Puka Nacua on Davante Adams, Matthew Stafford and the Rams atop the NFC West 📈 | The Pat McAfee Show

Puka Nacua on Davante Adams, Matthew Stafford and the Rams atop the NFC West 📈 | The Pat McAfee Show

who will not stop until success happens. Panaku is here. Yeah, good. How are you, dude? What up, what up? Hey, thank you for joining us, big day for those midnight modes. We thought you guys were never going to be able to talk about him again if you lost instead. Massive win. How do you feel? How does the boys feel? How are the Rams feel right now? Man, it was good. Just boy, the boys got out the sauna this morning. Um, I see my dog by and verse. The dogs were barking yesterday, so it was good to see them boys out moving around this morning. But, uh, I gave my jersey away to Coupe, so I’m like, I got one in exchange. So, I’m like, I I I don’t know if I’ll have the midnight one hung up in a frame, but I’ll have a Cooper Cup jersey, so I’m not mad about that. Okay, let’s talk about you and Cooper Cup’s relationship. Obviously, he was a mentor type guy in the wide receiver room for you. Now, you have become the one. You have become the guy the defenses think about and fixate on, which obviously opens up a lot for every other weapon that’s on that offense, including Devonte. Can you tell me a little bit about your relationship with Dvonte Adams? No, literally. And I’m like his celebration, he kind of messed it up because we were supposed to do some like LeBron like uh DWade like alleyoop type thing. We had the we had the hoop set up for the celebration and he didn’t even dunk it and like the photos look great. We got our rookie month being the little basketball hoop holding his arms and he didn’t even dunk it. But it pretty much is unstoppable. like we get inside the 10 yard line, it’s like, “All right, you probably should throw seven people at number 17.” Tell me about Stafford a little bit. He is uh he’s his beard looks phenomenal. The midnight mode feels great. He looks younger than ever. And then Tone actually pointed out yesterday, this guy’s got massive calves. I I don’t think anybody’s talked about the size of Matthew Stafford’s calves until yesterday he was photographed with these things exposed. And there’s vascularity down there and great girth. We’re talking Darth and vascularity on those calves, Puka. That’s why the keeper game works so well. I’m like, he’s got freaking um quads on his freaking calves. Look at those things. Right. I’m like, if I had those things, I could run and put my foot in the ground instantly. The 20 yard dig routes speed cut. Tell me about Stafford, though. He’s spinning it. It feels like is he getting even better other than just his calves? Oh my gosh. like the the calmness and like his ability just to to have the presidents to move his arm angles and to understand where the defense is. And I mean the thing the the thing we say in me is don’t look at my eyes. Don’t look at my eyes. So I think it’s so funny because it happens every day during the week and then when it comes on Sunday it’s like it’s even better than what uh you see on Thursday. AJ want to catch Puk. Yeah. Puka, how how fun is it to watch your defense when you guys after your offense get a touchdown, you go sit on the bench, get a drink, go over everything. Are you guys watching your defense like as a fan? Because I I know as a fan of football, watching your defense play, especially the front seven, everybody, all three levels, they are rolling and they I don’t know, they have bad intentions. When they get to the ball, I’m sure training camp was was fun going against them, but what’s it like watching them progress throughout the year? Oh, it has been absolutely it was I think it was pretty cool. Taye was asking, I mean, knowing that we had a big divisional game coming up this week, he was like, “Man, it just feels like we’re this is an emotional game for everybody.” I’m like, “Uh, hey Tay, like as long as we do our stuff on on our side of the ball, um, the they they may be seeing ghosts out there tomorrow on Sunday. The dogs the dogs are barking barking. I’m like, man, that boy verse by Fist Kobe. I mean, it was funny because I’m like I remember watching Kobe Durant pick. He had the same exact pick against Sam Darnold um on uh in the Vikings game last year. like textbook field field out route step underneath it and it was like it was just it was music to it it was music to my ears to be able to see them like just yeah I I call them the dogs the dogs are barking they were going crazy yesterday and uh hitting on all cylinders and uh it was fun because it makes our job a little bit easier even when we don’t get in the end zone it’s a young group over there you know you think Matthew Stafford’s old ass got drafted with me and Debut debut has a question for you here in a second he he’s old as but you guys have a young nucleus that is just ready and I love that the dogs are barking is the mindset for that entire defense. Go ahead, D. Absolutely. Your dogs barking. Seattle, they got some dog barking as well. This uh NFC West as a whole. What’s the mindset just going into these games? Week in and week out. You guys will definitely be callous for the playoffs. What’s the Is it a mind? Is it a different mindset? I know you’re trying to win every game. This is a big game for first place in the division. What’s the mindset? What’s the conversation going into these type of battles? Um this one I think um especially just with everything that happened in the offseason getting to see Coupe and especially some of the other guys that have just uh been with the Rams and then going over there. But uh it was one that uh we had I definitely had circle and everybody I mean leading up to it Thursday practice is a little bit more physical. Everybody the defenses were not talking to verse and by on uh on Thursday practice because like all right everybody buckle your uh buckle buckle up for for practice. Uh, but it it’s fun because when you go out there, you you set a message for the rest of the season. They’re like, “All right, wait. When we see you again, you know what’s up.” Hell yeah. Hey, you still try to run people over, dude. It does. Yeah. You’re still trying to do that. Is that going to be forever thing, you think? Oh, I’m never stepping out of bounds. That’s soft. That’s not how football is supposed to be played. Hell yeah. How old are you? How old are you? Uh, 24. Okay, we’ll talk to you, 30. We’ll see how it is. You’re an absolute beast, Duce. You’re so much fun to watch. Literally so much fun to watch. Why are you guys coming out to a game? I saw you. I I haven’t seen you in a while. I’m like I feel like you’re going out to the games. I know you’re college game day. You’re taking the pick. So, you’re picking against the Cougs. And I’m like, what’s going on over here? Well, listen. How I did say that you I saw that you said that you love the Mormons and then I feel like I did I didn’t see you pick the Cougs. I was like, wait, where would it go? Well, it’s a different you know, you know, I love Mormons. Love I mean, I’m from Pittsburgh. Love people from Pittsburgh pick Notre Dame. It’s just it’s all it’s strictly business as coach Corso used to say. It’s it’s you know I am trying to have a perfect picks week one week. Okay. I’m trying my best because the odds get pretty immaculate up there. This past week there was a couple uh isolated island picks but I’ll tell you what it’s hard to pick against some fan bases because they’re so mean if you pick against them. And I’ll tell you what, you Mormons not as mean. It’s actually it’s actually pretty nice. And I’m not saying that’s why I do it, but I’m just saying it is a nice little feat of it all. I was going to say you’ll probably get cookies made if you if you don’t vote for them because then they’re like they want you to vote for them next week. So like they’re they’re trying to set it up and I know you were scared as could be when that boy AD pushed you off the L. He’s still absolutely jacked. Do you ever see him still? He’s a monster. He comes into the weight room and it’s like somehow like the 180 like pound dumbbells just like appear in our weight room and I’m like what the hell are what’s going on? And he’s just like casually walking in with the cut off tea like Yeah. And you don’t really see how jacked he is. And then he stands up. Heart. See you. Yeah. I’m going to get out of here. Yeah. I’mma get out of here. Yeah. Get the hell out. Yep. He’s awesome. Yep. Look at those biceps, dude. This is ridiculous. Yeah, he’s he’s got vascularity in his abs, you know? I mean, an absolute monster. And he was great on the show. I don’t know if you watched the entirety of it, he was great. He knew his He understood what was going on. And it was a huge moment for him. Obviously, number getting retired. How’s the season going? I’m waiting for LeBron to return, honestly. So, I’m like, it’ll make football season a little bit better. I’m like, I’m planning to go to some Laker games coming up soon. The L Luca Donic. I got to see the boy. I’m like, um, I watched that WBY game with Steph Curry the other day. It was fantastic. I’m like, the NBA season, I’m like, it’s really starting to kick off. That boy KD is going crazy. Um, yeah. I’m like, you’re asking about football and I went straight to basketball. I enjoy basketball season. Yeah, I understand. Yeah. And in basketball, huge part of your training. You’ve told us obviously big basketball fan. LeBron though, you don’t want to go watch the Luca show. You don’t want You’re not good with the Luca show. You You need No, I L Luca and Puka I’m like I’m trying to figure out I’m like if you if you would uh have a segment segment for us that would be fantastic. Me and Luca the Luca Puka with Big Goose. I think we could figure something. Yeah, I think LA Luca Puka with Big Yeah, I think we could definitely pull that off. All right, so we get you out. We get you out of Pittsburgh or uh Indianapolis and come over here. It’s a far trip. You asked me about the game coming to a game. That’s a long way. Long way. Long way going to It’s sunny out here. It’s It’s California. Well, technically not right now, but what is it? How is the weather out there? It’s been raining. It’s been terrible. I’m like, my family came out. I’m like, “Oh, this is so nice. It never rains. It feels 70 all the time.” Then freaking rainstorm. That’s no good. We didn’t get to go to Malibu. Mom did enjoy that. But mom’s cooking tonight. So, mom’s about to make some cookies tonight. Hopefully, she makes some uh hamburger curry. Some hamburger curry would be great. Okay. Feels like you’re putting in an order right now potentially. Corn corn beef and spaghetti. I’m like, “Mom, please be watching Pat Mcabby right now.” Yeah, she is. She is. Mama, you need this? Yeah. Am I allowed to say that? Is that how that work? USA. Is there a uh female or how how No, no, no. Uh you’re Mama Nua. Mama Nua. Yep. God, that’s a great name. Mama Nua making some cornbread spaghetti, I heard. Is that where is that where we’re eating? Corn beef and spaghetti. Corn beef and spaghetti. Oh yeah. Oh, mom and a cool ship some of that to Indianapolis. Yeah, we got bad weather, too. We’ll eat a lot of corn beef in in spaghetti out here. We got that trench cut still. It comes in the can. The spaghetti comes in the can, like the can, like the pop can and like corn beef. It’s all can like you need a can opener. Cook it up. It’s uh from like one of the Asian stores. Um trenches. You got to get it. Yeah. Sounds like tonight’s about to be awesome at the Nord. Well, I I did wake up with a sausage McGriddle and a hash brown and a sausage McMuffin this morning. It was fantastic. Yeah, you got to do what you got to do. You’re 24 years old. You can kind of do whatever the hell you want at this point. And at some point, you’re going to step out of bounds, too. And we’re going to watch it. We’re going to watch it happen. Nope. You can bookmark this right now. I won’t do it. I’m like, I I would be doing a dis a disservice to the gentleman who played before me by stepping out of bounds. You’re an animal. We appreciate you, ladies and gentlemen. First team AllPro this year going to happen. Poking a cool [Music]

Los Angeles Rams WR Puka Nacua joins The Pat McAfee Show following L.A.’s win over the Seattle Seahawks in Week 11 of the NFL regular season.

0:00 Davante Adams and Matthew Stafford
2:30 Rams’ elite defense
4:00 NFC West race
7:03 Ready for LeBron James’ return

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