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Episode: Bye Week Baseball, Eagles ‘Constipated Offense’ and Defending Kickers with Pat McAfee | Ep 105
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Duration: 01:56:24
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92%ers, we are back with another episode of New Heights and in this episode we are joined by an incredible guest, Pat McAfee! Before we get to Pat we’ve got an update on Travis’ debut as a game show host and when you can expect our review of Sisterhood of
the Travelling Pants. We’ve also got a full recap of the double tailgates Jason attended over the weekend, we try to figure out what was on Travis’ shirt, and what he thought of Game 1 of the ALCS. We also get into everything else from Week 6 in the NFL, including Jason’s full thoughts on everything that happened in the Eagles/Browns game, Davante Adams becoming a Jet, and the Cowboys getting blown out again at home. Finally, we sit down for an electric conversation with Pat McAfee. The guys get into everything from his thoughts on Jason’s kicker slander, how he got started in the media after playing, his way too early Super Bowl pick, and so much more. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting http://wondery.com/NewHeightsOffer now....Follow New Heights on Social Media for all the best moments from the show: https://lnk.to/newheightshowSupport the Show: PELOTON: Find your push. Find your power with Peloton at http://onepeloton.comMINT MOBILE: Go to http://mintmobile.com/newheights for Unlimited talk, text, and data plans for $15 a month when you purchase a 3-month plan ACCELERATOR: Use Code 5KELCES to get $5 off a case of Accelerator on Amazon through October 22nd. https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/FB06B38E-F0C2-479F-9DA5-FD4A1C852B07?ingress=2&visitId=5d9b00e8-f3bd-418b-916f-039cbabcdb46&ref_=ast_blnAMEX: Experience the powerful backing of American Express. For terms and to learn more, visit https://americanexpress.com/withamex.LOWES: Download the app http://lowes.com/hometeamFARMER’S DOG: Get 50% off your first box of fresh, healthy food at https://www.thefarmersdog.com/hewheights Plus, you get FREE shipping!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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In this episode of 'New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce', the brothers discuss Travis' debut as a game show host, their recent tailgating experiences, and the Eagles' win against the Browns. They reflect on the excitement of playoff baseball, particularly at Yankee Stadium, and examine the struggles of the Eagles' offense this season, describing it as 'constipated.' Special guest Pat McAfee joins to share insights on kickers in football, his transition to media, and several humorous anecdotes related to NFL culture, while emphasizing the importance of all positions in the sport.
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You said, for years, I've been thinking about this. That's what you said. For years, we've been talking about this. You've been laying at night thinking, like, I need to get this into a show somehow. Oh, gosh.
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This is why you did the college game day. You're starting to bring the fans out of here for talking shit. That's right. Jason, do you think you can fucking kick a field goal?
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Bingo! You know what? I don't know if my hips got me in it. We might have to find this out.
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Welcome back to New Heights, ladies and gentlemen, a one tree show produced by Wave Sports and Entertainment and brought to you by Peloton. Hey, how about it? All right. Find your push. Find your power with Peloton. That's right. I'm Travis Kelly.
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This is my big brother, Jason Kelsey, coming off the bye week. Cleveland Heights High School alum, Cincinnati Bearcat alum. The Bearcats got back on the winning track, getting after UCF this weekend. Shout out to the Bearcats. That's right.
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Make sure you subscribe on YouTube, OneDrewPlus, or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow the show on all social media, at New Heights Show with One S. And Jason, you're now going to tell the people what we got coming up.
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Well, we got another incredible episode lined up for all you 92%ers. We're going to talk about both our weekends out of the house. The Eagles' big win against the Brownies.
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And we're going to be joined by a very special guest, who's definitely going to destroy me for my take on getting rid of kickers.
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Absolutely ridiculous.
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But yeah, it's the one and only, the Yinzer himself.
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MacAfee, we got him.
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We've been waiting for this one for a long time.
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Love Pat, man.
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I mean, probably most legendary media person out there right now.
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Dude, so good.
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Just ridiculously talented.
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I cannot wait to talk to him about this last one, this one in Eugene, Oregon, over this past weekend. He got everybody to start cheering, singing along to Shout, and oh my fucking gosh, was it amazing.
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I literally started singing along as I was watching the video, got goosebumps. It was like, man, that had to be fucking rocking over there in Eugene, Oregon. He makes shit fun, man. It's so fucking cool watching him.
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No matter what he does, you're having fun.
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Exactly.
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Before I get crushed by probably the most legendary kicker to play the game at this point, let's get a little bit of that. All righty, are you smarter than a celebrity premiere? That's right. Travis's brand new show.
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Are you smarter than a celebrity debuts today, October 16th on prime video. Oh shit. It's today. It's today.
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Well, tomorrow, but today, I'm terrified, terrified what people are gonna say it is a I had so much fucking fun doing. Are you? Are you smarter? Yeah, you were telling me about this. There's a lot of good so much fun, man.
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So the thing I didn't I thought so the celebrities aren't the contestants, right?
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Uh, no, right.
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They do play along with the contestants on the show. Ryan Fitzpatrick, Nicole Byer, Chad, uh, Oh, Joe Cinco.
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Yep. Uh, Natasha Leggero. Thank you for saying that.
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But they weren't, they're not the contestants. They're the ones that are assisting the contestants with the answers, right?
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Like it's the old, are you smarter than a fifth grader where they're the one that's answering the question and the contestants have to decide whether they're going with that answer or whether they're doing their own answer.
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In some, there are a few twists to this game and I do a great job of describing it in the episodes.
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So you just gotta, yeah, you turn that thing on, you'll get caught up to all the rules and regulations that we got going on with the celebrities and how the celebrities can help you out.
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Amazon did actually send us a couple clips from the show.
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Oh yeah.
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There's one where you learn what a BBL is.
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Oh yeah.
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I don't know if I know what a BBL is.
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The old Brazilian butt lift. BBL, oh yeah.
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So let's check out this clip.
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My man Fitzy. If I lose my glutes, I'll just go get one of those. You know you're playing for $100,000. Ooh, Kelsey, I do, I do, yes. If you win that money, what are you going to do with it? You really want to know, Kelsey? Of course I do.
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Who doesn't want to know?
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OK, OK. Oh, a BBL. What?
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I didn't hear her say that one.
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Can you tell the audience what a BBL is? You know what a BBL is?
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A bigger butt.
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Oh, a bigger butt. What's the L?
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What? It's a Brazilian butt lift. Oh, the BBL.
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I did not know that's what that was called.
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Well.
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She gets me.
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Yeah, there you go. Yeah, there you go. The old Brazilian butt lift. I know where to go if I lose my glutes. Coach Reed starts seeing these glutes getting a little saggy. I'll just go get a BBL and lift these things up.
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Dude, I ain't going to. All you got to do is do some RDLs. Just get a little bit of, get some squats in.
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Get them glutes. You see, all the girls are doing it on the Instagram. She said, I'm trying to drag a wagon.
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Yeah. Yeah. I'm not going to lie. I'm not a fan of the BBLs. Not a fan of the BBLs. Listen, man. It looks okay. It looks okay for like a couple of years maybe. But then that thing just starts sagging. It looks like you got a diaper on the backside of you.
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It's not a good look.
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It doesn't happen like that all the time.
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Yes, it does, bro. I'm not a fan of the BBL.
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I'm out on the BBLs. I'm trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
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Just do some glute bridges.
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I don't think it works.
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You can build a wagon naturally. You don't need the...
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Synthetics, unless you got Kelsey jeans. But then you got a big fucking like stiff ass back there.
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Yeah.
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You got a big hard ass.
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But when you're not clenching it, it's still it's still got some some juice. I don't know. I'm not a yeah, I'm not a fan of them.
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Me neither.
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Just doesn't have the right shape. It just looks bad when your hamstrings don't match. When the hamstrings don't match your ass, it doesn't look good. I'm just being like, it's not a you can't just add to the ass. And then you got to go into his hammies.
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That ain't right. Small calves, small hamstring in a wagon. We can't do this. You got bad circulation where all your fat deposits are just accumulating in your ass. This seems like this is an unhealthy thing.
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All right. Well, there you go, kids. Outside of learning what a BBL was, it was a fun show. And I never, never in a million years thought I was ever going to ever be an actual host of a game show.
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I always thought it was going to be fun to, like, maybe go on one of the game shows. Yeah. And then somebody asked me, Do you want to host it?
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I was like, I mean, I guess I used to, like, mimic all the game show hosts as a kid, like just fucking around. And I love I love the game shows for sure.
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We used to watch the game show network all the time. Family Feud, Steve Harvey, we used to hit all that stuff.
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We were a game show network. I still do the game shows. I still like game shows. Well, then you might like this one, Jason. I actually, I was asked how well my family would do on the show. And I was like, man, you know what?
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I think you and Big Ed would be pretty solid.
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Dad would be good. Dad knows a lot of useless knowledge. He's spent a lot of time in front of the computer, not really going anywhere with them needs.
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He's solid. He remembers stories very well. I'm not, I'll blank on it and I'll confuse it with something else in a heartbeat.
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If you let Big Ed be a celebrity and eat buffalo wings while he's playing, he might not miss a question. He might get every single one of them. He's got to deal with him chewing the wings and sweating.
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You get some time, yeah. What's that? Slope? Y equals MX plus B.
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Winston Churchill. That's Winston. I mean, he probably would have said that.
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Who knows?
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Well, it sounds like my Wednesdays are going to be very full.
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Yeah, play along. Play along and let me know how good you do. What time does this premiere at? I have no idea what time. It streams, I'm pretty sure.
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Well, I know it streams, but usually there's like, when it's a debut, it doesn't have a time or is it just a day?
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It's just the day, yeah.
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All right, so I can watch it immediately so it doesn't interfere with the grotesquerie at night?
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There you go. All right, you go. You're not sick of fucking seeing me on the TV.
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Oh, dude, I can't wait.
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Please tell tell me how well you do because I was actually I was kind of like quizzing myself going through the questions in the back just making sure I would read them once just so that I because I'm a terrible reader.
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So I would make sure I would get all the pronunciations like corrected in the background. But yeah, I would love to see how well you do.
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Should we do it? Can we get the video from Prime? And then I'll just do it and answer them. Boom. Boom. See how it happens? Do it live.
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Yeah, or just tell me. I'll tell you. Nice. Yes. Make sure you guys check that thing out on Amazon, I believe. Yeah. Amazon Prime. All right. New One Tree Plus exclusive this Thursday.
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And in more new news, our next one plus exclusive will be, like I said, available Thursday. We both watched the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. We did. Yeah, it's happened.
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It was an electric movie, I'll tell you what, had me glued to the screen the whole time. Our first meeting of the New Heights Film Club and we're going to give you guys our review.
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I don't think it did match the title.
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I mean yeah it did.
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The pants really aren't a big part of the movie to me.
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What? The pants are like the bringing them into a lot of their like
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Well, we don't want to get too much of this review. We're going to save it.
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Yeah. It definitely had something to do with the movie.
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Had nothing to do with it.
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It tied all the girls together, Jason.
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Yeah, you're right. Their entire childhood and friendship.
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No, their entire life. It's not enough. We need pants. We'll talk about it in the 1D plus, though. It shouldn't even be.
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It should be the like they weren't even they acted like they were jeans. They couldn't like the whole movie's premise is like these girls are amazed because it's the first pair of jeggings they tried on.
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And there's some spandex to them. You're giving it away, Jason. You're giving your review.
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Sisterhood of the traveling jiggings. That's what it should have been called.
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Yeah.
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I tailgated at the link and then went up to East Rutherford, New Jersey, where I tailgated with Buffalo Bills and New Jersey Jets fans, New York Jets fans. Um, Trav, you had a bye this week.
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And, uh, there's a small chance that we also saw you out of the house.
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Yeah, no, you saw me at the, uh, the guards and a gang scheme.
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Well, we saw you before that too, is a courtesy of this picture right here. Uh, we saw. You going out to eat? It looked like maybe you guys are out in New York City. You and Tay.
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That's what we do. We like to go out and eat. Yes.
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Yeah. I mean, who doesn't? Why wouldn't you? What in the world was the shirt though? We got to show this.
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I don't, I have no idea. I think it's just art. I think it's just people. And then there's a horse. I don't know what's underneath that horse. I'm not sure. I didn't, I didn't really look at this shirt like that when I got it.
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I just liked the color and the patterns and stuff. It looks like a hand. It's like a pointing finger. I mean, it's like a pointing finger like that.
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It's kind of cropped funny. But that I mean, on this picture, it kind of appears like it's a horse guy.
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That'd be crazy if I was wearing a horse. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. That's why you always got to you always got to really, you know, you got to make sure you know what you're wearing kids, or you're just everybody can just assume now.
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Oh, gosh. Well, we do know what you're wearing because British GQ did a whole breakdown on the shirt. Oh, nice.
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Thanks, GQ. Yes.
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In New York City, the American football player wore a Navy bowling shirt with a camp collar design and a boxy fit released as part of Jacquemus latest La Sasa La Casa line. It's a signature move from the French label
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Uh, flowy, fun and more vibrant Mersai than a minimalist Paris. It's a fancy way of saying it's a button down with horses and people fucking on it.
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People fucking, I mean, that's what you got out of that.
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Look at these two people right here.
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You're ridiculous, Jason.
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That woman is riding that man.
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They're standing next to each other. No, they're not.
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No, no, no, not that one. The one right below it. You can't even see that guy's legs.
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They're sitting next to each other.
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No, no, no. He's underneath.
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You're making an assumption. There's nothing saying that they're having sex.
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Well, what are her tits out for if they're not having sex, Travis?
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So you could just be wearing a very tight shirt that shows her her tits.
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She's got a BBL on the backside of that. I mean, what's happening on this shirt?
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Those hams are those hamstrings.
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The hamstrings match it. You're right. You're right.
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You're ridiculous. The fact that that got you fired up is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.
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Trav, we also saw you at the Guardians-Yankees game. While you were in New York, you also caught Guardians-Yankees ALCS game.
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Yeah, game one, baby.
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Playoff baseball. What is it about playoff baseball that's so electric?
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Gosh, I think it's just the intensity. You play all those, what is it, 182 games? you know, for these moments, and then every single pitch matters. Every single pitch matters.
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A few got away from our first reliever there, unfortunately, and sure enough, we just weren't able to bounce back from the Yankees' power, man. I'll tell you what, man, when Stanton and Soto, when they get a hold of one, man, oh, shit.
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That ball flies off the bat, man. It is impressive. It is impressive shit. My guy, uh, judge is, uh, he's right there. I'm having a huge game. And I mean, the whole time I'm just, I'm screaming. I'm, I'm, I'm in hostile territory.
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Cause it's the Bronx bombers and I'm, I'm at the Yankee stadium and the playoffs and. I'm over here cheering for the guards because I'm a Cleveland kid and I want to see Cleveland win a fucking World Series.
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It was mixed feelings because I was there trying to have some fun with Tay and everybody. All our friends, Eli and Chelsea came. Lefkoe and Enum came. We had an unbelievable crew.
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uh with us and hanging with us and um you know it was uh it was fun it was fun even though the guards couldn't pull it off um it was still an exciting exciting game and it was cool to see yankee stadium because i've always wanted to see that thing in person in a playoff game in a hostile environment and it didn't disappoint man the yankees uh the the fans the players everybody involved man it was awesome
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There is something about playoff baseball that, and I love regular baseball. Anytime you go down to the ballpark, you're getting a hot dog and a beer. You're having some fun.
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Oh yeah.
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But playoff baseball, it's like almost the history of it. You just get swept up in like the moment. Um, it's one of the most iconic, I will say, I don't think it's as good as playoff hockey.
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I don't know that anything could beat the playoff hockey now, but playoff baseball is pretty dang good.
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I feel like I feel like it does, because you can get the play, you know, the player stories a little bit more.
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And not to say that hockey doesn't do a great job of that, but you just don't see, you know, hockey players wanting to put themselves out there for everybody to get to know them. It just is what it is.
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It's just not kind of the culture of the of the league, I don't think.
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Yeah, I think that's probably fair. I think it's, yeah, I do think that's part of the culture. Part of it's, you know, it's just not as popular of a sport as baseball.
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Yeah.
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They're wearing, you know, the helmets and stuff. So you see them, eh, they have the open face mask, most of them. Yeah, I think you're right. I think a lot of it does come down to the hockey culture.
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I just feel like I'm more invested in every single player. Like if the Yankees play the Dodgers, you know, a little New York versus the old Brooklyn Dodgers.
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You're right. It's a sport that's ruled by the The star power, it's a star power driven league.
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You put a guy like Shohei Ohtani in New York and you like, I want to see how he reacts to, you know, a hostile environment like that. I think that's exciting for me to see as a as a player.
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So every single time I see him up at bat, I'm going to be glued into every single pitch. It's hard to find that in any other sport, you know, let alone in the playoffs.
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I think it's also, we just grew up in the nineties with the Indians and we just loved baseball so much because they were so good. How many world series or playoff games did we go to? I know you went to the one world series game.
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You did. I only went to the All-Star. That's right. I went to the All-Star. You went to the World Series. I remember going to just taking the rapid downtown and going to games for like a $5, $10 ticket.
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Or if a friend had an extra ticket for me, we would all just jump on the rapid and go downtown.
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Yeah. Mom and dad didn't have many tickets bought. We usually were.
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It was either through mom's work or we were tagalongs with somebody else.
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Sailors had season tickets that they would split up with a couple of other people. So every once in a while I would go with Brandon.
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We did go to the one playoff game together because mom always tells the story about how we fell asleep in like the fourth inning or something like that. And we were like fast asleep because it was a late game.
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No way.
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Do I got to text mom right now?
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No, I just there's no way I ever have fell asleep at a at a tribe game.
00:19:37 Speaker_05
Mom tells this story. We were like, we were like very young. We were both asleep.
00:19:43 Speaker_03
I probably maybe maybe if we went to the game, I really didn't know what was going on. But every game that I went to, I was I was the biggest, like, fiend for sports ever.
00:19:54 Speaker_03
If I ever went to a ball game or a like a basketball game or anything like that, like I was so glued. Travis, nobody is.
00:20:01 Speaker_05
Nobody is attacking your fan crazy.
00:20:04 Speaker_03
If you think that I was sleep during one of these games, it doesn't matter how you say you are when you're a child.
00:20:09 Speaker_03
Beg mom and dad to buy the $20 roster book so that I could actually keep score of the game, which means I'm watching every single pitch.
00:20:20 Speaker_05
Nobody. is at all. And I'm telling you, I don't know you weren't a big fan.
00:20:24 Speaker_03
I think she's just saying that you fell asleep. I was I was paying attention.
00:20:28 Speaker_05
Well, every time I text me back, hopefully if the hurricane didn't ruin her phone, I think that you. The thing is, like my kids, Bluey is like crack to them. They won't they won't be glued to Bluey, but they're still children.
00:20:43 Speaker_05
And eventually that brain is going to shut it down and there's going to fall asleep.
00:20:47 Speaker_03
I don't know what to tell you. I never fell asleep at a game.
00:20:50 Speaker_05
I'll text Ed to that was there.
00:20:52 Speaker_03
Yeah, shout out to my shout out to my guys that I actually know on the Yanks Rizzo big judge If I'm missing somebody I'm an idiot, but those guys are a Hall of Fame just people man Just all like there was some of my favorite guys to be around when I do get a chance to hang out with them Saw some Saturday Night Live two years ago I believe with them and it's just cool seeing him seeing him chase it chase the ring Even though I want my guards to find a way to get him man
00:21:19 Speaker_03
Yeah. Come on, baby. This is a tough place to play though, brother.
00:21:24 Speaker_05
I text dad, did Travis and I ever fall asleep at an Indians game? He said, no, I did.
00:21:34 Speaker_03
Yeah, he's like us that's where we get our sleeping from he could fall asleep in a fucking rock does not matter we had some Cleveland sports So we were getting into you went to the guards game and I saw a Browns game.
00:21:44 Speaker_03
Yeah tailgating Who knew Jason tailgating? It was the second weekend in row You got to do some tailgating out there in a Philly and uh, well tailgating in general, I guess Philly there's the first time in like Two weeks.
00:21:58 Speaker_03
You actually hit two different tailgates. Let's start with the Eagles game first. How was your second time tailgating at the link? Was it with a, you know, a little bit more genuine this time knowing you didn't have all the.
00:22:09 Speaker_03
Did I guess you say cameras following you?
00:22:12 Speaker_05
There were cameras following. Yeah, this one. The first one was more like a preplanned deal. This one was kind of like just show up and like trying to experience it, but it turned into chaos. Yeah, it was a blast, man. It was the car.
00:22:24 Speaker_03
Maybe.
00:22:24 Speaker_05
Yeah, baby. Shout out to Harold. Are you a Jersey guy now? I am, especially the throwbacks. Dude, I got my guy. We're going to talk about the the Bills Jets game in a second. I got a great jersey from that one, but it was awesome.
00:22:38 Speaker_05
Rocking Harold Carmichael used to Harold used to be the director of player development. That was his role at the Eagles when I first got here. So got to spend a lot of time with him.
00:22:48 Speaker_05
He was instrumental in helping a lot of young players and the rookies out getting acclimated. new people to the city, just an awesome personality. So it was really cool to wear his jersey. And it was awesome to go tailgate.
00:23:00 Speaker_05
I mean, listen, got the hold up a baby. You see this picture right here? Yeah.
00:23:05 Speaker_04
Like, you know?
00:23:11 Speaker_03
No way. That's actually the word. That's not it.
00:23:17 Speaker_04
I think those are the words.
00:23:28 Speaker_05
I also witnessed somebody get engaged in front of me. That was not planned, at least on my behalf. That came out of nowhere.
00:23:33 Speaker_03
Oh, shit. Brian Dawkins got married.
00:23:35 Speaker_05
Brian Dawkins proposed to this one lovely lady.
00:23:39 Speaker_03
And were there any Philadelphia delicacies that you got into, like alligator?
00:23:46 Speaker_05
Yeah, alligator was not on the menu this week. But there were cheese steaks. Everybody's got sausage. One of the guys had this jerk chicken set up on this charcoal. Like tailgate was probably a grill specifically for tailgate. I'd never seen it though.
00:23:59 Speaker_05
It was dope. Just sitting on the ground. Let me tell you these chicken thighs. Pretty damn good.
00:24:07 Speaker_03
I had my first time I had a jerk beef jerk beef.
00:24:11 Speaker_05
I've never heard of jerk beef. Who's doing jerk beef?
00:24:14 Speaker_03
I never mind. I don't even know if it was that it was a jerk pasta. It was a jerk pasta with beef in it.
00:24:19 Speaker_05
I mean, you can do jerk anything probably is just the jerk seasoning. Yeah, I've just never had I've only ever had jerk chicken, maybe pork.
00:24:26 Speaker_03
And lastly, there was an insane video going around of you chugging a beer. Yeah, the focus wasn't as much on you as it was on the cameraman next to you. And this is why you shouldn't go on top of trailers, kids.
00:24:41 Speaker_05
I will say this woman was up there already and, uh, she offered to go up there again. I was like, yeah, I'm not going to turn down the opportunity to go up on a trailer. I've never been on top of a trailer.
00:24:51 Speaker_05
Almost felt like, you know, it reminded me of, uh, I felt like I was in tremors. I felt like I was like one of the guys in tremors up on the bus. You remember that scene? The, um, the worm things that were on the ground through the desert. Yeah.
00:25:03 Speaker_05
And they would get up on top of vehicles and stuff. So they weren't touching the ground and then would start popping the tires.
00:25:08 Speaker_03
Yeah.
00:25:09 Speaker_05
I don't know, I got an insane flashback the moment I got up there. My guy, I don't know how he got up there. This ladder was like, I was nervous going up myself, like very old, like did not look like it was adhered very well.
00:25:24 Speaker_05
And somehow this guy climbed up there with the camera. I mean, it was impressive that he's up there to begin with.
00:25:30 Speaker_03
Yeah.
00:25:30 Speaker_05
Didn't know there was a skylight there. Stepped, broke right through the window in the roof. Luckily, he's good. He's okay. Camera fell down. I thought it was done, done, done, done.
00:25:42 Speaker_05
So he ran down there fast, picked it up, started recording, worked perfectly fine. I don't know how what that's how durable those things are. I don't think that they're they are. But somehow that thing must have felt just right. It was insane.
00:25:54 Speaker_03
That's that's like a 10, 12 foot drop, right?
00:25:57 Speaker_05
Yeah, that's like a $200,000 piece of equipment right there. That camera, I would assume that thing is expensive.
00:26:03 Speaker_03
Were you like shooting a doc? Was that your camera? Was that your guy?
00:26:07 Speaker_05
They're helping with another thing we're doing with ESPN. that I think we're waiting to kind of unleash that.
00:26:12 Speaker_03
Nice.
00:26:13 Speaker_05
They were there shooting with that. They're really with NFL Films is who they're with, but they, uh, camera dropped kind of, I thought it was gone for sure. Luckily I knew he was all right with the way he got up and then, um,
00:26:25 Speaker_05
He just kept up and kept recording. He's a trooper.
00:26:28 Speaker_03
Electric. This is why you chug, people. Good things happen when you chug. You get good content.
00:26:32 Speaker_05
Well, now I'm two for two now at Eagle's Tailgates. My man Dunphy almost tore his ACL at the last one.
00:26:38 Speaker_02
Yeah, Dunphy did, yeah.
00:26:39 Speaker_05
And luckily he's okay. Well, doesn't need surgery. And now this, I mean, I don't know. Maybe I'm cursed.
00:26:47 Speaker_03
I hope not. If you see Jason chugging, don't move.
00:26:51 Speaker_05
Yeah. So this was awesome. It was a, is a fun time, fun event being out there with the Eagles fans, a little weird seeing Browns fans. And I was ribbing them, but obviously being from Cleveland, I still love the Browns in particular.
00:27:03 Speaker_05
There's this one tent dudes were awesome. They're from St. Ignatius really happy to be there. So it was cool seeing some brownies and in attendance.
00:27:11 Speaker_03
So fellow believe lenders, this is a big game. It was a big game week six.
00:27:15 Speaker_05
It's not divisional, but both of the teams needed to win bad like Cleveland is in a bad spot right now. And I mean, honestly, we're being. Real honest, they're bad football team.
00:27:26 Speaker_05
I mean, it was I came away watching that game thinking Cleveland's worse than anything else. Like that offense just cannot get it figured out right now.
00:27:34 Speaker_03
I think it was it was a rough go around for both teams because we heard some Sirianni chance. But we'll get to that later. Let's let's talk a little bit of Monday night football countdown.
00:27:43 Speaker_03
Little Monday night countdown with ESPN send you to the Bills Jets game in the Meadowlands. And you were reunited with your people, Bills Mafia. Dude, you started. Yeah, you started things off by once again drinking out of a bowling ball.
00:27:58 Speaker_03
Got that one back into you like that one so much. Except this time we actually know what was in it.
00:28:05 Speaker_05
Yes, Gatorade. If Pinto Round offers me a shot out of a bowling ball, I'm not going to turn down Pinto Round. I'm not doing it.
00:28:11 Speaker_03
Why blue Gatorade?
00:28:12 Speaker_05
Because I'm not supposed to drink when I'm on Monday night countdown. It's one of the caveats of working for ESPN. They don't like you to be seen drinking alcohol or even drinking alcohol before they put you on live television.
00:28:23 Speaker_03
That's fair.
00:28:23 Speaker_05
Unless you're Pat McAfee, then you get away with whatever you want.
00:28:26 Speaker_03
When you're the greatest, you get different. Yeah, you get treated differently. It is what it is.
00:28:30 Speaker_05
Well, yeah. Pessimist. So what I'm wearing right there is a hat from the Water Buffalo Club 716. And they have a grand poobah.
00:28:39 Speaker_02
What the grand poobah?
00:28:42 Speaker_05
And that's what the Fred Flintstone outfit is. And they anointed me that which is basically I'm king of the tailgate for the day. I'm king of those movies, which felt a little weird getting while I wore this jersey.
00:28:55 Speaker_05
in honor of a legendary defensive lineman who recently unfortunately passed away this week, Abdul Salaam. That's right. The last member of the New York SAC Exchange, not in the ring of honor for the New York Jets, but known as the soldier of peace.
00:29:13 Speaker_05
But yeah, we were having a lot of fun out there in the tailgate. Bill's Mafia, it doesn't matter where they're at. They're having fun. Fellow Midwesterners, obviously there's a kinship. Buffalo's Midlands?
00:29:25 Speaker_05
Well, I consider anybody that resides along- It's New York, there's no way. You're right. If you're on the lake, you- All those cities, just good people. They think the same. They all just want to have fun.
00:29:38 Speaker_05
And it's a great time being out there with the Buffalo Bills Mafia. The Jets fans are awesome too.
00:29:43 Speaker_03
Jets fans were fun when I watched you last year playing the Jets.
00:29:46 Speaker_05
The Bills Mafia is more of a production. Like they have a lot more going on. There's like people that travel and obviously there's a way game for them.
00:29:52 Speaker_05
So those fans have like their, their, their, their like rituals that they're going to with everything.
00:29:57 Speaker_02
Yeah.
00:29:58 Speaker_05
Whereas like the Jets fans, it was like, Oh, Yeah, it used to be a firefight. I'd not just go tailgate to the games like it was, you know, a lot of that kind of appreciated to first got a hard hat.
00:30:11 Speaker_05
This is one of the baddest like, I gotta say, this is pretty cool. You're like, you're like getting I'm just using it to get knickknacks.
00:30:19 Speaker_03
Yeah, this is me up. Oh, you're going to be a hoarder before you know it. People are going to be giving you everything. That's good shit right there.
00:30:28 Speaker_03
And then you, uh, you had a wardrobe change after you went tailgating though, Jason, you actually, uh, you actually put on a fucking suit.
00:30:36 Speaker_05
I think the suit's nice. I think that that's one. There's a reason why people have worn suits for a long time. So getting up there with a tie, this one obviously fit color scheme wise with the game. My man, Ryan Clark was in the jets suit colors.
00:30:48 Speaker_05
This one, I had this color already in my, uh, closet electric blue. And I'm like, man, I don't know when I'm ever going to wear this, like, very blue blue. Like, I don't know when that's going to happen. I was like, you know what?
00:31:00 Speaker_05
I think this might be the perfect week.
00:31:04 Speaker_03
New York Jets. I could see I could see you playing for the Bills.
00:31:07 Speaker_05
I would have fit in really well. Yeah. I mean, Ryan Fitzpatrick, anybody with a beard is going to fit in well with the beard with the Bills, right?
00:31:13 Speaker_03
Yeah, man. You fucking snapping it to Josh Allen would have been fucking dangerous.
00:31:18 Speaker_05
God damn it. Snapping into Ryan Fitzpatrick.
00:31:21 Speaker_03
Ooh, Fitzmagic, Arana.
00:31:22 Speaker_05
Bills is a town that appreciates their offensive line too. Much like Cleveland, much like Philadelphia. The Bills, like my man Eric Wood, he's been up there. He's like calls the games for Bills radio and stuff like that still. He would, yeah.
00:31:37 Speaker_05
It's a town that definitely appreciates the big guys up front. So it's an offensive line haven town.
00:31:43 Speaker_03
I get it. Well, where'd you get this Buffalo wing necklace?
00:31:48 Speaker_05
So, Teresa was the one giving out the Grand Puba attire and there was another woman, I don't remember her name, but she had the buffalo wing necklace for me, which is my kind of jewelry.
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00:34:33 Speaker_05
That's usually this is like skinny guys, big old quads.
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00:34:52 Speaker_03
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00:35:08 Speaker_05
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00:36:57 Speaker_03
Eagles 20, Browns 16 like we were talking about earlier. Jason was out there tailgating before the game. Initial thoughts though on the actual game.
00:37:05 Speaker_05
Obviously always good when you win. Some good takeaways from the game. Defense played a lot better. No turnovers for the offense in general. Still, though, I came away from the game again.
00:37:16 Speaker_05
We kind of mentioned this earlier, thinking more about, you know, Cleveland probably is a struggling team right now than I did thinking that the Eagles really controlled the game. So I don't think it was like an impressive performance by either team.
00:37:28 Speaker_05
But that being said, wins a win, baby. I'm taking that all day, all day, every day, improved in some areas that they've been struggling. Defense played so much better. And I think offensively, It was sporadic.
00:37:39 Speaker_05
It felt a little bit disconnected, but at times good. And then obviously, whenever you got AJ Brown back and healthy, it's not a bad thing.
00:37:47 Speaker_03
Don't forget skinny Batman. You had both AJ and skinny Batman Smitty back in the offense, but you guys still haven't scored in the first quarter yet through five games, zero points in the first quarter of every single game they played so far.
00:38:00 Speaker_05
Yeah, I think they were driving towards the end of that first quarter. So it almost happened. But I think, yeah, it hasn't been a good start to games.
00:38:07 Speaker_05
And as you know, a lot of starts to games come down to like what you have planned coming in, and what you think you're going to see.
00:38:14 Speaker_05
And I think the Eagles, you know, I don't want to speak for this this year, because I don't know as much whether that's happening this year. But Jalen has always been a guy that's been schemed differently, because he's a different quarterback, right?
00:38:25 Speaker_05
We tend to run different plays and different offensive structures and a lot of other teams do. So I don't know if it's like they're not getting quite what they expect. I think some of it is just bad execution.
00:38:36 Speaker_05
Like I've definitely seen drops and slow starts from the players. So I think a lot of it is just accountability on both sides, right? Players have to be accountable to getting off to a faster start and being locked in to start the game.
00:38:48 Speaker_05
And then I think also offensively, you know, getting to stuff that you feel like is Maybe you're more of your bread and butter. Does that make sense? Like sometimes I think the early plays end up being game plan specific plays. Maybe start with.
00:39:02 Speaker_05
Plays that are more just generic part of your offense. Maybe I don't know. I'm kind of grasping the straws.
00:39:07 Speaker_03
It feels like the Eagles are starting to get a little frustrated with it. At least the Eagles players. Lane Johnson hit us with the all time quote were a constipated offense. That's what it bleeping feels like.
00:39:21 Speaker_05
Yeah.
00:39:22 Speaker_03
accurate, a constipated office. I mean, that shit's in there, man. Yeah, it's in there. It's in there. Just got to get that shit out.
00:39:30 Speaker_02
It's going. Yeah, you already know.
00:39:33 Speaker_05
I think it's a great definition. And, you know, go for go figure lane just can pull that out of his ass. The constipated often is a great line. And that's what it's exactly what it feels like. It just feels kind of disconnected out of rhythm.
00:39:47 Speaker_05
It feels like it's like they have the players, they make spot plays here and there, but it doesn't feel like that full onslaught of plays that go off one another that you're typically seeing.
00:39:59 Speaker_05
It's more like guys making plays like AJ going up there and catching a 50-50 ball, which I don't know that there are any 50-50 balls with AJ Brown. Obviously the run game struggled a little bit, which You know, Cleveland's got some horses up front.
00:40:10 Speaker_05
They got good players. So shout out to them for showing up. And my man Jim Schwartz for dialing up a game plan. They had some plays that were there. They did. They just watching it back. They had some counters.
00:40:21 Speaker_05
They had some things drawn up where it's like, man, if that just happens, that thing's creased. There was an early run.
00:40:28 Speaker_05
where like Saquon runs into Landon Dickerson and like Landon Dickerson makes the tackle right and it's like he's on the single safety like that's at least a 10 yard or you know he breaks one tackle explosive run who knows how big it is yeah you know there's plays to be had some of it comes down to executing some of it just feels like
00:40:45 Speaker_05
I think that they're trying to figure things out right now because they've struggled a little bit in recent weeks, especially missing A.J. and Devontae that I think will continue to get better.
00:40:54 Speaker_05
Obviously, having those guys out there this week helped another week of, you know, figuring themselves out. You know, hopefully this offense keeps going, starts to find some rhythm and is a little bit less constipated.
00:41:04 Speaker_03
Yeah. More explosive. Well, A.J. Brown finished with six receptions for 116 yards and a touchdown. Jalen connected to A.J. for the first TD of the game, a 22-yarder.
00:41:16 Speaker_03
He also caught an electric game-ceiling reception, a 40-yard pass with two minutes left to play. It sounds like Cleveland might have went cover zero and they just said, fuck it, we're putting it up.
00:41:25 Speaker_03
What do you think of this play call here late in the game? And also, did Wyatt notice his pink shoes are back?
00:41:33 Speaker_03
Was not watching with Wyatt, but she probably did it was not cover zero just straight up cover one with the safeties up and or Man, hole hole is what we call a double hole double picking crossers and just making the quarterback throw over top which he did he did beautifully great pitching catch
00:41:52 Speaker_03
Uh, by guys, two guys that know how to do it the best in the league.
00:41:56 Speaker_05
Listen, it's AJ Brown. He's going to come down with these catches like nine times out of 10. He's a beast. He's a small Batman. I do think.
00:42:04 Speaker_05
Back to the slow starts and maybe game plan specific plays, it felt like a good way to buck that sometimes is utilizing tempo.
00:42:12 Speaker_05
And I think that they do it sometimes, but it feels like Jalen, when they go into these two minute situations, he goes more into like automatic mode.
00:42:19 Speaker_05
I wouldn't be opposed to them maybe mixing some tempo early in the game, like here and there to spark some momentum. And I think that it's worked in the past with him in particular.
00:42:30 Speaker_05
And I think as an offense, I always liked when you're going tempo, you have to call more generic stuff that goes off of one another. It's like, hey, we know we like this versus this. We know like this versus this.
00:42:42 Speaker_05
And it kind of, you know, because of the tempo nature of it, you can't do all these crazy things. Now, I like the Kellens brought more motions and more interesting things. We still need to do that.
00:42:51 Speaker_05
But maybe sometimes early on, just to like get in the rhythm, sometimes using utilizing that helps. So maybe they do that. I don't know.
00:42:59 Speaker_03
Yeah.
00:43:00 Speaker_05
Probably the coaches coach though.
00:43:01 Speaker_03
Yeah, coaches know best and they'll keep figuring it out. Sirianni knows what he's doing over there. Devontae Smith also had a big day finished with three catches for 64 yards.
00:43:10 Speaker_03
It's good to see that dynamic duo in the wide receiver group over there starting to get back on track. But Nick Sirianni. The big things coming out of this game that we gotta talk about, Sirianni appears to be chirping back at the Eagles.
00:43:24 Speaker_03
And I'm not sure if he was necessarily chirping back or if, you know, like it was a confrontation or if he was just, you know, trying to get fired up with them. We don't know what was actually said, at least I don't think so.
00:43:37 Speaker_03
The fans who Nick Sirianni was yelling at after the Eagles win posted his side of the story context on Reddit. Nice, he's a Reddit guy. I began to yell in quotes, if you start running back, get you five yards on first down, you give it to him again.
00:43:56 Speaker_03
Run, run the ball, run the ball. And I had some more to say, but you get the point. Yeah, it sounds like the Eagles fans coaching and that's what they do. They let the coach know what they think they should do. It's fans.
00:44:10 Speaker_05
The Nick Sirianni, run the ball stuff, you know, Nick turned around, obviously everybody saw this, gestured for him to calm down and said something to the effect, we will, don't worry, I'm on it. Or actually they didn't see that.
00:44:21 Speaker_05
So Nick turned around beforehand, gestured to him to calm down, said something to the effect that we will, don't worry about it. Fast forward to the end of the game, came over to us and said, hey, I told you we'd run it. I told you.
00:44:31 Speaker_05
Admittedly paraphrasing, I had indulged quite a bit. The point is, I was, it was not unwarranted, nor did I see it as aggressive. I don't know. There's no way for us to verify if this fan, uh, was indeed the fan that Nick was yelling at.
00:44:46 Speaker_05
This is a Reddit post, which is far from a verified source. But it is intriguing because I think that would lead you to believe that this may be not be as big of a deal as everybody saying it is. And it probably isn't regardless.
00:45:00 Speaker_05
I think Nick and his presser announced, you know, we thrive off of the crowd. They cheer for us. And the team had been trying to get him. back to being the like emotional leader that he is.
00:45:14 Speaker_05
And obviously he commented on Monday, you know, I was trying to bring the energy, enthusiasm, all that. I'm sorry, disappointed in the way I directed it at the end of the game. My energy should be all in on coaching, motivating, celebrating our guys.
00:45:29 Speaker_05
So he knows that Listen, it's a lose-lose operation when you start going back and forth with fans.
00:45:35 Speaker_03
It's tough.
00:45:35 Speaker_05
It's never going to be seen right. It only empowers people to talk more trash because they know they're getting to you. We talked about this with Joey Bosa. Joey Bosa's at the link. Fish on, fish on. We got him. Like you can't do it.
00:45:50 Speaker_05
It's just not going to help. But the people I've seen this because I said this on Monday night, like people like, oh, you're defending Nick, but defending him. I think this is he shouldn't be doing this. Like, I don't think that that's right.
00:46:00 Speaker_05
But at the same time, I will defend him. And like, he needs to be emotional. He needs to be passionate. That's when he is a better coach. And he knows that. And the team knows that. And I think that Directing it in the right way is what we want to see.
00:46:12 Speaker_05
And I think that for the majority of the game, that's what you saw. You saw Nick fired up. The team needed that they needed to win this game. He knows what's on the line. And it's getting the sense of urgency is high right now in Philadelphia.
00:46:23 Speaker_05
So yeah, not good to be directing it in this way. Nick knows that, that's clear. Hopefully you can continue to bring the passion and the energy in more productive ways that won't have a bunch of people on TV shouting about stuff. Yeah, that'd be great.
00:46:42 Speaker_03
Well, I feel like you, you just gave us your final thoughts.
00:46:44 Speaker_05
So that's about it. You know, I think that it was still an underperformance by the Eagles. They still got a lot to work on. But the good thing is, is week four or week? Sorry. Good thing is week six. Is that right?
00:46:54 Speaker_03
Week seven. Week seven. Game six.
00:46:56 Speaker_05
Week seven. God damn. This thing is flying by.
00:46:59 Speaker_03
Yeah, it is. Wow. Yeah. And the Eagles are going to take the subway over to New York or New Jersey, I should say.
00:47:05 Speaker_05
We got the Giants this week. Giants haven't been looking that bad.
00:47:07 Speaker_03
Yeah, Saquon's returning to the Meadowlands, baby.
00:47:11 Speaker_05
Haven't been looking great on offense, but their defense is looking dang good. So it'll be a fun game.
00:47:17 Speaker_03
We did have one voice of reason, maybe an unlikely voice of reason from our guy Dumpy.
00:47:23 Speaker_03
Eagles are literally a wide open two yard Saquon Barkley catch away from being four and one while missing AJ Brown for three weeks and the lone loss being when AJ Brown, Smitty and Lane Johnson were all out. Um, it's a reasonable take Dumpy.
00:47:38 Speaker_03
Goddamn dump. That's a good fucking take.
00:47:41 Speaker_05
A level-headed Philly fanatic tattoo around your belly button take right there.
00:47:45 Speaker_03
You don't always get that out of, out of those kinds of Philly fans. Those die hard sometimes. Those die hard sometimes. Just pour it on them.
00:47:53 Speaker_05
All right, week six recap, uh, not the best week for football last week. Great week for football. So the offense is reinvigorate around the league this week. Uh, got back to a little bit of sloppiness.
00:48:05 Speaker_05
Um, the big news break, uh, that we have following the week is Devante Adams is now a jet jets coming off of their last Monday night football. to the bills, short-lived amount of agony, Jets Jake, I mean, jumping for joy.
00:48:20 Speaker_05
This should expand the offense. Obviously, Garrett Wilson, Lazard, it's gonna add another dynamic.
00:48:27 Speaker_03
Every time, anytime any offense or anytime any Hall of Fame quarterback gets this kind of receiver, or gets his legendary receiver that he has been always on the same page with, gets him back. Yeah, no, that this offense is going to be a lot better.
00:48:44 Speaker_03
And it just is what it is.
00:48:46 Speaker_05
Yeah, absolutely. The offense look reinvigorated to with Todd Downing calling plays yesterday. It just felt like you were moving the ball, man. Yeah, we're moving the ball, man. They were handing it off back to the fan that Nick got into it.
00:48:57 Speaker_05
Run the ball coach. Run the ball.
00:49:03 Speaker_02
That's a good point.
00:49:04 Speaker_05
Other news, Cowboys home losing streak now at three. They've lost three in a row. They didn't lose a single regular season home game last year. I don't think that's great. They've lost three this season after it wasn't just a loss this week either.
00:49:16 Speaker_03
Man, it was Troy ugly.
00:49:19 Speaker_05
Jerry Jones birthday. Happy birthday, Jerry. Almost got a 50 burger from the Detroit Lions when they were they were.
00:49:26 Speaker_03
They were fucking around. I'm not gonna lie. They were throwing hook and laterals to offensive linemen. They were throwing offensive linemen outside the numbers, acting like they were running routes.
00:49:35 Speaker_05
Receiver screen? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Dan Skipper, eligible.
00:49:40 Speaker_03
Yeah. It was interesting, but I don't think anybody can really point a finger on what exactly is wrong with the Cowboys. It just doesn't look like they're playing very well together.
00:49:50 Speaker_05
Yeah, no, they've struggled to stop the run all year round. And I just think the games that the defense has really struggled has been like the Ravens, Detroit Shocker, both those teams really good run the football.
00:50:01 Speaker_03
Yeah, going down right at you.
00:50:05 Speaker_05
They've gotten it felt like they were getting better. And, you know, Detroit is just so good at it. And they've been asserting their will all season long. And then Jared Goff hits it behind you.
00:50:14 Speaker_05
I mean, it's it's Ben Johnson, the guys that they have in Detroit. It's an impressive, impressive unit on their offensive side of the ball and defensive.
00:50:24 Speaker_05
But obviously we saw Aiden Hutchinson go down with a very graphic injury, almost like an MMA style. Hopefully he's all right. He'll get back eventually when he gets healthy player.
00:50:33 Speaker_03
That shit sucks, man. It sucks for the game of football, man. And obviously it sucks for him and his family, man. Nobody likes to see an injury, let alone one like that.
00:50:42 Speaker_03
And hopefully he gets he gets right back to full strength as fast as possible, knowing how amazing of a player he is. But shout out to the Hutchinson family and hopefully Dallas can get back to full strength.
00:50:54 Speaker_05
Michael Parsons, they need some of their guys back. It'll be interesting to see how the NFC shakes out. It's Washington's been doing a hell of a job. I know they lost this week to the I mean, the monster that's over there in Baltimore. But, you
00:51:07 Speaker_05
They've been trending good. It's wide open right now in the NFC East. Other results from across the league. Texans 41, Patriots 21. Texans come out on top. Texans started, they've been winning games.
00:51:19 Speaker_05
It honestly reminds me a little bit of you guys, where they just find a way to get it done at the end of games, with CJ Stroud and company.
00:51:25 Speaker_03
Yeah, especially with Drake May getting his debut with the Patriots, man. Putting up 21 points, not a bad day for a debut. Yeah, Packers, Cardinals, Packers run away with that one.
00:51:36 Speaker_03
The most interesting game to me, though, was that Ravens-Commanders game. I really wanted to see how the young guy handled the pressure of going up against a Ravens defense, because they fly around. They're smart. They're well-coached.
00:51:48 Speaker_03
They always have a knack for getting around the football. And they didn't make it easy on the young guy, man.
00:51:54 Speaker_05
Well, he played all right. I thought actually Jaden played. Well, the thing that they really struggled, they've been great at running the ball all season long. The Ravens took that away and it made it like, Hey, you're going to have to beat us.
00:52:05 Speaker_05
And he still played well. He had him and Tara McCorn. They're building a hell of a connection. McCorn had a couple of catches where I'm like, how scary Terry did this dude just catch this ball. It was very terrible.
00:52:15 Speaker_03
It's like he pulls out one of those every fucking game now. Well, the, the bucks put up a 50 burger on the saints, man.
00:52:23 Speaker_05
Yes, they did.
00:52:24 Speaker_03
Bucks offense, man. That's another one when they're running the fucking football. Good luck. It is going to make Baker's day so much easier if he can just get some good play action and really get everybody to declare what they're doing here and get.
00:52:40 Speaker_03
I got Mike Evans in a fucking one on one situation. I mean, that's a dude.
00:52:45 Speaker_05
You go look at their offense quietly. I mean, besides maybe the Denver game, I think quietly their offense has been killing people.
00:52:52 Speaker_03
Explosive. Yeah.
00:52:53 Speaker_05
Yeah. They are making plays. They are looking real good. There's a weird game, too. They jumped out to like a three score lead almost. Then the Saints came back and took the lead. And then all of a sudden it was like a runaway show for the Bucks.
00:53:05 Speaker_05
Very weird.
00:53:06 Speaker_03
Yeah, well Steelers 32 Raiders 13 and the Steelers said now that's not good enough. Justin Fields were going to go ahead and go with Russell Wilson. I don't understand.
00:53:16 Speaker_03
I thought the Steelers were playing pretty good with Justin Fields, but I guess they they got something else hidden in their back pocket thinking that Russell is going to give him more offense.
00:53:25 Speaker_05
They got it done versus the Raiders. That's all that matters, right?
00:53:28 Speaker_03
Yeah. They're winning football games. Yeah. Any other more interesting games, I guess?
00:53:35 Speaker_05
Bears over Jacksonville and London. Caleb Williams, second consecutive week where you can see the young fellas starting to build some chemistry. He's looking better. Joe Flacco wins another one for the Colts.
00:53:49 Speaker_05
49ers getting back to, you know, maybe a little bit of what they have been. Seahawks have struggled a little bit ever since the Lions game.
00:53:56 Speaker_03
They're another one dealing with some injuries.
00:53:59 Speaker_05
Yeah, the Lions play so physical. There's some crazy stat. I don't know what it is off the top of my head of like teams after they play the Lions that they're like Win percentages way down.
00:54:09 Speaker_05
Yeah, because how physical that game is so I can bite kneecaps man fighting Dan Campbell's Before we get to our guest, Pat McAfee, let's answer a couple of your no-dumb questions, because there's no such thing as dumb questions, just dumb-ass people.
00:54:26 Speaker_02
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00:54:27 Speaker_05
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00:54:33 Speaker_03
Yes, sir.
00:54:34 Speaker_05
Deb13M, now that the NHL season has started, which hockey players, past or present, do you think could play in the NFL and at what position? Eric Lindros could play in the NFL.
00:54:45 Speaker_03
Yeah, he was pretty confident about that one. I think he's you think he's a tight end, dude.
00:54:49 Speaker_05
I'm so he came to the golf out and we have to be Philly this year.
00:54:52 Speaker_03
Yeah, I remember you.
00:54:54 Speaker_05
He's massive man.
00:54:55 Speaker_03
Massive dude.
00:54:56 Speaker_05
Yeah, like he could have put on weight easily and played a line. He definitely could have played tight end.
00:55:00 Speaker_03
Yeah, I'm thinking he was a tight end.
00:55:02 Speaker_05
I think that that's probably the most accurate.
00:55:04 Speaker_03
For what his stature was during a player. Rocking jersey number 88.
00:55:07 Speaker_05
Come on, he's a tight end.
00:55:08 Speaker_03
There we go, little Dallas Goddard.
00:55:12 Speaker_05
Who else? I think a jogger with his freaking mullet would have been awesome to watch out there on a football field.
00:55:17 Speaker_03
That would have been awesome to see. I don't know what position he's playing, but I'm with you. Do you think Claude Giroux could have found his way as a wide receiver or something?
00:55:26 Speaker_05
Uh, I don't know. Maybe. I mean, he's feisty. I told you he used to come in and ask the arm wrestle. I don't know. Uh, TB stuff. Maybe safety, maybe safety. He used to come in and ask their arm wrestle anybody. Like he's just one of them type of guys.
00:55:41 Speaker_05
So mentality wise. Yes. Mentality wise. Absolutely. Complaining the NFL physically. Yeah. Can I have to see that?
00:55:48 Speaker_03
What about some of the bruisers from the league? What's his name, playing for the fucking Leafs? Who'd he play for last year?
00:55:56 Speaker_05
I always think it was Zidane Ocharo.
00:55:58 Speaker_03
Ocharo, the 6'11 defender from Boston?
00:56:01 Speaker_05
Yeah, he could play D.N.
00:56:03 Speaker_03
I mean, what position would he play?
00:56:04 Speaker_05
I think he'd be a D.N. Got the reach, he's got some wiggle to him. He can put some weight on, play some offensive tackle.
00:56:11 Speaker_03
There you go.
00:56:12 Speaker_05
That's what a, I mean, defenseman. Just keep the guy in front of you. He's got that skill.
00:56:16 Speaker_03
You think a guy like McDavid who's the fastest thing on fucking ice can play receiver or running back? He kind of, he weaves like a running back when he's on the ice. He does.
00:56:25 Speaker_05
He's got the elusiveness, but it's hard.
00:56:26 Speaker_03
And he's got the vision for running back.
00:56:28 Speaker_05
Yeah. It's just hard to gauge because skating is so I've seen guys that skate incredibly well and then you see them run on a field and it's just not the same. Not that they're unathletic, but it's like it's a different.
00:56:40 Speaker_05
It's an entirely different muscle group that you're activating ice skating than you are when you're actually running. But the elusiveness is there. The quickness is the twitch is there.
00:56:49 Speaker_03
Maybe past or present ways. Wayne Gretzky finding his way on the NFL football field. I don't think so.
00:56:55 Speaker_05
As much as I love Wayne's in there. I don't, I mean, he's in the, you know, we talk about this later with Pat, greatness is greatness. So probably we'll find, figure it out.
00:57:04 Speaker_05
But he didn't, he never struck me as like having speed or like he was- Have you ever seen him race?
00:57:12 Speaker_03
Have you seen this? They did like crossover, like, who, what was it? It was him and like three other professional athletes, I think.
00:57:21 Speaker_05
You're right. And they did 100 meter dash.
00:57:23 Speaker_03
And he fucking smoked everybody. He smoked some. You're right. He was rolling. You know what? He was rolling. Oh, shit. There we go. There we go, intern Brandon. Who is it? Who else is up there?
00:57:35 Speaker_05
I forget. I don't, you know.
00:57:36 Speaker_03
It has it at the top. Sugar Ray Leonard.
00:57:39 Speaker_05
Sugar Ray was one of them. Yep.
00:57:41 Speaker_03
Oh, Pele. Yeah.
00:57:43 Speaker_05
I'm not as impressed with Bjorn Borg losing, but beating Pele, that's something.
00:57:49 Speaker_03
Dude, he's not just beating them.
00:57:51 Speaker_05
He's crushing them. He's fucking rolling on them.
00:57:56 Speaker_03
You know, he was a two sport athlete. A pretty sure he got drafted by the Expos. Yeah.
00:58:01 Speaker_05
You know what? I must say he could have done it.
00:58:03 Speaker_03
Dude, I'm right there.
00:58:04 Speaker_05
I mean, the form is not great. Let's be honest.
00:58:07 Speaker_03
He runs like fucking, uh, Is that Sugar Ray switching lanes?
00:58:12 Speaker_05
Did Sugar Ray just switch lanes? He's like trying to catch some wind. He's trying to drift on wind.
00:58:19 Speaker_04
He's trying to get some drift action?
00:58:23 Speaker_05
He's like, hey, I'm winning this one. I might as well get second.
00:58:26 Speaker_03
My man's smart. That's funny.
00:58:28 Speaker_05
That's hilarious.
00:58:30 Speaker_03
Oh, man.
00:58:31 Speaker_05
I will say they're running like some dickheads. I mean, let's be honest.
00:58:34 Speaker_03
It's what do you mean? That's who used to run like that. Fucking Chris Collins with used to run like that.
00:58:41 Speaker_05
Dude, they're running like... Have you ever seen Josh Allen run his 40? I love Josh. With his straight arms? You ever seen that?
00:58:50 Speaker_03
Yeah, he definitely has the straight arms for sure. Yes. When they told him, arms at a bend... Arms at a 90?
00:58:57 Speaker_05
No, sir. Hey, it don't matter what it looks like. He's a baller.
00:59:02 Speaker_03
All right. That big dog is rolling.
00:59:04 Speaker_05
It turns out he looks pretty good on NFL field running. And that does it for No Dumb Questions. No Dumb Questions is brought to you by Mint Mobile. All right. I think it's time, Trev. It's time to bring on our guest.
00:59:15 Speaker_03
Dude.
00:59:16 Speaker_05
Shall I do the honors?
00:59:17 Speaker_03
I'm so fucking pumped for this.
00:59:19 Speaker_05
I know. We've been waiting for this one.
00:59:21 Speaker_03
I don't even know if I'm going to ask a question. I'm just going to fucking just sit here and just fucking listen to my guy. Just fucking go.
00:59:26 Speaker_05
I mean, dude, I don't think there's anybody better at listening to than the guy that's about to come on.
00:59:31 Speaker_03
There's not. There's not. I still listen to him every single day. He's the only one. I don't I don't I don't turn the TV on for anybody else but him and and Scott Van Pelt SVP. And then you when I have to.
00:59:42 Speaker_05
Yeah, no, you don't listen to me.
00:59:44 Speaker_03
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01:00:06 Speaker_05
Trav, when you were on your bi, did you try any new dishes or new restaurants or anything when you were out of town?
01:00:11 Speaker_03
Oh, I told you about that jerk beef. There was a there was a jerk pasta at that. It was very interesting. I've never heard of a dish like this in my life. So I gave it a run. And it was pretty good.
01:00:23 Speaker_05
I mean, I love trying new foods kind. I love getting out of the house when we can I just some about going out to eat. It's like, what is it about good food that really just brightens everybody's world.
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01:03:43 Speaker_05
from Plum, Pennsylvania. He was a national punt, pass, and kick champion by the time he was a sophomore in high school. The seventh round pick out of West Virginia. First team All-Pro, first team Pro Bowler.
01:03:55 Speaker_05
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01:04:12 Speaker_06
Hell yeah, brother. Man, you got me jacked up. What an honor it is to be here. Thank you for all those kind things and for doing your research. I've lived an absurd life and obviously this conversation is a piece of that.
01:04:24 Speaker_06
You two are running the world right now. So for letting me be a part of New Heights, which I've told you I've been a massive fan of for since the beginning of New Heights, this is an honor, a dream. Thank you for the intro and thank you for the time.
01:04:35 Speaker_06
Although Jason, you were saying some terrible stuff about, you know, like position groups.
01:04:40 Speaker_05
We're joking here. We're joking here. We're joking here. You know, it's having fun. It's a podcast. Don't shy away. Don't shy away now, Jason.
01:04:48 Speaker_06
Yeah, you know, the stats people, you came out. I mean, I was joking.
01:04:52 Speaker_05
We're just having fun here.
01:04:53 Speaker_06
We're having fun here. The kickers, you had a well-thought-out take. You said, for years, I've been thinking about that. That's what you said. For years, I've been thinking, we've been talking about this.
01:05:05 Speaker_06
You've been laying at night thinking like I need to get this in the show somehow.
01:05:08 Speaker_05
How do I work this in?
01:05:11 Speaker_06
You're the greatest of all time, the greatest center of all time, one of the toughest humans ever play football. And obviously your resume is what it is on the football field. So you're allowed to say whatever the hell you want.
01:05:21 Speaker_06
Travis, if you want to hop into that whole train, you can as well. It's the people that have never played football that decided to dunk on like kickers and punters and stuff like that. I'm like, you need to relax.
01:05:30 Speaker_03
This is why you did the college game day. You're starting to bring the fans out of here for talking shit. That's right. Jason, do you think you can fucking kick a field goal?
01:05:38 Speaker_05
Bingo! You know what? I don't know if my hips got me in it.
01:05:41 Speaker_06
We might have to find this out. Get your Timbs, okay? Get your untied Timbs.
01:05:45 Speaker_03
Get your Timbs. Yeah, the old boot style, just straight on.
01:05:50 Speaker_05
We got Lou Groza used to do square toe from the Brownies.
01:05:55 Speaker_06
Is that what's the garbage picking field goal kicking? Oh my gosh.
01:06:03 Speaker_05
Yeah, it's a Philadelphia.
01:06:05 Speaker_06
Yeah, that could be the case. But my problem, my issue is whenever people that have never played football before bury kickers and punters and act like it's an easy thing. It is not an easy thing.
01:06:13 Speaker_06
Like, if you get out there and you play catch, you could probably play catch a little bit. You know, you probably could. If you want to get out there and do, maybe hit something or something, you probably do that.
01:06:21 Speaker_06
You try to kick something, most people are going to suck at it, which is why the college game day thing happened for kicking is easy. Although it's getting expensive, boys.
01:06:27 Speaker_06
Last two weeks, these guys have made kicks and it's like 200,000 bucks to these guys. Jesus. I mean, it's a real deal. They're starting to practice. Yeah, I think I'm trying to get hustled, too. I think I'm starting to get hustled. there's a chance.
01:06:40 Speaker_06
But Jason, I think, I think you should maybe be on the side of kickers because I think it's good for the sport.
01:06:44 Speaker_05
You know, I am. Listen, I am.
01:06:46 Speaker_05
And when I was with Connor and we're, this is like in the middle of training camp and you're, and you're in a one-on-one situation, you get your ass kicked and then you look over and the kickers are like fucking playing a game.
01:06:58 Speaker_05
They're like kicking the ball. Like see how far they can kick it into a ring or something. Like God damn it, fuck these guys.
01:07:03 Speaker_06
Yeah.
01:07:04 Speaker_05
Yeah.
01:07:04 Speaker_06
Me and Vinny are taking a knee with the helmet on the side. It's really from a place of jealousy. It's a place of jealousy is what it is. Hey, you gotta put your face in there a little bit more, Jason.
01:07:15 Speaker_03
Maybe get a little lower with your pads. I heard that's a good thing.
01:07:20 Speaker_06
Exactly. So I can understand your feeling about it all, but I think it is, it's good for the game. Like, you know, on this podcast, and I assume you hear it a lot, Travis, you and Taylor's relationship is great for the sport.
01:07:31 Speaker_06
Like it is getting introduced to so many people and you are and have been the perfect representation for our sport too, I think, personally, genuinely. I think that.
01:07:39 Speaker_06
I think there's no other human that could do what you're doing right now and how you're doing it is awesome. And I, uh, you need to know that all of us are incredibly fucking proud of the way you're representing all of us, dude.
01:07:49 Speaker_03
I just got to keep winning soon. As soon as, if I, if we lose a game, I mean, it's going to fucking rain down, baby. It's going to keep winning. She's going to keep winning, staying on top.
01:07:59 Speaker_06
Yeah, but also smiling at the Guardians games, you know?
01:08:02 Speaker_03
Yeah, come on. All the Clevelanders. I was laughing around a little bit. The guards, baby, we were right there, man. We were right there, you know? I think we were just one hit away from just taking that fucking stadium by storm.
01:08:14 Speaker_03
The Bronx Bombers, they were out there, boo!
01:08:17 Speaker_06
boom making it it was a hostile environment out there i was having a good time okay well i'm happy you enjoyed it but your relationship is exposing the sport to a lot of people i think a lot of people are falling in love with it globally worldwide the gateway for a lot of people to football is going to be the kicking positions you know like in europe the kickers and but there's gonna be kickers and punters coming out of europe i think over the next 15 20 years there has to be right yeah
01:08:38 Speaker_06
Yeah, in Australia and everything. So I think it's good for the sport to have kicking and punting, though. I understand why centers and people that have like actual physical, you know, positions with actual ramifications can feel that way.
01:08:50 Speaker_06
But I genuinely enjoy the fact that it's a sport for everybody. That's like, I think it's going to help. I think it's going to help.
01:08:57 Speaker_03
Well, I think I think you you brought a new mentality to the to the specialists because you were out there throwing your fucking weight around.
01:09:06 Speaker_03
come on you're out there you're out there fucking taking some heads off come on travis we got that clip from the hit verse the broncos in 2013
01:09:18 Speaker_05
You got, you got selected for a drug, a drug test after that, correct? The league saw that and they freaking said, no, no, no, this can't be all natural.
01:09:25 Speaker_06
Punters don't do that to guys. Yeah, because what Travis just said right there. Yeah, I think Roger Goodell was watching that and saying, that guy's got to be on something. Okay, let's go test him immediately.
01:09:33 Speaker_06
There was a few of those days, you know, like you do something good and you don't get drug tested the next day. If you're like a kicker and punter, it's almost like a slap in the face. Like, whoa, you didn't think it was that impressive.
01:09:42 Speaker_03
I just hit a 60 yard field goal. You think I'm not, all right.
01:09:46 Speaker_06
Vinatieri's like 45 years old hitting like a 58 yarder and they're not drug testing him the next day. It's like, okay, okay. You know, so it was like a badge of honor. But yeah, I'll get lucky every once in a while and hit somebody.
01:09:57 Speaker_06
I'll be sore though for like three, four days. That's why what you guys do. I, uh, I do not understand. I don't know how your guys' bodies hold up. Like, Trav, right now, still, like, you take those shots and you're blocking more.
01:10:09 Speaker_06
I don't know how your body isn't sore forever. And, Jason, whenever that tush-push happened, you were getting folded like an accordion every single time.
01:10:16 Speaker_02
Every single one. Every time. Every single time.
01:10:20 Speaker_05
We're hyping it up. We're like, tush-push every time. Let's go. Keep it coming. AQ's like, yep. Make him suffer. Make him suffer.
01:10:28 Speaker_06
Yeah, I could never do that. That's why you guys are so much tougher. But it's a great sport. Genuinely great sport.
01:10:33 Speaker_02
How about it?
01:10:34 Speaker_06
God, it's awesome.
01:10:35 Speaker_05
The fact that it's for everybody, you hit the nail on the head. I'm talking shit. I deserve all this. And maybe I can, can I stop by a game day set and see if I can make one of these?
01:10:44 Speaker_06
We're in Texas this weekend, brother. You want to stop anytime you want to come by, we will make happen.
01:10:48 Speaker_05
Let me see what the schedule looks like.
01:10:49 Speaker_06
Maybe not this weekend, maybe not this weekend, but I think we can make some happen. Well, I know. So we should promote that it's happening, you know, so we can get a little bit more pressure on you.
01:10:56 Speaker_05
That works. That works. Yeah. I suck under pressure. I can't even snap the ball to the quarterback.
01:11:03 Speaker_03
You know who had to go through this was big, big Rob Gronkowski. King of the year for the Superbowl, right? I forget who he was. Sandals. They did that live. That's what it was, yeah.
01:11:17 Speaker_05
Two years in a row, right? He was practicing. Nah, that's even worse. I'm not practicing, so there's zero expectation. It was windy.
01:11:24 Speaker_06
It was windy, you know Speaking of the wind.
01:11:28 Speaker_05
What'd you that Monday night game? They miss how many they hit the uprights three times or twice?
01:11:32 Speaker_06
I think was four misses I think all in total gosh, there were some bad ones who like Tyler Bass missed that first one Real bad left when Joe Buck actually mentioned it I think he was trying to hit like a little bit of a liner to kind of get through it Yeah, so he tried to hit it a little fat and then he ended up hitting it too fat So then you pull that thing it looks nasty, but wind is a problem You know wind is always gonna be the worst problem
01:11:53 Speaker_05
When you go out on the field and you feel that wind, what are you thinking? Is it like, I'm hoping it's in my back when I'm out there? Like, how does that work? Does it affect how you're doing it? Obviously punting, but yeah.
01:12:03 Speaker_06
Me definitely, yeah. Yeah, I'm not mentally tough enough for it. I like to see the ball fly. You know, there was guys in practice that loaded to use like brand new balls. Like we want practice to be hard so that in the game it's easier.
01:12:15 Speaker_06
It's like, no, I need to see these balls flying far.
01:12:17 Speaker_05
Yeah.
01:12:18 Speaker_06
Give me the juiciest ball we got.
01:12:21 Speaker_05
And I want to go downwind.
01:12:22 Speaker_06
I want to be feeling real good. But you wake up game day morning and you open the blinds or whatever. And then you try to find a flag on top of a building.
01:12:32 Speaker_06
And if that son of a bitch was at attention, you knew it was going to be, uh, you know, it was gonna be a long day. And I was immediately bummed out in Indianapolis. We have like a dome, but we opened the window and the roof.
01:12:43 Speaker_06
So it shielded me a little bit. I was very lucky for that, but yeah, kickers and punters are trying to find out what the wind is immediately upon waking up. And it's certainly a mind and a mood changer.
01:12:51 Speaker_03
How about it, man?
01:12:52 Speaker_05
You did both at West Virginia. We're going to get to your West Virginia career in just a little bit, but you did both in college. Which one was harder? Which one do you enjoy more kicking or punting?
01:13:02 Speaker_06
So I enjoyed punting a lot more. I had a strong leg. I didn't know where I was going. You know, that is, I could have been really good at kicking. I think if I just had a little bit better mentality. Exactly.
01:13:15 Speaker_04
Yeah. Wow. It is.
01:13:17 Speaker_06
Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
01:13:19 Speaker_04
Bam, bam, yeah. I mean, that is... You make my heart sing. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
01:13:26 Speaker_02
You make everything groovy.
01:13:30 Speaker_06
That's what it was. That was my right leg when kicking field goals. Yeah. So, punting was better for me because if you're stronger, you're going to help in punting because you have to hit the ball hard every single time.
01:13:40 Speaker_06
And once I learned the technique, I enjoyed punting a lot more than kicking.
01:13:43 Speaker_05
Well, based on that clip we just showed of you absolutely de-cleaning a guy on the sideline, did you ever play another position? Because you don't have that, that form doesn't come out unless you've done that before.
01:13:52 Speaker_03
That aggression doesn't come out unless you've done that before.
01:13:54 Speaker_05
Yeah, like that was not the first time you've ever laid a hit like that. Boys, what city are you from? We're from Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
01:14:01 Speaker_06
Okay, I'm from Pittsburgh. Yep.
01:14:03 Speaker_03
Yeah. Football Towns. Football Towns.
01:14:05 Speaker_06
Like these are our football towns. Grew up playing pickup football, you know what I mean? It was on the street, in between the telephone poles, or it was in somebody's backyard. So I have been playing football my entire life. I played soccer though.
01:14:18 Speaker_06
So like, I played a lot of soccer. And also, you know, from where I'm from, not a lot of people made it in sports ever. So I think when I was young, they like decided and deemed that I was going to make it in soccer.
01:14:30 Speaker_06
So I think nobody really wanted to fuck it up. and anything, right? So soccer was my full focus, but I also played football in the neighborhood and in Plum a lot.
01:14:38 Speaker_06
And everybody that played on the football team I was friends with, I was like six foot tall, 190, 180, two playing soccer. So football was a natural thing. And then I did a punt passing kick. You talked about it earlier.
01:14:51 Speaker_06
And when I won that, they asked me to come kick. I couldn't make it to practices though. I would literally just show up on Fridays. like before the game. First time putting on the pads. I had no idea what I was doing.
01:15:03 Speaker_06
That is, uh, that is kind of how it all came together. But I've been playing football forever. You know, I got an older brother, his friends played football. So it's like, I'm from Pittsburgh.
01:15:10 Speaker_06
So I know football, my family's happiness levels ran off the Pittsburgh Steelers success rates. Like my dad, that die hard of an NFL fan. So it's like kind of had it in me, but also should have played football more as a kid, I think.
01:15:23 Speaker_05
personally okay all right it worked out i hear you when you get to run a fake punt what does that feel like because when we run trick plays on in like the the red zone it's like one of the things that we're looking for like we're gonna run this play who the hell knows what's about to happen but it makes you kind of feel like a kid what's it feel like to go out there you know you're working on it all week fake pun even like more rare it's like how many like one a goal a year maybe
01:15:47 Speaker_02
If that, and you've had some iconic.
01:15:51 Speaker_05
I know you have the catastrophic one with my man, uh, come on now. My man, Colt Anderson. But what is it like to have a fake puck called?
01:16:00 Speaker_06
Colt got sacked there pretty quick.
01:16:03 Speaker_05
It did not go well for Cole.
01:16:05 Speaker_06
That was not how that was supposed to be executed. As you guys know, like, every week, there's some fake, like, field goal or fake punt that is, like, a guarantee. Always have them up, like, every time.
01:16:15 Speaker_06
And then, like, if the situation calls for it, you know, we'll do it. But what I have found is, like, if the team's good, normally not gonna be running a lot of fake punts. Like, early in my career, I was explained to I had an idea for a throw.
01:16:29 Speaker_06
I had an idea for a throw. I could spin it. I could spin a bill. Let me, you know, let me get out there. And, uh, I was told quickly, so you want us to take Peyton Manning off the field?
01:16:39 Speaker_02
This is so good. It's real, though.
01:16:43 Speaker_03
Just to trick him. Just to trick him. Trust me, I got this. They're not going to see it coming. Okay, so... Peyton, give it right back to Peyton. I'm giving it right back to him. We're trying to give him the ball more.
01:16:53 Speaker_06
We're going to take him off the field so you can throw one. So, you know, it is all in like the situations of it all. And I was certainly very understanding of that, but yeah, I was real excited, man.
01:17:06 Speaker_06
Anytime I got an opportunity to do something to help the team, like any of those fakes or onside kicks that we got, like that's a turnover, you know, that's another possession. That's a big deal.
01:17:14 Speaker_03
Hell yeah. Stole a possession. Huge.
01:17:16 Speaker_06
So it's like, if you feel like you contribute more, obviously you're a little bit more proud of it, but those ones that don't work out, boy. I have a question for you guys run so much trick shit. You guys get excited for that still? Oh, yeah.
01:17:32 Speaker_03
Oh, yeah. I got pumped for I was supposed to have one actually on the Monday night game and they brought a nickel blitz off the edge and completely fucked it up and almost ended up being a turnover.
01:17:41 Speaker_03
And when I say we completely fucked it up, I completely fucked it up because I didn't block him off the edge. Sometimes, you know, it's just
01:17:48 Speaker_03
The trick plays can just get sniffed out by a blitz or, you know, when they don't work, it makes you feel like an idiot for even trying it. But typically, Andy Reid's trick plays are pretty on cue.
01:17:59 Speaker_03
And I've actually been a part of a trick play on a field goal twice in my career, once in a Pro Bowl and once against the Pittsburgh Steelers and both successful.
01:18:11 Speaker_06
Was it like a tight end run or a pass?
01:18:13 Speaker_03
My guy, Dustin Colquitt, he was the holder for for I think it was Cairo Santos at the time. Put it put it down and then flicked it to me. It was kind of like a little shovel pass underneath. And I was out the gate the other side. I was awake.
01:18:26 Speaker_06
That's a completion for Colquitt. That's a big deal. Let's make sure we pick up those extra yards.
01:18:30 Speaker_03
Yeah, I should have picked up my fucking feet and scored, but I at least got the first down.
01:18:35 Speaker_06
Do you guys draw those up? What was it? Mic'd up or something where Andy Reid said he likes you guys to draw up the plays and then you guys practice them and do the whole thing? Is that still happening?
01:18:45 Speaker_03
Yeah, we still do that. We'll do some fun stuff on like Thursday practices during the specialist period. We'll meet Pat and a bunch of the offensive lines. We'll go over there and just start.
01:18:57 Speaker_03
We'll go over there and just start, you know, screwing around with some stuff, see what works, see what doesn't. When we take it to Coach Reed, he's got 51%, as he always likes to tell everybody, so it's like...
01:19:07 Speaker_03
he'll decide whether or not a version of that comes into the game plan.
01:19:11 Speaker_06
Yeah, you guys got to pitch. You got to pitch the shit out of it. This is a good idea. We got it locked in.
01:19:15 Speaker_03
I think we got one here, yeah. It's definitely, yeah. It's definitely how good an energy you bring to them, for sure.
01:19:20 Speaker_06
I pitched a few fake field goals and punts, and I knew that my presentation was a big part of whether or not we are going to get this guy done. Some go, some do not, though. Boy, those things. Cutting room, floor, those things are gone.
01:19:33 Speaker_06
Jason, Philly, Philly, bananas. That's like one of the most I mean, what historic fakes are true.
01:19:38 Speaker_05
Sure. Yeah. Nobody really knows to this day was a Philly Philly or Philly special. And I can't even remember. Like, all I know is that Nick asked for Philly Philly. It's known as Philly special, but he's just going to go up lane.
01:19:50 Speaker_05
Lane was my cue to snap it. And that was the easiest job in the world for me. I'm just running naked. I was like, man, call this as much as you want, Doug. This is the easiest play in the world.
01:19:59 Speaker_06
This is going to be a historic play and I don't have to take any hits to the head. Yeah, I'm just kidding. We're winning the Super Bowl.
01:20:05 Speaker_03
We tried to take that after you guys ran it. And of course, it's me throwing the ball to Pat. And sure enough, there's a fucking quarterback over there. And I'm like trying to play monkey in the middle with this fucking guy.
01:20:15 Speaker_03
I could have just walked in the end zone. It's Tampa Bay the next day. And here I am trying to like, but I want the fucking touchdown pass. And threw it out of bounds like an asshole.
01:20:26 Speaker_05
I had smart play, smart football. Travis and I were special teamers at one point. We should admit that.
01:20:32 Speaker_03
Jason, this is why it's so fucked up, because Jason was the kicker. And we're both still- Little friendly fire.
01:20:39 Speaker_05
Little friendly, you know. I'm jealous. I'm jealous that I sucked at it so bad. I was the worst long snapper on the planet. I mean, I was a bad quarterback snapper, short snapper, but it was horrendous.
01:20:51 Speaker_06
I like how humble you are. You're like the greatest center of all time. How about Cole Komet? Did you see Cole Komet? No, I did not.
01:20:56 Speaker_03
What's Cole out here doing?
01:20:58 Speaker_06
So long snapper got hurt. Long snapper got hurt in Chicago. Yeah, Chicago. Cole Komet scores touchdown that has to go snap the extra point because he's the backup long snapper.
01:21:06 Speaker_05
Dude, how about pandemonium on the sideline when the long snapper gets hurt? Oh! Brent Selig was our backup snapper and he, and he right away, just complete fear. Like we have not practiced this enough at all. He goes out there.
01:21:20 Speaker_05
It's always the tight end.
01:21:22 Speaker_03
He goes out there.
01:21:23 Speaker_05
First one, perfect snap. Second one, rolled back, complete disaster.
01:21:29 Speaker_03
I remember this game. It was like cold and rainy and shit though. It wasn't a great weather day. Don't you remember this? Are you the snapper, Travis? I am. I'm the backup snapper. Me and Noah Gray. Always the tight end. Always. Whatever you need.
01:21:40 Speaker_03
Me and Noah Gray. Noah Gray is our other tight end. And he's definitely, he actually did it in the preseason where long snapper got banged up. James Winchester, shout out to Winchester. But yeah, he definitely, he's capable of it too.
01:21:53 Speaker_03
Both field goal and punt. I think personally, I think the field goal, it's shorter, but it's kind of harder.
01:21:59 Speaker_03
because you got to do it at a it's you got to do a low it's almost like you got to just burn one right a right a right over the like grass like right over the edge of the grass whereas punt punt you can just you can just fire that thing back there and hopefully the punters athletic and I have one
01:22:16 Speaker_03
snap in a preseason game to Dustin Colquitt on punt. And I, I yanked that thing to the right about six or seven yards. And he went and fuck grabbed it, came back to the left foot and booted it. And yeah, he snagged it. He snagged it.
01:22:33 Speaker_04
Yeah.
01:22:36 Speaker_06
Geez. Well, we never shut out the dusty for making me look good.
01:22:41 Speaker_05
Now that I've faced enough shit for this, well, no, I haven't, keep coming, but I do want to get to the media career, Pat, because, listen, you are an unbelievable punter, absolutely outstanding.
01:22:50 Speaker_05
I never thought something would be more impressive of a guy going into media, but what you're doing, man, and what you have been doing is just insane. You're by far the most talented guy I've ever seen in this space. You're all over the place.
01:23:04 Speaker_05
Dude, it's, and you've done it your own way, which is even more remarkable. I, did you know that this was something that you were going to get into like your whole career? When did you know you were going into media and how did that help?
01:23:16 Speaker_06
I appreciate you saying that because literally since you guys have tried it, you guys have had massive success.
01:23:21 Speaker_06
So for you to say all those things that you said about me, I could just go ahead and, you know, flip that right back to you to absolutely crushing it. Congrats on that. Uh,
01:23:31 Speaker_03
Nine figure deal.
01:23:36 Speaker_06
Thank you for paving the way.
01:23:39 Speaker_04
Okay, boys.
01:23:41 Speaker_06
Okay, so like, I think that's the thing. Like, I have a great group of dudes around me, though. Like the dudes I have around me are so incredibly talented. And we all kind of understand, you know, what is needed to be done each day.
01:23:54 Speaker_06
Like, we're in here full-time. We try to keep up with everything that's happening in the sports world. We have to, you know, kind of know what's worthy of chatting about, what should be talked about.
01:24:05 Speaker_06
Also, what's not being talked about that should be talked about. And when we talk about it, let's not take the easy way out and be negative. Like, let's do this in a way where maybe we could celebrate sports a little bit.
01:24:16 Speaker_06
That's kind of been, since the beginning, how we viewed it.
01:24:19 Speaker_03
For sure. Hell yeah.
01:24:20 Speaker_06
The guys I have around me are incredibly talented. The work ethic is insane.
01:24:24 Speaker_06
But also, it's cool that people seemingly have been pretty accepting of, hey, we're allowed to laugh and crack jokes, as opposed to having to tear people down all the time in the sports world. And we'll talk shit, certainly.
01:24:37 Speaker_06
And we are dumb, and we will get things wrong, for sure. And I'm wide open for three hours every single day.
01:24:43 Speaker_03
But you'll have fun with it, like you did with Lombardi and Max Crosby last week. Bingo.
01:24:47 Speaker_06
So we get into some shit. Like we, cause we are just kind of out here having a conversation, trying to have a good time, but we all have the same mindset. We're all very appreciative of what we are doing. And, uh, we're all fans of sports, you know?
01:24:59 Speaker_06
So like the more people that get into sports, we're happy about. And, uh, we want to make sports like a good time. Like people think of sports like, Hey, it's a good time. Cause there's a lot of shit that's driving everybody like this seemingly.
01:25:09 Speaker_06
It's like sports do this and they really do. And it's like, that's what we try to celebrate as much as possible, but we mess it up. But it's the group of dudes I have around me, man. It's a lot of fun. It is a lot of fun every day.
01:25:20 Speaker_05
Yeah, you got a great crew, man. How did it all, like, what was the first conversation of like, hey, we're going to start this show?
01:25:26 Speaker_06
Okay, so when I was playing, I got a chance to do the Bob and Tom show, which you guys in Cleveland might know who the Bob and Tom show is. So Bob and Tom, maybe not. Okay, sweet.
01:25:35 Speaker_05
Shout out to Bob and Tom. Yeah.
01:25:39 Speaker_06
They're an Indianapolis staple. They're a morning show. They were syndicated on like 170 channels across the country, radio 6am to 10am. They had, um, they owned it too. So like the business they've had, So they did good business in this entire thing.
01:25:53 Speaker_06
They were in Indianapolis. It was a comedy morning show. Basically every comedian you've ever heard of has been through there, uh, during their tour. Cause Indianapolis is pretty centrally located.
01:26:01 Speaker_06
So from six to 10, they're like nationally syndicated everywhere. And then from 10 to 10 30, it's just like a local hour here in Indianapolis. They negotiated some deal and it was like a Colts Tuesday, which was our off days.
01:26:12 Speaker_06
Jeff Saturday was the guy that did that for like 10 years with them. Jeff Saturday leaves to go to Green Bay. They asked Jeff Saturday, like, hey, who should take your spot in here? You know, and Jeff Saturday says, like, you got to get the punter.
01:26:22 Speaker_06
The punter is the guy to do this or whatever. There we go. Shout out to Jeff. So then a couple of the other media people also told him that you should get the, uh, Pat or whatever. And I think they even said my name wrong at the time.
01:26:33 Speaker_06
So when Bob and Tom, so when Bob and Tom approached me and my dad was a truck driver growing up. So obviously he was on the road a lot with radio. So Bob and Tom, he knew about Bob and Tom.
01:26:42 Speaker_06
So I knew about Bob and Tom whenever I was a kid, uh, growing up. So when Bob and Tom approached me to join the show, I was like, I'm not going to be the one that ruins his fucking show. show, you know, it's been around like 30 years.
01:26:51 Speaker_06
I don't think I'm the right guy for your show. Like my, the shit that I am is just not, I don't think is the right for your show.
01:26:57 Speaker_06
And Tom Griswold from bomb and Tom said, uh, you would be the dumbest guy on earth if you did not come on our show or whatever. And I was like, Oh, okay, I'll come do show. So I get in there first week, first 30 minutes.
01:27:09 Speaker_06
I've never felt like more comfortable. Like I was just, they were talking about news. They were talking about sports. And it was like, they had three comedians in there. Bob Cavalli is like one of the quickest smart asses on earth. He's there.
01:27:20 Speaker_06
And it was just like, I almost felt like alive in there for like 30, 30 minutes or whatever. And then the next week when they're live from six to 10 on the national audience, Tom Grizzle was like, Hey, next week, anytime you want to come in, come in.
01:27:31 Speaker_06
So I went in there 6am. I was like, I'm coming in here 6am. So I did like four hours with him in the morning. And it was like, I fell in love with it. Like I really enjoyed the energy, the vibe, the way they set up the show, the structure of the show.
01:27:42 Speaker_06
And it was at that moment where I was like, this could be, this could be something I kind of get into, you know? Then while I'm still punting, I had a standup tour I did around the Midwest. I did some other shows here in Indianapolis.
01:27:53 Speaker_06
I had a podcast, I had a merch store while I was playing. So it was like, I was kind of doing the next step while I was still punting. And I was finding like fulfillment in all this stuff away from punting after the offense failed. You know what I mean?
01:28:05 Speaker_06
Like I was having a good time with the charity stuff I was doing. I was having a good time with the comedy stuff. I was having a good time with the show. And it was like, I need to fully focus on one of these because there's only 32 jobs in the NFL.
01:28:16 Speaker_06
You got to have respect for that. But then also this is so much more fun. And I'd taken care of everybody financially that I thought I had to take care of with my NFL money.
01:28:23 Speaker_06
And it was like, all right, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna try to chase fulfillment here. And then it's become all this. And it's so stupid. I'm so lucky. So thankful. And I have a blast. I'm literally just trying to enjoy it all.
01:28:33 Speaker_03
It's such a genuine way to get into your next career though. And I can't stress this enough for the guys in the NFL that are looking for something outside of football. You have to do it while you're still playing.
01:28:45 Speaker_03
Use those off seasons and the little connections that you make throughout your career to be able to set yourself up. And it's so cool that you started doing that, you found it, and then you just fucking took off. Come on. You fucking took off.
01:28:58 Speaker_03
Did it actually make it easier for you to kind of hang it up? Like, you could probably have played as long as you wanted to, right? Dude, he could still be putting.
01:29:07 Speaker_05
Pac could still be out there kicking balls.
01:29:08 Speaker_06
Yeah, so I played in that soccer tournament last summer. I ripped my hip flexor kicking balls. So I don't think I could still. Jason, I don't think I could still do it.
01:29:21 Speaker_03
No, I'm saying you were balling on that's in the 707. What was it? What was that league? Yes.
01:29:30 Speaker_06
You know, okay. You saw it.
01:29:31 Speaker_03
You saw this? I saw the crosses. I saw it. Yes. I was fucking elected, dude. Are you kidding me?
01:29:36 Speaker_06
I was in Cary, North Carolina for like four weeks. We were down there. I did not know what I was signing up for. And then our team got, like, good. Our team started, like, bonding. Our team started having chains. I was like, I fell in love with it.
01:29:47 Speaker_06
But then, yeah, just ripped my shit. I mean, I had a pool of blood in my thigh for, like, three months. That's when I felt old.
01:29:53 Speaker_04
You know, that's when I felt real, real old.
01:29:56 Speaker_06
but yeah, definitely. I think, you know, whenever guys retire and you know, the stats, obviously you guys both about the 80% fall into bankruptcy after five years of professional athletes and everything like that.
01:30:07 Speaker_06
And I always wondered why, like when the NFL PA would come in, they always talk to us about like saving money and yada, yada, yada.
01:30:14 Speaker_06
And I actually asked a couple of times, like, how come there's no ideas like for everybody to make more money when they retire? Like, why can't we hear more like, Hey, your story matters money. Like,
01:30:22 Speaker_06
Hey, speaking is maybe something you should get into. Tell your story. Everybody who makes the NFL has a story. Everybody, everybody, like no matter what story is, that success story can pivot you into a new profession later.
01:30:32 Speaker_06
I was wondering why that was never talked about. So I think like fully focusing to this and I retired very early and everybody said in a lot of the people said I was dumb. A lot of people said I was an idiot when I retired.
01:30:44 Speaker_06
Six million bucks on the table, all that, yada, yada, yada. So there was also, like, did it make it easier to hang it up after hearing that? Maybe not, but it also made me get to a mental point that was like, I'm fucking making it.
01:30:55 Speaker_05
I'm going to prove all these motherfuckers wrong.
01:30:58 Speaker_03
Yeah. Backs against the wall, boys. Yeah.
01:30:59 Speaker_06
These people are not going to be right.
01:31:01 Speaker_03
Yeah.
01:31:01 Speaker_06
That is not going to happen in there. That's a good driver. Yeah. I think having a focus, having something to focus on, enjoying what you're doing, and still having, like, the locker room, because I got the boys here, you know?
01:31:11 Speaker_05
Yeah.
01:31:12 Speaker_06
It certainly helped a lot. It certainly helped a lot, I think.
01:31:14 Speaker_03
I love it, man.
01:31:14 Speaker_05
You've talked about your boys all and one of the things that has been so fucking awesome about the way you've done it is you have not changed who you are or how you do it. I still remember seeing you down in the Pro Bowl.
01:31:25 Speaker_05
What was that Arizona maybe or maybe it's like you're the exact same fucking guy no matter when you are whether you're on TV off like wherever you're at. You are Pat McAfee and you've brought all your boys with you. You've done it your own way.
01:31:39 Speaker_05
You've created your own path. He's a real one the way your brain works. is fucking, I don't even understand it to be honest with you, man. It's like always just the neurons could work.
01:31:48 Speaker_05
The only thing that works better than your leg is a punter is those neurons you got up there. They're freaking clicking at all times, brother. It's impressive. Thanks. I appreciate that. To see where it's gotten to now. ESPN college game day.
01:32:00 Speaker_05
I don't know, man. Is this did you envision it getting to this? Are you happy with where it's at right now?
01:32:05 Speaker_03
You always a college game day, like kind of like were you always excited on a college game? I mean, you had a pretty good college experience over there, West Virginia.
01:32:14 Speaker_06
No.
01:32:14 Speaker_03
Was it always?
01:32:17 Speaker_06
We had good times in Morgantown.
01:32:18 Speaker_03
We had good times in Morgantown. We gotta talk a little bit about that. We know some guys. We know some real dogs that were over there in West V, man.
01:32:26 Speaker_05
That was my first alcoholic drink was in Morgantown at a seven-on-seven tournament.
01:32:30 Speaker_06
I think that's a lot of people's stories.
01:32:33 Speaker_05
We went down to the gas station and got Mad Dog 2020 Orange Jubilee.
01:32:42 Speaker_06
Those Mad Dog 2020s used to be a real problem. Because the color, I think everybody thought they were softer. They were not.
01:32:50 Speaker_02
No, they were not.
01:32:52 Speaker_06
They were throwing a hundo. When you talk about College Game Day, I think just like everybody else in the NFL, like we watch College Game Day every Saturday to keep up with, it's in every NFL building, you know.
01:33:04 Speaker_06
And I think in college, we watch it every single Saturday. So I think I've always been a College Game Day fan, you know. Come from Pittsburgh though, which is an NFL town, which is, you know, interesting.
01:33:14 Speaker_06
So whenever College Game Day becomes an opportunity, it was never a show, like I thought to myself, like I could be on.
01:33:20 Speaker_06
But then whenever you're presented with opportunity to be on like one of the top two institutions in the history of sports media, and it's football and it's wrestling, you know, in front of a live audience.
01:33:29 Speaker_06
So, and obviously I am so incredibly lucky to have a relationship with the WWE too, growing up, how big of a fan I was of wrestling and WWF. Everything it is. So it's like football and wrestling.
01:33:42 Speaker_06
And it's one of the greatest shows in the history of shows. And you're like, there's only so many spots. So massive honor to even be asked to do this.
01:33:49 Speaker_00
It's like, all right, I'm going in.
01:33:51 Speaker_06
I'm gonna go in. And I've been baptized by college football in this entire thing. It is electric, bro. I know you're from Cleveland. I'm from Pittsburgh. These college towns, especially down there in the South.
01:34:01 Speaker_06
I mean, out in Oregon, bananas, Berkeley crazy. These people in the South are praying to the, It's God. It's Jesus Christ. There it is. that it is the team, you know, it's like, it's crazy. It's been an honor, dude. It has been so much fun.
01:34:17 Speaker_06
So I try to have a blast everywhere I go because I'll committed in like, that is a part of college ball, like all the pageantry and the tradition and loyalty. So I'm lucky to do that, man. I really am.
01:34:27 Speaker_06
And to say, did I know it was going to go like this? No, bro. I had no idea. I had no clue. I was hoping just to be able to survive and pay my guys. And like, we just have fun, go to work together, do our thing. But then like things just kind of happened.
01:34:39 Speaker_03
I remember the day you went door to door.
01:34:42 Speaker_06
come on get handed out some envelopes man you can that's a real one right there man let the backpacks to the board of backpacks my bad yeah those still happen but they do it in a different way that's much easier to tax you know cuz yeah I guess
01:34:57 Speaker_06
100,000 bucks is not the easiest way. That's tracking. And then to broadcast it too.
01:35:02 Speaker_05
So everybody, let's make sure we saw a backpack. Was there actually cash in that? None of that. How much did he say? He said it was a bit, there was nothing in there.
01:35:12 Speaker_04
Yeah.
01:35:14 Speaker_05
What's the better atmosphere, college football or NFL? And I guess it's different depending on which college and which NFL, but just in general, you've been a part of both.
01:35:23 Speaker_06
I don't, Kansas City seems pretty insane. Uh, Arrowhead seems crazy, right? I mean, that is crazy. They got chance and shit too, right? That they do throughout the entire game.
01:35:33 Speaker_03
Oh yeah.
01:35:33 Speaker_06
In the home of the G's. And when you're at an away place and you hear that, you guys got to get pumped about it.
01:35:42 Speaker_03
Oh fuck yeah, we're here. We're here. I just know the away team or the home team hates that shit.
01:35:47 Speaker_05
That is one thing I'm jealous of soccer stadiums is those, those old school chants, those call and react chants. You don't have those.
01:35:54 Speaker_06
Every college has electric. All right. So that can, that keeps the stadiums like throughout, like, you know, there's a dead period in NFL games. Maybe it's like the college ones.
01:36:04 Speaker_06
There's no dead period because there's like give and take calls back and forth. Like when I do all that shit on game day, it's like, that's what they're doing in the stadium. And I, you know, I'm very lucky to learn that. I,
01:36:14 Speaker_03
So it was so fucking electric out in Eugene, Oregon this weekend. You had me off my couch singing with you.
01:36:23 Speaker_02
That's it.
01:36:24 Speaker_03
Everybody is in the group chat. Every group chat on my part of like, oh, Pat McAfee is the best thing that happened to college football. Everybody's saying it.
01:36:30 Speaker_03
Dude, you had everybody living and ready to fucking rock and roll for that Oregon Ohio State game, man.
01:36:36 Speaker_06
tell everybody I said, thank you for the kind remarks. And the, the thing about it is I'm learning that from like walking around the town the day before.
01:36:44 Speaker_06
So I try to get like experience, like their food spot, like what's our food spots that they talk about? Cause every college has that. So I'm trying to tell my own story.
01:36:53 Speaker_06
Like when I go experience, I go see some spots, I'll go see the team facility and I'll try to ask people at all these places. I'm like, Hey, what's the shit? What are we, what's the, you know, what are we, what are we saying out here?
01:37:03 Speaker_06
And I'll get like an answer from somebody and I'll be like, you say go. And then they'll say docs. I'm like, okay, they'll go. And they're like, they'll go with it. I'm like, thank God. Cause there has been one time. It was for the WWE.
01:37:15 Speaker_06
I do like a commercial break. I do, I kind of promo and commercial breaks in these arenas. And I try to do the same thing. I try to get the local thing. I was misled. I was misled. I was told, I was told that the crowd was going to go. They did not go.
01:37:30 Speaker_06
So the first time. The first time when that crowd responds to me in the morning for game day and I hear it back, I'm like, thank I was not lied to. That is as good news. But Eugene showed up in a big way. Berkeley showed up in a big way.
01:37:42 Speaker_06
Obviously, Alabama does play. It's I'm having a time in my life, man. And I'm learning so much about all these schools and everybody's cool.
01:37:48 Speaker_05
Yeah, you look like it and you look like, dude, you you play to a crowd. Great. But it doesn't look like it's like being done in any like you just are genuinely loving to be there. And it's fucking awesome to see, man. It's awesome.
01:37:59 Speaker_06
Well, that's like a part of it, you know, like that's a part of college ball. He's like the fans. Fuck yeah.
01:38:03 Speaker_05
That's the beauty that you're on site that you get. Let's take advantage of it. And you're, I mean, you maximize it, brother. It is awesome to see. What were you wearing? You were wearing a Fred Flintstone thing doing pics the other night.
01:38:13 Speaker_05
Dude, I don't know what I'm doing.
01:38:14 Speaker_03
Ha ha ha. Yeah, Jason. Wilma!
01:38:17 Speaker_06
Wilma!
01:38:20 Speaker_05
that's awesome that's awesome you enjoying it you're crushing it i'm having fun i'm having fun i'm learning i do want to like dude i would love to talk to you when we even got more time about how you prepare that's the one thing that's the craziest is i've never watched this much football like when you play you watch your own team and you you get really hyper focused on the players you're playing and the like what you're doing for the game
01:38:43 Speaker_05
Now it's like, dude, I got to watch like all this stuff. Like everybody's just watching all these games and it's it's hard. And for you, you're doing all of this like it is even more impressive.
01:38:53 Speaker_03
Yeah, you're you're in every fucking sport. I don't know how your mind does this, dude. I don't know.
01:38:58 Speaker_05
It's the neurons. The neurons are operating on a different level, man.
01:39:01 Speaker_06
So if I see it, if I see it, normally it's going to stay there. All right. But I have to see it, though. So like so like the night before college game day. Yeah, I'm running through. I'm running through every team. I'm running through every player.
01:39:17 Speaker_06
I got tone digs. One of my guys, he writes up a full like preview of what the weekend will be like, but I have to see it, you know? So once I see it though, it's in there, it's in there. So it takes up some time.
01:39:27 Speaker_06
It's like for you acting, Travis, what were you, did you memorize, how'd you memorize those lines and everything like that?
01:39:32 Speaker_03
I mean, yeah, the lines are, you just gotta, I was fortunate enough to have an acting coach and you just keep shooting the lines over and over and over again until you get comfortable with it.
01:39:41 Speaker_03
And then you'll finally find out and feel out what the scene actually is. At least that's what my learning experience was for the lines and everything in acting. And then you can kind of riff. How'd you do it, you crush it?
01:39:52 Speaker_03
I think Jason didn't tell me I sucked. So, so far so good. I think you're killing it.
01:39:56 Speaker_05
So far so good. Let's go, dude!
01:39:58 Speaker_03
Yeah, baby!
01:40:03 Speaker_06
I don't know how often, you know, people just celebrate right in your face on your show.
01:40:08 Speaker_04
I apologize.
01:40:11 Speaker_06
That's on me completely. That's awesome. I think about some of the shit you're doing right now and like the pictures, you know, my wife, massive fan of your lady. So I, I get, I get updates on all this shit.
01:40:22 Speaker_06
Here's having dinner with Wolverine and Deadpool. You know, it's like, do you ever get, do you ever, like, at this point, you still understand, right?
01:40:30 Speaker_03
You still... At this point, it's just, you can't fathom what's going on, so it's just like a dream.
01:40:36 Speaker_03
You're just like, oh, yeah, no, you're not surprised by, like, the next thing that comes in, or comes into your life, or the next person that walks into the door. Yeah, it's crazy. It's insane.
01:40:45 Speaker_03
I don't even, I don't know how the fuck I got to live this silly-ass fucking life, man, but I am, I'm definitely fortunate for it, for sure. You've earned it. You've earned it.
01:40:53 Speaker_05
Don't forget it.
01:40:54 Speaker_06
That's awesome, dude.
01:40:54 Speaker_05
We're going to wrap up this segment with, uh, we got to ask. You don't have to answer. We prefer you answer, but obviously this is up to you, Pat. First question you, uh, we got to ask.
01:41:04 Speaker_05
Nick Sirianni brings up a story about you all the time, uh, drunk and swimming in a canal. Uh, he brings it up during the off season portion where everybody's going away and he's talking about, don't get, don't be too crazy.
01:41:16 Speaker_05
Uh, when you're away from the facilities, uh, could you maybe share that story with all the 92 percenters out there?
01:41:22 Speaker_06
Well, I hope Nick Sirianni, Coach Sirianni, was an honorable lad and said that that's all a legend. I was certainly found rather intoxicated very early in the morning, shirtless and wet. Late in October, it was cold. It was a cold morning.
01:41:48 Speaker_06
And in the police report, they pieced together that I had probably been swimming in a canal nearby. Big thanks to those cops. They got me off the streets that morning when I was certainly intoxicated publicly. Got a $140 fine for that. What?
01:42:05 Speaker_06
Had to do some community service. Ridiculous. And I still haven't got it cleared that we don't know if I was in a canal. And by we, I mean the police or me. Nobody has proof.
01:42:20 Speaker_04
We've learned from that.
01:42:21 Speaker_06
We've moved along. But yeah, I appreciate Coach Giordani saying, don't be that guy and me being that guy, because you should have seen how I felt in jail. I am not a good enough punter to be sitting in jail right now. No way. I thought it was over.
01:42:35 Speaker_06
I thought it was over.
01:42:37 Speaker_03
I thought it was over. Who is the bigger legend in West Virginia? You or Owen Schmidt?
01:42:43 Speaker_06
Owen Schmidt, dude, that guy could be governor anytime he wanted to be. It's insane, ain't it?
01:42:48 Speaker_05
You know he's a truck driver. He works for UPS now.
01:42:52 Speaker_06
Yeah, I'll FaceTime him. I'll FaceTime him and he'll be, you know, at work and then he'll introduce me to a couple of the boys. I'll get a chance to chat with him.
01:42:59 Speaker_06
I got a chance to see him a few weeks ago whenever we went to Morgantown to do our show before West Virginia took on Penn State. If you do a call in that game, West Virginia lost Penn State, but there was a two hour delay.
01:43:10 Speaker_04
So there was a two hour delay.
01:43:11 Speaker_06
It wasn't a real game.
01:43:13 Speaker_04
Right.
01:43:13 Speaker_06
You know, it shouldn't even count in this entire thing. But Owen was there. He was one of the guests. He drove up from Greenbrier area multiple hours. I did not know he had to drive that far. So he held that over my head, obviously.
01:43:23 Speaker_06
White came in from Alabama. I gave, I got Pat White on a plane to come out. So I got Pat White on a plane to come out, you know, flew him up to Morgantown. And Owen had to drive.
01:43:35 Speaker_00
So he held that over my head, obviously.
01:43:36 Speaker_06
But as soon as Owen gets in front of that crowd, they pay their respects, man. Owen Schmidt is like the living embodiment of what a West Virginia Mountaineer should be. And I've never seen a human being able to delete beers like Owen Schmidt.
01:43:50 Speaker_05
Very impressed. Was it his nickname? Was that, is this true? And this is the story I remember. His nickname was runaway beer truck. Is that accurate? Yeah.
01:43:58 Speaker_06
It was, it was probably the most perfect nickname ever given to anybody in the history.
01:44:04 Speaker_03
You want to talk about running right through a fucking brick wall, man. That guy would do it all.
01:44:08 Speaker_06
He would break helmets, Travis. He would break face masks.
01:44:11 Speaker_03
On his face. On his face.
01:44:12 Speaker_06
And then, yeah, he was psycho.
01:44:15 Speaker_05
We gotta talk about 2008 UC versus West Virginia. I know you remember this one. I'd said a story earlier about alcohol being my first drink ever being in Morgantown.
01:44:27 Speaker_05
I also had the first beer poured on me in a football uniform in the corner of the end zone after overtime, which you freaking solidified. How long was that kick? That was a long one.
01:44:38 Speaker_06
that you said, Oh, I forget. I forgot that. That was like biggest championship type game.
01:44:42 Speaker_05
It was huge. There's a lot on the line. Yeah. Yeah. We won it over time. It felt like you had to make a field goal at the end of a regulation to send it to overtime and an onsite.
01:44:49 Speaker_06
I forgot about that. It's all coming back. You remember our fans were sprinting back in. They left. They went into the hills. They went to the hills. Then they came back with cans. I don't know how they got them in the stadium. I do remember that.
01:45:12 Speaker_06
Yeah, I do remember that. And we lost. Well, we got a roughing the passer, I think.
01:45:16 Speaker_05
It was something like that late. There was a penalty, and then we... Kazem Ali caught one in the corner of the end zone.
01:45:22 Speaker_03
Yeah, our tight end.
01:45:23 Speaker_05
And I just remember beers being rained down upon us. It was...
01:45:27 Speaker_06
Yeah, those people were pretty intoxicated. They were maybe in the canal. They were up and down. Hey, that Cincinnati West Virginia run was cool. When you guys had Brian Kelly's head almost exploding everywhere.
01:45:40 Speaker_05
You guys started it, right? You guys are Louisville. It felt like it was Louisville. Then you guys took it from Louisville. Then we took it for a little bit. There was like a weird run there where the biggies actually had some really good teams.
01:45:50 Speaker_06
OK, if I recall here, New Big East happened. I don't know if it was the year I got there. 2005 is when I graduated high school. So when I get there, I think it was New Big East. Louisville just came to the Big East.
01:46:01 Speaker_06
Remember, they were supposed to run Big East, I think.
01:46:03 Speaker_05
Yeah, Brian Brom, and who was the running back that they had that was a beast? I can't remember his name. Anyway. Mike Bush.
01:46:11 Speaker_06
Bush.
01:46:11 Speaker_05
Bush, yes.
01:46:12 Speaker_06
Mike Bush. Dog. Absolute dog. And then Harry, I think, was over there, too. Like, they had a great team. We triple overtime, I think, by freshman year, we beat them, I think. So it was like, we had it, then like, Louisville took it. Yeah. And then you guys.
01:46:24 Speaker_03
Pittsburgh was pretty good in there, too. They had old Fitzy and LaShawn McCoy.
01:46:30 Speaker_05
They were never the front team, though. They were good.
01:46:33 Speaker_03
I don't know. I might've just been a Shady fan. I don't know. Shady.
01:46:36 Speaker_05
Oh, they did win one year. I think you're right. When Shady was there, they might've won one year, too.
01:46:40 Speaker_03
No, they lost.
01:46:41 Speaker_05
They lost at the end of it.
01:46:42 Speaker_03
Talk about ball security.
01:46:43 Speaker_06
Shady would show up in your stadium and hit the ball like this and shake the shit out of every human in there.
01:46:51 Speaker_05
It's so crazy.
01:46:52 Speaker_06
It was awesome to watch.
01:46:54 Speaker_05
Big East was a real deal. It was. It was a fun conference there. Shout out to Dolan Big East. All right.
01:47:00 Speaker_06
Rest in peace. Rest in peace. UConn even didn't suck.
01:47:03 Speaker_05
No, you can use Yukon. They used to run. They're good at basketball. They're holding down basketball. They're holding it down. They beat us. I can't talk. Yeah, we're about third way through the NFL season. Who's your early Super Bowl pick Pat?
01:47:21 Speaker_06
The Chiefs are still the Chiefs, brother. All right, there we go. All right, now. And that is not just because he's sitting here and I'm such a massive fan. I'm just a believer in, like, greatness. I legitimately am.
01:47:32 Speaker_06
I believe that there's, like, levels to this shit. And for 20-some years, we saw the New England Patriots. For what reason? Well, they just were... Well, other than the fact that they just... They're great. In the air. In the air and the ball.
01:47:47 Speaker_06
And he airs in a ball, and that was against the Colts. We couldn't wait for that to happen. Wheel taping coaches? Yeah, spy gators. All this shit gets thrown at one thing, and that's greatness, Norm.
01:47:56 Speaker_05
That's what it comes down to, for sure.
01:47:58 Speaker_06
So I think when push comes to shove, I think these dudes figure it out. Like, I just am a firm believer. Last year,
01:48:04 Speaker_06
You know, there was a little time and I don't want to bring up bad, bad times in the, uh, Kensey Chiefs, but the boys seemingly stunk for a bit.
01:48:12 Speaker_03
It was a few weeks. It was, it was, it was a rough, it was a rough road. It got a little treacherous.
01:48:16 Speaker_05
It's the only year, it's the only year I ever beat the Chiefs and Henry. That was the only time we ever got it done. And you still won the Super Bowl. That's what I'm saying. There was a time. Everybody thought they were done.
01:48:25 Speaker_06
They're not even making the playoffs. It's over. Hey, everybody but me. I want you to know. Hey, okay.
01:48:31 Speaker_05
I was standing, I was standing. Unwavering.
01:48:33 Speaker_06
I was standing on this microphone and I said, the Chiefs is still the Chiefs. I don't know what everybody's talking about. Pat had a flu one day. It was windy the other day. I just saw, I just believed. And I just think that that's the case.
01:48:46 Speaker_06
And then I watched that quarterback show or whatever the hell it is. on Netflix, and I realized that Patrick Brown was like one of the coolest dudes of all fucking time. It's not only he's just.
01:48:53 Speaker_03
They don't make him any better, man. They don't make him any better.
01:48:56 Speaker_06
Dude, house and beers, talking shit, working his dick off, fighting through injury, and then making every play. They don't make, there's, you know what I mean? Yeah. That doesn't, that doesn't, yeah, so I believe in the Chiefs, personally.
01:49:09 Speaker_06
That's why I believe in the Chiefs.
01:49:10 Speaker_03
I love it. Love it. Even with a team like the Jets getting a guy like Devontae Adams today, Big deal. Fives are good, too. He popped his head in.
01:49:17 Speaker_06
I don't know if you saw it. Devontae popped his head into our conversation with Aaron Rodgers. Yeah.
01:49:22 Speaker_03
Did he? I did not know. I did not.
01:49:24 Speaker_06
He came in with a football in hand, spins the ball. Hello, Devontae. Good to see you. Long time, no see. They seem to be ready to go. I mean, they just lost to the Bills less than like 14 hours before that. And Jets fans are pumped.
01:49:40 Speaker_06
They are very, very excited about the future. And I can see why. Devontae's a dog. He is a dog.
01:49:44 Speaker_05
Devontae Garrett Wilson, they got some in the, the offense looked a lot better, especially in the first half, last, this past week, so, or yesterday.
01:49:51 Speaker_06
They were running it, Jason.
01:49:52 Speaker_05
They were running it. Either way, I know. How about that? Let's hand the ball off. Get this guy, Brees Hall, involved. Who's that? Brees Hall? He's pretty good. He's pretty good. Also, let's do more tush pushes.
01:50:02 Speaker_06
Let's get these centers. Let's compound some more, compound some more vertebrae. Did you bitch about it on this show a lot, or no? I don't know if I saw it, about your body just getting,
01:50:14 Speaker_06
demolished just getting absolutely just full like you said like an accordion he's just getting folded every single fucking time it's hilarious i laugh at it at this point i never used to think about how much we were hyping it up too we were so loud like tush bush so awesome keep doing it we just keep doing it and jason has to be supportive he has to he's a team guy i didn't really talk too much shit and lane johnson lane johnson let the cat out of the bag he used to say that every time he would get called in the huddle i'd just be
01:50:40 Speaker_04
FUCK MY LIFE!
01:50:46 Speaker_06
Oh, that's awesome. But you literally publicly had to support it because it was working and it was like your thing.
01:50:52 Speaker_05
It was like, and listen, I hated it, but let's, let's, you know what? If it gets the first down, keeps the strap converts. It's a bait. I mean, it's a free, you're avoiding a turnover. It's insane. Yeah, I agree.
01:51:03 Speaker_03
That's Ohio football.
01:51:04 Speaker_05
I'll take a compressed vertebrae for that. Bring it on.
01:51:07 Speaker_03
Pat, who's your, uh, who's your two early MVP right now?
01:51:10 Speaker_05
Oh, okay.
01:51:14 Speaker_06
So the, Do you believe that somebody other than a quarterback can win the MVP?
01:51:20 Speaker_03
I think... It's gonna take a lot, man. It's gonna be hard.
01:51:22 Speaker_05
Yeah. Depends.
01:51:25 Speaker_03
It's going to take like something like like what this Boise State kid is doing running back. Yeah. Holy shit. It's going to take something like that to like take the attention away from a quarterback.
01:51:35 Speaker_06
And I think he's ahead of Barry Sanders of Barry Sanders at like twenty six hundred rush hour. He's ahead of schedule.
01:51:41 Speaker_03
He's six games in. He's already got twelve hundred and like seventeen touchdowns. The shit's ridiculous.
01:51:47 Speaker_06
And to be clear, Gente, we think it's incredibly admirable and cool that you're still at Boise State, because he led the country in yards, I think, last year, too. I assume there was big offers. Yeah. For him to go.
01:51:57 Speaker_05
NIL. NIL money.
01:51:59 Speaker_06
Oh, yeah. I assume there was big offers to get him out of Boise State. He's still in Boise running on that Smurf turf. I respect.
01:52:04 Speaker_03
He blends in that blue turf, man.
01:52:08 Speaker_06
Dude, he never stops running either.
01:52:10 Speaker_06
He's very impressive But if we stick in a running back could potentially win an award that normally goes to quarterback like Derek Henry right now Oh, yeah scoring touchdowns just like non-stop Just when they just when they think just because the Titans got rid of him.
01:52:21 Speaker_03
Everyone's like he's not the same player Fuck it. Just running just running 22 mile 21 miles an hour 22 miles per hour getting tickets in this in a school zone You kidding me? He's this tall. He's unbelievable, man. I
01:52:34 Speaker_05
I'll admit I'm an idiot. I, when they made that pick, I'm like, dude, he's a shock. They're going to put him in shock and how's this going to work with Lamar? And I was like, Oh yeah, no, he's just bigger and faster and stronger than everybody.
01:52:43 Speaker_05
Let's just get those guys on our team. Let's just let that guy go north and south.
01:52:47 Speaker_06
Good luck. And that's hard ball football too. He will. And then they got Ricard as a fullback too. It's like, he's two 80 or whatever. Former D end. It's like, I don't understand how they were allowed to do that trade.
01:52:58 Speaker_05
I don't know how that was, that seems to be unfair. Well, good job Harbaugh. I hope he wins. I would, I would be very much as a obviously offensive lineman, but King Henry, I don't know, man, that guy's just, he's just a dog. He is.
01:53:10 Speaker_05
Let's get an offensive lineman award. Yeah, we, that's like against the religion O-line to get an award, but it's like, it's gotta be like a group award. They got the Ford Tough offensive line. fucking penny. Sewell is fun to watch now.
01:53:24 Speaker_05
She had the hook and lateral almost had a touchdown angle called back. Did he balance himself?
01:53:30 Speaker_06
How is he three?
01:53:31 Speaker_05
What he's got to be at least 350. He's he's up there. He's a big man. Big man. Hey, my elbow would explode.
01:53:39 Speaker_06
Traff, why is everybody so big, strong and fast these days?
01:53:42 Speaker_03
I don't know, man. I don't get it. I don't get it. Where do they find these people at?
01:53:46 Speaker_06
How tall are you?
01:53:47 Speaker_03
Six, five, six, four and seven days. If you ask the fucking combine, they they fucking cut a quarter of a fucking like, can you just give me the quote? Just give me each of an inch.
01:53:57 Speaker_03
Just can I get that and be six, five or do I got to be six, four and seven days? They push you down, too. They push you down. They did. They got it twice. They're like, yeah, 6'5", seems too tall for you. I think we need to do this again.
01:54:09 Speaker_06
I just talked about these people being too big and too fast and too athletic, and I'm talking to a dipshit here at 6'5", moving around to like 4'6", at the age of like 50. You know what I mean? Travis, you're a freak show, brother.
01:54:21 Speaker_03
Absolute freak show. Having fun, man. Having fun out there.
01:54:24 Speaker_05
Pat, we're getting close to getting out. Is there anything that we haven't hit that you want to talk about? Anything that, like, I don't know, man.
01:54:30 Speaker_03
Yeah, you got anything fun coming up that people don't know about yet? No, dude.
01:54:34 Speaker_06
There's way too much of me. This show ending quicker is better. But aside from that, I would like to let you guys know, I appreciate the hell out of the invite on the program here. I'm a massive fan of you guys.
01:54:45 Speaker_06
And what you're doing right now with media is a big deal. And I hope you get a chance to kind of take it in and enjoy it all. You guys are legends. And Travis, the fact that you're still able to do all this while still playing,
01:54:54 Speaker_06
I know it's not easy to balance you keeping the main thing, the main thing, and still being able to do all this incredibly impressive.
01:54:59 Speaker_06
And Jason, you're big ass with your untied Timbs, dropping this media world and taking over your acting abilities in a Buffalo Wild Wings commercial. And then the ESPN NFL Monday night commercial. I mean, let's go boys. You guys are crushing it.
01:55:12 Speaker_06
Great time to be alive. I appreciate you both so much.
01:55:16 Speaker_05
Well, the honor's all ours, Pat. Thank you for coming on. Uh, thank you for paving the way. changing the game. It's, it's incredible to watch your career up to this point. Can't wait to keep watching. Keep being you.
01:55:27 Speaker_02
Oh yeah.
01:55:27 Speaker_05
Can't wait to see you in freaking Austin, Texas this week. College game day. Intern Brandon, big Austin, Texas guy. Big, big, uh, big Texas fan down here. Brandon signs up.
01:55:37 Speaker_03
What are the chance brother?
01:55:38 Speaker_06
Don't leave me astray.
01:55:42 Speaker_03
Keep making sports fucking fun, brother. I love watching you, man. Love watching you. I can't wait to join you on the fucking show sometime soon.
01:55:50 Speaker_06
Yeah, don't feel any, both of you. Okay. There is a open invite for any Kelsey mama.
01:55:56 Speaker_03
I want to get to the fucking Thunderdome and I'm fucking pissed. I haven't been there yet, man. That shit looks like he listened.
01:56:02 Speaker_06
If you make it out to Indianapolis ever would love to have you here in the Thunderdome.
01:56:05 Speaker_06
Have a good old time, but either anytime you both want to come on the program, open invite whenever the hell I would be grateful and thankful just like I am that I'm here. And you guys, uh, you're the best man.
01:56:15 Speaker_03
You're the greatest brother.
01:56:16 Speaker_05
Thanks so much, brother.
01:56:19 Speaker_03
Ladies and gentlemen, You're the greatest dog.
01:56:23 Speaker_05
Thank you so much to Pat McAfee for coming on. I can't tell you how electric that was. That's one of the ones we've been waiting for. We've been waiting to get him. We finally got him. Thank goodness.
01:56:34 Speaker_03
And he's the busiest dude in the world. Thank you, brother, for for giving us your time, man. We fucking love that dude, man. He's he's changing sports for the good, man. He's making sports fun as fuck.
01:56:45 Speaker_03
Similar to how I was talking to you about being a part of ESPN and everything. Mac, if he's doing it at a whole nother level, man, on all aspects, the college world, wrestling, you name it, man, all the sports, he's making it better, man. Thank you.
01:56:59 Speaker_03
Appreciate you coming on, brother.
01:57:01 Speaker_05
He's changing the world, but he's still staying true to that yinzer. Ha ha! That wraps up another episode of New Heights. Thank you, obviously, again, to Pat.
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