Episode Details

It’s officially Zoo Week, and tonight Mike, Rudy and Pelón are spending the night at the San Antonio Zoo’s Spekboom Lodge. More importantly, the results are in from the first weekend of ITB football picks. Rudy wins the tiebreaker and claims the only king-size bed, leaving Mike and Pelón to figure out the rest of the sleeping arrangements.

Before heading to the zoo, the guys have plenty to get into. The Cowboys’ defense has Mike already looking at Washington as an enormous early-season game, the Panthers spark a debate about how athletes should act after a loss, and Sean Payton’s decision to hand over play-calling duties gets questioned after Denver’s ugly night. Then things get weird with a potential Schottenheimer Halloween costume, a $50 million judgment involving Floyd Mayweather’s daughter, Jason Kelce fatigue, James Franklin getting punched and the growing controversy involving Robert Kraft and Macklemore.

Topics Covered:

• Rudy wins the king-size bed for the San Antonio Zoo sleepover
• Mike and Pelón are officially relegated to the other sleeping options
• Brian Schottenheimer’s marker-filled visor inspires a possible Halloween costume
• Cowboys injuries to DeMarvion Overshown and Malik Hooker
• Why Cowboys-Commanders already feels enormous for Dallas
• Dak Prescott and the pressure on the Cowboys offense
• How should professional athletes act immediately after a bad loss?
• Panthers players playing ping pong after giving up 60 points
• James Harden, Tim Duncan and past examples of athletes moving on after losses
• Sean Payton giving up play-calling duties in Denver
• Chiefs-Broncos and the football picks tiebreaker
• Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and a Tom Cruise appearance
• Floyd Mayweather’s daughter and the $50 million judgment discussed on the show
• Mike Taylor BBQ needs judges for the October 17 event
• The new People I Want to Punch production makes its debut
• Rudy punches the companies putting Jason Kelce everywhere
• Mike punches James Franklin over his exchange with a Baltimore Sun reporter
• Robert Kraft bars Macklemore from upcoming Gillette Stadium concerts
• Macklemore’s comments about Israel and Palestine and Kraft’s response
• The guys discuss free speech, consequences and entertainers facing backlash
• Friday editions of In the Building move to Members Only
• Thursday’s show goes live from the San Antonio Zoo

Key Moments:

• King Rudy has been crowned. The football picks end in a 3-3 tie between Mike and Rudy, but the tiebreaker gives Rudy the king-size bed at Spekboom Lodge.
• Mike considers dressing as Brian Schottenheimer for Halloween, complete with the now-infamous visor loaded with markers and pens.
• The Panthers locker-room controversy turns into a bigger discussion about whether fans expect athletes to look miserable after losses, and whether staying loose can actually help keep a team together.
• After Dallas’ defensive disaster, the guys believe the Cowboys badly need to beat Washington with Baltimore and Houston looming afterward.
• Rudy’s People I Want to Punch isn’t really Jason Kelce himself. It’s all the companies throwing money at Kelce and putting him seemingly everywhere.
• Mike’s punch goes to James Franklin after the Virginia Tech coach repeatedly makes a reporter acknowledge his greeting before allowing him to ask a question.
• The guys react to the reported $50 million judgment against Yaya Mayweather stemming from the 2020 stabbing incident discussed on the show and wonder how a judgment that large actually gets paid.
• The show closes with a lengthy discussion of