 Best behavior today people. That's right stage crew. I see you camera. Don't put that donut down put up put away The booze the party favors our bosses on the show. That's right our big wig at Fando will see oh oh see ML I don't know something with a C in front of it. Mike Ravensburger making a special Santa-ish appearance to tune for that plus former Steelers and Browns cornerback Joe Hayden He's here to break down the playoff picture and of course celebrate the life of Franco Harris We lost this week and we also have New York Jets tight end slash Broadway producer of a really CJ Usama on the show. Let's get it Last to get to we did receive sad news in the NFL world this morning Steelers Hall of Fame running back Franco Harris has left us. He has passed away at the age of 72 We are talking about an absolute bonafide NFL icon real rare air here Franco racked up Conceivably every accomplishment you could during a brilliant 13-year career. I'm talking a gold jacket well-deserved for Super Bowls for a Super Bowl MVP nine Pro Bowls and all pro he was the 1976 man of the year as well and Of course, you cannot dream of writing the history of the NFL without this the immaculate reception It's poetic It's both sad and celebratory that we are just two days away from the 50th anniversary of this play It's on Friday 50 years really think about that 50 years of being celebrated Universally is one of the top five plays in the history of the sport and it was him It was this miracle play by a rookie Franco Harris spurring the Steelers run to their first of six Super Bowls It laid the groundwork It was the foundation for one of the NFL's greatest dynasties the way we still look at them Franco has his hands all over that and and I never got to watch him play of course I've seen a lot of highlights over a lot of years And I've had the honor of being around Franco more than one occasion whether it's an interview or in Canton or you know You run into these NFL Hall of Famers who are usually when you run into them doing good They're always you know around the game right now or in the community trying to make something happen What always stood out to me personally Was his smile always smiley and always full of grace No, no reason to pay me any mind give me any attention just be so full of grace and humility and I Think if there was a humble humility Hall of Fame within the Hall of Fame that we have That celebrates the greats who are in fact the most humble he would have space in that hall as well So we're of course sending from our up and Adams family love thoughts and prayers to his family and his loved ones As we celebrate his legacy and we have someone who of course it was a former stealer a through-time pro bowler Joining us now a FC north legend Joe Hayden Joe. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? I'm good. We've lots of talk about but as I of course I just talked about we've lost Franco Harris And I know that you were there. It's a big loss for your community who spent five years as a Pittsburgh stealer So when you think about Franco and his legacy what stands out to you? I mean you you spoke very very eloquent about him because I met him a few times and When you say humble when you say kind when you say every time I saw him He just had a big smile on his face and I just knew when I first landed in Pittsburgh He's the one guy here is the statue in the Pittsburgh airport So every time you leave every time you come in you see Franco in the airport with that immaculate catch statue So it's just like you soon you get to Pittsburgh. That's the first thing you see so um, it's just It's it's sad and just puts life in perspective for how fast things can happen when I saw me look look healthy You look happy with smiling, you know So things change really fast, but um, it's just a big big loss and he was just such a such a great dude They gave out so much good energy and I just want to continue to let everybody know that that's the guy that I met and People that do know my condolences to his family because I know that's a tough situation And sending of course love to all stealer fans who are wearing that but also celebrating it You have that statue and it's not to remind you of anything. It's other than miracles can happen It's a statue that's full of hope of this can't happen It can happen on the field but that of course translates into real life into family into love into whatever you want to look at and He was always sort of a beacon for that and I love that he reveled in it You know, I would interview him sometimes on good morning football and be like we're gonna play the immaculate reception again I literally would have that thought and I feel silly thinking about it now because once you reflect on something like that he Didn't get sick of it. He lit up every time he saw it He embraced that understood that deeper bigger meaning that it had and he for his whole life for 50 years Has been tied with that one play and providing that for NFL fans and just you know people on this earth alike So we're of course sending our love to his family and we have Joe Hayden here Joe Hayden who I think you're NFL analyst We're trying although I did see some soccer tweets like you could go in the way of FIFA here in a minute I'm doing a little FIFA a little golf a little football, you know, just all you know all all inclusive not not not neglecting any sport So, you know, I'm just right now moving around But I'm really really my mind big passion now, too is golf though. I'm really trying to get into that I went to the match out there with Tiger Tigers one of my favorite all-time players, obviously So here I'm Rory getting to see the boys play so I really am into just traveling going to go to the Masters for my birthday Oh, well, just trying to get involved in the golf side, too Oh, well, I didn't think I knew you were on the golf course last time I talked to you But I remember I was looking at your tweets from the World Cup. They were hilarious. I Love mess. I love mess. I'm so happy for him. Who doesn't he was got knocked off the parade route yesterday I was crazy. Did you see the people jumping onto the bus? It's my biggest fear. Yeah No, but disinvading his base and then they all almost got clipped by that like decapitated by whatever like that Like I mean that was a whole other World Cup that they won surviving that yesterday down there in Argentina Let's turn to the the Football field instead of the pitch and the golf course here Big story this week is Jalen Hurts I want these Eagles to do their thing. He's battling through an injury. It's his throwing shoulder. That's not good I'm no doctor, but I want you to listen to him talking about this just yesterday Definitely change I'm taking a day by day though, you know, I everybody knows that I'm dealing with something I think that's pretty public is out there. I'm not one to really talk about myself You know, obviously being a quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles you you can't run from that You know, but I'm taking everything one day at a time with it and preparing versus really good defense Filly needs one win one win Joe to capture the NFC east crown and the one seed in the conference huge game How worried are you about Jalen and how should he and the team handle and manage this? Well, I'm a little bit worried about him. I just want Jalen Hurts to be successful He's just had such a great Season this year people didn't really think too highly of a coming into this year and that the team is stacked I think right now they have such a good team or offense and defense that he's the man He's the key factor. They don't need one game. I Wouldn't force him to be in there. I wouldn't rush to be in there because you put him in there for one game and then you might He can keep he's he runs the ball. He's able to get get around and extend plays So you don't want him to be worrying about Getting hit getting getting tackled. So just let him rest up a little bit warm up get yourself together And I think the team then go out there and handle it because they have stairs stacked all over the field Or offense and on defense and then they'd be able to get a win without them But they're gonna need them in the playoffs. They're trying to support hard to say hard to you know Hard to manner especially against the Cowboys division rival. I want to stick it to them Not easy now the Pro Bowl rosters are going to be Excuse me and now it's tonight. Let me take we had a new coffee machine. That's what I'm blaming. Hold on Joe By the way, don't ever take any like professional tips for me on how to be a broadcaster analyst because you will be wrong You okay, so Pro Bowl rosters very interesting how the voting turned out you we looked it up You were selected to three of them and people want to say what they want about the problem It's kind of a cool experience to spend the week around so many legend. Do you have a favorite moment from those Pro Bowl trips? I? Actually do It was a really really funny random thing that happened I was practicing and we were leaving Pro Bowl practice and I just had my I just picked up my cleats I mean picked up my shoes and was walking on the bus down to the bus me and my wife just hanging out and All of a sudden inside of my cleats I mean inside of my shoes just the alarm just starts going off like like an amber alert So I'm looking to my shoe and it says like like call this number immediately you have you have like you found someone's phone So I'm looking at the phone. Oh my god. I didn't for one thing I didn't know phones could just automatically you could just send the phone to start going off like making noises So I called number from my wife's phone and it was Drew Brees. He was like yo, who is this? I'm like, it's Joe. It's like Joe. It's Drew. Like I let I don't some reason you I put my shirt You must have the same Pro Bowl shoes. It's like I put my phone in your shoe and So then I'm sitting there with Drew Brees phone. I mean him at the hotel lobby. He's like, thank you so much I thought I lost my phone. You know who took it So I just randomly had Drew Brees his phone in my shoe going off and they was just that was a funny story for me So did you go on the phone? Oh my god, no way. There was no way you can get in that phone That phone was just it was shooting off the number to call You handed to a girlfriend or an ex-girlfriend. They are getting in the phone. I'm saying you should have called me I could have gotten in the phone. Listen, you just got to call any woman you would have had that hundred percent I would I wouldn't I would have helped you do it, but don't say you didn't know how it's impossible It's a never that sounds like a challenge. We watch tiktok. Come on. All right Let's just do this. It is the holiday season. Of course, we're doing a lot of festive holiday things this week So I dug up a few wish lists I intercepted them by hacking into these teams phones and these guys are teams that are on the bubble and they're hanging in the Balance, so let's take a look at the AFC playoff picture the bills the chiefs the Bengals and Titans are your division leaders The Ravens Chargers dolphins currently occupying the three wild card spots Jets paths Jags. They're all live Joe So here's how this will work. I will tee you up on some teams And I need you to tell me and analyze whether you think these teams will get the gift of a trip to the post season Or whether they're sitting home with nothing, but you know socks from an Edna. Okay. Okay. All right. Let's do this We're gonna start with the Tennessee Titans. All right. Here's their wish list. They've of course lost four straight They'd like a consecutive playoff appearance. They'd like a Super Bowl ring But their lead is down to just one game over the Jags They do control their own fate they played the Texans the Cowboys the Jags to end the year and if they win out They get in so to me. This is like When you're a parent and I'm not a parent when you're a parent and you you think your kids great So in August you buy them the Nintendo switch. It's on sale and you say come Christmas You're gonna get this you're gonna get the thing that you want because you're always good And then they've been the worst kid on the planet all year, right? You can't give them the switch to reward bad behavior. They've lost four straight. They can't do it So, you know, they don't even understand the the advantage of turning their behavior around now and being a little better Because they'll get the switch so they might get the ticket, but I don't know if they deserve it Yeah, they need Elk on the shelf. Okay last month They should have Elk on the shelf knowing that they're watching watching them around. No, you're nice And they haven't been playing too well. So I might switch that from a switch like a Game Boy. Oh Our Game Boy is still cool Game Boy still but no, it's not. Yeah, they don't deserve it. They don't deserve the switch They don't deserve a switch. I'd probably go get the one of those like educational like books where they have to, you know Oh, that's even works. Obviously. I'm the mean mom. All right, let's move on to the Jets Wait, so wait, do you think that the Titans will make it really quick? We we do we do think Titans are gonna make it. Okay. I love that. They have Derek Henry. They can run the ball I think I think and their schedule isn't too Too tough left. Okay. Let's pop up the Jets here. Hmm. We're gonna CJ Uzama on momentarily probably listen to you CJ Uzama caught two touchdowns last week. They've lost three straight. Okay They want a first playoff appearance since 2010 the first winning season since 2015 Both the Chargers and Dolphins They're behind them just by just a game for the final two AFC wild card spots Jets getting in Here's what I think the Jets getting in would be like that little girl who's been asking for a pony, right? And she's been asking for a pony for five straight years and then and everyone's like, what are you gonna do? And then they actually actually gets it. She gets the pony This is that fan base that fan base is so used to disappointment and not getting what they want And they never thought that they'd see the day and then all of a sudden there's a pony in front of you And you're like what the hell do I do with this? How do I how do I maintain this? Who's even riding this thing? Is it white as it might white is it Zach Wilson? Who's this for? Can the Jets still find their way to the playoffs? I Mean it would be crazy if they did I really I think I'm really really a sauceguard in the fan. Love him to death DJ Reed We work out together in LA one of my really really good friends. Um, so I believe in it. I like their team. It's just the Quarterback position is something that I don't feel comfortable with in New York not in a bad way May I think Zach if he just continues he's playing better than we did when he was talking crazy at the beginning But he's doing a whole lot better. So I just don't have too much faith in the Jets What is it about sauce that makes him so special? Man, he got confidence for sure. He's very long Tall fast he can jump and he has really good feet footwork He can press and he can play off when I watched him just in his transitions Well, you can be that tall and that fast and be able to have like quick feet like the like the shorter corners I'm you're very very hard to deal with and he seems smart like he's studying in tape Yeah, I think he just keeps doing this man. The sky's the limit found So the question is can Zach Wilson take this team to the playoffs and make some noise in a critical moment that we might have Not seen we'll ask CJ Usama who plays with him play with Joe Boro played with Mike F and white as well So let's take a look at the NFC like Santa's getting me nothing I spoke to you things I say on the show. Oh my god The Eagles the Vikings the Niners the Bucks their division leaders Joe Hayden the Cowboys Giants and Commanders I know you hate to see it there in the wild card spots with the Seahawks and Lions They're right there knocking on the door. So let's look at the Seahawks first Okay, let's take a look at the Seahawks wishlist. Okay, they want their ninth playoff appearance in 11 years and their first playoff wins since 2019 Gino is that dude? You're not wondering is it gonna be that Wilson Mike White Gino's the guy magical year They have fallen out a game back of Washington after losing back-to-back games now They've got get this the chiefs the Jets the Rams to end the year Gino Smith leading the Seahawks the playoffs would be like one of those car commercials Where the husband opens the door and the wife comes out and it's like It is absolutely something that no one believes whatever happened in real life because it's so aggressive and so overwhelming But that's the season of a miracle. So can the Seahawks get back on track and make it happen? I do not think so because of that schedule They gotta play the chiefs then they gotta play New York and New York's not playing the chiefs obviously Aren't playing so I mean they might could they could easily not in a bad way. I love Gino He's working hard. He's been working this tail-off. He's obviously the number one quarterback there, you know And their team has been they've been playing well there 500 But having to beat those two I mean they would have to have many games where they have to win to get in If they would have to win maybe one game maybe but if they got to win two out of those three I don't I do not see out on the Seahawks. I do not see any Christmas presents under their tree Brandon Marshall comes on our show and he Heaps talking about how there's gonna be one mate one team just want maybe it's a commander Maybe that just sort of sneaks in gets the momentum has it going Is there a team for you like out of these guys that are maybe the lions that are sticking out to you? That could cause damage The lions a little bit they're tough. They're tough winning. I mean, I like that I like the commanders like you said, I think it's I think he's getting it done I don't know what anybody says he just buys wooden people's butts And then he's getting Jordan's in the color of the team that he beat I think that's one of the coolest things I've heard of in a long time I'm a I'm a high I'm a high he fan and he is yeah So I think there's a team that can sneak in and nobody's thinking about it'd be it'll be the commanders now Joe Have fun at the Masters and happy birthday to you and Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family and I Don't know anything Literally anything about golf, but I do know that Super Bowl week waste management happens. That's what's management. So are you Me up we'll do the same with the show. Yes, we'll sit on that hole and yell at people. It'll be so fun Okay, sounds good Joe Hayden, we appreciate you stopping by up in Adams this morning still to come on our boss my graph is over to Why could he be here? I don't know and also Oh my god, I literally might pass out Oh Not one, but two touchdowns showing off against the Lions They also I mean about this first two touchdowns as a jet by the way a eight-year NFL vet I believe soccer fan maybe a fake soccer fan like 99% of Americans are during the World Cup a Broadway producer. Welcome CJ You Zama Here you hold on my earpiece is up. Oh my god. I literally can't hear you Ice I heard that happen while it was happening. Oh No, CJ. Maybe you could sing for us Broadway star. Hold on. I got it. I got it. I got it See you don't say bad things about me while I'm doing this You can't hear me I can hear you I can hear you I can hear you What if I just left and I was like CJ you do something for 10 minutes Wow fostered Listen here CJ you Zama. Congratulations on these touchdowns on your career in New York looks like it suits you Do you like New York? I do I do? It's it was a bit of an adjustment early, but it's been fun What's the best and worst part of living in New York City or near New York City? The traffic is pretty just abysmal Um The best the food the food's amazing. Okay. Give me the give me the best spot. Give me the best food you've had in Manhattan. Oh man, so I Love this place called Laverdon. It's a French restaurant. Okay. Yeah, it's fancy fancy No, this isn't a fan. This is this is like during the World Cup. They were they're having World Cup parties It's a it's a nice little it's a nice spot. It's not it's not fancy writing a stretch of imagination How many Michelin stars? I Mean, I would give it three, but I think statistically zero I'm surprised you eat anything outside those juices. You're always talking about on Instagram I feel like you don't you're on like a forever liquid diet. Those know those juices. They've evaded me this year I've been strictly just like watering Gator. I think and and actually This is gonna be bad because the boys boys make fun of me a lot for this Tell me I have a lot of syrup for breakfast and so They call me buddy and I don't love it But it's Christmas time. So I'll kind of embrace it all night. Didn't you dress up as buddy one time last year Is that creepy that I know that I think I remember you walking in and I had never seen the movie And you were making fun of me on Twitter for never having understood that you put syrup on pasta, right? Please tell me you've seen it. No But I did see that Carrie Washington Twitter somebody who tweeted yesterday that they they saw and it was like a joy And I should watch it because it makes you smile. I'm not like a big will Ferrell gal It's fun. It's fine. I'm a Ryan Reynolds guy will Ferrell is What do you have in your hand there have a bag of spaghetti with syrup chocolate sauce and pop tarts Standard so what are you dressing up for the Thursday night's game? Let us play let's play game 20 questions Well, it's it's up in the air between two things because I'm dressing Mike white Because he lost a bet so don't bet me because I bet things that are gonna be embarrassing But can I know what the bet was? It was just Auburn. I mean it was just an Auburn Western Kentucky. We were either gonna do push-ups or I got to dress him and Seeing how you're not you kind of struggled with push-ups. I was like, we'll just go the outfit the outfit route I'm kidding. You killed it. You did well. You did well. That was a joke small joke. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow This is deteriorating quickly guys. Can we get the shepherds hook and unplug the thing for our friend CJ Uzama? Okay, so you're so wait, so what are you dressing up as talking tell me you know everything I Think that I'm going to dress up as not made before Christmas Jack Okay, that's that's aggressive. You think I like that you're like I think I am you like have everything ready to go It's like two days away. I'm thinking about it. We'll see. We'll see. Yeah, I'm thinking about it It's between it's between that and something else, but we'll see okay So you're in New York, and I'm talking I'm reading the New York Post and I find this You have taken a huge pivotal role in something really important. That's why I actually asked you to come on the show You're involved with the Broadway show ain't no more at the Belasco Theater in New York City Tell me about why you got involved and what inspired you Well, I'm I'm a huge I love theater. I love Broadway. I love plays and musicals and last year during the Super Bowl I was able to meet with some of the guys and In the media department for my agency and you know, they said if anything ever comes on their desk They they presented to me and this just so happened to get presented to them and I was one of the first people they called when when they thought about giving somebody else involved I just thought you know one it's it's an awesome opportunity for me because I love theater so much But two just the message that it stands for because you know, it's It's Lee Daniels. It's Jordanie Cooper who is phenomenal like Absolutely phenomenal And then just I mean the cast is amazing. It's it was something that really kind of hit hit me When I read the script and you know, I kind of immediately called my phone. I was like, I have to do this I don't I don't really care about what it's gonna take. I really want to be a part of this I mean and you're not the only one but it clearly spoke to you and brought Broadway in general is struggling and this is a big production with a really beautiful meaning and important thing to see and it was going to get Shelbed quickly and then you came along not just to you because it's been all over the news lately with recently Really influential people like your Tyler Perry shown to rhymes Dwayne Wade many others showing their support your teammates Mike F and white came to the show with you What was that like and how can people out there help support ain't no low? Yeah, just one they can support by buying tickets and showing up to the show But yeah, no it that was to me amazing that I was able to get you know, my teammates to come along Zach was also there We had some other guys that weren't pictured that were there too and that that to me was special Especially because you know, we're we're going through the season and you know It's it's a trap to get down to the city, especially with the traffic said 45 minutes took us like an hour and a half to get there and So then to bring their significant others and to show up and support They really met the world to me and then they loved it. You know, they're like, wow, this is this is great. It's hilarious We really had a good time. So it meant the world to me And and it means the world to me that you know, my teammates shoot in the locker room the guys that weren't there They're like, you know, can can I go like how do I get involved with this? Like can I what's what's the deal? It's it's gotten good reviews and my teammates are obviously excited to help support I love that a co-producer on a Broadway show. I did not see it coming, but it's very suits you It suits New York and who knows maybe that's what your future might be if you get pulled into that I know like Victor Cruz obviously New York Windsor Super Bowl in that area loves Broadway wants to do a play wants to do all these things And it's very cool to see And even like Nate Burleson who I said next to you know for six years loved the arts the theater wanted to get involved as well So you just stepping up and doing this. I thought was very cool. So you look I said a nice thing Let's talk about these touchdowns They were incredible I was so excited to see it to against the Lions and then I thought this is the first time He's had two touchdowns because that was kind of like exciting and it's not you had did it twice last year twice Double-score games last year one of those games was against which team the Jaguars Interesting interesting so put to put this in Broadway terms you take on the Jags tomorrow night Which can we expect an encore performance CJ? I? Mean, you know, we'll see what happens Can't give the game. No, we'll see um, you know, it's really good defense We'll see how we match up against them and you know the short the short weeks the short weeks are always You know you're getting in as much as you can and such a short amount of time But hopefully we'll we'll have something something in line for me Well, those two touchdowns came from Zach Wilson. Okay, he looks good. He looked great over 300 yards He looked confident in his return What is one thing that you have seen in Zach Wilson give me one specific thing over the past month that you've Sort of looked at and said this is how he's grown or evolved Yeah, I think I Think it was kind of a humbling thing for him, right? I think you know, I think people forget he's young Well, I forget he's young because I guess I'm old now But I think you know for him. He took a step back. He really Just started make going through his progressions and making his reads and you can see it in practice, right? You think You know during during a game plan week You expect a certain thing to happen, especially, you know kind of going against the scout team saying hey This is how they should play it X Y Z whatever and he kind of sometimes would be like, okay, nice This should be here. I'm gonna throw it, you know to this receiver and over the past month He's really just been making his his reads and like, you know, wow the scout team didn't play this way Maybe maybe we thought they were gonna play something a certain way and they're not and so he's really just going through his progressions Making the right reads still able to extend the plays and and just be smart with the ball and you can see it in practice and Yeah, like you said, I think that he played a really, you know, he played a good game You know, especially with his first game back So what's your role in that because I always I think of you in that on that team and you are an og You're the vet there, but it's also your first year there. You're coming from the bangle So is it how do you manage that when you go into a locker room and your people are obviously looking towards you Towards you for advice or leadership or like, are you the leader in a locker room and I've only been there You're like, what's your role in all this because you can say it however you want. I know you like Mike F and white I know you loves that Wilson to managing that has to be difficult and awkward. It just has to be Yeah, I think the thing that I tell the younger guys, I mean, I really just go up to receivers running backs and And it's hot ends and oh all my message to them is it doesn't like we have to make toys and You know, I think being in New York has taught me one thing and that's the media is Is reckless, you know, like they they find one person to target and it's the quarterback And they just they go in and they just don't stop. So You know, I think what the only thing I say to everyone is no matter where the ball is no matter what's going on No matter what the coverage is no matter what the play call is we have to make clothes We have to go out there. We have to execute at the best of our abilities and and get separation make a contest to catch Whatever it is go in and block and dig out, you know a safety a cover three safety who might be in the box that you know Just just bring a bigger room. Whatever whatever it is. We have to be You know, we have to be on it. Yeah, so we know, you know, so we can help the team in any way we can And I think the guys are buying into that the young guys off to share Garrett Wilson certainly is he's he's fired up. You have all these young kids You've got Elijah who's like I don't want to be around and then you have Garrett I met Garrett Wilson. Yeah, it wasn't the character. He is a character. So you're having to manage that does Sala sort of look at you and say help me out here or or you know, cuz Sala has to deserve a ton of credit for what's going on with this team. Yeah, no, I love I said it early in this week to tell me I love him. He's Fights for us. He's awesome What fights for you stop right there. He fights for you and like I thought for my team to get a beverage machine Is that what and we got one today? Whoo? Did we got a new coffee maker? It's very exciting. What what do you mean? He fights for you? No, I think just with in terms of media. He fights for us. He kind of puts everything on himself no matter what During the game. He is fired up. I don't know if the cameras are on him, but this man First of all, he's kind of a he's a he's an intimidating Oh, I know. Yeah, so so him yelling at refs. I'm like, all right, like boys, we got we got to get we got to get This together. We got to get going. So yeah, that's what I mean I think for the most part the media aspect of it is like, hey, just deflect everything to me I'll handle all of this. I know they're gonna come at you and try to force force your hand Don't say anything. Just say thought course off like I got this I can handle them and and then on the field seeing him fired up gets everybody fired up It's not funny because that it's like him and freeble have that or it's like they're on the field They're doing the drills and then you have Mike McDaniel down in down in Miami And he's the players love him too So there's not one way that's more right than the other as far as like reaching your players as a coach But I do think he deserves credit now Joe Hayden was on the show Right before you hopped on and he we're talking about the Jets chances and he said that there's the quite you know The question is can Zach lead this team to the playoffs? So I ask you To help me say yes Is there a moment or something that you can point to that shows in a critical time? He's got it and he can make it happen Yeah, I mean, I think though the job that we had you know to To give me the other touchdown that I had to put us in the position to win to You know how our defense go back out there who to me is one of the best defenses I mean, I go against them every week. I'm gonna say that the best defense and then I fell and And to kind of put put it on them and say hey, we got this We know that you're gonna go out there and do your thing I know I think just him having that composure in of itself was was huge Him in the two minute drive was big, you know, we got a sack and you know The first play you don't want to sack but then to be able to make plays to scramble to the right throwback to the middle of field to eat more and and you know again put us in a position to tie the game to go to overtime I think that's huge. You know, I think that's huge for offense I think that's huge for us as a team knowing that again when push comes a shove in our Mines we are going to win the game when it gets down late in the fourth quarter And so I think that's kind of why that one stung a little bit because it was you know a close game in the fourth quarter and we didn't get it done but After that game coming in on Monday in a short week. We're like we could have won that game easily We still have our slacker. We still have our confidence We can come in here on Thursday and doing these to be done to put ourselves in a position to For the little girl to have her pony. I think I mean we're listening. Okay Yeah, yeah, I Want it to happen for you. I mean you were part of a magical thing here last, you know You spent seven years here my friend. I spoke to Logan Wilson and T Higgins over the past month or so and I asked them both What is the defining thing of this bangles squad and I thought of you because I think you were really Foundational in putting it into being what it is and the word that they use was unselfishness The reason they're successful is because they're unselfish. So I ask you what is the word that defines this Jets team and their success? I would say relentless you know, I think You know to a tee to position by position I mean, I have our defense up a lot because our defenses is really good But I think you know as you go offense defense special teams We are relentless. We're relentless crew and you look and you know, I love looking at our receivers Because like you said, she's a character. He is a character. I'm sorry I'm starting to pull that character out of you where he's having a good time. He's having fun He's playing loose and sees a character off. It's a line. We got some characters on the off. It's a line mate Herbie is And then you got the Titans like the Titans the best position on the field So, you know, we've got some some swagger about us But yeah, I think you know, we're just relentless no matter what it is no matter what the situation is in the game We are going 100% all out. Doesn't matter what the conditions are Doesn't matter that you know this game It's like a hundred percent chance of rain with 40 mile per hour winds. We don't care like I cool late honest We're we're gonna give it our all into the last whistle So and you don't care what those those idiot those ding dongs like Craig Carton are saying on WFAN or wherever They're saying we don't care we have to say and don't read those back pages. Listen, the New York Post isn't always right You can't listen everything you read I will say this though just quickly as we say bye to you My niece in Chicago Natalia. She's the top like to one and one years old She I get a text every morning because she loves me. She's pointing at me Whatever and my sister just sent me a text and goes oh move over you but he She's got a crush and my little niece keeps pointing at you on the TV CJ you got these Adams girls look at this. Oh my goodness. She loves you Her name is Natalia Oh god, here we go baby's first crush CJ kick-ass tomorrow. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Yeah, go. Why don't you go swimming today? Bye CJ and bye bye Mike train and Mike. I'm in trouble. All right. We're back with a different Mike a Mike Raffensburger who signs my checks Joe Hayden CJ Uselma and now listen to me and listen to me go out there If you love fan dual sportsbook as do I you're gonna be very excited about what we have cooking right now We are joined by a very special guest the chief commercial officer. So CCO. That's a thing For fan dual and recently named this is exciting to the sports business journals 40 under 40 less the big boss who signs the big Jux Mike Raffensburger What is that cryptic laugh It's just as always enjoying your energy Well, we got a new coffee machine here at the old fan dual LA offices that everyone's there Can we get here some noise some noise for the new coffee machine? We're very excited. How are you? I'm doing awesome. It's been a super fun season. It's been very exciting to be partnered with you having up in Adams to join me as my football companion during the week and I just saw you and CJ going back and forth. I'm sitting here in New York I'm sorry. I wasn't able to get out to join you in the studio, but obviously just an incredible year for the city I am a Giants fan of Jets fan, but You know, it's been a nice renaissance of football in New York. It feels good. It does feel good Well, you'll have to make it out here. I'll come back to New York We'll do this together next time you are here for a very special reason which is amazing You're so generous and you're so great But I do want to talk a little business as you know, I don't know if you know this about me I'd like to ask you questions. Is that does that makes does that check out? Oh boy depends on the question But I mean I ask you questions all day. I'm always bothering Raffensperger. So here it is Let's see. I have been giving out these these same game parlays That have been super boosted Generously by fan dual and they have all lost right they and they've been bad beats. They've been bad beats wrap We're talking Cooper Cup being one It's been a little brutal Chris Godwin touchdown take away Levandowski I thought maybe I'll try my hand and soccer. Nope didn't happen penalty kick. He missed. Um, so here's my first question Why am I cursed? You know a curse is such a strong word I will say it has been a very Weird football season and you're not alone. I'd say it's been a Customer unfriendly football season broadly we've been trying really hard actually some of the boosts we've done have been Significantly positive value a lot of the promotions. We've been giving we're trying to get some generosity back in customer accounts because at the end of the day You know, we realize this is a form of entertainment. We want it to be fun and When you lose let's say more than a couple in a row. That's not always a fun experience So we try hard when people aren't losing streaks to make sure their account has some Generosity some promotions and you're in good company. I know some of our other partners have had some trouble with their picks I'm her customer. Certainly you had a little challenge where it picks It's just it's been a goofy football year the things we thought were gonna happen Giants as a case in point I don't think folks works. I was expecting seven wins for the season You know, we're there now and so it's been a lot of that Okay, but this is all really exciting because it doesn't go great for anybody and I grounded myself or have I said I'm not doing parlays for like the next two weeks because I'm really gonna think about things and then I went to the chargers game And I thought oh my gosh, I'm cursed. They're gonna lose they won they won yesterday I was part of a charity thing out of hundreds and hundreds of people I won and I said it is time for the curse to be over and the real reason why I took two weeks is because you and I have Been chatting with all the excellent people the wonderful people are fandal To want to and try to bring some joy to some of these people who have been a ride or die with me all season long through The ups and downs of parlay world So we've talked a bunch and I'm so thankful for your generosity your support and I'm very stoked to announce That's starting right now. Yeah ish starting right now. Yes. They're screaming at me now starting right now until 1245 p.m. Eastern so for one hour. We're gonna give away Some money baby money money money money For one hour only what do you do after you log into Fandall Sportsbook and what happens? You've just got to log into the Fandall Sportsbook app There'll be a little carousel with K's happy hour up and Adams giveaway on it. You opt into that You've got one hour so 1245 on the eastern seaboard You got to do it by then and then you'll have a free bet on us You know that you can use coming into a very fun sports week Christmas day is gonna have a Left for up of great stuff. So just basically get into the account claim your free back and for the record This is gonna cost us millions. I'm telling the finance guy. This was your right. Okay. No, I convinced you I'm just a good negotiator here, but here's the deal when you say millions He's not Fandall is giving away up to four million Dollars in free bets go there right now get your carousel car could put up that carousel card again I mean you look like you're about to start on a telenovela raffensburg. Look at you. That's serious. Look serious. He's giving out money Okay, I want it while we have you so everybody get there and do that I want to ask you some questions to sort of do a year in review What was the most bet-on game this year outside of the Super Bowl in 2022 where you were sweating bullets, you know It was there's a few actually late September early October is one of those natural peak points of interest in the season, right? Everybody's feeling optimistic. There's one particularly that came to mind. I think it was a Monday night game Raiders chiefs in early October I want to say it was the 10th and You know, I think chiefs were favored by like seven points and they went into half time I think they were down by 10. I think the Frayers were up 2010 that game in particular I think anytime you get a lot of focus Monday night Thursday night Sunday night those big kind of tentpole games Even more so than kickoff because obviously for our business a lot of people fry sports betting in the first few weeks of the season And then it has this kind of natural point where you've got a lot of betting activity It starts to taper down and then I think in January with playoffs kicking off We'll hit we hitting some all-time highs, but that Monday night game chiefs Raiders was very busy for us I love that. All right, Santa Raft I heard a rumor a tall tale if you will of a certain someone who and I don't know who this person is There was a seven leg parlay. Let's get into this They only needed France to hit to win the over Sorry, sorry to win over a half million half a million dollars So the word on the street is that he cashed out before the game and they're calling it the greatest cash out in history Take me through this. I Think it's hard to prove these things, but I think in the global history of gambling This might be the best pass out anyone has ever done so he I think he placed the original parlay bet back in March And it was essentially just a series of championship winners So he had Kansas to win March Madness. He had the Warriors to win the NBA Finals Avalanche to win the Stanley Cup. He had Manchester City to win Premier League It was just why like no Stradamus level predictions of all of the champions of essentially every major sporting event for the year His last leg so the last bet that had to play was the World Cup He had France obviously on the ticket and it was It was Saturday the day before this Saturday. He decided to cash out Probably one of the best World Cup finals ever super exciting down to the wire Obviously Argentina wound up winning. So the guy like saved like a quarter of a million dollars and you know got cashed out It I think he made over two hundred and fifty thousand on that ticket It was just like insane insane AC Milan. It's so random. I love it. All right I'm gonna have his luck and maybe you can too with the one hour only up and Adams hour log into the sportsbook app You check the carousel card for the up and Adams hour and you opt in to claim that bet up to four million in Free that's over at Fandola Sportsbook. This is a mea culpa. This is a thank you This is a happy holidays from Raffensburger and then we really appreciate you quickly What is the one thing Fandola wise that you were most excited about? I know I know that there's a bunch of fun stuff But what are you most excited about for 2023? One is so hard, you know, look, we're gonna launch a bunch of states including Ohio We're opening a sportsbook in Cincinnati. So maybe we need to catch a bangles game just saying But look, you know, I would say There are some meaningful improvements that we've got planned for the product at the end of the day We're a technology company. We take our app really seriously. We want it to be great Easy to use we've got some fun innovations coming that things like we do with odds boost How do we let people do that for themselves? How do we create a little bit more? Optimization in the way you want to play the way you want generosity Can we have even more markets things to bet on the same game probably product which everybody loves What do you make that even better spread it to new sports? Like let's say the NHL, which we know right now So there's there's a lot of good stuff coming Yeah, our company's got 3,000 people in it and a lot of them are working real hard every day to try to make the fangal sports app Just a little bit better every day Yeah, you are a tech company that adopted a little content machine a firecracker who sits in LA and you let me do the show and you don't You are so supportive and you give me so much runway and I'm so grateful and thankful So happy holidays to you. Mr. Raffensberger to everyone on Fando all 3,000 employees who make this thing happen It has been an incredible thing to see and I know it's only gonna get better with more fun stuff to announce But for now claim your free bet before 1245 p.m. Eastern. Thank you for making that happen and you're having a great hair day Well, I'm very grateful for UK and what you're building with us on up and Adams and Fandle TV So happy holidays to you. Thank you. That's right. We're taking over the world everybody pinky in the brain over here We'll be back on the up and Adam show. Thank you Raff for the time. That's literally my boss Go go go go. It's an up and Adams hour right now until 1245 p.m. Eastern You're getting free bets up to 4 million on Fandle and Mike Raffensberger Santa Raff, baby. We love you Don't sue me. Whoever sings that song. Who sings that song? I don't know. Who sings what? Oh, the what the old days I'm not going on that path. I'm not doing it. All right claim now up and Adams hour free beds