NFL Preview With Pete Prisco, Players On New Teams, The 49ers Have An Extra Wide Receiver, CFB Week 0 + Mt Rushmore Of Heavy Things

Pardon My Take

This episode of Pardon My Take dives into NFL preseason wrap-up, featuring a viral story about Daejon Love, an internet scammer who impersona

Key takeaways

• Daejon Love's elaborate scam relied on Instagram curation, fake financial advisors, and physical props like a 49ers helmet to maintain credibility.

Main topics

• Daejon Love's NFL impersonation scam
• NFL cut day and roster updates

Notable quotes

"If Dajon Love has only one fan, it's me. If he has no fans, I'm dead."

Conclusion

The episode wraps up with humor and reflection on internet culture, highlighting how easily deception can

Transcript preview

Speaker 7 (0:00) Hey, Pardon My Take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. At Boar's Head, we've been going back to school for over 115 years. And this year, every school lunch is reason to celebrate with the flavors your kids love and the exceptional quality you expect. Helping you make school lunch fresh, easy, and delicious. Ring the bell. The deli is open. Boar's Head. Committed to Speaker 5 (0:37) craft since 1905. Speaker 7 (0:40) On today's part of my take, presented by DraftKings, we are back in studio and we've got real football games to talk about. Week zero in college football took place on Saturday. It was good to see some real football games in action. We have our good friend Pete Prisco to get you pumped up for the NFL season. We are two Sundays away. Two Sundays away. Scott Hanson sends that tweet and it makes me feel something. Cut day in the NFL. Who's back of the week? 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He'll bounce back. For people who have missed this story, it has taken over the internet. It is... Actually, we haven't talked about it. We were all in different locations on this weekend, so we have not talked about it. But to sum it up for anyone who's missed it, Dejan Love is an internet scammer who essentially pretended that he was an NFL player for the last however many years. And... Scammed over the FBI arrested him and he's alleged to have scammed 1.3 million dollars from various women And it is so funny because if you are someone who watches the NFL Like everyone who's listens to the show and all of us in this room You just saw one clip of this guy and you're like, yeah, he is not an NFL player, but he somehow Kept this skin going. I guess it I guess it just shows if you carry around a helmet with you everywhere you go people might assume you're in the NFL. I mean, maybe you didn't buy it. I thought that was a crispy Speaker 6 (4:44) route, and he was wearing a 49er helmet. He was. Like, where else can you get a 49er? That's what the 49ers wear when they play football. Well, he not only had that Speaker 7 (4:51) helmet, Speaker 6 (4:53) and he was working out playing football. Yeah, I Speaker 7 (4:55) think it wasn't the route. It was when he had the helmet with him in the car that I was like, oh, shit, this guy's legit. Speaker 6 (5:00) That's what ballplayers do. They walk around. They have the cook with the helmet on. Some guys sleep with it on. It was just essentially him having a helmet, owning a couple of footballs, and then wearing the color red a lot. It's Instagram. He curated his Speaker 5 (5:15) Instagram to look like an NFL player. Speaker 7 (5:17) I initially was like, this guy is such a piece of shit. He's a scumbag. He's scamming people. I have to say that I turned, and I think I'm a fan of his. If Dajon Love has only one fan, it's me. If he has no fans, I'm dead. When I saw that he... He got so deep, he did a fake Thanksgiving turkey giveaway for his charity. I was like, this is now funny. Did you see the football camp? Yeah, the football camp. He had a turkey giveaway. He got so into I'm an NFL player that he's like, I even have to do. A turkey giveaway Thanksgiving time because that's what NFL players do. Did Speaker 6 (5:58) he Speaker 7 (5:58) have like an alma mater? Did Speaker 6 (5:59) he have a fake college that he also went to? Well, he was hurt. Speaker 7 (6:02) He was hurt. He hurt his pinky. I don't know if you saw, but Speaker 6 (6:04) he couldn't close. Speaker 7 (6:05) He did a video where he's like, you see this? And he like half closed his hand. He's like, I can't close my pinky more than this. And then he showed his other hand. He's like, see, I can make a fist. The first guy ever who has been who went undrafted didn't play in college because he hurt his pinky. Also, I don't know if you guys know this, but when you sign with an NFL team, they make you do a physical, but also a mental evaluation, psychological evaluation, and emotional evaluation. I did see that. That's for Speaker 6 (6:34) people who know ball. I did see that. And he also had a fake financial advisor. Yes. That was part of the scam. So the way that he scammed mostly women out of money was he would meet up with them, go on a date. They'd think that maybe they were dating a football player because they didn't know how to do a Google search on the guy. Well, and Speaker 7 (6:51) also he brought his helmet to the... Speaker 6 (6:53) The dinner. As one does. Yeah. Speaker 5 (6:55) Sure. No, Google, he like beat the algorithm by like making it his Instagram bio. So if you Googled him, the quick Google results said he's a player on the 49ers. Speaker 6 (7:05) Yeah. The AI summary, because he fed it so hard with his Instagram account, faked the AI summary, fooled it. So it did appear that he might have been a player, but you could just look him up. Like it's free to look up the roster. These are public information. Correct. And the rosters that they have. They weren't, I guess the women would go on dates with him. They'd just be like, oh, this is awesome. I knew I was waiting out for Mr. Right, and it finally happened. Now I got an NFL player. And then he would have his financial advisor around who was an 18-year-old man, I believe. Yeah, I guess man. 18 years old. And then... He would act like he was talking to his financial advisor, introduce them to one of these women, be like, you know, he usually only deals with upscale clientele, minimum deposit of $10 million, but since you're with me, I can get you in. And so they would just kind of bleed his dates dry. investing in a fake financial situation with an 18 year old kid that was his best friend. Speaker 7 (8:02) Yeah. We did. Listen, we failed as a podcast. We need to get more women listening to PMT because I feel like we could have helped them avoid this because it's just such a funny watching all these stories come out. Again, if you watch any football. And you just see his body. His body is not a football player's body. It's not like he's fat, but he has no muscle tone that a football player has. The route he ran in the sand was so slow. He was doing high knees in another clip I saw that was so slow. And then you have like... juxtaposed with, did you guys see the clip of Miles Garrett and Will Anderson doing box jumps? Yeah. And they literally look like they're levitating. Defying gravity, yeah. Yeah, you see an NFL player and how different they move, and then you see Dajon Love running a slow route with his foot. He had his foot the wrong way as a wide receiver. The funniest part Speaker 6 (8:57) of this route that he ran in the sand was him and I guess his personal trainer or his coach, before he runs this route, They sit there and they map this route out on a football. They're taking a lot of time. He's like, I want you to do this, this, this, and this on this route. And then he just kind of runs like two steps and then barely turns to the right. Speaker 7 (9:15) Yep. Always got his helmet on. Speaker 6 (9:17) Always has his helmet with him. Keep that thing on it. He Speaker 7 (9:19) actually traded himself to the Rams. I don't know if you saw that recently break. It's a tough business. Speaker 6 (9:24) But Speaker 7 (9:24) he's still Speaker 5 (9:25) close to the bay. Speaker 7 (9:26) Yeah, he's close to the bay, and he had other options coming out of college, even though he couldn't produce one. There was a text message that I saw that a woman who clearly knew football, like he was trying to trap her, and she was just like, oh, that's awesome. You play football. Can I see some of your highlights? And he's like, I don't have any. I've been injured. She's like, oh, but you have highlights from college, right? He's like, no, I was injured in college. She's like, oh, so you're in the NFL and you didn't play down in college? He's like, why are you pressing me? Speaker 6 (9:56) Yeah. Speaker 7 (9:56) Because I crushed the Speaker 5 (9:58) private workout. Speaker 6 (9:59) The emotional part of the workout. Yeah, listen, I had a great Wunderlich score, all right? Now, yeah, Taylor Jamie Chan, his 18-year-old financial advisor, picked off 1.3 mil. Speaker 6 (10:12) I'm excited to see the documentary that's going to come out about this guy. It Speaker 7 (10:15) will be incredible. Speaker 6 (10:17) Non Speaker 7 (10:17) -zero chance he ends up in Congress. Incredible. That's kind of the career path. It's just going to be so fucking good to watch this all. When we can get talking to some of these people. Again, the Thanksgiving giveaway just changed everything in my mind. I was like, this guy sucks. And I was like, holy shit. This guy, I think he might actually think he's in the league. Speaker 5 (10:38) There's a lot of women that came forward, but there's probably also a lot of women that were just too embarrassed. Oh, yeah. But like, oh, yeah. We're like, fuck. Did Speaker 6 (10:45) anybody go to this turkey giveaway? Did anybody show up? I don't know. And be like, hey, where's the turkeys? Fifteen hundred turkey giveaway. Speaker 7 (10:52) Free event. That should have been a red Speaker 6 (10:54) flag. Live DJ music Speaker 7 (10:55) and fun. You know how much fifteen hundred turkeys cost? That's a shitload of money. Speaker 6 (11:00) That's been injured for the last couple of years. Speaker 7 (11:02) He also, I don't know if you guys saw, but he reposted clips. that other people, actual NFL players posted. He had one that was supposed to be from the 49ers locker room that was just so clearly the Chiefs locker room. It was just the Chiefs logo on the ground. And it was so obvious it wasn't the 49ers. So he wasn't like this mastermind. Speaker 6 (11:25) He Speaker 7 (11:26) was just, he just got some people that we need to get our ball knowledge up as a country so that we can stop people like this. What's the difference between what he's doing? Because I want to take a side. Well, Steven Jackson, did you see he came out? It was like, you guys are all laughing at him. It's no different than you're wearing a jersey on a Sunday. Speaker 6 (11:43) That's what Speaker 7 (11:43) I was going to say. We're anti-jersey on this podcast. Quite a zag. Quite a Speaker 6 (11:47) zag. But my other real question is, what's different about what, what's his name, Daquan? Dajon Love. Dajon Love. What's the difference between what Dajon Love is doing? for the 49ers and what Brandon Ayuk is doing for their commanders. There's a Speaker 7 (12:01) lot of those jokes going around JJ McCarthy. Yeah, like they're, you know, guys showing up and pretending to be. But yeah, Brandon Ayuk is Speaker 6 (12:09) definitely. Speaker 7 (12:10) That's Speaker 6 (12:11) how Speaker 7 (12:11) you think about it. If you want to go, if you want to go real conspiracy theory, fingers up. The 49ers have had a hell of a offseason. Have they not? Or last month, Kyle Shanahan gets in a car accident that doesn't get reported for a couple weeks. Guys get injured. Jed York gets arrested in East Palestine looking to hook up. This is kind of the perfect story to be like, yeah, hey, let's laugh at Speaker 6 (12:37) this. Speaker 7 (12:37) Hey, the 49ers are actually the victim. Yeah, Speaker 5 (12:39) type in 49ers scandal, and that's probably the best thing going right now. Yeah, Speaker 6 (12:43) do Speaker 7 (12:43) that right now. No, type it in on Google. Honestly, it's a feel-good story. Speaker 6 (12:47) I mean, obviously, feel bad for the ladies that got 1.3 million. I hope they get their money back. Yeah, that Speaker 7 (12:51) part sucks. That does stink. But all in all, kind of lighthearted. Okay, so he is right now the first and the third hit. Jed York is still the second hit. Now, is this guy in prison right now? I think so. Speaker 6 (13:05) He got arrested. Yeah. Does he need representation? I'm looking for my first client. Honestly, Speaker 7 (13:10) I Speaker 6 (13:10) would love Speaker 5 (13:11) to have him on the podcast. Yeah. Just ask him. Maybe Speaker 7 (13:14) actually interview him as Dejan Love, the football player, and be like, so what happened in college? Oh, yeah. Was it a coach situation? I know the pinky. How's the hand doing? Yeah. Speaker 6 (13:23) Can you still grip? Do you think that if maybe you didn't practice at the substation, that maybe you'd have a healthier grip strength right now? Speaker 7 (13:30) He also did pick the perfect team in the 49ers. Dejan Love, if he didn't get arrested, they could be in a situation where they might need him this year. Speaker 6 (13:38) The 49ers should issue a statement saying, hey, we're banning Dejan Love from all team facilities. I think we should work him out. No means no. It's Speaker 7 (13:46) like, we lost Ricky Pearsall. Let's see what this guy's got. We saw that route in the sand. I got an idea. Mount Speaker 6 (13:52) Rushmore season. The loser, maybe they have to commit to a bit of turning their entire Instagram into a fake professional football player for a franchise for the entire football season. Speaker 5 (14:05) That'd be funny. That Speaker 7 (14:07) would be funny. Speaker 6 (14:07) And you got to get, like, real professional looking with all the videos and clips you put up. Yeah. A post-game press Speaker 7 (14:14) conference. What Speaker 5 (14:15) do you think he did on Speaker 6 (14:15) Sundays? Yeah, Speaker 7 (14:16) like, what did his girlfriend say? Like, hey, can I come to your game? Speaker 7 (14:23) How does that Speaker 5 (14:24) question go? Speaker 7 (14:25) Yeah. He said, I saw a couple of them being like, yeah, I travel with the team. Or I don't travel with the team, but sometimes I do. Basically saying he's on the practice squad. Just a great. Sometimes you just need a story where it's like everyone in unison can dunk on someone. And that's really what he provided for us. There's no real gray area. It's just a good laugh. All around. Again, I feel bad for the women that got scammed. This guy's rental car budget Speaker 6 (14:55) must have been through the roof. Insane. Speaker 5 (14:57) Well, it was probably just the money that the women, like that was, it was a Ponzi scheme where they gave him money for investments and he just uses it on cars to scam other women. He Speaker 7 (15:07) had Super Bowl highlights in his Instagram too. So he actually, I think, said that he was part of the team that went to the Super Bowl. That's Speaker 4 (15:15) pretty cool. And I Speaker 7 (15:15) think he said that, too. He was like, when I was deciding which team to go to, I didn't want to just play ball to play ball. I wanted to be part of a winning culture. The Raiders called. I said, actually, he's really sad for the Raiders. They couldn't even sign a fake wide receiver. I don't know how no Speaker 5 (15:32) one, like someone from his childhood. Speaker 7 (15:34) I think his Instagram was maybe private. And I know the comments were off. So I think he was pretty. pretty strict with that. Speaker 6 (15:45) But yeah, this guy, one of the fake pictures he put up was a fake picture of him in a fake guardian cap too. Yeah. That rocks. Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, Speaker 7 (15:54) like some of these can't get injured again. He Speaker 6 (15:56) should blame it on fake Speaker 7 (15:57) CTE. Yeah. He had, he had fake concussions and fake turkeys. Yeah. This is tough. Dejohn love fake Speaker 6 (16:03) injuries. The Speaker 5 (16:04) video resurface of Dr. Love, which is the funniest game of all time. Speaker 7 (16:08) Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I forgot about him. I forgot about him. We also had the Cleveland Guardians posted their starting lineup on Saturday with a picture of Dejon Love. So like I said, it's become one of those things where everyone's getting in on it. I Speaker 6 (16:26) love it. I just needed to wait a week and then everyone would stop talking about the Jane Daniels 5 lawsuit. Speaker 7 (16:31) Yeah. Just something else always pops up. Speaker 6 (16:32) Yeah. That's how the internet moves. The Speaker 7 (16:34) internet's always moving. It's always going. And Speaker 6 (16:37) then in real football news, Aaron Donald finally, as we kind of knew that he was going to do, when he started working out at the team facility and they had to put him on practice reports because he was using a team-issued helmet, we knew that he was going to come back. He saw Miles Garrett. He's like, okay, you know what? All of a sudden, I feel pretty good. would like to play with this guy of course we knew he's coming back he's getting a big contract a lot of incentives i think it could be like up to 30 million dollars yeah if they make the super bowl um this on this is they're the on paper champions well i was gonna say the dream Speaker 7 (17:09) team are we yeah are we officially calling them a super team yeah because Speaker 6 (17:13) that means they Speaker 7 (17:13) won't win at all super team Speaker 6 (17:14) but they are a super team well let's see they the trade for garrett Speaker 6 (17:22) Wouldn't put them in super team discussions. No, Speaker 7 (17:25) but Aaron Donald and Miles Garrett. Aaron Donald coming back, yeah. Super team. I'd like to see. I mean, this was a team that was a play away from the Super Bowl last year, and they just added two of the best. Who did Speaker 6 (17:37) they add on offense? Ty Simpson. Ty Simpson. Super team. Yeah, that was huge. Yeah, super team. With Speaker 7 (17:42) their first Speaker 6 (17:42) round pick, Ty Simpson. Speaker 7 (17:44) I think, yeah, I mean, depending on where that's the other said Puka is Puka on the list. He's not on the list. I know Josh Jacobs is. What list? The commissioner's exempt list, I think, which is kind of a confusing way to. Isn't it? Speaker 6 (18:00) Honestly, as far as I know, and it's probably because I don't pay enough attention to the rule, but the commissioner's exempt list tends to be used for guys that get caught beating up their girlfriends. Right. Speaker 7 (18:09) But isn't that a weird? It's the. What did you say? The commissioner's exempt list, you'd Speaker 6 (18:15) be Speaker 7 (18:15) like, those guys, they can play because they're Speaker 6 (18:17) exempt. They're exempt from the rules. Yeah. It's confusing. When I saw it, Speaker 7 (18:22) I was like, wait a second. I Speaker 6 (18:23) think it's like an exemption from team-issued roster moves. The commissioner steps in. So I guess Speaker 7 (18:29) it's Josh Jacobs. Speaker 6 (18:31) He's technically playing for Goodell. Yeah. That's Goodell's Speaker 7 (18:35) first overall pick this year. Yes. Nice message. Yeah, Josh Jacobs. We'll see what happens with that situation. I feel like it's similar to Ray Rice. There's alleged footage. Is it going to come out? Because then, remember the Ray Rice thing? Yeah, two games. Goodell did not act, and then the footage came out, and everyone's like, whoa, which is fucked up about our society whole that you need to actually see it to believe it, but that's just how the NFL works and how everyone somehow works. Speaker 6 (19:02) It's like, oh, yeah, I guess that is bad. Like, if you're an owner and... You get caught with a hooker, but there's no video of it. Probably slap on the wrist. Right. But if there was a video, Speaker 7 (19:12) then you'd probably be forced to sell your team and kicked out. Yes. Yeah. That's fair. Speaker 6 (19:17) We had a couple names that got released. Yeah. Prayer's up for these guys. Yeah. Hope they can find a new job somewhere else. Our boy Will Levis. Yep. The road's over for him in Tennessee. I think someone's got to take a shot. Absolutely. He'll get a shot somewhere. Odell Beckham made the Giants. Odell Beckham made the Giants. Looks just as young as ever. Yep. I don't know how. Speaker 7 (19:41) Father time. He's just like, it's undefeated when it comes to Odell Beckham. Yeah. He looks so young. Look at that face, Hank. Yeah. Look at his Speaker 6 (19:49) face. Speaker 5 (19:49) The cheeks. No, he looks. Yeah, incredible. As young as ever. Speaker 6 (19:52) I got to know what his secret is. Probably wearing leather. Yeah, true. Like, if you get those cheekbones popping like that, it's usually that you've committed to a leather lifestyle. It's leather for sure. Speaker 7 (20:01) What happened with Nine? So there are four teams that have kept four quarterbacks, which makes you think, like, what's going to happen there? They probably won't go into the season. You know, like, are they going to trade someone? Maybe a practice squad. The Vikings are one of them. The Vikings kept Kyler Murray, who's a starter, J.J. McCarthy, Carson Wentz, and Max Brosmer. There was a report on Saturday night, which was just pure speculation, that J.J. McCarthy would not make. the 53-man roster. He did make the 53-man roster. He also had a sprained ankle, so he couldn't play in the last preseason game. I've stated multiple times, I'm not saying J.J. McCarthy's done as a player in the NFL. I do think his time in Minnesota feels like it's done. Because they kept Carson Wentz. I think Carson Wentz would probably be the backup, Speaker 6 (20:51) right? Yeah, that's what it seems like. So there'll be another team, I'm sure, that gives him a chance. Other names, Sam Hartman was released today. Hinden Hooker was released today. The 49ers have the opportunity, the funniest thing ever, with Hinden Hooker. And Eli Apple. Eli Apple. Forgot about him. He got released today as well. I did Speaker 7 (21:12) forget about him. Speaker 6 (21:13) So what was the other team? The Vikings and who else? So the Vikings, Speaker 7 (21:18) the Steelers kept, they just have four starting quarterbacks if you talk to Jersey Jerry. The Steelers kept Aaron Rodgers, Mason Rudolph, Will Howard, and Drew Aller. The Falcons kept two up, Michael Penix, Cooper Rush, and Jack Strand. And the Eagles kept Jalen Hurts, Tanner McKee, Andy Dalton, and Cole Payton. Speaking of which, that's a perfect segue. I did not know that Andy Dalton Speaker 2 (21:39) was on the Eagles. Speaker 7 (21:40) Yeah. Zach, so we do this every year. I'm going to do a DraftKings read before, but let me intro it. We do this every year. Same faces, new places. Guys that are on new teams that... I think we all as fans maybe missed through the crap. There was actually the reason why I got, I decided to tell you to do today. Zach was, I got a bunch of tweets saying you guys need to do it because Keenan Allen getting arrested for the Colts. I think there was a lot of people being like, wait, he's on the Colts. So this happens. You just have a couple, you know, we're not talking about the, the, the premier guys where we know Kyler's on the Vikings, but a Keenan Allen or an Andy Dalton. These type of guys. All right, let me do the DraftKings read, and then, Zach, you'll take it away and give us. I think last year you did it, and you gave us some names that none of us had ever heard. You gave us Dijon Love. Yeah. New places. Yeah, new places. All right, DraftKings, DraftKings. Who said you can't have things your way on DraftKings Casino? Spin your way with FlexSpins, exclusive casino spins that let you pick the slots. 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Speaker 7 (24:17) I don't know. I don't know. Speaker 4 (24:19) He's with the Seahawks. Okay. Speaker 6 (24:22) Panthers is always a good guess for this. Yeah, Panthers is a really good guess. I Speaker 7 (24:25) feel like Speaker 6 (24:25) that's Speaker 7 (24:25) been Speaker 6 (24:25) the most frequent one, yeah. Speaker 7 (24:26) Do you have one I learned last week? I think I knew it, but then it popped up in something. Tariq Woolen is on the Eagles. You just mentioned Seahawks. That one was. I was like, oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. That makes sense. Speaker 4 (24:43) Okay. What are you guys' thoughts on Jalen Thompson? Seahawks. Speaker 6 (24:50) I have some strong thoughts. Panthers. I think he's probably a Falcon. Speaker 4 (24:55) Jalen Thompson is on the Cowboys. Okay. Close. Yeah, Speaker 7 (24:58) yeah. Damn, we're really close. Speaker 6 (24:59) Great Speaker 4 (24:59) for him, you know? All right, what about... What Speaker 7 (25:02) about some names we know? Speaker 4 (25:03) Yeah, what if we just get into... What do you guys think Kirk Cousins is at right now? We know Kirk Cousins. Yeah, he's Speaker 6 (25:07) a Speaker 4 (25:07) raider. Speaker 7 (25:08) Yeah, we know he's a raider. Yeah. Speaker 4 (25:10) That's good. Let us Speaker 7 (25:11) see a couple go through the hoop. I like that. Speaker 4 (25:12) Kirk Cousins, coast to coast. Emmanuel West. Speaker 7 (25:14) You've got to know Emmanuel West. Speaker 4 (25:16) Geno Smith. Speaker 7 (25:17) Geno Smith is a jet. Yeah. Seven Sunday Heroes. Speaker 4 (25:19) What Speaker 5 (25:19) coast? Can Speaker 7 (25:20) we find the middle ground here? Speaker 5 (25:22) Thoughts on Tylan Wallace? Speaker 7 (25:24) Neither. Speaker 5 (25:25) Kirk Cousins didn't go from a coast, nor did he go to a coast. Speaker 7 (25:29) Correct. He's not on a coast. He's actually hasn't been in a coast Speaker 6 (25:34) for a really long time. Speaker 4 (25:36) But Speaker 6 (25:36) as Speaker 4 (25:36) far as making up the distance of the United States, roughly coast to coast? He's been Speaker 6 (25:40) landlocked his entire career. But Speaker 4 (25:41) that's so much distance. You know what I mean? In between? Yeah. Speaker 6 (25:44) Yeah, I guess. East to west. South to west. He's Speaker 4 (25:47) in the Speaker 6 (25:47) desert. Speaker 4 (25:48) Southeast to... Southwest. Speaker 6 (25:51) Like St. Moses went coast to coast. No, he's Speaker 7 (25:53) just Speaker 6 (25:53) in Vegas. Speaker 7 (25:53) Yeah. Speaker 4 (25:54) Coast to Jason for sure. Okay. What are you guys' thoughts on Alex Azzalone? Speaker 7 (25:59) Tyler Wallace. Azzalone? Speaker 6 (26:03) Tyler Wallace, Speaker 7 (26:03) I believe, is a Brown because the Bears played the Browns Speaker 4 (26:08) in the preseason. Speaker 6 (26:09) I mean, I always want to say line, but he's probably not a line. I know this. Fuck. Speaker 5 (26:12) If you ask Speaker 6 (26:12) me, like, new place. No, Speaker 7 (26:15) I actually do. Fuck. Speaker 6 (26:16) I could see him. Speaker 7 (26:18) Oh, this one's going to piss me off. I can see him in Florida. He's Speaker 4 (26:22) a Speaker 7 (26:22) buck. Speaker 4 (26:23) That is correct. Yeah. Ten Bay Bucks. Speaker 7 (26:24) Okay. That's a good one. That's a good one. Speaker 4 (26:29) We'll go with the nation, right? Speaker 7 (26:31) Nation, right? Where did he sign? I know Brisker went to the Steelers and Kevin Byard went to the Patriots. Nation, right? Did he go to the? Speaker 7 (26:45) Am I using the right one? Speaker 6 (26:46) Jags. Did you look it up? Ravens? Speaker 7 (26:49) No. Falcons. Close. Jets. Speaker 6 (26:52) Hey, Speaker 7 (26:53) that's good for the interceptions. Yeah. He does get toasted a lot, though, memes. Just so you know. But he can make the play on the ball. We're just worried about getting an interception. He'll get you an interception. He will get you an interception. Okay. Speaker 4 (27:06) Rodney Thomas II? Speaker 7 (27:09) Rodney Thomas II. Speaker 7 (27:12) You got to tell us this one. Speaker 4 (27:14) I think Speaker 7 (27:16) he's on. Close-ish. Speaker 6 (27:17) Shane, Speaker 7 (27:18) why don't you take over this list and tell us some names that are. He has some good names on here. Yeah. All right. What do we think about? Wait, wait, wait. Isaiah Likely. Where'd he go? Isaiah Likely's on the Giants. Harbaugh brought him. Speaker 4 (27:28) What do we think about Tua? Speaker 7 (27:30) Tua's on the Falcons. Speaker 4 (27:31) See another one go through. Here we go. Give him Watson. Give Shane the. Dolphins. Jalen Speaker 7 (27:36) Watson is on the. Wait, I know this. Is he on the. Eagles? No, no, no, no. Where did Jalen Watson go? Titans. No, I don't know. Chargers. What do you got there, Shane? Speaker 3 (27:56) Rams. Rams. He also has Miles Garrett on here. Bradley Chubb. Speaker 6 (28:02) Oh, Bradley Chubb. Where did he go? Is he, I want to say the Bills? Speaker 3 (28:06) He is. Nice. Elijah Vera Tucker. Speaker 6 (28:10) Packers. EBT. Speaker 7 (28:14) That'd be the Patriots, Hank. Oh, okay. That was a trick question. That was not nice. Mames love Speaker 6 (28:18) that one. Speaker 7 (28:19) He loved that one. Speaker 6 (28:19) All right, Shane, you take over. Tell Speaker 7 (28:21) us some names that actually help the people at home. Speaker 3 (28:25) What does that mean? Speaker 7 (28:26) Well, I mean, names that are like recognizable names. Speaker 3 (28:29) Oh, Wanda Robinson. Speaker 7 (28:31) Where did Wanda go? See, this is a good name. Wanda. Where did Speaker 6 (28:36) Wanda go? Come Speaker 7 (28:36) back to me. Speaker 6 (28:37) Give me a hint. You guys should know this. Speaker 7 (28:40) Is he on the Titans? Cool jerseys. Do you follow Dable? Speaker 6 (28:44) Yeah. Speaker 7 (28:45) That's right. Because Dable and Harbaugh both took a lot of their players. And same thing with. Ex-Jets players. They're all in the Titans. Right. Right, right. Speaker 3 (28:53) This is a good one. Devondre Sweat. Speaker 6 (29:01) Don't Speaker 3 (29:02) know. Speaker 6 (29:02) Jets. Falcons. Jets. Jets. Speaker 7 (29:04) Nice. That's a nice signing. Speaker 3 (29:06) Juwan Jennings. Packers. Nope. Speaker 7 (29:11) Is he on the... No, he's not on the box. Speaker 3 (29:14) Commanders. Same Speaker 4 (29:15) division as the Packers. Speaker 3 (29:16) Shanahan adjacent. Speaker 7 (29:20) Is he on the Vikings? Speaker 3 (29:21) He is. Oh, Speaker 5 (29:22) okay. Okay. Okay. Speaker 7 (29:25) Now we're cooking with some names. Speaker 3 (29:26) Let Speaker 7 (29:27) me see. I saw. What's his name? Fuck. What is Rico Speaker 4 (29:31) Dowdle? Rico Dowdle. That's Speaker 6 (29:35) a Speaker 7 (29:35) good one. Shit. Chargers. Speaker 7 (29:40) De Dewey. Is he on the Panthers? Is he on the Steelers? He is. And then they traded today Caleb. What's Speaker 3 (29:50) his Speaker 7 (29:50) name from Iowa? They traded him to the Packers. Yeah. Speaker 3 (29:53) Caleb Speaker 7 (29:54) Johnson, I believe. Speaker 3 (29:56) Kenneth Gainwell. Speaker 7 (29:58) Oh. Kenny. Kenny, that's your guy. Nope. Speaker 3 (30:03) Is he Chargers? Bucks. Speaker 6 (30:05) Bucks. Okay. Speaker 7 (30:06) That's a good pickup for them. Yeah. He was the only Speaker 6 (30:08) player worth watching on the Steelers Speaker 7 (30:10) last year. Speaker 3 (30:11) Yeah. These are Speaker 7 (30:13) good. These are good. Not that yours were bad, Zach, but they were kind of dog shit. Speaker 3 (30:16) Reed Blankenship. Reed Blankenship's Texans. He is. Speaker 7 (30:20) Yes. I remember seeing that. Then Speaker 3 (30:22) all the other ones are pretty much either big names or guys I don't know. Speaker 7 (30:27) Give us a guy you don't know. Speaker 3 (30:28) Okay. Speaker 3 (30:32) Demario Davis. No, I do know him. David Onyemata. Speaker 6 (30:37) David Onyemata. It sounds like Junior Soprano. Put a curse on somebody. Onyemata. Speaker 6 (30:45) Where did he go? Speaker 3 (30:47) He went to the Jets. Speaker 6 (30:48) I feel like the Jets have had half these answers. Speaker 3 (30:51) Jets have about 10 guys on this list. You Speaker 6 (30:53) guys just did like a roster transplant. This Speaker 3 (30:54) is a good one. Minka Fitzpatrick. Speaker 7 (30:56) Oh, I know this. Oh, he's on the Giants. Speaker 3 (31:01) Jets as well. All right, Speaker 7 (31:03) I was close enough. I was close enough. That should count. That's a half a point if you get the same stadium. That's good. Jets, I'm telling you. We're going to talk about Pete Prisco. I think Jets can be frisky. We're going to be scrappy. Speaker 6 (31:17) Don't have a kicker. Yeah, Speaker 7 (31:18) I think you're Speaker 6 (31:19) going Speaker 7 (31:19) to be frisky this year. I think the Giants and Jets are going to be frisky teams. Your offensive Speaker 6 (31:24) line's Speaker 7 (31:24) good, Speaker 6 (31:25) right? Offensive line's good. And that's Speaker 7 (31:26) Geno. Geno can't play with a bad offensive line. Like, that was what last year was just a joke because that offensive line was bad. Speaker 4 (31:34) No, they're going to figure out a way to be good and lose because of their kicker every single week. Speaker 6 (31:38) Which is exactly what you want. Speaker 4 (31:39) Yeah, that'd be fun. You Speaker 6 (31:41) want to have a competitive. physical football team that just happens to lose. Yeah. And we're Speaker 4 (31:46) going to say we're going in the right direction. That's all that matters. Speaker 7 (31:49) Yep. All right. Any other big ones? I'm going to Google it right now just in case we didn't miss any big ones. No, Speaker 3 (31:56) that's really basically it. I mean, there's the Mike Evans of the world. There's. Yeah, we know. Trey Hendrickson. Mike Evans. Mike is on the 49. Romeo Dobbs. DJ Speaker 7 (32:05) Moore's on the bills. Where's the Dobbs on the questions? Speaker 5 (32:11) Jets? I'm just kidding. He's on the Patriots. There we go. Speaker 7 (32:13) Yeah. List the big ones just so that we have them. So people can... Because Speaker 6 (32:18) there are some people who... Linderbaum. They Speaker 7 (32:20) start paying Speaker 6 (32:20) attention Speaker 7 (32:21) right now. Speaker 6 (32:21) Linderbaum, yep. Speaker 3 (32:22) David Njoku. Chargers. Yeah. Speaker 7 (32:25) We saw it happen. We did. We Speaker 3 (32:27) literally saw it happen. Yep. Kenneth Walker. Chico Conquo. Speaker 7 (32:36) Huge. Yep, massive on the commanders. Speaker 3 (32:39) Isaiah Likely, Wanda Robinson, Jawan. There was A.J. Brown, Trent McDuffie. Speaker 7 (32:46) Trent McDuffie is now on the Rams. He is. He got traded. Yep. Speaker 3 (32:51) Yeah, the big ones we know. Malik Willis, Jets, or Dolphins. Geno Smith, Jets. Speaker 7 (32:55) Okay. I feel like we got everyone ready. There's a lot of names. A lot of names, but it's important to do. Because you don't want to be the guy week one. You're like, wait, what? Yeah, Kenneth Gainwell, good to lock that one in. Speaker 6 (33:07) That's a really good lock. Rico Dowdle, good to lock that one in. Both of those. Wandel, good to lock him in. Speaker 7 (33:12) Yep, locked. Three locks. That's huge locks. Huge locks. But it's good that we're done with preseason. We are ready for real football. I can't wait. It's going to be great. Okay, what else do we have going on in the sports world? Scotty Scheffler wins. What does he win? Speaker 5 (33:26) He's the FedEx Cup champion. Okay. Which also probably locked him up for player of the year. Speaker 7 (33:33) He's player of the year? Speaker 5 (33:34) Yeah. Speaker 7 (33:34) Okay. That's good for him. He Speaker 6 (33:36) won $10 million. How do they determine player of the year? Speaker 5 (33:40) It's a player's vote. Speaker 6 (33:41) Okay. So Speaker 5 (33:42) it was a little bit. I think him and Wyndham had won the same amount of events, but Wyndham had won a major. Scotty had way more second place finishes. So he had a stronger season. But with the major, that was kind of splitting people's votes. But then you win the FedEx Cup. Speaker 6 (34:01) Yeah, it's kind of crazy because we've been talking about Scotty. as though he were dead. Yeah, he's like down here. Like, wow, this guy sucks. And, you know, it turns out he's still the best golfer in the world. He's just not insanely, insanely dominant like he has been in the past. But he probably had as many second place finishes as anybody else, right? As many top tens as anyone else. Way more. Yeah. Speaker 7 (34:21) Like, it's pretty nuts for Scottie to say overall disappointing year. Still player of the year. That's how good he is. Speaker 5 (34:29) And he passed Tiger Woods all-time money leader, P.J. Torres. Which Speaker 7 (34:34) he's not even close to him in terms of sponsorships. But, yeah. That also is bigger purses. Plays in a different league. Speaker 6 (34:42) Facts are facts. Does Scottie have the president's number? Probably, actually. Yeah, he probably does. Yeah, Speaker 7 (34:47) so Speaker 6 (34:48) Scottie had five runner-up results this year. And he was top five in three out of four majors. So, like... All things considered, pretty good year for a normal human. For Scotty, it seems like a disappointment. Speaker 7 (35:03) What's up? What tournament is Michael Block playing in? Every time I just looked, it was just Blocky was doing some kind of weird thing to the crowd. I think I'm backing on him because it's so ridiculous. Speaker 5 (35:16) It's so funny. He's Speaker 7 (35:17) gone through the wall where it was annoying, and now it's so absurd. Then I'm like, this guy, how does he, he's doing it to like, there's a gallery of five people and he's, and he's like, he's pumping them up. I saw a clip where he pumped them up and then he quieted him down. Speaker 5 (35:35) And he did it. He like shot, he shot someone in the crowd. Like he was, he was, he was like a maestro. He was pumping people up to his left, quieting people on his right, shot a couple people in the middle. He Speaker 6 (35:45) had this one shot on a par three that he knocked. stiff to about 20 feet and then but then just went around like staring everybody down like freaked out after pretty much did like a bat flip after getting a green regulation i love that we've got a guy like it's the champions tour right it's a Speaker 5 (36:02) senior Speaker 6 (36:02) tour is Speaker 5 (36:02) that what it's a senior tour i don't Speaker 6 (36:04) even Speaker 5 (36:04) think it's the champions like it's like it's like a step down from the champions Speaker 6 (36:07) that's what i i want somebody to take it to be this much of a fucking psycho yeah in the senior division i think that's awesome and Black ain't hurting nobody. He's letting him have his Speaker 7 (36:17) fun. He's shooting McGavin without any of the wins. Speaker 5 (36:19) Yes. And he was leading going into Sunday, and he choked. Oh, Speaker 7 (36:24) that's great. I know. They fucked him, though. Speaker 5 (36:27) Oh, no, Speaker 6 (36:27) it Speaker 5 (36:27) is a champion story. It is a champion story. Yeah, he got Speaker 7 (36:29) screwed over. He's walking off putts left and right, like staring at the crowd. He's looking directly in the camera. Did you see that one where he found the camera and just kind of looked and pointed? Yeah, he pumps up the crowd. Speaker 5 (36:43) I mean, we've talked more about the Champions Tour in the last month than we ever have in the history of this podcast. Yeah, you're right. He's a draw. No, he's Speaker 6 (36:51) a Speaker 5 (36:51) draw. He's a draw. He's a draw. People are Speaker 6 (36:54) probably getting sick of all the Champions League talk that we're doing on this show. It's funny. Yeah. It is. It's very funny. Like, Block is... I know that people are going to hate on him, and, like, the golf purists are going to say, like, all the reasons why they don't like him. He's got one great result, and then he just kind of coasted on that for a while. The attitude of, if I had Rory's distance, I'd be as good as him. The ego without any of the talent behind it is very funny to me. And I love the fact that it's front and center on a senior tour. I want to see more of this from Blatt. Speaker 7 (37:27) Yeah, this is him pumping. He pumps up. He points to every part of the crowd. Again, there's like 25 people there. Gets him pumped up, gets him loud, and then he's like, hey, quiet down. After he riles them up. There's Speaker 6 (37:42) no one there. It looked like he almost got the two galleries on either side of the green in a contest against each other. Yes. It was like, who's going to be louder at this senior event? Scream. Speaker 7 (37:52) I want to hear somebody scream. Speaker 6 (37:54) Yeah. Speaker 7 (37:54) Ladies in the house. Let's try to break the record. And there's Speaker 6 (37:57) no ladies in the house. It's actually. It's a senior PGA Tour event. There's zero women. Where was this taking place? Speaker 7 (38:05) My guess is Florida. We got to check the Richter scale. Blocky hits a putt. 2.1 on the Richter scale. Michigan. All right. Yeah. There definitely was some earthquakes reported this weekend around the Saginaw area. Blocky was there. Speaker 5 (38:23) I mean, if he was five years earlier, he would be on live. He would have been live. Speaker 7 (38:26) Yeah. And he would have been elected. He Speaker 6 (38:28) probably could have saved live. Yeah. Speaker 5 (38:30) You Speaker 6 (38:30) think it would have paid for him? Yes. Speaker 5 (38:32) Yeah. Well, I mean, again, he's a draw. Speaker 7 (38:35) He's exactly what lives neat. Speaker 5 (38:36) He's a disruption to the game of golf. Speaker 7 (38:38) He is. All right, so we did have real football this weekend. UNC, TCU, perfect start to the football calendar year where it's like two teams that have no history. Obviously, they played last year. Playing in Ireland, we had weird snaps. Three points scored in the second half. And Belichick might have his groove back. Speaker 6 (39:03) Yeah. Speaker 7 (39:03) Because. That's a game. They were seven and a half point dogs. He goes to Ireland, wins the first game of the year. Year two after, I don't know where, I think Steve Belichick's still on leave. Mike Lombardi obviously gone. Everything seemed to