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PMS 2.0 1477 - Merry Christmas Eve, NFL Christmas Day/Week 17 Preview, Mike McCarthy, JJ Watt, & AJ Hawk
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Pat McAfee
Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our holly, jolly, humble abode on this magical Christmas Eve edition of a sports show that shouldn't be on television. And it starts now. Football. It is magical and obviously it'll be alongside of our Christmases tomorrow. Two on Netflix, one on Prime. To be honest, the game certainly looked a lot better in the preseason whenever we were forecasting what a great NFL season could look like. Obviously, the Dallas Cowboys on Christmas, we're certainly going to make that happen. And listen, we can sell the hope of what the future can be. And maybe when I traded Michael Parson, Michael Parsons, they said that it was going to be a bad situation. But the Dallas Cowboys on Christmas, if you want this to have success, this is what you do. They did have us play the Commanders. Obviously that'll be a good time. Jaden Daniels, he's coming into his own. Dan Quinn, Cliff Kingsbury, still there. They traded for Debo Samuel. The Washington Commanders on Christmas on Netflix, a new partner that's spending billions, billions of dollars on sports and live stream sports content and taking over Christmas from the NBA. Let's go ahead and give them a big one to start today. Hey, you know, they're just going to be coming fresh out of the the unwrapping of the gifts from Santa Claus. You know, everybody's going to be kind of settling in. Boom. Let's go ahead and hit them with the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Commanders. And then right after that, guess who we got? What's more holly jolly than Motor City? Dan Campbell and the Detroit Lions. A rugged, tough team, the Detroit Lions. We've seen them on another holiday, Thanksgiving for a long time, just getting smacked in the mouth. Now they have a go ahead and give them Christmas as well. Let the world see this comeback tale for a city, for a team, for an organization in a beautiful way on a beautiful day, in the middle of it, while people are, you know, kind of settling in maybe for their dinner or maybe their second bite or, you know, celebrating their new toys or fixing the batteries or fixing something that potentially took place. Let's give them the Detroit Lions in the Minnesota Vikings. You know where it's going to be? It's going to be over there in beautiful Minneapolis, Minnesota. And we're going to see a lot of cool traditions. Like when things get going, we're going to see their entire fan base go, Skull. Skull. Skull. Skull. Skull. Skull. Skull. Skull. Skull. Skull. Whatever the end of it is, we don't know for sure, but that's going to be a magical moment on Christmas Day. Now I'm not going to say it's only there also in Iceland. I believe Iceland gave that to the Minnesota Vikings, now part of the San Antonio spurs world. And we will like to say we think that it's a good thing, not a bad thing. You know, if only one stadium or arena was allowed to do the white striped seven nation army, that would certainly not be good for all of sports. So the fact that something that is a sick community event like that is being added to an event as opposed to being gatekeeped away from an event, I think is good for sports. We want more moments, we want that. Anything Wemby wants to do, by the way, I think we should follow suit. This guy seemingly has it figured out okay. He hangs out with the monks, he hangs out with Kevin Garnett. That's both in a two month period. He's with a monk and he's with KG in a two month period trying to learn about the universe. He's trying to make sports in the spurs atmosphere even more electrifying. We like that, we don't hate that. But if I was the minister of Vikings fans forever, you could say hey, we're the first American ones that really had this. And the spurs fans would say that's cool. We got a guy who's 7 foot 9, does this entire thing. What are you guys doing? Well, they're hosting a Christmas Day game against the Detroit Lions. And the Detroit Lions favored by seven and a half. Oh no. On Christmas, just maybe that's a vibes thing, maybe not. But certainly in the preseason, looking at what this game could have been as opposed to, you know, the Bears being the story. The Bears and the packers obviously always going to be in the conversation of the NFC North. Instead it's the others in the NFC north whenever the others are actually in a conversation for the super bowl couldn't have projected that. And then the Denver Broncos coming into the year with their defense with another year with Sean Payton, with Bo Nix, they were Lombardi darlings. Still in the conversation for sure. And then who are they playing? Yeah, Patrick and Trev, of course. The NFL thought okay, they had a Christmas Day home run. Absolutely. And how could you not? I think when it came out, I think we were all like, okay. And then the Kansas City Chiefs, that's going to become a new Christmas tradition. They're red Andy Reid, pretty holy jolly himself, you know, in the home of the cheese. Can only say that for five more years.
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Conman
Oh, they're moving.
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Coach Mike McCarthy
Yikes.
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Pat McAfee
That's big news right now.
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Conman
Arrow dead stadium.
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Pat McAfee
Oh, whoa.
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Conman
I didn't mean to do that.
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Pat McAfee
Arrow almost. Please. We still have five more years.
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Conman
Good point.
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Pat McAfee
This is until 2031. We're certainly going to piss everybody off now. And we're going to have to live through it for the next five, six years. But yeah, we're moving right across where we're going. Kansas. Yeah, Kansas City. One of those funny city names that. It's two of them in two different states. One of them not being Kansas. Any other one. Turns out in Kansas, they're moving over to Kansas.
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JJ Watt
That's right.
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Pat McAfee
And Kansas said, you know what? Welcome home, Kansas City Chiefs. That's what they said. You know what? We're going to give you whatever you want.
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Ty Schmidt
Everything.
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Pat McAfee
Here's $3 billion. You guys can keep this tickets and merch just like you. Yeah, it's a good little deal. All we're going to do is we're going to pay for this in star bonds. Okay. I did a little research on this. I'm not a big bond stock market guy. Would rather bet on something you're in control of as opposed to some. But it sounds like people do really well over there. Star bonds, I guess are a type of loan from state. Okay. That will be paid for by their saying the taxes on what is gener. So I believe what is happening over there with this $3 billion investment and the chiefs moving from Missouri over to Kansas is they're going to build one of those super duper Kansas City chiefs worlds. This could be chiefs town. It's Kansas City Chiefs town. That. That is in Kansas now. So we have restaurants. I assume there's going to be some sort of museum or hall of fame for the Kansas City chiefs, let alone with all the history with Clark Hunt and we saw in the chiefs documentary, they're literally, what, underground, Pulling out his desk or something like that. I feel like they're probably going to make this a attraction. They're going to try their best to have their own version of a lambo type operation that takes place over there in Green Bay. So I think what the state of Kansas is betting is that all the business that's going to come through, we're going to be able to get that money back without taking any of the revenue from the Kansas City chiefs. Now immediately upon seeing that, you go, wow, State of Kansas just got hoes. This, this feels like taxpayers are, you know, really just kind of begging, like what's going. Life is okay. Whenever they were over there in Missouri, what's going on here? So why Would you make that deal? But it feels like the state of Kansas is trying to make a bet on the fact that they're going to be able to bring in enough to be able to pay us off. Now, granted, those taxes, once they start, do you ever turn them off? I don't think any government's ever done that. Right. So I think once you see a flow of income coming, you're probably going to keep that. So does that end up affecting the rest of the state and the taxpayers? I don't know enough about the situation, but I will say taxpayers will certainly feel it. And if they, if they don't win and this doesn't, you know, if they go back to being not good.
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Ty Schmidt
Oh, boy, they're not.
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Pat McAfee
Because they have Patrick Mahomes. Yeah.
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Ty Schmidt
And it's indoors.
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Pat McAfee
They do have a dome. So, you know, they'll be able to have a lot of great events. I mean, Taylor Swift concert in Kansas.
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Ty Schmidt
Sure.
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Pat McAfee
That might have been what it really was.
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Ty Schmidt
Could have been.
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Pat McAfee
That might have been the entire draw draws. Taylor Swift needs to be coming to Kansas. That's where we need her to be. And that's a big deal. I think if you talk business wise, especially when she's gonna have a restaurant. Oh, there's a chance.
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Ty Schmidt
Taylor's.
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Conman
I mean, 1587.
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Pat McAfee
Oh, it's right. It's already there.
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Conman
Yeah. Kelsey and Mahomes.
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Ty Schmidt
Boom.
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Conman
There you go.
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Pat McAfee
We got a plate from their place downtown. Kansas City, I believe. Missouri. Okay. So this will be going into Kansas City. Chiefs Ton, I believe. Yeah. I don't. Yeah. KC Moe right there. KC Mo.
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Ty Schmidt
Yep.
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Conman
Good run.
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Pat McAfee
Five years. They got. Hey, they got Wagyu in there.
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Conman
Yeah. Five years. But all they're thinking about is can't.
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Pat McAfee
Wait to get to Kansas.
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Conman
It's gonna be so much better in Kansas.
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Pat McAfee
In Kansas City, Chiefstown. Nonetheless, we appreciate a new stadium in. We hope that the fans don't feel like they got completely screwed in this, but there's going to be people pissed and it's certainly going to be a change of things that we're not going to be in the home of the chief that we've come to know. But it feels like that's going to change. Good for them. But they are the nightcap for our Christmas NFL lineup. And then the NBA, they're throwing heat too. You know, if there's commercial or something like that or you want to change the channel or a game becomes absolute shite, you can go over to Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Knicks. That's a big one. Because I think there's a Mickey Mouse game.
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Conman
Yes, there is a Mickey Mouse Watch along.
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Pat McAfee
Yes, there's a Mickey Mouse Watch along. We got an incredible gifts on here. This is a part. A good part of being part of the ESPN relationship that we have. It's like we get some of the Disney promotional stuff and I think we would get it anyways because we are a sports show at this point. But nonetheless, we got this dunk the holes package. Ken's gonna go crazy. Ken is gonna go crazy.
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Conman
Lilo Stitch.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah, they got them all in there. They literally got them all in there. I think Mickey Mouse is le believe the fun clubhouse is going to be a part of it. It's. Yeah, I think they're doing one of those things that's, you know, the added benefit, especially on Christmas day. Hey, who knows what type of Disney gifts are coming with Santa Claus. Don the chimney. Here's last year's. And I'll tell you, Mickey gets loose. People forget and I don't know who.
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Conman
So those are actual humans that they make animated, I believe.
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Pat McAfee
Oh, they make them Disney characters.
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Conman
Yeah. Of the players.
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Pat McAfee
And then they track them. Yes. With a GPS thing.
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Conman
Yeah. And I think they're actually doing.
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Pat McAfee
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Donald Goofy. All right. Yeah. So they're gonna have a good time. So that is available. What's that on the Disney Channel? Disney Network, probably on the Disney Channel. Yeah.
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Ty Schmidt
The Dano thing, the Monsters. Monsters, Inc. Thing was on the Disney app, so I assume probably.
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Pat McAfee
Okay, we can check that out and then, you know, obviously the day is filled with great sports. We're so incredibly thankful and lucky that we're in the sports world and today should be a good one. We got coach Mike McCarth join us. He had a picture was saying with his daughters last year.
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Ty Schmidt
He did.
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Pat McAfee
He said in the season we're doing this and I will say we got a gift from coach Mike McCarthy. Now there is a chance and I'm not even going to say it because I don't want to give him a heads up. I don't want to tip. Okay. All right. There was a lot of gifts.
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Conman
A lot of gifts.
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Ty Schmidt
Yeah, he's good gift.
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Pat McAfee
He knows what was in there, what wasn't it.
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Ty Schmidt
Yes, he does.
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Pat McAfee
Yes, he does.
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Ty Schmidt
We don't picked it. He packaged it himself.
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Pat McAfee
We don't need to. We just need to know that he even that pie.
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Conman
Those pies the cooks.
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Pat McAfee
Oh, charcuterie board.
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Ty Schmidt
Fresh moots.
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Conman
Come on.
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Pat McAfee
Foxy was back here with a knife this morning cutting up coach Mike McCarthy and his wife's. I don't want to say her name.
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Ty Schmidt
Jessica.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah, that was who it came from. Has he said her name before?
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Conman
Yes. Yes, last week.
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Pat McAfee
Okay, good. If not, we should dump that.
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Ty Schmidt
Yeah, sure.
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Pat McAfee
You know, that's what I was. But I do appreciate you both on. In rhythm, on time.
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Conman
I have football coach in the NFL. I. I think he's probably been on the field with his. With his. With his wife before. Probably.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah. Yeah, probably super bowl.
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Conman
For sure. We know that for sure.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah, definitely.
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Conman
We all know Andy Reid's wife, you know.
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Pat McAfee
Certainly. Yeah. Yeah. What's going on with Andy Reid? So is he back for. Is he going to be there in Kansas?
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Conman
I doubt it.
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Pat McAfee
What?
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Ty Schmidt
20, 31 a long ways away.
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Conman
Yeah, I think he. I think he's calling it before that.
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Pat McAfee
Talks to table at boss Connor at Ty Schmidt. Merry Christmas Eve.
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Conman
Merry Christmas Eve, boys.
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Pat McAfee
This is a great time of year.
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Ty Schmidt
The best time of the year.
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Pat McAfee
1/2 of the Hammer Cowboys AP tone. What a time of the year.
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Ty Schmidt
What a time.
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Pat McAfee
Football matters.
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Ty Schmidt
Yes.
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Pat McAfee
Okay. Now tomorrow, not really. So that's gonna be tough for us to really sell there.
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Conman
Stranger Things is out.
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Pat McAfee
So what?
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Conman
No big deal. Stranger Things is big TV show on Netflix. Huge day for Netflix. They're really, you know, touching all the bases tomorrow. Respect.
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Pat McAfee
So this is kind of the streaming platform's goals. Have big events and then whenever the big events happen on their platform, they're hoping they can hold you. Now netfl Netflix was able to crack the code. Netflix and Chill became its own thing. It wasn't like they had to draw you there. You were already going to Netflix just to check out what the hell. They had everybody else trying to do the same thing. So that's why they're all getting into the NFL business. That's why they're getting into live sports business, because they're hoping that they can get you on their platform. And then all the ancillary shit, they're gonna try to keep you there. Okay. And say, hey, you can just come hang out here. You don't have to be drawn here because of a big event. So Netflix saying, all right, we got some games. They might be ass, though. Let's go ahead and drop a little Stranger Things in here. Let's go ahead and tell them right underneath too. By the way, you know what else is that super duper sequel to Tiger King that you watched five years ago? We got the follow up on that. Boom. How about have you heard about what Pete did eat?
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Ty Schmidt
Boom.
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Pat McAfee
We got a whole thing for it. Still trending in there. And, oh, yeah, holiday movie here. We want to get in spirit because this game is ass. We got you there. Netflix gonna be pulling all the tricks. Oh, yeah, and Stranger Things is a good fastball. That's the one about those little kids riding the bikes.
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Conman
Yeah, exactly. With the underworld. To your point, upside down.
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Pat McAfee
Whatever.
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Conman
To your point, quietly, Netflix dropped a Adam Sandman George Clooney film. What's that on Netflix right now? Yeah, I do not. I haven't seen it yet.
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Pat McAfee
I've only seen the trailer. Well, we know, though.
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Conman
But, yeah, it's Clooney and Sandman, so you can assume it's kind of like a Judge Shohei home run derby of a movie.
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Pat McAfee
Yes, exactly. The world baseball classic of a movie. Yeah, I can't believe that's available on Netflix right now.
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Conman
It came out, like, two weeks ago. I was surfing last night and I saw it. I didn't pull the trigger, but it looked amazing.
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Pat McAfee
Did Bob Bunny get a recast? Travis Kelce get a recast? Is it a Sandman Happy Madison production?
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Ty Schmidt
No, no, I believe it's. It's more serious.
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Conman
Fair?
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Ty Schmidt
I say not if Clooney's. Yeah, I believe Sandman is. Is going. You know, he is a drama performance.
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Pat McAfee
I heard Clooney was looking forward to working with the Happy Madison production, I'm sure. Oh, yeah, sure.
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Conman
And he asked for Spade, but I think Spade was busy. You know, it was one of those types of situations. But it does look like a good film. So another thing, I mean, Netflix might actually have 100 million people just from the United States on their app tomorrow.
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Pat McAfee
Good for them. They certainly wish the games were a little bit bigger and more meaningful. Now, we got big names. Cowboys, Chiefs. You got it all. Like, you can sell everything, every different angle you could possibly piece together. But obviously, none of the games mean anywhere near what we thought they would mean at the beginning of the season. But it's still NFL football. We certainly will watch the incredible talent. Now joining us, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who sent us a wonderful gift here. All of us, all wonderful gifts. We can't thank him enough for that, ladies and gentlemen. He's a Super bowl champ. He's a man who is our coach. He's been joining us every single week. And I'll tell you what, this Yinzer legend has become one of our favorite conversations we've ever had. Ladies and gentlemen, Coach Mike McCarthy. Go far. His moves get hot in here. Whoa. Yeah.
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Coach Mike McCarthy
It's. Merry Christmas, man. It's here. Merry Christmas Eve.
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Pat McAfee
Merry Christmas. Eve to you as well. So mine, I actually, we had Oz come by and tell it to pause.
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Ty Schmidt
Yeah.
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Pat McAfee
And it did got too hot, so it's just kind of chilling. It's got a perfect temperature, but it is that time of year. Coach Mike McCarthy. Merry Christmas Eve. Did you play any Christmas games? Christmas Eve games? What is kind of your M.O. how many Thanksgiving games? What is your M.O. on playing on these big holidays? And I don't want to say the honor it is, but truly, like, you are being tasked with entertaining the United States of America during their holiday. So I think it is a big honor to play on these, you know, monumental holidays. Coach, is that how you view it as well? And have you ever talked about that with your team?
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Coach Mike McCarthy
Yeah, definitely. I mean, it's, it's, it's another national game opportunity. You know, everybody's watching, you know, and obviously probably been, you know, part of a lot of Thanksgiving games and, you know, and players and coaches, you love playing on a national stage. And I think really the, the real joy is after the victory, you know, you get that extra time off with your. So you may, you know, your Christmas Day or the Thanksgiving Day may be adjusted some, but there's definitely more, you know, more family time on the back end. So I personally always enjoyed playing on the holidays. I thought it was great for your, for your team and really it was kind of nice. You get a little bye week right before the playoffs too. So I think those guys will enjoy, you know, playing tomorrow, frankly.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah, the football people calendar is always like, yeah, Thanksgiving's Thursday, Friday, maybe Saturday, maybe Tuesday. So we will kind of see how, how it all goes. Because having to work, having to practice, even the teams that aren't playing on Christmas obviously have an appearance. They have a game, obviously a lot of them very, very important. It's a lucky part of our job to be able to be a part of the holiday season for everybody. Let's talk about some of the teams that are currently dancing. We talked about the slate for Christmas and it was like projection of these teams and then what actual reality of teams are by this point a little bit different than what we expected in the preseason. When we heard about these. What do you think about the slate and the storylines of these teams? Obviously, Denver favored by 13 and a half against Kansas City, they can still go win it all. But Detroit, Dallas, Washington, Minnesota, Kansas City, all teams because they're on Christmas Day. We all thought this, not just the fans, but also the league, all teams that could be on a Super bowl run and Only one of them are. What do you think that goes to say about these teams and maybe the NFL as a whole? Coach?
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Coach Mike McCarthy
Well, I think it goes back to our parody conversation from a few weeks back. I mean, it's here and it's, and it's been here for the last 30 years and keeps getting stronger. You know, I think, you know, if you look at all the things that have happened just with scheduling the division games, you know, some early, but most late. And I just think, you know, the health of your team, you know, that challenge of getting through the injury, you know, part of this thing, it shows up more and more every year because, you know, you look what, you know, you look at some of those teams there that, you know, with Washington and Kansas City and some of these teams have had. Detroit obviously had to deal with, you know, as far as injuries. It's, it's part of the challenge, you know, 17 games and I don't know how many more teams will be in the playoffs this year that weren't in last year. And I think it bodes well for the NFL and I think it bodes well for the fans.
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Pat McAfee
So.
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Coach Mike McCarthy
But yeah, it's, it's hard to project these games. Definitely harder today, and it was probably 15, 20 years ago.
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Pat McAfee
Parity is what they're striving for. Every league's looking for it because every fan base says, holy shit, we can do it. This could be us next year. We could kind of turn this entire thing around.
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Conman
36Th straight year with at least four new teams. There's five right now from last year. If the Panthers go, that would make it six.
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Pat McAfee
36 straight years.
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Conman
Yes.
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Pat McAfee
Okay, so you can go from actual outhouse to playoff penthouse. And we have a lot of teams doing that this year. It was actually one of our main headlines from Monday and our overreaction Monday, it's like, hey, there are some teams that are absolutely shite. And then had a quick culture change and a turnaround. So if your fan base is going through it right now or your team is ass, there should be a lot of hope with what the league has shown over the last 36 years. Now, now let's talk about first time 21 years, something that you know a lot about. NFC east had a back to back division champion in the Philadelphia Eagles. What do you think that says about the Philadelphia Eagles and are they playing their best ball now? Whenever it comes time to be playing your best ball?
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Coach Mike McCarthy
I think it says, you know, first says a lot about that division. I think the fact that it's Changed, you know, almost, almost yearly. Says a lot about the, how competitive all four teams are and you know, the rivalries, you know, within that division. So. But yeah, you know, I think for Philadelphia, you know, they've had some ups and downs and you want to play your best football here down the stretch. And I think they definitely have better football in front of them because, you know, they win that division like you've already stated, two years in a row. It's tough D with, with, with no questions. So it's important for them to play well these next two weeks to get some momentum going into the playoffs.
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Pat McAfee
Watching Saquon get in the pain and then have some free running space was. It was a trip down memory lane.
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Conman
True.
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Pat McAfee
John's. I assume it was like, oh, this is what it was every game last year, every single game, he broke the record for most rush yards in a season. Obviously there's a bunch of different conversations there. 17 games and it was all the way through the Super Bowl. It just says he was on a good team, but he had more rush yards than anybody ever. The explosive play thing stat was like most in the history of the game, most 20 plus yard plays. And his yards before contact would have been a top five rusher in the NFL just as yards before contact. So it's like last year, what we saw out of this Philadelphia Eagles team was explosive run after explosive run. And then obviously when you have that, that opens up the pass game a lot more. And now granted, the past game wasn't exactly thrilled. First super bowl team to outrush instead of outpass themselves throughout an entire season in a long time. Basically a changing of the guard, becoming a rushing league almost with what the Philadelphia Eagles did. And then this year they were still winning games, but it didn't look the same. It didn't look as great, it didn't look as spectacular. And it was against the commanders. Felt like they kind of got their groove back a little bit and then more people get healthy, more people get on the field and then all of a sudden Sirianni's got a pissed off team going into playoffs who just won a division back to back for the first time in 21 years in the NFC east and they're playing their best ball. It's like, are the Eagles about to go back to back with the super bowl in a time where, where we don't really know who's the clear cut best outside of maybe the Patriots, with how they've been playing against everybody?
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Coach Mike McCarthy
Yeah, definitely. I think, you know, the big thing that you obviously talked about the rushing production. But I know my time in the NFC east, you know, that offensive line in Philadelphia history is going to be very, very kind to that group. I think you're going to have a number of hall of Famers come out of that. I think the stretch that they've had as far as how in the offensive line and productivity, you know, the prior years has been. I've been very, very impressed with and obviously having to compete with. Compete with those guys twice a year directly. So, you know, I think really their play and it's. You say it every year when this playoff slate is set. You know, it's. The battle in the trenches is a thing I know I've always looked at first and I look at the years that we were productive in the playoffs versus years that we were not. You know, those battles up front are critical to your success in.
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Pat McAfee
Okay, so I don't want to start piecing things together. Although it is Christmas Eve and a lot of people are going to be doing all those things around the family dinner table. But where are you from? Mike McCarthy, where are you from?
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Coach Mike McCarthy
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 15217.
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Pat McAfee
Okay. I'm from 15239. I believe Sirianni Western Pennsylvania as well. I believe his dad had time at Western Pennsylvania. Signetti obviously Western Pennsylvania. We all AQ obviously comes on. We all kind of have a similar mindset that the trenches are where it's at. Do you think it's because like Pittsburgh football, like do you think that is like that is what Western Pennsylvania, AFC north, basically we've been accustomed to just like obviously everybody talks about Steel Curtain, but let's not forget about Jerome Bettison. The entire like it's just a run all the way back to Frank. I mean we're, it's a run place. So do you think that is potentially from like birth you were going to be a big time trenches guy? Do you think that is something that has happened or do you think just most football people are trenches people?
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Coach Mike McCarthy
No, I'm buying it. You know, I'll buy anything from western Pennsylvania for sure. Absolutely. But I think that's. You look at the history of the game, you look at championship football. I mean, you know, it's. I don't know if you can go through all the super bowl champions and look at their own D line and it was not a strength of their football team or definitely part of the strength of their football team because you have to have it, you know, you can't, you know, defense. I always look at the defense as the thermostat of your football team. You know, they regulate how the game is, you know, because the defense can always in the game. And then you watch these playoffs, every one of these games is going to come down to a two minute drill. You know, it's going to come down to that last series. So you got that defense that keeps you in the game. And, and that's why, frankly I think you have to spend a tremendous amount of time on the game management and the two minute drills and so forth because that's how you advance in playoffs and that's how you eventually probably have to win the Super Bowl. So it's, it's, it starts in day one, but the trenches are, you got to have it. And it's hard to win a championship if you don't have a defense, you know, regulating, you know, regulating those football games for you. And I could just tell you of 18 years being a head coach, I've had one top five defense that I've coached and that's the year we won the Super Bowl. So there's definitely some statistical, you know, support that lays it out there for you.
- [24:26]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. And it feels like this year there's a lot more elite defenses or great defense, at least more than in past. Like I think way back in the past, from my perspective, one or two good returners in the league. Okay, one or two good returners in the league. Then it became like, hey, everybody saw that. That was an added benefit. We're going to try to get a good returner this year. I think is the same thing whenever it comes to this defensive conversation. I think there has been in the past like two, three defenses that maybe we thought could win a Super Bowl. Now it feels like it's more prevalent. Like, hey, do you think that's because defenses are catching up to the modern offense? Do you think that's why that is? Do you think defenses are getting better or do you think defensive players are getting better? Why do you think defenses are maybe getting better across the board?
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Conman
Board?
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Coach Mike McCarthy
I think it definitely have caught up with question. I think the biggest thing that I've seen is, you know, these rule changes and who adapts to them, you know, the quickest. And you know, I can remember, you know, when they taken the helmet out of the game and in just the way was, you know, officiated, you know, it was so hard to play safety in our game. I mean, there's a point that you're wondering if, you know, some of these guys were really going to be able to play. So but, you know, the coaches and the players, they got it done, you know, focused on the techniques and made it safer as far as taking the head out of the game in that particular, you know, area, as far as crossing routes and those kind of collisions and so forth. So I think the adjustments of these rule changes, you know, is now we're into a full generation of that. So we're, you know, it's definitely being coached and taught in the high school and the college. And so I think our game as a whole is that you have more flow than where you could make an argument through the early 2000s, you know, really from 2000, 2000, 15, 18, that, you know, there's so much change in the rules and officiating. Those guys even had a tougher job, you know, what was a foul, what wasn't a foul. And you know, those things affect, you know, can affect outcome of games. So I think that that's what I see has been a big part of it. But, you know, I think these D lines in today's game are as dominant as I've ever seen. If you don't, if you don't have four number one picks on your defensive front, I mean, you're behind at times, you know, and I think if you're looking for value distribution, how you build a roster, you know, if you just want to look for a blueprint, you know, four number one picks in that front is kind of the norm, you know, and that's why as an offensive line, you know, you probably got to consider having three number one picks, you know, as far as the value distribution of how important it is to win up front. So I think that's something that really has always been there. But I think everything's heightened because, you know, people like yourself and the conversations and the detail of the conversations that I see now that being able to, you know, sit out and watch, watch people talk about the game, the education and expertise is. Is so much more available for our fans. And I think we've helped educate the fan base better. And, you know, it's not in gambling, probably has advanced that too. So, you know, not that I gamble.
- [27:24]
Pat McAfee
But if you, hey, bad, you hit on so many things there. The generational heads up football, I do think that was huge help. I think that was huge because all the OG football players were in the middle of like, hey, I've been taught this one way my whole life. And now at the highest level, against the fastest people, I'm having to think and I think that's what you're talking about. With flow now, everything's just natural. These guys have their heads up, they're going to the side now. Some people will still say it's a little bit softer, but we're still getting huge hits now. And the hits aren't necessarily the crown. We're getting big time shots from shoulder hitting, strike zone. It's like these kids have been doing this since high school. So like they have perfect. There's still dogs out there. They've just perfected where we're going with this thing and what they call I, I think you're 100% spot on that. And then you're talking about the four ones up at the front. Philadelphia Eagles, like to your point, like that's what the Philadelphia Eagles had. They also had the trenches and the, the run game going. It's like, feels like whenever things change, it all comes back to the same. Maybe we're playing the best version of this football right now than we had been for the last few years. It's a good time. The games are great, you know, and even 44 year olds can get back in there and spin that thing. Hey. Huh. Phil River's not bad.
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Coach Mike McCarthy
That was impressive.
- [28:38]
Pat McAfee
Okay.
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Coach Mike McCarthy
Were you at the game?
- [28:40]
Pat McAfee
Oh, yeah.
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Coach Mike McCarthy
It looked like a great atmosphere.
- [28:42]
Pat McAfee
I was doing everything I could for him. I was doing everything I could for Phil. You know, I was trying to be as quiet as possible when he was making the checks. I guess watching the tv, everybody could hear everything he was saying. Are we doing that to every quarterback? Are we doing that to every quarterback or are we having the mics all the way up at 10 whenever he's speaking? How come everybody at home knew Orlando was going to be the quick for Tyler Warren, pick six for D winners. And then he even talks to him afterwards. He goes, you heard me do that in the first, in the first half earlier. And D goes, yeah, I heard that. And then you did it again or whatever. He goes, that's all right. Good play, good play. And he jogs off. It's like, well, you know why he heard it and. Sure, maybe just his ears. Although I, I'm not 100% sure if you're able to hear anything after hearing that Lucas Oil Stadium one time. But maybe it's because the TV had Phil Rick on 10 and it was echoing through the goddamn sidelines, baby. I mean, everything he said we heard. And obviously he's making checks. But they had this clip come out yesterday on Inside the NFL, which is now available on X from NFL Films. And by the way, that's right home for him. It's a clip show. They showcase Aaron Rodgers, okay? And he is talking to a guy that he's been putting over all year, Kenny Gainwell, publicly, he's been putting over, over. He's been saying, I can't believe we're only paying this guy this much. This guy's so good at football. Which once again goes back to leadership. Okay? Whenever you're publicly putting people over, they know that you're on their side, so then they want to show up for you in an even bigger way. Aaron knows that Kenny Gainwell is severely underpaid. This guy is severely underpaid, which could be a little bit of a issue, especially with how he's performing versus other people who are making a shit ton of money in the locker room. So Aaron Rodgers being like, I like this guy. This is my guy. And going to bad form publicly is a form of leaders that I don't think people are really talking about. Whenever you talk about rallying the troops and getting the best out of people, no matter what position they are. And then on the field against the Detroit Lions, have you seen a clip of him talking to Kenny Gainwell?
- [30:32]
Coach Mike McCarthy
No, I didn't see it.
- [30:33]
Pat McAfee
Boom, here it is.
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Coach Mike McCarthy
Oh, you talking when he changed it, told him to go to a go.
- [30:36]
Pat McAfee
Yes, yes. This side, this side. I'm running flat to the right.
- [30:43]
Conman
Motion all the way out.
- [30:44]
Pat McAfee
Run and go all the way. Rodgers off his back foot, throws it down the way. And look at Gainwell.
- [30:57]
Conman
And he scored.
- [30:58]
Pat McAfee
Thinks he has a touchdown. He catch it.
- [31:01]
Coach Mike McCarthy
He catch it. Excellent.
- [31:03]
Pat McAfee
Okay, so, coach, that is a play that I think we don't really see much from quarterbacks anymore. Phil was doing some of it, Aaron obviously doing it. And Bruce Arians, who was in here yesterday, he's like, that's a quarterback. Like, that is what a quarterback is right there. What is your take on that play and how normal or common was that back in the day versus maybe now, Coach?
- [31:23]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Oh, I think that's, you know, you know, of all the quarterbacks that I've had the privilege to work with, his at the line of scrimmage command, and, you know, they all see it great at the, at the line of scrimmage. I think just the way these, these young quarterbacks coming in the league and the way they're, you know, with what they have available. But the, you know, there's one thing of understanding it and seeing it, but to apply it in real time. I always felt Aaron had such a gift There. And if anything, the challenge was, you know, him playing so much faster than his other 10 teammates.
- [31:53]
Ty Schmidt
So.
- [31:54]
Coach Mike McCarthy
But yeah, his ability to process at the line of scrimmage and get that done in real time. I always thought he was exceptional. He played a different level in that area and that's a great example of it right there.
- [32:07]
Pat McAfee
How much does that happen? Because he's literally just drawing it up basically in the dirt there. Okay, they're doing this. You definitely have a linebacker on you right now. Instead of running a flat. Kenny, let's go. And Kenny, by the way, is told to go to the flat. Still looking for forward in his thing. He's told her to go to the flat, so. And Kenny said, all right, I'm going to flat. Who knows what the actual play call was. And then two seconds later, go all the way motion all the way out, run and go. Yep, you got it. I'm out of here. Just not even questioning like that. I think that showcases a lot of buy in too that nobody really talks about in what these Steelers have going on, Coach.
- [32:38]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Yeah, and what I like about it too is, you know, really the second part of the play, you know, that's, that was the pre snap. But look, you know, you're watching what, you watch what he did in the post snap, you know, because he's obviously looking off the safety. He's holding the safety on the backside as. So I mean, he's clearly going there, you know, once he, you know, he confirms he has the one on one there with the linebacker. So, you know, the ability to take the safety out of the play too is a big part of that too. So not only to see the check, to recognize that, you know, the man coverage, but to also in real time, you know, have the presence to hold off the safety. Hold off the safety and then to make the throw off his back foot. So I mean that's, you know, that's quarterback play and that's. And that's, you know, that's a big part of his greatness.
- [33:20]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, certainly. And then also making a catch. Yeah, getting up there and doing it, that's like, that's awesome. And now granted, he deserves a lot of money, so he's on contract here.
- [33:31]
Ty Schmidt
Sure.
- [33:31]
Pat McAfee
So those types of catches certainly help. But I think everybody around him is like he's already earned whatever contract is coming. This guy is unbelievable. Speaking of unbelievable, 19 straight years of a non losing season. Go ahead, Tone.
- [33:44]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, Coach Mike Tomlin. 19 straight years of not losing, 22 straight for the Pittsburgh Steelers as a whole. He got his 200th win on season Sunday. Can you just talk as a. As a head coach how hard this is and how impressive this run is? And I think you're pretty close to 202 yourself, aren't you?
- [34:01]
Pat McAfee
185. I looked it up. 185. Hey, that's a lot of weight. Hey, that's a lot of weight.
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Conman
Okay, coach.
- [34:08]
Pat McAfee
That's a lot of wins, but, hey, say anything. Yeah, doing a thing. That's incredible. Good for you.
- [34:14]
Coach Mike McCarthy
I mean, 200 wins, actually. I'm so happy to see Mike, you know, get the recognition and love that he deserves. You know, we talked about Mike a few weeks back here on the show, and. And this is, to me, is the reality of who he is as a coach. I mean, to do that for 19 seasons is incredible. I mean, you want that in your leader. You want that in your leadership of how you train the team. And to do that 19 years in a row is. It's incredible. He's a Hall of Famer, in my view, and I'm just really happy for him to see him recognized properly, and this is what he deserves.
- [34:50]
Pat McAfee
All right, so who are all you olds that have been head coaching around for a While and Andy McCarthy. Sean Payton would count. Sean Payton would count, I believe. Mike Tomlin. Who else?
- [35:03]
Coach Mike McCarthy
John Harbaugh.
- [35:04]
Pat McAfee
John Harbaugh, I guess.
- [35:07]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Pete Carroll.
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JJ Watt
Yeah.
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Pat McAfee
Which?
- [35:10]
Ty Schmidt
Hey, the rum.
- [35:11]
Conman
Jim Harbaugh. Yeah, Jim Harbaugh, I guess. Two.
- [35:15]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, yeah. I mean, he was with the Niners, though, so. But it's like, it's obviously if you're ass, you're not getting that, you know, so it's like you don't survive that long for being an ass at your job, at anything in the NFL. True meritocracy, you know, that will actually catch up with you if it's not going how it's supposed to go, or how they're expecting or how they are hoping it would go. But Coach Tomlin always winning. Tell me what that. Because you know. You know Yinzer's shit, you know, Yinzers. So whenever you talk to them, they're like, winning season. Cool. Yeah. This is fun. All right. This is fun. We'd like to win a Super Bowl. Feels like after watching this team beat the Lions the way they did, the Steelers fans are starting to be like, wait a minute. Maybe this team can win a Super Bowl. It was just a few weeks ago when they were saying, we're done. This team is cooked. They can't win a Super Bowl. Yeah, we'll win Games, but there's no way when it matters they'll win. Now they get a win over the Lions, they play the way they do, it's a tough win, obviously crazy ending there, but they think to themselves, actually our team can win a Super Bowl. What are your thoughts on the Pittsburgh Steelers and what are your thoughts on what they would need to do to win a Super bowl and can they do it?
- [36:21]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Yeah, I, well, I think I can. I mean, you know, Sunday I called home, you know, right, right during the game there, you know, the Pittsburgh Detroit game. And it kind of reminded me of old times. You know, my mom was cooking, everybody was there at the house watching the game and everybody was, everybody's so excited now, just like you've said. And you know, they're talking about winning Super Bowls again back here and that's exciting time, you know, just, it reminded me when I was, was a kid, you know, back in the 70s. So, you know, that's what I'm rooting for, you know. You know, I think Green Bay still has enough to make a run here. Let's, you know, get healthy and you know, you know, get this playoff berth here this week. But yeah, it's exciting times in Pittsburgh and that's, and that's the way it should be and it's, it's great to see the fans just stay behind this team. But I know just talking to family and friends, you know, this past weekend, everybody's fired up and it's, it was cool to see that.
- [37:12]
Pat McAfee
I love the nostalgia, good vibes. Cuz Pittsburgh is obviously a place where when the Steelers are winning, the town is h much happy they whenever the Steelers are losing. And we actually asked everybody that's going to be on the show, lay in front of a microphone what their Christmas wish would be in football. What would their ball Christmas wish be? What Was yours, Coach McCarthy?
- [37:35]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Well, I'm sorry I jumped ahead. No, no, perfect time. Oh, I'm wishing for a Pittsburgh Super Bowl. I think it'd be great to get back to see the black and gold and really just when I was asked the question, I, I was thinking about my conversation, you know, with my mother and my siblings this, this past Sunday. So kind of had that vibe, you know, had that 70s vibe to it and, and, and I think it'd be awesome to see these guys going to run here.
- [37:59]
Pat McAfee
Could you imagine Aaron Rodgers going into Pittsburgh after he was just booted out with Achilles and a half out of New York, goes into the darkness, loaded out of Green Bay and then he goes To Pittsburgh, a town that and their team that was basically like, hey, figure it out. Here they go all in shout to the con artist if they were able to do this. Spending 30 million on a wide receiver that's never been in Pittsburgh before. Okay, now granted he's going to miss a couple games and that whole contract thing is certainly up a conversation and there's an investigation going on and that, but not nonetheless, they make a lot of plays that they don't normally do. Like that is not what the Pittsburgh Steelers normally do. Go outside the building. Johnny Smith, Jalen Ramsey, Darius. You start naming off all these things. The amount of money they have invested on defensive side of the roster. It's like everything that they've done this past year has been a little bit out of the normal. Because the normal for the Pittsburgh Steelers is we're sustained greatness. We don't need to do all the weird desperate moves that everybody else does to try to make their team good. We don't fire our coaches. We don't spend crazy. We build from within. This is what we are. This is just that that is what Steelers have always been is like we are who we are. So this past offseason basically making a declaration of doing something vastly different. And I know it's a different GM as opposed to Kevin Colbert. Kevin Colbert.
- [39:19]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Kevin.
- [39:19]
JJ Watt
Yeah.
- [39:20]
Pat McAfee
Good guy. Could have drafted me, didn't so okay, sick. But he was a good guy to me. He was a good guy to me. Khan obviously doing things very differently right now. But they also made a statement like hey, we don't know how long this group has as Pittsburgh Steelers. And a big part of like you listen to Joey Porter. Whenever he got announced he was going in the sp Steelers hall, he was like, we felt like we did our job cuz we brought a trophy into that building. Like that was kind of how they view it. Like Steelers alumni still hang out and what they're proud of is like the decoration which is the Lombardi that they added into the facility into the stadium. So it's like I feel like this group that Steelers have all kind of acknowledged like, hey, we need to, we need to do something different. And I appreciate that they did. And if it pays off, Yinzers are going to be pumped.
- [40:01]
JJ Watt
And.
- [40:02]
Pat McAfee
And then next year. What are we doing now? Okay, we don't got quarterback. We got. I mean it's just immediately into that.
- [40:08]
Ty Schmidt
He's coming back next year.
- [40:09]
Pat McAfee
What's that?
- [40:10]
Ty Schmidt
Eight's coming back? Not if you win the Super Bowl.
- [40:11]
Pat McAfee
He's not eight for eight. Seven. This one was for seven.
- [40:16]
Ty Schmidt
This one was for seven.
- [40:17]
Pat McAfee
This one's for seven. He's going to say, this one's for seven, you know, Ben. And then he's going to go next year. 8 for 8.
- [40:24]
Ty Schmidt
8 for 8 actually does work.
- [40:26]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Oh, my God.
- [40:27]
Pat McAfee
That's his wish list. That's his Big Mike's football Christmas wish. I love to hear that about talking to your family back in Pittsburgh and kind of feeling alive, especially. All right, let's talk about some other stuff. Go ahead, Ty.
- [40:37]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, Coach. The Pro bowl rosters were announced yesterday, and I think the Pro bowl has kind of just turned into a shit show that nobody cares about. But for you, I believe you had five of your former players got selected yesterday. What is your just opinion on the Pro bowl as a whole? And also, is there a chance that maybe you're heading down to Disney World in Orlando to be head coach of the Pro bowl games?
- [41:00]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Oh, no, no. I don't plan on going to Disney World anytime.
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Pat McAfee
It's a huge honor. That would be a huge, massive honor. Huge honor to coach the Pro.
- [41:11]
Conman
Could get 186.
- [41:12]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. Oh, maybe win 186. Try to work that in that work. And nonetheless, sorry, we apologize.
- [41:17]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Yeah, I don't think that counts, but I love, I love the Pro bowl with great memories as, as a family coaching the Pro Bowl. And I can remember, I remember my daughter Gabby always wanting to go to the Pro bowl and say, no, honey, we want to go to the Super Bowl. We've been to too many Pro Bowls. So I was very fortunate to coach it a number of times. But it is, it's a great honor. I always enjoyed the moments of when you acknowledge the players in the team meetings and when you announce it. But you also have the, you know, the disappointment where, you know, just this voting process, it sometimes seems where a young player, you know, gets voted in maybe the next year instead of the year that he actually has that great season. So, yeah, the voting process, I mean, you could, you could pick that apart if you like, but it's a big deal. And because just like anything, when you do have acknowledgement from your peers, you know, when the coaches and the players do vote on it, I think that means. That means the most. I always felt respect is what we all want in this game and to be respected by your peers, it definitely carries a lot of weight. But no, it's the game itself and what's happened to it. It, frankly, I think it's a shame. I thought the Hawaii setup was. Was outstanding. But in, you know, with player safety and everything that goes on, the risk is, you know, I do understand that and what they've done with it. So I think the league has done. Has done a really good job, you know, trying to keep it intact and look and just, you know, only watching it on tv, it looks like the guys do have fun with it. But the reward was always the families. You know, to see the players and their families and, you know, the time around the pole, you know, just the activities and, you know, that was always. And my two sons still talk about it all the time. Some of the best times that they had was back at the Pro Bowl. So, yeah, it is a big deal.
- [43:08]
Pat McAfee
Congrats to all the guys who made it. It is a big deal. Like coach Mike McCarthy is talking about in the team meeting room. When you find out that you made it, guys care. Like, that is a moment where guys care at the Pro Bowl. It does appear as if it's not that big of a deal to some guys while it's happening. I do think the flag football trying to make it something is certainly an effort, but with all the studies and research and money that is currently available. I think Miles Garrett got hurt during.
- [43:35]
Ty Schmidt
The Super Dipper, broke his toe during the relay race obstacle course.
- [43:38]
Pat McAfee
It's like, yeah, that's just going to be now what everybody says I'm not doing that for. Okay, now I have a real reason not to do it. So I don't know how you save it unless you make it. Some contests I think they should make return to what they did in Hawaii. The quarterback contest was awesome. Then we're not expecting Peyton Manning against Brett Favre. I think I saw Warren Moon in one. Garcia and Steve Garcia. And like, I think Sims was in it like Rich Dan Marino. Like, we watch those old quarterback contests from the Pro bowl and it was like, holy shit. In the content world that we're in right now, this, if you were to put up a prize with a donation on the side of it, this would do thousands. This would do massive numbers. This would do huge numbers. But then, yeah, to what tone just alluded to, it would be asking people to go through an entire a. Because nowadays with how long warm ups are and how many throws and what your arm can handle, it's like, we know two much to have what we used to have in the Pro Bowl. I think we know too much. We have too many terrible catastrophes that happen that can happen anytime a sporting event takes place for anybody to really buy in. But just like the Dunk contest. If you put a big enough prize up and you find the right group of competitors, you can make something good. It's like, I hope we get creative in saving it, because the celebration of the elite in the NFL is certainly something that we should save. And it's held against people or for people whenever there's hall of Fame conversations later. So it carries a lot of weight. So, you know. But you talked about that Hawaii Pro bowl, what it used to be. I mean, there's legendary clips that come out of that. That's why as a lifelong NFL fan, okay, I remember Cordell Stewart competing in this thing as a lifelong NFL fan, and I got to into the NFL, I'm like, I can't wait to make the Pro bowl in Hawaii. Then I start hearing stories, turns out, and I think it's already been said publicly, Peyton Manning was like the mayor of this thing. Okay? He had this thing set up. And I've been to some stuff. Yes, he was. Okay, so he was. I've been in some stuff that Peyton Manning has set up. He every attention to detail, this guy, he sets up amazing things. So I've heard the Pro bowl around the pool. It's all set up. Then we got this. Then we got this. Guys meeting with each other, talking with each other, families meeting each other, setting up. Like, I think there's multiple charities that have been put together, businesses that have been like, I've heard the Pro bowl back in the day, let alone the party. The amount of boozing that's taking place by everybody celebrating life and ball. It's like, I heard these magical stories when I got in the league. They're like, oh, yeah, Peyton kind of puts it all together. It's like, I'm like, yes, I need to make the show. I can't wait to do this entire thing so I finally make it. They moved to Arizona. I like Arizona. Okay. I like Arizona.
- [46:11]
Conman
Great place.
- [46:12]
Pat McAfee
I love Arizona. We didn't even have the whole. We didn't even have the whole hotel. Hotel was split with some other conference.
- [46:18]
Ty Schmidt
That weekend, so guys couldn't even drink in the lobby.
- [46:19]
Pat McAfee
I mean, it was like the worst. I'm like, I missed it by a year. I think I missed it. I missed by a year. But it's like, I think there is a way to save it. And it all revolves around, I think back in Hawaii, where it becomes like, celebration of the greats kind of getting together, and the amount of content behind the scenes we could get could make that a profitable thing. But I think it's gonna be hard to bring it back to life, coach. But it matters. It does matter. I think.
- [46:43]
Coach Mike McCarthy
You know, it was incredible. I mean, the Co Atlanta resort out there, it was fabulous. You know, my first year in the league was 1993, and the hotel just opened up, and I can remember going downstairs and having toast and coffee, and it was 18 bucks. And just, you know, just watch that whole area grow out there. And then to go back here as a head coach in 07, and you said it. I mean, Peyton was the mayor of that whole operation. You know, he'd actually would give the, you know, an address to the whole, you know, both teams, you know, of the AFC and nfc. And, you know, with his sense of humor, I mean, it was awesome. I mean, he did such a great job of, you know, letting everybody know, you know, kind of the rules of, you know, around the pole. And, you know, and I can remember him talking about, you know, autographs situation where, you know, I think it was Jerome Bettis or somebody came up to him and it was his uncle, and he had to throw Jerome and his uncle into the pole. You know, he had these funny stories that go with it, but he did a great job of setting. Setting the tone the first night that we were in there, whether it was Sunday night or Monday night when it started. And so I, you know, definitely, as a coach, you'll always appreciate it. But, yeah, the whole. The game was really secondary. You know, the post game party, I think people look forward to that more than the game, but it was the interaction between players and coaches and the families. You know, like I said, great, great memories. And, you know, I think that part's missed. I never done the, you know, Done the Pro bowl in Disney, but I. I would think they're, you know, they do have that component in place down there because, I mean, who doesn't love going to Disney World?
- [48:16]
Pat McAfee
Well, you just turned it down. We asked you to come. You said, hell, no plans, man.
- [48:21]
Coach Mike McCarthy
I'm busy.
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JJ Watt
I got.
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Pat McAfee
I got things to do. I got. This dog wants to go hunt. Yeah, I got.
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Coach Mike McCarthy
Well, no, he missed the window there. I got it. Yeah, I got some. Why didn't I miss the window? But, I mean, I'm not gonna be able to take them. You know, Calendar's starting to fill up here a little bit, Pat. We got a big family trip coming up here for Christmas. So, you know, we got. We got plans.
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Pat McAfee
What says the first Christmas and how long without.
- [48:47]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Without 1919. I was, you know, 2019, but before that would have been 19 or 1987 or 88.
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Ty Schmidt
Jesus Christ.
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Coach Mike McCarthy
Yeah.
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Pat McAfee
This guy has lived in a football building. You see this man? Yeah. Yeah. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas morning. Well, enjoy it all. We would like that. We appreciate you joining us. Now, there are people, obviously, that are still in the game at the head coaching role that have big decisions to make here going into these last couple weeks. Last week. Go ahead.
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Conman
Yeah, Coach, how do you handle teams that have clinched, you know, like looking at the Steelers, as we've talked about them, if the packers beat the Ravens on Saturday night, the Steelers are in, you know, they don't even have to play week 17, week 18. So how do you handle that with these 10 teams here that have already clinched going into the last two weeks, no seeds have been clinched, so there is still some movement to be made. And then how do you handle the other side of it, you know, with the teams that are completely done? You know, we got the number one overall pick bowl this weekend between the Raiders and the Giants. Raiders are already snipping guys. They put Brock Bowers on the ir, basically saying, like, hey, last thing we need is for you to get her. We'd rather have that number one overall pick for Mendoza. How do you kind of handle that as a coach? And how do you kind of have to respond to what the front office tells you, what they want to see as well?
- [50:11]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Great question. I think just through experience, I've done it both ways as far as playing guys and not playing guys. I think, number one, it's the health of the individual. And I think you got to go through your roster on an individual basis because, you know, for the teams, you know, using Pittsburgh, I mean, you would hate to see someone get injured, you know, in the final game. That, you know, does not mean anything to the playoff front. So. But, you know, healthy players, you know, in my experience, want to place. So I think, you know, you go through it individually and see, you know, where they are, you know, you know, like Aaron with his wrist. I mean, I'm sure that's something that will be talked about if they are in that situation. So I think the preference preventative mindset is part of that, and it really comes down to those individuals. I've sat people in the past, and then if you don't win that divisional round, then you think, oh, shoot, should never sat those guys. We were 151 in 2011, and we sat guys there in the bye week. And I think mentally that was not a great decision because the last game of the season was against the Lions, and both offenses threw for over 500 yards. So, I mean, wasn't, you know, what you want to do, put your defense in that situation in the last game of the season and then go into a bye week and then go into a divisional round. So, I mean, I've seen it on both sides of it, but I would say it'll come down to the individual, where he is, how healthy he is, will he benefit? I'm talking more the veterans, because, you know, I think a veteran, you get above five, six years a veteran. And, you know, and also part of it is how do you train your team? You know, I think when you get into these end of the year practice, you know, definitely shorter. You know, you know, you got to cut the reps back and you got to be smart, but you do need the intensity, particularly in the drills that require timing and, you know, the ball's being distributed and so forth. So you got to keep that intensity and you got to keep your practice environment to, you know, to the level where if you do give a guy a playoff, you know, that week off, he is still, you know, in the regimen of getting ready to play a game. So I think you got to, you know, you look at all those things and just, you know, been fortunate to do over a long time. Those are the kind of conversations I think definitely will be going on next week if those teams are in that situation, obviously. Okay, go ahead.
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Pat McAfee
No, I was gonna say it's a good situation to be in, obviously. It's a great.
- [52:40]
Coach Mike McCarthy
It's a great situation. Yeah, it's a great situation to be in. And I don't think there's a wrong decision. You know, I don't think there's a wrong decision because, you know, you have all the facts, you know, what's going on with every player on your team and also who's going to play. And, you know, you got a young guy that, you know, he may be. You're projecting he's going to start playing maybe 25 to 30% reps in the playoffs as opposed to, you know, you know, being. Being the guy that's right there at 49, 52. So, you know, there's a lot of things to talk about, a lot of things to consider. You know, how that. How you anticipate that roster is going to look when you line up in that wild card game. So. And that's, I mean, that's how we've always approached it in the past. And I think the teams that are out, I mean, the question I would ask is, you know, Particularly a quarterback or, you know, someone, you know, you're early in your career, you're early in your program. You know, it's first year, second year, third year, you know, like a Jalen Daniels, you know, it's important for Jalen to be healthy going into the off season, you know, because these, these players, particularly the quarterbacks, there's so much more that they have to do away from the facility because of the limitations of these off season programs. Now, I know I sound like an old coach bitching about it, but you don't have the time at the facility that you used to have. So these quarterbacks, and I look with, you know, my last experience with Dak Prescott, the amount of time that he spends with his perimeter teammates and away from the facility is, is remarkable. And that's, you know, that is now part of your off season program and you have to approach that. So, I mean, you know, if I'd want my quarterback healthy coming out of that, you know, regular season, especially if the, these games are not, you know, you're not fighting for the playoffs, but, you know, also you got, don't cheat the game. I understand that the fans are paying for so forth and so forth, but if you're early in your development of your football program, boy, I'll tell you what, I'd want my quarterback healthy for that, for that offseason program, selfishly.
- [54:40]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. And you talked about four ones on the D line as well. You know, you've been saying a lot of things, but nonetheless, that they're going to get people excited in New Jersey, New York. We have been thankful to follow along this football season with you every single week in the gift that you sent to us. One of the kindest things we've ever received here. Honestly. I want you to know that Chef Foxy was chopping it up this morning. We had a nice charcuterie board. That wagu steak you guys sent.
- [55:05]
Ty Schmidt
Oh, my God. Mouth watering.
- [55:08]
Pat McAfee
So good, so good. The apple pie. Oh my God, the apple pie. So all of it was great, Coach, we appreciate, appreciate you for that.
- [55:16]
Coach Mike McCarthy
What else you get? Because we gotta thank Jessica because I, I love to tell you hand picked all that for you, but Santa Claus's workshop has nothing on her. So you're on her, you're on her Christmas list.
- [55:27]
JJ Watt
So.
- [55:28]
Coach Mike McCarthy
She said she was gonna take care of you and I'm sure she did.
- [55:31]
JJ Watt
So.
- [55:31]
Pat McAfee
Well, I'm appreciative of you just being that open about it. There was not wagyu steak in there, but. But there was not. We're just gonna start rattling off things for you to go. Yeah, I love that. That apple pie. Yeah. I thought, you know, we're gonna baby. But instead, you've been what you've been all year is just your true, authentic self. And you've been amazing to us. We're so incredibly grateful. Have a great Christmas. Merry Christmas Eve to you, Jessica, and your entire family. Have a good one for the first time since second time since 1987.
- [55:58]
JJ Watt
All right.
- [55:59]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Thank you, Pat. Thank you, man. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. I've had a blast. This has been awesome.
- [56:04]
Pat McAfee
All right, we'll never see you again. He's a good guy.
- [56:13]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, the best.
- [56:14]
Pat McAfee
And Jessica, his wife, the box, she.
- [56:17]
Ty Schmidt
Knocked it out of the park.
- [56:18]
Conman
Beautiful.
- [56:18]
Pat McAfee
A lot of boxes. Huge boxes break rust up. Perishable. It's like so much pressure, so much pressure to open this right now.
- [56:25]
Ty Schmidt
He's been outside for six hours.
- [56:27]
Pat McAfee
Also, we got a lot of boxes here. I'm kind of nervous to open because who knows what's inside?
- [56:31]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, sure.
- [56:31]
Pat McAfee
There could be some story about somebody going through something. I'm gonna feel this might change my entire life. I get a real anxiety with these boxes and what's inside. So anytime I see perishable, it's like they're kind of forcing me to open this right now. All right, I guess we gotta do it. That meat. Oh, my God, that cheeses. How about Foxy's display? I don't know what that's called. Artistry, I guess. Yeah. Unbelievable. Fox. It would have went to waste. We didn't cut it up today, so I had to get it out there. That's why they put perishable on top. And speaking of perishable, this hour's ending right now. We'll see you on the other side. Be a friend. Tell a friend something nice. This is Marshawn Lynch, AKA Beast mode, checking in this holiday season. Everybody out here stressing, shopping, rapping, cooking. But me trying to kick back Marshall sports and go green on my prize picks lineups. Right now, prize picks is getting into the festive spirit where new users get $50 instantly in lineups. When you play your first $5, it's real simple to play. Pick two or more players, pick more or less on their stat projections, and you could win big real quick, faster than heating up leftovers. Mix and match players from any sport all season long on prize Picks, America's number one daily fantasy sports app, available in 45 states, including California, Texas, Florida, and Georgia. Download the prize picks app today and use code TPMS and get 50 instantly in site credits when you play $5. That's code TPMS on prize picks to get $50 instantly in site credits when you play five dollars. Win or lose, you'll get 50 bucks in site credits for just playing. Guaranteed prize picks. It's good to be winning, right? Must be present in certain states. Visit prizepix.com for restrictions and details. This is arc raiders, a multiplayer extraction.
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JJ Watt
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Pat McAfee
Search of something greater in the rust belt. Every run is pressure. Every decision is a play call. Face the relentless machines of arc and rival raiders chasing the same prize.
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JJ Watt
Push forward or extract while you're ahead. Team up.
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Pat McAfee
Trust no one. ARC Raiders is on sale now available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X&S and PC Rate A T for teen. Sam. It. Wow.
- [59:45]
JJ Watt
My God.
- [59:46]
Pat McAfee
Power two begins right? Unbelievable now. Hey, let's go. This show stinks. And the fact that you listen. We are very, very thankful for McAfee all line with a gorgeous assist. The all time leading tackler for the green bay packers. You pick. Stutter, damn it. Your friend. Tell a friend something nice could change. Change your life. Hello, beautiful people. As Sam exits stage left. That man can play a fiddle, can't he?
- [60:25]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah.
- [60:25]
Pat McAfee
On this glorious Christmas eve. Hour two begins. All right, now football. I'll tell you. Ding. Fries are done. Yeah. Ding. What a wonderful rendition right there.
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Conman
Unbelievable. That's Christmas.
- [60:42]
Pat McAfee
I mean, did that not get you fired up?
- [60:43]
Conman
Yeah.
- [60:44]
Pat McAfee
Jesus Christ's birthday tomorrow.
- [60:45]
Ty Schmidt
Sure did.
- [60:46]
Pat McAfee
Fat man coming down chimney. Kids everywhere celebrating and families coming together to celebrate life and ball. And not just basketball as it has been basically for the last 30 years. Also a football slate on Netflix and prime that sports going to unify and make this holiday the greatest holiday it's ever been. And I'll tell you what, there's nothing better than. Than Sam.
- [61:05]
Ty Schmidt
No, there's no, there's not.
- [61:06]
Pat McAfee
On the damn fiddle for sure. With the carol of the bills. He nailed that thing.
- [61:10]
Conman
Sam or Santa send it.
- [61:12]
Pat McAfee
He said.
- [61:12]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah.
- [61:13]
Pat McAfee
No flubs. How about him at the end? Any part of that could.
- [61:18]
Conman
Yeah.
- [61:19]
Ty Schmidt
Oh, yeah.
- [61:19]
Pat McAfee
Little bit softer now. I'll tell you what he did kind of a little bit softer now at the end of that. You know, every once in a while you go to a how at the moon and some fiddler will get up there and play the devil down Georgia look for old Steve. And it's actually in my drunken state a couple different times have purchased violins or fiddles to be delivered to my house because of how cool it looks whenever you're really getting after it. I think it's a pretty hard thing to do, though.
- [61:41]
Ty Schmidt
Without a doubt.
- [61:41]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. I'm pretty sure it's funny. I've tried a couple times. I haven't really been able to get there.
- [61:46]
Ty Schmidt
Oh, no.
- [61:46]
Pat McAfee
Because, boy, it would be good to be Johnny and send a devil packing down there, but turns out it's pretty difficult. So shout out to Sam for that and shout out to Christmas for happening toxic tables here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt. One have the hammer done Cowboys. AP Ton is here. And joining us live from an attic in Ohio, ladies and gentlemen, is a college football national champion super bowl champion Ryder cup winner, A.J. hobbs. Hawker, did you. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, Hawker.
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AJ Hawk
Thank you. Merry Christmas.
- [62:11]
JJ Watt
Absolutely.
- [62:12]
Ty Schmidt
Who's on your shirt?
- [62:13]
Pat McAfee
Can't see because you're.
- [62:14]
AJ Hawk
I believe it's Clark Griswold. Yeah.
- [62:16]
Pat McAfee
Is that your favorite Christmas vacation? Your favorite series or movie as a whole Christmas?
- [62:21]
AJ Hawk
Oh, yeah. I'd say a Christmas movie, no question.
- [62:23]
Pat McAfee
Christmas.
- [62:23]
AJ Hawk
Christmas vacation.
- [62:24]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. That's the.
- [62:25]
AJ Hawk
That's the king.
- [62:25]
Pat McAfee
Okay. Shitter's full. The Grinch. You like Jim Carrey? One original Jim Carrey.
- [62:32]
AJ Hawk
Jim Carrey, absolutely.
- [62:33]
Pat McAfee
What's the one I've been watching with Mackenzie Benedict?
- [62:35]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, Benedict Cumberbatch.
- [62:37]
AJ Hawk
I don't think I've seen that one.
- [62:38]
Ty Schmidt
It's good.
- [62:39]
Pat McAfee
If you. If you haven't seen it with your kids, I don't know if you'll get into it. Your kids might be past the age of it, but like Kenzie, two and a half years old, three years old. I mean, it's right in her wheelhouse because of the incredible animation and the song songs, bangers and, you know, obviously the animation is just at such level where it's like 8K. I mean, it is better. Yeah. It's good movie. I like the Jim Carrey version still. We watch that as well. She understands that this is also the Grinch, you know, two different Grinches here. She likes that. How about the Santa Claus with Tim Allen? That's a yearly tradition for my household as well as well.
- [63:13]
AJ Hawk
Yeah, that. What is there. Was there three of those? They didn't. They didn't get better as they went, but they still are all right.
- [63:18]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, they existed for a while. Story's still good.
- [63:21]
Conman
Obviously.
- [63:21]
Pat McAfee
Santa Claus story is still good. Evil toys. Speaking of story, Christmas story.
- [63:26]
Ty Schmidt
Classic.
- [63:26]
Conman
Miracle on 34th or 32nd, whatever it is.
- [63:29]
Pat McAfee
Miracle on 32nd. I don't think I've seen that one.
- [63:31]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, it's Wonderful Life.
- [63:32]
Conman
I don't think you need to. Classic.
- [63:34]
Pat McAfee
Wonderful Life.
- [63:35]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, it's a Wonderful Life from like the 50s, right? That train movie sucks. 40s. I love polar Express.
- [63:41]
Pat McAfee
You son of a. Sucks. So that one was the one with the bear? Is there a bear in that one?
- [63:46]
Ty Schmidt
Tom Hanks.
- [63:47]
AJ Hawk
Polar Express. Tom Hanks. Animated thing, right?
- [63:49]
Conman
Bear, yeah. Bear. I don't think so. Yeah, it's Tom Hanks and he plays like six different characters. He's a freaking nut job, man.
- [63:55]
Pat McAfee
Oh, okay. I don't think I've seen that one. You brought up Elf. People get real emotional about Elf. I think people really love Elf. I really like Elf. That's kind of my generation.
- [64:03]
Conman
That makes sense.
- [64:04]
JJ Watt
It's a real new school dude kind of thing.
- [64:06]
Pat McAfee
It's an all time class. But it is. That new school though, does love Elf.
- [64:09]
Coach Mike McCarthy
They love it.
- [64:10]
Pat McAfee
You'll get into like Christmas movie discussion with that particular generation and there's real emotion behind Elf. And I don't think I knew the first time the smoke that I was walking into potentially because I had not seen Elf. I think my generation a little bit older than yours. I missed it. I apologize for that. So I am Will Ferrell fan. Let's not get. Get it twisted. I am Will. That one movie may maybe worse than the history, but all the other ones are bangers. So I. I think that should be certainly talked about. Semi pro brother. Got me through a lot of times.
- [64:38]
Conman
No doubt.
- [64:39]
Pat McAfee
What bad one?
- [64:40]
AJ Hawk
What's the bad one?
- [64:41]
Pat McAfee
That one where they're detectives.
- [64:42]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, like the last five.
- [64:44]
Pat McAfee
Whoa. Oh.
- [64:45]
AJ Hawk
Is it like he's trying to be serious, like a dramatic or what?
- [64:47]
Pat McAfee
No, they were trying to be funny.
- [64:49]
Ty Schmidt
It was very slapsticky.
- [64:50]
Pat McAfee
It was tough. Home Alone, he made it come back afterwards though. But I didn't say Elf as mine. Home Alone, exactly.
- [64:56]
Ty Schmidt
That's my goat. One and two.
- [64:57]
Conman
That's the goat. Yeah, yeah.
- [64:58]
Pat McAfee
So like Home Alone, Santa Claus, Grinch. I'll toss in A Christmas Story. Turbo Man.
- [65:05]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Yep, yep.
- [65:06]
AJ Hawk
Yeah.
- [65:06]
Pat McAfee
With Arnold Jiggle all the Way. Jingle all the Way.
- [65:08]
Ty Schmidt
Christmases is great.
- [65:10]
Pat McAfee
That one's not bad. But I didn't. I was rattling all these. I didn't say Elf. And somebody got like actually emotion like very mad at me for skipping over. I watch it. It is a good movie. I think that's a very good Christmas movie. And it came out when Will Ferrell was on that gener. All those movies that came out that you guys mentioned. So it just hits harder. And anything that lasts, every single Christmas, it still plays on tv. That's a good movie. Okay, let's do something that we co forced Coach McCarthy to do in the first hour because he brought the Pittsburgh Steelers. We asked him via text, just like we did to you. Hey, what's your football Christmas wish if you could have one this year? He saw one super bowl, said my family can have fun again. It felt like it was the 70s. Yeah, I mean, what a cool thing.
- [65:50]
Conman
For him to have.
- [65:51]
Pat McAfee
Hopefully that'll happen. Con man, what was your football or football's Christmas wish?
- [65:57]
Conman
Yeah, my Christmas football wish this year was kind of concocted this offseason by someone and I thought it was genius. Maybe it was. It's every off season, but whatever I want for Christmas, every single year, the off season acquisitions, whether it be free agents or trades to not be announced until week one as teams are running out. I. E. Pittsburgh Steelers. Who's going to be their quarterback? The season ends. Last year, no one knows. Week one, 10 guys run out. Who's going to be the 11th guy? Who's going to be the quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers?
- [66:40]
Pat McAfee
Holy schingers beer. Oh my God. The celebration at the Pittsburgh cuz, let alone DK Metcalf comes right out of that tunnel. Yes, we got dk. How much we paying him? That would be the first question. Oh, the quarterback's got to be some low salary ass. May not still be rush jam. And then all. Yes, somebody comes and then all of a sudden, head down. I think hoodie up. I think we got a Stevenson ranch hoodie on. No, no helmet. No helmet on. It's over top and we walk out and then all, all of a sudden like AJ Styles. Yes, double and then run out. Oh my God.
- [67:19]
Conman
Name comes up, fireworks are going and.
- [67:22]
Pat McAfee
We'D like to showcase how selfless we are cuz boy, our jobs would suck if we didn't know where any free agents were going. Hurts us. Hurts us. Hurts us personally.
- [67:31]
Conman
Yeah, but. But could you imagine the seed. Think about Sunday night football. Think about the first weekend tonight. Football.
- [67:37]
Pat McAfee
Now granted, it'd be elimination every night.
- [67:40]
Conman
Yeah. So yeah, of course there would be elimination. But also you. You might not know. Like who knows? Maybe this guy got hurt in the off season. You're not sure. Boom. 2026. Who's running out of the tunnel for the. I don't know, let's just say Indianapolis Colts who are on Sunday night Football. Lamar Jackson.
- [67:57]
Pat McAfee
Oh my God.
- [67:58]
Conman
How did this happen? You know. Now granted, you know, imagine the reaction.
- [68:01]
Ty Schmidt
To Dan Jones walk running out though for the Colts.
- [68:04]
Pat McAfee
Yeah.
- [68:04]
JJ Watt
Oh my good.
- [68:06]
AJ Hawk
Might get a negative reaction for some of the those guys.
- [68:09]
Pat McAfee
Yeah.
- [68:09]
Conman
But that might be cooler.
- [68:10]
Pat McAfee
I went crazy though. I went on absolutely crazy.
- [68:13]
Conman
And then after the first drive, they walk down the field, everyone's like, oh, of course Danny Dimes is our quarterback. But hold on. First drive, Danny Dimes runs freaking wild, brother.
- [68:21]
Pat McAfee
Which he did.
- [68:22]
Conman
Yeah. Maybe throws a 30 yard time.
- [68:24]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. We didn't punt for six weeks.
- [68:25]
Conman
That roller coaster.
- [68:26]
Pat McAfee
The whole. The only issue is if you're an away team, which half the leagues would be. You would be jogging out to I guess some away team heat and it would just have to be there. Or maybe all the starters have to wait until the home game two days or.
- [68:38]
Conman
Or that's the cool pregame, you know. Hey, why are watching pregame shows on week one? That's why the away team reveals their.
- [68:45]
Pat McAfee
On the pregame show. They still jog out the tunnel. Empty tunnel.
- [68:48]
Conman
Empty tunnel.
- [68:49]
Pat McAfee
Pre. Pre workout.
- [68:50]
Conman
Exactly.
- [68:51]
Pat McAfee
Just coming on light show. The whole thing. I'm a Pittsburgh Steeler now. That whole thing. Yeah, not a bad idea. Okay, Ty, what was your football Christmas wish?
- [69:00]
Ty Schmidt
My football Christmas wish is pretty simple. Pretty attainable too. I think it's something that could actually be done probably fairly easily. I simply want Micah Parsons to get a new knee for this week. Stretcher on here, preferably his own. So I don't know if there's a way if they could, you know.
- [69:15]
Pat McAfee
Is that you?
- [69:16]
AJ Hawk
Who is that?
- [69:16]
Ty Schmidt
I'm up to the task if I need to cleats up good scrubs. Well, yeah, I mean, what are you talking about? I'm performing knee surgery on the field to make sure that this guy's ready to go for the playoffs. So, you know, because coach Mike said it, hey, I think the packers have enough to, you know, still make a run. Boy, I'll tell you what, if. If I could just somehow get this guy a new Knee before what, 8 o' clock on Saturday. I'd be feeling much better going into the playoffs. And I think it can be done.
- [69:44]
Pat McAfee
I would like it to be known that the biggest response in POP that I got from hearing the boys responses whenever I pitched idea of football Christmas, which ties response within the words leaving my mouth. They just got out of my lips. Ty goes, I want a new knee for Micah. Is that what we're talking about? I'm like, yes, that's exactly, exactly. That is exactly what we're talking about. So this is something he has thought about before being asked today. So I appreciate the fact that Ty, that you have Spent time away from show and away from packers games where you have envisioned yourself finding or robbing a good knee. Yeah. And then putting that thing on Micah so we can maybe have a top five defense and go on a Super bowl run.
- [70:26]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, exactly. And that's where it gets a little fishy because we can't. Like, I can't give him my knee. You know, like.
- [70:30]
Pat McAfee
Because your knee not good enough.
- [70:31]
Ty Schmidt
No, exactly.
- [70:32]
Pat McAfee
You're not going to be able to bend.
- [70:33]
Ty Schmidt
Exactly, exactly. So where, you know, that might be the only snag. Where we going to find this knee. Can we. You just use his knee and maybe, you know, put it through like a meat grinder and. And fix it a little bit. So that's. That's the only place where I'm kind of getting hung up. But. But no, I mean, like 3D printing.
- [70:48]
Pat McAfee
Whose knee are you trying to. It seems like you got an idea over there.
- [70:51]
Conman
I mean, look, there was a guy who wanted to play for the packers for 5 million bucks. He told us last week. I don't remember him ever having a knee problem.
- [70:57]
Pat McAfee
I didn't even think about that.
- [70:59]
Ty Schmidt
If a team's been eliminated from the playoffs, you're allowed to take their best player's knee and give it to Mike.
- [71:04]
Pat McAfee
Oh, like an organ donor. A joint donor.
- [71:06]
Ty Schmidt
Boom. Brian Burns. Yeah. Like, yeah, your knees.
- [71:09]
Conman
Coming.
- [71:09]
Ty Schmidt
Coming to Green Bay. Sorry, pal.
- [71:12]
Pat McAfee
So you're taking Brian Burns's knee and putting it on.
- [71:14]
Ty Schmidt
He'll get it back after the final. Get it back.
- [71:16]
Pat McAfee
What if they win a Super Bowl? Does the. Does he get a Super Bowl?
- [71:19]
Ty Schmidt
No, that's Micah's knee.
- [71:20]
Pat McAfee
No, it's Brian Burns's knee. He's not.
- [71:22]
AJ Hawk
Not get one.
- [71:23]
Pat McAfee
You got.
- [71:24]
Ty Schmidt
No, you know what?
- [71:26]
AJ Hawk
Yeah, that's part of it.
- [71:27]
Ty Schmidt
If he wants a Super bowl ring, we can get him a. Because it's his knee. You get a pinky. He gets a pinky toe ring.
- [71:31]
Conman
He gets Mike's knee back. He just has to go rehab now.
- [71:34]
Pat McAfee
Sorry. Sorry.
- [71:35]
Conman
You don't get a Super bowl, but now go rehab this ACL dude for Mike.
- [71:40]
Pat McAfee
Let's try and win you a Super Bowl. Try and win you guys super bowl right now. All right. Interesting. I don't know if we're at the technological state of that. I think we're close, but I'm excited to see what it is. AP Town. If you had one football Christmas wish, what would it be?
- [71:52]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah. So last year, in the first year of the College Football Playoff, we were at Notre Dame on Friday night and then Ohio State on Saturday, and then this past weekend we are at Oklahoma and then Texas A and M. And those home atmospheres are so incredible. I believe just like a lot of other great prestigious coaches in the college football believe, that it should be home playoff games until the championship. Okay, the. And the coolest thing that we have kind of seen in all of these, that I think personally is all these entrances, all. All the home atmospheres. This was the light show at Oklahoma, but Oklahoma, while this was going on, also ran. They have the coolest voiceover videos with highlight packages that just in the crowd goes nuts. Everything about these home college football playoff games are unbelievable and we need more of them.
- [72:35]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, I think so too. Especially because other team goes in there, massive comeback and wins. People are saying, like, does it even matter? It's like, yeah, did you watch that? It was fucking electrifying. I mean, it is. That is what college football has that no other sport in maybe on earth.
- [72:52]
Conman
Yeah.
- [72:52]
Pat McAfee
Because of how big it is, how many people it is. Now. I know the soccer teams obviously are very passionate and all in. Just like these colleges, they feel as. It's a sense of us, our town, fighting us versus everybody. So it has that same passion as the soccer hooligans over there. Stadiums are so much bigger, 110,000 of them kind of packed in. That's a lot of humans all in one particular place. All sawing are sawing in the same exact direction, literally and figuratively here for the Texas A and M team, we should want to showcase that more. And if you're a cfp, for the good of ball, we should want to showcase Psycho right there. Love that he's so locked in in that moment, but he even talked to his team about how, hey, this is Austin, which is a legendary college football place with a legendary fan base. This is the first ever college football playoff game. Let's do that. There should be more of that, aj. We should be celebrating the home fields, which are a massive part of the entire story of college football. More as opposed to less, aj Absolutely.
- [73:48]
AJ Hawk
And Dan Lanning basically said this, didn't he? Like, we should. Like, these should be home games until the finals. You should be rewarded for being a top seed. I agree. Like, there is. There's nothing else on the planet like it. When you get. We were just in College Station, obviously, like the atmosphere surrounding a huge college football game. I've never been in anything like that.
- [74:05]
Pat McAfee
In any other Sport that was 11am Local. Remember, they were all in that stadium at midnight the night before. Just 10 hours before that still showed up for game day. Still showed up for the tailgate, obviously. Sock every inch and second of everything that happened in there. Those fans were awesome, man. Those fans are fully. I mean, they are all. And they're not the only ones, obviously. There's a lot of places like that needed more. I appreciate that being your Christmas wish tone for the good of ball.
- [74:33]
Ty Schmidt
I agree. It'll be awesome. And also, I see what you did, Nick. You know it's an S. You know it's not a Z. You know, I was forced to use a Z because of social media. Okay. I don't like what you did. I just want to point that out.
- [74:42]
Pat McAfee
Nick does the lower thirds. What tone is talking about there is even adding the S to the Z. I don't even think you have to do that. Yeah, so. So I think Nick was actually spot.
- [74:51]
Ty Schmidt
He knows what he did.
- [74:52]
Pat McAfee
That an S could be here. You know, just let me go ahead and add that on there. Massive respect out of Nick back there. He's done a couple things, hasn't he?
- [74:59]
Ty Schmidt
Thought of it.
- [74:59]
Pat McAfee
He added a half a point to Bruce's thing yesterday just because he liked it and didn't really appreciate the way AQ was operating. So, you know, when you have access to that down there, that's a lot of power, it turns out, especially if you want to promote somebody social media handles. Thank you for doing that, Nick. Merry Christmas.
- [75:15]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And as far as the BA thing.
- [75:16]
Pat McAfee
Goes, you know, I. I didn't want to abuse it. I just wanted to.
- [75:19]
Ty Schmidt
You know, you talked about maybe rewarding.
- [75:21]
JJ Watt
Him for using it first, and I thought it was a clever move to.
- [75:23]
Pat McAfee
Beat AQ to the punch and strategy paid off. Yeah, good for him. I mean, now he's winning by half a point. Big one, big quiz, Miss Champ, and then AQ with the games. Forget it. Let's. Let's continue to. To kind of move along here. Aj what's your Christmas ball wish, brother?
- [75:40]
AJ Hawk
Mine was a little bit more. As far as rule changes and as far as physicality, I felt like defenders, I get worried that when they are trying to. What do they call it? Unweight themselves as they are hitting a quarterback, I think they're going to get hurt. So I think we need to be able to land on the quarterbacks a little bit more. We need to have a little leeway there. And I think horse collar tackle should come back. When a running back or receiver is running east to west, not north to south. I think those are dangerous. The guy's trying to get outside I'm chasing him towards the sideline. I should be able to yank the back of his shoulder pads and tear him down.
- [76:10]
Pat McAfee
Okay. This is his football Christmas which that I want to be able to land on his quarterbacks. I'm sick of these guys almost hurting.
- [76:17]
AJ Hawk
Their wrists and they can land on me if say I'm a defender and they're coming up to block me. They're. They're going to try to put all them of their weight on top of me.
- [76:23]
Pat McAfee
Offensive linemen are doing that to everybody. I mean they're doing the game we got. We gotta. So we gotta whiplash ourselves. Cuz we had a successful dislocate my.
- [76:32]
AJ Hawk
Elbow because I'm trying to unweight myself, whatever that means.
- [76:35]
Pat McAfee
Okay. That's a lot of pressure. Now if you listen to Coach McCarthy, he goes, yeah, that's a. He's old school guy. New school. These guys have come up in this. They kind of have good ways to kind of take the. Take the.
- [76:44]
AJ Hawk
Oh, no, you can still.
- [76:45]
Pat McAfee
No.
- [76:45]
AJ Hawk
If you're a high school player, you are landing full go on on top of that quarterback. They don't. They didn't change that.
- [76:49]
Pat McAfee
Oh, with your Christmas wish. Are you saying that?
- [76:51]
AJ Hawk
No, I think in life right now, I don't think especially like high school refs, you think about. There's no, there's no instant replay. Those guys got to be spot on.
- [76:58]
Pat McAfee
That's Ohio. I saw him knock on a touchdown high school game. That was FL. Criminal within situational horse collar tackles. I don't know if I've heard anybody wishing for this. I'm happy you like that.
- [77:08]
AJ Hawk
You get it east to west say I'm like. I say you're a D end. They're running like a, a jet sweep or something. Old buddy's trying to get outside. I'm chasing from behind. He has not turned up the field yet because I think those are dangerous. If a guy's going full speed like down the sideline, you get him if he's running towards the sideline, has not turned up. If I can get my hand on him, I should be free to get him down whoever I can.
- [77:27]
Pat McAfee
Okay. Now on that note, we'd be asking a lot of the refs to decide what is east, west and what is northeast maybe you know, or northwest. That would be certainly a decision that they would have to make in real time. And I like AJ Hawk has an opportunity to do a football Christmas wish. We got new knee for Mike. What was yours again?
- [77:44]
Conman
We don't announce acquisitions, free agents or trades.
- [77:47]
Pat McAfee
Until week one in town, what was yours?
- [77:49]
Ty Schmidt
Home playoff games till the finals of the college football.
- [77:52]
Pat McAfee
AJ Said, don't you think we need a little bit more on these? Yeah, don't you think we need a little bit more. You know, they're already taking the hip.
- [77:57]
Ty Schmidt
Draw, whatever crown of the helmet too.
- [77:59]
Conman
I think he.
- [77:59]
Pat McAfee
I heard him say, yeah, that was.
- [78:01]
AJ Hawk
The third one I was going to. I felt like that would be too like cliche to use that one to say you could hit people across the middle or something.
- [78:06]
Pat McAfee
But you would like to add that on if we are making these wishes come true. Let's go. In a perfect world.
- [78:11]
AJ Hawk
In a perfect world, yes. Especially like a bang bang play. You should not be penalized or fined if both the. The guy catching the ball and the guy hitting them both put your heads down. Like, then it should just be, hey, here we go.
- [78:22]
Pat McAfee
His whole upper body, like.
- [78:23]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah.
- [78:24]
Pat McAfee
Whenever he goes. Yeah. It's a special human we have here in aj It's a special game. I appreciate that. Your Christmas wish. Joining us now might be a guy who has something similar. My Christmas wish is I hope everybody's comes true. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man that I hope his Christmas wish comes true because he is great for ball. Not only on our particular program that he still joins us with in talks every single week amongst him becoming an owner of multiple teams, maybe a Champions league team this guy owns in the soccer world. And then obviously he's becoming one of the greatest color commentators in the biggest league on earth. He has so many other things. The fact he still talks to us, we're very appreciative of. Ladies and gentlemen, a member of the Bull ring of honor down there for the Houston. Houston Texans, future first ballot hall of Famer J.J. wall. Merry Christmas Eve, J. Merry Christmas Eve to you.
- [79:11]
JJ Watt
Merry Christmas Eve, guys.
- [79:13]
Pat McAfee
Thank you. We're giving up our football Christmas wishes around AJ Hawk would like to be able to land on quarterbacks in east west horse collar tackling and then also a little tougher. Oh, you. It's hard for you to sell that one.
- [79:25]
JJ Watt
Okay, I'm with you on the north northwest, east side. Like we're gonna. We got refs trying to figure out catches and not catches here. Let's. Let's not go Garmin GPS on them.
- [79:35]
Pat McAfee
Okay, on that note, what is your football Christmas wish? JJ Watt.
- [79:41]
JJ Watt
I'm actually, I'm on the same path as AJ Because I would like there to be replay assist allowed on roughing the passer and I would like to be in charge of that replay assist. Only for roughing the passer. They can do everything else. I'll just handle rough passer.
- [79:58]
AJ Hawk
You're handling the whole league?
- [79:59]
JJ Watt
Yeah, whole league. I just sit in a room and I just have a screen in front of me. And every roughing the passer flag comes to me and I decide no rules or parameters, just purely based on what I see. If I think it was roughing the passer, they leave the flag. If I don't, they pick the flag up.
- [80:17]
Pat McAfee
I like that. Judge, jury, executioner. For one particular play that is 15 yards. Game changer. It is a game changer. A career changer. Now you feel as if you had a better feel on what the intent is. If they could have let up, if they're trying to hurt, if it was a cheap shot. You think you naturally, because of who you are, what you've done and how you view the game, have a good grasp on what they're looking for and what they're not looking for. That is why you should be the ipso facto God of roughing the passers.
- [80:47]
JJ Watt
Yes, that's correct.
- [80:50]
Pat McAfee
Okay.
- [80:50]
JJ Watt
That one that we've been showing the Ravens one. Not ruffing the basketball, just.
- [80:55]
Ty Schmidt
There you go, shopper.
- [80:57]
JJ Watt
I know.
- [80:58]
Pat McAfee
I think the football people would be happy with what football dictator would be deciding there, though. Like, I. I think that would be something that people would be pumped up about. Why aren't you. Maybe a couple other flags too. Don't. You're not as comfortable with other rules or other.
- [81:14]
JJ Watt
I'm comfortable with everything. I'm comfortable with everything. But let's just start with one at a time. I want to prove that I can do it, and then they give me more responsibility. But just one. Like. Like, I just want to get this one right. There's a lot of other stuff. There are some that are extremely difficult. Extremely. I don't want it. Refs have an extremely hard job. I don't want to take anything away from ref. Tough job, roughing the passer. Not that hard.
- [81:39]
Pat McAfee
I can handle that. As you can tell. That's right. Kind of. You doing that for free too, for a prove it year. Do you hear what I'm saying? For free?
- [81:44]
Conman
Yeah.
- [81:45]
Coach Mike McCarthy
I would just enjoy it.
- [81:45]
JJ Watt
I would just enjoy it. Well, I'll still call games from the booth. Just put it on one of the monitors. And you call into my game anytime there's a roughing the passer flag, I just pop over to your feed as it. Nope. Clean. There you are.
- [81:58]
Pat McAfee
Because you think quick, too. This this is no problem.
- [82:01]
JJ Watt
No, don't need 15 angles. I. I don't need. I don't need more than two angles. I might need two just in case there's some obstruction of some old alignment or something in the way. Two angles all I need. I'll tell you right away. Roughing the passer not.
- [82:14]
Pat McAfee
Man, this is crazy. You're calling a game while doing. I didn't even think that. I thought you were fully committed in a room by yourself.
- [82:19]
JJ Watt
No, no. It's not even that difficult. Just pipe it right into my monitor. I got a separate monitor. It's called the RTP monitor. Rough in the passer monitor and flag goes up. New York sends that sucker right into my feed. I send back negative and carry on with your game.
- [82:38]
Pat McAfee
I think literally all you got to do is the thumbs up, thumbs down, because you might be in the middle of one, you know, big time player where. Wow, what a fantastic. What a fantastic play. They're going down. It just this. Yeah, that's all you got. Oh, good.
- [82:51]
Ty Schmidt
Oh, no, that was flag or no flag button here.
- [82:53]
Conman
Green and red.
- [82:54]
Pat McAfee
Oh, you're talking about right here and right here. And it's actually. It actually is like a slingshot of a flag. Every stadium adds a J.J. watt flag or a flag crane. Okay. Like in those arcades.
- [83:07]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, those are great.
- [83:08]
Pat McAfee
Every stadium has to add one. Like the one the new one in Kansas is. Is already building this. It's the JJ Watt roughing the passer. Flag grabber. And it comes down and picks it up. You just have to ignite it with the button that you're pushing while you're calling the game.
- [83:22]
Conman
The JJ Bot.
- [83:23]
Pat McAfee
And we're going to track. Oh, My God. The JJ bot. You. JJ you have thrown JJ bot. JJ bot. JJ bot. He comes out with a 99 jersey.
- [83:34]
Ty Schmidt
Yep.
- [83:36]
Pat McAfee
From the middle. And it picks up. It picks up the flag. Yeah. Just like this. That in its V. And then just kind of goes back up into the top and there's somebody up there. It's like, good job. JJ Bought and picks up the flag. Yeah. Okay.
- [83:47]
JJ Watt
Yeah. But if you throw too many on the year that got overturned, you're out.
- [83:51]
Conman
Jj.
- [83:51]
Pat McAfee
JJ Bot picks you up.
- [83:53]
Conman
Yeah, you.
- [83:54]
JJ Watt
You're gone.
- [83:55]
Conman
Y Breaks your neck.
- [83:57]
JJ Watt
We've learned that you don't know. You can't. You can't ref. You. You weren't good.
- [84:01]
Coach Mike McCarthy
You.
- [84:01]
JJ Watt
You. Too many false alarms.
- [84:03]
Conman
Gouges your eyes out.
- [84:04]
Pat McAfee
Out. Oh, a little on a mouth hook.
- [84:07]
Ty Schmidt
Oh.
- [84:08]
Pat McAfee
Kind of gets out there. J.J. bot is. Has legs and arms Big ones. Oh, huge strong ones.
- [84:14]
Ty Schmidt
We're gonna see it on CBS before the end of the season.
- [84:16]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, I think so. Probably angry face. Oh, my God, guys.
- [84:19]
Conman
Maybe bullhorns like the Texans.
- [84:21]
Pat McAfee
Oh, J.J. bot. J.J. bot. Okay, let's talk about J.J. bot. You almost had to call or almost got to call. Sorry. Miles Garrett breaking the record for the amount of sacks in a season. I believe you even publicly lobbying for him to get a half a sack when Josh Allen turned in, saying, like, hey, Miles Garrett forced him to turn there, which forced him to slip. So he should certainly get a full sack or maybe a half sack. I want to let you know, because T.J. watt is a part of the record, and obviously the Watt family and Garrett are massive in the tackling of quarterbacks community, and there could be maybe tension. You on the call for the game, in the way you were handling it and celebrating it, I thought was incredible. Now, on that note, how big of a deal is Miles Garrett getting this? And how special should this be looked at? Especially because he is this absolute freak, an anomaly, an alien, so good at his job, and it feels like Cleveland might waste it all, which is like what happened to Joe Thomas, which what happened, happened in the past. Do you get that same sense, or do you think there's a chance they turn around and maybe Miles is a pillar guy that helps them going forward? J. Well, let's.
- [85:30]
JJ Watt
Let's tackle the first thing first from that game. I mean, it's inevitable he's going to break it. Guy's unbelievable, having an insane year. He's. He has a chance to do it early, which is obviously great. I mean, phenomenal player. That specific play was a fascinating situation all around. There was a whole lot going on from safety, not safety. Who got the sack? Mason Graham touched him first, so he got the full sack. And then they came back a couple quarters later and said, you know, we split it half and half. And what I said on the broadcast was, miles Garrett either gets all of that or none of that. Because I. I mean, I've. You guys know me. I've been studying sacks for 15 years. I played in the league, and every single week after a game, you're lobbying, hey, I got a half of that sack.
- [86:16]
Pat McAfee
I got my hand on him.
- [86:17]
JJ Watt
I did. Didn't. Whatever. I have never seen a split sack between guys that didn't touch him. So, like, you know, when you run a guy out of bounds, the guy closest to him who kind of forced him out of bounds gets that full sack, or the guy in a situation where the quarterback falls down or something. The first guy that touches him gets that sack. That's why guys scramble to get there. So that's why I said. What I said on the air is I've never seen a split sack where you. You don't touch the guy. That's what I. That was my point in that. And I think that Alex wright also has. He. 91 wants some piece of that. He's like, hang on, I was here too, turning this guy in. So it was. It was a wild play. And then just the fact that we came back a couple quarters later and it was like, all right. Just. We had to explain it to people. It was wild. But he's going to break it. It's. He's insane. He's also close to the tackles for lost one, which is crazy. Like, he plays the run, he plays the. The pass. He's unbelievable player. In terms of what Cleveland looks like going forward, they have a ton of rookies who are playing well. Scher defensive rookie of the year. Unbelievable player. Really smart, very good, athletic, like, really enjoyed talking to him in our meetings. Harold Fannin, Phenomenal player. Really, really good. They continue to add more to the offense for him. Chador went out there and he made some plays. They took away a lot of the deep stuff, which Shador is really, really good at. And they made him throw it underneath and he took the underneath throws. He wasn't forcing the ball deep. He took the underneath throws. He used his legs a lot in the game, which was very good. And he got stepped on or whatever. And his pinky was like, you know, tip of his pinky was hanging off. Taped that thing back up, came out. So there's some good stuff there. Now. There's certainly a lot to work on. There's. There's no question that they need to work on a lot lot, and we'll see what happens there. But in terms of some building blocks, there's at least a couple things to get excited about.
- [88:13]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, I, you know, I've been watching Brown's games this year. It's crazy. It's like, how's she doing? Okay. And his Miles Garrett going to get it? And then you immediately go back, man, it sucks. They're never going to win there. That's just like the natural opinion. I'm from Pittsburgh, so obviously growing up, I'm told Cleveland's never going to win a football. That is kind of how it goes. When I first went to Cleveland, I was surprised how nice of a city it was. Honestly, with everything I Was told as child. Jax, I believe, was the casino.
- [88:39]
Conman
Very nice.
- [88:39]
Pat McAfee
Very nice casino. There's like five floors. Third floor was very giving to us. Yeah, the mall. Yeah, there's a mall that's like the oldest mall in the country. That's still up there. It's beautiful. Like, I was mind blown when I got to Cleveland. It was a nice city. I was like, man, there's water. I've been told my entire life this is a, you know, the mistake. A mistake by the lake and everything like that. And I get up there, I'm like, it's actually kind of charming. And you got a good, you know, some good history, it appears. I didn't know that people kind of nice. And then you watch the Browns, it's like. Well, everything they said though, about the Browns growing up, though, was pretty accurate.
- [89:11]
JJ Watt
Feels also a cool stadium. Like, I was looking like. I mean, obviously I played there a few times, but, like, the fact, like, the new stadium coming, like, if you're standing in that stadium, it's a cool stadium. And from our booth, you're looking out. I mean, it's tall, it goes up like it's a. It gets a lot of hit. But, I mean, I like that stadium. Now, I get why people build new stadiums. I understand the luxury boxes, the cash, everything that comes with it. But, like, in terms of a football stadium, that's. That's a good stadium. Like, we. We don't need to be tearing down stadiums of that caliber.
- [89:41]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, agreed. Let's keep it open for maybe other shit to happen. If we have to, maybe we could profit off it as a business. But since you let into it, I mean, that's a great storyline for today. Go ahead, con man.
- [89:51]
Conman
Yeah, J. Earlier in the week, the Chicago Bears basically announced that they're going to Gary, Indiana. That situation with Arlington Heights is up in air. A lot of question marks, but something that is kind of concrete now. Is Kansas City going to Kansas starting in the year 2031, hopefully. What do you think about this? Kansas City, middle of the dynasty, leaving their arrowhead stadium in Missouri to go to Kansas. Feels like something the football gods might, you know, raise a brow to. But this feels like a can say no deal for the Hunt family and the kind of organization as a whole. How do you feel about them going to Kansas?
- [90:29]
JJ Watt
I mean, if everything has been reported is accurate with what they got in terms of, you know, the tax money and also the perks that come with it, from the rent situation to the reinvestment situation, I mean, like you said, man, you. I mean, if you're sitting there looking at that deal on the table, I don't know how they possibly couldn't have taken it. And if you're on the Kansas side of things, you're holding, hoping that the economic impact and the amount of people coming and potential Super Bowls and everything makes up for that. But that again, if all those numbers are true, that is the sweetest stadium deal for ownership that I have ever seen in my entire life.
- [91:10]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. In the star bonds that are allegedly paying for this. We looked into this a little bit. It is a Kansas thing. I assume others have it as well. Where the local area will be paying it back, basically is how they look into paying back. The $3 billion is everything that they're building and hopefully Chiefs World will be able to pay for that. I just read this wrinkle for the first time being reported by Pompliano. Kansas will own the stadium. Right. Which is cool. Chiefs will pay him 7 million in rent annually. But that money's not going back to. No, it's actually going into their own pockets, into their own account, I guess, for future repairs. Back into chief's world. Okay.
- [91:46]
JJ Watt
So would like that on my house. I'd like to pay. I'd like my mortgage to go back into making my house nicer. Not.
- [91:52]
Pat McAfee
Can I. Can I sell that how the Hunts sold that to Kansas? It's like, we will commit to $7 million going back into our chief's world to keep it nice and all that type of stuff. I think that is how they sell that. Now, granted, whatever you get that to be an agreement, it's like, okay, so I'm just allotting 7 million of our budget every single year to an account that is basically going in the future to keep this shit nice. That's a fascinating. Nice, sweet deal. That's a very cushion.
- [92:21]
JJ Watt
Yeah. But there's no rent. Then that. There is no rent then that is the rent.
- [92:25]
Pat McAfee
That's what I'm saying.
- [92:25]
JJ Watt
You're just. That's like saying I'm going to put in a pool and that's going to count as my rent.
- [92:29]
Pat McAfee
Yep. Yeah. You just put in a different bank account basically for next year. Whenever we got to do renovations. Yeah. You're just sliding it from one account to another saying, we got to do renovations. Now who's getting hired to do the renovations, too? Is it Hunt contract?
- [92:40]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, exactly.
- [92:41]
AJ Hawk
Who's getting interest on that, too? Who's getting the interest on that account as a grand.
- [92:45]
Pat McAfee
Oh, you know, the renovations.
- [92:47]
JJ Watt
Stadium. Yeah, more Renovations, the sellies.
- [92:51]
Pat McAfee
We're going to keep this nice. So that Chiefs world is. Continues to be a draw. You know, that's the sell to the state is like, hey, everybody is going to come, all the stores and restaurants. We're going to be able to make money back off of that. Kansas is going to become a draw. There's going to be more concerts, there's going to be more people traveling to Kansas. Like, that's the sell. But boy, I'm assuming Kansas State, Texas people, or Kansas tax taxpayers are not exactly thrilled with everything they're reading today about this.
- [93:16]
JJ Watt
Is that stadium picture that's going around, is that legit or is that just a. A rendering to show a new stadium? Because I do like, we are getting extremely cookie cutter with stadium. Yeah, stadiums now. And I do. Arrowhead is one of the. I, I've hated playing there because I've not had a lot of success there. But Arrowhead is one of the best environments in sports. And if we're losing Arrow arrowheads left and right, we are in a bad way. Even Soldier Field, like, it's got its quirks and everything, but I like Soldier Field. It's unique. It has its own. You get snow, we get the Packers, Bears, like we had the other night. Like, we can't be losing these types of atmospheres in these games. What's next? Are we gonna wipe Lambo out?
- [93:55]
Conman
No, no.
- [93:56]
Pat McAfee
Well, that's the thing though. Lambo is actually a good, like, blueprint for everybody else to try because Lambo has the hall of fame, the museum, the, the tours, the restaurants, the bars, the things to do. And the hotels people are traveling in. Now, granted, they don't have an owner, but they're the ones that have to open their books. And their real estate was like 170 million a year or whatever. And that was from all the shit that was coming around it. So whenever other teams are selling that and then Jerry World, Jerry Jones said so I think it was reported like 70 million in revenue on game days. Jerry gets versus everybody else's home games because of all the other shit around it and what's up all built into it. I think that's all anybody's looking at. But to your point about designs and stuff, it's like there's only so many real groundbreaking, changing stadium designs and everybody's trying to copy them now. Like Sofi, they're like, well, we saw what they did with Sofi and we thought, wow, that's a good idea. So we implemented ourselves allegiant stadium over there in Vegas, like a spaceship. So everybody's like, we kind of want to make it look futuristic because it is the future. And then have you seen the photo of what buildings were, like, designed back in the day versus what they're designed like now? It is not just a stadium issue. It's like everything has kind of just become, like, very kind of bland as opposed to, like, you know, character. Having character in their own different ways. So I don't want to get into a deep, like, design, infrastructure, design conversation. But everything is starting to look the same everywhere, you know, and we appreciate that there's renovations and getting newer, but it's like we somehow have to hold on to, like, Buffalo.
- [95:27]
JJ Watt
Like, Minnesota is unique. Minnesota's got a unique. It's still indoor. It still has the roof that shows light through, but they have built in, like, Minnesota is a massively underrated stadium. That place is incredible. And it's still unique. It's not the same as everywhere else. I think that place is awesome.
- [95:42]
Pat McAfee
I agree.
- [95:43]
Conman
That's why the Bills is really cool, though, because everyone is now doing, like, the. Well, we got to build an indoor stadium so we can have a Super Bowl. And the Bills are saying, like, no, we're just going to put a canopy over. Still outdoors. Still going to be cold in Buffalo, but will be new. Even though, you know, I do not love the Bills.
- [95:59]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. And they got those big Bison out front.
- [96:02]
Conman
Well, tbd. Tbd. Okay. JJ Bot is probably going to be bigger than those bison.
- [96:08]
Pat McAfee
Well, J.J. bot's going to have to be because it's going to pick up a ref.
- [96:10]
Conman
That's true.
- [96:10]
Ty Schmidt
Right, Right.
- [96:11]
Pat McAfee
But if those. Those Bison, they. They've got the message loud and clear, don't you think?
- [96:15]
Ty Schmidt
I don't know.
- [96:16]
Conman
I think they got the message loud and clear. I don't know if they're going to abide by the loud and clear message because, I mean, the Bills abide their stadium was just on fire. The Bills abide the stadium. Stadium was just on fire. I don't know if they're worried about the Bison.
- [96:28]
Pat McAfee
J, I think I saw you already.
- [96:29]
JJ Watt
What happened? I missed that. I missed that.
- [96:31]
Ty Schmidt
Heated seats.
- [96:32]
JJ Watt
Stadium was on fire.
- [96:33]
Pat McAfee
That's just a little tech fire. Where there's smoke, there's fire. These things, construction sites, there's always going to be fire. A lot of smoke there. I felt like that was a lot of smoke. Obviously not great, but, you know, every once in a while.
- [96:46]
JJ Watt
Whip up somebody in the back. Sorry. Whip up the Birmingham City new stadium proposal. No clue. If it's actually going to come through. But if that does. That's unique. Congratulations. That is cool.
- [96:58]
Pat McAfee
So you just mentioned an xfl team at usx.fl team.
- [97:01]
Ty Schmidt
Tom Brady soccer squad.
- [97:03]
Conman
Oh, soccer.
- [97:04]
JJ Watt
No, soccer. Come on, guys.
- [97:06]
AJ Hawk
Not your team.
- [97:07]
JJ Watt
This is Birmingham City. That. I mean, look at that. That's unique.
- [97:11]
Ty Schmidt
It's like the AI design.
- [97:13]
Pat McAfee
I like what we're doing here.
- [97:14]
Ty Schmidt
Need it.
- [97:15]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. If that's smokestacks, it's castle.
- [97:19]
JJ Watt
Don't know if it's actually going to happen. If it does. Phenomenal.
- [97:23]
Conman
That was one of our Christmas wishes, actually. Was. Make all the AI stadiums real. Yeah. Real for everybody.
- [97:29]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. And also make.
- [97:31]
JJ Watt
You're welcome, Tom, for the free publicity. I know you need it. You're welcome.
- [97:35]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. Anytime we get the show Farmingham's team, we're certainly going to give credit to who they are. Okay, the Farmingham squad is in the middle of the. The. The group in the. The. They got. They're in the big one.
- [97:46]
AJ Hawk
The right name, Starman Ham is.
- [97:47]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Yeah, right.
- [97:48]
AJ Hawk
Where are they?
- [97:48]
Conman
The Farmingham territory.
- [97:50]
JJ Watt
Birmingham, man. We're Peaky Blinders. Come on. Tom Brady. This Birmingham, middle of England. You know Birmingham.
- [97:57]
Pat McAfee
They're right there in the middle of the Premier League.
- [97:59]
Ty Schmidt
They're 14th in the championship.
- [98:01]
JJ Watt
No, they're the championship, Tom.
- [98:04]
Pat McAfee
These Raiders stink. This team stinks.
- [98:07]
Ty Schmidt
This guy. Oh, doesn't know what he's doing.
- [98:10]
Pat McAfee
Oh, no, Tom. Oh, I didn't know that. Hold the. The phone. So you're telling me Birmingham is owned by Tom Brady? That's what I'm just learning here. And so he's got to pay for.
- [98:20]
Conman
That and their shite.
- [98:22]
Pat McAfee
And they're.
- [98:23]
JJ Watt
I think he's. I think he's got somebody to pay for.
- [98:25]
Ty Schmidt
No, him and Thomas Sh. What's he going to do next, go buy the Marlins or the Pirates? What the hell is this guy.
- [98:30]
Pat McAfee
Oh, don't put that on the Pirates. We just spent money on Mr.
- [98:33]
Conman
Turn.
- [98:35]
Pat McAfee
Ryan O. Kern coming to Pittsburgh. O. Hearn coming to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This guy bats 217, 287.
- [98:46]
Ty Schmidt
He's a good player.
- [98:47]
Pat McAfee
This guy's a good player.
- [98:48]
Ty Schmidt
He's a good player.
- [98:49]
JJ Watt
You guys are putting in offers on people, though. You're putting in offers on people not get them, but you're potentially getting them now.
- [98:56]
Pat McAfee
We're potentially putting offers together. But you haven't followed. Excuse me. We just signed Mr. O'Hearn and Brandon.
- [99:01]
Conman
Lowe and Scubal wants to play in Pittsburgh.
- [99:03]
Pat McAfee
He said, I'll take an even bigger pay cut. Detroit's Offering me Scrubles. I'll take Skewbles over in Pittsburgh, actually, to go play for the Buckos. Paul Skeens and Scubal. There's a chance, though, that people are following Jet passes. Cousin's X account, and they're saying, you know what, maybe the Pirates are up to something. First baseman, obviously. I knew he played first base. This guy's got a good mitt. You see his flexibility, too. I see him do a full split like in those, you know, whenever he needs to get somebody out at first, you know, I saw he's been doing this a long time over there. And it. Whenever you talk about picking people off, he's like the mayor. He's got him so relaxed. They have no bang. You're out. And we're out there, we're stealing stuff. Look for Paul Skeens to work on his throwout. You know, if you there first, he might actually do one of those because O'Hearn does that. You're out. So that's what the Pirates are doing. So no, Tom Brady doesn't need to come ruin what we got going on.
- [99:54]
Ty Schmidt
Marlins, probably.
- [99:55]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. I heard your team may be in the Champions League. Is that real?
- [100:00]
JJ Watt
Espanol is playing. Unbelievable. Five wins in a row. Fifth place right now. And we have got the massive, massive crosstown rivalry with Barcelona derby coming.
- [100:13]
Pat McAfee
Lona, you're disrespecting them. This is. Whenever you talk about motivation for Barcelona, certainly calling them the wrong name.
- [100:21]
Conman
Classic American.
- [100:22]
Pat McAfee
Unbelievable.
- [100:23]
Ty Schmidt
I bet you go to a be idiot.
- [100:25]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. Have you been to Ibiza or just a. No, no, no.
- [100:29]
JJ Watt
I. Our last. My last game of the season is obviously on the 4th, and so I was literally trying to find any way I could make it over to Spain for our match and. And seeing if I could just hop over, pop back and make it back in time for our game on Sunday. And there's just no way to do it. It's going to be an insane, insane atmosphere in the cauldron of chaos.
- [100:52]
Pat McAfee
Barcelona in the morning, we drink coffee in the afternoon, and then we play Barcelona and we win. Everyone. It's Espanol. Espanol. Oh, looky, looky, looky. Another goal. Yeah, that's pretty good.
- [101:14]
JJ Watt
Just brilliant.
- [101:15]
Pat McAfee
Champions League. So if you're top three at the end, you go to the Champions League where the owners get paid a lot of money.
- [101:20]
JJ Watt
Top four. Top four. Something like. There's certain situations where five actually makes it.
- [101:25]
Pat McAfee
It's.
- [101:26]
JJ Watt
It's all a little tricky. But fifth is Europa League, so we're in that slot. Right now, a lot of ball left, but boys are playing incredible. Incredible ball.
- [101:35]
Pat McAfee
AJ The Europa League matters.
- [101:38]
Conman
They rope.
- [101:38]
Pat McAfee
Dude, that age you're. Yeah.
- [101:40]
AJ Hawk
What's the. What's the pinnacle? Where are we all trying to get to?
- [101:43]
Conman
F1. Yeah.
- [101:44]
Pat McAfee
Thank you, champ. We're not trying to get that.
- [101:46]
Conman
Yes, we are. It is pop in.
- [101:51]
Pat McAfee
Okay. I might see Champions League.
- [101:53]
JJ Watt
Champions League, Champions League. Top, top, top. From every country around Europe. And they put them all in one tournament.
- [102:01]
Ty Schmidt
And the mls, that's the biggest.
- [102:02]
Pat McAfee
And it's on Wednesdays, right? That's on Wednesday nights. Is when the MLS Cup.
- [102:06]
JJ Watt
It's midweek. Yeah, it's midweek.
- [102:08]
Pat McAfee
Yeah.
- [102:10]
JJ Watt
If you. If you play in European competitions, you are playing in significantly more games per year, which is obviously taxing on your squad. But you're also obviously making a lot more money. But it's. It becomes more of a challenge from a roster management standpoint, making sure you have the guys and managing that. But. Yes.
- [102:28]
Pat McAfee
Is Tyler from Dude Perfect a part of Aspiring Benold too?
- [102:33]
JJ Watt
They are. They are part of the group.
- [102:36]
Ty Schmidt
Wow.
- [102:37]
Conman
What?
- [102:37]
Pat McAfee
I didn't know Tyler.
- [102:39]
Conman
I know he's like that.
- [102:41]
Pat McAfee
Of course he is, dude.
- [102:42]
JJ Watt
How was your guys time at A and M stories down there?
- [102:46]
Pat McAfee
I went to Midnight Yell. Did you hear about this?
- [102:49]
JJ Watt
I didn't. I did not hear about your experience at Midnight Yell. I know what it is.
- [102:53]
Pat McAfee
So we traveled down from Oklahoma. We're down there. Okay. We fly in. We had had communication with yell leaders throughout the week about going to Midnight Yell. We had full communication about it.
- [103:04]
JJ Watt
The plan was like Buddy Garrity out there. Look at that.
- [103:06]
Conman
Oh, hell yeah.
- [103:07]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, yeah, Absolutely. I mean, I'm at Yale practice, bro. Midnight yell practice. So I. We fly to Oklahoma. We're all tired. Or we fly down to Texas A and M from Oklahoma. We're all pretty tired. Some kind of boost up. I mean, there's a lot going on. So we decide we're not going to this midnight thing. That is still two hours away, an hour away, or whatever it is. So we're not going. We're all tired. So I have happened at this particular Stay. Stay in a bus. The bus was right outside the stadium. So I was trying to go sleep in the bus and all I heard was cannons going off and people screaming. I couldn't sleep. And I thought to myself, I told these people I would go. It's literally happening right there. I cannot sleep right now because of how loud it is. I have to go. So after we all as a group decided we weren't going, and everybody went to bed. I'm in bus. Okay, I'll put by myself. And I'm like, fuck it. I'm going. I get up out of bed, Cowboy hat on, black jacket on. Let me do the cowboy here real quick. I'm out of bed in, like, three minutes. I exit bus and I just go, all right, I don't know where I'm going, but I'm walking straight to the stadium. We didn't get final details on where we're going to meet somebody to get in there. I just assumed, I get to stadium, I'll be able to get in there. Cop, who is sitting outside of bus for security, has no idea I'm getting up there. So he scrambled open door. Where you go? Where are you going? I'm like, I'm going in there. He's like, oh, I'll come with you. I'll come with. Shuts his door. Great guy. Thank God he came, by the way. I mean, I would have been walking in absolute circles. He goes, you're going down the left here. We're gonna hit the tunnel. So I'm like, sweet. I'm walking fast, though, because I feel like I'm gonna miss it because they had been doing a lot of yelling. So I'm walking fast. Cop, he comes from sitting in his car with nothing. Full sprint. Holy shit, I'm fresh out of bed. We're doing this entire thing. Yeah, he's fully booted, too. I mean, he's got his full on. I was like, oh, I'm so sorry. I was planning on just walking in there alone. I completely forgot. And that is just. That is. That is a bad decision by me. As soon as I get in full chaos. I mean, full chaos in that place. You got 30, 40,000 people there, plus people on the field. I walk down there, I'm standing in the corner. I have no idea where I'm supposed to go. I realize I do not have the direct connection to yell leader that Bruce was talking to. And then I thought it would all just kind of be manageable on where I'm supposed to go to. It was not. So all of a sudden, a buzz and a scene starts on the sideline. All of a sudden, now the stands are starting to recognize me. I think at the beginning, they said I wasn't going to make it, So I got hissed earlier. Earlier. So whenever I walk in, I think it was a full thing. I'm in my bed seven minutes before this. I walk down there, get right to the middle. Holy shit.
- [105:34]
Ty Schmidt
I didn't know you got hissed.
- [105:35]
Pat McAfee
I had no idea. Oh, yeah, at the beginning they hissed me, I guess, because they mentioned that we weren't coming. So there was like a hiss at the beginning. So then I walk all the way to the middle. Chaos, chaos, chaos. A lady, lovely lady leads me there, thinking I once again, no idea who this lady is. No, I have no clue. Still to this moment, have no idea who she was. Thank you to that lady. She guided me as there was little platoons kind of coming down, taking photos. I get to the middle chancellor standing right there. Hi, I'm Pat. Hi, I'm the chancellor. Thank you so much for coming. Oh, shit. You're like the one here. Kay. Very nice to meet you. Kay. Kids are here. Okay. And I'm standing there and then yell, leader's like, ladies and gentlemen, please hear boom. Walk up here. Here's microphone nine minutes from my bed. I think in indecision. I have a microphone in front of 30,000 people at midnight. It's like, all right, here we go. Right before I get the microphone, I asked the chancellor, I'm like, hey, quick reminder, I didn't. What's the shit? What's the shit that you guys. What's the thing? He goes, you. He goes, you start with howdy. You end with gigam. So I was like, sweet. So I start that thing with howdy. They all have a full howdy back, but I didn't expect there's like a follow up with a woo. I almost stepped on top of their woo.
- [106:38]
Conman
Pig suey.
- [106:39]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. No. Yeah. Bo.
- [106:40]
JJ Watt
Hey. Yeah.
- [106:41]
Pat McAfee
That whole thing, it was. It was electrifying. But when you talk about just like sensory overload real quick, I had no idea. And I would say if you're in the area and it's happening, you need to go. It is an insane amount of commitment from people to ball, but I dropped a huge, huge f. Huge fuck in there. I mean, just a gigantic one in the middle of the speech. No flubs, by the way. But in the middle, I dropped a massive one and I'm like, yeah, I feel like I nailed it. Walk out, there's four year olds, five year olds. It's midnight. Why are these kids here? I could not have expected these kids to be here. And they're like, oh, this is what we've done since, like they literally 80 year olds there, 5 year olds there. And it's like just the thing. We all do this the night before. So it was special. I love. It was very special. Windy though. J. Windy. 40 mile an hour. Winds changed the whole game. Changed the whole game.
- [107:34]
JJ Watt
Yeah. No question. Talk about windy. Cleveland. When I was flying into Cleveland. Plane issues.
- [107:40]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. Issues.
- [107:41]
JJ Watt
Landed okay. Retries. Very scary.
- [107:45]
Pat McAfee
Did you go back up, dude?
- [107:47]
JJ Watt
Two tries at one. Airport said, this is not happening. Went to a different one.
- [107:51]
Pat McAfee
So you want. It was one on the lake. You were laying on the one on.
- [107:54]
JJ Watt
The lake, and you guys tried twice, passed it. I don't think I'm ever going back there again in my life with the experience that I had there this weekend. Never been more frightened in my life.
- [108:02]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, that's a dangerous one, especially because it looks like the tip might hit the water, and that's. You've seen every bad movie.
- [108:06]
JJ Watt
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No. And I was watching the pilot, and. And he handled it well. We made it. We might be going down, but the. The flight attendant who was on the plane with me, she. After the first attempted landing, we went up, and then we started a second one, and it wasn't. Wasn't going well. She moved seats to come by me, and she was like, it's safer back here. I'm gonna sit by you, if that's all right. And I was like. And that's. I don't like where this is going, because you're the one I'm looking to.
- [108:36]
Conman
Yeah.
- [108:38]
JJ Watt
I'm telling you, dude. Sketchiest. Sketchiest. 45 minutes to an hour I have had in my life. I think it was.
- [108:46]
Pat McAfee
We're so happy we still got you. You know what? That's my ball. Christmas wish. I hope you all have your Christmas wishes come true, even your crazy, medically advanced one that you wish for for Mike and Evan.
- [109:00]
Ty Schmidt
Certainly possible.
- [109:01]
Pat McAfee
I would like J.J. watt to have a safe season.
- [109:03]
Ty Schmidt
Yes.
- [109:03]
Pat McAfee
That's what I would like. As somebody who gets all the same thoughts that you had every time we take off and every time I land, I couldn't even fathom. AJ gets sick. Sweats and pukes every time he flies. Loves it.
- [109:16]
AJ Hawk
I don't puke every time I fly, but I get very. Yeah, I get sick, no question.
- [109:20]
Pat McAfee
Sweating. Full sweat every flight. And then immediately afterwards, like, I want to be a pilot. It's like. That's crazy. That is absolutely crazy.
- [109:28]
AJ Hawk
That makes it kind of difficult.
- [109:29]
Pat McAfee
You're right. That is crazy that that's how it is. But I have the same. The thought you had in those 45 minutes I have during, like, smooth landing. And every once in a while, I'll get on there, and once again, we're talking about something that nobody in life is supposed to experience. Like, it's the greatest thing thing of all time being on smaller planes as opposed to commercial planes. You have some pilots, though, that like, want to impress us, I think, you know, like.
- [109:52]
JJ Watt
He goes, he goes after the second one, he goes, are you all right?
- [109:55]
Pat McAfee
I think we're going to try and land in a different.
- [109:56]
JJ Watt
I said, dude, you land this plane in whatever country you have to land, put it on the ground. Why'd you ask me after the second one, brother? I said, I don't care where we put this thing, just get it down.
- [110:10]
Pat McAfee
Home Alone. What? He doesn't polka. The polka band.
- [110:13]
Ty Schmidt
Oh, yeah, Polinsky.
- [110:14]
Pat McAfee
They don't fly, right? They just ride in the back of a box truck or whatever. And then John Madden, right? John Madden. John Madden. He was only on a bus. It's like, I feel like I know what happened. I think I was potentially in one of those planes where you're like, I am so lucky to be getting off of this plane right now. I am never stepping foot back on one of these. And John Madden. Actually, there's some people that have been like, no, where's it at? Arizona. All right, I need six days.
- [110:37]
Conman
I'm leaving now.
- [110:40]
Pat McAfee
I've been close, man, but that's what I took.
- [110:42]
JJ Watt
That's what I took away from this. I was. Was like, okay, I should never have been scared at any point in my flying life. Because if planes can do this and if pilots can do this, I am good. Like, it was that. Like, it was that level where we were doing stuff that I did not know was capable. Like, we were fighting it and it was crazy. And I was like, okay, any turbulence? Regular turbulence, no problem. I have now been through the maximum.
- [111:07]
Pat McAfee
Did you touch and go? Was it an actual touch and go.
- [111:09]
JJ Watt
Or did you go, we almost touched the water and went, brother, we almost touched the water.
- [111:15]
Coach Mike McCarthy
What?
- [111:15]
Pat McAfee
What?
- [111:16]
Ty Schmidt
Like, here's the.
- [111:17]
Pat McAfee
I'm laughing.
- [111:18]
Coach Mike McCarthy
I am not.
- [111:19]
Pat McAfee
I'm not joking. That's crazy.
- [111:20]
JJ Watt
In my head or not. I was thinking, how far can I swim?
- [111:24]
Ty Schmidt
Did you text your wife?
- [111:25]
JJ Watt
How far can I swim? Yeah, dude.
- [111:29]
Ty Schmidt
No, like, did you say goodbye?
- [111:30]
Pat McAfee
Did you do a video? I've got a video. Have you ever made a video?
- [111:36]
JJ Watt
No.
- [111:37]
Pat McAfee
I made a video. So I had a. I made a video to family and friends and I was like, I actually made a full video about what was about to happen. We took off. They couldn't get the landing gear up, so we had to turn back around and land.
- [111:51]
JJ Watt
Not that big of a problem, is it?
- [111:52]
Pat McAfee
What if when you hit the ground, it Comes up, you know, because they've been hitting the button to lift it. They've been hitting a button to lift it for the whole time. And they're like, hey, we got to go land this thing. We can't fly, obviously, with the landing gear down. We think it's going to be okay, but there is a chance that whenever we hit it kind of unlocks it. So we are gonna obviously try to do as smooth as possible. That's what we got to do, or whatever. I'm like, yep, let me go ahead and get this out. And I go, no way, Sam. It happened. We knew it was coming. This is it. I did, like, a full thing talking. Mackenzie was a little baby. Mackenzie was a little baby. I talked about her and her, like. Because they were turning this thing crying. Yeah. Yeah.
- [112:31]
JJ Watt
Oh, yeah.
- [112:32]
Conman
I. I was.
- [112:32]
JJ Watt
I was there. I was there, dude.
- [112:34]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. And then I videoed it going down. I'm like, here it is. By the way, just know that whenever the worst was about to happen, your dad wasn't, you know, scared. Like, this is happening, and you just gotta. It's out of your control sometimes. Like, I'm, like, giving it, like, a life lesson. And then we hit the ground and we bounce, and I'm like, huh, huh? And then we hit it again, and I'm like, all right, this is getting deleted. I just shut it and put it in my phone, and then immediately get off that plane, get on another plane. And now we take off to go where we were supposed to go. And it's like, soon as we get in the air, I'm like, I just thought I was gonna die. And then I just signed right back up for it. It's like, what is my problem? It's in Connecticut.
- [113:14]
Conman
Me and Tony thought the same thing. We had a guy who was a couple sneezes away from the grave, and it was like, okay, there's not. How do we have a guy this age fly at this point? And he couldn't even see what he was when he was taking off. It looked like he was gonna fly off.
- [113:28]
Pat McAfee
We almost ran off the Runway during a takeoff. Yeah.
- [113:31]
Ty Schmidt
Xanax on this planet for that plane ride.
- [113:33]
Pat McAfee
I think we have some film from that plane, right? Yes, we do.
- [113:36]
Conman
We refuse to get back on. You had to make a couple of calls to me and tell you, like, nope, we're not getting on that plane. So you either get a different one or we're staying. We're living in Connecticut now.
- [113:45]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. I don't think I was going to get on that Plane either. That was the worst experience we had had just by pilot ineptitude. Like, that certainly was scary. I mean, it was like a 40 minute flight too. And we're just doing this number. And then while we're taking off, he's driving side. We can see the Runway. You know, we can see it at the front thing. And this guy's getting closer to the side. It's like this guy's driving cockeyed, actually. And then we had packed plane. That was the most packed plane we had.
- [114:08]
Conman
Oh, yeah.
- [114:08]
Pat McAfee
Because it was a shorter flight. So everybody jumped in. I remember looking back and Tone Diggs sitting sideways on the couch, just full body sprayed out, sweating white as a. As a ghost, I think, like an actual ghost. And then just right down the line, everybody has the same look. It's like, all right, yep, we're never getting on this plane again. Everybody's like, we're not getting off of this plane. That is kind of. That is the problem we're talking about. Yeah, it was a. Yeah, you got it.
- [114:34]
JJ Watt
When you got to be the tough one, like when your family's on there, it's a completely different. Sure. Like, you're not. You're. You're putting on the face. I'm sure somebody on that plane with you guys had to put on the face.
- [114:44]
Pat McAfee
Yeah.
- [114:44]
JJ Watt
Pat, when you're by yourself, like I was was this time, it's a completely different. Like you are no longer the macho man that you are in front of your family.
- [114:52]
Pat McAfee
I love you, girl. You're going to have a great life. Okay? You need to know that. And then we land.
- [114:57]
JJ Watt
I'm trying to figure out how you.
- [114:58]
Pat McAfee
Were going to get.
- [114:59]
JJ Watt
How that video was going to get. Yeah.
- [115:00]
AJ Hawk
When do you send it?
- [115:01]
JJ Watt
The code was going to survive. When were you sending it?
- [115:04]
Pat McAfee
Somebody has it somewhere. It's in the cloud. Somebody needs to see that. Okay. Somebody needs. Will be able to see that. Okay? Don't you worry about it. And I don't need you talking about my flawed thoughts before I'm about to die on a plane as I'm spending them to my daughter and my family. Okay? On that note, Merry Christmas, everybody. Merry Christmas. Hope you guys have a great Christmas. We got a lot of football coming up, a lot of good balls. We'll be back on Monday. You're the greatest people of all time. Be a friend, tell a friend. Merry Christmas, goodbye. Hope it's the greatest of all time. And a baby. J. Thanks for bringing that up. J. Right before we send everybody off to Christmas on tv, Merry Christmas.
- [115:42]
Ty Schmidt
Hopping on a plane right after the show today. So very excited that that's what we just talked about for the last, you know, 30.
- [115:48]
Coach Mike McCarthy
No, we are all.
- [115:49]
JJ Watt
We've all survived every plane ride we've ever taken.
- [115:52]
Ty Schmidt
I know.
- [115:52]
Pat McAfee
And you are. And there's thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of planes. I know.
- [115:57]
Ty Schmidt
I know. It's not like that because we have had some. I. I remember specifically coming. It was the Miles Garrett Mason Rudolph bonk game when we came back from Pittsburgh. We hit like. Like a straight nose dive. And I. I never sit facing the back of the plane because I just. I can't do that. And I remember just, like, levitating and like, coming up and it was that. I still think about that way too often.
- [116:21]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. And now I've been. I'm talking. Ty told me one time it was after some plane flight that we had bad flight. We had a terrible. I mean, J. Is a real part of it. That is why when you see what I'm on, it's what I'm on because of all these situations that have happened. It's like. Feels like if we get a big.
- [116:37]
JJ Watt
I was on one. I was on a big one, dude. That's what I'm saying.
- [116:45]
Pat McAfee
But as we roll through our life and once again, we're talking about something that we should not be able to experience is the best part of life, basically, that you. When you have money or somebody else is willing to pay for it, it's like, this is what you would like. It takes out a. All the. So we. We don't want to complain ever. That. Because there's no reason to in this entire.
- [117:03]
Conman
This isn't relatable.
- [117:04]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, it's not really. We understand this is just a couple people catching up here. Have been in some very scary situations in this whole thing. Ty, though, after one of these nightmares flights a couple days later comes up to me. Had dream last night we went down on a plane. You and me.
- [117:19]
Conman
Oh, yeah.
- [117:19]
JJ Watt
Come on, dude.
- [117:20]
Conman
Dude.
- [117:21]
Ty Schmidt
It was the worst flight ever. And I wouldn't. Normally. I wouldn't say that.
- [117:24]
Pat McAfee
That.
- [117:24]
Ty Schmidt
But it was like we had just come off, like, the. The worst flight ever.
- [117:30]
Pat McAfee
So, James, as you could probably assume, me and Ty were not on the same plane for a long time.
- [117:35]
Conman
We were not.
- [117:36]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. We were not on the same plane for a long time.
- [117:40]
JJ Watt
Southwest brother.
- [117:41]
Pat McAfee
As soon as I heard that, like, all right, we're getting a couple planes. If Ty needs to fly, he will be on the other one. That. That'll certainly be the case. We Got.
- [117:47]
JJ Watt
And we talked about, which I'm. If. If you have, just let's keep it moving. But I would like to throw some heat at somebody if we haven't talked about this yet. You stopping the charitable kicks.
- [117:59]
Pat McAfee
We don't need to get into that.
- [118:00]
JJ Watt
I'll flame throw that guy. I'll flame throw that guy. Whoever the hell anonymous quotes in that article were.
- [118:06]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, but this just, like, kind of goes to show everything that we've kind of been saying about how everybody is kind of just like, that's an absurd thing. I mean, big night out. I gave away, like, 3, 4 million bucks to people and, you know, potentially change it. They're the same similar type of thing. It's like, yeah, it's just all very fascinating how much hate, like, these people have for us, you know? And it's like, it's.
- [118:26]
JJ Watt
It's unbelievable.
- [118:27]
Pat McAfee
It's awesome.
- [118:28]
JJ Watt
Unbelievable.
- [118:29]
Pat McAfee
Thank you. It's very cool that we have it. You know, they say having heat's good. You know, we got good heat out there. But, like, these people are just so fucking blind by. It's a very absurd thing. But on that note, we just had a $1.5 million kick in front of 110,000 people. I don't know what else we get. And who knows what college game day looks like next year. I mean, there's, like, so many different variables to it, but I'm not somebody. I think people know this. J.J. watt being on our show on a regular basis is a segment we don't really stick with a lot of things, get bored with things. It's not like, hey, we found something. Let's do this forever. So, you know, me hinting at this might be the end of the series. Like, it literally, what.
- [119:05]
Ty Schmidt
What if possibility.
- [119:06]
Pat McAfee
What if something else comes up? What if it. It doesn't happen? Like, there's so many things to it, but also saying it's a bad business sense to do away with it.
- [119:13]
JJ Watt
It's like the thing I've ever heard in my life. You want to know what's bad business sense? Giving away millions of dollars that you were like. Like, this is the most heritable philanthropic thing you could possibly do. Oh, dude, I'm. I want to lose it on that guy. I'm like, are you kidding me? Like, you're going to sit here and anonymously give quotes to this little article, and you're going to have an entire article written about a guy giving away millions of dollars of charity? Like, that's a problem. That's a problem with Our. Everything that's going on right now is you want to attack something, and you're going to attack somebody giving away money to charity by a kid picking a ball through a pole. Like, come on now, what are we talking about? There's so much negative in this world to attack, and we're going to. Giving money to charity. Get the out of here, man.
- [119:54]
Pat McAfee
Thank you for that, J. Hey, J. I appreciate you doing that for me and for us as a whole. But if you want to look around, I mean, you can go to that website. There's a couple other ones. Anytime we have been talked about, there's some sort of angle or just, like, I don't even know how you have that unless, like, you do your thing. But once again, we just, hey, sit in the pocket, keep it going, and try to make cool moments for people, you know? And there's a song coming out here in a little bit that I really wrote about. Like, I treat finance like I'm Robin Hood. Okay. Try to find a Brink's truck and figure out how to give it back, basically, you know, like, that has been a massive piece of us, and we're not the only ones. I mean, Mr. Beast gives away so much. You talk about, like, the things that I think a generation has done with the access to the amount of shit that we've got, access because of how good our people have been to us. It's like there's a natural reaction to want to give back and give away. And it's like, I think some of the older just, like, don't fully understand it, you know? And I think there's a lot of people that don't really understand, like, that is his money. It's coming from someone else is like, well, all money is earned from somewhere else. But, yes, that is certainly coming out of our company's account to these people and to these charities. So it's like, that's a fulfilling thing to do, though. Like, it's a cool thing. Now, do you find out new ways to do that? And, like, do you do things like that? I think so. We've kind of proven to do that. But $1.5 million kick in front of 110,000 people at a college football playoff game. I don't know what else, you know, I don't know what else we do, but if there is something, let's go ahead and do that. And what does game day look like next year, you know, as a whole? So it's like, you know, I appreciate you going to bat for me, though. But that's kind of been our business here since we started licensing our show on ESPN and taken two hours daily away from some producer who has a super genius idea that led ESPN to where it was before we got here, you know, so that those people are always going to be the, you know, power, attention, clout, money. I didn't even think about them feeling disrespected or disrupted in that thing for what they've had for a long time. But there's certainly a class of those people that don't appreciate us potentially coming in here and saying, like, yeah, like.
- [121:55]
JJ Watt
We can tell them to give away 2 million of their own money. Go on. Create your own show that gives away $2 million or $5 million or $7 million. Go ahead. See how that show does. Go ahead.
- [122:04]
Pat McAfee
And they had them. They had the mount wrong, too. They undersold the mount, you know, and it's, you know, it's just everything you could do to kind of diminish it is a cool thing that they do. So I appreciate you going to bat for me, jj. We love you, man. Thank you, jj.
- [122:17]
Conman
Love you, jj.
- [122:18]
Pat McAfee
I'm here for the jj.
- [122:19]
JJ Watt
It pisses me off. I know you probably won't go to bat for yourself on it, so I will gladly call attention to it.
- [122:25]
Pat McAfee
I got some songs coming. I go to bat for myself. Yeah, yeah. You get to hear inner thoughts from old Pat McAfee. A lot of these songs in. There's some. There's some kill shots in there. There is some good bars, I believe is what they would be described at. And, you know, just when they come, how they come and everything kind of gets added into it. So I appreciate you doing that for us. You know, I do appreciate that was something I don't think I, or maybe you guys knew. I didn't fully expect the full war from the people that see us as a threat to their power. You know, I didn't see that. I thought we were like, like joining a team, like joining a lineup. Whenever we start licensing our show through espn, I not understanding the corporate world or the ineptitude of places or the lack of talent or creativity from people who have been at a place for a long time. I didn't expect the potential. And it's not everybody. I'm not saying it's everybody, but it is people that are sitting in positions where if they were to give a quote, it does seem as if it matters because they have a title and have been there. I don't think I expected the inner anti us thing and the reason why it is and how passionate those people could be. You know what I mean? So, like, I don't think I expect from day one the announcement of our show. Yeah, the way it was framed was like a. An attempt to kind of bury us. Hey, you know, all these people you like, we had to fire them because of this company. It's like, I don't think that's exactly how that whole thing went, you know, because they think they just put up another billion for another thing that's being licensed. Like our show is being licensed. We're not coming from a talent budget. I think we're coming from a licensing budget. Where does that come from? So I don't think that is actually how that works. So that's an interesting thing. But that was in the announcement of it. So it was like immediately like, hey, everything you like gone. Everything you hate here. And it's like, oh, that's a tough start. And then literally every leaked anonymous. Anonymous quote to whoever it was, Wall Street Journal, legit places, New York Times, Washington Post, whatever it is, these are real places. Anonymous quotes coming out, you know, underperforming, not worth the problem. Like they're swearing are the advertisers. Like, it's like everything was like, boom, boom, boom. And it's like, geez, I didn't expect the barrage. And it's now that I'm older and we're kind of in this. It's like, that was a guarantee, brother. Those people are losing 10 hours a week on. On ESPN of what they have. It's like, I should have known that. But now we're a little bit hardened. We're a little bit more hardened. And I believe there is potentially a track record of success now at this point. So I'd say.
- [125:00]
JJ Watt
I'd say that's fairly accurate.
- [125:01]
Pat McAfee
I think there's a potential extinction coming, potentially. Dinosaurs since the history meteor have kind of disappeared. So we'll see. Good luck to you all. We appreciate you, J. We appreciate the hell out of you, man. We appreciate the hell out of you, brother.
- [125:21]
JJ Watt
Merry Christmas, guys. I appreciate it. Have a great holiday. Send the best to your families.
- [125:25]
Pat McAfee
Always a joy.
- [125:26]
JJ Watt
See you next week.
- [125:27]
Pat McAfee
We love you, man. Merry Christmas to you and yours. Also tell Teach that if he needs us to do that, to pump that lung back up, we will. For the. The Christmas holidays, I'll give him my lungs. I don't. We don't want that. We.
- [125:38]
JJ Watt
We'll find a little late for that because Ty. Ty had already offered up some knees and he Wished for knees. You clearly didn't wish for any luck. Wow.
- [125:46]
Ty Schmidt
Or J. I've said for many, many, many, many years that I would take a bullet for TJ.
- [125:50]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, but you wouldn't give up a lung. You wouldn't even give a lung. Oh, I'm sorry.
- [125:54]
Ty Schmidt
We're all going to do the same thing. Oh, I'd like to. We're all going to do that.
- [125:57]
Pat McAfee
Okay. You're saying, hey, listen, that's where. Or we got to hit different angles here. College football playoffs needs to be represented. That was his was great.
- [126:06]
JJ Watt
Yours was great. Yours is 100% accurate. Again, another money thing. Why we're not going to get it. We all know that. But if you want to, that is what it should be. Without question.
- [126:16]
Pat McAfee
You're the man, J. Is he gon. He's going to play?
- [126:21]
JJ Watt
I mean, we'll see. I mean, he's still working through it, man. There's still. Still day by day. Still day by day.
- [126:27]
Pat McAfee
Can we give him.
- [126:28]
Ty Schmidt
If you need somebody to talk to.
- [126:30]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, we can. We can have a zoom call with him. If he wants us. We'll talk to him.
- [126:33]
AJ Hawk
Tony's number?
- [126:34]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah.
- [126:36]
JJ Watt
Yeah, he's. He's a big talker. He's a huge media. He loves the media. He does lots of press.
- [126:43]
Conman
What's up, man?
- [126:44]
Pat McAfee
I'll have some smoke. You know, Tone will have a cigar. Maybe Ty will come in with a whiskey. We'll all be on the same zoom link.
- [126:49]
JJ Watt
Yeah.
- [126:50]
Pat McAfee
We'll just be talking and if he needs us, and then we'll be motivating his lung to come back to full. You know what I mean? That'll be the goal of the whole thing.
- [126:56]
JJ Watt
They might. I mean, they might not have you. They're in a situation where if the Ravens lose on Saturday, they can rest.
- [127:01]
Conman
It's over.
- [127:03]
Pat McAfee
How's. How do we feel?
- [127:04]
Ty Schmidt
We feel good. I'll feel a lot better when I know who's playing quarterback on Saturday because we got both current quarterbacks are banged up.
- [127:12]
Conman
Love was limited, right?
- [127:13]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah. He's in the I. Malik Willis said he will be ready to go on Saturday.
- [127:19]
Pat McAfee
Don't even think. Think about calling Philip Rivers. He's.
- [127:22]
Ty Schmidt
Oh, I won't. They got Clayton Tune on the practice squad, and if it comes down to it, you're going to be seeing him on Saturday.
- [127:28]
Pat McAfee
Love that. All right, J. Merry Christmas, buddy. We appreciate you.
- [127:31]
JJ Watt
Merry Christmas.
- [127:32]
Pat McAfee
What game are you calling?
- [127:34]
JJ Watt
I am calling the Seahawks. Panthers. Awesome game. I've got a great.
- [127:38]
Conman
One of the few.
- [127:39]
Pat McAfee
Very awesome game. It's kind of a shitty sled, Kind of a shitty slate.
- [127:43]
AJ Hawk
Yeah.
- [127:43]
JJ Watt
It's like it all got worked because of Sunday Night Football flexed out out the game that CBS was going to have and they put the Sunday Night Football game back into Fox. So we got this game. I don't know how it all worked out. Very happy to have Seahawks, Panthers, very excited.
- [127:58]
Pat McAfee
We're happy you're on the call too. We can't wait to listen to you brother. You're the man, ladies and gentlemen. And also I believe he was a surprise friend of the program on Quiz Miss yesterday if he would have been needed.
- [128:07]
JJ Watt
I was waiting, dude. I was waiting by my phone waiting. Ba was just crushing questions. I had to show on, I had to turn off because as you talked about earlier with your A and M yell leaders, with your F bomb show was not quite prepared for my 3 year old. What so luck.
- [128:24]
Pat McAfee
I'm saying show off.
- [128:25]
JJ Watt
So I was going blind on the questions. I was trying to cheat. I was trying to, I was trying.
- [128:28]
Pat McAfee
To see the questions ahead of time.
- [128:29]
JJ Watt
And then Google it. If he ever called me. Didn't happen. Sat by my phone for a half hour.
- [128:36]
Conman
Stood up.
- [128:37]
Pat McAfee
That's why you're the greatest J. You're the man. Ladies and gentlemen. Jj okay, let's take a break on the other side. We're going to speed round the picks for the weekend for the entire slate cuz we're off the next two days before a wonderful holiday weekend. Christmas Day is going to deliver in a big way. Even though the slate is potentially shite whenever it comes to ripple effects of the outcomes of the games. It's also a bunch of superstars playing football on Christmas. Let's enjoy this. Let's enjoy all of it. When the holidays start to feel a bit repetitive, reach for a Sprite Winter.
- [129:13]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Spiced Cranberry and put your twist on tradition.
- [129:17]
Pat McAfee
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Coach Mike McCarthy
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- [129:33]
Pat McAfee
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- [130:07]
Conman
Football.
- [130:08]
Pat McAfee
He is awesome. That's AJ Hawk.
- [130:10]
JJ Watt
He.
- [130:11]
Pat McAfee
He said, listen, we got holiday photos. Just give me the haircut that I've always had.
- [130:16]
Conman
Yeah.
- [130:17]
Pat McAfee
Just. I tried to do the thing. Just give me. Just give me what I've always had. Okay. I would like to look the exact same way that I've always looked before. I decided. Decided to kind of make a little bit of a change. Everybody noticed, by the way. I didn't think anybody was going to notice. Everybody noticed. Just give me what I always have had. Age. You look fantastic on this Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas to you and all the hawkers.
- [130:37]
Ty Schmidt
Merry Christmas.
- [130:37]
AJ Hawk
Merry Christmas to all of you guys. You guys look great as well.
- [130:40]
Pat McAfee
How about Sam?
- [130:42]
Conman
So good.
- [130:43]
AJ Hawk
I cannot imagine. I've never tried playing the violin or fiddle. I would imagine that's very difficult.
- [130:47]
Pat McAfee
He got booked 20 minutes before you saw him. He happens to live about 10 minutes away. So you do the. As he was. As he was walking here. Shout out Zito. Finding him as he was walking. We had a conversation before the show. If we could find some sort of Carol of the Bells performance, we would do that. Zito found somebody. He said, hey, Gaga, I think he can come do Carol of the Bells on a violin. Would you be willing to pay him this amount of money? We countered with an amount of money. I guess the agreement takes place. Then all of a sudden, we see him walking in here during the break. He has no idea what's going on. Obviously, I go to the bathroom, I come back out, I go, hey, we're about to be live. You're standing in the middle of the stage here, bud. What's that? Yay. 10 seconds, you're right here. Carol the Bells. You got it? He goes, yeah. Just which way? Camera's that way. Camera's that way. We're about to be like, 4, 3, 2. And for him, just right into it.
- [131:38]
Conman
Nailed it.
- [131:39]
Pat McAfee
I mean, no flubs. Fucking send it. Allegedly, once Sam walked off stage here and we celebrated him, an hour or two actually began. Just as soon as he's done, we run the intro, we tell him, thank you so much. Let's take a photo real quick. Yeah, we're live again.
- [131:51]
Conman
Fuck out of here.
- [131:52]
Pat McAfee
We're alive. Basically, that's kind of how it goes. And then he walks off. And then, I guess right over there, he goes, were we alive for that? And Zito's like, yeah, he did great, or whatever. And then Zito obviously does the shuffle out. So that guy was in here for. We paid him well by the way. Merry Christmas to him and thank you to him for being able to be that nimble or that quick at home with his family potentially. So sees a dm. Do I want to go pick up a quick. Yeah, I think I do, actually. Let me go ahead and nail this. He crushed it.
- [132:21]
Ty Schmidt
Professional.
- [132:21]
Pat McAfee
It's awesome. That's what it's all about, isn't it?
- [132:23]
Ty Schmidt
That's the holiday season.
- [132:24]
Pat McAfee
Magical moments. Toxic tables here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt. Ty, you can provide a magical moment for one half of the Hammer.
- [132:31]
Ty Schmidt
Done.
- [132:32]
Pat McAfee
Cowboys AP Tone dressed up in a full Grinch onesie today.
- [132:36]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, it looks awesome.
- [132:37]
Pat McAfee
Got the pants on. Incredible. I'll tell you what, wearing white sweats is an aggressive move. I would never be green was sold out, but I'm just saying, like, I understand. So you have the same thought I had as well. Yeah, that's it. I think you look good.
- [132:48]
Ty Schmidt
Thank you.
- [132:49]
Pat McAfee
I walked in here this morning. I saw you wearing the all white. I was like, oh, he's wearing a costume. I didn't know what it was. And then I saw you kind of move a couple different times. I'm like, oh, a Grinch fit here. Like, you really? You outfitted everybody there today.
- [133:00]
Conman
Thank you.
- [133:01]
Pat McAfee
It was a season, I believe they say you threw a fit. Now, granted, a DJ shows up.
- [133:06]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah.
- [133:06]
Pat McAfee
You know, with Christmas vacation right there on his chest. So we're very thankful. I wore green today, as you see. As did Ty. Ty tried to mix in a little bit of you. You, we want. What? Throwback Christmas sweater. Got it.
- [133:17]
JJ Watt
Yeah.
- [133:17]
Conman
I thought. I assumed we were doing Christmas sweaters. Bad assumption. I did have a different one that might have color, might have worked a little better, but I just figured, why would I. Why would I abide by some stupid color?
- [133:30]
Pat McAfee
Hey, big game last night for the. For the Bees. I saw two massive scraps and tilts to start. That entire thing with Montre. Love everything about that.
- [133:38]
JJ Watt
Yeah.
- [133:38]
Conman
The Bad Boy B's are back. Unfortunately, they lost 6 to 2.
- [133:42]
Pat McAfee
This is three seconds into the game. Three seconds into the game. I don't know what happened. Who did what. Are we trying to build the rivalry back? Let's fight.
- [133:49]
Conman
Yeah. Bruins, Canadians is probably the oldest American Canadian team rivalry. A lot of people obviously have the battle of Alberta or whatever the fuck it's called up there in Canada, but Bruins, Canadiens, both original six teams, huge rivalry, and it is back. This Bruins team, not supposed to be that good. They've kind of become bullies again, which is incredible. And then the Canadiens, very good. Team. So they threw down right away. And these aren't the big boys. The big boys came later. The big boys put on their big boy pants.
- [134:19]
Pat McAfee
This is seven minutes later. The big boys said, you know what? Center ice. I'll see you there. Ding, ding, ding. And they get after it. Yeah.
- [134:26]
Conman
Zadorov and X, E, A H, you. There it is, Jay. Naughty Jay. They battled. Yeah.
- [134:35]
Pat McAfee
Look at that.
- [134:35]
Conman
642-406-7255. Just throwing mitts, man. I mean, that's what it's all about. Just chucking knocks. If you ask me, hey, what do you want for Christmas? It's me and my brother underneath the tree doing that shit. Which is still the plan for them all.
- [134:50]
Pat McAfee
Okay, well, I hope you win. I hope you're the.
- [134:52]
Coach Mike McCarthy
I won't.
- [134:53]
Conman
I'm the younger brother.
- [134:53]
Pat McAfee
I don't know who won that, because obviously Zidorov ends up on top. But, yeah, X, E you call him Wi Fi. What?
- [135:03]
Coach Mike McCarthy
That's what the boys call.
- [135:04]
Ty Schmidt
Okay.
- [135:05]
Pat McAfee
Wi Fi got some in there. I mean, he was Bluetooth connected.
- [135:08]
Conman
Password.
- [135:08]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, he certainly was. So I'm proud of the boys getting after. I like, good scrap. This is something to hockey has that no other Sport, especially in 2025, has, where it's like, yeah, fights are good for the game. They're good for the environment. They're good for momentum. They're good for a team. They're good to set a tone. They're also good to send a message from one team to the other what they are about about, like, they respect fighting. And also the refs have feel for game. Like, the refs have feel for game. There is makeup calls in hockey, and they just kind of like, naturally understand that there are some things of the hockey culture that are far superior than every other sport.
- [135:39]
Conman
Yeah, I believe that second one and also the first one, because right off the tip, it is one of those things like, hey, give me the honor of this fight. You know, Rupper has been on here front of the program. Mike Rupp, Stanley cup champion, about how Zaden Ochara, legend from The Boston Bruins, 6, 9, beast, basically would ask him, like, please give me this fight. Like, do me the honor of this fight. And both of those felt like that, you know, one to start and the other like, okay, our smaller guys won at the beginning. We are the big enforcer. No one wants to fight us on both teams. Like, let's throw down.
- [136:12]
Pat McAfee
Let's go ahead and let people know that this is a rivalry.
- [136:14]
Conman
Yes.
- [136:15]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, let's go ahead and let people know what this is about. I enjoy that from hockey in hockey. Season's going to be electrifying. Don't look down. Sydney Crosby scoring more than everybody else.
- [136:24]
Conman
Is that right?
- [136:24]
JJ Watt
Yeah.
- [136:24]
Pat McAfee
Pens are about to win the Stanley Cup. I know we lost yesterday, but Pens are about to win the Stanley Cup. Stu Skinner.
- [136:31]
Conman
Oh, yeah.
- [136:32]
Pat McAfee
SS there's like two, three different times where our defense was seemingly non existent and they were just breakaway after breakaway after breakaway in the middle of games, which shouldn't be happening at the rate in which it was happening. Saw him stack the pads a couple times.
- [136:43]
Conman
Oh, yeah. Butterfly style.
- [136:44]
Pat McAfee
No, no. Complete opposite.
- [136:46]
Conman
Oh.
- [136:46]
Pat McAfee
He was actually just laying on his side. Like the laying tall.
- [136:51]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Tall.
- [136:51]
Pat McAfee
He was. He was laying tall and playing big out there. It was good to see Stu kind of get used to his game a little bit. Seemingly every time he's in that, there is a lot of goals. But I see him make some saves. Oh, yeah, I see him make some saves. So got to get that figured out. How many more games in a hockey season, Nick? How. How far into the hockey season are we right now? Feels like we still got some good time to go.
- [137:10]
Ty Schmidt
That's a good question.
- [137:11]
Pat McAfee
Let's look.
- [137:12]
Ty Schmidt
I think.
- [137:12]
Pat McAfee
I think quite a few to go.
- [137:14]
Conman
38. 39, maybe 30.
- [137:16]
Pat McAfee
45. Yeah, we got it right.
- [137:19]
Ty Schmidt
The most I'm seeing right now, games plays.38. So we got at least 44 more to go.
- [137:25]
Pat McAfee
Perfect timing. We got. We got some time still. Yeah, we got some time still. How's Detroit doing? You guys still a hockey team or. No, you look at the top of this list right here, Pat. The Red Wings are in second. They're in first in their division. They're on absolute fire right now. And just the other day they sent me this cool jacket and a cool box of all sorts of goodies because they're a first class organization. I think the pen said yours is on the way. Okay.
- [137:46]
Conman
They call them that cool in Boston. They're calling it something else. Fox.
- [137:50]
Pat McAfee
What are they calling it? You don't want to know. They're saying it's red, I think is what they're saying how red it is. That is a great jacket, though, and I appreciate that. They sent that alongside some videos reliving the glory days of Detroit. It was Black and white. 100 years of hockey town. Yeah, the box had its LED screen on it with all these throwback videos of them winning so many Stanley Cups because it's Hockey Town there. And they're all the way back. They won last night. They beat Gumpy Stupid Dallas Stars in overtime.
- [138:16]
JJ Watt
It was awesome.
- [138:17]
Pat McAfee
Blue. Okay, so riddle me this, because I know you were talking about Stevie coming back to Detroit and creating a winner. Is that now coming to fruition in Detroit? I sure hope so, because there are. Is it still his team, though? Yes, it's still his team. And there are a lot of fans in Detroit that are fed up with it. I'm not. Because Stevie. Why could do no wrong.
- [138:35]
Conman
I'm not.
- [138:36]
Pat McAfee
Because they sent me this jacket in a box two days ago. That certainly helps. And growing up, hockey was like, the coolest sport of all time. Time when he grew up in Michigan because of Stevie Y And all the boys. So, yeah, we're looking good. You. Yeah. But you can't skate. That's the thing about Foxy.
- [138:51]
Conman
No, he can't skate. He's a bender. He actually one time did post this video. Like, look at me skating, guys. It's so cool. I mean, his ankles are. Are sideways. It's. It is classic. Like, okay, that's a guy who doesn't know.
- [139:03]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. You grow up in Michigan where it actually gets cold. Not like Indian Indiana. Not like Pittsburgh, where all the lakes and all the ponds are frozen. I was skating on three rivers growing up, brother. Okay? You don't know what it's like to. To work and then hop over a dead body. You guys could never do that. You know this entire all star skills challenge that they're doing for McJesus, his workouts, that's what we were doing off the bottom of bodies whenever we were skating on the river growing up. Just take a look at all the NHLers from the state of Michigan right now currently playing. Playing. Okay, that's because we're playing on ponds. We're playing on lakes all the time growing up. Yeah, you got no dangles. Yeah, yeah, you speed dangles. You name it. Physicality. I'll admit I might need a goon on my side, so I'm not gonna do a lot of. But I'll do everything else for the team. Did you actually grow up playing pond hockey? Yeah, I played pond hockey. I actually played hockey until I basically had to choose basketball or hockey, and I chose basketball, so. So on that note, we play a lot of deck hockey ball hockey in Pittsburgh. We did roller hockey in the summers. I can't skate for. I can't skate. I had five dollar Friday night free skates.
- [140:14]
Conman
So awesome.
- [140:15]
Ty Schmidt
Gold Mile Highway.
- [140:16]
Pat McAfee
So good. End up in a hospital a couple times. Not because of me, because Chris Harmon got sliced up.
- [140:20]
Conman
Sure.
- [140:21]
Pat McAfee
It's. It's expensive. It's a very tough game to get into.
- [140:23]
Conman
It's the best.
- [140:24]
Pat McAfee
Yeah bro.
- [140:26]
Conman
Like that is by far growing up. Like people would go sledding. Pon hockey is the greatest.
- [140:31]
Ty Schmidt
It's awesome.
- [140:32]
Conman
Leave in the morning, come back at night.
- [140:33]
Pat McAfee
See I've never. I've never experienced the pond hockey day. Is it like an apprais skate tour? We having beers up there the whole time?
- [140:40]
Conman
Bingo. Yeah.
- [140:40]
Pat McAfee
You're drinking the whole time? Oh yeah, it's. It's fantastic.
- [140:43]
Conman
You go at like 10 and you're probably leaving at like 4 or 5.
- [140:47]
Pat McAfee
Oh it's perfect time. Oh so it's a day drinking.
- [140:50]
Conman
Yeah. And you're new. You are sent my lap.
- [140:55]
Pat McAfee
Is there any frozen ice fishing happening around? Anybody get digging any holes in this thing on the sides or is this just strictly hockey operation?
- [141:02]
Conman
Probably a mission cuz that's some dumb to do while everyone's playing pond hockey. But I'm not sure.
- [141:07]
Pat McAfee
We've been ice fishing in Minnesota.
- [141:09]
Conman
Yeah, fun right?
- [141:10]
Ty Schmidt
Worst thing ever.
- [141:11]
Pat McAfee
Oh it is. I grew up fishing. It sucks ass. It's the worst.
- [141:17]
AJ Hawk
Why can't you catch big fish? Why is it only those tiny 4 inch fish even the big fish like.
- [141:21]
Ty Schmidt
This is hole are you going to do?
- [141:24]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, I guess it is the size of the hole depending upon the size of the fish. That's.
- [141:28]
AJ Hawk
I don't know. It's not though. If you. If even if I say I drill a little hole and I drop some bait down there. If a big old monster comes in then I'm just. I need to expand that hole to pull them out of there.
- [141:36]
Pat McAfee
Is there something about hibernation for the big ones and then the little ones still swimming where I always thought you could still catch big ones in ice fish. Well I did certainly.
- [141:44]
AJ Hawk
I just never see it. Oh you did?
- [141:46]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, I remember she saw that thing I pulled out. They're still talking about today.
- [141:50]
Conman
Oh yeah.
- [141:51]
Ty Schmidt
All the trophy fishes are, you know, warm water.
- [141:54]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. Cuz soft fish.
- [141:55]
Ty Schmidt
Ain't no marlin's up in some lake.
- [141:57]
Pat McAfee
What did I pull out of Blue?
- [141:59]
Conman
Maybe tuna.
- [142:00]
Pat McAfee
A what?
- [142:01]
Ty Schmidt
Guppy? Yeah. No, I think it was.
- [142:04]
Pat McAfee
No, I think.
- [142:05]
Ty Schmidt
I think the guy who ran the thing we were in went to Walmart beforehand and just grabbed a bunch of them and dumped them down the hole and said ah, these guys will catch.
- [142:13]
Pat McAfee
It within the next two hours.
- [142:13]
Ty Schmidt
What we get good.
- [142:14]
Pat McAfee
Well I almost didn't.
- [142:15]
Ty Schmidt
I know, I know.
- [142:16]
Pat McAfee
The clock, the shot clock was running very low. It was the last cast if you do recall. It was Last cast. I'm getting out of here. Hey, I. I don't think I'll do that ever again.
- [142:26]
Ty Schmidt
No, no, never.
- [142:27]
Pat McAfee
It sucks.
- [142:27]
Conman
Yeah.
- [142:28]
Pat McAfee
It was not good. I've never done the ski life, really.
- [142:30]
Conman
Skiing is also incredible. Those are the two things I feel like in the Northeast, it is very prevalent growing up, at least I heard.
- [142:37]
Pat McAfee
It'S good for families, too, like my daughter. Something to do.
- [142:39]
Ty Schmidt
Like.
- [142:40]
Pat McAfee
Like it is a winter. Wintertime skiing thing. Boyce Park. I guess there were people that snowboarded skiing and stuff. I. I didn't. I didn't really get into it much.
- [142:48]
Ty Schmidt
I worked there.
- [142:49]
Pat McAfee
I did the tubing. What were you, a snowboard God over there? Yeah. Is that what you. You were checking passes.
- [142:55]
Ty Schmidt
It was the best gig. You worked half hour at the. The bottom of the slope, half hour at the top, making sure people didn't fall off and get on stuff like that. And then you had an hour off where you could snowboard and ski. So it was the best job for.
- [143:05]
Pat McAfee
A high school kid. And now you're down there at the lodge acting like you're running the show.
- [143:07]
JJ Watt
Yeah.
- [143:08]
Ty Schmidt
Free churros. Yeah.
- [143:09]
Pat McAfee
Slow down. Every time I went there, everybody that worked there from Plum Pen Hills, Monroeville, it was the east hills of Pittsburgh, basically, Haven, which we all know more about that part of town now, so we understand what that was like. There's a lot of, you know, alterations that took place at this particular. Everybody that had the badger, they worked there, really felt like they were walking around like snow gods. And I assume you did utilize that position of power as well. Yeah. Good food in the lodge, if I.
- [143:34]
Conman
Do recall, something about eating and drinking while skiing. Like, the food's better, the drink's better. It is.
- [143:41]
Pat McAfee
What about tomorrow? What's the big one for? Christmas. Christmas Eve or Christmas. Ham stuffing.
- [143:46]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Right.
- [143:46]
Pat McAfee
That's the big. Is everybody doing that? The seven Fishes tonight For the Italians, I believe you guys have going on.
- [143:52]
Ty Schmidt
Seven Fishes are Tonight. Normally start off with a. With a shrimp scampi like that. And then move through the night.
- [143:57]
Pat McAfee
Yes.
- [143:58]
Conman
It's a delightful scampi.
- [143:59]
Pat McAfee
Shrimp scampi. Can't be. That's. I guess that is one of the fishes.
- [144:02]
Ty Schmidt
Well, that's how we count it, as one.
- [144:04]
Pat McAfee
Are you guys gonna be eating what. What I pull out there?
- [144:07]
Ty Schmidt
Guppy.
- [144:08]
Pat McAfee
You guys have any guppy?
- [144:10]
Ty Schmidt
Fried guppy?
- [144:11]
Pat McAfee
Probably not. That's probably the final one, right? The 70s one.
- [144:13]
Conman
I don't know.
- [144:13]
Ty Schmidt
I have to check in the coach.
- [144:14]
Pat McAfee
See what he's doing.
- [144:16]
Conman
What's what? Fishes are There. Swordfish. Salmon.
- [144:19]
Ty Schmidt
Swordfish. Salmon.
- [144:20]
Pat McAfee
Nick, what are the fish?
- [144:21]
Ty Schmidt
Tilapia, Lobster Mac.
- [144:23]
Pat McAfee
Oh. Oh, that counts as well.
- [144:25]
Ty Schmidt
Calamari.
- [144:26]
Conman
Yeah.
- [144:27]
Pat McAfee
Oh, my God. Calamari. He's our fishes, man. Yeah, it sounds like you guys are eating American fish.
- [144:33]
Ty Schmidt
Standard fish.
- [144:33]
JJ Watt
Universe.
- [144:34]
Pat McAfee
Caesar dressing counts because it's got anchovies. That's no anchovies, so I wouldn't count that, but I didn't know we're doing Mac and cheese. Counts as one. Or with the lobster Mac in there, I guess it makes sense because that is fish. Technically, it's in there.
- [144:46]
Ty Schmidt
And is it any seven things you can pull out of water?
- [144:48]
Pat McAfee
Basically. Oh, I like that.
- [144:50]
Conman
Eating dead bodies.
- [144:52]
Ty Schmidt
Good.
- [144:54]
Pat McAfee
Seven fishes. And also that rat. We got one of them. All right, let's do some picks, shall we? AJ There was a mistake on last week's scoring. You and I actually ended up tying. Oh, we ended up tying, did we? Yes. Hey, whoa, whoa. I don't like the way you talked about that, Okay? I don't like the way that that kind of went down. And to be clear, I. I found it to be a little sketchy as well to find that out a few days later. But on that note, New York ruled in, and we had a tie last week. So 6, 8, and 2 is my current record against you. We got two weeks left, so guess what age this could be.
- [145:32]
Conman
8.
- [145:32]
Pat McAfee
8 and 2. And we go into the offseason knowing that you and I saw it the same exact way. And that's what good teammates are all about. Let's get to the picks tomorrow. Dallas at Washington. Dallas favored by 7. Who do you like? How do you like it? AJ with 66% of the bets on the Cowboys.
- [145:48]
AJ Hawk
Man, this is tough. I picked Dallas last. Last week and got rocked on that pick, but you know what? I'm sticking with him. Give me Dallas -7.
- [145:54]
Pat McAfee
I'll take the Dallas Cowboys as well. Detroit Lions favored by seven and a half, traveling into Skull Country. Wemby won't be there, but there'll be a great clap.
- [146:03]
Conman
Just saw that the Vikings have shut down. Christian Dar saw starting left tackle who's paid a bunch of money. He's done for the year, okay?
- [146:10]
Pat McAfee
We don't want to hurt him going into the offseason. We know what it is. And Max Brosmer, okay, is playing.
- [146:17]
Ty Schmidt
Take a look at his numbers.
- [146:17]
Pat McAfee
I thought they shut him down.
- [146:18]
Conman
No, no, no, no, no.
- [146:20]
Pat McAfee
Save him for the offseason.
- [146:22]
Ty Schmidt
His numbers were very good in their win last week. What were they against the Giants? I think they like 7 of 9 for 63.
- [146:29]
Pat McAfee
Something like Kevin Oconnell can do whatever he wants with the quarterback position. A.J. seven and a half for Detroit.
- [146:36]
AJ Hawk
I mean Detroit needs to win this game obviously. Give me Detroit here. Minus seven and a half feels like a lot of points but give him. Give me Detroit.
- [146:41]
Pat McAfee
I'll do the same in Denver. Thirteen and a half against Kansas City. We all like Denver. The team's leaving the state and Chris.
- [146:48]
Ty Schmidt
Al is the Chiefs quarterback.
- [146:49]
Conman
Who?
- [146:50]
Ty Schmidt
Chris Al. He was the Steele Steelers seventh round pick out of South Dakota State. Two time super bowl champion.
- [146:56]
Pat McAfee
Aluacon.
- [146:58]
Ty Schmidt
O L A D U K U N I believe.
- [147:00]
Conman
Yeah.
- [147:01]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Not.
- [147:01]
Conman
Not sure.
- [147:02]
Ty Schmidt
Oh I don't know.
- [147:02]
Conman
I don't not sure if he is an ooze but one of the things from this week people are going nuts about with with Kansas City was they didn't do an injury report because they just didn't do practice that day. They just skipped it.
- [147:14]
Pat McAfee
Andy Reid. Thank God. Nothing matters now, right? We just lost the Titans. I'm meeting the family after. Afterwards. I never met him. Three of the teams playing on Christmas day we'd be down our third string quarterback. The Commanders will play Josh Johnson. The Vikings will play Brosmer and the Chiefs will play Chris Oladokun. Okay, sounds good. So Denver minus 13 and a half age Stranger Things.
- [147:33]
AJ Hawk
Yep. Give me Denver right there on that one.
- [147:34]
Pat McAfee
Okay. We're all seeing it the same way. Houston Chargers chargers favored by two and a half at home over under 39 and a half. Almost 60% of the bets are on Houston. Just at 50 57%. Anything else we need to know about this game? This feels big.
- [147:49]
Conman
Yeah. Very cool stat was that CJ Strouds only had what a four game win streak two or three times in his life. In both times was ended by a Jim Harbaugh coach team and that was.
- [147:58]
Pat McAfee
Ohio State heading to Michigan. A.J. houston or the Chargers. Two and a half to spread.
- [148:04]
AJ Hawk
I think this is the time that C.J. stroud breaks that that whole curse on that. So give me the Houston Texans.
- [148:09]
Pat McAfee
I'll ride with you. Baltimore green Bay. Baltimore Giddy 3 against the packers who are receiving 63% of the bets. 8pm Eastern on Peacock. Go ahead Lamar.
- [148:19]
Ty Schmidt
No practice today.
- [148:20]
JJ Watt
Yeah.
- [148:21]
Ty Schmidt
So he's probably not going to play.
- [148:22]
Conman
That's his thing.
- [148:24]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, but that's his thing when they play on Sundays. Yeah.
- [148:28]
Pat McAfee
Lamar Jackson back intuition was the only Ravens player missing in Wednesday's practice. Ravens have their final on field workout tomorrow. Time is running out for a return says Jonas Schaefer. He's Jonas Schaefer's talking about the urgency here. There's a lot of urgency for both parties here. And this game's on. Peacock. People are going to be pumped about that. Baltimore getting three. AJ who do you like? How do you like it?
- [148:49]
AJ Hawk
Who's playing quarterback for Green Bay? Do we know?
- [148:51]
Ty Schmidt
They were both limited in practice. Again, like these, the concussion things. Guys haven't been able to come back a week later, so I don't know if Love's going to be able to. And then Malik Willis was banged up and he basically said like, hey, if it comes down to it, I will be ready to play on Saturday night.
- [149:08]
AJ Hawk
AJ okay, well, maybe put a guardian cap on Jordan Love, but give me Green Bay here. Minus three.
- [149:13]
Pat McAfee
He took a massive shot.
- [149:14]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, big time.
- [149:14]
Pat McAfee
I mean that was a old school CTE era of football. Shot right to the face and then landed on him too. And I appreciate he, you know, he's a dog, it feels like, by all sense. So maybe he is able to get through the protocol quicker than most in this particular year. I'll take the packers as well. We're seeing it the same age. Maybe this is the one one where we go. Absolutely perfect. Let's go. Seahawks, Panthers. J.J. watt on the call. Seahawks favored by seven in Carolina. Huge game for the playoffs here.
- [149:43]
AJ Hawk
Yeah, it is. Minus seven. Does feel like a lot for the Seahawks on the road. Give me the Carolina Panthers here.
- [149:47]
Pat McAfee
Most games as an underdog this season. The Titans have had 15, the Giants have had 14. The jets have had 13. The Panthers also 13. Panthers plus seven at Seahawks here. Seahawks as Hembo. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays to Hembo. We appreciate everything he's done for us this year. And also the Quizmas questions yesterday. You like the Seahawks?
- [150:06]
AJ Hawk
I like the Panthers here plus seven.
- [150:12]
Pat McAfee
Me too. Steelers favored by three against Cleveland Browns going into Cleveland game obviously might mean nothing depending upon what happens in the Ravens packers game. Steelers favored by three with 75% of the bets in Cleveland. Steelers have voted well in Cleveland. Miles Garrett could get the record though against Pittsburgh Steelers, which would be obviously gigantic. Anything else that we're missing?
- [150:35]
Ty Schmidt
No, nothing at all. Except for TJ Watt back at practice. I assume he's still not going to play, but he is back at practice.
- [150:42]
Pat McAfee
A certain outside linebacker has resumed practicing for the Steelers. Says Joe Rotter from the Trib. Now he's not paying your 11 bucks to get to blue check mark. Okay, Elon, I'm fucking journalist. I can't be bought.
- [150:53]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Bingo.
- [150:53]
Pat McAfee
So shout out to Joe Rudder. Doing it that and for his dedication to city, working for the trip D.
- [150:58]
Ty Schmidt
Oh, and DK's out. Mecca.
- [151:00]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. Not just this week, the next week.
- [151:02]
Conman
Oh yeah.
- [151:03]
Pat McAfee
And out of guarantees as well.
- [151:05]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah. But the Steelers have said they are going to honor that moving forward.
- [151:08]
Pat McAfee
Yeah, they said that. We'll see how it all goes. We hope the best for everybody.
- [151:12]
Conman
He drops a pass round one.
- [151:14]
Ty Schmidt
He won't.
- [151:17]
Pat McAfee
Age.
- [151:18]
AJ Hawk
Give me Steelers on the road here.
- [151:19]
Pat McAfee
Me as well. Cardinals taking on the Bengals. Joey Burrow, fresh off an ass beating of the Miami Dolphins. He looked very good and he said this is what it's about. When I'm rehabbing and not playing football, I'm miserable. Okay. When I'm playing football and it's going well, I'm happy. He basically addressed the entire I'm happy, I'm not happy situation about his future. Bengals played their best ball last week. Do you think that continues here with the Cardinals traveling in?
- [151:43]
AJ Hawk
Yeah, I don't know who the ruler of the jungle is in Cincinnati, but I going to take the Bengals either way.
- [151:48]
Pat McAfee
Yep, me as well. And we're all a. This might be the week. You and me.
- [151:52]
Conman
Can't wait.
- [151:53]
Pat McAfee
Undefeated Patriots, jets, Patriots getting 81% of the bets against the Jets. What is the normal outcome between Patriots, jets late in the season?
- [152:00]
Conman
We just piss on their face and kind of celebrate. Except for last year.
- [152:04]
Pat McAfee
I'll take the Patriots.
- [152:05]
AJ Hawk
AJ Patriots, Patriots for me as well.
- [152:07]
Pat McAfee
Buccaneers, Dolphins. This one feels too easy. Give me the Dolphins plus five and a half down there in Miami. Where are you taking? The Dolphins are taking the bucks.
- [152:15]
AJ Hawk
You said this one feels too easy. I thought you were going bucks, so I'm taking bucks here.
- [152:18]
Pat McAfee
That's what I did mean, which immediately made me go, all right, I guess I'll go the other way here. Five and a half doesn't feel like enough for the bucks. So this one, this one smells to me bit stinky. This one's a little bit stinky to me.
- [152:31]
Ty Schmidt
I did see a stat. I can't remember who it was from, but in situations like this where the one team has to win or whatever to improve their playoffs or get into playoffs, there's a team that has the nothing to play for. The team that has nothing to play for is after actually covered 60% of the time.
- [152:44]
Pat McAfee
I'll take the dolphins plus five and a half. Quinn, yours. Hey, this guy can leave the train station later and get there at the same time. I saw the tweet last night. Saw the tweet last night. Jacksonville Jaguars traveling into a hostile Hole.
- [152:59]
AJ Hawk
Yeah.
- [152:59]
Pat McAfee
Lucas Oil Stadium. Fresh off a master class by Phil Rivers.
- [153:05]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah.
- [153:07]
Pat McAfee
Now defense can't get a stop plus 3000 odds right now to make the playoffs. Indianapolis Colts pretty good. A lot of things have to happen. One of them is beat the Jacksonville Jaguars, who are hotter than they've ever been, coming in to Lucas Oil and also motivated because I don't want to say that they're saying that we are talking shit about him, but they're basically saying everybody's seemingly talking shit about him. And they can certainly utilize clips from our particular program to signify that. So maybe, maybe we're not good that I am a Colts fan and maybe these teams are using a lot of motivation. From what I'm saying, I haven't even really thought that'd be very narcissistic of me to think that I matter that much. But in the current world that we're in right now, with bulletin board material and us being considered national media, the things that I say, hyping up Colts teams during weeks of games, I think if their coach was to be somebody that pulls clips from national media in shows teams we could have potentially been motivating some teams. I think there's a chance that maybe we're part of the problem. So I like to say this Jacksonville Jaguar seems really good team. God, they're so good.
- [154:09]
Conman
So good.
- [154:10]
Pat McAfee
Trevor Lawrence flying around, looks like goddamn stallion out there.
- [154:12]
Ty Schmidt
Huge.
- [154:12]
Conman
Liam Cohen's lost so much weight.
- [154:14]
Pat McAfee
Oh, my God. He knows that it was always wrong. It was always supposed to be Du Shot Khan. This guy, not only best mustache in history, guy created bumpers, saves all our lives. Thank you to him. But also, he's a visionary. I mean, he been seeing this for a long time and they've been talking about it for a long time.
- [154:31]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, exactly. I mean, he looked at this and this is what they envisioned in January. Okay. We're going to do it in September and October and November. And now we're doing it in December. We're going to do it in January, probably even February.
- [154:46]
Pat McAfee
What? February.
- [154:48]
Ty Schmidt
And then after February, you know what? What's after February?
- [154:51]
Pat McAfee
What's that?
- [154:51]
Ty Schmidt
This is going to last forever.
- [154:55]
Pat McAfee
There's a chance. Yeah, yeah. We're mocking a little bit there in September and October.
- [154:59]
Ty Schmidt
Had to, but.
- [155:00]
Pat McAfee
But boy, with what they're playing, how they're playing right now, this Jaguars team, Jaguars team is actually unbelievable. A real buzzsaw. I don't think a lot of people want to play them in playoffs. But on that note, I'll take the Colts, plus Six and a half. Of course. Age. Who do you like? How do you like it? Yeah.
- [155:18]
AJ Hawk
I mean, on that note, especially hearing, you know, reminiscing over what Shad Khan, how he rallies the troops.
- [155:23]
Pat McAfee
Troops.
- [155:23]
AJ Hawk
I will take the Jacksonville Jaguars in a lot.
- [155:26]
Pat McAfee
House.
- [155:27]
AJ Hawk
Yeah, I am sorry. I think Phil. You know what? I think Phil continues to roll. I love what he's doing, but this Jaguars team is really putting together the.
- [155:35]
Pat McAfee
Right the happened to our defense. I mean, we lose.
- [155:40]
Conman
He took a couple risks and all of them ate is really what happened, unfortunately. But hey, look, got good yard pieces. Still just need to figure out that quarterback position, maybe maybe a couple other pieces on defense, maybe a couple other pieces on offense, and you're there.
- [155:58]
Ty Schmidt
Next year's your year.
- [155:59]
Pat McAfee
We got some tradable parts.
- [156:01]
Conman
Oh, yeah.
- [156:02]
Pat McAfee
Okay. We're out of picks for a long time. Long time. We're out of picks for a long time. We don't really have a lot of assets and we've paid everybody, basically. But we got opportunity for other teams to potentially get really good players in their prime to give us, you know, an opportunity to potentially build for a future, if that's what we're trying to do. Or we lock our guys, there's a chance we try to get healthy for next year.
- [156:22]
Ty Schmidt
Yeah, I think you guys like your guys. You've always like your guys. And I think that's one of the things that a lot of Colts fans have issues with, is I'm sick and tired of hearing we like our guys and then not making the playoffs.
- [156:35]
Conman
Yeah, what about that guy?
- [156:37]
Pat McAfee
Plus 3,000 real quick. Still got a chip in a chair. Phil Rivers knows that. He's going to go get it. I can't believe you taking the Jags - six and a half in the loud house. I thought you knew ball age. Well, you do got to.
- [156:48]
Ty Schmidt
Think. They just went into Denver, which.
- [156:50]
Pat McAfee
Is pretty hostile, and they won 4117.
- [156:52]
Ty Schmidt
And just kind of beat the out.
- [156:53]
Pat McAfee
Of one of the best teams in the.
- [156:55]
Conman
NFL. And Phil Rivers is like, hey, I'm throwing it here to the. To the.
- [156:58]
Pat McAfee
Defense. No, no. D winners said he just knew what he was doing because he called Orlando earlier. And we talked. We talked ad nauseam at the beginning of the show, how it feels like like they've turned Philip Rivers microphone up louder than every other quarterback in the NFL maybe in the history of quarterbacks, because they know how funny he is. It's like, well, actually, you're giving away our entire fucking thing. That whole.
- [157:19]
Ty Schmidt
World. It's.
- [157:20]
Pat McAfee
Charming. Aq Walks in the building, goes, I know all of Phil Rivers checks. And it's like, okay, that's good. He's been in building 13 days now he's got to redo all of his checks. Okay, I'm sure that'll help out. I'm sure everything's good. Age. I don't like what they're doing to us. That's why back's against the wall. Chip in a chair. Still a chair to make the playoffs. See, here's me adding. Yeah, bullets and board material. Exactly. A very good Jackson Jaguars team loses to the.
- [157:46]
Ty Schmidt
Colts. What?
- [157:47]
Pat McAfee
Wow. Yeah. Do I know really anybody on the roster?
- [157:53]
Conman
No. Phil.
- [157:55]
Pat McAfee
Rivers. I know him. Yeah. I'm a fan.
- [157:57]
Conman
Of.
- [157:57]
Pat McAfee
Boom. I don't know. Do we know him.
- [157:59]
Conman
Really? I mean, we know him a little. Enough.
- [158:01]
Pat McAfee
To. I don't think we have a relationship with anybody on the team at.
- [158:05]
Ty Schmidt
This point, do we, Tyree? Oh, no, that's.
- [158:08]
Conman
Pacers. Yeah, yeah, exactly. The Colts.
- [158:11]
Pat McAfee
Anymore. Exactly. Daniel Jones we had a relationship with. He, like, reached out. Fan of the program, which we're appreciative.
- [158:18]
AJ Hawk
Of.
- [158:18]
Conman
Yeah. Oh, Chris Ballard. He's the only one that we do and feels like maybe because of that his days might.
- [158:24]
Pat McAfee
Be. No, no, it's not. We are not the curse of the colds. Okay, maybe. I don't know. I do see a lot of people potentially giving us credit for potentially forecasting everything that's kind of happening here. But on that note, I would like it to be known, I'm still a.
- [158:37]
Conman
Believer.
- [158:37]
Pat McAfee
Pittman. Yeah, we kind of know.
- [158:40]
Conman
Pittman. When you see him, you said, what's.
- [158:42]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Up? So.
- [158:45]
Conman
Yeah. Account super bowl that one.
- [158:47]
Pat McAfee
Time. Yeah. We know these guys. And Liam, we know more people on your team than we know on cold Stips. So we. We would like to not be used as motivation against Indianapolis Colts. We would like this to not be run to the Jacksonville Jaguars team. They won't. Kaylin.
- [159:00]
Ty Schmidt
Ownership. Boom.
- [159:01]
Pat McAfee
Bingo.
- [159:02]
Conman
Pete.
- [159:03]
Ty Schmidt
Yes.
- [159:04]
Pat McAfee
Pete. Frog. TEA Y Training room. Yeah, we're still in there. Conti. Stinking.
- [159:10]
Ty Schmidt
Conti.
- [159:11]
Pat McAfee
Chris. Steven.
- [159:12]
Conman
I. We don't really know.
- [159:14]
Pat McAfee
Shade. His name's Shane. Okay? You don't know shite. Yeah.
- [159:18]
Conman
Exactly.
- [159:18]
Pat McAfee
Exactly. Yeah. You don't know. All right, let's get to the next one here. Saints, Titans. Shuck. Give me shuck. I'll take the.
- [159:27]
AJ Hawk
Saints. Give me Cam Ward and the Titans on.
- [159:30]
Pat McAfee
This. Wow. I think they found.
- [159:33]
AJ Hawk
Something. Think you may have found a little.
- [159:34]
Pat McAfee
Something. I mean, I like the juice that they had. I like the energy that they have. I like the Vibes that they have huge win over the Chiefs. I think Saints might have found something too. Giants, Raiders, Raiders favored by one and a half. I don't think so. Give me the.
- [159:46]
Ty Schmidt
Giants. It's a good.
- [159:47]
AJ Hawk
Game. Who's playing quarterback for the.
- [159:49]
Ty Schmidt
Giants? Who.
- [159:49]
JJ Watt
Cares? Dart. If they let.
- [159:51]
Pat McAfee
Him. I want.
- [159:52]
AJ Hawk
Russ. I want Russ in.
- [159:53]
Pat McAfee
There. Hey, maybe J or Jamis.
- [159:54]
Conman
Or. Or all.
- [159:55]
Pat McAfee
Three. Yeah. Same time package. Yeah. So who do you.
- [160:00]
AJ Hawk
Like? I like the.
- [160:01]
Pat McAfee
Giants. This is for number one.
- [160:03]
Conman
Pick. This is. Yeah. Loser gets a number one.
- [160:05]
AJ Hawk
Pick. No meaningless game could mean more.
- [160:08]
Pat McAfee
Than what we have this.
- [160:09]
Conman
Weekend. Should be signing that football.
- [160:11]
Ty Schmidt
Baby. It should be.
- [160:12]
Pat McAfee
Sunday. Bruce, how do you feel about the game? Cuz I heard Coach McCarthy talking to the Giants. If you got four ones, you can win a Super Bowl. And if you got a young quarterback in the middle of his development, we would like him to be healthy in the off season. Really felt like he was talking to the Giants there. And obviously Giants fan. Bruce is like, hey, McCarthy to the Giants. Really starting to kind of, kind of scratch where I hitch right here in it all. What are your thoughts on dart playing or not playing as a Giants.
- [160:38]
JJ Watt
Fan? Yeah, there was some chatter about shutting him down down, but it was kind of alongside the Joe Burrow chatter where it's like, hey, his competitor, he's got to go out there and play. So they are playing him. But in our play calling, being very protective. He had six pass attempts in the first three quarters of the game against the Vikings and we ran the ball 35, 40 times. So while he is playing, it is clear no design runs and we're not dropping back to pass much, especially if they're coming 0 blitz like Brian Flores was. With all that said, no Brock Bowers kind of handicaps them on. On their side as well. So it should be an absolute dogfight. Both defenses trying and playing well and both coaches offensively probably, you know, working with what they got and maybe playing a little scared on the Giant.
- [161:19]
Pat McAfee
Side. AJ who do you.
- [161:20]
AJ Hawk
Like? I like the Giants.
- [161:22]
Pat McAfee
Here. Me too. Eagles. Beals. Beals favored by 1 1/2 at home. This is. We're talking home field advantage conversation for Buffalo.
- [161:32]
Conman
Or. Yeah, Buffalo still in.
- [161:34]
Pat McAfee
It.
- [161:34]
Conman
Buffalo. Buffalo their game back. But they, they could still win the AFC.
- [161:38]
Pat McAfee
Technically. Could be a home field advantage. So they have a lot to play for. Philadelphia Eagles already win the division. They have a home playoff game. Can they move up the standings in the NFC.
- [161:47]
Conman
Much? They could, but no, not a lot needs to happen. But.
- [161:50]
Ty Schmidt
It'S. It's not that and the Bears have the head to head tiebreaker against them because they beat them.
- [161:54]
Pat McAfee
So. So Eagles not much.
- [161:56]
Ty Schmidt
Here.
- [161:56]
Pat McAfee
No. Bills a lot. Yeah, those a lot. Limited participation for Josh Allen. Bill's walkthrough on Wednesday. New. New addition not participating is tight end Dawson Knox with a knee. Walk through limited. What's that mean? He didn't walk through all the.
- [162:11]
Conman
Place.
- [162:11]
Pat McAfee
Yeah. What's a walk through limited.
- [162:13]
AJ Hawk
Mean? I think it means if they would have a normal practice, he would have been limited in a normal.
- [162:18]
Pat McAfee
Like. Oh yeah. We were told that they have to project if it was a full day what it would have been Is this G day, Christmas Eve late in the season maybe or this actual issue we shall see at this moment. Who are you taking? How you taking.
- [162:32]
AJ Hawk
It? AJ I'm taking the Buffalo Bills at home and minus one and a.
- [162:35]
Pat McAfee
Half. Me as well. And then Bears. Niners, Sunday night football. Niners favored by three. Esco football team. Oh yeah, I just watched them live. That's a good football team. You know on the flip side, Chicago Bears. That's a good tough football team. This is a great Sunday night football game. We're pumped and excited about it. AJ who do you like? How do you like.
- [162:52]
AJ Hawk
It? Yeah, I mean I don't know if George Kittle is going to play how he is doing but I you. Either way, I am taking the 49ers on this.
- [162:59]
Pat McAfee
One. Me as well. I will take the Niners favored by three. And remember, the Niners can still get the number one seed in the NFC if they went out. So there's a lot to play. Not that the Bears don't have a lot to play for, but the Niners can literally have home game all the way to super bowl and through super bowl if they win out. So a lot on the line for Brock Purdy who was dealing on Monday night. Fresh off of five.
- [163:18]
AJ Hawk
Touchdowns. Man, he Brock Purdy. Well, I know Brute was BA saying do it the little like how his ball kind of, you know, throws a two or three ball as you hear these guys talk about on tv. But yeah, his like anticipation is what sets him apart. I think he's.
- [163:32]
Pat McAfee
Awesome. Yeah. And that thing's, yeah, you know, deadly accurate. He's playing Battleship. You know when you sit on, you know, the game Battleship where you're saying like C7 or whatever that is literally what he's doing. He's launching it over the thing. You can't see where it is and it's just hitting again exactly where he needs it to go. It's It. It is. You're watching a master at work whenever you're watching him live. And now, granted. Was that the Colts.
- [163:58]
Ty Schmidt
Defense?
- [164:00]
JJ Watt
No.
- [164:01]
Pat McAfee
Partially. They didn't punt. Thomas Morad's last Monday Night Football game. Yeah, potentially last Monday Night Football.
- [164:09]
Ty Schmidt
Game. I messed.
- [164:10]
Pat McAfee
Up. Zero puns. His whole family was in. Everybody was into.
- [164:13]
Conman
That. It was a good game for.
- [164:14]
Ty Schmidt
Him. It's Brock, a b. A bad.
- [164:15]
Conman
Teammate. He held a lot of perfect extra.
- [164:18]
Pat McAfee
Points. Perfect. And that guy almost hit from.
- [164:20]
Ty Schmidt
64. Yeah. Ed.
- [164:22]
Pat McAfee
Pinero. I didn't know you could do that. I saw Ed walk out.
- [164:25]
Conman
On. He can.
- [164:26]
Pat McAfee
Actually. It was 64 yarder. I was like, there's no way this. Let's get a returner back. Let's get a. Let's go ahead and try to steal one here. Eddie Pinero is going to hit from 64. The record was 63, just like 10 years ago. Eddie Panier are not known for a big, like, obviously incredibly accurate. He lines up from 64. This guy almost makes it. It's an inch away from going through so close. We didn't have a returner back.
- [164:50]
Ty Schmidt
There. Okay, let's not like their guys.
- [164:54]
Pat McAfee
Back. Get to a break. Shut up. Yeah, that's not how we're going to Christmas, okay? They knew Eddie had it. They knew Eddie had it. And I'm impressed by Eddie. That was a great kick. Just like groupy hitting from.
- [165:05]
Conman
60.
- [165:05]
Pat McAfee
Incredible. In Seattle, it's like, yo, I did not know that was possible. I made eye contact with him. I was like, 60. And he gave me one of these. I was like, all right, this little guy's got moxie. He kick off, he fucking full send body in.
- [165:19]
Ty Schmidt
Air. I saw that.
- [165:20]
Pat McAfee
Actually. You see a little body floating through, and he fucking got tossed around. And then he got up and then jogged off to the.
- [165:25]
Conman
Side. All.
- [165:26]
Pat McAfee
Right. This guy runs sprints through to keep warm on the.
- [165:29]
Ty Schmidt
Side. Love.
- [165:30]
Pat McAfee
It. And you just watch him. It's like, I love this guy's moxie. I. I really do, because he's doing more than most kickers. But also, it is very obvious that he's the smallest guy on the football. Maybe in the history of football, he might be the smallest guy to ever be on an NFL football field. Like, for real. You see him out there, and it's like, holy, this guy's small. And he murders the ball. I. I have no idea how. He's. He's. He's a marvel. Blake Groupie is a marvel in my eyes. And we're lucky we have him. And hopefully he'll be around around for the long haul. But boy, what do the Colts look like for the long haul? What does life look like for the long haul? We have no idea. All we have is this moment and today. We have no idea what tomorrow is going to bring. So let's try to enjoy it all. It's the holidays, obviously. Christmas, Christmas Eve. Let's go and have great conversations. Let's go ahead and be thankful for what we have. Let's go and bury some, maybe to hatch it with some.
- [166:17]
Ty Schmidt
People. Hell.
- [166:18]
Coach Mike McCarthy
Yeah.
- [166:18]
Pat McAfee
Sure. And on that note, let's cut off some anchors. New Year, new you, right around the corner. Somebody sucks, go ahead and get them out of your life. Life. Don't feel bad. You got to look in the mirror every single day and say, is this life worth living? It should be, because it's a beautiful thing to be alive in general. Merry Christmas to you all. We can't thank you enough for allowing us to do this for a living. AJ Great.
- [166:38]
AJ Hawk
Work. Thank you. Great work, boys. Merry Christmas.
- [166:41]
Pat McAfee
Everybody. Merry Christmas. Everybody. Shouts Sam.
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Ty Schmidt
Fiddlepour. Yeah, that's.
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JJ Watt
Right.
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Pat McAfee
Yeah.
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AJ Hawk
Great. Great.
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Pat McAfee
Job. Great.
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JJ Watt
Job. All.
- [166:49]
Pat McAfee
Right. We love you all. Thank you all. Merry Christmas and enjoy your families. Enjoy ball and we'll see you on Monday. Be a so good. So.
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Conman
Good. So.
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