter with 5. minutes left in a 10-point game. Okay. So, that's insane to think that Joe. Flacco did that. But you thought, you. know, Mike Tomlin's going to do. everything he can to get Jamar Chase out. of the game. I I think that was a good. thought. They didn't. He went crazy. But. you also said T. Higgins, let's look out.

for T. Higgins. What about the brainiac. decision he made at the end of the game? What about the obviously hitting it. right up the gut in between? I think it. was the Tampa two, not 100% sure. T. Higgins superstar performance last night. and you felt it coming from a mile away. Con man, what did you see from the. Cincinnati Bengals team now late in. crunch time? Obviously making that. decision to be able to run the clock. down for Money McFersonson to come in. and win that game. What a night from him. by the way. He's all the way back. seemingly for the Cincinnati Bengals, but T. Higgins shows up. Noah Fant shows.

up. You kind of were on that early. yesterday. What did you expect and what. did you see Con? >> Yeah, those two those two played great. Um, a couple things fell short. fan. getting 50 receiving yards would have. been nice. He got 44. But no, I mean, footsteps flaco, man. I I should have. known. I should have known. I woke up. First thing I said to myself was in. Gumpy's voice, "Week two, Flaco, pal.". And I knew I should have done it then. after the program and gone with the. Bengals. But instead of I I, you know, put my faith in Mike Tomlin, I put my.

faith in a defensive game plan that I. assumed was going to be good. Little did. I know Mick McMahon drew up the defense. for the Pittsburgh Steelers yesterday. Um, I get it now. I get why Steelers. fans want Mike Tomlin fired all the. time. This was one of the stupidest. things I've ever seen. Darius Butler. tweeted late in the game. Um, it was one. of their got to have it downs. And they. had two guys go to Drew Sample over. Jamar Chase. I I don't know who came up. with the plan. Darius Slay. I don't know. if he was out for the game after he went.

out or if he came back because I was so. disgusted watching the Steelers defense. I tried not to. I just decided to enjoy. Joe Flacco. But all of a sudden now the. Bengals are all the way back. Like they. win a game like this now. They're not. going to you would think not they're not. going to sell, you know, a Trey. Hendrickson. They're not going to trade. some of the pieces that they might have. before this game because now, you know, it's three wins. You would hope Burrow. gives back for the last eight of them. You know, maybe the last seven of them. 10 should get you in. It just it's.

shocking what the Bengals did. It's more. shocking what the Steelers did or tried. to do or what they didn't do. U but I. mean it was a great football night to be. honest. >> They they they just started running. slants and outs last night. Like that. was pretty cut of the edge type of. stuff. >> Yeah, Jamar had Jamar. >> Take what the defense gives you tone. That's what you do. >> AJ, how were the vibes in the building? It it felt amazing. Did you guys know. that Joe Flacco was You felt like Joe. Flacco was going to come back and do. that? >> Yeah. So I I honestly I I was sitting in.

traffic going to we stayed in the hotel. My kids and wife had already were there. at the stadium. I was sitting in traffic. about I don't know.1 miles from the. stadium and I could see everybody. I was. there for about an hour and a half. trying to get my parking spot and the. people I was I was shocked not shocked. but I guess pleasantly surprised how. juiced the people were. They're. tailgating everywhere. Everyone's. wearing white and then in the stadium it. was so loud. They do a good job with. their game day atmosphere, too, man. Like the lights, everything was on on. point, I feel like. And those fans, man, like it was awesome to see those fans.

and how crazy rapid they were. They. never like got down on them. I was used. when I was a kid go to Bengals games at. Riverfront Stadium. You'd hear people. yell, "We want an aquarium. Sell the. team." All those kind of things. There. was none of that last night. Just people. from Ohio coming together and so pumped. for a big win. It was it was a magical. experience. I got to thank Brick, the. he's the director of operations now in. Cincinnati. He was a equipment guy when. I was there. He hooked us up was. unbelievable. Just unbelievable person, Pat, you know, like the people that make. things go behind the scenes with. football teams. They're special people.

and he really helped us out. And got to. see Pac-Man as too as well. Saw Pac-Man. underneath the stadium when I walked in. He was awesome. Pac-Man and Tish Boom. Heron who I know you know as well. It. was uh it was a great night, man. It was. it was really really fun. >> I'm happy to hear that. And obviously. Ohio people and Ohio football people. behind the scenes at every football. operation are going to be all in for the. cause and people you definitely want to. know. I'm happy to hear that you got a. chance to go experience that live. What. was your guys thoughts when Brick Jones. just tackled Aaron Rogers? So the whole. uh.

>> so Aaron Rogers last night, >> dude. I mean Joe Flacco obviously as. well. I mean let's not get it twisted. Joe Flacco had a night that I hope. everybody has respect for Joe Flacco. going forward. It may be Colts fans, you. know, at some point hopefully some of. these Colts fans that were trying to. kill me last year a lot of those times. and now they're I think they're kind of. seeing it all. You know, I think they're. starting to realize there was a reason. why I was excited about Joe Flacco being. our quarterback. Like. >> Joe Flacco is 40 years old still playing. in the NFL. Is that because everybody. with a football mind wants to pay a.

40-year-old quarterback? No. It's. because the guy is really good at the. football and he talked about how much he. loves doing it. It's like the way he. talks, he looks like he and wants to. play for another 10 years now. That love. of the game, the both these men. obviously have to have to commit this. much of their life to it. But like Joe. Flacco growing up in Pittsburgh and. understanding the Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Ravens kind of rivalry, the. way he handled that and the situation. that he was and how he came through that. won a Super Bowl for Baltimore, it's. like Joe Flacco is good with me forever. So, if he's 55 years old and he's.

potentially being allowed an opportunity. to play for the Indianapolis Colts in a. state that we were in years past, I'm. probably still going to get excited. about it strictly because I see him like. Tomlin sees him, which is a guy I mean I. I don't want to stress this too many. times, but it's like crazy to think. about at this stage, especially against. the Pittsburgh Steelers. He he said he. didn't understand some of the play. calls. Zack Taylor would be sending a. play call and ah [ __ ] I don't know. I. don't know what that is. and he's a. quarterback and it's like and then he. probably makes something happen out of. it and they win this game. They put up.

over 30 and then obviously all of. Cleveland is losing her mind is losing. it. >> Oh my god. Just the thought of what the. Cleveland Browns offense has been and. then what Joe Flacco has been on a team. now. The Cincinnati Bengals are. constructed to be a quarterback's. friend. Yeah. If they can protect at all. against anybody, they got weapons. everywhere. Like Joe Burrow is supposed. to lead that team to the Super Bowl and. they got weapons for Joe Burrow. That is. what they decided to pay. Now the. offensive line, I think they've tried. their best. They've never really been.

able to get it, but Joe Flacco had some. pockets last night and Joe Flacco was. moving pretty good. But the weapons they. have, I assume is not comparable other. than Jerry Judy up there in Cleveland. So I think it's a little different. story, but like them thinking, you let. this guy out of the building, you just. beat the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday. night. He just won for 342. What? And we. got rid of this guy whenever we started. the season with this guy. So instead of. starting a rookie and saying, "Hey, we're definitely in a new era here on. offense." We start this guy, Joe Flacco. Then we decide to get rid of him, trade. him in a division, you know, there's. probably some Cleveland Browns fans that.

think it wasn't a best decision like. Mike Tama did. And then he goes crazy. like this. It's like we had this guy was. our opening day starter. Now he's doing. it and then what we got to do what we. There's some people in Cleveland losing. their mind. But there's also people in. Pittsburgh saying this exactly what Mike. Tom was talking about. And then there's. people all around the league that are. saying like Connor said, is Cincinnati. going to survive this year? like they've. done in the past. In the past, they've. been dead out of it and then have had to. climb themselves out of it always, whether it's injuries or just starting. slow. Cincinnati Bengals are always. putting themselves behind the eightball.

And then there's been a couple times. where they've been able to catch up and. run the table. So, is there a thought. that the Bengals aren't dead? I guess. comes out of last night is certainly a. real one. And then for the Pittsburgh. Steelers, what are they, Tone? What What. are the Pittsburgh Steelers? They still. in it? I I mean, Universe Ball told me. Universe Ball told me yesterday to take. the Bengals plus 5 and a half twice. Told me that twice when I threw it in. there in a thunder. >> God, listen. >> So then whenever I shoot the Universe. Ball before the season, it's for the. Pittsburgh Steelers win a Super Bowl. splash. Do you remember that left?

Universe. It was a no doubter. So are. the Steelers still on a run to. potentially win a Super Bowl like you. thought a week ago or are you completely. out on that tone? >> Uh I would say I'm mostly out on that. Um, you asked who you asked you asked. who they are. Um, and last night was the. the night that you can do something that. the teams of the last 5 years who are. good teams. They're good football teams, but we know are probably not going to. win the Super Bowl. You had a chance to. do something that they haven't done. Go. on the road, win the Thursday night. division game, and actually look like a.

team that can put lower or lesser teams. away. And they did not do that. They. started great. It was 10 nothing. You. know, everything everybody was feeling. good and then they came down and scored. But then Aaron was like, he threw the he. threw the [ __ ] interception, which. was fine. He was feeling it. He was kind. of seeing what he wanted to do. But then. there was another interception. And then. somehow they were losing at half when. they had outgainained the outgained the. Bengals by like 150 yards in the first. quarter. But no, like this is this is. just a team that's going to, you know, win their nine. >> Wild pick right here. Wild pick right. here by DJ. We got to give him credit.

This got him three points before the. half. Huge huge flip, right? But what a. pick. I mean, it I had no idea he came. down with this. I mean, the fact that. you're able to do this, especially with. DK is unbelievable. >> Yeah, but like Rogers was awesome. Rogers has been awesome for this team. all season long. He He was awesome last. night. He's perfect for this offense. The the balls he hucked at 70 yards last. night for that Hail Mary. Like that was. awesome. Rogers has been great. This was. all on the defense last night. They ran. for um Jaylen Warren ran for 100. You. would have told me yesterday Jaylen. Warren runs for 140. Rogers throws four.

touchdowns. We score 31 points. I. thought it would have been an absolute. blowout. It was It was not They did not. do anything on the defensive side. they've been doing the last three games. Herbig barely played which is insane. He. We had a segment on Herbig this week. >> Nope. Just probably, you know, make the. playoffs and then um yeah, probably. lose. >> You want four and two. You're four and. two. You're still winning games. And. let's go back to that Hail Mary at the. end. I I think there were some wide. receivers there that thought he was. going to throw at 79 yards. Did you see.

them back at the back of the end zone. there? If if he would have been able to. do that, that would have been absurd. But he's 41 years old, and I guess it's. the longest pass or throw in an NFL game. since something. Obviously, Aaron can. still spin it at his age. And I think. there were some people potentially. questioning his arm strength last week. whenever he underthrew somebody. Here's. the nextG stats. Aaron Rogers Hail Mary. pass attempt that result in an. incomplete travel 16.8 yards in the air. The longest recorded pass attempt since. at least 2017. So, he's 41 years oldest. guy in the league. Has the longest ball. So his arm obvious he's going to feel. good about that this morning. You see?

Yeah. Somewhere between 68 and 70 yards. is what he's going to say too. Somewhere. between 68 and 70 yards which I think. he's already done to us on our show. So. we would say 69 which is exactly what he. just threw. So that's a little bit of a. interesting situation here. That. certainly just brewed in front of our. face here in real time. I should have. thought about that earlier. But that. looked exactly like that beer can toss. at Tahoe right there. Legit when I watch. that. I have to sleep for this. obviously. I'm so sorry. Yes. Exactly. Looked like he just woke up, just went.

into the fridge. Somebody called for it. in the lake. All right, boys. You got. it. Cro little tiny twostep. Boom. Just. go ahead and huck that thing. And uh. it's unbelievable that he can still do. that. It's unbelievable how much he's. running. It's It truly is. >> It's cool to watch. Ty, what's your big. takeaway from last night, brother, as an. independent viewer? >> Uh you know, the Flaco thing. I'm kind. of just, you know, reaffirming like, hey, I I wasn't an idiot to think that. going into the Packers game. Like you. you can tell with the Bengals like that. is kind of they've they've raised their.

ceiling. Like we all saw how things were. going with Jake Browning. Like the. season pretty much was over. If they can. protect Flaco, like they they can beat. teams, you know, they had some timely. takeaways uh last night as well, but the. Rogers stuff it I mean it's just so fun. watching him play and like being able to. pick out plays and be like, man, that. feels like 2014 in Green Bay. That looks. like 2016. you know, like when he was. winning MVPs and stuff like uh in. earlier in his career. And I'm just The. big thing is I'm glad he didn't I mean,

you mentioned a little bit earlier, Pat. I'm glad he didn't break his leg when uh. Brick Jones jumped on his back and he. went Yeah. Right here went absolutely. ballistic. Like. >> he starts with this. He ragd dolls him. way too long. >> He had flashbacks of his Achilles. getting blown out. You could tell. I. mean, he was not expecting that in any. way, shape, or form. But no, just I. mean, it's far and few between when we. get that good of quarterback play on. Thursday night. So, [ __ ] was going on. >> Crazy. Crazy. >> Yes, he was actually pissed. People were. on the internet were like, "Was he. actually mad? I don't know him." It's. like, "Yeah, he was.

>> very very pissed." They got He'll move. past it. Obviously, he's appreciative of. this guy, but uh this falls into that. I. assume Aaron was like, "Yes, what are we. doing?" And Jones, to Jones's defense, he's just super duper excited. >> Yeah. >> Well, then he tries to give him a. concussion too after. >> Broad loves to celebrate. This is not. first time. He loves to celebrate. >> He doesn't know how big he is. like a. small dog that barks and thinks I can. take on he doesn't realize how big he is. that like hey man I'm a monster. >> I think he's going to be changing the. way he celebrates what the quarterback. goes for just if I if I had to guess if.

I had to guess but on that note they had. a game-winning drive like there's a. game-winning drive in the Pittsburgh. Steelers mind just this goes back to the. Miami Dolphins just a couple couple. weeks back against the Chargers where. less than a minute left they had a game. jeez they had a game-winning drive I. mean that's tough to watch every single. time the the game they had a less than a. minute game-winning drive And then all. of a sudden, no. And then you got two. ago and we got players and it just. spirals into an entire thing. Steelers. had a game-winning drive. They come. back, they win it, and Mike McCarthy. even called it. He's like in the eighth.

football. There's going to be a lot of. close games. And there's nobody right a. ball in his hand. Aaron Rogers if it's a. close game. I He's got the most if not. he just started making up stats about. Aaron in the end that he hadn't done. actual research. And it's like, well, here we go again. Late in the fourth, you need a touchdown. Only can have a. touchdown. Aaron does that with the. offense. I'm not saying it's just Aaron, but you get it in this entirety. And. then Joe Flacco, you left too much time. You left too much time for Joey Flacco. And T. Higgins sliding there. And then. Jamar Chase after the game was asked. about it. Would you slide? And he said,

if you want to win the game, you slide. there. It's like, yo, >> that's a great culture that that's just. immediately. >> Exactly. I I think that's very. indicative of like the way Zack Taylor. is delivering his message that you're. two number ones, right? You got two. number one wide receivers there. that a. touchdown is certainly good for maybe. incentives and there's because they put. in the contracts, hey, if you score, we'll give you more money. So, that's my. job, I guess, is to do that because this. is what I'm getting incentivized to get. paid more in my profession. And then. they say, hey, why don't you be a good. team player and not score? And it's.

like, well, why'd you put in my. contract, score a touchdown? I get more. money. Well, the team went, shouldn't. you care more about the team? That is. always a defense that players could. have, but we all every player wants to. see their teammate make the right. decision in the moment. You know, like. there's a Super Bowl touchdown. I think. some uh some I think it might I forget. who it was. Uh maybe it was a mod. Bradshaw. I'm not 100% sure. It might. have been a mod Bradshaw where he like I. think he was running Super Bowl. Holy. hell, here we go. And then he Oh no. Oh.

no. Late and then he does the stop fall. thing there. And I think we all. appreciated the fact that he remembered, oh no, I shouldn't do it. but also like. the fact that he got his touchdown, you. know, so it's like a Super Bowl. touchdown, which is a huge deal for life. and everything like that. So T. Higgins. doing this on a Thursday Night Football. in prime time when you want to pad stats. and everything like that. And he. probably has incentives in there to make. more money if you do it like dude. And. then Jamar Chase saying the same thing. Maybe since he isn't dead, look out for. the jungle. >> Yeah. In defense, >> look out for the jungle. >> In defense of the Steelers defense, uh.

that could have got a stop on that last. drive. Jamar had only had 21 targets at. that point. So they had no like there's. no way they could have known that they. were going to go to him twice to start. that drive and leave him wide open. >> And he had 94 yards of yak by the way. So it wasn't as if he was Yeah. Look, he's wide open. Like that's the crazy. part. It's not like he had you know 16. catches for 100 yards and you know 10. yards of yak. Like the guy had 94 yards. of yak. He was catching the ball and. then he was just running around wild.

Like genuinely before I always thought. like all right fire Tomlin whatever. This is a game where it's like okay who. the hell did this because this is like. just as egregious as a ref screwing up a. game. I think like the the best player. in the league, the best wide receiver, top two, whatever in the league and he's. going to get 23 targets and catch 16. balls. Like did they even watch? Do they. know he's on the team? Like it makes no. sense. >> Yeah. I think there's a lot of Steelers.

fans asking the same questions you are. It's early in the season. They're 4-2 is. what the Steelers will say and what the. coaches will say and there's still a lot. of room ahead and a lot of season left, but there's certainly a lot of question. marks on that defense after Joe Flacco. does what he does. Now, to your point. about Jamar Chase's 23 targets. There's. a little bit more context here from. Hembo. That's the most in a game since. Antonio Brown's 23 targets in 2015 week. nine. Okay, let's go ahead and feed AB. It's the most in a game versus a Mike. Tomlin le Steelers. It's the most in a. game with Joe Flacco's quarterback. Joe.

Flacco likes to get everybody a rock. Keep everybody happy. >> Yeah, it does. >> You know, so but 23 times it's the most. in, it's the most here, it's the most. here. And uh he ate and T. Higgins did. too. So, congrats on the offensive. juggernaut. Now, let's talk about. something that uh hit the internet uh. this morning. Pablo Tori, who is a. sports Batman, I would say. >> Yeah, I think so. Weapon. >> I I think Yeah, exactly. This guy. Now, I'm assuming the people that are on the. other end of Pablo Tori's investigations.

aren't going to say this, but we as. somebody that's in the sports media. world who have a lot of questions about. a lot of stuff happening around the. world and the sports world. Uh, we're. like very impressed by the fact that. Pablo Tori is just going all in like. this. It is on everything. It's like. he's uncovering stuff that I think has. been around made for a long time. I. think he's only going to continue to do. those things. Like we are I I I don't. want to speak for everybody in the. Thunderdome, but like this guy's courage. right now. >> Wildly impressive. Huge fan of Pablo. Tori now.

>> Yes. And his like his courage and what. he's doing right is. >> very impressive. Now this morning he. released a tape uh and he described it. as a hot mic. Now I don't think it's a. hot mic because it's a pre-recorded. show. So hot mics normally on live show. You think you're in commercial, you're. not in commercial. But this was. certainly a recorded sitdown that was. happening during a podcast uh that uh. Bill Bich was producing called Coach and. it's a conversation between him and. Jordan and the way they talk about kind.

of everything. You know, it's pretty. enlightening obviously, but I don't. think Bill Bich or Jordan thought that. was ever getting out. You know, this is. a time that they definitely thought. nobody was recording. They certainly had. to have known that they were miked up in. this entire thing, which could worry a. little bit. and you're you're doing this. for people, but they were talking as if. it was just a break in the show or break. in the action amongst themselves, but. obviously they're miked up. It's being. recorded. It's an interesting thing. I I. I don't know. I think whenever we. watched it, I felt uncomfortable. watching it cuz I knew that the people. that were on camera didn't know they. were potentially being recorded or we.

were watching it. But nonetheless, it. was found and discovered and put out. So. certainly something that the world has. now. And I immediately thought to. myself, he was doing all his work at NFL. films. Did NFL Films leak this video to. Pablo Tory to then add into his. investigation about what's currently. happening at UNCC with Bill Bichc and. hiring and everything else that's going. on behind the scenes. So, I reach out to. NFL Films and I uh I will say this as. somebody who has a um what has it been.

five years? Four, five, what has it. been? Five years probably. >> Yeah. Five. >> Yeah. >> Five fiveyear business relationship with. NFL Films. NFL Films operates as like. the 33rd NFL team. They've been with the. NFL. You you obviously all remember. Steve Sable talking about, you know, the. Frozen Tundra and Green Bay. We all grew. up with NFL films happening. I think. it's 50 plus years now they've been. around. They basically been the 33rd. owner for the NFL. They have been a part. a massive part of the growth and. development of the NFL. I think every. league around the world hopes that they. have a scores like level of production,

but also content creators and creativity. that are able to showcase the game and. its people while not just being a. propaganda machine for the NFL. And. that's what I have experienced with NFL. films and our business relationship. Now, have they messed up with our. relationship? Yeah. Yeah. Have Have I. let them know that I didn't appreciate. what what happened? Yeah, of course. And. they, to their credit, have taken full. ownership every time whenever they mess. up. The NFL films people feel obligated.

to be good to the NFL, its players, and. its coaches strictly because how much. they love the NFL, its players, and its. coaches. You're talking about some of. the biggest ball fans out there. So. whenever this gets leaked, I immediately. send it to the people that I know at NFL. Films who I've been giving millions of. dollars to for 5 years now uh for rights. for the show so that we can run plays. and we can run highlights and we can do. everything that you know studio shows on. TV were able to do while we were just an. internet business. So, I was actually. the first person to negotiate digital. rights with NFL and NFL films because we.

were a social media show, a digital show. before we got here on ESPN. And I wanted. to compete with the studio shows and I. thought the difference that the studio. shows had or ESPN had or Fox or CBS, these people that have these rights is. they were able to show actual footage. So, I wanted to do that. So, I. approached the NFL. I do an agreement. with NFL films. It ends up being a. couple million dollars a year, two and a. half, $3 million a year to pay for. rights so that we can post and use and. everything like that, which is now a. big-time talking point, I guess, across. the internet. I'm staying out of all of.

that. But me in NFL films is what I'm. saying. Go, we're pretty okay. I've we. know each other pretty well. They've. never lied to me. >> So, they haven't, right? I think that's. true. They've never lied to me. Strong. business relationship. >> Yeah. The only time actually was when it. was I believe Bengals Steelers on. Thursday Night Football and we didn't. use their graphics and we drew stuff. We. did the drawing graphics. I I actually. >> No, but that that wasn't So that wasn't. NFL Films. So NFL Films was actually. fighting for us there while it was. another network was trying to uh attack.

us at the time. So it was like a one-day. show where NFL Films actually two. actually that's a great example. NFL. Films had to fight for our relationship. and said that we were not doing what. these other people were saying with. graphics and things like that. So other. networks didn't like that we had a. digital deal with them. So there was uh. shows maybe even this one. I'm not 100%. sure ESPN was one of them or not, but. these people were trying to attack our. deal because what CBS and Fox and ESPN. were paying was like billions of dollars. for NFL rights, but that was for games,

live games. So how much were five. minutes of no audio tape in there? So. there was a lot of people sending like. at us trying to take once again it's. kind of the story of the thing people. trying to bury us you know and NFL films. is actually came out and was like no. this is what the wave of the future is. and now they have inside the NFL on X. actually so they're moving in to the. digital world which we were certainly. talking about with the Brian Branch. thing. So I asked them about the NFL. films uh seemingly NFL films footage. that was leaked for this Bill Bich story. that Pablo Tori is doing because this is.

not what they do AJ right NFL films. feels obligated to protect everybody. like they don't that isn't their thing. So here's a couple things in backtoback. days that I think the NFL films people. not very in and I think every player. knows that about NFL films too whenever. they go in there right AJ is that a big. part of it. >> people like players are not uh you know. players are paranoid about a lot of. different companies and places that are. trying to get them. They don't feel like. NFL films is out to get them. Yeah, NFL film's always on their side, but also not a propaganda machine. So, it's a fine, you know, it's like a it's. a little bit of a balancing act for.

them. So, I asked them like, "Hey, this. Bellich check video is pretty dirty. here. Like, this feels like pretty. dirty. It's coming out of your. building." Uh, they responded with, "When this footage was captured, NFL. Films did not produce Coach with Bill. Bichic. NFL Films did not edit this. show. NFL Films did not shoot the show. NFL Films did not and does not own the. show. as a matter of convenience to him, which once again NFL films obligation to. like people and players and coaches in. there. As a matter of convenience to. him, NFL Films allowed coach Bellich and.

the production team from Underdog to use. our studio for his coach show because he. was already here in his capacity as. talent on Inside the NFL. NFL Films has. a long-standing relationship with Bill. Bich based on trust and mutual respect. built over many years of working. together. We have absolutely no reason. to believe that this footage leak came. from NFL films or from any employee of. NFL films. So that's their statement on. it. That is now that's like high level. okay at NFL films. That is the. leadership group that is saying that. Now I don't think they know for a matter.

of fact and I don't think Pablo is ever. going to tell anybody what his sources. are who his sources are but NFL films. wanted to make sure and they could I. tell people that that did not come from. our people from the research that we did. and that was not our show that was. happening in our building. Now, on that. note, I assume they regret doing that at. this point uh as a convenience to Bill. Bich, especially because what gets out. and then the Brian Branch uh film that. came out uh or video that came out uh on. in on inside the NFL that was being read. by Lewis Riddick uh that made Brian.

Branch look awful, right, Foxy? That was. the big takeaway from that video, right? That hit the internet. >> Lions fans Lions fans are pissed. It. felt like a hit piece. It was just the. weirdest thing ever and everyone is. really pissed about it today. Okay. So, I basically told the NFL Films. people that I was talking to like, "Hey, you got this with Bill and then you had. the Brian Branch video like and they're. like, "We this is not this is." So, this. is the answer on the Brian Branch clip. Okay. We want all of our shows to have a. distinct voice and point of view. In the.

case of Turning Point, that voice and. point of view is Lewis Riddics. He. spends time every week with the show's. producers watching each segment and. going over the script before narrating. That particular sequence felt different. to us as part of a nine-minute breakdown. of the Lions Chiefs game than it did as. a standalone excerpt on social media on. X. It felt overly critical to Brian, so. we took it down. So, they wanted to say. like everybody was attacking them for. taking it down. They're like, "You. should. We should have never put it up. as it was to begin with." So, that is. kind of their stance on it. And I think.

they they didn't say it there in the. exact text to me, but in the. conversation that I was having, I think. they were trying to provide uh provide. more in their head. I I know that's what. wasn't what the excerpt was from the. nine-minute video. In that their head, they wanted to give context for Brian. Branch on why this situation happened, but it obviously went a different. direction. They said they so that's why. they took it down a they like that's not. what we wanted in the whole thing. So, I. don't want to be here, you know, just. speaking for NFL Films, but it feels. like somebody should in this world uh. because NFL Films is an asset to us, not.

a bad thing to the entire football. world. AJ Hawk. >> Yeah. NFL films, they're not the the. people to go after to try to do that. that stuff, I think, to make people look. bad. It was like the low lightss of. Branch in that game and the voice over. Everything just didn't feel right. You're trying to add context to it. I. guess it's like when remember Tua came. out and Tua apologized and he said, they. like my teammates know my heart. They. know my intention, but it didn't come. out that way. When I spoke to the media, it looked like he was taking shots at. people. I feel like maybe that's what. happened here. Like their intention was. to give some context. Hey, he feels like.

he got blocked in the back. That's what. got him upset. It's what, you know, came. before this. He didn't just jump out of. nowhere and attack Guju, but obviously. that didn't work. And now they took it. down, but it doesn't matter. We all saw. it. >> Yeah, we all saw it. And everybody. attacked him for taking it down. And. they were like, "Well, we didn't like. that wasn't what we wanted either. So, what are we supposed to do?" You know, and then the people that recorded like, "No, we already got it. This is what you. did." They're like, "Okay, we know. We're trying to uh Gez." Yeah. So, I. think they should view NFL Films people. as like they have they're away from the.

New York office. They're not in the NFL. office. is they're like their own. operating team and they try their. absolute best and they say every once in. a while we get things wrong. Okay. And. we are we're going to own up to that. But we would like to, you know, continue. to try to make our sport and our players. and athletes continue to grow and build, you know, that that whole thing. And uh. they're a talented group, but they've. been in it here last couple days. And. Pablo Tori, brother, >> he's a dog. >> I've been getting that footage, dude. He. >> he's a he's a dog. When did he get when. did he get on this path where he started. to like what's he was this a is he.

called a whistleblower? What's he doing? >> Investigative journalist. >> Investigative journalist. >> Yeah, I believe he got called out uh by. a certain somebody whose show is now on. Netflix which is cool about not being a. real journalist. And then um I I I think. he was basically is that right? And then. that's where the Clippers thing you know. kind of start because this isn't his. first one. I mean, we all It kind of. started with the Clippers and Balmer. paying Kawaii table. >> Sorry to cut you off. How many people. you think are pretty scared and worried. that he's going to start digging in and.

sniffing around their program or what. they're doing? >> Probably everybody. Everybody should be. if you've done something. >> Anybody can get it, says Paul. >> I mean, he's he's been on this USC beat. for a while, too. He was the first one. way back when, like when things started. going bad that Yeah, excuse me, not USC. uh he was the first one when things like. kind of started going bad where it was. like, hey, everyone needs to be aware of. what's going on here and then it kind of. cooled off for a little bit and then now. it's just like, you know, he he's back. on it. So yeah, if you if you got some. shady dealings, I would I'd be watching.

your steps very carefully. >> Yeah. I don't know. I think it's going. to quiet down on that whole Pablo. situation in North Carolina, right? He's. not going to talk about them anymore, >> probably. We'll see. We'll see. >> Pat, what's going on, buddy? Who you got. there? An absolute living legend it. feels like with you right there. >> That's right. Six time national. champion, two time as a head coach. Ladies and gentlemen, Kirby Smartby. >> What's up, fellas? >> How are you, man? Thank you so much for. joining us. Thank you for the. hospitality here. I'm at the uh. Buttsmere Heritage Hall, right? And it's. a sports admin here, which is on the. facility though of your football offices.

as well, right? This whole area here is. your guys. >> It's unbelievable view, man. I can't get. over the view this guy's got. Man, it's. it's it's awesome. And it's a beautiful. day, too. >> It is a beautiful day. It's like a. perfect day here in Athens. It's. normally hotter than it is. I would. assume. >> it's hot last time you were here, >> brother. I want to let you know it. changed my entire life. So, >> I got fair skin. >> Third. Yes, I'm very fair skinned as you. see. Uh I got third fourth degree burns. on my face and arms here last year. Beautiful stadium. Uh and now on. Fridays, I don't know if you know that. Look up, brother. We will always have. coverage. We will always have coverage. going forward. So, thank you to your.

school for that. Now, let's thank you. for your school for the hospitality to. us here today and also game day coming. for a top 10 matchup. This feels like. just normal for you. What is the message. to the boys? And does it feel different. this year versus last year? And I don't. want to bring it up, but you already. have a loss on the record. So, does that. change anything that you say to the boys. or how do you treat this particular. weekend? >> It's another weekend in the SEC, buddy. You better get ready cuz you know what? There's another one waiting a week a. week later. But for us, it's all about. fast and free in this game. I want our. guys to play loose, enjoy it, and and go. out and compete. But you know how these. big games are. They're a dime a dozen.

Lane's been texting me all week. So, I. had to put him I had I had to put him on. mute. I had to put him on mute. >> What's that? He wants intel. You think. he wants to talk shitty? He wants to. soften you up a little bit. What do you. think? you guys. Uh, what is he trying. to do whenever he's done? >> I think he's worried about my figure. You know, I told him that's my wife's. job, not his. >> I heard that he talked about you not. doing hot yoga. Uh, he's looked at you. He judged a little bit. He's a brand new. lane though, right? >> Yeah. You know what? I'm all about uh. self-deprecation. I'm good with it. I told him, my son got. all upset when he said it and Lane. texted me and said, "Hey, I was just.

cutting up." I said, "No, you're telling. the truth." But sometimes the truth. hurts. No, >> I think you look great, by the way. >> Appreciate. That's why I wear black. Well, hey, you're not the only one, dude. That is. uh that is the move. Uh Lane, same guy. on the field as he's always been and. then just off Lane because there was. even a documentary that came out about. how he's changed his life. Do you see a. difference from his team now versus what. you maybe would have seen in the past. with Lane Keifin as a head coach over. there? >> Well, his team's always played uh just. free and and and really well. I think.

he's done a great job. I think he's got. better players and I think he knows who. he is better now. Like he's done a great. job. you watch him on the sideline, his. management of game like they've had. three or four games that came down to. the last possession. In every one of. them, they just methodically move the. ball, eat the clock, win the game in the. fourth quarter. He's really good at. managing these games and we both have. had extremely tight ball games. >> So, on that note, have you taught him. how to uh clap with a timeout signal? >> Absolutely not. I told him, he texted. me, I said, "Do you read my lips?" No.

human being ever calls a timeout where. he's saying, "They're clapping. They're. clapping. They're clapping." And I'm. repeatedly saying that with my lips and. he's like, "I don't care about your. lips.". >> Nobody cares about that, by the way. Nobody cares about that. And until you. just said that right there, I didn't. know you were being 100% ser. You're. being 100%. >> Read my lips. >> Okay. So, you're saying your your body. might. >> read my lips. They're clapping. They're. clapping. They're clapping. They're. clapping. And I told Lane, >> you're being serious whenever you say.

that. I thought this was all you like. talking [ __ ] because you got one over. on. You're saying no. Actually, >> in my in in my brain when I'm saying. they're clapping. Read my lips. Read my. lips. And I don't know any coach that. ever has has has tried to call a timeout. without saying the word timeout. That. wasn't the case there. They're clapping. They're clapping. They're clapping. But. either way, I'm going to tell you this. Lane has loved that. He thought it was. going to be a good distraction Sunday. and Monday. And then he did a great. thing by coming out and just blowing me. up for being a fat guy um with his with. with his language. And he took all the. attention off that. So my my kids got to.

see it. My wife got to see it. So. >> uh Well, I want to let your wife know. and your kids know you look great in my. eyes. Okay. >> You're a thick guy. You know, we're not. like Lane. You know, Lane is a little. more, you know, he's all about Primadana. and he's a little cleaner. >> He's quarterback. >> Quarterback. >> He's a quarterback. That is the exact. thought. He's a quarterback. And also, if you're doing 6:30 a.m. hot yoga, I. mean, your body's going to look better. than ours. Like, that is just. >> I did try it once. I tried it a couple. times with some guys here locally. I. struggled. I I I couldn't do it. But. Lane swears by it. It's changed his. life. I think it's put him in such a.

good mood, and he's done a fabulous job. >> I'm happy for him. I'm happy for you. guys, too. Obviously, you're both under. the Sabin tree. Everybody's going to. talk about that. What do you think you. gathered from the tree? And what about. this team is similar to past teams of. yours and maybe different than past. teams of yours? Well, speaking of the. saving tree, I just walked out of a. meeting, production meeting with him in. there, and I realized that he's still in. control of all that. Does he boss you. around like he bosses us around? >> Yes, absolutely. That is correct. Yeah. Yeah, that is correct. Actually, there's. a chance that we were on the phone with. one of his former coaches as well during. one of these meetings. And uh that.

particular person does 6:30 a.m. hot. yoga. And uh I was like, "Hold on, he's. talking." And he was like, "Oh, this is. what me and Kirby used to." Me and Kirby. used to whisper while he was talking on. the side of the meeting. It was like the. good way. >> Let's be clear, he whispered. I was. sitting there quiet saying, "Hey, can I. move my seat?" I sat next to Lane in the. staff meeting for for the two couple. years we were there. And I was like, "Lay, please don't talk to me during the. staff meeting." He goes, "Why are you so. worried about talking during the stres? I don't want to talk while he's. talking." This guy didn't care. He just.

I told him all the time that that's why. he gets back at me now, uh, Lane, cuz. all those butt whoopings he used to get. >> Okay, so let's talk about your team butt. whoopings. You got a team that's. normally just physically imposing on. everybody. Do you feel that same. intensity from this team in Aura? And. what was the thing you do on Tuesdays? What's the thing you do on. >> bloody Tuesdays? Yeah, we get after it. We have a physical team. Absolutely. We've got a physical team, but guess. what? So does everybody in the SEC. So, it's really about who can be physical in. the moments that matter most. And uh we. got an extremely tough team. We got a. resilient team. If you watched our team. this year, they're never going to quit.

They're going to keep fighting. We need. to play better at the start of games. >> You got a tough quarterback. >> Yes, we do. He is taking some shots, man. The first time I seen him, >> the first time we all saw him, he was. just getting helicoptered, concussed, and it's like, yes. And his name's. Gunner. If it's like, this guy. >> seemingly perfect for football. Tell me. why he's perfect for you and this team. >> Because he kind of embodies this team's. personality. Like to see that guy get. hit last week. Zoom in and watch the hit. he takes from the Auburn corner when he. gets hit and how fast he pops up, runs. back the huddle, it'll give you.

goosebumps. It'll make you think, "Oh my. god, did you see that guy just get hit?". And he's back up going to the huddle and. the rest of the team's like, "Oh my. gosh." motivates everybody. >> Absolutely. They play harder for him. >> How is he as a leader in the How do you. feel about the team's chemistry? I guess. not just him, but how do you feel about. how the togetherness of the squad? >> I love the squad. I mean, there's no no. questioning anything at the the points. of our season when it's been tough. Tough at Tennessee, tough at Auburn on. the road. They bounce back. They don't. let the scoreboard affect them, which I. think's a really good quality to have. There's other good qualities to have, but that's a good quality to have. >> I wasn't there for the Auburn one. The.

Tennessee gameund. whatever thousand. You guys just not. supposed to win that game. Keep. shopping, man. >> Brother, that was cool. I assume you. enjoyed the hell out of that win and. what you you just me me me me me me me. me me me me me me me me me me me me me. me me me me me me me me me me me me me. me me me me me me me mentioned it right. there. The resiliency that a coach has. to see from his crew has to feel big. AJ. back in the Thunderdome has a question. for you, coach. >> Yeah, coach, how you doing? You you. mentioned uh you got to start fast, you. got to get out to a hot start. Like. obviously every team wants to do that, but what can you do schematically or. with the schedule to do? Are you want to. dial up some blitzes on D offense? You.

want to, you know, try to get some. explosives down the field? Like how do. you get a fast start? I think having a. plan that you stick to and that you. trust. You know, we we we really did. that on offense at Tennessee. We didn't. necessarily do that on defense at. Tennessee. Everybody wants to start. fast. The media ask me every week, how. are you going to start fast? I think the. prep of that I think playing looser. I. think our guys not afraid to make a. mistake allows them to play a little. faster. And that's kind of the mantra. we've took uh for this week is fast and. free. We want to start fast, but we want. to play free of worry. >> You talk about starting fast. Your.

second halfs have been dominant, especially on the defensive side. Tone. has a question for you. >> Yeah, coach. you starting fast, but they. those second halfs you've given up seven. points in the second half over your last. three games and there's a a famous quote. from Pton Manning where he was talking. he's like I've never even heard of a. halftime adjustment. That's not. something that that's ever happens in. football. Now, do you guys like how how. why have the second halfs on defense. specifically been so good for you? Is it. a halftime adjustment thing or is it. just adjusting to what the team's doing. throughout the game? >> I think it's settling down. That's why I.

go back to the beginning like how do we. play free of anxiety because I kind of. agree with Payton guys. I mean there's. only so much you can do at the halftime. It's short. It's quick. You're not. coming up with a new scheme or new. players. I agree with what he says. Everybody's like, "Oh man, y'all make. great halftime adjustments." No, we just. play better in the second half. We relax. and go play. Why can't we do that at the. start? >> Well, I think getting the anxiety down. though is what halftime coaching is all. about. Now, let's talk about pregame. coaching and maybe even halftime. I. don't know where all those videos come. from. We haven't seen them as of late. Connor has a question for you. >> Yeah, coach. Some of the best parts of. college football are the pregame.

speeches that get leaked uh from your. locker room. And I'm sure that probably. pisses you off, but to be honest, it. pisses me off that I haven't seen any. this year or in recent memory. Um did. you tighten up the locker room? Did you. tell everybody like, "Hey, if I, you. know, find a recording, it'll be bloody. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday." Or what happened there with. the pregame speeches? >> No, my son says they haven't been as. good, so that's why they're not leaking. He says, "You you've become dull and. boring in your old age." So, we've.

warned everybody before they come in. now. And some people actually believe. that, but uh uh it's not true. It just. hasn't leaked. >> Yeah. Your speeches are epic, though. Still the same guy. >> Still the same fire and passion. Maybe. it'll go a little lower and maybe we. won't start with so much anxiety. So, maybe it'll be a chill mode. >> Okay. So, do you have you have different. gears in there? >> Oh, you got to have different gears, man. You got to have different gears. I. don't know which gears needed because. some players need some gears and some. players don't. halftime. I've had to. gear it up a couple times this year and. I think sometimes that helps and. sometimes you got to gear it down. >> How uh much are you changing how you.

coach different generations of players. You've been around here now a long time. Expectations are to be great. We all. just saw what happened at Penn State. I. mean [ __ ] college football is a. different animal. You created a lot of. great times here and I'm not saying. anything would happen to you because. you've won national championship here. and you are cemented in legacy forever. But you do have to evolve and change, right, with every single group. Is this. different generation now than it was. whenever you started? And how do you. adjust to that? >> Yeah, it's very different. It's. completely different than it used to be. People say, "Well, that it's not. different. You just treat them. different." And I'm like, "Well, it is. different because the players are. transient. They can come and go. They. they have money that they're not used to.

having." And I'm so happy that they have. those opportunities and they get a. chance to make money. But the hardest. thing for me to change is on the field. standard like practice. I cannot like. just let it go, right? So something irks. me, something bothers me, a guy doesn't. give effort, a guy doesn't thud, it's. going to drive me nuts and I want to. confront and demand. And that can wear. you down if it happens a lot. So the. biggest thing is don't change your. standard, but change maybe the. treatment, how we do things. Maybe not. as long of practices. We've shortened. those. We want to have high energy, fast, get after it. But at the same. time, I'm not changing what the standard.

is in terms of how you practice. >> Here's the definition of transient. Obviously, we knew smart was going to. force us to have to do that. Uh, it's an. adjective. Great. Uh, thank you for. dropping that. >> Look at that. Number one. Read that for. me real clear. >> One, a person who is staying or working. in a place for only a short time. >> Yeah. >> Think that word. Tee it up. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. >> Are. >> you a lefty? >> Uh I don't see. >> you think so. More more power from the. left-handed side. Switch. >> Baseball growing up. >> Just looks better.

>> It feels cuz I did the Ken Griffy. Junior. >> Ken Griffy man. That was my rookie card. I had so many of those. >> Boom. It just was so pretty. >> Yeah, it was pretty. So I never played. baseball. But if I was around the. baseball people, I would always go, "Yeah." Yeah, just do the one of those. But it turns out I got no power over. there. None. >> None. Yeah. Everything comes from this. side. And I'll tell you what, I' I've. got about two million less hacks on this. side than I do on this side. Yeah. So, it's a bad spot. Ty Schmidt is my. baseball expert actually. Ty, this guy. >> love baseball. >> I mean, you it never gets you a baseball. guy.

>> Love baseball, man. >> I don't love the the contact part of it. Nah, you know, I can't deal with that. But I love the mind game. I love. watching the all the series and I'm a. Braves fan. I love My son plays a lot of. baseball. So, got a lot of baseball in. the summer around the house. >> Dodgers about to win again. >> Looks like it. >> They got more money than anybody. Has. anybody else supposed to say that? >> That's college football, isn't it? >> Right. Right. You're right. Right. We We. don't want to get into that full. conversation, but you are uh brother. I. mean, I mean, I don't know how often. you've said it. I know we haven't said. it enough. >> You're a goat in college football, dude. >> Appreciate it. I don't know about that.

>> You are. I appreciate it. >> You actually are though. You're in real. time and you don't get talked about. Ty. actually has a question for you, but. that just hit me like you're a goat, dude. Holy [ __ ]. >> Goat's in there doing the doing the. stuff. He's he's the best that's ever. done it. I learned from him. >> No, of course. But you are a goat. Whatever. If it was to be over right. now, you'd be considered one of the. greatest of all time. Congratulations on. that. That just hit me. I don't know how. often you've thought about it. We should. I should have thought about this before. you came on the show. That'd be what a. good host does. >> Maybe then I can do some hot yoga. That. would be good for me. >> Maybe you get better. >> Yeah. >> Maybe that's why you're the goat and. he's not. >> Could be.

>> Wow. >> Well, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Intrusive. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. >> It's Goats do yoga though. I see it on. the internet. Ty has a question for you. >> They do. You're a certified goat coach. Uh you just mentioned though the SEC, how physical it is week to week and how. good the conference is. Obviously. everybody knows that. Uh there's kind of. two schools of thought when it comes to. it. It's like hey either you know you're. battle tested at the end of the season. because you've played so many good teams. or you know if it doesn't go the way you. want it to well you know the the league.

cannibalizes itself. Yeah. Exactly. Uh. do you do you lean towards or coaches in. general I guess across the SEC do they. lean towards either one of those ways? is like does sometimes it feel like that. where like this year you guys might get. you know five or six teams into the. playoffs but then there will be that. conversation if someone doesn't win a. national championship well the league's. too deep they just they cannibalize. themselves during the season. >> Yeah. You know what I think it's the. agenda that the coach personally has. So. if you end up not getting in that's the. case. If you're in and you lose that's.

the case. I mean everybody uses it how. they want to and that includes the SEC. and it includes the others. I think the. greatest debate right now in all of. college football is what you're talking. about. The other conferences or the. saying, "Oh, well, the the the SEC just. has all these teams ranked, but they're. really don't deserve to be ranked and. they play each other and they beat each. other up." I don't think we'll ever know. the truth. I always say, "Go pull the. NFL scouts and get them to tell you. where they're pulling from and where. they're drafting from." And those. usually equal the best teams. Who has. the most team players drafted? We did. when we won the national championship.

Michigan did when they won the national. championship. Ohio State did when they. won the national championship. Just look. at that and that'll tell you where the. best players and teams are. But we're. not going to know until they start. putting us all in there and they play a. a cross conference like they do in. basketball. I'd love to do one of those. with a with another conference. >> Are you ever So that's a good question. Texas and Ohio State obviously kicked. off this season. SEC, Big 10, Michigan, Oklahoma happened. And refresh me if it. has happened. Do you do you have any. >> We had Clemson last year where we start. we opened with them to start off and we. founded them. You remember that? Jesus.

Do you remember what they did to. Clemson? Well, it was tight ball game at. half, but again, you go back and you. look good speech, >> you look you look across the board and. that's one of Lane's biggest complaints. and I and Lane is very bright and Lane's. biggest concern is we're losing. opportunities to play other conferences. when we schedule nine conference games. So, that's the best reward any. conference can get. There's less. opportunities for me to play for us to. play other conferences. And the only way. to measure conference to conference is. that. >> modern world 12 team playoff. Mhm. >> Everybody said we should be getting.

bigger matchups on a regular basis. Obviously, we've had like a top 10 every. single weekend. There's been one that. kind of had an interesting slate. You. keep going forward. Do you like where. we're at with college football right. now? Do you feel like obviously it's a. transition era. You've been around a. long time. You're one of the goats. We. talked about it. But it it does feel. like we're in a transition era, but in. this transition era, ratings are higher. than they've ever been for the sport. The sport is hot right now. >> Would they not be if it was 16 or 24 or. 30 teams? I think they still would be. I. think the the ratings would still be. higher. I think you'd have unbelievable. playoffs. It's going to mimic the NFL.

when we get to having that many teams. potentially in the playoffs. So, you get. better matchups for longer cuz these. games at the end of the year are going. to come down to essentially being playin. games. You're either in or you're out. I. would love to see a bigger pool of teams. make the playoff cuz that's what all our. fan bases want is an opportunity to do. that. >> And also home field advantage, man. One. part of college football is the. experience. Yes. So then. >> we have two NFL analysts on our staff. Okay. And they've been in the NFL for a. while. They're with us now and they're. like the difference in the crowd noise. in day dayto-day it is night and day.

Now NFL playoff games not so much. But. NFL weekend games, it's not even close. to what you're experiencing in these. games. >> But the tradition and the chance and. everything like that, that is what. college football is. And. >> that's what you are. You you're the one. that brings it to life cuz you go to. campus and you get all these crazies. You got people taking shirts off and and. and and running around. Absolutely not. That's Dan. So I mean. >> you didn't teach Dan that coach. >> Absolutely not. Dan got that from Lane. That's not me. That's not me. >> Uh, who's that coming down the track or.

what's that coming down the track? >> You got it, man. >> Who is Is it who's or what? >> You're supposed to know the answer to. that. I know the answer to that. I grew. up in Georgia. That's your job. >> So, but is it who or what? >> I don't know. You tell me. >> Well, I think it's a generational. problem you guys have. I I I do believe. that. >> Don't you guys me I'm good. I'm in. there. I know. >> Yes. >> AJ has the last question for you. >> I do, coach. As a player, when I think. of you, I I think of a hybrid of uh. Steve Atwater, John Lynch back there, just taking people's heads off. Is that. accurate? Could you accurate? Yes or no?

>> Absolutely not. So, as I remember you, I. got to go work him out at Ohio State. He. came and I was at the Dolphins the year. he came out. So, I went and they had a. couple, I think Dante Whitner, they had. some safeties. I went to Ohio State and. got to work him out. The coolest thing. in my life, getting to go to pro days at. USC, UCLA, and I'm a pro coach and I get. to go work work these guys out. But when. you turn it back to me, I was not any of. those guys. I was the uh finesse guy. that didn't make the Colts. I did pick. off Payton several times in practice, but I couldn't make the team because I. couldn't uh I couldn't tackle.

>> Where were you? You made you had a. spring in a training camp with the. Colts. >> I was just a training camp. It was real. short. It was the cup of coffee theory, right? So, it was uh it was Payton's. second year. >> Transient. >> Yeah, transient. Not by my choice. >> That was a oneway. >> I was definitely transient. >> Yeah, that was a oneway transient. Uh. okay. As we look ahead, what does the. rest of your day look like and morning. look like before and I think you're. joining us on game day. We appreciate. that. But what happens with your team. now and so tomorrow? >> We lock in and focus and want to be able. to play fast and free. So to do that, we. got to do a a walkthrough. We do a kind.

of routine. We do to get some mental. practice. Uh and then we break up and go. enjoy the evening. We got a big. volleyball game tonight. Our volleyball. team's going to break a state record for. attendance. We're going to bring some. players over there because it's right. next to us. So uh we're going to go. check out a volleyball game for a few. minutes, then get out here. I love all. sports. I'm a sports enthusiast, so I. want to go support our volleyball team. >> Okay. So, I want to watch the Penn State. women's volleyball. They're the reigning. national champions right now. They were. playing against uh USC or UCLA, I forget. which one it was. One of the California. teams. They had a dome in there. Packed. >> Packed. >> Crazy. >> We're trying to pack it out tonight.

It's unbelievable how athletic these. women are now. Talking about athletic. jumping. I mean, we could sign a couple. of them to block some field goals. >> Absolutely. Who was the uh who was the. player's daughter that was at Penn. State? AJ. >> Kennedy Martin. Yeah. Ru Martin's. daughter. >> Oh. >> Do you know who that is? >> No. She transferred in from Texas. >> What was or Florida is uh was he. offensive lineman? >> He was a receiver actually. Then he was. actually an assistant coach for a little. bit in Green Bay. Not anymore. >> Nonetheless, his daughter's 66 something. like that. 67. She's playing weak side.

She was on weak side. Bang. Went over to. block power and then ran around, hit. another one over here. She's 66. >> That's so I love watching that. I love. seeing the athleticism. >> Great sport. Great sport. Great sport. You got a lot of them down here and uh. congrats on the beautiful setup and. everything and thank you for the. hospitality, man. >> Thank you guys. I appreciate what y'all. do for college football. >> You know, your your fans tried to kick. me out of a restaurant down here and. >> 20 people showed up at our show down. here and Carson Beck spilled water. Carson Beck's dad spilled some water on. Connor. >> Purpose.

>> All all the noise around this place. towards me. You have been very kind to. me. So, I'm very thankful for you. >> Just get who's that or what's that? Right. We'll be good. >> You need that. That's unbelievable. We appreciate you, man. Thank you so much. Back to you. boys. I'll be here about a minute. >> I love you said don't be you guys and. me, right? >> Yeah. >> I grew up here. I know what it is. >> Tony, you got any big games this. weekend? Big college games. I know we do. have a big C. We got a hard out here. coming in a couple games. Do you have. any big games? >> Oh, I know there's some big games, but. our obviously this this one's the one. where game day. >> USC Notre Dame. I'm circling that one,

Tony. I don't want to cut you off. I'm. circling that one. >> I I would circle that, too, because. honestly, I think the loser is done. >> Yeah. Loser leaves town. Yes, obviously Notre Dame, that's their. third loss. It's going to be tough when. you all three of your losses are the. three best teams that you played. And. then SC, they've got one loss so far, but they still have a couple hard uh. teams left on their schedules. So, there's probably another one coming. I. do think the loser of that is out. Winner has a really really good chance. to make the uh the playoffs. And then. obviously uh the Tennessee Alabama game.

winner smoking cigars. The. >> Yeah. How'd that start? Do we know they. were talking about that story? I think. it's awesome. They filled it a thousand. times on game day and I I always forget. U but that's awesome. And then obviously. the holy war uh BYU and Utah. It's it's. a great weekend in college football. >> Yeah. Pat, do you know why they when. they started smoking cigars when you win. that Tennessee Alabama game? >> Uh I do not know the exacts, but I do. know it's a gigantic ordeal. I I. remember when we were there two years. ago, I think Desmond Howard got a photo.

with Payton Manning smoking a cigar. afterwards in the game and it was like. he has that up in his house, I think. So, it's a I I don't know the exact. start time, but I do know that it is. very real. And obviously LSU Vandy being. a real thing is crazy. Vandy continues. to be awesome. Texas Tech spent a bunch. of money and it paid off them as seven. and a half point favorites in Arizona. State. How you who's playing quarterback. there? >> Sam Le, I believe, cuz it went from 11. and a half down to 7 and a half. So, I. think they're expecting Sam to play. >> And then obviously we saw Matt Liner do.

the shove. Uh. >> yeah, >> push push. >> push push. 20 year, right? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Crazy. Absolutely crazy. That's. huge. We got a lot of big games and then. top 10 down here in Athens. >> Top 10 down here in. >> perfect weather. It's perfect day. Football is amazing. We'll be back on. the other side. Got great conversations. for you. Coach Saving even. Whoa. See. you there. >> Belle Sessions, who got here at 3:00. a.m. this morning, was the winner. Her. ticket was pulled. And you thought to.

yourself immediately, what Belle? >> I knew I couldn't do it. and he was next. to me and he said that he could. So, we're splitting it. >> Okay. So, Bell Sessions made the. decision to talk to my man Henry Silver. who been. >> Henry got here yesterday at 6:00 p.m. He's been waiting for this moment. Now, Henry, you told her that you could make. it. Why do you think that's the case? Have you ever kicked a ball before? >> I've kicked a ball before. I've played. soccer my whole life. I think I can do. it.

[Applause]. This kick is for 150,000. You said you. would split it in half, right? Yes, sir. >> Okay. So, let's make it 200,000. If you. make it, you will both get 100,000. Where are you from, Henry? >> I'm from Fischers, Indiana. >> Who's your favorite NFL team? >> The Colts. >> Hell yeah, dude. Hell yeah. Come on, bro. Hell yeah. To hell with the. Falcons. Uh, that that was rude. They. didn't deserve that. I like that. Henry, 33 yards, 100,000 for you, $100,000 for.

her, $200,000 to hurricane relief, $400,000 on the line. Henry, are you. ready? >> Of course. >> Have you ever said anything bad about. kickers? >> Of course. >> Shut up. Let's go. Now, here in Athens, Georgia, it would be beautiful if. $400,000 would be up for grabs. Why. don't we double it because the Georgia. Bulldogs? >> So, eight $800,000. kick right here, Henry. But what I want. to let you know is you're not getting a.

second opportunity. >> I don't care if this entire place starts. chanting for a second kick. One kick, 800,000 racks. 400,000 to Hurricane. Relief. 400,000 to you two split 200. grand each. Henry Silver from Indiana. for Bell Sessions. [Applause]. >> Let's go, Henry. Come on, [Applause].

>> Henry. Henry, come. right down the middle. >> Let me see this. Let me see this. address. >> That was amazing.

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>> Kirby was great. Pat, I don't know what. what you think, but I love when he said, "Don't be you guys and me." What are you. doing? What are you talking about? I it is a generational thing for what's. that coming down the track or who's that. coming down the track. I will say the I. just want to let the Georgia people know. that they need to figure it out and they. know that they need. >> what. >> and then the young say who. >> who's Yeah, I'm pretty sure like the o. the older generation the um the ones who. would say they've I don't know. I don't. want to say anything because there's. young dogs that believe that they've. been dogs since birth as well. So I I.

don't want to question anybody but the. older dogs I believe. What's that coming. down the track? And I believe there was. a some sort of generational that said, "Yeah, but we're people though." So, who's that coming down the track? So, I. think there is a little bit of a So, each time I do it, which is this is the. best call in sports. This is the best. call in sport. This what they do here. The call of the dogs by far. I mean, it's just so long. Drunk is mentioned in. there, you know, like there there's just. for it to be their thing, it is the. coolest, I think. So, it is a lot of fun.

to do it. And uh every time as I'm doing. it, I'm like, "All right, who we pissing. off here? What's that coming?" And then the. youngs, you know, it's uh it's I'm lucky. to do it. It's cool. This place has a uh. obviously a lot of deep history and. tradition whenever it comes to football. You can go all the way back to the. greats that played in the past and then. of the recent history dominance that. they have certainly had and now hosting. another top 10 game, which is going to. happen seemingly anytime another team is. a top 10 team with Kirby Smart as the. head coach. And to your point about.

liking what he was saying, I liked. everything about what he just did here. I thought he was awesome. Was that not. that was maybe one of the best ones. we've had with somebody just. >> Yes. Go ahead. >> Yeah, without a doubt. The f literally. the first thing uh we we kind of all. said after we was like, man, he is. unbelievable. It's impossible not to. like that guy and not to root for that. guy. >> And the amount of times he said that's a. Lane Keifin thing if he like, you know, and they both get it by the way. They. both are very tight. It's like these. football minds, these football people. are special. We'll have Coach Sabin. joining us here in a matter of moments.

And then we have uh Luke Combmes and. Bailey Zimmerman, okay, coming and. joining us. They're both performing. during game day tomorrow. I believe that. that was I mean, we'll ask them, but I. believe that was agreed to like ahead of. time because schedules with everybody's. life, especially fall music, there's. touring that's happening. Getting people. to every single city every single week. is pretty difficult. So, the fact that. these two locked in this weekend for. game day to come put on a show for us. And I mean, >> of course, the students that come out. and kick ass every single week are the.

greatest. Like, we are so thankful for. them. But me just getting a chance to. watch this Luke Combs and Bailey. Zimmerman concert tomorrow morning, I'm. pretty pumped up about that. >> I am uh I take it in. I turn my chair. around. I kick the feet up. I mean, I am. I'm like, we're at a concert right now. And Luke Combmes obviously is a guy that. sells out arenas and is huge. People are. even talking about him maybe being a. Super Bowl halftime because everybody. seemingly knows his stuff and he has a. range of doing it. And then Bailey. Zimmer Zimmerman's like 24 years old. He. has like 10 hits already. So it's like.

these two dudes giving up their time to. come do a show here. I'm very very. thankful for. So we'll chitchat with. them in the third hour. Um I know. they're not from Georgia, so that is a. little difficult because I got I got. friends that are Georgia musicians as. well and it's like. >> there's like a thousand of them. There's. like a thousand of them. But I don't I I. don't think like the scheduling is as. easy as everybody just you know what I. mean? Like I I don't know. >> I I don't know if everybody takes that. all me included cuz I'll send tech I got. no say in anything. I'll send text like. this is the dumbest decision of all. time. Why are we how are we trying to.

make a a good show? Like what are we are. we trying to make the people like us or. what are we what's the goal here? And. then I obviously get a full breakdown. Well, you know, like people have this. and then this and to get to this the. closest airport is this and it it's just. like a full there's always something. with everything. And on that note, we. got Luke Holmes and Bailey Zimmerman. doing a concert tomorrow and then Jelly. Roll who is one of the best speaking. musicians. I think every time he speaks, there's always an entertaining thing. I.

think that's another scheduling thing. that potentially happens. Now, I'm not. saying that a Georgia music and I'm one. of Jelly Roll's I'm maybe Jelly Roll's. biggest fan. I mean, as soon as I do Big. Night Out back in Pittsburgh, my first. call is the Jelly Roll. Jelly Roll has. impacted and made my life a lot better. as a friend. And Jelly Roll, I think on. the flip side, would say like, "Hey, Pat's pretty cool guy." Like, I think. Jelly Roll would say we're friends. I do. believe that like somebody from Georgia. would be a good guest picker for a. Georgia game, but if it's not, like. Jelly Roll is the perfect human. This.

guy is the greatest. Like Jelly Roll. story, his music, everything about him, how he gives back to everybody, like. he's special. So, I'm excited for. tomorrow just in general. We got a lot. of really cool and talented people a. part of a program. James Franklin's. going to be here. >> Crazy. >> Really? Is that announce Is this the. first announcement of that or I know you. kind of I feel like you teased it. earlier in the week maybe. >> No, no, it was it I don't know if we. teased it or gave it away. Uh but they. announced that James Franklin's going to. be there. It's like good show coming. tomorrow. I I I think good good show. tomorrow. Now, the Georgia students for.

game day, I think, you know, have had a. lot of game days. I I think they've had. a lot of game days. I think we all as. people that are relatively new to game. day understand that and how you go to. like a James Madison in in the entire. everybody that's ever gone to school. there shows up. Yeah. >> It's like 30,000 people and they're like. so pumped. It's like some of these. places obviously game day's been to a. lot. >> so it's not as uh you know maybe but I. think they're going to show up. From. what I've been told crowd's going to be.

awesome tomorrow morning. I don't know. if they're good kickers or not. I don't. know how expensive it's going to be. Last time we were here, Bell Sessions. and Henry Silver were a special moment. And I got a handwritten letter this. morning. >> from Belle. >> Oh, really? Handwritten. >> Nice. >> It was one of the nicest cards I've ever. read in my life. That girl right there, Belle. Uh B Sessions. And then Henry. Silver, the kicker from Indiana who went. to school down here. This is uh I. believe this is last year uh when we. were down here. Yes, last year. And I. had just gotten a surgery uh to take out.

my what was the thing in the back of. your mouth? >> Wisdom. Wisdom tooth. >> Yeah. You remember that? I had a wisdom. tooth that was cracked in the back of my. mouth for like 5 weeks. It hurts so bad. I couldn't make it anymore. Had to get. surgery to get that thing removed. Was. on all types of painkillers. Come down. here to Georgia for uh game day and all. of a sudden we're giving away $800,000. So, I mean it's it was a magical moment. and uh Belle wrote me a letter and it. was one of the nicest things I've ever. read. So it it's been great down here. I. think tomorrow is going to be.

spectacular, but to Tone's point from. the last hour, the college football. slate's amazing, as is the NFL slate. And last night's game, AJ, I think was a. good starter for NFL week seven. Anytime. you got two teams scoring 30 plus. points, the average viewer is going to. enjoy that. That's going to be a whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We got a lot. going on. Not a lot of good defense, though. You know, last night the box. score 54 plays for the Steelers. 72. plays for the Cincinnati Bengals. So, you talk about Chase Brown, he I I mean, out of Illinois, I think he was at uh.

Western Michigan maybe before that uh. transfer in there. We did a little. research on him as we were watching him. just dominate last night. He's special, dude. This guy's fun to watch. And. everybody talks about that offensive. line not being great. If you can run the. ball well, that helps out the offensive. line for everything. Now, you have to. have an offensive line to be able to run. the ball well. And they were able to do. that against a Pittsburgh Steelers. defense that we thought was going to be. able to be good against it. So, I think. there's a lot of positive shown last. night from an offensive side, defensive. side. Without Trey Hendrickson, Cincinnati Bengals are able to get a. win. Congrats to them. And uh I guess.

the Steelers fans are worried their. defense stinks. And if you're the. Bengals, it's like, "Holy hell, we stole. one." AJ feels like we might have stole. one here with Joe Flacco is our. quarterback without Trey Hendrickson on. the defensive side. AJ. >> Yeah, I know. With Joey Burrow on the. sideline cheering his team on in the. boot, do we know when exactly like or. estimated time of return for Joe uh. Burrow? Anyone? Did they say last night. in the broadcast? >> I haven't figured out. >> No. Look at him. He looked at his hair. He's grown his hair out a little bit, letting it hang. >> I Yeah, I'm not sure exactly when it is. The emo hair was cool and then when once. they were winning, he put a hat on to.

cover it up, which was awesome. But I'm. not sure exactly when he he's coming. back. I think the timeline was what, 3. months when it initially happened. So. people were kind of speculating end of. November, maybe mid November, depending. on how it all goes. But I mean, just. seeing him on the sideline, seeing him. in a boot, seeing him walking around, moving around, it makes me think like, okay, well, Burrow is a tough son of a. [ __ ] Like, if he can get back early, he's going to he's at least going to. try. So, that's why like one win even, you know, you look at it, okay, they're.

three and four, but you know, if they. win one more game uh without Joe Burrow. and then Joe Burrow comes back with time. to, you know, get it done, I have. complete faith that Joe Burrow is going. to, you know, run the table and get the. Bengals in the playoffs. He damn near. did it last year. >> I like the fact that Joe Burrow said, "I'm going through this rehab. I'm not. cutting my hair, okay? I'm just going to. grow this thing out. All I'm worried. about is getting healthy and coming. back." He's an Ohio guy. Obviously, we. think he's tough. We appreciate that he. was out there last night. I saw somebody. tweet and call him my chemical Joe Burr.

romance. >> That's great. >> Did you see that? >> Great tweet. >> I laughed very hard. Yeah, I agreed with. it. I I did appreciate the hair in front. of the eyes. I appreciate he's got long. swag. Maybe he goes with some braids, you know, maybe cornrow that thing back. and see what he's looking like whenever. he comes back. Maybe the Moxy level be. put so high that Cincinnati Bengals. can't help but win. I don't think we. watch the Cincinnati Bengals that we. think they win a Super Bowl right now. But, uh, I do think we think that the. Cincinnati Bengals can have a season.

that isn't ass. Right. That is kind of. where we're at, AJ. >> Yeah. I feel like last, so I I was in. the stadium and I heard multiple fans. said a couple times, "Hey, we we need. this. This would be so big for us. a win. here would be so good for our like. morale for what we're doing. We're. trying it would keep us alive and that's. exactly what it did. Ty, when you look. at it, I guess when you're watching the. Bengals offense, all right, we saw two. defenses that that I guess could not. really get a stop when they needed it, I. guess. >> Seven straight touch. >> Can you figure it out? Do you think. these defenses can the Bengals defense. figure it out to I don't know, maybe. make a somewhat of a push in the.

playoffs or get to the playoffs? >> Uh, I mean, I don't know. I think, you. know, we're kind of high on Joe Flac. throwing for almost 350 yards and three. touchdowns. I don't know if we can. expect their defense all of a sudden to. be holding teams to 10 points. I don't. think that's going to happen. I think. they played pretty well. But in my mind, you know, I was big on, hey, get this. Bengals team off prime time. This needs. to be done. Now, you look ahead at that. Thanksgiving game, the the script is. flipped. Now everything's on the Ravens. Hey, we got to see what the Ravens are. like after the bye-week cuz I want to. watch Joe Flacco on Thanksgiving night.

Exactly. And I think that's what every, you know, didn't want to watch Jake. Browning on Thanksgiving night. I'm I'm. all in for watching Joe Flacco on. >> Thanksgiving. >> My buddy told me he texted me he it he. felt like Joe Joe Flacco was on beta. blockers. He was so calm and so in the. moment. It looked like Joe never even. never was never flustered, never even. sweat. He just out he was out there just. doing his thing. I don't know. Pat, I. think you have another uh you have the. goat actually with you on campus right. now, right? Yeah, I have a man that. could obviously go into a Thursday night.

football game and win it right now if. you were to put a whistle around his. neck just like Joe Flacco was able to do. when getting traded to Cincinnati. The. greatest of all time, ladies and. gentlemen, Nick Sab. >> Thanks, guys. >> Coach, I see the family's here. I love. that. I see a good crew of Jimmy. Sexton's over there, which we need to. keep his ass away from the field goal. kick. Every time he shows up at the. field goal kick, they make it. And if. you watch that Georgia one, Henry and. Bell, he guess who's dead center, right. behind the kick? Jimmy Sexton there. costing a lot of money to go out of the.

pocket. And then we tell him not to do. it. Hey, don't do it. Okay. Then Penn. State, you go ahead and watch that film. Guess whose head's creeping into the. Penn State? Jimmy Sexton back there. So. this man is synonymous with people. getting paid. And in my experience, it's. been all the kickers. So great to see. you, Jimmy. You're the man. Great to see. you, Jimmy. It's almost Jimmy Saxon. season, by the way. It is almost Jimmy. Saxon season. Let's talk about the. season. We're talking about last night. Aaron Rogers, 41 years old. Joe Flacco, 40 years old. Joe Flacco got traded to.

that team like 10 days ago. Aaron Rogers. first year there. They're both leading. their teams to incredible outcomes now. The Bengals win last night. The Steelers. doing well. What are your thoughts on. older quarterbacks at that position. having that much knowledge or I guess. experience has to be a benefit. How do. you view these two guys playing well at. this age? Well, these two guys have. played well their entire career. Uh I. don't think that if you put them in the. right teams with the right kind of guys. around them. Uh they're going to be able. to continue to play well because their. decisionm.

um they don't they're not going to make. bad plays for their team. Um and they're. going to put themselves in winning. position. I mean Joe Flacco has done it. for years. I mean and wherever he's he's. been I mean he helped Cleveland play. halfway decent when he was there. >> made the playoffs off the couch. >> Yeah. I mean, and now he goes to. Cincinnati, who couldn't win a game. before, and they go out and beat the. Steelers, who is who who are really good. football team. So, I I I think older. quarterbacks can play in the NFL, providing they have the right kind of. people around them.

>> And also still the physical. capabilities. Joe Flacco can spin it. Aaron Rogers threw it 69.8 yards last. night, which is the large longest. recorded pass thrown in the NFL since. 2017. >> Unbelievable. >> He's 41 years old. Threw that thing 70. yards. >> Unbelievable. That's insane. That is. wild. That is crazy. Yeah. I saw him. throw a beer though, coach. We talked. about it in the first hour playing times. before. We were at uh Lake Tahoe out at. that golf tournament you need to go and. win. You know what I'm talking about? Out there at the American Century and he. rents a house. It's a big house. And he.

woke up. There was somebody in the lake. >> I don't know 200 yards away. How how far. was at least genuinely 150 yards. >> from an elevated position too. >> But elevated position though, you know? So like houseway up here lake out here. from kitchen. >> throws this thing hits the dude's tube. that he's sitting on in the lake and I. we all I was rather high coach you. understand that it's California the. rules and I like we all started like. taking it in we're like did that guy. just throw a beer can 100 yards then we. asked him about it he's like I feel like.

I'll always be able to spin it but if. you listen to Drew Brees talk at the end. of his career he's basically like I'm. trying to hang on physically because my. brain is at a level that obviously is an. advantage over everybody else. So, physically, if we can just hang on, I'll. be able to get the most out of it. Aaron. obviously doing that. Joe Flacco. obviously doing that. Other NFL stories. that I'd like your take on. It involves. your former quarterback, Tua. Okay. Tua, I think, made one of the most um. accountable statements that I've seen in. a long time from a player when he was. correcting something that he did after a.

game where he basically called out some. teammates, unnamed, and then threw. teammates under the bus. And then a. couple days later, he immediately went. out and was like, "I shouldn't have done. that. I added more noise to the outside. Owned it. It was beautiful. Whenever you. see something like that happening with a. former player, especially one you care. about like Tua, do you reach out and. send him advice? Do you say like, "Hey, I'm proud of the way you handled that.". Like, how does that kind of go with you? >> Well, I am proud of the way he handled. it, but one of the things that I always. try to tell our players is, you know, you never criticize another player. And. in my entire coaching career, you never.

ever saw me criticize one of our. players. You know, I think everybody's. got to take responsibility for what they. can control. And if you start worrying. about things that you can't control, that's got going to start affecting. things that you can control. But if. everybody takes responsibility for their. own self-determination and do what they. can do to make the team better. So I was. really shocked that Tua did what he did. um when he threw some guys under the. bus. Uh and you know, maybe they're not. playing the way they should play. I'm.

not taking up for the guys, but you. don't say that about your teammate, but. I really was proud of the way he came. back and sort of took accountability for. making a mistake. >> Gumpy was really riding a wave as you. could tell, I would assume, as that was. happening over there. >> Well said, coach. Well said. >> Yeah, Coach Sin understands how big of a. Dolphins fan Gumpy is. And uh obviously, Coach Sin, former head coach of the. Miami Dolphins, a former head coach of. Alabama, and obviously your coaching. tree is huge. This weekend it's been. well documented about Lane Keifing and.

Kirby. We just had Kirby on. >> Yeah, >> he was awesome. He was absolutely. incredible. Talking about how different. he was from Lane though and obviously. Lane vastly different than Kirby and I. think Lane saying the same thing. What. do you see from these two head coaches. and the teams that they represent and um. I know it's a weird thing to continue to. ask you if you're proud, but whenever. you see the way they are doing that. obviously feels good for you. And. everybody just talks about coaching. trees. They never talk about how the. tree feels if that makes sense. >> No, I feel great about it. I I love it. that guys that have been involved in our. our program and contributed the to a.

larger degree to the success that we. had. I mean, those guys were, you know, Kirby was a big part of being a great. coordinator for a long time who really. contributed to success of our program. To see them knowing that they want to go. out and have the opportunity to be head. coaches and to see them be able to go. out and do it successfully is, you know, something I'm really proud of because we. helped them do what they want to do. They helped us do what we wanted to do. So, it's kind of a give and take. And.

and Lane and Kirby are very different. Uh but it shows you that, you know, there's more than one way to skin a cat. And uh but both these guys fundamentally. are not that far apart in terms of the. football part of it and and what you get. across with you know discipline and. execution and good game planning and. even though they systematically might be. a little different they still know what. it takes to win and both of them in. their own way do a really good job of. executing it with the players they have.

>> Your coaching tree is pretty average. Last week we were out in Oregon Dan. Lanning and Kurt Signetti. Kurt Signetti. now $93 million. Congrats to him. >> Good. >> Yeah. Congrats to him. We're all happy. for you, Kurt. Congrats to that. And uh. Indiana, by the way, saying we're real. Hey, we're the real deal. And Kurt. Signetti announced on our show. yesterday, and I guess uh IU uh tweeted. it out before. They have the largest. alumni base, living alumni base in. America. And I don't know if that means. signed up to be an active alumni or.

whatever, but it's like 85,000 people. They obviously have $93 million to give. Signetti after they redid his deal last. year just to kind of make a statement. like, "Hey, we're in this thing for the. long haul." But last week, and congrats. to him and them, life-changing money. He's earned it. Good for him. And him. betting on himself to go do this. All. cool. But last week, Dan Landing, Kurt. Signetti, now it's Kirby and it's Lane. And it's like four different ways of. doing ball though. Isn't it kind of four. different ways of doing ball? Do you. think that? And why was your system able. to take in all these different. personalities and still seemingly have.

the same Alabama team throughout? >> Well, I I think that the key to our. success was always the culture that we. created. And I think that every one of. these guys that you're talking about. have created a culture with their. players uh to be able to have success. You know, this is what you have to do to. create value for yourself and for the. team. They all do it in a different way. Uh, but they all create a culture in. their organization that gives them the. players the best opportunity to have. success and their teams the best. opportunity to win. So, and they're all.

the same in that. But I do commend. Indiana for making the commitment. because, you know, Kirk Signetti would. have been the first guy on everybody's. list to hire for every job based on what. he's done at Indiana and what he's done. at other programs that he's been at and. the success that he's had his entire. career. So for them to step up at this. point in time and lock him down is. really smart on their part if they want. to continue to have success as a as a. football program. >> Okay. So I I think we just heard what. you would be thinking if you were Penn.

State there before yesterday's. announcement of the extension. You said. any job anywhere. A lot of people are. thinking Penn State's going to be the. bell of the ball obviously because of. all the resources. You think even at his. age Pat Craft up there in Penn State. would have been like if Sid can do what. he did in Indiana. Now, um, once again, I would like to say I think a lot of. people don't know how much money Indiana. has. Like I I I think I think Mark Cuban. obviously doesn't have an NBA team. anymore. He is a very proud who's your. graduate. He actually made his money and. became a billionaire the first time. because he was trying to listen to who's.

your basketball games. So, whenever you. talk about like alumni being sport. people and being wealthy, Indiana has. some of that, but whenever you think. about Penn State or these other jobs, I. think it happened at Indiana whenever he. got hired. You don't think age is an. issue because he feels like he's what 45. years older he's out there coaching. Is. that a is that something they should. think about? >> And who do you think Penn State ends up. going? >> Well, what is he? 62. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, I think so. >> Yeah. Well, we went to the playoffs when. I was 72, so I think he's got some years. left.

>> A That was awesome. Good for you, dude. You're a little [ __ ] different, though, as you understand. But so is. Signetti. So is Signetti. >> No, he is different. He is in a in a. good way. I think so. He's great for. Indiana. >> They're great for Indiana. >> He came on our show the other day and uh. I think Tai asked him the question about. how, hey, you're not seemingly not. creating as many like gifts or like. quotes and he said in the first eight. hours that he was on campus, he had to. change everybody's thoughts on. everything. So he said he went back to. like whenever he was 40 years old and.

started talking his [ __ ] He said he. doesn't feel like he has to do it. anymore. He's still that same person, but he feels like for the good of the. program, he doesn't really have to let. everybody know that they're here cuz he. feels like maybe more respect is for. them, if that makes sense. I. >> I think that's smart and I think it's. smart on his part. Um because you do. want want to create an image that's a. positive image that people want to be a. part of and I think he's doing a good. job of that. >> I like that you said last year though at. Notre Dame, what I what I didn't teach. you is all that [ __ ] you've been talking. about. And I wish I I wish Shake would.

have went to you in the moment to be. like I have to. I just went to Indiana. They didn't even have a wait room, bro. I had to I had to do this whole thing. Him calling a shot. Crazy. AJ has a. question for you, coach. >> Yeah, coach. Obviously, Penn State moves. on from James Franklin. I'm just. wondering whenever they do bring in the. new coach, whoever that might be, what. what's their first message? What do they. what's their first like what's their. agenda? What do they need to do that. first week to really ensure success. moving forward? Well, you know, obviously they got to. hire somebody that has a history of. having some success who who knows how to. develop a program and continue to win.

and to deal with success. You know, one. of the things that people talk about. with James Franklin is couldn't win the. big game. Well, but how many people beat. those teams? >> Yeah. >> You know, like people used to get on. them about not beating us, but. >> not people beat you very much. We get. it. So I I mean there's some give and. take in all that in terms of and you. actually put being James Franklin put. them in a position to do that because.

they weren't in a position to do it. before and he created an expectation. that u really was difficult for him to. live up to but he created it. So the. next person is going to have to do the. same thing but then learn how to deal. with success and get the program over. the hump. So, uh, it's going to have to. be somebody who can win over the people. who support the program as well as win. over, uh, the people that you need to. get in the program, whether it's coaches. and players to be able to get you to. that level. >> We talked about, you said people in the.

program, people that right, what you. were alluding to there is I think the. donors, the boosters, because over there. they have a lot of resources, they have. a lot of money, and I would assume that. that money gets a little bit more free. flowing if they have full belief in. what's happening. So winning them over. is a massive piece of the job, right? Ain't that kind of a piece of it all? >> No question. But there's also, you know, a little bit of a downside that goes. with that because when those people do. give to the program, uh, make a. commitment to the program, they also. think they have a bit of a voice in the.

program. >> Yeah, I can get you hired, but can also. get your ass fired. >> Yes, it certainly can. And there's a lot. of money being handed over, and there's. not a lot of uh ROI on that. you know, they're not getting any money back. That. money is a donation for players and for. things you need. And if we're not. winning, I don't even get a chance to. enjoy it with my family. I did this. entirely. It's a crazy time right now. >> Crazy time right now. And I think the. players should get paid. I think they. should have name, image, and likeness. But I think this is a system of that's.

not really good for college football to. be in this position for players, coaches, and I want to see the players. do well. I want to see them get. rewarded. But the system of how the. money flows is not the best way to do it. for college athletics. >> You know how they say in everything, follow the money. Literally everything. It's like follow the money. And then you. start seeing like college football every. like follow the money. Follow the money. Follow the money. Every once in a while. you're going to get a Kurt signed to. come through and build a program up out. of the ashes, >> right? >> Literally the ashes. That wasn't even a.

football program. I said this to him. yesterday and uh I know the people at. Indiana probably understand this as. well. When Kirk Herbstreet said they. were 1 in71 in those games at the. beginning of game day last week and I. tried to get in like they didn't have a. football team until last year, right? >> This dude literally built them a [ __ ]. football program. >> That's exactly right. >> But now other people are going to think. it's possible. >> That's right. >> And that's what. >> that creates an expectation. >> Yes, it does. And that's not great news. Tone has a question for you, coach. Yeah, coach, when I think of your. defenses, when I think of uh Kirby's.

defense and and those national titles, like I always think of sacks and and. chaos, tackles for loss, stuff like. that, pressures. And when I was looking. at at Georgia this week, they have eight. sacks in six games, which just. mindbgggled me. Like, I have no that's. not Georgia. So, why do you why do you. think that is? Because I know I mean I. know Kirby's still still recruiting five. stars up front on the Dline. And is that. a sustain like do you need to have sacks. and and TFLs and stuff like that to win. a national championship? Uh, I don't think I think affecting a. quarterback is really really important.

to winning. I don't think there's any. statistical data that would say how many. sacks you get contributes to winning. >> But affecting the quarterback does and. sacks are a part of that. Tackles for a. loss are a part of creating positive. down a distance where you can do things. to confuse the quarterback. So, I I. agree with all that. But you know the. difference in your team is you always. have a lot of good players, but how many. real difference makers do you have? >> So to have a difference maker that's a.

pass rusher, just like a big difference. in Penn State's defense not to beat a. dead horse here, but the guy that was. the first guy picked in the draft last. year made a huge difference in pass rush. >> and how he affected a quarterback and. how they got off the field on third. down. So just taking that one guy away. that is a disruptive player and a. difference maker can make a huge defense. difference in how you play defense and. how you how well you do on third down. >> When you play the system that we played. and play the system that Kirby plays 3.

four you need bigger guys. You need a. big nose guard. You need two pretty big. four eyes. So you got to have a couple. outside backers. Well, the outside. backers have got to become the pass. rushers because those big guys are not. going to be the pass rushers. So, that's. one of the downsides of playing a three. four defense is you need bigger people. to play those inside positions that. don't convert well to third down. So, you got to make sure you recruit enough. outside backers like Will Anderson and. people like that who can rush on third. down and become the defensive ends for.

you that can create pressure. >> What's the upside? You're able to stop. the run. >> Stop the run. Yeah, I think and and. multiples that you can create on defense. with four linebackers instead of three. >> Uh here's a stat from Hembo about what. we were just talking about there with uh. impacting the quarterback. Uh Georgia's. opponents have a QBR of 73.7 this. season, 131st in the country. They're. just not impacting the QB, says Hembo. Eight sacks on 209 dropbacks. But what. you're saying is they're not potentially. built to be able to get pressure on the. quarterback every single time. They have.

other positives. QBR 73.7 not great news. for anybody. But when they were really. good, they had people who could affect. the quarterback. >> Yes, >> they they actually had those people. >> But I think one of the issues for third. for Georgia has been getting off the. field on third down. A part of that is. how do you affect the quarterback? So. those two things go hand in hand. >> Oh my god. You talk about the three four. with the big bodies and you say like the. middle guy is supposed to eat not. necessarily get to the quarterback. They. had Jaylen Carter and Jordan Davis right.

at the same time. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. and Nolan Smith and coaches big boy. They had a Philadelphia Eagles. They had. a Philadelphia Eagles defense, right? That's what they had. >> They had. >> Oh my gosh. >> Yep. And those guys were, you know, to. me, people talk about defensive lineman. There's only one thing that makes you a. good defensive lineman. Your ass is hard. to block. And those two guys were hard. to block. >> Amen. Amen. Toxic Table Ty Schmidt has a. question for you, coach.

>> Yeah, coach. one of the other marquee. matchups this weekend, USC going to. Southbend. A lot of people think it's a. a pretty much like a title eliminator. kind of. I'm just curious with Lincoln. Riley. Like a couple years ago, he was. the bell of the ball. You know, people. were talking about him maybe even, you. know, getting the Cowboys head coaching. job and he's had a couple, you know, things go okay for him at USC with Caleb. being the number one overall pick. But. when they moved to the Big 10, it was. kind of just early on like, well, they're just getting out physicalled by. everybody. If a team is more physical,

which a lot of teams in the Big 10 are, they're not going to win. They've. started to look a little bit better this. year, being able to run the football and. kind of standing up against some of. those other teams. Do you think Lincoln. Riley's got USC kind of moving back in. the right direction, or uh what do you. what do you think about this USC team? >> Yeah, I do. I think they they're they're. definitely moving in the right. direction. I said, first of all, I think. they're the only team in the Big 10 that. scored 30 plus points in every game. So, they're still doing a good job on.

offense. The issue to me with Lincoln. Rallies team was how physical can we. play on defense? Can we stop the run? Can we create positive, you know, down. and distance situations? And they're. doing a better job of that. You know, they they are they are doing a better. job of playing defense. They're creating. a lot of negative plays. U they're one. of the top teams in the country in sacks. and affecting the quarterback. And you. can't do that unless you can stop the. run because you got to create positive. down and distance situations for your.

defense so that you can give some looks. that confuse the quarterback and and you. can pressure the quarterback. And I. think last week against Michigan, you. know, they stopped the run and they did. a good job. Now, can they continue to do. that uh in terms of their ability to. play? So for Notre Dame, to me, the. number one thing they need to do is they. need to be able to control the line of. scrimmage and run the ball so that they. don't let Southern Cal get in the kind. of situations where, you know, they can. affect, you know, their quarterback.

because I think USC is going to score. some points no matter who they play. So, it's going to be how can we keep from. getting beat on the other side of the. ball. >> Yeah, keep them off the field's a good. idea. Keep the offense on field, run the. rock. Notre Dame should be able to do. that. They are a good running team. And. once again, Notre Dame, two losses are. to Texas A&M and Miami, who might be the. two best teams in the country at this. point. We have no idea. So, if they're. able to get a win over USC, I think that. helps out their uh college football. playoff conversation at the end of the. year mightily. And then USC, if they get. a win here over Notre Dame and then.

still go on to win the Big 10. I mean, they got obviously an incredible season. There's some stats here from Hembo that. aren't great about Lincoln Riley. traveling. And we've heard Lincoln Riley. talk about this. whenever he has to do a. thousand miles plus of travel. >> Okay, that's so far by the way. >> Uhhuh. >> One and six win loss, 0 and7 against the. spread, five of six losses by one score. Uh the other is 28 point loss in Notre. Dame in 2023. They've been talking about. this travel a lot. Lincoln has and I. think his teams have not done well. What. is that? Why why l? Because you hear. obviously Oregon Dan Lanning will never.

talk about it. The travel, you know, and. uh we heard Kirby Smart say, "Yeah, people use excuses whenever they have. the opportunity to do it." And the. travel certainly is one. What do you. think it is about a team that maybe. can't handle the travel? Is it. nutrition? Is it health? Is it mindset? What What do you What would you do if. your team had to travel like that? >> I I think it's mindset. You know, I used. to tell our guys, I don't care if we. play in a parking lot on a gravel field. All right. As long as they make it 53. yards wide and 100 yards deep, you you. got to be ready to go play. So, you. know, none of that [ __ ] none of that. outside noise matters about traveling,

time of the game, night game, day game, none of it matters. All right. you have. to prepare yourself to go out there and. execute no matter what the circumstances. are. But I think every time that you. sort of create this fragile mentality, I'm going to call it about something, whether it's playing on the road, whether it's playing against noise, whether it's traveling across the. country, you you you're just telling. everybody in your organization, we got.

to build in an excuse here rather than. making it an opportunity to do something. special by overcoming adversity, which. is really what you need to be selling. as a leader, you know, how are we going. to frame this up so we got a chance to. overcome these obstacles? That's how you. want your competitors to think. >> Yeah. You don't want your team thinking. we have an excuse already and even our. coach is saying it. You want them to. think, hey, we do have an opportunity to. do something special. Other teams might. benefit or uh lack in the travel. We are. actually stronger than the travel,

>> right? Which and if we can do that, we're creating an advantage for. ourselves knowing that most people can't. do it. >> Yeah. We get to flex our [ __ ] a little. bit. >> That's it. I always want to flex our. [ __ ]. >> You're good at that. >> Yeah, got to. Got to. We had a good press. release this week, coach. We had a good. press release this coach. Uh, we learned. a we learned of a stat or a I don't even. know what the hell it is. Emotional. quotient. I assume you know what that. is, but Connor has a question about EQ. for you. >> Yeah, coach. Big Mike McCarthy blew our.

minds on Wednesday when he dropped uh. this topic that he wanted to talk about. when it came to, you know, NFL QB's. emotional quotient. And uh before these. last two days, NFL Films actually had an. awesome week cuz they posted a cool puka. video of him miked up. Um there was an. awesome video of Danny Dimes miked up. and then Bryce Young was the other one. It was incredible just him kind of. telling the team, you know, stick with. me. They were down early. Hey, we always. finish well and kind of just motivating.

the team and then of course they end up. do, you know, coming back and beating. the Cowboys. But when it comes to Bryce. Young, why do you think right now a lot. of people, myself included, are kind of. just surprised by how well how well, you. know, he has bounced back both this. season and last season after he got. benched. And what is it about Bryce. Young that you know we or myself have. kind of learned over these miked ups. about what a leader he is and how. positive he is and what kind of leader. he is um that you probably have always.

known about um that we didn't really. know. Can you just speak on that. especially when it comes to just his. emotional kind of awareness when you. know he's talking to his team and. leading these comebacks and things of. that nature? >> Yeah. Well, first of all, you know, Bryce has the right psychological. disposition to be successful, but I. think one of the things that probably. impacted Bryce a little bit in the. beginning of his career is, you know, Bryce is a point guard playing. quarterback and he can make all the. throws and all the plays. He's athletic,

but he's got to have some decent players. around him. And I think when he first. went to Carolina, they didn't have a. very good supporting cast around them, which I think was a bit of a problem. I. think now they've gotten some better. weapons on offense. he can take. advantage of those things. But, you. know, to Mike McCarthy's deal is, you. know, I always talked about to players. about being emotional. versus playing with emotion. Playing. with emotion is important from a. competitive standpoint. And I think.

Bryce Young does that very, very well. But once you get emotional, you you lose. your ability to think and make good. choices and decisions about what you do, whether it's getting a penalty, forcing. the ball, making a bad throw, or. whatever. And Bryce Young to that point, he doesn't do that. You know, he can. stay where he needs to stay no matter. what happens in the game. He never got. frustrated when things didn't go well. He never got way up here when we were. having a lot of success. And he always. prepared the same way for every game. And I think that's what he's doing now.

I think it's starting to pay off for. their team. >> Yeah, I like what the Panthers are. doing. I like Bryce Young's leadership. That miked up for me was a huge deal for. I I honestly they called Bryce Young the. Steph Curry of basketball and or Steph. Curry of the draft whenever he was. coming out. That was like a big thing. And I think what they meant was he is a. point guard. That is how he plays. He. has a good sense of feel and he can. change the game and he's athletic and he. can make moves. But then as we see the. Carolina Panthers thing kind of unfold, we just think, well, this guy's career. is going to go into the dumps. They've. turned that entire place around. And I. think I think Bryce's legacy could.

become one of this guy being, you know, Cam Newton obviously did his thing down. there at Carolina and he was beloved, but if he's able to win there, he'll be. beloved in Carolina forever, coach. Forever down there. >> Yeah. And I and and I'm very very. hopeful. Like, you know, I always root. for our players. Obviously, you want to. see him do well, just like the coaches. that we talked about, but in Bryce's. case, you know, he did such a fantastic. job for us. To see him do well, I think, especially after a little bit of a rocky. start, is, you know, something that I'd.

love to see happen. >> Good resiliency. >> Resiliency, >> which is what Coach Smart was talking. about with his team. He was talking. about Tennessee. He was talking about. Auburn, how they were down and out and. they showed good resiliency in the. second half. They've been playing great, so they've been able to bounce back. Haven't started out the best, which he. acknowledged like 14 times. But. resiliency is a big trait, man. And. we're worried. I think all of us are. worried that it's going to go out the. door with all this easy exit stuff. that's happening with NIO and transfer. >> Well, I think that's the challenge. I I. think, you know, for a team to show. resiliency, that's why I like Georgia's. team because you either have that or you.

don't. And you see more and more teams. that don't have that. So, the ability to. overcome adversity makes you a great. competitor. And they've shown time and. time again that they can do that. you. know, a lot of teams, you know, don't. have the capacity, whatever you want to. call it, to have that. So, when you have. resiliency, and that's what I told Kirby. after the Tennessee game. I said, I know. you're going to look at the film and. think there's a lot of things we can. correct, but the one thing your team. showed in that game was resiliency to.

keep coming back in the game. And that's. probably more important at this point in. the season because you can fix a lot of. the rest of the stuff. >> Yeah, Kirby was awesome on our show, coach. You'd been proud of his. performance. Maybe legitimately don't I. don't want to like talk out of pocket. here. Kirby was incredible in that. first. >> He was great. >> He seemed way too comfortable with us, didn't he? Way too. >> seems very confident. >> Well, that's a good thing. >> I know. I mean, if you if if the players. don't think that you're confident and.

that you can win and that if they. believe that if they go out and execute. and do their job, they're going to be successful. controlling what they can control. But, you know, the the the the the one thing. to me that Georgia has. created a huge advantage for themselves. is the competitive disposition that. they've been able to play with this. season so far to overcome adversity. >> They do bloody Tuesday still. They're. still grinding pounds out there with.

Kirby. Smart. Last question here for. you, coach. Comes from a AJ Hawk in the. Thunderdome. Yeah, Coach Kirby was on. here earlier and he was awesome and it. sounds like he and Lane have a a very. good relationship kind of taking jabs. back and forth at each other through the. media. Now, Kirby said Lane would sit. next to him in your staff meetings at. times and be whispering in Kirby's ear. trying to talk maybe while you were. presenting or someone else. Do you. remember any of those staff meetings? Did you ever have to to separate them. like you were a teacher like in a fifth. grade class? >> Come on.

>> All right. So, they did sit next to each. other. All right. Lane was like, you. know, a first grader who could not not. talk during class. And Kirby was always. sitting there saying like, I would never talk in class, you know? I. mean, that's how different they were. But they were really good friends and. liked each other. And I know they text a. lot and kid each other a lot about a lot. of things right now and have a. tremendous amount of respect for each. other as well in terms of what kind of. coaches they are and the challenge it is.

to play, you know, each other. And that. was one of the fun things that we had. Um I think, you know, when our guys. started becoming head coaches other. places and we had to play all these guys. that used to be assistants, you know, it. was kind of fun to have to compete. against somebody you had a tremendous. amount of respect for, but they were. also your really good friends. And um. but the point I was going to make. earlier, you know, both of these guys. have created tremendous expectations for.

their fan base. You know, Lane's done it. at Old Miss. Kirby's done it here at. Georgia. And what you don't want to. happen when that happens, which happened. to us, I felt like in our last two or. three years at Alabama, is the players. start playing. not to mess up, a lot of anxiety. that, and I think this may be one of the. issues that Georgia gets a slow start. you know, their players are so anxious. and wanting to do well so bad. >> bad badly, they're not cutting it loose.

and just playing early on. >> So then whenever it's second half, we. got nothing to lose. >> That's right. And then they they they. play like they're capable of playing. And um I think that's created by. expectations and you know, I mean, I. remember the game we lost to Tennessee, you know, on the last second field goal. when we missed a field goal to win the. game. Um, you know, our players used to. always do this chant when we come out, you know, like in the locker room and. we're getting ready to come out of. Tennessee and they're totally quiet. I. turn around and say, "What the hell's. wrong with you guys?".

>> And they were nervous. I I can't even do. it. I mean, it's a crazy champ. But but. it was it was like traditional for them. to this is what we do before we go out. and play. Now all of a sudden we're not. doing that. >> because we're so worried about winning. the game and there's so much on the line. and there's so much anxiety and then we. just went out and played like I mean. terrible you know in the first half of. that game. So I see that happening more. and more to teams because there's so. much social media there's so much.

expectation created there's so much talk. about getting in the playoffs. All. right. >> A lot of money. >> Money. A lot about the money. About how. much. You know, I taught you that. But. um anyway, >> I think the money add the expectations. though. Obviously, you got 19-year-old. kid getting paid 2 million bucks and. then you also got expectations supposed. to win the Heisman. Then all of a. sudden, you're supposed to win every. game. You can see how potential anxiety. starts to creep in and the pressure of. it all starts to weigh on you a little. bit, especially in the front of the hund. and some thousand people that these. games are.

>> No question. But just think of all the. people who didn't pay Indiana's. quarterback 2 million. >> They wish they had paid him for. >> Yes, they Yes, they there's no Hey, it's. not about the money, it's about how. much. But uh ladies and gentlemen, the. greatest of all time, a guy whose. coaching tree is literally just kind of. what we're following around on college. game day for the biggest games of every. single weekend. That's coach Nick S. Appreciate it, man. >> Thank you, coach. Yeah, he always I like. he says I like you guys are football.

guys. You ask football questions. You. think can you imagine thinking seeing. him up there speaking and seeing Lane. Keifin and and Kirby Smart and Kirby's. just I've actually been that guy. I got. a friend Bobby Carpenter who kind of was. like that and I would sit there and. >> Luke Fick was our linebacker coach and. Bobby would be you know drawing. spaceships on my my papers and trying to. get my. pay I'm paying attention. I'm paying. attention up here. No, it's just there's. a time and place for it obviously. I. mean, every single time that we've ever. been on a desk together at a remote.

location, you're drawing spaceships on. my face. >> Just trying to keep a mood loose, you. know, >> sure. Yeah, I suppose. I mean, you are. that guy, though. You can act like, you. know, when you were playing like, oh, you know, I was laser focused to what. Coach Pickle was saying. You are that. jackass in every other, you know, realm. of life pretty much. >> Yeah. Okay. I'm not going to deny that. I won't deny it dep Yeah. I guess it. just depends on the crowd that you're. around and what you're and what you may. be doing. that sometimes. >> Yeah. Who Who do you guys have this. weekend? Ohio State. >> Wisconsin. >> Coach Fickle.

>> I know. >> It's tough for him. I mean, >> I feel for him because Coach Fickle is. one of the good guys. He's great coach. Awesome human being. I just don't know. if you can win there right now. >> Yeah. People want Fickle up in New. England. I'm being dead serious. >> He and Brael are best friends, so it. would make sense if he did. But yeah, I. feel bad for Luke in Wisconsin. I don't. know. I I don't know what the future. holds for him. But Pat, Coach Sab was. awesome. I thought he was great. He was. loose. Seemed to have fun. Unbelievable. vibes here in Athens. I'm going to say. just this has been very spectacular. I. love where we're set up at too. It's. like uh we got sports happening around.

us. I think the track field and cross. country team kind of hubbed here until. they move into their new facility. What. I was told uh here at the Butts Mir. Heritage Hall, they used to house. obviously the track and field. They're. building a brand new facility down the. road because current athletic director. big fan of track like it. So I guess. like it kind of athletic director loves. what they're they're trying to build a. Eugene South here. >> Oh wow. >> Is what they're saying. >> about track. >> Fast people in Georgia. I get it. I. understand. You should lean into that. No question.

>> Women's team national champions last. year. So I guess like they are very much. So I'm watching these guys work out here. during the break. We got some very. explosive individuals on this track back. here. couple Olympians. We were going. down the hall here as I went to the. bathroom. Gold medal winners, Olympians. everywhere through the track. I mean, it. is uh it's nice to learn about the. history as opposed to just standing in. the stadiums getting sunburned. Now, let's talk about let's talk about the uh. the games this weekend, the NFL slate. Obviously, a big story line of the year, especially when it comes to picking.

games, is when the public is on. something, just know that it's probably. problematic, especially if it's over. 60%. That ranged true yet again last. night, right, Tone? I mean, isn't this. another uh situation of that with. everybody riding the Pittsburgh Steelers. last night or No, >> no. So, actually uh last night it it. closed the Bengals 57%. It didn't get. over the 60% to impact that number, but. the Bengals closed 57%. So, the public. and you guys who were on the Bengals. last night won.

>> I love everything about that. And uh AJ, maybe we're seeing the board better than. ever. Let's This is what we need to look. at. 82% are on the. >> Oh, no. Oh. >> All right. >> All right. >> Traveling all the way out. Great number. >> Got got a great one for that game. actually, too. If the Colts lose to the. Chargers and the Patriots win, the. Patriots are the one seat in the AFC. >> That is a cool one. That is a cool one. We're definitely cool. Patriots 76%. though. Don't get too crazy. Yeah. The.

Bucks 78%, Dolphins 75%, 77% on Dart and. Scataboo at plus 7 and a half against. this Denver Broncos defense, which might. be problematic for a couple rookies, but. hey, they've obviously been awesome. And. then the Falcons 75%. Wow, Cowboys. getting 72% at home with the Washington. Commanders coming to town. Cliff. Kingsbury returning to Texas. 64% on the. Carolina Panthers. What have you done. for me lately? We love the Panthers. And. the Jets were ass in London. And then. 61% on Seattle. Congrats to them. The. Saints getting 60% of the action,

getting four and a half. Congrats to New. Orleans. I don't think they've ever had. that much success this season thus far. And then the Eagles getting 60% against. a Minnesota Vikings team. All right, let's go to make our picks here, AJ, as. we wrap up hour two here in glorious. ESPN. We were both on the Bengals. Congrats to us. We win. Now, let's go to. London Town. Los Angeles is taking on. the Jacksonville Jaguars. Obviously, the. Jaguars, a lot of London games over the. past. They were maybe going to become. the team of London. Now, down in Duvall, they're obviously building something. special. Los Angeles spent the week in. Baltimore and they were playing at uh.

Camden Yard. Camden. >> Camden Yards. Yep. >> Cam Camden Yards, which is where the. Baltimore Orioles are. Matthew Stafford. with cleats on just goes right onto the. mound. Obviously, it says Clayton. Kershaw's last year. Well, let me go. ahead and give it a go for the high. school buddy as well. Throws a strike, an absolute strike. And we should know. that Matt Stafford's going to do that. The sign that's right in front of him. there says, "Do not go on here with. cleats, okay? Just don't do it." He. clearly has cleats on and he's doing his. thing. But obviously the Orioles opened. up their building for the Los Angeles.

Rams to stay on the East Coast for this. week before heading to London. They're. heading out to London on Saturday. Uh. just as if it's a normal game. This is. the latest anybody has traveled to a. London game in the history. We'll see. how it goes against Jacksonville for. them. I would assume AJ with some of. their games. They're traveling five, six. hours via plane every single week. That's probably how they're viewing it, AJ, if you had to guess. >> Yeah, I I would imagine. Yeah, they're. treating it like any other week. Let's. just boys, let's not make a big deal of. it. Let's get in town, win, and go home. >> We're flying from Baltimore. It's going. to be a 6-h hour flight to London. If we.

were playing in New England, or if we. were playing any of these other games, it would be four or five hours, whatever. it is. We'll be flying over like it's a. regular game. Everybody acts cool. The. time zone's obviously different. Let's. figure that out and keep it moving. We. don't want to spend forever over there. We'll rather spend it here in a. baseball. With that being said, give me. the Jacksonville Jaguars plus three and. a half in London against the Los Angeles. Rams. AJ, who do you got? >> Okay, with that being said, I I tell you. what, give me the Rams. I like this Rams. defense that Dline especially. And uh. Matthew Stafford too much. So I'm taking. the Rams minus three and a half. >> You could take them minus.

>> the Ram. >> What can I get? >> You can get them minus three. Uh and. also just so everybody knows Puka is. out. >> Oh. >> yeah. Puka has been ruled out. Sher put. a tweet out out on that earlier. And. Liam Cohen formerly of the Rams. You. would think that maybe there's a little. inside information to keep it close. Not. saying the Rams don't win. They might. But I like the Jags plus three and a. half. Raiders Chiefs old school rivalry. game. The Chiefs minus 12 and a half. They're currently the favorite to win a. Super Bowl. Patrick Mahomes favorite to. win the MVP. Obviously, Max Crosby is an. absolute dog. Gino Smith has been a.

little bit turnover worthy. Pete Carol. said he always wins. They haven't. What. do you think happens here, AJ? >> This one? I mean, 12 and a half seems. like so much, but if you if you don't. pick the Chiefs and you know, they go on. and win by 20, you're think what's going. on? But I'm taking the uh you know what, give me the Raiders. I like Max Crosby. That dude just can't be blocked. >> Okay, here's some updates about the. Raiders from Ryan McFaden. For the. second straight day, wide receiver. Jacobe Myers, Neto, and Brock Bars did. not practice. Las Vegas could be without. its two top pass catchers. And I didn't. tell you that until after you made your.

pick. I will take the cheese. >> Okay. Philadelphia. >> Oo, >> I'll take that. Give me that. Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah, >> that's right. AJ, let's not be getting. too crazy. Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings. Eagles favored by two. and a half, even though it feels like. the world is collapsing out there. And. the Minnesota Vikings, it's Carson Wentz. or JJ McCarthy, boys. >> Believe it's Wentz. >> Yeah. >> For a second straight day post by, the. Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy was. listed as a limited participant in. practice, says Adam Sheffer. Carson.

Wentz listed as full participant. So. maybe we're about a week or two out from. JJ McCarthy coming back. Carson Wentz. got to go. Who do you like? AJ, >> give me uh the Philadelphia Eagles here, Pat. It's too good. >> Minus one and a half. We get him for. Let's do it. >> I like that. I didn't like that he. didn't know who Justin Jefferson was. with a camera, but I did appreciate the. way that whole thing went. I guess. whenever he shook his hands and his hand. just engulfed him, they [ __ ] These are. some big hands for a photographer. Oh, wait. This is Justin Jefferson. Great. acting out of JJ. I've seen him act uh.

in a Super Bowl commercial. And. obviously everywhere he is is. electrifying. What a great superstar for. the league and for the Vikings. I'm. happy they did all that. On that note, there's been a lot of negative stuff. said in Sirion can pull all those. kibbles and bits for the boys. Ain't. that right, Ty? Yeah, absolutely. And. you know, a lot of people are even. throwing more gas on this and saying, "Hey, guess what? If the Eagles if the. Eagles do lose this week, then maybe AJ. Brown's headed out of town, maybe a. handful of these other guys." So, Sirani. is going to have the boys ready to go.

And at the end of the day, O line Dline, Howie, you know that. >> uh the Patriots, uh Boston Connor's. hoping for AJ Brown and anybody that's. potentially available at the trade. deadline. Let's go on a run. They might. be the number one seed if the Colts. lose. I got the Eagles minus two and a. half. Saints Bears, who do you like, AJ? 60% on the Saints. Remember, >> I will take the Bears at home here. >> Four and a half. >> I will take the I would take the Bears. as well. Patriots Titans. Is there any. different lines we need to know about. Tone? >> Patriots Titans. There is uh 6 and a. half or seven. >> Uh okay. So, I will take the Patriots.

minus 6 and a half in Vable's revenge. game. AJ, who do you like? >> Yep. Give me Braves. Give me the. Patriots. >> Okay. Miami Dolphins taking on the. Browns. Any different lines we need. there? >> Two and a half across the board. >> Okay. Hey, I will take the Cleveland. Browns minus 2 and a half against the. Dolphins. Sorry about it, Gumpy. Is that. a good pick or a bad pick? >> Uh, it's going to be uh wet and rainy. and muddy in Cleveland. So, just Dylan. Gabriel and Tua slinging it in the rain. >> or running is what we're thinking is. going to be happen. I think they're. saying like 50 mph wind gust potentially. on that lake there. I like the Browns in.

that situation. AJ, you as well. >> Yep. Give me the Browns. >> Carolina Panthers. Obviously, everybody's high on them because what. they were able to accomplish last week. at the end of the game down 17, they. come back and win. Bryce Young looks. like a bonafide superstar and I think. they have weapons outside. Jets were. ass, but they were taking on Denver. Broncos defense that was incredible. What do you like, AJ? And is there any. other lines we can get, Tone? >> One and a half across the board. >> Okay, give me the Panthers at one and a. half here. Pat, >> I would do the same. Uh, Colts have 82%. of the money on them getting a point and. a half as they head over to Los Angeles.

to take on this Chargers team. Jim. Harbaugh has been fantastic on the. microphone this week talking about Jim. Ersce and Justin Herbert. Steven Holders. reporting that Colts coach Shane Stiken. says quarterback Kenny Moore will return. on Sunday. Hell yeah. Great to have you. back. Josh DS Charvarius Ward still out. alongside Ashton Duelan wide receiver. That's a lot of wide receiver weapons, Don. And obviously Mooney still out from. the pregame hit from last week. I like. the Charger or the Colts getting a point. and a half against the Chargers. Don't.

love 82% of the money on them. Go ahead, AJ. >> Two, Pat. >> Two. Okay. Yeah, >> I will. >> Give us both the Colts at two points. here. I've learned my lesson. I can't. pick against the Colts right now. >> 82%'s a big number. Giants at the. Broncos. I like the Giants getting seven. and a half. Can we get any more points? >> No, but you could get less if you want. the Broncos at seven. Age, >> give me the Broncos at seven here then. Even though I do love what the Giants. are doing. Give me Broncos. >> I actually will take the Broncos at. seven as well. Uh Washington Commanders, Dallas Cowboys. Cowboys favored by one.

and a half at home. This is a sunlike. game. Mike McCarthy wanted to talk. about, we didn't get to it. Gonna be. weird shadows in Jerry World. Will that. affect the Washington Commanders who. aren't ready for it? AJ, >> uh, yeah, I think it will. Give me the. Cowboys. >> You get him at Cowboys at minus one. >> Got it. >> I'll take the Commanders at what? >> One and a half. >> Uh, Cowboys coach Brian Shanheimer said. Trevon Diggs had an accident in his home. last night. He has a concussion now. He. won't play Sunday. Probably hit. something while he's walking through the. house. What a nightmare situation that. is. So, I will take the Washington.

Commanders. And how many points can I. get? >> One and a half. Okay, I'll do that. And then we got. Packers cards tie. What are your uh. thoughts on Ganon maybe having a. big-time game two weeks removed from. slapping a guy? >> Yeah, it is certainly possible. Matt. Laflur basically said, "Hey, listen. I. know these guys are two and four. Don't. you dare underestimate them. We know. what they can do." Uh the Packers have. had like 800 different guys play. offensive line this year. So hopefully, you know, they'll be get a little bit of. continuity. Um six and a half on the. road. I don't know. after a piss poor.

performance last last week. I kind of. like the Packers to bounce back. >> Okay. You like the Packers to bounce. back, AJ? Do you? >> Yep. Packers my six and a half. >> I'll take that as well. And then Sunday. Night Football. Falcons. NerS. This. Falcons team has become the bell of the. ball. Bjon Robinson, potential MVP. candidate that isn't a quarterback. And. the NerS, they're still hurt. Who do you. like? How do you like it, AJ? >> Uh, I like Falcons defense and Bjon. Give me Falcons. I'll take the Falcons as well. Getting. two and a half on Sunday Night Football. Feels like we agreed on a lot. Feels.

like we probably uh agreed with the. public on a lot. Probably means we're. going to have an ass score, but I know. it's going to be a great time. Have an. incredible weekend everybody. We can't. thank you enough for allowing us to do. this for a living. It's a great weekend. of ball. Enjoy every single moment with. your friends, your family, and then on. overreaction Monday, we're going to. bring the hammer. >> Goodbye. >> Yeah. Hey, way to adjust there, boys. You got it. >> Way to adjust there, boys. bring that. thing at the end. It's never at the end. And I don't know why we went there, but. I appreciate the fact that we did. Gumpy.

was yelling over here. Gumpy was. absolutely yelling over here. He was. going crazy, which I'm very grateful. for. And uh let's take a break. AJ, we. got two music country music superstars. joining us. >> So going to roll into the greatest. weekend of all time. So be a friend, tell a friend something nice. It might. change their life. And uh speaking of. changing a life, how about saving a. life? We actually caught on film and. thank God we did. We had these cameras. set up and everything like that. Had the. proper equipment. Author Jack Carr saved. the world again. And nobody would have.

known if it didn't happen at the. Thunderdome. You're going to get a. chance to see a man do something great. Maybe you'll buy a book because of it. And then on the other side, we got some. legends joining us as we propel into the. greatest weekend of all time. We'll see. you then. Be a friend. Tell a friend. something nice. Might change your life. Take five. >> Five. [Music]. >> Jack, you got anything to say to the. team here? >> Oh man, you guys keep crushing and. firing everybody up. It's bigger than. you guys and you guys are the freaking. best. >> Boom. >> Thank you. >> That's amazing. >> Yes. God damn. I needed that.

>> I got back in shape. The best shape of. my life. I felt like I just throw people. through walls. Oh [ __ ] What's. happening? >> I don't know. [Music]. >> What the [ __ ] is this? We interrupt your. regular programming with breaking news. >> We have reports of a UAP approaching. Indianapolis. They have messaged to. officials they are coming to take over. the world. >> Government agencies have been alerted.

that they plan to land and activate. Earth's Armageddon switch. >> This is literally the scariest situation. imaginable. A true doomsday scenario. Please stay calm. Seek shelter. immediately and pray to whatever god or. higher power you believe in. Was that. >> what? Landed here. >> I think Indianapolis. What? So that. can't be. >> We got to go find these [ __ ]. >> Yeah, >> that's what we need to do. >> I think that sounds like something you.

should Jack car. >> I don't know. We need to. >> Let's go. Come on. Let's go. >> All right. Now, let's go. Yeah. [Music]. [Music]. [ __ ] these pieces of [ __ ] Get them. [Music]. >> Oh, there it is. It's here. It's here.

It's the button. >> Yeah, it is. >> Hey, do you have a rifle? No. I got something better. I got. something better, Jack. I've been saving this. >> What? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> What is this thing? This asked for a. rifle. What is this? >> Yeah, it uh it kills aliens. Yeah, I. bought it online. Deep web. >> That's certainly convenient for us. All. right, here we go.

>> Hey, you be my spotter. >> Oh my god. It'd be my honor. Let's go. kill these. >> [ __ ] do this. >> Where are they? >> I don't know. I think they're coming. Yeah, I think they might be coming from. right over here. Yeah. Yeah, it looks. like I see their [ __ ] ship. Let's go. They're not going to get to that button, Jack. Nope. They will not get to that. button. Is that one of them? >> Yeah. Black helmet, car heart, khaki. He's walking right at you. Go ahead and. tap. Yep. Yep. Yep. That's it, Jack.

Carr. That's it, Jack Carr. You killed. that son of a [ __ ]. >> Oh, there's another one. He looks the. exact same. A little taller. A little. bit more awkward. >> Little more awkward. Yeah. Yeah. He's in. same spot though. Go ahead and get him. Go ahead. Get him. Oh. Yeah. There he. is. Good hit, Jack. >> Two down. Two down. >> Two dead aliens. Not a war.

>> Oh, he came down backwards. This one's. showing you his back. No respect. >> No respect. kind of a disrespectful. alien here as he drags his carcass. around. Looks different. Oh, all three. of them stacked up. Jack Horse slaying. aliens.

>> Oh, there's one more. >> It's a big one. >> Oh, he looks like an eater. >> He is an eater. >> Oh, man. >> This must be their supreme commander. Look at the size. He's looking at you, Jack. He's coming at you, Jack. He's. gonna intercept. Get his big ass back. B. This guy's trying to take down our. planet. Go the [ __ ] out. That's it, Jack.

Go back to where you came from, you sack. of [ __ ]. Hey, good work, dude. Amazing. >> That was awesome day. I mean, they were. going to [ __ ] come in here. I mean, they just popped up and then you just. shot him right in the [ __ ] head. >> I don't know. Good thing we saw that. newscast when we did. >> Well, that's the that's why they do the.

live alert. >> I don't know. Did we know that that's. still. >> I feel like that should have been. disclosed when we bought this place. >> The legit. >> Let's go and talk to the boys. >> Amazing. Let's do it. What a life you. live, man. I'm just glad you had this. rifle and I had those binos. What are. the odds of that? >> I mean, I could see them. >> Good thing I carry those with me. everywhere I go. >> The big one at the end really ate some. [ __ ] pain. Yeah. I feel like he. stopped somewhere on the way in for a. snack. Yes, he did. Yes, he did.

>> Are we Are we good? >> What do you think, boys? [ __ ] Jack. Carr's here. [Applause]. If that's not enough reason to buy his. new book, I don't know what is. [ __ ]. just saved the earth and nobody would.

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beautiful setting? He looks like some. country music superstars, I think. >> Yeah, we got legends that are selling. out Notre Dame and Wembley a couple. times and Luke Combmes. And then a man. who's about to take over the entire. globe. A 25-year-old who has banger. after banger after banger at such a. young career and has no [ __ ] idea, okay, that he's 25 years old and he's. living a different life than everybody. else right now. Bailey Zimmerman and. Luke. >> Yeah, boys. Uh, obviously we're incredibly thankful. that you stopped by, but also thank you. so much for committing to do College.

Game Day. I know with schedules and. everybody's tours, we're very, very. thankful you're here. Let's talk about. it. You just announced a show tonight. here. >> Yeah. Yeah. Georgia theater tonight. >> He just announced it this morning. Sold. out. Uh, you got a world tour going on, right? My kind of Saturday night where. you'll be at Wembley and also anywhere. else that uh. >> uh Yeah, we'll be at the at the V. stadium in Knoxville doing Ames, Iowa. State. We're doing. >> So, we're doing uh Yeah. two nights at.

Wembley, two nights at Sling Castle in. Dublin, >> uh Murrayfield and Glasgow. All over the. place, man. There it is. On a Saturday night, I do I want to let. you know, I did ask him beforehand about. what information I should have, and he. goes, "I'm a dad, dude. You should ask. somebody else, man." Shout out to Cappy. right there on Q to have all the. answers. obviously an entire operation. making magic happen. And Bailey, we'll. certainly dive into the world that. you're in right now, but Luke seemingly. was at your time not that long ago,

brother. It feels like you've had a. meteoric rise quickly. I I think. obviously at AppState whenever uh you. came to college game day, whenever we. were up there, you were doing arenas at. that point and then you've kind of just. continued to grow. How has it been on. this rocket ship and how much do you. still love what you do at this stage. versus maybe at the beginning? >> It's been crazy. when I was his age. I. mean, I was in I'd just been in. Nashville. Hadn't signed my record deal. yet. And I last time I played Georgia. Theater was at 26.

>> So that would have been a year a year. from now. This guy was my the last time. I played Georgia Theater. >> 900 C Theater. Then now you're selling. out Wembley like you're the [ __ ]. Beatles, >> dude. Good for you, brother. Honestly, it's been fun to watch because you're a. sports guy, so we appreciate sports. people making it in there. They don't. suck. We'll dive into that. Bailey, let's talk about you now. Obviously, I. met you whenever you were opening for. Morgan. >> Yeah. >> Uh then you just did an amphitheater. tour. You're on your way to be able to. do a range. You're in the middle of it. And I think the way we talked to him. last time about how music industry has.

changed so much with what the writers. make and how the business is, you're. kind of growing up in this era of the. digital era. How has it been? And how. much have you enjoyed the career thus. far? >> Oh man, it's it's um I I I really have. social media and digital to thank for my. career. I feel like because without that. I I I I tell everybody four years ago in. like 2020 21 I was living in my mom's. trailer and I had never sang in my life. and I just tried to sing one day. music.

is awesome. >> and and and I put it on social media, dude. And it just blew up overnight and. I quit my job and then all of a sudden I. just did with Luke Combs and we just had. a number one in four different countries. and we're here on, you know, game day. It's so it's like it's it's honestly. been everything to me. Yeah. >> I will say I enjoy the hell out of your. brand new freshness and feel and. appreciation of the entirety. How many. uh moments has there been like opening. for Morgan? Nice room. You look in the. mirror and say, "What the hell is this?".

>> You crushed it though, brother. >> Oh, thanks, dude. I I tell everybody. that is one of my like the biggest pinch. me moment was when I got the call that I. was going on tour with Morgan and it was. just like, man, this is just like. >> this really doesn't feel like real life. It felt like just I was living in a. dream and it it's felt like that sense. It's. >> You nailed it though. And you need to. know that. Luke, do you talk to any of. the young guy? You're OG now, dude. You. got kids now. >> Yeah, dude. I'm Yeah, it's crazy to. think about. Yeah. Whenever you guys. make backup plan, which is the song you. were talking about being number one in.

four different uh countries or whatever, do you give game? What is the advice to. kind of younger guys? >> Yeah, I mean I I told Bailey, you know, when when we met him, I I try to be. because I I feel like there was kind of. in our business a little bit of a lack. of like artist to artist conversations. that were real open. So I always try to. be like, "Hey man, seriously, dude, like. if you call me, I'll pick the phone up. It doesn't matter what time it is. I've. been there. >> I've been there. And like if you if you. need me, like I I needed somebody and.

there were times when there was nobody. there for me. So I appreciate. >> being able to be that person for. somebody else because I know how lonely. it can feel. I know how strange it can. feel. I know how unordinary, unnormal it. is to be in the position that we're in, especially when you're 25 years old or. 22 years old. >> Yeah. And the creative mind is always. something that's different than. everybody else. blessing and. >> it really is something that like. >> not everybody really understands it. So. to like have him as like just somebody.

that I can talk to just about the. certain things that others wouldn't. understand. It's like. >> yeah, it's cool to have somebody in my. corner, you know, and really wants to. like actually help me when I go through. the ups and downs of this whole like. being famous or whatever. >> That's crazy. That's good. T sports guy. He's baseball guy. We talked to him. He's a baseball guy. Baseball guy. not. the not the biggest football guy getting. into football as of late. He said, "Where are you from?" Didn't really get. into football. Got into baseball and. then obviously he did the college game. day at JMU with the Joe Bros. 30,000.

people there. You're Moxy. You heard. Tone right there. You just heard the Oh, yeah. Right there. >> That guy became a fan of you that night. or that morning because you're Moxy, brother. You're absolute Moxy was. >> so you need to know that. And before we. send it back to the boys for questions. for you, I need to ask you, one of the. last times you're on the show, the. Carolina Panthers were like the worst. ever. Like. >> literally, they were down bad. Yeah, they were bad. >> They were down bad. Yeah, they were. >> owner was throwing ice on people. >> Yep. >> Local buildings and stores were writing. signs to the owner. >> I mean, it it got bad. And you said,

"Hey, >> I'd like to be proud to be fan one time. in my life. >> How about now, bro? You guys are all the. way back. How do you feel?". >> So, full circle, dude. The last time I. was on, I was I was pretty critical of. the team as a fan would be. I'm no. different than anyone else. So, as you. know, the the devastation that Hurricane. Helen brought to the area of the country. where I'm from, I put together uh me and. Eric Church put together a charity show, which Bailey actually came and. performed. >> That's where I met Luke actually. >> First time we met doing that. >> That's where I got his phone number and. everything. Yeah.

>> Yeah. We did it at Bank of America. Stadium uh in home of the Carolina. Panthers. So, who did I run into? >> David Ter. >> Yes. We had a great conversation. We. talked for an hour, chummed it up. We. chummed it up. We got along great. And. at the end, he was like, "Just don't. go." You know, I saw it, you know. I was. like, "God." I was like, "God, I hope we. didn't, you know, I was just like, >> he saw it. He saw it." But you know.

what? We had a great conversation about. it. >> We're in good graces, man. >> And you were and you were speaking the. truth. >> And that I was speaking the truth. And. as again, dude, I'm no different than. anyone else, man. I'm a fan. Okay. I was. literally in Charlotte yesterday. I got. inducted into the North Carolina Music. Hall of Fif. >> Let's go. >> Thank you, guys. Congratulations. Well. earned. Well earned. >> So, I'm there. I'm at the hotel. The. kids are at the science center playing. around. Everybody's getting ready. So, I. call up, you know, uh Dave Nelson at the. team. I'm like, "Hey, I'm in the hotel.

I'm bored. Can I pop over to practice? What's going down?" He's like, "Pop over. to practice." So they're telling me. when, you know, in the couple years. previous when they were when things were. not looking up at all in any direction. He was like, "We have a phone line that. fans will just call and just be like, "You guys stink. I" And he's like, he's. like, "But those are like the best. fans.". >> Yes. >> Because they're the people that actually. care. I'm one of those fans. I just. didn't know there was a phone number. Now I do. Now I know.

>> our show instead of the phone number. >> Instead of the phone number. Yeah. But I. don't have to now, dude, cuz we're up. big time. >> And Sepher, I think he has changed the. way he has appeared publicly. >> Dude, they were so incredible for that. whole charity show that we did there. >> Donated all right. >> Oh, dude. They donated the work, donated. the building, they footed the tax bill, everything, man. We raised $24.5 million. that night. A lot of that was because of. them. >> A lot of that was because of them. because guys like this showed up for us. Um, but yeah, huge. Huge. >> Yeah, that is huge. And you know what? Maybe the football god said, "Hey, you. know what? Maybe this guy isn't the.

biggest rudest owner of all time. >> Dude, he's been great, man. He's been. seriously so great. >> You've been great, too. And you know. what else has been always good? Last. broke my heart. >> Oh, it never gets old, man. >> You still sing? We still We still. obviously you have to sing that every. night. >> I do. I'd sing it every night. I love. it. >> You still punt the uh. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> I'll p I'll do a punt tonight. Big punt. tonight. I feel like you got pretty good.

extension. >> I'm going to try to hit this. See, I'm a. I'm a limber cat, you know? And that. wasn't it, you know? I mean, that wasn't. it, but that was it. You know what I. mean? Get up there, dude. You know what. I mean? Get up there. >> C is cool, boys. You punting any any. cups on stage? What is your stage. presence like? You think? Cuz Luke is a. showman. If you haven't been, this guy. right here is going to give you. everything he has on the stage. I. >> I'm at least going to come out. Very. sweaty. I'm going to be very sweaty at. least. And then there's there's there's. symbols that he's hitting the [ __ ] out.

of that don't need to be hit the way. And he's doing full show. How about you, Bailey? What do you think your uh stage. presence would be described? >> He's got way more energy than me, by the. way. He's like, it's like 10x me. >> He's 25, dude. Yeah, that's. >> I would say um comfortable on stage now. at this. >> So, standing still has always made me. super nervous cuz I I think too much. So. that's why I always am bounce. I bounce. around and I'm just like running and. singing and dancing and trying to just. like not be nervous and that's the way I. do it. I just run around and Yeah.

Crazy. >> The energy out, man. >> I come in on a rope swing. Yeah. >> Last year for tour. >> Yeah, that is awesome. >> It was sick. >> Yeah, it is sick. That. >> AJ's back in the thunderdome. Has a. question for you boys. >> Yeah, this for both of you. Luke, maybe. you go first, but from when you started, I guess your stage presence, your. performing like it's all about reps, I. would imagine. How how much better are. you now, I guess, than when you uh when. you first started performing live on. stage for people? >> I think uh you have to think about it a. lot less now, right? It becomes like. muscle memory like anything, right? Like.

you just you know what to do, you know. when to do it, you know how to do it. And then there even becomes, you know, as when you do a tour, you know, the set. is generally somewhat built in. I mean, there are spots where things can move. around. you know, I'm not sure exactly. how Bailey does it, but that's kind of. the way we have like a fixed some points. that we want to kind of hit and we can. move things around in the middle. Um, and so for me, it's even sometimes the. talking points can be like, okay, when. we get here, I know that after this. song, I'm going to talk and for the next. two songs, I'm not going to talk in.

between, but then all that stuff becomes. kind of pre-programmed and it allows you. to just go. >> comfortable. And I think the the. craziest thing, I don't know if Bailey. feels this way, but for me that like the. fans bring the signs, you know, it's. like game day. Not as many as game day, but they bring the signs and they're. like, "Bailey, you're cute." You know, whatever it is, Bailey, you're cool. You. know, all that stuff. >> And I one I see the signs and people. sometimes people are real hyped about. the signs. I'm in the middle of singing. Fast Car and it's like there's already a.

million words I'm trying to like I'm not. ever remembering them, right? Like I'm. not in my mind going, "What's the next. word? What's the next word?" It's like. when you start a like a cassette tape. and it's going. >> and if but if I look at a sign and start. to read it. >> y. >> and I'm like I don't even know where I'm. at in the song, what song I'm in, what. where are we even. If I start reading. the sign during a song, I'm cooked, dude. I'm done. >> So are you a no sign going forward guy? Like. >> No, I love the signs. I just got to read.

them. You love adversity. I love it. But. I just can't read them until a song's. over. Like in between songs, I can read. them, but during a song, I'm like, "Oh. man, if I start reading that.". >> All right, I got it. I got it. Sign time. is in between songs. >> In between songs. >> Yeah. Sign time for the loot shows is in. between songs. Cuz if you do it during a. song, you're potentially ruining the. concert for every. >> Okay. So, let's just let's make sure. And I want to let you know, I have the. same problem. I'll be talking and the. brain is just kind of doing its thing. And then if I see something like. something will pop up on this screen for.

instance and I'll see it and all of a. sudden that is now just in the sentence. and it's like that doesn't make any. sense at all. Bailey, are you reading. signs while you're out there that you're. >> I would I would say my thing that I've. I've had is I'm singing a song and. everybody's singing and then somebody's. trying to like tell me where they met me. and their story about why they love this. song. I'm singing and they're like. trying to tell me that and I'm singing. the song and then I'm like it's like. during the songs. and I'm like like cuz I'm watching I'm.

like you know I'm like you know singing. to them and then saying to you. >> my cousin loved you and I I I love this. song and my name is and I'm like dude I. I can't have a conversation right now. >> but you got my ear or you've got the in. ears like Pat's rocking the in ears and. they don't know you've got the in ears. so they're like oh well he can just hear. me cuz like I can't see that he has. something in his ear. >> And they're like, >> "This guy's rude and he's not saying. anything. I know he can hear me.". >> I feel rude. I feel so rude. I I have.

great conviction about it. I I'll feel. like I need to go back over and be like, "Hey, I'm so sorry. I I just can't hear. what you're saying because I'm like. trying to like. >> Yeah. >> play the show. >> There's going to be a lot of those. moments where you're going to feel like. an [ __ ] and people are going to be. able to portray you as an [ __ ] And. then you just got to remember deep down. if the full context was given, you're. not an [ __ ] I have these. >> We're good dudes. We're all good dudes. >> Yeah. I mean, I hope so. I try to be, but the I have these for game day, you. know. Yeah. >> So, we go through a lot of crowds in. game day. >> Same exact thing you're talking about. Yep. >> Somebody comes up wants to tell me a.

very good story. I know just by the. sound of the the way their face looks. >> Yeah. >> And I'll stop and tell them thank you. They're talking right to my face. We're. this far away. >> And you're like, "Oh, man. >> That was awesome. That was awesome. That. was awesome. I can't hear." There's three people. talking in my ear at that time that are. in a truck somewhere and I can't see but. we feel like [ __ ] But we got to do. it. We got a job to do too. >> Yeah. >> People need to understand that. You. know, for you full-time, how long have. you been doing music now? >> Uh full time. Uh gosh, probably.

13 years. >> Good for you. >> Dang. I I did want to say, man, dude, I. grew up. I think everybody did, but I. was like 16. Got my license. First song. I played, Luke. >> Long. neck. >> Really? Truly. >> Hey, maybe you should cover that. It. feels like that's right in your. >> GoFund. That's what I was I was singing around. campfires when somebody told me, "Hey, you you can sing." And I'm like, "Really?" And I I was singing Luke. Combmes, man. >> Oh, yeah. >> I'm happy to be here for this.

>> It's pretty cool deal. It's pretty cool. deal. You know, I tried to fang girl, but it's pretty cool with this guy. They're using his name for Super Bowl. halftime show [ __ ] This guy. Think. about that. Like, how many musicians. could do a Super Bowl halftime show is. what people say, and then your name got. dropped into that. Do you know how old. are you? Uh 35. >> That's awesome, bro. >> In my prime, guys. >> Still got. >> Look at Flaco, guys. Look at Flaco. >> Look at Aon. The icy hot bowl, dude. >> It was the icy hot bowl, dude. Let's go.

>> It showed out, didn't it? >> It was great. >> He threw the ball 69.8 miles yards in. his last tour. Speaking of miles, >> uh $30 off tickets right now with code. Pat McAfee. Uh, you can buy Luke Holmes. and Bailey Zimmerman concert tickets and. everything. Doesn't matter if you're a. new or repeat purchaser. $30 off with. code Pat McAfee at our friends at. Segeek. They're going to thank that. I. owe them about 20. >> reads. I think I've not said that in a. long time. They're going to be very. thankful I did that. Ty, there it is. right there. Boom. B A TA fee. $30 off.

for the boys. Now, there are some. restrictions apply which I think are if. they're less than 30 bucks. And then you. guys need to figure out your fees. [ __ ]. Guys, figure that [ __ ] out. I think. you're all trying to figure it out. Pretty good to your fans. >> I just work here, man. >> I literally just work here. I I. literally just work here. >> Ty has a question for you back in Indie. >> Yeah. For both of you guys for what. you're going to do tomorrow for game. day, like the performance, how how much. uh like will your prep differ for when.

you would like do a concert? Will you. just kind of go up there and just. [ __ ] rip that on the run or will you. still have to like kind of prepare like. you would going into like a full set? >> Oh, dude. I'll let you take this one. >> Rip it. >> I would I would answer with rip it. Yeah, I'm just going to wing it. That's. where honestly I've gotten to this point. right here right now by winging it. So, I'm just going to keep doing that. >> It's like that's like I don't know. It's. like would Steph Curry need to warm up. to shoot a three-pointer at the house? Like. >> Yeah.

>> Not going to make it. We're professional. >> at the half. >> You know, >> people say I got a Marcus Cami jump. shot, which is. >> very You ask great back. >> Not that it's good. I just It's just. kind of a weird It's just kind of a. strange. >> Did you go elbow out there? It looks. like. >> I kind of go elbow out a little bit. Yeah. >> Do you make it though? >> No. >> Ah, >> not at all. >> No. You dunk. >> occasionally. >> I can't. >> for sure, dude. Yeah. >> Can Yeah, you guys can dunk. >> Both of you. Congrats. >> I can't. I can't. >> Bro, he's got the goldplated Air Forces. on right now. I don't know if those are.

the easiest to jump. >> Yeah. I mean, he's. >> honestly I feel pretty. >> I feel pretty good in these. >> He's looking. He's been watching track. practice, dude. I think he's like he's. ready to roll. >> I think I think you should think Hold. on, Bailey. We're getting down on him. right now. >> Oh, sweet. Look at the Look at the Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Oh, hell yeah. >> I don't know if that's blurry or not, but that is. >> He's looking good, though. >> Hey, look at the watch, the necklace. >> He's look He's looking fine. >> That's what we first bonded over. you. and me.

>> was our presidential bands. >> Hell yeah, bro. I appreciate it. >> We really made it, man. >> Yes, we did. >> We made it. >> Yes, we did. >> Look at us. We're standing in this. building right here right now. I mean, you made it a lot more than me for sure. And I'm going to try to get me back to. center here. Uh. >> certainly a little bit off. >> I like it. This is nice, man. Fantastic. >> It's like the production truck. Feels. good. There it is. There it is. There it. is. >> If you need anybody for your shows, I. can certainly call you Wembley. get me. on his sticks over there. Connor has a.

question for you boys back in. Indianapolis. >> Yeah, boys. Uh, first of all, Luke, you. know, go App State. Hopefully, they're. doing well and it's it is good to see. the Panthers are back even though the. Patriots beat him 42 to6 a couple weeks. ago. Great game. Great game for us both. But, uh, >> thank you. >> One of our guys in here is a massive. country music fan and he said, "Hey, if. you don't ask this question, I'm going. to be real pissed." Both of you guys. were with uh Big X the Plug and he. wanted to know what that was like. And. also I wanted to know did Big X the Plug.

cut his teeth in Nashville to kind of. get in with you guys and country music. cuz that's a big deal uh for some of. these country music guys like hey did. these people even get to Nashville to. learn about country music and but what. really was it like working with Big X to. plug? He was I feel like I'm like. off-handedly. like very limitedly responsible for this. part of this thing. Not in any in any. official capacity for doing that. We. love them. >> So the Post Malone album, the F1.

Trillions getting made. I wrote six. songs on that records. We're there one. night and you know a lot of his guys. have produced all kind of different. stuff. Hip-hop stuff. They're producing. this record and it was it's like late. nights. you know, we'd write two, three, four songs in a night kind of thing from. 8:00 till I'd be leaving at like 2:00 in. the morning. Like, guys, I got to go. I. got kids. Like, we're starting another. one. I'm like, I'm out. Like, I'm not. like my kids are waking up at 7 whether. or not we run another farm right now or. not. So, I got to go. Um, but so I'm. sitting there, they're we're talking. hiphop and I'm like, "Got to hear this.

guy. Big X plug. Texas dude, got to play. it." So, they play it. They're all. getting the phones out. Who is this guy? We got to look him up. Got to look him. up. Next thing I know, they're hitting. me up. Hey, reached out to that guy. He. wants to do something together. And I'm. like, "Okay, great." So, try to link up. with him. He comes to my show in Houston. a few years ago. Great guy. Awesome. >> Awesome. >> Awesome. Rocks the big guy look. >> Yes. >> Which I'm a big fan of, >> man. Maybe you need to get a grill, too. >> You think I should go go shirt off. >> and grill off grill? I I've been I've.

been trying to have that shirt off thing. for a while. I've been trying to tell. you that, but you just won't listen to. me. >> Just have just go full off. Just let it. ride. >> Yeah. They would love it. I think you. get the tap. I would love it. You know, maybe you think like a half the body. that black tap, you know, >> just a full Yeah. >> just a full inked out basically like. this on the entire side. >> I'll do the quarter like the quarter. sleeve, too. >> Like the half short sleeve look. But no, he's great. All the stuff I did with him. was done. It was done in town. He's been. in Nashville a lot doing that. I'm not.

sure what Bailey's experience was like. He could tell you for sure. >> Yeah. Yeah, I feel like since he's from. Dallas, Texas, >> he's like already like really country. and like um is from from that like. background already. >> And then I had already loved his music. and I was thinking, man, I saw this. interview where he was like, I'm going. to do a country project and I thought, man, how cool would that be if he if I. did a song with him? Yeah, that'd be. freaking awesome. And then like 3 months. later, he sends me this song and then.

like. >> 5 minutes later, we had it done. Can you. tell me how the process goes when he. sends you the song? Do you the you write. or it already says like, "Hey, this. would be the part that you would be on.". >> Yeah. So, they had sent me a song that. is was already written and it had been. written for like two or three years, I. think, and I just cut the hook and it. was already done. I think we uh messed. with it a little bit throughout the. thing, but like when he sent me the song. on my phone, I had my vocal cut in like. six minutes. I was like, "Yeah, >> in the studio, I was like, "Dude, I am. not letting this I love this song. Like.

I've wanted to do this big X the plug. thing for like a long time. So yeah, I. just like jumped in and then I think. that actually ended up being like the. final thing we did. >> Okay. So let's talk about uh you knowing. you just listen to his music and he like. it. >> Yeah, I was just a fan really to be. honest. And so then when we're in that. post thing, I bring it up. Everybody's. looking it up and then those guys. reached out to him and they're all, you. know, they're all legit in that. production hiphop world. So when they. reached out to then just said, "Hey, we.

would love to do something together if. you're ever around town.". >> That's a cool community you guys are. It. feels like your business is a good. community. I'm sure there's [ __ ] in. it. I'm sure there's people that you. ever It's. >> like anything. >> Yeah. I'm sure there's people that. everybody hates, >> but from my understanding and the people. that I've met obviously in your guys'. world through game day and through. college football basically being the. connection. Feels like you guys have a. great community. The uh country music's. great. Like it feels like you guys take. the festival serious. Like whenever like. CMA will have a fest or something or. there will be some country music. something. I mean Morgan Wallen's uh.

Sand in my boots fest whatever. Feels. like you guys show up for each other in. country. Do you feel that's. >> Oh, I agree. Yeah, I would agree for. sure. >> It's awesome. It's like the best part of. country music is that that. >> always like that or is it your. generation? >> No, I I think it's No, I think it's. always been like that. I think it's, you. know, if you go see a country show at. Bridgestone Arena, you don't know who's. going to be there cuz it's like I've. done I've probably played there six. times just from people going, "Hey, I'm. playing Bridgestone tonight. Pop in and. sing a song with me." And it's like. >> all of a sudden out of nowhere. >> Yeah. I'm like, "Okay.".

[Laughter]. >> Holy [ __ ]. >> They're screaming, dude. Yeah, they're. screaming. >> Tone Tone has the last question for you. boys back in Indie. >> Yeah, Bailey. Uh Pat mentioned it. earlier when you got you were with Joe. Bros at JMU. I was like, "That guy has. way more pizzazz. I need to start. listening to him." So, I just wanted to. give you a shout out on that. And then. Luke, >> thank you so much. It was awesome. And. then Luke, I just got tickets to Notre. Dame, so I'm pumped for that. But I. wanted to ask you about La Palooa. >> My daughter listens to that to that and.

the Alex Warren uh. >> cover that you guys did together. It was. awesome. Did you know that it was going. to go as viral as it did? >> I didn't. Honestly, I didn't. Um, I. think that my team my team was really. great about about setting that up, you. know, obviously I had heard the song was. familiar with it. Um, I mean it's such a. massive song of the summer, right? I. mean it was just such a huge tune. >> and his first single and everything and. Alex is such a great kid. That's the. first time I had met him was that day. Um, and he was kind of closing out the.

other stage across the way uh before we. went on and so slipped over, come in the. green room, you know, played my bands in. there and we worked it up with steel. guitar and just kind of a different. version than the version that he's. playing. You know, I didn't want it to. be like the same. >> Yeah. You don't want to rip it exactly. >> thing, right? So, >> we come out and I get home the next day. and my team's like, "Have you seen the. videos of the song?" And it's like just. like millions of likes on it, views. And. I'm like, I just did not expect like not.

that it's not great, but I'm just I feel. like I'm not the like I'm not the guy. that gets social media going. You know. what I mean? Like it's like Fast. >> You see me on there. Fast car. You. brought the entire. >> This guy's literally Luke Combmes. It's. like literally Luke Combmes. >> You're going to Wembley, bro. Yeah, you. are. You get the people going, bro. You. get the people going. On that note, maybe cover Baby Shark. >> I You're talking serious cash, dude. Kids kids songs. >> Yeah. Yeah. You're talking big bucks.

Know what that is? >> I don't Well, I know what Baby Shark is. >> Okay. You're 25. >> Not cuz I have kids though. >> Cuz he was a child when that came out. >> Came out, right? >> I was born in 2000. >> All right. This This child This child. that's taking over the industry and this. old ass man right here are both going to. be on College Game Day tomorrow. He has. a show tonight at Georgia Theater. He. announced this morning. It's sold out. 900 tickets. Should be something. special. Obviously, uh, our guy Bailey.

here has got an album tour coming out. He just dropped an album. Check that. out. The dude is awesome. This He's 25. years old. >> He is. He is awesome. >> He's awesome. His guides are immaculate. He has no idea about the world. I don't. think that's great. >> It's good. I. >> I think that is a great I think that's a. good thing. >> I like it that way. I like it that way. >> I'll go PSA for Bailey Zimmerman right. now. If you're a fan out there thinking. about buying a ticket, you can know that. if you buy this guy's ticket, he's going. to [ __ ] appreciate it. >> And on that note, >> Z should feel good about buying a ticket.

to a Bailey Zimmerman concert. >> Yeah, he'll put on a show and so will. you, brother. And uh we thank the hell. out of you guys for that. And I can't. wait to see you guys tomorrow morning. Appreciate it. >> Let's go. >> Maybe tonight. >> Yeah, maybe tonight. >> Might need a shotgun guest. >> 9:00 start. >> You know, might need a guest to come. out. >> 9:00 shotgun start. >> Maybe start with Start. Shotgun start. >> Shotgun start. >> 9:00 shotguning on a Friday. Once again, >> I would join. >> I know. >> Yeah, we know. >> I know you. We know you. >> We know you would. 25.

>> Maybe we get Kirby out in the visor. He. can rip a shotgun. >> Wait a minute. >> Call him something special. >> Call him up. >> Hammer miss. If he does how it starts. and we'll think of how it starts. This. is exactly how it starts. >> This is how all great ideas are. done. There's a chance both these guys. and he just went into the North Carolina. Music Hall of Fame. There's a chance. both these guys are in every music hall. of fame whenever their careers are said. and done. We appreciate the hell out of. your time. Good luck tomorrow. Uh early. morning obviously. I'm sure tonight if. you're doing a shotgun start at 9:00.

p.m. you're going to be well rested. >> Okay. >> Oh, absolutely. Yeah. >> Oh, yeah. Yep. >> We'll shut it off there. >> Yeah. Yeah. That'll be We'll just come. out shotgun and a beer. It'll be the end. of the show. >> Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, Luke comes. Bailey Zimmerman. [Applause]. Are they on tour together right now? Do. we know? >> No. >> Well, I mean, not together, but is is. Bailey going to play or open for Luke. tonight? >> There's probably a chance. >> Yeah, I would you could imagine make. that assumption that play their number. one song together potentially. >> Hey, I know Bailey played uh I didn't.

ask him, but he played at Ohio Stadium, Ohio State, I think when he was open for. Morgan a couple years ago. >> Was that the biggest O of all time? >> I've heard there's another person that. said they got the biggest O of all time. I'm not sure. I don't know the person. Carpenter. Bobby. I bet Bobby probably. has, but I haven't I don't know the. person that actually really claims that. I don't know who that person is. >> No, I don't either. I don't know what. you're talking about. >> Bobby makes sense. >> Luke's tour is doing he's going to, I. believe, Ohio Stadium and he's doing. Notre Dame and he's doing Oklahoma. >> He's doing all the big college football. stack.

I don't know. >> Yeah, he's going Yeah, he's going to. Iowa State. >> Yeah, why going to Kick? He could wave. at the kids like before the, you know, intermission. >> A lot bigger, too. But, you know, hey, I. get it. I get it. Iowa State fans love. Luke Combmes just like everybody does. >> Do they? >> Yeah. Who doesn't? >> Iowa State. Well, of course, but I like. when you booed him the second he. mentioned Iowa State. >> Had to. >> He probably thought you were booing him. for a minute. >> Maybe, but his instinct. >> I wasn't booing him. I love Luke. >> Who's Iowa play this week? Sorry. >> Yeah, Penn State. >> Oh my gosh. I did know that. >> Yeah. At home. >> Interm coach bump, you think, for Penn.

State? >> Uh, yeah. I mean, I'm a little worried. about it. They've looked so bad, you. know, that it's like at some point they. have a lot of good players still, so you. would think it would maybe go the other. way. But I mean, [ __ ] we heard Sigetti. say it yesterday. Hey, I was a tough. place to play, though. >> At night, uh, and they have a. quarterback making his first start, which I think definitely bodess well for. Iowa. >> Grunk Grunk. Not there's no end, but no. >> Grunker. He's from, uh, right in around. Dublin, Owen Tangi, right by me, about. 10 minutes away from Tangi. >> He's a stud. Yeah.

>> Is that a river? >> Yeah, there is river runs right Hoochie. Coochie. I mean that's. some too but there is no on Tangi River. Yes, there's on Tangi River Road right. close to where I'm at. But um yeah, I. don't know who's Penn State going to. hire though for real. >> Terry Smith. >> He's an interim. I mean he could he has. every opportunity to win it. >> What if he does win out? What if he wins. out and then they have to hire him? >> I don't know. But that's a very. >> 19 million a year. >> Like that's a very important hire. because you can't go you can't fire a.

coach who's winning 10 11 games a year. >> and win seven. >> Yeah. Yeah. You can't even fire a coach. What? >> There can't be any drop off. >> A coach has to cut. No, absolutely zero. drop off. They have to come in and if he. wins 10 games, that's a failure for. them. You got to get to the Well, he got. to the playoffs and make a run. >> Yeah. I. >> But James Franklin last year was a. couple plays away from being a national. championship. >> Correct. That's wild. >> The names that the names that obviously. are getting thrown out are rule uh at. Nebraska, Matt Campbell, Iowa State. Um,

and then you know, like there's a lot of. people saying like, "Hey, you you got to. you got to at least call Sabin. You got. to at least call Urban. You got to at. least call Marcus Freeman." Now, he's. definitely not leaving there, but you. got to at least call him. You got to at. least call Lane. Like, you got to you. got to at least put out feelers to cuz. when you fire someone who's winning 10, 11 games a year, you have to make a. splash. >> Yeah. Hey, Pat, tomorrow on game day. live on set, you should ask S like, "Hey, man, if Penn State calls, are you. going to entertain that? Are you going. to at least answer the call?". >> So, Miss Terry's here this weekend, actually. So, um, everybody else always.

tells me like, "Hey, that question would. be directed towards Miss Terry first and. then coach." So, I did. I literally, she. was in the back of the room as I turned. around. I'm like, "Miss Terry, 20. million a year, 30 million a year, you. get back into coaching." And she laughed. and said something about a credit card. debt and said, "That's going to have to. keep going." And I laughed so hard. I. was like, "That's the greatest answer. I've ever heard." So, I I I don't like I. don't know the reality of that. And I. think Coach Sabin is loving his life. being retired. He's still in ball. because of game day, but I think he.

golfs a couple times a week. You know, I. think he doesn't have the pressure of. having to wake up and know if his team's. going to show up. I don't think he has. to renegotiate with players every single. There's a lot of things that he has kind. of mentioned. He's 7 what three now? 73. years old. So, like I I I think he. enjoys retirement. I think he is. enjoying retirement and I think he does. a couple speaking gigs a week around the. country. I mean, he is. >> things. >> car dealerships. He's he's living he's. doing his life right now. That's why. whenever his name was mentioned that he. was going to run the college commission. or whatever, I was like,

>> that's a lot of work. That's a lot of. work for a guy that just gave up a lot. of work for the first time in his life. You know, he was committed to ball for. the last what, 40, 50 years of his life. So, I don't know if Sabin's possible, but I mean, maybe Pat Craft gives Miss. Terry a call and says, >> "We'll give you an open check and uh. we'll take care of every credit card for. the rest of your life." Maybe. But then. you start thinking about like Kurt. Signetti, right? Like Kurt Signetti. situation. Everybody thought he was. going to get hired and then Indiana. goes, "Nope, I don't think that's the. case." I assume there's a couple coaches.

over the next few days that are going to. be. >> signing new deals. I think and it's it's. only going to be able to happen at the. schools that have real backing and have. like a real chance, you know, and I. think that's what's so big about the. Indiana deal for Kurt Signetti. It's. like that's 93 million to a coach. Okay. So, what else do they have for players. and for facilities and everything? They're like we're very committed. They. are very committed. everything. The. president, Pam Whitten Wooten, >> Miss Pam, the president. Okay. Uh, she.

is somebody I met whenever we were down. there. Whitten. Miss Pam Whitten. I. apologize for getting that wrong. >> Uh, I got a chance to meet her whenever. a game day was down there. >> And after I picked uh Indiana, I got a. text from her, you know, that was like, "Hey, Pat, thank you for the belief in. what we're doing here. We're very. thankful obviously that you're in the. same state as us." And like a very. positive thing. And she's like, "We are. very allin down here." both academically. and athletically and we think the. athletics can fuel the other and just. thank you for believing in us basically.

is what she said because I I have since. watching this entire thing and this is. just another way to publicly prove that. they're all in and Indiana's for real. and it's like this isn't just a you know. a flash in the pan here in two years. they didn't get lucky here it's like. they are all in they understand how. special Signetti is in the evaluation. process and getting the right guys and. they got the boosters to be able to. stick in there so good for Indiana up. and to the right but there's There going. to be some places that are going to get. exposed for not going all in. And that's. when you're going to see these coaches. go to other jobs. >> You know, that's when you're going to.

see Penn State become very, very open. for people if they're at a place that. maybe isn't as allin, which sucks, but. it's just the reality of the business at. this point, AJ. >> Yeah. And you can't you truly can't. compete at the highest level if your. team is your school is not all in. That's why we see like what VTEC they. they come out publicly committing what. 10 years, 200 some million dollars. And. Sig even said it yesterday on the show, they also have money like whatever the. pool is to pay your assistants. That's a. huge deal as well because I need a bunch. of cash to bring in the best coaches. that are going to call be my O and D.

coordinators, the guys that are going to. eventually be groomed to be the next. head coaches at big places all over the. country. >> There's some programs that send us, you. know, like full bag. We're very lucky. that these schools give us stuff. I I. would like to let that be known. I would. just like to let that be known. very. thankful for the swag bags that schools. give to send to the Thunderdome or give. to us the game day whenever we come to. town and everything like that. And when. people send stuff to us, there's. normally like a presentation from some. schools like, "Hey, here's a box with a. light with a story like a whole thing, you know?" Or like, "Hey, here's a.

suitcase that is like very expensive. with our [ __ ] in it." Or like, "Hey, here's a Jordan bag with all the stuff. in it." Then there's some places that. are just cardboard boxes, okay? And they. send like a bunch of stuff. And you can. tell that the thought is like, "We're. not spending money on bags, okay? We're. spending the money on players and we're. spending the money on coaches here. Okay. So, and then there's other places. that are like, "Hey, here's a. three-piece suitcase luggage and here's. this." It's like, "Oh, they got they got. these people have extra money just. laying around to send to the Thunderdome. in Indianapolis, Indiana." Hoping we see. it in the mail. Not guaranteeing, just.

hoping that we see it. And it's like uh. it's a wild time in college ball right. now. Indiana's for real though, AJ. Feels like the Big 10's got a real one. down there in Bloomington. And. Signetti's a beast. He knew when he was. on with us yesterday, right? He knew. >> Oh, he had. Yeah, 100%. >> I appreciate that. They texted me like. four minutes before it got announced. publicly thanking uh me for having SIG. on. And then, oh yeah, also we're about. to announce an extension. And then I go, can I tweet that? They're like, absolutely. We're about to announce it. though. So, it was a race of me verse.

them. And uh I got mine out. I think. they got it out with a lot more. information quicker. So, I kind of. missed the breaking news cuz I was maybe. pooping at the time, but uh I am uh very. thankful that the Indiana team is as. good as they are, as welcoming as they. are. And the way they play ball is cool. to cheer for, you know. Yeah. >> And uh if you don't have a college, if. you don't have a team, college football. team, first of all, I think you should. get into college ball. It's great. Saturdays every single every single. weekend of the fall. Obviously, the.

sport of football is great. The. environments are insane, but this. Indiana team is a cool team to become a. fan of if you're just picking up a. school. I mean, the underdog, consumate. underdog. Now, they're number three team. in the country. They're not going to be. surprising anybody at this point, but. just like coming out of nowhere, becoming a team, the way they've been. built. Kurt Signetti's story about being. a consmate assistant coach and then in. his 40s or 50s, I think his 50s says, "I'm going for it." Drops down to like. IUP, James Madison to become a head. coach. And then his work at James. Madison leads to his head co head.

coaching job at Indiana. first time D1. head coach at the age of 60 or whatever. Like his run has been inspiring. It is a. movie and uh they're a fun school to be. a fan of if you're not just living in. Indianapolis like we are. Just in. general, that's a fun place to kind of. get behind. And there's not a lot of. people that have jumped on an Indiana. football wagon in a long, long time. Western Pennsylvania guy, West Virginia. guy. I love everything about him, man. So, uh, I'm thankful to be in. Indianapolis, but I'm also thankful for.

this entire college football run that. we've been on here for the last few. years. Just getting baptized into all. these places. So cool. Tonight, two big. games. Two big college. >> home. >> Might have a national champion playing. on a Friday night. This is abnormal. >> Now, it might have a couple national. champions playing on a Friday night, but. nonetheless, number two team in America. is playing on a Friday night. This is. awesome. This is not normal. This is. great. Louisville vers Miami. Miami at. home obviously down there at the Orange.

Hard Rock. They said it's a crazy crazy. atmosphere, especially when they're. going. Let's assume Michael Irvin's. going to be down there doing awesome. things tonight on the sideline. Nebraska. and Minnesota obviously we talked to. coach Rule just yesterday about, you. know, what Minnesota is, what they could. be, and that problem they could have. with them. But all these teams obviously. have a chance going forward, but the. number two team in the country playing. on a Friday is special. Gumpy, I know. you're all horned up for tonight. Yeah, offensive line for Louisville stinks. So. Bane and the boys should be able to run. wild as they say at the asylum. Crystal.

Ball calls it. We're playing in the. asylum tonight. Lot of confidence on. ESPN there by national pundit Kyle. Cathart. Uh hopefully that might mot. that might motivate the Louisville. offensive line. And uh on that note, let's get the hell out of here. AJ, thank you for traveling to Indianapolis, brother. We appreciate you. Of. >> course. Easy drive. It was a beautiful. uh couple days for me going to that. Bengals game and then just making the. trip over here. It was perfect. Oh, you stayed the night in Cincinnati. last night. >> Yeah, we did. It was awesome. For real. Kids have like a fall break thing. No. Friday or Monday school. So, it Yeah, worked out beautifully. It was It was a.

magical experience, honestly, in that in. that stadium last night with the kids. It was really cool. >> We appreciate you making the effort, brother. We're happy you had a good. time. And congrats to the Bengals. Get a. huge win. You were going to pick the. Bengals regardless because they were. giving you tickets. Okay, now. >> we didn't get tickets. We We didn't. reach We didn't talk to them till later, but they hooked us up afterwards once. once they knew we were coming. But, uh, >> who gave you tickets, them or eight? Uh, whatever. Seat geek. We We paid good. money for him. Yeah. Trust me. >> We paid good money. >> $30 off though. $30. >> We did. I used the code Pat McAfee. I.

used it. >> That's all the kids. All the kids had. Aaron Rogers jersey. They did. >> Yeah, they did. They had Bengals. They. were on the field pregame in Bengals. sweatshirts. And then they took them off. and had their Aaron Rogers uh eight. jerseys that people were yelling and. screaming at them as we're walking back. to our the hotel. Who day? Look right. My like right my kids yelling. Who? Like. we're kind of on both sides here, pal. I'm all right with it. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. But we like that. We like that. that was happening to your kids. Obviously, like. >> they. >> bingo. There's some parents that would.

get upset about that. You watching. Hawker get chewed out in the middle of. the street to Cincinnati after. >> Yeah. They're going to remember that. forever. They're going to remember it. forever. >> AJ's not really finishing the story cuz. he ended up curb stomping three people. after that happened. But nah. >> Okay. We do care. We do care. No. Um I. uh I appreciate the fact though that. Aaron played the way he played. I like. the way Flaco played. And it feels like. it's a good omen going into a great. football weekend if that's how it's. gonna go, boys. Great work in the back. this week. You've guys done a phenomenal. job. >> Way to go.

>> Talk the table. Way to go, boys. Way to. go. >> You, too, brother. >> Good luck tomorrow. >> Yeah. >> Hey, another sports starting next week, boys. Let's not forget it. You know, that trophy that's right there in front. of Connor is about to kick off. >> One half of the hammer. Uh, Don. >> Cowboys AP Tone, great work this week. Thank you, brother. you. >> graphic design boys, uh, the think tank. boys, we appreciate all your effort this. week. Incredible work on all parties and. all things, including Rushmore on X,

which had another incredible episode. drop on Tuesday, which was bands. Look. for this upcoming episode on Tuesday. >> Dunkers with. Dominic Wilkins. I hope they talk about. >> find out. I see. >> Yeah, he does get talked about. There is. an obvious omission from this episode. and I hope Ari and Ben and Shaq and. Reggie hear about it. I I do. I hope. they do. They will. But it's a. >> They will. It's a great episode. It is a. great episode. It's coming out on. Tuesday. Shaquille O'Neal, Reggie.

Miller, uh Ben Perski, Ari Emanuel, Rushmore on X. Full episode available. only on X. Unless a Tom Brady fan club. rips it and puts the whole thing on. YouTube. There the the full episode is. only available on X. Clips are. everywhere else. It's a great show and. I'm very proud of everybody that pieced. that thing together. And uh on that. note, let's have the greatest weekend of. all time. Gumpy, why don't you come join. me over here, buddy? >> Come on, Goop. >> Where is he? >> There he is.

>> What are these shoes here? What? What? A. few bones. >> They are kind of fire. >> They are pretty fire. >> They look super European, but that's. kind of like your thing. You know what I. mean? >> Yeah, I like them. >> Can't wait to get the Cooper, >> dude. The lawnmower ones. >> Yeah. No cabs though. >> Steph Curry ones. >> No, that's what Coopers look like, too. >> Really? >> Yeah. They're tough. >> That's kind of New Balance right now. >> Maybe we call them the zeroturn ones. >> Oh, I like that. So sick. Give me a. pair. >> This the Z turn ones out there.

>> Hell yeah. >> All right, let's get the hell out of. here, boys. >> We're so lucky we get to do this. We're. so thankful we get to do this. Let's try. to enjoy every single moment, shall we? >> Hell yeah. >> Absolutely. Bull Rush, thanks for the Overwatch, brother. >> Love you, Bull Rush. >> Bull Rush, baby. Bull Rush, >> if you think you're going to show up. somewhere and shoot me, just know that. there is a man who's got the binos out. everywhere we go, okay? And his name is. Bull Rush, and we're thankful for that.

All right, have a great weekend. Be a. friend, tell a friend something nice. It. might change our life. We're in this. thing together. Team on me. Team on. three. One, two, three. Goodbye.