The Ryen Russillo Podcast - Live From the Fillmore in Philadelphia With Chris Long

Episode Date: October 2, 2024

Russillo starts the live show with a presentation on his relationship with the city of Philadelphia (0:42). Next, he’s joined by Chris Long to make sense of the Eagles' problems, discuss Chris’s career, and break down Davante Adams's trade request (11:42). Then, Ceruti and Kyle join for Live Advice before taking a few questions from the audience (51:33). Recorded at The Fillmore Philadelphia by permission of Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. Check us out on YouTube for exclusive clips, livestreams, and more at https://www.youtube.com/@RyenRussilloPodcast. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Chris Long Producers: Steve Ceruti, Kyle Crichton, and Mike Wargon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We've got a live show for you in this episode live from Philly sold out Fillmore awesome experience so much fun Chris long hanging out talking football we do live advice and little Q&A as well but we want to let everybody know Friday, Josh Brown is going to join us for financial life advice. He has a new book out. He's come on the show before you've seen him on television and, um, should be fun. Cause it's always something that I know I don't understand. So again, life advice questions, you just put Josh Brown on the subject. We'll go through and bang out a couple of those as we talk about his new book.

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there's usually reason, right? Like, I used to live there. I worked there. I have friends there. I have like no history with Philadelphia. I've been here a total of, prior to this last 24 hour stretch I've been here combined eight hours in my entire life which of course when

you're from Massachusetts you're like expert, nailed it. The OGs remember that I had a little stint in Trenton not in prison I worked for a minor league baseball team. I was making $201 a week, and entertainment options were limited. And so one guy was like, I think we have indoor lacrosse tickets tonight in Philadelphia. And I was like, man, I love to explore. I want to see what it's like. I'm also in Trenton a lot, so let's try Philadelphia out.

And I was like, how much is he going to send me back? He's like, probably the paycheck. And I was like, how much is going to send me back? He's like, probably the paycheck. And I was like, all right, great. So went out, lacrosse, bar, didn't talk to anybody, went home, it was like, it's my kind of town. It's great. And then the next time that same year, I somehow backed into a Celtic Sixers ticket and I went

to the game by myself, my sick Durango with mass tags on it, parked it outside where all the parking is, you understand, and I think you guys won, came back, my car was covered in garbage and the battery was dead. Was asking people to jump it and they were like with mass tags like fuck yourself. I went up to a dad was like he of course is going to want to teach his kids some sort of lesson here of helping out the enemy and he was like yeah I got to jump for you and then they actually drove by in a minivan like waving at me being like we're not helping. So that was my first eight hours in Philadelphia. And I was like, you know what?

It's like a meter Boston. It makes a lot of sense. But the thing I started to realize a little bit later on as I became a student of the game, the history, like New York's always talking so much about their standing. And I was at the Revolutionary War Museum today and I thought...

I go, you know, those guys can kind of fuck off. And I thought... I go, you know, those guys can kind of fuck off. They gave up their entire city to the British, like all the way to White Plains. And I know you guys had your moments, but like you had Brandywine, you stuck it out, you got what you needed to do. Look, back in Boston, we gave up the harbor, we got it back. At least we fought for it.

back in Boston, we gave up the harbor, we got it back. At least we fought for it. So it reminded me of my own personal history and why I'm psyched to be here and why I'm wearing this jersey because it all ties in. My first love was this man. Now growing up in New England and having your dad be a lifelong Celtics fan, like your first awareness moment, I was seven, Dr. J is the coolest thing in the world, I have the Sixers are going for 70 Sports Illustrated hanging in my bedroom, and I'm like, I'm all in, let's go Sixers. And they smoke everybody, and I'm so happy and my dad's like, you're going to regret this. I was like, well, you're an idiot because Moses is the best.

And of course, that was an express way into my next love, my all time. Who will never be replaced unless I have a son who's a professional athlete, but the clock is ticking, so I don't even know if I'd be around for it. But there's just never going to be anybody like Chuck to me because you're still young enough, you're so impressionable. And it wasn't just his game and his ferocity, it was his personality. And honestly, it was so impactful and impressionable on me at that time.

I was like, you know what I like is he just says exactly how he feels all the time. And if you do it long enough, and I have a theory on this, the Charles theory that if you're just you long enough, and I have a theory on this, the Charles theory, that if you're just you long enough, then eventually you just kind of get away with it and everybody catches up to you. I love Chuck so much that once I hit puberty,

I actually grow a mustache. I was a late bloomer. That's, I kept forgetting who that was. No, he's my guy. He's my guy. Don't wear that shirt a lot anymore. But yeah, I don't even know. So that picture's so bad, we just wanted to put one in where I look good. I thought I looked good.

There's a reason we put in one where I was like, okay, that one's not the worst picture. The irony of this picture is, you know, the Lakers chain guy when he's at the games and he dangles the chain? Actually, if none of you know, that's even better. But he came up to me at the ESPYs party, which I love that the ESPYs like, oh, we don't want to hire, let's not bring anybody who works for the company.

Let's make sure Lakers chain guys at the party. He was like, hey, can I get a picture with you? And he was nice enough. I was like, no problem. And then he posted it later that, he was like, hey, can I get a picture with you? And he was nice enough. I was like, no problem. And then he posted it later that night and was like, Riscilla was begging me for this picture. Like, no, I wasn't. Like, wait, but you posted it and I don't have it.

So that's tough to do. Um, but then I started to kind of have a difficult relationship with the city again, because I missed out on all the Celtics stuff. I missed out on all the bird stuff. I'm sitting there arguing with my friends about the 82-83 Sixers team. Like, dude, I actually think they're better than all those Lakers and Celtics teams. They're like, really? Didn't they trade everybody in 86?

And I'm just so mad at recess after the 86 draft and getting rid of Moses and getting rid of the number one pick and thinking about Brad Doherty and Charles Barkley and Moses Malone being the front line. I'm like, how could a team ever be that fucking stupid? So I planted some negative seeds and then became a Suns fan and then a Rockets fan as I chased the ring with Barkley for all those years. And then I didn't really think about you all that much. Then I started thinking about you again more recently. Then it got pretty dark. It got pretty dark. My relationship with the city was challenging at times. I like to be fair.

I like to be honest. Stern but fair. And it's tough for me too because I'm a loyal guy and this is my coach. He was my coach in the NBA's celebrity game. And he was a very, he was a hands- my coach. He was my coach in the NBA's letter game. And he was a very... He was a hands-off coach. He was very player-friendly. He spent the entire time

checking out people in the stands. And I didn't have any stats at halftime, and I was like, there's no way I can go back on the radio with, like, one point. So I just went up to him, like, James, I got a dilemma. I got to get back in there and get some shots up. I have to, like, I... You know, empty stats, Like, you get it.

And he was like, he just looked at me and I was like, all right, I'm in. I LeBroned him, went right to the scorer's table. Some kid from Hunger Games. I was like, James wants you on the bench. I'm going to ride this one out. But to be honest, despite my, I guess, I should state difficult relationships with James, I sympathize with him here. I sympathize with him because of the way geometry can work.

That's a year and a half ago. I have no fucking clue how that picture exists. It's a live show at Salt Lake. I saw the shot and I was horrified. I started trying to say like well after a certain age powerlifting you start to develop this upper abdomen thing that's not really... So when I saw this I started thinking about today and James and loving walking around the city. I did the whole city. Well I can't say I did the whole city, that'd be a lie,

but I spent a lot of time here, a lot of time today walking around, taking it all in. And I was like, should I get a cheesesteak? And then I thought about this picture. And I was like, I'm hungry, but I'm hungry for knowledge. I hope you guys get the joke that I was trying to make this look as bad as possible. Mission accomplished.

But yes, I was hungry to get back to that point where historically I was a lion and in love with Philadelphia again, just like the seven-year-old. So let's have a night. We got Chris Long. We've got Kyle coming up. So Rudy's going to join us. We have life advice and we'll do a Q&A. So we got a long ways to go. Let me change out of this because I'm not wearing it all night. And thanks to all you guys for showing up. All right. This NFL Thursday Night Football fan duel wants you to win even bigger. Right now, all customers get a 30% profit boost on Thursday Night Football

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Hello, Chris. Hi, hi Ryan. Glad to see you changed. My wife, I was texting her, I sent her a picture, she's like, I didn't see that coming, sleeveless shirt for Ryan. Yeah, liner was on the other day just saying, like, what a loser move it was.

So I was a little motivated by that. I also want to thank our guys at Mitchell and Ness for getting the perfect fit and the perfect hat for you. And I got the sticker still on, because, you know. All right. I also got to make sure that I keep the other people happy. I want to thank State Farm for even having these live shows and sending them out for us.

Thank you, State Farm. So yeah, guys cheer for State Farm. They're gonna be thrilled about that. But yeah, it's good to, it's good, I can't even say it's good to be back because it's really like my first time. I heard it's your first time here. It's kind of my, today's actually like my first time

other than those other two. It's kind of the best city in the world. I'm not kissing up. It kind of is. Other than my little hometown of Charlottesville where I decided to live, I mean if I had to move, I'm coming here. This is the best big city in the world. Best sports town in the world. Best sports city in the world. Uh, you do really love it here though. Dude, it's not even a bit. Like people will be like, stop sucking up. I'm like, bro, I love this place. I knew.

I loved it when I moved here. Yeah, you were happy here. I was happy. I don't want to turn it back into everything we've always talked about in the past, but there was a North Attleboro Chris and then there was a Philly Chris and I noticed there was a distinct. Philly Chris is happy. Yeah, there was a distinct difference.

Do we start with a bird's autopsy here? They're not dead. What do we think, y'all? with a bird's autopsy here? They're not dead. What do we think, y'all? This is like a town hall meeting. I love you guys and gals. I mean, I'm gonna say, yeah, listen, I mean. Yeah, can we get AJ back?

I mean, where do you want to start with the defense of the offense? Because if I go first on Jalen or the coach. No, let me let me set it up the way like, look, I watch him a lot because they're on a lot the NFC East rule. So even when you're not a Eagles fan, like again, I know more about the Giants than I ever want to know. Yeah. The other night was just... I did a Giants rant a couple years ago where I was just like, you get to stop.

So then you look at the ratings. That's why they're on all the time. But when you look at the record last year and they're winning some games where there's some alarming things, then it always kind of defaults back to like, the point is to win the game. Right. And then all of these games, they were winning in these absurd ways. And you're like, do I still like them? Like, look at that record, look at all the talent.

And with the way a season can change with injuries, and I still look at the roster and the depth chart and go like, how can this team be bad? And the fact that they weren't more up for the rematch against the Bucs this weekend, this is the most rattled I've been about who they might be this year. Dude, listen, I said this on my pod. If it was college football, I would stop accepting money to come down to Tampa. Like, it's just a house of horrors, man. Like, we went down there in 2018 and got our asses kicked. They were firing the cannon. Can I cuss on this show?

Yeah, yeah. They were firing the fucking cannon. I still have hearing loss from that day. They went up top to the Sean Jackson. The leg was 2010 and we were just like the game was played on their script. And I think the one thing you knew coming in was like if we're going to play it on their script, we're going to lose

and that comes down to like listen when you do an autopsy as you put it, it's always more than just one guy didn't do his job or this guy doing it. And nobody's saying what Jaylen and Nick were dealt was fair. But if you want to be great, last time I checked, you were going on the road to win a fucking football game. And last week, you were able to do that.

So once you show me that you can win short-handed, even, like look at the New Orleans game. Look at how many mistakes they made and still won. So it was a team building win. that you can win shorthanded, even like look at the New Orleans game. Look at how many mistakes they made and still won. So it was a team building win. It was a confidence building when it was an affirming win, but you can't go do the same shit the next week. And so that to me is like when you get in the first quarter and I'll contextualize all

this with Jaylen and Nick, but in a vacuum, you're down your best three guys on offense and you have an opportunity, play one to find Saquon on Joe Tryon-Sharinka, who I'm not throwing any shade. He's a defensive end, man to man with Saquon. And his head is turned towards Jalen and he's lost Saquon behind him. We just need to be more realistic about what it is. I'm not saying the guy needs, he's not the guy or you need to find a replacement.

You make decisions in the NFL and then you live with them and you build around those decisions because I know that in the media, we all get to say, is he the guy every Tuesday? But it doesn't matter. You're locked in. So what are you gonna to do to win with this guy who's not seeing the field right now, in my opinion, and all his mistakes happen

later in the down? And my point about that game is, yeah, the game is out of hand. It's a barn burner. Well, I don't know what you call that barn burner. It was not normally. Yeah, it's, it's a, your house is on fire is what I'm thinking about. And when you're in a situation like that on the road, you can't miss your opportunities. The game script changes dramatically when you miss that opportunity. When the next possession on P10, which is the first down of the possession, you miss Dallas Goddard, or he misses the ball, I'm not putting that on Jaylen necessarily, 30-16, again,

don't care how he got here, but when Levante David runs by me with Saquon, like in his hands, he's gonna be on your throwing hand in a half second. You know, it sounds easy to be like Monday morning quarterback and be like, take off, but I like Jaylen when he's decisive. So that's first thing, and Saquon should touch the ball more than 12 times in a game. Okay. Okay. The run the damn ball thing. Don't worry. I was going to get there.

And I'm not blaming the offense for what the defense is doing, but you have limitations. You're going to have to outscore some people. And so it's not over. I think you'd use a nickel corner. You know, like that's a big deal in today's NFL. That position is premium. We've been giving up a lot to slot receivers. I think Jalen Carter has to beat Jalen Carter every Sunday. You know what I'm saying?

And I think the kick can be special. But once I see it, I want it every week. Right. And the other guy's like, I can't be mad at Josh. What? I can't be mad at it. It got Bryce Huff. Like, they made that move. You paid him all that money.

Like he is no. And Bryce. No, you guys are like, don't be mad at Bryce. Be mad at him here. Be mad at the people that brought him here because he's, I guarantee you, he's not trying to fuck it up. There's nobody up front outside that can win rushes right now. And like, that's the point.

If you've designed the team differently, we're not so mad at Bryce Hough. Losing and watching a quarterback bake a cake in the backfield, you know, organizations, institutions are designed perfectly for the outcome. And so in this situation, what can you do? You can play tighter coverage,

Vic's a little bit more conservative, but guys gotta win rushes too. And I'm not gonna get mad at Josh Schwett and Bryce Huff, like they can change the whole game because they're not gonna wake up tomorrow and be Miles Garrett. You designed the team this way. You got to figure out some shit. Speaking of corners, when you were frustrated, say, in St. Louis,

did you ever tweet your career stats? Say that again. I was thinking about I could not believe the faces I was getting with Bryce Hough. That's why I kind of was like, oh, this is Philly. Say it again. I know it landed. I'm referencing Big Play Slay. Oh, you know what? That didn't seem to be like a team building exercise.

Bro, I'm not gonna down the guy because I always like to talk about people the way they treated me and he came on my show and we clicked and it was great. Yeah, but it sucks for me because everybody likes you. You know what? But when I have a DB on, or wide receiver, you know, like the disconnect between a Lyman and a SkillGuy

can be pretty in here. See, this was actually one of my favorite things. We were doing the pod every Monday, you know, going back five years ago. Like, and look, I had Kelsey on, right? And I was like, can you just spend five minutes on what actually happens, why you making the call for Jaylen is beneficial, because you're so good at it,

but it also kind of like starts the quarterback 10 seconds later than he needs to be. And once he finally explained it to me, I was like, hey, that was amazing. Like, how am I like in my late 40s, and I watched this game for this long, and I've never heard anybody, all I just hear is like, oh, that guy makes the calls, he's great at it.

Like, what is it? And then whenever I would hear like, and this isn't even football, working at ESPN with all these former athletes and they'd be like, man, they just, they made the right adjustments. And I was like, you know what? I've been hearing this whole adjustments thing for years.

I've never heard one of you ever say what the actual adjustment was. It just, so, but this is the point of like getting to know you. Yeah, we're not pressed to do that usually. But what was funny was when I started doing the show with Chris, I was like, can you tell me about these mysterious adjustments that always seem to happen when the team wins?

And he just goes, yeah, that's all the guys in the back. Like, I never knew any of those. Yeah, so the back end guys, like, we're gonna make adjustments up front. Like, I never knew any of those. Like, we're going to make adjustments up front. Like, for instance, they made an adjustment going to New Orleans game, which I thought was good, but it was not a fit for going to Tampa. Or if you notice, they played three guys down inside and they basically built a five man front. See, there you go. There's an adjustment.

No, and they gap out because like, you know, you play New Orleans, they're going to get two, three guys out on the route. Then the main thing with New Orleans is, and this is gonna end in some bad news with the Tampa matchup, but like the main thing with New Orleans is, if you strangle the run game, you can make Derek Carr, Derek Carr, as you understand him.

And you can make them get two, three guys on the route max. And if you can convert and play action, great. But then the next week, you gotta stop, and Bucky Irving got going. I can't, here's what I was saying about Huff, and these guys. I am like, I was mad if you saw my YouTube, not to plug my show, but if you saw my YouTube after,

look at me. Let's please plug the show. I don't even know, I don't even know what the fuck it's called. So, so. The Greenlight Podcast, and it's YouTube page is terrific. They do awesome breakouts. So sometimes after the game, I get real homery and I get on and I'm all pissed off

because like I know these guys, I love these guys. I love, I talked to Dom yesterday. Like these are, this is my family. So this is like a thing where it's like, it's hard for me to be an analyst, but like this week after this game, I just had to be honest about a few things that like, honestly, I gave Jaylen a lot of respect

the last 11, 12 games because I know what he's had to deal with. And everybody knows what I'm talking about, being a quarterback in the NFL and having people second guess you and question you. And my thing is, I gave him the grace period. This is now 11 games. I'm not overreacting to four. What I'm saying is this is a pattern for this team now and for the quarterback and for the head man

that's kind of persisted. When you look at the defense though, the other day, they got the ball on the perimeter quick. Go back and watch the game back. They were just going to get the ball out quick, find the matchups. And you talk about adjustments. Right. Like everybody watched the game is like the D line's not getting it done. They could be better. But my point to you is like, they're not going to wake up that way. You have to scheme some things up.

They're getting the ball out on the perimeter. They're finding their matchups. When they're down on the goal line, they get in a little bunch and they got CJ on Mike Evans. Y'all remember this. Not the matchup you want. And I like CJ. I don't believe what Mike Parsons said. I think CJ adds an element to this defense. I would have liked to play with CJ and Jalen Carter. But the point I'm making is, you know, this guy, Liam Cohen down there,

he watches film and he puts him in that little bunch and he bumps one of the receivers and he knows the matchup he's going to get. And so it was like pitch and catch for Baker. And another thing is, do you think our quarterback's better than Baker, who I think is a very good quarterback? We got to be realistic. My point is like, you can win with Jalen, you can win with Baker.

We got to stop acting like we have to have an MVP or a top five quarterback to win. But that's the tough one, like to hear you say that and hesitate. Maker's a good quarterback, bro. Right, but like we went into last year. We, who's we? A lot of us. How about that?

How about that? A lot of us, here was the question. Here was the accepted statement. I've never called him a top five guy, but that's not slander. But that's not slander. No, it isn't. But after the Super Bowl season, it was generally accepted going into the year

and you may have pushed back but I'm just talking about the majority opinion was he was the best quarterback in the NFC and I think that was a very he was playing he was playing the best quarterback in the NFC that Darnold's not the best quarterback in the NFC I don't think no but I get your point right that's my point about how we evaluate quarterbacks is like, we get so caught up in the shit that's easy to break down. How are we coaching him? He looked different with Shane.

He looked very different with Shane than he did last year. And I think there's the right scheme. I like Kellen Moore, but then I see somewhere the use of motion down is way down, and cause AJ is out. And so like, I think they're going to have to figure some things out. I think Jalen, you just have to settle into the fact that he can be a winner, but we can't have these conversations where it's either he's top five or he's a

bum. That to me is like, who cares? You got this guy, he's, he's, you got to win with him. You know what I mean? We made the decision. You can win with him. You have to run the damn ball. You have to when you go RPO, you can't be penalties and all this shit. And he's got to be decisive because all his turnovers come late in the down. When the ball goes three seconds, I'm sitting in my studio, my producers are here. They'll tell you I'd never hear me yell louder than like fucking talk talk it dude or throw it.

But like when it goes over three seconds, he just doesn't see the field as well as some guys laying it down. There are guys that see it really well early and then late, they don't see it well or vice versa. I think he's just on that end of the spectrum where he's got to be decisive. So I want to stay in the division because Dallas is this constant enigma where, I know everybody likes dumping on him. I know he looks like I'm sick of watching him too,

but clearly they're good enough to be taken seriously. The Giants are in this study abroad year with Daniel Jones. Can we get Will Levis on the Giants? If I got to watch him in prime time, can I watch some interesting turnovers? Will Levis on the Giants? If I gotta watch him in prime time, can I watch some interesting turnovers? Will Levis makes it fun. He does make it fun. I mean, I've never seen a coach yell at a guy like that.

When Callahan screamed, what the fuck are you doing to his coach? Like, it was so aggressive that people were like, should you really talk to him that way? And then he explained it by going, he's a grownup. And I'm like, this is like my dad yelling at me. No, it was childlike. It was childlike.

Yeah, right. It was like, well, he's old enough to be, we're like, I don't think this is an age dispute. He's also the easiest guy to lip read if you watched the game the other night. Oh my God. It was hilarious to me. He was like, after he threw the pick,

you know, I've gotten really good at studying lip reading. Probably you too, because you're always trying to figure out like what's going on on the sideline. He threw that pick, you know, I've gotten really good at studying lip reading, probably you too, because we're always trying to figure out, like, what's going on on the sideline. He threw that pick, he came to the sideline, and they were like, let's look at Will Levis, and he goes, I didn't even see him. And then they go back, and they're like,

something's wrong with Will Levis, let's try to go to, you know, whoever's on the fucking sideline. And Will Levis goes, I feel it in my shoulder. Yo, whoever's doing the game was like, well, there you have it. He's thrown five different picks that are just cinema this year. He threw one last night, nobody's watching that game.

He threw one, a guy caught it with his inner thigh. Like I have to like live through Chris and other guys that I'm friends with that played because there's nothing I regret more in my life. And not the accolades, I just thought I would have been the best pro athlete hang. And to still have friends in your late 30s would have been incredible.

Like, hey, do you want to do something this weekend? Be like, yeah, because we're all pro athletes. And the fact that I missed out, I just wish I had trained harder when I was younger. But it's not true though. You actually don't hang out in your 30s. Like your wife's like, I don't know. Some of my hockey guys,

I'm not even friends with some of the hockey guys that'll text me being like, you picked the right path. I'm like, whose number is this? This isn't even, it's too many numbers. When I see like when Will Leves in the Chicago game, because I'll ask you this stuff, right? Stanford Steve's a perfect example. I go, when you were on Stanford and the guy that was

the fifth or sixth string tight end that never played was the loudest in the tunnel coming out, how much did you hate those guys? And he's like, loud tunnel guy that doesn't have a stat is really annoying. Loud tunnel guy that doesn't have a stat. Yeah, never plays, most hyped up, tons of accessories on his arms. And so when Levis had like the first bad play against Chicago, but then came back after the second one and was still going like, all right, we just stay in it, stay in it.

I cannot imagine being like a 30 year old D tackle, being like, you can just fucking keep walking, man. I don't wanna hear you pep talk. I've been a high pick back in the day when it was all like 30 year olds in your room. And that is like a different world. You walk into a locker room now, like dudes are like, yeah, I got that in the hell money too, bro.

I'm like 25, like what's on your TikTok? I was walking in and Leroy Glover had a dip in during individual, he's spitting. Wait, during the workout he had a dip in? Oh yeah, on the field. And he wore a Louis belt. That can't be a performance. He wore a Louis belt in his pads.

Like I was in a locker room with James Hall, Fred Robbins. Would he get mad if he scratched it? Dude I would ask for the call. Yeah I would ask for the call and like it's not happening. Like they're just the fuck you rookie. Like it's just the the old NFL is so different than the new NFL. I'm just telling you bro. I can't imagine. I can't imagine. It was super intimidating. I got drafted and I was like, I kinda knew. I was like, oh, you got picked second. It's gonna be a motherfucker here.

Was it worse for you because of the lineage in number two? Oh, absolutely. It would have been way easier if you were just fifth round Chris not long. I feel like most people in this room know me because I played here for two years and you know what I'm about, but like when your dad played,

there's a lot of people that are like, you didn't earn it, you know? You don't work hard. You know what I mean? Here's the thing, I wasn't that good to get drafted number two, but I earned it because I worked my ass off to like fool people into thinking I was that good.

You know what I mean? And when you reframe it that way, and I was like, I was the middle of the first round guy that got picked second. How did I get to where I got it? I really am a worker. I'm not that talented. But there are a lot of guys that just when you walk in the room, they're like, this guy's always had it easy.

And it's just going to be easy for him going forward. And so that was hard as a young player because guys would be like, and my quip to them was always, cause I'll always give it back. I'll be like, you're talking about your son. If your son, you know what I mean? Did everybody understand what that meant?

Cause the first time I heard it, I was like, wait, that's a real mind puzzle. I'm like, so wait, you're telling me that anything your son does, he didn't earn it. Yeah. And guys get a little weird about that. But that was kind of my experience kind of coming up. Because it could be a kid that doesn't even exist yet. And you're planting that seed.

You're exactly right. Fucking come home, tell your pregnant wife, fucking trust fund baby in here. He's going to have to earn it. He's gonna have to earn it. I want to cancel the fucking life insurance policy, all of that. I want to work in a ditch with an orange vest on if I pass away. Like man, it must be awesome. That's the plan I have set up for my kids. I want to talk about the division

because something's happening that I wouldn't expect in this year of the quarterback, which is maybe the least impressive year. It's a month in, so we've got some time. It's the least amount of yardage thrown. It's the least amount of throws, air yards. It's also the least amount of exceptions because it's the highest level of completions

because there are so many games where guys are determined to throw it to the side all game long. And it's why Rogers, two weeks ago in that Pats game, there was a second, I think it was second 17, and he threw it to the sticks. And it shocked me because I hadn't seen it for three weeks. And I went, this guy, oh, that's right.

Some guys will throw to the marker. Now, granted, he's got to see the read and like it and not feel like it's defended perfectly. But it's a really, I don't know, is it alarming? But it's a weird first month of the season to see some of these trends statistically be things we've seen all at the same time, like four or five things we haven't seen in 20 years. No, I would implore people to actually look at the same time, like four or five things we haven't seen in 20 years? No, I would implore people to actually look at the data. I would implore them to like...

Uh-oh, it sounds like a pushback. No, I'm just telling you, I just got this shit here. I was like texting my stack guy and I was like, bro... See, I was the one that had notes. I didn't know you were doing it. Well, here's the difference between you and me. Your notes are really well written out. Mine are actually the right notes,

but they're just all over the place. So you've got this thing, like everybody else. And there is something to like, hey, they're playing more too high for sure. Well, Donald, when I looked at the stat, Donald was at 78% completion and he was 14th in the NFL. Think about that. No, because part of it is I'll just say this hand up. I haven't done a research project on this. Like, I'm gonna get back to the hotel tonight and I'm gonna be on a gummy, like, oh my God. What's going on with the passing?

Oh my God! Let's FaceTime during it. Nope, I will. You know how those go. He doesn't say shit. He won't say shit. I'll tell him something super interesting and he just looks at me and then he tells a 14 minute story

about like minor league baseball and cohort. And I'm like, I actually had to have a talk with him. I'm like, bro, if we're going to talk at 11 o'clock at night like if I'm going to call you you got to play back a little bit. Here's the problem. I'm alone a lot. He's alone a lot.

So I've noticed this. It's, we all going to self scout a lot. So I've noticed this. We all get a self scout. You got to be honest with yourself. So I'm aware of what's going on is that, oh, I'm interacting with somebody that you're supposed to talk. And then I'll realize I'm like, I just talked for five minutes. No, but I do it to you when you have me on the podcast.

So like the whole thing is I'm working on it. No, but the whole thing is, you know, you go passing yards a game or A dot, like average depth of target. I also think there's something to teams being like, hey, part of our run game is now the quick game. Yeah, I like this. This is good. Because you set me straight on this a little bit.

I haven't run the numbers, but for me, I'm riding in the car reading this tweet and I'm like, number one, let's make sure they aren't cherry pick numbers. And some of them are because like you'll look at one of these metrics that they're like, hey, the sky is falling. And then they're going back 20 years to see the second worst. So like something happened in 02, what was it? Like, you know, I think we're making a little too much of a single event. Like I also think it's like the culmination of we have more voices, more demand for giving a take. Like, what are we gonna do for the first month of the season? We just like, so I think a certain amount of, hey, San Francisco, Miami, their run game

can be the pass game. When you run a jet sweep and you're in shotgun and you flip the ball forward to a damn receiver, that's a pass statistically. So the way I look at it is like, Hey, these little quick little perimeter plays. I mean, Tampa got into some of those plays, you know, screens, stuff that teams are like, Hey, we don't have to, just cause Bijon got drafted in top 10 doesn't mean that's in Vogue. It's one of the things that really hurts me as a football player is like,

I don't know what to say to running backs. Cause like, yeah, you got a point, but at the same time, so do the people cutting the checks. Cause it's like, we're putting you in car accidents every Sunday. It's a hundred percent injury guarantee. It's like, most people are not like Derrick Henry looking like that last night, that deep into your career.

So I think a lot of it is like, hey, we're gonna get the ball out quick instead of running the football. The offensive lines now are less practice prepared, developed than ever. New CBA on top of new CBA, less camp time, less padded practice time. On top of that, and I explained this

to the guys that are inside the NFL, they're like, what do you think it is? I'm going, how long did it take me in training camp to figure out how to put my hand in the ground and run through somebody or around somebody? In Jim Schwartz's defense, it's very simple. How long does it take for Jeff Stoutland to teach that offensive, and he does an amazing job?

How long does it take them to school those guys? And the depth is getting worse and the concepts in college are getting more simple and things are spread out. So you're getting a lot of quick game. And I think it's a culmination of everything, including the two high and young quarterbacks. There's a ton of young quarterbacks. I guarantee if you look back when all the guys from the 90s retired, there was a little regression. And now we're going to figure out, you know why? Jaden Daniels popped up.

CJ Shroud popped up. Should Eagles fans be really worried about this Jaden Daniels situation? I love you all. OK? I absolutely love you all. And I hate to see you not smile. And I hate to tell you something and not sound like a homer,

because I am. I'm a damn homer. But this kid scares the shit out of me. He really does. I feel like I'm trying to rally a group of people behind like a fear. You should be afraid of this guy, dude. Because you didn't think they were scared enough in that reaction and you just you're... Oh my God, dude. I just tell you, I'll put it this way because I know we can jump out of the gym on some shit. But if he regresses and he's not a damn good quarterback in this league, then they need

to study what happened this month and what followed it. You understand what I'm saying? Like I don't like putting the cart before the horse. But if he turns out to not be a guy, then we need to figure out what happened. Cause he looks like a guy, capital G. Well, the crazy thing is week one, he looked like a guy that was a college quarterback.

So did CJ last year, week one. Yeah, I know. And the CJ story is even a bigger outlier. As you see this next group, and if you listen to me, I'm so defeated about the topic because I watch all these guys on Saturday. And there's never been less conviction in my voice about even the top picks. Every now and then, there'll be somebody be like, no way. Absolutely not. No way. I watched a ton of him on Saturday. It's not going to happen. And sometimes I can be wrong that way. But even with Jayden, that first game,

like one read and he's done, one read and he's done. From that game into week three in Cincinnati, where he's got a lead and he makes that throw on a cover receiver, granted it's a one-on-one, takes the hit on the throw. And the fact again that he had the lead and was like, you know what, let me try to put this game away, that in 14 days, that's what we saw from him.

And I know you guys always give me shit for liking Cliff Kingsbury, but Arizona stunk forever. You're right. Arizona stunk forever, they drafted a quarterback number one, Kyler was actually really good before he started getting hurt,

when he would get breathed on too hard. And so, I look at this and go, there's a reason why everybody wanted the McVeigh tree or the Shanahan tree tree because it's happening. It's so funny because if you watch Dan Quinn after that game, it's like Cliff Cut is your good enough for Detroit moment that Jared got like week four. You don't do that. You don't make a big scene about the guy if you don't think this is sustainable.

And when I talked to Earths, our boy, give it up for Zach Erz, my dog. When I talked to Erz before the season, he told me that this guy's gonna be quote, like I think very good and very quickly very good. And like when you have a guy that's been around a lot of damn quarterbacks and you hear that, that's why I'm comfortable jumping out of the gym week three and four.

My jaw was on the floor in that Cincinnati game. And Cincinnati defensively sucks right now. But it's not just about who you're- Except for our guy Trey. It's not just about who, yeah he's great. Hubbard. It's not just about who you're, don't do this. It's not just about who-

Just sticking up for the white edge guys. It's a fixin' for Trey. I understand. I would say it's a dying art form, but what is Aiden Hutchinson doing, bro? What's he doing? Do you guys have meetings? Nobody told him? There has to be a thread where you guys are on it.

No. Hutchinson can keep our lineage pure. It's so funny, because I'll meet these guys, and they'll be better than me, and I'll be like, nice to meet you, sir. And they're like, I was compared to you. I'm like, sorry about that. You know, like, it's like they ran it,

like Aaron Campman and all these guys anyways. But the whole point is this guy, Jaden Daniels, they're so good at making, he's so good at making decisions. They are so good on second down. They got second EPA on second down. They got the best EPA on third down in the league. The delta between them and the next team is like massive. Okay, it's one of those things where it's like

the difference between the best offense and the middle of pack offense. And that's them on third down with a rookie quarterback, who by the way, they protected with a really nice tackle from TCU in the third round. Eckler looks young, McCaffrey. I'll just say this. When you go on the road and Cincy is 0-2

and they come off that game against City, because I'm a better, okay, I gamble a lot. And this is like, this is classic bet the Bengals, man. Like they almost beat the Chiefs, right? They're pissed off. It's the commanders. Yeah, they're trying to scare you at seven and a half points Bengals go down score right away. I'm looking at score app like I'm good

Guess what happened? I turned on TV and the whole stadium is ready to blow their top Because you know like if you go three and out or you throw a pick like you're gonna lose that game by 40 He comes out there on fourth and two, and he's just doing this. Fucking fourth and two. I'm in the middle of the field. Do you want me to line up anywhere and do like the. He's just doing this.

Jake Lazer in the pregame show. Luke McCaffrey's playing games behind Jermaine Pratt. And I'm like watching this dude and I'm like, bro, he's a guy. It's fourth and two. Third and seven with the game on the line, he gets a face full of a free runner. That's how did he have,

how did McClearn have time to do a double move, bro? Like how did he, it's your guy. You're an LSU super fan. You're more excited about him than I even thought was possible. I love the guy. I won't apologize for it. I'm not going to root for him when we play, obviously when they play.

And I'll root against them because I got a giant Eagles win the East bet. But all I wish for for that kid is prosperity, dude. So here's the deal. Like, I've been on bad teams. I spent most of my career on teams that y'all never saw play. Raise your hand if you ever watched a St. Louis Rams game in 2009. This is like one dude that seems to... Okay, well y'all had Red Zone.

Your parents were doing good. I don't think they had Red Zone then. Whatever it was, like, I don't know if it was public access, but I don't know how the fuck you saw me. You would have been on the Amazon game a lot the first year. No chance, we didn't play at night. That's what I'm saying.

It's like the first batch. It was bad, bro. Anyways, most of my career was, you know, like on teams like that, one in 15, two in 14, like I can't describe to you with everything we put into it. I'm not saying we're firefighters or police officers or damn people work at a hospital, we're well-paid athletes, but it's a fucking hard life.

The troops are the real heroes. I'm the... I'm the... I'm the... I'm the... I'm the... I'm the... I'm the...

I'm the... I'm the... I'm the... Yes, they are. Yes, they are. Yes, they are. Any veterans in the house tonight? Any veterans in the house tonight?

Yeah. Yeah. Appreciate y'all. he's giving me the like, maybe a little bit. Like, hook a cop, I said it. Wait, coast guard or something. So. That's from Fletch. Anyways, the whole thing is like,

it's a fucking hard life and like, when you get in that roller coaster in August, there's nothing worse than knowing that like, all right, seatbelt's on, like, this thing's just gonna crash. Yaka Pertle the other day, he was like, yeah, this is gonna suck. No, it's just, I don't even know what you're saying.

What'd you say? I'll send you the link. Anyways, did you see Jimmy Carter today? I saw a lot of birthday wishes. You think he called it an early night? No, no, I'm still in this Frankie Valley thing. He's coming up after us. Okay.

He wanted, he wanted, that's the secret. He's gonna be doing a lot. But happy birthday to Jimmy Carter, holy shit. 100, right? But the point is, Devonte Adams feels like Jimmy Carter. He's been in the league a long time, and he doesn't want to put up with this shit. I understand, like I've been on losing teams.

Now he might not, I don't know how he's going about it, but you have a former player coach that is like calling guys out for making business decisions. And if you want to be gone, like I had a lot of coaches that were like, if you don't want to be here, leave. And like, you'd be like, all right, I don't want to be here. And they'd be like, no, you motherfucker, you got to stay.

Antonio Pierce is like the guy that's like, yeah, I'll send you out here on Southwest. And I'm not saying their relationship is contentious, but when I looked at the options for him today, the first thing I looked at was what made the most sense if I was Devante? Like, what would I want to do? Which is an interesting conversation.

Sure. Okay. Yeah, but chiefs can't afford him right now, I don't think. I'm not being like snippy, but I'm saying like the cap. I was sure like the NFL cap. Cap's not real. You can always make it work. Here are the players that have the most capital that I think could fit.

Obviously, the Jets can afford him. But if I were Devontae Adams, I'm not saying this is a slight to Aaron. You're going to go play with your best friend for how long? You know what I mean? Like to me, there is something to that. And there's also like, I don't think he's won a ring, right?

So if you're Devonte Adams, I imagine I'm putting myself in 31 year old Devonte Adams brain. I was never Devonte Adams, but when I got cut by the Rams after like two years of injuries, I was like, well, it's done here. What's my best chance to win a championship?

And that's why I went to New England, all right? That was a total like, hey, and I had a great year there and everything, but I was just playing the odds. Where can I win a championship? And I look at this guy and I'm like, does he make the Jets better to the point that they can win a championship? And I look at this guy and I'm like, does he make the Jets better to the point that they can win a championship?

And does he feel like it's worth taking a gamble where in two years I might be catching the football from whoever else? Right. You know what I'm saying? And that's not a slight on Aaron. He looks great throwing the football, but he's 40, dude. And so a team like Washington.

I'm not trying to plant a seed, but I am telling you. Well, I mean, I can tell by the reaction, it's the right move. Because like a team like Washington is looking at him and saying, and if I'm Devante, I might say, oh, I can go catch balls till I'm 40 years old from this kid. New York would be the short play, right? Cause you know this guy's 40.

Right. You know, like, and you still are under contract for a couple of years as I understand it. Okay, so I look at like Detroit as a dark horse. I know a lot of people are like, what does Detroit need? Detroit needs a big possession receiver. Okay, like, Amon Ra takes a beating in the slot. Jameson Williams is, I don't wanna-

He's a go. I mean, I love him, but- I don't mean this is pejoratively, he's a gadget guy right now, okay? But he's learning to be a receiver, right? I don't mean like he can't play receiver. But- Yeah, we got it. Devontae Adams, he's a guy, yeah, well.

We live in the clickbait era, Ryan. Devontae- Cut up that part where he questions Jameson Williams' future. He's done this, yeah well, we live in the clickbait era, Ryan. Devon- Cut out that part where he questions Jameson Williams future. He's done this shit to me before. I did it to myself, I've seen breakouts of me going, you know Washington, I think like if you're doing Kansas City, you should do LA too, the Chargers. I don't think Green Bay needs them.

Steelers, I don't know how they make it work. We kind of look at them. Steelers need them. They need them, but like. Steelers desperately. But he has no trade clause. He doesn't have a no trade clause. Yeah, but when I saw Schefter have the piece today

saying they're looking for a second rounder, that's Schefter, like, and this is part of the insider at that level, that means that Schefter is now being told, like, throw this out to the market. Well, yeah. that was that to me is a huge positive if your Adams going, okay, so they gave this information to him. Well, the positive is, it doesn't look like much on paper. I was like, oh, damn, that's it. And what you're going to do is accrue a bunch of offers for a guy.

And then you can play. They probably know one team that would overpay. And so like, if you say, hey, he's worth a second and some additional compensation to us, then all of a sudden you're like, hey, team that would give me two whatevers. Like, look at all the calls we've gotten. And I just want to say this, he has a no trade, he does not have a no trade clause.

So what does that mean? That means he doesn't get to pick his destination. So put yourself in Antonio Pierce's head. I don't mean to make something out of nothing, but my man is liking pictures that are like Devontae wants out on Instagram. That's always a good time. Did I get fooled on that thing?

Is that real? Did anybody else see that? That's real. You're like a producer, bro. I'm just gonna look at you. But are you really? I know one when I see one, bro. Give me your card.

So the whole thing is, like, if Antonio Pierce is like, hey, fuck you, like, fuck me, fuck you, does he send him to New England? Well, Drake May is about to light the world on fire in 25. So that may actually work. No, but that's the thing, it's like there's a lot of layers to this thing. And I don't know how it's going behind closed doors, but I do think a team like Washington,

I'm not trying to be funny or like bring up a bad thing. But like this team right now, teams are having a hard time keeping up with them. We'll see if that's real. But if it's real, this is the year to say, I don't care about my defense. Let's outscore people because look around the league. More of that on the Greenlight podcast from Chris Long. I don't care about my defense. Let's outscore people. Cause look around the league. More of that on the Greenlight podcast from Chris Long and the YouTube page. Same thing.

I think it's like Greenlight. Yeah, Greenlight. Greenlight. Okay. It's all been building until this moment. Do I have to leave? No, you're staying. Good.

I want you to have a front row seat. I love these people. I love you. So Rudy, it's taken a lot of shit lately, so we're going to work on that later. But we all know the real main attraction is our guy Kyle. You want details? Fine. I drive a Ferrari.

355 Cabriolet. What's up? I have a ridiculous house in the South Fork. I have every toy you could possibly imagine. And best of all kids, I am liquid. So now you know what's possible. Let me tell you what's required. How's it backstage?

A lot of groupies. Sick to my stomach, man. So nervous. You're nervous? He really does. I'll tell you why. Well, I'm up here with one of my heroes, then left. Thanks.

Left, you know, beat us with the Eagles. Turns out he's good at podcasting. I like him again, so I'm nervous for that. I should have peed before I came up here. I got to pee right now. It's so bad, dude. You're fine. My wife is here with her fill...

With the Philly in-laws. I got two Poughkeepsie wild cards here. I'm so nervous. I bought Sarudia beer. Yeah, he did. True story. I got two Poughkeepsie wild cards here. I'm so nervous I bought Sarudia beer. Yeah, you did. True story. I got some. Thank you very much. Cheers, bro. Kyle didn't love you saying how much you love Philly

more than New England. Well, no, I mean like... I didn't say anything. I just made a face. You know, like, the sun goes down pretty early up there, and... You didn't live in Boston. That, honestly... I promise you I wouldn't have liked it better. I can promise you. That, honestly. I promise you I wouldn't have liked it better. I can promise you.

No, you are not. This isn't a debate. Did they just turn the lights green when you said that? But culture is an interesting thing, dude. Like, you know, it's Palo Alto is a different city. It's like, you know, it's just a totally different city. Same region, different city. Totally different city.

People are warm here. They're very warm. Not when your car battery's dead. You guys are cold. So you think Philly's nicer than Boston? Yeah. Yeah, that's not very passionate, by the way. No, but it's kind of a trick question,

because, again, it's like the fucking Eastern seaboard, man. I'm from a small town, people are kind of like, get it moving up here. No, we's like the fucking Eastern seaboard, man. I don't like I'm from a small town. People are kind of like getting moving up here. We're not the nicest. You could draw a large circle around that anyways. Oh, let's let's try to help help the community out here a little bit. All right. So we've got a few of these. We'll start with an easy one.

Handyman Dilemma 64270 270. Thick. Pick up Hoops Cop is 2024 Kevin Love and UCLA Kevin Love's Body. In my mid 30s moved back to my hometown in the suburbs outside of an East Coast city about five years ago after getting married. My wife and I now have two kids under four.

Having bought an older house, there was plenty of work to be done. Luckily my parents have used a handyman for years that we will call Bill. Probably not. Probably not the same guy. Not me. And he's done work at our house at least once a year since we moved in.

The good news is Bill does great work at an affordable price point. I've gotten other estimates for larger jobs, such as a kitchen remodeling and a new deck, and Bill has always given a significantly better price. The bad news is Bill's an older guy with the most audible respiratory issues of any human I've ever met,

compounded in that he ripsigs all day long. While he's working, he is coughing, wheezing, and muttering curses to himself the entire time. He also brings his cousin Don around to help him out, and they argue with each other the entire time. Bill is always working multiple jobs, and therefore usually arrives at three or four in the afternoon when my wife and kids get home while I get home around seven.

My wife complains it's impossible to get anything done at home, especially with our young kids. Remember under four, both of them. And is not a fan of the aesthetics. Things came to a head a couple weeks ago. They were finishing up for the day and I had just gotten home when Bill's cousin Don asked to use my bathroom. I said sure thing, only discover my wife had drawn a bath for the kids

and they were about to go in. I told him he could use the bathroom in the basement and he said, I'll be quick. So I said, okay, go for it. After two minutes, it was clear he was not going to be quick and was dropping heat. 10 minutes later, he walked out

and we started wafting in the aftermath of a completely blown out bathroom all while the bathtub was filled for the kids. My wife is not pleased and has asked me to find someone else moving forward as well as saying she won't be home anymore if Bill and the cousin Don are there. That's tough because they're there till seven. Well, I do think the bathroom situation is weird and the overall vibes in general, why they are here could be much better.

I simply can't get over the fact that guy does solid work at a consistently fair price and is only here once or twice a year. What's the move? Do I deal with the future ramifications and adjust my schedule to make sure I'm home the next time we need him or do we say I can only, or they can only use the downstairs bathroom. Do I find a new handyman? Lot going on in that one. Whose opinion do you want first?

Kyle's. Go ahead. Can I get a hands up if this seems like a judging the book by its cover situation? I don't see there's anything wrong. No hands. All right, one hand. I think Bill's a good worker.

Did you ask for the hands before the question was over though? I think that was a little poor. They didn't know what they were raising their hands for. Yeah. Isn't there a saying, good help is hard to come by. You got a guy you trust. He takes big dumps. No, his friend takes big dumps. And he brings his family to work with him? I mean, listen, newly married, I'm not, again,

like tell your wife to relax is definitely not even a break in case of emergency situation, but I think it starts with that conversation. I don't think you're like on the new Angie's List, which is just Angie now, by the way, if anyone's wondering. But I don't think, I think you got a good thing going on. Are we doing promos right in the middle?

I don't know. I'm nervous up here. I'll take money on the side here. But I think you stick with Bill if you can help it. And just do what you can to have the best situation for Bill. I don't know. I don't know. Fucking try to turn the fan on for Bill's cousin.

So you're on the lookout for Bill and Don. You're running interference. You're victim Bill's cousin. Yeah. So you're, you're on the lookout for Bill and Don. You're running interference. You're victim blaming dude. Yes. It's their fault. There's a fucking huge, you know. It's not like he didn't flush it though. You know what I mean? There's a mudang in the toilet.

Don knew what he was doing. Don knew what he was doing. Wait, is this a one bathroom house? No, he's the one that made the bathroom. That's a key. No. How many bathrooms? Don is showing, he's, he's's kind of like trying to show his dominance.

Last job of the day. I mean, I get it. I mean, was he trying to show his dominance? No, I'm sorry. He's got to tell me what he thinks. Was he trying to show his dominance? I mean, sometimes, like you got to go. What are you going to do?

Go downstairs. You going to shit outside? I don't know. Dude, it's pretty, go ahead. I do feel like Kyle, he would be sympathetic towards anyone who's a cigarette smoker. So like, that's kind of the vibe we're going for here. Which, but I will say as my dad plumbing, heating, HVAC, all that stuff.

There we go. Blue collar Steve. It's hard to find good people that do this stuff. So if you found somebody, like I'm sorry, that's what you got, I'm married, I know the difficult conversation, but you gotta tell your wife, it's hard to find somebody like this.

So, so you understand, your two under four year old kids are there with Bill and shit and Don. It's poor planning. While you're not even there, and so, that's tough to massage. It sounds like poor planning. So, what you do is you're an adult about it, and you're like, hey man, your cousin can't take a shit

while you're on the job. That's the one deal breaker. I love what we got going on, bro. Go outside and smoke a cigarette with him. By the way, end of the driveway. I don't want a guy working on my house that doesn't rip heaters, okay? Yeah, yeah.

You know what I'm saying? And potentially has emphysema. That's how dedicated he is, Jeff, right? Listen, I smoke a damn joint with somebody working on my house. I offer them all weed. But the whole point is just have an adult conversation. Listen, we've been having a good thing going on.

You bring your family around, which is fine. But when he bombs the bathroom. That's simple. Like I remember. It's just that simple. I remember being on jobs with my dad, a humble bricklayer, and it was just understood. Like the homeowner, if the house was nice

and there was stuff you couldn't do, you just said, hey, guess what? Your kid can't like ransack our garage during his lunch break. And I was like, okay, and then I would get a talking to in the truck. I got a lot of talking to. What were you doing in the garage, buddy?

I would just see like. I mean. Some copper scraps running around. Yeah, just stuff to play with. I mean, when I was really young on the brick job, I wasn't super helpful. One brick at a time. Shout out Mike Harper.

He works on my house, he smokes heaters, and he's like the best in the business. And he would never do that in my house. He would know. All right, advice on grooming. Leave this one for Study and Chris. It's probably not my thing. Pointed questions.

Neither is it yours. Alright, we'll start with Sarudy then. Alright, 31 year old woman, female woman, emailing the show, it's always celebrated. What's the lineup you got in here? Can we get a quick hands up if you're a woman in here? Woo! Kyle's. Yeah, that's about right.

That's awesome. 31 year old woman. I've been married to my husband for almost seven months. Seven months, newlyweds. Though we've been together for a total of seven years. All right. Got a lot of data points. I love him deeply. He's an amazing

husband. He plans all of our trips, loves spending money on us, spoils me on my birthday and is truly a great guy. However, there are a few habits he has that I find concerning. He's 32 and works as an engineer. And while he's a laid back person, he tends to neglect himself when it comes to personal grooming and appearance. For instance, he doesn't buy new clothes unless I ask him to. He'll wear underwear and socks with holes in them, which I find odd. I also have to remind him to cut his fingernails, toenails, and hair, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do. He's an adult after all. After we discussed it, he did set up a whiteboard in his office with reminders for personal grooming.

He cares. Is this the part where I repeat that he's an engineer? I still have to nudge him though to take care of these things. Is this typical behavior for men? I've never need reminders to take care of myself. I do it because I care about how I look and want to look good for him. He knows I'm sending this message and honestly, I'm hoping other guys can chime in and maybe convince him to prioritize his grooming a bit more.

Thanks. You got to love me for me. I'm just joking, I cut my fingernails and toenails. That's out of control. There's never been a girl that's like, you know, he grows his nails out sometime and it's just so hot. That's bad.

But he's got a white board and he's taking it seriously. So like there's a check in the right direction. He's doing something like- How old is he again? 32, he's an engineer. You've known him for seven years. He's still young. I don't know.

It sounds like the rest of it's pretty good. He's still young. Does this guy make a lot of money? I'd imagine. She says his spoils are on her birthday. Like I get it. You know, especially the long toenails, cuddling. Like, oh, can you call 911?

Do you know how to make a tourniquet? The nail stuff is really tough. The underwear thing, like some dudes just. What's with the underwear? Holes. Okay, there's a hole in every guy's underwear. To be fair, there's a hole in my underwear. I'm pretty up on it. I try not to let it get to that point.

No, I mean like they put a hole in your underwear. So what's another hole? Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah. Engineering again, now I get it. If the shirt is clean, if there's a hole in it, no problem, in my opinion. I dress like shit.

The fingernails though, that's out of control. All right, so this is from somebody that's here. We have a couple of these. Dangerous, let's try it. 511 245. Uh oh. Uh oh. Ryan?

Chris is looking for him. I can't see him scanning. All right, where? Everybody stand up. Got a Mike Lachbacher in here? There's another one from somebody here that's like really dangerous. The London Fletcher in the building? Yeah, I know, right?

Is Lane Johnson here? Did he make it? Can he stand up front? All right, player comp is NBA Ben Simmons. I'm currently hurt. Ruptured patella, not to brag, but my jumper for his money with no defenders. That would be an improvement. One of my best friends told me he hates my guts on the group

chat, and everyone in the group thinks he's out of his mind. He was a high school football legend shredded and hooked up with a ton of chicks all throughout his 20s and 30s. Is that guy here? Does that buy you like 20 years of like? Guy had a sick run man back to back decades You live it off that

It would be weird if you were like introduced your 40 something friend to be like this guy just You should have seen the way he ran the wingt From 99 to 19. Check tape, check tape. Hydro ladies. All right, so today's 45, carpenter. Jesus was a carpenter. Twin babies, apparently not happy.

The rest of the crew's early 40s and are all happy. No, all married with kids. I read the wrong thing. I was like, everybody's happy? I'm 43 and the only single one. Well, I know your game. So I text the group story, my antics living in New York City. They all love it, why wouldn't they?

But this has been pissing off our little Al Bundy. The group chat is of all sports, small amount of politics. We have zero political knowledge and mostly ball busting. It's common for Uncle Rico to be the only one in the chat to be annoyed about the ball busting, but a few weeks ago he recently went for it, told me he hates me, regrets making me the godfather to one of his kids.

Whoa. And multiple times remarked that he hoped my leg rots off patella surgery. What? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. That's just extra mean. I, on the other hand, have held back saying anything. I regret everyone in the crew has spoken about it and told him he's crazy and misguided. A few times he's admitted it went too far, but a day or two later, he's saying wild shit to me in the chat again.

The consensus is that he's not happy with his life and needs a target to fire his anger at. Everyone is telling me I am the smarter, more rational one so I should try to fix it. My feelings are fuck that and fuck him. Thoughts, shout out Kyle. I think you shouldn't have backed off and you should have went harder.

I'm not in a lot of group chats. Sometimes I fantasize about getting an Android so I'll be kicked out of group chats. Sometimes I fantasize about getting an Android, so I'll be kicked out of group chats, but. Has anyone ever said, I don't like anything about you? Yes, and what I'm gonna say is I have not been in a good, worthy group chat that hasn't gotten a little gross. And I think shit, yes, I know shit gets a little bit

like misinterpreted over text messages, but I mean, there's been some really disgusting, can't believe you just wrote that down and pushed send. And I do think that's a little bit normal. We'll suspend guys in this one group chat I have. Like we'll banish them for like a week. And then somebody adds them back? Yeah, usually.

It's like not me, but you know. But it's okay, right? I mean, it's kind of like part of it. It is okay, but when the guy keeps doing the same shit in the group chat, I'm like, bro, people are online too much. They come in the group chat and they bring it into the group chat. I'm like, bro, keep me out of whatever you're on today, bro. Like, let's talk about the White Sox suck, huh?

Like, that's group chat stuff. Yeah. I don't want to talk about real issues in the group chat. White Sox content is good. Yeah, like send me a link. In Chicago. Yeah, I don't know something. Just I don't want to have a serious. I don't want to have serious conversations.

I like when people send me stuff like from sports, guys from college, and they'll go, can you believe this? I'm like, can you believe you sent it to me 48 hours later? You know, and then we had like a? I'm like, can you believe you sent it to me 48 hours later? You know? And then we had like a tough deal where like, I was arguing with a couple people and I was like, this is even about what's known, it's what the guy fucking told me.

Because that's what it's like. And then a couple other friends were like, you do realize like, this isn't just a dude, this guy's been doing it like 20 years, we have a sports person on our group chat and he's trying to tell you what's happening and guess what the guy did? He's like, he's still wrong.

So, you know, there's some diverging grass. You gotta try voting somebody out of there. I don't, that's not my role anymore. Things have gone well, I don't care. I've left, I'll leave a group chat. And then they beg me back in. They beg me back in. I'll just see it and go whatever.

But I've never, I want Sarudy to jump in here, but I do have, I have a time where a buddy was like, I'm just done with you and everything about you. The good news is, I mean, you're, everybody's on your side, right? So. Everybody's on his side. I have a core group of, there's five of us,

high school, whatever, and we all have little side group chats, and we talk more, some talk more than other ones. Sounds like you just gotta give this guy, as you said, a two week suspension. Get him out. It's a great idea. He doesn't even know that it happened.

You guys are just talking on the side. And then you talk on the side. And then he's like, what's going on? You guys have been quiet here lately. Side quest chat. And that's what I would do until he cleans his stuff up. Cause in all honesty, how do people constantly get in disagreements

around the world? Text. And you've reduced your friendship to a context. Yeah. I don't know what the tone is, the whole thing. Yeah. It's like a constant marbles spat in here. And we're supposed to be hanging out.

That was some big picture shit right there. That was some zoomed out shit. That was good. You know what I'm saying? That's true. Suspend him. That's why the internet sucks. Yes.

Yeah, you know like the For You tab on Twitter, which is just like bombs, like it's there to just piss you off and try to get you. I don't even know what the... I have a buddy who is basically the real life version of the For You tab. He'll just send our group chat like little bombs of things. And every once in a while, have to be like,

Hey man, like we can't bring that kind of energy in here all the time. Exactly. That's'll just send our group chat like little bombs of things. And every once in a while, he'll have to be like, hey man, like we can't bring that kind of energy in here all the time. Exactly, that's the guy in our group chat. Who I love. But he's like the 4U tab. You gotta check him a little bit. Have you noticed on X now, you'll be like, you'll watch one fight video

and they're like, here, you might like this guy getting decapitated. Dude, car. I'm like, bro, not at all. I get like dash cam car crashes. I'd just like to see a fair one every now and again. You watch one MILF drive a golf ball. And you know.

You watch one. Right, one MILF and then somebody checks your phone and they're like, what the fuck is this? And you're like, I don't know, I just started golfing again. Hey, we hit up Brandi Love on our cameo. Did you? To try to, she picked the order of her fantasy draft.

So, just a little fun fact. That's good use of cameo. By the way, Chris. She was great, she went above and beyond. Well, Scattering Report would match that. My wife knows I asked. My wife knows we got her to pick the Fantasy Football League. What I love about Chris is he was on the cameo thing

so early that you were the first person that I could even think of that was like, I'm gonna use this for evil in the best way. So what was it, LeGarret? Dude, I have LeGarret Blunt wishing an iguana a happy birthday, who's the oldest living iguana. His name is Pablo. He put on his New England Patriots shirt to do this thing by his pool,

and he goes, I know he's gonna be watching those Patriot games. He said it to me. It's still one of the funniest things I've ever seen. We gotta get that going again, because he thinks it's real. He doesn't know that you did it. I got get that going again, because he thinks it's real. He doesn't know that you did it.

I got Dean Blandino, I got Trey Flowers, I got Kurt Benkert, I got a whole... We gotta bring that back. It's been out of the loop enough to bring it back. All right, couple more here, and we'll get to the Q&A. I'm trying to get Kurt shilling. He wouldn't...

Shilling. I don't think the sock was real blood. I'm fucking around. Some baseball fans there are like... All right, all right. We'll do one more. This one's tough. This is, I don't know, the guy that we just read about.

I'll tell you this on the friend group thing. Why had it happen to me once? I was reaching out to the other guys and I was like, what's going on there? They're like, he just kind of doesn't like you. And I went, all right, but I never like did anything. There's no like line in the sand. There was never actually any moment that it point to.

So like, there's no apology or whatever. He goes, no, he just doesn't like you. And guess what? My life has literally not changed at all since I don't talk to this person anymore. It doesn't even matter. It never does. It just doesn't matter. It's does. It just doesn't matter.

It's amazing. Just, you know, the ad drop of life. So- Can I just say one thing real quick? Yes. I've never heard somebody with more stories of like, yeah, there was one guy that just fucking hated me than you.

Several friend groups, it sounds like different eras. There's always one guy that fucking hates you. I've been around a long time. You know? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. I'm a resource. It doesn't make sense to me. Yeah, there's some work stuff and then there was a call.

Yeah, actually, maybe there is more than one. All right. Two more emails. And then Elizabeth, we'll open up to the Q&A here. OK, this is this one is tough because all the guys are here and they're all huge. All right. Height widely disputed, but I go with 6'6". Good for you. 250, maybe this one's fake, I don't know. String main.

I, what? One pack a day Vlady Divac. A stumbled one pack a day Vlady, okay. Me and two friends buy tickets to the Philly pod. Oh, this might be bad. Been friend for 20 years, very excited to attend to see Kyle in person, as everybody is, at work.

I bring up at lunch that I'm- I like your vibes, man. You got good vibes, bro. We never really hung out, bro. He's got good vibes. No, I was too nervous. He got good vibes. You can farm him out.

I bring up at lunch that I'm going to the Philly pod. A good work friend who I eat lunch with, Dears Perk Up. Obviously he's in. That's him. I found him. I think you just found the guy. Is the guy here with you?

The guy's here. The guy's here. Should I stop reading this? No, read it. It's just good to know where he is. Did I see a this? No, read it. It's just good to know where he is. Did I see a this? No, it was a this. No, when he raised his hand, he's like, hey man.

He might have raised it to be like, don't read the end. So a good work friend who I eat lunch with, his ears perk up. Obviously, he's a fan. Later that night, he texts me and invites himself to the pod with us. In the text, he even says, I know you don't like it when people invite themselves. I now have to explain to my 20 year plus friend that a work friend is joining us. Best part is besides inviting himself,

he wants to get wasted and doesn't even offer to drive. Should I have said no? Should I have made him drive? Probably not. We're all going to be in attendance at the Philly pod and really need your help to settle this. Well, it's sort of settled. You're here, right? Also like I know Uber can be kind of fucking expensive, but

I'll tell you what, I'll get your Uber tonight. Yeah, dude. Both of y'all get drunk. By the way, somebody invited themselves with me to that Pama game that the LSU Pama game I'm coming to you with. Do I know him? Dr. Fax. Dr. Fax is good to go. Because you don't really have to watch Dr. Fax.

He was like, how are you getting down there? Oh, well, we all know. Not the way I'm going down there. All right, last one. Last one. This one's good. It hits close to home. Got beaten one-on-one by a 76-year-old man.

5'11", 195, 285 bench, NBA comp Andre Iguodala, who's never dunked. I'm 35 years old, father of 205, but as some time somehow defied the odds and I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm in the gym five days a week, lifting, run three times a week and dabble in some gravel biking.

I just bought a gravel bike, it's been in the box for a month. A very active person and can run a 5K under 28 minutes, which according to Google tells me I'm the top 20% of men my age. To summarize, I'm very active. I gotta push back on that. As a former 5K guy before bulking season,

is 5K under 28 minutes worth mentioning in an email? Oh! We don't have any 5K people in here. How long is 5K? 5K is 2.5, right? 2.3. Oh, I can do that. That's close to the three.

2.3? Oh, 3.1? 3.1. Oh, I can do that. Yeah. I'm not, you don't. Yeah. Okay, we got it.

Thanks. Here's the problem. The part of that hit with me, what did he say? Did he say he got beat in one-on-one by a 76-year-old? Yeah, we're getting there. All right, so to add some addition, right now when he hears this, he's gonna be so pissed off.

No, it's your show, go ahead. Whoa! Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I'll just add some context, Kyle, we'll get right to you immediately, I promise. That's all right, I don't wanna do it anymore. I generally wrap my workouts up with shooting hoops for 15 minutes listening to the Ryan Rosillo podcast. We're gonna be super motivated next time you listen to this part. I played city league ball growing up,

multiple city league titles, but I went to an inner city high school that was in the mix for states every year. And as a stocky white guy known for more than, known more for hustle than a jumper, rec league was my ceiling. I prefer to hoop alone. But every once in a while.

Oh, is that like endearing to you? San Sebastian, this is getting shots up constantly. So anyway, some random comes up to him and says, ask if you want to play one on one. This is all important context for what I come to ask you guys with help with. Yesterday a senior man asked me to play one on one. Immediately I felt conflicted because he was clearly in his 70s and I didn't want to break the man's hip. I'm a physical player with a primary skill set.

Wait, so this guy's how big again? He's 5'9". 195? 195. 285. And he benches 285. He's just a, you know, Matty Bryce, Matty Bruss type. All right, so no one got that reference.

Whew. What? I was just trying to power through the email, I'm sorry. Dude, you're smart. Nobody got it, it's okay. Move on. No, no, no. You know a thing, nobody knows it. We got it, we get it.

Cool thing. That reference doesn't travel. All right, anyway, let's get to the point of this. When I'm on offense, it's clear I can get by him whenever I want, but I feel weird crossing up an old man and taking him to the rack, so I find myself just shooting jumpers as well, which go in less than his. Despite this, I take an early lead.

I'm up eight, seven when he proceeds to drain four wide open jumpers in a row and win 11-8. Afterwards, he's all smiles, but I can't get myself to look him in the eye out of shame. He proceeds to tell me he's 76 years old, which he wanted to do, by the way. He couldn't wait to tell this guy. No shit. I'm 76, by the way. Depressed yet?

After which I shamefully admit I'm 35, he says, quote, we'll definitely play again. To which I give a yeah, definitely, and walk away in shame. Now I feel for our guy. I'm sorry about that. There was a layup there. I'm sorry about the 3.1, 5K deal. Play again.

You're 76, we gotta hurry up. You sure? I'm looking for advice on how I should have proceeded in the first place. Should I have taken this man to the rack every time and picked up his, picked his pocket whenever he dribbled? Yes. And next, what do I do when I see him in the future? I can't wait for the life of me. I can't for the life of me go down 02 in a series with a 76 year old man, but at the same time feel weird upping the intensity to get the W Kyle.

Well, this has nothing to do with the story. I was going to say before you told it. So here we go. I was just going to say in high school, I was like 17 years old and an absolutely hammered, hammered guy who was like 22, like crossed me up and made me fall. And I think he puked like 10 minutes later, but it was super embarrassing. So I guess I know how that guy feels in one sense. You guys 22? Yeah, he was. Was it one of your roommates?

A little different. Nobody. No. But I mean, it was like I could smell the brass monkeys on his breath. You know what I mean? It was like that guy's hammered. Yeah. And I think he was puking in the grass later, but it's like he got you, didn't he? So I guess I kind of know where he's coming from. But I guess what I'm saying is totally rise to the rise to the challenge. I would say don't run this man over. But yeah, find a way to win, man.

I think you have to play him again, don't you? I don't know about that. You're gonna duck this guy? Well, like clearly you're conflicted. This seems like, Chris, like a burn the tapes kind of thing. Like you just never look back at it. You don't think about it again. You just get out of your brain.

Yeah, it'd be like, yeah. Bury the tape, let's do it. We got Thursday Night Football. We don't even have to look at the tape this week. We got to worry about the commanders or whatever it is. But the whole point is your five, 10, what is he? Five, 11, 195, he's benched. He's too stiff.

28 minutes, 5K. That's the whole problem. He's too stiff. He's doing too much. You give me the whole rigmarole on what you do athletically. You got a whole fucking like resume. And if you want to choose basketball, pick that and be good at it.

But if you're like 5K, I bench a lot, you're too stiff. Doesn't even sound like you were that good in high school. So the point is, maybe don't. No, but be honest, because I'm not that good at basketball. I like playing, but don't pour your ego into getting beat by a 70 something year old guy. If you're not, you know what I mean?

Just beat him if he's gonna play you. It's like beating your kids. Like you let your kids play against you, you gotta beat your kids. Not beat your kids. You... Clip that, Mike. Clip that.

But the point is like, when my kid wants to play me in a game, I'm gonna beat him. When a 74 year old wants to play me, he comes up to me and says, I wanna play you a game, I'm going to beat him. When a 74-year-old wants to play me, comes up to me and says, I want to play you, like, I'm going to beat you. And that's important, because he asked this guy to play. You're mentally weak.

You asked him to, like, it's a different story. And when you're shooting around by yourself, and another guy comes up to you and says, do you want to play, the code is you have to take that person out. You got to, right? Wouldn't you? What would you do?

What do you think I'm still trying to do? So I played my youngest brother. There's quite a gap there, he's never beat me, and he beat me, and I thought about it for a year, and then he came back to visit me, and I beat him 11-0. And my dad was like, he's like, you didn't need to do that. I was like, I needed to do it for me.

You remember that meeting? No, but the same reason why you're still thinking about the guy that threw up after he crossed you over, that's the nugget That's what I think it was because I hit the ground Lesson, yeah, but here's the point you still don't like it. You still don't like the way it made you feel That's the lesson in all this That's your answer. Oh

Yeah, I think you beat the guy I don't know am I out of line like I feel like I'm like being No, because he was obviously good and you know what he's doing? He's telling everybody back in his house, he's like, oh, this 35-year-old jack guy that may be stiff or not. Not sure I buy that. I beat him. And I don't mean... You're the laughing stock of the Elks club right now.

Yeah. I don't mean to shit on the guy. I don't mean to shit on the guy who benches 288 benches more than me right now. Hand up. But I'm not claiming to be the basketball player. You're a full-body guy, though. You know what I'm saying? I am full-body guy. Leverage. So in the weeds here. We have a few minutes here. Elizabeth's gonna start lining you up with a

little Q&A. We're gonna start back there and then we'll bring you up and we'll bang that out and then after that Elizabeth we're gonna start them up here then. So we've already figured it out., so then we're gonna take just a quick break when we're done with this, and then I'll go back and do a meet and greet and do whatever we need to do, because I wanna thank again, all of you for coming out. I also wanna thank State Farm so much

for making these live show happen. And this is really one of the best ones we've ever done. And thanks to Chris for running the headline here. All right. I guess what, just free for all? Whoever wants to go first? There is a, there's a spotlight on the mic if you want to line up, that's where it is. Here's your chance.

Yeah, we'll do this for like 10 because I think we're behind already. What's up, man? What's up, guys? Big fan, loved you guys since the SPP days. My question is for this guy right here. You talked about the Rams days, you talked about the brief Patriots,

but obviously there's something about here and even though you were here two years, why do you feel, why do you, I mean, I need to talk about like, you feel like home, new, it's like what, if you had to just put it into like a couple of sentences, like what is it about this place that resonates so hard with you? I've really tried a lot of times to put it into words,

thank you. I've tried a lot of times to put it into words, I think honestly it's like where I was, I don't think people realize where people are in their careers when they get to a certain place. You see a guy on a paper and you're like, ah, good rotational piece or whatever y'all think. But like I was in the dumps, you know,

like before I got to New England, I was a captain of my team. I had played in a hundred games straight. I got hurt a couple of years. I kind of got dropped on my ass and then team moved and I had no like home. And I went up to New England and I felt a little misrepresented up there,

not in that I didn't love the place, but I didn't play to my strength. I was playing out of position. And so when I got here, I just got this incredible sense of like, thank you bro, I appreciate it. He got this from the team store today. I told him, I don't think I can pull it off, but.

Did you scrap that shit for this franchise? Well, no, but I really do. I will tell you. I will tell you. You don't know where I came from. I'm not saying that in a weird way. Where I came from was one in 15, two in 14. It was like, you show up on Sunday,

you know you're gonna lose. And the fans are tired of it, and the team's about to move like I can remember my last game in St. Louis like that it was the weirdest shit in the world and so when I got up here I was like I was just looking for a fresh start where I could go to die in the NFL You know what I mean? Like real shit You know and I wanted to be somewhere where I could like die on my sword like do what I do and What I found in the process was like being in the right place at the right time times a thousand.

And also what I found out about this city is they truly do fuck with you if you're real and you work your ass off. You don't have to be the best player in the world. And you know, one of my biggest regrets in my life is that I didn't play here when I was 26. Y'all would have really liked me. But what I'm saying is, y'all found me,

and I was homeless before I came here. Like NFL homeless, like I didn't have a home. You know, so like, you guys showed me love. I'll never forget missing Kirk Cousins in my first game. Like clear, wide open sack, which are harder than you think. And riding back on the train with Bo Allen and Selick and Kelsey and like, I didn't wanna talk. I like, I was like, I just wanna escape.

This is gonna be terrible, man. Like, and for things to end the way they ended for me, like, there are some things in life that are very sacred to me. You know, my family, my friends, but this place, I'm not bullshitting you. Like, there's just a sense of like, I love you. You know what I mean? my friends, but this place, I'm not bullshitting you, like, there's just a sense of like, I love you.

You know what I mean? Like, when you come back, and part of it is you want a Super Bowl. So I'm lucky, I'm not saying there's anything I did. We were all in the right place at the right time. And fuck, I just love y'all, man. Like, it's a blue collar city, dude. I fucking love this place.

I love y'all. That guy gets it. All right, let's, we've got a bunch of these, so let's try to rapid fire these. All right, it's gonna be tough for them to follow there because I'm from Boston. And my wife, my wife is a massive. Just put it behind us.

My wife is a massive Eagles fan, massive Phillies fan, all those teams, and I got three kids. How, what advice can you give me and my wife to divide this up? Where should I push? Should I give up one team? How do I make this household come together? You let the kids pick.

I really do believe you let the in a house divided situation I'll let the kids pick, but you can guide them. And I think what your responsibility is as a sports fan is to guide your kids into following and emulating the right players. That should be the key. Your kid might pick the wrong team, but if he's like following some guy that's like an asshole or does the wrong things off the field, like I point that stuff out to my eight-year-old. Like Devontae Smith to me, I'm like, I don't care who your favorite player is. He's going to be of them. Cause watch how he goes about his business.

You know what I mean? Like that's the advice I'll give you. Like he's a kid's gonna pick my son, it hurts me. He's a dolphins, he likes the dolphins a little bit. He's like got three favorite teams, the Eagles are one. But I can't change that. You know what I mean? He'll only love them more.

You just ignore it and you point them in the right direction of players. Or Celtics Red Sox Flyers Eagles. There's the ranking, there we go. This was the most advice, like real advice. I'm gonna lose the sixers to my wife. That's great. But I don't hate Boston, it's just it was dark

at like four o'clock. All right, I got a quick one just just for Ryan. I need an ultimate ruling as the one guy in the media that I know is that is truly supportive. How's my hairline? Do I need to just cut? Do I need to draw the line? Is it over for me?

Is it not? You're the only surreal supporter. Do you mind doing a pirouette? We're all buddies here. Are you single? I'm married. You're married, so. So I don't gotta wait, yeah.

Look, my big thing on this is it's a tough day when you go, I'm gonna do this, and the hairdressers always lie to you, and they're like, no, you still look fine. It's getting worse, I'm getting the line up, and he's like really, yeah. I think you look great, man. You got a good bald head, dude.

If you went bald, you got a good shaped head. I mean obviously I grew the beard out preparing for this you know. Yeah how are your arms? I've been back in the gym for six weeks. There you go. I mean you can't decide to have more hair but you can decide to have bigger arms. Best advice I've ever gotten. This starts starting with Tom Cruise in Magnolia, and this. No. Thank you. They were like, is he going to do it? No. He's not going to do it, he said.

What's that? Hi. Brady guy. Yeah, I want my Brady shirt for you. I thought that was somebody else. I'm just reading about that. Shaggy Rivera? No.

That was my second thought. Yeah. I'd want to wear a Brady jersey and get killed. But anyways, my question was mostly for Chris, and I guess No, no. That was my second thought. Yeah. I didn't want to wear a Brady jersey and get killed. But anyways, my question was mostly for Chris and I guess Uncle Ryan too, because I know you always say that you don't answer kid questions, but you seem like you're great with kids too.

As a 35-year-old new dad, my son was born a month after your daughter, Saruti. But I just wanted to know, Chris, as someone who has AAD myself, how do you handle being a dad? What's your best advice? It seems like you're doing great with Waylon. Thank you for saying that.

Congratulations. When I had my first son, I felt like I fucking realized what life was about. I felt like I was just living for myself for 30 years and didn't know what was missing. So I think you're going to, all these feelings, right? But I think the key is don't hold yourself to some bullshit standard.

If you love your kids and you go to bat for your kids and you really give a shit about them, you're gonna be a good parent. There's a million ways you compare your kids, but if you show them love and you're open with them and you communicate with them and you treat them like, you know, family, they're gonna be like, you know, it's not overcomplicated, just love them.

You know what I mean? And be honest with them. No, I scared shitless about this. And honestly, like, being a dad is the coolest thing I've ever done. Everybody in this room overcame something with their upbringing, and they all made it to the Ryan Roussel Live Show.

Yeah! Yeah! Ryan, I just wanna know if you had any advice. I know you always say that you don't like to give advice about kid stuff, but you always do life advice and you always bring advice about it. I'm just telling you, if you're on the fence about it, there's going to turn an age or you see a kid playing with his dad on the beach and you're going to go...

You're going to do great because you're asking. Damn. I know what I'm prepared for. I've set myself up for it mentally. You're ready. It involves a boat and St. Barts. So, I'll be fine. Love the pod, thank you.

You're great with my kids, by the way. He really is. I love kids. They love him. That's the thing. Well documented, everyone knows. Yeah. First of all, appreciate the Magnolia reference.

Top movie ever. Best pod, I'd argue that. Right, that scene's not super popular in today's world, so I wasn't gonna do the whole monologue. I would never quote it, but bold from you. Right, right. My question's actually for Saruti. I live, breathe, die by the NBA.

Best thing ever. And I'm arguing over here with my best friend all week. Where do you see the magic ceiling this season? Magic minutes, start the clock. Question for two guys in the audience. I think I sent you and Bill and Halis a text because Jonathan Isaac, it was like a report that he came in, he gained like 30, 40 pounds, which by the way,

you would know, you guys have gained muscle in my life. That seems impossible in a couple of months, 30, 40 pounds, which by the way, you would know, you guys would die by having gained muscle in my life. That seems impossible in a couple of months, 30, 40 pounds. It happens quicker than you think. Creatine. It's so dumb. I mean, there's a couple stages in your life where you can like put on more weight, but what has he been in the league, seven or eight years?

And he just, I mean, you know, he's also had a lot of knee problems, feels like weight is not the thing you wanna do there. I just don't think gear is that big in the league seven or eight years and he just, I mean, you know, he's also had a lot of problems. He was like, wait, is not the thing you want to do there. But I still think gear is that big in the NBA for like defensive power forwards, unless it's Kevin Willis, but he could score. Hey, he can shoot some. I'm not accusing him of anything. He just had big arms.

I would say last year I was like, if they can be a playing team, that'd be great. They obviously exceeded that, got into the playoffs. Everybody was killing me when they went down, oh, two against the Cavs, obviously fought back, got up to seven. I think this year, East is a little bit tougher. If they can, goal should be home court. If they can get that, it's gonna be hard. But, like, get a top six seed, maybe win a playoff series again.

That's probably the goal, I would say. I'm not gonna bore everybody with two minutes on the match. Thank you. I'm a Sixers guy, but they beat the Knicks in six. No problem. See, here's the thing I was talking about, actually in an Uber today, I was talking about the Sixers to my Uber driver. I think people after the catch raid

are kind of overrating the Knicks a little bit. Absolutely. And I think they're actually kind of underrating the Sixers and Milwaukee. So I think both of those teams, I mean, we'll see how the regular season goes. TIBS is crazy. I mean, you would obviously weigh on this too, but I, I,

I kind of. Whatever happens the most recent, and I always bring this up, but when the Celtics off season was adding Horford and Gordon Hayward, the Thunder added one player and then got Carmelo at the very end is like his last gas thing. And the NBA GM survey survey had the Thunder having the best off season. And it was so stupid. And the only reason that it won it was the most recent thing so I think that's what the cat thing is and to be honest to you you can have cat appreciate you guys Chris go birds thanks man go birds question for

Chris yes sir boomer what boomer yeah sooner yeah I wore for Ryan I tried to Yes, sir. Boomer. What? Boomer. Yeah. Sooner. Yeah. That's usually what happens. I wore it for Ryan. I tried to dress like a bro here, so that's why I wore it. Oh, and we only have time for two more? Sorry, guys. Sorry. This is going to be quick. Do you think it's crazy Jason Peters just signed a contract

for the Seahawks? No, man. He's 42. I know some people who are like almost 50 years old who are still playing tackle football like for no money. So Jason Peters doing it for a bag like. Okay. You know, and also that guy loves ball. Like he really could be a head coach one.

He could be an O line coach for sure. I mean, he's that, he was always so cool to the young guys. He taught everybody. He taught me shit. I was 30 years old. I loved the guy. Yeah. Yeah.

Now he's the oldest guy in the league. Good question. That was a good one. When you said for no money, do you mean like meeting up somewhere? Bro, I love the guy. Yeah. Now he's the oldest guy in the league. Good question. That was a guy. What you said for no money, do you mean like meeting up somewhere? Bro, dudes are like playing. Oh dude, I was like 20 years old meeting up with 40 year old guys. Yeah, those guys are crazy.

Jason Peters. Jason Peters is not crazy. Oh, to play tackle football. On a cold field in November. Blue collar shit, bro. On a Saturday. Well after the LA comment a couple weeks ago, we just had, I guess we got two more, man.

What do we got? Two more. So, I'm a big pro sports guy, but you talk a lot of college football. I'm moving to Austin next week, got a job down there. Whoa. So how do I really enjoy college football on Sunday in Austin?

I've been to Austin like five years and my friend blacked out and went missing, which kind of sucked. And then he was like, hey, we want, no, nobody would know. And made the night a bit more challenging. And then he's like, I think they're married. And I was like, dude, I only have two sideline passes. All right, so don't do that. Okay.

But there's this, you're asking me like restaurants and bars? No, no, just like college football. What's it like? What's it like? It's way better. That's what it's like. That's what I need to know. The atmosphere is way better.

The pageantry is way better. The fact that you feel like you're a place that's representing, look, I get it. There's certain cities, NFL-wise, and I think Philly's in that, I think Green Bay's in that, I think the Saints are in that, but I just think it's just a different level. I prefer it more, and I would just make sure

you get there early enough to walk and kind of take it all in. And I think people are gonna kind of, hey, it's my first time, it's my first time this thing, like everybody gets intimidated by it. People want, people down south, and I know Texas is like a little different, but I really think they get off on somebody experiencing

how much fun is, they want you to have the most fun. That's what I was experiencing, but I was also on TV, so maybe I got an advantage, I don't know. Look, everybody that we can't get a question to, we can do whatever the meet and greet that we'll make happen as soon as we can. All right, final cut. Last guy, this better not suck, sir.

The producer in the house. So close. Don't worry, the gain on the mic's great. So like overall, like audio quality is solid across the board. You glazed Jaden Daniels for like 15 minutes on stage earlier after last week going on the Rachel Eisen show saying not to crown Josh Allen because he got dog by my way. No, I didn't say that. You got to listen better for a producer.

Okay, yeah, for sure. Why would he do it? But I wanted to ask. I wanted to ask. I was thinking about taking your card, but you don't listen. So, and listening is the most important part. Josh Allen's the QB2 in the planet.

So like, it must have been somebody else talking about Josh Allen that you heard. Josh Allen is QB1 right now if you take his work from week one to week four. And I, you know, like he's just fucking otherworldly. I talked to my dad on the phone about him for like an hour at a time. We're like Josh Allen.

He's like- That's Howie Long by the way. Yeah, okay. So here's the deal. What I said to Rich Eisen in Arrow Remember, cause I talked about today on his show, was Rich Eisen said- I didn't catch today's episode.

No, well, you didn't catch the other one either. You were picking on your kids' Halloween costumes. OK, so here's the deal. He goes, he didn't know. So he goes, Chris, are the Buffalo Bills the best team in the AFC, if you'll remember? And I said, we're not crowned in any teams as the best team in a conference,

except for the Minnesota Vikings and the NFC right now. But in general, like it's too early in the season to crown a team. And I said to him, I said, at some point, somebody's going to roll up on that team who's going to be a bad matchup for that defense who is down guys. And look what happened. Yeah. But you got your fan hat on, not your producer hat.

I don't. So this is why I want to ask you watched Andy Dalton carve up the Bengals defense and the Cardinals are like not a real Was the previous thing a statement? Yeah, so my question is we see Jaden play against the Cardinals. We see him play against the Bengals I'm really curious to see what do you think he's gonna play against like a top 10 team? This is just a Ravens question and you want him to say the fucking Ravens? No, I don't, I don't. This is so annoying. Hey, by the way, by the way, by the way, I had the overt.

The only thing I'm mad at is Nate Wiggins dropping that pick at the end of that game. You started with you glazed this guy. I know, sorry. That was gross, by the way. If you go through the etymology of the world, I'm giving that content up. When you say the Ravens are gross.

No, like, it's pretty easy to see when he walked up where he was going. He was going with some like, gotcha. But there's no gotcha, because if you run the tape back, what I said to Rich was, and respectfully, what I said to Rich was, it's too early in the season. As evidenced by the commander's getting shellacked by Todd Bowles week one, and then Todd Bowles looking like,

you know, like he's got this next Super Bowl team and then he can beat by Denver. And the same thing with San Francisco, week to week. So the point is we don't crown teams. But if you're watching the Jaden Daniels tape and you don't think he's real. No, he's real. I don't mean to be like reductive,

but you don't know ball. And I'm not saying you. I'm not saying you. Ball knows on alert. No, I'm not talking about you. Cause I don't think you made that claim. What I'm saying is, it's not just about who he's playing against, it didn't matter who he's playing against

when he threw that third and seven ball with the game on the line. It didn't matter who he's playing against when it's fourth and two, and he's playing a game with Luke McCaffrey, and he's using his eyes. It doesn't matter who they're playing against because they're that much better than everybody right now in second and third down.

I'm not saying there won't be a game that you can hit me up on Twitter and say, hey, I told you so motherfucker. It's a long season. Yeah. But I will crown Josh Allen. If I had to start a draft today in the NFL, I don't know if it's that easy.

Just don't want to play Kyle Van Oy, I guess. Kyle Van Oy's a dog. Yeah. No. We made it full circle. Go Ravens. Go Ravens in episode. He came up by 95 to ask that question.

He was helping you out so much earlier. We'll be back there for the meet and greet. I want to thank the Fillmore. This crowd is awesome. I want to thank you for taking the time out of your week to come here, support the live show and listening to everything. Big thanks to State Farm as always for making this happen. Sir Rudy Kyle and of course an Eagles legend,

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