Okay,

so college.

Yeah, so it all kind of ties back to...

The church that I grew up in as far as like where my career progressed from there.

So through college was still at that church as leading the ministry there.

I mean, the church was growing.

It's rural church, but I mean, and very rural, like all the land around it's pastures.

For that

Look, the

team keys I'm taking away for the Philadelphia Eagles is survive up front.

Yep.

Get anything you can on the ground, get Jalen active in the run game and win a second half to build on the second half.

Whoa.

It's like, three and outs in the second half 52% of the time.

Like they're trending right now to be one of the worst, to be the worst second half football team in the last 20 years.

So when you add together Will and Taylor, I'll start with you guys, the players-only meeting and the presence of Mike Patton, do you have any confidence that this defense starts to look markedly better?

Will Compton, jump in here.

One step at a time.

I'm with Hawk.

You got to go one step at a time.

Is he going to tackle? Is he going to get the sacks? Is he going to get the takeaways? All that stuff.

Who knows? But we got to go one step at a time because they are like bottom five in almost every category defensively.

So you do have to start somewhere.

Go ahead and share that with our audience.

No. You're not buying

it? No.

What? Lincoln wouldn't lie, would he? And honestly, a nice little get back after their defensive end got served papers in the parking lot the day before.

This is, again, it's like throw everything out the window.

This is the most personal game.

Then we're going to watch his college football season.

I know everybody's stoked about it.

Rams are going to go 0-17.

What

do you think, Will? I think all the pressure is on LSU.

Lane Kiffin, like you could say all the outside distraction, all the outside noise isn't going to have an effect.

But anytime we get to rivalry week in college football, the whole consensus is throw the records out the window.

It's rivalry week.

To me, this is the most personal game we're going to get to witness this college football season.

And it all starts with Lane Kiffin.

Is that what you expect?

the biggest piece of junk, I'm like, what did you pay for this? You're gonna do what? What were you

thinking when you bought that bus? Yeah, so JJ Redick had a podcast going on at the time, The Old Man and the Three.

He started with The Ringer.

He separated from The Ringer.

The Ringer didn't allow him to keep his JJ Redick podcast, so he created The Old Man and the Three.

And that was a moment where I learned a little bit about owning your intellectual property.

And so J.J. Redick was doing it.

Make sure you find out more about Q logics and your opportunity to win more with them today.

[laughs]

But you talk about all these household names, but he, it would be like, "Delanie Walker, this is the guy we have to worry about, whether in the red zone, middle of the field, doesn't matter.

We have to have eyes on him at all times." So coming and being his teammate, it was cool because, and we talked about the practice squad 46, everything else, anytime I'd see you on the Niners, I remember watching, 'cause I wasn't in the league yet at that point, but I remember watching you in the Super Bowl, and watching games in the playoffs, and be like, "Oh, this dude is a dude." Like, everybody talks about Vernon Davis, but look at this dude, he, the one who blocks a little bit more, who's still just as much of a receiving threat.

But coming and being his teammate, just the culture aspect and the leadership aspect, like, he was like a unanimous captain for the team.

He's somebody who you just kn- you just knew would always keep it real with you in any conversation.

If he heard bullshit going on in the locker room, Delanie would be the one that would check those conversations, and do it in a way to where Delanie has that voice, and kind of just tells you the way it is, and then just pauses, and then there's a space in between the reaction to where you're like, "Oh, this dude's serious." [laughs]

I'm so glad we were.

I, I just, I always found myself listening to podcasts over music in the car, and when I started writing this down, I think it was either 2016 or in the off-season going into '17, but just kind of talking goals and goals beyond football, whether it was real estate.

You're always going to be ready in a game and in the fourth quarter with an opportunity to catch a W.

And also, just to get this out of the way, I know Shefty said encouraging news with the CT scan, but just eliminating fractures or eliminating broken bones is the first step of the entire operation.

Nobody, I'm telling you right now, this is all about the MRI.

Because if you have ligament damage, if you mess something up, if you tore your labrum, That's going to be – I'm sitting there holding my breath because I don't feel good about it.

But if you look at the season of the Seahawks, we saw this example last year with the 49ers.

Brock Purdy goes down.

Mack Jones comes in and executes.

I think you will agree with

Is there any question in your mind that they win the game, Will, on Saturday night against Clemson?

Yeah, as much as I'd love to buy into there are no distractions in college football as it pertains to the players, I think I would love to know that 18- to 22-year-old kids won't be pulled away from the most popular situation going around their college football team.

Not only do you have this stuff going on with the NFL, you've got other hit pieces coming out on Lane Kiffin.

You've got the Jayden Daniels, the No. 5, all due respect to the King Jayden Daniels, that stuff going on.

But all of these topics going on throughout training camp, and you're coming out against Clemson on Saturday, who they've just been under the radar.

Dabo Sweeney, they're made up of a bunch of nobodies coming into Death Valley, an environment that LSU probably hasn't seen since 2019. with seven new transfers, seven new faces starting through the transfer portal, five new faces on defense, three true freshmen in the rotation on the defensive line.

There's going to be a lot of bullets flying.

Will Compton, how good are the Irish?

William?

Yeah, the depth of the Big Ten this year.

Again, you give a Southerner, they want an ear to lean on.

Any Southerner will tell you how SEC football has all the depth in the world.

Yeah, Big Ten has Oregon, Ohio State, Indiana.

But when you look at the Big Ten this year, it's going to get real interesting when...

Bryce Underwood makes the jump in year two with Whittingham and that new staff, bringing over Jay Hill and Beck as the OC.

And if that guy is being treated differently than you, it's because he has a different shelf on the legacy of LSU maybe than you or, hey, for that matter, anyone else does.

Yeah, Will.

Y- yeah, K, with the majority of the blood flowing through my body, I'm gonna go with Germany.

Uh, look, this is a team that's had back-to-back World Cup embarrassing showings.

This is a team that's retooled, rebuilt, and they are dangerous.

So I'm gonna go with Germany for my third-round pick.

[laughs]

And then the Germans to round it out, uh, since they got a little bit of heritage there.

So I love what I got going on with my squad.

Mm

... you're always about the name on the front of your jersey, 'cause you never wanna be a distraction.

But I thought it'd be really cool if fans and audience, uh, the audience got a look inside the conversations that take place, like, in a cold tub or in a sauna or at the cafeteria or inside the locker room because I was a big podcast junkie at the time.

So I remember writing a, writing a goal down as be, um, the first player to have an exist- existing podcast while I'm still playing, and to have one million downloads.

Fast-forward to Tennessee.

Whenever I was having my year with Tennessee as a special teams guy and a backup, thinking, like, "I'm on the back end of my career.

Whatever I wanna do, I need to dive into it now, like, while I'm still fresh, while jokes are still funny, while I'm better looking with these brutal teeth that I have in my mouth-"

What's more difficult, playing in the NFL or raising two daughters?

When you sent that tweet, and I, so I have to apologize kind of, but also kind of liked it, 'cause we never take anything from Nebraska.

I, I'll say this.

I saw his Kent- I, like I didn't...

I saw his Kentucky hat, but it's not, not, like anger doesn't come to my head.

Pretty, honestly.

You gotta win, dude.

If I had the formula, I'd be wearing a whistle around my neck instead of being behind a microphone.

But you gotta win.

This is it.

When we, when we were in, uh, improv school back in the day, they say, "Work at the top of your intelligence."

Zip me up.

'Cause there's, like, single places that have, like, really good wings, but a- as far as, like, chains go, would you rate it?

Right.

... then the entire window of things could get even worse than what it was from last night is going to continue to happen.

Which, to me, I feel like it kind of, it tarnishes, it ruptures the whole Michigan idea, the structure there.

Who's gonna wanna go there if things continue to, to leak out and come out and everything else? So to me, that's why I feel like alignment's gotta happen in a hurry and a decision's gotta be made fairly quickly because of the recruiting class, the guys who are there right now.

Like, you know, like, as players, in the world that we're in with the NIL, players in college football, you're not only waking up, group chats firing up to where you're talking about wha- "Did you see this? Did you see that? Man, did this happen? I thought I saw this back in the day," to you're also having the conversations of, "Hey, what are we...

Like, are you thinking of moving? If you're thinking of moving, like, where are you looking at right now?"

Yeah.

... to where it's like you wanna have time for all the things that are tragic and the sadness and everything going on, and then when you're talking about the football side, it's like, yeah, what are they going to do? Because no matter what like the reality is when you fire your coach, there's like a 30-day window that players have to leave.

(laughs)

... already.

Let's move along.

You said you were doing your college ball, uh, scouting for the weekend.

Ohio State, Michigan.

Obviously, Taylor, the other bussin' boy is a huge Michigan alum, Michigan stud.

2,187 days it's been since Ohio State has beaten Michigan.

What do you think about Lane's situation?

H- how does this come about, and what does this mean?

Dude, um, it's surreal, bro.

Like, it still doesn't, like, uh...

Pat, I remember talking to you, like, we FaceTimed when Bussin' with the Boys kicked off, and I...

You were giving me a lot of game on the podcast world and how to operate.

And at that point, I want to say I was telling you, like, "Hey, I think we're gonna go through the summer with pods and then stop during football season because you get really nervous about how the teams might feel, being a distraction." I was still a free agent.

Do I...

Yes.

Okay, let's see who it is.

Ready, hut! (grunting) Oh, what's up? Very excited to be announcing the Taky Award for Heisman of the Year.

A lot of great nominees this year, guys.

And look, I myself, not a Heisman winner, but I did play against a Heisman winner.

That's right, Cam Newton, the best football player I've ever seen live, the Frieza of college football, stiff-armed Pat P. on the way to the end zone and winning a Heisman.

But this year, it's about one man, and I'm proud to announce that the Taky for Heisman of the Year is Ashton Gentry.

And was there any concern about going to FanDuel, knowing that it is a sports gambling site?

No, absolutely.

You know, you always fear the unknown.

You fear turning the page and starting a new chapter.

And we absolutely loved our partnership with Barstool.

They have so many great minds over in that company.

We got to work with a lot of great people.

Do you feel like there is more emphasis on prioritization of yourself, but also knowing that there's other career paths beyond playing that are available for athletes?