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On this BA day, October 21st, 2025, this program begins right now.

Football!

His Maxwell two games, false start on me.

I jumped to start.

That's on me, ladies of German, 47-year football coach. Our coach, BA, is here. Yeah, I see you, Coach, B.A. We appreciate the hell out of you traveling up here every single week. The toxic table is here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt. I see the Celtics ad on Conman. The NBA tips off its regular season today. And guess what? We have Steve Nash joining us. Wow, in about 15 minutes or so. And then we have a 37-minute and 37-second conversation with the NBA Commissioner Adam Silver that we recorded earlier this morning because he's in the middle of traveling for opening tip. There's no way he knew he was signing up for a 40-minute conversation with us. It was basically a state of the NBA. We'll run that in a third hour, although we will run clips of that over the next couple hours. We appreciate him joining us so much. And then obviously, there's a lot of ball to talk about last night. Hey, two Monday night football matchups. How you doing, keep it moving? And the Buccaneers taking on the Lions? What? Let's get a prime time matchup that we could see maybe in a playoffs. This is maybe a team that maybe goes on a run of Wednesday Super Bowl. This is a Monday night football treat. This is a Monday night football joy. Start at 7 o'clock a little bit earlier than usual. That's because we've got a nightcap at 10 p.m. And we'll see how many people survive that one watching this doubleheader? And it's certainly great.

But how about this Buccaneers Lions game coming down to former teammate of ours? Yep. Nine-year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler, defensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions, Kelvin Shep Dog Shepard

leading the boys with a lot of injuries to a

massive night against one of the most

explosive and electrifying offenses in all of NFL on prime time debunk.

Absolutely. Shepdard was getting a lot of love, which he should be. Just grit. You had questions about how they would respond to this team, losing your offensive coordinator, losing your defensive coordinator, both of those guys going to be head coaches. And Shepdaw did this thing, man. You got a bunch of injured guys out there. Arthur Millett stepped up with that unbelievable interception. Not everybody up here agrees that it was an interception. I think it was an interception in the great play on reviews. It reviews kind of one of the game changing moments in

this game bucks hung around and hung around in the first half i thought this would still come down to

the wire but the lions ended up getting it done jameer gives he is phenomenal on the offensive

side of the ball i mean we got it's kind of a resurgence of like running backs we got obviously

be jean jimac all these these guys, Jonathan Taylor doing his thing,

but he is unbelievable. Sonic into Sonic and Knuckles, getting the ball, broke away early, had a big-time run, was big-time in the air as well as a receiver, which he does week-in-week-in-week-out. Montgomery didn't have that big of an impact, but this guy right here, you can ride number zero. Jared golf still slinging it taking care of the

ball making plays down the field St. Brown broke the game open early with their big time test

down so the star showed up for the Detroit Lions who was a lot of talk about who wouldn't be there

but when these guys showed up at home and they showed out we were all kind of surprised about the

spread going into this game six and a half points but they showed us kind of early that why they put it there and why they'll be there at the end of the road. Yeah, six, seven points was a sprayer. So six seven points was. Ford Field, real home field advantage felt like, honestly. Big telling you. With what happened to that Buccaneers' offense, it felt like the defense was haunting. And obviously, you just mentioned it there. The conversation was about who wasn't there.

Jack Campbell is awesome. This guy's great. White side learned about him last night because they showed him. This guy's undrafted last year or whatever comes in, makes a massive plays for him. There's a bunch of players just all over the place that Detroit Lions team that we're being kind of introduced to. And on the offensive side, Jemir Gibbs is so fast.

This guy's unbelievable. The number zero looks so cool. Sick. I was kind of on the fence about adding zero into it. And then you see a guy running 35 miles an hour on Monday night football. And it's like, wait a minute, I think I like the number zero. Now let's talk about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers side of this entire thing. Obviously, we thought it was a big spread because how much we respect the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Mike Evans was back. Mike Evans gets hurt in the game last night. They said something about his colorbone. He's going to be out. So that breaks the streak that has been an incredible run of a thousand yards receiving, going and going. He breaks his collarbone, gets a concussion. He leaves, which is obviously not fun, but Baker Mayfield playing. This team was ready to roll, it felt like, for a playoff push throughout the beginning of this season. They're getting healthier as opposed to getting, you know, more decimated with injuries like they were at the beginning of the year. Coach B.A., obviously, you won a Super Bowl down there.

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