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Up damn it be a friend tell a friend something nice could change their life sport sport sport sport sport sport hello beautiful people and Welcome to our Winter Wonderland the Thunderdome on this Feelgood Friday December 22nd 2023 this sports program starts now football happened last night in a big way as the

Los Angeles Rams covered against the New Orleans and Saints when 91% of the public money was a winner and the snow might have stopped but the season is still very much in time because just three days from now we’ll be celebrating Christmas we’ll be celebrating NFL football we’ll be

Celebrating a football weekend that we’ve been looking forward to all damn year we’ll obviously break down the Saints and Rams game which was you know a great indicator that maybe the Rams are a wagon not all seven and seven teams are built the same and not all seven and seven organizations are headed

In the same direction and what the hell’s going on with Dennis Allen and New Orleans Saints I don’t know if you saw the internet last night they want him B Gone and especially on a Thursday night football Prime Time game it got loud and on the flip side the Los

Angeles Rams have some special stories Brewing now all eyes are on the Rams and lions potentially in a wild card matchup there first weekend of the playoffs in Detroit but Matt Stafford talked about that last night so we still got two games left a lot of football now ESPN

Analytics give the Rams a 78% chance of making a playoff which is an incredible story with where they were at the beginning of the Season what people thought their season was going to be remember this is just who’s on the defense Aaron Don who’s on the defense who’s on the offense we got

Matthew Stafford you got Cooper Cub okay that’s going to be awesome how about that offensive line that was absolute crap last year they do we don’t know who you got a A rookie wide receiver out a b what pukin a that guy’s going to stink

What are you expect out of that guy that was the beginning of the season Y don’t look now puku is like the greatest receiver in Super Bowl era yeah he has records that are are better than Randy more 150 yard games this season than Randy Moss had in 1990 whatever whenever

He was at his absolute best with the Vikings and then you talk about a rookie campaign maybe the greatest of all time they’ve hit on a lot of pieces and they have their pillars their ogs playing great football I don’t like them against the ners I don’t like anybody against the Niners of

Course but why not the Rams I think Matthew Stafford think the same exact thing we’re excited to chat about that today got a lot of great guests Michael Lombardi will join us jet passon will join us because there was big baseball news last night that we certainly will

Address here in a matter of moments and then Chris Long obviously multiple time Super Bowl champion host of the Greenlight pod will join us in the third hour AJ Hawk will be here the toxic table is here at Boston Conor that’s a sick shirt dude yeah thank you I figured

Dog just cuz everyone loves dogs and it feels as though one of those things just like Christmas receiving gifts everyone loves and also you know we were kind of looking through the history books today and it happens that the Indiana Pacers broke a 28 game losing streak on the

Road in the NBA and you know we were just kind of messing around but you know Pistons are are right there talk about 1983 on December 22nd 1983 yes sir yeah that that is what we were looking at not everybody was there whenever we were doing that yeah yeah that was terrible

Uh but you know here we are it’s too late yeah so but the Pacers on this date in 1983 I believe sure yeah I I forgot the date that’s why I didn’t bring it up I just know what happened today at some point in the P they were probably dogs

They lost 28 straight and they broke the streak on this particular day and the Detroit Pistons said Don’t Look Now 28’s going to be nothing the Utah Jazz aren’t going to play any of their players they’ve lost now how many in a row 25 in

A row highest paid coach in the NBA up AAR Detroit just continues to Detroit good news that the lions are good so nobody even cares about what’s happening with the Pistons and you know normally football takes the the topic of conversation on this particular program mhm but Boston Connor’s Compadre there

At the toxic table last night found himself trending in Tokyo New York City and Los Angeles Big C all at the same exact time we had a nice office Christmas party last night so fun lot of fun lot of fun great time it was great to see everybody yeah you know got out

Did it out a place so we didn’t have to really do much the wife the wife decorated and did all yeah right tone came Ton’s Ton’s fam came I mean it was great to see everybody work mandated event so obviously the whole crew was there a lot of significant others people

It was great it was a great time so much fun and obviously a lot of us here you know we’ve blossomed into still a small business but more people and families are growing and everything like that so not everybody was sitting right next to everybody all the time so there were

Some things that happened during the Christmas party that maybe didn’t make its way to the other end of the table for I don’t know 15 20 30 minutes or so sure I’m happen to be the person that was on the other end of the table of

Your friend Tai Schmidt there so I see Ty at the other end of the table we do a cheers Jack and diet I believe or Jack and Coke this is standard operating procedure right and I go hey Merry Christmas Ty you know and he’s going to stop drinking that remember 2024 so we

Only got a few days left notop not stopping just being a little bit more responsible got daughter down no weekdays yeah so Ty as soon as he sits down at this party you know hey how you doing all right we make uh I jack and

Diet I drink about a sip of mine sure Tai makes his disappear impressively phenomenal yeah it’s unbelievable I laugh obviously hysterically that that is how he wanted to start the entire thing but that is awesome for the entire office yeah he was sitting next to Bill yeah exactly

Shout out to bill by the way birthday his lady it had the same time so it Birthday song that came across at Christmas party it was all it was all fantastic so I see the weer come back okay and I’m not I can’t hear conversation Tai’s doing because he’s on

The other side I’m I see another one go down Ty makes that thing disappear as well okay waiter still there still there waiter we’re going to need another okay here we go we actually don’t have we have to go get another bottle sir you know that’s what happened hurry up so Ty

Had three four drinks quickly soon as he got there having fun I see a lot of laughing law commotion at the end of the table he’s sitting right next to Bruce Brown okay Bruce Brown New York Yankees fan M so word makes its way down like

Telephone down the end of the table to me and they go have you seen the breaking new new and I said I have not he go Ty broke some noose and I look at Ty I go you broke noose and he goes okay that was the face that was

That was the that was the face he made I would yep there it is there is the there is the face that was made and look at the Grinch right over his left shoulder perfect very artsy that was 5x zoom on the iPhone the new one I do I do believe

The camera has been updated a little bit now they’re worth a few trillion I wish we could get some other things but the photo was certainly one of them and I I didn’t know what news he broke okay at that point when I took that photo so

Then I go the internet this is what Tai had tweeted at the beginning of the Christmas party last night hearing from very reliable sources that Yamamoto to the yanes is done N9 years 326 million being told Godzilla Matsui helped push it over the goal line Yoshi keeps the

Number 18 jersey okay so by the time I saw this it had 750,000 15 20 minutes 750,000 views I think it was up to like 800 quote tweets and what Johnny lasagna was saying in the one quote tweet 209,000 followers and associated with the pat mcy show we’re on ESPN every day

So 209,000 followers and associated with our show Johnny lasag is like we got one let’s go we got one he wasn’t the only one Bronx bomber ball they’re like your legacy’s on the line here Ty there was a lot of reaction a lot of Hope a lot of

Dream from the Yankees fans yeah by the time I saw it was it was Way Gone yep and I go Ty what what’s going on here and what then as the night goes on it continues to grow it continues to grow it continues to grow all the way to Tai

Getting Community noted by jet passing ladies and gentlemen after 2 and A2 million people will say at the time had saw Tai’s tweet it went down yoshinobu Yamamoto signed a 12year $325 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers oh no which then caused an onslaught to Tai Schmidt as well y

There was people not happy with Tai in his reporting Jimmy Lombardi Jimmy lombo says it’s what happens if you hire podcasters to be journalist on ESPN sure nobody hired us to be journalist lbo but but we understand what you’re saying and also this guy did Shard his pants

Literally on air last week Avery zaretzky says I don’t know this guy is but he you should go to prison okay prison was very nice of Avery to say because there was other people saying you need to walk in traffic or off a bridge yeah public executions a lot of

That type of stuff so Ty I didn’t get the full story last night at the office Christmas party where we had the white elephant a lot of commotion and family and uh you know good times uh but this news broke after we all had separated from each other correct how did we get

To where we are right now with you Tha and what is your life like right now as a man who tried to dabble in the baseball breaking news World well I think a very important uh thing to keep in mind uh is I am a Die Hard Yankees

Fan okay first and foremost so this isn’t me just trying to cast bait out there you know pull a pull a quick one I mean I woke up this morning just like all these people who are telling me to kill myself jump off a bridge etc etc

Get publicly executed I woke up feeling just like you did okay I was expecting this guy to be da in Pinstripes today so yeah we’re sitting at the end of the table um and a lot of people are saying hope hope Bruce isn’t your Source now

It’s kind of twofold no Bruce is not my source but Bruce former King of New York City okay we forgot about that I didn’t explain that whenever I said Bruce was sitting that exactly so Bruce lived in New in New York was a Yankee season ticket holder uh has broken bread with

The Stein Ben uh Stein brener family who owns the Yankees has he really oh yeah exactly he also has a couple of uh very well-placed sources uh we won’t necessarily say within the organization but to borrow from Tom Curran uh we’ll say people who were in The no at the

Time okay okay so so you get this information and again maybe that’s why the uh the booze cocktails were going down pretty quick cuz I get I get excited very quickly very quickly this is what I’ve wanted for the for I don’t know how long now basically when they

Said this guy was coming to America Yankees got to get this guy okay got to go back to being the evil empire need to sign this guy no matter what the cost like September exactly yeah and right around Christmas I’m saying oh what you know wouldn’t this be a nice little

Thing to have under my Christmas tree come Christmas morning so should I have you know maybe reached out a little bit dug around you know kind of tried to corroborate this in in any way I could maybe but like you said got a couple cocktails in you okay that baseball

Comes down the pike looking like a beach ball and I just said you know what screw it let’s put this thing out we were just talking about on Wednesday you know hey sometimes you got to put things out into the universe okay in order for for maybe

Them to come back positiv so you heard this news from your Source Bruce Bru Bruce by way of a couple by Way by way of a couple other people who were in The at the time and it did come out immediately after your Tweet the Yankees

Have put in a massive offer Bingo for Yamamoto exactly exactly knew knew they were right there um but yeah it was it was one of those things where it’s you know I I should have known because he was in LA uh already they were talking about him going to the football game

With Sham uhy yeah Herby how Herby missed thatby L baseball loves baseball maybe he got so Zed up because sh Otani was there he could have been uh but yeah so you you know and then and then all these other reports are coming out like you like you mentioned hey the Yankees

Have made a significant offer okay yeah the the Dodgers are still out there we understand that but they brought in Godzilla Matsui okay who is one of the greatest Japanese baseball players of all time and I’m I’m thinking the entire night hey I’m right on the money here you’re celebrating I’m celebrating yeah

Yamamoto is a Yankee this is unbelievable that they’re back baby okay World Series I mean don’t even need to play the season next year and then obviously yeah you know I get home and um my heart’s broken because once again I am a Yankees fan okay was I duped uh was I

Misled possibly by who by these very reliable sources who you know a lot of people are questioning those sources are they reliable I still believe they’re they’re very reliable okay really they’re wrong this is Pete tamill staring down the pike of uh exactly exactly yeah granted I mean you were

Trending in three cities around the world team was wrong years were wrong money kind of read on the right in the ballpark your wasn’t too far off either no no the team was only one off exactly and you know I I did I learned a valuable lesson last night okay

Sometimes when you try to uh jump into the MLB Hot Stove as an Insider I’m not a journalist I don’t claim to be a journalist I don’t want to be a journalist I like what we do here um but sometimes when you when you hop into

That MLB Hot Stove you get third degree burns and um I did last night pretty bad didn’t delete the tweet I saw a lot of people saying that don’t even delete the tweet at Pat ma show fire him he’s not even sorry about it it’s like well it’s

Pretty big part of the we don’t delete tweets here yeah why why would I delete it I mean in the time I thought I mean you already got community noted people can see right hey this guy’s a he was wrong that’s the way it goes you

Know uh but again I I would like to stress and emphasize like I’m a Yankees fan okay I woke up this morning having to not only eat all this stuff with people telling me to kill myself and they hope I have a terrible Christmas but then also oh they brought Christmas

A lot of people bringing Christmas into it as well um Christmas that’s what I thought but now not only that um you know yeah your integrity getting called into question hey you should be fired all all that kind of stuff Yamamoto is also not a Yankee which is all I wanted

From the get-go so people forget yep yeah exactly I wasn’t you know wasn’t trying to be a journalist wasn’t trying to steal Jets Thunder or John morosi or John Haymon who again you know just last year said Aaron judge was going to the Giants no one was telling him to kill

Himself when he did that uh and he’s an actual Insider I’m sure people were well maybe yeah I’m sure maybe I’m sure but you know that Insider world is not fun Waters To Tread in but boy you were king for a little bit weren’t you I was how

About that photo yeah how about that photo you were theid how happy is look how happy Tai is yamamoto’s going to the Yankees I’m already trying to order a Yamamoto Jersey in that in that moment I cannot wait to wear this thing on the show next week I had no at this moment

When I took the photo I had no clue what had happened I had no idea why he was so pumped up down there I just told that I was just told that he broke the news and it was like I don’t know I don’t know baseball

But a lot of people are calling for you to get fired I want to let you know step back in that batter’s block next time you get a good source I appreciate you okay I appreciate maybe I mean that was the biggest story in baseball maybe uh

Maybe we don’t just try to jump into the top of the entire thing but I appreciate that you’re it it came from a good place it did you let a lot of people astray though a lot of people MH you know whole city a lot of people said this guy works

For ESPN I don’t it’s not true I don’t we had our office party last night EX exactly Ty was drunk at it what Ty broke some news at it but our show is on espan we got to remember that the information was okay we got to remember that

Absolutely now if there was any thought that he did sign with the Yankees last night boy what a morning it would have been for you oh my God oh my God but you were wrong yep and uh so Bruce listen I don’t want to call you the microphone

You’re not a wizard on it but like in this particular case it seems like you’re a massive piece of this whole story Bruce Brown y’all Moto not a Yankee hope you’re happy why’d you lie to Tai Schmidt I I mean I think we’re looking at a late flip here he he was in

Deep talks with the Yankees they were at 300 million it was a very generous offer it was on you know the the five yard line there uh and he laid flop to the Dodgers it’s sad scene um he’s probably gonna stink all right so we just dug deeper in

This entire thing he’s not gonna stink in the LA Dodgers right now have 700 million in shohi 325 million in Yoshi Yamoto 365 million in Tyler glass G La uh glass now for pirate GL of course y of course great player 325 million in mooki Betts dog right out of Boston 165

Million for Freddy Freeman so this team’s winning they’re going to be very good yes okay so everybody that’s mad at Tai Schmidt right now which we understand now I laughed hysterically at the whole situation and that was rude of me to do at the time CU then when I read

People’s reactions I was like oh no there people that are living and dying with every single Yamamoto update and yours was the biggest by far so we don’t love that in holiday season getting let down but you would also like tell them let’s make some money together Dodgers a

Win World Series well I mean yeah they if if they do everything they need to they are the best team on paper this what the Yankees did right back in the day yes this is what the Yankees did absolutely and they won a bunch yeah and

I thought this is what the Yankees were going to do kind of moving forward after going 82 and 80 last year not making the playoffs you trade for woto now you just got to go out and get Yamamoto they they almost did it sorry the Dodgers gonna win World Series uh

They are probably a very a heavy favorite right now hey congrats to the Dodgers yeah that’s awesome for I’m so happy for the Dodgers sweet they got the Rams and the Dodgers and they were introducing him last night as if he hasn’t lived there for six years love

That played on the Angels doesn’t exist go to the Dodgers now you’re in our town now we’ll give you a jersey now we’ll have you on a sideline we’ll do the whole thing shout out to show shout out to last night one half of the hammer

Cowboys tone digs 91% of the money was on the Rams last night that it’s a giving season okay it’s Christmas Christmas weekend and uh you know this is one of those weekends where you don’t worry about where the money is cuz as it is again the books the books are going

To say this weekend you know what easy picks this weekend whatever you think’s going to happen is going to happen don’t question it just put it put in all your bets and they’re going to all win we kind of started saying that yesterday whenever it just like appeared to be too

Obvious now this game ended up 3022 now the Raiders uh do some stuff I’m sorry the Saints do some stuff late I thought of Derek Carr and the Raiders jersey especially with what the Raiders did last Thursday but Derek Carr uh you know couple touchdowns late they make it look

A lot closer than it was Rams still cover and I don’t think Rams are ever worried about a damn thing great stories coming out of this Rams team here’s Sean McVey talking about the team immediately afterwards especially heading into the beautiful holiday weekend I love the way

This guy talks love this group really proud of him and uh it’s going to make for a good Christmas so Merry Christmas to you guys I’m out of here H talk about how tough you guys are when the balance passing and running is what we saw tonight yeah I think uh I

Think this mic is the shits I love that cuz I was about to say the only thing we don’t really like from the ram is their PR guy but like uh probably the one in charge of the microphone department but like everything he says about loving

That group I think we all do and there was a play last night from Matthew Stafford I think that reminded the world like hey the guy that’s playing quarterback for this Los Angeles Rams team he is one of the most talented ball throwers in the history this little roll

Out to your left you’re an old man drafted in 2009 on the Move h on a third and four now nine all has been doing that all for a long long time let’s go back to Detroit you know whenever he was just a young buck up there in Michigan

Get the guy to jump let me go around this s he’s been doing this for a long long time it’s not just sidearms by the way with Matthew Stafford let’s go back to the Super Bowl you remember this one in the Super Bowl oh this guy’s not

A Hall of Famer why hasn’t won any playoff games can he perform in a big moment oh I don’t know in the Super Bowl no look Cooper cup dime with Matthew Stafford leading the charge and Cooper Cup being Cooper cup he’s always going to be good he’s always going to have

Attention on him on the defensive side so that’s going to open it up for everything else Karen Williams is becoming an absolute dog for the Rams I think he’s top five rushing this season we have the leaders in a graphic here we’ll get to at some point today they

Run the rock too they’re not scared to do that with Matthew Stafford’s ability and what Cooper cup does and then this rookie puka Naka he has 450 yard plus games this season that’s the most in the Super Bowl era for a while wide receiver so when you talk about being dominant as

A young buck you ask like uh maybe he’ll get 100 yards a game maybe he’ll have a couple touchdowns PUK and AA whenever Cooper cup was not in and even when Cooper cup has been back has become the go-to guy for Matthew Stafford now is that because Cooper cup commands so much

Attention in pukan AOA and 101s maybe but who cares with the way Matthew Stafford can sling it the way that Shawn McVey can draw a plays in the plethora of weapons that they have on the offensive side why not the L Angeles Rams especially as they continue to get

Hotter and hotter and hotter as the season goes on they’re playing their best football right now that is when you want to be playing your best football joining us now is a man who’s won multiple Super Bowls he’s been a mentor a consultant an adviser he’s been a

Podcast host a live show host an author a Ted speaker and a man who just loves seeing football Done Right ladies and gentlemen Michael Lombardi thank you to be here thank you hey Merry Christmas thank you for joining us last night what Matthew Stafford showed in prime time with that

One side arm throw let alone everything else that he’s doing everywhere in last week he had a fade away 20 yard on the sideline dime to wasn’t Cooper or puka Higg it might have been Higg whatever it is this dude is phenomenal with Shawn McVey leading the charge with Aaron Donald on defense

Aside and Raheem moris doing his thing are the Rams a contender here all of a sudden lombo what are your what are your expectations for this Rams team that going into the year I don’t think anybody thought they’d be having this convo out of week 16 well look Stafford’s played really

Well and I think with the running game with Williams and you look over the last five games where they have really run the football you know they’re five- one losing the overtime game to Baltimore everything’s set up by the running game and Stafford’s ability to make great

Throws and I think this team has overachieved I think their offensive line has really stepped up their game early in the season they were getting beat up up up front Pittsburgh beat him up up front Philadelphia did the same thing but this line Ryan Wendell their offensive line coach has done a really

Good job and I don’t think you can understate what Raheem Morris has done defensively because we don’t really know a lot of their players they not recognizable names other than Aaron Donald but yet they play good complimentary defense they’re 13th in the league in red zone defense they’re

17th and third down they get off the field they don’t turn the ball over last night they did but for the most part they just play really well complimentary football and when McBay can run the ball when he’s got a run game going then they’re really hard to stop I I think

The play of the game you showed the Highlight there you know this is kind of when you know you have a good team Cooper cup runs a route hard down the middle of the field and he knows he’s not getting the football he knows he’s not getting clear out and clear it out

But he runs it with unbelievable effort and then Thea catches the ball inside for what a 25 30 yard game yeah that to me that to me is when you’ve got a lot of things going for you that to me is when your team’s connected everybody’s

Helping one another win and I think Sean I said this eight weeks ago I think Sean should is this is his best coaching job that I’ve seen and he’s had a lot of great coaching jobs hey I think that the clear out routes especially by your best

Guy the guys’s getting paid the most amount of money like and when your guys are blocking down the field like the ners like that shows like culture commitment I think and then you hear you hear like the way McVey says I love this group Matthew Stafford has said numerous

Times I love this group feels like the locker very connected even though they knew going into this it was like uh we got to refind what our team is after Mass Exodus almost from what our team was beautiful culture beautiful coaching job let’s talk about another beautiful

Coaching job and I saw you talking a little bit how about Pete Carroll in the Seattle Seahawks yeah I love now Drew lock had that magical moment a moment that he’ll remember forever in a moment I think that reminded him that he is still the guy even though he hasn’t

Played in a while he had an opportunity to showcase if he was still the guy and he said yeah I’m still the man yeah that is great to know but I think the Pete Carroll you know we don’t talk cuz he’s on the Left Coast over there they’re in

The Niners division so it’s not a lot of conversation you know and and it’s rude by us I would like you say is very rude by us but Pete Carol is answer it is that Pete who is that bill no no a rap song that would have been awesome if you

Just answer that it was Bill bellich hey Bill that was Sopranos that was a Sopranos theme that’s my ringtone so it’s that’s what it is hey Tommy de has a shelf The Godfather or The Sopranos that wasn’t going to be hard to predict anyway it was The Godfather I changed it

Older coach well you got to go from one to the other and maybe maybe we get a little H Family Guy uh Italian next you know what I mean these are all really okay I didn’t know I didn’t know what Italian sounds we want to go but um

Anyways shout out love the ponos got a horn underneath the shirt here but we never talk about Andy Reid obviously older successful head coach this guy’s are good bill bich obviously this guy is the without goat Pete Carroll been coaching long time and he never gets brought up in the conversation of like

Greatest coaches he never about it obviously he just kind of shows up each week why do you think we don’t talk enough about Pete Caroll and what do you think it is about Pete Carroll that is always has his team kind of in it well I

I think a lot of it is the fact that you know Pete you know he he he some of the betting world and you know have working at n and being around it the betting World takes a lot of shots at Pete for his game management don’t think he’s a

Great coach but when I was doing football done right and I set the criteria to me Pete’s a Hall of Fame coach he’s a Hall of Fame coach he’s won a Super Bowl he’s won a lot of games in Seattle he’s built the program and and his childlike enthusiasm for what he

Does is remarkable and his excitement and you know he’s able to kind of get the players to play and they’ve had a change over the roster I think John Schneider does a great job as a general manager so yeah I don’t think he gets enough credit for really being a great

Coach being able to make hard decisions he’s had to change the staff a few times look he’s had to go through quarterbacks you know and he went through the Russell Wilson thing and now he’s got locked but that win the other night was remarkable going 97 yards against an eagle team

That you thought was going to be able to take the game over at that point and make a couple plays and yet you know Pete I think what he said in the locker room after the game is so true about football right football is never won in

The first quarter it’s never won in the second quarter or the third you got to win the game in the fourth quarter and they did whereas last night what you said earlier the saints were never in that game but when you look at the game

Book and you see car stats and you say oh wow he had a good night no he really didn’t he didn’t play well until the fourth quarter and that’s when you have to play your best and I think that’s what Pete talked about yeah the score they still covered if they back door

There man yeah 91% of the money was on the Rams last night it was unbelievable it it it when that happens Pat I I always feel like you know on paper there’s no way the saints were going to win that game the everything you broke down the Saints weren’t going to stop

The run the the especially when McVey is you know when you go against McBay you got to be really good defensively and but yet with the money kept pouring in on the Rams and the line wasn’t moving you’re saying something’s going on here what’s happening yeah exactly it was

Going towards the Saints you know I kept you know I kept hearing all a lot of pro a lot of pro Services you know where they can move a number were on the Saints but that’s the same thing that happened last week and Washington everybody was on Washington last week

Which I couldn’t understand how that could even be possible but yet if Rivera goes for the two-point play they could have covered Raiders too last Thursday everybody was on Raiders over chargers for whatever reason that was a gift we’re just in the time right hey it’s

Holly season love it no matter what God you believe in we’re celebrating something okay this particular time of year and the football God said you know what we’re in here you go we’ll have the sports books who are very rarely completely off be completely off on a

Thursday to kickoff week 16 and the boys have some questions about what’s going on this upcoming weekend but I want to talk about a clip that I saw from the GM Shuffle earlier talking about Aaron Rogers in the New York Jets I think your take is obviously a very important one

Because you’ve built teams you’ve been a part of Super Bowl programs you’ve had every single title there is in a football building and what’s going on in the Jets is very fascinating but the points that you brought up I think have not really been chatted about anywhere

Except where you are if we could run this clip from the GM Shuffle the other day on visent I believe Woody Johnson should just give the charter of his franchise to Aaron Rogers that’s what he should just do because everything is Under the Umbrella while Aaron’s not here everything like the incompetence in

The coaching the poor game planning the decision m i mean you can’t get any worse offensively Adam gase was not good and they couldn’t wait to run him out of town Salah it’s like oh it’s okay you know bill balichek’s on the hot seat he’s got six Super Bowl he don’t deserve

To come back he’s a horrible coach Robert salid yeah we just lost Aaron Rogers he’ll be back it’s good he’s really good he’s a defensive specialist they’ve been outscored by Miami 64 to13 okay so I do appreciate whenever you get worked up a bunch you know and you get

Going you have a great ability to run like that but it is a fascinating situation because I think we all very much understand what’s going on over there okay what was supposed to happen this year they’re just going to have to sit through some hard times and next

Year it’s going to happen but what if it doesn’t then you then there’s you know what if what if who knows how it all it it’s interesting dynamic because like Robert Salah getting a pass hacket has gotten a pass big time the offens pass because they’ve had so many injuries

Obviously it’s like it is interesting whenever you think about how the NFL is would ultimately be the right decision you think and what do you think they ultimately do over there all right so if if you spend any time around coach Walsh and I did and you read his great book

Which is hard to find online the one he wrote with Brian bck called the the the building of a champion Walsh talks about a lot of different subjects especially teams that are on losing streaks and he covers so many scenarios and he addresses so many situations that relate

To pro football but often times when you’re on a losing streak you know what he would what he was trying to educate coaches about was the fact that there’s no magic formula there’s no quick fix there’s no one reason why you lose and so what the Jets have done is they

Violated that code of conduct because when you do that when you say we just lost Aaron then you take away discipline and responsibility from the organization and I think that’s unfair to Aaron because look even if Aaron were playing it wouldn’t they wouldn’t be very good

He’s not just one player we not the NBA it takes a collective group three levels offense defense and the kicking game to work in harmony mean Kevin stefansky is doing one of the most best coaching jobs in the league he’s got nine wins he’s lost how many quarterbacks he’s playing with backup

Offensive linemen I mean guys we haven’t heard up and nobody’s saying what a great job he’s doing meanwhile in New York oh we lost Aaron it’s okay we’re gonna get blown out oh we got Z you know like when they lost Aaron that there should have been an adjustment in the

Game plan and then all I heard was well you know we’re running Aaron’s offense no no no no we’re we need to run the offense that helps us win games like whatever happened to that where’s the accountability and everybody just pushes it under the carpet like oh it’s okay

And it’s unfair to him because when Rogers comes back and it doesn’t work everybody’s going to blame Aaron everybody’s gonna say well Aaron screwed it up but so now it’s all on him well somebody’s got to take accountability and respon like they’re terrible they couldn’t stop Miami last week this is

Supposed to Meanwhile Cleveland’s defense stops people all I hear about is the Jets are the greatest defense in the history of football the Ravens go shut up 2000 you can’t compete with the Jets defense meanwhile they can’t stop anybody in the Run game they give up plays I I I just think it’s

An unfair narrative and if you’re Woody Johnson yeah I want to run it back great but we better sit in a room and say what else went wrong guys what else do we got to fix Bill coward yesterday said he appreciates what Joe Brady has done with Buffalo because they got Josh Allen

Under Center and the team that they have they’re running an offense that would work for who they have be who you are no don’t be who you are be what you are is what he’s saying you need to acknowledge your team is and then put together the

Greatest plan for your team to win he talked about in Pittsburgh how they got na Harris who’s 235 pounds and they’re in yeah he’s a side car and shotgun as opposed to under Center having him run downhill it’s like that’s like a little thing that instead of just doing what

Your team is what Nai Harris is you’re trying to do what you want to implicate into the offense and it’s like that has kind of been the conversation over there for the Jets and I don’t want to go you know to college ball here but like

Florida State who ended up not in the college football playoff which is is the big story but whenever they lost their quarterback who was absolute stallion okay not saying he’s not but they started running wild cat like they like came up with ideas to make up for the

Loss of the Iowa Haw guys never once tried wild cat never it’s like you can see who’s like trying to win like who is trying to gain an advantage versus like our system works this is what we got to do so they just punted on an entire year

Over there for the Jets and the fans now are sitting as fans team a team that has the longest playoff drought out of All Sport I appreciate you mentioning that like if Aaron comes back and it doesn’t work now it’s all on him because remember we’re waiting we’re waiting

This entire year we have all the pieces we just need Aaron and then whenever that’s interesting we didn’t even work hard this off SE oh go home early no big deal you know we’re going to take a break in miniamp all this like you realize these other teams you know it’s

Just it’s not about one guy it’s about the team coming together collectively being in alignment you know and you got to be demanding I mean I heard coward yesterday he was great you know you got to push you know the head coach is got to push everybody what he said yesterday

Is what I’ve often said there’s only one person in the organization one who’s paid to win there’s only one guy that’s the head coach Ben Johnson can gain 10,000 yards and score points for the Detroit Lions and he’ll get a head coaching job at the end of the year it

Doesn’t matter if they win a playoff game or if they win the it doesn’t matter he’s going to get a job because his offense is that good same thing with the defensive coordinators they can do that there’s only one guy who’s paid to win and that guy has to separate himself

From the staff and drive the staff towards winning I don’t see that in New York I see Salah he’s 33% winning percentage coach he just sitting there saying oh it’s okay you know it’s fine no big deal when Aaron comes back we’re all going to be good like there’s no

Pixie dust like there’s none of that you can’t have that and to me it’s an absence of leadership so I I’m tired of talking about him because it’s really ridiculous that people fall into this narrative it’s about one player it’s not fair to the player yeah I’m excited to

See what they do there there’s a lot of options there and what is the ripple effect for down the road who knows but greeny’s got high hopes still yeah greeny’s got high hopes moving forward hopefully that’s the case speaking of other cultures Ty has a question for you

Yeah Lomo just curious uh you mentioned you know us thinking that like the the Eagles would would go into Seattle and be just fine against a backup quarterback and then obviously that that wasn’t the case uh they have a pretty favorable schedule down the stretch here

But is it too late for teams like them and the CH and you know the Chiefs are still in in good position they could end up being the number one seed in the AFC but can both of those teams like do they have enough time to kind of turn things

Around and and get this like sour taste out of people’s mouths like are they both still threats to win the Super bowl or do you not think that’s the case this year well they both have a heart of a champion so you can never count them out

But I think what we fail to do at our league is evaluate the wins right we all just see the W on the scoreboard and say well we won the game well I think there’s three levels of winning right there’s the dominating win which this which the Rams had last night right the

Scoreboard made us said eight points but that win was dominating then there is the win where basically you you have to understand that you know it isn’t quite you didn’t play Perfect right it was a dictating I call it a dictating win you dictate the game but eventually in the fourth

Quarter you kind of came from behind and you won the game or you the other team kind of couldn’t make a play because of you and it was a game that you won and then there’s the dangerous win which is you win the game but you really probably

Didn’t play well and you didn’t deserve to win the other team lost it and I think when you look at Kansas City and you look at Philadelphia the last really dominating win Philadelphia had was in week three against Tampa Bay that was the last one they had and the last one

The Chiefs had was when they play the Raiders a couple weeks ago when they won 31 to 17 when they were what got behind 14 to nothing and then before that it was when they beat the Chargers at home so when you don’t have a lot of

Dominating wins you as a head coach have to figure out what do we have to do for this team to make it better what do we have to do the Eagles forget about who they’re playing they’re gonna win the games they have to play they got to get

Jayen Herz to stop looking at the rush and move it they gotta get Jaylen Herz to stay in the pocket and vertically work the pocket hey Bosa hey that Bosa line was wild bosa’s like hey HomeField advantages uh on the line here hope everybody watches what we did jaylen’s

Watching The Rush every single play and they’ve been o three since then they’ve been owing three since the Niners game right so like the play the throw he’s got a Crosser wide open and he throws it to AJ Brown down the field the throw he makes on the other sideline he sees a

Rush and he takes off you got it and sometimes now this isn’t always on the quarterback because he’s getting hit too much or he’s getting too much pressure so I think the Eagles have to fix that issue right they’re not going to fix all their issues they have to play a certain

Way and they have to fix it the Chiefs just have to accept the fact that they’re not going to blow anybody out they’re not going to win 45 to nothing they got to methodically keep making plays that they got the best player in the league so they can do it look kelse

I don’t know if he’s not 100% but they got to rely he’s got to have to kind of have a second season here to get it going because teams aren’t even double him anymore because I don’t think he’s 100% what do you think leg something cuz his knee coming into the season right

Wasn’t his knee yeah are we still on I think think so yeah you’re on I hear you too big time power outage yeah massive power outage in the building here long yeah looks like we’re Frozen on ESPN Frozen on ESPN is how it seems the TVs are also and they just went to

Commercial potentially okay and they just want to commercial potentially as what foxy just said so we are completely dead it’s good to be with you can you hear me yeah yeah I still can’t hear anything Lambo can you hear me I hear you buddy I sure do

He said what the hell happened you get the storm there I got to plug into something here we’re on commercial break but live on YouTube still this is good I don’t know a nice Feel Good Friday not sure not sure I’m not sure about that now what’s that what’s that oh say he’s

Not sure if we’re we’re definitely live on YouTube I’m watching it okay hey look at us dude still got to figure it out this feels like a coordinated attack yeah this does feel as though someone’s coming after us right now llama why’d you have to say that about Woody Johnson

Thanks a lot pal yeah I’m sorry about that you you said oh I can hear now go every time the power goes out in the building I always think about the Texas schoolbook depository two uh 20 minutes before the assassination all the power went out in that building too so not

That not that it had anything on ESPN ESPN oh we’re back and we’re still on ESPN yes we’re never off we were never off we were never off so boil welcome to journalism okay out here in we didn’t curse though that’s a good thing we were

Professional I think so too I I think we’re yeah we handled it pretty well yeah how about that happy Feelgood Friday here um this could potentially be you you know some of those Yankees fans you know cuz what happened last night where uh we broke some news I plugged in

Over there I wonder if that’s the right play anyways you said a lot of really good stuff while we were completely out of power and everything went pitch black over here and I couldn’t hear it and I do appreciate it uh at the end we think

Chiefs are gonna be okay yeah yeah I I I think they just have to play a different style we have to be okay we have to stop expecting the Chiefs to be explosive we have to just accept the fact when they get Pacho back they’re going to run it a

Little bit more they’re still going to be creative they got the best player in the league they have 33 drops by their receivers right so that’s not going to change that’s been a pattern all year long so their defense is really good and we just got to expect them to not be as

Dominating as they were it’s really more about us than it is about them they’re going to be a hard out look they’re tough to play you know when you have the best quarterback and you have an offensive coach and a head coach like Andy Reid who’s very creative you one

Game you know you guys played in playoff game one game is is not about who’s the best team it’s who plays best that day hey let’s talk about a Super Bowl preview potentially coming on Monday night what a dream the football gods have dropped on us yeah Lomo thanks for

Saying that about the Jets too I’m going to wake up on Christmas morning full chub pumped about that entire thing uh but when we’re talking about possible Game of the Year possible best situation you could have on a Christmas evening on a Monday night Niners Ravens feels like

A possible Super Bowl matchup and obviously Lamar was asked about it he said hey we’re locked in we’re this is a game in December this isn’t February which I assume you love to hear but what do you were expecting out of this you know Lamar vers Raven vers the Niners

Dline excuse me and how do you see this game going because it’s been a lot of ravens talking up the Niners and a lot of the Niners and Kyle Shanahan specifically talking up the Ravens well look they’re both really good teams when I talked about the dominating wins or the the dictating

Wins or the dangerous wins these two teams have really a lot of dominating wins and you could see it I mean the the Ravens have R rarely played from behind now they’ve lost some games in the fourth quarter but they’ve been really good and they find ways to win and Lamar

In this situation is outstanding Lamar’s at 86% against the spread when he plays and he’s a three-pointer or more dog I mean he’s very good in this situation and I think that them being a five and a half Point dog in this game really is the best thing that could ever happen to

John Harbaugh because he can just sit there and spend his day saying look nobody thinks we have a chance we’re going out there they’ve already given them the title so I think armstead’s entry is impactful I think hard Graves injuries impactful we saw Arizona run

The football on them last week and if if Baltimore can run the ball on them this is going to be a close game I believe it and I think it’ll certainly help and look the one thing about the the 49ers people don’t realize this but if

You get in the game in the fourth quarter Kyle Shanahan’s 0 and 38 when he’s seven point or more down and going into the fourth quarter whoa 38 0 and 38 0 and 38 when he enters the fourth quarter that feels like if he’s down

Seven or more points he’s he’s 0 and 38 now here’s another one that feels like a crazy stat right there thats let me write this one down for you too right this Kyle Shanahan is 13 and 31 when trailing by three or more points entering the fourth quarter he’s 0 and

37 when trailing by eight or more points in the fourth quarter oh and how about those two numbers right 0 and 37 when trailing by that so my point in talking about this is the if you’re the Ravens you get this game into the fourth quarter the numbers are on your side and

And why is why is that cuz their off seems to be so explosive I understand you can’t come from behind some Styles but I feel like they they have a style that is explosive and can play from their style is built it’s the same thing with McBay their style is built on play

Action Pass Run game so they want to throw the foot they want to get the lead they want to play action pass you when it becomes an all pass game all of a sudden their pass protections become a little bit dis not as good right so it’s

A drop when it becomes a dropback pass game it’s not the same all of a sudden all their great weapons that they have have to play a different game when they can dictate the game to you when they play positionist football like they do in play action pass element they’re hard

To play but if they get behind now it’s different game and the numbers back it up I I would often say Kyle and I’ve had this conversation before you know at some point when do you fix you got to be in a drop back pass situation and yet

They’re able to do it because they get the lead and they have this unique ability to to to play from in front and their defense can rush the passer so I think Baltimore is a little the same way Baltimore’s just lost leads in the fourth quarter Ravens five-point dogs in Santa Clara California

And uh the conversation is should they feel disrespected by the books that’s the same exact point spread Packers Panthers this weekend as well so how are the Packers Five Points favorite better than anybody has anybody watched the last two games of the Packers that’s what Tai schitt said but you would think

Maybe Joe Barry understands his back against the wall Bryce young you know this is a potential team on the offense aside in the Panthers and maybe they could get a little spark and Jordan love hasn’t been terrible you know so maybe they maybe this a big one for the

Packers but also maybe Chris tabber the new interim coach is dancing in the locker room that Panthers team might be hot right now they want a game in front of 14 people that is tough to do absolutely that is not easy that’s Co they’re playing Co football this past

Weekend got a big time Dub with an interim coach tone has a question for you coach yeah lombo the other game of the weekend Cowboys and dolphins um now it feels like there’s more questions narratives about these two teams you know cowboys can’t win on the road or on

The grass and and the Dolphins haven’t beat any good teams are kind of the narratives uh that you hear how do you feel about that game and which team are you more confident about moving forward you know I I think both teams are situational based I I’m more

Confident about Miami because of their defense I think fangio does such a good job defensively he makes it hard on the opponent now look Tennessee scored 14 points in the fourth quarter so you know they’ve had their moments where they’ve let down but for the most part they’re

So good they’re so well coached and offensively when they can run the ball when they limit the amount of third Downs they get into they play Canadian football better than anybody they when they have less than 10 third Downs in a game with their offense they’re hard to

Stop because they’re making big plays so I have more confidence in them what I worry about Dallas is when they go on grass they’re not the same team they’re not as fast and then Dallas and I’ve been saying this their defense hasn’t been as good as we all think it is it’s

A defense that has to play from the front they’ve played 90 less plays this year than their offense their defense and that’s good for me one of the things I truly believe in to play good defense in the NFL you have to play less defense the offense has to carry the load so

Their offense has had the ball for 32 minutes in this game I kind of feel like they’ll struggle with Miami you know Ramsay’s Ramsay’s a you know Elite cover guy and a lot of this game is going to come down to the offensive line of Miami

Are they GNA play they have a lot of guys hurt same thing with Dallas Tyrod Smith might not play and that’s going to hurt it so I I think both these teams have liability I don’t think either one can get to the Super Bowl because of those liabilities but I trust Miami more

Because their defense is Sounder Mike McCarthy said that Zack Martin is ahead of Tyron Smith who has a back Zack Martin actually quad during game last week missed game he said he’s ahead of schedule for Tyron Smith who has a back also got hurt in the game last week

Those are a couple massive pieces to that offensive line in that offense that obviously is going to have to go a lot of people bringing up the fact that the Cowboys are Front Runners you know hey they’re not bad whenever they’re buzzsaw but whenever they get Bart Scott said

This morning this is how it’s always been Cowboys are Front Runners but if you come punch them in the mouth they can’t handle it I don’t believe that cuz I believe I don’t either I don’t believe that at all I but I’m just saying that is the narrative about that Cowboys team

And it’s like I guess we’ll find out here as the games go on like Mike McCarthy I think during this season as it’s gone on a lot of us have been like Mike McCarthy’s gonna be coaching Cowboys forever yeah back and then imagine if they I’m I don’t think this

Is going to happen I still believe in Dallas Cowboys at D bre I still believe in but there’s people who completely given up hope on them if they take a downward spiral and don’t win a playoff game and it ends bad like that conversation’s right back right and

I mean that Mike McCarthy conversation is all the way back in Dallas would it not be yeah I I don’t see how it could be that dak’s having almost an MVP season and I think you got to figure out why are they not as effective I think one of

The reasons they struggle on the road is their offensive line has not played as well on the road you watch the Philly game that they lost they have a chance first and five at the sixy line and turn steel can’t block Hassan ruic and they have to they basically give up a sack

And the next thing you know it all falls apart look up in Buffalo but he was under constant pressure the line hasn’t been to the same level on the road as it has been at home and I think that affects them and I think they do miss

That Zeke Elliott piece to make Pard a better player Pard averaged 9.5 yards per reception last year in the passing game this year he’s down to 5.6 they don’t get those explosive plays out of it because he’s now the bellal right we always think when a great player shows

Up and plays 20 plays that if he plays 40 he’s going to be doubly great when in reality he won’t be he’ll be less effective because he’s playing too much so I think there’s some circumstances that are out not related to Mike McCarthy which I think Jerry would

Understand look why would you want to change offenses is with Dak play playing as well as he’s playing knowing you got to redo dak’s contract hey I’m on Big Mike side all the time I Like Big Mike I like the way he operates but with the Dallas Cowboys that’s how the

Conversation always goes so we need them to continue to go how they’ve been going all season because I became a pseudo Dallas Cowboys fan on first take pretty much for about seven weeks straight where they were just I’m like wait a minute this a good football team I still

Believe it let’s go Mike come on Mike Mike hey uh down Atlanta okay a situation has arose uh this morning the Atlanta Falcons are being fined I think 75,000 Arthur Smith is being fined I think $25,000 for the handling of the injury report in week seven with the

Bejon Robinson situation I think we all remember that where the conversation afterwards from AR Smith was that he was not feeling well and there was no injury report of no mention of him in the injury report and everything like that all week people got real pissed I mean

It was very loud it was a huge conversation the NFL had investigated it now I don’t necessarily want to cuz we don’t know what all was found out and everything like that but that injury report is something that everybody’s trying to game or the NFL really

Monitors like this is the first time I think I’ve heard this openly being discussed about being a penalty where there’s been some manipulation of the injury list before right so what is the line and how’s it normally go well I mean I think it’s being monitored well a lot closer than ever

Before because there’s so much interest in it and look the NFL has betting Partners in terms of these betting you know whether it’s you know DraftKings whomever FanDuel you know all this so you know they want the betting information out the NBA’s kind of made a mockery of their bet of their injury

Report I mean you know guy shows up you know he’s questionable and then he misses six weeks or he’s probable and he can’t play so I think it’s only fair to the fans that there is some kind of understanding and I think you can read the te Lees based on what the coaches

Are saying for example you know Trevor Lawrence this week is he going to play well he’s out there today on the field on Friday he’s listen is questionable there’s probably a good chance if he’s in concussion protocol that if he’s out of the field today he’s probably going

To play whereas Zack Wilson’s not going to play because he wasn’t on the field today so I think you have to look at it and I think you as a coach have to air on the side of caution right I think you just got to say okay here’s what it is

Here’s the reality and you know we’ll make a decision on game day you know the Joe burrow one was interesting because we saw him have that sleeve on his right hand we saw him get moving his hand like it got hit when he got trapped between the defensive lineman and Orlando Brown

But they said there was nothing wrong there yeah they’ll probably in at that too we’re many weeks later from that particular Atlanta Falcons incident and now obviously with the Bengals incident but I do appreciate the fact that they’re trying to get to the bottom of it but gamesmanship has been taking

Place forever you talked about the NBA how about the NHL the NHL is like upper body yeah what is it though Up ab above his waist okay above his waist or something and then below his waist or something it’s like that’s bananas but as a gambler and as a fantasy footballer

This year of course owner of a fantasy football team that’s right I didn’t operate it but I did own the team I was in the fantasy football world it’s like I would like to hear these things and the bej Robinson fantasy owners and I think anytime touchdown scores were

Pissed and they have been pissed the entire time maybe there’s a little bit of an answer for them now before we get out of here on the hard out and we can’t thank you enough for joining us every single week this season you’ve crushed for us lombo yeah you crushed no no you

Guys are great to me I love it I I would I I love it every week I listen to the show all the time I love it I’m I could be happier to be here and talk football it’s the best okay well we’re lucky to have you and we appreciate the hell out

Of you and all those kind words awesome now not warranted but awesome now let’s talk about a couple bets you like over this Christmas weekend obviously we got Saturday Sunday Monday games who do you like what do you like how do we see it well last week I like I like Chicago and

I like Buffalo if you had three and a half with Chicago you won if you had three you push this week I I’ll take Baltimore in the five and a half I think Lamar’s really good against the NFC I think it’s a good play I think it’s a

Little bit of an overextension plus the 49ers injur you get five I still would take it at five I like that one I would take Jacksonville that Line’s moving a little bit I don’t know what you guys have here with Jacksonville right now I I see Jacksonville is minus getting

Three points in Tampa I think Lawrence plays and that line will move to probably a pick or or or Tampa by one it opened with Jacksonville favored by three but the Lawrence news changed it dramatically so I would take those two games if I were here I just got to pick

Three winners this week so I could beat Russo on on his contest yeah well I hope you do that I hope you kick ass Russo’s been crushing this season his Christmas tanks obviously something special but you oh yeah no he he can’t even I I don’t know any self-serving Italian

That’s eating V parm on Christmas Eve I’m gonna there’s just no way if he’s not eating fish on Christmas Eve he got thrown out of the Italian Club I’m just telling you okay Hey listen Sean Stato almost got you know there’s a lot going on in the Italian I gotta meet that Shan

Salado guy I got I gotta meet that guy that guy’s a yeah I gotta have I gotta talk to that guy I gotta beat him you’re the best ladies and gentlemen Michael Lombardi Merry Christmas l l We Appreciate You Lomo genuinely he’s awesome program and I think he feels

Like he’s getting hot right now you know what I mean I feel like he thinks right now is the time inform in which we are going to win games he said yeah last week I split and I wanton there’s no music coming out of this all right

That’s probably dead CU in the middle of that conversation it was yeah made it through made it we were live the whole time got a lot of text messages you are still live you are still live watching right now you are still live some people are probably waiting for us to drop a

Big old AJ Hawks on the other side same with jet passing we naed it we naed it pat mcafe sell on your stunner at WrestleMania stun stun where does that rank all time I that’s got to be pretty up there man top three top three and I

Got to say top three because the rock number one the way he oversold and Scott Hall and some of the other guys that took it but I mean you know Pat has a natural feel for the business epic performer great on the stick I apologize that you’re a punk

athletically you know that that match he had with theory was awesome and then the kicker was not only the sell of a stutter but to lay there selling still guzzling the beer the presence of mine to add lib and improvise it like this is a moment without even thinking about it

I think he’s amazing he’s very entertaining and as a human being I like him a whole lot and here’s here’s an off the Record story The the second night that we were we were at Mania I was just planning on drinking whiskey with my broken skill sess crew and so we had a

Bottle all lined up and we were just going to drink during the show and show respect to the people that were working well bch called me into his room and said hey man would you come out at the end Stun Me McAfee and theory and I said

Sure so I couldn’t drink until after the show okay so the show happens I go out there stun all those cats rock leser gets done with with his match the main event with Roman Reigns and me and Brock had been wanting to bond together and and have a few cocktails begin with and

He goes hey man you got anything I said yeah I said where we meeting he goes my locker room so it was myself Brock Lesnar Larry or one of the trainers who been there forever you know Larry and Pat mcine what a day what a dream what a

Life now I’m going to have a couple more Steve wiers what maybe a little whiskey what and we took down a fifth we just passed the bottle around the first we drinking out of little cups then it just turned into the bottle and we we uh took

Down and fit the baker’s Mark in about an hour and then we all went our separate ways he and I heard through the great mind that uh a couple of those guys woke up whis your headaches really and I don’t want to undersell this really hung

Over you know what I mean from what you had inside the ring that we saw on camera and then what was the thing afterwards well you know there might have been there might have been yeah lot afterwards but it was a bonding moment you know after a big show like that of

Four guys and I just barely met Pat but he was already one of the boys because of this football background and how everybody you know in WW has taken to him and Men BR relationship goes back the following program is a collection of students talking about happening in the

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Welcome back to our humble abow the Thunder D on this Feelgood Friday December 22nd 2023 hour two the program starts nowall happened last night as the Rams smacked the Saints right in the mouth now it was only 3022 and the Rams did Cover which we are all there very

Thankful for 90 %c of the better bet on the Rams to cover minus four against the Saints at home and Derek Carr is a good guy great guy Derek Carr is a good good guy and let’s remember that and he was highly sought after in the free agency

Market and he ended up being down there at the Saints and we all assume the saints were going to win the NFC South because the amount of question marks around that entire division but instead we sit here now going into week 17 everybody’s questioning what the future

Of the Saints is yet again so that’s no fun for them we apologize to the great Saints fans who that who that who that say going be D Saints a lot of people have okay but that’s going to change we’re pulling for you guys and on the

Flip side the Rams low hopes low expectations going in this season who’s on our team we only know like five people Sean McVey Matthew Stafford Aaron Donald Cooper cup PUK and AA now and that entire Squad where he Morris a defense coordinator have really got their best football playing right now

They figured out how to beat teams now they got a run game they got play action is it enough to beat the ners which is always going to be the question mark anytime you’re in the NFC or in that that division so big game last night for

Them we love them we appreciate them we’re excited to watch the final couple weeks here of the NFL season and figure out who’s doing what now Boston Connor and Ty Schmidt are here at the toic table con man had a bad night last night at the office Christmas party had his

Gary von Gentleman Jack stolen from him just 3 seconds after learning that he received that particular gift in the white elephant Christmas party thing last night yeah and Tai Schmidt was the face of baseball for three to three and a half hours 4 hours he was training in Tokyo New York

Indianapolis and Los Angeles all now those are obviously four of the most powerful cities in the entire world that’s right Tai was the king last night until everything came crashing down the office Christmas party was a success I do believe but your baseball breaking news was not we’ll talk to Jet passing

About 17 minutes I appreciate you swinging that bat though boy thank you and not L other people do outside this office mhm but I appreciate you swinging that back I appreciate that breaking news and then you say you’re not a journalist I saw a guy get upset about

That don’t be playing both sides of Defense I appreciate you swinging the backat I appreciate you keep playing thank you for you know giving me the the support and um for for just saying hey go ahead and swing the bat yeah no no we’re going to have to situations are

Situational well absolutely and and let’s just be let’s just be clear do don’t do that the football yeah yeah we need not you know well clearly um but also you know I I thought I had it right I thought I had it right I didn’t and like I said sometimes you just get

Burned by the hot stove I won’t be putting my hands on the stove for quite some time you’re like a baby in this game exactly you learned ah don’t do that again exactly Men In Black fingertips happen to you last night in the hot stove no more finger prints no

MM way to go out there you got you got community noted did they’re not doing that to nobody no they’re not jet passing who is a part of the noting there we’ll join us in about 15 minutes that’s journalism one half of the hammer Cowboys tone digs 91% we’re

Winners last night that’s good news great news to start the week hell yeah going into week 16 Christmas weekend a lot of games Saturday Sunday Monday we back Tuesday just going absolutely bananas about winning every single bet is that what we’re doing this weekend I think so because you know Thursday night

That helped build up the bank roll and then whatever money you get from Grandma or Grandpa this weekend you take that you put that straight in your bank roll and you put it all on everything this weekend cuz we’re winning it all all right see I don’t think we should do

That we should respond gambling but we do know that the books are giving us gifts this holiday season last night was one of them joining us is a gift that never stops giving yep he’s a college football national champion a Super Bowl champion a rer Cup winner a father of 10

A covid Survivor multiple times whoa okay president of Ohio Ohio State Legend all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers ladies and gentlemen Aaron James Haw baby Haw did you see Ty was King last night Ty was King last night yeah I wanted to congratul Tied by that I think

The the language was perfect got pushed over the goal line by Matt sui I believe was in the tweet that right there is I think the Capper that made everybody truly believed it being told that Godzilla Matsui helped push it over the goal line yeah that really legitimized

It all I think as we read it and to be completely transparent I don’t know enough about baseball to know everything that he was saying in there but I heard pushed over the goal line and I said okay it was close brotherly shove yes and that’s

What Godzilla Matsui did for it all I was in hookline and sinker I was congratulating him with his happiness and Bruce and other Yankees fans that I have in the rod decks from the office Christmas part where you go you guys reliable source incredible people in the

Know at the time yep and that did not happen AJ it went the opposite direction boy was it loud it was loud for a guy Ty well it happens it happens to all the the the best insiders doesn’t it they all sometimes you know shoot her shoot

So Ty took a shot hey sometimes it doesn’t happen but it’s not Ty wasn’t lying that was his truth in that moment moment wasn’t it yeah the Schmidt report is going to miss every once in a while you know what I mean that’s the way this

Goes is you’re trying to cut your teeth in business exactly as a true journalist exactly and yeah you know sometimes you shoot and you shoot it over the backboard but at the time the Arc was like oh baby that is a sweet jump shot that’s going in this is um this is car

Uh Carl car shootting at the private school yep yep and then it just goes over the backboard that’ll happen but you were in the area you got the number yeah close really close on everything you know three years off yeah couple years off uh you know again we based on what

Everything and everyone was saying it was a done deal he was going to the Yankees and then at you know the clock strikes midnight and he says I’d rather be enough they had him on freezing cold takes last night obviously that’s not a place you want to find yourself getting

Community noted is a big deal you know that means people like okay this doing too much you know what I mean excuse me a lot of people people have seen this we need to correct the narrative as quickly as possible says platform X now Adam

Schfer is not happy with no he’s not a darn Chef’s happening anymore either he’s about fed up with it he say hey X let’s make you know what I mean too much let’s make this that’s too far too much there’s a lot of happening on our

Platform and Tai was a part of a lot of it during the Thursday night football game in which we just chatted about a little bit AJ Hawk Matthew staford is doing things right now at his he’s got to be near my same class now he got he

Got picked 22 one picks before me okay okay mhm his uh signing bonus was uh 57,98811 why not the Rams AJ after watching last night it’s hard not to buy into the hype Sofi is beautiful Shawn McVey is very likable and that old man is still doing like that in the middle of games on a third and four this

Rams team’s fun AJ this is a fun team to watch kind of come together yeah it was hey it was a hell of a catch by Robinson as well Stafford understands that like what a watching Matt Stafford play is so fun we talked about like his toughness

And how I I think his team kind of rallies around that as well when your quarterback is breaking his back and breaking his neck and continuing to play like he’s done in the past but like look at this what do they call it arm Talent when this guy can drop down throw from

All different angles do all of this stuff like Stafford is he is still very very special quarterback and man Puka Puka is great Cooper cup they were able to run the ball like they looked very very good last night yeah and we got a chance to see this live whenever they

Came and played the Colts there was like some throws that Matthew Stafford was making like in person it’s like oh that’s a circus act like where he’s putting that ball is not what humans are to do that’s a trick shot that people take 15 20 tries to do but he’s doing it

Live in person and obviously we chitchat about Aaron Rogers being the best ball thrower of all time I think everybody agrees with it Matthew Stafford’s got to be top three top two maybe in his conversation in his circles they’re saying ain’t nobody can throw football like our boy mattye staff what a dog

What a legend and Karen Williams running the rock for the way or or for the Rams the way that he is they found it over there that’s good coaching how do sea mcy feels like great coaching yeah it feels like great coaching obviously defensively we here Morris is is a stud

We know that but yeah I guess what’s their ceiling like do you ever think about that you you’re saying like people want to Crown them Champs right now they look awesome they really do but I think they’ve been in a great situation where no one really it’s all about managing

Expectations like what we thought it was going to be a disaster like who do they have to play what are they going to do they don’t have any money like all this stuff the picks are gone forever the Rams are going to be struggling we

Thought McVey might take a job in TV so the fact that he’s done this like it’s pretty nice to fly under that radar a little bit now they’re going to get some get some lights on him some people talking about him a little bit and a positive light but I think they can

Handle it national championship last year Matthew Stafford joined the game day set he was sitting at the very end and it was at that moment where we were all like this dude’s got to be done they don’t have any players anymore nope their cap is completely ruined the neck

Thing they don’t have first rounders and obviously his season last year got cut short because of a very serious injury has a full family has a Super Bowl has his Hall of Fame resume why the hell would Matthew Stafford come back and then like he was sitting on the game he

Ask how we feel we feel good and he goes oh yeah I feel great it was like there was never a doubt it feels like in Matthew Stafford’s head you know as soon as he was told hey you’re yeah you’re going to be able C play football game

Yeah absolutely all right sweet babe you want to do that pod obviously do the whatever you need to do whatever it is uh I need to go play a couple more years loves ball from Texas just loves football I have massive respect for old Matthew Stafford and I think everybody

Does but whenever he’s able to lead his team okay to these now obviously these records are absurd ridiculous he has all the tops all the tops who’s throwing the ball nine okay all who has the most sh nine who has the most nine n Who’s the

Rookie though with n like that is just like how it is that is a part of his resume with how great he has been throwing the ball his toughness his football acum and everything like that but I think the fact he came back and they all had the option not to Aaron

Donald your resume clear money clear everything you need clear you can if you want we’re rebuilding this whole thing you’re going to be the only human that anybody knows on the defens side comes back Sean McVey are they’re offering like 20 some million dollars to go call

Some games you want nah I can’t look those guys in the eyes I’m coming back Matthew Stafford like it’s that’s a cool thing and I’m very I’m very very pump for them and uh good on them over there yeah I think they get a first rounder in uh

2028 yeah I Chuck’s guy got a sack last night the one that he we were talking about can we bet that uh 91 had number 91 yeah and then Ken Williams scored touchdown also and Demarcus Robinson he said he liked the crossers with Robinson and Atwell and Robinson scored a

Touchdown yeah he was ball did you hear last two weeks Chuck by the way spot on yeah he’s starting to see the field yeah he’s starting to see the field a little bit did you hear Al talk about the McVey situation cuz when you just said that it

Reminded me of Al talking at the end of the game about how after they won the Super Bowl immediately after McVey was he wasn’t in a pretzel obviously he just won a Super Bowl but like the idea of doing this again like reaching the Mountaintop and knowing what it takes

And then having to like rebuild and start from scratch was something that like weighed very heavily on him is what Al Michael said and that’s why that TV conversation got so loud but then after a couple months it was like okay like I I can do this still have nine to your

Point still have Donald still have those guys but the defense I know they gave up 22 points and it looks like that late late yeah it was all garbage time touchdowns like the defense is unbelievable and truly still have no idea who’s on the defense except for

Aaron Donald and now uh I believe it’s Jordan Fuller who had the inter yeah Jordan Fuller had the interception check the notes I just check well I forgot what his name I didn’t want to screw it up yeah because he’s the guy that got the interception I was like okay I know

Another guy on that defense now yeah it’s fun to watch teams on prime time that you had no expectations for and I also appreciate the fact that this is a long it seems like it’s not just this year MH feels like they’re in it you know like Hey we’re going to rebuild

This thing let’s try to do that great for the Legacy also great for fans to get to continue to watch it can he beat the ners can they beat the ners that’s the question uh NFC though let’s stay in there AJ you’re the alltime leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers hell

Yeah congratulations this guy let go lot of people have put that proud of you very historic uniform on a lot of people have ran on the lambo as the leader of a defense for the Green Bay Packers curly Lambo when he envisioned the entire program and organization and all the way through now

Lot of people have dawned uhuh there green and gold and MH off brown color that sometimes the acne Packers in the tundra this guy’s alltime leading tackler for that mhm phenomenal pretty cool so many people have gone through there the defense stinks now though yeah yeah it does and

A lot of people say is it the players or is it the coach well I got a chance to hear the coach speak for the first time and he said he’s heard us a lot I think more specifically Tai in his answer go ahead Joe Barry I understand you’re

Going to say you know you coach for your job every week but do you think these last three weeks your back yourself is pretty much up against the wall in terms of oh yeah I mean I read what you guys write you know I hear what you you guys

Say um but I think that’s again that’s that’s that’s the great thing about our league that’s the great thing about the National Football League it is you know the top of the top the best of the best um and I mean I I think that’s a not

Only every year thing that’s that’s an every week thing but that’s again when you sign up for this when we sign up for this Tony we know that’s what we’re getting into and that’s the thing I love about this league um that’s the thing I love about the sport and uh yeah it’s

It’s it’s the highest level of competition at every level with every position it’s a meritocracy professional sports you know at least you would hope some places there’s obviously some political situations that are taking place or Investments that aren’t panning out obviously not everybody’s perfect but professional sports normally in

Meritocracy have to earn your way to the top which is why it’s awesome you know there’s a lot of businesses where it isn’t that way we all know them we all hate them professional sports is that though but a lot of Packers fans would say if that was the case in Green Bay

This guy would have been gone a long time ago that’s the first time I’ve ever heard him get to speak sounds like a good guy sounds like a great guy what are your thoughts on how he addressed the entire situation and do you think this is potentially something that can

Make this Green Bay Packers defense against Carolina Panthers and Bryce young this weekend maybe step up and have a big time game big momentum game as we swing into the playoff season yeah I mean yeah it’s it’s definitely possible I mean Carolina hasn’t been lighting up the scoreboard we know that

But I I respect Joe Barry actually being like honest and sincere in that he could EAS say no I don’t I’m I’m focused about ball I don’t care what you people do like and try to speak down to him I like that he said yeah like I’m a human this

Is real I I feel it my family feels it all of that but I don’t like what can this defense do though he said my f like yeah it’s been a tough week for me and my family and everybody like they all understand the situation

But can he do anything what can he do the defense just has to play lights out for the rest of the season and then he’s okay well just dial up the right place the right coverages at the right time motivate the boys in the proper ways you

Got the talent okay you have more Talent than most teams I think you have more Talent than what a lot of people would say in other places what is Talent there without proper direction nothing and I think that has been proven time and time again here but maybe with all the

Outside noise especially him addressing it just like the Shawn mcder stuff that happened a few weeks ago maybe this is the thing that brings that defense around Tai maybe this is what makes Joe Barry call his best game that he’s ever called as a defense coordinator even

Going back to previous jobs where maybe it wasn’t as fantastic F this could be it Ty I like to hear this for you yeah I mean it it’s you know on one hand it’s like okay like you said like that’s the first time I’ve ever heard him talk and

We had to wait you know 15 weeks for them to kind of realize like okay yeah my my back is up against the wall here my job’s on the line but they also they finished with Carolina Minnesota and Chicago and I think if they win all

Three of those games then like they have like a 78% chance to make the playoffs or something like that so like yeah it’s pretty simple like hey Nick Mullins threw for 300 I foret what it was hey that Viking see you don’t know what you’re going to get

D but that’s that’s the other thing it’s like okay well if if you can’t and again Nick Mullen is an NFL quarterback so like it’s nothing against him but if you can’t kind of Tommy DeVito exactly we saw and what’s Tommy DeVito doing now you know he I mean his his he’s making

Appearances for free Cut yes his career is basically over uh I mean what was that that’s what people are saying he that’s what people are saying I didn’t say it guys like Lombardi say Chuck Chuck said it yesterday um but it’s like he alluded to it he alluded to it I

Don’t think anybody has officially said it well yeah he’s obviously breaking a lot news bre yeah breaking what’s your problem breaking news time I I I love Tommy deino but you know again the Packers he he was the NFC player of the week playing against the Packers defense

Okay and he’s not doing that against anybody else they have Bryce young they have a backup quar or third string quarterback and Nick Mullen and then Justin field so it’s like if they can’t turn things around then then yeah I think he he knows full well like I’m

Probably going to be out of a job next year but we’ll see maybe the guys do rally around him it’s tough because dandre Campbell tweeted earlier this week that there’s like a lot of in at least the defensive room like coaches blaming players maybe not taking accountability for9 yeah ex exactly so

Oh yeah he was talking to himself in that he he was cuz he’s saying how like you know hey you know you come back and you play when you’re still banged up and and it’s not good enough and then it’s your fault for not getting guys lined up

And they were saying him and a couple other guys on defense were kind of taking shots within the meeting room so like hopefully all that stuff was kind of oh that’s good to hear yeah exactly exactly that’s good is that that’s good to hear AJ that’s great I don’t love it

I don’t love it I don’t think it’s great especially dandre is not like a I don’t think he’s a super outspoken guy that’s always doing these kind of things so yeah he must have been pretty uh frustrated completely odd character yeah very very much so but still have

Everything in front of them all you got to do is go out there on Sunday oh boy this team feels like it’s kind of one good win you’re just one good win away from getting right on the right track ex hugging everybody hugging again afterwards hey remember what we’re were

Doing last week your fault my fault our F we got it fix right we move on Y no rearview mirrors spaceships don’t come equipped Bo with rearview mirrors they dip and we’re just going to keep it moving forward go luck to the pack what’s up they need a dominating win

They can’t just they can’t beat the Panthers 2 421 on on Sunday and just be like okay ball Club 21 points I I to say more like 108 yeah 20 if they score 21 points Joe Barry better get that’s what I’m saying I mean the Packers defense is not World

Beaters okay like there’s a very good chance that Bryce young looks the best he’s looked all season on Sunday but they need to win convincingly they can’t just EK by all right well let’s move along Ty let’s stay in your vein of life okay I don’t love it on this Feld Good

Friday me neither not feeling that good well you might be a little you know you get some water IV we could have got an iv in here for you I got some I got some water I’m good office Christmas party last night was uh a lot of adult Spirits

Were being go wild people had a good time out there white elephant got going MH it was good great job in the setup to my lady absolutely thank you Sam there you go Sam that was a lot of fun AJ maybe next year maybe next year douche Jesus I

Didn’t okay joining us now I don’t live in Indianapolis unfortunately you’ll travel for other people stuff yeah Bingo but he won’t come he won’t go to Nick’s wedding or Tai’s wedding or your wedding whatever I’m go to yours con man yeah okay when when I’m dead is that because that’s not until

You’re getting married or or is that CU AJ won’t show up cuz AJ won’t both sorry guys I go go on Cru Orban M yeah Bingo oh yeah old uh a b c aye crew that’s right yeah I remember I remember he raised a lot of money yeah it did raised

A lot of money and a lot of jeans uh speaking of money a man last night on the internet that is associated with our program got the money portion right yeah of the second biggest free agent signing of this MLB off season now yoshinobu Yamamoto is a Japanese weapon yeah who

Was kind of surveying the MLB to see where he wanted to go Tai Schmidt last night with his reliable source that’s right people in the know at the time exactly at the office Christmas party that we were all attending and some boots on the ground in New York City

Told Ty that Yamamoto is going to the Yankees congratulations Ty the Yankees are all the way back your dream Ty since before this guy even step foot in the united was for him to be a New York Yankee Yep this is going to save the Yanke yanes who suck now right they

Sucked last year yeah you suck now well it’s a Mets City now no the Mets were worse than the Yankees were but that guy yeah his City no no no no gck go won the sa young last year so if anything it’s his City nobody knows that

But anyway it was supposed to be Yamamoto City and you broke the news and boy you were the king of baseball you were all over the place you were trending all the way in Japan you were trending in Los Angeles you were trending in New York you were obviously

Trending in the Midwest and boy it got big quick while we were Hing some Jack Daniels and bullet whiskey inevitably you were completely wrong Y and one man was right yeah and they actually utilized this man in your community notes where the platform X decided we got to correct this guy this

Is getting too out of control ladies and gentlemen joining us now the man who broke the news of yoshinobu Yamamoto to the Los Angeles Dodgers senior MLB Insider at ESPN our friend jet passing oh there oh that’s better than last time you guys upgraded yeah I think

You upgraded Jet and uh the reason why we think you upgraded is because we thought we had it didn’t we oh yeah our show was Titan the biggest Baseball Insider of not only the day but maybe the decade that’s right in Tai Schmidt and then all of a sudden a jet drops off

Bomb that changes the course of Tai’s internet existence baseball’s future and maybe even society as a whole yeah whoa the New York folks are not happy they had Yamamoto as a Yankee yeah hopes were through the through the roof because of tmid and Jet passing says uhuh that’s a

Lie that’s wrong only listen when I speak what was last night for you and how did we know that it was going to happen last night like was that a very well-known thing uh or is Ty maybe the one that you know sped this whole thing

Up a little bit no no Ty Ty I’m gonna speak in a language that maybe will be familiar to Ty Ty schmi you are a spectacular scumbag oh that’s L he is was that’s the it may not be very good but you are a scumbag like think about

What you like this show this show this show understands scumbaggery especially you AJ better than any show out there I think so AJ would you not say what Tai did last night was about as bad of a thing as you can do to an entire fan

Base to make them think that the one guy all off seon that they’ve wanted you know the Yankees weren’t in on the Otani sweep Stakes they they went traded for Juan sto but this was going to complete the off season and and then because of bourbon he decides to go and sources

It’s sources and sources don’t you bring the bullet were named Jack Jim and Jose Three Amigos that was a terrible shot back in the day that was so that was punishment for people but maybe we were having a good time don’t don’t blame Tai for that but boy he thought he

Was King too he’s a part of the Yankees fan base you got to remember think about how he was feeling whenever he found out yeah look no I’m surpris I hope that’s not the new face of baseball baseball’s in trouble already oh jeez whoa jeez couple couple

Whiskies there but uh but did you know that the Yankees were out of it whenever Tai put that tweet out or what was it really close oh you know what it wasn’t in the end all that close because the Yankees were still $25 million shy of what the Dodgers ended up paying for

Yamamoto 25 over and 25 you know what the Yankees offered a shorter term it was 325 for 12 years for uh the Dodgers and so the Yankees were actually 300 for N I think it was 300 for 10 yeah like they were they were offering more they were offering more

Per year yeah no you weren’t close like you weren’t close he was kind of close the Yanke offer he was right and he knew what it would take you get the 326 that’s 1 million more that’s right then the Dodgers feel like Ty was pretty close Ty might have got

Dup first off first off Godzilla matui like people should have known at that point about you’re dropping Godzilla matsi also Yoshi like are you friends with him yeah who do you think his Source was jet yeah what are you talking about he actually speaks Japanese got remember the guy got accepted in Harvard

He’s not some dope even though inter call I got duped you know it’s as simple as that okay hand up I got duped but like you said jet I mean I’m I’m a Yankees fan you think I’m not heartbroken this morning you think I’m not sick I I seriously think that I’m

I’m shocked that you showed up today I thought you were going to like run into witness protection for a couple of weeks just like you know lay low brick killed the guy um I mean it’s uh it’s not good Ty there I was getting I have to be

Honest I got like a half dozen texts last night ranging from is this true to who is this to to like I mean they they know like people thought that I was giving you the information that you were running with it like I saw that theory

Out there which was a that was a special one and uh so can we just get like a genre of the humans or text anybody from the Yankees text you um yes yes Tim kirchin who is this idiot from the Yankees or oh man Stein Brer takes jet all right

So uh jet we’ve had our fun with Tai being an Insider okay and maybe that time is Taio Paul hey is that Tai Schmo Gumpy what do you you think it’s Tai Schmo for The Insider game there for Tai Schmidt unfortunately the Yankees were just being cheap is the issue I think I

Think Tai’s contract was spot on they just didn’t want to spend the money oh so Tai was putting out into the world what needed to be done to get this thing done and instead they just chose not to listen and text jet instead calling you an idiot wow should I be running the

Yankes that’s a question that we have now that’s a question we have now the you know the the interesting thing about Yamamoto this went way way higher than anyone anticipated even as of a couple of months ago you know Executives thought okay maybe it’s it’s going to be

200 million uh possibly if there are teams involved like we think there are going to be you know Yankees Mets Dodgers Giants Red Sox Cubs like the biggest teams in all of baseball they’re all involved maybe it gets to like 225 nobody thought that there was going to

Be a $325 million contract given to him and on top of that Pat the Dodgers have to pay another $50 million to the orex buffalos yamamoto’s team Japan so in reality this this is a this is a $375 million guarantee for a guy who has not thrown a single pitch in Major League

Baseball and it I mean you know doing this less than two weeks after signing sh Otani for $700 million like what the Dodgers are doing right now is trying to not only take over Japan in the eyes of the fans who they want everyone wearing a Dodger hat they are trying to take

Over all of baseball and create a juggernaut in a dynasty okay so you mentioned a couple things there $700 million to Shi 325 million to Yamamoto 1365 million to Tyler glass now 325 million to mooki bets 165 million to Freddy Freeman okay so this is what the

Yankees used to do right is there some sort of tax on this or is this just how does this work out how they can just pay everybody that sounds awesome yeah I it’s nice to be rich um you know they they had coming into this

Year had just signed a bunch of guys to one your contracts last year because they wanted to get beneath the CBT threshold they didn’t end up doing that but they wanted to get under the luxury tax and save up for this because like this was their plan Otani was clearly

Always number one for them they felt like they could make incredible business with him around internationally with the owners who do international business and you know this is the Guggenheim company so these are extremely rich people and they have all that money but to go and pair it with Yamamoto I think probably

Exceeded their expectations if they got Otani it was like a great winter if they could get Otani and Yamamoto to go along with Muki and Freddy and all of the other incredible players that they’ve got there and then to add glas now in a trade as well like the

The Dodgers Pat won a 100 games last year and they just added the best player in the world uh a top 10 pitcher in the world and a guy who when he’s healthy is a top 10 pitcher in the world and and yet because it’s baseball I think we

Need to like keep this in mind because it’s baseball this same 100 win Dodgers team from last year lost to an 84 win Arizona Diamondbacks team in the playoffs and that is the thing that keeps the super team in baseball I think from happening like we sit here and

We’re like oh my God there’s so much talent there yeah but it’s baseball and you have a five-game series and your chances of winning it best case scenario are probably like 60% it’s the best odds you’re ever going to get in the series against how many games in a season

Again 162 in a season then you get to the playoffs and it’s five games yeah I still think that’s part of a problem for na Inter National interest it’s a lot of games I that’s a lot of game it’s hard for us to take Serious a lot of those games it’s

Like well this doesn’t matter this is literally just a preseason game because they could just win they could lose 40 straight games and it does not matter because you could just get into one of those one game play in things win enough sneak in and then all of a sudden you’re

In the playoffs and it’s a whole different game but I do appreciate the fact that it feels like baseball is trying you know like the Dodgers are trying they’re like Hey listen we’re putting stars on on the diamond we want everybody Dodgers do well I assume ticket wise because they acted like show

Had not been in La for the last 6 years with the angels the Dodgers fill up I assume that they’re yeah they they pretty close I mean they have they have the highest attendant in baseball like by far every year it’s almost 50,000 a night like they they’ll go over four

Million in attendance this year all right so I I like this Dodger te yeah holy hell I like this I like what they’re doing good squad I like anybody that’s trying to win you know I like anybody that’s just trying to win and they clearly are trying their absolute

Best to win hopefully they’re able to do that the Yankees stink though you got didn’t even get Yamamoto like you thought was going to happen are are you guys dead no no no no they still traded for wano so they you know they’re they’re addressing some things but uh

Jet obviously you know again I got duped okay and I got I’ll I’ll take my medicine today you know I had to do that I feel like a real Ty Ty this this Insider game is not easy what happens when you step into someone else’s sandbox Hey listen jet I said okay I

Tried to you know I tried to step up to the MLB Hot Stove and I got thir Dee Burns okay okay and I’ll remember that for the rest of my life but got community notes yeah exactly got exactly uh but kind of a two-part question here

Was all the stuff with Yamamoto like him being interested in like the Yankees history and and like you know them bringing in Matsui to for the pitch him having like a a relationship with Boone and them scouting him incredibly heavily for quite some time now like was It

Ultimately that he like they it came out today that like he just really wanted to play with Otani I didn’t realize how close they were like so was all that stuff with the Yankees and their tradition kind of just and then now like what what do they do moving

Forward is it like a guy like Jordan Montgomery who pitched there a couple years ago and then they traded him like what what do they do because I assume they thought they were pretty close up until they realized hey we’re about $25 million short here yeah and I I think it was probably

More than the money I think it like let’s look at the Mets as well they had the same offer as the Dodgers essentially and Yamamoto still chose to go to La and I think that Otani has this gravitational pull to him among Japanese players like you darish is seen as sort

Of The Godfather of the Senpai um but Otani was the captain of the World Baseball Classic team and you guys I remember Pat you got into the W this past spring oh yeah we had America vers Japan aw show verse TR the last out of the entire thing that was awesome wins American

Losers so I mean shohi it’s not that he got to know the Japanese players better I think that it was the first time that he was playing with them since he had grown into something Beyond Japan because he is like say what you will about baseball I

Think it’s pretty fair to call Otani an extremely well-known Sports St Point not just a baseball player like he transcends baseball and that appeals so deeply to Japanese players that you know you would think Yamamoto this guy who’s super competitive wants to strike it out

On his own wants to go to New York and take over that City just like Otani no like playing alongside the Godfather playing alongside the best player anyone has ever seen has an immense appeal to it it’s not not just among Japanese players by the way I think what’s left

For the Dodgers is going to be they’re going to be able to take their pick of free agents and say you know what maybe you’re not getting the amount of money that you thought you were on the free agent Market how about we give you a one

Or twoe deal and you come play alongside show Otani and we go Inn a ring yeah uh and and that is the advantage of having Otani and it’s why the Yankees Ty I’m I’m not sure where they pivot at this point I mean do you want do you want do

You want to pay you know $160 million for Jordan Montgomery a guy who traded for Harrison Bader a year and a half ago um I like Jordan Montgomery a lot I think he’s fantastic I just don’t know if a return engagement the Bronx is necessarily the right thing for him hey

And how about that fan base the Yankees fan base they thought they had Yamamoto last night I was one of them partying in the streets I feel I feel really bad for them there you know the irresponsibility of some some people it it’s become it’s become really apparent

During this baseball off season that some people fancy themselves knowledgeable or insiders if you will and and they put stuff out there without caring about people’s minds their hearts uh their the very fiber of their beings and I think you know I think those people uh those people there’s one it’s

It’s scumbag that’s it they’re just scumbag he makes a good point there you know boys Bob Nightingale has been doing this for years hasn’t he jet we do like a distraction throw somebody else under our bus we do like that move j he had three sources he

Checked them all I mean you called and said hey do I need to retweet this or not yeah so you knew like you knew that what Tai was saying at the time was had some validity to it yeah yeah also talking about the Yankees like they

Win a lot it’s not as if this franchise is starving for a r right now it’s not like care Pittsburgh Pirates could you imagine you broke that the Pittsburgh Pirates were signing you all Moto we brought back cut so we’re good yeah onee deal I heard all right con con how many

How many rings have the Red Sox won since the Yankees last made it to the World Series uh two or two or three I three I think I think I think it’s uh I think it’s two but close 13 and 18 I wasn’t sure of seven well the Mets kind

Of became the team of New York didn’t they didn’t the Mets kind of become the team of New York cuz Cohen you said Cohen matched the Dodgers deal Yankees $26 million short I think about that’s a swing right a that that’s kind of a he didn’t want to go there though

Because the Met stink I understand that that was his thoughts but like the Mets were willing to do what do you need that’s Yankees Norge is that that’s the Yankees normally did it was Judge yeah I mean yeah it used to be the Yankees oh that was that was the Yankees under

George Stein rer uh that is that is not how the Yankees operate anymore and listen it’s a different time is that where all these Yankees fans have come from the Stein berer era is that where you’re all I mean you’re born in there obviously but I’m talking about brand no

Yeah for sure and and now his kids running the team and and it’s a little bit different but I mean what are you going to do if they would have lost judge last year I think a lot of people would have been like okay what’s going

On here but they they paid him what he wanted cuz he you know again John Haymon said like he was right there like everyone thought he was going to San Francisco into the Giants and then that was breaking news right it yeah it was and then

By who by who Jet Jet didn’t do that no no jet you didn’t break that he was going to the Giants last year did you no I was asleep uh when that happened smart shout out Ty was awake Ty was brigh eyed bushy tailed last night

Oh yeah so you’re saying they made moves that people say okay you’re still invested but 25 million when you’re paying 300 already doesn’t that feel like over yeah in New York too like the I just feel like are we going to I mean we’re right here you know what I mean we

Can find it we can make it up yeah can’t we you know what I mean that’s a couple baseball hats price is a dollar yeah that’s I that was wild to me and that was the only hold up you or there was other stuff obviously wanted to play

With SH you just said all that okay Yankees aren’t I think the show thing I think I think listen the Dodgers Dodgers are a better team than the Yankees like a very clearly better team than the Yankees um more money better team Ty do you think the Yankees are going to be

Good whoa less bom I think they’ll be better than they were last year for sure yeah so that that doesn’t mean good because they were as average as it gets last year oh jeez oh no I mean I think they clearly still have some deficiencies which is why you wanted

Yamamoto so bad but I think juano certainly help I mean that’s like when judge was hurt last year they lost and when he was healthy they won so like if he could stay healthy the whole year they paid a bunch of money for oon last year in free agency he wasn’t very good

Cole won the sa young like they have the pieces in place where if they could stay healthy like yeah I think I think they can compete for the division for all right I want to let you know jet this has been a blast talking baseball and it

Was an honor to witness one of our guys get into your world and he felt like he was King you should see how happy he was he was so happy I know Yankees were good he was a Baseball Insider holy hell here we go he’s having time we’re about to do

White elephant it’s about to get wild up in here I mean it was good things were it was great Times Gifts it was an honor to see I love I love the Grinch just lurking in the background right there it’s so appropriate yeah pretty artsy photo there with the 5x zoom and that

Basketball was stolen two three times actually break ball that basketball was stolen in the white elephant a lot of times and you know Ty felt like you for a few moments in time and then you actually were part of him getting yeah Community noted and ruining it all and

Learning that the Yankees don’t have the guy that he wanted and also he was completely wrong in a big way yikes so we’re all trying to got 2.7 million views out of it though that’s not that’s all it’s about jet yeah that’s pretty much what it’s about no

Jet it’s not what that’s the problem with you media people you think that’s what it’s all about it isn’t about that feels like he’s taking if that’s what it was all about do you know what we would talk about every day we just saw everybody down Bingo those get views all

The time hate LeBron it’s not about the views it’s not about the views no it’s about enjoying Sports and Ty is not enjoying sports right now at all Packers kind of think everybody in the Yankees fan basee which he’s a part of hates him and he was training in Tokyo last night

Not for good reasons they were they were they were speaking a different language about him on platform you know me it was lot of it was rough jet it was rough out there I don’t know how you do it but we appreciate the fact that you do

Pal it was awesome I’m so happy that it happened too like it warms my heart to watch somebody else be clown himself in the way that Tai Schmidt did so thank you Tai for your service to the community to the people and to all the Yankees fans who now despise the very

Fiber of your being thank you Ty thank you whoa clear for takeoff and departure ladies and gentlemen jet passing thank you J Merry Christmas jet happy holidays you two boys all right thank you it’s nice to put a bow on that we R it’s over

Now yeah yeah done I think you just mute that tweet and you move on go ahead AJ you’ll be good Ty don’t worry about it I think Ty took a shot I appreciate him taking a shot but is this whole contract track deferred as well like sh’s no none

Of it is oh so he doesn’t get the benefits that sh got no nope he has a tax smart play by sh you wonder if that 50 million had something to do with that because they had to pay the other team I don’t think he doesn’t have the

Endorsement deals that sh does either but he will because he’s with show on shi’s team and all of Japan is Dodgers fans Not a Bad play off the I was thinking about that whenever he was like he wants to play with Senpai is that what is that is that uh Senpai must be

What like jaes grandpa I think is what he said I I tried to learn Japanese in the middle of that interview there that was kind of a cool little part of that whole thing there but he said like shohi is you know the guy and in Japan so they’re trying

To take over and who was the team go Goin uh Goen Heim oh the Guggenheim the Guggenheim I guess they got a lot of money he said apparently he just talked about as if they’re a crew that just has a ton of money 50,000 people a

Night in that Stadium that’s a lot of people and obviously La everything comes alongside of at parking and drinks and everything you could potentially make a lot of money but taking over all of Japan smart play you know business-wise and if you’re Yamamoto it’s like you’re

Going to be seen by your entire Home Country what every game they’re not they’re going to have a game available everywhere not a bad play at all Senpai uh senior Superior Elder okay okay DMO so Senpai of the family would be the grandfather okay DMO

Marato no Domo rato I think is thank you very much yeah Domo is just like thanks Mr robato is that is a human I think that they were thanking in the particular thing so not a robot Domo no ah there’s another word in response that you say with like no problem should have

Know it went to Japan you know I did Japan a couple times well one time but a couple different cities looked awesome look great time great time Samurai guy you go to Japan okay you go to Japan with a group of people that you need to come come together because their

Language is nothing like yours okay so you need each other like you you are dependent upon each other when you’re out there and it’s not like you know everybody over there is necessarily as friendly to a group of Americans you know America or some good team bonding

Team bonding like doing a ropes course or a trust fall bingo I think just go to Japan and then just like go go see the troops over there yeah go go uh go see our military say thanks or whatever and then just go out a couple times cuz like

You know The Dumping signs that you don’t toilet signs that it’s nothing like you know and I assume the modern technology versus when we went over there you could probably hold phone up and it’ll like sure change it into English language or whatever but it’s not like that at all whenever we went

Over there so you got to talk to you learn about a lot about each other you know you’re come you’re trying to figure out how to communicate to people that you don’t know and then every once in a while you’ll get like a good response

It’s like here we go now we’re doing it it was a blast I love going over cleanest place I’ve ever been people were very nice to us now we were told that’s not always the case but they were very nice to me I I enjoyed the hell out

Of myself and the food you guys are giants though you had you there are multiple offensive of Lin weren’t you like you guys were probably towered over everybody so they did call Anthony Cassano Godzilla in multiple nightclubs that we went into there was actually glow uh the foam glow sticks thing in

This one place we W to packed nightclub great times very clean by the way very very clean little aggressive some of the people in there sure like they’re very night I think like they lose their minds in these nightclubs and then they go and they’re just like super not in any go these

Nightclubs and lose their mind right it but Anthony castano was feeling pretty good danc he’s 6’7 335 345 huge huge person huge person long hair and uh in the middle of one of these uh dance floors I’d say 50 Japanese people were hitting him with the glow sticks saying

Godzilla hitting him and I was up at the bar at a different place looking down and I was like is castano in a fight right now and uh he was not he was dancing he was having the time of his life so they treated us very very well

We had a great time in there but yes castano was certainly the conversation for most Japanese people that we saw while we were a lot of stopping and looking and then just like walking back then we’re on the train you know and he sits down next to somebody and there’s

Just like a full dumo okay and then it’s kind of turned back this way we were the dumb Americans over there though I was more specifically and they were very kind to us so shout out to Japan and shout out to the Dodgers kind of mhm taking over

Ya Ming right that happened with Houston hon in China like you just take over a country pretty much I assume Serbia pretty big Denver Nuggets fans huge you know I would assume that they’re pulling hard for the Denver Nuggets Dallas and Slovakia Bing I mean France now with the

Spurs yeah you assume like what Russia felt about the Washington Capitals that being O’s team you know what I mean like there sports have the ability to do that and I think it’s a good thing bring these people bring people together that’s a sports to it’s a beautiful

Thing let’s talk about a record that might be broken in the Cleveland Browns organization by a kicker who yeah Dustin Hopkins just six points away okay from breaking the all-time points record in the Cleveland bronze career Jim Brown is the number one uh obviously Jim Brown absolute

Legend I he passed yeah I believe rest in yeah Legend have seen him publicly in recent history obviously everybody I’ve never met him but everybody talks about him in a very glowing light Dustin Hopkins what trade from the Chargers to the Cleveland Browns he’s obviously made

A lot of gamewinners for him he’s been incredibly consistent for him in his Browns team with a good defense good special teams whenever Joe flacko got there we only thought he just has to manage the game pretty much now he’s also taking over games what a team what

A story what a time and Dustin Hopkins couple weeks back he hit a 55 y with like a minute something left to put the Browns up 10 he duffed it if you watch the film on that he didn’t even hit that thing clean he kicked the ground before

He hit the ball and it carried 55 yards in Cleveland’s win to be good that’s when you know a guy’s feeling it that’s when you know a guy’s in his Zone and what a perfect time for dehop to do this with the Cleveland Browns AJ yeah I think people take great kickers for

Granted when they on when you have a great kicker you definitely people can take them for granted but also like can you explain how tough it is to kick there not only on that grass the swirling winds you’re on the water like that’s got to be one of the places where

Kickers do not want to go and kick yeah Cleveland has been through a lot of kickers because Cleveland sucks to kick in you know it’s right on the lake and they talk about Lake Effect win it’s like that is what they’re talking about and the stadium is open to do it it’s a

Part of the weapon that is the Cleveland brown stadium especially with Joe flacko who has an incredibly strong arm other teams can’t prepare for that that’s just going to show up on you you know that’s going to be something you’re going to have to deal with and kickers and

Punters hate going over there I mean I I think I shanked two punts maybe had seven Shanks All Season had two in Cleveland it was like I hate this place yeah I am it’s not predictable it’s not easy obviously there’s been kickers that have come through there and had to leave

Dustin Hopkins though he’s battle tested he’s been around he’s been in multiple teams maybe this is the spot that he ends with because he’s hot as hell right now speaking of we’re about to get off ESPN we’re about to go onto YouTube in ESPN plus this last hour is going to be

A good one we’re going to be joined by Chris long we’re going to be going into the Christmas weekend in a super highp ways we’re going to make all of our picks and we can’t wait to get back live on ESPN on Tuesday AJ any message for

The people watching on ESPN as we going to Christmas weekend yeah Merry Christmas hell yeah Ty any final thoughts here as we go off ESPN Merry Christmas I’m sorry to all the Yankee fans I feel terrible as well no you’re not that’s amazing I like that little accountability have the greatest weekend

Of all time we’ll see you on Tuesday Merry Christmas beautiful people be more out now it nice hey way to own that to way to own that at the end yeah have to have to apologize to anybody really I think I mean he feels very bad War he

Didn’t kill anybody didn’t hurt anybody agreed agreed clearly I agree but that that is the that is the big thing is like as a Yankees fan like I’m in the same boat with all these people yeah but you don’t live in New York so like that’s there that’s what nobody’s

Assuming you’re a Yankees fan who doesn’t know that your name Tai Tai cob he oh no yeah him play with the Yankees but I mean either either way baseball baseball baseball baseball guy yeah I love baseball equal with the Packers probably more so the Packers

Well the yke have won a lot you know what I mean not that the Packers haven’t they’ve been successful for a long time but since your first Yankees fan I’ve ever hung around you love that team and I don’t think a lot of people knew that last night probably not and

That’s fine that’s fine but you know and then that was the other thing you know jet saying like I’m the one who you know is is making them feel so bad and stuff like that it’s like I mean come on we were all in the same boat here we all

Wanted it okay we thought it was going to happen they were right there they didn’t Pony up clearly it was never going to happen they were very far away you know not really 300 million already just got to get to 325 right there I I start doing some math that’s like 112th

Of the deal yeah I mean for sure I don’t understand that point either it’s like if you’re willing to go up to 300 then at that point it’s kind of like okay well we might as well go all in but the Dodgers might have went up you know what

I mean they might have been in like well that that initially is they were all he the his agent said he wanted uh 300 so the Dodgers the Mets and the Yankees all went to 300 and then the Dodgers and the Mets both went up to 325 I think when

They realized it was a bidding war with three teams and the Yankees were like nope we’re good with we think 300 is very fair and we’re just going to stay at that all right well we did a lot of baseball today CU it was big news yeah

Huge can’t wait to see how y Moto throws in the MLB has never he never played American baseball amazing right yeah he never no how old is he it’s never 25 okay he’s won three of the Sai Young in Japan three years did we see him he was

On the Buffalo I remember the dinosaurs y yeah who that was that was the Korean baseball league that we yeah oh did we get to watch the Japanese one too or no no never he he was he played in the World Baseball Classic though I don’t

Know if we watched any of of like his games but Shi pitched in the finals right yes full game I don’t think it was the full game I think he was yeah I think he came in at the very end to Clos the door that was a fun that was a fun

Little run there I caring about baseball oh yeah sick that was a good time now Edwin Diaz obviously uh blew his knee out coming off the the M I think yes he did missed the entire met season celebrating so a lot of MLB people aren’t exactly thrilled with the World

Baseball Classic I think I loved it and it sounds like for the Dodgers congrats on a World Baseball Classic bringing those two together yeah bringing that team together creating this Dodger Squad that I think it’s going to win a World Series look out look out you a Dodgers

Fan now I I might have to be I mean I know Kirk’s not switching Kirk’s still a Reds fan no question but yeah he he wouldn’t pay show hey the the respect to saying his name right last night yeah he’s pissed I can’t how he can you know

He’s got probably people in his ear the whole time you know Kirk’s a big baseball guy though we know that yeah he is huge baseball I thought last night potentially when they show show it’s like here we go this guy’s all in base percentage all like they’re you’re so doubed on football yep

Yeah I guess but shooo II like come on here is what Kirk Herbst stre called sh oton last night during Thursday Night Football when they showcased Shi was in Los Angeles seemingly for the first time even though he’s been there for six years you showed Shan or Tony Tony up on the

That could have been the time Al Michaels yeah all right Herby massive baseball guy loves it he’s huge loves Bas huge that was his moment that was his Bas just like love the Yankees your moment mhm plus it’s allor right everybody’s going to bounce back

He’s an LA he’s an Laie De La Cruz guy he’s not a shuo otony he knows him CU he W you don’t take a shot like that on national TV if you he just you know you just mess up the name well you I mean we on our particular

Program we get names wrong all the time but herb street is normally completely locked in Pro we were at the Christmas party and that clip came through because we were obviously in baseball Twitter last night all of us got dragged into baseball Twitter last night y baseball people heard heard heard

Herby lot and clear oh yeah I sent him a text football people don’t care Herby okay but the baseball people are not necessarily thrilled that you got the name wrong heard from people I haven’t talked to in decades decade actual decade 10 years last night was fun night

Thank you for doing that for us D fun in in the time you know when I when I thought he was going to be wearing Pinstripes this year it was it was incredible all right let’s move along here we have some League leaders Graphics that we’re going to go through

In this third hour AJ wait till you see some of the names are at the top of the NFL I don’t think like a lot of people would be able to get a lot of these questions right no if they were to list who’s in the lead obviously being the

Passing leader the rushing leader rushing King the receiving like these are all big deals especially whenever it comes to contract negotiation we’ll dive into that in the third hour we also got Chris Long joining us at the green light pod remember his Show’s Twitter account with the bill bich news like two weeks

Ago went huge the reason why it went huge is because Chris Long’s real deal dog multiple times Super Bowl champion absolute dog on a football field Bel loved by all of his teammates and Legacy so he knows you know so that’s why the Tweet went so big per NBC

I can’t wait to chat with him yeah also played in New England so like has been in the building superow Super Bowl champ oh yeah than goes to Philly what do they do they win it the next year against new that’s Chris Long effect baby he’ll be

Joining us on the other side of this break be a friend tell a friend something nice cuz it’s a holiday and because it might change our life take F hello beautiful people and welcome to New York City when people say New York is different it is there’s more bumps there’s more trash it’s harder to get around everywhere I personally love [Applause] [Applause] thatth ladies and gentlemen man now with power it is an absolute honor to be in New York City live in Mike Greenberg get up Studio the final four and they won a game there second you should to complain about miss you you just I’m kiding me why are we doing what the

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Joining me now for an exclusive sit down interview is a four-time NFL MVP wow current quarterback of the New York Jets Aaron roders I have to ask there is a growing narrative across the even that you did not tear your Achilles that’s how you wanted to start this whole thing out huh

Journalism why do you think people think you didn’t tear your Achilles Mr Rogers Well I’m just trying to do something no one’s ever done before so when that happens it can’t possibly be the reality so but I’m I’m I’m proud of people you know there was a time a few years ago

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Delivered what whoa that [Applause] TV you know that’s the funny thing about life sometimes the things that you have no idea are about to happen turn into be great things the best things so just live in the moment don’t try to forecast what the future will be too much because

Then you’re going to find yourself worrying about what it might not not be we have no idea what that is no in the past move past it yeah learn from it keep it moving and enjoy the hell out of right now cuz that’s what it’s all about

Amen be a friend tell a friend something nice and might change your Life let’s go to the Fontes let’s go to Dan in Connecticut lovely place here in the 5y phone line what’s going on Dan oh what’s up Pat McAfee Dan you are too young to listen to this show I can tell through I think what how old I’m not Dan I am

Owen M Owen how old are you so different I am at eight and a half oh eight and a half if you’re telling us you’re half age or too young to we listen that’s a record stinks what what’s on your mom BR what do you want talk about

Owen um I want to talk about how inspiring this show is how you’re inspiring this whole entire world with how you’re talking about sports and how you’re talking about your life experience than you Owen Owen thank you love you ow I’m taking and also Boston

The best I would let Owen know if you’re still listen Owen you’re inspiring best kid ever Owen the way you talk about sports is Inspire I didn’t know eight and a half to do that is shout out that Hey ow New Generation in Connecticut I guess he was

Making me feel good too by the way he making me feel good making the show feel good he was talking us up he was hyping us up and then boom yeah little was this aristo’s brother little misdirection from ais’s Brother ow and8 and a half there that was awesome I’d say he put

His ball s on your forehead but I don’t think they dropped yet so everybody’s got Bryce young will Levis and Will Anderson above CJ stra allegedly we will 1 million per continue to drive that narrative because with what my eyes seeing AJ and what you have seen if CJ

Stout ends up at the Colts at number four I’m happy about the future of the Colts all of a sudden so this will be the last time we say this CJ strad is the best quarterback in this draft CL that’s right for sure we are massive fans of them and whenever we say

Whatever we say over the next few months before the draft we would like it to not be held against us because we know we are a part of the entire system here and we need CJ Str and IND have to have it’s really fun to say

Strout yeah yeah we need him to go D to the fourth pick yeah you didn’t they have to trade up cuz Texans are right there at two and you know those are the two quarterbacks of the future well I’ll tell you what there’s an opportunity and

A chance for us to move too we got a lot of of pieces to the puzzle that aren’t necessarily going to be there in the future probably you bundle that with the four overall pick I think you could maybe move up to one and then you get CJ Str hey let’s

Go this show stinks in the fact that you listen we are very very thankful for the all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers you start up damn it be a friend tell a friend something nice could change their life sport sport sport sport hello beautiful people and welcome back to our

Winter Wonderland the Thunderdome on this Feelgood Friday December 22nd 2023 hour three of the program starts now football is going to be happening all the way from last night what through Christmas on Monday h come on now when we’re back on Tuesday we will have a plethora of football to overreact to

Brand new stories and obviously we’ll be coming fresh out of some family time which we can all enjoy the hell out of that’s AJ Hawk the toic table is here at Boston Conor and at Tai Schmidt one half of the hammer Cowboys T Diggs is here and joining us now ladies and gentlemen

Is the host of the Greenlight podcast two time Super Bowl champion an absolute stallion of a man he also hikes m to provide clean water for people uhhuh he’s a good dude ladies and gentlemen Chris [Applause] Long fellas what’s up hey man thank you for joining us pal how’s the season going you’ve been crushing it uh by the way we’ve been watching along thank you you guys as well how are the new digs well new digs are good we lost full

Power uh in the first hour of the show all power went out in the Thunderdome you know and then we were on ESPN I couldn’t hear anything and my microphone didn’t work and the lights were completely out so things are going fantastic how about you Chris good I mean I didn’t lose power

Today I mean we don’t have a generator or anything like that but I’d figure they’d hook you guys up what the heck well that’s a whole another that’s a whole another conversation about the amount of money that has been spent on a generator and uh potentially the the

Time you know in which it’s supposed to you you never know until you know you know you never I hear you yeah y That’s Life That’s business speaking of business your Twitter account okay green light podcast whenever it reiterated what Tommy Curran said of NBC Sports Boston on his particular show over there

It w huge the reason why it went huge I said this in last hour is because you’re Chris long you’re two time Super Bowl champion been a New England Patriot obviously Legacy your family everybody’s dogs you’re beloved by everybody that thing went you and you take that down then you re-clarify

There do you do you understand what we’re learning through Tai Schmid things last night it’s like news nowadays with how fast it can go can go Ty Schmidt was training in Tokyo Los Angeles in New York last night and got murdered by everybody while he was at an office party Christmas party

Was that a moment for you that particular tweet and the response and everything about the world what how it is right now for us yeah it’s so funny I think it comes down to imp Pat like you know this cuz you built your your Empire

There I mean I got a pretty small Empire um it’s like five dudes but you know we’re all in here that day and we’re doing a we’re doing a a pod and while the Pod goes off like the the bill rumor breaks right and to you know because I

Want to be authentic and tell people like what it’s like to run this business um and you know how this is but like the dude who does socials back there is actually a Boston guy he’s like we got to get a graphic out and you know like

This midp pod and we react to the news and we’re saying like I I believe in Tom Curran like that’s my guy and I got no reason to believe the rumor is not true um but like let’s let’s give it some time and you know he puts a graphic out

And that’s my dude but he puts a graphic out and says breaking you know and that’s the problem I have with that that word because breaking to me means that you’re breaking news number one we didn’t break any news and if you just put rumor next to it then you’re kind of

Going along with the jpa footballs and the Dove climens and the whoever of the world so my my issue was you’re scratching the boys where they it right now you were scratching the boys ready itch right now that’s not that’s not what we’re going to be known for I’m not

Adam schfer that’s not what I want to be known for and number two like um if I don’t think it’s true I think it’s irresponsible so you know not to throw guys under the bus it was a perfectly understandable issue I’d never said hey don’t put breaking on a graphic but we

Had a little talk yeah you know what I mean because you know that’s my former coach and um you know I think he deserves the respect on the way out if it if he is going on the way out to not you know um I don’t know like to to be

The center of the rumor mill for a month like it’s possible certainly um and I think he’ll coach again like I love the guy but uh at this juncture I’d rather and it’s the same thing with Tomlin like last week my brother Kyle on the show

Had said hey I think it’s time for Tomlin to go and I had said you know I could see that but we talked it out for a while and I said you know this guy deserves a lot of respect he deserves to be able to finish the season out he

Doesn’t need people like me firing him a month left in the season and the AG like blitzburgh Steelers Depot you know all this stuff it’s like Chris Long wants this guy fired and so that’s the the climate that we’re working in today the clickbait climate the rumor mil

Climate buddy um the 24-hour news cycle climate you guys know how it is oh buddy yeah and you know when you get tossed on uh which we I decided for us to do so it’s 100% my fault but I didn’t necessarily expect like when you get on

ESPN as well and if it makes it on the internet at all it’s going to you know it can do that but the more people that see your too the more likely you are to get taken out of context cuz maybe people that are new to the show

Hear you say something right and if we’re not and we like your show I listen to you and your brother uh and old cuz what’s cuz’s name friend hilarious Dr fa Dr facts and mon yeah I got a couple of my boys in here yeah make we mon what a

Human there but like he a human yeah for sure I he might not be a human actually he might be AI but need one of those need one of those especially in the modern era but like we talk you know like Hey we’re talking and then like people will pull that as like

A oh yep here’s matter of fact yeah it’s an interesting Dynamic you guys are doing a great job though you need to know that and like no I appreciate here here’s what I’m learning Pat is like now we’re trying to do the YouTube thing and you know a lot of

Times with YouTube audience like you’ll break a clip off for a single team and that fan base comes to your show and they’re not like regulars you know what I mean we call them locals they’re not locals and you know like I picked the Ravens to you know for instance win the

Division I’ve been standing on the table for Lamar Jacks and the whole thing I picked the Ravens to win the division when it wasn’t cool Pat yeah and you know and after the Mark Andrews uh injury and subsequently the Keat Mitchell injury I’ve been kind of like

Hey I’m a little bit worried about the way they’re going to be able to overcome these injuries they they kind of pivoted to more of a speed look you lose Keat and he’s your most explosive Guy Andrews has definitely affected the passing game a little bit and you know for instance

We’ll we’ll clip something of and Ravens fans think you’re hating you know because they don’t hear the rest of what you’re talking about your team so that’s a very real thing in in this space now hey we just got to deal with it though our shins were built for it right that’s

Kind of what I just kind of realized this time now Ty you know you can have some tough shins but there were some big baseball bats last night coming those shins you threw yourself into it though you threw yourself into it you know he oh he broke the Yamamoto was signing uh

With the New York Yankees I guess it’s the second biggest free agent of the off season for the MLB Jeff pass’s been working on this for months and Ty in her office Christmas party last night maybe 1 two three Wishy Co deep wi heard some

News from some people in the know at the time and said yeah hell yeah I’m a Yankees fan we got y Moto and he let it he tried to cuck Jeff passon you can’t do that can’t do that and Jeff passon came on the show L and actually called

Him a scumbag for everything that he did did but that’s that’s the world we live in Chris that’s the world we live in I I appreciate though you guys continue to do your thing because because you’re obviously incredible at football and you have a resume and your voice should

Matter and should be heard so we appreciate it now let’s talk about you think the Ravens are back come on I I’ve no no I think the Ravens are no I think the Ravens are damn good like I I think of the NFL this year as like there’s one

Class of team and then there’s the rest of them it’s San Francisco and the rest of them so you know like for instance I think this is going to be a really good test for them coming up playing on Monday night how about the NFL being

Like yeah NBA we’ll take Christmas Y and we’ll give you a Super Bowl preview and basically like because the MVP is now like Theisman it changes every couple weeks and if you have a bad loss like Dak you’re out of it for a week this

Game is for the Heisman um it’s for the MVP it’s for um it’s it’s a Super Bowl preview if you want to look at it that way I would take issue with the AFC side of it because I do think it’s a little bit more wide open than just like Ravens

Or a forone conclusion I’ve been standing on the table till my legs are tired about the Kansas City Chiefs I still think they got that championship that defense was spags as good as any defense in the league and then I think Josh Allen and the bills man like if

They slide in it’s really unimportant uh how they got there I think they’re the if not the most dangerous team in the AFC they’re right there and I I honestly think they’re the team that could match up the best even with the defensive injuries uh with the ners I just think

The ners are a tough matchup man so no offense to any other team including the Eagles or the Cowboys you know I’m Eagles Homer I’ve been told but um I I don’t feel good about any of those matchups go ahead AJ yeah I wanted to talk about the Eagles I know it’s your

Old Squad you want a Super Bowl with them but what is going on there we hear we hear Kelsey talking with his brother and Jason talk like takes a lot of ownership and accountability but do you think they can kind of turn this thing around and Jaylen can can look like we

We are used to seeing what Jaylen is like what’s their future look like well AJ you know how this is man like I went on this rant last week about context I went on Kevin Clark’s and I think like especially with quarterbacks you need to take context into account when you when

You evaluate these guys there’s like unless your name is Mahomes burrow Allen or Jackson you need a certain amount of stuff around you to look like who you are and um I think quarterbacks are like most of them are you know the most dressed up version of themselves or

Dressed down depending on who the scheme uh author is and and you know who the people around you are and I think Shane’s a wizard we’ve seen that oh yeah I mean I you know he he’s tremendous man I mean you guys got a cooking and a lot

Of fun to watch um but I think they miss him and I think like what they’re running now is an imitation of that offense you know Brian Johnson doing the best he can but when I watch their passing Concepts you know I talked about this on the show the other day it’s like

It’s like three curls and Two Flats you know pretty much every time and you got Christian mcaffrey calling out plays on Monday Night Football you know it they seem predictable just think overall when yeah it was unless you’re like an Eagles fan you’re like what the

Hell there’s a blue yeah like Nick Bose is saying there’s a blueprint and the whole thing I do think they become predictable ironically I think that the side of the ball they could turn it around on uh is is offense because you can change these things now when you

Lose a play caller it’s like somebody with taste they’re looking at a menu they know what to order they know how to talk you through the game planning side of it they know how to talk you through the matchups I don’t think they have that right now and it’s showing with

Jaylen there were two third Downs at the end of the game the other night you know the one where Devonte Smith’s coming across the field on a Crosser they actually run some motion which they never do um they’ve got him you know he doesn’t even look his way to take a shot

To AJ Brown uh you know I didn’t like the third down and seven at the end of the game either Dallas got’s right there at the sticks it just feels like he’s not looking this the right places but the real issue is the defense right because the backers aren’t going to get

Any faster more instinctive uh slays down bradberry’s not going to become a man Corner overnight but I think what Matt Patricia can do is keep him out of those matchups right I don’t have a huge issue with Bradberry on jsn but if you got single high safety at the end of the

Game like in you’re guarding against a touchdown those are the kind of situations that got you this opportunity so stay out of those um but but I think the defense is a little bit slower than it was in years past and you know when you lost Maddox like two months ago it’s

Been snowballing ever since then they’re getting guys off the street to play you know isn’t it fun though that every NFC team like last night the Rams have a like matth yeah they are I agree and punt return against the Ravens you know now who knows what Lamar does with that

Possession they could go down kick a field goal win it uh because Tucker kick it from Midfield so they probably won as soon as he hit the yeah so it would have whatever the case is but they played the Ravens tough and the Ravens I think I I

Still feel very good about we’re about to learn a lot about them but all you think about on the MC side is like the ners though can they beat the we all kind of feel that way don’t it feels like everybody feels about the ners the way like NFL all football

Humans seem to be like I think they’re right too I mean you know because they just have so much speed like for instance they’re about to play the Ravens the speed that they’re going to see the rushers that they’re going to see I thought that Jack Jacksonville

Could not get a rush on those guys I think that was a big problem in the game Lamar to me you could make an argument if you go off of like pure value to your team what would they look like without the guy as the MVP no matter the stats

That you see from pie or Tua or anybody else I think like Lamar makes magic happen but Jacksonville couldn’t get a rush like how far down the list of uh San Francisco D lineman do you have to go until you get to the second best Jags

Be lineman and you know I think when you look at those backers in the quarterback run game green law uh Warner those guys are fast so a lot of the things you’re trying to do is you pivoted to more of a speed operation and when you play the Ravens AJ you know

How how it is watching them it’s like how do you allocate enough resources you know if you’re a backer in the middle of field you got to play the the the fake the quarterback run the RPO um and then they have guys out how do you rush him

Chris hey Chris start to cut how do you rush look guy like Lamar that’s the problem like you aren’t you like the I used to call they say like mush Rush don’t get past them don’t try to don’t create any inverted running Lanes you got to kind of like Encompass him but

You can’t really go full go and try to get her on the edge he can get the edge though with his I think you got to you got to rush as a group right like you you have to be cognizant of not getting too high on the quarterback so nine 10

Yards is not going to happen uh and he’s a right-handed quarterback so you want him to to pull away from his ball hand side right like so I would if if I were a team I would be trying if I was going to be aggressive to get him to bail out

To the backside now as you can see if you watch him play like he’s still going to make throws on that side of the field I don’t think rushing people scared is the way to go in the NFL like DeMent dline coaches you know how they say is

Guys like the week you play a mobile quarterback they are puckered up man those are puckered and you know they’re afraid to take chances they’re afraid to let you rush I I’d like to you know I’d like more teams to take their chances especially like San Francisco if

You have second level guys who can run take your chances you know you know rush like Chase young can run down Lamar and I don’t say that lightly like they have athletes of front and so take your chances and and and and make him tuck

The ball and run and take those hits but Lamar is so so good at at knowing how not to take big hits he doesn’t get enough credit for that like he he just knows when to get down and knows how to fall like some guys fall well you know

He’s just one of those guys so make him make him run the football make him kind of you know take those hits we’ve talked about that in the past about Lamar because obviously the conversation early in his career was is he going to be able to play like this long term is this

Sustainable that was the whole thing and then there’s some guys in the NFL that just know how to not get blown up like I’m out of bounds right there just got every yard that he needed all good we’re going to get out even when he was tackled from behind there his fall was

Like a very light fall seemingly and he’s still aggressive Runner you know he’s still look down boom like that is y down down not a not a big hit like he just knows and for your guy Anthony Richardson who I’ve been a big fan of like I I actually

Shared the sentiment with you guys and you guys knocked out of the park on shroud like I thought Stroud and him were the guys right like different flavors but um you know you know for Anthony Richardson whenever he comes back like dude you can’t be getting

Knocked out of every game you play in and I think you know you appreciate his willingness to go to go tuck and run because it is a scary Prospect but save those for the right times you know um or else you kind of end up in the situation

That Jaylen Herz is in right now he’s been dinged all year and quarterback run game such a big part of what they do they haven’t been able to lean into it the same yeah I got a chance to see T Y Hilton who was an undersized wide

Receiver and when he came in a rookie you know like when he would slide or go out of bounds or just go down after making a catch there are some people like he needs to be tougher don’t he and then you see you see like eight straight years no injuries guy that’s underz

Never takes a big hit it’s like that’s uh that’s like better locket Tyler Lock’s a perfect example I mean he will slide like a quarterback to get down like he’s not going to get any Yak but one thing he’s goingon to be is available my guy he’s going to be on the

Field you know yeah that’s huge that’s the best ability they say availability good football but I’m pumped to see Lamar in the ners man yeah it’s going to be a great game cuz Lamar Lamar and them not on Prime Time a lot I’ve seen a lot

Of the ners obviously both last year and this year but Lamar Jackson again on prime time I am very thankful for that I’m very very thank for that you know what like I was so hyped about the Jets I I actually like picked him to win the

Super Bowl with Aaron and the whole thing and then he gets hurt and you know like you’re saying come on cuz you I mean the O Line’s been bad and that sort of thing but um you know getting to see the Jets in Prime Time 5 seven times

Like come on and then you know like I actually thought last night it was great to see the Rams the last time they were in prime time was Cincy and they look totally different I actually wonder what you guys think about this I think we kind of gloss over that Super Bowl year

When you think about great Rams offenses um but 2018 they were historically good right I actually think this offense is more functional you know I really do I mean like if you look at the number twos like Woods or NCA um you look at the quarterback I’m a big Matt Stafford fan

Would you take Stafford and Kiren Williams over Gurley and G like I actually think the play action makes it go it’s a different run look this year but I think the the Rams are better offensively than that group and you know I know that that that group put up a b

Bunch of big numbers everybody remembers 5451 all that stuff but when it comes to the playoffs I feel like this is more functional offense and for the NFC you know like they’re watching these games on TV like the eagles the Lions um the Cowboys they don’t want to see these

Guys visiting their home stadium like I don’t know if there’s a game where I don’t I don’t think the Rams win it you know like if if they’re traveling to Philly I that’s a scary one I’ll admit it I I don’t know if we have enough to

Keep up right now and the same thing with Detroit like you know it’s it’s a tough deal Matt Stafford walking back into his own house now and McVey who didn’t like golf like being like I want to prove why um the the the Rams are

Scaring we got to see it last night yeah they were fun to watch yeah one punt return against the Ravens who we all love and think they’re dominant as well good luck in Detroit if Matthew Stafford’s coming back into town mcdc he’s built the culture to sustain that

Though yeah I hate the match up so much I hate that match up so much he will throw for 500 yards guaranteed that’s a lions fan right there but the but the corners on on you know we saw it at the end of the game last night they’ve given

Up a lot of shots over the last couple weeks and New Orleans couldn’t really take advantage of it in Phase but they play some of these teams because the corners are you know the corners a lot of guys on the back end they’re young like coming in the season no but why

Didn’t Derek Carr take advantage of it just say it he’s a good guy I’m not I’m he’s no I mean I don’t think cars I you know I’m not trying to make a headline here but like when I when I talked about two echelons of quarterbacks like car is

Not in that Echelon so you know I thought that I thought the short at this stage it could change Pat you’re right but uh but but I thought the I thought the the short yardage stuff killed him you know not being able to convert you know last night was killer cuz they were

There early in the game and they made some decisions in short yardage I think killed him Dennis Allen he there was a clip from his press conference that went out there about describing the whole team not getting it done or whatever all the quote tweets were Saints fans just

Being like every week same with this guy now a lot of seats are hot around the NFL Connor has a question in the NFC South Yeah well yeah no big time there’s not many coaches that can save any of those teams Chris but uh just going back to what you started off

With first of all if you’re telling me that there’s a Boston guy in your camp and he’s the one tweeting out breaking news bill is fired it feels as though there’s an enemy within the Patriots camp now maybe he doesn’t want Bill bich if that’s the case then that’s one thing

But with that situation with Bill obviously you know they’re 3 and 11 there’s not much to look out they’ve lost seven games by one score but they’re still 3 and 11 so it doesn’t really matter uh when it comes to the offseason that decision kind of getting

Made does it ever happen where you know players on the team will go knock on Robert Craft St and kind of lay out why they want Bill there or you know vice versa depending on the situation have you ever heard of that happening and have you ever been on a team where the

Coach does get fired either mid or end of season and conversations like that do take place with ownership unfortunately I think you know well unfortunately I’ve I’ve had like seven when I was in St Louis I feel like I had like five head coaches and you

Know we lost them midseason we lost them after the season um you know the whole thing and and I think players understand um the business part of it because these guys are getting cut like if we don’t play well we’re getting cut so it’s hard

For us to have empathy for a coach even if he’s the goat uh but I do think in New England you know I’ve only been there a year and sometimes I think Pat’s fans get annoyed when I even comment on New England as if I know something

That’s Bullit I don’t know what de no I don’t know what Devin knows I don’t know what ninko knows I don’t know what those guys all my boys up there Jewels but I do know this like Robert Craft’s in that building like every day you know he’ll walk through that building unlike any

Owner I ever had and it wasn’t a deal where we were like oh Robert’s here again like you know he’s a cool dude people like Robert and he talks to players and I think whatever it is they’re not going to have to knock on the door I think he has all the

Information he needs but I will say this if he comes back I have no problem with Bill the coach I have a problem with Bill the GM you know um I I think that that that thing’s run its course and if he gets another job when he does because

I would hire him in a heartbeat that would be one of my contingencies would be like hey you know like you can’t buy the groceries and fix dinner that was an old bill B parcel’s thing you know and not many guys have been able to stick the landing on doing both those things

So I think Bill can still coach his ass off um but but that’s gonna be tough don’t you think don’t you think it’s gonna be tough for Bill he’s won how many Super Bowls doing it as G yeah he’s won a lot he’s won a lot of Super Bowls

Doing it but you know they they did they did draft this guy in like the the 10th round or whatever was uh from Michigan and that helps a lot you know what I’m saying and and for for a lot of years guys would take discounts to come there

You know like not that I was a big part of it but I took a discount like a little discount and then you got other guys that take big big discounts and you know I think um I think that all factors in but I I think Bill loves football too

Much man I I don’t know what else he would do like there’s not enough uh lacrosse games or uh tours of the Navy campus or like I he can’t build little Wooden Ships the rest of his life like and hang out with his dog like the guy

Wants to coach football so if he gets an opportunity I maybe you’d find one organization that would say hey sure like Tom Tesco wasn’t doing a a great job here um maybe we’ll take bill over Tom Tesco and run it back but um actually in that particular situation I

Would hire an offensive coach in La well they’re like 45 million over the salary cap as well I don’t know they don’t have like the the greatest setup over there for Bill allegedly Harbaugh potentially going to end up there but they’re probably going to be able to to pick

Whoever cuz they have a quarterback which is what a lot of people think is the problem up there in uh New England M Jones has become that’s become the the MC Jones story almost and they can shed some they can shed some cash right away you know guys because you’ve got two

Positions especially with aging veterans right like Keenan Allen and Mike Williams I think the Keenan things in Nob brain are as great as he’s been and this is an indictment on him but like where are we right now do him a favor get him to a contender like Houston

Would kill for a Keenan Allen right like Kansas City not that you’d ever trade him in division would kill for a Keenan Allen next year I think they’ve been hurt bad enough that Brett be realizes you actually have to give this guy help like khil Mack is a guy that a contender

Would love Joey Bose is a guy that a contender would love so there’s a lot of decisions that you can make right away to get you know back in in in um in decent cap shape go ahead AJ did you ever um find yourself in the weit room

With Bill uh there was a ring cam video came out I did not realize bill was as jacked as he is big old barrel chest the dude look like he get benched you know probably I don’t know 505 for five most likely like did you have any idea he was

This jacked look at the backstraps on that guy on that ring camera if it is Bill that I mean he’s been doing some truck PS the guy’s incredible um he used to be in uh the the the he would sit in the corner he would stand in the corner

He walk up like the tread mod I think he would put it on like incline and just walk and watch film the whole time so like the guy’s in shape um and I I just love Bill man like you know people have this whole idea about Bill like he’s

Never funny he’s never a human being but like Pat you saw it when went on game day you me and Stanford Steve were talking he was just raving about how awesome bill was and laughing about like watching you watch Bill like act like a normal human being and just seeing

People’s eyes light up and that’s who he can be and um I think he’s he’s a funny dude he’s a smart dude and really cares about his players like I didn’t play a big role there again but like yes you did keep doing I appreciate the fact

Thats in Super Bowl history thank you very much but you know like I I I right I think yeah you know some people know but I would say this like Bill Bill’s one of the I I got coaches that that like I don’t talk to anymore

And if I hit them up they’d probably be too cool for school but Bill like answers every time I remember one time on our podcast I talked about the fact that you you guys remember this you’d have all the coaches sitting up there in first class to and from games like these

Little quality control guys with their feet dangling not even touching the ground and they get these big 350 Pounders sitting three deep in a row and coach and Bill had the vets in the front he had the players in the front it’s little things like that that I appreciate about Bill Bill’s sitting

Back there and Coach he’s got six Super Bowls and he’s sitting back there and coach and he texted me after I after I talked about on the show was like uh I was really pleased to hear you liked our travel Arrangements I appre appreciate you you know like like that’s the bill

That a lot of guys know if you’ve been through there like you know he’s definitely going to he’s going to hit you hard he’s going to hit you in front of the whole group but he hits Tom hard he hits Jules hard and you know guys

Like that who have been there for a long time they help him set that standard he’s very fair and direct and I appreciate that I remember when I was in the playoffs I was an every down guy and we went out and played Houston I’ve never played in the playoffs my whole

Life and AJ you know how this is when you try to take a big chance to make a big play it never goes well and I tried to swim Dwayne Brown and do some cool like standup linebacker stuff like I saw Jamie Collins do and I ended up on

Public transportation for five yards and it was like immediately bill was like get him out of there and you know it was like you’re a third down guy now and you know like I appreciate as bad as it was that like for the remainder of the

Playoffs I knew where I stood you know and uh maybe I didn’t want to be in a three technique the whole playoff run but it was it was helpful to hear that and I just loved the direct nature of the way he operated yeah I enjoyed

Getting to know him there game day and obviously Adam venet ter and I were around each other a lot for a long period of time so the stories that he would tell about belich and then Julian Edelman has a phenomenal impression so the stories he tells and then so good

Yeah and then the the miked up stuff that we see in the pirate costume at Randy Moss’s Halloween party he put a helmet on college game day you know like he is he’s fantastic he is dedicated and committed his life to football too more than anybody else and like I think that

Is why I’m so appreciative and afterwards we got to talk like pretty briefly you know and uh I got to just like you know tell him again like you’re you’re a Legend like just let him know you know like yeah and we started talking a little bit and I uh I

Said it was really cool to I was at the tail end of the you Tom Payton you know Colts rivalry where we were playing every single year see seemingly and it was the biggest game of the year every single time that was really cool what you guys built that was a beautiful time

That’s where my introduction was and I was like my rookie year that fourth and two you know and I was I was talking to Bill belly check out Melvin bullet makes a big time oh big play we go down red that was mass you know now

That would be the only like good time he goes fourth and two I thought you were talking about that fake punt in Indianapolis and I was like all right uh that was quick all right that was really quick remembers everything it was it was so it I did not expect like his

Talk immediately back and I was like all right yeah oh he’s he’s sharp dude yeah I was having a time I was like all right I’m going to talk bill bich here a little bit just see how this goes and it was immediately right back in return

Like my man big pop out of me I mean I’m like all right this guy’s awesome I was so thankful yeah he’s a good guy it’ll be interesting to see what happens up there campire and then after talking to Robert Craft you said Robert Craft’s around that makes sense because like

Talking to him is very easy now I think as somebody that wasn’t around New England much and obviously grew up in Pittsburgh hates New England play for the Colts hates New England so like you kind of have a thought about how things go up there and like when Robert Craft

Talks he talks a little slow talks a little slow but what he’s saying is you need to you know he was it was a phenomenal conversation with him as well that’s not an easy spot right now but I he’ll figure it out they’ll figure it out great ownership great ownership man

Who the two jobs that are open right now who are the owners you know it’s Spanos and it’s terer and you know like well yeah yeah Mark Davis but I think that job’s locked and loaded I think that should be AP congrats yeah and and and and I think I

Think you know is make no mistake about it it it affects the attractiveness of a job and people gloss over it as fans but like Ben Johnson had an opportunity at that Carolina job and he was like yeah I’m not getting on the Titanic you know

I take a plane um you know and and and it’s the same thing walking into the charger situation like that owner has a reputation for other reasons you know you got one guy who doesn’t spend money one guy who medals so I mean having a great owner is huge and it’s the same

Thing in Philly with Jeffrey Lorry like if you want to build a culture or the roonies in in Pittsburgh like culture is important and having the continuity and have the having the ownership that appreciates that is is Big Time speaking of Ty has a question for you Chris yeah

Chris you just mentioned the Ries in culture in Pittsburgh which is something that you know as a Steelers fan we could hang our hats on for decades and decades and then the George Pickins comes out this week and you know talks about blocking because of injury and stuff

Like that how do you think the the leaders in the locker room handle that and how can they handle it and from the outside it doesn’t feel like there’s really any leaders on the offense there’s not a lot of vets on the offense can can the defensive leaders go on go

Over and say something how’s that work oh yeah you can I mean like if I’m TJ Watt and I don’t know what that’s like but to you know I was I was a dude on some of the teams I was on you know captain that sort of thing you know like

I would walk over and my style is not like hey man get your together like all that because that’s not going to work you got to connect with people I think like being a leader is about you know being direct and being emotionally intelligent and and knowing where a

Guy’s coming from and you know like I think you got to have those relationships with other the guys on the other side of the ball so when it’s time to go over in the lunchroom and be like yo George like you know you got to finish that block we were fourth in goal

And trabis fumbled the ball like imagine we don’t get in or Deonte we’re playing Cincinnati and the ball’s on the ground it’s third and two you know it’s z0 like we need you to do something you know and and the thing I loved about George

Pickins coming out as a d lineman was he had that fire like you saw him blocking people into the the down markers like everything seemed like and I know he had a reputation but he seemed like a guy who loved ball and you know like to me

When I watch that tape I worry about do do those guys love ball because oh no it you know you you got a chance here to go to the playoffs and make a run run as as unlikely as it is there should always be a reason to play your ass off you know

And and for guys that I would caution guys who think you know like they’re out of it and there’s going to be a new coach in the building like who do you think what tape you think they’re watching you know you you think they’re you don’t think they’re looking at that

Tape and seeing like who who plays when the chips are down like those are the guys I want in my corner and so like I’m a big George Pickins fan make no mistake about it I said he’s got Hall of Fame talent and people laugh me off the stage

Earlier Steelers Depot was like what the hell is he’s talking about Steelers dep in your ass Steelers Ste no they’re good they actually Aggregate and credit so I appreciate those fellas at Steelers Depot but the point I’m making is I’m a fan of these guys and that’s where I’m

Coming from it’s like I think you can be great man don’t let these situations whether it’s Canada or the quarterback like steal your joy man like go out there and play your ass off because there’s always something to play for and that’s the culture right you know when you talk about

But like you got a culture to uphold there’s guys like Merl hod is watching the game saying the turtle denominator turt yeah he’s not happy Ben that’s that would be enough for me like knowing that hey uh Kevin Carter is watching my game in St Louis or Kevin Kevin green or one

Of those guys or or Grant winstrom um I I want to play for those guys are watching even if we’re out of it and so like just you know like the culture is the most important thing in Pittsburgh if you don’t have that you got nothing a

To the J how do you think kg would have felt about George pickings over there in that to say that’s the thing like Bill Cower yesterday oh man Bill cow yesterday was on the program he was on the show and uh he was just like getting

Pretty to say you don’t want to get injured like he was he like Bill Cower you know and I think he I don’t know how long how much you’ve been around him he’s constant like coach motivation and normally about the Steelers he’s trying not to cause any problems because he

Knows his voice carries a lot of weight but boy he was not happy about the George picket situation it was it was one of those things that like everybody was like come on but to your point we all think he can be great so it’s like

He can be great yeah it just sucks you know to kind of watch it all don’t don’t let him get you down George man like every year of your career is not going to be this way don’t have this on your resume and it’s just one or two plays

These guys can come out this weekend and play their asses off I think the Steelers win this weekend I really do I mean Jake Browning yeah Jake Browning’s Jake Browning’s awesome man like the the throws he made last week against the Blitz the shot he took early in that

Game of hit Chase and that you know like the the overtime throws I mean this guy’s awesome he’s the quintessential backup that can make it work in today’s NFL because he can do the the paint by numbers thing but he can throw off platform which I think is a huge thing

And you know I I hate to sell hope to the hopeless but like if if you’re Cincinnati three weeks ago I’m like hey look at our 17 run you know you you got that kind of talent outside you have good defensive piece is the whole thing

But I do think when you look at that first game and we’ll find out if it was just Jake Jake getting his feet wet or not but the Steelers they held them to 38 offensive plays so who’s going to be able to run the ball and who’s going to

Be able to to control time of possession I think it’s something the Steelers can do again and I think they got a shot this weekend all right well last question before we let you go do the whites have a shot you think they got no shot bro I was I was talking

To I went to the Sixers game Friday night with Malcolm Jenkins and my family and we were enoy watching him beid go for 50 and in inevitably that came up and we were talking about if we were coaching that team what kind of Defense we would run and I’m like I Will Compton

Had a great bit where he was like I don’t know we maybe run like you know some new system that nobody’s seen we rush two we drop we drop nine you know like Chris mcaffry you got to play Corner that’s the position I’m worried about now it everybody knows the

Elephant in the room is like there’s not enough kids at Iowa on scholarship to feeli a an all-white an all-white defensive backfield so that’s what I’m worried about Pat you know and and I said today I was like I was trying to come up with a really good tweet about

White football players but I was a little bit slow it took me a couple days oh speed will be the problem in speed kills matchups ites you could potentially you know we got a lot of pass rushers oh yeah tight ends pass rushers offensive lineman and we got we

Got some punters and you know Pat you know uh maybe you could come out of retirement there’s a lot better whites in there now than me a lot better whites out there Hecker out there you know there’s a lot lot of good ones out there Thomas Mor St go I’m betting the I’m

Betting the over in that game yeahh from the one side just just over in general because I think the the the the offensive whites are going to score and I think the defensive whites are not going to be able to get a stop okay so

This is going to be shootout this is you you referenced this this game earlier 5451 yeah you think Miami and Dallas this weekend is is what it might look like if those two offenses are rolling that’s what it looks like okay is Chris aware of the deal that you struck for us

Or yeah I don’t know if you know this but I deal very early in the process yal almost immediately after seeing the tweet I I made an agreement yep we do not know how the other side feels about setre they accepted it poian Samoans

Us’s Tong and puka we get puka we get we v v safety yeah I I don’t know though you know like I I defer in the racial draft you know I think it works that way where we get the last pick or something we’ll do the put our foot down that’s

Smart that’s what the Pro Bowl games will actually be exactly I do think he fix I think he fixed the Pro Bowl yeah agreed yeah I think so too a lot of interest be sweet holy hell the interest in that game yep man people would try oh

Yeah 100% I’d watch I think a lot of think a lot of people would be cheering a little too hard for their side well that’s what happened G that is what all the football people you know we’re trying to turn this into a reasonable discussion but boy the people that have

Never been yeah oh yeah the bosers took it on The Shins boy Nick Bosa reading this tweet chomping at the I me there’s a lot of that going on out there but we just want to let everybody know football brings everybody together that’s why that discussion can happen that’s what a

Can we stop can we stop arguing over everything I said this on my pod last week I’m going let you let you guys kick me off the show but can we stop arguing about quarterbacks like it’s politics can we stop arguing over our teams it’s the holiday season you know like nobody

Died we’re we you know like I watched the game the other night with I had a seven-year-old son he stayed up till 11 o’clock with me watched the Eagles lose he’s in shambles the over didn’t hit he knew it nobody won in in our household

And uh and you know I just think about was it’s such a special night you know keep things in perspective man it’s the holiday season we got football every damn day can we stop arguing about things and come together H yeah right now me on

Three no team on three team on me one two three team hell yeah I can say it too right yeah well you are what I would hope ladies and gentlemen Chris La there you R Merry Christmas Chris Merry Christmas guys the long family love them Legends so good at the football Kyle was

Supposed to be a baseball player yeah yeah like I think he was supposed to be baseball player and then uh played football I think one year at Oregon or whatever I he played baseball somewhere else transferred to Oregon played like one or two years top 20 pick yeah just

Absolute monster of a man so athletic just oh I’m big too yeah and he was able to run throw shoot everything I hung out with him a few times out in Los Angeles what a legend Kyle was now I got a chance to be around Chris a few times as

Well also Legend but that whole family just football folklore dogs you know what I mean like just when KY was a free agent there for a bit he was in the Raiders building they like oh he’s probably going there because hoe oh yeah is like Raiders legend or whatever and

Obviously how’s been on TV for long time 30 years maybe whatever it’s been he’s been a part of the NFL story shout out to Chris we appreciate him I did like his take though on the whole like got a guy from Boston Running socials which I

Appreciate we got a five dud team over here we’re in the middle of this you know maybe the wording Gump lot of pressure during the show on you a lot of pressure on Gump you know he’s the one that uploads all the videos live during

The show on X and what he chooses to caption is really you know how do you want to tell the story and we would like to let everybody know that gumps myself we have an actual plan like we don’t need just views like jet passon said no let’s not immediately just throw whoever

Under the bus let’s give them at least a little bit of uh uh a direction on what they actually said in there but boy those videos will just get oh yeah with a different one and it is gone so the internet’s a wild place but we’re lucky

To be on it and Gump we appreciate you thank you brother gum a lot of pressure could you imagine if you would have put like a like an Indianapolis Colts Shane styen fire tweet out while we’re filming live breaking yeah that’s a that’s a tough move there yeah would have been

Especially the per NBC that that’s what got me riled up yeah breaking and per NBC that’s it oh okay you heard him run through jpa football Dove CL he probably said that to his guy listen we’re not Dove we’re not ml football no we’re not jpa football we’re not any of these

Footballs not news Breakers we that’s what he said just a rumor it’s a rumor that it’s that’s a funny that’s that’s growth though out of a business has to happen yeah for sure learning speaking of things that have to happen we have to pick every single game let go now we

Were both on the right side last night there you were let’s go boys congrat boys it felt like it was a gimme felt like it was too easy yeah but maybe that’s just how we’re seeing it holiday season maybe everything’s just going to be easy maybe we’re going perfect this

Week maybe the Christmas spirit is going to run through our picks and turn out nothing but Nic list as opposed to naughty yeah AJ Bengals Steelers Steelers getting three points at home taking on Jake Browning in the Cincinnati Bengals the starting quarterback for your Pittsburgh Steelers is Mason Rudolph out a baby Christmas

Season that’s big Rudolph the right on qie had a very punchable face but underneath that look was a guy that could maybe cook huh yeah like a like a Kenny picket maybe maybe well I’m super excited that’s a standalone uh game on Saturday so everyone going to get to see it uh

That’s always enjoyable when your team is playing Super well uh but like he like Chris just said they played the Bengals very very well the week after they fired M Canon it was the only 400 yard game in the last boom see this is what I’m saying it’s hard not to think

About this yeah it’s hard not to think about this after the game they should make it mandatory that they take off Mason Rudolph’s face mask after every game and he walks around the field like that shaking people’s head we will say Mason Rudolph we do not know you

Personally I’ve never heard you speak actually I just know what you’ve been through and I know everything that happened and I know that not a lot of Steelers fans are necessarily on your side but boy that could all change this weekend have changed quite a bit that

Could all change for Mason rud they were calling for Mason uh no Jamar Chase so that’ll help um no Minka though also as well it’ll be fun it’ll be fun Rudolph can rewrite his entire NFL story this weekend they were chating Rudolph Rudolph Rudolf in that same stadium that they were chanting fire

Can it’s wild Pittsburgh speaking loudly and now they get a chance to see how their last chant works out who do you like AJ so Chris was big on the Steelers here wasn’t he he said he likes the Steelers to win this game not only just

Cover he want he likes them to win held the Cincinnati Bengals the 38 plays I believe is the stat that he dropped yes oh man okay well Chris almost sold me but I like the Bengals here I really do I like what Brownie’s doing oh is there

Any uh injuries on the defensive side of the ball for the Bengals that I don’t know about I I think so Hendrickson’s playing hub’s in we’re good all right give me the Bengals all right I will ride alongside you because I’ve seen the Steelers up close and personal last week

And I thought they were going to do good and they did not you guys got eyes on it and it was it was just not what you thought it was and it hasn’t gotten better over there doesn’t seem like Vibes at all but maybe one big win over

A division rival like the Bengals changes it all in Acer how do we think attendant’s going to be I think pretty good actually because it’s night before Christmas Eve it’s on a Saturday I mean people are home yeah I think it’s going to be good okay it’s going to be a good

Environment let’s do that Buffalo Bills Los Angeles Chargers 12 and 1 12 point favorites on the road in La how do you see that one going AJ Hawk 12 and a half sure seems like a lot but I trust the bills and Josh Allen give me the bills

Me too I like the bills as a wagon I heard a little doubt there well is it is it an inter coach game and and Biff’s going to be coaching so G Biff Tannon GIF Smith I think the Charlotte coach that’s on me um but yeah I mean

Probably probably bills don’t touch that Chargers team with a 50 foot pull yeah that’s kind of how have teams done since losing or giving up 60 plus points a surprise the Chargers are waving D Tackle Sebastian Joseph day sjd who has started 14 gam s said would be a

Potential addition for a playoff team that sounds like they’re doing him in favor yeah AQ I believe put in the group when that came in said very good player okay so he’s just doing him a favor take care of the guys that’s right hey for yeah

We get it we Lions better pick him up today please okay maybe the Lions do make a play maybe a playoff push is you know coming for sjd uh so I’ll take the bills as well minus 12 and a half five-point favorites on the road against a rookie quarterback the Green Bay

Packers travel to the Carolina Panthers we think there’ll be some Packers fans in the stands because that’s what Packers fans do last week rainy miserable covid game nobody in the stands the Carolina Panthers get a massive dub Ty Five Points is that too much what do you think I mean after

Having to win the last two weeks and then just doing what they did I I would imagine especially after Joe Barry you know spoke today and or yesterday and and kind of knows what’s at stake I would like to think that the Packers will win and cover on Christmas Eve AJ

Do you agree with him I do agree with him I think they know what’s ahead of them that we we talked about their schedule what is it Panthers Vikings Bears is that their finals Yeah final three y yeah they know what’s ahead of them they know they you better take care

Of business in this one those last two weeks are not going to be fun all right give me the Packers as well I I like the Packers just because I enjoy Jordan Love Story yeah yeah and in my eyes you know when you see interim head coach do dance

It’s like what’s next week look like you know now some have been able to handle it are the Carolina Panthers built to handle it we shall see I like if they do end the season on some dubs and they make it a real difficult end of the year

For terer on who he’s going to do what and what’s the future look like for them but give me the Packers let’s go Seahawks Titans Seahawks three and a half Point favorites in Nashville Tennessee AJ Hawk we seen what Drew lock just did on Monday Night Football I

Think Gino back yes he is he’s playing Gino back being the starter but if he ends up tweaking it again and in warm-ups he looked good it was groin he was doing a lot of these exercises he was bouncing a lot you know it was like

I thought G was maybe going to go they said we need you to get healthy Drew lock put that on on you know and did his thing uh do you think that momentum carries with Gino Smith coming back into Mike vel’s backyard I think it

Does I think it really does I know Gino even said like he was he was hurt but he was happy for Drew lock the fact that Gino felt like he could have played maybe on this last game but yeah give me Gino I think he’s gonna take a few shots

Deep he’s gonna take some shots early want to make some Splash plays okay so three and a half who do you like all like the Seahawks all right Tennessee secondary has had a couple tough outings give me the Seahawks M three and a half I need to stop doing just the Vel

Thought you know at this point especially they’re Derrick Henry had 20 balls Bingo for less than 15 yards Bingo historically bad yeah Seattle’s still you know same deal yeah they’re in it Seattle Seahawks give it to me Cleveland Browns favored in Houston by three how do you feel about

Joe flacko going to take on CJ Str Keen it looks like right now yeah it’s two weeks now this concussion protocol for CJ strout hope he gets better the face of University of Houston for a while Case Keenum has a chance to do it again

Do you think he does AJ I love Case Keenum as well but no I taking the Browns here on the road minus three I think they have something going right now there’s some magic in Joe flacko I want to see if he can continue we have

Agreed on a lot of these things let’s go to the next one the Colts in the Falcons Colts getting two and a half down in Atlanta I know where I’m headed AJ where are you headed give me the Colts on the road man I cannot believe the Colts have to be offended they’re

Just I’m just going to double check but it it might look like it’s wrong but it is accurate that’s nuts what’s this mean what the what does what do they know what do these people know for me that means the most thing is that they just don’t respect the

Steelers Colts beat the out of the Steelers they lose to the Panthers and you’re telling me they’re not going to be f favored in Atlanta after they lose to a team that’s won one game this year that’s that’s Steelers just took a shot there from the B he would agree I think

No I think they just don’t think the Colts are good well we just beat sh Steelers what are they saying there well yeah I agree with what Conor said okay all right well don’t you don’t need to throw us on Colts getting points this time of year second hottest team in the

NFL yeah come on come on how about commies plus three going into metti and this would have been the game every body’s thinking Yeah Tim Kean wasn’t happy about it no he wasn’t but there was a chance you know if the Jets were still in it that Aaron Rogers would have

Been playing football in this particular game what an electrifying Christmas Eve that would have been oh buddy walking out maybe give him a flag again yeah yes you know maybe give him a flag flag bingo bingo yeah yeah maybe it’s a sack or R red sack what if he’s on a sleigh

And all the lineman are pulling them oh yep they’d get hurt yeah them yeah they would not get her he’s not whipping him he’s got rains and he’s he’s raining them yeah same okay tomato tomato not I’m Das dancer prer com and and blit you know Doner sounds real close to

Something else with that Pittsburgh accent Jeffrey yeah yeah Don don’t deserve that Don’s a good Rainer he’s named after the da pass who do you got AJ who do you got give me give me Washington plus three whoa all right give me the Jets okay

That is the first one I know yeah I know I what do you want we’re all seeing the board the same no hey hey yeah this all happen why am I doing that what am I doing why not because they’re F they must be good their so it’s not like I

It’s hard to argue Way Big Time ah who KES bow all right give me the Jets yeah Detroit Lions Minnesota Vikings Lions favored by three in Minnesota AJ we know the lions are back on track give me the Lions minus three all right hell yeah

It’s kind of sucks this week you kind of agree on every one of them it’s easy board this week they all going to win yeah you know what like we it’s week 16 we know the teams that need to go yeah and we know the Vibes espe and the Lions

Just watch Stafford they don’t want that no way and it’s for the NFC North First Time in Forever oh this is a hat game oh yeah yes sir we’re getting are they going to have a hat big enough for mcdc you think they’re already making one to

Get one of those big hats actually oh big capping ging on the brim all right give me the Lions getting their hats and t-shirts congratulations NFC North Champions hell yeah that’s awesome Jaguars bucks bucks favored by three Trevor Lawrence though practicing today even though he’s still questionable in

Concussion protocol this is one of the games that Mike Lombardi really liked he liked the Jaguars taking on the Bucks man so I don’t understand that Trevor lawr can practice but he’s still in the protocol yeah I don’t we don’t know dude other positions do that I know there’s

All different stages whatever it doesn’t matter give me the Bucks minus three it doesn’t matter because Trevor Lawrence is great but I hope his health is all right so Trevor Lawrence is just like a guy who I think just says like nah you know he do care he’s old school you’re

Still in the concussion protocol we still need to clear a couple more things am I allowed to practice though like there nobody who’s going to hit me no contact is what you’re saying yeah all right I’m practicing I like Trevor LR he feels old school yeah that stat that

They mentioned last week he’s just never missed a game in his entire High School College NFL career all right give me the Jags I’ll take the Jags uh Dallas Cowboys Miami Dolphins Dolphins favored by one at home in Miami on grass yes you’re leading to me mhm you

Saying the Cow Dallas Cowboys defense and whole team doesn’t play well on grass no everybody says everybody says on the road y but Lombardi said it’s not on the road it’s on grass but they’re in Buffalo which is Turf right yeah but I tell you what though that Miami grass

Pat you know you get on that Miami grass you feel fast you feel great that is some that’s like you’re running on a nice green somewhere the whole game so I like Dallas here give me Dallas plus one okay I’ve been watching too many Hard Knock Clips give me the Miami Dolphins

And if Big Mike McCarthy was uh on Hardo this pick would be the Dallas Cowboys that’s what I would be doing right now how do we feel about a gumps we’re running the right now McDaniel’s got it figured out I think we uh I think we got

This one so what was it he was the Run game coordinator back in San Francisco yep and SL Bobby SL slowick was the pass game coordinator who’s now the offens coordinator for the Houston Texans correct back at the ners right and then now slowick is going to get a head

Coaching job probably because what the Houston Texans offense is doing should and KY Shanahan has been able to just kind of continue on with guys leaving and continuing to go with coordinator position right because we see MC Daniel’s offense and we see it throw throw throw throw throw and everybody’s

Like going against the Run game they’re like yeah you need to run the ball you need to run the ball he was like the Run game guy right at San Fran yep Gump yes yes yes sir how come they weren’t running there for a while I don’t know I

Think it was he think about everyone goes from like OC to head coach he went from Run game coordinator to head coach and calling the plays like I think that was a lot in one year I think he’s a little more calmed down this year and

The splits every game or like 50/50 pass and run all right give me the Dolphins I like them you like big Mike I understand it I can’t wait to watch that game they got we got some good ones Cardinals Bears Kyler Justin Fields now New England Patriots are watching this game

Closely very closely how come con man if the Cardinals win that essentially locks in the two seed or at least takes ar oh yeah the two-p pick two seed Jesus and uh kind of takes the Cardinals out of it there’s still an outside chance uh the

Commies kind of sneak up there because I believe they have four wins uh but this would be a massive Cardinals win Patriots are top three Marvin Caleb Drake okay Patriots are obviously keeping an eye on this as is the rest of the NFL four-point favorites at home are

The Chicago Bears you think they got to figure it out against Kyler I think the Bears do I think they uh I me I’m not saying they’re a finished product they Haven it figured out but I like the Bears in this game minus four at home I’m trying to figure out Kyler in

Chicago in December yeah cold wind I think it’s going to be decent though isn’t it at least in the Midwest it’s not super cold yeah just raining right it’s supposed to be like 50 or 60 something like that Monday I think it’s supposed to maybe crack into the is this

Yeah Sunday in h Chicago is high of 50 and no rain oh wow oh wow that’s a beautiful day CL what is it at night uh 48’s low so I don’t okay yeah all right Z baby L effect Lake Effect guys just got to keep that in mind get a lock

Holder easy come easy go that’s what they say wind chill there’s a bit of wind what is the wind 15 oh that’s nothing nothing bring the big coat 15 milph is a lot shout out to the punter what’s it Gustin 6070 it’s a lot could you imagine 6070

Mile hour winds dust of it imagine it happen to be fourth down field goal carries the ball out of the stadium it was completely calm on third down run a team 25 second play clock jogging out there 60 M hour Gus knocked over the entire down all right remember Tyler

Bass against the Patriots they tried him in Buffalo when the Patriots ran it oh yes yes Tyler bass jogged out there wasn’t really that windy and then see you yeah took it all right give me the Cardinals plus four hell yeah I saw Kyler run last week yeah James Conor I

Mean they just ran for 200 yards on the ners Bears are good though right now aren’t they like really good I also add on to the locker room has been super super with Justin like last couple cuz they keep talking about Caleb and uh Drake oh yeah I’ve heard uh DJ Moore

Came out and said something yeah whole defense basically oh the defense also came out and said something yes okay they’ve been watching film I assume they know yeah they felt what Justin Fields has done since what week six what what is it since week what has he really

Started turning it on I would say R around that time okay look at the Chicago Bears maybe figuring it out how was bagman all right I think they win but give me the Cardinals uh now Christmas Eve evening this is the one that everybody’s jacked up about oh yeah

A nice holiday classic where the Denver Broncos are favored by seven in Mile High against Bill bich in the New England Patriots con man how do you feel about the New England Patriots and zip on the ball zappy to take on Russell Wilson and the boys yeah I feel a lot

Better if that nine guy was suiting up that would be huge he’s our best player in Christian Gonzalez uh overall how do I feel like I have going into every other game let’s keep this thing close and let’s the bed okay seven points sure we could cover a seven point spread

But you know what story I kind of love this year Russ and Shawn pton coming together you know becoming one sympatico if you will even though he you’re talk of M this right now yeah yeah exactly no no I don’t want to win I’m being dead

Serious I have very much enjoyed the one in five Broncos to this you know new team now they need to win to stay in in it it’s very very hard to see a team who is 3 and 11 you know go into a team who’s competing for the playoffs house

Take him down especially Shawn Payton but in the end it doesn’t matter the Patriots are going to lose and the Broncos are going to win seven points I have no idea I don’t feel like I did last week with the Chiefs where it felt like they were going to cover I have no

Clue heyj what do you think I like the Broncos minus seven but with that being said it’s one of those games the the Patriots could come out and win by 14 or I think the Broncos could win by by it would be cool if judon was playing give

Me uh give me the Broncos yeah what’s the weather if it’s snowing then we have a chance to keep it close cuz Bill would just have an idea strategy of some sort yeah be able to do it oh it’s uh 31 and Sun okay it’s perfect for R Russ is

Going to it up Mile High he’s been training oh yeah he’s riding all over the place high for the day this is at night probably in the teens in Sun and night well the sun’s not going to be out it’s okay Portland son can’t zip on the

Ball zappy in the cold guy might freeze to death Bron Broncos favorite by 7 is who we’re all picking now let’s go to Christmas Raiders Chiefs old school rivalry in the AFC West who do you feel is going to win and how much are they

Going to win by AJ Hawk so I i’ like this Raiders team I like what Chris said keep it you know you you found your coach I believe but I like the Chiefs I think the Chiefs are going to find away I don’t know what they’ve been doing I

Know um who was it that told us you like we should be impressed when when we we talked to him was it yesterday like with how they’re able to win in different ways Bill coward basically said they just playing different football I think yeah different ways so give Andy Reid

Even more credit he is saying I’m not sure like yeah I get it I understand that but give me the Chiefs minus 10 I will also I love the Raiders I’m a big fan but I’m believer in uh chomet yeah yep Y and I’m believer in Patrick Maham especially after watching that

Quarterback series last off season yeah he’s a guy Christmas Taylor Swift’s whole family is probably going to be there Kel’s whole family’s probably they’re shaking Hans Jason Plays you know the day before right no right after them oh okay so maybe not Mama kill maybe Donna will be in Philly yeah we’ll

See I hope they do get to exchange pleasantries though about a match made in football Heaven that’s right am man maybe Kelsey even scores a touchdown too maybe maybe boy that’d be good yeah people are hoping for that I I’ll go back to the well I’m going bet it again

Yeah I’m going to hit it anytime touchdown Travis Kelce this week whatever hey way to go tra congrats J tra I’m proud of you tra way to bounce back a lot of a lot of distraction in Travis’s life oh yeah could have broken most people sure he’s been able to just

Maintain his professionalism what’s that I agree what are you saying I I agree what are you doing nothing I I just said I agree n that was your face you did like a full I like this cuz you said maintain and it’s like he’s having a

Good year not the same as last year but still I was talking about him as a human I was what you yeah what are you even talking he’s Ohio go hard my bad yeah Giants versus the Eagles 13 and Point favorites at home Tommy DeVito playing

Oh I don’t know do we what’s the word on who’s quarterback for the New York football giant s fishes on Tommy is back Tommy who Deo Tommy C Tommy C excited Bru Bruce pumped about that Jones um I’m I’m pretty worried about Tommy deito heading into the link on on Christmas

Day but hey it would be legendary if you pull it off Tommy a lot of Italians in Philadelphia as well you know a lot of Italians in uh we’ve heard from numerous Italians around the country that they bought into the NFL again because of the Tommy DeVito story hell yeah it was a

Beautiful one yeah now we got a little fragmented you know that shelf life out of Lombardi Chuck B saying playing a good D wait till you play good defense and then you got Sean Stato doing things Tom Deo didn’t know slipping through the cracks oh boy he’s going it seems like

There’s a lot right now it seems like it’s a lot you let things fall through the crack you fall through the crack boom that’s what Tony DEA said that’s what Tommy s said and they’ll never find you Paul thir cracks down in a plumbing and guess what Tommy

DeVito Sor does Bango he’s a plumber body end up in a msh give me the Philadelphia Eagles minus 13 and a half even though nothing says that they’re going to win this game by two scores nope I believe their record against the Giants over the last

Four years is something like 10 and one so but this year’s team is vastly different true and Jason Kel’s like yeah we’re just not playing as good as we should be it’s like we agree but we’re watching it but was that the moment in which it changed have the Philadelphia

Eagles hit the rock bottom Matt Patricia has a full week now with that defense and the boys preparing for Tommy DeVito just saw what Dennis Allen and the Saints were able to do against him now won’t watch the film about what Joe Barry did again they got the blueprint

There I think the Eagles win big here I do believe that the Eagles win big on Christmas Day could be a Get Right game for their dline too I think Tommy deito has been sacked like 55 times in five games so Tommy deito is tough though those cutlets are tough they’re not just

You know soft cutlets those are extra charred cut rolled in P yeah love in cap and M now we turn our attention to the Super Bowl preview yep the Baltimore Ravens with Keith vanoy and the boys yeah oh yeah travel to Santa Clara to take on numerous MV P

Candidates in a team that is smoking hot smoking hot six and0 in their last six but the Ravens can claim the same exact thing Lamar Jackson’s playing at an MVP level yet again brand new offense is continuing to find its stride they got weapons on that field Z flower’s meing

In the parking lot yeah obj’s making plays yep lik’s replaced Mark Andrews in a way that I don’t think anybody could have expected including Chris Long their defense hums they feel dis expected that they’re getting five points on the road 2 11 and three teams what are we talking

About what are we talking about AJ what are you talking about who do you think how do you think so I I get I get the Ravens being upset being offended going on the road five points does seem like a lot uh I don’t know if their players get

Caught up in that stuff I love that Keith vanoi is on that graphic we’ve been popping up all week great job Gertie I like the ners here give me the Niners I think they’re they continue to roll boom Brock P here we go MVP Baltimore Ravens can add us into their motivation

Clips give me the San Francisco 49ers that is how I feel I have felt and I believe that they’re yeah they’re the team I’m not the only one OB there’s a lot of people that feel this way that’s because we’re all watching we’re all seeing and we’re all kind but will the

Ravens be able to get them off hard ball great coach great culture great program they got dogs all over the place so the Niners that’s like uh kind of the conversation and what happens this weekend does not mean it’s going to happen down the road all it’s a nice

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Fantastic week I know people got to hit the road back to their families I will see you all on Tuesday AJ have a fantastic Christmas over there pal you too your first one with uh Lil Mackenzie right that’s awesome yeah she’s uh she’s all dressed up in Christmas stuff today

With the wife and uh mother-in-law they went and did some Christmas it was nice I was seeing some photos and it was cute yeah that’s awesome this old baby is awesome this old baby is awesome all the traveling fellas safe travels enjoy yourselves tell your family we’re very

Grateful for them and tell the people that you get to talk about about how dumb this show is oh yeah and how thankful we are that people watch every single day and allow us to go through life alongside of you now I very much understand that there is a lot of

Opportunities to watch other stuff I understand that some of the times this particular program is terrible it is ass and for Christmas I Santa Claus for a good show every day but I don’t think that’s going to happen no Santa’s only got so much time but the fact that you

Allow us to be a part of your life we are eternally grateful for we hope you have the greatest Christmas of all time we hope your mindset is in a fashion where you reflect upon the year that was and understand that maybe it wasn’t perfect but next year is going to be

Even better I hope you see your family and friends and you remind them that you love them because you have no idea what’s going to happen tomorrow and I hope Santa Claus does you all very well have a good one you’re the greatest we love the hell out of you be a friend

Tell a friend something nice it might change their life Merry Christmas goodbye