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What's Up, everybody, Welcome to another episode

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of the Season with Peter Schreger. We're

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entering week eight of this

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NFL campaign and we're coming off a week

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where the Patriots beat the Bills,

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the Vikings beat the forty nine

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ers, and the New

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York Giants got back on track beating

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the Washington Commanders. There was so much

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intrigue going into this week about the Detroit Lions,

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and then the Baltimore Ravens absolutely

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walloped them in Baltimore

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and did so physically, like watching

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Ronnie Stanley block poor Kirby Joseph.

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I think he's in the stand somewhere. He threw

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him around so hard. And it's

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just week to week, you know, it's hard to do

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like power rankings, and this is the MVP

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because things change week two week, and that's the beauty

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of the sport. I'm

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joined here by Aaron wan Kaufman, our producer.

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Aaron.

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I'm still thinking about the Sunday night game though,

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and what the Eagles did to the Dolphins.

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Did did you watch that game?

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Oh? Yeah, yep. I was texting

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with one of my friends who's a writer, who is

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a huge Eagles fan, and

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the difference in our emotion, like me having

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watched the Bills game earlier in the day and him

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currently watching the Eagles game. I mean, it was

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it was. They were very good. It

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was it was like strength, they were speed,

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and.

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It was.

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Your friend's a writer. What's he writing?

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And he writes for NFL writing, He works

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at ESP Nation. What's his name,

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Ben Nathan?

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What's up? Ben? You gotta read

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his stuff here. All along, I thought you were my buddy

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and that you and I are the ones texting, And now you've got

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this other side. Check Ben Nathan at esp

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Nation that you're texting.

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It's like finding out your wife is as

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a whole other thing going on with some other guy

2:03

in the same exact line of work.

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All right here, I got a workshop my takes

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before I bring them.

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I got it.

2:07

I gotta be ready.

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I got it. I got it. And if I start seeing my takes

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on Ben Nathan's by the

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Eagles win was huge

2:19

and they'll continue to roll and we'll

2:21

see them in the playoffs. On this thing, I wanted to use

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the Eagles as a Peg because I

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made the comment on Good Morning Football on Monday morning,

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like, my big takeaway from that game

2:30

is that AJ Brown is an absolute force

2:34

and this dude is a is

2:36

a beast, and in

2:38

a world where my kid

2:40

wants to be Tyreek Hill for Halloween

2:43

and his friend wants to be Justin Jefferson

2:45

because he does the gritty and Tyreek does celebrate.

2:47

Like AJ Brown's as good as both those

2:49

guys this year, if not the best wide receiver

2:51

in all of football. And the

2:53

stat that came out since he had like

2:56

a little sideline blow up on

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what was that a Thursday night game against

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the Vikings, he and Jalen Hurts were, you

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know, going back and forth. He's had

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one hundred and twenty five yards or more in every single

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game. That's five straight games.

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And the stat that ESPN was showing

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it was first NBC, but then ESPN

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all day yesterday on Instagram and it was made

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the rounds that he and Calvin Johnson

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are the only receivers this century

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to go for one hundred and twenty five

3:23

yards or more five straight games.

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Now, I am going to take ninety

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nine percent of the credit here, but one percent of

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this did come from a Twitter follower

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who sent this to me and was

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like, you need a nickname

3:37

for aj Brown whatever he's got,

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and to use the word John in

3:41

the nickname. I thought of it and

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I went with it on the air. Mega John,

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Mega John.

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I like that a lot. That's very good.

3:54

So the stat that came up was the only two

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players to go for one

3:58

twenty five or more and five straight games was

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Mega John and Megatron

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okay, which then led

4:06

my beautiful mind, crazy brain,

4:09

sick, neurotic, where the hell does

4:11

my brain go to? The Are they

4:13

the only guys to do it? So

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I asked my producer and Good Morning Football, nice

4:17

dude named Rich Goldberg. He works out of Mount Laurel,

4:19

New Jersey. I think he's in like

4:22

uh, like he lives at the

4:24

facility because anytime, at any hour I'm

4:26

texting him. He's like deep in the NFL film's

4:29

archives, like going through tape. And I said,

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is there anyone else who did this? Because it keeps on saying

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since two thousands, since two thousands, So who did

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it in ninety nine and ninety eight? And

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the answer was

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Pat stud Still did it in nineteen

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sixty six. I said,

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who the is Pat stud Still.

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So I I'm like, we gotta

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do a deep dive. Who is Pat

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stud Still? I don't know. I know Lance Alworth,

4:55

I know Jerry Rice, I know Steve Largin,

4:58

I know Randy Maws. I

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even I could tell you a lot about Ernest Givens

5:03

and Curtis Duncan and Webster Slaughter. I mean,

5:05

do so many names. Rob Moore on

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the Cardinals had some good year, Ricky prol on the Cardinals,

5:10

ZERI we can go through all

5:12

of the most random wide receiver big

5:14

breakout seasons, from Tory Holt to Aza

5:17

Quem to Isaac Bruce to Rod

5:19

Smith. Let we go to that. My brain works that way.

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Stud Still I did not know that name.

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I'd never heard of that name. So I'm like, who

5:26

is Pat stud Still? So

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we start doing some research. Let

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me tell you about Pet stud Still. This is

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how most podcasts start. In week eight

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at twenty twenty three, they say, let's go into a

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Pet stud Still deep dive. Studstill

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was an undrafted player out of Houston

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goes to the Detroit Lions, where he is

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primarily a kick and punt returner

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for the first several years of his career. Nineteen

5:50

sixty six, he goes and has

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one of the great wide receiver seasons of all

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time. And this is back when they used to have

5:57

the you know, the goalpost at the front of

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the end zone and they would play like twelve

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games. Sixty six stud still

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went for sixty seven catches twelve

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in sixty six yards, which is like, you

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know, it's like in today the milk. The price

6:11

of milk, you know, back then was

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straight down, so now it's all that The equivalent

6:16

is like if a guy randomly I didn't know where this

6:18

year, came out and had like two hundred catches and four thousand

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yards, Like that's what the numbers were for pet

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studs still, so I'm like,

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what the hell? Like who what did

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it?

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For?

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The Lions? Like a bad Lions team. He had a

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ninety nine yard catch in that game, So

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I'm like, all right, So what was the rest of his career? Heard

6:34

his hamstring didn't do

6:36

much. The rest of his career at wide receiver was

6:38

kind of irrelevant. But in

6:42

sixty six, in addition to being the punt

6:44

returner and the kick returner, he

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picked up punting duties for

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the Detroit Lions and was their full time punter.

6:51

This wasn't the thirties when guys played both

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ways or the forties where it's like we have seven

6:56

running backs and a million dollar backfa year old. This

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is like late sixties, like

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Lombardi was coaching and Hank Stram was coaching,

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like this was like relevant. He was the team's

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number one wi receiver and their full time

7:08

punter. So

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that was sixty six. They trade him

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to the Rams. He then goes and has

7:15

six more years in his NFL career just as a punter.

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I'm like, who the hell is this guy? Why has that

7:20

not been a documentary on Pat stud Still?

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This is incredible. Led the league in punts,

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led the league in punts yardage, like the

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stat that's crazy. Sixty two

7:28

he leads the NFL and punt return yards,

7:31

sixty six, leads the NFL in receiving

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yards, and then in like sixty seven,

7:35

he leads the NFL in most punts. Was

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a two time pro bowler. Eventually

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retires in seventy one, and

7:43

then Aaron because this is just

7:45

Pat stud Still and who he is. Then

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he goes on to become

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a very successful actor and

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he's in Dukes of Hazard and he's in two

7:55

hundred different commercials, not two commercials,

7:57

two hundred different commercials. And in

8:00

nineteen seventy four, Burt Reynolds

8:02

and the guys who put on the original Longest Yard

8:04

movie tapped Pat stud Still

8:06

to work on the movie, and he

8:09

was the guy who did all the technical football

8:11

stuff. He was their guide. So on all

8:13

these sports movies, they'll have a technical guy to

8:15

come on and be like, well, you wouldn't throw the ball that way, and

8:17

the line of scrimmage would actually be a little bit lined

8:20

up this way. The guard would be stud Still

8:22

worked on the set for all those days on

8:24

the Longest Yard production goes

8:27

on, has this awesome acting career. I

8:29

had never heard of Pat stud

8:32

Still. He eventually passed in

8:34

twenty twenty one. I was reading his obituary

8:36

today. They also said he

8:38

was the last guy to resist

8:41

wearing the Ridell face mask, So

8:43

he was wearing one of these old school helmets

8:45

with an old school face mask when the rest of the

8:48

NFL was already moving on in the sixties

8:50

and seventies. I say all this to say the

8:53

following. I've

8:56

seen the docs. I've

8:58

seen the thirty for

9:01

thirties I've seen the Football

9:03

Lives. We know everything you could possibly

9:05

know about Deacon Jones,

9:07

about Tim Brown, about OJ Simpson,

9:10

about Dion Sanders. I

9:13

think we need to executive produce a Pat

9:16

stud Still documentary.

9:19

Aaron, are you in ongoing deep

9:22

on the life of stud Still?

9:24

Yeah. We talk about stud Still as like the

9:26

the origin of positionless

9:29

players. Yeah, we get we get Debo in

9:31

there, we get yeah Hill,

9:34

Yeah, no, I love it. And then then

9:37

after that we force each of them to re

9:39

enact Dukes of Hazzard scenes too, to

9:41

just show out. I mean, I can't believe to

9:44

do those different positions and

9:46

then also break into acting.

9:48

Is that's a wild ride?

9:50

Yeah? Well, the big story out of Kansas

9:52

City this past week was a little mentioned in Dave

9:54

tab the Special Teams coordinators press conference

9:57

that you know with Tommy Townsend hurt. Pat

9:59

Mahomes is our backup hunter, and it was like, oh

10:01

my god, dude, this guy

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was returning punts, returning kicks,

10:05

playing why receiver and he was also in sixty

10:07

six. He was their full time punter. So he's leading

10:10

the NFL and receiving cards and was the best

10:12

punter in the sport. Gets hurt, and

10:14

then it was like, all right, I'm not going to play receiver anymore.

10:17

I'll just be a punter. We've probably spent four

10:19

minutes too long on Pat stud Still. But if

10:22

if you're a fan of the season with Peter Schreger,

10:24

you know this is the stuff you're here for. And

10:26

it's knowledge like that and

10:29

my quest to learn and

10:31

my desire to become an expert on things

10:33

like Pat stud Still. That

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makes me a wonderful contestant on

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Jeopardy, Aaron, can I talk about it one

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more time if the listeners didn't watch or

10:43

listen last week, I am appearing

10:45

on Celebrity Jeopardy this week and it's airing

10:47

on Wednesday, October twenty fifth

10:50

at eight pm Eastern. It is on ABC,

10:52

it is in prime time. I am a

10:54

contestant. It is of the celebrity

10:56

version. We discussed the

10:59

celebrity aspect of it last week. How uncomfortable

11:01

I am with that word, and yet I will wear

11:03

it because it got me onto

11:05

the show. I would have never been able to compete with the actual

11:08

people who are on Jeopardy. I'm not smart enough for that. But

11:10

the celebrities, they are dumb, so I

11:12

can. I can compete with celebrities.

11:16

When you're busy looking in the mirror most

11:18

of your life and not searching Wikipedia

11:20

and reading encyclopedias, you can get

11:22

on celebrity Jeopardy.

11:25

So I competed. We recorded in

11:27

August. I have not revealed anything.

11:29

I was wavering. I was like, do

11:32

I go big and talk about it or do I

11:34

just let it kind of appear. We talked about it last week. I've

11:36

gotten so many responses, people being blown away. I

11:38

posted a photo on my Twitter feed

11:41

of me at the Jeopardy podium.

11:45

What do you call it? A podium? Were like, and

11:49

I showed how I wrote my name and I went

11:51

capslock first

11:54

name. A couple of people were like, how do

11:56

you not go shregs? How do you not go

11:58

Schrager? That's what people call you. Went

12:01

with Peter in capslocks. It's

12:04

the name my parents gave me. And

12:06

I'll say this, we're twenty four hours

12:08

from it airing or about that. We're recording this

12:10

on Tuesday. It's

12:13

a showdown, bro. It goes

12:15

to the wire and it is epic

12:17

and it's one of the best episodes that program. And it's

12:19

one hundred years I've ever had, very

12:22

proud of not only myself, but my two contestants,

12:25

my opponents. They all did very well. It

12:27

would be Mira Sorvino, who I have not spoken

12:29

to since, and Adam Rodriguez, who

12:31

I have not spoken to since. That's blood,

12:34

bro, That's what it is like. Once you we left

12:36

it on the field. I honestly I

12:38

thought walking out of that that they I'm like, all

12:40

right, these where the three of us are gonna be connected for life,

12:43

Like we're gonna have store. I haven't talked to either

12:45

one of them since, so maybe after the show

12:47

airs, we'll rekindle the magic

12:49

and the chemistry we had on the show. But it's an

12:51

hour long. It's

12:53

Celebrity Jeopardy. If you've watched, there

12:55

is not only regular Jeopardy

12:57

and Double Jeopardy, there's Triple Jeopardy, so

12:59

there's three different portions of it, and

13:02

then there's Final Jeopardy. I

13:05

think I'll save some of the recap stuff

13:07

till next week. I will just say this, it's

13:10

the coolest thing I ever got to do professionally.

13:12

And I've been on the field at Super Bowls and

13:14

I've interviewed everyone from Tom Brady to Patrick

13:16

Mahomes, and I've gotten to meet

13:18

crazy, cool and interesting people being

13:21

at that that set

13:24

which they also film Wheel

13:26

of Fortune next door, which I didn't even know, like

13:28

Merv Griffin birthed them both. I guess like they're

13:31

they're in that same studio.

13:34

Childhood memories and memories

13:36

of all the you know, great hours

13:39

of my college days spent on the couch

13:41

but watching Jeopardy. But then

13:43

also like the celebrity Jeopardy

13:46

spoofs on Saturday Live with Will Ferrell

13:48

and Norm McDonald and you know, all

13:50

of it, it all comes flashing back, so very

13:53

cool emotional experience and

13:56

also just an awesome, awesome

13:59

thing to say I have done.

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And especially because last week you were saying how as

14:04

a kid you would be sitting at the dining room table

14:06

watching Jeopardy with your

14:08

family.

14:09

I wish kitchen table, table,

14:11

kitchen. There was no dining room that we dined.

14:13

At, Sorry New York. Yeah, it's

14:15

the same.

14:15

Thing, kitchen, kitchen, table

14:18

with a little TV free Old New Jersey, and

14:20

it was my dad would walk in the door like six

14:22

fifty seven, we'd sit down, there'd

14:25

be like a slice of candle lope we'd eat

14:27

that. You probably have some London broil,

14:29

and then it's oh, yeah, we've started

14:31

a little Candleope, maybe a little grapefruit I

14:34

can get.

14:34

That's it.

14:35

That's a little starter there. And

14:37

then we would watch Jeopardy for a half hour, and then

14:39

my brother and I would scurry off into like

14:41

another room and say three your computer.

14:44

Yeah, playing in the computer. That's what we do. Uh.

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Wednesday night, October

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twenty fifth, eight

14:50

pm Eastern Celebrity

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Jeopardy And now, with no further

14:55

ado, our guests for the for the

14:57

episode, I'm I don't know

14:59

where it's going to go. I'm recording this

15:02

whole thing live. We're gonna get the guest on in a second.

15:04

So I don't know if he's a big personality. If he's a

15:06

big personality, but I need to know more about

15:08

Tyson Bagent, who I'm

15:11

just starting to scratch the surface on. And

15:14

I got his head coach from his college

15:16

days on the podcast. The

15:19

Great Ernie McCook is joining us

15:21

right after this, all

15:27

right, So I spent Sunday afternoon watching

15:29

the Bears and Raiders game, and I'm

15:31

watching Tyson beagent, an undrafted

15:34

rookie free Agent out of Shepherd

15:37

in West Virginia Division two school,

15:40

become the first quarterback to

15:42

be an undrafted rookie at a Division two

15:44

to win a game since nineteen

15:47

fifty. And I'm reading

15:49

everything I can possibly read about the guy because

15:51

I'm fascinated about his path and his journey,

15:54

and time and time again, I'm reading awesome quotes

15:56

and awesome stories and

15:58

great encouragement from his college coach,

16:01

the great Ernie McCook out of Shepherd.

16:03

So what we're doing the podcast this week? I'm like, what's the story

16:05

of the week, what's it's I'm asking Aaron,

16:07

who should we talk about? What if he's kept down?

16:09

Coming up? Tyson Pagent, Tyson Bagent, Tyson

16:12

Vagent. So with no further ado, let's

16:14

get his college coach on the podcast,

16:16

Ernie McCook. Welcome to the season with Peter Schrager.

16:19

Man.

16:19

Peter, it's great to be with you today, and we're

16:21

going to talk about probably two of my favorite things,

16:23

Sheppard University football and Tyson

16:26

Beaging.

16:26

Let's start with Shepherd University

16:29

football. So you're a coach for a few years

16:31

now. You had

16:33

history with this program before bouncing around

16:35

a little bit and then coming back to the school,

16:38

what is Shepherd University? And

16:40

I'm not being insulting as an NFL

16:42

guys being out of it. Where are you guys

16:44

enrollment all the stuff? And then sure,

16:47

what has this done for the program?

16:49

Yeah? Our address is West Virginia.

16:51

The campus sits right on the banks of the Potomac

16:54

River. We're literally from

16:56

one end of a football field to the other end

16:58

of the football field from the state of Maryland.

17:00

We're hour and fifteen minutes out of Washington,

17:03

DC and hour and fifteen minutes out of Baltimore.

17:06

So we are able to recruit as

17:08

you're probably familiar with the DMV. Yeah,

17:11

we recruited from Richmond to Baltimore

17:13

off that ninety five corridor. And

17:15

we want to recruit in state to be especially

17:17

locally in state. And

17:19

we've had a lot of opportunities

17:22

to track some really good football players

17:25

along with Tyson Beaging. You know, we've

17:28

had some really guys that have gone

17:30

on and done some really good things playing

17:34

at the next level, but nobody

17:36

has had quite the first

17:38

game like Tyson had on Saturday

17:40

versus the Raiders.

17:42

And no one is invited to the Senior

17:44

Bowl, and you had multiple guys invited to the Senior Bowl

17:46

last year, and I know you were there and you brought a whole

17:49

cast of guys down there to Mobile. We'll

17:52

go backwards and start from the start with

17:54

Jijan, but I think just just that experience

17:56

when you go to the Senior Bowl out of Division

17:59

two school and Jim Nagy, who runs that thing, gives

18:01

you guys the call. I loved it because I

18:03

heard it. I was listening to an interview I do my reaching for the podcast.

18:06

You had about four different coaches with you. Guys were

18:08

finding your way to the field. You're going to support your guy,

18:11

Yeah, did you have any doubt

18:13

that he would be able to light it up and do just fine

18:15

against that Division one talent?

18:16

Well, I got to tell you a story about when Jim Naggy

18:18

called me. Right. So, I'm

18:22

sitting right here in my office, it's probably eight

18:24

or nine o'clock at night, and you

18:26

know what, I take it back. It was the

18:28

call for Joey Fisher, the second guy

18:31

to get called up. So

18:33

I see this Arizona phone

18:35

number and I'm thinking, man, it's probably Scout wanting

18:37

to come to practice. So I get him a

18:39

call back. He goes, Hey, he

18:42

said this, Jim Naggy is Senior Bowl coach.

18:44

I just wanted to tell you we're going to invite

18:46

Joey Fisher to join Tyson

18:49

Baiging at the Senior Bowl. And

18:51

he goes, just so you know, this will be the first time

18:53

in the history we think of the Senior Bowl that

18:56

will have had two Division two players

18:58

from the same team being playing

19:00

the same game. And so

19:03

then he kind of he said, I

19:06

kind of took it all in and I said, you know, Jim, you're

19:08

gonna make me have to come to this game. Yeah,

19:11

and then he was like, You're not gonna come just

19:13

for Tyson. And then I thought about

19:15

how bad that sounded on you

19:18

too, and yeah, I mean it takes

19:20

two. You got to take two of my guys,

19:23

and that's not true. But so

19:26

I was really excited at that point, and I

19:28

thought, Jim Naggy, you know, if you think about

19:30

Tyson's kind of climb. Uh,

19:33

he took the first real shot on Tyson Baging

19:36

given him an opportunity to play in the Senior Bowl.

19:39

You know, there's a lot of great quarterbacks out there.

19:41

He went out on a limb and took a Division

19:43

two guy, and I think Tyson

19:45

played extremely well in that game. Uh,

19:48

it was it was a lot of fun. We're sitting in the staff

19:50

meeting. We're a low budget football team, Pier all

19:52

right, So where we're in the

19:55

staff meeting and we we

19:57

have some recruiting things going on, and

20:00

I tell I tell our coaches like, Hey,

20:02

I'm going to go to the Senior Bowl, but I'm going to drive.

20:05

So we drove Westford, Gia to Mobile,

20:08

right and I

20:10

said, we'll pay the football

20:12

pay for the hotel room and the rental car.

20:15

You guys are on your own for your meals and drinks.

20:17

And we had five

20:19

people volunteer, so we loaded up in the suv.

20:23

We made the trip down to Mobile and

20:26

of course being able to watch Tyson practice

20:28

on the field there at South Alabama

20:31

with all the other guys. That was awesome.

20:35

And it was the Senior Bowl, I think is one

20:37

of the greatest events you could be a part of. And

20:40

that may have been as a proud of moment I had

20:43

having a chance to see Mike get our

20:45

guy, our guy, and the

20:47

Senior Bowl represent Sheppard University

20:49

with the ram Horns on and

20:51

playing what I think is the most prestigious college

20:54

All Star game there is.

20:55

Oh, it absolutely is. Let's go way back,

20:57

though, because it's not a

20:59

necessarily it's it's a great Division two program,

21:02

but it's not an NFL hotbed. So you're the

21:04

coach here when you start recruiting Tyson

21:08

out of what's the town he's from.

21:09

It's in West Virginia, Martinsburg High

21:12

School, and here in West Virginia about seven

21:14

miles.

21:14

Away, so it's close. It's in your backyard.

21:16

He's probably this high school star. Like, how's that recruitment

21:18

process going? Did you know when he was a junior

21:20

and senior that this kid could have a future.

21:22

Absolutely even better than that.

21:24

I've known. I've watched Tyson grow up. Our

21:27

families go to church together, and

21:29

I will tell you from the time he

21:31

played for the Charlestown Razorbacks.

21:34

Okay, I'd be sitting

21:36

in the pew, him and his dad would walk

21:38

by, w we're going up for communion, and

21:41

he would nudge me he's going to be

21:43

the man at Shepherd one day. You know, if you get

21:45

a chance to talk to Travis, he'll

21:47

tell you. And one time he told what he used to

21:49

tell me, You're going to build a bronze statue

21:52

of Tyson one day, and of course you're

21:54

in church, You're like, hey, that's awesome. Maybe

21:56

great.

21:57

You know, you know he's ten years old, eleven

21:59

years old at the time. Yeah, he was.

22:01

Probably eleven years old and just slinging around

22:03

Charlestown and everything like that. But you

22:05

know, having known their family and

22:08

watch Tyson grow up, he

22:10

is a special, special person man.

22:13

He is something I just can't

22:15

say enough great things about him as a human

22:17

being. I mean, just as a man. We're

22:20

going through the recruiting process and

22:23

you know, I knew that he was a division

22:25

I thought he was a division

22:27

one guy FBS, and

22:30

we're kind of going through it.

22:32

I'm thinking he's going to get something. But

22:34

if he doesn't get something, you know, he'll

22:36

have a spot with us if this is what he wants.

22:39

And the only offers he

22:41

really got were SCS offers.

22:44

He got an FCF Albany and

22:46

I want to say Robert Morris and

22:48

some other D two's and stuff like that. Well,

22:52

in twenty fifteen we played for a national championship,

22:55

and so I think he just looked

22:57

at it and said, hey, I get a chance

23:00

to stay at home play highly

23:02

competitive football at the Division two level.

23:05

I get a chance playing in front of family and friends.

23:08

Like his grandfather, God Rest his soul passed

23:10

away last year, was really close to him. He

23:12

would sit in the stands and watch practice. His

23:15

dad would come and watch practices. I

23:17

mean, it's just a family

23:19

affair here for the beagents at

23:21

Shepherd University playing football here

23:24

and Tyson, I can tell you he'd

23:27

sent me a text. I texted him after

23:29

the game this weekend and he

23:32

and I said, hey, man, we're proud of you. We watched

23:34

the game as a team, and he

23:36

goes, he said, hey, thanks to a support

23:38

coach really appreciated. I love

23:41

Shepherd football, you know. And

23:43

it was just like here's a guy playing at a high

23:45

level, achieving some of the goals

23:47

that you know, dreams, dreams that we

23:49

all have, and he still

23:51

has love for this program that he

23:54

was a part of and an instrumental part

23:56

of where we are today. So

23:58

that, I mean, that was that was kind of a

24:01

cool deal.

24:01

When you get when you get this guy in there, he

24:04

come like, give me some of the exploits, because

24:06

how you get to the Paul Bunyan tall tail.

24:09

Was it just all right, here we go. This is Steve

24:11

McNair at Alcorn or one of these types of guys

24:13

at a different level of school.

24:15

Just tear it up the league.

24:17

Well, you know what his first game it

24:19

was against Nerdame College. Okay, it

24:21

was a true freshman and Julia McLoughlin,

24:23

the running back at with the Broncos.

24:25

Right now goes yeah, Youngstown State, sure, Well

24:28

before.

24:28

That he was at Nerdame College. Him

24:30

and Tyson, both their college stars,

24:32

were in the same game. I

24:34

think Julil rushed for almost three hundred

24:36

yards. Tyson threw for five hundred

24:39

yards. Two guys that right

24:41

now are are up and coming guys are

24:44

had shows some things in the NFL. When

24:46

recruiting Tyson, I can tell you

24:48

his dad. His dad's hardcore.

24:50

Now his dad is arm

24:53

wrestling champion, the arm.

24:54

Wrestling champion, the whole deal. Yeah,

24:57

we're going through the process of the recruiting

24:59

before he commits to US. I told you I go to church

25:01

with him. Here's a fun story for you. So

25:04

Christmas Eve, my family and I were getting

25:06

late. Okay, so there's only

25:08

a couple of seats in the back of the church right

25:11

and my family and I slide into the pew, and

25:14

of course I'm I'm a football coach, and

25:16

I want to recruit Tysonvaging even on

25:19

Christmas Eve at church all right, because

25:21

he's he was an All state player, He's the best player in

25:23

state West Virginia. And so

25:25

I'm looking around. I'm looking for

25:27

where he's at, where he normally sits, the whole

25:29

deal. And then I look up, you know,

25:31

we're up for a hymnal and I see

25:34

where him and his dad are sitting. And

25:36

then I see right behind the pew

25:38

is empty. There's nobody sitting in the pew

25:40

right behind him. So without

25:42

even I didn't try and even tell my wife

25:44

anything, I just walked out of arm keew.

25:47

Let's go. Yeah.

25:47

I walked around, went right down the middle of

25:50

the church, and our

25:53

pastor, our priest, was like, I was

25:55

wondering what you did until you sat down. You

25:57

know, he goes, what the hell? He was probably like, what is

25:59

Ernie doing walking up here to the altar? But

26:02

no, I was walking in. I slid right in

26:04

behind Tyson and his dad, Travis, put

26:06

my arm around him both, and I said,

26:09

hey, God, meant for us to be together. And

26:13

so then he and so his dad

26:15

without missing a beat, said

26:18

hey man, it's about time you got here. We've been saving that ce

26:20

for you for twenty minutes.

26:21

Let's go. It's so good.

26:24

That was a lot of fun with that. I

26:26

tell that story quite a bit, so, you

26:29

know, back to the serious part. So Tyson

26:31

commits. So he signs with us his

26:33

senior year in high school, wearing our spring practices.

26:36

Right, we have fifteen spring practices.

26:39

Tyson is standing behind the offensive

26:41

huddle for every practice.

26:44

He would he was at.

26:45

As a high school senior.

26:47

As a high school senior knowing I'm coming

26:49

to Sheppard University, I know I'm

26:51

going to play and I'm going to compete to be the

26:53

quarterback, and he was taking

26:55

it all in. He was he was doing everything

26:57

he could do to learn, and so

27:00

he's ready when he would get to camp in

27:02

August. And

27:05

the guy is absolutely nomenal with

27:07

his work ethic and his competitiveness.

27:09

He's somebody that you know won I

27:11

can tell you Chicago Bears, the fan

27:14

base, they will be proud that

27:16

that dude is a Bear. He's going to give

27:18

everything he can to help that team win.

27:21

And I think I told somebody

27:23

else an interview. If he's on their practice

27:25

squad, all right, he's going to give

27:27

the best look for the

27:30

Justice. He's going to be the best Justin Herbert.

27:32

Yeah, but for this weekend that the

27:34

Bears defense will see and tell you see Justin Herbert,

27:38

you know. But the fact that I think he worked

27:40

his way into being the backup

27:43

and he prepares like

27:45

nobody else does. After

27:47

OTA's this year and the summertime

27:50

we get back. His first day back,

27:52

we were having our program, our team

27:54

golf outing, so he played in

27:56

it. He came and played in it with a

27:58

couple of his teammates and

28:01

my son was who's coaching

28:03

with us now. He and Tyson were roommates. They're

28:06

really close friends. So he said,

28:08

hey, Michael, I need you to guarantee

28:11

you'll be with me at every workout. So

28:13

Michael would go to the workouts with him, but

28:16

Peter, they would practice, Michael

28:19

would read the script to him through the

28:22

cell phone into his ear the long

28:24

play call. He would then

28:26

be out in the middle of our football field in the

28:28

stadium, just the two of them, by himself. He

28:31

would walk into an imaginary huddle,

28:33

do the play call, walk up to the

28:35

line of scrimmage, put people in motion,

28:38

practice the checks, everything like that.

28:40

He did it in June and

28:43

July. I did it for six weeks.

28:45

So we got one hundred degree weather in the middle of

28:47

West Virginia in July,

28:49

and your son his former

28:51

wide receiver in his roommate.

28:53

It was a fool back, guy back.

28:55

Whatever it is. Sorry, I'm making up history because I'm trying

28:57

to do the movie script in my head. He plays

28:59

he plays a wide out in the movie. He

29:02

calls on a cell phone from

29:04

where's your son? Is he there with the Is he

29:07

like in the stands?

29:07

Whereas no, he's standing on the sideline. So

29:09

just like like so he would have a

29:12

script right now out here like this, and

29:14

he would go.

29:15

As if he has the helmet, oh.

29:17

Yeah, like Deuic's right.

29:19

Yeah, he's reading Luke Getzi's

29:21

playbook. He's got the Bear's playbook.

29:23

He's got to play a bear's play call. So what he's

29:25

doing is he is simulating

29:29

the mental preparation of

29:31

the length of a play call, because the play

29:33

calls are unbelievably long.

29:35

Sure, yeah, And then like you know, and.

29:37

I'm you know, talking to Tyson and all I'm

29:39

learning a bunch of myself, like the different

29:42

checks, how they're checking things, the things they look

29:44

for. And but

29:47

when a guy is doing that, think

29:49

about this one for a second. You're an undrafted

29:52

free agent. You don't even know if

29:54

you're going to make the team.

29:55

You know, unlikely you would, Yeah.

29:58

Especially at the quarterback puisition. He

30:00

goes and he's doing

30:03

this all summer long. So if

30:06

my son went to the beach on family

30:08

vacation, they did it by telephone,

30:11

right, And so your son.

30:13

Is at the beach being like a

30:15

slug o snake, right, name

30:17

call, and Tyson's on an empty field

30:19

in the middle of West Virginia just going through

30:21

the Yeah.

30:22

And then when Tyson went to the beach, he

30:25

would go probably go out on the beach and practice

30:27

it, through with it. He did this religiously,

30:31

you know. So the guy is

30:33

a film room junkie. I

30:35

to you know, I read the social media. But one

30:38

of the one of the Chicago stations asked me

30:40

who I thought he was, Like, who do you

30:42

think you know? And everybody wants you to say Tom

30:44

Brady, They want you to say Brock

30:47

Party, they want you. They want that, right,

30:50

they want that to me. From what

30:52

I've learned and studying football, Tyson

30:55

beagent is Drew Brees

30:58

go on because the reputation

31:00

Drew Brees has for the

31:03

tireless film study, the unbelievable

31:05

work ift that you have to prepare

31:08

for any situation that you get. That's

31:10

who Tyson Beaging is. He

31:13

will prepare and work. He's

31:15

going to physically train his body. When he talked

31:17

about shredding life way and crossfitfit,

31:20

yeah, that's one hundred percent accurate. Like,

31:23

if you're ever in this area, you

31:25

need to come visit Shepard University

31:27

because behind our locker room, his

31:30

high school history teacher has

31:32

got it lives back there, right, and

31:34

they have a man cave

31:37

CrossFit training that they do.

31:40

I mean it's like all natural, like

31:42

you're taking a log and your bench press

31:44

on a log fifty times. Then you're running

31:46

to the river with a weighted backpack and

31:48

back and this they

31:51

do. That's the kind of stuff he does. They

31:53

they they hollowed out We're right

31:55

on the banks of the Potomac River. Tyson

31:58

and his roommates hollowed

32:01

out a stream

32:04

for to make it a cold bath.

32:06

A homemade cold tub, a homemade.

32:08

Cold tub on the Potomac River, and they

32:11

they would go down there in February.

32:14

I mean, we're not talking July where

32:16

they're pulling off. They're going down there and

32:19

really going through it. I mean, just

32:21

the things, like the natural things that

32:23

happen.

32:23

Well, even you mentioning that, you know, I'm thinking about Alabama

32:26

and LSU's facilities in the amount of millions,

32:28

of the fact that it's his high

32:30

school. His high school teacher

32:32

leaves behind the facility and he's I mean, you

32:35

can't make the stuff up.

32:36

You can't. And his high school teacher played

32:38

basketball here, right, Okay,

32:41

saw the Earth guy just a tremendous

32:43

person, human being, And of course he's

32:45

a good hope for us to have because when

32:48

you know, we recruit somebody from the high school, we're

32:50

getting inside scoop on them, you know, like

32:52

what kind of with their hearts, like with their who

32:54

they are inside? And you

32:57

know, of course he the guys that we've gotten

32:59

from Tyson's high school, and because

33:01

of Tyson have been tremendous players

33:03

for us. But like, here's

33:06

an other thing, how competitive Tyson is? All

33:08

Right, So his junior year, the year

33:11

he won the Harlan Hill. Right after

33:13

every practice in

33:15

summer camp, all right, mostly

33:17

of summer camp. You know, we'd be walking

33:20

off the field. Enticon

33:23

are one of our athlete trainers as

33:25

a gymnast, right, and

33:27

they would have a competition, who on

33:30

who could walk on their hands the farthest,

33:33

and they were doing fifty to seventy five

33:35

yards walking on their hands. I

33:38

mean literally, I wish I had video

33:40

of it, you know. And I'm just sitting there thinking,

33:42

and I can't tell the dude stop because

33:44

he's just competitive. He's

33:47

not gonna you know, no, I'm not gonna let her

33:49

beat me. And you know, but she's

33:52

now an athlete trainer in another school. When

33:54

we talked about it before the game. So, but

33:56

that's who the kid is. I mean he is.

33:58

He is a special guy. He's

34:00

as grounded as grounded

34:03

could be. He has an impeccable

34:05

work ethic. He you know, not

34:07

only was he the best player on our football

34:09

team for five years, he was the best

34:11

teammate, the best

34:13

teammate. You could have never

34:16

wanted anything extra. You know,

34:18

he threw he threw a milestone touchdown,

34:20

right and we're

34:23

at Millersville University and

34:26

he goes, he comes up to me, he goes,

34:28

and this is his junior year. He

34:30

goes, coach, that was like hundred

34:33

touchdown passed. He goes, can

34:36

I have the game ball?

34:37

You know, first time, right?

34:39

And I was like, yeah, you can have whatever you want, tyson,

34:41

but do me a favorite. Just give it to the manager to give

34:43

to your dad, because I don't want to draw a lot of attention

34:46

to giving game balls away because they're seventy millonuns

34:48

apiece.

34:49

You know, we need that money.

34:53

Man.

34:54

That's so good.

34:55

And then that night his dad sent me

34:58

a video of him giving that game ball to

35:00

his grandfather who's passed away. He

35:02

was really close to him.

35:04

Jeez, I'm gonna cry. That's amazing. The

35:07

on the field exploits, I mean, the leadership

35:09

stuff, that's all off the charts. Yeah, was this guy

35:11

tearing up the vision two I you know, obviously we started

35:14

seeing footage, the grainy footage, and we don't even know

35:16

the start of it. You lived it. What was it

35:18

like having him as your quarterback? And what kind of stuff did he do?

35:20

Well? This is a story I'd

35:22

like to tell. His freshman year

35:25

as the starter. All Right, we're playing

35:27

the last game of the season. We're

35:30

seven and two, and we end

35:32

up losing the game. All right, And

35:34

you know we're in a small stadium. You

35:36

can hear people heckling you. You can hear people

35:39

giving you grief. People are yelling

35:41

at the quarterback. You know, you

35:43

know he's taking a sack. I'm wondering why he didnt

35:45

get rid of the ball, Like, what'd you see? Because Coach,

35:47

that was on me. We couldn't

35:49

run the football through this whole

35:51

time. Everybody's pointing fingers.

35:54

But one guy, Tyson Beaging. He

35:56

is a team first guy. He'll

35:59

own everything that happens to the team

36:02

and put it on his shoulders, his back. And

36:04

I realized that that's the kind of we

36:07

have to go and put the best

36:09

players around them we possibly can. And

36:11

that was our goal from there on out. Make

36:13

sure he had the receivers that he needed, the

36:17

O line that We tried to do everything

36:19

we could do to build that team. Every

36:21

team we've had since his freshman year

36:24

around Tyson Baigent and his

36:26

strengths and what he could do. And

36:29

I thought we did a pretty good job of that. We

36:32

were able to win a lot of all games. He

36:34

broke a lot of records, and

36:36

he's done with multiple receivers. The

36:39

guy has an uncanny ability to

36:41

make people around them better. We

36:43

had a receiver going from his

36:46

freshman year had eight catches

36:49

to ninety nine catches the next year because

36:52

he worked all summer with Tyson Baging

36:54

and they had a great connection together.

36:57

So going it's a ninety catch

36:59

difference because Tyson believed

37:01

in them, and he believed in Tyson and

37:04

they were on the same page. I mean, want

37:06

just one of many examples he

37:09

made. He made alignment better, he

37:12

made running backs better, he made tight

37:14

ends better, wide receivers better, he

37:16

made our defense better, the whole deal.

37:18

And it's all game to him too, Like it's a

37:20

competitive everything's a competitive game. We

37:23

do a blitz pick up, right, We

37:25

do like to start practice off once a

37:27

week and a blitz pickup. And he

37:29

just would love to do the dummy cases.

37:31

Get me in there.

37:32

Yeah, he went, he put, he would go, I

37:35

would stay up, he standing right next to him, go ready, and

37:38

then he would look at and go, ah, there you are,

37:40

Mike, Mike six, Mike six,

37:43

and you know, and but it was a it

37:46

was a challenge for him that every

37:48

challenge he wants that he'll he'll

37:50

accept.

37:51

All right, So we go to

37:53

the draft process. Senior Bowl is amazing,

37:56

he plays well, he's with you

37:58

know, he's in front of the Bears staff gets

38:00

he's there, all this stuff. But then the draft

38:02

comes along and he goes undrafted. Was that a great disappointment?

38:05

Were you guys surprised? And I'm sure sure you spoke to thirty

38:07

two NFL teams.

38:08

You know what, I'll tell you what our

38:11

tackle who's on the practice squad

38:13

with the Steelers, Joey Fisher. Yeah,

38:15

and that after that draft

38:17

happened, I mean immediately

38:19

after it ended, I said, if these two, either

38:21

one of these two guys don't get drafted, we'll never get

38:24

in by drafted. Yeah, and that

38:26

that's really how I feel. But I also

38:28

understand, like when you get to the later rounds,

38:30

the sixth and seventh round, sometimes

38:32

you're better being a free agent because you get

38:35

a chance to pick you and your

38:37

agent picked the best spot for you. And

38:41

that's what happened. You know, I think we're

38:43

we're awful. We're fortunate that Tyson

38:46

didn't get drafted, was able to sign that

38:49

free agent deal with the Bears because

38:51

he seems to be in the right place

38:53

at the right time. Obviously, luketzk

38:56

the Bears offensive staff knew who he was

38:58

from the Senior Bowl, had confidence

39:00

in him, and you know,

39:02

I just think he's in I think he's in a good spot.

39:05

Yeah. And to take it full circle,

39:07

in a couple of days, Chris Collinsworth

39:10

and Mike Turrico are going to be saying his name and calling

39:12

it. I mean, is this not surreal? That that that

39:14

that a year ago at this time he was playing with you

39:16

guys going up against Bloomsburg, and now he's

39:19

got you know, Joey Bosa and

39:21

Khalil Mack and Derwin James staring

39:23

down at him with Tarico and Collinsworth on the

39:25

call.

39:25

Well, like I told you, I got a chance to watch

39:28

the first half. You know, we did it as a team

39:30

and before we started our team meeting and

39:34

on Sunday, And I can tell

39:36

you when I watched that game, I kept finding

39:38

out where Crosby was. I was like,

39:40

because I didn't want that dude to get a free shot on my

39:42

guy.

39:43

Yeah.

39:44

Man, I was really impressed with the Bear So I thought they

39:46

did a great job. I thought, you know,

39:48

they Tyson handled his role

39:51

the right way. The running game that

39:53

they had. Uh, the one catch that

39:55

I thought it was DJ Moore had it was a ball

39:57

that was kind of sailing on Tys. I

40:00

thought that he made a great catch. I

40:03

was really happy for Chicago. And

40:05

of course I'm I'm a Bears fan now, so

40:09

I gotta I'm all in with the Bears.

40:11

Sorry, Ravens, it it's not your year.

40:13

Yeah, this is going to be a Bears fan and I am.

40:15

I am a Ravens fan.

40:16

I'm sure you are. I'm sure you are. In

40:20

closing, talk about your school, your

40:22

program, and not only what Tyson has

40:24

brought as far as the national spotlight goes with

40:27

some of the great stuff that you guys are doing. Because this isn't

40:29

a flash in the pen. You guys are winning, franchise,

40:31

winning program. It happened for years.

40:33

Shepherd is a special place. We can

40:35

really attract a lot of really good players

40:38

to come to Shepherd because of the culture

40:40

of our program. You know, we

40:42

battled the portal and division one

40:44

offers with both Joey and Tyson,

40:48

and you know, I know it's my job to create

40:50

a culture where guys don't feel they have

40:52

to leave. They only can leave if it's

40:55

a much better situation for him.

40:58

But you know when I want to you know, we just

41:00

had homecoming last weekend, and

41:02

when you get a chance to look at all the former

41:04

players that come back that you've had opportunity

41:06

to coach, you realize that we

41:09

just have a really good spot here where

41:12

football is important to our administration.

41:15

Football is important to the local area.

41:17

We get tremendous support, like our

41:20

environment for our home football game as the

41:22

two greatest days on our campus our graduation

41:25

in a home football game and graduations

41:27

number two. So I mean,

41:29

it's it's an exciting day on our

41:31

campus when we play at home, and

41:34

we have a tremendous fan base. We have

41:36

a unbelievable access

41:39

to a lot of really good players within a two

41:41

and a half hour raineus of our campus, And

41:44

you know, it's fun for me and I think our coaches

41:47

to work somewhere and coach the game

41:50

where it's important to a lot of people.

41:52

You got Bloomsburg this weekend. Give us a little

41:54

preview on the season with Peter Schreger. We're all going to

41:56

be checking our phones, give us a preview. What have they got?

41:58

Who are you and who are we looking at?

42:00

Well? You know what right now, bloom is

42:03

we're going to be on the road, so it's

42:05

a tough place go play. Uh.

42:08

You know, if you were to look at the tap, if

42:10

you look at just stats and stuff like that,

42:12

you would think it's going to be an easy victory

42:14

for us. It's not. We're

42:16

gonna have to play well. We're gonna

42:18

have to what I'd like to say, make the ordinary

42:20

play extraordinary. You know, they just

42:23

do the little things right the bank things will take

42:25

care of themselves, handle adversity

42:27

when it comes, because we're gonna have some type

42:29

of adversity, and just play with

42:31

each other and don't look at the scoreboard,

42:34

don't look got just play the game and

42:37

make the ordinary play and I think we'll be just

42:39

fine.

42:39

Now I'm gonna tell you something. I'm gonna give

42:42

you some advice here. And this is me as a media

42:44

guy and a big talking head in a New York hot

42:46

shot. You guys finished that game against

42:48

Bloomsburg. Coach, I don't know what

42:51

money you got in the piggy bank. You gotta

42:53

fly out to la, you gotta watch your boy

42:55

in person Sunday night. Can we get there?

42:57

There's no way because we got we got a big one

43:00

the next week, and we're gonna be in the office

43:02

Sunday morning. But but

43:05

my last night, my wife goes, She goes, well,

43:07

I said, it's Sunday night football.

43:09

Well, no, we're

43:12

going to try and hit one one of our seasons over. But she

43:15

was like, we should have a party. I

43:17

said, we can't have a party. No,

43:20

we can't have a party. And she kind

43:22

of says, well, I'll just invite my girlfriend's over. So

43:25

my wife is going to probably have a little watch party

43:27

herself, but everybody

43:29

will be excited. You know. The best thing, Tyson's

43:31

brother, Ezra, is a cool freshman quarterback

43:34

in our program. Really yeah,

43:36

and he had a great career

43:39

in Martinsburg as well, and he's here with

43:41

us. And I called his dad about midweek

43:43

once I realized that Tyson was going to start,

43:46

and I said, hey, make sure you take Ezra out

43:48

there.

43:49

Yeah, missed the game to go. He went

43:51

and did both.

43:52

No, he played the game, played in the game, actually

43:54

got its first college completion

43:56

on Saturday. Let's agent.

43:59

Yeah. And then after the

44:01

game, went to the airport, flew and men his

44:03

parents and family in Chicago and

44:06

was there with Tyson and

44:08

the family and friends.

44:10

I love it.

44:10

Yeah, they're just an awesome

44:12

family and you know what, they're

44:15

easy people to root for. I promise

44:17

you that one.

44:18

So are you, my friend, Ernie. This was so cool,

44:20

Coach Ernie McCook Shepherd

44:23

University. What an amazing

44:25

world when this has been And yet you sound as natural

44:28

and as non surprised as

44:30

it could ever be. It seems like, not to

44:32

get too religious with you, but it feels like this was in

44:34

the stars and you kind of saw this happen in a long

44:36

time ago.

44:37

You know, I truly believe in

44:39

the blessings of life that we have. And

44:41

I do a radio show on Thursday

44:43

nights, and two weeks ago

44:46

it was West Virginia playing Houston

44:48

and I'm sitting there and of course the

44:50

one guy is a West Virginia longe that

44:53

does the radio show, and

44:55

I said, man, there's my favorite West Virginia

44:57

coach of all time. And you

44:59

know that's like sacriligious there if

45:01

it's not don Kneeling, you know, looked

45:04

at me sideways. I said, yeah, Stana Holderson.

45:06

I love that.

45:07

Yeah, yeah, but I said he's my favorite

45:09

because he didn't offer Tyson baiging coming out of high

45:11

school.

45:11

There you go, that's a great way to do it. I was

45:13

like, Dana, he's a good coach. Okay, go on,

45:16

it's yeah, that's a great story. Yeah,

45:18

that's a great story. You're a follow them dude. This

45:20

is awesome, Ernie. Thank you, get

45:22

back to practice. Loved having you on the season.

45:24

Peter Shager, and good luck this weekend against Bloomsburg.

45:26

Thank you very much. It was a lot of fun, Ernie.

45:32

But Cook, I mean, that's that's interesting.

45:35

And when he starts talking about weightlifting

45:38

logs and building

45:40

your own cold tub in twenty twenty one out

45:42

of the shores of the Potomac, like, this is what I'm

45:44

here for.

45:45

That was one hundred percent not what I was doing

45:47

in the woods when I was in high school.

45:49

I can guarantee you that I'm sure.

45:50

No. It was actually college, which is even crazy, like the

45:53

fact that he's in college and he's still

45:55

it's still as like and it's nothing against the Division

45:57

two program. It's not Alabama, it's not Ohio

45:59

State. It's like, go walk on your hands

46:02

and challenge the trainer. I

46:05

want to make it bigger than he it is, maybe because these

46:07

are sophisticated programs and there he won

46:10

the Heisman of the Division two, but like it

46:12

is really, really, really

46:15

big, long shot stuff when you're going from Division

46:17

two undrafted to starting in the NFL and

46:19

on Sunday night. So as much as we saw mister

46:21

Irrelevant last year, brock Birdy was a

46:24

superstar in the state of Arizona and started Iowa

46:26

State for four years, this guy's story is

46:28

way crazier.

46:29

And he won with the Bears.

46:32

I mean, like, it's that just here's a UDFA

46:34

who started a game because of injury.

46:37

It's a UDFA who wound

46:39

up making the team and then took them to

46:41

a victory, which I mean, you

46:43

know, Josh Allen didn't take his team to a

46:45

victory this week, So.

46:46

No, you're right, Sky's the limit

46:48

for him. That was cool. Ernie McCook I like him.

46:51

As we are wrapping up with him, he like it

46:53

was like, here's my Twitter handle. I'm like, yeah, Ernie, let's

46:56

go, let's take the best. We got to maximize

46:58

this moment. Barn They're

47:00

my official Division two teams, So Arizona

47:02

is my official Division one team.

47:04

Checking on Arizona. I know they took USC

47:07

to the wire then I think they won one against Washington

47:10

State. What's Arizona's record? How are we looking

47:12

with Jed Fish's boys. Jed's been a great friend

47:15

of the pod and his clip went crazy viral

47:17

and was a great episode if you go back as a coach

47:19

at Arizona. What do we got?

47:21

Their overall is four and three, they're

47:23

two goal team.

47:25

Who'd they play this past weekend? Or were

47:27

they on the.

47:27

By this past weekend?

47:30

They played Washington State

47:33

and they won forty four to six.

47:35

They won, they lost, they won, they won? Yes,

47:37

I think it was USC.

47:39

Was it two weeks ago?

47:40

The four? Yeah, that's they didn't do anything this weekend?

47:43

They buyed all right? So who do they got this weekend?

47:45

Oregon State?

47:46

Any good? Click on?

47:47

Oregon State? Beavers are six and

47:49

one. They're the eleventh ranked team. So

47:52

Arizona is currently a one score underdog

47:55

versus Oregon State.

47:56

So here's our viewing. Okay, are you ready for this?

48:00

You and I are going to stream Bloomsburg

48:03

Shepherd in the early afternoon.

48:05

We're going to get in on. It're gonna rot for coach McCook.

48:07

We're gonna get some Ezra Bagent fantasy numbers

48:09

up and going. And then I assume

48:12

Oregon State Arizona is one of these late

48:14

night affairs.

48:15

Yeah, we we have plenty of time. The Bloomsburg

48:18

game is at noon and

48:20

uh, Oregon State Arizona is at

48:23

ten thirty pm.

48:24

So I mean that's it retailgate and we're

48:27

getting after it or I'm sure there's other

48:29

stuff in between, but the

48:31

big ones for us, we're gonna book end it with Bloomsburg

48:34

versus Shepherd. I'm going with Shepherd.

48:36

Shepherd big because coach said, you know, on paper,

48:39

we're gonna they look like we're gonna kick their butts. But no,

48:41

no, that means you're gonna kick their ass. We're gonna take Shepard

48:43

and I got Arizona upsetting

48:46

Oregon State late at night? What's

48:48

it on ESPN or Packed twelve network? What do we got

48:50

to say that in network?

48:53

Pack twelve pac twelve? Uh?

48:55

Did you see the clip that was going viral

48:57

of the seedw game that you wudn't c was

48:59

playing Virginia? Do you see that or no, So

49:01

UNC is playing Virginia on the seed W

49:05

and you know they do the inn game

49:07

promos and only so the

49:09

announcer, the play by play

49:12

guy, very seriously, He's like, all right, and it's fourteen seven

49:14

Virginia.

49:15

Are you watching the show f Boy Island?

49:20

And I think James Bates is the color guy

49:22

who I know. And James like, he's

49:25

like, well, everyone else is f

49:27

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49:31

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