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Pat McAfee
Hello beautiful people and welcome to the convention center down here in glorious New Orleans. We are at Radio Row for Super Bowl 59 and this program starts now. Football is absolutely magical and obviously two days from now we will be crowning a world champion. Will it be the back to back super bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs representing the afc? Or will the Philadelphia Eagles behind Nick Sirianni and the boys win for a city that is known for brotherly love, eating of poop and climbing of greased up poles? Will the Philadelphia Eagles be celebrating all over the city? Or will the Kansas City Chiefs do something that no team has done in the modern era, which is win three straight Lombardies? It's a magical time. We're very lucky to be down here and the energy is palpable. We are celebrating the sport, we are celebrating the league, we are celebrating the year and we're celebrating breaking news as it happens. Congratulations to Ireland getting a home game. Hell yeah, they are next year and obviously we got to be there. And the talks and tables here at Boston Connor and that Ty Schmidt, nine year NFL vet Darius J. Buser is here. All time leading tackler for the packers is here. AJ Hawk, 12 year Super bowl champion, AQ Shipley is here. One half of the hammer died Cowboys AP Tonis here. And I'll tell you what, UAP folks are certainly in the crosshairs right now. We will talk to you. But joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, from the Ireland comp of the NFL, McQuaid. Holy shit. Lads, what's the crack? How are we getting on, lads? What's the crack? Hey, Ireland has an NFL game coming. You should be incredibly proud of yourself alongside the entire pro football Ireland crew. What you have done to champion the league, champion the sport champion in your home country, Magical. And what's going to happen whenever the NFL goes over there is they're going to want to go back. Oh yeah. So congratulations, McQuaid. You've really done it this time. Hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop. It's a hell of a celebration, McQuaid. How do you guys feel? I mean, how many booms would you give in Ireland game? Five? Yeah. Six, probably. I mean I. I never thought. Lads, thanks for having me on. I never thought I'd see today in my life. I mean, I genuinely was staying out there when you guys came to Dublin. I think that helped massively as well because it showed not just fans, but it showed the league that big events, big shows can happen and it can be controlled. And that was a great, great day as crack in Dublin. But what a day this is for the Steelers, the Rooney family, and for the NFL as a whole. And I totally agree. I think it'll set the standard internationally. I think it'll be a party to end all parties. Yeah. And I think, you know, I appreciate you giving us a tiny sliver of crap. I think everybody saw everybody seeing the croc crazy crock of a day. But the. The hospitality, the how everything's set up, too. It's all like, we live in Indianapolis. Indianapolis is set up to host things. Dublin felt the same exact way. We can walk from everywhere to everywhere. And legitimately, the way the city shut down for Georgia Tech taking on Florida State, I can't even fathom what it's going to be for an NFL game over there. And we can't wait to see it. The party to end all parties. I mean, AP must be buzzing. You got to get over them on 100%. Yeah. We're going for sure, right? Yeah, Tony's definitely going to be there. Oh, okay. I think one thing that's really important as well, and it's important to say it. You got 32 teams in the league, 31 other teams don't have the links to the island or the links to a country like the Rooney family have. So for Dan, the entire Rooney family and the history that they've had, this is such an emotional but an important day for them. And I just can't wait to see the standard that they're going to bring it to because I know already some of the things that they have planned in store. It's just gonna be epic, guys. It's gonna be unbelievable. And the Irish people are a people that will enjoy football, like, if they obviously. Rugby's huge over there and soccer's huge over there, and rugby sevens, I think, is gigantic over there. There's a lot of sports over there, but them as a people. And this is not me just. It is. I'm painting with a broad brush here. Irish people will love football if they see it. And do you agree with that? I think the more people that get introduced to the sport in Ireland, the more people that love it over there. Number one in the world in R to take that to the hill, guys. Straight up. We're a sporting island. We love sport. Gaelic football. I know you guys have featured hurling before on your top 10. Yes. What a snag. Oh, my God. Yeah. The lad. Hop, hop, hop, hop. Yeah, it was great. It was great over there. Fight the crack. Yeah. Every July, 82,300 people pack in the crook park for that. And they're amateur sportsmen. They go to work on the Monday morning. We love sport, we love the passion of it. And yes, I think more and more people are being connected to it. Like my dad's like, oh, it's too slow. You get into it. It's a bit of crack at the end of the day. Yeah, it is a bit of a crack, crack, crack. Congratulations to the entire pro football Ireland. Thank you guys. Doing great work. Okay, let's talk about the super bowl that is taking place here in just a few days. We have a massive update from ESPN bet. Let's head over to the Hammer, Don Cowboy, AP Town. Where are we at right now? Yeah, ESPN BET is the first sportsback sportsbook to make it a pick them on Sunday between the Chiefs and the Eagles, which is basically means on the money line it is minus 110. Minus 110. There is no favorite currently right now at ESPN BET. And that kind of signifies exactly what we've been expressing all week long where we have no idea how this game's going to go. We have no. We are having a hard time picking which team is going to win. It's because both teams are great and it's going to be an awesome. Chiefs are favored by one. Still, if there is a spread, Chiefs minus one. That's normally an indicator of where the money is potentially for the bet. They'll take it one way or the other. But both being -110 means the sports books have no idea. Yeah. And other books are like even money minus 120 to the chiefs. It feels like that's the way it's going. More and more Eagles money continues to pour in. 66% of the tickets are in the Eagles. 75% of the money is on the Eagles. And although a lot of the big bets coming in are on the Eagles so far, so there's a chance that it might go the other way where Eagles eventually become the quote unquote favorite. But yeah, right now it's a pickle. AJ we were talking about this while we were in the creepy sprinter van. Yep. On the way over here to the Convention center and we all had the same sentiment literally every day. I'm waking up with a new thought on who's gonna win the game. Yep. I have gone over the. Yeah. Bingo. I think every time you think about it, there's a new way to look at it. And I even saw on Get Up. I think there's a couple people that have been on get up like yesterday, that picked something and then today picked a different team. This has been hard to figure out because you can see it going so many different directions. And I think, like aq, what'd you say about this Eagles roster? Yeah, it's the most expensive roster in the NFL. And when you look at that on paper, they win almost everywhere. But there is one guy. Yeah, it's the Chiefs. It's Patrick Mahomes. It's hard to figure this out. Could you see the eagles winning by 24? I guess with the way the team is built, you can see that. But then on the other side, it's Patrick Mahomes. They're like, well, they don't have nearly enough weapons. It's like, well, I think they do. And it's like, I have no idea which way the game's going to go. It's literally been hour to hour in this entire. Yeah, the more I watch on tv, the more I watch Dano and different guys talk about it, I. I start to change my mind. I don't know. I was. I was leaning Chiefs early on a little bit. I've gone back and forth. I don't know. By the end of this show, I'll probably have a different opinion of what I had, you know, 30 minutes ago. Who. What are you. You just got completely distracted talking. He almost just walked out. That's kind of his move. He's going jump. Surprise. He did. Yeah, it was the whole thing. That's kind of his move. You know, he owns WWE. He owns everything, right. We're doing WWE's debut on Netflix from the Intuit Dome and me and Cole are talking directly to a camera that is two feet in front of us. Literally, we are talking to the camera. Everybody in there knows we're talking to the camera. Ari just walks his ass into the thing. Maybe even got in the ring. Took a couple bumps. He'll be joining us and I guess whenever the fuck he wants, but probably in about 30 minutes or so. Cannot wait to chat with him. With that being said, ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is a man who is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a guy who's an all time great when it comes to spinning a football. Quickest release in the history of ball, ladies and gentlemen. Friend of the program. When he speaks, there's no flubs fucking ever send it. Ladies and gentlemen, Dan Marino. It's great to see you, Paison. God, it's good to see you, paisan. I like your notes. Let's make sure we're taking care of us. What's that we gotta put this on. Yeah, couldn't hear a word you're talking about there. Hey, everybody, what's going on? Hey, it's Dan, Maria. Hell yeah. Dan the man. Dan. Okay, so you are here with nami, the national alliance of Mental Illness. Tell me how you got involved and what is the goal here with nami. So the goal is. Well, first of all, I got involved a couple years ago. I got to know Dan Gillison, the CEO, and we talked about doing some of this stuff then. And also Stay Healthy Zone, which is a partner of mine that I do stuff with. It's a digital wellness company and they're going to do digital wellness for Namni. And Namni's been around forever. Nomni's been, I think 48 years is probably on there. Yeah, I think it said largest grassroots mental health organization in the country. And the thing is, is they. I think they want to just make just awareness, Awareness about it. Just be smart about your health. And if, you know something comes up, don't be afraid to ask somebody, you know, if you have a problem, ask somebody. If you ask your friend. And a lot of times as men and anybody, we just, you know, we don't do that. And we just get along and try to get along and. Cause crazy 2025. I don't mean crazy in that way, but you get it in 2025. Feels like we know a lot more about the brain and like we have a lot more empathy. I feel like for people going through stuff than we used to, it's been a quick evolution. I feel like for society to kind of come around to it. Don't you agree? Yeah, I agree. I agree. And it's, you know, it's something that's there. It's not going away. And that's why I think NAMI is one of the place you could turn to. And I just talked to. Who was it? Oh, you know, just Zach Taylor or Zach Thomas. Because Zach Thomas, you know, he played with Junior Seau. And to me, that whole thing is like, you know, Zach said to me, he's like, I. Like, I thought he was always great. He's funny, laughing, loves football, lights up a room, lights up the room when he comes in. And he said, I never knew there was a problem, you know, or I would have tried to help him. And that's the thing, try to help the guys if they have a problem. And that was just an example. It's a bad example. Because I love Junior. Junior was. We all do, though. But that's what we're talking about, but that's exactly kind of what this is. Agree. I think a lot of us have a lot of friends that we've loved, and we have no idea going through something very serious. At the end of every show, I say, be a friend. Tell a friend something, something nice. It might change their life. Because we've had friends. I've had friends that anytime I seen them positive everything, and then they end up passing away from their own doing. And it's like, should we have seen the signs? Or maybe we should have just asked, you know? But then on the flip side, we hope we get to a point someday where people are feeling that way. They will ask people. And I think that's why we're doing this. It's such a big deal. I think that's a big deal. So thank you for doing that. Oh, that's cool. Baby Dan. Baby Dad. There's our guy. Dan Gillison right there. He's the CEO of Nomni Shout Out. Dan. Hey, thank you for making the world a better place, Dan. Good suit. Thank you, Dan. I like that pocket square, too. He's got the crown. Yeah, it looks good. Triple crown there, Dan. Good work, man. Okay, let's talk a little ball, shall we? Yeah, sure. Miami Dolphins aren't helping anybody's, you know, morale at all. We got a guy named Gumpy back there. I assume he thanked you immediately upon walking in. He's from there he is right there on the screen. I don't know if you can see him. He's from British Columbia, Canada. Loves the Dolphins. Has his entire life. This year we thought we were going to go Gump, didn't we? Think we're going to go this year? Yeah, for sure. Thought a playoff win was coming down the chute, but here we are, 25 years since we had one. Jeez. I know, man. I'm sorry. That's all I can tell you. What do you think? You know what? I thought we had a very good football team this year until we start getting, you know, injuries, especially at the end of the year. And look, Tua is our quarterback. He's going to be our quarterback, but we need to find a way to just keep him healthy, especially, you know, at the end of the year when you have to win games to get into playoffs and to maybe get home field advantage or just win playoff games. And so that's, I think, really where the focus is going to be. What do you. Tua's thing came out of nowhere there. Yeah, we just saw him come out of nowhere. Is that. How do we. Yeah, you guys were in it. Lurking, lurking, lurking. Then he's no longer playing out of nowhere and he finishes the season not playing. Actually had sunglasses on, one at a time, hanging. But he had. Had like a hip pointer. Okay. So, you know, and it's just as far as throwing. I mean, he'll be good in the future, but like for those two, three weeks he was struggling with that. Feels like you're around the team a lot. Enough. Yeah, I'm around. Are you trying to get a little Pittsburgh in them though, Dan? Yeah, well, grit. They're saying they're soft. The yinzers. We need more yinzers. Amen. You ain't Never lie, brother. AJ's got a question for you. What's up? When you look at this super bowl and you see Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts, obviously, I guess. What do both these guys do? Like, what have they done that impresses you? So, like, start with Mahomes. Oh, that's easy. I mean, this is easy because, you know, Mahomes is. May end up being the best quarterback ever. You never know because he's on a run right now and he's just amazing. I don't know if he'll ever get to seven Super Bowls, but, you know, if he wins this one, he's already in the hall of Fame. And what he does as an athlete, as far as how he throws the ball from different angles and, you know, you really can't teach that, you know, and he has anticipation, he has everything. But also he's smart because he. He can run, but he never gets hurt, like from running the ball because he knows where he's in on the field. His awareness is there and he's just. Special player. Special, yeah, player. And then Jalen Hurts has been great too. It's just. He's a different type of player, right? He's a guy. He's a guy that wants to run it a little bit more than Patrick Mahomes. And he's a above average thrower of the football in the pocket. But when he's dangerous is when he gets out of the pocket. That's when he could make the big play. So that's basically my scouting report on those two quarterbacks. Can you still spin it? Oh, yeah, yeah. From here to there, always. I mean, I throw a little bit, but not. We saw that commercial. You threw the ball into Messi's boat. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was. That was a rocket. That thing went about 150 yards, which we still expect. Thank God, for video cameras. Hey, when people. When people talk to you about like your quickest release and everything like that, your accuracy, and then the yards you threw for, there's always like the modern day yards where people are like, this offense now, the new rules are built for this. It'll be like 20, 21, 20, 23 yardage. And then Dan Marino slides. Yeah, yeah. It's like back in, like, old school football. Dan Marino's in there for yardage and everything like that. And obviously you have to have a team buy in for you to play that way, but you had to have an ability for people to debunk how football was then at that time. My old man says that you worked that with your dad every day of your life. Almost like obsession. Almost. Yes. With like the trying to work on your release. And the other thing I did, which, you know, I tell all young quarterbacks and even kids, high school kids, college kids, is the jump rope. My dad made me jump rope from the time I was little because it keeps you, your mind and your feet in the same rhythm in a small area, which. A small area is a pocket, you know, and that was, to me, he was. My dad was a Teamster truck driver. And I thought that was genius. That's genius. Really? Absolutely. Teamsters got a lot of good ideas. Don't mess with truck drivers. Something fall off the back of that truck? There was some things that fall off the back of the truck. My dad was a truck driver as well, so he's had some genius ideas I didn't even think about. I didn't even think about jump rope. That seems genius. Were we doing this one? Oh, I could. Yeah, I could do that. We're doing all this. Yeah. But now I can't do anything. My legs are gone. But when I was, you know, playing during my years playing, I did that. Miami Dolphins, die hard fan kid. Both parents from Carol City, so right behind Joe Robbie Stadium. So appreciate everything you did, obviously. What's your thoughts on. We had the honors last night, NFL honors. Two great deserving quarterbacks. Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson. What's your thoughts on MVP this year? Well, I think both of them could have won just as easily. I mean, Lamar Jackson had a great year. Awesome. But they didn't really advance. And maybe it's because Josh got a little closer, I think, and he really takes over games, too, just like Lamar does. Just think it was his year, because how he was running football in critical situations, the playoff games where he, you know, came from behind winning those games. I mean, that Those are the kind of times when you look at a guy and say, okay, yeah, you know, he's the mvp. Got, you know, so I mean, I, I, I would have voted for either one of them. Yeah. And they both deserve it. Do you guys get a vote? X mvp? You don't do. No, no, no. They don't care about you. They only care about this guy. He's just so you get a vote. He got a vote. I got to call somebody up. This is. I agree, Dan. I agree. Speaking about Josh though, a lot of, there was a lot of talk after this last loss to the Chiefs. Another loss to the Chiefs, another loss to Patrick Mahomes. People said they were started feeling bad for Josh Allen. Is he ever going to get the big one? How do you like, what is your take on that since, you know, you were an unbelievable all time great quarterback. What's your take on Josh and getting to the big one? So, you know, I think Josh Allen, if you talk to him like he's extremely disappointed. He'll think about, you know, losing that playoff game and having his chance. But also he's, you know, he, he's a tough dude. He's mentally tough. He don't miss games. He's been playing at a high level for five, six years now. So he, I think he feels like he'll get back and get over that hump, you know. But then the truth of the matter is I went in the second year and I never got back, but I, but I got close just like him a lot of times. So he'll deal with it. He'll be fine. He'll come out of that. But he will, but he will think about that all off season. And there's a lot of times you do that. I did it too. Rest of your life? Probably, yeah, some games. Yeah, Y. Absolutely. I mean, that's a competitor. That's what high end athletes have to deal with. You just talked about him being mentally tough and not missing a lot of games. How important is it for the quarterback to be like the toughest dude on your team? Legitimate. He's got to be legit, legit tough, but also mentally tough, you know, and then being able to deal with all the other players and making them tough with you and making the players around you better. And he does that. And you know, Mahomes definitely does that. But you quarterbacks are kind of, you know, the guys like your whole life, your whole life. You guys are crazy, like legit. Even more so now than ever before because the amount of money when I was young. My dad was a truck driver. I was held up, like, you know. No, but I'm saying, like, the quarterbacks, though, nowadays. Yeah. These kids in high school are getting paid. Oh, no, I know academies. Yeah. And in college, they're being paid. It's like our team goes as you go, and these kids are like teenagers getting treated like that. The ability to remain tough in a humble quarterback is going to be difficult, but I think it's a necessity for the position. There's no doubt. Yeah. Being humble and being tough, and also with all the money they're going to get given pretty much, you know, while they're going through college, it can make them, like you said, Pittsburgh can make them soft a little bit. So you got to have that guy that's mentally tough, that's going to be able. It doesn't matter what the money, what the money is or what it, you know, all that. That I want to play. I want to be the best person I can be for this football team. It's hard to find. I think you can't. I mean, that's like the most important thing, I think, nowadays when you're finding a guy like, hey, do you love ball or not? Like, I think that is a big deal. Yeah. Because, like, these kids are being set up to be soft, you know, not their fault. Yeah, not their fault. Never want to blame them for it. I know, but when you were 15 or 16, I probably could have. Yeah, I would have taken it. We all would have. But could you imagine what you would have became? I mean, I know. Could have been a monster. I mean, it's unbelievable. Connor has a question for you. Yeah, Dan. Yesterday also, the hall of Fame class was announced, and obviously you're a Hall of Famer, and there's a lot of discourse. Only four guys went in. No. Adam Vinatieri, who we all thought, obviously, first ballot hall of Famer. Yeah. Sounds like you do, too. Even though he's a kicker, and that's kind of the knock on him, even though, you know, he's one damn near more than anybody. Also, no. Eli Manning. What do you think about kind of the state of the hall of Fame right now and what is kind of the standard you would say is to get into the hall of Fame? Because it's kind of blurred almost at this point, because, you know, Vinnie and Eli, they both have the moments, they have the rings, but still they're not, you know, getting in on their first ballot try. Yeah, I mean, that's. That's the difficult thing because Like Chris Carter. I thought Chris Carter would go in on the first ballot. It took him six years. So I'm not in on the voting and how they vote and what the decisions are made. But I know that we've been having a lot of. I don't know this for a fact, but I know we've been having a lot of classes with seven people in them. Right. For about the last 10 years. And then we had one, there was, you know, 20 people because they were making up for get back. Yeah. Right. And so maybe they're just kind of, you know, watered down a little bit. And let's not have as many guys, but whoever is making that decision is probably on the committee. Sure. You know, see, but now there's four this year. Right. So that means there's going to be a backup. Yeah. Next year. And next year's classes. Yeah. Like, they're talking about Eli. It's like, is Eli going to get it next year? Who knows? Because of Drew Brees. Yeah. And let alone yonder. Yeah. Yeah. France, tough. Yeah. Larry Fitz. Do you guys do, like, hall of Fame dinners in Tex. No. I mean, no dinners. Yeah. When we go to hall of Fame, we'll have dinner. Yeah, but what do you mean? Text? Text. I just. I mean, I talked to Ronnie lot two days ago, so. Yeah, we text each little gold jacket text. Yeah, that's a. That's a big hall of Famer right there. Yeah. Well, you are as well. You are as well. Obviously, you broke down both quarterbacks. What's the story from this game? That maybe because we've talked about this now 1,000 times. Okay. We've talked about every fucking angle you could possibly have for this thing, Dan. So is there anything that you think hasn't been talked about or that you're thinking about whenever you're trying to. So did you talk about how you keep Patrick Mahomes on the sideline? You run the football. Yes. You've already talked about that. Yep. Oh, man. Give me some other examples. That part is huge. Yeah. Because that's what they're going to try to do. They're going to try to run the football and keep Patrick on the sidelines. Yeah. That's what I would do if I was the head coach. Third down, red zone. Yeah, yeah. Third down, red zone. Third down is important always, no matter what game it is. Third down. Yeah. And scoring in the red zone in Philadelphia, instead of getting field goals, they get touchdowns. Putting a little more pressure on, you know, Patrick, but. Yeah. How do you feel about what Other angle. Special teams. Maybe Dan might come down special teams. Jake Elliott's missed a couple kicks. He's obviously Philadelphia Eagles. He's been great in the past. Bucker seemingly never misses in big games. They go for it a ton. The Eagles on fourth down field position. Yeah, those are. Yep. And then Taylor Swift's gonna be there. That's an angle right there. How many times. So here's an angle. How many times are we gonna see here? See hurt on. On TV during the. What do you think? Over under four and a half. Four and a half times on TV? Yeah. I think I say more like 300. Travis about to have a big game. Yeah. Sound like you're saying there, get Travis the Rock paint. Yeah, what about that? Like Travis Kelsey, obviously, people throughout the season talk about his stats, and then in the playoffs he has his best game. Or are there certain players that are just like that, where when the lights come on, you know, they just play their best. There are. And he's one of them. You know, he's going to be in the hall of Fame for sure. Eventually. He may. With the way it's going. He might not be a first basket, but he. He's those kind. He's. I know he's. He's the kind of player that, you know, steps up and he might have been injured a little bit or whatever, but, you know, big game, steps up all the time, and that's what you got to love to be in this situation. Yeah, he's a Hooper out there. You know, it's kind of the conversation that we had with Fred Warner, who was talking about playing against Travis, because they talk about these Travis routes where who knows what's on the actual call sheet for Travis. But him and Pat. Yeah, they just had like. Did you have anybody like that? Yeah, there was. Well, I mean, I felt like Clayton and Duper would do that a little bit if they felt, you know, because we. I try to read coverages with them and they would read the coverage. You all have to see the same picture, see the same thing. We always talk about it, talk about it. And then. So we had that kind of relationship. And then Keith Jackson. Keith Jackson was another one that was like that. You know, the tight end from. How come everybody doesn't do that? What is that? Oh, I think they do do it. It's just a matter of the players and your. I guess, not only awareness in space. Space of a secondary, but also instincts, you know, so you gotta. Certain guys have that and certain guys don't. I mean, it's just, you know, certain guys, you tell them to run down here and make a right, and they run right down there and make a right. Sometimes you shouldn't. Sometimes you go down there and turn around, sit down, find a little window, sit down, turn it up. Yeah, go ahead. No, Mark Clayton was one of those guys you talk about how it's always somebody that pops up on a list from Marino's era. He's one of those guys we talk about Saquon, his touchdowns average, distance of his touchdowns over 30 yards. I think Mark Clayton may have been like third on that list. Yes. Yeah. Big time. Oh, yeah. Big time player. Yeah. He's awesome, man. I love Mark. And he's another one I thought should be get, you know, to get in the hall of Fame, you know, the numbers are different, huh? No. You had a couple guys from your era, Eric Allen and Sterling Sharp, issue. What's your thoughts on those guys finally getting in? It's great. I mean, I mean, it's the biggest, you know, besides your kids or whatever, that's the biggest day your life and for your family's life is to get in the hall of Fame because there's only so many guys that get in. And that's it. That's forever and ever. So that's, you know, my thoughts are, I'm so happy for them. And they're going to enjoy it and enjoy that day. There's levels to this, too. Hall of Famers, you know, like, there's guys that make it in the NFL, then there's like the all pros, then there's the MVPs, then there's the hall of Famers. That's forever. We appreciate all the hall of Famers for everything they've done for this league. Who are you picking to win? Kansas City. Wow, that was very quick. Yeah. Did you waffle at all? Have you waffled at all since it or. I did the. Yeah. Well, I thought I want Philly to win just because I don't want to see Kansas City win. And a lot of Italians over there. A lot of Italians. Pennsylvania. I'm Pennsylvania. So, yes, Phil, I want Philly to win, but I think Kansas City's gonna win just because they do. Exactly. And Patrick Mahomes, number 15, he's pretty good. The guy is good player. Will they ever be able to win in Miami? Legit? Too many distractions in Miami. Yeah, no, no, it's not the distractions. It's just. Yeah, we'll get there. There. We'll get there. What, what about the the narrative of that they can't win in the cold. As a guy who grew up in Pittsburgh and lived in Pittsburgh, how much of that actually plays in when it's like, you know, you've been in Miami for a long time because, I mean, they have to play in New England late in the season and, you know, in New York, like, it's. Is that, Is that a thing or is that mostly, you know, just a media driven narrative? No, I think it is a narrative that's there because you got to change the narrative if. If you want someone to stop talking about it. And we haven't done that really. I mean, even when I played, you know, we'd always try to get home field advantage. So you don't have to go to Buffalo or you don't have to go, you know, to Pittsburgh or Kansas City when it's, you know, below zero, because we're. We're not used to playing in that stuff, you know, but. So that's the narrative, is that we gotta win more games and get home field advantage. Yeah. You. You feel like you're soft now because you're. My own time in Miami, I got really soft, especially at, you know, when I retired. Yeah, I'm soft now. How's the golf game? Pretty good. Yeah? Yeah, it's okay. Like where I'm like, I ate handicapped. Damn. Okay. Yeah, you're rolling some putts. It sounds like I make some putts. Where do you live now? Full time down? Florida. Fort Lauderdale. Fort Lauderdale Hockey State. Yeah. And I live not far from that arena. It's fun to go watch those games. Oh, yeah, the Panthers. You grew up a Ben's fan. Oh, yeah, yeah. Mario Lemieux, well, obviously, you know, he's a peer, but then Pierre Larouche. Remember that name? Yes, I remember Pierre. That's my guy. He was old. Mario Lemieux is a peer. Yes. No, I did know what you mean. Yeah. But I, you know. Right. Said this. Good. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, hall of Famer, mvp, Yinzer legend, dolphin hero, Dan Marino. Yeah. Like that. You are. Always will be, too. Thanks, brother. Thank you. It's great being on. Thank you, guys. Thank you, man. Daniel, appreciate you, man. Oh, it's okay. Thanks. Awesome. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Dan. Hey. You look good, Dan. Yeah. Still got it. Still got it. Still bringing it. Still. Still got it, Dano. Still bringing it. Hey, Coach. Hey. What a season. A lot of podcasts, a lot of media, and also it looks like a lot of fitness. You look good, Coach. How you feeling? I appreciate it. That's probably the best intro I got right there. Oh, shit. Like, I think that's great. You know, I'm surprised. It's a good thing, not a bad thing. How you doing? I'm great. I'm great. Yeah. So I have excellent media training, obviously, coming from Bill at New England. You know, we practiced a lot of, you know, so this is a whole new world for me this year. It's been a lot of fun. Roastmaster just walked by. Incredible work, Jeff. Honestly, you've just been assassinating people with your words. Hey, the roasts have been amazing. What is this? An Ugly Lives matter? Thank you. All right. I love you guys. Pat, you're the king. Ah. What is this? An Ugly Lives matter round? That's good, Jeff. You're the man. That was fucking. How many times do you think he's used that? Sorry, coach. Sorry, coach. Okay, so had a show with coach. Did some breakdown with NFL Films. What is the thought? Are we getting back into coaching? Are we doing media? What is the plan for Matt? Patricia? Yeah, we're having a lot of fun doing media this week, so it's been great. You know, I can't get on your show, but I'm on this side, you know. No, I'm just kidding. No, right now. Media. Media's been great. It's been a lot of fun. But we'll see. See what happens here in the next couple weeks. Okay? We would like to have you next year if you're doing media again. I'm in. I'm on. Let's go. We had no idea you were going to be doing media this year. And then whenever we saw you all over. Thank. We're excited for you and your big ass brain. Are we still drawing up plays? Are we still ticonderoguing? Have we let go some of the old ways for this new life? What is new in your life? We're always studying. We're always coming up with different things. The pencil is on hiatus right now. What are you doing? Are you running 10 miles a day? You look unbelievable. I appreciate it. No, a lot of. You know what? Just as coaches, dba, we wake up early and nothing to do. So work out boxing three days a week. Doing a lot of that, which is fun. Yeah, boxing was fun. I used to do it when I was a little kid until I got hit. And those people know how to hit really hard. And I had headgear and I was like, I think I need a new sport. This is not good. Virtual reality boxing. Real deal. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you know what's great about that? Horrible to watch after you're done. Like your buddy's filming you and you're like, I know I better never get in a fight because I'm gonna get my ass kicked. This is. Nah, you gotta throw a big heavy right. That's the game in the virtual reality. You gotta throw a heavy right. Coach, you look amazing. Appreciate it. What are your thoughts on the game? Yeah, I like Philly, I think, you know, defensive guy. You were there, weren't you? I was, I was. So I just like what they've done this year and I think it's gonna be a great game. Obviously, it's really hard to bet against Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid, but I'll go with this stat. You know, two teams in the super bowl that have had the number one defense and the number one rusher in the league, Philadelphia, see how they do. But the other one was the 92 Cowboys. So I gotta go defense. Okay, I love that. AJ you got a question for coach? Yeah. When you. What is Philly going to have to do to win the game? Like, obviously not turn the ball over, all of that say like, but does Saquon have to have a monster day? Does Jalen hurts. Have to be like, what has to happen? Yeah, Spags is going to try to stop Saquon. Yeah, you got it right. That's the number one thing. Spags will take him away. He'll use some of his blitz packages to kind of, you know, confuse the run game. He's got the run blitzes and then probably crowd the line of scrimmage for the passing game and make Jalen's eyes come down. But I think the biggest thing for Philly, you know, playing against Mahomes is you got to defend the first play, not the second play. Don't let him out. Don't let them create, you know, Kansas City's just when you really look at them and why, you know, so many people are like, how are these guys winning? They're just winning in a different way. You know, the early turnovers in the game, they just overcome them. But when you take a look at third down, they're tops in the league. When you take a look at the two minute drives and the calmness that, you know, they go down, just methodically score, you know, those are the areas you really got to focus on if you want to stop them. So I think Philly would do a good job on third down. I think that could shorten some of the drives that they have and then those situational plays will come up. Big D, Bud has the last question for you. Yeah, those gotta have it moment flavor of the week. I feel like Philly, and especially when you get in the rare, you never know what they're going to pull out of their ass. What is it like preparing for KC in that red area compared, I guess, the rest of the league? Yeah. You know, and Andy Reid obviously does a great job down there and his staff, they've got that really cool kind of Friday collaboration they do where they get those special plays that they look up and, you know, get that buy in. But, you know, Andy, coming from that west coast background, you know, we're always talking about defensively flat to the left, offensively flat to the right. But the thing that Patrick Mahomes has done is he's been able to flip all that. So now you got those two kind of flats either side. You're trying to defend in the gotta have it situations. So that makes it really difficult. But again, the extended plays or even just let Patrick run, you know, you can't do that. You got to make sure you keep them in. And you got to get Kelsey. He's going to be the guy. All right, well, keep us updated on what you're doing. I appreciate it. So good to see you guys. You guys are the best. We appreciate you, coach. Thanks so much. Always. Take care, guys. He knew Pete Carroll was gonna throw that ball. That's right. Uh huh. He did. People still wondering why they didn't give the ball. Marshawn lynch said, I knew they weren't practiced it. That's what we were ready for. It's all in the dark. All right, ladies and gentlemen joining us now without further ado, I think this man runs the world. Yeah. Pretty much every company that we do work with. He's in charge. Ladies and gentlemen, the man who was the inspo for the character Ari Gold. Ari Emanuel. Oh, yeah. Okay. They're titles, Ari. Learn the business. Jesus. How was dinner? Phenomenal. Dinner was good. Learn the business. Yeah. You guys have arrived here. Look at this, look at this. We're the real deal, Ari. You guys are real. Now, what Ari's saying there about dinner is obviously we did not plan anything for all the boys who cared about you guys, but didn't plan anything. Well, we got a lot going on, Ari. A lot going on. So, you know, table for 20 Super bowl week in New Orleans is not always easy. So I call Ari, I say, do you know anybody down here? And he goes, ah. And he hangs up. On me. And I'm in a group text all of a sudden with a bunch of people I don't know, and this person will take care of it. So then I call you and I say, I'm not doing that. I've never met any of these people. And then you chew me out for that. And then all of a sudden, we got dinner at Doris Metropolitan. What a place. What a place. I think he thought I was gonna make the reservation. Oh. I'm like, what? No, not you. I wanted you to give me the connection to call said person. But it got taken care of. Yeah, it was awesome. It was great. Lady named Nicole on your team took care of this. We had great food. So let's talk about your life. Okay. So we always just assume you're Ari Gold. Yeah. Now, after meeting you a little bit more, I think we are more in that belief that you are. You guys only met me for 15 minutes. Yeah. But we knew. They hear. That's all it takes. We hear the phone call, they hear you as well. You have been an agent your whole life, and then now you just buy everything. As an agent still, like, how would you describe who you are to somebody? So in 95, I was an agent for four years, approximately before 95, I started the company Endeavor. Had an idea what I wanted to do. We're now in 2025. Worked out. Yeah. Okay, so Endeavor is an agency. Endeavor is an agency. It's a marketing company. It's a licensing company. It's a lot of things. Okay, and is Endeavor the head or is now TKO the head? So we had Endeavor. Through Endeavor, we bought a bunch of companies. One of them was ufc. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Goodbye. Goodbye. Thank you very much. At the time, yeah, even you were saying, like, me, yeah, you. No, that dude's overspent. No, not us. We would never say that. And then, you know, we made the television deal, and then we took UFC and we merged it with the wwe. And when did you decide you were going to start buying up these sports conglomerates? Because I think in the entertainment world, you entertainment suits kind of stay in your world, and then the sports suits kind of stay in their world. Feels like you have legitimately, purposefully tried to get into the sports world, and I think it's because you're a sports fan, love sports. I think that is the real deal. No, but I saw kind of what was going on in that. You had the streamers, you had where cable and where the broadcast business was, and if they wanted to get in the advertising Business. The only way to really do it in a significant way was being in the sports business. And so we. It's just part of the ecosystem of entertainment sports, and so we moved into sports also. And you enjoy your time in sports thus far. What have you learned about the business of sport? Maybe that's different than the entertainment business. More money in the sports world. Yeah. I think you found a pretty good. And also, you could. You could in. You know, we make a lot of money. Used to make a lot of money in the television and movie business by packaging stuff. Packaging TV shows. The economics were different. And the movie business, when we moved into the sports world, we could own the asset as opposed to representing the asset. And so when you own an asset, you get all the money. That's pretty nice. Hell, yeah. And that's better. Yeah, that's more at sound business, as you are going to go down is, I think, greatest business. You're gonna be the greatest businessman of all time. Is that what they're gonna say about you? Not even close. I mean. Shut up. You own everything. Yeah. I don't know how that would work. I don't know. There's a lot of people in tech that are pretty good. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. That's a whole different world tech business has. Yeah, those are some dogs. Some dogs. Business wise over there. And the boys have a lot of questions, but let's talk about this. No, hold on one second. Did any of you guys see the teaser? Yeah, Principal P, he immediately turned into a movie star. He kind of calls me all the time. What do you think? How you thinking about it? Oh, it was unbelievable that I got you to do. That was pretty good. Yes. Okay, come on now. I put the old Ari Gold fucking. So you are lucky that we all grew up watching Entourage. Yeah. So, like, I mean, if you look at our show, it is. You know, if you're Entourage, not Entourage, there's a crew. Everybody works, though, you know, we're in the follow up to Entourage, as opposed to the first season we're in when everybody has jobs and everybody's doing everything. But doing shit with your friends, like, watching Entourage, like that is possible. Okay, we want to do that. But Ari Gold was by far the greatest character in that show. Yes. And, like, the way the business got done and handled, and then the loyalty, you know, at the very end, and like, the compassion and everything like that. Ari Gold was by far. So as I start hearing these rumblings of you being the one that they're at, and I Got the first chance to get a meeting with you. Call Nick Khan. Nick Khan has to call me. Now. Nick Khan is president of wwe, so he has to call people for him now, you know, because he does it. So Nick calls me, he goes, hey. Yep. Yeah, you got to go meet Ari Emanuel. Super bowl week. This was last year? Yeah, yeah. Super bowl week last year, I believe. Vegas. Yes. Wow. I believe it was last week, last year. And Nick's like, hey, Ari, Manny wants to meet you. When's that possible? And I'm like, I'm leaving on Friday. They're like, well, we'll do it on Friday. Then it's like, perfect. And I just start thinking. I think I tell the boys. I'm like, I'm going to meet Ari Gold. I'm going to meet Ari Gold. Then I walk into that room and you're sitting there, and then you start talking and it's like, this is the guy I've been waiting for. I've been waiting for somebody to give Vince for the Mentos commercial. Yeah. And being the biggest star on earth, that's like an actual agent, like an actual business person. I have massive respect for your business acumen and the way you view things, which is why whenever you pitch something to me, like a commercial for the NFL, for Super bowl, my immediate reaction is no. And normally that would be a forever no. Just won't let you know that. Nah, get the hell out of my face. But then if you continue to say, like, hey, you should do this, and then Nick was doing the same thing. It's like, all right, let's do it. I want to let you know. Thank you. But you liked it, right? I enjoyed it so much. I had so much. I'm going to tell you right now. Pete Berg said he's a natural. Okay. Funny as f. Well, who's Peter Berg? He did Friday Night Lights. Okay. He's my best friend. Lone survivor, college roommate. Yep. Yeah. And then he just did American Primeval. Really good. Have you guys seen that? And he's about to do another movie called Mosquito Bow with the same guy that wrote Friday Night Lights. Buzz Bissinger. Brian Grazier producing, who produced Friday Nights. He's gonna be in it. What? Yes, he is. You're gonna be in a. Yes, he is. He's gonna be a sergeant in it. You're gonna be in it. True story. He didn't tell us this. True story. World War II. We don't know if this is happening. No, no, no. This is happening. This is definitely, definitely. We don't know if it's. He's already called me up. Training, I got. My friend's father was a sergeant. Hey, listen, my friend from high school. Yeah, the. But with that being said, as Ari knows, there's a lot of business that needs to be seen. He's definitely doing it. And when you see the commercial, that character could be a movie. Okay. I'm serious. I like that, too. Ted Lasso has talent, though. That's a whole different animal. Well, I will say, first time ever acting Peter Berg, obviously, I knew who he was. I just asked you to explain to people who he was. So cool, so nice. Has reached out to me because he knew how self conscious I was about it all. Because, boy, that could go really bad. Yeah. Just being an actor, everybody could see it. Bad actor. You know, that's why we respect John Cena so much bigger, because John Cena is such a good actor. And Twain and Rock, good actor. There's a lot of people that aren't, you know, that aren't that go out there and do bad natural. Yeah. Well, the game just had me be an asshole. That's an easy thing to do. AJ has a question for you, Ari. Yeah. You seem like you do everything, you own everything. Is there anything that you could tell us that you want to get into that maybe you haven't dipped your toe into yet in the business world, sports, whatever it may be. Well, we're starting to talk about boxing. Okay. And so we're gonna. With. Dana's been trying. He's been talking about doing boxing for a long time. We're kind of looking at that right now. And can you revive boxing? Where is boxing right now, I guess, compared to maybe 20 years ago? Well, I think you got the ollie act that I think heard it, hopefully. Who knows what's going to happen with the ollie act? And then Dana's got a plan for boxing. We'll see. You know, there's a lot of work, a lot of wood that's got to be chopped there, but we're looking at it pretty seriously. Hey, that's a. That would make sense with the TKO group, obviously. Wrestling, fighting, boxing in there. Yeah. And I don't know how much. How much is there a collaboration between those two companies with you, or are they just, you know, the back office? We saved a lot of money and kind of got more efficient. You know, there has been UFC fighters, as we know, that have gone to the wwe. Definitely there's been some WWE people that have fought, but that's not. That's not the norm. How about business wise, though? Like when we go. When we go out and, you know, we make sponsorship deals or site fees in different countries, in different states, all that stuff. Yes. Okay. Because the boxing world. Nick Khan, the president of wwe. Yes. Dog, obviously. I think he grew up in Vegas. Yes. He started. Yeah. Like, he loves boxing. Dana does too, right? Yeah. Dana started out in boxing. Bingo. That could be like a real passion project, plus something that could save a sport. D But has a question for you. Yeah. Boxing to the wwe and heard some negotiation stories about that. But how has the Netflix era been so far as early on. But any surprises? Anything surprised you or how. They're incredible partners. Bella, there has been incredible. Ted Sarandos have been incredible shows performing. So we are. We're thrilled and I think they're happy. The numbers are up. Really good. So how's that going? Good. How's it go? How do you end up with Netflix? Because I assume there's other streaming platforms just like any NFL Prime's getting involved in this entire thing. We assume it's only a matter of time for Google maybe does a little bit more with you. They have a lot of money. You know, they could probably get into it. X is going to start streaming things. How does Netflix become the one that the WWE goes with? And so I had a. I had a breakfast with Bella, started talking about. Who's Bella? Bella. She runs all of content and programming underneath Ted Sarandos at Netflix. Hey, Bella, you're doing a great job. You're doing a great job. We here at the Bat Mac show love what you've done. We did a presentation to her and then all of a sudden, it was first started talking about NXT actually, and then it just immediately moved to Raw and over Christmas a year and a half ago or whatever, we're on a Zoom. It's all approved. We have to have a conversation with Ted Sarandos. He's in London seeing Stranger Things play. We get on the Zoom, Shapiro and I right before Christmas and the Christmas holiday. He's there with his cfo. It all gets done. We hang up the phone, we do a jig. Yeah, absolutely. You're at Mark Shapiro. That's a huge deal. Yeah. It's changing the future for, like, shows like us. Oh, yeah. Other shows. How much of that do you. Because you're old school, agent. Okay, I'm old school. You are old school. You've been around a long time. We watch a whole show about you. 100 inspo. Yeah. You're 100 years old. You're in great. 64. Okay, well you look like okay, great shape. Hey, put her there because I'm gonna call for this asshole. Cold tub. Hot tub. Infrared sauna. Wow. Red light. Yeah, sorry. Red light. He's got the ball, you know, the ball to roll on the muscles. You know, I said to him if he's gonna be a movie star, gotta get in a little shake. Okay, I'm comfortable, you know, I'm comfortable. But there is reasons to do things and that would certainly be the case. But like you've had to adapt now, right? And the streaming deal is a massive deal for the future. Has also been a part of the past. What do you see in the future? Future? All these platforms are just going to continue to just. Well, you know you have, you have linear fallen off. Pretty. Still exists. Still exists. It's not going away. And you know you had. The NFL made a 10 year deal. NBA made it a deal. We started it making a broadcast streaming, linear deal plus streaming. And I think that will be kind of the norm of it all. But the original premise in 95 was there's going to be significant amount of distribution and content is going to be limited. The things that create content, you guys, the NFL, the NBA, us, wwe, ufc, therefore the value of those things are going to be more valuable with infinite. It's just supply and demand. And that I think bodes well for people that create content. Ufc, wwe, bull riding, all the things that we're doing, boxing, et cetera. So I'm feeling good. Yeah, it's in, it's content. You guys should be feeling good. We are. Oh yeah, yeah. Don't you worry about that, buddy. You get that 5 billion dollar deal done with the Netflix and it's like, well, WWE just did a five billion dollar deal. The NFL just did at least a billion dollar deal. We're connected to all parties. We are also live. Yes, that is great. Every day. Every day. Every day. Thank you for getting the sports, Ari. We appreciate you bringing the brain over there. Connor has a question for you. Yeah, speaking of sports and you ment NBA there, why do you think kind of the NBA and then the NHL, MLB is kind of a different story. But those two in particular haven't seen like the growth in success that the NFL has over the past. You mean on ratings or on. Yeah, ratings. Just on ratings. Because the NBA on digital like we talk about all the time. It's, It's. You have 82 games and so what's important, you know, kind of in that series and I think. And Adam did a great job with the early playoff concept that he had. Yeah, you have 164 games in baseball. Go Cubs. You know, so I think that's the hard part of it. But they're, you know, I think once people get comfortable and, you know, you also had the local stations, the rsn, once the Fox deal has problems, so they're cleaning that up on the local markets. It's very good. Are they going to go direct the teams or not? So when you look, you got to look at the aggregate of the rating system. Not just the broad, not just the national numbers. So how about the NBA? Let's expand on that a little bit. Luka Doncic is now a Laker. Yes. Yeah, you love the Lakers. Even I'm a Bulls fan and a Lakers fan. Come on. That's. I love that. That's the dumb coach. West Coast. Shut up. That's ridiculous. Who's talking to you? You're a fool. Yeah, that sounds like a little bit of bullshite said. You're one of. Can you say that here? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I negotiated the deal. You can say those words. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There is a little bit. I hear a lot in my family, if you couldn't use a four letter word, there was no conversation. My family as well. That is. That is a lot of things in a lot of people's convos, especially on the Internet. So it's kind of an archaic model not to say words like shit, which are completely a. Okay everywhere else, but somehow not on TV in the afternoon. Whatever the case, people are upset about that. Negotiate it into your deal, that is. Just go ahead and do that. But the NBA, this felt like a work, didn't it? This felt like a work with the Luca going to the Los Angeles Lakers. Everybody feeling the same way about it. Shout out to Anthony Davis and Kyrie, we think you're a great basketball team. Honestly, I think it's that you don't deserve that. But Luca's 25, the future of the league, and he somehow just gets traded to Los Angeles and then they get Mark Williams after that with a. I mean, unbelievable. So you're very pumped as a Lakers fan. What about for the NBA as a whole? I think it's great. I think, you know, everybody was nervous about the trade deadline. You can't make any moves. This trade deadline was insane. Like, everybody was flying around rumors all the time. Everybody was paying attention to it. I think it's incredible for the sport. Kevin Durant allegedly not happy about his only The Bulls traded to get their pick kickback that they traded? Yeah. Why don't you buy the team, bub? Terrible franchise. Terrible. That city sucks right now. Geez. Well, they used to be great when there was a great mayor there. Oh, I mean, like, I want to ask you a question. So, elimination chamber, March 1, Toronto. I think there's some pretty good good things gonna happen there. Do you think so? Oh, I do. Wow. What are you in the writers room now? What is this guy? What is this guy? What is this guy? How involved in all these businesses are you? You're updated every single day. I'm in them, I'm not in them. Like, I don't pick the fights and I don't pick what's going on at the WWE or. But on the business side. Yeah, but I just, I hear things. Okay. So we talk to football people. A 73 year old just got hired back again as a head coach. Bill Belichick just went to college. Chuck Pagano, our guy, just went back on a team after saying he wasn't going to do that ever again. Some people in the football world are addicted to football. It's like coaching. You are always going to be in business. You just feel like you're always trying to figure out a business, trying to figure out a plan, trying to conquer business, conquer a strategy. Is that how you feel like you're always going to be? Here's what I would say. Could you ever take time off? Here's what I'd say. People say, oh, you work out? Yeah, I only want to be healthy. I don't want to live forever. And I only want to work if I'm still curious and I'm still happy and I'm still learning and I'm still curious. I'm happy and I'm learning. So I'll still be doing it eventually, you know, that won't be the case, but I love it. Well, we appreciate the hell what you've done for us both for other companies that'll help us probably in the future. And also directly for us. Most recently, a 20 person reservation within an hour. Phenomenal. At a phenomenal state. Cheesecake. Cheesecake was so good when Tone has one. Yeah, I do patches remind me of it when he said, you know, I negotiated my own deal, I could say whatever I want. Have you ever. You've known him for a year. You ever work with someone like him that does any. Anything like that? Come on, buddy. Yeah. Who so I can find out? Well, I mean, every client is unique, but they all are individuals. They all have their own shtick. I mean, Larry David, you know, he does what he wants to do. Marty Scorsese does what he wants to do. Seth MacFarlane does what he wants to do. They all have their own thing and it's incredible. That's what makes them great artists. How many? So you rep all those guys you just talked about? Yes. Tyler Perry, he does what he wants to do. So you're not unique. Who don't you rep full time? I don't represent your ass. Yeah. And that's a good spot to be, I think. No. We are very lucky that you've been working your ass off for us, though. Thank you for stopping by. What are you in town for? I got the lunch at Fanatics. I got a couple meetings out. What are you doing at the Fanatics lunch? You serving food or. No, no, I got a couple meetings. There. There. How much I want to leave Fanatics. Do you want Fanatics? We have an investment. Okay. There's a lot of people in the sports. You need to know this. A lot of people in the sports world not necessarily thrilled that fanatics is the only option. Yep. And that maybe it doesn't get right. Because what don't I get right? A lot of stuff. Jerseys, a lot of customer complaints. We got to get a list from you guys. We got to have a meeting. It's on Twitter. It's all we can. We can aggregate the information, but it's out there. Bear. Okay. It's gonna cost. You think the. Just because I'm a Bear fan, as you guys know. Yeah. We didn't talk Bears, but that's okay. Don't worry about it. Definitely talk Bears. Yeah. Do you think they're gonna have to sell? Oh, well. Okay. You look eager. And what. What do you think the price is gonna be? Are you buying them? It would be 8, 9 billion. Probably in Chicago. Don't you think it might be 10, 10 plus. Yeah. What? Just one of the only NFC teams. Only one team. Sure. Think about it. How much would it be? I think it's got to be between eight and ten, right? Yeah. If. If what did Washington went for six and a half. Yeah. Yeah. Probably eight, eight, nine. Build the new stadium too. What do you think? What is the chance? I love the Bears. I love what we're doing. I love the coaching staff. Now. Now. Yeah. You love the quarterback. I love the quarterback. I love what we're going to do with our pick. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Buddy just brought it up. So you feel like they have to. To sell because you think that like, well, I mean, there's tax issues, but I mean, I'm assuming. But that's also the discussion with like that family is like, hey, they do have a new coaching staff. They have Caleb Williams. They're exciting. But like, this family ultimately has just continually it up for the last, you know, 50 years. Why do you have to hurt somebody like that? I'm just saying, why do you got to go there? Do they really have to go there? I'm a Packers fan too. He enjoys all of it, that it happens. 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Let's get them over with. Hey, it's wonderful. And we're celebrating it. The boys are here. The toxic table at Boss O'Connor. And that Ty Schmidt, one half of the Hammer. Dad. Cowboys. AP Tone, Darius J. Brothers are looking very cool. How'd the casino go? You know what? Terrible. Absolutely terrible. I got my ass kicked in the quickest fashion, I think ever. I don't think I ever gamble in the city again. They've been taking a lot of money from a lot of us. Damn shame. Yeah. Yeah. I see. I seen Taranisha yesterday. Okay. Yep. Wasn't her fault. That sounds. Say her name. Yeah, well, it's T A R O N I S I A. Okay. So I said taranisha thought I nailed it wrong. Love names. Said it 10 times. And she said it's tyranny on Asia. Ah. I said, that's all me. 100. I need a little bit more accent, I think, down here. Because the way they speak here is wonderful. Love it. It is fantastic. Just here to make you feel good, the way the conversation goes about it. But that casino has been rude. It has been greedy. It has been doing shit you're not supposed to do One after another. You'll tell a story one time about a 7, car 21 the dealer. Got me. That's happening on a regular basis at these tables. Speaking of shit you're not supposed to do, you guys. Yeah. There's a reason you guys undersold Bill on the blackjack table. Yeah, Bill. Bill's a little. He's an independent thinker on that blackjack table. He's a fool. I now understand why Chuck wanted to kill him last year. Yeah, he's. He's unpredictable out there. You know, a lot of. Part of blackjack, there's like a book. Sure. And the book was created because, like, hey, this is the smartest way to go about doing. Pretty easy game too. Pretty cut and dry. This is kind of the smart. Here's the smart move. Now you can. You can venture off the trail a little bit depending upon how you feel. You know, if you have a pretty good read on maybe what cards are left. Which, not saying you count cards, but there's a lot of faces coming early. You got to think to yourself, late, what's coming. Is it going to be a bus card or is it going to be a small card so you can you can kind of feel. Kind of feel. You can start kind of feeling things a little bit, but you're trying to stay on like a. Hey, yeah. This is how the game is played. Path for the good of everybody, right? Yep. Yeah. Bill doesn't think like that. Bill's like, hey, listen, this book, these rules, I don't like them. He didn't want to even hit on a single digit. He had eight, and he stayed like, just a regular eight. Like, I'm a stay. Yep. He thinks like a serial killer, guys. I'm a stay. Didn't want to bust. Now, we tried to tell him that any card could come and he would still be in the hand. Sure. Which we liked that he was trying to stay in the hand, you know, because every once in a while, there'll be a bus card out there. Four or five or six. And Bailey's like, you know what? I'm at 15. Let me. Go ahead and Let me. Yeah, that happened. That happened, too. Come on. Let me get one. Don't need to be doing that. Their hands probably going to bust, Bill. This isn't about beating their number. It's about beating them every single time. And if they're going to bust, let them. We just stay alive, Bill. Okay. Okay. You got it. Four comes around, Bill. This is when we want to eat here. Yep. This is when you want to really do it. Bus, Bill, Bus out. Okay. As he should. Bus out. Dealer hits 21. The man stayed on an eight. I almost flipped the table. You did get up and leave. But I would like to let the world know that those cards could have went our way. Still with Bill. Mess up, sure. But they definitely didn't. No. And we lost every hand. It was unbelievable, truly, what these casinos have done for us. But I say the times have been magical. The boys have enjoyed it. AJ Hawk, obviously you won a Super Bowl. We've covered a bunch of Super Bowls. What are your thoughts on New Orleans thus far as the host? New Orleans is pretty sweet. I mean, obviously, it's a little unique, a little different than what Phoenix, Las Vegas we've been the last few years. But New Orleans has its own feel. Like, we walking to dinner was pretty cool last night. We walked. We walked across, like. I think you mentioned it was like a movie set. A couple different French quarters, I think. Yeah. Different areas. Like, all the cool buildings. Like, New Orleans is cool. Like, it has its own identity, and I. I enjoy it. I don't know how. Yeah. I mean, it would be much different living here as opposed to coming Here for three, four, five days. But it's. It's cool, man. I like it. I like the vibe. It's a host city. Yes. For sure. That is definitely what it is. They want you to come and have a good time. Yeah. I was trying to ask people where we were because there was even, like, a Tostitos chip and sip. Yeah. Like, little super bowl party. Yeah. Snack town outside, which in the middle of, like, the French quarters area, I guess, is where we were, which is a movie. Normally in most cities. Those are terrible. Yes. Normally there's nobody at these things because it's like, I'm not going to a commercial right now. Sure. Last night, band was playing. Yeah. Packed out, packed out, filled up. There was. I think Reggie Bush was doing a meet and greet somewhere. So, Howie. Howie. So Howie Rosen walked out. I mean, it was just like, See, it was alive. It felt good. Last night. Then we went in at Casino. Yeah. And they said, you had fun, didn't you? Yeah. That's gonna cost you all of it. Son of a hair's raking the chips. And what I think I've learned thus far is when you go into your pocket and you get that next round of money, that always works. Yeah. Every time. Usually. I believe you said that. Those exact words to me last night. Yeah. You always get back. Like, that's why people do that. Like, hey, you know what? You have more, and you dump it out. It's always work. So you're gonna get back. You know, that doesn't just disappear quicker normally because you're in the middle of a spiral. So now you're making even more ridiculous decisions. And that's when they got you. You know, when they got you in the middle of that blizzard of Ls. It's tough to keep up. Gotta know where to start. Like, once you start doing. You had no game plan to do. Like, ah, you know what? I'll just do a cash event. So, you know, hey, aq, can you just Venmo me or. I think you Venmo you should have. We didn't know Aq, you know, was a. A professional blackjack player. Yeah, he went to mit. He went to mit. He knows exactly how to play guy. That all depends on the shoe because, boy, he had it figured out. Went to mit. Yeah, he did. Hey, when it. When it's going good in the double deck, it goes good. When it goes bad, it goes bad real quick. Real quick. I put the profits away, and before long, I was pulling those profits out. Bad move. Yeah. I'm sure. The. The double deck was really a big brain creation from you. You said better odds. Hey, I'll be able to count these cards. Cards got eight aces got 32 tens. This is easy. This is no problem. Two decks. I won't go one on one. He watched that 21 movie. He had it doing hand signals. Oh, yeah, whole thing. Magazine, magazine. Dude lost 800 bucks in four hands. He thought the numbers were right. Couldn't get to the ATM quick enough. Yeah, it's hard. It's a hard game. That's why I like Dana. How he wins and, like, he gets kicked out of places is like, that dude actually has to count. Count these cards. Yeah. And, like, if you are counting the cards, I don't know how you do it. There's so many things you got to keep track of. Yeah, I, I, I have. I've not figured out blackjack yet. That one is a. Dana leaves. Dana says he's like, I live in Vegas. I'm not just popping by. If I'm. If I get up 800k, I get up and leave, and I get out of there, instead of staying and giving it all back. They want you to stay up, man. I wonder if that's why all the casinos kick them out. Probably. Oh, that's okay. Yeah, Just come by once a night. Yeah, I don't think so. Yeah. It is such a good game, though. Like, when the vibes are high. We had probably one good deck at our table. And when, like, everyone's celebrating, everyone's winning. We went in with a plan. Like, hey, we're sitting on 16. We're not hitting. And when those kind of work out, it worked for a whole shoe. It worked for an entire deck. It was incredible. Gonna play, like, gotta be consistent. I mean, this is. Yeah, exactly. It's the consistency. And when you get, you know, someone who, who's hitting when the dealer's showing 4 and they have a 15 or a 16, that's when it becomes, hey, what's this asshole doing? But if we're in it together as a team, then at least we're all assholes. And staying on 16 whenever a dealer potentially has a made hand already is just as bad as taking a card. You know that you could potentially bust against a bus card because you don't even have a qualifying hand yet. You know, which I understand. If we're staying on 16, we're all doing it. But I want to let you know, if I'm just sitting next to somebody that's just staying on 16, whenever there is a 9, 10 face out in front of me. I'm going to have a tough time. That did happen with a couple. 12, 13. There's no doubt that that number did drop a couple times. And that did end up screwing us. But because, you know, we all know each other, we're all hanging out. It's not Bill, you know, that kind of helps. Good times at the table. Such good times. It is for a little bit. For a little bit, you know, Then, you know, you get your teeth kicked. And I think that's the biggest problem is last time we were here, everyone won. And that's just all we were in coming in the entire week was winning. Casino just gives you money. There's a giving casino, if you guys do recall. So, you know, you lose the first night. Hey, but remember guys, this is a. This is a giving casino. It's going to give it back to you. It doesn't. Inevitably should have known right away. Walk down. Boom. That's not a Harrows, that's a Caesars. I mean, it just different casino. Yeah. Different vibes. Different. Different losers. Was that the craps table? That one. Great. Sure. Four minutes. All the chips gone. No, it didn't. It was quick. Took longer for me to get all my chips onto my bets than for me to roll a seven after getting a point. I mean, just eliminated so much money. Yeah. Just so quickly. One round I'm like, you know what? This is good. I'll go back to blackjack. Kill it again. Boom. Then I went over a roulette. Good time on roulette. Okay. Good time on a roulette. Not as good as the guy next to me. Guy was waiting on a black 11 to hit and he was just stacking it. Every single time, I guess it came. And inevitably he won all of his money. That has to feel good whenever you hit like that. Yeah. Weapon casino's been great. New Orleans has been fantastic. For one man, Josh Allen came down here this week and wasn't an mvp. And now he'll be leaving New Orleans as the most valuable player in the NFL. Congratulations, Josh Allen. Hell yeah, Josh. Now there's a lot of conversation, obviously because Lamar Jackson was first team all pro quarterback. So everybody assumed. I think, I think since 1987, basically in this particular situation, anybody that's been voted first team all pro or something like that wins the mvp. John Elway, I think I was reading a stat. I think John Elway is the last time. Yeah, that had happened or whatever. That TV's so far away. There's no way I could read that. But I do appreciate you making me smarter. Foxy Elway, MVP, Montana, first team all pro. And that was 1987. Yeah. And I think it did happen again with Peyton and McNair. Okay, so this has happened in the past, mostly because they're saying that it's a statistical award being first team All Pro where the MVP is value of player to team. And I think that was Dan Orlovsky's argument this morning. It was also the conversation all year with a guy who has the AP vote for our particular program, which people in the AP were not happy about us getting a vote. No, they were not. But now the whole world basically knows who all has votes. Fascinating. I wonder if there was an uproar amongst other decisions that were made. But. But you guys were voting for Most Valuable Player. We saw your entry form and you had Josh Allen as mvp. Why was that the case? And how do you think the awards went last night? Yeah, I mean, I think I was shocked that Josh Allen won the mvp, even though I voted for him as MVP because of how the AP went or how the AP went. I also had Josh Allen as my first team quarterback in the All Pro. So I was not one of the voters that decided to put Lamar as first team All Pro and then vote for Josh as mvp. You know, it's not a statistical award. The MVP is not. We learned that last year when Dak had the best statistics in the league for a quarterback and Lamar won because Lamar was Lamar's season. Last year was the most valuable season even though his statistics were not the best. And then I thought, this year is my first year voting. You know, we had a lot of talk at the beginning of the season that the Bills window was closed. Closed. They were done. They lost. They lost their receivers, they lost their. Their safeties, they lost other guys off the defense. The window was closed for the Bills and they didn't have a chance. And then Josh put the team on his back. You know, Khalil Shakir was their number one receiver. And coming into the season, like, people like you can't win with that as your number one receiver. And I thought Josh just did so much to carry the team. Not that Lamar didn't like. I had Lamar as my offensive player of the year because the year he had was historic as well. So I didn't, I didn't want Lamar, like to be left out completely because of the season he had was unbelievable. But I just thought Josh did more with less. Josh had 40 total touchdowns. Lamar had 45. So, I mean, yes, statistically, Lamar was a little bit better, but I just thought Josh did more with less. I thought he was the more valuable player in my eyes. Okay. I think that's an okay vote. I think so. I think that's an okay vote. And if we look at your ballot, you actually, I think had it exactly how it ended up tallying up, up for the scores, because you get a certain amount of points for first place votes, a certain amount of points for those other votes. And how everybody had. It was either Lamar or Josh. Lamar. Josh. Except for Lamar. Josh. Yeah. Well, of course. I don't. I don't. I can't remember the guy's name, but he had Lamar fourth in MVP voting. I don't know who the guy is. I can't remember. Off the top. Something. Yeah, Something Miller. That's probably. I don't understand how that happens. Yeah. Absolute foolish. I mean, in the hall of Fame, too. Let's not even get into that. But like, like, I think it's just a good sign how good ball is right now. Like Ja'marr Chase. No one's talking about him. He had one of the best seasons ever for a wide receiver and he won the Triple Crown. It's like some people just had better years. And I feel like it's great that we get a Lamar and a Josh in the same, you know, decade era of the NFL. Yeah, I. I thought Lamar was going to win it. I was watching the show live, very surprised. Now. Now, a lot of things happened during that show. Sure. You know, you bet a lot of things happened in that Jelly Roll. Jelly Roll and snow. Does he sign a new dude? Yeah, 3Tech. I think they're gonna get him. Hey, Jelly Roll's losing weight. Oh, yeah. Hey, Jelly, we're happy for you, man. And also Jelly getting in full uniform on stage. Sweet. Unbelievable. He had to be laughing so hard at all of that. Walked out with the helmet on. Took that thing off clean, too. Yeah, took that thing off clean. Jelly and Snoop. Snoop taking a shot. Just stating a fact, I think about Coach Belichick, so. Yeah, yeah. Plus one. Sure. His lady friend, she had a Super bowl ring on. He had a bunch, too. Yes, he did. A lot of super. Just reminding people. How about him going out there and just doing his thing? How about Kevin O'Connor winning coach of the year? Yeah. Hell yeah. O.C. he said, it's pretty crazy to get this. This. Received this award from, you know, the guy who drafted me. And then also, the greatest of all times, Kevin O'Connell, give a shout out to Bill Belichick, who was up there. So congrats to koc. Great jawline. Great work as a coach. We saw that video of him chewing out his team. Yeah. Or heard that video of him chewing on his team. I like that. I like the way Justin Jefferson is able to work his ass off for whoever. He's their superstar wide receiver. He'll block, he'll get after it. He'll have 100. Who's the quarterback going to be? Does it matter? I don't think so. I mean, that's the. That's the real question at this point. Isn't that crazy? That's probably why I won coach of the year. Great coaching, that legitimately, probably coach of the year. That was probably the thing went over the hump. Whenever they're talking about it, they're going, so this. Anybody could be this guy's quarterback. Is that how this works? And it's like, yeah, I think so. That's got to be the guy. So that was another category. I remember your watch list had what, like, eight, nine guys? Started with 32, started with 32, and then got down to one. But see, so, yeah, he definitely earned it with the resurgence that Sam Donald had. The. The year that they had, you know, 14 wins, and then going into, I think, first team, been a wild card team with 14 wins. But, yeah, Kevin O'Connor was definitely much, much deserving. Okay. We'll continue the awards conversation in a matter of moments. Ladies and gentlemen, there is a governor. Stand outside. Governor of this here state of Louisiana, ladies and gentlemen, Jeff Landry. Jeff Landry. Thank you, Pat. I. I want to come here. I think you should set your headquarters, like, right here. Right here, check in. Oh, they would love you. I'm telling you. This city is, like, built for you. Hey, Governor, I. I'll tell you what. We've been feeling that way. We walked through the French Quarter last night. We had dinner at Doris Metropolitan, and then we walked back, and the casino's been beating us. Governor, I will say the. We gotta. We gotta get our revenue. We gotta get. Okay, tell me about the state and why it's such a good hosting place. And what is New Orleans going to show the world here this weekend? Well, look, first of all, I want to thank y'all for giving me just a little time to have some entertainment. I don't get to just listen. I just enjoyed it. I. I did not get to do what many fans get to do, just sit here and watch a show. Like, I would Love to, man. That's good, because we got so many things. So thank y'all for entertaining me for a little while. My wife will absolutely love that. Look, I can tell you what we have worked on was to make sure that the city was ready to welcome the world, because, quite frankly, when you have a Super bowl, you welcome the world. It is a greatest show on Earth. It is the most watched show. It is where everybody comes to be entertained, and this is the greatest city to be able to do that. And, of course, we started last year. I mean, you got to think about it. We started working towards making sure that we were going to put on an unbelievable event. And then we had the tragedy right. That happened on New Years More. I mean, it's unbelievable. It just shook the city. But I think that. I don't think that there is a city, Pat. I'll tell you this. I don't think that there's a city that is capable of being able to lift those up, lift the victims and their families and those that were injured, and then at the same time, send a message that, guess what? This is a city of entertainment. And this is what America is about. And that's what we said we were going to do, and that's what we do it. Yeah, you take a swing, but we're going to fight back. That's right. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You knock us down, but we coming right back up. Yes. And that's the story of New Orleans. I think we've been hearing from a lot of people is. And that's this, the feeling we had. Drew Brees talked to us yesterday about how, because of everything that happens here, there's like, a real gratitude of life. There's, like a real appreciation of life, and you can feel that from the people. I agree. Yep. Security included. I mean, we've got a chance to meet a lot of your state troopers, and they look really cool. They look. I don't know if they're on camera. The blues are a great group, but even walking through the city, the people working at the restaurants, it's like there's just a vibe amongst the people here, and I got to experience it at lsu. Yes. Yeah. When we came down for college game day. Oh, we love you. The vibe was insane. It's just like a Louisiana feel. We love people. Okay. We love people. Look, hospitality may have been invented in the south, but I say it was perfected in Louisiana. Like, we love y'all. We really do. We just love people. We love to watch people have a good time. Time. We like you to leave the restaurants where you're feeling. So. Oh, yeah, I gotta walk three or four more blocks. Yeah. If you leave and you pants still fit, you know the way. So that means we did a bad job. Felt like that last night. Last night. AJ has a question for you. Governor. Governor. When you talk to other governors, you ever ask them, hey, when you guys get in office, why do you turn into robots that are not relatable? You're like such a relatable human, good human. Which. It's got to be very difficult in your position. But why is it where somebody. People get that in that spot and it's almost like, hey, I don't understand who this is anymore. I don't know. I just think for a long time people just, you know, you get into the office and you let the office become you and. And you forget that you got into the office because there are people out there that put you in that office. And if you stay with the people who put you in office and you just be a regular. Be who you are. Right. If you're good enough to be able to get 51% of the people to be able to vote for you, then you should stay that way. And that's how I am. You know, I just grew up just a little country, country boy in a great state that really has great things to offer. And so again, I. I don't know. I just. The way we learned of you. Yeah, because you wanted that tiger. Yeah, you wanted that tiger on us. I got a couple more surprise. Y'all stay tuned. We're gonna make college. It's gonna be okay. It's be unbelievable. Can we talk about that tiger, though? Can we talk about that tiger? Sure, sure. Because absolutely. There was full conversation that was happening about like, should we talk about it? Because there's people that aren't happy about it. But then there was people that were very pumped about it. And then obviously all roads were leading back to you. They were like, governor Jeff Lands is going to have a tiger on that sideline. That's how this is going to go. Why was that so important to you? And what do you think kind of about how it all went down? Well, look, I'll tell you this. You know, you talk about governors, there's a great governor, great governor, Jim Pillam from Nebraska. He played football for Nebraska. He was a defensive back in. In the late 70s, early 80s. And about four months before, five months before, we were talking about putting the tag on, I ran into Jim and he's telling me he Says, you know, all the years I played in Nebraska, he said, my most memorable game was as a freshman going down to Tiger Stadium. He said they would park the cat outside of the visitor's locker room. He said, I know they poked. That animal. Would be growling. Says the most intimidating thing. Now he's telling us. I mean, it's went on, you know, and. Like I was a child back then, right? I mean, Nebraska. You can remember Nebraska. I mean, maybe not you, but. So Jim's telling me this, and he's like, it's the most unbelievable thing, he said, and as a child, I remember you put the cheerleaders on top of the. On top of the cage, and it rushed the Tiger around the stadium. Everybody would go, wonderful. I mean, just. It became like his family event in some kind of way. We felt like we couldn't do that anymore. And, I mean, it's just ridiculous. And so I said, you know what? We're going to bring that back. And so, you know, Alabama has got just a. You know, we don't have a good record against Alabama in Tiger Stadium. I think they're like 22 and four against LSU and Death Valley, but I'm one. And. Oh, against Peter, and so I'll take that. Yes, they were. They were coming after you. And. And there's zoos that have tigers. And I see the. The. What would that be called? Sanctuary. The sanctuary that's down there for the Tiger. Five million dollars. Five million. Yeah. That's what he's saying. Yeah. We're taking care of this tiger. We are talking about. Of. Look, I tell you this. We brought this tag in, this lady, this lady. We got this tig in. Yeah. She would get in the cage like she. This cat was like. It was like a big house cat to her. And then, you know, I'm all nervous. We got. I mean, all the pressure y'all put on me. We get the journalism to the stadium, and he's just laying there. And I said, they're going to think I drugged that cat. Which is completely against the law. We never do. Of course. Of course, Tiger, he loved being there. You know what the problem was? They didn't leave him there long enough. That was my. I agreed. I think you should have left him there long. He was having such a great time. We almost had to beg him to get up, you know. Okay, so we're saying what it sounds like is that Tiger is probably coming back to the sideline. I'm just saying I think there are a lot of people out there that realize that it's really not a big thing and that. And that everybody likes to get. I mean, how would you like me to just keep you in your house and never let you out? I wouldn't like that. Me neither. I'm just not built for that. Me neither. So, yeah, look. And you know, Colorado has a Buffalo. Longhorns. I mean. Yeah. Tigers. You're taking care of the tiger, too. That. That sanctuary that you guys have for that tiger down there. Beautiful. So nice air conditioning. Had a little snow this year. Hey, what's up? Snow. Oh, the tiger had such a great time. Mike had a great time in the snow. Mike. Mike did have great snow. He was back out. It was like, great. I don't know. Yeah. Ton has a question for you guys. Yeah, Governor, we've been searching all week. Where's the best place to get some gatorade? Gator? Yeah, we like gator. We want to go. Yeah. Be honest with you. I'm get myself in all kind. I'm the best place to get gator. Okay. Yes, of course. You should have brought a gator. We're talking about. We're talking about. Jeff. You just send me. I'm going to take care of you. Okay? So hold on. How do we eat giter? If we were to eat g. Is it like a po Boy Gator Po. One bite at a time. Okay. Is it like a steak? Is it. How do we. You can have it any kind of way. Fried, Fried, Fried. Grilled. Yeah. Great. Grilled gator. We had octopus yesterday. Delicious. Gator hunting with me, that's what y'all needed. We heard about it yesterday. We heard about it yesterday. Yeah. But gate is great. We'll get y'all some. Thank you. Yeah. Darius has a question for you. Which way are you leaning in this game right now? I know your Saints aren't in it, but which way are you leaning right now? Chiefs, Eagles, all of us kind of been going back and forth. They look like they kind of picked the side already. But which way are you leaning right now? I'm actually watching y'all. You know, there's three of y'all right here. When we get to critical mass, I don't know, you know, it's really interesting. You know, that's part of me that's like, you'd love to see somebody be able to do it three times in a row. Right? You know, because that's what records are meant to. You hold a record and you want somebody to break it. And of course, you know, you got the Philly story. So I don't know. I'm not there yet. I tell you, you check back with me Sunday morning. Where will you be watching the game from? From the box. I got a ticket, too, and she was kind enough to want to take me. Okay. I like that. I appreciate we got to be there with, you know. You know, the big guys coming. Yeah. Oh, president. Oh, yeah. President's coming. You know what's crazy? It's the first time. The first time that a sitting president has been to a Super Bowl. And I was like, there's no way. Like, that was shocking Super Bowls, and. And I know I've seen presidents, like, flip the coin and Stu, but I guess it's when they leave. First time. First time. Yeah. I didn't expect to read that either. That that changes security plans. Right? But we already. We're safe. We're good. We just me put him right in. Yeah, that Alabama. When he went to Alabama game, I got a chance to, like, kind of hear about the setup. It's like, because of what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania. Right. There's like, even. It's. Oh, yeah. No, no, no. And once again, New Orleans is the right place to be. We here. We thank y'all so much. Really do Pat. Thank you all for being here. Thank y'all for loving the city and. Can't wait for a great game. Can we. Can we loosen it up a little bit at the casino, please? Can you give them a call? I'm gonna call the boys. We appreciate you. Ladies and gentlemen, the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry. Governor, as governor of Louisiana, legend. What a rocket ship. Gator. Know the best place to get gator now, Jeff. Hy. Boom. I gotta get you go gator hunting. Listen, a lot of people knew it wasn't that bad for the taco bike. Loved it. He loved it. Everybody loves the snow. Mike loves the snow. Told the story. Nebraska guy told him that. They definitely were prodding at. Yeah, they prodding him. He'll piss him off, make him cry. Look like the youngest guy. Why didn't he think I remember Nebraska? I don't understand why going on there. Not sure, dude. I don't know. That's a good question. You obviously didn't watch. Well, then what about you three? What about you three? I don't know what that the critical mass was. I don't know. All right, that awesome. Whatever's going. Can't wait to get some data that. I had no idea what that was going to be like. I had no clue. We should have had dinner with Governor Jeff Lash need. Need a weekly spot. Governor Jeff Landry. His name was just being echoed everywhere. I was walking down there. Yeah. At dinner. Governor Jeff Landry wants that tiger. Talked about him for an hour. He was not there. Then we go to, like, where the production room is in a building and there's people like Governor Deflant. You better not put that tiger. Like, there's people that were very counter this entire thing because they thought it was gonna blow up. So literally my entire stay at LSU was people talking about Governor Jeff La injury. I see why. Telling stories about whenever they met him, whenever he was a kid and where he's from and how he does this and how he's been in the office a few times. It's like this guy. He's got the world talking right now. He shows up right here and just. Undefeated brother. Undefeated brother. Bama's got a good record in LSU. But I'm 1 and O against Peter. Yeah. Hey. That was another big time score. Because of how. Because of how. How scary Death Valley is. Sure. Which in theory should be. Yeah. Like his defense too is there's no offense for that. How'd you like it if I locked you up all day in your house? And I thought about my four cats immediately and I'm like, hold on. I'm kind of giving a life sentence. The four felines in my house. Buddy. But, yeah, I guess he was gonna get that tiger on that sideline. He did. And it sounds like it's gonna happen again. As it should. Governor Jeff Landry's just doing his thing. And you asked him a question. How does he not change at all? I don't know if he can. He can't. I mean, that's. I don't think Jeff Landry can. Okay. Allegedly multiple Eagles players are battling a flu. You guys hearing this? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I saw that. A little bit of a sickness now. If it is the same flu that I saw my wife have right before I came down here to Super Bowl, Buddy. This is a violent one. It is a. I think it's a pretty quick. I think it is a wave, but I think it is a very significant years. A lot of puking. Sure. They're saying it's a little work of voodoo. So I was asked about that last night on street. We were walking through the street. You remember that? It was. Right. Yeah. Different. I popped out of nowhere. I was just stopped. I think it was out kick. It was. I don't know who it was, but it was outkick. It was a lady and she asked me, do you have a second like literally on the side of the street? So quick, boom. Microphone just got out. A great dinner. Great. So good. It was a great dinner. It was top to bottom them. It really was. Oh, yeah. Great old fashioned. Everything about it was great presentation, good food, good timing. Yeah. Steak was on fire. How to get in the steak was on fire. And fire. And fire on all the steaks right in front of our faces. So coming out of a great time. Boom. How you feeling? Can we ask you a question? Sure. I mean you're recording right now, so two questions. We should definitely do that. Yes. And then I was appreciative for the opportunity. She immediately brought up like voodoo happening. Witchcraft. Yeah, that's. I mean that's New Orleans Tay. Voodoo. And that. I hadn't even thought of it. I hadn't even. I hadn't even thought of that. Beat. Maybe. Maybe Chance. Maybe. And then I heard Travis Kelsey the other day say that whenever Taylor did a show at in Kansas City, she did some football throw in the middle of it. And then she counted the three. So it's like. Is the Tae voodoo. Oh, is that part of it? For a three. That would be kind of like the witch's coven. And then you listen to what the Internet's saying about the voodoo. That's already happening. Yeah. You have to wonder, are your Eagles bets safe? There's something afoot. Yeah. Is there something working? What if the Eagles win? Then people would say that they weren't. The refs weren't on their side all game, all season. They'll say Coop hit him with kind of a curveball. Wizards magic. Oh, to counter. Counter. Because he's so handsome. Exactly. Bradley Cooper's hand handsomeness because he is a celebrity fan for the Philadelphia. Maybe sacrifices Philly cheesesteaks from Danny and Coops. All right, ladies and gentlemen joining us. We thought we were going to get a chance to talk to him a little bit earlier. But obviously he is the talk of any town that he is in because the way he talks it lights up any town that he is in. Ladies and gentlemen, quarterback for the Bronze and the Saints and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Florida State. Ladies and gentlemen, James Winston. Yeah. Great boots. Great fit. Great fit. New boot. Goofing. You got some snakes. Yeah, those snake. This snake died in its sleep. Yep. Lived a long life. Yep. Died in its sleep. Yep. These are not snake skin. These are archers. Ostrich. Oh, okay. Okay. Nice leather of their long necks. Sure. Yeah. So I don't think so. That looks like snake to me. I think these are ostrich. No, I think. I think they are. I think. Yeah, I can see the ostrich pattern. Maybe some kind of looks like a gator almost. Could be. Gator oxuses have different complexions, right? Yeah, yeah. These are oxfords. They're ostrich. Come on. I agree, I agree, I agree. I got a pair of ostrich then, too. These are ostrich boots. Yes. Might be some Cayman croc. Hey, listen, I am happy that I. I'm. We need to get a pair. Those are amazing. As do you. How are you doing, man? Let me let you know, from Media Night, through all of the content that you've been creating down here, absolutely crushing it. Thank you. You enjoying the hell out of me. I enjoy the. The responses that I got from you. Like. Cause I. When I watch your show, I know that you're speaking real stuff, and I admire everybody that you bring with you. And you told me one thing. You, like, get away from the fluff. Don't ask any of the questions that other people tell me to ask. Bingo. You need to be who you are. Yes. And I took that same work to NFL owners, you know, but trying to fit in this space, man, is very challenging because, like, people keep saying, like, you on the dark side. Not like, nah, I'm not on the dark side. Like, I'm in a space where I want to be able to respond to that dark side thing was. Yep. Yeah, it went over his head, right? Yeah. But that's going to happen. Hey, that's going to happen. You need to just keep moving with that. Come on. You are a. Hey, you are great and meant to be on a microphone, so don't listen to any of these people. No, thank you, but no one is on your level, Pat. And I got to give you your flowers, man. When I saw you doing the. When I saw y'all doing the national championship from the back of the end zone, like, I have trouble even watching the end zone view on film. And y'all are calling the game, man. And your energy, your enthusiasm. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. It's unbelievable enough about that. We are very lucky and thankful that you're gonna get in the content world. Sports world is very lucky for that. Now, with that being said, you obviously know that you're near that at some point. Like, what are you. Is this preparing for future while still I don't have a contingency plan, brother? My focus is on being the best quarterback that I still can be. That's what I'm still preparing for. I'm just allowing myself to venture off and accept other roles to learn and see, like, would I like it, what you have to do. I think that's a very smart move. And also being fully focused on football. What is. Where's the mindset at right now? My mindset right now is on my preparation, on eliminating all negative plays and focusing on how can I play consistent, winning football. So has God blessed you with throwing less pick sixes? So. So the Lord has definitely delivered me from pick sixes because I didn't throw any more now. I threw a few picks, but I should have been more specific in my prayer. Yeah. Back to the drawing. Absolutely. Lock it in. Every prayer can get better. You know what I mean? Every. Every single one. AJ Has a question for you. That's why you pray every day. Absolutely. Absolutely. Jamie, first off, let's pray right now. Actually, Jamie, your prayer for us. I can. Heavenly Father, we do not want to jump joke about you at all. Lord, we are so honored and grateful that we are able to be among each other. Lord, you have given us this moment now, and this is all that we have. God help us please, to advance your kingdom as we move forward. Lord. I just pray for Pat and his team, Lord, that they just continue to give people the word of true sports, of experiences of a lifetime, Lord. But through that, Lord, they can find you in everything that they do. Lord. Bless us with a great voice, Lord. Lead us to the promised land, Lord, in Jesus name I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Jay. Thank you. AJ Has a question for you. Obviously, I'm sure everybody's been asking about this game, if the Eagles win this game, how do they win the game? And what do you. Have you made predictions? What's your. What's your thoughts? So everyone asked me for a prediction. I just say, like, it's about the trenches. And I'm in the best of both worlds because I love and respect both quarterbacks, but I know it's about what's going to happen on in the inside. I know one matchup that everyone's going to be watching is Jalen Carter and Trey. Jalen Carter and Trey Smith. Right. Because Jalen only plays to the right side, so he's going to have help from Creed. Trey's going to have help from Creed. So they have to dominate this. But what the Eagles have to prepare for is the matchups that they're going to create. Wolf number 95, because Chris Jones plays all over the front line and I know Spags does an excellent job of stopping the run, but his main focus is stop Saquon and make Jalen hurts carry the football. If Jalen hurts has to have over 20 carries this game. I think Kansas City will pull off. If Jalen hurts in the RPO game is able to suck Spagnoli's defense in, but would force them to gives and have different things off that so they can attack the perimeter. Because I think the Eagles have really worn on the perimeter opposed to just running straight up the middle. Even when you see Saquon's long run, he's making a cut and then he's bouncing out to the outside and getting vertical after that. So if they, if the Eagles can win vertical, they'll win a game. If Kansas City can stop the Eagles from vertic. I'm not even gonna go there from vertically penetrating them in the running game, sucking up their vertically penetrating and penetrate. But it's the best of both worlds for me. I love both of these quarterbacks. I love both of these head coaches. I love both of these teams. I think Vic Vanglio's defense is very simple. They're going to populate people around everybody because they play mass zone coverage. I think that's tough for Kelsey, who has an amazing ability to get open. But one thing about his defense, bunches and stacks expose them because they make a sky call. Defenders are just going to zone spacing and that allows Travis Kelce just to get open to work underneath. Yes. Okay. So whenever they talk about Spags, they say he brings it a lot. He does. Is there blitzes now? How many years have you been in the league? I've been in the league 10 years. Okay, that's a long ass time. Congratulations. Not easy at all. Okay, the amount of blitzes, what is the hardest, hardest thing to. Is it the disguises? Is it picking, guessing? Can you normally figure out a blitz? What is the thought of a quarterback? Whenever a blitz is in, one of the top things in the cornerback is like, what is my protection area? That is like at stake. And when you have a protection problem, you have to start with who is their most dominant defensive lineman. For Kansas City is Chris Jones. But you can't base your protection just on him because he moves all over the field. And we had a study with the Cleveland Browns, like typically, Kansas city is bringing 90% of their pressures away from Chris Jones because they want to show oh, you Chris Jones been on this side. And they want to bring the pressure opposite. Once we played them, obviously defenses, they do Self scout as well. They brought all their pressures to the side. So yes it is deceptiveness, it is the disguise, but it's the way that his safeties work. Josh Cook and is it Eric, not Eric Reed, Justin Reed. They work so well together. They're not as great as ball hawking safeties but they do a good job of getting their depth depth and playing downhill to help their corners out. And they got one corner that's a solid corner. It's one of the top corners is lead and Trent McDuffie. So their zone pressures when they are in man, he typically locks somebody up. So I'm going to be curious to see the one on one matchup between him and A.J. brown and Devonta Smith. D Bunch has outstanding phenomenal answers. Yes, that's a prayer's answer right there. But you talked about, you know, back been in the league 10 years and you also said earlier in the conversation about accepted different roles. You've been in so many different positions, being the number one pick, you know, having the keys handed to you for being the face of the franchise and then at some point in your career being backup quarterbacks. How has that mindset changed for you not only on the field but as the, as the player in the locker room because you still are a huge personality that people I feel like look up to the leadership role. Well, I've always focused on the servant leadership part of, of the quarterback position and leadership in general because people can get led in different ways. Some people you can really hold them accountable, be firm with them. Some people you gotta, you gotta baby em, you know, for the most part. So I always just focus on that aspect. But when I was a starter, a firm starter when I was young, the face of the franchise, of the Buccaneers, my sole purpose was to get people to like me, you know what I'm saying? I wanted to be a people pleaser. You know, I want to make everybody, I want to make everybody happy. But when I got to New Orleans Saints after, after Tom Brady led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, same team that I was on to the Super Bowl, I had to understand like, man, you don't, everybody don't gotta like you. You just gotta win games. And that's one thing that Sean Payton taught me in New Orleans. But seeing Drew Brees and Sean Payton have the continuity to really put a plan together, to argue about certain things but at the end of the day come up with something like how can we best win this game? Not Jameis, are you gonna throw for 400 yards and five touchdowns? To win the game four. But is the special teams going to win this game for us? Is the defense going to have to get a big turnover for us? Like, what do we. What is required for us to win every game individually? And I think that's how I grew in terms of knowing the quarterback position. But in terms of service, I've always wanted to serve my players to the best of my abilities. So when I. When I became that backup quarterback per se, because that was my role, I wanted to ensure, like, just like specialists, like specialists and quarterbacks are on the same team. Because only one of us out there. It's only one of us out there. So we have to exert all of our energy to helping that one person be his best. And that's why, honestly, Cleveland Browns was so, so peaceful for me because this was the first time that I was able to be the veteran in a room. Like, even when I had to back up Derek Carr, Derek still was the veteran. Like, you know, he had one year over me, but I was. It was nothing I could really teach him. I just was there to serve him. But DeShawn, DTR, Bailey Zapple, late in the year, Tyler Huntley, with his resurgence with Miami, I was able to actually speak into their lives and give them little tools in the game. You know how it is. So you enjoyed it. You enjoyed the transition because whenever we were with Andrew Luck, Matt Hasselbeck was the backup that got brought in, and he said he had to have a conversation with himself, like, hey, all right, my time's up. I can give back here with this guy, or I can be a guy who still tries to get a starting role somewhere, starting quarterback somewhere. And he said he. He came at peace or whatever with being Andrew Luck's backup and everything like that. Have you had to have that conversation because you said backup role was there, or do you think you still have starting football? I know I'm one of the best because I think you played. I think you played starting football. I know I'm one of the best 32 quarterbacks in this world, okay? And no one can take that away from me, but I do whatever's required, right? And what I want for myself, I want for everyone. So when. When someone else is in that role, like late in the season when Kevin Stefanski turned it over to Dorian Thompson Robinson, man, I'm his biggest fan because I know the importance of week to week. I just want to win. That's all I want. It's not the stardom, it's not the fame. Obviously, I want to be the team's quarterback because that's what I think is required for me. Because I want to feel that, you know what I'm saying? But I just want to win. So any way I can help anyone I could serve, anything I could do to play more consistently to win, I'ma do that. Yeah. Hell yeah. Let's go. James Connor has a question for you. Yeah, James, so you kind of let us in prayer there and you talked about the game on the field, but what do you think the pre game speeches from these coaches is going to be? What do you think the message is to their teams? Because obviously the Chiefs are talked about with the refs and everything. And then the Eagles have, you know, they're kind of playing spoiler and all the pressures on them. What do you think the coaches are going be saying to their team? Well, well, I think in anytime you have the biggest event of it all, you want to silence the noise and focus on playing your best game. Like, so the coaches are telling them like, hey guys, like, let's focus on being our very best for this last game. Like, we don't have enough game this year, so why not show up right here, right now in the biggest moment of them all with all everybody watching you and play the best version of yourself today day? Hell yeah. I like that you. Hey, those moments that they started catching with you when you were running this year, it's not about the lights, it's not about the cameras, not about the extra. Actually, it is about that. It was awesome. It was such a moment every week. We were looking forward to hearing you. And now, you know, with this week of work that you've done here at the super bowl and everything you've ever done on any podcast or show you having a very lucrative career waiting for you whenever it's all said and done. So enjoy the hell out of your time spinning the rock, brother. We can't thank you enough. Thank you, thank you. But it's about the impact and that's what you guys are doing. You guys are impacting the sports space in a whole nother realm, especially with your work ethic and you allowing and trusting the guys that you have with you to do their best job. We got a good team, James, you know, and I think you're a leader of great. I mean, leader of men. Yeah, leader of men. Truly. I believe that. Thank you. This cardigan. Cardigan. Yes, it's cardigan. Ostrich too. Yeah. That looks awesome. I'm going have to check my salads. On cuz if these not osters, I'm deeper than man. So what's going on? I ain't going to say they snake. I'm going to say they gator, you know. Hey, so Zito just told me that you have a tea you're doing. Yes, real tea. Real tea. The best tea in the. The realest tea of them all has high in antioxidants. And I'm just an advocate for promoting things that I can work, that I can actually drink after a workout. Right. So this tea is a tea that provides. It has essential vitamins in there, antioxidants, it makes you younger, it makes you healthy, and it's very hydrating. Yes. It's called real tea. Oh. It's called R Y L T. Real tea. Real, realest tea you'll ever have. Okay. All right. I've seen your case. It's everywhere. It's in Walmart, it's in Target, it's in Publix. Like it's. It's out. Is this. Are you a part of this? I'm. I'm a part of it. I'm, I'm. I'm an ambassador of realty. Okay. Let's go, James. Good for you, man. Keep killing it. We can't thank you enough, ladies and gentlemen. Maybe the quarterback of the future. Yeah. 10 year vet. Ladies and gentlemen, James Winston. Yeah. Thank you, James. Yeah, it's good. Cleaned up. Good cardigan. Good cardigan. Thank you. Look great. Great cardigan. Appreciate you. It's ostrich. You're right, it's ostrich. Hey, you look awesome. Oxford. Oxford. Yeah, it is, it is. You're good. It's not that snakesky, I think. Yeah. It's got to be a lizard. Pat and I own a lot of boots. Boots. The ostrich is the ones that have like the little bumps on them. Duh. Welcome back, aq. Hey, Q. She's trying to make you feel comfortable. I'm 100 sure. There's a snake. I think for everything that I've learned, you know, I was like, I was giving him an excuse about the snake died in his sleep. Right. Remember, live a long life. He didn't kill that snake for those boots. That thing had a great life. This is ostrich. All right. What a leader. It's all about the trenches. Yeah, it did. Yeah, but you don't believe that. You don't believe that. Well, when we get to the picks, we'll see back on the wagon. We will see what we believe. You're back on the Wagon. Good for you. Aou, what have you taken away from today's program thus far? Anything important. The governor's awesome. Jamis was awesome. I forgot about the Governor. I completely forgot about the governor. The best. He was right over here. How about the Ari 2stadies? Ari. Ari Emanuel. Yeah. Pretty cool. His pants were perfect. Yeah. And then you see. I mean, that guy. Every single day, same life, same no, doesn't matter where he is. We're rolling. We're in a cold tub. We're in a hot tub. We're in Fred Song. Oh, he's rolling, dude. Yeah, he's rolling on a ball. That ball. Oh, I thought you meant, like, rolling, like. Like Jiu Jitsu, maybe? He might probably. I mean, that would make a lot of sense. It has been a big day. Dan Marino. Miami needs to get. Miami needs to get more Pittsburgh guys. That's what I got. Tougher. And with that being said, ladies and gentlemen, final guest of this particular hour, a man who has a Sphere show coming to Las Vegas. A man who has hosted so many summer parties, his name is synonymous with the season. Ladies and gentlemen, Kenny Chesney. Baby. Wow. Holy. Good to see you. What's up, Kenny? How are you? Holy hell. Kenny Chesney's here. The goat. The goat. There we go, Kenny. Holy hell. Kenny Chesney's here. Look how jacked you are. It's that time of year. Hey, good to see you, Kenny. Good to see you. Okay, Kenny. The Sphere announcement is gigantic. We obviously have all gone to Kenny Chesney concerts across, you know, cities across America every single summer. Your name. I've told you this numerous times. Being synonymous with summer is just, like, such a cool thing. Jimmy Buffett had it for a very long time. Feels like you are the one that's bringing the summer festival from town to town. Now you're doing the Sphere here. And how excited are you for that? And what's that gonna look like? Well, I'm very excited. Just because it's new, you know, it's. We've been out there a while, and for the people that have come to our shows over the years and lived with this music for a while, they're gonna get to experience it in a completely different state of consciousness. I mean, it's. It's crazy. And we're looking forward to it. We're. We're in rehearsals right now. We are creating content as we speak. And it's, you know, it's not gonna be long till we start two a day practices. If you know what I mean, we're close. Boys will fall. Yeah, we're close. Boys are full. AJ Has a question for you. Kenny. Kenny, do you. I watch these. These artists run on treadmills and sing. I assume you've done at a time. Do you ever do that when you get ready for a tour? Yeah, I mean, when it gets close, you know? Yeah. Cause I just get my lungs ready. You know, it's one thing if I just stood still. Look, my mom has video footage of me in my grandmother's kitchen as a child listening to music, and I just move. Oh, yeah. So that's just the way it is. So when you got the band I got. And you go up there on stage and you feel all that energy on stage, it's insane about how much it takes of me. Lung capacity to do my. Yeah, but your actions are leading everybody else out there too, you know, because when you're sweating your ass off. Everybody else with the spear, though, and you'd be able to move this. The stage feels. I don't. I guess we were up high, but, like, can you move like you want to? It's a version of what we do. It's not the same thing as, you know, because when we're in a stadium, it goes a long way, and I'm. I'm going back and forth all night, but that's right. Suicides, whatever they call it. Yeah. Like. But in. In sphere, it's. It's going to be a smaller version of it, but yeah, I've got my space. Okay. And we'll see. We're. We're in rehearsals like I said now, but we won't really know till we get in there. Yeah. You know, so that's gonna be sometime in May when we can start rehearsals. I can't wait for the experience. Thank you, man. Yes. Yeah. You know, you said a different stream of consciousness. I've only been in the sphere in one particular consciousness, and I think for your concert, it's gonna be the right one to be in. So I can't wait to experience it. We're looking forward to D. Bunner's question. We were in there. We had an experience. We won't say what performer or performers it was, but some of the guys were disappointed with some of the songs that they played. With the catalog you have with so many bangers, how do you pick which. What's going to be on the track list in what city or what performance? Well, I think that you can ask anybody in my road family. We're not a big believer. Well, we will do some songs just because of the space that we don't normally do, like in a stadium environment, just because of the way it's built. And we can. It's more of an experience than it is an energy thing. But that being said, I've never been one to do a bunch of deep cuts, because when you start doing deep cuts. Thank you. Everybody starts checking their phones. They got time. You got Bono's number. You should tell that. I'll let you know it was you. I didn't say that. We are telling you. We are telling you. We are telling you. And we assume it would have been a great show if they would have played all their hits. I think I. Who's a. Hey, I like you two's music. There's a couple songs I certainly love. Same way, like, whenever I went there, it was just all. I think it was for, like, his. Their people. Like, super. Their people. But it was super bowl week, so it was like a lot of people were in town. Right. Nonetheless, I didn't know any of the songs, but that's. Thought the Sphere was very cool, if you will. Yeah. To see how much you. And then there's, like, rattling and that's happening through it all. Yeah, there's a lot going on. But still, I mean, people still, when they come. They come to your show. I mean, they want to hear the music they live with. That's that, for me, when I go see somebody's show, which has been a while, but when I go see. Let's say if I go see Bruce. Bruce Springsteen. And I want to really. I want to hear Born Around. I want to hear it. Have to, so. And I would be disappointed if I didn't. Well, you know, when I go. I want to hear my tractor. Do you have to hear that one? We're talking about that again. Sorry we had to bring that back. Yeah, it's okay. Tony has a question for you, Ken. Yeah. Well, we were in the Sphere the first time. Like, it's a lot. Have you. Did you go and, like, scout it and see other people's shows in there to know, like, its capabilities and stuff? I haven't seen a show there, but when we. We've been planning to do this since last April, even before we did last year's tour. But I went to see about 30 minutes of U2's set that they had it filmed, and it was as if they were really there. And I had my team with me, and I went. I looked at them and I went, there's no way we're not. Not doing this. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, because it was just so different for me, you know, And I've been doing it a minute, and I wanted to take my audience and my friends and people that I know and love on a journey with me. And so, yeah, to answer to your question or your question, they're gonna. They're gonna. We're gonna play a long time. We've. We've been blessed with a. With a pretty big catalog, and we're gonna play for a while. We're gonna do a lot of songs that people know. Yeah. A few that they don't, but we're gonna do a few deep cuts, but not a lot. Yeah. But whenever you put out new albums, you create new bangers. Yep. I assume that list gets harder to put together. Every single. Are you touring as well, or just. No, just fear. I'm doing just. Not just fear, but. You get it. Yeah. I'm doing that because all of our energy is going towards making that great. We're going to play a couple months, and then I'm actually going to take some time to live a little, and I'm going to. You know. I know. You know, the next fall, I'm going to actually go to some football games. Wow. Hey. Boom. Living Patriots. Yes. And fast. Braves. All right. We are. We're wrapping up here on ESPN. We'll continue on YouTube, ESPN + Disney + and TikTok live. The super bowl is on Sunday. We'll overreact on Monday. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change their life. Have a great weekend. Completely forgot it was Friday. Yeah. Yeah. Easy to. Until I was talking there. Crazy. Oh, we don't have another show until the Super Bowl. In this entire thing. You're in town, obviously. We are thankful we get to chat with you every single super bowl week. I'm thankful. Zeno's telling me there's a book. Is it? Hold on. You wrote a book? Oh, I'm in the process of finishing it, yeah. You wrote a book? I never said. Congratulations. Oh, there it is. Hey, congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. No problem. Yeah, I've. I've had a unique journey so far, and I wanted to. I felt like it was time to. It's not a memoir. I don't want to go there, but I felt like I just had such a unique journey on the road and. And off the road and just every. Just creatively and all kinds of stuff. I felt like it was time to have to do it while I. While it fits in between the Front cover and the. The back cover. Yeah, absolutely. Are you reading it for the. I have to read. Yeah. Like, I'm writing it with this girl, Holly Gleason, who's been a part of my life for a long time. She's been a part of my journey and this has been something we've been working on for a while. And it's. It's really. I've never wanted to write a book because I don't love talking about myself that much. I'd rather write songs and. And make records based on Yalls lives. You know what I mean? To find commonality like that. But so to. To write a book and then have to read all the chapters and it's really. It's really interesting. Yeah. Well, congratulations. It's a massive decision. It's also a massive amount of task at hand to finish a book. Yeah. I'm excited to read it, brother. And you say you hate talking about yourself, but at this stage, you're a goat dude. So a lot of people find inspiration and I assume people will be able to get some knowledge. You know, I was a kid in East Tennessee that grew up in the country that loved Tennessee football, and that's all we had. And I had a big dream in my head and I loved music more than anything. And. And if there's some kid out there in the world that could learn something from my journey, this is one of the reasons I wanted to write the book. Hell, yeah. Is there a chapter in there about Tennessee coming up to the north and getting their asses beat? I love Hypo's team. I love hype. Me too. They did get rinsed. I. Amalia. Nico Iamaliava. I think he showed a lot of toughness on that night. I don't think people fully understand how cold it was and how many hits he was taking. I love the Tennessee. Two of them, I think. Yeah. Cracked two of his helmets. I love the Tennessee team. I think they're about a year out or whatever the case is. But that Ohio State team, that was like. I think when we all realized, like, hold on, this might be the real deal here, and they would inevitably be that they got a. I'm not going to say they got a bad draw, but usually when you play the. When you play the NCAA basketball tournament, the best team plays the worst team and kind of goes to there. Right, Right. It wasn't that way with football. When. I wonder why. Oh, so it was all. It was all. You got the memo, huh? The seating's. The seating was weird. Like, I think. I think Oregon got screwed. Like, Oregon, like, should have played the worst team and Ohio State played the second worst team and. But no. Yeah, there was a lot of conversation. It was really interesting. I think they're going to adjust that. I think from what they're saying. I think if you speak up about maybe make a song about it. Oh, there we go. Did you see the College Football Playoff song? I already got a song. There's already a song. Oh, man. It's really good. Did you write it? I. I could only dream. I could only dream. It's about time of piecing that together. More schools get a shot to shine. More teams and a lot more fun. Starting with 12, count down to one. That's how we ground up CMP National Champion. Champion. Yeah, we remember. Of course. I was going to ask if you did a video. Video. We didn't. This is not our song. Oh, yeah, yeah. This is the actual song. Hold on. Kenny. Yeah. Congratulations. You have lived a long life in this music world. Yes. You have never, and I can't stress this enough, never heard a heater like this. This was to promote the 12 team playoff from ESPN. We're mixing things up. About time. More schools get a shot to shine. It's more games and a lot more Fun. Starting with 12, count down to one. That's how we crown champion. That's how we crown. You think it's over? It's not. Quarterfinals, new year, six Bulls on a rotating basis. Somebody new person on the scene. I mean, it is hooky. It is hooky. All right, you can stop it. We would. We ran that when that first came out. Huh? I think I ran it five times in a row. And you say hooky. We're still singing that song. We're still singing that song. Okay. There's a chance now that legitimately is not ours. That was. ESPN created that to market the 12 team playoff because they wanted to be educational in there. And the whole thing. Some people were saying, and I know there was humans behind it, so I don't want to discredit them, but some people would say maybe AI made that like a. You punch in the information. Maybe AI could create that song or how help create that song. Whatever the case is. How is the music world from your perspective with AI coming into it? Because I think I heard Timbaland, who is a producer, obviously his message now is like DJs need to start like learning how to work with AI as opposed to trying to fight against AI in the music world. Have you thought about this? At all. And what are your thoughts on it as a whole? Well, I think it's a big change. Right. It's a big change, and I think it's a slippery slope. Slope. Okay. Honestly. But I'm. But. But I'm a creative person. If I didn't write my own songs, I might have. I don't write all of my own songs, but if I'm. If I wasn't a creative person, I might feel differently. But for someone that's really creative and has been that way his whole adult life, it bothers me a little because it might hinder it a little bit because if it's. It's just. Yeah. It might go in the direction of what the AI is pointing you. Right. I. I don't know. I. I just. I just think it's a very slippery slope and. I don't know. I don't know. I don't have an opinion yet. But I know that it's. If you're. If you're creative and you've been doing it a certain way for a long time, it's. I don't know, it just takes the creativeness out of it for me. Okay, I got it. That's the only negative thing for me. Now you have a Hall of Fame career that is already behind you, and I assume you're only going to continue to make bangers, but, like, there's people that are only going to be in the AI Music. Yeah. The whole thing. I'm excited to see how it ends up working out. Go ahead, comment. Yeah. As one of, like, country music's greatest stars ever, what do you think about the idea, like, you have to cut your teeth in Nashville. Yeah. Like, do you feel like it's necessary to go to Nashville and then kind of go from there, or do you think that's changed as well? I mean, if you're creative, it's a. The Nashville that I moved to is a very wonderful, beautiful, creative space. And so that was. That's why it was great for me. Now, if you don't write songs, I mean, I do feel like that you have to work. I mean, this idea that you're just going to make it because you feel entitled to is not right. I mean, you have to. You have to get really good at what you do. But I don't think it's that important that you have to obviously have connections. But, you know, I think if. But if you want to be a singer songwriter like I was, it does help to be in the mix. Yeah. That area. But, yeah, I Mean, we all know and love Willie Nelson. I mean, he moved to Nashville and then moved out because it didn't work and moved to Austin. That's when his career took off. It's crazy. How do you feel about the country music world we're in right now? Everything. Everything's country. Yeah. And everything. Well, that's the thing, like, for people to say they don't love country music right now, it just means they haven't been exposed all of it. Yeah. Because now more than ever, there's something for everyone. And there's old heads, I assume, in the country world, I could just only imagine, because I. In the music that we listened to growing up, they would have the same exact feeling about. Like, that ain't whatever. That ain't. That ain't. Oh, look, they said something about me. Yeah. But I'm saying, like, there was that for a long time. Right now it feels like it is a little bit more of a. It's pretty open. I mean, it really is. And I think that's a product of how people consume music, you know, because when I grew up, you either had the country station or the rock station. What we now know and love is classic rock. Right. But. But so you had to choose now with all the streaming services and everything, you. You can listen to anything, anywhere in the world, anytime you want. So it's all just. It's. It's. Yeah, the genre is there, and there are different genres, but people consume music much differently than they did when I was listening to what they say. They said your. Your stuff wasn't country. You said. You said they. Yeah, of course. I mean, they had few. Few two guitars in it, you know, I mean, had too many guitars in it or. It was. It was. That's pretty. Yeah. That sounds like all vocals to me. Yeah. Yeah. Are you sure you didn't sing that song? I know. Yeah. Right. Yeah, I have a couple times. Pretty intoxicated. It is your concert. It's kind of how it goes. Ty, is the last question for you here, Kenny, have you thought at all about. For the Sphere show, how different that's going to be doing just the same venue night after night after night, same show? Like, well, how much different will that be than going on tour? Because obviously the set list stay the same, but you're in new venue, seeing new people. Yeah. The satellites could change a little bit at Sphere, but for me, I mean, it's like, I don't gamble. Right. And I don't. Smart. Smart. Yeah. And I don't. I don't do clubs, and I haven't had alcohol in a long time, and I. Yeah, I don't pay for stuff. Right. And so extracurricular activities, if you know what I mean. Yeah. So. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. So that's a lot. That takes a lot of Vegas out, you know? So I gotta. I'm gonna have to go to topgolf a lot. You're describing all the things in Vegas that you would have to check off the box to be distracted. Got it. So I'll be getting a lot of. You know, I'll be working out a lot. You know, my friend Dan Mullen got the job at unlv. Yeah. How about. And he's going to let us come work out at UNLV's facility. He said. So we're going to be over there a lot. So. So I stay out of trouble. Okay. But as far as the show is concerned. Bored. I'm really afraid. No, I won't get bored. Sturgis, like, Michael Cole, friend of mine, friend of ours. He's been in WWE for 28 years. He's been on the road for, like, 28 years. He's missed three shows. He. He says he's gonna go. I can't wait to retire in my ranch and just stay there. He's gonna get stir crazy. Oh. Oh, gosh. He's gonna get stir crazy because he needs to be moving. I feel like you've been on tour for so long. Well, speaking of Willie Nelson, he wrote a song once called Still Is Still Moving to Me, you know, because he's. He's being gone. He's constantly moving, and I feel like I'm a bit like a shark. Like, it's got to be slowly constantly moving. Yeah. Or it'll die. And I feel like that's a. I got a little bit of that in me, you know? So you're at the Sphere, then? For how many nights? Right now. Right now we're on sale for 15 nights, which means we're going to be there, you know, two months. And so I'll figure it out. And I'll probably go in and out of. From there until I got a good core group of workout guys in Malibu. And I'll probably go. Yeah, you got to move, though. I'm saying you got to move. Yeah. Because I think people do get stir crazy. No, And I get residencies. I think people do residencies. And it gets. Yes, I'll get bored, bored, bored. There's only so much streaming things you can watch Bingo. Yeah. I mean, that's Just. All right, well, keep going. We appreciate the help. Love you, brother. Thanks for having me, man. Thank you for coming. Appreciate you, fellas. Good luck with the book. Good luck with Sphere. I can't wait to see you out there. Keep going, brother. You look younger than ever. Ladies and gentlemen, Kenny Chesney. Kenny, that's a good clean dap right there. Clean J's. Jacked sober. Yeah. Yeah. He's locked in. That would be a six sphere show to go to, I think. So think about the ship that's gonna. Oh, yeah, it'll be awesome. Yeah. As he was talking, like, giving his answer, I was just thinking about, like, oh, there's gonna be beach. There's gonna be breezes that come through there. There's gonna be probably a ship. Ship. There's gonna be some night. I mean, it's gonna be. Oh, yeah. Pirate action, maybe. Yeah. I didn't even think about pirate coming out. Exactly. Radio. Oh, my God. Just being at, like, a beach bar down in Margaritaville. I've looked back on the YouTube show and I've thought to myself, yeah, they were playing that for their fans, without a doubt. Deep cook. Yeah. I don't know if they were. Their set was already. Their whole show was set probably before they thought about the super bowl being there. Yeah, I probably didn't even know the super. We were with one of the biggest YouTube fans in the history of You2. F did say You2 is his favorite band, and he was like, yeah, he might have been inspired by how we were feeling about it. Yeah. But if you're a die hard YouTube fan, I, like you said, I feel like that that was your show because no one else who was there for the super bowl, who maybe knows like four or five YouTube songs, like, none of us had a good time. You know that. Terrible time. Thank you. Ship, please. Had a good ship. Bruce fell asleep. Yeah. Oh, is that what you did, Bruce? You fell asleep with that thing? I was getting nauseous from all the action. All the words. That was it. I said, you know what? I can't. I can't look it up at this anymore. Bad, bad words. All the bad words. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Terrible ones. Great performance from Bruce today. What do you do today? What do you mean? His announcement. Five minutes. Oh, yeah. All the time. Hey, I'm proud of you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Great season, boys. But I will say, just like Nick Saban said, can't change anything going into the biggest game, because if you could do something better, why didn't you do it at the Beginning of season. Sure could have been a better year. Now that we know what's possible with the five minute. Oh, did you see today? Oh, yeah. Hit it. Hit the drum. Yeah. It's crazy. Guess we gotta get a drum, though. Did a full spit. Oh, you have to. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Full presentation. Yeah. That was great work, Bruce. We still got a big overreaction Monday. We'll be bringing it. Gotta bring it. Still Bring it. Anthony Calhoun walking by. Indianapolis sports news legend AC AC Good to see you, buddy. Hell, yeah. AC Right behind white guy that was just on camera there. We did not know. Good to see white guy on camera there. Cool white guy. Yep. Young Saints fan on camera there. All right, good to see you. Thanks for hanging out over here. All right, we're going to take a break. Hey, Q. What did you learn there from. I mean, the fact that he's sober is kind of crazy. Going to Vegas, that's quite the temptation. Yeah, but that's good. That's a good thing. Go to Top Golf. I mean, that's your first takeaway. The only one. Not that his book's going to be off. What's he going to do for fun out there? I mean, not paying for. Can't go to casino. Can't drink. Can't go to any of the fun extracurricular. I mean, it was wild. Go to topgolf. That sounds fun. Topgolf is great. Great. Top Golf is great. Thank you. Every night, the more you hang out with this guy, the more you realize karma is not a real thing. Well, that's what Nick says, too. Everybody that's around. Why does everyone say that? I don't know. Something you should think about, though. You should think about tux table over there wearing your titles. Boys. How's it going? Comfortable? Fantastic. Yeah. Unbelievably comfortable. Feel really good. It's almost like a back brace because this couch, it's very easy to sink into. That's kind of property, to be clear. Yeah. I feel like a dead body. It's almost holding me in place. Those are WWE titles available now at WWE Show. Does this mean you guys. I don't know. Maybe you can read into it how you'd like. There's a chance. I mean, I. I've switched twice since this show started. Really? Yeah. Dead serious. Me, too. We've all done that. How about after Jamis does his thing? It's like, man. Yeah. Take that into consideration. He broke the game. Game down. Incredibly, the bunch that the Chiefs can do, Eagles and Travis can wide open just that Zone. Mass. Zone. Sky. Sky. Sky. Good. You know the check D bud. Does it. Yeah, yeah. What was that a couple times? Why were you guys doing that to us? You. You and James. That's my guy. You know that's my guy, too. No, because he's a db. He knows the sky. I mean, sky flew. Just said you guys remember Nebraska? Now you. I did have it right here. Where to get the best gator? My house. I'll send you something. Come on over. Governor and Mrs. McGoverner. First lady make the best gator in town. Fried gator grill. Gator, fresh gator. Don't really matter what kind of gator. You need to come home for gator with me. Could you imagine going out with Governor Jeff Lane? Nope. It's a dream. It's a dream. Add it to the list. So one of those fan boats. Yeah, yeah. And it says Jeff Landry. He's wearing the. On the side, the full boot. We're definitely flanked by stadies, too. Oh, and he's blasting music because of how loud that fan is. That's gonna have to be so loud. So loud. No way. Because the gators will hear it. No, he's probably playing gator music. Bring them in. What are they? Because Florida getters, they listen to Tom Petty, right? Yeah. So is that what the guys I think most gators do? Tom Petty. That's a good. When they sing down there. Yeah. Sweet. That's a good. All these colleges have sweet things. They do. LSU is the most. It's the best. Most wild. Yeah, it is. By far. But after hearing guffing of Jeff Landry, I can see that, you know, that it fits in. If I don't do the chant, I'm disrespecting this place. Exactly. A lot of conversations about how many times I led couple thousand people into saying something on tv. It's like, hey, I don't create the tradition. We're trying to experience it, right? Do it. I'm gonna tell you, they're in on it. Yeah, they are. This is their thing. They would like to win, though, again. Lsu. Yeah. Oh, yeah. How about the Saints? All we're talking about with the Saints is like, they're just set up for a couple years worth of failure shite. Kelly Mo though. Sean Payton was able to do with some shite setup. He was need quarterback, bad data quarterback. What else do we learn today? Ari's like, ah, the Bears got a silk now, huh? Yeah. Oh, yeah. He's buying the Bears. That's what I'm definitely What are you guys saying? I'm hearing 8 to 10 billion. Yeah. There's a tax situation, though. There's a tax situation. Let's design the will. Dude. He's always. He is always. Every conversation with him is, I already know. Yeah. And then I'll get a call back with the person on his other side. I'm like, hey, I think there's an opportunity for. Oh, you are so smart, aren't you? Hold on. Actually chime somebody in. Could be anybody. Anybody you've ever heard of. What was I telling you? Tell him, please. This is on a FaceTime with two faces. Yeah. Of people. And then they lay out about Ant. Ant, Ant, Ant. He's on the bottom of the screen telling them they laid up. He goes, I know everything. Okay. Just let me do my. I'm like, maybe all right. Maybe all right. And we hang up. He's awesome. That's another thing I learned, like, when he started going down, some of his clients. Yeah. Larry David, everybody. Seth McFarland, Scorsese does what Scorsese wants. Yeah. Everybody. Everybody kept saying to him, like, yeah, I assume those guys do what they do want to do, because where? McFarlane. Yes. Think about McFarlane, Garland, that guy. All those guys created their own shows and super talents. Yeah. Tyler Perry is worth. Yeah. Billions. A lot of money. Yeah. Never would have thought. Larry David does what he wants to do. That was a great show. Yeah. Both of them. All right, let's get to a break. Last hour, we'll make our picks and we'll get the hell out of here. Big afternoon down here in New Orleans. That's right. A lot of meetings, a lot of handshakes, cakes. Huh. A lot of panels. What? Yeah. Should be great. Any parties? I don't know about this. Any parties. Yeah. We get invited any parties this week? Yeah. What's going on? What was that all about? Why didn't we get invited any parties? We got invited to no parties this week. The media one. That's just a handout. That's a handout invite. It's a handout. Nflpa. We got invited. Yeah. We could have went to the FLP1. Really? Okay. Any others? Fanatics. Guys, you get invited out? I don't think so. Remember, we. We did the whole thing. Yeah. They screwed us too many times. Well said so on that one. Any others? The New Heights one. Wait, they had a party? No, they didn't. They didn't have a party. We would have got invited, definitely. You've been on New Heights. We talk about. About New Heights. Jason show. Travis comes on all the time. They didn't have a party. You're right. I don't think they did. We did not get invited if they did. Wow. You got to be boys. We got more to do. Okay. Keep your friends close, they say. Yeah, but not close enough to be in there. Yeah, flavor. Flavors at that. Is that the party? Dan's here. Damn. Dan there. Dano. Dan, I believe. Dan Mullen. Hold on one second. Oh, I need to get the proper intro. Hold on. Yeah, yeah, I need to get proper intro. Hold on, hold on. I don't want to this up. Okay. Got a wiggle like that. Ladies and gentlemen, I just want to make sure I have this right. This is Dancing Dan. Okay. Hell yeah, this is Dan. Oh, we know. Okay. We. We have seen his work on the Internet. His knees have WD40 literally oozing through him. One of the smoothest athletes. Good to see you. God, it's good to see you, Elvis. What you're able to do with your hips and knees, sir, are obviously legendary. And you can follow along at dance at dan@danrew on Instagram. How about this, Dan, if you make one shot here, we will give 50 people $500 who repost this video. Say something nice to somebody. Input the easiest way to pay them. They'll be saying, wow, that Dancing Dan. That guy with those smooth ass knees. Good God, what a hero he is. What's that? Wherever you want. Does that feel like a good shot? Does it feel makeable while also being slightly difficult? Difficult, yeah. Yes, it does. 50. Oh, my God. Hold on. Okay, Dan, it's slick. It's like. It's light. It's light, it's slick. Yeah. Now you know the ball. Now you know the game. Now you know the game. This is Dancing dan. Dan Rue. 50, people. There it is. There it is. $500. The party line. Feel like he hustled us. That was awesome. That was unbelievable. Thank you for doing that. Wow. Just messing around ain't nothing but. Okay, okay. Hold on one second. D. Hey. Yeah. You ride horse? You ride horse? Yeah. What sports you just always incredible dancer. Phenomenal dancer. Yes. Always basketball, football, but also now I'm drag racing. What's that you're driving? Yeah. Okay. All right. So. Holy athlete. What are you driving? Over 2000 horsepower GTR GTRS. Are you building them or. Yes, shop. Okay, so you have a shop as well? Yeah, in Texas. Okay. We doing pink slips? Are we going for, like actual. Not my car. I'm not a driver. I'm just saying well, your daddy day is what your dead is. You said 2000 horsepower GTR? Yeah, the shop. Houston built it for me. Makes 2400 actually, but yeah. Who are you racing? What type of cars are you racing against? What are other people driving things? Vipers, Lamborghinis, Vets. Doesn't matter. Good for you, dude. You've absolutely crushed it on the Internet. We've appreciated watching you do your. Thank you. Legit. Come on, come on, come on. Hey, hey, hey. We appreciate you. Ladies and gentlemen, Dan Dancing. Dan. Dan. Big old balls. Yep. Big old balls. Y. Yep. Gotta carry it out of there. Just 150 people. 500 shot, dude. A lot of horsepower. Holy. That back end is out of that thing. Good for you, Dan. Thank you, man. 50 people. 500. You see those knees? Unbelievable. Great knees. It is. That's like Elvis 2.0. I don't know if Elvis had those knees. The hips. Hips I don't know about. Was that he had it all. He had. Maybe not in his later days, you know, when he gained a little bit of weight, but early on, yeah. What? What? What? He. He got comfortable. Yeah, he did. That's right. He was a hound dog after he got screwed by his agent. I watched a buddy was taking all his money. Speaking of A.J. i think he wanted to be an FBI agent, I believe. Or yes. I watched a movie. He brought a gun, right? Or. I don't know. I know he just started eating the President's peanut butter. M M's are peanut M M's, though, supposed to do that. Hound dog. I guess Elvis just used the lift. Yep. There he is. Which one's that? Nixon. Nixon. Big Nixon. Yeah. I'm not a crook. So Elvis thought he was going to the White House to become a federal agent. And Nixon thought Elvis was coming to take a picture so he could up his youth vote. So both of their teams met with the other people individually beforehand and laid out rules. Okay, so like, President Nixon's team goes up to Elvis's team and goes, all right, don't put your feet on the desk. The peanut M and Ms. Are his. Obviously. You let him have those. The other snacks will be for you. And then, like, the water is this whole thing. And then Elvis's team is telling the President's team, all right, here's how the King wants it. The King wants it. This address. The King. And then neither of them would tell them, right? Neither of them would tell them who they were. So as soon as they sit down, Elvis feet right up on the thing, grabs the peanut M&M's. Then he finds out through the conversation that he's just being used for a photo. So then it's like this is how the movie depicted it. And then anyways, Elvis became a federal agent at the end. Love that thing. Yeah. Yeah. And that was like why? It was the way he was legend. He would. That's like at the end of his life, I think he was like chasing, trying to be. It was. I learned a lot about him. Yeah. That guy loved wearing gold. I mean he loved. Yeah, he had sauce. He did have the sauce. Elvis had the sauce. Yeah. Big time. He did too much maybe sometimes. But that's easy come, easy go. They say for right. Anyways, Governor Jry, that guy's going to run for president. Yeah, I hope so. President of the world. Got my vote. That was good. I think that was a good appearance for him. Incredible. Yeah. Credible. I think he. His people walk out of there going, Mr. Governor. I mean, come on. Yeah, Governor. That's a big win. Go get you some grill gates. Peter, you off with hunting? You commented about being undefeated gunpeter. You said we love our people here. We do everything about it. Home run. Mr. Governor. What a time. South is awesome. I can say to my new Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, hey, find a keto friendly restaurant nearby and text it to Beth and Steve. And it does without me lifting a finger so I can get in more scrap squats anywhere I can. 1, 2, 3. Will that be cash or credit? Credit. 4 Galaxy S25 Ultra. The AI companion that does the heavy lifting. So you can do you get yours@samsung.com compatible select apps requires Google Gemini account. Results may vary based on input. Check responses for accuracy with new McValue. At McDonald's you always get more than you expect every day. So even if gas prices go up, you can buy a double cheeseburger and add a McChicken for $1 or before game time you can get $5 meal deals for the group and if breakfast is about to end, get deals in the app to save before the bell. The choice is yours and the choice with McValue is always more. Prices and participation may vary. Valid for item of equal or lesser value. Must opt into rewards for app deals. Football is wonderful and we've been celebrating it all week and obviously all season long. And this Sunday our champion is crowned. Will it be the Kansas City Chiefs and it will be a three peat or will it be the Philadelphia Eagles getting over the hump that is Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl? Nick. Sirianni the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, has been called a big dumb dipshit all season long. Even after they started running away with either the division or potential great seeding in the playoffs, people continue to say, well, this guy's a liability. They're not going to be able to win because this head coach is a big dumb dipshit. Now they're in the super bowl and on the other side, it's a team that is back to back super bowl champions, back to back, the best in the world. They would secure the number one seed in the afc. Two weeks before the season had ended, they had the best record in football and all anybody kept saying about them all season long was that they were playing like hammered dog shit. They said this offense is nowhere near what it could be. They look like they're playing like absolute shite. The defense, yeah, they're keeping them in the games, but there's no way this team is anywhere near as good as last year's team or the year before that. This is the Kansas City Chiefs team that isn't going to win because this team, although they're winning and beating everybody, they're actually Scheidt. That's not the case at all. They're in a Super Bowl. They're potentially going to be three times three peating world champs, which has never been done before. And all anybody wanted to say about both these teams is that they stink. They're either led by a loser or they are losers this year when they used to be winners. So you got a lot of motivation, you got a lot of conversation and you got a lot of great football for at least four quarters on Sunday. And then after that, boys, the well known dry. Oh, no. Okay, we're watching other sports. Oh, no. We're caring about other sports. We're talking about drama, we're talking about the draft, we're talking about players, we're talking about teams, we're talking about drama, we're talking about storylines. But for one more hour here, we're talking about football. Hell yeah. You have to be playing talks to tables here at Boston. Connor and at Ty Schmidt, 1/2 of the hammer done Cowboys AP Tonis here. Did you guys get it right last night with the awards? As a representative of the Associated Press, I did. Some people didn't, but personally, I, you know, I could put my head down at night and sleep easy knowing I got it right. Good job. Okay, what you got? Oh, yeah. Tony, you're the only one that had Van Ginke. I was the only one that had Van Ginke as defensive player of the year. You know, he was top eight in sacks, top five in TFLs. He had the most tackles as an edge. He had two pick sixes which obviously led edges in that category. I thought he was just all around round, incredible. It was one of the weirdest, not weirdest, but like toughest defense player of the years in a long time because there was just so many ways. I had Pat Certan as my third just because I'm an edge guy. So that's just how I live. Let's go to host of everything DB good D Bad Darius J. Butler. A corner wins defensive player of the year. Congratulations to the position. Love that. Son of a Louisiana legend, Pat Certain, also a Dolphins legend. So great to see him. He was on one of the best defense in the league. He was actually locked down. He was the all around best corner in the league, I think by far. Easily hands down. You got him and Derek Cely jr. But he was on the everything DB team, of course. And now he joins a very, very short list of cornerbacks to win this award. You got C. Wood, your former teammate, Rob Woodson, Mel Blunt, I think have had two corners. Stefan Gilmore, Deion. So he is Revis everyone building his legacy. Ooh. I don't think Revis wanted. Interesting. Yeah, that's wild. Like that Revis island year. I don't think he wanted Champ Bailey. I don't think he wanted either. He had an unbelievable year as well. But I don't think. Well, because if you're like a great corner, you're not getting a lot of action. Yep. Right. And if you're. Yeah. You're not getting a lot of action. Like even if through the year you blow up, they're going to start sticking away from you. So the action has to come to you for you to do great. Is that why you think corners? Not normally. And it's hard to like. You can't just look at a stand stat sheet and like you can know Jamar Chase or for quarterback or Saquon Barkley. If one of these guys have a great game. Just looking at the box score, just very much like offensive lineman, you don't really know unless you know, unless you're a guy who's getting Sante Sam and getting 10, 11 picks a year. So he's had ball production. He follows them on receivers. He shows up in the run game. He does everything you want to do at that cornerback position. He's defense player. Hell yeah. Good for him. Super bowl champion A.J. hawk is here. A.J. is the palpable buzz that we are feeling around us as old friends gather and new friends file in into this place. Does it make you go back to the time when you won the Super Bowl, A.J. do you want to put the pads on one last time? Is this one of those games where you think to yourself, oh, I wish I had one more game in me. Can you, can you feel that energy radiating through your spot? I can feel that sarcastic energy is radiating through my, through my bones. But yeah, I think anytime. Not just me as, not just you guys as former players. I mean, Deebot, you know, we know you and James have been on the same wavelength for a while. Like, you know, anytime you're around the Super Bowl. I remember being a little kid watching the super bowl thinking, hell, I want to put my pads on and play right now. So I don't think that goes away for really anybody in America. Yeah, I think it's the big one, you know, and everybody's here. We talked to Governor Jeff Landry. They talked about the world, you know, seeing even more of New Orleans, especially with what just happened, you know, last month to start the new year here. It's like they're very proud of it. It's awesome. And the super bowl is always going to live up to the hype. AQ Shipley, you think the game's going to be a great one? We have flip flopped, all of us, numerous times. The game has become a pick em basically on ESPN, bet both teams minus 110 on the money line, which is the same exact odds for either team to win. So that's coin toss. Chiefs still favored by one though, if you take the points, last time I checked it. But it's still, it's basically a pickup in this. What is the last thing we should think about before we make our pick? I think the biggest thing that you have to always take into account when this game happens with the Kansas City Chiefs is the triangle between Spags, Reed, Mahomes. You just always have to play that in your mind. I think there's so many people here that think the Eagles are the team and they on paper are the team. But those three guys are special. Okay, thanks for the sage words of advice. Before we make our picks, ladies and gentlemen, we have some guido, there's some gator. I believe there's some gator. Where? I believe there's some guy. Right, Guy. We got some gator. Okay. Oh, gator Batu. Thank you. One of my favorite ways to eat gator. Fish fry Louisiana Fish fry, obviously. Shout out. You guys want some gator bite? Love some gator. Gator nugget. Gator nugget. Catch one. Yeah. Throw him right in. Right in his mouth. Yeah. Oh, no, I got that one. Came off a thumb. Sorry about debunk. I got. Hey, K. Cheers to you boys. He's a little guy now. That's good gator. It is really good. Kind of freaks me out a little bit. It's like a mixture between chicken and calamar. We used to eat a dinosaur that's. Well. And then we ate an alien last night. Octopus true. That's good. Get up. That does taste really good. I love me some gator. That's unbelievable. Doesn't compare to Jeff. Kind of just tastes like. Is gator like elk? Chicken nugget? I don't know if all it is. I don't think it's like elk. I think gator's in. How Gator like Gator like. What's his name? Okay. Like Rogan eats elk. Like is super. Like. Is gator like that gator is Tony. Is g. Healthy is what you're saying for you? I don't think. I don't think it's clean. I don't think gator nuggets necessarily fried. Gator. Definitely not. It has some grill. Gator. Perhaps that would be a little more healthy. Go. Of course. Perhaps. If I had to guess, from what you have heard from my gate of knowledge. Have you been talking to a lot of the locals? I've been talking to a lot of locals, yeah. Yeah. How do you feel about the city? I feel great about the city. Like I said, it's just got that Detroit flair, you know? There's something about this place that makes me think of grit and hard work and Gatorade. Plenty of other things. Maybe some po. Boy. You're telling me when we were walking around the French Quarters last night, you thought of Detroit. No way. That was out of a movie there. Yeah, yeah, like a. Like a 8 mile movie. But. But. But France, you know, Just something hit me. I don't know. I don't know what it was, man. It just. I. I went right. I thought I heard Eminem rapping in the background. That French quarters was cool. Yeah. It felt like we were walking in history there legitimately. Oh, tight streets there. Cool designs. Pirates of the Caribbean. The way it's set up is wild. Yeah. I mean, Tortuga. It's amazing how quick the accent can rub off on con. Oh, man, I love, love it. This could be you. Yeah. I could definitely love to talk like this. I could definitely love. I'm quite sure I'd enjoy. All right. Before we make our picks, we need to take some quick picks from a man who is from the great country of up north. He's been giving out picks for decades and decades. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for Sports Rage. Gabriel Morenzi making us some money at the Super Bowl. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Nobody. Yeah, hold on. I gotta turn this mic off. Turn this mic on. Hell, yeah. Hey, can you turn the handheld on? He's got the handheld. I wanted AQ to enjoy this. My man. You're on. Yes. Okay. Okay, Gabe. Every year, you come on, you bring the energy, you bring the juice, you bring the fashion, you bring the jacket, you bring the flair, if you will, but you also try to bring. You bring the range. Oh, yeah. And we try. And Cajun style. Okay. I like that. Especially with little Gator up here. Yeah, little Gator. Little Gator up here. You also try to bring us some winners, and in years past, you gave us first touchdown score. O.W. beckham Jr. Pass 750. You've hit a couple winners for us in the past. Today, what do you have for the big game? And what are you thinking about whenever you're two days out? Well, you remember a couple of years ago when these two teams played, who scored the first touchdown? Jalen Hurts. And I'm still upset that I didn't take it two years ago. I know. Saquon, listen. Saquon Barkley, I think is going to get into the end zone, but I think that Jalen Hurts will be the first touchdown scorer of this game. But if you're taking someone on Kansas City, I think we go with Kareem Hunt at plus 800. Oh, running back. Yeah, Kareem Hunt. One thing about the Kansas City Chief. Touchdown props here, guys. Normally the team that's favored, it's a shorter price. So you're getting big numbers. If you think somebody on Kansas City is going to score first, you're getting a nice price for, like, Xavier Worthy's 10 to 1. Travis Kelce's like 8 to 1. Kareem Hunt's like 8 to 1. So I'm going to go with Jalen Hurts. You're getting like, plus 600 range. Range. But let's go with a little bit on Kareem hunt as well. Pat. Plus 800, baby. Okay, so that's first scores. Is there anything for first possession? Like, I believe there is first completion, first reception. Who would that be? I'M not getting too gimmicky. Okay, I like that. I like that. Okay, let's get to the mating potatoes. I don't care what color Taylor Swift socks are or anything like that. Oh, she's not gonna wear socks, obviously. Incredible heels. That's no gimmicks. But let's keep it simple. I think the Philadelphia Eagles are going to win this football game because of Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley on the ground. I think it's going to be a punishing 1, 2 attack. We saw Joe Mixon had success against Kansas city. We saw C.J. stroud had success. C.J. stroud doesn't really like to run the football that much. He took off. This is the playoffs, guys. You know better than anybody. Hell, we see, you know, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning will run into playoffs. Right. You got a Super bowl on the line. Jalen's not going to hold back. I think 37 and a half yards, guys. For Jalen, hurts is too late. And you know what? He's gone over this number in eight of his last 11 games, including the game he got hurt in, even against. Against Washington. Yeah. When Kenny Pickett came in. And you know he's going to take off in this game. I also think Mahomes going to go over his numbers getting up there. 29 and a half right now. I think, you know, we all know Mahomes sneaky, you know, that's. That's smart. He's going to get the first down when he needs it. I think both quarterbacks are going to go over their rush yards. And I'm not scared of Saquon Barkley at over 110, 112 and a half. That's a high number. It is Super Bowl. Yeah, it is. But all he's been doing is crushing this number right, on a weekly basis. You can't stop him. Listen, guys, we saw the Buffalo Bills ran for 73 yards in the third quarter alone against Kansas City. For whatever reason, Joe Brady stopped running the ball in the fourth quarter. I think you can have success. Yes. The only gimmicky prop. And this isn't a gimmicky kind of gimmicky, though. No, this is for the crew here, for the defensive boys. Over 42 and a half made tackles for the Kansas City chiefs. Okay, over 42 and a half. What's a normal line there? What does that mean? What's a normal line? I like your thinking here. No, no, you know what? Exactly. That's how we afford those nice cowboy hats. That's Right. No. Basically, Saquon Barkley is going to touch the ball like, what, 25 times, 23 times. Jalen hurts. Probably going to rush the ball another six, seven, eight times. I think the Eagles are going to win the battle the time of possession. I think they're just going to wear them out, run the ball down their throat all night long. And for the record, Kansas city had like 45 tackles. Okay. Yeah, that's what we're saying. So. Yeah, it's sort of in those. Yeah. 42 and a half of those two players. Yeah. Total defense. This is a new bed. I'm working. Yeah. So gimmicky. Not gimmicky. Like, I don't look like an accountant, but I actually am one, so I'll tell you. Get out of town. No way. I got books. I'm like, what's secret? The. The Eagles ran 66 plays in their last game. Okay, all right. So out of the 60 play, how many times are going to go out of bounds? Does that not count as a tackle? That's not a tackle. Right. So that's the only player gets a tackle, though. That player gets a tackle. If they're the. Let's say no one touches. Barkley just runs out of bounds. It's not. You know, I lost a player without a tackle, so it's like half tackle, assisted tackles, tackles, all combined. Because I think the Philadelphia Eagles are going to run a lot of plays. Yeah. And I also think. I don't think they're going to run wild. There's going to be times in a game where the. The chief defense will stuff them a bit. Right. So I'm expecting a lot of plays. Run 60, 65 plays, you know, for. For the offense. I love everything about that. Tone has a question for you, Gabe. Yeah, I do. On that basis, I. I kind of like Drew. Drew. Drew Tranquil. Sorry. He is plus 750 to be the leading tackler in the game. He's the Chief's leading tackler in the playoffs. How do you feel about that? That's a good bet. You're getting a nice number. He's good gobbler. Good goblin. That's that. Like I said, that's. That's why he is who he is. The favorite. Favorite is. The favorite is Zach Bond and then it's Nick Bolton and then Drew Tranquil. I believe his fourth shortest odds to be the top tackler in the game. So that's why I went with that one. Xavier Worthy. This is another. I get to Xavier Worthy. Xavier Worthy. We know he's a badass. And we know he's going to haunt the Buffalo Bills from here to eternity. Who would have saw that coming? All right, Buffalo Bills fan. Yeah. It's a great job by, you know, let's, let's hand it to them. And I've said this before, the Kansas City Chiefs, you know, if the building, if somebody's breaking into the Kansas City Chiefs practice facility and you see them, you see the robbers leaving, I wouldn't call the cops. I'd be like, listen, they're on their own. If you're the Buffalo Bills, you'd have helped me out at this point in time. Oh, you're talking about trading. Yeah, yeah. Like really, at what point in time do you learn? So I knew that Xavier Worthy was going to score the touchdown against the Bills. He did, of course. And here we go again. I think he's going to score a touchdown of the Super Bowl. Guys, I like Xavier Worthy to get into the end zone for the Kansas City Chiefs, like plus 155 plus 160 right now. But I like Xavier Worthy. Under five and a half receptions, I don't think he's gonna catch six balls in this game. He's gonna catch four or five and he's gonna get a couple of carries. And Xavier Worthy's rushing yard prop is five and a half yards. Yeah. Slow. All right, don't tell me, don't tell me. You can't pick that up. You know what I mean? Like we're going over five and a half. Yeah. I also like SAQUON BARKLEY Over 14 and a half receiving yards. Couple that could. That could happen on one little bubble screen. Yeah, that's SAQUON BARKLEY Football. 32 1/2 yards is the average touchdown score for him. Go ahead, Debug. Speaking of Saquan and you're Bills fan, so congratulations on Josh Allen winning the mvp. Who do you like? I didn't get a cut of the bonus, man. So yeah, it was a big bonus. Love that. But who do you. What's your best bet for Super Bowl MVP going into the game? Super bowl mvp. When it's all said and done, I think it's going to be Saquon Barkley. I think Saquon Barkley. Quickly, I've got a final score for you guys from. Yeah, numbers, baby. And warm Detroit and go back to the casino and get it done. Hit these on the roulette possibly. I love the term. I was laughing out loud, man. When I, you know, it's Governor Boston Cone. Yeah. You know what I mean? They're both great cities. Yeah, I agree. As far as the total of this football game, the so called sharps and I hate the term sharps and squares and all that, but a lot of pro betters. Pat, earlier they did bet on the under this football game. I personally don't know why. I think there's going to be points. It's a fast track at the Superdome. There's going to be a couple of trick plays run. There could be some short fields. Both teams are very efficient when they have the football and all this Kansas City stuff. These guys are rope at open. You know, like Floyd Mayweather in the first five, six rounds of a fight in the first weeks of the season. Right. They dialed it up on offense right Now Andy Reid starts to run plays that Yale ran in 1912 that you never saw before. So look, they hung 32 on the bills. I think the Chiefs are going to get to 27 points, three touchdowns and two field goals for the Kansas City Chiefs. And I've got four touchdowns and one field goal for the Philadelphia Eagles, which adds up to 31, 27 birds. 31, 27 birds and it pays. 150 to one. Okay, 150 to one. That's good. I'll take it. Incredible odds. I'll take it. Done. It's been an incredible combo. Gabe, we appreciate you bringing us this juice on Friday. I always appreciate the. The tradition continues, my man. Absolutely. Ladies and gentlemen, Sports Rage. Who's got it better than us? No, nobody. We appreciate you, baby. Gabe. Ms. Man as well, you know what I mean? Awesome. I didn't know. Thank you, Gabe. Thank you, Gabe. I felt like there was some real always. There's some winners in there. Oh yeah, we might have some winners in there. I'll take 31. 20 seconds. Sweet. Jack, you have to. I'm betting it. Great job. 151 Gabe. I'll tell you what, if that hits. Gabe. Yep. Gabe's gonna be on Cloud Hunter. Yeah, he's the goat if it hits. He is all of his things, just so much. That's how you know he lives in, sleeps and he eats gambling. Always looking for an angle. Always looking for an angle. He sold me on that tack. 42 and a half tackles normally a tackle about 45. Couple guys run out of bounds. I'm losing a play. I'm losing a play. So I need that on that whole thing. A little gimmicky, not too gimmicky tones. Too tranquil. Plus seven as the Leading tackler on the defense everyone thinks is he's going to be on the field. Yeah. With a running team. It feels like tranquil is a great. All right, let's get to it, boys. We've been waffling and waffling. We have. We've taken casino visits and lost our ass and come back. We've done this show, we've talked to experts. Yeah. People that know it inside and out. Big old brains. And we've gone to dinners and we've gone to casinos, lost our ass. Patio. Talk about the good old days. Oh, yeah, yeah, we're in them. We're in them right now. Then do a show, talk to more experts. Waffle, waffle, Waffle, Waffle waffle. We've been flip flopping all of us. I think if everybody's been telling the truth. Yes. None of us have had any conviction on who's going to win this super bowl, which is exactly how it's supposed to be. I think the AFC's best taking on the NFC's best and nobody has a fucking clue. That's great news. Yeah. There's been people on TV that have made picks in back to back days and they picked both teams. Yep. Can't blame them. Hey, who's going to win? Eagles. They're going to bull you. Then they have to go and lay down at night and they have to read through their mentions and they have to see everybody say, oh, okay, so Patrick Mahomes isn't even playing in this game. And you wake up, you're like, Patrick Mahomes played. Chiefs are going to win. That's what they do. You pick the Chiefs the next day. Everybody's like that. Basically a pick them on ESPN BET -110 for both parties. Parties on the money line. That being said, let's make our picks. It will be a pick em. The one point does not matter. To wrap this thing up, we'll start with you. AQ Shipley, host of in the Trenches, handed out a trenchy award to the Philadelphia Eagles offensive line for being the best offensive line in the game. AQ Shipley, who do you pick? How do you pick? Well, see, there's been no waffling year. I have been fully convicted. I have unwavered on the Philadelphia Eagles offensive line. I've. I've wavered a little bit on one guy, but I've never wavered on the Philadelphia Eagles offensive line because of that. They're going to win. They are going to win and I think they're going to win exactly the Way that Gabe just said it, they're going to get the ball and they're going to pound it. Saquon's going to run it. Offensive line, they're all back. The center's back, the guard back. They got a fully healthy group. How healthy? No idea. It's a Super Bowl. We use everything you got. Eagles will win this game. Okay, there for a bit. You did question, didn't he? Yeah, you did. Because you said you never wavered. You had them as the sixth best team in the divisional round when there's eight teams and the Rams above them. But where did I have that offensive line that same week? Number one. But you said they can't win the game. Well, that changed after I saw that offensive line win the game. Okay, your thoughts have evolved. Wait a minute. This group is legendary. Is there a chance that they go down in conversation? They could have had the rushing title. Could have. I mean, everybody. That would have been a big game from Saquon and from them, but they could have had it. They are by far the reason why they are winning. The stats say both yards before contact for Saquon Barkley and the amount of rushes versus the amount of passes that the offense has done as a whole. They put the team on their back. Will they be in a historic conversation? Who is in the historic conversation of offense, offensive line? Yeah, I think they're going to be in the top five conversation of all time. I really do. I think you go back to some of those Steelers offensive lines in the 70s, they were phenomenal. I think they put four or five in the hall of Fame. They got a bunch of guys on this Eagles team. Cowboys. Exactly. With Larry Allen. I mean, they were obviously Dickerson's group. Yeah. But when you take a look and now that you have these stats of how many yards Saquon had before being touched, it is all on the offensive line. When those stats come out. How about it? Congrats to the big boys. Can they win the big one? Aq Shipley says yes. Let's go to one half of the Hammer down Cowboys. AP Town ap. You had your MVP ballot, correct? Yep. Congratulations. Thank you. Do you appreciate the fact that people were wondering why you got a vote and then you saw everybody else who had a vote and said, wait a second. Who? Well, make me feel a little. I'm the problem. Spelled your name wrong. A lot of people are saying how welcome. Tony Diggs is not on this list. That's not my actual name. My name is Anthony Short. Tony Short for Anthony. There's People that don't know that. Yes, see, that's the problem. There's some places that have zero Italians. Yeah, exactly. Not a problem. But I see what you mean. Spelling. I can hurt it. But please, please, Anthony, you did great with your AP vote. You represented this program very well. Represent. Proud of you. Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity. Thank you for doing all the work. I. I have. I. I did waffle. Okay. Early in the week was always the Eagles for me. Just because on paper, statistically the matchups, I, I thought they were the better team and the better matchup today. I, I waffled a bit in my head. I. You're not going to. You're not going to bet against Patrick Mahomes, are you? But I am. I'm going to stick with my, my, my prediction early in the week and my gut early in the week. And I am going to go with the Philadelphia Eagles. Okay. O line. D line. Howie, listen. O line, D line. When you're born and raised in a steel town built on running game and defense, you kind of always tend to lean that way. And that's what I'm going to do. Okay, So A taking the offensive line. Anthony De Jolio taking the Eagles in the power football. Let's go to the toxic table. You two are wearing title have been all damn day. Ty, we'll start with you. Who are you picking and is it the Kansas City Chiefs? Because you've been wearing that all day. Well, maybe. But listen, I love Sirianni more than just about any coach in the league. I feel like me and him have. We're a bit simpatico, you know, or we've. We've become that way a little bit. Yeah. Because it feels like you're maybe speaking for himself maybe sometimes. Yeah. Listen, Cooper G. You know, Iowa, Hawkeye, starting in the Super Bowl. You shitting me? His rookie year. His birthday is on Super Bowl Sunday. Saquon's birthday is on Super Bowl Sunday. I want the Eagles to win. I really do. I don't think they're going to. It's been the same thing. I started early on their birthdays. On their birthdays. I know. I just. Mahomes just doesn't really lose these games. I think the Eagles, they'd have to win by like 10, 13 points. And we talked about that yesterday. Like, it doesn't matter if the Chiefs get down 13 points. Hell, it doesn't matter if they get down 20 points. Like there's a good chance that Mahomes is just going to. Will him to A victory. I think he's going to do it again. But. But I would love to see the Eagles win. I just don't think they're going to. So you've had the same thoughts as we all have, but you've actually decided to waffle all the way over? Yes. Diggs said he thought about that this morning, and he was like, no, I'm not going. I'm going to stick with it. You had that thought this morning. You're like, yeah. What? Yeah, that's Mahomes. Yeah, that's Patrick Mahomes. There's a reason he's already in the goat conversation. Exactly. Yeah. Boston Connor over there on the toxic table, you have the Philadelphia Eagles title that you can get@wweshop.com. it's beautiful. It's been holding you up, you say? Yeah, it has. Truly. Is there a reason you're wearing it? No, there isn't, actually. I woke up this morning, I said I could see the Eagles crying. I could see the. The. The red and white confetti. You know, you can see Mahomes driving down the field, down by two, getting all the way down to the goal line up, kneeling it out a couple times, get that clock down to five, kick a field goal. Game over three. Pete the merch is everywhere. Pat Riley makes a billion dollars. I could see that in my brain. But then I could also see, you know, my. My Philly bloodline. You know, my mother's from Philly. Okay. I got Philly blood in these. And then I think. I think about, how could I not acknowledge Philadelphia and what they've done this year? And Jalen hurts in that old line, and Sirianni and, you know, I watched the Star is Born on Sunday a week ago. How was it? Bradley Cooper, so good. He's the front man. And as I'm kind of just looking to Sunday, I see Bradley Cooper slinging Philly cheesesteaks on that field to everybody, everybody. Every player who just dumped Gatorade onto coach Nick Sirianni, who isn't a big dumb dipshit, who's a genius, who's kind of the future, this great man right there serving cheesesteaks right now out of a food truck here in Louisiana. He's dealing them. You know what that brings? Good mojo. You know what good mojo brings? What's that? Super Bowls. So I'm riding with the Philadelphia Eagles. I think the Eagles are gonna win. I really do. I think three Pete's are incredible, but I don't think they're meant to happen. I truly Don't. I think this is finally Phillies year and you know, to what Drew Brees said, we did hear a lot from a lot of people. Drew Brees yesterday said, philly's the most desperate team and I love a good desperation. Hungry dog. Hungry dogs. Victagio. We talked about how long he's been in the game. No Super Bowls. Like, you know, he's going to have something up his sleeve. Spags and Reed for sure. But, you know, Fangio is not walking into the super bowl, never being there, never winning it. Just like, yeah, let's just run everything that we've been doing. I think he's going to mix it up. I think it's going to be a great game. But the Eagles win. Okay, so the title belts were an indicator earlier. Happy to see it. Way to represent boys. Elgses. I might have just got swayed another time. Nine year NFL vet, massive football brain. Looks like he's not 100% sure where he's headed yet either. Ladies and gentlemen, host of everything, DB Good, D, bad. Darius J. Butler. How do you like the game to turn out? Been waffling. Been waffling all. All week long, you know, because everybody's been saying it all week long. You look at the rosters, Eagles got the better roster. There's no doubt about it. They got more talent, they got more money spent on the roster. It's well constructed. But then you're like, I can't bet against Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl. He always gets it done. You think about the triangle you mentioned. Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, Spags, they always get it done in the biggest moments. And history's, you know, it's right on the line. Three peak. They are the villains. But that being said, when you root for four teams and one of them make it, Jalen Hurst doesn't turn the ball over. Maddie P. Talked about it earlier. We talked about hearing from a bunch of people. Maddie P. Has been on this stage in this moment for a bunch of times. Number one defense, number one rushing attack with the quarterback that doesn't turn the ball over. I think it's their time, Philly. They get it done. Okay. Fly, Eagles, fly. Wow. Wow. Yeah. E A G L e S Eagles. 4 out of the 5 votes thus far on this particular. Don't feel great about that. No, me neither. Five out of six, if you count Gabe Morenzi, who gave his pick. AJ Hawks, super bowl champion, all time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packer. Have you been swayed by anybody on the stage? Thus far. In which way are you leaning? Well, I'm kind of. I've been swayed all week. I absolutely have. Every single day. I've thought different things, but I. Since I have sat up here, I'd say the last 12 minutes, I'm 100% sold. Okay. That's all you need? That's all I need. The last 12. I'm like. I'm like Bill McComas when someone's attacking his blackjack skills. Like he's gonna die on that. It's a hill he's willing to die on. It's how he plays black blackjack. Right? Yes, I agree. That's how strong I feel about my. He was actually starting to get heated at us for calling out what was happening in front of his hand. Smart move turning on him. Yeah, he was trying to turn on us, but too many people were like, nah, this is. This is pretty asinine, dude, what you're doing here. And that's. But it made him a firmer believer. Being persecuted by you guys makes me more firm in my beliefs. Okay. That the Philadelphia Eagles win this game. 3124. Wow. Wow. We didn't persecute you. I didn't see that coming. I felt it. I felt it. I thought you were Chiefs the whole time. I really did. Until now. I might have been. Last 12 minutes, Eagles. It's a great chance we end up on a Patrick Mahomes. Real Chiefs, though, right? Got one. I mean, we just giving him more motivation. Gumpy, who do you got? Love the Chiefs. Okay. We got too. Okay. Bobby Okar is over there. That's a good sign. Good to see you, Bobby. Bobby. Bobby. Good to see you, Bobby. It's a big moment, Bobby. Yeah. Keep it moving, Bobby. Who's Jeff Landry picking? He's not asked him on Sunday morning. He's. Yeah. He still doesn't know I've been watching in the box. It's my state. My wife got two tickets. She's lucky enough to bring me. No. I'm lucky enough. She nice enough. Yeah. Yeah. The way you say that really make him look bad. Yeah. True. Or the other way. Apologies, Governor. Man, you know, 12 minutes you've been locked in. I'm not joking. Waffled in my life. You would. Would you like to change your pick? No. Stick with it. Would anybody like to change their pick? No. I'm thinking about it. I'm not. But I'm not. No, I can't. Locked in. You gotta acknowledge your bloodline. I got my blood. I got my bloodline. On the line, I think the Philadelphia Eagles. Wow. Wow. Ah, that was hard coming out of my mouth. I don't like it one bit. Bad Chiefs are still the Chiefs, ain't they? Yeah. I thought that's what you were history 3 Pete is what they said immediately after the last one. I'm taking the Chiefs. Get the out of here. What was I thinking there? It's hard to get over. It is. What was I thinking right there? Everyone's getting swept up in the Philly fever and I get it. I mean, we had the Eagles swoop. Yeah. Well, the Eagle super fan, full time. Seven years. Philly sports guy. Philly sports guy. We had him over here. He's full time now for seven years. You think, you know, that's not going to sweep you up a little bit and be like, hey, we love this team. Fats, you had Siri on the show. I mean, we had, you know, guys, love, love the way they're built. Love it. Love everything. Jalen Carter's playing 99 of the snaps. He's a D lineman. Zach Ball. Howie Roseman yesterday. So incredibly kind. Great guys. The way they built the team. How he seemed loose. He did, didn't he? Just walking down the French quarter real comfy. Not. Not a worry in the world. Strong. I mean, he came in real strong with the hand fired up. It was a. It was a full on. What up? One of those. And I saw his J's. I was like, damn, really nice shoes out of you out here. And they introduced me to his family. Great guy. Great guy. Love Siri came on the program. Love the offensive line. Yeah. How about that D line, Philly D line. Vic Fangio is a dog too. He needs one, don't he? Yeah. Yes, he does. Yes, he does. I'm taking the Eagles. Okay. I'm on the Eagles. Okay. We can cut whichever one. Sit with that for a moment. Yeah. Bathe in it a little bit. Yeah. Have a little. Yeah. Anybody else like to change your pick? Are you locked in? You're locked in. Absolutely. You're locked in. My teams played for the Eagles. I have to. I. I have to. I'm sticking with the cheese. Cool. Col Gator. Interesting. Not as good as. There's nothing like a fresh gator. Is a cold, bloody. We got to go. I got to leave through here. Yeah, you do. Chiefs are still the Chiefs. Day three Pete. All right. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change their life. I really like Last chance. Oh, my God. Haven't seen Fake Andy Reid. That's true. That's a good thing. Yeah. Give me the. You thought I should go the other way? I think. Well, he's not confident. He's not here. I'm worried. Seeing him every year and they've won. I'm worried. Saw him bopping around every day last couple years. Same with the wolf. A lot of bopping. Yeah. The wolf got. The wolf's locked up now. They won't let him out. He has been locked up, hadn't he? Yeah. Not like. Not like m. The taga. No. This wolf locked up. Happy tiger. Free tiger. Chiefs are still the chief Chiefs. God. How, though? How they win it? What color? Figure it out. What color is your shirt? Green. I know. Yeah. I was looking around. Green, green, green, green. There's been a lot of green here. He's got a Philadelphia thing that says, build a wall around Philadelphia. The hell. That was not. That was not a compliment to Philly. That's right. But at least it's got Pennsylvania reference on it. These j literally said, build a wall around Philly to make it better. Pittsburgh reference. So that was where he stands on Texas. Yeah. Well, surprised he didn't wear his ice jacket today. Let's get out of here. Thank you, everybody. That was part of setting this up. Mystic Scenic Studios, I believe, is the company that built this set. Thank you so much for your incredible work. This looks incredibly authentic and awesome and everything worked to barcode and ESPN crew that wired this whole thing set this thing up. Thank you so much. It looks amazing. To the NFL people that have this radio row, thank you for the opportunity for letting us be here. To the people that stand out here, thank you so much. I really appreciate you guys. Hell, yeah. It's incredibly awkward, but we. We do appreciate getting a chance to see you guys. Josh Allen is mvp. A sign says that is accurate. That's a good sign. It's an accurate sign. Yeah. Looks like it was made by hand, too. So that's maximum effort. Like the work ethic of the sign. Everything good about the sign there. And. Yeah. Let's enjoy the super bowl, boys. Okay. All year, a lot of Eagles fans on the set. A couple of us still believers in the Chiefs. That's right. Maybe we look like fools on Monday. Maybe. Or maybe it's you guys. Oh, no. Could be. Maybe I take. Nope. Same with Chiefs. Yep. This one doesn't. It's because you want the Eagles to win. Like I want the Eagles to win. I just. I just. It's the Chiefs. Yeah. So what happens if the Eagles win? Then The Chiefs don't have the refs on their side to win every game or how's this work? How's that conversation go? No, they still do. Hey, just to get to the super bowl, people cherry pick. They're trying to give it to them. Oh, they're trying to give it to him. Saying that whole thing had to beat the refs and the Chief. What is the over under on calls? Be the champ. You gotta knock him out. You do. You do. Humans are out there making the calls. What's the. Who's the ref? Torbert. Yeah, he makes. He makes a few calls. Well, Tor's got a national international stage bingo for an ISO. Got a good voice. So we're definitely a couple of these. Couple of these. At least one. Yeah. A couple of these. I hope not. I hope not. There's definitely gonna be a few of these. Couple of these. Lot of they see. I see. Maybe even one of these. You think he's going to do one? I think there's going to be one of those. Zack. One of these. Illegal shift, Elon. Illegal shift. Easy. You already brought up your ice jacket. Straight sideways. Oh, yeah. Very, very stern. Yeah. You practice that motion. Yeah. Maybe a couple of these too. Get. Yep. Couple of these approaches. Will he do anything cool like index card, like Gene Steor? No, I don't know if he has that. He might have like a cool Tom Cruise run. Over to the replay camp. Fox is calling it. Tom's on it, right? Yep. He's gonna be great. Sure. Definitely. Burkhart's gonna be fantastic. Yeah. Pereira. Yeah, Pereira's there. Yeah. Playing Dino. Yep. Blandino. All the boys. What's Halftime show. Kendrick. Kendrick Lamar. Caesar, Sizza Sza. Hopefully Za has been announced. Hopefully. Wheezy. That ain't happening. Yeah, he said he's not gonna be in attendance. Shite. That's what he would say though, right? Kayfabe, kfab. Absolutely. So we'll see. We're gonna get a couple surprises for sure. Definitely. Always do. Not Drake. Sure. I think that's probably a good guess. I. I would assume not Drake in the Super Bowl. But what if it is? And what if it's all. It's all gimme. It's all work. I don't know if that's. That would be pretty wild scene. It would be cool. Oh, yeah. Drop the lawsuit on the stage. It's getting dirty out there. Let's enjoy the game. Boys in the back. Great work, boys. Great work, boys. The Island. Foxy and the lads. There you go. Really good. Work, boys. All right, let's get the hell out of here. We'll see for every action Monday, I think it's gonna be a great game. Great game. Pumped. Chiefs still Chiefs. Chiefs still the Chiefs, right? We believe that. Yeah. Yeah, I do. Yeah. And that's. That's what's awesome. Keep reassuring. If they don't win, guess what? Very happy for Sirianni and all the. I am very happy for Siri. Yeah. Absolutely. That they made Super Bowl. Yeah. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. It might change your life. We're in this thing together. Team on me. Team on three. Have a great super bowl weekend. Be safe. Enjoy it all. Overreaction Monday is going to be epic. Yeah. Team on three. One, two, three. Team. Goodbye.