Pat McAfee

You know, like I think everybody wants efficiency in this shit.

Everybody hates the technology whenever it's slowing us down.

Whenever it's fast and quick and gets it right, I think we're all on the same page.

I genuinely believe that, but there's always going to be people that are, they're taking our jobs, which I completely understand as well.

The officiating thing, there's always going to be error no matter what, but if you can assist them just a little, that's going to help the game more than anything.

It sounded like the way Adam Silver was speaking about the NBA refs is that they are more open to the technological assistance.

Because in the NFL...

We were doing this show, and it was before we got on this license on ESPN.

We were just on the internet.

These refs in the NFL, they weren't the biggest fans of old.

No.

Monday morning quarterback happening in real time after watching the film in super slow-mo.

There was a lot of pride that was happening.

And the people that were supposed to be overturning the calls were also ex-refs.

So they were kind of in their seat.

There was a real, like...

These people don't know.

It was odd.

But that finally has changed, I think.

Like, hey, these AIs, these computers, these digital advancements that we have now that we can see everything in 8K at some super slow-mo speed that your eyes could never do could actually make you more liked.