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You are listening here Tuesday, March 12th myself at Nick Morado at Boston Connor at Evan foxy for the last couple of days have been a couple Road Hawks. See, that's the type of shits going to get us kicked out of the hotel. What are you gonna do just a birdcall because we are the road Hawks save it save it. Okay, we've been on the road here. Okay with WWE on Saturday afternoon when there was a tornado happening in the midwest. Yeah, we're talking about orange and red zone the dopplers all the way across, Indiana and Ohio. We suited and booted in jumped into Frank more Otto's, brother. Brand new Jeep Wrangler. Nice jeep take this car is brand-new brand-new Zach drove it three times. Not a lot of me lays miles on this Jeep Wrangler. Hmm don't even know how to move the seat like up and back actually haven't figured out all the buttons on the car yet how brand-new it is for Nick and this is something because Nick is had to Subaru for about 45 years. Now long time 10 years. Let's be honest. I mean I paid thing off thought I was going to drive it into the ground, but, you know, I decided to treat myself reward myself. I said Nicky Wu Card, yeah, you do. Hmm. You're one of the most humble and honest people, you know, probably the best in the history of being humble and better at being hung ever best I've ever known. Yeah, so I said, okay, it's time reward yourself get yourself a new vehicle. So I did and here we are. We take it to Cleveland. We have a nice night. I'll show at the ride a little bit. I need a ride to Cleveland. We we went right into the eye of a storm Monsoon if you will first of all, This is Nick's car, but Nick was not driving on this trip. All right, everybody knows it's listen. Ya gotta go sure just don't ride. I don't do the right thing. I know it's not my thing. I've had to do burr drivers get out of the driver's seat and sit shotgun while I drive their Uber car. I don't like riding in cars. I don't mind driving but I can't just sit there and get antsy. I get I get annoying to the driver to I just get carsick. I mean, there's so many negatives to me sitting in a car driving like One over trip around Pittsburgh here. And I almost vomited. This dude was driving a minivan. I can't do it. I can drive though. So since we were going to hit the road to Cleveland where the fast lane was visit WWE invited us to come what awful place by the way, we'll get to that too Nick just buried Cleveland the entire time he refused to embrace the place, right? Yeah, as we were certain he was refused embrace the place. There's a lot of history in Cleveland. Oh, yeah a lot of history you ever heard of The first-ever enclosed shopping center 1890 right there in Cleveland didn't call it a mall. They called it an arcade interesting naming but still a good thought I've heard were screaming from the rooftops about in Cleveland and proud of unbelievable beautiful place. We literally just walked into it. What a joke embarrassing. That's what see what you're hearing here is exactly how he acted in there, but didn't your time getting there. It was a rough one. I mean it was windy in that Jeep Wrangler and Jeep Wranglers. I had one whenever I was in high school. That thing is a box. So that thing like if Mother Nature wants to give a good help below the Jeep Wrangler goes. Oh, no, you don't really pay off. Yeah, it does. It does some dodging it was moving. It was raining very hard very hard. There's a lot of rain hitting the windshield also maybe rocks hitting the windshield a few potential rocks because we drove right into a storm and really there's nothing anybody could do you never know what's gonna pop up? No because there was like the trucks were driving up in the trucks. Were they an Eels you do the math 9 on each side 9 Wheels kicking up Rain. Yep, and and shit off the road into the Jeep Wranglers thing. Scary situation could only see about a hundred feet in front of you too. I don't even know hundred feet generous very generous. There was a couple times where I was very confused old isil 10. I didn't know I didn't know we're still on the road a couple times when there wasn't a car in front of us with her brake lights. It got a little sketchy there. I'ma be honest. I think we played it off. I think we played it off. Yeah one great. Yeah, it went. For sure, I'm glad I wore my NASA jumpsuit because you drive a car like a spaceship. We're going we're going no, we weren't a lick under 90 that entire ride and keep in mind this whole time. We're just slowly moving with the the orange Doppler radar that's going from Indianapolis to Cleveland. We kept up with the storm. Yeah, that's probably because I think this storm was moving at the exact same Pace as I said, even when we stopped to get gas the storm was like, you know, what? Yeah, let's take a piss break. Yeah, they stuck with us the entire. Trip for me to Cleveland and I am a good driver are aligned. I taught me how to drive I drove the pace car at in the Angie's List. I don't know how many hundreds Angeles that was Grand Prix. There wasn't a hundred. It was a Grand Prix was an IndyCar race where they had a street course though. Okay. Do you know I'm talking about Street course? Yeah. So there's like 13 or 14 turns. I don't remember the exact if you would ask me right afterwards. I would have known because I memorized this course but I wasn't supposed to be the guy. Okay supposed to be like an actual celebrity. Oh cuz he drops out like two days before the race two days before they Angie's Gran Jesus Grand Prix because he drops out two days before so Doug bowls. Good guy at the I Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He married Connor Daly's mother Garner daily doing a podcast for the Indy star by the way, so oh nice, huh? Hmm Andie star hmm. He let us break the news that he was in thing. Sure how we feel about Carla. I mean, I like the colors in front of our seat, okay? Let me if he's gonna Buck us. There's literally a podcast company in town that he's friends with small business small business. That's what I'm saying. I know the show just connecting dots local journalist Joe local journalism, though. I mean, you gotta do what you gotta do, but in my head, I'm like wait a minute. Curious anyways, Doug most married his mom and Doug bowl is sends me a text and says on Saturday. Would you like to drive the pace car for the Angie's List Grand Prix? And I said, is this a real question? There's because yes, I would love to do that. He goes. Okay. Don't tell anybody I have to see if you're cleared by Chevy. So Chevy has to give the clear. So I guess he tells Chevy Chevy hops in a plane flies to Indianapolis on Friday and they're like you're going to take some practice. Rounds head Chevy people are smart buy them. Yep, very smart, but they Googled me in at that point. Not the best resume. I mean, we had the mugshot first things popping up. So the Chevy people were like it will goddamn so they show up. It's a stick. It was a Corvette. It's a nice car that thing was very nice and I had never seen the course before so the other guy who's supposed to do it. I guess he had like the the course sent to him on a paper for him to memorize a couple weeks beforehand. I had no idea so Behind the wheel and I've driven a stick before but I knew the Chevy people were a little bit worried about what could potentially go wrong because you crashed that car make Chevy look very bad and the Grand Prix has a lot of turns so it's not just like a left turn left turn. It's a left left. Right? Left left left. Right? It's like life left, you know, it's not easy right left left right left. It's not just left left left left left. Right right left slow right sharp left like you turn. It was Justin slow down. No. No, you don't drift in any car because then you lose all your leverage. But anyways, this guy he's an idiot. It was a question. It was definitely a question was a question that right at the Apex. There was a great come on you you might want the same classes. I want to because you sounded a lot like me sounds use in the car. Club he knows he was in nitrous rush. I was not a mean either though. So I want in there. No nitrous Rush no car club. Just me and Ari line Dyke who happens to have the fastest lap in Indy 500 history living fun fact for you. Yeah. I don't know if he's the fastest car ever on the track or the fastest lap on the track. What are the other his kid was on The Bachelor which just ended I think last night from what I've been told I wished I was here because Ty knows the bachelor does this would be like a very topical pop culture thing for us to do this could take this show to a whole nother level if we did a entire Bachelor breakdown. I know his name's Colton Colton hop the fence. I know he hopped the fence just get out. It was a pretty good, huh. There's a lot of other people having fences that shouldn't be hopping fences. I know everybody knows when you hop a fence use get those hands on top and then you just let it do what it do. You just give a little springboard off top there. Anyways, he were in the Corvette to Chevy suits their. Oh, okay. They were very Just me though, very nice. And I thought about because I have a lot of cars now. I have a car that it has over 600 horsepower. That's I have a Shelby. I have a Tesla. It's like literally the quickest car on the road it moves. I have a lot. Of course. I have some experience in the car game Chevy people don't know this though. So I thought about as soon as I get in the car, there's like a ceremonial picture happening and I'm pulling off I thought about giving that thing a little hungry. I thought about giving a little more huh. Oh and give her a little burn of the rubber. Oh, yeah. So cuz he knows how to flutter the clutch. Yeah. Yeah, and I was like Mom and Dad were there I believe like this is a big moment. Yeah, I didn't I didn't ice ice. I want to get this job. This would be a cool thing to do functional. So I just want to slowly walk. I'm happy to know that I can do an impression of the good you should things take What's his name Chewbacca Chewbacca, Chewie Chewie. Chewie the walkie. Of course. He's that big hairy. Yeah crossbow that look the mom put the mask on did the thing in the car. And then she was on all the late night talk shows. That's the thing. Hmm. I'm a big fan of that thing. Anyway, sorry line Dyke is a guy. I think he's from the Netherlands Dutch. I think he's Dutch. He has an accent really cool. I do things. I can't stand go on people who are intolerant of other people's cultures. Yep in the Dutch. Such absolutely Cleveland, that's you and Cleveland that's three things because she is not a culture. Let's be honest. He was burying Cleveland. I hate do marrying Cleveland. Yeah, why is he leaving was nice by the way and to get there I drive a car lined like because I drove that course for three hours on one night in the Chevy people were just waiting there basically like we're going to watch him run every single one this motherfucker with a mug shot with the hair looking like God damn Gary Busey. That's awesome. Bitch ain't crashing this thing and already line. I was like an incredible coach incredible good. Yeah, I learned the line that night. I learned like everything I would he gave me one to take home. Like he really was invested in me. And then whenever it was show time, I mean he was like let's go and he was lying to the people about how fast we were going like during the celebration laps. Are youse all in I like. Yeah. He was lying to them. They're like on the here on the headset on headset thing. They're like, what's your what's your speed or something like that? And he was reading the speed and he and I were both looking at speedometer. I'm like It's my fucking read like 75 kilometers. He's now he was like, yeah, I don't know. I think it might have been in that anyways accused he was asking because he was just saying 15 under well, that's the way it was telling him it. We're going 90. We're at like 105 because I think he wanted me to go faster. He was very nice of him. He was like go for it go for it. But I learned the lines you see in the vision in whatever you look in your rear-view mirror by the way, and You see like 32 of those little rocket ships at those fucking idiots driving. It's very interesting because they're up on your shit, especially in those turning ones. Right and I just had to keep the Blinder shot just below on how to keep the Blinder shot. So every time I get a car now, that's the confidence that I drive with. I'm big racing guy and obviously I know this but for the people who don't know what a line is perhaps yeah. What is that while you go in low out High you go in low out high so that you can utilize the momentum coming out of the turn to Continue to propel your car at the fastest possible fashion. And on those ND tracks that I race on and drive on if you get off the line, there's this thing called marbles which is like rocks because it's been cleared it on the lines cleared. So when you're off the line all the shit's been kicked in and it's called the marbles because it sounds as if marbles are in your tires. It's like they've really does sound like it eat you the car is telling you like, you know, you're not supposed to fucking be out here. That's what the car is telling you so you soon as you get back. Line, there's no sound so you can continue to go that makes sense stay off the marble stay off the marbles bro, but I go for it. When I get a car most aggressive driver I've ever been with for sure aggressive in a good way like finesse finesse. I couldn't passive for know both skillfully, but aggressive because even in situations where you don't have to be aggressive, you'll finesse your way just to get an extra five seconds just only five seconds. Hey when you know, you're fit, you know you're fit and you know how to ski Please between the truck and I'll tell you what the best is what I make those place, you know, I make those places and the people in a passing me at the red light like what that we get up there and it's just like it's just a slow. It's always just a slow look from the other people and then it's a nasty one wonders why they're so disgusted that they're sharing the road with somebody who drives like me like get off my dick. You see I move I just made get out of here, bro. I like driving. I got good vision. It's maybe good soccer and out of Cannon probably would have been good running back if I wasn't soft. Yeah, I can see it. Those are Glory Days. Yeah. Well, you know the puns and worked out so we don't have to think about Frank or running backs. Hey, you guys learned a lot about us here how the road Hawks. I just want to let you know that the right higher can make a huge impact on your business. That's why it's so important to find the right person. But where do you find that individual? You can post a job on a job board and Hope the right person will find your job, but think about it. How often do you hang out on job boards? Yep, answer that one through all of our heads was never don't leave finding someone great to chance when you can post your job to a place where people go everyday to make connections grow in their career and discover job opportunities you go to LinkedIn. 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Yeah, Boston Market still bangs. Hey, oh boss boys bangs bro. So good. We had a quick pit stop there and everybody here had an incredible meal except for the one person who ordered a deli sandwich from Market rotisserie chicken spinning in the back. He ordered a Subway sandwich from Boston Market. I had a child. I had an entire rotisserie chicken in front of me. Nick had an entire Thanksgiving meal. I believe Evan Fox had like a barbecue a barbecue chicken sandwiches chicken sandwich and Connor the twelve-year-old of the group of the Boston the youngest Hawk. Yes, the loudest talk from Boston at Boston Market just ordered complete shit in was roasted for what he was wearing what he E8 not only by us but sweet old ladies and Tiny towns in Ohio. I mean, here's the thing guys. Like you said, I'm the youngest Road Hawk here. Not all the Hawks get the good meat some have to get the runt of the litter and I know that I'm not gonna go up there and get a rotisserie chicken. How do I know you three don't want to go up for round two. I'm not going to steal that Thunder for you. Yeah, give me the runtime. Hold on. Hold on. There's literally 42 chicken spinning and it did you see that place and they had headsets on in there were standing four feet away from each other, which was a magical moment magical Connor. Somebody in trouble because they refuse to use a headset. They just turn around and talk to the other person and I got yelled at for not use the headset has quite a situation quite kind of scene which is kind of what happens whenever Connor goes anywhere. By the way. I need you to get me a rotisserie chicken. What what God just give me a rotisserie chicken. Hey, hey. Oh, yeah, literally it Hotel 1208. This is what I was just about to talk about his situation situational awareness is dog shit and Connors is such dog shit. Thunder part we walk into a quiet hotel where the WWE is put us in which is what we're in right now screaming in a room, but we walk into this the oldest indoor mall shopping center in the history of America. It's about this beautiful architecture and Connor just walks into and just starts yelling and it just starts fucking echoing through this whole place you think panels from 1890 about the fall off the wall from his piercing shrieking voice. It's your situational awareness 101. He don't got it. Yeah, we got to the casino and Cleveland. We went some money Diner, you know blackjack dealer was very nice. Dealing are you lot of heaters for us we go over the craps table got kind of bullied by the dealers. Oh, yeah, but to be honest, I kind of bullied I lost some money there, but we ended up up as a group go to sleep. Call it a night next day prepare for fastening WWE fastening did a watch long thing. It was a great time. Awesome. You slayed it three and a half hours. Was that long time? Yeah, long time. We're watching WWE Fastlane a lot of things happen there Live on YouTube Twitter and Facebook for the WWE and it was a blast. A lot of people came. Through very thankful for all the guests that came through. I enjoyed everything about it. The Revival did a dirty dance situation two men very large and tough men that a dirty dance scene and then they touch their beards through each other which was magical and the other like puzzle pieces. The ikonics talked about Australia a little bit. They believe it's a real place because we did dive into that in the car a little bit don't ask. I mean I did I had to ask there's a real conspiracy out there that I did not know until yesterday like Diggs is in on it. He said it a couple times. I thought that was just a dumb digs thing. It's no no, it's a real thing like people believe that Australia is a hoax. Yeah, South America. I mean there's a serious case that Australia is just actually South America. Well, they say that every commercial pilot that flies to Australia is in on it and they just fly to South America instead in all the accents are computer generated. This is a real thing on the internet. Anyways, I don't know a lot of Australian people so I got to sit down with to Australia. I mean a place that just is filled with beautiful women and Graham models and in deadly creatures sounds a little fishy. So what you said fire Festival right there I heard it. Yeah exactly. That was all Fantasyland. Something to think about I asked them they said they think it's real so they're from there. They said they think it's real apparently that's what they would say. But all you got to do if you're if you're there the whole time if you're told yellow is green entire time and whole life you're going to believe that and if the pilots every single pilot that flies every single plane from every different commercial airliner that travels from every single country big pilots in on it with your big Pilots all in on it, whatever you leave. You never know because that Pilots saying welcome to Australia. Goodbye see Australia. Yeah flying around pieces of Australia South America, you never know did the fast line thing was a blast drove here to Pittsburgh hit up the casino and Rudy subs today really substance great great sandwiches our CFO who is rocking a pretty solid ponytail. Yeah, and he's also rocking a pretty nice beard on his shoulders. He's got the hairiest arms I've ever seen in my entire life, but he was supporting the merch not a lot of the sleeveless Saudis are out there. So he has one in he has massive arms great beard is wildly hairy arms. Yeah. We took Took those hairy arms right to the casino. And guess what we did again in Pittsburgh. We proceeded to go ding a ling a ling a ling a ding a ling a ling a ling a ding a ling a ling a ling a ding ding ding jackpots. Jackpots God hot on. The blackjack table. All of us did was a road Hawk sweep of that black jacket not to mention the roulette walk it out. Oh see you later hundred bucks. Everybody puts on black. Let's keep it moving we go to the cashier. We all cash out. We're going to go to Monday Night Raw in Pittsburgh. We get a couple extra cash. Connor sees Four Wheel of Fortune slot machines staring at him staring staring so Connor walks over there and he goes well, which ones yeah laughs loud very loud very loud. There's four options there. He doesn't know he doesn't pick which one arms Phil tells him. The second one from the left is the one he likes Nick just cuts in front of him sits down in the one right next to that three max, but spins, whammy whammy whammy Wheel of Fortune thing goes off? Laughs here we go. Spin to Win It says the highest number on there is 1000 Frankie boy won't you hit 1000. You got it. We screamed we screamed in that thing all of a sudden ding a ling a ling a ling a ding a ling a ling a ling a couple more hundos into pocket for oh Nick brodo. Connor could have had that one. He was indecisive. He only one like 20 bucks into one next to it still a winner. So wondered which is a routine for us. It's starting to become something we do. Now it's time to move on to our all-time favorite Underdog success story movement. The watch has found it on belief that style shouldn't break the bank. They sold almost two million watches worldwide by bringing quality designs at fair prices movement watches are all about looking good while keeping it simple. 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I mean we did our part we were into it. I lost my voice. I'm actually losing my voice right now the which never happens to be you can ask my mom that is not a month. I'm gassed. I feel like I went to war out there I feel Like I wrestled I'm exhausted. A lot of people got beat up in front of us. Yeah, a lot of them. I don't like it. I was pounding on the boards are like he was a hockey game. Let's go boys Triple H. Dave Bautista created one of the most memorable moments give about moments in in a long time where David he says begging for what he wants. Yeah. Give me what I want. Give me what I want. He says very angrily and we just said Mac frou-frou Monday Night Football mmm, because there's one guy today that I talked to who wanted to motivate me. To continue to push that gear and yep, there's a little part of free agent frenzy because we will dive into that entirely right after this conversation with the beautiful Rich Eisen that happened on NFL Network, by the way, I will mention this at the end of this interview. The NFL Network had me on a show. Good morning football know and if L am wasn't in the show. Yep. I was like a weekly guest on there. There's like my people I flew out in the offseason woke up at like 1:00 a.m. Because they filmed it in LA was a morning show did the whole thing, then that that show got pulled who canceled. Oh see ya. Oh, and I've never been back on another NFL Network show. Never Never been aspect except for on the internet on the internet. They have me on the internet show on the check down and stuff like that never been asked back. So today Rich. Eisen was doing his show on NFL Network sends me a text goes. Hey, I'd like to have you on their phone network with me. They I said welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back. And it won't well All-Pro puncher Pat McAfee here on the Rich Eisen show on the NFL Network. How are you Patrick? I'm fantastic after that incredible introduction. Mr. Eisen. Thank you so much for that. Also, since we are talking free agent frenzy in the Frantic behind it all. Yes, you could also say I was once franchise tag to that introduction, but you didn't no worries you miss him. Every once in a while in order to be here NFL network is a great place to be I appreciate that in this free agent friends, and now when you were franchise tag, See the franchise tag was placed on you or slapped on you would you say it was flat rate my face. Definitely you were not sitting slapper it what's that? We were not pleased with the franchise tagging you didn't want to be franchise tag is upon her know. I was very excited. It was more money than I could have ever imagined in my entire life all of my contracts with the NFL were but it was definitely put upon me like yeah, you're not going anywhere. No, we're not negotiating with you anymore. We'll see if you have another good year. I am right on the face. That's what happened. But I loved it. It was a lot of guaranteed money made my family very comfortable and it's just the NFL is the league to never stops giving just like it's doing today with massive amounts of Brinks trucks being backed up into people's homes all over the country right now. So are you in the city of Pittsburgh right now the great City of Pittsburgh Patrick, I am city of bridges city of chance. So what are our city lights what Primanti Brothers Here? I am right in the middle of it for WWE Monday Night Raw and it is an electric place right now with this Antonio Brown news was some give me the general sense of Fans are thinking he endures here love the Ben Roethlisberger love that he can sling the ball all over the yard. Any yard, very excited that Antonio Brown has gone. Very excited that led Bell is gone. He endures think that they were bringing a lot of drama to this city. They think that the team is much more likable now, although they might not be as talented it even though they only got a third and the fifth rounder for Antonio Brown they still feel as if the Steelers have one because they can move past the Real Housewives. Wives of Pittsburgh situation that was happening inside the locker room. I have no idea if that's true or not because the Cleveland Browns seem to be getting better and better I'll be excited to see what happens in the AFC North but he endures everywhere are rejoicing for Antonio Brown being gone, and I'm not sure that's the right play. I'm not saying they're right at all, but they seem to be happy about it all being over and moving for what do you think's happening in the locker room are in Pittsburgh? What do you think? I don't know managing egos. I think you and I have talked about this managing egos is a huge part of The modern NFL I mean with the way social media is everybody's our own brand everybody's our own business the ability to handle people who are great at things is a huge part of management these days, so I'm not sure if that will scare away other superstars from coming to the beautiful city of Pittsburgh in the future. I'm just thinking that they're hoping that the young stars like Juju and whoever else comes in to fill in is just takes a different path, but I think right now if you look at the Steelers organization, you'll be one that is he Historically great a lot of wins. They got a passionate fan base. But here in the recent history has been surrounded by drama due to not being able to manage attitudes and personalities and I think that's very obvious and this next phase nextera. The Stiller's are going to be a very impressive one will see how many more years Ben Roethlisberger has thrown a ball around here in Pittsburgh. Well Pat McAfee, if as I said at the beginning of this frenzy as well as my show the Rich Eisen show as its named and if Antonio Brown Instagram, Lon, And tweeted his way in a way into the spot that he wanted how has your social media campaign to get you in the Monday Night Football see going right now Pat. I think the campaign went very well. You know it got you and do a little bit of trouble with Kurt Warner, which I love I absolutely love that. That's right. We trended for 10 hours McAfee for Monday Night Football our Intel which means my agents told me. Yes that the day after we trended for 10 hours there was An entire meeting at ESPN for the Monday night football position. My name was mentioned less than once. So I think the media campaign that we ran what I think the campaign was a good one, but we're not results-oriented here. I don't think that we're going to get the results that we're looking for. But we definitely disrupted the whole situation and you helped out immensely with that. So I'm thankful for you forever. So you refer to in the past tense, it's over just because he asked me and held a meeting and you were imagine once Pat come on. It'll be doing come on with right. Listen. Sometimes you gotta Get your ass out there and you find that dog, you know, sometimes you've got to do that and we went for there was a lot of tweets. There was a lot of action there was a lot of movement but there's really nothing we can do for not the meeting. I mean that's pretty important meeting to be a part of this are if you're campaigning for a position that people control and then the people that control that are having a meeting and they don't even mention your name that's going to be tough to keep campaigning but I'm all about getting back on the trail sending some tweets out some character some hashtag and see if we can make Monday night's who most electric side of football again, but it's not my decision. It has to be made so it's not yours either. We just got sit back and see what happened. Yeah, just and let the chips fall Before I Let You Go, can we put up on the screen? My friends at the NFL Network put up on the screen the top free agent punters because punters are free agents to Pat Bradley pinion Pat O'Donnell Ryan Alan if you're if you're want to left legged variety, Jordan Barry and Donny Jones, what do you think of this class of free agents for punters pet? Okay. So Donnie bag of Bones Jones has enough swag to carry and fill in and Our locker room. He's also a Super Bowl champion who came out of retirement big Lefty hits the ball high and far down the middle of the field. So you're depending upon what you want. He only has one ball, but it's a good ball. Ryan. Allen has been in massive situation. So, you know, the butthole isn't going to pucker if you're in a big spot, which is a big deal for a specialist because there's a lot of pressure on you Bradley pinion has the ability to be a great partner. He hits the ball. Well, it goes far. I'm not sure he's got into a consistency that he's looking for. We'll see if that happens in a new ooh spot San Francisco. Also a very windy Place Pat O'Donnell has become a completely different punter. He eliminates returners. He's not going to put up the huge numbers, but he's not going to give up many return yards as well. I'll be excited to see what he does. And then there's the Australian bomber Jordan Barry who has a cannon of a leg from Down Under but I don't know if he's confident at the time being enough to step on the field and do it every single time. You get them a little bit of cash maybe that builds the confidence. There's a lot of bombers out there ready to hit balls and fourth Downs I'll be excited to see where the chips fall if we're talking and Rich Eisen terms. Thank you. Pat bless you sir. You're you're a man who should not give up. I just heard some analysis that's in all four down analysis. They call Landon Collins a box safety. You are not a box broadcaster sir. If I may say wow, that makes me feel really good. I'm about to run through a brick wall here. Maybe send out another tweet. Maybe I'll just go camp outside of Bristol and see if they'll take a call or a conversation with me but rich I can't Thank you enough. I'm not sure if Chris is in there. Tell him I said what's up? Thanks for having me back on NFL Network. The last time I was on here the show got canceled and they never got a lot of fun. Thank you so much. I take care of before the brand has you cooking this Pat McAfee bringing the frenzy to the free agency frenzy free agency was insane. We talked about a lot on there a lot of things happen. We are in Pittsburgh. We just talked about before that how we got to Pittsburgh Antonio Brown situation seems to be one that this entire place is excited about a lot of things. Happen today, though. Nick is going to run through those what do instant reaction. If we have any just know that the NFL is handing out cash right now. Yo a lot of people making a lot of money. It's almost make me want to go get some balls. Hey, if they survive they start overvaluing Butters like it what is happening in a lot of things like this. Hey almost almost dumb not to go back. We'll see except for the vitamins th and see go ahead and let go through the rundown. All right, let's start at the top the most money here Nick Foles quarterback, obviously from Philadelphia to Jackson. Evil 4 years 88 million dollars, they couldn't wait to get rid of Blake Bortles. I mean, there's paying a lot of money right there. And I think this is a good move for them. They've got a good team may be a defense will be re-energized with Super Bowl champion their Super Bowl MVP. I think it's good news and good move for Jacksonville Jaguars arguably the prize of free agency or on the defensive side Landon Collins free safety going from the Giants to division rival. That skins more pissed off about this. Yeah. Everybody's going a good teams right teams are right. Getting built up Rams getting good players. The lions are becoming a good we go it would you say the lions are making place which one's the the animals. Nope the Detroit Detroit Lions. Hey, I'll tell you what foxy foxy has been a lions fan for a long time whole life through a lot of hard times 24 years of it when I talked to Matt Patricia before that Packers Lions game. He basically said like I just need to get my guys in here my type of guys in here the Patriot Way is what They're looking for and they have been making Patriot Place. Yeah, they've literally been making pictures not Overlook the McAfee bump in this entire thing with them a Patricia conversation. Absolutely and week. They go to Lambeau you're calling the game. One of the lines ever beat the Packers and held them to 0.8 and shut them out. Exactly. I have a bad thought I'll take credit for it if that's the case because it looks like they're putting together quite a team there man, but Landon Collins goes the Redskins. It's like what are we doing stuff? I mean he had a good career. I guess. I don't know. I mean, he's gonna go there for another stream here. Like, why are the Redskins doing this Michael do let him go to a good let him go to at eat like a team team. Yeah Contender. Yeah. Yeah speaking contenders Trent brown leaves New England goes to the Oakland Raiders four-year deal 54 million dollars. Yeah. Well, I'm sorry 66 million dollars was looking below here Kwan Alexander. The linebacker goes from Tampa Bay to San Francisco on a four-year deal for 54 million dollars Mitch Morse the senator from Kansas City going A buffalo for years forty four million dollars Tyrann Mathieu the safety the honey badger from Texans to the Kansas City Chiefs Vice of Chase very good. They needed some help how much 3 years 42 million. Oh my God. He's so rich, by the way, it happened and he's so good and remember at people at LSU people are trying to act like him having a marijuana failed test is going to ruin his life. This guy just played football man. He used to dominate college football now dominates in the NFL now, he's on a Now, he's on a real Team Realty. Let's see what happens here. We had tray flowers going from New England to Detroit to your lines foxy. Good pass rusher their Connor. You want to say your say your piece here Trey? Thank you for I know you're listening. Thank you for everything you did for us Madam L literally think the neighbors just woke up there. I did hear some stirring. I think we're getting it out Adam unfreeze wide receiver going from Tampa Bay to Tennessee for your deal 36 million dollars just in Coleman cornerback from Seattle to Detroit for years 36 million dollars cream Jack. Peace and safety from Houston to Denver three years 33 million dollars Malik Jackson the d-tackle leaving Jacksonville Jacksonville going to Philly for three years 30 million James and Crowder. This was an interesting one wide receiver leaving the Redskins going to the Jets three years 20 mil can have a Carro strong safety Tennessee resigns with Tennessee for year 26 million dollar deal Rob Halford Atlanta to Arizona 22 million dollars. Wow. Let's see what else we got. Here are quite old. Leaving Baltimore going to the rims to your deal. Devin funchess. Oh, yeah, come to Coast. Let's go finally decide to spend some of that a hundred million dollars. They got one year deal patient Chris Powers being patient. Yeah. We know he's being face right slow game. We know this guy knows what he's doing. No, Dwayne Allen leaving New England going to the Dolphins in Miami to your deal by Dwayne Danny Amendola. Why is the beautiful beaches of Miami heading up to the Gilmore by the way, even on Troy till do more? It'll do more than just on the field stuff. You gotta remember that's a good veteran locker room presents their Championship mentality, you know stand speaking of that. So we got Carlos Hyde go from Jacksonville Casey on a one-year deal. And then we have Frank Gore going from Miami's god-awful. Oh awesome that's going to be a ground and pound up or Frank or anything else. Those are the notables. Okay. So this is what the NFL realizes about itself anytime. It wants it can take over the new cycle. Yes. This is taking over not only Rappaport sent out a tweet that he was going to Buffalo Bills and then I just heard the entire behind-the-scenes Story the NFL free agency process is absurd and here's a conversation with a guy who's been inside of it for decades decades and I talked to him for all right there on the phone about four or five minutes after I woke up this morning. It's probably going to be obvious early, but I think the conversation well, well ladies and gentlemen joining me now while While I sit in a hotel in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this man has been breaking news and Reporting on the greatest league in Earth the NFL for years and years and decades and decades you can hear him now on the radio and Seattle. You can also hear him with his own podcast. He's a legend on ESPN and just in the reporting game in general ladies and gentlemen, Braddock, Pennsylvania native do Came grad, John Clayton Pat. How are you? And what are you doing in Pittsburgh? Are you feeling Antonio Brown or what you and I both know. I'm nowhere near that athletic. I'm actually here with the WWE. But thank you for bringing up what I want to ask the one and only professor of this whole thing. It seems as if the Steelers might have an ego management problem with les Belles James Harrison now. Antonio Brown is this an issue that's going to happen going forward or they can have to rebuild an entire young team around Juju a solid defense and an aging Ben Roethlisberger. What do you think happens at the Pittsburgh Steelers next? I think they've now taken care of the problem because Le'Veon Bell is going to leave in free agency they made the trade. So I think they've cleaned up the locker room now and I think everybody in the locker room knows who's in charge. I mean, it's Ben Roethlisberger and you've got to perform the way he wants. I think that Antonio had problems with that level. On was just more money oriented than anything else. And so when you put that all together, it's a now. I think it's a younger team clearly because you know Brown was in his 30s bellicose still in his prime, but they're not going to be as talented. But I do think the locker room situation is going to be cleaned up and it needs to be cleaned up because you can see it got out of control Mike. Tomlin has to make sure that the he has everybody now more disciplined if guys are missing practice or showing late for meetings and all that. If not, he's not going to get a contractor. Act extension. So I think the situation has now been cleaned up, but unfortunately for the Steelers are not as talented as a team, I think and I've been saying this a little bit managing egos is a real thing in the NFL especially with the generation. We're in now everybody has a social media everybody's kind of their own operating business. Everybody wants. The flex managing egos is a real thing. The Steelers have not been great with it. They have not been great with it. Do you think if Yuju becomes this massive superstar in a couple of years. They're going to have the same problem or do you think it was strictly a case-by-case basis in a couple unfortunate situations now, I'd basically a case-by-case basis and I think in the case of dude you he's pretty humble and I think he's not going to go in that direction Antonio has always been a little bit different as far as how he handled things because you can see that the there's a little bit of Diva and him and I think and, you know from being in a locker and a winning team for such a long period of time I'm the longer. You're there. Sometimes, you know the players that have been there eight nine years. They lose the voice of the coach because they've heard every speech, you know, they they have a personality differences that develops but I think at this stage this this is now clean the locker room up and made things get not as talented, but I think they should be okay going from here the first weekend of the NCAA tournament is the greatest better. 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You play you win you get paid go get rich my bookie. Dot AG use promo code Pat get a 50% deponent bonus on your first deposit the bonus. Listen you get a 50% the bonus get it good deal. I'm gonna make a bet right now. I bet the rest of the show is going to be fantastic. Oh, I think that but I also bet that we're all going to get rich with my bookie because Connor has been studying college basketball has been like a study hawk-i the road hog, but a study Hawk. Let's just hope he isn't. Blocking any of us from getting a lot of money from us. Okay, so the Steelers obviously your big storyline as other Raiders. They're potentially looking into Levi Bell as well. I guess pro football talk reported. Can I ask you about story dropped it like 1 a.m. By Ian Rapoport that says that Antonio Brown is going to the Buffalo Bills whenever this free agent frenzy comes to be it's the Insiders Paradise. It's time for the John Clayton is the chef ters that The paper or not the Kuiper's the mortensen's everybody like this is the time of year. How did those conflicted stories get reported? They for instance Amendola was going back to the Patriots and now he's with the Lions. How does that stuff happen? Is it all just a work in progress? All these negotiations could kind of change at any given moment. Is that the case? Oh, yeah that that happens. But at the key is how you phrase things because if you phrase it wrong, then it's going to be wrong because there was a deal with the bills in the Steelers and the deal was basically one where they're going to swap picks in the first round Steelers and move from 20 to nine a couple other draft choices are going to be thrown in but like anything else there's some complications for so for example for that deal to get completed and this is why the phrasing of it is, so it's better to say your they're close to a deal as a as opposed to saying there's a deal. So what ended up happening is that the they gave the bills permission to talk to Drew Rosenhaus the agent for Antonio Brown to see if he's interested in coming and if he was going to be a contract problem because you know Aunt He has been saying that he wants more money and was going to demand trying to get it and so when all of a sudden Antonio's starts tweeting out how much he didn't want to go to Buffalo. He puts on Instagram and Facebook and all these different pictures of what he thought about Buffalo is going to be like because he put a bowling alley and a pizza joint and all that stuff What's it gonna be like living there? And so that killed the deal and he almost killed the deal with the Raiders in the sense that they were having trouble negotiating. The final price because after the bills deal fell down the Steelers had nothing there was nothing on it on the table. And so, you know, they got back together with the Raiders the Raiders offered to three and the five and then they were negotiating on a new deal and that almost fell apart but like anything else, you know close is close, but you can't say it's done until it's done because there's negotiations whether the player wants more money or doesn't want more money and how much money is that going to be? Mike Mayock with a hell of a move fresh out of TV Land to get a three and a five and thirty million dollars. That's not being talked about enough that it's not only just a 3 and a 5 it's also 30 million dollars that had to come in the place to get Antonio Brown. This Market seems to be a heavy safety Market Eric Weddle ends up at the LA Rams. What are some other moves with some safety that you project or see happening? Well, I mean this one does the safety Marcus insane because if you go back to last year and look, At like the top 20 21 safe paid safeties of 10 or 11 of them are on the market right now, which is remarkable. I mean, they pretty well of wiped out more than 15 starters either being cut on one year deals. And so I think that's going to end up doing is bringing the value of some of the safeties down because the market should go up to 13 million, but now I don't think there will be and I think you can see with particularly the movement Eric what we'll just getting a little over 5 million. That was the first move that the safety is getting low. We would last year safety Market was ridiculous. Nobody got hardly anything Kenny Vaccaro former first-round pick you had to just scramble to get a very low deal but I think you're going to see Earl Thomas goes to the San Francisco 49ers. I think that you'll see maybe Landon Collins go to the Detroit Lions. That's a possibility Collins. Of course. I've been stunted enfranchise them because they could have had them for eleven point four million and he'll probably get about 11 million dollars to go to Detroit then I can see that the maybe the the Giants going to try to make a move on Tyrone Matthews. Although I know Houston's going to try like crazy to get him resign and they still going to be able to do it. But this this Market is going to be absolutely insane for safety's but I think there's only going to be maybe to they'll get over 10 million. The rest of the group is going to get maybe between 7 and 9 million. What are you do on a day-to-day basis right now? Is this prime time for the professor this free? LMC rug. Oh, yeah, no question because you know I try to keep track of every deal and You know, I have a database that he eventually I'll get every contract and I'll put it into my database and the database is there to give me the salary cap numbers of every team and so I'm constantly calling checking trying to get everything there. But you know, I guess I do a to our radio show here in Seattle and that's going to be busy with the free agency. That's going to be 10 to 12 West Coast time. And then of course now I started writing a column for the Washington Post. I'll be possible popping. Moms in for them but it's a fun period because I just love the free agency part of it. I love the mousse. You can get quick evaluations of them and that's what's so much fun. Because again, it's constant news action in the time that you know, we're talking there's probably going to be three or four deals that get done like for example, right when we started. Well leak Jackson just ended up getting a deal to go to the Philadelphia Eagles for three years of ten million dollars, but now I love this because again, it's just constant action and then it's will keep Pretty much until July you reference there Drew Rosenhaus working to deal with the Buffalo Bills and not paying off. So he had to do it with the Raiders. Do you check who free agents have as an agent? And is that make you lean one way or another on whether or not the person is going to get a good deal or a good outcome? Yeah. It's always been to do that because against some of the best in the business, you know, we're going to come out with good deals like in the case of Drew with Buffalo. I mean Antonio did not want to go to Buffalo. And so that was a simple thing as saying hey, he doesn't want to go to the Buffalo Bills and that's why the bills were smart enough to be able to get permission from the Steelers to be able to make that phone call because if they made that trade and then found out that the Antonio Brown was going to hold out and not be there. It would have been good. But then, you know Drew was able to scramble at the last minute and get the you know, pretty good money out of the Oakland Raiders and satisfy his client. And again, that's like that's a tough thing to do because at some point you're going to run out of teams and really it was Last-minute thing because once the bills deal fell apart. I mean the Steelers had nothing and it was almost as if Antonio is going to have to go back to Pittsburgh which nobody wanted Rosenhaus pulling the strings in the NFL on a regular basis. What a human being. Okay. Let's pivot real quick. DK Metcalf runs in insane 40 time looks like a monster. He's three cone drill though slower than Tom Brady's our team's very high on DK Metcalf. Or is there some question mark on his Mobility now that I think you have to have question marks on his mobility and have to see particularly when they interview him and if he's going to be able to make the work ethic to be able to do a clearly clearly. He's a freak I mean events press has more than offensive lineman. He had 27 on the bench press he's 63 228 pounds around a 4-3-3 40 which is incredible. But I think you can see that pretty much all he can be at this stage is a deep threat or go up and get him type A guy. He's not going to do well on the short routes because of his footwork until he gets that better but still he's considered to be the best wide receiver in this trap and it's not a great draft of wide receivers this year. I think what it is did is help his stock a little bit, but he's probably going to end up going like about 19 or 20 in the first round. I think Tennessee might take them at 19. Maybe he helped us talk a little bit with the workouts. But again the cone drill and all that that had to be scary. And again you look at all those production in college. Think you only had 69 catches. So he is the best receiver in this draft of the highest-rated receiver. But where he goes it's not going to be as high as he probably hopes. Kyler Murray's locked into the one is that just everybody in the biz knows that he's going to Arizona. No, is there still some options for them? Like for example, their decision has to be do you want Kyler Murray and then get rid of Josh Rosen or do you want to take Nick Boza and then what you do with Marie is trade him down to Oakland at four. And then you have a couple options there. I'm sure you get draft choice compensation. Probably a number one and maybe a little bit more or they could take the position that maybe they would take Derek Carr that could be a possibility too because then Kyler Murray would be going to the Oakland Raiders. But can you imagine the problem that's going to be for Antonio Brown because here's the Antonio Brown that you know, he he wasn't happy the juice. Mr. Schuster was able to get more catches than him and so he comes back and now we'll have to work with a rookie quarterback. Back and that means he may not have a hundred Catch season. That's why Larry Fitzgerald was wise and kind of a making the statements like Antonio you kind of kind of watch what you are doing here because because how many times did Larry Fitzgerald get stuck with the rookie quarterback or a bad quarterback? And here's a Hall of Fame receiver who ends up getting you know less than less than a hundred catches and sometimes less than a hundred thousand yards. So yeah, it's like it works. Well if there are cars going to be there for Antonio, but if Kyler Murray's going to be here at least until Kyler gets under figures out how we can play in this league. It could be bad numbers for Antonio. Wait. So what's the conversation about Derick? Are they going to ship him out of Oakland and draft Kyler is I don't think I must not have seen anything like this. There's a chance right now that the Raiders are going to move their car draft Kyler Marie. When kind of Marie's the starter in Oakland going into Vegas. I did not know that. Yeah, so that's one of the rumors that was out last week that Derek Carr is as least being shocked or they're listening to offers on Derek Carr. But the problem is that the is a limited market for trades for quarterbacks, you know, Miami, they could be interested because their makeup Ryan Tannehill, but the problem is that they want to lose games this year so they can get one of the top picks and next year's draft. So that's that's a problem and you know Washington's already made their move Denver's already made their move. And so where's the market for Derek Carr in a trade now, maybe Arizona would be interested in doing it, but that's but that's why I think Arizona is still in that. Age where you know they have those two options and are two viable options. But if not then no just take Kyler Maria. Number one man. There was the tweet that there was love at first sight between Derek Carr and Antonio Brown as well. I wonder if Antonio I wonder if mr. Big check. Mr. Big chest has any idea that that could potentially happen or if he's like me and doesn't even know that that didn't say, I think he died. He probably has a thought through that yet. But at least he can now take that 19 million dollars that he has and Still be happy with that, but then he's not going to be happy if he's not going to get his numbers and those California taxes are going to play quite a game on that Seattle. Where was it? Was it Oakland or who is the baseball team that was going to pay I think was Oakland or Seattle was going to pay calamari a bunch of money than that falls through how do those conversations happened is like the MLB fly to Colin Murray and say hey we've been paying you or we paid you nine million or 4 million, whatever it was and the calamari goes. You know what? I think I'm out on Did they make a play at him to keep him? Is there a chance pal the Murray goes to the MLB even after the draft board that thing all said and done. I think it's all said and done it. He's not going to do that. But what happened is when he was in that deciding stage in January before while after he put his name in for the combine and applied for the NFL draft that because he got four point four million dollars in a signing bonus and it's already in his pocket. So what the they had a Oakland A's representative and they had somebody from I think the from base. Baseball there to try to see if they can change some of the rules and get him more money and they tried and tried and tried and I'm sure that the as time goes they'll still continue to try but if Murray's going to end up being the first pick in the draft, then he's going to get significantly more money than what the A's would be able to pay. So I think it's going to miss one where they had the conversation. They'll probably still have the conversation but I think now that if he's going to be the number one pick, he's going to go in the NFL. What's the NFL look like next year John are You Are? You excited with this whole there's a whole new era right now with the AFL launching having a rough opening weeks not being able to make payroll. Do you think there's any NFL usage of the AFL being a training ground or a scouting field? It looks like an extended Senior Bowl really do you think there's anybody from the AFL that's going to end up in the NFL if they have a big season. Oh, yeah, there's no question. I think there's at least two or three quarterbacks are going to get jobs and I think it's a great situation because you know, what the a aaf needs to do is I need to work out a dual deal with the Union the nflpa and the NFL so you can get either eight to ten players on Futures contracts or guys that are currently on rosters and get them in the league and you look and you see there's the NFL players that are there, you know, Terrance Garvin who had been actually in Pittsburgh started in Pittsburgh and went to Washington and Seattle and other guys, you can see Trent Trent Richardson, I think getting back in the NFL thanks to the aaf because he's made some good run. No, I think it's a good league in that sense. I think it can only get better. I think that the you know, the new owner has come in and he's going to get a better business sense of things and fix things up. So you hope it survives and it needs to survive. I mean, you know how it was back in the days when there was the world league and you guys could go over there and within a year at that time, you can take a quarterback and get them into the leg and maybe even get them to start now. That's where I think this is so needed because cuz you have so much less practice time now for all the teams in the NFL and all the players in the NFL. I mean, you need a leg right now to develop a lot of the things that aren't developed during the season in the offseason. Hey men who wins the Super Bowl next year John. Well, I think probably the New England Patriots because it's it's all set up for him. I mean think about in the last four years. They've lost three times on the road to Miami now Miami's in the rebuilding mode. And so now that means they'll go six and knowing that Vision because I won the game down in Miami, it's an easy division to win. That means all they have to do pretty much as goes 6 and 4 like they did last year against the rest of the league that gets them to 12 when it gets them home field advantage and then with home field advantage then they get a chance to because nobody seems to be able to go into New England and when did nobody did last year? So I think it all sets it up for them to go back to the Super Bowl. We'll see who they play but the cycle just continues that Foxborough is an electric place to play it. It's tough to get a win there and I'll tell you what, it's tough to find a smarter man when it comes to the NFL then at John Clayton NFL host from 10 to noon on 710 ESPN in Seattle and also school with the professor podcast available on all platforms Pro Football Hall of Fame member John Clayton. I am so thankful you chose to join me man. Thank you so much. You're the best. Hey, Matt. Thank you. Hey that that mullet thing the rat tail thing. Yeah, was that ever a real thing or was that all just folklore? Oh, no, it's tucked in. I just talked to that was that was I was just all part of the commercial that commercials one of the best things that has ever graced my eyes and yeah, you did a great acting job there. I didn't know super smart NFL analytics guy could get the acting bug but you did great in there. Well, thank you. Do you still live in that bedroom there? Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's Chinese food. Yeah, ladies and gentlemen genius John Clayton big shoutout to John Clayton. Super Insider football. Talk right there. Yeah, he's a beast. Absolutely. I woke up four minutes before the interview with a long night took NyQuil last night night night, cuz that interview was scheduled very thankful for Gorman getting old John Clayton the professor he was incredible on there, but I didn't set an alarm and I didn't think I was going to sleep in at late. Time changing real he's got me going still I mean, we're still a couple of days out with you. It'll get you I woke up four minutes before that thing had to call Kazi and I'll tell you what, I'm thankful for John Clayton hee hee drop some knowledge bombs on me and they had me feeling good going into the day. Shout out to the professor at John Clayton NFL follow him follow at Nick Morado at Boston Connor Adam and Foxy at Ty Schmidt with one t there at the end because he's literally up till probably 4 a.m. Right now editing this and thank you all so much for listening. You're the absolute. Luke greatest humans on Earth send us a tweet just saying hello because we foxy and I got to travel to Orlando. Yep. If you make Fox here, I feel very good inside while we're traveling to Orlando and while Nick and busting Connor travel back to Indianapolis tomorrow, I'd love to send out some free merch. Yeah old Santa Pat here we go right here in March. It's nice to you. Oh Santa. Yeah little Santa battle Sarah just sent us some positive message and positive vibes were enjoying the hell out of life. We hope you are as well. So thankful you chose to listen. Um - met back in Indianapolis probably with a big old fat lip. Earn his lip. Just staring down a Green Bay Packers website asking why the fuck did not do it. Anyway, the lions are just making plays everywhere daggumit boys tie shred hit the music man. And by the way back or still got Aaron Rodgers, I don't need to do anything else tie get off the ledge die. Okay. Some spittin he's so mad right now. He's pissed just end the show's what'd he say? All I'm trying to do is end the fucking show so I can upload and go to bed is what he's in like 4 a.m. Right now. He's probably doing a couple Impressions yum. Try to keep himself alive. Probably just slammed about 1/16 Red Bull of the day. Mmm. That's probably feeling good. Maybe that'll work out. It may be times when I got to work tonight. Yeah, I don't think so. He said he's been doing the fitness thing. Yeah. Yeah, he says that he's been saying wondering if we're yeah. Well it was he the last time he told me he was literally sitting in front of an entire pepperoni pizza like an entire pepperoni. That's it for himself. I asked him if he wanted my potatoes because normally he takes my potatoes after I broke my lunch my brunch and he goes not today and I go why is a Zach I'm trying to take care of myself in less than six seconds later. He sat down and opened an entire personal pepperoni pizza in house the entire thing shut the throw it away and I just looked at him. He like waved at me and just walked away like what he just said didn't even happen. I'm like bro - mm. It's the best though the best. Yeah. He's the best still a lot of good players out there for the Packers to yeah. Yeah over that over time. Chris Ballard has spent no money either, press Broward. One of the best Jeep recent Jim's obviously balichek. Also not making huge Place. Yeah. Let's just assume he's really good at football. We also got 15 picks. So I think we'll be. All right. You guys also have a lot of Very good players been you know going to share another. I don't know yet. So we don't know maybe playing to be honest people on come play for adventure, isn't it won't pay them money when I don't know if that's how I should move out of the clutches of all and you are I'll trade you that know me that's just like you are owner. I'm getting massages and days championships ready when we gonna go - mint hit the music All right. What song we play? Highway to Hell Yeah, that could be a road hog stable could be a road hog staple. Yeah, I don't think we ever got the Knicks window cracking. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah. That's what happened to Next Car. By the way is his windshield that crack because yeah because the rain because of Cleveland he thinks yeah, the range is the range of the rain threat you dog Cleveland Cleveland dog, it's mostly because of his Utility, I you don't talk the dog pound but I'm talking about the dog downward dog your motherfucking asshole right back. Maybe that's what we do. I took the money out there Casino. I took the money out of the good old Pittsburgh rivers casino. I'm good, baby. Yeah, but the question is I'm good. You have a crack in your windshield and I want to know yeah, I gotta fight your wallet full cash to you. Let the dogs out you let the dogs out who who who you let the dogs out. I'll take the dogs out back behind the shed and put him down for good Ty Schmidt. After that negativity right there, huh? Fucking Old Yeller bullshit. Whoo! Whoo. Whoo. Whoo, they don't look like Old Yeller by their Bulldogs. They got a big old. No. I really can't breathe now. They're loyal though. They're probably going to be the fans of the AFC North Champions. They might be in a rebuilding face. We don't know. But Nick was negative got a chip in his windshield and all anybody wants to know is Ty Schmidt hit the music Let the Dogs Out. Well, if I am at the party is on I gotta get my grub on my mind. I'm going to you soon.
On today's show, Pat and a few of the guys record live from a hotel room in Pittsburgh right after coming back from WWE Monday Night Raw. They recap their roadtrip from Indiana to Cleveland to Pittsburgh and everything that they did along the way including WWE Fastlane, some of their dining experiences, and beating the inclement weather that was on their backs. Also included in the show is Pat's interview with Rich Eisen on the NFL Network Free Agency Frenzy as he discussed Antonio Brown going to Oakland, who some of the best free agent punters are, and Rich gives him another push to keep the #McAfeeForMNF train rolling (28:54-36:08). Later, an absolute legend in the game, an NFL Hall of Famer, one of the most recognizable faces in NFL media, The Professor, John Clayton, joins the show. They discuss everything free agency related and how AB almost wound up in Buffalo, he gives a couple of ideas where he thinks certain players might land as teams are handing out insane amounts of cash, he dives into what his work weeks are like during these types of hot beds in the NFL calendar, gives his Super Bowl pick for next year, and chats about whether or not the pony tail is real (41:48-1:03:10.) It's a fun one. Come and laugh with us, cheers. 