The Pat McAfee Show Live From The NFL Combine | Thursday February 27th 2025

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starts right. now. combine is what the topic of. conversation is not only here in. Indianapolis all around the NFL but also. on the internet there was an altercation. uh at a Starbucks here in Indianapolis. yesterday that has certainly caught some. headlines we'll address that and let you. know what we have heard between two. insiders who both wanted the same coffee. uh one of the Insiders owns the coffee. the other one was merely there having a.

meeting supporting the other's father. and uh allegedly there's some. disagreements that all the way uh led up. to a uh call to NFL security so there's. an investigation happening currently. about a Starbucks that happened with a. couple media members but that's what's. combine is baby it is an NFL spring. break where so many things happen not. only with the dline and the linebackers. that are going to be working out on the. field today or the kickers and punters. and Snappers that worked out on the. field yesterday that was not to be. televised even though I was told was. televised ended the show early to go.

host it on television I thought uh that. seemed to be a misation somewhere wasn't. wasn't findable but there is uh Clips. everywhere um which is so cool to be. able to talk to Future punters and. kickers and holders I uh I very rarely. get to do that I don't go to a lot of. kicking camps anymore although I have. friends at like the Kohl's and uh Nick. Novak I believe out in San Diego former. uh NFL great he does these kicking camps. I don't really get to hang around the. kicking Community much anymore and going. to those kicking camps is always fun.

because you're just watching these dudes. hit these bombs you know it's a home run. derby basically and guys are competing. against each other you're able to go. there I think it is a spectacle or could. become a spectacle and the NFL agrees. and they've had this showcase together. the last two years that pins kickers. against each other and punters against. each other it was a great day I was. lucky to be a part of it certainly. thought I was going to be hosting the. thing sure and when I got down there. that was a piece of information I was. finding out in real time so instead of. like having to host or do any of that I. just got a chance to enjoy it and. chitchat with these guys and try to give.

some game and maybe some motivation and. some help so the combine is a beautiful. place a lot of things happen a lot of. information is learned a lot of players. change their careers maybe even. franchises change the trajectory of. their entire city and we're so. incredibly lucky to be here we got great. guests throughout the day Rich Eisen. Daniel Jeremiah will be joining us here. in a matter of moments they are. obviously the hosts of the actual. combine on the field the two people with. microphones DJ Now the previous person. that held his seat went on to be a. general manager in the NFL because of. how much work and effort and Intel and.

intelligence you have to have to have. that particular role we'll be excited to. Pepper him with questions and it's not. just you know the show today and we are. incredibly bummed uh that one half of. the toxic table is not able to join us. today we would like to send our love uh. to Tai Schmidt chees and peace we'll see. you hopefully you Ty love you Ty love. you TY but let's go to the toic table. ladies and gentlemen app Boston Connor. and mad Mel Kyper making appearance. thank you for stepping in for Tai who. obviously had that late thing this. morning you look great you look like. you're in uh maybe mid form mid-season.

form right now yeah I appreciate it pat. you know always great to join you guys. uh combine week uh I want to go out and. say you know it's kind of like my. conference Championship weekend. obviously the NFL draft is going to be. the Super Bowl but Conference. Championship weekend nothing better than. you know weekend and Indie not only do. we have fights between insiders you know. which uh we we'll talk about wa what are. your thoughts on that man because you've. been coming here a long time so you time. absolutely long time well you know you. get a young young pup like uh Jordan. Schulz who you know he's trying to. really put his stay up on the game. apparently e rap report you know well.

respected in the industry has a lot of. sources you know a lot of people he's. trying to talk to trying to talk to an. agent goes up to a counter local. Starbucks had like a venty caramel. macchiato or you know I believe is what. he order with splend I believe yeah with. splend a couple splend it could be a. sweet and LW can't exactly remember what. kind of uh you know zero calorie. sweetener he decided to go with jordo. Schult steps in says no he won't have a. venty so rap sheet says okay I'll I'll. have a grande you know caramel macchiato. no he won't though you won't have one of.

those all right I'll take a tall and you. know we'll be done with this I'll get. out of there jordo Schultz again this is. according to my sources I wasn't boots. allegedly alleged much like what's going. on at a University of Mississippi just. like we said yesterday there was the. Grand standing police hopped out on. their High horses I don't know if you. saw saw that yeah it was good to see we. weren't even a full show back and we. called them out who almost for them hour. and a half into the program yesterday it. was great but what we're saying is this. is all alleged but certainly with some. people talking about some reality yeah. without a doubt so he said no you're not.

going to have any coffee not in my house. okay you've been saying a lot of [ __ ]. about me you've been refuting a lot of. the stuff that I've been saying he said. water only for this guy rap sheet gets a. small you know plastic cup of water. jordo Schultz's dad obviously he owns. Starbucks you know jordo Schultz is the. heir to the Starbucks Empire if you will. he smacks the water out of his hands and. says [ __ ] do something about it rap. do something get in my [ __ ] face do. it he according to Pro Football Talk he. said [ __ ] about 15 times at least in his.

dad's Cafe well you know Dad's Cafe you. could well then he refuted that report. well he did but you know I wouldn't. swear in my dad's passion project was. dad's cafe or you could even take that. as far as say I mean rap she basically. disrespected this guy in his own living. room said you know you're going to come. in here with with mud on your shoes and. and walk through my living B on his. table exactly uh jordo Schultz smacked. him around a little bit uh allegedly you. know he's in his kitchen making pancakes. or took him bacon in his underwear.

underwear yeah there it is that's. basically what was happening shout out. Danny Sansui or whatever whatever still. bringing it yeah still bringing it uh. and then obviously rap sheet you know uh. he said listen enough is enough I feel. threatened here this guy's got crazy. eyes right now I'm going to have to call. NFL security NFL security came up I. don't know what uh eventually happened I. think they took jordo Schultz out back. beat the [ __ ] out of him with a couple. lead pip behind his dad's house they. called him big Dom they called him big. Dom yeah big Dom don't do that the arrow. a handshake he's not an ankle breaker.

but I don't know if this is breaking. news or not but I believe today after. the uh the the men kind of go through. the drills on the field jordo Schultz. and Ian rport are going to fight to the. death at the 50 y That's combine that'll. be fun that's comat and those for those. that are new to the uh show we're not. 100% sure if that's going to happen. that's just all being alleged at the. moment yeah there's a chance one of. these people clip the end of that sure. say on ESPN it has been being reported.

by a man wearing a purple suit great. suit saw nickal wearing purple yesterday. I said godamn that looks good I'm going. to wear that. tomorrow we don't know if they're. fighting to death but should maybe but. we don't want them to die we don't want. either of them to die we want them shake. hands one half of the hammer Cowboys. tone digs is here and ladies and. gentlemen the face of the Indiana Pacers. who just had to sit through all that. sorry I'm just learning about it it. happened in Starbucks here in your town. ladies and gentlemen Olympic gold. medalist face of the. NBA well well I put you in a terrible. spot there Tyrese.

hurn the face of the conversation yeah. no no we are not going to do that that. is earned obviously that happens. naturally that is not something you give. to yourself Tyrese fresh off a 331 and. three night obviously the 11 assists. three rebounds need to get those up a. little bit I think you could probably. had a triple double if your groin was. healthy you went into the game. questionable hurt groin 5050. questionable going into game everything. we know about NBA is what they're going. to sit out mad Mel they're going to sit. out con man they are going to sit out.

and get paid especially in the middle of. the Season how much money they're. getting paid 82 of these things hurt. groin Tyrese alart says I'm playing big. game we're in the middle of a hell of a. stretch we're top four hottest team in. the NBA right now one of the best. records in 2025 oh must I remind you. Eastern Conference finalists last year. as tyres pulls up from the other side of. the Court how do you feel about the team. and thank you for playing through a. groin injury a groin whatever you had. going on you're the man we appreciate. you here in Indiana yeah we're playing.

well right now you know we're just. fighting to get you know homec court. advantage in the playoffs in the first. round so uh every game is Big right now. so we're trying to win every game okay. so a lot of people watching our show. right now we're going to say at the NFL. call by while we talking about the NBA. do you think K that that is a natural. conversation that's happening like do. you guys talk about the NBA where it. sits in the Zeitgeist of professional. sports do you have any of those comos. amongst each other no no we know who we. are we don't really trip off that I mean. we understand I'm honest stand I'm here. at you know football program we talk.

about a lot of sports but okay a lot of. sports program this is a sports program. but no no we're sports program remember. sports program heavy football yeah. football football first maybe a little. bit of hockey okay we do like the hockey. like hockey is awesome CU they try see. that's the narrative why is that the. narrative PK sub yeah I think it's suban. but suban suban play whatever I did I. did see that he put over the NHL in a. big way and it got a lot a lot of views. he was talking about the NBA's potential.

culture issue that they have yeah you. guys obviously all saw that he was. putting it over his sport but I think he. said a lot of things that maybe other. people potentially think which is why I. went so big how do you feel about the. narrative that is about the NBA because. you just I mean groin whatever I don't I. don't want to know what your injury was. growing strain can I say uh I was to say. growing soreness more than anything yeah. but it don't just get sore and you're. growing without strain makes the. narrative better so we'll go a strain. well it has to was torn off the bone and. you play through it correct yeah 33. through it yeah I believe this guy's got.

one half of a groin now Lance Armstrong. of groins cuz he lost one half of his. groin which is crazy to think about. played through it last night but why do. you think the narrative is that like. legitimately because you disagree with. that wholeheartedly I think anytime we. call you you're like that's not true. about our league though like I think. there's a lot of things maybe. misconception about the league that you. disagree with oh 100% I mean people are. just allowed to get on there and say. whatever they want about our game and. and it just takes one or two people to. agree hit retweet and and it's like the. cool thing to say the NBA has a problem.

uh with what we do but you know we're. we're we're doing pretty well for. ourselves I'd say i' I would say as well. and I think too. well that is what people are saying it's. like this much money and then we're not. going back to back nights and then. obviously back in the day these guys. used to play and then there's the. Nostalgia speech that's happening too. you're hearing all these things I assume. yeah for sure for sure I'll talk about. what the All-Star game has become and. how that's such a problem and you know. guys you guys love the sitting back to. backs I don't think that's as true as uh.

Le so I think what Tyrese is saying is. like that gets a couple people are doing. that and everybody assumes that that is. generalized yes it's like the whole. League's doing that's not the case yeah. 100% we talk about this all the time I. agree with that 100% guys want to play. we want to perform we got a lot of we. got older guys who are you know towards. the end of their careers high level Hall. of Fame guys we got a lot of young guys. coming up in the league too so I think I. think we all want to play how's quality. play right now obviously allstar game is. what it is Pro Pro Bowl is what it is. too I mean there's Pro the NHL got it.

right with the four nations it just so. happened to be at the exact same time as. yours so it won absolutely Bonkers in. entire thing but whenever you talk about. quality of play how do you feel about it. cuz like football guys are throwing the. ball better catching the ball better. running the ball better seeing the ball. better blocking the ball better tackling. the ball like everything is better. that's Sports kicking the ball better I. mean he evolve through everything do you. feel like that has happened with the NBA. cuz my argument about LeBron Jordan is. always at they play two different sports. I'm not a basketball guy football doue. watch watch the lake show growing up cuz.

I was a Insomniac kid they were on Late. Night Kobe sha out I mean it was uh an. entire thing don't know the league. inside and out but when I watched that. last dance with Michael Jordan and I saw. some of the highlights that were. happening I was like hold the phone now. like I didn't watch basketball back then. I'm from Pittsburgh okay wasn't like all. the way in on it's like the sport has. evolved so much it's tough to compare I. think both would play well in both eras. if they were to be talked about but how. do you feel about the current state of. the game in the NBA well that.

conversation's interesting right because. uh when you compare arrows all the time. I I feel like football you don't really. do that like you guys don't really talk. about how this guy would fit if he. played in the 90s like that doesn't. that's not a conversation it's not a. normal con Dan Marino modern day would. be yeah but outrageous it the same in. any sport top guys are going to continue. to be top guys throughout Aras but I. mean time travel doesn't exist and I'm. well you don't maybe we don't know not. that I know of not that I haven't been.

not that I've been in front of yet you. know hopefully hopefully one day there's. a lot of old heads I got I guess I have. things to say about me so after your. next contract they'll introduce you to. it I heard about that I think that's a. potential halberton thing not just. Tyrese right that old heads that have a. lot to say oh yeah family business if. you will lot lot mad Mill like Miss uh. mad Mel do you have a question for uh. Tyrese so the quality of play though I. think it's I think it's up I think just. like any sport I think guys make at a. higher level we got so many guys who.

shoot the three well can do so many. different things well but it's just. again it's easy to create a narrative. that we all play the same everybody. shoots too many threes you do the the. league is that's not true that's not. true the league is a copycat league. right when just like the NFL is when a. team wins a championship you strive. teams are going to start to play more. like them so in in the last decade the. Warriors won a championship how' they do. that they shot a lot of Threes made a. lot of jumpers so teams want to do that. now Boston's won a championship they got. five guys on the floor. at all times that can shoot threes so.

more teams we got to shoot more threes. to keep up with what they do so you. think that this is actually decision. trying to win like competitive juices. are making these decisions just like in. the NFL like right now the Eagles just. won pounded pounded for p saquan is the. shot like AJ obviously incredible. Devonte phenomenal they help with the. Box obviously CU you can't bring. absolutely everybody but it's ground and. pound football over there that's how. they play people are trying to win.

championships so it's the same but the. amount of people that are going to now. do that because of the success they're. having like in the early 2000s right. like in Shacks dominating teams are. trying to get three four centers because. they know they're going to need all of. them to go foul him and try to stay in. front and do their best you got to try. to keep up with the the championship. team so Boston wins the most they won a. championship last year they shot plenty. threes you can't play them and shoot all. twos and expect to win that game it's. just math is not going to it's not going.

to work there so you got to shoot more. threes that's how it's going to be so. everybody's trying to chase the top and. that's how it kind of get to that point. and he caught out Boston so I know. Connor will get to his point mad Mel. eager to ask a question yeah just. curious do you think you know we talk. about uh everything with the NBA right. now and how guys are maybe I don't want. to say entitled but you guys make a. shitload of money and I'm like listen. you you earn that. money change your life medal do you. think though um when Luca gets traded is. that kind of a wakeup call for the. entire league like hey maybe [ __ ] ain't. sweet okay like this guy is you know a.

future you know he a top five player in. the NBA and out of nowhere literally out. of nowhere he gets traded did that send. kind of a shock wave across the league. like okay maybe I maybe I can't be. sitting out back Tob backs anymore. because if this guy can get traded I I. sure as hell can get traded as well I. mean I feel like we all operate that way. on a daily basis um I think the Luca. thing might have been eye opening that. nobody's really nobody's really safe you. know everybody can be can be traded and. um you know I think you see trades.

happen every year but you don't see them. to that magnitude where a a top 10. player gets traded for another top 10. player you know like that's very. uncommon so uh definitely came as a. surprise to to to the NBA world but um I. think I think people understand what. comes with the business and uh. everybody's going to be fine where they. are you've been traded and we're very. thankful for it like here in. Indianapolis I will say the way you go. about leading the Pacers is so good for. this city like I think you're perfect. for this city do you agree with that I. appreciate yeah yeah I love it here you. know I'm a Midwest guy so I feel like I.

fit in fit in very well here yeah but. you also got the flash too like flare. yeah you do got the flare I like it. you're a showman I appreciate that I. appreciate it's good I I'm a fan of. small Market teams being good I think. it's I think that's good for the league. it's it's it. is yeah it is now let's uh on the. complete opposite end of the spectrum. Boston Conor has a question Yeah you. mentioned you mentioned the NBA champ. Boston Celtics and I I think we can all. agree no one's beating him in seven. again you know they're looking at back. to most of us can agree that that's. probably the case and one of the biggest.

things we've talked about here is kind. of the face of the league and Jason. Tatum who you know is turnning 27 I. believe already an NBA champ he's the. only American last year who was first. team all NBA and he gets the most Hate. by far out of any of the superstars it. feels like who doesn't really deserve it. obviously there are some guys that you. know people have problems with embiid. and things of that nature but that's. mostly because they don't play Tatum's. one of those guys that does not sit out. back Tob back didn't play right in the.

Olympics and yeah to to the Olympic. point you know I kind of think the. reason that Jason Tatum doesn't get that. much love is because Steve Kerr and. Steve Kerr is the problem for many many. reasons the things that he does and you. know talks about and appears on but. mostly I think because Tatum didn't get. that USA push you know we just saw with. the four nations cup the kachuck. brothers are two of the faces of the NHL. now and I think a lot of people didn't. like them before the four nations now. they're kind of The Golden Boys of the. NHL and Jason Tatum didn't get that.

opportunity so Steve cerr thanks a lot. but there's a graphic that was pulled up. about Jason Tatum versus you know some. of the greats there it is LeBron MJ Kobe. KD is on there and he's the only one. with all of those accomplishments but. for some reason he gets so much hate why. made this graphic who made this graphic. I want to say it was the NBA Muse they. got SEL not sentel rest in peace sore. Muse extra underscore use great graphic. here fantastic but with that being said.

rest in peace to santel dude we're going. to miss you we're going to miss you and. for the people that said that was a bad. account you're completely wrong but why. do you think Jason Tatum gets so much. hate and why do you think people don't. like him because he is one of those kind. of perfect guys even though he doesn't. do that much media yeah I mean I think. it's unwarranted you know he's obviously. like that graphic you saw he's an elite. player in our league uh coming off he's. the best player on the best team in the. NBA you know off a championship so I. feel like it's uh it's not it's not. right for the for the hate that he gets.

I mean I think part of it could be he. went to Duke and he plays on the Celtics. polarizing polarizing teams but uh I. mean Jason's a good dude uh he's got a. shoe he's he's Elite like he's got. everything you know so uh I don't really. understand it it I think us as players I. think he has the respect from his peers. and I think that's what means more than. anything as an NBA player the respect. you get from your peers and we know when. we play Boston you got to be ready and. Game Plan around Jason T he mentioned. the Olympics uh you and he were the two.

guys that didn't see time you know he. got in but he wasn't like he didn't play. and the way you handled it was like. maybe the greatest NBA superstar LED his. team to the Eastern Conference Finals. perfect like is the perfect is King here. in Indiana and then you get on Team USA. and it's like all right I understand my. role here you're going to be a Vibes. like literally a Vibes guy like that is. literally what you became for that. particular team and everybody talks. about doing that saying if I was put in. a position I would do it you actually.

did it I did you become tight with the. guys on the team because of that like. what do you think was a benefit of the. way your Olympic experience went if that. makes sense yeah I I think my favorite. part was just being able to to to be. around the guys go to practice and and. see how these guys work on a daily basis. see their habits um and be able to grow. relationships you know ever since then I. have relationships with all those guys. when golden state was here I went to. dinner with Steph and before we before. the Olympics me and Steph had no. relationship I actually think he I.

thought he didn't [ __ ] with me and then. I was like yo are we cool and he was. like yeah of course and you know stuff's. like the best guy ever but that goes. down the line with all those guys uh so. just being around those guys getting to. grow relationships and getting to learn. from them that was my favorite part [ __ ]. I was there I'm 24 years old so just. trying to learn as much as I could and. you know how that can help me you know. be a good player in the NBA you're a. great teammate Thor it brother yeah go. American great am go American great. americ all right Tyrese we appreciate. the hell out of you we know you have to. travel you're in the middle of a season. right now uh we thank you for stopping.

by hanging out if our show had shifted. an hour earlier window you would have. been able to hang out longer instead. you're heading out right now actually so. um you're the man and the Puma fit is. sweet I appreciate that says who yeah. say says F1 race tonight in Miami no. actually he's the racing jacket no Indie. Car. you he's hopping in that one right there. that funny car that's up there you're. walking in the wrong place tyres right. here is uh right here right here the one. that's kind of diagonal Indie Car indie. car. big Indie Car Guy Mar Joseph newart you.

were talking about earlier I'm actually. uh trying to be a dork for Halloween so. could I get this full. outfit now what are you talking about. look at me this this is what every NFL. team's looking for this is a five for. yeah me you have no idea pal you guys. need to figure that out how can we get. you to do the combine yeah I think we. probably make that happen I me we're. here in the morning we're here in the. morning and I think we could just kind. of Mosey Down you got to work the.

security people just like you have to at. the Indianapolis Motor Speedway which. you're talking about the n500 you got to. have a lot of confidence when you're. walking by these security people cuz. once you get in the building I think. everybody thinks you're okay getting. into the building impossible as you. found out this morning it's it's uh it's. a doozy there's a lot of people there. though it's the biggest single day. sporting event in the world isn't it. well you're talking about Indianapolis. Motor Speedway n500 yeah IND 500 yes. absolutely it is for this though for the. combine getting into the building tough. I think we could get on the field I. think we could we could get you on the. field I would love to and if I tear my. ACL I can finally Sue this place and get.

my money back that they took for. me it kind of be the perfect you deserve. it day you know all those taxes to build. this [ __ ] hole just for them to you know. [ __ ] hole this place is. beautiful Stadium this is a great St. beautiful thank you and you come to all. the Colts games which is very kind be at. the Colts games yeah I came from we came. from Morgan Wallen that's right we're. here for my mom came here for T. Swift yeah it's a great concert Stadium. it's a great Stadium Royal Rumble great. why weren't you in the rumble that's a.

great question a good question I know. you know what I'm GNA tell you the truth. here I wanted to be in the rumble and me. and Triple H talked about it and then he. was like kind of he was just like yeah a. lot of people asking if you're going to. be in the rumble and I just laugh in. their face and I'm like what the [ __ ]. Middle season and he's like cuz I think. he's a little scared about me doing the. middle of season when Brunson remember. when Brunson we got in there and he. pushed himself up at the broke hand and. yes Triple H kind of had a heart attack. so well it's not just Triple H Triple H. also hears from a lot of people me. immediately afterwards like hey what do. we do what do we can we have a little.

bit of well if SummerSlam summerslam's. supposed to be here in the next like. five years right and I believe. WrestleMania wrestlemania's during the. playoffs so that definitely is that'd be. worth it though right I mean youest. Grand stage now you break your back how. how would I how would I have got out how. would I have got eliminated from the. rumble uh spe you think I'm taking that. Brun breaker spear exactly watch your. mouth what he say he said bring in Jason. Tatum listen not in this city you you. remember it was in this he actually this. guy bro are you trying to you trying to.

bait me to say something negative no no. no not at all saying who eliminated you. last year ever Chris ever situation. going on here he has to leave literally. he has to leave what time is it 23 oh. yeah I got to go yeah yeah hey Tyrese we. appreciate the hell out of you. appreciate you you're the man and I. think the Puma looks cool yeah enjoy the. race tonight yeah I know I love it. you're in a plum suit over there hey. I've. seen can. wear okay. you know exactly what you make some you.

you win some you lose some you have some. you not every outfit you put on is like. that [ __ ] was hot this one that's his. week that one is this one is that how do. we feel about this one today you looked. in the mirror you said you know I'm. killing him today shout out Puma yeah. for sure and I'm getting on the plane. cozy Watch The Wire go to sleep oh great. show great show I'm on season season oh. about about allar break yeah I'm I'm on. season five right now Elite television. without a doubt what show you think got. you go to next Severance sance is really.

good it's slow though s kind of sucks H. you seen s it takes a little to build. it's very slow but I like it I watched I. watched three episodes I I got it I. understand it could be great too slow. for me too slow for me but they you. could see why it would be great like it. is a very nine apps in the first season. it takes six to build the place and then. it takes six to build 7 eight n or it's. a crazy concept you got I'm not a I'm. not a uh series guy he is a series guy I. like I would not watch serieses I don't. do that but that one watch couple on his. recommendation you could see how it.

would be great but once again I'm I. watch wrestling and football and. basketball and basketball I was like. calm down of course something a little. quicker Blackhawk Down documentary watch. that unbelievable lion watch Prison. Break you'll love it I heard it's a good. show you love it I'm going. Sopranos White is coming back yeah I'm. not watching that that was a very loud. pop right there I don't know if any mics. that was another one good luck man dud. all right guys that was a good one too.

stucks hey good luck on on swivel. careful stay out of those places on. swivel at Starbucks please hey don't. throw your back out load loading baggage. onto the plane wearing that. gear good point he walked in with that. jacket we have a uh very kind of the. people here we got a sweet upstairs. shout out to F shout out to ESPN and uh. and Indianapolis which is funny because. the Colts don't own the stadium so a NFL. yeah we do yeah right Indianapolis does. so the NFL has to work with like the.

actual City like people that work for. the city the people that work for the. city. all they're they're pretty on board with. our particular program you know. everybody else kind of you know not as. much not as much you know so it's like. the people that have the place are are. people and Tyrese is the same exact he's. treated the same exact way as the PE. like he is beloved in this city Tyrese. is great for this city perfect but he. walked in in that jacket earlier in our. suite and everybody was like that's a. big jacket well I thought he drove his. Ducati here well he could have that's.

getes back to your point the NBA players. make a lot of money the potholes in this. city true ladies and gentlemen men who. host this yeah driving on the moon yeah. I mean you just can't do it you can't. own a nice car like that we we haven't. talked about it in a while um because we. hammered it for so long on our show. whenever we weren't on ESPN but like the. potholes in Indianapolis are Moes like. that is what they are and I know there's. other cities that have bad potholes and. other states have bad potholes cuz I was. cuz I'm from Pennsylvania P any Four.

Season climate normally going to have. bad roads and everything like that and. everybody thinks theirs are the worst. and I just I think I've lived in West. Virginia I've lived in multiple St. Indiana's roads are by far the worst I. mean they they these things are so deep. they're like 3 4 feet deep we went on. vacation came back I thought there was a. small mortar War yeah a pond maybe oh a. pond just started or like you know those. videos where the sinkles yeah like you. think that in the middle the road and. there's so many of them that kind of hit.

you can't even no crash two 18 wheelers. on exactly I was going to say they're. making their way onto the highway now. which is great cuz it makes it very safe. you know when you got a shitload of. semis going by and everything it's. awesome it's phenomenal crashed a semi. into another semi I guess these Pooles I. saw one this morning they were giving. donkey tours to the bottom of that's. what I'm saying messed up figure out. that's what I'm saying it's like driving. on the moon joining us now ladies and. gentlemen it's two men that have already. been to the moon and probably been back. they host the NFL combine they host the. future the NFL ladies and gentlemen from. NFL.

Network and from the Rich Eisen. show and we can move some sticks rich. and D. jeremi Michigan man's going to bring in. a ball uh well well what no he's heart. how you doing. Rich whatever you want to go come on. game. DJ Mr. sticks little bit more room. yeah there we go there we go get this.

mic thank. you God it's good to see you guys it is. great hey let's do it hey the combine's. here it is here we let's goys let's go. boys it is go boys we're ready we're. ready this is Daniel Jeremiah Super Bowl. this is all eyes on DJ this is hey Rich. Eisen let's go ahead and run that 40. let's be smooth as hell let's compliment. everybody that's out here cuz there's a. chance that there's any Hall of Famer at. any time walking onto this field and.

this is uh you guys on TV for what 45. hours straight calling people do. exercises right Rich we should raise. money it should be a Telethon it's funny. anytime a uh a large man runs really. slow I get a text from Warren Sap saying. there's your pace. car I appre single time you've been. under 60 uh four times I think we did. the history is that right 2016 is your. fastest I think if we get the if we if I. read the stats right you've been under. 60 four times throughout the history a.

lot of times you've run I mean like 20. times it feels like do you know how many. I always tell there it is there's the uh. let me see I see I see five beautiful. fives up there to the left of the. decimal point that is fantastic look at. that form what do you think of the form. it's really good is it yeah top for. being in a suit too hey it's four under. 60 right it's four under that's four. under six okay I thought you said five I. thought I could math how many how many. of those did you time DJ just a couple. but I did get one under uh under six so. I don't know if that's 2018 it might be.

2018 sounds about right he's got a nice. trigger finger I was giving the punters. yesterday and the kicker is good like I. got my stopwatch right here you can just. delay a little bit and give a guy a 0.1. all of a sudden he's goes from 46 to a. 47 that's a good punt let's keep this. guy around but what you've done for St. Jude with this runr run cool thing bro. thank you Indianapolis is very lucky. that you choose uh or you get to do it. here I guess let me tell you it's it's. been uh it was like anything else born. um out of on television born out of. complete boredom uh sitting in the old.

RCA Dome uh two and a half hours before. shooting Total Access back when you were. probably a scout or something like that. where were you in ' 05 yeah I was I was'. 05 I was with the Ravens you with the. Ravens so it's me uh I'm sitting up in. the stands Terrell Davis who was. thinking about doing TV at the time. sitting next to me um oh this is great I. get to tell the story The Way normally I. have to clean it up now I've just. realized where I am right. now we see yours you never to see ours. but you know the you know the Vibes I do.

know the Vibes so so um I'm sitting. there and I'm just totally bored hearing. the hum of the the air conditioning and. the lights in the old RCA Dome just. stared down at the 40 yard dash and uh I. don't know why it popped in my head. about running it so I turn it to r Davis. I say Titi how fast do you think I can. run it he laughs he goes you can't run. for [ __ ] and I I I swear to God I just. said go [ __ ]. yourself watch me it was a spite run it. was a might run and I went and I I went. down and I was just you know dress.

suited and booted lace up you know dress. shoes and I went and ran it and had no. idea that the crew that was on break was. actually recording it and they surprised. me with it that night and then the next. day um you know we had Joe Gibbs on and. uh oh yes a whole bunch of other coaches. came in judging evaluating and they said. did did we see you running a 40 yard. dash last night so right away they. immediately popped the 40 yard dash up. and they were all making fun of me and. having fun with it and I just thought.

nothing of it next year I show up and uh. the first person I see at the RCA Dome. is uh the uh freshly minted NFC champion. coach of the Seattle Seahawks Mike hren. who goes are you going to run it again. and I'm like no and he said why not and. I'm like I don't know he goes well you. got to beat your time and I'm like. thinking to myself here is the NFC. champion head coach just coaching the. Super Bowl like questioning my sense of. competition I I have to run it. so I I gotta prove myself I did and.

that's when I that's why I ran it again. because of him and um and I just. remember him also saying just just don't. wind up there and he pointed at the. training table um and so I just kept. doing it over and over and over again. and you know now it's 20 years old come. on dude that's awesome hell yeah Rich. you've done so many good things too with. that obviously raising a [ __ ] ton of. money cuz I don't know the exact amount. for say over 7 million for the life of. it awesome much more than a [ __ ] T that. is a lot that's amazing. it was a spite run to begin with and. Coach holgren uh kind of motivates you.

to continue it and then he points at a. training table have you ever hurt. yourself doing it I have as a matter of. fact uh I I cuz you know running it and. um you know uh my wife is always sitting. at home hoping that I don't embarrass. myself in the family name um and then. Dion was always part of our our crew and. I didn't want to embarrass myself in. front of him sast Leon sand castle and. as a matter of fact he did run the 40. with me one year as Leon sand castle and. was step for step with me in the Lyon.

sand castle afro running backwards. back that's a tough look it's a tough. look but you know for comedy Pat you. know anything for comedy and also foron. sand I it was good for the brand on. everybody's part except for me but it's. all good no but but uh so one year I I I. ran it so slow twice and I ran it a. third time because I just wanted to run. it faster and popped my hamstring in the. middle of it not good and uh and and I.

thought to myself well we're just not. going to air it this year and Mike Mayo. uh said to me you've got to air it you. got to air it I'm like why and he goes. because it shows you know you're just. like everybody else you're just you're. running as fast as you possibly can who. cares if you got hurt and just show it. I'm like okay you're right so we did it. and as soon as as soon as it airs he. goes hey looks like there was a sniper. in the dome huh and he goes Bill poon. was up there with a rifle and I'm like.

well wait a you told me to show it just. just to set me up like what the hell. that was everybody's had that happen in. football in sports you know so I think. you stepping up to prove yourself that. I'm not just a TV guy thank you such a. good mentality to start that entire. thing hell yeah we appreciate you rich. now let's talk about some 40s that are. going to be happening here this week and. I legitimately can't wait to watch you. guys spend a weekend with you it's like. a weekend watching a golf tournament. that's I think how you should view it. probably I assume you already do as a. host but that is how I view it something.

great happens there's some noise I'm. going to go ahead and look other than. that got some background noise with the. wife with the daughter doing a thing. what do we need to keep an eye out for. this week what is like the most. spectacular jaw-dropping thing that you. project to potentially take place this. wow I think there's there's going to be. some four- tws so we had the runner last. year with Xavier worthy ripped off the. record I think that's probably going to. be safe but I think there's three. there's three guys that have a chance to. get close Maxwell Harriston a corner. from Kentucky is kind of my favorite. keep an eye on him as somebody that that.

might run that thing down bond from. Texas to wide receivers crazy crazy. worthy from Texas 421 to Isaiah Bond 42. whatever from Texas it's like what are. what what's the training going on down. in Texas these guys are just faster than. any humans that have ever existed well I. think also you just looking at the track. programs in high school how much better. they've gotten and the resources and. track clubs and these guys are they know. how to run you know it used to be. football players and you're trying to. train and learn how to run a 40 these. guys have been you know coming out of a. stance since they were 8 nine years old.

and they're legit fast so those guys are. fun and then defensive line it's uh it's. a stat class you know defensive tackles. is loaded Edge rushers is loaded uh. linebackers today Jihad Campbell from. from Alabama who can he is he can rush. off the edge he can play off the ball. he's going to he he going to run low 44. at at that size it's impressive it is. impressive and if we got good D tackles. that means we got a lot of big me moving. fast always always create good moments. for NFL combine clips now mad Mel.

obviously dialed in has some questions. yes yes yeah DJ obviously this uh this. time of the year the reason I love it so. much is it just kind of gives me an. opportunity to put my nuts right on the. table let everybody know hey I I know. this [ __ ] inside and out okay kind of I. assume you're the same way maybe not as. colorful you know as the way I do it but. uh Adam schfer was on the show yesterday. kind of talking about the athletes in. this class and basically said Hey listen. a guy the top 10 here Rich please Rich. he's G he's G it's fine I me I get I get. it you know it happens but this guy. trying to do a little scouting said the.

difference between 10 and you know maybe. the guy who goes with 10 the guy goes. with 35 is uh you know very minuscule if. you will he said you know listen a guy. you get in the third round might be just. as good as a guy you take 11 do you. agree with that sentiment do you think. this class itself maybe isn't as deep as. classes in the past or is it kind of one. of those things where you know. personally I believe hey not as great of. a quarterback class A lot of people are. you know not going to get as excited. about it but do you buy that that maybe. there's 10 guys with a true first round. great everybody else you might be able. to find you know day two day three uh.

what kind of what's your take on that DJ. first of all have you had your pumpkin. pie yet today uh obviously start every. morning uh you know a lot of people. listen I want to get this out of. the allegedly that whipped cream Whi. cream not whippets all right I'm not. emptying a whipped cream bottle and then. sucking the you know the CO2 out of. there getting all jacked up on Google. nobody should be doing yeah I'm not. doing that okay so yeah you okay assum. me I had half a half a pumpkin pie and. about two cans of whipped cream me going.

I don't mean to evaluate I don't think. that is the actual chemistry of what you. suck out of a whip it CO2 no yeah but if. how do you. know well I I know carbon dioxide is not. in that no it's not but if that's all. you got is an empty you know uh you know. whip it can or I know my chemistry. Boston okay fair enough fair enough. Michigan guy forgot anyways anyways. pumpkin a lot of pumpkin uh and then 10. 10 to 35 it is it's a the way I phrase.

it is it's a starter draft maybe not a. star draft so there's a bunch of guys. very evenly graded I like that so you're. going to find you know there there's. going to be a lot of similarity I think. I think I would push it back maybe more. towards like 15 then you could probably. even go further down the line like 15 to. 50 you're going to see a lot of you know. similarly graded players that's why on. the media side of things it's hard to. it's hard to stack your board because. you're not with a team and so. every team is going to have the same. grades on these guys but I'm going to. prioritize the needs that I have so I I.

think you'll see players get picked. it'll be wildly different than where. they are on boards so who do you think. are the stars then like if you're if. you're saying you know it's a lot of. starters who are like the the top guys. like the blue chip dudes who are going. to go in and be immediate you know huge. factors for teams I mean I think there's. two stars in the draft I think it's. Abdul Carter and I think it's Travis. Hunter I think those are like the blue. chip elite players that Tyler Warren no. I love Tyler Warren he's my fifth. overall player um too you got my third. player that's what's so weird about the.

same as I have the same grade on Warren. and levelin again they're that's my. three of my top seven players two tight. ends and a running back why isn't Travis. Hunter being just we're previewing this. but I hope you don't mind us using the. Pat McAfee show real estate is sort of a. rundown meeting here okay very good why. why isn't Travis Hunter number one. overall cuz he is a unicorn and by the. way he just came up with the sound bite. of the week as far as I'm concerned he. was asked at his press conference while. I think while you were talking to Tyrese. here that uh you know are you going to.

return punts and kicks and his answer. was I already have two jobs Beast that. is a sick bar that is I already have two. jobs like everybody back off I'm a. freaking unicorn so why why isn't he. considered first overall yeah he's. second for me and that more is about how. special Abdul Carter is and the position. that he plays I just I'm going to Value. somebody who can go get the quarterback. in a league where I rank it quarterback. pass press That's one and two of the. most valuable assets you can have and.

we're coming off of a Super Bowl that we. just witness what happens when you have. dominant defensive front players now. he's unique in terms of all the. different things he can do I'm not. convinced he can run it out there 100. snaps a game in the NFL playing against. you know that competition for the long. you know prolonged season I think he's. going to have to major in minor and you. got to figure out which one of those. he's going to major in which one he's. going to M so I think if you were to. like Chuck bagano for instance he said. if you can get a lock down Corner guy. that can go on on an island you go ahead. and do that and you can give him a. couple plays on offense to take.

advantage of his skill set especially. with the game coming back to being a. physical one if you can go man on the. outside which I think obviously. everybody wants to be able to do but if. you can go man or have a guy that can go. man I mean that's a game changer for the. rest of the box to try to stop the run. which I think is where the game's headed. I'm very fascinated by Travis Hunter. because you know you ask these people is. he a wide receiver he's a quarterback. and you ask him obviously he says I'm. Different he said I'm different people. say never been done before nobody ever. done it like I do it I'm just different. a lot of good bars coming out of Travis. Hunter and I think he's Uber competitive.

everybody says all he does is like ball. doesn't really go out supposed to be a. great kid yeah works his ass off like. he's 113 snaps a game I think or is some. sort of record in this entire thing so. his durability has been fantastic the. way he's come through you know the prime. University to be a professional athlete. it's like feels like he is a c Miss type. of guy uh 100% one of the positions. right and and at one point best too. right and at one point of his career. you'll you'll figure which one he's. going to major in specifically and then.

you know uh that's why I don't know how. you pass up on him like period end of. story I just the only thing I would push. back he DJ listen listen to us. okay fil by the way we haven't even got. to will Howard yet I would have had that. on my bingo card is already coming up uh. with Pat it's coming I'll give you a. short amount of time so you can't. explain thank you thank you but I mean. Abdul Carter we watched him with one arm. so good in the playoffs dominated we. were there yeah was Dom I got some stats.

on Abdul Carter um you want to know. something crazy and this is this is. fully you know recognizing Travis Hunter. and his greatness I'm not so sure if. they raced that Abdul Carter wouldn't. win really Abdul Carter I was told when. when he has a full Runway to get healthy. and run that he'll run in the four. threes unbelievable as a pass rusher so. that makes sense for what hembo sent. over uh most pressures versus Ohio State. last season Abdul Carter with five most. pressures versus Oregon last season ABDO. Carter was six most pressures versus. Notre Dame last season ABDO Carter was.

seven that was when he was injured or. whatever okay then most pressures in. 2024 inside 2 and 1 half seconds okay so. you talk about his speed inside two and. a half seconds Abdul Carter had 37 of. them James Pierce Jr had 29 inside 2.25. seconds now we're getting this is Turn. Style tackle type thing happened there. he had 29 of those so basically only. eight of them were between uh 225 to 25. and the next closest was Jame pierce. with 19 so he has as many in 2.25. seconds as Pierce had in 2 and 1/2.

seconds you're talking about just. getting to the quarterback immediately. he's running a 43 this guy yeah but. we're not going to see it here we'll. have to wait till it's pro day that's. what that's how explosive he is that's. that's just how Dynam and he plays. through pain that got the foot thing now. right what's his foot thing so I guess. they they were thought he might have to. have surgery then the latest we heard. today was that he's going to put that he. doesn't need it he's going to be able to. go with the pro day and and full go. eight weeks like if if sher's report is. accurate which we assume it is shefer. said he had two options yeah option one.

is get the surgery get a boat here it is. right here option one for Carter would. be to have the preemptive surgery have a. screw insert on his right foot and be. expected back in eight weeks option two. for Carter would be to bypass the. surgery conduct his Pro and improved NFL. teams that he doesn't need it because. he's probably had this for a long time. without even knowing it maybe they. checked it here at Medical and my first. reaction is like eight weeks brother. it's February you go ahead and get that. thing done and then you go into a season. especially if you're a top let alone a. top one guy but if you're like a top. five guy like obviously there's a. difference in money but what you're. about to do in the NFL is about to be a.

difference in money I'd get healthy but. I feel like they probably just assume. that it's not that big of a deal is that. what's apparently option two was chosen. this morning right yes that's what I. heard yeah so do you know anything about. that DJ no it just said that this. morning the information that was it. wasn't as serious as they saw yesterday. I don't know how that information. changes from one day to the next. different doctors right is it different. medical different Imaging I guess I. don't really isn't that the thing Rich. about yeah then that that's what this is. all about like I I remember back again. back in the the day at the RCA Dome and. I was just strolling around the combine. for the first time and they used to.

split up the medical rooms by uh. division like you AFC AFC East doctors. were in run room and in Central and what. have you um you Central anyway long. story short is long story short is is uh. I would you know I went in there started. talking to some doctors which probably. wouldn't be uh happened today uh one guy. told me that uh he in previous combines. uh saw an x-ray and told a guy you know. you broke your leg uh back in high. school and the guy's like no I didn't.

and he showed it to him he goes yeah you. did you just didn't know you know I'm. like they find stuff that other places. just don't was there somebody's heart. there was a heart thing somewhere wasn't. there uh I think Maurice Hurst out of. Michigan they found something with him. that you know heart related and. fortunately he's he's had a long long. career here yeah like one team deemed. him no and then other teams were like. yeah we'll take this guy in top 10 like. there it's an interesting Philosophy. from doctors what happened with Kansas. City with Trey Smith there it is that's. why he fell to the sixth round yeah his. knee was all screwed up and some of the. doctors said this might be a problem and.

obviously he's been now he fantastic I. guess just to bring this conversation. full circle mad Mel you're the first. person to talk about nuts on the table. at the combine since Chris. Jones that's on the field brother the. field brother that's was that was a. sitting there watching go oh man he. pulled his that's not his. hamstring Let it Fly DJ you need to do. that in there uh you talk about. quarterbacks yes sir okay 46 minutes. into the hour got an out at 57 so I. think you have more than enough time.

we're good to explain y I looked at your. can you put his mock first first round. up there again there is a name that I. uh I don't know if we have exact control. hey yeah there it. is yeah I don't see it do you guys see. it am I missing a name what are you. looking for a national champion is it. four Ohio State guys I see yeah I see. egg. is on there I see Henderson I see Don.

Jackson dog this is the will Hower show. of record oh I'm I'm yeah okay he's not. up there he's not isn't he rich I don't. see him what is the deal like I love. shador by the way incredibly tough I. like shador up there cam Ward I like cam. Ward up there like I am not this is not. taking away from them this is just. saying Jackson Dart number three in this. draft is what's kind of being talked. about and then will Howard how do you. have him viewed he's right in he's right. in there it's not he's not far off from. Jackson dart on grade wise for me and. I'll give you I'll give you some. Goodwill Howard news because I because I.

knew I was gonna see Pat and I knew the. we. were so I talked to teams that have. interviewed will Howard this week and. said he's been exceptional that he's. been awesome in the room and I went back. and I wanted to watch kind of the last. tail end games cuz that's when he caught. fire so after you get through the. process you watch all 330 guys we have. here now you have time to go on a little. deeper dive and the first one I started. with cuz I want to start with Michigan I. know didn't go it went the way you. wanted it to go oh very much so yeah did. not go the way Ohio State wanted that.

one to go but watching watching that. tape he took a vicious hit early in that. game Run on the sideline and and he was. not he was not the same later on beyond. that thought he was a Kansas State still. yeah exactly exactly it was a wildcat um. so seeing that I kind of excused away. some of that performance because I don't. know that he was all right in that game. and then he got hot and and played. exceptionally well my only concern with. him really is just I want to see the. quarterback throw live and see the ball. come out of his hand just to see you.

know if there's enough pop and there's. enough juice because these receivers at. Ohio State creat so much separation that. there's not really those tight window. throws there's no need for them you. don't really have to make them there's a. couple stries there's a couple I mean we. were on the field watch the last four. games Rob Co per unbelievable he's. eyeballed well that's the thing so we um. and I'm not saying you had the same. thought as us actually on CJ strad but. like when we do these field pass games. me AJ Darius lot of other people and I'm. very lucky at the punter position I've. watched a lot of football from the.

sideline like I've literally watched a. lot of football so you see some of these. guys and you look like oh that's a. Sunday guy right like that is clearly a. different guy we saw CJ against Georgia. and he had ran more than he had for the. rest of the season it was like that's. the guy right there that is the guy for. will Howard it was just like as we were. watching him I'm like nobody's really. talking he's 6'4 he's got the size 240. he's got all the boys love him and. whenever things go south especially with. a transfer guy that paid a bunch of. money especially with all the egos that. could potentially be in that building. they could have turned their back on him.

instead he had touchdown celebrations. with dances with all of his skill he was. able to handle personality and then he. was making these throws now granted that. guy's unguardable so is everybody else. except for against Michigan Right Rich. if well no I mean and and listen he he. he he bowled out in in the playoffs. there's just no there's no two ways. about it and there's no two ways about. it he was hurt Michigan Michigan really. hurt him in that game and I CJ Stout had. the best workout of a quarterback I.

think I've ever seen at a combine right. and he threw he was unre he threw every. throw he was Dynamite he was amazing my. only question is will Howard when he. throws here is it going to be really. weird for him because I don't think he's. played in this building okay wow all. right this is uh that's true this is the. home of the Big 10 championship and I I. don't. think this is this going to be the first. time he throws in this building okay. let's so let's stick on that note shall. we sure stick on that note with the. Michigan how many did Jim say yesterday. maybe four so it's it's Mason Graham.

it's Kenneth Grant it's coulston. Loveland and Johnson okay so are we. going to be able to continue to. replenish all these guys up in Michigan. are we a little bit worried uh when you. say we what do you mean are like. collectively we I'm just saying are we. if I was a why be worried why would. Millions. for well when you say you I didn't give. it it was you no no no it wasn't me you. own Oracle no no you know I I I own. something that Oracle I think created. you know um you know 200 billion what is.

that what is Oracle database computer. it's what it's a great company it's. outstanding and it's it's it it it's a. it's a revenue generator Pat um you know. but yes the Michigan did uh splurge and. it's fantastic uh you know and they. finished awesome that was great to you. know uh January 1st. 2024 beating uh Alabama in the Rose Bowl. in December 31st beating Alabama twice.

in the same year around beating Ohio. State and uh it was just those were just. great days in my life Pat yeah you guys. beat Alabama twice and Ohio State twice. in the same year I mean that's uh well. yeah I mean in the in an actual calendar. year the first day of the year and the. last day of the year was beating at. Alabama um yeah and then Ohio State um. with you know a a walk-on quarterback. and you know five losses and was just. honestly i' rather talk about all that. can I can I ask Pat a local question. here I think that's a great idea.

whatever it might be you guys have a. recommendation for a good smoothie spot. uh Tropical Smoothie Cafe is the right. because I've heard coffee shops not safe. these days so if I want just a little. something to refresh interesting I would. love a stay away from Starbucks speaking. of holy [ __ ] holy oh my God. Come On Come On Now ladies got stitches.

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of these just so we know exactly who we. are oh my God who we are uh chitchatting. with here growing offensive but not that. far off yeah okay uh okay nonetheless. Starbucks standoff captivated the world. allegedly uh you know had a little face. Toof face a disagreement rap aort one of. the participants rap sheet joining us. now unknown Unlimited is the other one. um yeah okay all right we see it uh rap.

okay rap uned we wake up this morning oh. yeah okay we know that the whole world. knows about everything that has taking. place what's the mindset like and Where. Do We Go From Here bub uh okay so last. night uh when stand more to your left. thank you good T hand back up a little. it looks like you're in a mug. shop by the way that's why that's why. you didn't touched did you see that you. see that move back yeah that. was shoulder roll in there too all right.

go ahead sorry um so last night when it. all broke everyone in the world text me. um wanting to know details and it was. all I mean it's all out there Florio. basically wrote the whole thing so. there's not much to add wow um and then. I woke up this morning and everyone in. the world has texted me yeah well we all. are happy that you're both okay would. like to let that be known with that. being said what is next are you guys. going to shake hands before you get out. of town or what are we say. I mean I.

I. handshake you's go under the the the. Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf from now. on another not another. Penny there actually a lot of great. coffee brands that Duncan is. Duncan hey we're happy you're okay we. love you are you all right man you're. going to be okay I'm okay we miss you. you had a great season we were watching. miss you guys too ladies and gentlemen. rap she b r body. armor I wish you would had a neck race.

on today when you all right boys uh Cino. this uh this first hour is wrapping up. and uh we'll be heading into a heart out. and you guys will probably go off into. the world that you are going to do rich. we'd like to wish you absolute best of. luck as you call 45 hours of all this. legitimately we appreciate you doing it. let alone during the season okay so. obviously I'm on TV a lot I do a lot of. [ __ ] during season boys and I do a lot. of [ __ ] we're very lucky to do it you do. the same exact [ __ ] and you have NFL.

game day morning on Sunday which is like. a 4our show I think it is indeed so the. way that you go about doing what you do. in your work ethic is something that I. admire massively and what you're doing. here every single year does not go. unnoticed about like how the length of. it and everything about it they got it. right with you as the first tire for NFL. Network just want to let you know that. we how is the mindset going in um I'm. fired up it's year 22 I heard you're. coming on tomorrow right 35 fantastic. very good right off got a camera no dude. we will we will have a camera for you.

I'll make sure that make especially. showcase was not a show just learned. that on the fly in the moment but it was. lucky to be there rich I appreciate you. and DJ I can't wait to watch all the. preparation and hard work that you put. in over the last few months kind of be. on display throughout the entire combine. you're the man I appreciate you guys. yeah somebody's run a couple 42s he said. yeah that's crazy Smith the one name you. didn't I won't be one of them he's one. of the three will not quick we got like. 20 seconds for J what does he need to. look out for maybe from your standpoint. today we talked about Kenneth Grant and. then Shamar Stewart there's a couple.

other Stewart is going to work out and. Jad Campbell too yeah we talked about. this yeah anybody not going to work. outon gr how much much time do you have. no my God we're out of time it be a. great combine our On's wrapping up here. from Lucas H stadium in hour two we have. somebody field and many others we cannot. wait we appreciate you all so much be a. friend tell friend something nice might. change the life we'll see you on the. other side. crowd of about 30 people moving through.

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it's kind of exactly what you're looking. for when you're come to the combine you. know you want someone who can pull off. all these looks you know the the what. the hell with the Fantastic Fedora flap. the the hot dog we got to find this guy. the I don't want to be around anymore. guy I mean there it really is the. dangerous no Dinger there's no uh coffin. D I don't I don't think coffin flop ises. corn cop TV we are still trying to save. coffin flop but uh no it's just got some. of the most iconic ones we don't have. all of them but it's impossible to fit.

all of them on one shirt I mean you got. everything you got the sloppy steaks or. wherever it isap them up you know but. yeah it's one of my favorite shirts I. appreciate yeah no problem you look. great and obviously any Tim Robinson. gear is welcomed on any particular. program that we have if you have a. detroiters thing coming up next we can't. wait to see you now joining you at the. talk table not Tai Schmid per us it's. actually madm Kyper M madl what are your. thoughts on Rich eyes and Daniel. Jeremiah in the combine as a whole here. pal uh you know just again absolutely. unbelievable being here in Indianapolis.

uh it's just great being around a bunch. of people who look up to you and you. know have said you know he this is the. reason I kind of got into this guys like. you really pave the way for me to be. able to kind of break down the combine. look at all the different prospects and. go through their intangibles their. athleticism all the requisite abilities. they're going to need to perform in the. NFL so it's nice you know kind of coming. here and and and I mean I you know I I. don't want to Pat myself on the back too. much but basically being the king of the. city for a week yeah and you're the king. of every city we think and uh speaking. of there goes rap rap we love you rap.

careful rap a couple days for that guy. careful that's not a Starbucks cup Y and. I don't think there'll ever be another. staru we love you rap we love you rap TR. jav a house rap uh one half of the. hammer Cowboys tone Diggs is here tone. big day today at the combine a lot of. things are going to happen here yeah a. lot of uh big human beings moving. quickly today uh there was a couple guys. that I I picked out that you know are. going to be working out today that are. going to work out really well uh. starting with Kenneth Grant he's a d. tackle out of Michigan he's 63 342 he.

actually said yesterday that he dropped. to 330 uh for the combine so that he. could run in the 47 48 range at 330 340. so he is going to be a huge people mover. to watch today uh another one is Jaylen. Walker who was the buckus award winner. he actually won that over Abdul Carter. for the best defensive player in the. country he's 62 250 and they say he. could probably run like in a 44 range. linebacker out of Alabama Jihad Campbell. who is an offb linebacker but he came.

out of high school uh playing Edge he is. 63 250 who's also going to run in the. 44s today and his T like you when he. sees the ball he just go gets it he's. awesome and then the last one uh out of. Texas A&M Shamar Stewart who is just a. freak he is 66 280 and they think he he. was a festar coming out and he think. they he could run in the four five today. at 66 like 270 280 so yeah there's a lot. of freaks a lot of of them out of the. SEC coming out today who are going to. run well well of course you're on ESPN. so you're going to say.

that that Mak sense one was from. Michigan though uh but no there's going. to be a lot of big dudes running. fascinating that's kind of been the. tradition not tradition the way that the. the draft has gone a lot of guys getting. bigger and a lot of guys getting faster. a lot of workouts a lot of meetings a. lot of medical also a lot of people. speaking to the media we heard Brett V. speak uh on the Travis Kelce future. conversation and speculation we heard. coach Andy Reid speak on the speculation. of Travis Kel future and uh I decided to. reach out to. Source say who know and say like hey.

what's the are we still are we. uh are we playing next year to my. source and uh message was my dog. Exclamation point Exclamation point. Exclamation point three. Source say says I'm coming back for sure. going to try and get to the best shape. I've been this off season and get back.

to the Mountaintop got a real bad taste. in my mouth with how I played in that. last game and how I got the guys ready. for battle I can't go out like that. Exclamation point Exclamation point. Exclamation point and guess. what one more exclamation wow huge okay. so that's the Travis Kelce uh future. conversation so he's probably coming. back I think I think he probably I think. I think You' say Travis Kel is coming. back to play football yet again and I. think you know he had that idea I would.

assume before the Super Bowl whenever he. did uh media day he said in three years. I see myself playing football yet but. then with the way that game goes knowing. that he is an Ohio guy who's a football. guy with how everything has gone and. what his career has been remember the. Chiefs weren't always good when he was. on that team he had to persevere he had. to continue to grow evolve he got better. as a player as a human I would assume he. would predict as a professional. everything and then he's gotten to the. point now where he's in Goat. conversations with anybody that's. talking about tight ends that's a.

situation that doesn't happen to many. players in the history of the game and. obviously he is represented our sport. fantastically while dating the most. famous person on Earth yeah we love. Travis now obviously whenever you're in. the public eye there are going to be. things that are going to come out from. people's mouths that aren't as positive. all the time there's going to be reasons. for people to find to hate Travis Kelce. there's going to be reasons for people. to find to hate the Kansas City Chiefs. there's going to be reasons for people. to hate Taylor Swift even though a lot. of it makes no sense to me sometimes if.

you're just on the top of the mountain. people are going to throw rocks of. things that shine shout out Taylor Swift. for that particular quote but what you. can't deny is the greatness of Travis. GOI you can't deny that he is oneof one. you can't deny that he is an anomaly you. can't deny that the guy loves ball fully. committed and in the Andy accountability. driven type building I don't think. enough credit is given about this guy. being an absolute doll day in day out. showing up to work already great already. rich already has a resume already in a.

Hall of Fame and it's like he's he's a. guy that loves ball and uh we love. Travis and I'm excited to see him get. back on the field get in the best shape. that he's been I'm excited to see what. that means because a lot of people think. he could potentially get distracted by. Taylor I think he gets motivated by. Taylor sure yes I I think like those two. being together makes them both want to. continue to grow and get even better I'm. excited to see what he looks like coming. back next yeah and look what they do. every offseason the Kansas City Chiefs. they reload you know I assume after the.

game they there were probably some. thoughts like hey if rash rice is out on. that field if we are fully healthy and. no team by the time they get to the. Super Bowl's fully healthy but I assume. those thoughts creep in he just started. kind of coaching Rashid rice up like he. was off to a historic start for the. Kansas City Chiefs rasid rice before you. know he was out for the season then even. just look at his brother you know when. his brother Jason lost the Super Bowl to. the Chiefs he came back for a year. obviously last year the Eagles lose to. the Bucks in the first round he ends up. retiring I bet Jason Kelce probably wish.

he didn't retire he open about it yeah. exactly so it's one of those things too. when if if you were to talk to the. closest people around him I bet their. advice would be like hey why the hell. would you retire you guys are still in. Prime position to go back to the Super. Bowl it's not like after that loss you. know they're going to completely crumble. they still have Mahomes it's still Andy. Reid their team is still unbelievable. guys still want to go to Kansas City and. you know ring Chase and kind of be in. the conversation as one of those top.

four teams in the league and it feels. like the Chiefs are going to be right. back where they were last year and. Kelsey being in the best shape of his. life I'm sure they're going to be even. better and they were the one seat so who. knows we talked about how you know. everybody said they were playing bad as. being the chip on this team that's in. the middle of a dynastic run. back-to-back world champions and then. people are saying this team's not good. this team's not good all that does and I. think AJ brought it up uh when he was. there Super Bowl week at Radio r he is. on a cruise right now for Ohio State in. the middle of the Caribbean he'll be. back uh next week but he chit CCH about.

how you know all you people that are. saying you hate the Chiefs and you think. they're bad and all that stuff like you. are their motivation like when those. guys get to the top of the mountain. they're trying to find chips to put on. the shoulder so now getting your ass. beat in the big in your stage that is. your state the Super Bowl has become. your residency and play Bad get your ass. beat people chirp loud it's like there's. almost like a I assume a Resurgence. that's about to happen in that Kansas. City Building you feel the same mad Mel. yeah without a doubt and then also. people you know on top of it are are. cherry-picking plays you know from from.

the game when they're getting killed and. saying oh this guy doesn't care anymore. you know this guy doesn't want to play. hard anymore and I think you know a big. part of it too is they talk about hey. the media aspect he's going to be able. to get whatever whatever job he wants. he's going to be on whatever pregame. desk he wants he's in the next you know. Happy Gilmore movie all that kind of. stuff so why would you play you're going. to be one of the biggest stars on the. planet all that stuff's still going to. be there okay this guy isn't going to. wake up tomorrow and all of a sudden not. be able to play football anymore not. want to play football anymore I think. you mentioned it's a big part of it you.

date someone like Taylor Swift like. you're you're not just you know riding. coattails and saying oh you know she's a. billionaire I'm going to be able to do. nothing and you know he's very wealthy. on his own but you see how hard she. works touring everywhere having 150 200. shows a year going to every single. continent if you're in love with someone. and you're around someone all the time. like guess what that's that's reigniting. that fire in in your own body to say hey. you know what like Conor me I could be a. better me I be a better me I'm gon to. get in the best shape of my life okay.

we're not that we just lost in the Super. Bowl who's listen the Chiefs are going. to be around okay they're going to have. an opportunity to win another Super Bowl. next year it makes sense I mean Kelsey's. going to play until the wheels fall off. mad Mel you do love love don't you who. doesn't how can there are people out. there that want the. devil Satan Satan I bet he does I think. he does Love Love Actually with himself. so there is I guess it' be more of an. infat a some people have yeah yeah lost. I suppose you could say but a lot of. people said that their relationship was. all [ __ ] but it turns out that their.

relationship might be the greatest thing. that is happen in like the Zeitgeist of. the most famous people on Earth and then. also for Travis Kelce to be like oh I. can cuz you watch great he's he is one. in the NFL how they work how they go. about doing their thing how you can. continue to learn and evolve and get. better as you go through people are. always trying to take [ __ ] from other. people you know like Tyree said the. biggest thing about the Olympics was. watching the other guys work and and how. they go about doing their things like. whenever we get to go watch the WWE do. their thing and we see them do stuff and. it's like you can learn from that I'm.

assuming that Travis is learning a lot. of [ __ ] about a lot of [ __ ] from Taylor. because she is we're talking about the. one here and uh her work ethic and I've. heard some songs you know through my. wife and um she's dated some bums and. has not worked out without a doubt I. think the reason why this is going to. work out is because Travis is not a bum. he's Ohio guy football guy it's got to. work ethic mhm you know and he wants to. continue so I love everything about it. let's not forgot Mahomes is in his. revenge hair era as well so he's been.

waiting to cut that hair for years last. year he said in that quarterback. documentary he said uh I don't want to. be the dad with a mullet you know I kind. of I want to cut my hair but we're. winning so I can't it's hard for me he. cut it pretty quickly yeah he couldn't. wait soon as that game was over he he. looks a lot younger too yeah he looks. good like I think this exactly what he. potentially thought like maybe sometimes. he pulled his hair back and was like I I. can look like like an adult if I really. want to do that and that was the his. words not ours correct and he did he. pulled the trigger and on Texas Tech. that kid buried that putt did you say a.

full court putt that was sweet Patrick. jumped up with a thing looks like he's. obviously he had a shiny cross on too he. does he's good hey I the Chiefs is still. the Chiefs I think even though the. Eagles is definitely the Eagles without. a doubt yeah we need to remember that. the Eagles is definitely the Eagles bet. you the Chiefs probably take a couple. alment in this draft Yeah I just that's. what Andy re did the last time they lost. in the Super Bowl to a team that got a. lot of pressure and were able to do. their thing to an offensive line they. reloaded the offensive line so let's. assume they'll do the same this off seon.

um coach Matt rule from Nebraska. formerly of the Carolina Panthers and of. Baylor and Temple will join us in about. 25 minutes or so joining us now ladies. and gentlemen is ESPN fantasy expert. draft Guru Football Genius ladies and. gentlemen field Yates yeah F see you. again how you doing. good to see you okay what up dude good. to see you dude I was clean all right. yeah good D Puffs all the way around.

yeah it was pretty clean that was pretty. clean it's good shirt that was big that. big the DB yeah worth on it I knew mad. Mel was going to be here I couldn't let. him D all right so we need to uh it's. wrapped around cord the cord the cord no. other. way we kind of set you up to fail there. it's okay that was rich and you got to. lift that yeah and you can tighten if. you need to there we go Rich we good. better you look than come on F. appreciate that means a lot fi somehow. you look younger this year than you did. last year doesn't he Madill he does he.

does clean shaving yeah you look that's. what it was right I haven't shaved in a. while so doesn't make much of a. difference unfortunately yeah that's. actually a two we 5 Hour uh Valentine's. Day Valentine's Day shave right before. the big night out okay so let's talk. about uh this time of year obviously. very exciting for you draft boards you. know potential draft picks combine. scouting what is your big takeaway what. are you into right now what is uh the. big conversation Point around field8 ra. I love I mean I love the combine wi not. just because it's here in Indianapolis. but also because it's allows you to fill.

in some of the blanks on some of these. prospects uh you know players that are. further down the board I don't think are. going to move as much for me but some of. the players at the very top you're. trying to get a great feel of hey I. might think this guy is the 10th best. player in the draft but maybe some. people around the NFL think he's closer. to 15 or 20 uh and in some guys in some. cases as as ridiculous as it may seem. you guys all know this now like there. are some positions and some players that. the difference between a 44840 and a. 45240 could be the difference between. going 10th or 20th overall he's not.

going to work out this week but will. Johnson quarterback from Michigan is. like a good example of somebody that I'm. thinking of when I talk about the. difference of a you know 51 hundredth of. a second that this guy who was a great. player for his entire college career but. if you just look at historical Trends. there aren't that many four five or. slower Corners that have gone in the. first like 8 10 12 picks so he could got. to move him safety in there he that. which is a ridiculous thing to do. truthfully like the guy was such a great. player at Michigan but the league has. told us and we see it every year guys.

slide down just a little bit because of. a 40 yard dash or you know the three con. whatever it might be Xavier worthy just. ran a 421 they're saying two more guys. are about to run 4 tws including another. wide receiver that's why the corners. have to be like got to be fast yeah it's. like it is it is a uh it is a unicorn. Island out there you got to earn now I'm. not this is not me downgrading anybody's. football ability especially old buddy. will up at Michigan I'm not saying that. but having enough. um being able to put your ego aside.

enough to move positions to get the NFL. is a big part of this whole thing as. well I think learning about the guys. personally is what a lot of these. coaches kind of want to find out about. here at the combine how have you heard. about those things going I've heard more. feedback already this week about the. interviews than anything that's taking. place or probably anything that will. take place over these next few days and. usually it's it's not like the average. It's usually the the guys that you sit. there and you say to yourself I don't. know if guy's that great of a player but. at least I know the floor is high. because of the human that he is or. there's a guy that seemingly has all the.

talent in the world and you just don't. feel like when you make this guy maybe. not with the an Alle a some of these. guys already are extremely well paid but. like for some of these guys they're. going to become overnight Millionaires. and listen we all at a certain age of. our life 22 23 years old if you handed. me a seven figure check it'd be hard to. keep your focus and motivation right. anybody that's going to get a seven. figureure check from this draft is. already a millionaire yeah that's. probably true good point. that is that's the world that we're in. right now it's true yeah but which goes. back to the people hold on though that.

goes back to like trying to find people. that still are dogs and still work hard. tot still want to go and get it you know. cuz they've been Rich for a while Caleb. Williams was trying to start an. investment fund right yeah before he got. drafted it's like this guy's enough. money to start a fund before he even. gets drafted it's like how's he going to. continue to maintain motivation it's. like well he's chasing greatness it's. like not everybody in every position is. doing that though and you got to find. those guys totally you know I actually. used uh a couple years ago and I wasn't. doing this roll for ESPN uh so I wasn't. as deep in the Weeds on the draft. coverage but pukan nakua obviously. becomes this unbelievable fifth round.

pick and so what I told myself going. into last year draftable allegedly guy. does it all I said I need I'm going to. start surveying Scouts and just say like. give me a player that fits the puka naua. mold not in the sense that you think. he's going to be coming all pro right. away but regardless of how talented or. not talented he is you're betting on the. person and you're just saying to. yourself like I'll take 22 of those guys. and feel like I got a shot and so I. started to did that exercise this year. as well and I'm not talking about guys. that are going to go necessarily in the.

first round but it is interesting when. you hear the guys that are going to go. in the first round like I just SC said. the first name that comes to mind he. goes Travis Hunter goes no doubt he goes. do you understand the discipline it. takes to not just I mean play 115 snaps. a game is ridiculous literally nobody. else does it right but twice the. positional meetings twice the film study. like just the conditioning is a huge. aspect to it and he was like. also can't be putting any bad things in. your body like there's there's like a. level of professionalism that has to be.

there totally every human body would. break down they almost said like you. know he uh it's maybe this isn't the. perfect word but it's almost like he. he's almost boring in in some ways in. the sense that like it's ball and more. ball right like there's not a lot of. distraction in Travis hunter's life. which with the amount of money that I'm. sure he's making and the amount of. people that I'm sure want to piece of. him for him to avoid that distraction I. think only reinforces why not just one. of the best prospects in the draft but. also probably one of the best like. people in the draft that you can count. on whether he goes one probably.

somewhere between one and four by the. time it's all said and done okay so this. is. um a question for what you guys do yeah. okay the whole draft mock. thing why are people saying this is a. deep 3 to five draft class if it's a. deep 3 to5 why aren't they two or one. like I I don't know what that means I I. don't think I know exactly what that. means like hey the fifth rounders really. good this year well why aren't they. fourth rounders you know I don't think I. fully understand so can you understand.

the the framing whenever that said as. opposed to what my mindset is like well. if they're bet then why aren't they. right why don't you just move up the. board if they're so good in the third. why don't they just become second or. first it it is a good question and I. thought about this because I uh I was. going through I keep like a sort of a. running document of these guys because. the process begins for the draft really. basically like May of the preceding year. so guys like Travis Hunter and shador. sers so you knew were going to be highly. regarded prospects this year you start. looking at them initially not doing.

every last bit of homework you're going. to do on them but you start to get a. sense and I think like I was realizing. like I I called a lot of guys when I was. looking like you know has the look of a. third round pick and you're like what. does that even mean yes and it's like I. think where I landed was slower 40 a. little slower wide receiver but has. great you know has great hands right or. like you know he's a smaller guy but. he's tough and he blocks and you're just. sort of like is that is that the. Spectrum you should be evaluating these. players on because it does feel like. that has become the theme of this class.

is that you'd much rather have a bunch. of bites at the Apple from call it 75 to. 150 as opposed to the team that has two. first round picks which interestingly. enough we have no there have been no. traded picks for the first time in a. long time in the first round there will. be at some point but uh it's a very. clean draft in terms of the order to. begin well you trade whenever you're. desperate for a certain position and. that position has not been talked about. in high regards which leads to Mad Mel I. assume yeah that's what I wanted to ask. you about field obviously you know in.

your most recent mock draft you didn't. have any trades in there yeah you know. didn't have any trades in the first. round with you made that rule mail well. I had to you know because because we. don't know but when you look at this. draft and everyone's talking about hey. what are the Tennessee Titans going to. do with the first pick do you feel like. we're going to have next to no trades in. the first round because teams just. aren't going to be as desperate to you. know give a uh you know an absolute. Ransom to move up when we might only. have you know 10 to 15 guys with true. first round grades I think we'll end up. having some trades at the top for this.

reason uh it kind of reminds me of where. we were from like picks 9 through 12. last year where uh at 10 the Jets end up. trading back to 11 with the Vikings and. you're like why why why you moving up. one spot it was just to beat the Broncos. right it was to ensure that de that. Denver didn't move ahead of the Vikings. and potentially draft JJ McCarthy who as. we know was Minnesota's preferred Target. there like that could happen at the Top. If you look at the order there like if. the let's imagine a world in which the. Giants and the Raiders don't land a. veteran quarterback they need to draft.

the quarterback early right well the. Jets maybe in the same boat like if they. go into the draft with only Tyrod Taylor. and Jordan Travis who was their fifth. round pick last year they're probably. saying to themselves we'd like a young. quarterback too so if the Jets call the. Jaguars and say we're trying to get. ahead of Vegas that might cause a chain. reaction that might lead to Vegas. calling the Patriots and saying we're. trying to get back ahead of the jet so I. think see some tinkering there and. because you're right like and now I'm. starting to wonder whether I should even. use this contract anymore there's not as.

many guys at like in every single draft. class would be regarded as clear-cut. first round picks you might see some. movement there in the 20 to 32 range. just because that some of it was just. because but like a few years ago like. the bills moved up to get Dalton conc. and the Jags moved up to get Anon Harris. like you start to see but also the guys. the the teams that are on the the. earlier pick side of that particular. like yeah we'll take a little bonus cuz. we're not 100% sold on somebody so it's. an easier deal maybe to get done in this.

particular draft class if you start. listening the way it is so maybe there. is more action than we expect because. it's easier to kind of fin angle around. I do think it's one of the best parts of. the draft too like I just I find it. always like exciting when you got Travis. going one there yeah you got Travis. going one which then would lead. Cleveland saying we're not passing on. Abdul Carter yeah no though this mock. was before shefy came out and basically. said like the Browns were taking a. quarterback at number two you might as. well I wouldn't go as far as Sharpie but. like we're thinking about like the. Browns and cam Mor might be the fit.

there um you know I feel like the two. player the two non- quarterbacks are the. two best players in the draft obviously. if the quarterback hits it's more. valuable I just I haven't had the same. level of confidence in these two. quarterbacks as I had with the three at. the top last year for sure but even I. think JJ McCarthy would be like a. healthy debate with these two players JJ. obviously was the fifth quarterback. taken but I viewed him as the four I. mean you're talking about a number three. overall pick like whenever he's saying I. don't feel as good about um as last. year's quarterbacks or whatever like. people are going to say he's talking.

down on his still number three overall. pick in the yeah like this is not a yeah. this is not a yeah and they're going to. go high like I think the floor for. either of these guys is probably like I. just can't imagine both of them don't. end up in the first seven to nine picks. and it could end up being first two out. of three picks and the reality is that. like in the case of a team like the. Giants I said this all the time when the. owner comes out and says after the. season we're keeping our head coach in. our GM it means they got to get. something done the next year or else. they won't be around beyond that season. so if you're the Giants and you don't.

swing a trade for Matthew Stafford or. find somebody on the veteran Market. you're not going into next year with. they don't have a quarterback on the. roster right now but you're not going. back on you're not going to like resign. Drew Locker Tom Deo yeah Tommy cutlets. and say. Hey so uh yeah how do you feel about. field I love him yeah how you I don't. know how you could yeah Conor has a. question you know what I had some good. meals down in uh down EP I know you at. Disney last week right yeah yeah yeah. Italy in Epcot maybe the best food.

offerings of the entire place did you. get there or no no I just I didn't make. it to the whole world thing ah I should. have but we were there with a daughter. the I want to do the the drink around. the. world real boozed up got to do it but. then if yeah I think MacKenzie's got to. be a little bit older probably have a. couple. friends whole that's what we that's what. we did our three-year-old was I mean. that she was in her happy place it was. great dude it was awesome I had such a. good time down there awesome watching. her just lose her mind was crazy and. then I just cut everybody at Guardians.

of the Galaxy and look like the biggest. go it worked no it looked like biggest. [ __ ] of all time but when you got on. the the ride and then kind of when you. when you cleared the room you forget. pretty. quick go ahead Conor go go yeah so uh. obviously right now everyone's kind of. waiting to see what happens with. Stafford and you know Rogers and some. other guys do you think it is possible. where if there is uh none of those you. know quarterback sign in those first. three picks between you know Cleveland. the Giants and Tennessee who I think we. all consider teams that are looking for.

quarterbacks that there's a trade up to. one where where let's say Tennessee ends. up being you know a Stafford or a Rogers. destination where they might end up. moving the first pick or do you even see. where you know even if the Giants were. to get a Rogers or something along those. lines that they still might just take a. quarterback because they don't want to. be or expect to be up there in the you. know next few years I think what's. interesting for Tennessee is that they. might be able to drum up a bidding war. between Cleveland and the Giants and not. I mean not that either one of them would.

would for sure make that move up there. but just because you know you'll hear. this often I think DJ may have said it. just a few minutes ago as well like I. think the league on average views cam. Ward is a higher rated Prospect than. shador Sanders but if the Giants say Hey. listen we're we're bigger shador shador. Sanders guys than than cam Ward guys or. bigger cam Ward guys than Shor sner guys. and Cleveland might see it the same way. then you're not going to settle right. like. teams view quarterbacks it's almost like. it's like house hunting like you got. different preferences than other people. do what you actually want in that player.

so Tennessee might be able to say hey if. we think Cleveland and and and New York. are both you know they would both take. cam W without a problem but would bypass. shador Sanders might be able to create. some leverage there and potentially move. down the difference the Tennessee has in. those guys they both all three teams. need a quarterback but first year GM. seconde head coach and Brian Callahan. they don't need to solve the quarterback. situation right now to make sure make. sure that they're still going in 2026. and Beyond and while will Levis you know.

there's more questions and aners so far. still young enough and was a highly. drafted enough player you could probably. talk yourself into another year of. trying to develop him a little bit. further I'm fascinated by you know like. if the Raiders draft a quarterback which. everybody's assuming or maybe they get a. veteran quarterback yeah depending on. who skiing where yeah there you go when. and all that type of stuff it's like you. go to a team with Tom Brady as the one. of the owners like that's a pretty good. spot seemingly even though you wouldn't. expect that and the Raiders are like we.

need a quarterback we need a quarterback. in this world it' be nice to go to a. place with Tom as a potential Mentor. automatically yeah and everyone wants a. Young quarterback in Sam darnold sitting. there at what 27 28 it's not like he's. 35 like you can get him for 10 years one. game that last game last two games games. influential couple of games yeah Sam. came out really young he was the I think. he was the youngest of those five. quarterbacks that went in the first. round back in 2018 so it seems weird to. think that he's still whatever very much. in the prime of his career whatever you. define his prime as but sbled do well.

for himself in a couple weeks here go. ahead T yeah while we're talking. quarterbacks I wanted to ask you about. Quin newers because this time not this. time last year but let's say after the. draft last year he was basically a. guaranteed first round pick and then it. came out we thought he was playing all. season long with a sprained oblique or. whatever it was comes out he was playing. all season with a torn oblique people. you're talking to does that make a. difference like are they watching his. 2024 tape differently and maybe. reverting back to 2023 is his stock. going to rise because it came out that. he was playing all year with a torque.

yeah I think some people that I talked. to had a general sense that was what. Quinn was dealing with and they admired. the tough I mean to play through that. absolutely. Texas you know like Texas had somebody. we all know they had Arch weight in the. wings it wasn't like he played because. the only option Texas had at quarterback. was him and if you know he's letting his. entire team down if he doesn't play and. they're going to go whatever five and. seven or something uh Quinn was had an. interesting year this year the Michigan. game back in week two of the college. football season looked great we're in. this time of the NFL we're not all but.

so many of these quarterbacks have the. ability to impact you with with their. legs right these guys are are probably. better athletes now than they ever have. been with some exceptions Stafford types. and a few others but for the most part. you think about some of the best. quarterbacks in the in the AFC and NC. championship games it's Jaylen Herz and. jayen Daniels and then Patrick Mahomes. and Josh Allen four guys that can really. impact the game with their leg so. Quinn's not really going to do that the. arm strength is the one the part that's. come into evaluation with that with that. context because like it's hard to throw. with yeah it doesn't look like a Canon. arm but when you've got really little.

ability to kind of torque you know your. frame and and drive footballs it's going. to look like it did for much of this. past year so I think this this week. we're talking about the interviews at. the beginning of the segment like this. would be a good week for Quinn in that. regard right like he's got some natural. leadership skills and he'll do well like. in terms of meeting with coaches and. getting a better feel for the kind of. person he is I had to guess right now. probably feels like round three for. quinnn but that could be influenced a. lot by not just the interviews this week. but also the medical evaluations as. doctors say hey I know you're playing.

through it for the past four months but. it's not going to be is an issue come. OTAs or mini camp I'll tell you if. you're looking for a guy that loves ball. especially at the quarterback position. which you're going to want playing. through a very significant real injury. especially at the quarterback role would. be a good place to start the. conversation he's been a star since what. high school so I remember with that M. getting millions of dollars he had to. travel up to Ohio State skip his senior. year yeah absolutely the original nil. right he was the first guy that put it. on on the map really and he evolved from. the 17-year-old into this 22-year-old. that he is or 21-year old whatever he is. with you know dieting and that life.

happening football happening and. everything it's like you got a lot of. guys that I think could be great like. cam Ward every time I see a video of him. and the way he operates it's like it. feels like he's a good leader feels awes. and then shador Sanders toughness and. that in itself of leadership and then. everything he's been around is like he. could be a great Pro you know I think. there's a lot of guys where it's like. these guys can be great Pros as opposed. to each year there's a conversation like. this guy will be a great right that's. kind of the difference yeah and I think. that this year too like and we should. probably remind ourselves of this more. every year but like where you end up and.

who you end up with can influence your. outlook so much I'm not like I think. jayen Daniels uh you know the best. recent example like I think jayen was. probably due for Success probably. anywhere he went but I think that his. success somewhere else might not have. been quite to the level that it was in. Washington last year with um you know. coach that have been there and done that. and a head a coordinator that had been a. head coach and called a lot of plays and. some good veterans around him and so I. think this year like the fit for these. guys will influence the Outlook so much. more probably the best example from last. year's Clash truthfully is Bo Knicks.

because uh bo had a ton I mean played. forever in college had a ton of. experience and it wasn't that Bo didn't. have a lot of good tape it was the. question was did Bo do enough things. during his time at Oregon that if that. was all he was capable of doing at the. NFL level would they travel right like. the average depth of his targets at. Oregon last year A lot of it was just. dink dunk and let the guys do the hard. work after the catch right but the. reality for Oregon was that they said. like why would we bother like do we need.

B to go bombs away when we're crushing. teams every single week putting up 45. points and throwing for 450 yards uh and. then in in Denver he showed like you. know he had a couple of ropes this past. year like him and Marvin M stret and. Sean Payton's offense was perfect for. him perfect he had you know the. offensive line was amongst the best in. the NFL like that was you talked about. Bo playing a lot of football which I. think is a big deal that's becoming the. new like talking point for some of. quacks who played a lot of ball Cam's. played a lot of ball shor's played a lot. of ball Jackson's played a lot of ball. Will's played a lot of ball yeah a lot.

of guys a lot of experience really like. if you think about the guys that. probably have a chance to go early. amongst at least in terms of the. quarterback contuct like jayen milro. like a two two-year starter is probably. the least experience's a lot of but. that's but that's still I mean two years. that's you know we've seen guys in. recent drafts one season and they're. getting taken um [ __ ] Tyler Shuck's been. there for eight years yeah Tyler shuck. who man that guy's interesting he's. going to have a good week out here. throwing the ball like he he really it's. really natural for him he was a highly. regarded recruit coming out of high.

school way back in the day he ended up. at Oregon Texas second then finished up. at Louisville this past season 26 on I. think September 28th so the age will be. a factor there but I don't know I tend. to think of it with these quarterbacks. that are playing until 35 36 like you. could have a decade of Tyler shuck if. you believe enough in the player yeah. Weeden came in 27 yeah exactly play. Pitch for the Yankees uh if when you. look at a guy like Jaylen who maybe. didn't have the greatest senior B how. how much can he kind of erase that this. week at the combine or is that kind of.

hey hey's in the barn this guy's got. tiny hands and he played like [ __ ] at. the senior B it is what it is you tell l. m what do you think well you know I his. hands are small very small so guess what. he better be going to a warm weather. City okay I don't know you know do you. do you want to do you want to draft a. quarterback he's faster than everybody. he is but do you want to draft a. quarterback in a second round who your. game plan is going to be all right Hey. listen we're going to give you 40. carries today maybe and we're not going. to throw the football hey it's power. football World I'd like him I would and. and this takes a this takes the right.

starting quarterback ahead of him who's. willing to let somebody else take a. package of plays away from him but I. like jayen right away as getting like. almost like a platoon role for for a. team at quarterback because you're right. the the passing down a mobile was. inconsistent it was inconsistent this. past season uh he if he runs I don't. know if he will run but it's going to be. amongst the fastest times of any player. here this week at the combine and if you. get an offensive coordinator and I tend. to think right now we're sort of seeing.

the halves and the Hales knots in the. NFL like you just watch a game and you. know if the coordinator knows what he's. doing one that knows what he's doing. with this guy will find a way to take. advantage of this speed cuz you know. again I know I just mentioned we're in. this era of like incredibly athletic. quarterbacks he'd be on the short list. for most athletic the minute he walks. into an NFL I think I think every coach. that either coached Alabama or played. against Alabama I forget said he would. be the best running back in the SEC if. he was a running back I mean it's like. not even a question. yeah Bill Bryan tried to make it happen.

which actually gave a spite to jayen. milro and obviously Alabama was able to. win a lot of games with jayen milro a. quarterback and that is a good thing but. in college ball in NFL ball it is. different I mean that's just a matter of. fact the way it operates the way it goes. it's like Jaylen gets on a team put him. as an xback yeah take some snaps have. him do tush push if you want to do he's. incredibly strong and he has loved in. that locker room the boys love jayen. milro little time around him both at the. Senior Bowl and prior to that he's an. easy guy I mean he comes from a. background military parents super. disciplined like the guy is a great.

leader like I I you know I think I. really do believe the right team will. have jayen milro not just find success. but like sooner rather than later like I. just if you look at all the singular. traits that the various players in this. class have his rushing ability is one of. the more undeniable ones and he's got a. cannon down the field as well he's got. to totally refine the short intermediate. passing game work but he can Chuck it. down the field and you can just imagine. some mad scientist offensive coordinator. who runs the ball with him 12 straight.

times and the next thing you know fake. the run and just bombs away for a 50. yard touchdown yeah I can't wait to. watch how it all pans out you know. there's going to be a lot of guys that. get drafted that suck. too let's never forget that most of them. most of them usually yeah percentages. tell us a lot of these guys right out. here they can be selling Insurance mhm. they're going to be doing very well. though strength coach there's going to. be a lot of strength coaches out here. yeah some Big Boys coaches future. coaches but out here the two there's. going to be Hall of Famers oh yeah. that's right it's the beauty of it like.

uh there's been probably less Buzz. around this draft class in total. compared to last year's just because the. the the talent of the top is not. regarded as the same way I think this is. a great draft for scouting departments. to know what they're doing man like I. bet the Rams who have done a great job a. former Scout right is that correct yeah. but I can't take too much credit you. know it was the Chiefs before they were. what they are now but you were a scout I. worked yeah I worked for the Chiefs for. a couple of seasons and then uh things. got a lot better so maybe I was the. problem not the solution okay hey but. Bill last season during the draft Bill.

Bel trusted you so yeah yeah Bill who uh. I worked with the Patriots prior to the. time in Kansas City and that was very. very cool to see Bill uh take a look at. that top 50 and use it during the the. Extravaganza which Green Bay doing again. spectacular spectacular excuse me that. was that was a bad one there uh you in. the right you know there of word I was. too busy thinking about this great point. I was going to make that probably won't. be that great this is a draft that I can. imagine the teams like the Rams who have. nailed the draft in recent years by just. finding guys in all parts like all.

Corners right like it the first round. pick Jared verse was great but like. second round pick Braden Fisk and then. you know two years ago pukaa in the. fifth like cam kenjin in the third round. last year they're probably sitting there. saying you guys don't like it we'll take. rounds three for five and just Feast hey. that was a good point you said it wasn't. going to be a good point that was a. great great point that was a great Point. team now they're going to have a great. draft yeah I mean I think pick four is. looking good right now I think there two. quarterbacks could end up like if you if. you end up if you have to settle for one. of Abdul Carter or Travis. Hunter yes please Sprint that card in.

yes please I'll let you do the honors of. sprinting it in oh that'd be fantastic I. want one of those to so bad what they. got compensation and opportunity they. that's right that's aable yeah there was. a new update about t Higgins though that. they're they're not going to rush to T. Higgins allegedly who knows that's cuz T. Higgins allegedly not going to be let. out of the building down there so why. would you you know true yeah that's an. interesting leverage play there probably. by all sides excited to see how it all. works out draft season is the greatest. and that's when we get a chance to watch. this big brain on this baby face.

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out came back to college ball we assume. it will work out because when he's. coaching at College he has success has. done it everywhere he's ever been now. he's at Nebraska ladies and gentlemen. the head. coach coach Matt rule yeah coach. coach good to see you coach. coach how are we Nebraska Nebraska is an. Adidas school I'm see coach Nebraska's. an Adidas school that's right always.

he's got some clean. shoes right behind you good work Conor. boom Connor good work hold on the wire's. in there the wire is wrapped around the. thing dang it we got to F no it's ours. did yeah it's happened the last three. times coach good to see you coach good. to see. you um okay how do we feel now we're. we're all the way back in a college ball. full time last time we chatted with you. was transition going into the ask I do. believe how's life you're giving a lot. of great takes on the state of college. football and what has changed since the. last time you were in college football. how do we feel now where are you at.

right now with college ball and the. Nebraska program well well Nebraska's in. a great place um you know it's winning. time you know we we we broke the. nine-year bow drought you know not what. we want but we made some we made some. POS here we go here we go let's go it's. always been year three for you it's been. year three so a little pressure on me. right my wife's already pled some. different things I'm like honey let's. wait till we win before we start. spending all that money so it happened. to Temple happen to Baylor you know you. get your culture in there get your guys. in there have to flip over that's why. you get hired as a head coach at a place.

is to change the culture and do your. thing what is it about this particular. year or maybe this particular team where. you're at where it's like yeah we're we. went we go to a bowl game last year but. it's winning time now why do you think. that with this squad you know cuz we we. we we played the best teams in the. League last year we played Ohio State. great team lost 217 uh lost a bunch of. games at at the wire and people start. talking about a curse and all these. different things I I told the guys I. said forget that it's it's it's a it's. more Talent it's us being bigger. stronger better so year three Young.

quarterback he's he he's he's going to. be really good next year uh really good. defense got some weapons Portal's been. good to us so uh I think we'll be pretty. good what are you in the middle Spring. ball right now uh Matts mat so I'll be. here tonight I flew here today support. the boys fly back tonight 5:30 tomorrow. morning on the mat let's go let's go old. school matro is like a. uh the I don't want to say death camp um. pretty close 5:30 a.m. though is a the. boys aren't sleeping the night before.

cuz they're scared they're going to miss. the alarm and if you show a blate to. this it's over that that's where you're. at right now that's that's not good but. it it's a you know I told the guys I. talked to a couple of the guys when they. come out here they're like thinking. about running the 40 they're nervous. like man what if I run this what if I. run that sometimes you just got to go do. it so early on in their college career. Man twice a week show up Matt drills lay. it on the line show what you can do it's. hard Embrace hard things. you know kick the drill's ass and see. what happens I should have done the. research but obviously didn't even know. you're out here until we you sent me a. message and I'm like yo if you we would.

love to talk to you coach I saw coach. Pagano right there that's I said coach. thank goodness you're back in coaching. football needs men like Chuck Pagano. well I love that and we agree and he is. all the way back in he's excited you can. see a little glow and a little bounce. about him that he's back in the world. you football guys are certainly a. different animal a different breed and. everything like that but getting you to. come on here I appreciate it your guys. how many guys I should have done more. research do you have out there and what. do you think is going to happen with. your dudes uh during this combine. experience yeah we we have four guys at. the combine uh Ty Robinson our our our.

great defensive tackle is going to run. today I mean he's one of your kind of. guys like you would love this guy the. guy's tough hard nose blue collar great. athlete uh went to going to go to. medical school when he's. done maybe not. one I don't think so but a real guy so. and you know we have Thomas fedon tight. end we have Isaiah neor a receiver and. we have Tommy Hill corner so we have. four guys here a couple other guys that. maybe should have been here so first.

time in a long time to have this many so. we're starting to get the thing up and. running that's awesome Tony has a. question for you coach you are in the. news uh recently you in Texas uh for you. know the spring game whether you guys. are going to do the spring game or not. so I got to ask you about that was it. because other teams looking at the film. of your spring game guys not getting. enough time in the spring game so they. want to transfer in that spring portal. window what was the thinking behind the. the spring game game I don't know if the. announcement has been made or what has. been happening with your spring game but. uh there your was definitely in the news. for the maybe not playing the spring. game this year yeah what H was going on.

yeah I was kind of the first guy that. said it took a little bit of heat and. then all a sudden everybody starts. coming in behind hey that's a good idea. so um I think it was two things last. year we had our spring game Big 10. Network Everyone's Watching it's reared. reared reared and all a sudden I got a. line outside my door on Monday hey coach. so and so called me from here so and so. called me from there so you know what. advantage does it is it for me I love. our fans and we're going to do something. for the fans but what's the advantage of. showing all my young talent and letting. other coaches come in and try to tamper.

with them and to be quite honest and. this you know I I'm not a perfect guy I. sat there watching watching the FCS. playoffs watching those great teams at. Montana State and some kid makes a play. and I'm like who is. that iow so I'm like why would I why. would I you know why would I put my guys. out there I mean I want I want I want my. guys to be taken care of but uh that's a. tough time April. we got to get ready for the season so. we'll make some changes the two portals. is crazy and I'm experiencing this right. now with uh Rich Rod going back to West.

Virginia because these guys come in the. first portal then they get a spring with. Rich now right now they get a spring. with hey it's going to be run a little. bit different I think than what it had. been being run like around here for a. little bit and then right after spring. you're only a couple months out from the. season guys can hit again and it's like. that needs to be what is your thoughts. how do we fix this one portal time one. transfer window one one portal think. about it um basketball has one portal so. why would basketball have one and we. have two it's cuz our our season is.

different I get it but whether it's in. whether it's in January December or. April just keep the April one yeah but. but like but then you're a couple months. out yeah yeah I mean how many people. leave in April and have a lot of success. two months later like I literally could. if I want to I could I could say who am. I playing week one and see who goes in. the portal from them and take them and. then know what they're going to do. against us so but I'm with you whatever. best for the student athlete but I think. we should pick one I don't want to. negotiate a contract with a guy in. December and then renegotiate again in. April like you sign up with us you.

should sign up for the year uh coaches. sign up for the year and so let's do. once a year whatever is best if it's. April if it's December I will say this I. thought it was terrible for the for the. for the young men not just for the teams. but for the young men the guys had to. make a decision do I play with my team. in the college football playoff or do I. go the playoff go in the portal cuz. that's what's best for me so I think one. portal window would be way better hey. that college football playoff timing of. the transfer portal window being in. there was weird and then some schools. were letting their guys be in the portal.

and then also on the team some places. weren't available I don't that was a. weird scene popping out there cuz you. know whenever people stopped playing in. the bowl games it was like the uh we're. going to go to the Toto toilet bowl out. here guy's not playing because he don't. want to get hurt college football. playoff game it's like there was. conversations of people not playing it. it's like come on man this is what we're. here for no doubt this literally what. the entire year is all about you you and. I and I think any body that watches. college ball excited that the players. are getting compensated but there's a. ruling coming right that's supposed to. put some guard rails on it have you. heard anything about that and how do you.

think of that like where how many years. until we get this thing kind of uh. straight in there because you are old. college football guy you know has been. around a long time and also professional. guy who's been around the professional. operation which I think is good for you. especially how Bill and Lombardi feel. going back to North Carolina they feel. like having the NFL experience is a good. thing not a bad thing I assume you feel. the same way but how many years you. think until there is some sort of uh. like what the hell's going on I think I. think this this winter is the first time. that I feel like you know what we might. get a handle on this I think uh you know.

commissioner sanki in the SEC Tony. petiti at the Big 10 who obviously comes. and talks to us I want the players to be. taken care of um I what I don't want is. is guys playing at four colleges in four. years uh because you know hey I'm the. highest bidder now I'm the highest. bidder the one thing in in in football. is the desperate Team sets the market. and so if a desperate team comes in and. they're trying to steal you away from me. and hey I'll give you $100,000 more but. it's not a good situation like there has. to be some guard rails and I think we're. starting to figure out we're on the. precipice of it being right where hey we.

can sign some contracts multi-year deals. maybe but if you do want to leave like a. coach leaves they pay a buyout maybe. there's a buyout I don't know if that's. going to happen but I'm feeling better. that it might happen uh Big 10 kind of. running [ __ ] oh yeah mad Mel has a. question for you yeah speaking of that. you know early in the season uh you said. how Hey listen the Big 10 is best. conference in college football Paul bomb. obviously you know mouthpiece for the. SEC he kind of takes a pot shot at you. and says hey you haven't done anything. yet why don't you just focus on winning. at Nebraska and then I loved it how you.

you came back and you know you dunked on. him pretty good after you know I think. it was after Ohio State won but like Pat. mentioned the Big 10 kind of dominated. the college football playoff when you. look back at the last season in the new. Big 10 you know different travel all. that kind of stuff do you guys feel like. you're where you're at uh where you need. to be in order to compete you know with. Oregon and USC and Ohio State and Penn. State and kind of all these other places. who have basically said Hey listen we're. all in we're going to you know boosters.

all that kind of stuff we're going to. put as much money as we need to to kind. of get this thing going in the right. direction yeah I I think um this will be. the first year where we're on a Level. Playing Field and it's this new. settlement right so we're going to be. spending the same amount of money on our. roster that everyone else's you know. Ohio State Oregon they made huge. Investments last year good for them. we've been making big Investments but. not at the level they were making at cuz. they were just ahead of us this new. thing now will kind of even things out. and I will say this kudos to Arizona. State places like that that w at the. level they did well I mean Kenny's.

Kenny's a coach now he's a real Coach a. lot of respect from all you I assume huh. 100% like that team played really well. but long term I mean if you want. something out you got to invest. something into it and so we're at a. point now at Nebraska we have the best. facilities in the country Elite fan base. being in the middle part of the country. now in the Big 10 is a good thing like I. don't have 4-Hour flights I have a. 2-hour flight to La a 2-hour flight the. uh Penn State that feel pretty good. about where 2 hours to LA from Nebraska. 2:15 depend we. playing that's a you don't got a heavy.

jet stream coming you know what I mean. going this way going this way going no. no going this way coming back 25 yeah I. don't know Gumpy and I did a six-hour. flight from here to San Diego because we. had a 4,000 knot headwind I I think is. what they thought we were just sitting. in the sky just sitting in the sky it. felt like forever I believe we're um. coming up to a hard at here like here in. a matter of moments like right now did. that just happen Oh I thought it was 55.

5430 5325 okay so we got 15 seconds here. I thought. we 5430 got it we better two week break. coach yeah coach two week break and I. didn't want to cut you off cuz you're. giving such a great answer I was. actually looking at the clock I was. thinking to myself we're in trouble but. whenever we continue this program after. the hard out we'll still be live on. YouTube ESPN plus Disney plus and Tik. Tok live how much social media have you. been doing you've been doing the dances. you've been doing the Tik toking coach R. so I walked in the uh I walked in the. training table the other day and Harper.

Murray our All-American volleyball. player was sitting there with my. nine-year-old she said coach we're going. to go do a Tik Tok now I'm my anti- Tik. Tock I won't let the kids have it smart. love it you get it and and and and my. and my 9-year-old's like what are you. going to say to Harper and I was like oh. have fun so I've had to download Tik Tok. and I found my daughter oh boy all over. she finds people in the facility I. thought I saw 35 of my football players. doing talks how how' you feel well one. of them did it in the facility which is. a hard no so our strength to coach did a. Tik Tok workout this morning with the.

Freshman they they they were they were. pushing plates pushing plates with their. bios and all their cool stuff on there. that they love to post everywhere. they're pushing the plate with their bio. that's amazing I got to tell you the. last part I know we have harder they. were doing wall sits at the end and. every freshman had to get out and do a. 10-second Tick Tock dance while the rest. of the guys did the wall so welcome to. Old School that was literally hey you. ended that answer you ended that story. right at the out and even got our pop in. there hey that's good TV work well done.

that's good TV work right there okay. we're still live obviously on the. internet and everything like that you. said welcome to old school yeah coach. Rod I'm talking to him same exact thing. I think a lot of people are kind of. scared to go that way a lot of the Old. School coaches and a lot of the good. teams aren't so how have you stayed. committed throughout all of the cuz I'm. assuming there's a lot of people that. have said you know maybe you do this. maybe you don't do that and you say yeah. we're doing Tik Tok work crows this. morning you think it's C okay that's. cute funny yeah I go and read the. entirety of the entire as we roll in. there how have you been able to maintain. that and don't you think that's a.

necessity to win at football like I. think at football you need to be. disciplined you need to be tough you. need to be bought in like I legitimately. think that and they're trying to change. it it seems like and if you change it. you're not going to win they're try. trying to change it everywhere um I. think a couple things I think um I think. back to all the great players I've. coached Christian mcaffrey Stefan. Gilmore uh Dion Dawkins in college. Hassan reick. those guys all wanted that kind of stuff. like they wanted to get coached like. when you coached Christian mcaffry you'd. sit there and watch a play and you were. so locked in because he's going to come.

over and say Hey did I read that wrong. like he wanted real feedback so all this. Soft Stuff um all the research says it's. wrong all you know the the best people. in the world don't want it that way so I. think it's I think it's my job to do. what's best for the players and if if. they don't want it and they want to. transfer you know so be it but um you. know we always say I'm going to treat. you like my own son well my son comes. home with a seat Julie rule comes across. the the couch and swinging on him so. like like we're going to treat our. players the same way we're pushing SL. with a big SE on top of it w it's pretty.

heavy sled you got here yeah I think. that's I mean I think it's a necessity. in football I I legitimately think it is. and if you don't have it and you lose it. it's gone forever so you trying to set. your culture that makes sense why year. three potentially becomes the time go. ahead Conan man yeah new necessity too. and I should have done more research and. I should know this but you know like the. GM Ro in is now becoming a thing Andrew. Luck is back in Stanford you know Pat. mentioned Michael Lombardi with bich at. UNC do you guys have a GM is that.

something where you guys have a working. relationship and what exactly you know. is on his plate versus yours or is it. very much so like a working relationship. you're giving him stuff like players. from Montana State hey go and call this. guy immediately how how has that. relationship been yeah when we came back. in um you know Shawn padon has been with. me with me forever took over as the GM. uh brilliant smart and Mike Lombardi's. always been a great friend of ours a. resource his house down the shore is. like two towns up from M he always go to.

see Mike and he I mean he's a great. great man has helped me for years Shawn. recently moved into a new role where all. he's doing now is like contracts and. because it's it's a big role now dealing. with the agents like I'm here he's he's. he's in the the the the hotels here. talking to agents they're talking NFL. guys and college guys at the same time. because that's the new the new normal. and and we just hired a guy named Pat. Stewart from the New England Patriots. was with us at Cleveland excuse me with. us at Carolina he'll be our new GM so. we're just taking our Personnel. Department which used to be four guys.

then it was eight now it's now it's the. NFL in college and um it's what it's. what you need to have a chance rich said. that yesterday like everything you're. saying Rich Rod has been saying like for. the last you know since he's got back to. West Virginia we're hearing him at the. press conference he said uh Rock kale my. daughter and I were looking at the uh. guide or whatever it is I don't know if. you even still have that from 2006. whenever we were here he said I had 10. members on the staff he said we had two. gas on offense I think we had two gas on. defense we had one uh equipment manager.

guy with everything else and we somehow. were able to do it then so I assume. we're able to do it now now it's like 50. you got Consultants you got advisors you. got these people you got this expert you. got nutritionist ours quit. well we'll get a new one we'll get a new. one in there but it's like Nate it's big. big operation now big business obviously. I think is probably the reason why right. that's right that's right um we had the. same statement the other day we were. sitting in our our mat drills and the. players hadn't run in yet and there. might have been like 90 people in there. and Phil snow who's like my mentoring. coaching you know he's 68 years old DC.

for years and he was like Matt you know. we used to have 12 people out here what. the hell why we have all these but it's. a new world right every and everyone. wants to get involved in it people will. work for not a lot of money to get their. foot started and um uh it is Big. Business and we're spending a lot of. money we're spending $2.5 million on. athletes this year at Nebraska I mean I. mean just think about that now heyy. let's. go need to have the best volleyball. players volleyball players I mean they. are real deal I wanted to fly here.

yesterday and come here last night and. they were like a we have a new Coach. Danny bus boom Kelly from from. Louisville Elite coach former player. there they're like no coach rule uh. Danny has the plane you you'll get it. tomorrow morning and I was like I was. like I get it I get it like volleyball. is volleyball in Nebraska it it selling. at Stadium at Stadium there last. question here from tone we appreciate. your coach yeah coach uh you made some. coordinator news kind of at the end of. last year bringing in Dana hogerson and. now I believe he is going to be your. full-time OC is it nice having um like a. a former head coach on the staff as well.

and then how's him and uh Dylan rol's. relationship been through the offseason. yeah I think you know we lost our we we. beat Wisconsin week 11 to go you know it. was we hadn't beat him in 12 years to go. to the bowl season which was awesome uh. the next week we lost to Iowa and it was. like it was like a gut punch you know. the way we lost we do that yeah so. which I respect trust me I respect um. but the next day Dylan was like coach. I'm all in and and and Dana was like I'm. all in okay and they both were kind of. like hey if he's in I'm in it wasn't.

anything about me but that that felt. great because I think they have a great. relationship uh Dana's what I'm not. Dana's aggressive offensively he wants. to I mean there sometimes he calls. things and I'm like Oh my War we're. doing that Dana and he's like but it. works so I love it um so I was so happy. to get him and you're right you know. when you're a head coach I can't pick up. the phone and call up coach fence be. like hey coach you know what do you. think I should be doing here so to have. someone else who's been there who knows. what that feels like is a is is a a. great resource he's electrifying too is. yeah he's electrif we got to see it at.

uh obviously at West Virginia and then. we goes down to Texas Tech I believe and. does his thing it's like watching him. chatting with him loves ball God he. loves ball riol is going to be a guy huh. he's going to be a guy yeah he'll be a. guy he is I guess is he cutting his hair. now that Mahomes cut his hair no no it's. funny I you know if I'm being honest I. think he was going to cut his hair. anyway and then when Mahomes didn't I. was like oh no okay oh no that's the. whole situation listen if this guy's in. your culture in your building I got. respect for you know a lot of things can.

be said about him because he is very. popular and obviously he was committed. somewhere and then he goes to Nebraska. Family Ties and everything like that but. he went out and played there was a ball. I think I did it on game day there was a. throw where guy's. coming guy is running right in his face. okay just just running right in his face. and he sits in there takes it and. delivers a go ball down side and it's in. the bucket and he's a freshman it's like. this guy's got it like that's the thing. you don't know if a guy has or not. especially if he's highly recruited or.

getting the money it's like I think in. there's a couple plays that I saw where. I'm like this guy's going to be a guy. and it's because I think tough and you. get see more of it but if you're able to. sit in the pocket and take a big time. shot and deliver a ball it's like that's. a separator I think you know we're here. in Indianapolis racing is the thing any. 500 is a big deal there's a lot of. drivers that can go 198 199 can't can't. go over 200 mph so that's like the. separator like hey over 200 mph how do. you feel are you comfortable are you not. comfortable are you going to get in here. they're going 230 here at Indie 500. everything like 225 whatever it is so.

it's like a separator I think the. separated quarterback position is can. you take a shot and deliver the ball. like do you courage can you do it. physically can you do it and then once. again play clock's running can you get. back up and go deliver again I watch him. do that a lot and with the way you talk. about old school football you have to. love that about this highly recruited. guy I would assume I I I I I love the. kid um and he came there um his parents. trusted him to come here and he came. there not because of my offensive. philosophy cuz that you know I'm not. renowned for that um it's the other part.

like I do not want him showing up. someday as the first pick and going to. some team in New York or some team in LA. and all of a sudden for the first time. in his life experiencing adversity so. yeah he has fun he runs around he. celebrates he does other things but he's. in there every morning at 6 and when he. doesn't do something right he's hearing. about it from me and if he misses a. nutrition appointment he wants to show. the throwing and I'm like no you're not. allow to throw today cuz you missed your. nutrition appointment so he's getting. all that stuff so whatever team gets him. in 3 years they're going to get a guy. and so yeah you would hope that that.

would happen everywhere yeah in most. places it does but I'm just saying be 19. and be famous right being 19 and be. famous he's 19 he's famous but I'll say. this when my two daughters walk in the. building like he he stops whatever he. does he's like Vivy Leon and when he. sees uh the ad son walk in he knows. their names he sees my wife Miss Julie. he he's a great kid social media paints. people different ways I wish you know I. wish all of our kids were like Dylan is. and you know what he's a work we're all. works in progress but uh if tomorrow. morning the matal isn't good he he's.

going to hear about it he'll do it again. the next day so so don't worry about him. he'll be fine okay that is that is. awesome news and I'm thankful to hear. that there's dogs out there still and it. sounds like there's going to be a lot of. them coming from Nebraska can't wait to. watch how your guys do thank you for. making time for us and uh we can't wait. to watch year three with Nebraska like. we've seen year three of Baylor year. three of. you know there's chance what does game. day make an appearance out there last. year I said you'd be there and I didn't. quite pull my weight so uh just give it.

time okay I feel good love to go that. River in Brazos you do that thing on the. side you do that thing on the side where. like you're in the end zone you guys you. guys playf like has a coach ever walked. over and talked to you in the middle of. a simal cast. uh no I don't think so you ran by. sa the online coach. FR [ __ ] at but Fry's an old Temple guy. fry and I work so if you're from Temple. you don't care about anything he was he. was giving me this I'm because I picked.

against Ohio State against that's. different I'm talking about where I come. over and say Pat what do you think bro. what do you think should we go for it or. not yeah yeah we would we would. certainly love that that would certainly. be just put write that down remember. that remember that when the time comes. that's college football playoff actually. that contract is up actually we don't. know if that's ever going to happen. again it was a great time hell run we. got to see a lot of iconic games bro. we're just there obviously you get to do. it all the time and I but like just. being there feeling the college College. world is just different isn't it it's.

great to be back in the College Road I I. love it I love everything about it at. Nebraska they fill up what like hours. before the game kicks off and and here's. the reason why they show up an hour. before the game to watch the kids that. might not get in the game but that are. still Huskers and that's a loyalty. unlike anything else like like they show. up to watch Johnny and Steve just watch. them go and give a cheer I mean it's. just a different level of loyalty to. their. team well sounds like it has the makings. to be great now Iowa is certainly.

lurking listen I will say cuz I was I. was one of the big like hey this. Nebraska Iowa like this isn't a rivalry. okay we can play it the day after. Thanksgiving that's horeshit it is it's. a rivalry now it is I'm bought in well. if I may say two things one of the best. moments of My Life as a college football. coach was at the end of the first. quarter looking up and at those kids I'm. telling you now that cool it that was. that was that was as powerful a thing as. I've ever been through in my life and. thinking about like what what are they. going through like I'm sitting here like.

in pain about the third down call and. I'm like what are we talking about so. that was amazing and I have a lot of. respect for Iowa and Coach fence and all. those things and you know I know it's a. rivalry and I but I never talk about. rivalries I'm like hey this game this. game this game but after this year after. after the after happen. now North Philly Matt rule might be back. okay we like that them Johns they to. feel it over there and uh when you think. about like the hospital cuz I was very. lucky here to be a cult there's a lot of. community work you know you go those.

hospitals and the kids obviously going. through it but the families like the. familes the anxiety the amount of time. everything that they're not able to do. because they're fully focused on their. children let alone being scared at all. times that it's over so like when I see. that wave and they show the the thing. and it's obviously the kids the parents. watching the kids be happy and have that. moment like legit I I get just like you. like the first time I saw it I was like. it's interesting and then you're like. kind of really start thinking about like. and now that I'm a dad it's like the.

chills that you would get probably in. that moment iow was a beautiful place. creates beautiful people but I'll tell. you what they're in it now against. Nebraska cuz there's a little sauce. coming from North Philly we appreciate. the hell out of you coach good luck out. there you're the man all right we're. going to take a break be a friend tell a. friend something nice it might change. their life we're interesting together. thank you coach take. [Music].

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of these coveted 12 spots for this 12. team playoff and it came down to two. teams in the great state of Indiana. kicking this entire thing. off how I drink a little how I smoke a. lot. can it down a Time St it down CL throw. the best year of college football that. it's ever had is about to have the.

greatest playoff it's ever had and it. all starts right here in front of. touchdown Jesus and his beautiful Irish. people and I think you can. say. Irish they'll do that all night if you. make this kick I will double his kick to. $500,000 I will also donate. $250,000 to a charity of Chris DA's. choosing yeah let it go oh.

God not terrible not terrible one kick. $750,000 the Lord is watching. you man. [Applause]. and there's a bunch. of thatting there's a lot of.

them we don't just beat top 25 teams we. beat the [ __ ] out of them okay gole here. the one thing you didn't learn from me. is talking all the [ __ ] you. talk welcome to the most electrifying. atmosphere in all of sports I know. European soccer fans are wild that's. like 30 to 60,000 you're about to see. all weekend 100,000 plus bananas. atmosphere and that is one part of the. reason why college ball is so damn great.

why this not a fun show no no no serious. show serious footb Alabama Jones is very. serious you know he was trying to be. funny which I get it and you know my. daughter Kristen loves him so that's. kind of soothed the Soul a little bit. that somebody in our family likes the. guy. I choose to. believe in front of touchdown J's and. everybody looking. down a you gets a massive win over Notre.

Dame Shane I'm sorry you're you're a. real. scumbag I thought coach STI coming out. here was a real disgrace to the game he. left his players in the locker room to. go get some camera time for himself I. know a legend like yourself would never. do something like that would you no no. it's disgusting I saw it I thought wow. what a sad disgusting program No Name by. millions go Irish Riley Leonard and the. Irish from their own too Jeremiah Love. breaks free Jeremiah love trying to go.

98. [Music]. touchdown might be fing for a blowout. here fellas couldn't wait to get to the. wonderful state of oh. always the SEC coming up to the Big 10. when it's cold as hell we shall settle. the conversation here in beautiful.

Columbus coach that hairline you get a. haircut every day uh not every day not. every day big beard big boot Peters and. toe 500 oh this guy sucks holy holy this. guy's the worst we got SE just took out. theti State Cheer One milon dollars here. JD. LEL this guy sucks a kicking but we. appreciate the H.

out is he has once wiped a 100 times. what WIP was yeah 100 times there are. actually people out there psychos. obviously that like the nonf Frosted. poptarts der's mother one of the best. football players have ever been around. non frosted strawberry pop I like nonf. frosted. poptart I like non frosted par. first now I at one point this year was. the mayor of [ __ ] town you were the. mayor mayor of [ __ ] toown yeah they. voted me in there and this my how you.

become the mayor of [ __ ] town you just. got to go around and say listen I heart. [ __ ] I heart Coxs sorry numerous. whenever we found out that there's going. to be a college football playoff game in. Columbus Ohio we are all jacked up to. see this Ohio State faithful he. showcased to the entire world about how. much they love football then we walked. out here to this game day set this. morning and it was nice. Rocky you'll always be.

awesome well in that song they say it's. home home for me is the North and the. cold is going to be the hot give me the. Ohio State [ __ ] eyes. representing I for the big ch. [Applause]. how cool was Sean Perkins the Ohio State. football team for allowing us to hang. out in their facility pretty much all.

day Saturday they had five TV setups a. bunch of recliners roosters supplied. some. phenomenal. qu it is. trayon Henderson in the open field. trayon Henderson is scoring another T. for the Ohio State [ __ ] story of the.

game th far as Chip Kelly is going mad. dummy bro all Ohio is excited they were. singing. long never broke first second third read. scramble fall on the ground check down. ra would hate to be a Tennessee fan or a. chair near Morgan wallet cuz they have. no hope right. noward check.

jerem by and large these games have. absolutely stunk P stre raising an. absolute hell couple people up here with. that SMY orange face paint on that are. feeling like real [ __ ] right now as. we look to the exence and the volunteers. fans are saying get my ass back to the. South this one's over bounces it it. touchdown Ohio State boys that was wide.

ass open Scot. love 500 drones ones that we know about. this game's over but uh we're still. bringing it. [Applause]. okay that's hilarious oh yeah.

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it hey what let's. go this show stinks and the fact that. you listen we are very very thankful for. that could be all the line with a. gorgeous assist the all-time leading. tackler for the Green Bay Packers. you. st damn it be a friend tell a friend.

something nice could change their. [Music]. [Applause]. [Music]. life hello beautiful people that is a. cameraman filming a field a Lucas Oil. Stadium the home forever home of the. combine hour three of this particular. program starts now. Adam B Scott out of Louisiana operting. the JY absolutely beautiful it's not. about what you do it's about how you. bounce back and get better Scott in this.

jib have been nothing short of magical. he's from Louisiana so each evening he's. used to eating a little Gat okay you. have a little Gat nugget little Gat. pasta he's come up here to Indianapolis. to help us out and run this jib and he's. done a fantastic job whenever foxy cuts. to this shot right here boom that is. coming from Scottland Louisiana coming. from a jib that is in the lobby of Lucas. Oil Stadium that is currently the host. of the NFL combine and hopefully will be. forever this place is electrifying this.

place is alive it is the second onfield. day of workouts for this year's NFL. combine we're lucky to be here the toxic. table looks a little different as Tai. Schmidt is out with something hopefully. he'll be back soon we send our best. wishes the toxic table at Boston Conor. at mad Mel Kyper mad Mel how you feeling. about the Day pal absolutely fantastic. I'm ready to get down there and get some. measur that maybe not everybody else is. going to be looking at you know uh we'll. just leave it there I don't necessarily. need to go in but you know we got a lot. of beef down there so we're going to uh. you know what guys take the field in.

about 30 minutes here we're going to get. down there and kind of you know get the. tape measure out and be looking at some. things that maybe not every Scout maybe. not every uh draft Nick is is going to. be looking at that's what I'm that's. what I'm really interested well. yesterday I saw you had your eyes on the. punters kickers and Snappers is I walked. down there ended the show early went. down there to host the specialist. showcase that I thought was going to be. on television should have been on. television very electrifying was nowhere. to be found but we did get some clips. out of it all and I got a chance to be. back around kickers punters and Snappers.

I had a blast down there and I know you. were evaluating with a Keen Eye I was. and maybe Pat you could dive into this a. little bit more I think the biggest. takeaway especially when you talk about. the IP the international player program. had a lot of guys from you know. differentes I think it's International. playway PPP well I I always call it the. program okay so they can call it the. pathway if they want back when I you. know kind of mentioned to the NFL hey we. need to get we need to grow the game we. need to make this thing more Global I. called it the program now it's the. pathway either way guys need to learn.

how to catch the goddamn football that. that's kind of my big takeaway maybe. maybe you you know but well listen I'm. just saying hey growing up in America. you know you're playing in the backyard. with your buddies there's certain. athletic Maneuvers that we all do. growing up that we're comfortable with. these guys aren't doing that [ __ ] okay. they got different sports they do. they're playing gayc football they're. you know hey let's go have a kick. they're not having a catch they're not. doing any of that kind of stuff so. obviously catching the football it's a. pretty big deal if you're a punter yeah.

I agree and a couple of the. international pathway uh player pathway. guys program IPP p uh those guys perfect. practice predicts or per you get it uh. in the yeah yeah whatever it is yeah. yeah whatever it is uh there was a. couple International kickers kid from uh. Germany Lenny C I believe his name. didn't miss a kick kid named Johnny from. Italy uh missed like one kick I believe. throughout the entirety of the day so. the kickers are doing uh a good job I. believe in the international pathway the. punters I think the biggest thing is. catching the ball because when you're a.

punter you have to catch a snap and then. you also have to hold so like that is a. big part of the gig if you're not a good. holder you're not going to make a team. if it's anywhere close whenever it comes. to punting there lot of big legs. yesterday I saw some bombs it was. awesome to watch the guys kind of have. to perform with maximum pressure on them. in front of a lot of NFL legendary. coaches there's legendary special teams. coaches there yesterday bones is there. formerly of the Cowboys formerly of the. Rams like one of the most famous special. teams guys of all time Darren Simmons. who's been with the um Cincinnati. Bengals I think for 22 years Randy Brown.

has been with I think the Ravens for. like 18 years was there this guy named. Henry who I just met yesterday he's been. with the Dallas Cowboys for a hundred. years he was there scouting I me I see. RZ down there RZ was down there he just. changed the kickoff rule it's it's like. he's Danny Smith I think he was just. watching I think he was just watching. these guys were running the drill and. thought of these drills for specialist. showcase so I was honored to be a part. of it but yeah watching the balls go was. awesome there were some pressure kicks. that took place for some of these. kickers some guys stepped up uh balis. down there in Miami he started out a.

little slow got hot hit a ball yesterday. on the track man they were covering that. that would have been good for like 66 or. something like that 65 kid named loop I. believe who's uh maybe from Michigan. State he did great kid from Florida. State h a 62 y to win it or 61 y to win. the Showcase yesterday so I think. there's a lot of great things there the. punter from Alabama who is an Aussie. burnip he was by far the most consistent. and best performer but there were some. other guys that like whenever they're. just spinning the ball to themselves and. hit it it's like wow those guys are.

hitting a ball further than I could ever. imagine hitting a ball but with the snap. and the Snappers did well I thought. there was a couple misses but they. snapped like 400 snaps or something I. forget the number which is an insane. number they were just out there doing it. but the guys looked like they were. scared of the snap and if you're. thinking about the snap most some of the. guys not all the but most of the guys if. you're thinking about the snap you're. not thinking about the punt and if you. Bobble the ball you're not able to get. the punt in a position to punt it so. then you have less time and it's like I. think they just all need to work on.

their hands like if you come over here. to America to be a punter we understand. that you probably have kicked a ball. before you have a strong leg but your. hands are going to have to sink up a. little bit you're going to have to catch. up a little bit on catching a ball which. you can with the jugs machine so I think. there's a lot of Promise out of the guys. that were there yesterday but I think. there is some things they're going to. have to work on before they become NFL. guys and burn it makes sense obviously. he's an Alabama Amer you know so he he's. been in America he's he's been in an. American locker room where you know he's. maybe not playing hacky sack with the. boys or or whatever listen I love hacky.

sack I mean who doesn't love hacky sack. but I'm just saying he's had to kind of. be a little bit more of an athlete and. you mentioned it you know on top of it. if you're if you're focused on you know. the the snap and you can't catch it you. know we don't have a rush out there you. know then then you you put eight nine. guys who want to take your head off and. kill you on top of it you better be very. confident in your ability to catch the. football and get that thing off it was. fun to watch some bombs though it was. fun to watch some of these guys do their. thing and like that Alabama kid looks so. calm so big was able to catch he's an. Australian guy he he looked very.

comfortable doing it I think that's the. big separator right now of these. International guys and then obviously. there were some American boys that held. down everything out there so I'm. thankful to be a part of that today D. tackle linebacker right tone digs yeah D. tackle linebacker is going today the. they just got done or looked like there. there's a lot of stuff coming in Twitter. right now of the measurement so I assume. right before they come out to the field. they're doing all their measurements so. all the guys were getting their. measurements done today Mason Graham. came in at 6' 300 lb he's only going to. bench he's got he's got those 32in short.

arms so he's going to be great on the. bench but he's not running or anything. like that today but there are going to. be some freaks out there today we talked. about you know Kenneth Grant from. Michigan the big 63 240 pounder who said. he's going to try to run like a 47 48. today uh and then you have Jaylen Walker. from from Georgia who won the buckus. award out there today he's gonna he's. going to be awesome he's in athletic. freak um Shamar Stewart from Texas A&M. he just he just measured at 66. 270 okay so he's listed 66 290 so he's.

in best shape he's been in a long time. look for him to run real fast yeah he. was a festar coming out one of the top D. lineer coming out he he's an incredible. mad you lose 20 pounds you can jump. higher and run a lot faster yeah. absolutely a lot of people were saying. you know hey this guy you know his. production wasn't the best in college. big Gody sack numbers but if this guy. goes out and runs a a 44 you know uh. yeah I I think there going to be a lot. of teams interested in it you lose 20. lbs you take a 20 lb weight off of your. back you're going to be able to run. faster and jump higher I don't know why. maybe he didn't do it in college maybe. it was uh different he was getting.

different information or whatever when. you look at his tape he doesn't look 290. so I don't know if that was like a a. program thing they were lying about him. being bigger maybe potentially being. heavier cuz when you look at his tape. like he is like he looks fit like he. doesn't look overly fit but uh Kenneth. Grant from Michigan he did say he. dropped like 15ish so he could run a 48. and jump higher at at this program all. right joining us now is somebody that. has obviously covered all of these guys. in college ball absolute legend in the. sport of college football now becoming.

one quickly in the draft World ladies. and gentlemen Molly. mcgr good to see you good to see you too. hold on Connor will get you the do. yourself Pros Pro I just want to let you. know Conor got that for everybody else. bud you you take that high I was stand. I'm a pro I can mic myself up I do this. for a living ladies and gentlemen Molly. mcgr. thank you for having me guys this is. quite a a sweet set you have not bad. right no I had to come down here and do. an actual site survey me and a tape. measure right that's a factual statement. like well I mean this is a home.

assignment for you this is pretty sweet. this is the house that Pat McAfee built. Molly Molly you saw the wall this. actually says the building or house that. was built by These Guys these are the. guys you know Tony dunie pton Manning. Joseph D boys I was very lucky to be an. Indianapolis coat but yeah to your point. the people of Indianapolis run this. building so when I came down here with a. tape measure uh the CIB the city. Improvement board was like why are we. doing this there's enough space for your. show and they're the ones that said I. should do it right here so we are. incredibly lucky thankful to be here why.

are you here now you're part of the. draft coverage obviously for ESPN but we. assume you know everything about. everybody because all the college. football stuff what do you have going on. this week it's such a great assignment. so last year was my first year covering. the NFL draft for ESPN so the the guys. go on stage their names are announced. they Shake Roger Goodell's hand D they. dap them hug them yeah they jump into. his arms and it's like the best moment. of their lives their whole career has. come up to this moment and I'm standing. there ready to interview them and it's. like the most electric interview that.

you could ever do and so it's such a. cool moment to be a part of I did that. for ESPN doing it again this year um so. it's an honor to be a part of such a. special moment and I know these players. so well you know I know I know their. families and their moms and their. girlfriends I know you know certain. things like a big part of being here. this week is meeting with GMS I'm just. kind of networking and I have a lot of. great. convers I'm trying to get their. information for coverage leading up to. that moment for coverage leading up to.

the draft to do reports for our crew and. it's kind of a give and take. relationship with GMS where it's like. hey I can tell that this locker room. doesn't love this guy yeah yeah yeah I. can tell that his teammates really love. him I can tell that this guy's really. tough hey coaches say he doesn't watch a. lot of film so in being like with the. these players week in and week out with. an Insider I'm a little bit of an. Insider but it's like off the record. conversations with GMS and so it's like. a little bit of give and take and don't.

go to Starbucks insiders are brawling I. saw Ian Rapaport at a coffee shop a. couple hours back right before he came. here that was not a Starbucks and it was. not a Starbucks it was at the Weston and. I wanted to ask him if he felt safe you. know but he looks F what if you would. have walked up to him and been like I. got something to say to. you that amazing well I appreciate your. professionalism and your due diligence. that you're doing you feel like you know. the college players very well how versed. were you with the NFL how vers were you. with the NFL and everything like that as. you dove in last year and how do you.

feel now I think that last year I was a. fan of the NFL and then when I got this. assignment I was like all right I need. to get up to speed on team needs GMS. coaching changes like what these teams. are looking for in the draft yeah. exactly um and now with a second year. under my belt I feel so much more well. prepared because I approach the college. football season completely differently. every week as I'm like requesting. players and talking to guys on the phone. I'm talking to all the draft prospects. that these teams have and then I'm at.

the games and you look you go to college. football games their GMS all over the. sidelines that's a time to really pick. those guys brains and to give them that. information you know and say like hey. this guy's legit and this guy his. teammates don't love him he's a little. full [ __ ] like those kinds of moments. that you can establish a relationship so. you're a weapon absolute weapon you you. are and the amount of time that you put. in and the amount of travel cuz where. you live to everything CRA decision a. crazy DEC yeah I make some terrible.

decisions life I truly do before the. boys have their questions for you I love. it I need to ask about good good. decision great decision okay since I. think last time we really seen you you. become full mama oh yeah oh my since we. last worked together I've created two. humans congrats congratulations. and they both speak and walk and talk. and it's it's crazy I have a 2-year-old. and a four-year-old two little boys I. don't know if they're watching this but. when I like have my makeup done I'm Mama. tv and then when I'm home I'm just like.

Mom because I'm a different you love it. I I so for me in my life it's the. greatest like watching my wife mom is so. cool and I heard you know you I think. we're talking about at the beginning of. with your work schedule and being a mom. we want to let you know we think you're. a badass and we think it's a good thing. not a bad so you need to never even. never even let that cross your mind you. kill it and uh how you're moming from. afar at least I've never met your kids. your husband great dude but like you're.

crushing him mly and you should be very. very very very proud of your now with. that being said let's turn to the. conversation mad ml Kyper has one for. you Molly oh mad Mel yeah Molly just. curious uh you know obviously you know. this you haven't been doing this a whole. bunch of years I have been doing this. for you know 30 plus years so you need. any tricks of the trade be happy to. share those with you have you noticed. when you're trying to get this. information have you been going to the. restaurants everyone says like hey. nothing is nothing is figured out or no. one no information has passed unless. these GMS and coaches have a couple.

booze cocktails in them late at St Elmos. so have you been doing you know kind of. that aspect of it or have you been over. at the con uh Convention Center kind of. B bopping around trying to get. information that way it's a little bit. of both I don't know if you can tell I'm. exhausted cuz I was up until like 2: a.m. last night Baris closing down the. bar but that's where those relationship. are established you're having a drink. and you're just getting to know people. as as parents you know and as. professionals and those kinds of things. so um I'm exhausted it's been already a.

long week and we're I don't know like. not even halfway through it um so it's a. part of that and then it's going through. the convention center grabbing people. going up to them saying hey I coverage. college football I I know these guys. intimately if you need to know anything. like feel free to reach out to me can be. a mutually beneficial relationship so. we're literally watching you Blossom. your NFL career right now like this is. happening it's a great segue and and you. know what like I covered a college or I. mean an NFL game one of the Monday Night. Football games earlier this season um.

the Cardinals Chargers game and it's. amazing how many players remember you. from their college careers and they feel. like a bit of sentimentality with it. where they're like hey you covered me in. college how are you I remember you and. so you kind of already know all of these. athletes so well so it's really cool. it's a great segue into covering the NFL. I think that's something I want to do. eventually in my career I love college. football especially with the playoff. like there's no better assignment in the. world than covering college football for. ESPN right now but eventually I want to. start to work more in the NFL cuz I know.

these guys so well we'll dive into. college ball uh at the end of this. because what an electrifying season. legit so much fun so many top five. matchups throughout the year with the. realignment and the players and more. teams going in there herb Street. whenever he got the Thursday night job. obviously he's one of the faces of. college ball if not the face of college. ball over the last three decades he. thought that maybe you know they. wouldn't take him as serious enough cuz. he's a college guy and I and everybody. else that played in the NFL were like. hery we watch game day every Saturday in. every single building we all know you.

from college football we're all in there. so I think there's even more of a. respect for the people that covered. College get into the NFL and I think. Herby didn't believe that the beginning. I think you should think the same thing. like a lot of respect for everything. you've because you've been there since. they were like kids to becoming men you. know and you've you've told their. stories you've helped a lot of people. and Herby did the same thing it's like I. think the players actually have more a. trust and you set a sentimental value. with you than maybe others I think it's. a great transition into the NFL yeah and. the coaches and the players are all fans. of football so they all watch a ton of. college football so when I came to the.

combine last year the first person I see. as I walk into the convention center is. Andy Reid and he points to me and goes. no you cannot leave college football I. was like don't worry coach I'm not. leaving but thank you and he's like I'm. a big fan of your work and I'm like I'm. a big fan of your work awesome yeah it. was it was one of those cool moments. where I was like how the heck does Andy. Reid know who I am Molly that was sick. biggest games every year for like the. last I don't I don't want to do that. whole thing but you get I was with you. you great th you launched my career.

those Thursday nights Thursday night. remies the remies o yeah we we grew. through that Adam Amin Matt Hasselbeck. myself Molly McGrath we had a lot of fun. it was were a lot of fun they were were. the lights go out was that toan or. Memphis when the lights the power went. out e Carolina car East Carolina that's. what it is right there yeah and they had. a gymnast like a cheerleader gymnast. when the lights were out that was doing. a 100 yards worth of back hands Springs. and back flips oh yeah I remember and. we're like talking in the booth like. trying to kill time and I'm like I don't.

have enough say at this point but we. need to be showing that dud this is good. television dud down there in Pitch Black. while lights are coming back on he might. have just done a thousand back flips but. I feel like I learned a lot that season. and you were ready to be the star way. before we got there on that Thursday. night I'm excited you've gotten all the. recognition you deserve Connor has a. question for you so you saw rap sheet. this morning he was you know probably. pouting a little down have you been able. to talk to like shefer about kind of The. Insider game and have you also just been.

on your phone for like 20 hours a day to. practice kind of how much you have to. actually do that you got to get the. screen time exactly yeah yeah you ring. her on all those types of things so I'm. I'm not trying to be an Insider where. I'm trying to break news I'm more trying. to be an Insider for context because I. want these coaches and GMS to trust me. inherently and that's a part of covering. game broadcasts right like coaches tell. me stuff every week that's off the. Record that would be breaking news if I. were to tweet it out but I want them to.

know that they can trust me so. journalism yeah capital J journalism so. these are the kinds of conversations I'm. having this week where I'm being told. things that are off the Record that. would be breaking news but I'm not. revealing it I know it for context I. know it for how to approach my. conversations with players with other. GMS and what the teams are looking for. and then there's a lot of stuff that all. like embargo until draft day hey are you. cool if I don't if I don't use any of. this until our draft coverage begins and.

then I can reveal what you're really. starting to look for and some of them. say yes some of them say no um but it's. it's establishing the trust I just want. them to trust me and know that I'm not. going to like spill their secrets or. tweet anything out I think that's like. the biggest value that I can bring is. just to be trusted that's not just a big. J that's also big arism as well that's. right. that's eny and refresh my memory here. and boys you might remember this didn't. she start like sports Media School at. Boston like you actually. believe start the sports med basically.

you did something I started a ro I. started a like sports reporter role um I. was the cheerleading Captain so I was. sassy as hell and went into the athletic. director's off what does that mean sassy. we had a lot of this I just I knew what. I wanted to do in my career like I I. went to the athletic director I went. into his office G Filippo at the time. and I said hey these are my goals and. this is how I need you to help me get. there I like that and I'm going to. create a student reporter position and I.

just want your like you to sign off on. it I'll do all the extra work and I had. people help me get there right none of. us got to where we are without help from. other people and support so he supported. that and I created that role and it I I. think it exists to this day which is so. cool hell yeah that is cool and also it. takes a lot of um you know courage. confidence intelligence foresight to go. and create that role and then for the. execution part of it you've crushed it. now speaking of college football Andy re. never wants you to leave T digs has a.

question for you yeah I do so we we. always talk to Chef I'm wondering about. the difference between the sideline and. then this kind of this the the draft. role we talk about like with shefy like. are all how transactional like all his. relationships have to be like with all. of his his sources and all these GMS and. coaches and stuff like that what's it. what is the biggest difference between. those like relationships and then like. when you're talking to the college. coaches like gathering information for. the game is that more of like a relaxed. situation I think they're similar yeah I.

think it's all about um people that. you're working with liking you trusting. you rooting for you um trusting you with. certain. information um with the draft it's. obviously a little more sensitive. because with these picks there's money. on the line and jobs on the line so you. want to be really sensitive and with. that um like I go into conversations. with GMS and I say hey this whole. conversation can be off the Record if. you want but with a coach you don't. start a conversation with a coach going. into a production meeting saying hey.

this is all off the Record usually it's. all on the record unless they say hey. don't say this you know so um it's a. little stricter and a little tighter I. think with the NFL and you don't want to. like piss people off because you want to. keep those relationships in college. football it's a little more fair game. unless you're instructed specifically. not to to say something let's talk about. college ball this past year 12 team. playoff it start with 12 count to one. how we Crown a cfp.

national. champion I didn't I didn't sing long but. yeah it was awesome why didn't you pay. attention to the song do we have I don't. know if we have it I deleted that one. what the hell man that's it all you. keep more schools get shot to shine. gam a lot more fun St with 12 count down. one that's how. weown cfp National Champion that's how.

we Crown cfp. National Champion good job we didn't. create that we didn't create that if. only God did sounds like AI maybe heal. but I I think there was some people in. Nashville but 12 team playoff obviously. you've been covering college ball for a. long time your thoughts on what it added. to it it was incredible the 12 team. playoff was so much fun um blowouts I. still thought it was awesome I okay like. some blowouts round one but then the the.

quarterfinals and semi like the. semi-final games were great electric you. know it's it was it was so much fun it. was a grind um it was a grind to cover. every round and you know when you're on. site for these games like for college. football we get there you're there for. almost a week so I just wasn't home for. like a month and a half but you know. there are other people taking care of my. children my husband is he's fully. capable I am a mother but it was. fantastic cuz the games were awesome and.

it was so unique because I covered Notre. Dame from the first round all the way to. the national championship game and when. else do you get a team four games in a. row and you get to follow them through. the course and through a run like that. and get to know the coaches the players. intimately I basically knew every player. on that team really well interviewed all. of them at some point so it was it was. really cool to be able to experience. that yeah we agree like we got a chance. obviously with our simoc cast uh field. pass operation to be there for all the. games except for one we didn't in um we.

had all Ohio State's games it was Boise. pen State yeah we we had but you're. right each week it was yeah we did Ohio. State we right in you guys sorry we were. right in the middle we were right in the. middle of all of it and the reason why. you're going to do so great at the NFL. and why you do so great to college is. cuz you do spend a week at all these. places we fly in there day before yeah. we we're not going to practice I'm not. doing games yeah we're not doing games. uh we do the field pass but we in the. booth and on the main broadcast what was.

the numbers that were coming in for some. of those games 28 20 plus million I. think just so many games and I think. viewer I don't want to say fatigue but. maybe viewers being new to the flow of. college football in the playoffs and how. late the games were going into January. go yeah so I think there's still some. things that can get worked out but man. we loved it and it was electrifying and. those games felt Larger than Life. especially on campus the on campus games. were my that was my favorite cold cold. freezing cold at Notre Dame but that was.

so cool to be a part of something like. that agre and the the the people that's. college football the pageantry tradition. and environments are a massive piece of. the product I think yeah like obviously. the football is being played on the. field the football does matter and if. you're good it's going to be better but. the environments are what make college. football college football so them. showcasing I think it was a big deal boy. it was cold though it we were pitching. hard don't be soft it's fine no it was. were you at Ohio State Tennessee I well.

I was at uh Notre Dame and it was sing. Single dig it they were it was pretty. cold but I had an electric jacket on you. have to like get with the program yeah I. know this is sideline reporter info I. had an electric vest I had electric. gloves cuz you're holding a mic your. hand gets cold bat didn't have gloves at. all so I have gloves or a head no he's a. tough guy he doesn't wear sleeves either. sure we're in the stadium UHC Ro Stadium. it is a beautiful time and also spring. is cracking seemingly here in. Indianapolis you tell Punk saton Phil to.

eat [ __ ] sure okay he didn't think that. was coming there the coldest winter. we've had coldest we talked about how. far you travel you live in Washington. mhm I do I live in Seattle I'm crossing. time zones every like three days yeah. what it's wild wild yeah it's um that's. been tough I think the time change is. the toughest part because sometimes I'll. have 7 a.m. eastern meetings so I'm. waking up at 4: and I'm on zooms just. like trying to keep my life together. well you're doing a great job yeah it's.

fine we're dealing with it there might. be a move in my future with my family. but it's not official I just as a human. that um not as much as you but travels. and works a good bit convenience in and. out of these places is that is the name. of the game that is you traveling back. to. Washington every single week is just. absurd to think about but there's only. one person that can pull it off and. that's person that walks into Boston. College say we need this to happen. change everything and then change the.

course of football coverage and your. life uh Molly you've absolutely crushed. it we appreciate you so much and thank. you for stopping by good luck with the. draft coverage thank you thank you so. good to see you guys so good to see you. in person dude yeah I mean only on TV. and on the internet throughout this. entirety that's our lives it's fine all. right that is our lives you're the best. guys and would you watch ESPN Draft. coverage you'll be on it yep I'll be on. the ESPN Draft coverage I need to find. like if anyone wants to sponsor me I. need to find like a sick little like. chinchilla coat like a fur coat we're. going to be in Green Bay oh yeah it was.

cold in Detroit last year it's going to. be cold I was wearing like extra layers. it's going to be cold you have to. embrace the place right so I have to. have some kinde put a cheese head onay. inside maybe put a cheese head on the. head yeah that'll be a good what's his. name overalls is there a lot of overalls. out there American Gangster yeah yeah. you get the Frank lugas coat from. America and the hat yeah look into it. that's one way to like be trending on. the internet that are getting a fight in. a Starbucks so it's like I'd rather be. all there he is right there ABS ladies.

and gentlemen surviving the fight is uh. Ian Rapaport good to see him walking by. here liing his wounds all right so. you're going to be in the leadup to the. NFL Draft coverage as well on ESPN how's. what are where will we see you talking. about what you're learning here today. and everything like that I have no idea. I'll be on ESPN they're they'll send me. out before the draft maybe I'll do some. stuff ahead of that some Pro days things. like that I'm also doing college. basketball coverage right now really I. was just in Birmingham Alabama Alabama. Tuscaloosa sorry I flew out of. Birmingham I know there's a couple I. think there's a couple I was in England.

yeah that that's one that's the only one. I yeah I just got back from Europe I. just came back from. Europe I was in Tuscaloosa on Tuesday. night came and now I'm going to. Knoxville for Alabama at Tennessee on. Sat Saturday that's a really big one so. with my travel schedule I just don't go. home no well keep grinding it is. admirable and it is awesome you're get. to the top Molly you're already there. you're the best ladies and gentlemen. Molly mcgr thank you guys you guys are.

the best thank you. Molly what are the birham popped in your. head there I just know there's more than. one see you you know what I mean huh. yeah yeah I guess but like Birmingham. college basketball Birmingham New York. um watching her. operate she a dog that Thursday Night. Football thing was crazy because you. know she's telling stories for different. college football shows that are. happening and interviews and sit down. and doing that but then on the game. she's she's not only like doing the.

drops before halftime the beginning of. the game which I think a lot of people. just expect she's working constant. movement constant working everything and. she knows every storyline for every. player and like if anything happens she. drops like reminders hey remember blah. blah blah like she's like a producer. while also it's well he a be. Molly's an absolute Beast the NFL is. calling though Andy Reed going don't oh. no Sor don't you not now we need you in. college ball it's like certainly we do.

but she is a g Molly is an absolute G. speaking of I believe Indianapolis. Indiana has brought some things oh. through for us and this might be the. visit Indie people yeah I believe that's. Chris G visit Indie uh don't know this. guy's name but I should hey how you. doing how you doing man hey I'm wow. wow cocktail you got kidding me man. Chris thank you brother very much thank. you thank you thank you want to sit down. and put a headset on thank you so much.

thank you so much you in you be great uh. what we got here we got uh some steak. sliders here we' got the filet sliders. you'll find those at her and DIY sto. steak house uh the famous iconic Santa. mhm cocktail you're not going to cry. when you have it are you I'm not going. to breathe I'm not going to breathe. listen been around the game whenever you. eat this you can't breathe when you. breathe while eating it shoots up into. the nose and it's gam set match but the. flavor is something you can't get. anywhere else such as why people come. they love it yeah and it's been. synonymous with Indianapolis just like.

the NFL combine we're glad to have it. here in Indianapolis for another year. since 1987 so we're glad to have all the. NFL folks here we appreciate the hell. out of you man all right Chris let's you. will stick around uh thank you so much. great service thank you hold on hold on. hold on hold on abys yeah yeah. thank you so much yeah no problem yeah. no problem that was a good Ser that was. a good. service oh okay so that guy owns stos. obviously he owns stos yep Chris we. should have known that I felt like a big.

time [ __ ] I say Here Comes Chris uh. from visit Indie and guy I should. definitely know but I don't he owns St. Elmos he owns St Elmos Hey sir thank you. I didn't know who the hell you were when. you came up here thank you so much for. what you've done for Indianapolis man. thanks El thank than is there more. iconic restaurant I don't think there. isn't a more iconic restaurant. restaurant synonymous with a City. Anytime anybody comes to Indianapolis. madm is already crying yeah hot but Del. zoom in on those eyes get those eyes. thing you got to Dive Right In once it. gets in the nostrils you got to Dive. Right In yeah yeah absolutely we go back.

for some more go ahead it's so good not. like your pumpkin pie you got to can't. you can't breathe while you're eating it. that's the you guys are making massive. mistakes I feel like oh no I think it's. like 24 lbs of shrimp cocktail sauce. they serve up annually. gez L annually or or weekly weekly. excuse me weekly yeah weekly week. annually you'd be a lot 52 Ton's eating. one right now he's having a moment right. now with the shrimp cocktail part of the. experience love it clears you out mad.

Mel's crying Connor I don't know if he. has a any feeling it is so good I love. this [ __ ] all right Chris let's talk a. little bit your uh I don't know official. title head of visit Indie Executive Vice. President okay we appreciate what you're. doing with Indianapolis you look very. very cool thank you thank you for this. uh this is a part of the visit Indie. obviously um we thought it looked good. on your desk it does it looks amazing. and obviously people walk in they're the. eye in Indie because Indie is such like. a collaborative thing and we are such a.

welcoming City whenever the combine. comes here what does it bring to the. city each year and what is the goal is. the goal to keep the combine here. forever I would assume it is we had. meetings with the League this week the. combine has been here since ' 87 we have. them on the books through o uh 26 this. week uh $10 million in economic impact. for our city okay we want to keep them. we we believe there's no better City in. the nation you got IU Health expanding. the convention center expansion all.

Under One Roof these prospects. seamlessly walk the media seamlessly. walk Why move this it's not broken well. Starbucks gets a little hot sometimes I. don't know if about this Starbucks there. was a I don't a swivel there's a little. bit of a I saw that I didn't yeah it was. real but that's not normal here. confirmed hospitality is the who your. way we host events and conventions. literally weekly the city's used to it. the n500 is the biggest sporting event. in Conor it got Conor it got Conor got.

got me he thought he had it. this got I but it feels good yeah it. will man we got you a napkin if you need. it no no no I I enjoy that's Indiana. looking out but the Indianapolis 500 is. the largest sporting event on Earth. every single year period why do you. think this place is built you said a. convention everything like that but I. think it's the people too I think the. people are very very used to Outsiders. coming in taking care and then saying. hey we'll see you next year or something. like that don't you we're sometimes an.

underdog City we don't mind that we like. to you know achieve higher higher higher. it's the people people make the place. Pat the infrastructure we're literally. built to host major sporting events and. conventions but it's our people it's our. residents they're hospitable it's part. of our DNA and so when that visitor. comes whether it's an international. media member of prospects family we. welcome them. 2024 busiest year in tourism history in. the city of Indianapolis welcome back. okay now welcome back people won't talk. about it um nationally but like Co.

whenever the world stops cities that. host things really really took a like we. took a devastating Blow from the world. stopping not being able to host and not. having all these things so us being all. the way back congratulations to you your. team and everybody thank you thank you. it you know it's when you have Pacer. sports and entertainment and the Colts. when you have the NCAA headquartered. here there's a lot of trust and uh the. oldest Sports Commission in the nation. the Indiana Sports Corps we just keep. picking away at what events we want by.

the way we'd love to have the draft. we're in conversations let's have hey. let's get that one. done let's get that one done love to. have another college football playoff. national championship and with the WNBA. All-Star Game bouncing here could not. pick a better year in time in. Indianapolis history to have that event. yeah especially with 22 yeah yeah she's. pretty good she's pretty good mad Mel. has a question for you Chris if you were. to bring one restaurant to downtown. Indianapolis that maybe we don't have.

yet because because everyone knows you. know Elmo is Iconic if you don't want to. get super dressed up maybe you go to. Harry and Izzy's instead if you're a. scumbag like a couple of the guys we. work with you're going to go over to. Hooters yes out of business exactly rest. in peace so but is there one restaurant. or you know attraction let's say that. you're trying to bring to the downtown. area that's a great question you know. we'd love to get um there's this. technology called uh km it's like the. sphere ofas AES okay we've been eyeing. that those are awesome that' be we're a.

sports-minded city you could sit and. watch these major sporting events and we. got buildings down here that'll. certainly be able to that could feasibly. exactly get that in there exactly if I. had to have a restaurant concept though. I'd call it reggies Reggie Miller Reggie. Waynes you'd have a restaurant in. downtown Indie called reggies they'd. cook they'd serve things up iconic. Reggie across the board I think that. would do well here yeah the the name. Reggie gets chanted at basically any. sport uh that happens here in. Indianapolis need the Colts to get good. again mhm I hear you I hear you keep.

he's from uh Boston well I also just. watch a game yeah but he lives here in. Indianapolis loves the city want them to. do well pay taxes for us to come here. problem no problem I go ahead are his. footballs inflated or deflated. that that was proven pull pull the. article that was proven science guy. who's a. model he is a model he uh okay Chris. what's next for Indianapolis well I tell. you what we're expanding the the city uh.

we want that uh WNBA All-Star Game to be. the best ever we want that to catapult. us into the future as I mentioned uh. we're putting about $3 billion dollar in. new tourism related infrastructure. downtown making it bigger and better we. want to hold on to the combine we want. to attract the draft and we really. really really want the college football. playoff National Championship to come. back is there an MLS team coming not yet. we're in discussions uh hey that's big. that's a big deal right yeah the mayor. of of Indianapolis has led those. discussions with the idea that we could.

have an MLS team and and it was reported. this week the commissioner was here MLS. commissioner to uh to kick the tires and. see the city again so we believe uh. Sports is in our nature and our culture. and we could we could do well with an. MLS team okay so as the Executive Vice. President of the tourist group group you. got it visit Indie you got it what are. you running for mayor next what's the uh. what is no you just like helping the. city you're from like what is the how'. you end up here Pike High School Butler. University was in Hawaii for a couple. years helping Hawaii tourism that was.

sweet tough job which which island aaho. you're on aahu aahu that's where my. mom's side has been uh and we have. family there and so came back I didn't. know you were in o yeah I got I got. raised here summers in Hawaii raised. here summers in Hawaii guys are new. obious. I think you should have spent Summers. here maybe Winters in Hawai that's true. football had to go to school and. football um true but Indy's my home. about those things uh I love being an. underdog and competing with other major. cities to try to get these events like.

the combine and proving uh proving what. we what we've built here so you love. repping for the city it it feels like a. lot of people do I got a chance to um. obviously there's visit Indie then. there's the n500 festival folks yes yes. I just learned of the CIB yep I just. learned of that they own these. facilities they do an incredible job. incred the guy yeah Craig my dude I. don't know if he's here or not I think. he has a oh yeah Craig oh Craig's the. man R helps run this place yes he does. make sure it's sparkling so the NFL and.

the NFL Network people obviously. fantastic folks uh forced me to do a. site survey even though we had agreed. that we would be uh able to do our show. from here so I come down and do a site. survey and Craig U from Indianapolis is. the one showing me around it's not. somebody from the NFL I'm like Craig who. do you work for that's literally what I. said to him because if it was NFL people. I was about to be like come on like what. are we even doing here we already agreed. to be here we're in a stadium there's. enough room for us to set up some seats. wherever it is Craig's like uh I work. for the CIB here in Indianapolis which. is the city Improvement port or whatever. I say you're an indie guy he goes yeah I.

go is there going to be a spot like why. were they acting like there wasn't a. spot he goes yeah we got enough room we. got enough room no problem at all and he. was like we walk up here and he goes do. you want to just use the horseshoe set. or whatever and I'm like is that. available he's like absolutely and I was. like yes we would we would like there. quickest sight survey of all time and it. got much better I think we would have. been somewhere this is prime prime we. are so lucky beautiful Stadium perfect. Stadium perfect place and perfect people. I think is why I love the state so much. listen and thank you for all you do you. spent a lot of time in this building. come on in the last couple of weeks.

months years yes and you're an avocate. you're not bashful about being from here. in fact some of your colleagues have. relocated here all of them yeah all of. them have which is why he's so happy to. pay taxes here and uh we'll we'll take. those taxes and make sure that we keep. growing the city and and restaurants and. museums and and more sport in events so. uh you're you're a big Indie booster and. you carry a lot of influence and when. when people hear that Pat loves. Indie how could you not brother. literally how could you not I'm very. lucky to be here and you're raising your. family here and my wife's from here my.

baby girl is born here a lot of our. families have started here a lot of. hooer babies around our business and. we're lucky and thankful for that yeah. absolutely well he's just completely. said the opposite there don't my. daughter was born here but I'll tell her. she was born in Pittsburgh yeah okay. he's from Pittsburgh yes a lot of pride. in Pittsburgh very similar type people. but obviously Indianapolis is fantastic. and Chris great work we appr thank you. thanks for having me on guys enjoy this. uh shrimp cocktails great delicious. doing it Chris keep doing it.

Chris thank you for everything thank you. man pallet cleanser there come on. appreciate you Chris yeah no problem. dude cocktail delightful hey Chris a. real deal he looks cool he's the one. he's the one that's uh doing uh like. when we're pitching for the Super Bowl. he's the guy that's you know when we're. pictures for the NC he's the guy that's. a part of the on the pavement yeah he's. the guy he's cool dude I I don't think. I've maybe met him one time before at an. event cuz he's like every he's he's on a. move everywhere I mean that's Chris.

football yeah Bingo loves the city of. Indianapolis CM down here would be I. don't know how he's going to get it done. but get it done Chris I don't know if. it'd be down here probably be up North. but all you would need all you all you. would literally need is uh just big. space with a bunch of LED board right. correct so you know what it is M. technically should we try to turn this. into a CM before the end before tomorrow. or relocate the team you use the whole. entire thing what's that put put 15 CMS.

in this building oh you're saying this. is the space to do it yeah yeah why not. no there's buildings right down over. there that to be repurposed you be have. a bunch of them all right hell of a day. today boys a lot of guesss lot of. conversation that's combine that is. combine somebody in a suit over there. they look very important how about the. owner of St ELO yeah what a beast Craig. yeah you got little FL I want to shake. his head I go to his North Side location. all the time yeah Harry and Izzy no 1933. oh yeah which is another great off. fantastic all these being available on. door Dash is crazy too can't wait to eat.

one of those one of these coming after. there's toothpick in it yep set. hut that one's going set hut that had. some cheese on. [Music]. it toothpick on both sides oh no. yeah sides better cuz my bun fell off. are they exposed yeah I don't think I. should do. that just [ __ ] that's all we needed. anyways oh my God it's a filet right at.

the guy great catch great catch how is. that filet s Elmo Steak we just got. that's you go to steak places you know. in I think the first time I into a nice. steak house grew up on Texas roadhouses. okay we're going to Texas roadhouses. that's a big night don't forget Ponder. Ro boom Ponder Ro you're 100% right. horses even if we're going to get yeah. don't forget hoses yeah we that's big. night out okay we're having we're having. we're going to we're going to PA the. road to Texas Roadhouse that was the the. triangle that was it hey birthday where.

we headed well Texas Roadhouse all. booked up we got to go to pwn roast Pon. roast booked up got to go to maybe even. the Ground Round if we were feeling. there chance you could sneak in there. spicy so then college at morgant toown. I'm going to Cheddar you know and. there's not really Stak place so I get. in the NFL my rookie year I get invited. to go to a uh dinner here in. Indianapolis at Harry and izes which is. St Elmo's like brother sister restaurant. I don't know what it is same exact. ownership same food same kitchen just.

different VI same exact kitchen yeah. like just next to each other connect to. it it's just a different vibe it's like. a sports bar a little bit more young and. then St elmas is like historic you you. like walk in there it's like you're a. part of something you know and that's. why everybody comes Indianapolis like do. I need to go to St Elma is like if. you've never been yeah you definitely. have to go it's an experience it's part. of the city but also hair and izes same. food a little bit you know I think pton. part of hair and izes as well. potentially so he was the one that was. hosting it so we go in there we walk. down this back room and I'm getting like. my first taste of like these real Saks.

and I'm like d this place is awesome and. then the shrimp cocktail comes out I've. only seen this movie like oh shrimp. cocktail you know like going to a moment. here and you get like grocery store ones. where it's a plastic Dipper in there and. you get the little thing so everybody. all the rookies that were invited to. that thing it's the reason why we're. invited looking background the only. reason we're invited was to get this and. just take a big chunk and just and then. everybody just cry their eyes out and. it's like it's so good but it'll get you. I mean it'll get you and you go back. again it's almost like a. um like an intoxicating feeling almost.

like it's like an adrenaline rush and. then you eat it again I love crying when. I eat it like legit that's part of it. all right mad Mel big takeaway as we. wrap up this glorious Thursday from the. NFL scouting combine presented by. Microsoft co-pilot which is Microsoft. AI biggest takeway very excited to see. you know what the athletes do out here. on the field but I'll be honest biggest. takeaway is I could eat a hundred of. those [ __ ] filet sliders yeah not. even kidding that I mean cook to.

Perfection set hot thank you I mean. medium rare I don't know if it's medium. rare Medi medium medium plus yeah these. are [ __ ] delicious all right and if. you just eat them just the filet like. you can eat a thousand of those P what. do you think two 2 O piece here yeah 2 o. 2 O piece of steak aim high aim high. H oh I I had it it dropped out cuz had. to come forward for it at least it. didn't hit the ground no I know I'm.

saying I couldn't all right we got to. get out of here we literally have to. turn off the lights oh cuz cuz the thing. going on remember the NFL was like uh. hey make sure his lights are off by 3:00. we don't need Scouts get any lights in. her eyes and I thought they were being. dramatic like everything else with this. network over here and then I got here. and I saw a thousand lights and I'm like. oh yeah fair enough exceptionally bright. the the the Scout SS are now full they. were not full yesterday they are now all. full fans have also filed in we're about. to have a damn show here on NFL Network. and NFL plus as Rich Eisen and Daniel.

Jeremiah will officially kick off the. onfield exercises of the future of the. NFL we'll be back here tomorrow I think. we got a good one tomorrow I think we. got a good one I believe Brandon Bean of. the Buffalo Beals will stop by boom I. believe there's a few others that are. going to make their way over here you. know it's it's an interesting time that. we're on because they're in the middle. of interviews and medical wow practices. taking place so anybody that's able to. make time to chat with us we're. incredibly grateful for and also we'll. feel like we'll try to do our due. diligence and getting the most time H.

yeah that's right cuz we got a lot of. questions for these guys too tons not of. Doubt mad Mel are you going to be back. tomorrow or is have you kept has Ty. texted you at all do you know have. haven't got any text or anything you. tell me is alien's landline so it's. tough to get text good point we'll call. you they didn't bring a pumpkin pie up. here yeah was kind of hor [ __ ] but you. know I mean like I said those Stakes. holy [ __ ] very good yeah you know I. appreciate Mike Foss I think we got a. mallers on the way guess what you're. playing second fiddle pal okay thank you.

thank you though. Mike Dan Morgan uh general manager of. the Carolina Panthers right over here. just stacked just absolutely jacked. talking to Bucky Brooks obviously how. you doing hey how you doing Dan great. work down there dude. I don't know if you can hear us all. right d all right d I'll go [ __ ] myself. D Steak slider what up big dog how you. doing man somebody thinks on this side. now I'm talking to what up dude I can't. see it cuz the lights but what up dude. can't see it's.

tough D in for some more oh little. napkin I can't see cuz of the lights. right right hey you got it good to see. you man I don't know who it is I can't. see anybody Good Good Vibes Good Vibes. though great Vibes great Vibes out of. you I appreciate that all right let's. get the hell out of here uh all the boys. in the truck great work today boys. I think today much smoother than. yesterday huh doubt my mic. worked second day normally is lights LED. board here setup or easy in and you talk. about Mike Foss with mallister Mike Foss.

let tyres halberton just sit outside for. about 20 minutes earlier crazy we did. Foss way to go bub he baby. Mike all right let's get the hell out of. here be a friend tell a friend something. nice it might change their life we're in. this thing together never forget it okay. team on me team on three 1 two 3 team. goodbye.