I could literally lay back and sleep and snore and drool the entire 60 minutes of the show and guarantee you a more riveting experience than what we suffered through last night between the Colts and the Broncos. But I won't do it. It's Friday and we have Dwight Freeney who will be on the show, James Jones chiming in from London beers with Sam Monson of BFF and Breonna. Yes, Breonna, right here, right now. Got the horsey bowl yesterday.  I'm drinking my salty mug today. My coffee. I have a beer that I can see over there again. That's with my bartender Marissa McBride as we welcome Sam Monson in to go over some numbers today. We'll do that's PFF up. We will have James Jones ahead of Packers Giants two winning teams for the first time going about in London. Matt LaFleur not happy about getting that stamp on his passport. He is just not feeling. He's a little cranky with the media ahead of this one this week. So we'll dig into all of that. Of course Dwight Freeney should be joining us momentarily. He was on with Andrea Kramer and had a storm last night and stopped by a lot of guests in Von Miller included. So I'll ask him about this colds past rush. But this game was terrible and that's just all that there is to say about it. I don't want to waste a lot of time on it. I don't want to waste your time. We already wasted enough last night, didn't we? And then over time and we're like idiots for watching and we still watch and we're still texting each other about it. It was the most atrocious misread and decision making that I've ever seen. It's not hyperbole. I'm not being obnoxious.  Two interceptions in field goal range and you lose by a field goal in overtime. It is an all out disaster right now. That said I do think there's time to turn it around for the Broncos because there are 10 days. These are 10 critical days and maybe, maybe the shoulder is more of a factor than we think. I'm not a doctor but I know he was on the injury report. I know I saw him walk into the tent last night and I got to tell you, I don't hope for injuries but I'm almost hoping that this is the shoulder because at least it's an excuse for Russell Wilson. Horrible O-line play, horrendous quarterback play and everyone is dragging Russell Wilson to high heavens and it's real easy to kick a guy while he's down. It's real easy to come after the character stuff. I'm more interested in how do they fix it? How can they turn it around? I think they just need to run more. They've been running it well and the defense is good. They went through a stretch. We all saw it together, miserable last night. In the fourth quarter they ran on six consecutive plays, got the ball into the red zone and then Russell Wilson threw a pick in the end zone so it didn't really work out. So here's a thought. Here's my big takeaway from this game. Not danger Russ, not Mr Unlimited, the cringiest thing I've ever heard. Not let Russ cook. How about let Russ sous chef? Doesn't have a nice ring to it. Don't put it all on his shoulders. 43 pass attempts to 28 runs. Just pound the ball. Against the chargers pound the ball in 10 days. Do it against the Jets and then do it against the Jags at Wembley. Not let Russ cook, let Russ sous chef. Your thoughts at Upp and Adams show. Now I don't know if I have it in me to lift the Colts. I know they got the winnier. So for that I bring in a very special guest. Please welcome for the first time to the Upp and Adams show a Colts absolute legend and honor to have him. A three-time All-Pro, seven-time Pro Bowler played 16 seasons in the NFL, most of them with the Colts. He is one of the best pass rushers of all time. Super Bowl top-end, way for me! Hey, what's going on, Kay? How are you? Listen, where do we begin? Where do you want to begin with this matchup? Wherever you want to begin. I mean, I've been hearing you. You said it was such a terrible game. I'm a defensive guy. I loved it. Did you? No touchdowns, all field goals. It couldn't be better. You're insane. My producer had questions for you as we were talking about it. He goes, I bet he loved it.  You're saying you enjoyed this defensive performance. The destruction of the quarterback is just part of me. Whenever they do a struggle, I'm going to love it. I'm going to laugh. Whenever the defense plays great, I'm going to love it. That's just how I'm built. That's just how I am.  Yeah. All right. Now, there's reasons for that. Offensive line for the coast. They've been terrible all year. Now you have your left starting left tackle playing right tackle. Right. Okay. So now you got a guy who doesn't want to get hit. All right. Mattie Ice doesn't want to get hit because he's 37 years old. He's been playing long enough and he understands, you can't keep getting hit and you kind of have those visions of just like getting hit. So even when you're not getting hit, you feel like you're getting hit. All right. So when you have veteran quarterback, you want to protect them. So they're not doing a good job protecting. They're not doing a good job on a run on the run either. All right. They're not opening holes for their running backs. So when you have that type of situation where you have Mattie Ice, who's going into a team that's supposed to be running the ball 30 times a game and you can't open up any holes for the running. So now everything's on his shoulders. Right. And he's sitting back and said, okay, let's do this. And he's getting hit left and right within two and a half seconds. Pretty much every single time. It's a recipe for disaster. So I can understand why the Colts are not functioning the right way because they're built to run the ball and they're not running the ball effectively and everything's being put on Mattie Ice's shoulders. Now the other side. Okay. Russell, ooh, I don't know. You know, I think that's a tough situation for him.  Now this is some terrible growing pains I'm watching right now for him. It seems like they have no confidence in him as far as, you know, where to throw the ball, what to do. They're running game. They've been banged up at running back. So right now it looks like they're reaching, you know, and he's missing wide open reads that he would normally hit. Now that being said, he was in a system for whatever, how many years in Seattle. Right. So being in that type of system where you don't have to think about as much where the open receiver is because you have the comfort level of throwing to those types of receivers that you've been thrown to all like year in and year out. Yeah. You get to a Denver team and it's kind of like, you know, yeah, I'm Russell Wilson, but I've been telling people it's not, and listen, I'm not saying this just because I'm a defensive player and defensive. Okay, I promise you, I promise you, but it's not always all about the quarterback and the quarterback, yes, will make your team better, but you have to have everything working cohesively, which means the play calling, the offensive line, the receivers running routes. Everything has to be working from a timing perspective. If it isn't, it doesn't matter who you got back there. It didn't matter. It's not going to be successful. Yeah.  But also I do think maybe the Colts deserve some love in this one.  I just, I interviewed him last week.  Do they deserve more credit than they're getting this morning? No, I mean, absolutely.  Okay. They have shut down the run for the most part.  All right. But that was against King Henry. All right. Who's not going to give a hundred yards up against that guy. All right. So if you look at the defensive, I guess, you know, an overview, let's just call it, for the Colts, it hadn't been terrible. You know, they have been the only bright light if there's any on that team right now. And that's the reason why they could be two, two and one. I think that's what they are. And you know, it's just because of their defense. Now the defense can play better.  And I think they're getting there, but they're going to have to get better to have any type of momentum, you know, for this team to go into playoffs, because offensively right now they are banged up at the offensive line position and they can't get anything better. And I like, but I like that you're even talking about them as a playoff team because this is a team that, you know, when I was there, it was before they took on the Chiefs, but now they've taken down the Holmes and Russell Wilson, they're getting confidence and they do need to get healthy. You're saying it's not about quarterbacks, it's just going to ask you because you spent some time with both of these guys. You played with Russell Wilson. You also played and spent time with Matt Ryan, maybe not, you know, as much, but I'm going to ask you which one you're more worried about down the stretch. That's a good question. I think that with the lack of protection in the Annapolis, if Jonathan Taylor doesn't come back and they have to rely on Mattie to throw the ball and they don't figure out a way to protect him, I'm really worried about him just because the age and you don't know what hit it's going to be when he, you know, finally, you know, says, all right, this is it.  So he's giving up the ball and he's not protecting the ball. Yeah. Okay. So I feel like if out of the two, it would probably be him. Russell, listen, he's getting used to a new system offense. I know it's frustrating. Okay. But in the end, I think being around Russell long enough, they're going to figure something out. Right. You know, over there now may take a few weeks, you know, to figure it out. But I think something's going to click over there at some point. But the offensive line issue, that doesn't just go away. You have to figure something out from a protection standpoint, you know, and your play calling standpoint to figure out how you're going to generate points. Yeah. You know, for Indianapolis, because they're in the bottom half, or maybe last. Right. In points this year. Okay.  I'm sorry. It's a terrible game. And there were no, listen Dwight, there were no touchdown scored last night. So I need to see. Awesome. No. In honor of that, I decided let's see if Dwight Freeney has scored a touchdown and you have, haven't you? Yes, I have. Let's take a look. Okay. Take me back to what is this? 2003? What is the same? This is like a 2003 young, young horse, young, young stallion Dwight Freeney. But you know what's funny is, I should not have even played that game.  And I had to get like certain injections. And I was all off on painkillers just trying to figure out a way to get through this game. And sure enough, yeah, sure enough, the ball was just bouncing right in front of me. You know, I hadn't done anything all game.  It was awesome.  And this is an Aaron Brooks sack. And then you returned the fumble 19 yards for that beautiful touchdown, getting the win 48 to 13 week for 2003. So there we did it. We had a touchdown after Thursday night football. There you go. I can't believe it was your only touchdown. You are one of the greatest pass rushers of all time. 125 and a half sacks. Are there pass rushers in the league right now that are worthy of your praise heading into week five?  Miles Garrett is a complete beast. You know, he's the guy who can turn the corner. You know, he has size. He can he can go underneath you. He can make you miss. He has a whole bunch of different moves and you know, the problem is, what do you do to stop them because they like to move them around from time to time. And another guy is Micah Parsons. I see Micah Parsons pull out of spin move. God, is that my spin move I'm seeing? Because it was almost identical to the way that I did it. And I knew I left my mark in the game with us not seeing things like that. And those two young stallions right there, those guys are gonna be playing for a long time. I'm gonna be a great player. Does Micah have a better spin move than you? Micah say that, I'm not gonna go that far. Let's not get crazy, okay? He has a good spin move, all right? But I'm not saying he has a better run than me. That's kind of crazy. Well, you just see the tip, that's kind of crazy. I feel you on that.  I bet it was for you to get to watch the game with them on their Amazon simulcast. That's where I was watching it too. But, you know, Von Miller popped by as well. He goes to the bills. What do you make of that? How has adding him been able to change this entire defense? One player? I mean, yeah, well, the truth is, what they've been struggling with over, I mean, as long as I can remember, is a dominant pass. Mm-hmm. Okay. And you bring a guy like Von Miller, who's a guy who still has it. I think he's in year 10. And he still can go out there and perform at a high level, all right? You're not asking too much of him, but what you're doing is, look, when it's a passing situation, I need you. And Von is a guy that comes out with different moves to go out and get out to that QB, man. I actually seen him do a dip move the other day. You know, I guess maybe three weeks ago, made the guy completely miss, ducked under his arms. And that was a move I did in 2006. And in 2005, with Robert Mathis, me and Robert. And you know what, when I saw it, that was another move. I was like, man, he has it. Because when you start doing things like that, playing to your strengths, knowing that you are our guy who's shorter or smaller than you often to tackle, and you can dip under. Now you're working at a whole different frequency. You're going out, doing different things, and having confidence doing it. And I think that's what the bills miss because they had the coverage.  But from a SAC perspective, they didn't have that guy. And now they have a guy that can go out there and wreck a game. It's so true. And I love that you brought up Robert. You know, you and Mathis were insane. Is there a tandem in the league right now that sort of reminds you of you and the great Robert Mathis? Because you guys did damage. I would probably say the Chargers, guys. Yeah, yeah. I would say Mac and Bosa. Yeah, I would say Mac and Bosa is a good combo. I mean, they're going to have to put some years together now. You know, they kind of, you know, me and Robert are going to put some work in for year upon year. But I would say you're right. You know, Bosa and Mac would probably be in the tandem I would think right now that's at the top of the league as far as, you know, dominant guys. You have to have to pay attention to both guys. Yeah, and Bosa is hurt, of course. So that's going to be really tough. You had a short stint. You were with the Chargers for a little bit. Super injured. Last question for you. It happens all the time. It's like, oh, it's always poor Chargers. It never works out. How far do you think Herbert can carry them? Carry them because even Bosa is banged up. Well, I mean, I think he's a young talent that it seems as if he keeps on getting better year in and year out. All right. As long as he understands when it's time to use your legs and run for first downs and when you can throw for first downs and they kind of cater that offense around him as a talent that he is, I think they're going to be fine.  You know, and points is not going to be their problem. You know, it's going to be about can they stop somebody on the other side of the ball? So they don't have to score 30 points a game. It's very true.  It's so true. They got to stop the run this week. They're at Cleveland. We know what Chubb can do. We know what Hunt can do on the ground. So that'll be a huge task for Brandon Staley and company Dwight Free, all those accolades, all those all pros, all the Hall of Famer might be in the front of that next time I see you. Who knows?  I know, thank you. I need it. I appreciate you. You don't need it, but you're amazing. Thank you so much for hopping on the perfect person too. Listen, I didn't think it was possible. I found the one dang person that was excited about last night's game and it was Dwight Freeney and we've got more coming up right here on Up and Adams Beer Drinking with Sam Monson and a guy who's probably having a pint himself of lukewarm beer somewhere. Oh, the honey look is back. I thought you retired that, bro. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. NFL's international series is underway. Another one in London. Two winning teams, by the way. Packers winning record, going up against the Giants winning record. That is Aaron Rodgers, a very good football player, meets a very good doggo in the UK. Rodgers living his best life. I actually heard Rodgers wanted to be there even sooner. The team left on Thursday as we bring in my friend and fan duo family in Green Bay Super Bowl, Champion James Jones, who's in London. How are you? I'm living the dream. I'm out here in London, just big chilling, you know, can't complain. Are you suiting up this weekend? Cause it looks like it. You see, I got my jersey on, my hoodie on underneath. I'm ready to go. I just left practice a little earlier and I let him know, hey, you need me in the red zone only cause I drink too much coffee. I'll pull a hamstring in the other part of the field. But red zone, I'm good to go. How's Aaron feeling? Oh, he's ready to go. I think this is one of the games that we're gonna see this Packers offense get it going, get it clicking. I think this is one of the, one of these games that I think we're gonna see a dominant Packers football team, the team that we think has a chance to win it all. I think that team gonna show up this Sunday. This morning I was on my way to work. I had an overnight shoot and I was on my way and I said, when did James Jones retire the hoodie? I don't know why I was even asking it. And then you showed up wearing it. I thought this look was over. You know, man, I mean it's retired from catching touchdowns, but it ain't never retired from hoodie swag. You know what I mean? It's alley swag, hoodie swag. So, you know, I got a swag out every now and then. You used to wear it under your suits at NFL media, I remember. You were so committed to it and I love it. All right, let's talk about this Packers team. So you have high expectations for them. It's their first time over there. Aaron was on McAfee and he was saying, you know, it wasn't my decision when we left the numbers, the metrics. And then the floor seems kind of cranky with the media because the plane didn't have pods for privacy. He's cranky about the time change. So how is the Packers first trip to London going? Well, I mean, I think it's going good. I mean, the main thing is you just got to get here. It don't matter when you get here. I came with the Raiders when I was a part of the Raiders and we came out here the whole week and I hated it. I hated being out here for a whole week. I'm like, I wish we would have just came a couple of days before, you know what I mean? Did a little sightseeing, got to work and played the game.  I'm like, man, I'm going to go home. You know, so I think the Packers did it the right way. I know it's their first time coming out here as an organization. So a lot of people were excited to come out here. But I think they did it the right way. They're in the middle of nowhere anyway. So even if you came out here on Monday, 12 would have been upset. Like, man, I can't go nowhere and see none do that. So I think they did it right. And I think they're in a good spot as a football team. I think they'll play well. That's great. But full disclosure, when we just keep it real here on up in Adams James, I was in Green Bay last week and I'm sitting in the stands and I'm texting you and I'm saying, they look flat, James. What is going on with them? So be objective with me. You're seven years removed. You can be real here. What is the problem?  No, I mean, you just seen a football team that was out of rhythm and it was one of them games. You know, you playing a Brian Hoyer Patriots team where we know the Patriots can run the ball well, but I thought that was one of the games. Kind of how I feel about this Giants game that that offense was going to get it going and put up 35 plus points and look the way they were supposed to look, even though I know they're still finding their way, trying to find that number one receiver, trying to figure out who's going to have certain roles in this offense. I thought that they would be a much better offense that game, you know. So, you know, they made some plays, but they didn't look the way I wanted them to look and look like a Super Bowl caliber offense. So I'm hoping this week they come out, they iron out some of that stuff and they look like that Super Bowl caliber offense because they're going to need that offense to make plays if they want to get to where they're trying to go. It's so true and Romeo Dobbs, obviously, we're looking for a lot from him, Christian Watson, him as well, we're looking for that chemistry to build. How did you build chemistry with Aaron Rodgers? Because you did it successfully in a time where we had other options to throw the ball to.  A lot of people think like you just go out in the game and you make plays and all that. No, like even if you have a good game as a wide receiver, five catches for 75 yards and a touchdown is a really good game for a wide receiver. Yeah, you may have those games where you got 150 and all that, but a quarterback giving you the ball five times and you might even get targeted seven, eight times. That's a good game, you know what I mean? But to earn those targets and to earn that trust is when you're sitting in these meetings with Aaron and he says, J.J., when we get into the game and it's third and seventh and we run this route, I want you to run it this way versus this coverage, right? And then we get out to practice and I do that at practice and he's like, okay, oh shoot, J.J., where he's supposed to be, when he's supposed to be, we just talked about the meeting, he brought that to the football field and then you start making plays for him and then that's how he starts getting confidence in you and then when the ball game comes, he starts spending the ball your way and then when you get that real confidence, when he gets that real confidence in you, he comes in the huddle and he says, hey, J.J., I don't care what Coach Mike McCarthy called, go get this ball. You know what I mean? And vice versa, I've been in the- Why does Mike McCarthy got to catch strays out here on the Friday? What Mike McCarthy did wrong? We both played with Coach Mike together, you know I'm a big fan of Coach Mike anyway, but I've been in the huddle where he's came into the huddle and he says, hey, he looked at Jordy and said, Jordy, go make a play. Right. You know what I mean? But we've had that trust for him and I think it all starts in practice, man. Being where he's supposed to be in practice, talking to him in meetings, seeing what he's thinking and then that's when he can look at you and he's like, yep, I know exactly what you're thinking. I got you. But was there a moment that you can think of specifically where you knew you had, like where you knew he trusted you, was there a moment? Like that's what I'm looking for for these guys, that moment, whether it's on the field practice field or everyone's making up all this stuff like Romeo Jobs having lunch, like great, go take him for vision chips in London. If that's gonna help, like what will help and what was that moment for you? Yeah, so, you know, obviously like I said, it starts with practice and communicating practice and being where he's supposed to be in practice, but there's a play that me and Aaron still, whenever we get around each other till this day, we still talk about like, man, that was just a crazy moment to where we knew we were on the same page. So we were playing the Denver Broncos at home and we have a play called Pepper, right? It's double post, right? It's a B line in the slot. It's a post route on the outside, right? But in the red zone, as a receiver, you must cross the corner's face. If the corner is off, you must cross his face to protect the throw for the quarterback. No matter where he's at in the red zone. Got it. Well, we line up and the corner is 10 yards off and I have a post route on the outside and the corner is at least three, four yards inside. And I'm like, there's no way that I'm getting inside of him and there's no way I'm even gonna have a chance at getting the ball. So I said, you know what? I said, in my head, I said, that's it. I'm just, I'm going behind him. I know I'm gonna get beat up. It's gonna be a missed assignment because I'm not protecting Aaron. I'm supposed to be going in front of him, but I said, man, I'm finna go behind him. And I planted and I went behind the DB and I seen the ball come. And I said, this man just threw this ball. I said, this man, and probably people have seen Aaron make a bunch of great throws, but to me, me and his connections, as much as we've done it, that's the greatest throw he's ever thrown to me. It was coming right behind the corner, right in the honey hole floor touchdown. And I'm like, this dude good. But when I walked to the sideline, I looked at him and I had in my chest like, bruh, let me explain my bad. He said, that's exactly what I want you to do. And then that's what I'm like, oh shoot. Yeah, that's how it happens. That's what we need. That's an amazing story. Wait, I want to find the play to put it on Twitter. What week was it and what year? Ooh, I don't know what week it was. Who were you playing? We were playing the Broncos at home. It had to be 2009, 2010 season, one of those years, yeah. We're going to find it, that is amazing. It was a great throw. It came right behind the corner. And that's when I looked at Aaron and I'm like, when I was jogging to the sideline, even after the touchdown, like I did my Lambo leap, but it was like a fake Lambo leap. I'm like, I'm in trouble. Even though I got a touchdown, I'm like, man 12 gonna be hot. I'll go over hard and coach Mike, gonna be mad. You gotta do your assignment. I came back, he was like, JJ, I was hoping you was gonna do that. I love that. I said, we're on the same page. We'll find it. Listen, maybe we'll see you in the end zone on Sunday. Who knows what happens in London? And hey, maybe you'll dap up O'Jell on the sideline. What are the chances he shows up? Yeah, man, I hope O out here. I'll dap him up, man, and let him know there's only one place you need to go play, man. And that's with AR12, man. If you want to make some big money, you know, win another championship, you can play with 12. I love that. James Jones, we appreciate you. I know it's a crazy time difference.  It's probably nighttime and give our best to all the Packers. And tell Matt LaFleur to stop being so cranky. Like you're in London. It's okay. Yeah, I'll let him know, man. You live a good life, man. You shoot two, three, and one in London. It's so true. You ain't got nothing to complain about. You're the best. And neither do we. James Jones rocking the hoodie, bringing the nostalgia back here. We're gonna find that play. Pepper, was it? Pepper was the name of the play. We're gonna get to all of that and we'll see if Aaron Rodgers has anything to say about it, maybe we'll tweet it about it. Okay, after this, Sam Monson joining us, the highest graded player. This season is Andrew Thomas. That's right. It's Giant. Do you know who leads the league in rushing? Saquon Barkley up against those Packers. To celebrate the start of football season, Fanduil Casino is hosting a Friday Casino Happy Hour. Oh, I like those. All you gotta do is log on to the Fanduil Casino app tonight from 7 to 8 Eastern to get the special offer. Do not miss out. It is Fanduil Casino app. And you can get tonight's Friday Happy Hour free bonus TGIF style. Now I love PFF grades. I use it all the time to make my points, especially in fantasy football and who to plug in lineups for DFS on Fanduil. So joining me now, the co-host of the PFF NFL podcast, PFF's lead NFL Anastasia Monson with a happy hour drink, hopefully in hand, yeah? What do you got? Look, I wasn't gonna get left out after last week. Last week you showed up with a drink. So I had to bring, you know, represent the Irish heritage. I love that. And bring me Guinness. No, I'm not Irish, but if we can take me full really quick, Sam, you'll see Marissa McBride, my super producer, is Irish. She has poured me a beautiful Guinness. And now there's a game that we're playing for this. Yes, Sam, we're gonna try to split the G. I don't know if you've ever heard about this before. Yep, yep, absolutely. What is this? He's familiar? No. All right, so what we're gonna try to do, we're gonna try to make the black and the white line meet in the middle of the G. We're gonna see if Kay can take enough sips to land that perfectly. Like in one step. And it's gonna go over, under, what do you think? Ah, I think, I don't think she's gonna nail it. Guinness is so aggressive. This is very aggressive breakfast. This is one of breakfasts there. It's Friday. It's Friday. This is a Thanksgiving dinner of beers. All right, I'm just gonna try to drink and get it to there. All right, let's do it in the middle of the G. Are we gonna, okay, where you going? Hmm, not bad. All right, Sam, enough about beer and Guinness. Thank you, Marissa McBride, you're the best. Our resident bartender, what can't she do? But Sam, we're gonna sort it through some numbers. This is very hardy. And we're gonna make a sense of them as only we can. And sometimes I'm on PFF and I'm looking at numbers and grades and I say, man, that's PFFed up. And that's what we're doing here. First up, the number two. Now is that the number of hours I've slept over the past 48 hours because I was shooting a new Dick's Sporting Goods holiday commercial overnight, or something footbally? You tell me. I believe it's something footbally. It might be your thing as well. But Gino Smith right now is the number two rated quarterback at PFF. Not just impressive, not just better than we had expected, but Gino Smith is playing at a genuine, all pro kind of level for the Seattle Seahawks. One of the most accurate quarterbacks in the NFL. Just an incredible surprise this year. It's amazing. I mean, astounding 77.3% completion percentage, the highest in NFL history through four weeks. It is the Seahawks at the Saints this week. All right, now let's keep it going here. Next, number 20. Okay, I think that's probably the... Let me guess. The number of PR people calling Tom Brady to set up fake publicity dates with their clients. Am I right? Wow. We don't track that at PFF yet, but you know, I'm open to suggestions of things we could start to add to the stat sheet and the database. 20 is actually the number of pressures that Rams left hackled. Joseph Nopun was given up through four games. It's also the number of pressures that last year's left tackle, Andrew Whitworth gave up the entire season, including the run through the Super Bowl. So that's the kind of problems that the Rams are dealing with on the offensive line this year. Cheers to Matthew Stafford, Super Bowl champion. He has been sapped 16 times. That was tied for the second most in the league entering week five. And the Rams, really good game this week. Rams hosting the Cowboys. Very excited to see what happens there. All right, the next number the producers told me, 39.6. My guess is, I'm looking at you two, my guess is the percent of Broncos fans that aren't selling their season tickets on Stubhub this morning. If it was, I think that would be a high number. I imagine that number would be an awful lot lower for Broncos fans based off last night. This is one of my favorite stats in all football. 39.6 is the passer rating, if you took the ball and just threw it at the ground every single play. It's the pass rating of an incomplete pass. Okay. Both starting Eagles cornerbacks are giving up a lower pass rating than that into their coverage this season. So James Bradbury, 27, Darius Lay, 29. You are a better off just throwing the ball at the floor and targeting either one of the Eagles starting corners this year. That is an incredible, I mean, Brian Barton, my producer and stage manager, laughing out loud. That is incredible. And they've gone from the 10th ranked total defense in the league last year to fifth this season, five turnovers last week. And this week, who do they got? Oh, it's the bird bowl, right? Cardinals, they're trying to avoid an upset. Marissa McBride, big Eagles fan, Irish girl. This one's for you. How do you say cheers? Slonsha. Slonsha? Oh, okay. All right, Sam, this is a low number, our next one. Sam Monson with PFF. We're getting PFFed up. Sam, we're already drunk. That's how it happens. 2.2 is the number. And I think that is the sips of this Guinness that I can drink before I feel buzzed because I haven't eaten anything, but Sour Patch Gains the last 24 hours. Look, they used to say in the advertising campaign that Guinness was good for you. And why would they lie? You know, that's the bottom line there. 2.2 is the average time to throw for Tom Brady this season, which is by far the fastest in the NFL. Yeah, 2.2 seconds. By far the fastest in the NFL. And it means that Brady's the lowest pressure quarterback in the NFL, as much as that offensive line has been creaking relative to a year ago, as much as the receivers are like a mash unit of injured guys. Brady is doing wonders of making everybody's life easier and that fucks offense. And eventually, I think that's gonna pay dividends for them. I mean, no Ali Marpet, Alex Kappa, no Ryan Jensen, that madman out there. So I'm not surprised Tom's trying to get the ball up quickly. I would do the same. I also don't think people should count out the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. A lot of talk about, oh, the Eagles, we love. A lot of talk about the Packers, what they're doing and they're getting better. Like Tom looked good. They'll be okay. And there's a lot of drama going on, but whatever. Okay, finally, number 32 on PFF. What could that mean? Is it the number of times David Tepper and Michael Bidwill have called Sean Pay into Gage's interest in coaching next year? Yeah, that's probably a low number as well. I think you can go over that, absolutely. 32 is the number of broken tackles that Nick Chubb has just on carries, just on the ground, which is 10 more than any other running back in the NFL. The man is averaging almost 48 yards for carry after contact this season. The Browns offensive line is good. They're going up against the Chargers this week. Remember what they did to them last year where they just ran all over that Chargers defense? Like Nick Chubb is an incredible running back. He's second in the NFL, 439 yards on the ground, just four yards, four measly yards, hard-earned yards, I'm sure. Behind, say, Kwan Barkley for the league lead. Sam Monson, you are amazing. What is this incredible shirt you're wearing? It's a Lenster rugby jersey, the province that I'm from. The province that you're from? Wow, this is all too much for me. This is a lot of culture. What, black, what? Is he from Black Rock? Are you from Black Rock? Look at this, get over here, Melissa. Are you from Black Rock? I used to coach rugby for Black Rock's junior school, so, ish, not funny. Marissa, can we take Marissa's single? Look at how much of this Guinness I took down. I'm so proud. I'm gonna be drunk. It's a good beer, right? I'm gonna be drunk for the last 20 minutes of the show. We're gonna do a harp neck. Sam, thing you're most looking forward to in week five. Most looking forward to, I'm really looking forward to that Sunday night football game, the Bengals against the Baltimore Ravens, AFC, North Supremacy. Look at you go, that's right. Perfect. The goal control room is like, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no. Ooh, I'm getting, I'm getting cheers. Thank you. Whoa, look at that. I love my audience. Thank you all. Sam Monson, Black Rock, and Guinness, and I didn't even hear what you said. What did you say you're most excited about? Bengals, Ravens, I think that's gonna be a fun matchup. Bengals and Ravens, hopefully, yeah, they can get it done. T. Higgins, a favorite of Brandon Marshall. I think I'm gonna throw up after this. We will talk to you, we will, of course, check out everything going on at pff.com, the new PFF app, which we love, and we'll see you soon. Sam Lee, come back next Friday. Absolutely, anytime, thanks so much for having me. We'll be back after this, because we have to talk about what's next, Conrad. I love Fridays on the show. Oh, I've got guys you gotta put in your daily fantasy, line up, and guys who will score, touchdowns in week five. Happy Friday, time for DF, yes, here are my DFS players for week five, who I love, first up, Zach Wilson. Listen, we got the news that he was gonna come back and start when I was on the air and I said some optimism is coming, and here we go. He finished 11th at quarterback last week in his season debut, the Dolphins, who they've got on the docket for week five have allowed the second most passing yards in the NFL this season, and might be without both starting corners. I like Damian Harris as well, up against the Lions, still like a mid-tier pricing option, going up against the league's worst defense, and what will almost definitely be a run heavy game for the Pats, and no matter who is at quarterback. Another writer-teamer that I like is Corey Davis. I think you stack him with Zach Wilson, that's what we like to do in daily fantasy. Davis was the guy Zach looked for down the stretch. He grabbed five balls for 74 yards in a score that is clearly a trust factor situation.  Another wide receiver I love, one that we didn't talk to you, James Jones, about is Alan Lazard, who has gotten the trust of Aaron Rodgers. They're playing in London, it's the Giants, and he really is kind of the go-to guy, and he's a bit of a value over at FanDuel. He's had either 100 yards or a touchdown in every game this season. All three games that he's played, and he's coming off his best performance, by the way, nothing to sneeze at, six catches for 116 yards. James Jones says, if you're a wide receiver and you get 70 yards on five catches, that's exciting. So he had eight targets against the Patriots, expect that to continue against their NFC East opponent, the Giants. Should we throw a tight end in there? Should we? One more time, am I feeling generous? It's Friday, we might as well. Logan Thomas, taking on the Titans. He's off to a little bit of a slow start this year, but he saw six targets. Last week in Tennessee's defense has been the second most generous to the tight end spot this season at the FanAdams show with your questions for DFS. But let's take, oh, we have Conrad. Is it my birthday? We have a review board? Oh my God, goodness, these are my DFS. Value plays Zach Wilson, stacking with Corey Davis. Damian Harris, yes, you can play Ramon Drew, but I'd like to value at 7,200. These, of course, according to FanDuel, we love FanDuel, we love FanDuelTV, Alan Lazard, to get a little piece of that action in London, something to get excited about. And Logan Thomas at tight end, because I love you. And because I love you extra on Fridays, we have gotta hit some K-makers, don't we? Are we doing that Conrad? Let's do it, these are guys who are going to find the end zone. Listen, I'm not gonna brag, but I got two or three right last week. Did I not? Conrad, can you pop out? Oh, you can't pop in there. He's in the field control room, but this is my last week picks, right? Mike Evans scored. Romeo Dobbs, I was there, I willed it, I manifested it, and Stefan Diggs. So I'm gonna hit you with three players I think will score a touchdown this week, and I begin with Tyler Lockett. Why? Because he's due. Sometimes the math just works that way. He leads the Seahawks in receptions and receiving guards. We know he's Gino Smith's favorite target. Ride the hot hand. It's time we get Tyler Lockett into the end zone. Now, Jamar Chase, my second guy, a K-Maker. I think he scores. No touchdown last week, but last season, the Bengals torched the Raven Secondary for over 500 yards a game. Really think about that. So I think Chase finds the end zone in week five. Say Sam Monson, who got me drunk on that television, also said he's very much looking forward to that game. And AJ Brown, my last K-Maker. Can we hear some noise for AJ Brown? Fly Eagles, fly. One touchdown this season. Just one.  He's gonna get loose. It's a big one against the Cardinals. Do not sleep against, don't sleep on AJ Brown going up against that Cardinals secondary. So if we take a look at my K-Makers for the week two of three last week, can I go three for three? Am I wrong? Am I missing somebody? Let me know at Up in Adams or Up in Adams Show. Which one is it? I don't know on Twitter. Show? Thank you. At Up in Adams Show on Twitter. K-Makers, these guys will score. Eight touchdowns. Okay, Rihanna Super Bowl. I will drink to that.


Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Joe Elliott, lead vocals, Rick Savage, bass guitar, backing vocals, Rick Allen, drums, backing vocals, Phil Collins, guitar, backing vocals and Vivian Campbell, guitar, backing vocals. This is the band's longest-standing lineup. The band's strongest commercial success came between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. Their 1981 album, High and Dry, was produced by Robert John Mutt Lang, who helped them begin to define their style, and the album Stand Out Track Bring In on the Heartbreak became one of the first rock videos played on MTV in 1982. The band's next studio album, Pyramania in January 1983, with photograph and rock of ages as the lead singles, turned Def Leppard into a household name. In the US, Pyramania was certified Diamond, ten times platinum. In 2003, the album ranked number 384 on Rolling Stones' 500 greatest albums of all time. Def Leppard's fourth album Hysteria, released in August 1987, topped the UK and US album charts. As of 2009, it has reached beyond the success of Pyramania, having been certified 12 times platinum for sales of over 12 million in the US and has gone on to sell over 25 million copies worldwide. The album spawned seven hit singles, including the US Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Love Bites, alongside Pour Some Sugar on Me, Hysteria, Armageddon It, Animal, Rocket, and Women. Their next studio album, Adrenalize, the first following the death of guitarist Steve Clark, reached No. 1 in the UK and US charts in 1992, and contained several hits, including Let's Get Rocked and Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad. Their 1993 album, Retroactive, contained the acoustic hit song Two Steps Behind, while their greatest hits album Vault, released in 1995, featured the UK hit When Love and Hate Collide. As one of the world's best-selling music artists, Def Leppard have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and have two albums with RIAA Diamond certification, Pyramania and Hysteria. They are one of only five rock bands with two original studio album selling over 10 million copies in the U.S. The band were ranked No. 31 in VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock and ranked No. 70 in 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. History Early Years, 1977–1979 Rick Savage, Tony Kenning, and Pete Willis, all students at Tapton School in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, formed a band called Atomic Mass in 1977. The band originally consisted of Willis on guitar, Savage on bass, after originally playing guitar, and Kenning on drums. Only 18 at the time, Joe Elliott tried out for the band as a guitarist following a chance meeting with Willis after missing a bus, in November 1977. During his audition it was decided that he was better suited to be the lead singer. Their first ever gig was in the dining hall in A Block in Westfield School in Missborough, Sheffield. The band adopted a name proposed by Elliott, Def Leppard, which was originally a band name he thought up while writing reviews for imaginary rock bands in his English class, and in at least partial reference to Led Zeppelin. At Kenning's suggestion, the spelling was slightly modified in order to make the name seem less like that of a punk band. In January 1978, Steve Clark joined the band. According to Elliott, he successfully auditioned for the band by playing Leonard Skinnerd's Free Bird in its entirety. In November, just prior to recording sessions for what would be a three-song release known as the Def Leppard E.P., Kenning abruptly left the band, he would later form the band Cairo. He was replaced for those sessions by Frank Noon. By the end of the month, Rick Allen, then only 15 years old, had joined the band as its full-time drummer. Sales of the E.P. sword after the track Get Your Rocks Off was given extensive airtime by renowned BBC radio one DJ John Peel, considered at the time to be a champion of punk rock and new wave music. Throughout 1979, the band developed a loyal following among British hard rock and heavy metal fans and were considered among the leaders of the new wave of British heavy metal movement. Their growing popularity led to a record deal with the major label Phonogram Vertigo, Mercury Records in the US. Def Leppard's original management, MSB, a local duo consisting of Pete Martin and Frank Stuart Brown, were fired after Martin and Joe Elliott got into a fistfight over an incident on the road. The band approached Peter Mench of Labour Krebs Management, who had booked the monitor of the UK supporting ACDC. Mench, who admitted that he had had his eye on the band, became their manager. Rise to Fame, 1989-83. Def Leppard's debut album, On Through the Night, was released on March 14, 1980. Although the album hit the top 15 in the UK, many early fans were turned off by the perception that the band was trying too hard to appeal to American audiences by recording songs such as Hello America and Turing More in the US, supporting Pat Traverse, ACDC, and Ted Nugent. A performance at the Reading Festival in August was marred when audience members expressed their displeasure by pelting the band with beer cans and bottles filled with urine. This incident was partially blamed on a cover story in Sound's music newspaper by the journalist Jeff Barton entitled Has the Leppard Changed Its Spots, accusing the band of selling out to the American market. In a documentary on the band recorded for BBC Two, Barton recalls feelings of guilt over the story and having a stand-up row with the band's manager, Mench, backstage at the show.In the documentary series Metal Evolution, Joe Elliott says that the media had exaggerated the event and all bands on the day had experienced the abuse from the crowd. The band had by then caught the attention of ACDC producer Robert John Mutt Lang, who agreed to work on their second album, High and Dry, released on July 11, 1981. Lang's meticulous approach in the studio helped them begin to define their sound. Despite the album's unimpressive sales figures, the band's video for Bring In on the Heartbreak became one of the first metal videos played on MTV in 1982, bringing the band increased visibility in the US. The band continued to use the up and coming music television industry to reach fans over the years with their unique videos and the extravagance of their concerts. After the album's release, European and American tours followed. The band opened for Ozzy Osbourne and Blackfoot. Phil Collins, former guitarist with the glam band Girl, on July 12, 1982 replaced Pete Willis, who had been fired the previous day because of excessive alcohol consumption on the job. Willis would later resurface with the bands Gog Magog and Roadhouse. This personnel change took place during the recording of their third album, Pyramania, which was released on January 20, 1983 and also produced by Lang. The cover artwork depicted an animated picture of a huge flame emerging from the top floor of a skyscraper, with the bulls eye aimed at the flame. Though many stores would not carry the album due to the cover art, the band did not change the artwork. The lead single, Photograph, turned Def Leppard into a household name, supplanting Michael Jackson's beat it as the most requested video clip on MTV and becoming a staple of rock radio, dominating the US album Rock Charts for six weeks, and sparked a headline tour across the US. Fueled by photograph and subsequent singles Rock of Ages and Fullen, Pyramania went on to sell 6 million copies in 1983, more than 100,000 copies every week in that year, and was held off the top of the US album charts only by Michael Jackson's thriller.With the album's massive success, Pyramania was the catalyst for the 1980s pop metal movement. In 2004, Pyramania was certified Diamond having sold over 10 million copies in the US. Def Leppard's US tour in support of Pyramania began opening for Billy's Choir in March and ended with a headlining performance before an audience of 55,000 at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego, California in September. As a testament to the band's popularity at the time, a US Gallup poll in 1984 saw Def Leppard voted as favorite rock band over peers such as the Rolling Stones, ACDC and Journey. However, in their native England, Duran Duran secured the number one spot. Hysteria Era, 1984-1989 Following their breakthrough, the band moved to Dublin in February 1984 for tax purposes to begin writing the follow-up to Pyramania. Mutlang initially joined in on the songwriter sessions but then suddenly declined to return as producer due to exhaustion. Instead, Jim Steinman, of Meat Loaf's But Out of Hell fame, was brought in. On December 31, 1984, drummer Rick Allen lost his left arm in a car crash on the A57 in the hills outside the band's home city of Sheffield. Allen was driving with his Dutch girlfriend, Miriam Berenzen, when his corvettes whirved off the road on a sharp bend and went through a dry stone wall. Despite the severity of the accident, Allen was committed to continuing his role as Def Leppard's drummer, and realized that he could use his legs to do some of the drumming work previously done with his arms. He then worked with Simmons to design a custom electronic drum kit. The other members of the band supported Allen's recovery and never sought a replacement. Allen was placed in a separate studio to practice his new drums. After a few months, Allen gathered the band together and performed the intro to the Led Zeppelin version of When the Levy Breaks to showcase his progress to the band. Joe Elliott reports this as being a very emotional moment. During this period, Mutlang returned as producer. Def Leppard brought in Jeff Rich in August 1986 to play alongside Allen during Def Leppard's warm-up mini tour of Ireland. When the band couldn't fit two drum kits on stage at a gig, he and the band realized Allen could drum alone. Allen's comeback was sealed at the 1986 Monsters of Rock Festival in England, with an emotionally charged ovation after his introduction by Joe Elliott. After over three years of recording, Def Leppard's fourth album, Hysteria, was released on August 3, 1987. The first single from the album, Animal, became the band's first top ten hit in the UK, reaching number six on the UK Singles Chart. Animal also started their run of ten consecutive US Billboard Hot 100 top 40 singles. Hysteria immediately topped the UK album charts in its first week of release, and has since spent 105 weeks on the chart.Initial US album sales were relatively slow, compared to Pyromania, until the release of the fourth single, Pour Some Sugar On Me. The song hit number two, and Hysteria finally reached the top of the US Billboard 200 in July 1988.Often regarded as the band's signature song, Pour Some Sugar On Me was ranked number two on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s in 2006. The band's UK success saw them nominated for the 1988 Brit Award for Best British Group. In October 1988, the Power Ballad Love Bites reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.In January 1989, the band scored another US TO P5 hit with Armageddon It, and by spring of 1989 the final single Rocket was in the top 20.Wanting to give fans something new after the massive radio and video airplay for not only the seven singles but also the album tracks that radio DJs were playing off the album, the band performed Tear It Down, a Hysteria B-side at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards. Due to positive fan reaction the song was reworked for their following album Adrenalize. Hysteria is one of only a handful of albums that has charted seven singles or more on the US Hot 100, Women, Number 80, Animal, Number 19, Hysteria, Number 10, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Number 2, Love Bites, Number 1, Armageddon It, Number 3, and Rocket, Number 12, . It remained on the charts for three years and has sold over 25 million copies worldwide.Equally successful was the accompanying 16-month tour, in which the band performed in the round. This concept proved wildly popular with fans, as seen in the videos for Pour Some Sugar On Me and Armageddon It, and was used again for the Adrenalize tour. At the 1989 Brit Awards held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Def Leppard were again a nominee for Best British Group, and the band performed Pour Some Sugar On Me at the ceremony. At the 1989 American Music Awards, Def Leppard won Favorite Heavy Metal Hard Rock Artist, as well as Favorite Heavy Metal Hard Rock Album, for Hysteria. Adrenalize, Clark's death, and change in musical direction, 1999-99. Following Hysteria, the band quickly set out to work on their fifth album, hoping to avoid another lengthy gap. Steve Clark's alcoholism worsened to the point that he was constantly in and out of rehab. Recording sessions suffered from this distraction, and in mid-1990, Clark was granted a six-month leave of absence from the band. Clark died from a mix of prescription drugs and alcohol on January 8, 1991, in his London home. The remaining band members decided to carry on and recorded the album as a four-piece, with Colin mimicking Clark's style on his intended guitar parts. Def Leppard's fifth album, Adrenalize, was finally released on March 31, 1992. The album simultaneously entered at number one on both the UK and US album charts, staying on the latter for five weeks. The first single, Let's Get Rocked, was an instant smash hit, and the band performed the song at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards where it was nominated for best video of the year. In April 1992, Def Leppard appeared at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert at Wembley Stadium, London, performing a three-song set of Animal, Let's Get Rocked and Queens Now I'm Here with guitarist Brian May. Joe Elliott later performed Tie Your Mother Down with the remaining members of Queen and Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash. In a period between late 1991 and early 1992, auditions for another guitarist commenced. Among the guitarists who auditioned included Adrian Smith, John Sykes and Gary Ho Yeh. Ultimately, the band chose Vivian Campbell in February 1992, formerly of DIO and White Snake. Another world tour followed but the band's fortunes began to be affected by the rise of alternative rock, including Grunge. Amidst the increasing popularity of alternative rock, the band decided to balance their original image as rebellious rock stars with a slightly friendlier energy, combining heavy metal with melodies and hooks more reminiscent of pop music. A collection of B-sides and unreleased tracks recorded between 1984 and 1993, called Retroactive, was released in October 1993, preceded by the success of Two Steps Behind, from the Arnold Schwarzenegger film Last Action Hero. Another single, Miss You in a Heartbeat, hit the top five in Canada, becoming one of their biggest hits there. Retroactive has sold three million copies worldwide to date. Two years later, Def Leppard issued their first greatest hits collection, Vault, Def Leppard Greatest Hits, 1980-1995, which reached number three in the UK, and sold over five million copies in the US.Alternate track listings of the album were issued for North America, the UK and Japan. The compilation included a new track, The Power Ballad When Love and Hate Collide, which became their biggest ever hit in the UK, hitting number two on the UK singles chart. On October 23, 1995, the band entered the A Guinness Book of World Records by performing three concerts on three continents in one day, Tangiers, Morocco, London, England and Vancouver, Canada. Slang, released in May 1996, marked a drastic musical departure for the band by featuring darker lyrics and a stripped-down alternative rock edge. The band rehearsed and played the songs together in the studio instead of recording parts separately, resulting in a much more live-sounding album. The US audience reception for Slang and its subsequent tour was a major drop-off from a decade earlier, but Q magazine nonetheless listed Slang as one of their top ten albums of 1996. This album was the first recorded performance of Rick Allen playing a semi-acoustic drum kit since his accident, and not his electronic set as was first used with Hysteria. VH1 revived the band's fortunes in the US in 1998 by featuring them on one of the first episodes of Behind the Music. Reruns of the episode yielded some of the series' highest ratings and brought the band's music back into the public consciousness, following years of burial by the alternative rock climate. The episode was even paraded on Saturday Night Live. In an effort to capitalize on this new momentum, Def Leppard returned to its classic sound with the 1999 album Euphoria. The first single, Promises, reunited the band with Mutlang and hit the US mainstream rock charts at number one for three weeks. The album was certified gold in the US and Canada. 2000-2007 On September 5, 2000, Def Leppard were inducted into the Rock Walk of Fame on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard by their friend Brian May of Queen. In 2001, VH1 produced an aired Hysteria, The Def Leppard Story, a biopic that included Anthony Michael Hall as Mutlang and Amber Valletta as Laura Lyshell List, Steve Clark's girlfriend. The docudrama covered the band's history between 1977 through 1986, recounting the trials and triumphs of Rick Allen and Steve Clark. July 18 broadcasts still produced some of the channel's highest-ever ratings and is available on DVD. Def Leppard's 10th album, X, saw the band's musical direction moving more towards pop and further away from the band's hard rock roots. X quickly disappeared from the charts, ultimately becoming the band's least successful release. However, the accompanying tour played to the band's strongest audiences since Adrenaline's. An expanded and updated Best of collection, Best of, was released internationally in October 2004. The North America-only version, Rock of Ages The Definitive Collection, was released the following May. Def Leppard participated at the Live 8 show in Philadelphia and toured in the summer with Brian Adams. In 2005, the band left their longtime management team, Q-Prime, and signed with HK Management. On May 23, 2006, Def Leppard released an all-covers album titled Yet. The disc pays homage to classic rock songs of their childhood, originally recorded by Blondie, The Kings, Sweet, E.L.O., and Bad Finger among others. It debuted at number 16 in the U.S., their 10th consecutive T.O.P.20 album. The band, along with Queen, Kiss, and Judas Priest, were the inaugural inductees of VH1 rock honors on May 31, 2006. During the show, the All-American rejects paid homage to the band with a cover of photograph. Soon afterwards, they embarked on a U.S. tour with Journey. That October, Hysteria was re-released in a two-disc deluxe edition format, which combined the original remastered album with B-sides, remixes and bonus tracks from single releases. Def Leppard began their downstage thrust tour, on June 27, which took them across the U.S. and into Canada. Support bands were Foreigner and Sticks. Songs from the Sparkle Lounge, 2008-2009. On April 28, 2008, Def Leppard released their first album of new studio material in six years, Songs from the Sparkle Lounge. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 in the U.S. The first single was entitled Nine Lives and featured country singer Tim McGraw, who CEO wrote the song with Joe Elliott, Phil Collins and Rick Savage. A tour in support of the album began on March 27, 2008 in Greensboro, North Carolina, with Sticks and Rio Speedwagon joining the band on U.S. dates. The band also played several European rock festivals. An arena tour of the UK took place in June in which the band CEO headlined with White Snake and was supported by U.S. Southern Rockers Blackstone Cherry. The band then returned to Europe before coming back for a second leg of the UK tour in June. The first of these dates was at the Glasgow SECC on June 17. Again they were joined by White Snake, however, hard rock band Thunder supported at some of these shows. Blackstone Cherry continued to support most of the dates, including some of the Thunder ones. Six shows which were cancelled during the Yuzakonata leg of their world tour due to illnesses affecting Joe Elliott and Phil Collins would be rescheduled and played in August of that year. On June 11, Def Leppard announced further dates for their 2008 world tour. The extension saw them visit Japan, Australia and New Zealand. White Snake continued to support Def Leppard for their Indian and Japanese dates. Def Leppard toured 41 U.S. cities plus Toronto, Canada, during mid-2009 with Poison and Cheap Trick and also played the Download Festival with White Snake and ZZ Top. In October 2008, Def Leppard played with country star Taylor Swift in a taped show in Nashville, Tennessee, in a show called CMT Crossroads, Taylor Swift and Def Leppard. This was released as a DVD on June 16, 2009 exclusively at Walmart. The release was the best-selling DVD of week, and the 10th best-selling Walmart music release. A fan of the band since childhood, Taylor Swift chose Def Leppard to perform together for the show, and their crossover performance of photograph was up for both performance of the year and wide-open country video of the year at the CMT Music Awards in 2009. That's what got Taylor Swift said of the performance, performing with Def Leppard was awesome. They are the coolest guys on the planet. It was the coolest thing in the world to have my band on stage with them, it was the most amazing feeling in the world. Joe Elliott from Def Leppard said, what an absolute pleasure it was to work with Taylor and her band who are a great set of musicians. Myself and Taylor blended really well together, I think, and everybody, both bands and the crowd, had a great time. I'm really glad we had the opportunity to do this. In October 2009 the band announced that they would be canceling the last leg of the 2009 North American tour, a total of 23 shows. The band cited, unforeseen personal matters, as the reason for the cancellations.At the time, the band denied rumors about a breakup, saying, we're not splitting. Not at all. We often joke, what else would we do? You just can't imagine doing anything else. Recent events and self-titled album, 2010–present. After taking a year off from touring in 2010, the band announced on February 22, 2011 that they would be releasing their first live album in the summer. Mirror Ball Live and More, a two-disc live album, with three new studio tracks, was released in parts of Europe on June 3, the rest of Europe on June 6, and on June 7 in the US, it was announced at the same time that Def Leppard would perform at the Download Festival on June 10, 2011. Of the three new studio tracks, two were released as singles, the first single being undefeated released in April 2011, followed by It's All About Believe-In released over a year later in May 2012. Def Leppard embarked on a two-month US tour in the summer of 2011, with Hart, as well as another seven shows in Australia in October with the Choir Boys and Hart, two shows in Japan in November, and six shows in the United Kingdom in December with Steel Panther and Motley Crue. The following year, they then toured with Poison and Lita Ford in the US during the summer of 2012 from June 20 through September 15, dubbed the Rock of Ages 2012 tour. The year after, Def Leppard played an 11-show residency at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada from March 22 through April 13, 2013. The residency, referred to as Viva. Hysteria, featured a two-part show, with the first half featuring Def Leppard opening for themselves, under the alias DED Flatbird, jokingly called the best Def Leppard cover band in the world, when they would then play songs they very rarely play live, going all the way back to A Good Morning Freedom, a B-side from the single Hello America released in February 1980, an era usually left untouched by the band. The opening set varied each night, from playing the best hits from albums like On Through the Night, Slang, and Euphoria, to being the entire first half of High and Dry. The second half, and main event was Def Leppard, as themselves playing their best-selling album, Hysteria, from start to finish. A live album, also titled Viva. Hysteria was released on October 22, 2013. This was the first time the band has played an album live from start to finish. The band has re-recorded several hits and even the entire album Hysteria in an effort to circumvent their record label from future royalties, though of these re-recordings, only rock of ages, pour some sugar on me, and Hysteria have actually been released. In June 2013, Vivian Campbell announced that he had developed Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a malignant form of cancer that affects the Reed Sternberg cells, located in the lymph nodes. He continued performing with Def Leppard, and no shows were cancelled or rescheduled. The sole idea of cancelling any shows and not doing anything disgusted Vivian, believing performing would be the best way to remain optimistic. In November 2013, he announced he was in remission. However, the cancer has since re-emerged, and he is now receiving chemotherapy once again. Should the cancer once again enter remission, he will undergo a stem cell transplant. On February 11, 2014, the band released a remastered deluxe edition of their 1996 album Slang After Much Delay. The album, still coveted by many loyal fans of the band, now features 30 tracks including demos, b-sides and unreleased material. From June 23, 2014 to August 31, 2014, Def Leppard and Kiss toured 42 cities, with the dollar per ticket donated to such military charities as Wounded Warrior Project. Def Leppard contributed one song Helen Wheels to the Paul McCartney tribute album The Art of McCartney released on November 18, 2014. Joe Elliott also contributed another track Hi Hi Hi. At certain recent points in time, the band had projects, such as a cartoon and a documentary in development. However, these projects seem to be shelved indefinitely. The band had originally planned to do another residency in Las Vegas, this time in honor of Pyramania, called Viva. Pyramania, but due to the Hero's 2014 tour with Kiss, and an upcoming, unnamed studio album, the project has been pushed back indefinitely. The new album was originally planned to be an EP, but the set list increased to 15 songs by June 2014. The album is planned to be released in 2015 with a tour to follow. In December 2014, the band announced a 13-date Canadian tour in April and May 2015. This was followed in February 2015 with the announcement of a 2015 U.S. summer tour with Sticks and Tesla from June to October 2015. The tour has been extended to include dates in Japan and Australia throughout November, and a tour of the UK and Ireland with White Snake in December. Def Leppard will also return to North America with Sticks and Tesla in early 2016. An 11th studio album, titled Def Leppard, was recorded in 2014 and 2015, and released on October 30, 2015. The band released the lead single from their self-titled album on September 15, 2015, titled Let's Go!, with a music video for the song being released on October 30. The 14-track album debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200 in the U.S. During the break following their 2015 tour, Def Leppard led the Hysteria on the high seas concert cruise aboard the MSC Divina in January 2016. Originally supposed to be a cruise just for the concert-goers, cabins were later opened up to others due to low sales. The cruise did not go according to schedule for various reasons, the cruise was not able to dock at the private island due to inclement weather, then Joe Elliott became ill with laryngitis on the night of their cruise performance. This led to the band performing without Elliott for the first time in their history. Vivian Campbell and Phil Collins sang lead vocals on two songs of the shortened 7-song set in addition to two songs with vocals by Andrew Freeman and two more with Eric Martin and Kip Winger. In addition to this, Campbell and Freeman's last in line bandmate Jimmy Bain, former bassist of DIO died of lung cancer aboard the ship the same night, causing last in line to cancel their show the following day. Back on land, Elliott struggled through the first concert of the 2016 tour, resulting in Tesla's Jeff Keith joining Elliott on lead. The following day's concert was also postponed due to illness, with Rick Allen reporting on Twitter the doctor basically said that if Joe continues to sing without resting his throat for a month he might do permanent damage. By July, the band were performing regularly again and intended to complete 48 dates. When the tour stopped at DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan on July 15, the show was recorded for future release. On February 10, 17, the band released and there will be a next time. Live from Detroit, a double live album and concert video. Musical style and legacy. Def Leppard's music is a mixture of hard rock, hour, pop and heavy metal elements, with its multi-layered, harmonic vocals and its melodic guitar riffs. However, even though they were often considered one of the top bands of the new wave of British heavy metal movement of the late 1970s, in the mid-1980s the band were associated with the growing glam metal scene, mainly due to their mainstream success and glossy production. Pyramania has been cited as the catalyst for the 1980s pop metal movement.Def Leppard, however, expressed their dislike of the glam metal label, as they thought it did not accurately describe their look or musical style. By the release of the Hysteria album, the band had developed a distinctive sound featuring electronic drums and effects-laden guitar sounds overlaid with a multi-layered wall of husky, harmonized vocals. Def Leppard has been cited as an influence by a wide range of musical acts, from heavy metal and thrash metal bands such as Slayer, Pantera and Metallica as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement as well as by popular contemporary artists Matt Nathanson and Taylor Swift. With Pyramania and Hysteria both certified diamond by the RIAA, Def Leppard is one of only five rock bands with two original studio album selling over 10 million copies each in the US alongside the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Van Hollen. Both Pyramania and Hysteria feature in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Def Leppard was among the most successful of the new wave of British heavy metal bands in the early 1980s. They combined the raw power of metal with a pop emphasis on melody, catchy hooks and vocal harmonies that, particularly later on, contrasted sharply with harsher contemporary metal and punk bands. Def Leppard got their early albums such as On Through the Night, 1980, appealed to metal fans and influenced the likes of Dimebag Darrell of Pantera and Jeff Hanneman of Slayer. Their hugely popular later albums, such as Hysteria, 1987, appeared irregular due to their perfectionism in the studio, but appealed to a broad range of music fans. Despite their huge commercial success, Elliott has said in an interview that he feels the band does not receive its fair share of respect from the British music press and he claimed the band had been barred from the BBC's later with Joles Hollen series because they were not cool enough. Side Projects Phil Collins played guitar, uncredited, on Sam Kinney's Wild Thing from 1988. The video featured members of bands such as Poison, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Guns N' Roses, Rat and Aerosmith. Collins also produced and played on the 1991 album On The Edge from Australian band BB Steel. Joe Elliott sang lead vocals on two tracks on Rolling Stones' guitarist Ronnie Woods' 1992 solo album, slide on this. His then-wife Carla appeared in the videos for Always Wanted More and Somebody Else Might. Various members of Def Leppard have played on tribute records for Jeff Beck, ACDC and Alice Cooper. A fan of his local football club Sheffield United FC, Elliott performed on two tracks to the soundtrack of the 1996 Sheffield set Motion Picture, when Saturday comes, featuring fellow Sheffield native Sean Bean as a star football player, the title track and an instrumental, Jimmy's theme. Elliott sang and CEO wrote the opening track, Don't Look Down on Mick Ronson's farewell album Heaven and Hole. A promotional video was issued for the song as well. Cybernauts was a side project consisting of Elliott and Colin teamed with members of the Spiders from Mars, David Bowie's former band, minus the late Mick Ronson. The group played several shows, covering Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era songs and released one Internet-only album, since deleted. Vivian Campbell has played with two side bands in recent years, Clock and The River Dogs, and recorded a solo album, Two Sides of If, released in 2005. Campbell toured with Thin Lizzie in early 2011 before joining Def Leppard on their latest tour. Colin sings lead vocals and plays guitar in a side band called Man Raise with sex pistols drummer Paul Cook and former girl bandmate Simon Laffey. They released their debut album Surreal in 2008 and a second album, Punk Funk Roots Rock, in 2008. Joe Elliott founded and fronts the band Down N' Out's with members of the choir Boys. The band plays covers of Mott the Hoopal and related artists such as British Lions and Ian Hunter. They have released two studio albums of covers and one live album since their incarnation in 2009. Following the death of Ronnie James Dio, Vivian Campbell reunited with the rest of the original Dio lineup with vocalist Andrew Freeman to form Last in Line. The band pays tribute to Dio by playing songs from their original tenure in the band and will also be releasing a studio album of original material in 2016. Joe Elliott, along with various other musicians including Glenn Hughes, Duff McCagan, Sebastian Bach, Matt Sorum, Gilby Clark and Steve Stevens formed a super grub called Kings of Chaos, whose catalog consists of songs by Deep Purple, Def Leppard, Guns N' Roses and others. In 2012, Kings of Chaos recorded their version of Deep Purple's classic, Never Before featuring Elliott singing lead vocals. Kings of Chaos played Stonefest in Australia along with a few dates in South America in 2013. Phil Collins formed a blues project by the name of Delta Deep with vocalist Debbie Blackwell Cook which released an eponymous debut in 2015.