 The Super Bowl of golf is here and we got balloons. It's really a big celebration, not up in Adams. The Masters is underway, our good friend Ann Yukon alum who will probably be insufferable. Today it's still talking about it. Darius Butler will be us and we've got another guest. We're on a roll in our new studio. We have an LA Ram Super Bowl champion, Ernest Jones on the show. Let's go. Oh, look at that music. I could never do, do they just not drink coffee? Just do that? There's no way that with an eight AMT that means they're on the air broadcasting at sick. They can't have any coffee or they'd sound like me because I'm excited about The Masters and listen, Fandwall is all over it and I'm just around for the journey and I'll say this, it is hard for this show and me personally not to pool for Jordan Spieth. Great story, character arc, wizard kid, wins young in 2015, then some adversity, some knocks, some hard life, then boom right back at it and with the cutest squish alive as his partner. This, oh my God. This is Sammy Spieth. We talked all about him, he was on our show last week and Jordan told us that he would hoist him up like a Stanley Cup if he won and got to put on a green jacket. Again, which, I'm pretty good, my memory serves me, correct? 17 guys have ever won and put on the green jacket at The Masters twice and he could join that very rare company. It's very similar to Eli Manning, Ben Roffelsberger, two ring situation and you know, NFL terms. Like you got to get there and get to and then you're in rare air. He's so fricking cute. By the way, Jordan Spieth has a good shot and he told us so last week. You know, I'm kind of itching and hungry to have that opportunity again to feel like I can close another one out and kind of, you know, I've been working really hard the last few years. I've seen a lot of positive trends in my game but this is kind of the most complete I've felt in a while. It's nice to feel that kind of confidence and feel like I'm trying to maintain and fine tune things versus trying to find something. And it would be extremely special. Yeah. It would be, I would only wonder what it would feel like compared to the first time. He went into that. We'll have clips on that over on our socials that up in Adam's show, what he talked about when he was walking up to that last hole when he realized, the moment he realized, man, I have this, he talked about his demeanor in his face and not being demonstrative and smirking when he sort of knew we had it in the bag. When he talked about that moment in 2015 where guys just kept coming back and that's what it is. It's master's weekend. We'll see how it works out on Sunday. Spieth tees off this afternoon, 2 p.m. Eastern today and he's considered one of the favorites to take home that jacket. The fourth best odds over at Fanduil if you were having some fun or still wanna have some fun. Right now, the odds are plus 1700 and get this. I dug up some exclusive intel for you because I love you on this morning to kick off the masters. You're not gonna find this anywhere else. I asked them, who are the top five guys that Fanduil sports book users, the millions of, yeah, are betting on or having some fun with. And here it is, these guys are the favorites at the top four. We got it and then this guy's sort of interesting to me. I need to know more about him. If you're one of the people who said, yeah, Max Homa who had the 14th best odds in the tourney as the fifth most bet on guy to win the tourney, this is weird to me. This Max Homa character, I've never heard of him. So let me know about him and then I'll say this. Lefties, look, this music is throwing me off. This violins, my ear, it's very tight. Am I going down with the Titanic today? Sure. Listen, we're always leaving the righties lots of love. We gave Steve Aoki some love yesterday. He's a left-handed cake throw and DJ who Gronk loves. They were going back and forth on Twitter. We love it. So I wanted to look up the odds for top lefty finisher in the tournament. Did you know you could bet on that over at Fanduil Sports Book? Very fun. Brian Harmon is the guy followed by, of course, a favorite, Bubba Watson. Lefty himself, Phil Mickelson. Oh, I got my lot to talk about, but like I said, I don't know. And Mike, we're as well. So that's what's going on as we go on over to the other fellow world in our studio. It's a lot of fun. Yeah, it's my birthday. It is like MTV's My Super Sweet Sitwick 16 threw up all over my desk here. I told the staff I don't want any birthday hoopla. If you ever watched my Good Morning Football, same story, would not like that. And I came in to this. Are we doing this today? Is this happening on today's program? Is it? All right. We got some people I love in studio. One someone in particular. So let's get into it, guys, in the NFL world. It's getting weird. We're having 19 Things of Flowers and Balloons when you're sitting by yourself in a studio. Weirder than that in Baltimore, the Ravens. They had their pre-draft press conference yesterday. So John Harbaugh's there. Eric Dacosta's there. Their director of player personnel, Joe Hortese, is there. And media members were reportedly told, instructed, questions had to be draft focus. And the trio would not be taking questions about Lamar Jackson or those negotiate. How weird is this getting? And when is it going to end? I don't know. I'm going to turn 40 by the time it happens. But listen, it didn't take long for reporters. They're doing their job to say, huh? And it got a little contentious. Take a look. John, with respect to the draft and everything, just with the Lamar stuff that's going on, are you all looking at quarterbacks? How? How? How? How? How? If this is about the draft, we'll just move off to the question. We're not going to answer one question tonight, correct? About the draft. Are you looking at quarterbacks differently because of the situation's point? I've always been a Ravens fan. I like what they do there. They are a blue chip stock in the ecosystem and the landscape of the things that we do when we love in football. And I understand that it's a sensitive topic. I mean, Harbaugh looks exhausted. He looks absolutely miserable about this. But this reporter, Alex Glaze of WJZ in Baltimore, very clearly asking about the draft, what they told and were instructed to ask about the draft and how Lamar's status affects what the team is going to do in said draft, trying to throw him out because he mentions Lamar's name in his question is so chaotic and not cool, especially since he was asking the most important draft related question that the Ravens are going to have to face in a few weeks. Baltimore, at least, has to consider drafting a quarterback in case the sink continues to go spiral and go south. And later on, Eric Dacosta, he seemed to admit as much when he was asked about the possibility of the Ravens grabbing a quarterback in the first round. It depends on the board, Jameson really does. I mean, I'd have to say yes because we have quarterbacks in our top 31. So just based on that alone, simple math, I would have to say yes. With each passing day, I really feel like I have less and less of an idea or a clue of how this is going to play out. Very weird behavior all along. Clearly, it is spiral city in Baltimore. Hate to say it, but it was clear. I mean, Raven style, Raven side of it, every option is on the table right now. Now I spent a lot of time yesterday giving love to some very incredible defensive prospects in this draft because everybody's talking about the quarterbacks and the Bryce Youngs and the Richardson's and the four, I'm a defense gal this year because they're not getting any love in this draft and Ernest Jones, you hear that? You're a linebacker, I like you. That's why we have you on the show today. Ernest Jones, Super Bowl champion joining us in a little bit. I've been reading the tea leaves a little bit guys because sort of combing through the circumstantial evidence and I'm growing more and more convinced we're gonna see a dark horse team move up and snag one of these top quarterbacks though. Let's get into it. I'm growing more and more convinced that team is the Vegas Raiders. Las Vegas Raiders, they currently hold guys the seventh overall pick. Remember, they signed Jimmy G. That's a significant deal. He's just as handsome as that beautiful new stadium that they have out there. Everything we're hearing tells me that they're not done and I'm gonna show you guys the evidence. Exhibit A, Ian Rappaport. What up, Ian? Mike Garifullo is reporting that they have scheduled a top 30 visit with Bryce Young. Okay, that starts today. Sure, plenty of teams wanna do their due diligence on guys, but let's look at the list of scheduled top 30 visits so far. Here's what you're seeing. Four quarterbacks, three of the consensus top four. They also had a formal meeting with CJ Stroud at the combine. They're investing a lot of time, a lot of resources into scouting the quarterback spot. We heard them connected to Mac Jones and those trade rumors yesterday. There's obviously a McDaniels, Mac Jones, like a cute little narrative that you can piece together and puzzle together so that makes sense. We also heard Daniel Jeremiah, who to me, he's, if I'm looking at who my compass is in this draft world, he is it. He is the North Star. He mentioned that they've been talking to the Cardinals about moving up to three. So these are not the actions of a team that is fully feeling comfy in their quarterback situation as it stands. And if I had to guess who the target is, I'm gonna put my money on the Marvel superhero named Anthony Richardson. I've been saying it all along, go big, big swing, best upside, that's what you wanna do when there's so little separation between these guys in this draft. Dave Ziegler, their GM, he went to scout him in person last year. There's some evidence for you. They were one of nine teams to have a formal meeting with him at the combine. Ziegler and his assistant GM, Champ Kelly, they were at his pro day in person. I heard they took him to dinner. Okay, so I mean, this is a courtship. This is, if this isn't John Cusack with the moonbacks outside of their house, I don't know what is. This is, please go out with me. I love you, swipe left, let's go. So it really makes sense too, if you think about it. We've had a number of draft and quarterback gurus like Yogi Roth, he was here in studio on the show. He's been with these kids since they were young. They all are praising Richardson's talents. We know he's a bit raw. We don't know if he's a quarterback to start. Chris Collinsworth came on. That's his alma mater, Chris Collinsworth, came on my show and he said, I like Richardson. I'd like to see him learn behind someone for a little bit. Some of his skills still need a little bit of developing. If I was to put him in the best situation, let him learn from someone like Patrick Mahomes even did behind Alex Smith all those years. So that's a situation in Vegas where he doesn't have to get out there and play right away. It's not all in his shoulders. And when he doesn't, if he doesn't, he's got Devonte Adams to frickin' throw this. So it's all pretty nice for Richardson in Vegas in that division where they need a high-flying offense and they need to address their defense because they need to score a lot of points to keep up with any of those squads. So yeah, take the reins when he's ready. I like this for Richardson. There's a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing into the direction. So when the ravens move, raiders move up and they snag him. Do not act surprised. I told you, here first. All right, I've had too much coffee and now I have champagne and now I have Ernest Jones who's, listen, my heels aren't tall enough for this right now because I'm super sure. Ernest Jones, did you not bring the Super Bowl ring? Where do you keep the Super Bowl ring? In a safety plan. What, I thought you were giving it to me for my birthday? Okay, we'll be back. Power? Power? Just what the rams needed, Ernest Jones. Oh my goodness. Oh, gas never hit in the break. I'm gonna win. Intercepted, Ernest Jones. You're gonna get you into my face, get it, get it. People say winning the Super Bowl is hard. Like, it's not. This is when you do it as a rookie and have the game of your life. While you're doing it, that is our first guest today. He burst on the scene for the rams and he helped them take down everyone in the NFL with his insane offense and great defense to win Super Bowl 56 last season. He finished the year with a total of 114 total tackles. Superstar, linebacker Ernest Jones is here. Hello. Hello, how are you? I'm so good. Now, I was talking about the masters, pretending I know what I'm talking about and I don't because I've never watched the masters or golf at all. We did have Jordan Spieth on the show. You're a golf guy. I love golf. Tell me. I'm addicted. It's been playing about two, three months now and I just can't stop playing. Yeah? Who are you playing with, like? Teammates, friends. What are you playing golf with? I play with Nick Scott a little bit. And then a lot of guys, I just go out there and play by myself and meet people and just play. How'd you get into that? I was watching Tiger's son play and I was like, man, I can go out there and do that. And then I went out there and I couldn't do it. So now I'm just addicted to like trying to be better at it. Tell me your master plan here, because you just told me in the break that you might go back to school. Oh, yeah. Tell me about that. When I finish this NFL career, I'm gonna go back to school and get on the golf team wherever I go back to school at. You want to finish and get a degree? Why is that important to you? Just to kind of for my kids, show my kids that that's something that we strive to do. Just complete college and finish what I started in a sense. Yeah, they said in my ear, what's his handicap? You said you don't have one yet. So you're new, you're working on it. Who you got in the master, will you watch? Oh, yeah, definitely watching it. I'm leaning towards Roy. I love Roy, like watching him play and definitely Tiger, of course. So one of those two, I'll be happy. See, I'm rooting for Jordan Spieth, and I got to talk to him a couple of times. So, and I'm just learning about him. So he won a green jacket, the Super Bowl of golf, when he was really young, 2015. He's playing all these studs, all these guys who've been there done that. He wins so early, now he's trying to get back. You won a Super Bowl ring, your rookie season. Do you feel that with him? Like, is it, what's the simpatico vibe there? Because it has to be, are you good now? You're like, okay, it's in the safety deposit box, I'm fine, or how do you get back there? I'm not, I'm not good. I'm itching, I'm itching. Each Super Bowl, especially watching one last year, knowing those guys and what they feel, I just know I want to get back to it, and I'm ready to get back to it. Ready to get back to winning. I don't know what to make of the rams. What do I make of the rams? I don't know. Y'all went from the top to the bottom. Now I don't know what's going on. What do I make of these rams? We got a lot of young, hungry dogs that are gonna be on this team this year. I'm excited. I think a lot of people are gonna count us out, but if I know those guys that are in that locker room, we're gonna ball, we're gonna be back where we need to be. Now, you and Bobby Wagner, I'm sure, had a friendship. Now he's back up to Seattle Mill Fence, where he belongs, where he belongs, finishes Hall of Fame careers, one of my favorite players ever to play the game. What has he taught you personally, whether it's on the field or off the field? Everything, especially off the field. It's just, you know, the investment side of, in the finance side, and just taking care of your money, but on the field, just watching him and how he goes about his day, goes about his work ethic. I thought I was working hard, but he truly showed me that, you know, I gotta pick it up too. So, learned a lot, and I'm excited about this year. Excited for him and his journey back to Seattle. It's your third year, but all those OGs, the Witward, they all left. OBJ, even they all left. So is this you now? Are you the, you're the leader? I'm leading it now. I'm ready. I'm excited. I'm gonna do my thing this year. I'm excited. Who else is the leader in the locker room? Got Jordan Fuller, Aaron Dunn as well, can't forget about old Glock nine. I call him Matthew Stafford. So I'm excited about him getting, getting back out there. I'm ready to see him slinging around. What's Aaron Dunn's like in a locker room? He's a dog, but honestly, he's a big kid. Like, he is the biggest kid you ever get around. Like, always wants to joke. Just, and he always wants to win at the end of the day too, so. He's such a character and such a dominant player. But when I think of him, I just see him with a shirt off, celebrating at the Super. It's the only image I have of that. And when, when that footage came out that he was like practicing with rubber knives as part of his training. What do you think of when you hear the name Aaron Dunn? The, the greatest football player all the time. Like, he is, and just seeing him, just watching him and how he goes about his day, it's, it, it lives up to the hype. He's the greatest for me. The greatest of all time. The greatest. There's a couple guys, okay, are you sure about that? I'm sure about it. Okay, sounds good. All right, let's talk about what you've been doing internationally, because I think this is very cool. I'm all about growing the game. International games, I'd love to be part of that series at the NFL. Right. And you took a recent trip to Mexico, right? With your teammate, you and Quentin Lake went down there, caused all sorts of trouble. You guys were where? Monterey? Monterey. How'd it go? It was amazing. Like that, the, the Mexico fans, they love the Rams. Then we got the most fans out there. They were absolutely excited to see us. We got to go to a few of the soccer games and support some of the, some of the players that were coming from UCLA. So it was great. What was the most rewarding part of that? I'm connecting with the fans, just truly seeing the impact that we have on the fans there and then going to the camps and the kids really look up to us. They know of us and they were just excited. And the fun didn't stop when you got back to LA. I saw that you were at WrestleMania. Who wasn't? I was the only person not at WrestleMania. Oh, that was exciting. Tell me, I had friends, I'm not joking. I had friends who work in hair and makeup, friends who, they've never been to a football game, but they found themselves somehow at WrestleMania and they said, I'm never not coming back. Oh man. They were obsessed because of the energy. I had people on our staff go. Why should I go to WrestleMania? It's amazing. It's like, you get that, get to be a child again. Like everyone there and nobody's being judgmental of, oh, you're screaming for wrestlers and it's kind of acting a little bit. No, everybody was having a blast and just being able to live out that childhood dream of watching WrestleMania and being able to be there and be a part of it was, it was everything. Now when a division rival is out there, George Kittle gets his number called and Mack, if you're doing, were you rooting for him secretly? Or were you like, boo? Boo. Really? Were you really screaming that? For sure. That's not nice. For sure. It's same friend. It's just the way it goes. What if they called you and said, Ernest, we want you to be in the next SmackDown? I'm there. Really? I'm there. What is the persona of Ernest Jones? I'd probably be the villain in a sense. I'd probably be the guy there just making all the fans boo me in a sense. I always looked up to those guys for some reason. So that would be me. So what if they said, okay, you can do it, but you have to take on Aaron Donald? I got him. Take him down. Take him down. You might lose though. No. I'm not losing. What would your finishing move be called? That's what the controller wants to know. They're in my air. They love talking about wrestling. It'd be either a 619 or a good Swanton bomb. One of those. Okay, now you gotta show me what that is. What's the 619? It's you, Raymond Stereo kind of gets you on the rope and then he kind of wraps around and kicks you in the face. Okay, I was gonna say, do you wanna try it, but that does not sound fun. That wouldn't be fun. What's the second one? I jump off the top rope and just do a front flip on you. Okay, so get up on here and... I'm up there. Let's see how that goes. Weird, they're yelling at me. No, we can't do that! Of course we can't do that. Okay, we're gonna go and talk about the Super Bowl here because let's go down memory lane. I don't know why you don't wear that ring everywhere you go. L.A. L.A. That's not a bad answer. Okay, you were a rookie, but your performance was that of a veteran superstar. Three quarterback hits, two tackles for loss, but this sack you had. I want you to look right over there and take me through this play. We got it. She's saying, where is it? We're looking for, there we go. Go for it. We got a blitz call right here for me and Joe Mixon. We were battling all day right there and I knew he was gonna come up and cut me at one point in time. There he is, he cut me and I kind of fought off that block and Bronro had nowhere to go. Either me or Aaron Donnell then. Sure he'd want to choose me at the time. Now I was rooting for the Bengals. I was sitting right there. I had about seven cocktails in my hand and I was at the Cavana seeds just watching y'all destroy this team. And then OBJ went down and I go, okay, we got this. I got this. OBJ was, he was the leader of that game right there, especially offensively. He was doing his thing. Yeah, but then he went out and then I thought, okay, now we got this and it just couldn't happen. What's switch flip for you in that game? I just think for us, it was always gonna be a defensive battle. Whenever defense came out and played the best that game, that was gonna be who won. So defensively, we were all just talking that week before, especially with Vaughn. Vaughn was a tremendous leader and he was just talking about us and just making sure that we knew, like the game was on us. We stopped them, we do what we were supposed to do. Our offense is gonna get rolling at some point and that's what happened. Tell me more about Vaughn as a leader because he obviously had a big ticket price, 126 mil for five years up in Buffalo, couldn't quite help them this season get there. But how crucial was he? Without him, you're not winning that Super Bowl? We're not. I always said he was the reason why we won in a sense. He came in there and the way he showed us what it took to be a champion. Even putting the Super Bowl trophy in the locker room and just having us every day look, writing notes on it, those little things like that just made us like, okay, we gotta get this. He called it football heaven and we wanted to see what it felt like. I don't know that story. He brought a Super Bowl... Yes, he had his Super Bowl trophy when he won. His trophy? Uh-huh, when he won it. Like the Lombardi trophy? Like a... The Lombardi from Denver and he would put it in there in the locker room and every day he'd have a different note on it. Like, do you want this? Do you wanna be in football heaven? Stuff like that. So I think he truly just transcended the way that we thought about it. It was just different. It was different when he got there. So do you think he got you guys to manifest your Super Bowl? Definitely. It sounds like that. I wanna know what these notes said. Football heaven. Do you really want it? Man, what were some other ones? Can't quite think of them but they were all just inspirational just trying to get us to know like this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and you gotta go cash in when you get a chance. It's not a promise that you'll get back there. What did he say to you before the game? To the team? Just be us. Be us. Once we got to the game, he knew like if it was up to him, he was gonna do everything in his power to get another MVP and just make sure we rode off into the sunset. Like he was just, he knew that we would come out on top. I don't know that he, I really don't know that he did that. Is that a known story? I don't know that he brought the Lombardi Trophy in that locker room. I think lots of people like to focus on his chickens and they like to focus on his glasses and like to focus on what he's wearing but that takes, he doesn't have to do that. Not at all. That's amazing. Man, Bills. They got a good one. They got a good one for sure. I'm still trying to figure out what I'm making of this team this year. In that division, y'all are all over the place. The division's tough. It's always been tough though. San Fran's always doing their thing and the addition of Christian McCaffrey just made it even harder but I know those guys in that locker room. We are ready. Yeah, do you think this, they're saying Brock, in San Francisco, I never, look, I covered the media and I'm like, who's your quarterback? They put Jimmy Garoppolo to the Raiders, we know that. Now they got Brock Purdy, they got Trey Lance. They signed Sam Darnold. They're saying it's Purdy. Is that the right, I mean, in your opinion, is that surprising to you? Not at all. I think Purdy does his thing. He puts the ball where it needs to be and the guys in the locker room, you can tell they feed off of him. Trey Lance hasn't had the opportunity to kind of show what he's about. So I think it'll be a good position battle. All right, you're a fan of Brock Purdy. We'll see that. We talked about Bobby Wagner. What else do you want to talk about? What else is going on? You're going to be a golfer. You're going to go back to school. What else you got going on for the rest of the summer? Just golf, golf and football. That's it. That's my life right now. What is your, let's manifest something for you. Let's put it, let's bring in the green jacket, we'll put post-it notes on it. What, like, what do you want as your golfer golf? You want to play it on a professional level like Danny Woodhead's trying to do? That would be nice. That would be great if I can get to that point. But I honestly think if I keep working towards it, it's going to be, I actually can be pretty good. I'm not bad, like, for playing for two, three months. I'm not bad at all. All right, I want you to leave me with this. What is your leadership style? Because it's crazy to think about how many veterans were on that Super Bowl team, let alone that were on the team last year, and now you're the guy. What is your style going to be like? I always kind of compare it to Ray Lewis. It's like those, that vocal leadership. But also when I get out on the field, it's just my persona, I click, I switch into a different guy and I'm just, it's just... Well, now you need to dance. It's crazy. You're going to Ray Lewis. I'm learning to dance. You are? What's the dance? His dance? Oh yeah. You got to show me. Ernest, you can't be scared. Ernest is like, what do you mean? Show me, I want to do it with you. What is it? Just do it. Show me. I can't get the middle part. I don't even remember what it is. So we got to... Whenever I see it, it's scary. But you know what? I think the Ravens need this. You all have so many problems. Baltimore is going to manifest some good ones for you. Give me some. So we're going to slide to the left. Oh, okay. Yes, I forgot about that. Slide to the right. Yes. And then it's one here. And then it's... Okay, let's try it one more time. Let's come over here. Let's go for it. I'm like dancing. Oh, not bad. I love it. Ernest Jones here. Bring your Super Bowl ring next time. We'll see you at another Super Bowl. Of course. Hopefully sometime soon. Just not over my bangles. Over the bangles for sure. I'm surprised, I'm glad that we did this. It was like a fair precession to get over that win. Super Bowl 66 champion. 66 maybe. Sean Payton. We have not said that name on this show in a quick minute. He might go to the Derby too. We're manifesting that. He in Rappaport. Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady. All probably going to be there. And so is our show. We're very excited about that. But Sean Payton might not go to the Derby because he has so much to do. Lots of post-it notes all over his computer because he has a to-do list with his new team, the Broncos. I'm sorry, I keep getting people calling me. My mom's calling me in the middle of the show for my birthday. Thanks, Mom. Thanks for watching. He's got a big task in front of him, inheriting Russell Wilson. What is Russell Wilson coming off the roughest season of his career with some doubting that his best days are in the rearview mirror? So clearly Coach Payton doesn't believe that he, because he wouldn't have taken the job, of course. But I still wonder what it's going to take to get Russell back on track. And that's why we have Matt Hamilton for another... That intro was way too long, by the way. Hammer time. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. What is this song? I mean, you know, something... What is this song? With her mom calling in the middle and, you know, kind of broke it up a little bit. Oh, that's true. We can't play Hammer Time anymore. Yeah. But before we get into that, I know you're a private person. I know you don't like to make everything, you know, put everything out there and make a big deal out of things, but I would be really remiss if I didn't take the opportunity to wish a happy birthday to Billy Dee Williams this morning. I was waiting for that. Everybody loves Lando. Yeah. Lando Calrissian. Hello? Superstar. Yeah, yeah. You cannot love Lando. So happy birthday, Billy Dee. We love you, and we appreciate you so much. You're 86 years young. Yeah. But as for Russell Wilson... Aren't you getting married this weekend? Yes, yes, I am on Saturday. Excited. Good luck with that. All right, continue. Thank you. Tell me what you listen. Sean Payton, listen, really quick. We are going to the Derby. I did ask Mr. Champagne if he could go to the Derby, but he does have his hands full. I've talked a lot about how he's such a renegade, such like a hard-ass kind of a guy, and Russell Wilson is not that. So that is a reality show in the making. You might cast them into White Lotus season three in Thailand. Those two together. But when it comes to on the field, what is the key to getting Russ back to the guy that we know he can be? Young, durable, and a champion? Yeah, so I think when you go back through Russell's career, what's made him so successful and when he's always been at his best is when he has a stronger on game and is able to take shots off of play action. And when you look at the Broncos last year, they're just 19th in run percentage when it came to run in the ball. 21st in run offense. And when there was play action, defenses really weren't worried about it at all. They weren't threatened by the run game. And Russell wasn't able to do what he does best. So when you look at the tape from last year, you'll see the Broncos are in 12 personnel, run heavy set, but they're gonna run four verts out of it. No play action here. And watch what happens with the Jaguars linebackers. The balls barely even in Russell's hands and they are bailing out of the box. They are not worried about the run game at all. What that allows them to do is take away these seams. So Russell's really left with only one option here and it's to try to throw that whole shot against cover two, drive that ball in. But there's no threat to the flat here. So the corner Tyson Campbell is just gonna be able to keep dropping, undercut that ball and pick it off. It's not great play design, but it's also the product of not really having that run game to threaten the defense. And there's this school of thought that you don't really need to run the ball out or have a strong run game for play action to be effective. I don't buy that at all. I think when you really look at things having a strong run game really correlates well to play action success. It doesn't. I want you to check this out cause I knew this was coming cause I look at the show rundown in the morning. Look at this. Over the course of Russell's 10 seasons in Seattle, the two NFC championship wins the Super Bowl. His three pro goals, his eight playoff appearances. Listen, the Seahawks ran the ball more frequently than any other team in the NFL. This is good stuff here. And as you mentioned the Broncos, they were 19th in the NFL last year when they came to running the ball. And you know that you and I have been like, hey, go get us an Echler, Echler, go back home. Like we're trying to make the run game. Listen, he sat on our set at Super Bowl and Josh Jacobs was there. He was sizing him up and you know, doing out. So there's a lot going on with the run game. What else you got? Yeah. And when you look at how the commitment to the run and play action has benefited Ross in the past, you really see it. Let's look at this next play. When he was with Seattle in 2017 also happens to be against the Jaguars. And you'll see here at 12th personnel, once again, but because they're worried about the run game, the Jaguars have to put eight guys in the box here. And you'll see once the play fake happens to Chris Carson, they're going to sneak Doug Baldwin back in that soft spot in the zone. But watch how everyone reacts with that play fake. Everybody's coming up. All eyes are in the backfield. And you'll see that soft spot created that Doug Baldwin's just going to be able to sneak into there. And then this is where Russell goes to work. He's so precise. He's so good picking apart defenses off in these playfakes. Just there's a perfect ball to Baldwin for the touchdown. And to tie all this together, I want to pull up the best play action passers of the next gen stats era, spanning Russell's time in Seattle. And you see Russell there at number four, he's as good as it gets. But look who's number one, Drew Brees. And I know he's a Hall of Fame quarterback. Well done. He's one of the best ever do it. But that's also, it was also a product of Sean Payton's system and Sean Payton's play design. He's as good at drawing up things off of play action as there is. And I think it's going to be a perfect pairing in Denver. Damn, was that your best hammer time? That was good. Yeah, I appreciate it. I try to bring the best on your birthday. Yeah, you brought a full screen that really capped it off really well. And listen, Payton, he has gone all in to upgrade the offensive line. Mike McGlinche, Ben Powers. He doesn't need to watch hammer time because he understands what the path is when it comes to turning this offense around. Get the run game going and get Russ back to picking teams apart off of play action. That's what he should do. Excellent hammer time. But even though we can't use that, are things going downhill here at Fandle that we can't use the hammer, MC Hammer song? Huh? I don't know. I mean, we'll see. We got to talk to Hammer. We got to talk to Hammer. Yeah, you got to talk. Sounds good. We'll be back after this on Up and Out. Where's this guy been? Darius Butler doing push-ups, eating raw eggs out of a blender. Darius Butler joining us. That's a Yukon alum smile, if I've ever seen one. We've got a lot to talk about. Who's the corner to look at at the draft? We got it next. Hey, Darius Butler, where have you been, Betty? Where have you been? Nine-year NFL veteran, co-host of the Man to Man Podcast, our Fandle family member. And as I understand it, a walking bucket. Perfectly said. A walking bucket, fresh off of Yukon and Natty. But I've been moving around, you know, recitals, soccer game, flag football games. I've been doing it all. But it's your birthday. It's a special day. Oh, god. Happy birthday. Last time I saw you was an AZ Super Bowl when you made me take a tequila shot at nine in the morning. I did. What do you have over there to drink? Because I got, I got some, I got some spirits over here. Darius, let me tell you. What are you doing? Let me tell you. Can I open this? Is that OK? Are you sure? OK. Let me tell you. Oh, my god. This is like the best birthday thing ever. Darius, I'm not kidding. Marissa and I, in commercial, were talking about the Derby. And I go, I didn't invite Darius, but he doesn't drink enough. That's what I said. Time, time, when happened? Time and place. Yeah, I get 8 AM. Drinking at nine, you know, is not really the vibe. It's 8, it's 840, so OK. Your Huskies were popping bottles. Talk to me about Yukon. Ready? Yeah, you know, I'm making a surprise. Oh, let's do it. Oh, I'm going to knock out a light. How much do I get if I knock out a light? 20 points. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Yes. Perfect. That was fucking perfect. I literally can't open my eye. I love it. Somebody get a white, get a red. I honestly can't open my eye. Can you tell me about Huskies and their brilliant NCAA championship win? Oh, my god. Oh, my gosh. Hey, we'll pop it bottles too. OK, thanks for joining the celebration. But our fifth Natty since 1999, yes, we're Blue Blood. Yes, we're the best college basketball program in the nation, men's and women's. So shout out to my guys, Sanogo, Coach Hurley, Hawkins, all of the guys, man, they held it down. They made me proud. Wasn't even close. Oh, my god. But that right there, I can't wait to see that clip. I can't wait to see that clip right there. I'm taking shot for you. I'm taking shot for you. Oh, my god. I need to replay. Come on. I know how to produce. He's figured out how to play today. I need things to replay. That got great laughs in the studio. I'm so glad. Good pop. Here we go. God. This is a bad sign. This is like a bad omen. This has never happened in my entire life. But at least it's dumb. It's the good stuff. That was great. Hey, you got a great year coming, Kay. You got a great year. Is that right? It can't get worse. It can't get worse than this. Oh, yeah. OK, let's talk about other things. Masters. I know I've seen you on that golf simulator. I have. I see it. But wait, wait, wait. Before we even get to that, cheers. You're saying cheers happy birthday. You, listen, here's what I'm going to tell you. We had an Olympic gold medalist on the show yesterday. She's 20 years old. Her name's A Thing Mo. And she's incredible. Oh, she's so. She's amazing. And she told me that she writes post-it notes. We did goals. Here was literally my goal. Win a Parley. Win a Parley was my goal. Now you did this with your NCAA. You want people some real money here. Cheers. I did. I did. Cheers to that. I finished my last little sip. I always love giving an ecstatic drink in the morning. Nice handshake right there. But yeah, I did. Just how you kind of win. You kind of score 70. I think they super boosted up to plus 150. OK. A lot of people won. So it was good. It was a good way to end the basketball season. I won a few NBA Parleys. The F1 super boost the Fanduola had actually hit. Woo! I'm going to put that one out. So we were trending in the right direction. We'll see what's going on with these masters that just kicked off this morning. But I haven't been golfing. It was $3.5 million. Fanduola had like, listen, they love me. I don't know how this thing is Fanduola and you are going. But Fanduola, listen, I'm keeping the lights on. They pay out $3.5 million on this Parley. You're going to get called to the principal's office. I know. I might be halfway out the door. But hey, so we got to enjoy it while we're here. Got to enjoy it while you got it. You mentioned the masters in golf. Now, I've seen you with McAfee. You have that golf simulator down. But if Darius Butler rolled up to Augusta, what are you shooting? Oh, man. No, don't even bring me out there. Don't even disrespect that course in that way right now. No way. I'm all golf-ranged. I'm taking lessons now. I'm getting a simulator. But my swing isn't even crafted enough to get out there and play and make it look good. But I'm getting there though. I'm about a month away. And maybe I can crack a hundred. Crack a hundred? OK, I don't really know if that sounds good. Great. Crack a hundred. That's what it's all about. It's not good. OK, well, you know F1 also, more than I do. And the next race is coming up. Do you have any early season analysis? We're three races in, right? Max, we're stopping. I know he's. Yeah, go ahead. It won't be close this year. It's Red Bull, Max for stopping. They built another rocket ship. I don't think it'll be close for the championship goals. Now, for all the teams under, Red Bull and Max and Chaco Perez is competitive. Aston Martin made a big jump. They signed Fernando Alonso, the old guy he came over. They made huge improvements to their car. Mercedes, they're figuring it out. They had a great showing last race. And then Ferrari is kind of taking a step back. So there is some competition and some excitement when it comes to the races after Red Bull and that rocket ship that they built out there. That's not fun, then. All right, well, anything can happen. I guess Taylor Few, our social media person who you know, our guru, our manager, she's obsessed with Danny Ricardo. Where's he at? Yeah. He's a reserve driver for Red Bull, right. Yeah, but he's a reserve driver now. He lost his seat last year at McLaren. He was a driver for McLaren, lost his seat there. And now he's a reserve driver for Red Bull. And he's hoping to get back in there next year. But he is one of the most popular drivers, especially here in the States. Yes, he's very popular on our show staff. I will say that much. And I like that she's rooting for an underdog. I did not know that about her. OK, let's talk about this Tyreek Hilfing, OK? He was really chirpy yesterday. This is what he had to say on eight, 10 sports. Take a listen. Chief Skinner, when the Miami Dolphins come to Arrowhead Stadium this year, guess what we going to do? Guess what we going to do? I hate to talk the peace sign against y'all. I hate to do it. But guess what? I'm going to be y'all's worst enemy that day. I'm going to be y'all's worst enemy that day. You better change the signals. I know every signal y'all got. It's April. What do you think? It's too early for it, but I love it. You know, this is what he does. Ever since he came down here to Miami, he's just been stirring the pot every time it seems like he picks up a mic. And Tyreek, hey, it's been a lot of talk about trash talk lately with Andrew Reece and Caitlin Clark. And if you're going to talk trash, back it up. Tyreek has backed it up since he stepped foot on that football field. And it's your former team. It means your former team. So it is going to mean a little more for Tyreek. I'm looking forward to it. Now it is Patrick Mahomes and the defending Super Bowl champs on the other side. So I am somewhat worried about that. But we did train for Jayla Ramsey to show up that defensive backfield and take me in hard. So I like it. I like the trash talk. I love it, actually. It's true. You know, it's funny that peace sign he's talking about, the Usain Bolt. Somehow that isn't on Twitter for it trending. And nobody has opinions on that. It's just looked at as good competitive confidence in oneself. It's so interesting how that happens. Quickly, before we let you go, what is the talk to me about the Chiefs DB chain right now with that? Chiefs DB, I didn't see that. No, I'm saying, like, give me what the corners are. Are they texting each other, tweeting each other? Or are they just enjoying their offseason? They don't care. Yeah, it's April. Who knows? They're probably in Cancun, Costa Rica, somewhere right now. They don't care what Tyreek Hill is saying on 810 Sports right now, April 6. Probably tuning to the Masters right now, actually. But they're not saying anything. But when Tyreek Hill shows up, you better believe it's going to be a full game plan that's going to be a little different in every other week when the cheat is out there. I'm going to choose to end this interview by saying that we have a bucket of champagne in our studio waiting for the day I went to Parley. And we were going to have a champagne shower. We had goggles, like MLB World Series Champ Vibes, a tarp. And it didn't happen all year. And now all of a sudden, I champagne showered myself. It's been waiting. It's been waiting. That's a good omen. See, that's a good omen. I just don't think this can be. I can't. I don't think this can be on the internet. I can't. We can't put this on the internet. We cannot put this on the internet. That's all I'm going to say. Love you, Darius. Thank you for coming on my birthday. Love you, too. Bye. Happy birthday. This cannot be on the internet. This is the end of it. Bec, here and up, and Adam's rioting, reporting the white load of season three will be set in Thailand. Interesting. It'll be good. RIP Tanya McCoyd. She would have loved Thailand. She could have come back as a ghost. I could see that. She could come back. You know what? I think they should take all the characters from season one and some of the characters from season two, which I like the characters less, and put them all into season three. Minus Jennifer Coolidge. But you take like, what's her name? Connie Britton? Yeah. Gorgeous, great storyline. Loved her as a character, bad-ass CEO. Take her and her weird kid. They could reunite with the son who went away on the canoe. He could be driving the canoe to Thailand. Wouldn't that be amazing? OK, I don't know where. I'm looking. There it is. Hi. There's not quite a release date for season. Do you like the champagne on my face? It's something new I'm trying. Some people take peptides in HGH when they turn my age, but I'm doing Dom Perignon. All right. Listen, there's no cast for this thing. So we thought we'd have a little fun. It's draft season. Who better to create that than Armand's biggest fan? Hamilton, get in here. I thought that Marissa was doing this whole bit. Hey, what's going on? I'm ready to draft my team. We've been talking about this. You've been throwing smoke screens at me. I'm ready. Yeah. Well, let's take a look at this. And Marissa, why don't you just take it away? Because I don't really quite know. Go for it. Hello. So we have a white lotus season three. You guys are going to pick one at a time. You're going to get your draft picks. These are just some suggestions that we came up with, some wild ones. Some DuMois, Mario Lopez, Lil Dicky. You put Giselle right in the middle there. Is there a reason for that? You tried to make things awkward for me up here on a Thursday? All right. Jane Fonda, Tom and Jerry, interesting choice. Interesting choice. We've definitely got some interesting ones. Lil Dicky's in a new commercial. Yeah, you want to see a variety. Biggie's fan. Huge Eagles fan. Met him at Benny Blanco's house once. No joke. True story. OK. But we're going to start, OK? You're going to get the first pick. Oh, it's a speed draft. So it can go off of the big board or just from the old cranium. OK, I'm going to say the first person I want to add, and I want to get his name right, what is it? It's Greg. Cousin Greg. No. Not Cousin Greg from Succession. No. Not Nicholas Brom. What is the guy's name? I have this. I texted you guys this this morning. The guy's name, Greg from White Lotus. He's in one and two. Tanya's husband, John Grease. Yes, we would love it. Do you have a picture of him? No. Do nothing. Oh, I texted you guys that this morning. I'm taking John. Want to know, or Greg, John Grease, because, and you know what I'm talking about, Hamilton, he needs to come and face the music. He gets Tanya killed, gets her murdered. She's shooting people coming out of the bathroom on a boat. I was on a boat in Miami. Yeah, hard it is to do that. And then she kills herself walking over the thing. He needs to face the music. And he needs to be in Thailand. So that's your first pick. That's a great. A back set of Buddhism and beautiful things in the Grand Palace. We need him to die in season 30. Greg. That's a great call. I'm 100% on board with that. My first pick. Tremendous actress. And I need to take her away. Make sure she doesn't get on your team. Julia Louis-Tribus. First pick. That's a diss. JLD. It's my birthday. That's her girl. I know. And now she's on my team. So we'd love to see her. Love to see her in season 30. I'm sorting through the hundreds of birthday texts I have. Wishing my birthday to try to find this train from this morning. I just can't find it because it's too popular and loved. Oh, gosh. I think I do remember your second one. OK, no, no, no. My second. Now I have on my cue the ghost of Jennifer Coolidge. Yes. Because I just know if this goes on Twitter and it's between you and me was the better team, Jennifer Coolidge will win. Absolutely. That's my, that's like a draft strategy. There's fan favorites in there because nobody's going to. I have Paul Giamatti on my list. That's cool material. OK, no, I'm going to go. I'm going to go. You know who I want? I'm going to go Brian Cox as Logan Roy on his retirement trip, crossover HBO family in Thailand. You are thinking, try it. Eat, pray, love, his way out of being a scoundrel. There we go. Brian Cox. I love that. Hamilton, up to you. Wow. That's a great call. Well, we know, you know, we saw Michael Imperiali, make his crossover. He was so known for one HBO show as Christopher Maltesanti. I want to do the same thing with another character. Give me the hound, Rory McCann. The hound. I want him running the hotel. I want him in the Armand, front desk role, just being miserable and amazing. We need it. You know what I really think, and I'm going to put this down, I like that choice. Danny DeVito is going to be in the season. It's rumored. It's rumored he's going to be in it. And I feel like Mike White likes reinvigorating characters. So I was thinking even like, gosh, I don't know who to pick. I'm going to go, I'm going to go Stanley Tucci. That's a phenomenal pick. Stanley Tucci should have, I mean, it's a value here in the third round of this draft, to be honest. He's got the versatility. He's beloved. He's underappreciated. So I'm going to go Stanley Tucci in Thailand, and I'll watch. What do you got? You got 30 seconds. Give me Bill Burr, just being miserable on vacation. You have a miserable lineup. No, there will be no fun. There will be no fun on this. I need somebody who's a little lighthearted. OK, should I go Tom Brady, or should I go Laura Dern? Tom Brady, Laura Dern, or Christopher Walken? Christopher Walken. Control room. Christopher Walken. Christopher Walken. Absolutely riding a bicycle around the streets of Thailand. Give me Hammer Go. Give me Lizzo. I'm taking Lizzo. OK, one more, OK? One more, OK? I can't believe you took six seconds. I never made it back from Julie Louie Dreyfus. I'll go Travis Calci. Hammer, what? God pick. I thought we were going to drive richer next. Take everybody I love.