Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, alright, so dot com tom in twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: Right, So, because we have so much sports in the
Speaker 2: rearview mirror and we have sports ahead of.
Speaker 1: Us, should we go through the Oscar noms?
Speaker 2: Because I want Max's opinions for sure, Chris, you've seen
Speaker 2: a handful of these movies as well.
Speaker 1: Oh, Tommy wants to part helps on the way. Max
Speaker 1: knows what he's talking about. Let's go through this. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen him yet. Let's go. Let's start with
Speaker 1: message this morning.
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 1: Okay? God, here's the nominees for Best Picture for the Oscars. Begonia.
Speaker 4: Great, yeah, great movie, Your Ghosts the guy that made
Speaker 4: Poor Things? Yeah, he's him, and Emma Stone is like
Speaker 4: his muse. And Jesse plemon Is may be one of
Speaker 4: the most underacted, maybe the most underrated actor in Hollywood
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 1: It's a It's a great movie.
Speaker 4: Very strange, but actually for him more more more palpable
Speaker 4: than than some of his other movies, because he's a weird.
Speaker 1: Dude f one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm surprised by I'm surprised it's in the Best Picture,
Speaker 4: but it was. It was a good movie. It was
Speaker 4: a good popcorn movie, but I am. I am kind
Speaker 4: of surprised that it's in that it's in the Best Picture.
Speaker 1: But I enjoyed it. I thought it was great so much. Frankenstein,
Speaker 1: I haven't I have not slow. That movie is super slow?
Speaker 1: Is that the one on Netflix? Yeah? Yeah, okay, cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've heard good things.
Speaker 4: But yeah, ascar Isaac was I mean he was great
Speaker 4: as as a doctor Frankenstein.
Speaker 1: Jacob Elordi. People also play Frankenstein.
Speaker 4: Yeah that thinks that Jacob ELORDI just went in there,
Speaker 4: just ron, no makeup or nothing, and just was Frankenstein.
Speaker 4: But I thought it was great. I haven't finished. Hamnett
Speaker 4: might win Best Picture if I if I was a voter,
Speaker 4: I might have to vote for Hamnet to win Best
Speaker 4: Picture because it.
Speaker 1: Is.
Speaker 4: It is very sad, but at the end you'll you'll
Speaker 4: feel inspired.
Speaker 1: I literally after the movie. I've cried a lot of movies.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever started crying explaining why I
Speaker 2: was crying after I had already seen the movie.
Speaker 4: That's how That's how moved I was. And the last
Speaker 4: scene is just breathtaking.
Speaker 1: I love to cry. Same Marty Supreme cry.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, that's that's if Marty Supreme is up
Speaker 4: there as well, I would say Marty Supreme ham Net
Speaker 4: one battle after another, I would assume it is in
Speaker 4: the next, one after another. Those are those are going
Speaker 4: to be the top three that are contending for that
Speaker 4: Best Picture. But Marty Supreme, Timothy Shalome has every reason
Speaker 4: to have been as brash about that movie as he was.
Speaker 1: The other four are the Secret Agent.
Speaker 4: That's like one of the few I haven't I haven't
Speaker 4: seen that one. That's I forget the guy's name, but
Speaker 4: he's a really good actor. He's just fairly and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was. It wasn't. Thank you sas you're a cinephile.
Speaker 4: Sentimental Value, yes, okay, Sentimental Value is not a movie
Speaker 4: that's for everyone.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of these movies this year.
Speaker 2: I feel like the theme, the underlying theme in most
Speaker 2: of these movies is family intro family drama and then
Speaker 2: just kind of like the experience the tragedies and trials
Speaker 2: and tribulations and happiness sometimes of being a parent.
Speaker 1: And this is guy.
Speaker 4: It's like about this guy who's like a director and
Speaker 4: he's trying to kind of reconnect with his with his
Speaker 4: kids and whatnot, and it's it's probably the best soundtrack
Speaker 4: of any movie this year, but it is, it is phenomenal.
Speaker 4: One of the scars Guard Dad Fenn scars Guard is
Speaker 4: kind of he's the main character in that one.
Speaker 2: Well, it's funny because Best Original Score, Scott's Staff, Sentimental
Speaker 2: value Yeah, well great, No, I'm kidding. Sinners, Yeah, Sinner,
Speaker 2: I mean Sinners is.
Speaker 4: It's just a phenomenal movie. One of the most original
Speaker 4: concepts that we saw this year. Absolutely, and Ryan Coogler,
Speaker 4: if he doesn't win Best Picture should probably win Best
Speaker 4: Director because and and I mean, like how often from
Speaker 4: Marty Supreme and for Sinners, it was really cool to
Speaker 4: just see people flock to the theater to see an
Speaker 4: original movie, not a reboot, not a remake, not a sequel,
Speaker 4: brand new, original movie. And every single time Ryan Coogler's
Speaker 4: ever made a movie, it's become a cultural phenomenon. Because
Speaker 4: he also directed Black Panther as well, So every single
Speaker 4: time he makes a movie, it's it's a thing. It's
Speaker 4: like it's a defining thing of that year. Like you,
Speaker 4: I would say, there's better movies, but Sinners was the
Speaker 4: defining movie of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: I've never seen them like it. Yeah, and that musical scene.
Speaker 4: Speaking of music, that if if there was a nomination
Speaker 4: for Scene of the Year, that would hands down win
Speaker 4: one hundred percent. Then the last film, Train Dreams, that
Speaker 4: was a straight to Netflix kind of bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't even know whatbut it it's it's like
Speaker 1: a it's one of those.
Speaker 4: I think it's about this guy who's like a logger
Speaker 4: or something like that. He lives in the forest and
Speaker 4: it kind of goes through his life.
Speaker 1: It's got I can't think of the guy's name, but
Speaker 1: he's been in a million movies.
Speaker 4: That's that's I think that's the only one that you've
Speaker 4: named so far that it happens.
Speaker 1: Okay, uh so Best Actor.
Speaker 2: The five nominees are Chalamete Form Marty Supreme, Leonardo DiCaprio
Speaker 2: for One Battle After Another, Ethan Hawk for Blue Moon,
Speaker 2: Michael B. Jordan for Sinners, Yeah, and something called Wagner
Speaker 2: Mora for The Secret Agents.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You guys would know. You guys would know him
Speaker 1: if you saw him. This guy. You've seen this guy before.
Speaker 1: That's oh, yeah, that guy.
Speaker 2: Every time he's in a movie, he's he's really good.
Speaker 2: You just don't he's just not in a lot of movies,
Speaker 2: all right, Best Actress. The five nominees are Jesse Buckley
Speaker 2: for Hamnett.
Speaker 1: She should win.
Speaker 2: Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You,
Speaker 2: The John Cristel story.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, it's so disconcerting. I'll never watch it again.
Speaker 4: It is it is called If I Had Legs, I'd
Speaker 4: Kick You. It's got your guy Conennan, and he plays
Speaker 4: the therapist. Right, it's not funny. There's there's no comedy
Speaker 4: in that movie. It is the most anxiety inducing movie
Speaker 4: of the year. Again, another movie about kind of the
Speaker 4: anxieties of parenting. But yeah, Rose Byrne normally we only
Speaker 4: see her, you know, we've seen her in a bunch
Speaker 4: of comedies and stuff.
Speaker 1: So she's a leading lady. She's amazing.
Speaker 5: So you have a logical comedy thriller.
Speaker 1: It's not a comedy asap rockies in it. Yeah, why not?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Why not? Exactly.
Speaker 4: He's in a couple of movies this year.
Speaker 1: He was in the Spike Lee joint as well.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to say her name, but the
Speaker 2: main gal from Sentimental Value, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: Know how to pronounce it.
Speaker 2: She's she was nominal in that movie, She's going to
Speaker 2: be a force to be ready Emma Stone and makes sense.
Speaker 2: And then last but not least, Chris Kate Hudson in
Speaker 2: Song Sung Blue.
Speaker 1: She's great.
Speaker 6: That's a hell of a sad movie. Man, I didn't expect.
Speaker 6: I had no idea what I was going in to see.
Speaker 6: I had no idea what I was in for. Holy moly,
Speaker 6: that's a that's a crazy If it weren't a true story,
Speaker 6: I'd be like, that's the most ridiculous movie I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: She's great, quickly.
Speaker 2: Best Actor in a Supporting Role your five nominees Benisio.
Speaker 1: For One Battle after the Best that.
Speaker 2: I wanted to see more of sense I desperately wanted
Speaker 2: to see.
Speaker 1: More of since what I like it. Yes, it's awesome, Okay,
Speaker 1: we should go see it sometime.
Speaker 2: Another person in that movie up for Best Supporting Actor,
Speaker 2: Sean Penn One Battle after Another.
Speaker 4: That's a heavyweight battle between just those two, because that
Speaker 4: job is an evil bastard.
Speaker 1: Of that movie.
Speaker 2: Jacob Elordi for Frankenstein. Zach would say he's not acting
Speaker 2: for abbit. Delroy Lindo for Sinners Hell. Yeah, that makes.
Speaker 4: Me really happy to hear that because he wasn't getting
Speaker 4: a lot of love on some of the other circuits,
Speaker 4: like the smaller circuits.
Speaker 1: But he absolutely he is a scene stealer in.
Speaker 2: That and then the Golden Globe winner stelling Scars Guard
Speaker 2: for sentimental value, So we'll see if he can run
Speaker 2: it back and win the Oscar as well. I saw
Speaker 2: that something like he was the first He's the first
Speaker 2: like actor in a foreign movie that will be nominated
Speaker 2: for that award, which seems kind of preposterous. All right,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna butcher a couple of these names, so I
Speaker 2: actually I might not even try him, but this one
Speaker 2: I can do el Fanning sentimental value, this is best
Speaker 2: supporting Actress.
Speaker 1: Then we can wrap this up and she's fine.
Speaker 2: Amy Madigan in Weapons, Wow, is that the Is that
Speaker 2: the the older the lady?
Speaker 1: That makes sense? That makes sense? Yeah? She yeah, that
Speaker 1: makes sense? Inga something from sentimental value.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, it's just yeah. Uh, We're gonna go with
Speaker 2: one mes Massaku from Sinners.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she was saying, she I think it's one won
Speaker 2: me woon me Massaku from Sinners. Yeah she was. She
Speaker 2: was phenomenal in that movie. She was one of the
Speaker 2: the love interests, I don't remember. There was smoke and
Speaker 2: there was stacked, but she was. She was one of
Speaker 2: the love interest And then the last one is Tiana
Speaker 2: Taylor from one battle after another.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she won the she won the Golden Globes.
Speaker 4: She did, and she was I mean yeah again, talk
Speaker 4: about to See and Steeler in that movie Perfidia Beverly Hills.
Speaker 4: I still like I remember her name that that. That's
Speaker 4: how much the character had an impact on that movie.
Speaker 3: All the respect.
Speaker 5: Tiana Taylor sounds like somebody that they would show on
Speaker 5: uh the college football playoffs and then all the guys
Speaker 5: would know.
Speaker 4: Who she is, but nobody else would. There is uh, yeah,
Speaker 4: there is Tiana Trump. You know, Saucy knows who I'm
Speaker 4: talking about. Saucy knows about Tianna Trump. No relation to
Speaker 4: the president, Sauce, I know who that is.
Speaker 1: How do you know? Just because I've told them about
Speaker 1: it so many times?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: So I just wanted second hand firsthand.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm sure you guys have talked about this. You
Speaker 7: don't have to like raise your hand, But did you
Speaker 7: guys all know who that guy was when they showed
Speaker 7: her on ESPN?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Right away. No idea, I had no idea who
Speaker 1: she was.
Speaker 2: She's Yeah, she's Miles Rushmore, right, Saucy, Yeah, just from
Speaker 2: what you've heard, Just from what you heard like through Max?
Speaker 7: Yeah, through Max? Are we talking only fans? Are like
Speaker 7: just in straight pumoring.
Speaker 2: Hey, let's see what Sauce has learned through Max. Sauce
Speaker 2: answer that question.
Speaker 1: The latter. Oh really yeah, well it wasn't all straight. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I knew who she was. Yeah. Max talks about her
Speaker 1: a lot. Holy Max, please stop.
Speaker 3: Do you like?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: No, I'm not seventy five and liking every thing I
Speaker 8: see or commenting on everything I see on the internet.
Speaker 8: Once again, people, and I say this age because I'm
Speaker 8: not going to rip on my pale older people sixty
Speaker 8: year older, mostly men, should not be on the internet.
Speaker 8: Everybody can see what you're doing.
Speaker 6: May I say that? May I just say this? Go ahead,
Speaker 6: he's not talking about me.
Speaker 1: No talking. I don't need to be texted every day.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I saw it too, don't comment on it, AB,
Speaker 8: don't write A or B.
Speaker 1: Don't say what are your favorite parts about me? Don't
Speaker 1: say both.
Speaker 8: You can see that it can be seen on the internet.
Speaker 9: Now it did not happen, especially like we've talked about
Speaker 9: scy when your your Instagram name is your first and
Speaker 9: last names.
Speaker 1: Don't again, don't wow.
Speaker 8: About four or five months ago, a good pal of
Speaker 8: mine sent me a obvious bot, obviously fishing for information.
Speaker 8: It was followed by two people I'm related to. It's
Speaker 8: obviously a fake person. Two people I'm related to follow
Speaker 8: this person. What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Who are those two people?
Speaker 8: You're not gonna say, but you can figure it out.
Speaker 8: They're over they're over sixty years old. Get off your dad. No, well,
Speaker 8: your dad and your uncle Peter.
Speaker 3: Yes, get off the internet.
Speaker 1: Your uncle Peter's over sixty. Yeah he's sixty. Yeah wow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: dad knew that was coming. Yeah. You need you and
Speaker 1: saw you and Hock need to get your dad's off
Speaker 1: of We need to do anything.
Speaker 8: I speak for a few of us that work here,
Speaker 8: and somebody real famous from the city, real famous follows every.
Speaker 1: Single woman that's ever been on the Internet. Stop doing that.
Speaker 1: You think it's not a filming' I mean it is.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about her, that's exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: We're talking about somebody else. Sometimes they're just fishing, they're
Speaker 1: casting a pretty Why.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're following everybody, and they really think that fish
Speaker 7: is gonna bite.
Speaker 5: No, no, well they think that's going to but I
Speaker 5: just never it's a Lloyd Christmas one in a million.
Speaker 1: But what if she's not Ai? Well she looks like
Speaker 1: she's AI. But what if she's not.
Speaker 2: What if she's willing to fly all the way from
Speaker 2: Slovakia to Saint Louis Park.
Speaker 1: She looks like she's d F Yeah she's Yeah, she's
Speaker 1: obviously fake.
Speaker 2: All right, Well ask Tom Pella Sara when we come back,
Speaker 2: who he follows on the internet and what kind of
Speaker 2: porn stars he likes from time to time.
Speaker 1: That's this, uh power Trip Morning Joe, after this by Maxo.
Speaker 1: There he goes, I love you, There he goes? Or
Speaker 1: two more started at eight twenty three years final segment.
Speaker 6: We've been leaver as well well, I guess, final segment
Speaker 6: of the show period. But he's a short timer, you know,
Speaker 6: M I miss you when you're not here.
Speaker 1: I miss you too. I did miss you. I really
Speaker 1: did miss you. Guys. Yeah, dude, thank you. I loved
Speaker 1: to listen to you though. That was so cool. I did.
Speaker 1: I hated not being able to talk to you online though.
Speaker 1: I know, yeah, yeah, I missed that too.
Speaker 6: Because it's like, you tell me so much. I was
Speaker 6: talking to somebody about this the other day. Having you
Speaker 6: and and Bursuch in my ears so often is like
Speaker 6: a dream come true because you guys are telling me
Speaker 6: things about football I would never ever know, Like the
Speaker 6: average fan doesn't get to hear two former professional NFL
Speaker 6: linebackers talking about what's happening on defense. It's the coolest
Speaker 6: thing ever, man, as a football fan, It's super cool. Yeah, thanks, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: for sure. It'd be the same if Tom Pelser was
Speaker 6: my friend.
Speaker 1: Oh you know what I mean. He's not your friend.
Speaker 1: Well I.
Speaker 6: Think he's my friend, but I'm not sure he'd call
Speaker 6: me friend. But if he if, he'd call me during
Speaker 6: the game and be like, hawk, did you see that?
Speaker 6: But he's never done that.
Speaker 3: Don't you normally have the lights off? Tom?
Speaker 1: I worked on my tan.
Speaker 3: Let's let's turn him down.
Speaker 1: Man out to the show.
Speaker 3: There, there we go Tom today.
Speaker 1: And see if this helps much better? Better?
Speaker 3: Way?
Speaker 1: Yes, much light?
Speaker 6: Who's the floating head on the pe Wee Herman show?
Speaker 6: The Magic Guy?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I feel like, because you're wearing all black.
Speaker 1: Say all you can see is your head? Uh, you guys?
Speaker 1: Are you guys are crushing Corey's brain right now? His brain.
Speaker 1: You can't think of it. You can't think of it.
Speaker 1: He hates this Tom.
Speaker 6: If he can't remember a name, he loses it and
Speaker 6: we aren't allowed to move on until he figures it out.
Speaker 2: No, you guys, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, I don't think I
Speaker 2: would have had it if you hadn't given me the
Speaker 2: first letter. Though.
Speaker 6: Man anyway, Bell Bank brings you Tom Pelisera, the meanest
Speaker 6: man in America.
Speaker 1: And here we are, here we are.
Speaker 6: Can you explain to me what in the sweet hell
Speaker 6: happened in Buffalo yesterday and what the reaction must be
Speaker 6: like for Buffalo fans right now?
Speaker 3: Terry Pegoula, the owner of the Bills, does not speak
Speaker 3: publicly very often. When he does, he does not hold back.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've known Terry a little bit since he
Speaker 3: first bought the Bills, you know, going through a variety
Speaker 3: of different coaching changes, finally landed on the right one
Speaker 3: nine years ago with Sean McDermott. But when he gets
Speaker 3: up there and just starts saying, yeah, this is why
Speaker 3: it was the Broncos game. I walked around the locker room.
Speaker 3: I saw Josh Allen balling in his locker more or less,
Speaker 3: was like he got the vibe that was it, that
Speaker 3: it was over, and two days later the fires. McDermott. Now,
Speaker 3: there were other unique parts of that press conference, like
Speaker 3: Brandon Bean being pressed on not getting the wide receiver
Speaker 3: position right, which we can, you know, argue whether that's
Speaker 3: the case or whether there were other things. And Bagoula
Speaker 3: jumps in and says, actually it was the coaches who
Speaker 3: wanted key on Coleman not being which puts Brandon in
Speaker 3: kind of a you know, a weird spot here. But
Speaker 3: you know, listen, if you take that press conference in
Speaker 3: its totality, and it was wild, which is exactly what
Speaker 3: I would expect, knowing Terry, you know, the real message
Speaker 3: here was, you know, he decided essentially that as much
Speaker 3: as Sean may have been frustrated with the roster, he
Speaker 3: didn't want to have an environment where, you know, there
Speaker 3: was a coach frankly pushing back against you know, the
Speaker 3: way that someone who was equal to him on the
Speaker 3: you know, on the organizational chart was handling his side
Speaker 3: of the business. And so not only does he fire
Speaker 3: Sean McDermott, he promotes Brandon Bean. Bean will now be
Speaker 3: over the new coach. He's going to run the search.
Speaker 3: The new coach will report to him.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: In the end, Terry decided that you know, the blame
Speaker 3: for as he referenced yesterday, you know the thirteen seconds
Speaker 3: that was the when they took the lead on the
Speaker 3: Chiefs and somehow Mahomes took them down and they still
Speaker 3: won that game. You know, miss field goals late. You know,
Speaker 3: all these situations where you know, the common thread was
Speaker 3: not being able to get a stop when you need
Speaker 3: to stop. Obviously, in the Denver game, there's why are
Speaker 3: you running another play at the end of the first
Speaker 3: half and Josh Allen starts running in fumbles and you
Speaker 3: give him a field goal, and then at the end
Speaker 3: of the game you're you know, you're you're in a
Speaker 3: position where you're losing that game instead of being tied.
Speaker 3: It's just it's all these different things. You know, it
Speaker 3: would have been really probably more efficient to just go
Speaker 3: it was time. Nine years is a long time. We
Speaker 3: couldn't get over the hump. He added a few more
Speaker 3: details than that. Anybody who knows Terry isn't surprised by that,
Speaker 3: and now they've got you know, probably I would say
Speaker 3: the best job out there, because you're working with the
Speaker 3: best player on the planet Tom.
Speaker 2: This morning they released the MVP finalists for the NFL
Speaker 2: Drake May, Matt Stafford, Trevor Lawrence, Josh Allen, and Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 2: A dumb question. Maybe we've talked to you about this
Speaker 2: in the past. Do you have an MVP vote? Are
Speaker 2: you one of them?
Speaker 3: I do not because the AP for a long time
Speaker 3: had a standing rule that anyone who works at the
Speaker 3: NFL network cannot have a vote. So I did have
Speaker 3: one when I was at USA today. It was taken
Speaker 3: away from me in twenty seventeen. Then last year, when
Speaker 3: there were some questions being raised about who was on
Speaker 3: the panel, I decided to get on social media and
Speaker 3: post something questioning that there were, you know, people associated
Speaker 3: with sportsbooks, people that own parts of teams, no one
Speaker 3: from any NFL, no one from NFL network. That became
Speaker 3: a viral post that then cost the EIGHTP to reevaluated system.
Speaker 3: They gave several of my colleagues votes. Surprisingly, I did
Speaker 3: not get mine back, so I directly impacted. I believe
Speaker 3: the makeup of the panel. It's probably for the best
Speaker 3: that I that I don't have a vote, But if
Speaker 3: I if I did have one, I would do it
Speaker 3: the same way that I always did it back when
Speaker 3: I did have one, which was poll people within the
Speaker 3: league or a lot smarter than me. I still do
Speaker 3: that poll toward the end of every season. Matthew Stafford
Speaker 3: was the winner in that poll. You know, he was.
Speaker 3: You know, I think that other than obviously he'd had
Speaker 3: a not great game on National TV against the Falcons
Speaker 3: down the stretch, but on the whole, you know, he
Speaker 3: was the best player in football this year. I think
Speaker 3: that's who's going to win. But now they went to
Speaker 3: this ranked choice voting system. You know, everything's a little
Speaker 3: bit different than it was, you know, back when I
Speaker 3: had a vote nine years ago.
Speaker 7: Tom Pelisaro, I do want to get your thoughts on
Speaker 7: the recent news from yesterday. We all understand that Brian
Speaker 7: Flora's signed his extension, but there is a caveat to
Speaker 7: all that if he actually gets asked to be the
Speaker 7: head coach of one of the teams that's available right now,
Speaker 7: he can take that. So can you just kind of
Speaker 7: break down what it all means for both sides, the
Speaker 7: Vikings and Brian Flores.
Speaker 3: The short version is the only way to get Brian
Speaker 3: Flores now is as your head coach up until yesterday,
Speaker 3: and really they had agreed to terms last week, but
Speaker 3: it got finalized and signed yesterday. Up until that time,
Speaker 3: another team, you know, whether that were the Commanders who
Speaker 3: interviewed him, whether that was the Packers who haven't opening,
Speaker 3: whether that was the forty nine ers, you could have
Speaker 3: potentially lured him as a defensive coordinator. I know Kevin
Speaker 3: O'Connell was always confident that Brian Flores was going to
Speaker 3: come back. My understanding is they made a huge offer
Speaker 3: the type that Flores as a decordinator was not going
Speaker 3: to be able to refuse. He is still in the mix.
Speaker 3: A interviewed with the Steelers on Tuesday. He previously interviewed
Speaker 3: for the Ravens head coaching job as well. But if
Speaker 3: one of those does not come through, then Flow is
Speaker 3: going to be back in Minnesota, which is a coup
Speaker 3: for the Vikings because again he could have said, you
Speaker 3: know what, it's been a good three years, I'm not
Speaker 3: getting a head coaching opportunities that I might think that
Speaker 3: I should be getting I'm going to go someplace else
Speaker 3: and see whether that changes. He decided Minnesota was the
Speaker 3: right place for him. There were millions of reasons for
Speaker 3: him to decide that it was the right place for him.
Speaker 3: We'll see what shakes out in those head coaching searches,
Speaker 3: but right now it looks like he'll be back in Minnesota.
Speaker 7: That's fantastic. I think that's all the news that we
Speaker 7: all wanted to hear. I mean, obviously, I think it
Speaker 7: was getting to be excited for him if he does
Speaker 7: get a head coaching opportunity, but it seems like that
Speaker 7: windows closing more and more. I do want to kind
Speaker 7: of shift and ask you about the matchups this weekend.
Speaker 1: Is there?
Speaker 7: I know that the Broncos are doing everything they can
Speaker 7: to like prop up Jared Stidham, but like in your
Speaker 7: heart of hearts, in your football mind, do they legit
Speaker 7: have a chance against this Patriots defense?
Speaker 3: Well? I would also say, how good can the Broncos
Speaker 3: defense been, because that's really what's driven them all season.
Speaker 3: They have not been an off offensive football team. Obviously,
Speaker 3: Sean Payton is really smart with offense and quarterback play,
Speaker 3: but if you look back through the season, I mean,
Speaker 3: there were plenty of times where bo Nix didn't play
Speaker 3: all that great and they're still winning games that might
Speaker 3: be a little bit ugly, and they might be you know,
Speaker 3: because the defense is creating takeaways, whatever it is. You know,
Speaker 3: the defense has to play the best game they played
Speaker 3: all season. I would not put all the pressure on
Speaker 3: Jared Stidham. Certainly, he's got to avoid the big mistakes.
Speaker 3: You know, if I you know, when I went back
Speaker 3: and just looked at my scouting report, is the guy
Speaker 3: hasn't played very much football. Let's be honest. He hasn't
Speaker 3: started a game since he you know, Russell Wilson was
Speaker 3: benched at the end of twenty twenty three, and he
Speaker 3: started those last two games. He's taking one snap this season.
Speaker 3: It was a kneel down. We have not seen the
Speaker 3: guy play a meaningful snap of football in over two years.
Speaker 3: But if you go back to you know, the original
Speaker 3: stuff out out of college, he throws a really pretty ball.
Speaker 3: You know, he handled a lot at Auburn. They were
Speaker 3: just you know, there were basic kind of mechanical and
Speaker 3: accuracy things that he had to work his way through.
Speaker 3: He's been a you know, a top backup obviously, you
Speaker 3: know the year before that, he got the opportunity to
Speaker 3: play in Vegas down the stretch after they bench Derek Carr.
Speaker 3: That's where his opportunities have come in the NFL. He
Speaker 3: was a Patriots draft pick. But the most we've seen
Speaker 3: a Jared Stidham was when they went all right, Derek
Speaker 3: Carr is not going to be back. We got to
Speaker 3: bench him, not run the risk of him getting hurt
Speaker 3: in us owing him his contract. All right, Stitty, you're up.
Speaker 3: And then the Broncos all right, same deal with Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3: We don't want to risk it him getting injured, him
Speaker 3: triggering guarantees. All right, Stitty, you're up. He hasn't played
Speaker 3: very much, and there's a real unknown to this. I
Speaker 3: would say, you know, a lot of it's going to
Speaker 3: come down to how effectively can they run the football.
Speaker 3: Seawn's going to try to get him some easy passes,
Speaker 3: get him in rhythm. But you know, if they're throwing
Speaker 3: the ball thirty five forty times in this game, I
Speaker 3: think it's a strong sign the Broncos aren't winning. They
Speaker 3: got to control it. They got to limit possessions and
Speaker 3: that defense has to play the best they have the
Speaker 3: entire season.
Speaker 8: We heard all week Tom about how good of a
Speaker 8: job kurtzig Netty has done with Indiana. How good of
Speaker 8: a job is Mike Vrabel done with this Patriots team.
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable. And in that same pole that I did,
Speaker 3: Vrabel was the runaway winner. Not that there's not a
Speaker 3: great case for Ben Johnson, Mike McDonald, Liam Cohen. I mean,
Speaker 3: there were a bunch of coaches that did phenomenal work,
Speaker 3: Kyle Shanahan too, keeping that forty nine Ers team afloat
Speaker 3: amidst all the injuries they had through the course of
Speaker 3: the season. But when you think the Patriots were a
Speaker 3: four win team two years in a row, Billichick's last year,
Speaker 3: Grodmeo's last year for them too. Now they spent a
Speaker 3: ton of money in free agency. I mean, they spent
Speaker 3: top dollar to bring in Milton Williams, who's been an
Speaker 3: impact player, Stefan Diggs, who made one of the catches
Speaker 3: of the year last week where somehow in traffic two
Speaker 3: guys hitting them hands catch holds it to the ground.
Speaker 3: I mean, Diggs has had a phenomenal season. But also
Speaker 3: you have to eradicate a lot of losing culture that
Speaker 3: had been in that building for as good as the
Speaker 3: Patriots were for the bulk of Bill Belichick's tenure. You know,
Speaker 3: it's still remarkable, you know, the way that they flipped
Speaker 3: that thing around, and that speaks to how detailed Vrabel is.
Speaker 3: No coach in the NFL, I would say, is more
Speaker 3: in control of situations of rules of game management. And
Speaker 3: you can see it, you know the way that his
Speaker 3: you know, his presence impacts guys. He he's a disciplinarian
Speaker 3: of sorts in that you know, they've got hard rules.
Speaker 3: Never be a minute late to a training session, a
Speaker 3: treatment session, practice meetings. I mean, there's there's an accountability
Speaker 3: that comes with frable there, but you know he doesn't
Speaker 3: evoke that in a way. That's a negative culture. Where
Speaker 3: Bill Belichick for a long time and ver Abel of
Speaker 3: course played under him, had a negative reinforcement culture. It
Speaker 3: was highly successful. But for this generation of players, I
Speaker 3: don't know that that always is. You know something that's
Speaker 3: that's really effective to getting through Vrabel's able to walk
Speaker 3: that line. There's a belief that comes with it. Again,
Speaker 3: no situation is out of his control. Josh McDaniels also
Speaker 3: deserves a ton of credit for the work that he's
Speaker 3: been able to do with Drake May and that offense,
Speaker 3: getting made to go from being a guy that hey
Speaker 3: last year, you see some signs, you know, you see
Speaker 3: some flashes. He's had some good stretches here to now
Speaker 3: we're talking about him in the MVP conversation and a
Speaker 3: finalist for that award. You know, can't say enough about
Speaker 3: the job that Mike Rable has done and now going
Speaker 3: up against you know, a guy in Sean Payton who's
Speaker 3: done it for a long time. You know, the playoff
Speaker 3: success has not been there for Sean, you know, in
Speaker 3: recent years, but you know, this year getting his first
Speaker 3: playoff wins, the Broncos head coach, having the one seed
Speaker 3: where now they're playing at home for a shot in
Speaker 3: Super Bowl sixty. It's a it's a cool matchup. It'd
Speaker 3: probably be more fun if bo Knicks were out there,
Speaker 3: but it definitely adds to the drama of let's see
Speaker 3: you know, Sewn's calling card has always been what he
Speaker 3: can do with defense. Let's see what he can do
Speaker 3: with you know, basically seven days to get a guy
Speaker 3: ready who hasn't played a snap all year.
Speaker 2: Tom, give me a team whose quarterback room or quarterback
Speaker 2: situation directly affects the Vikings offseason the most, Like, is
Speaker 2: there a domino that Vikings fans should be watching to fall.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm looking at my board right here. I've
Speaker 3: got it all mapped out. I mean, there's so many
Speaker 3: of them. When you talk about, you know, how do
Speaker 3: they play it? You know, I mean start, let's start
Speaker 3: with the obvious ones, Arizona and Miami. I would anticipate,
Speaker 3: not not for sure, you know, because there are you
Speaker 3: could try to trade him, but I anticipate Kyler Murray
Speaker 3: into a talk of by law are probably gonna get cut,
Speaker 3: so immediately those two guys are going to go back
Speaker 3: out on the market. He got San Francisco with Mac Jones.
Speaker 3: Kyle Shanahan said the other day that he, you know,
Speaker 3: anticipates Mac Jones being back on the roster. I told
Speaker 3: you guys, I think it was last week or two
Speaker 3: weeks ago. I think the same thing. Brock Purty as
Speaker 3: good as he is, one of the most efficient quarterbacks
Speaker 3: sauce in NFL history, but he's missed boss every year.
Speaker 3: He's he's missed time every year. You want an effective backup,
Speaker 3: and mac Jones has shown even with you know, the
Speaker 3: injuries he was dealing with, he can be that backup
Speaker 3: on a pretty economical type of a contract. There's other teams,
Speaker 3: you know, in terms of exactly how do the Jets
Speaker 3: approach it. Odds are they're going to release Justin Fields.
Speaker 3: That's another guy who drops out there onto the market Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: You know, if Mike McCarthy gets that job, that's probably
Speaker 3: the one coach on the planet that Aaron Rodgers would
Speaker 3: want to play for outside of Mike Tomlin. If not,
Speaker 3: you know, Aaron has to make a decision. I think
Speaker 3: it'll take less time than it did a year ago.
Speaker 3: He showed at the end of the year he's got
Speaker 3: something left. Does he make another run at trying to
Speaker 3: get himself into Minnesota. It's hard to imagine that works,
Speaker 3: just for the same reasons that it didn't work last
Speaker 3: year with JJ McCarthy. But I wouldn't, you know, rule
Speaker 3: out anything in that regard. What does Las Vegas do
Speaker 3: with Gino Smith. They're going to have another new coaching
Speaker 3: staff this year. Is he back? Are they releasing him?
Speaker 3: That's another guy who potentially could be out there on
Speaker 3: the market. But we can go round and round. There's
Speaker 3: a long list of different, you know, different quarterback situations.
Speaker 3: I would just say there's only ten to twelve teams
Speaker 3: right now that I would confidently say who their starting
Speaker 3: quarterback is going to be. There's not a lot of
Speaker 3: guys in the draft. You know, Fernando Mendoza showed again
Speaker 3: on Monday night. You know that he's all the reasons
Speaker 3: that he's probably the number one pick, and Mark Davis,
Speaker 3: Tom Brady, John Spy take, they were all there to
Speaker 3: witness him. I think that it would take the King
Speaker 3: of King's ransoms to get the number one pick away
Speaker 3: from Las Vegas. After that, you know, Ty Simpson's probably
Speaker 3: QB two going into the process. You know how high
Speaker 3: is he realistically going to go. I don't think the Vikings,
Speaker 3: you know, take a quarterback in the first round regardless.
Speaker 3: But to the extent that there's not a lot of
Speaker 3: guys for other teams to take, that means it is
Speaker 3: going to be a seller's market more than a buyer's market.
Speaker 3: The prices on these guys are probably going to be expensive.
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones is the top free agent. He's coming off
Speaker 3: an achilles injury. I know the Colts want him back.
Speaker 3: Can they find the number that gets it done? When
Speaker 3: the Vikings even consider re engaging, it seems unlikely based
Speaker 3: on how things played out last year. But all these
Speaker 3: things are part of the broader swath not to mention
Speaker 3: that there's going to be a bunch of you know,
Speaker 3: developmental type quarterbacks that are in this draft as well.
Speaker 3: Is there somebody that as they go through the process,
Speaker 3: Kevin O'Connell and Quacy like you know, we'll see. It's early,
Speaker 3: but these things, especially those releases, they're probably going to
Speaker 3: progress sooner.
Speaker 7: In the later all right, this is my partying question
Speaker 7: for you, Tom Fellasara. We'll keep it with the Vikings.
Speaker 7: Have you heard anything about the movement of Deronte Jones.
Speaker 7: I know that he was getting some looks as well
Speaker 7: as defensive coordinator positions. Now that be flows back, is
Speaker 7: it all likely that he's going to stick around and
Speaker 7: stay in his position with the Vikings? And then outside
Speaker 7: of the offensive line situation of finding a new coach, like,
Speaker 7: are we basically running it back with the coaching staff?
Speaker 7: Maybe except for me, a few players or a few
Speaker 7: coaches here and there.
Speaker 3: It does seem that way in all likelihood here. You know,
Speaker 3: with Deronte, I know he wants to be a coordinator.
Speaker 3: You know, as most of you know, most assistant coaches
Speaker 3: who have been in the league as long as he have,
Speaker 3: would want to do. He's certainly on the radar for
Speaker 3: the Jets and for the Packers. I think there's at
Speaker 3: least one other team that's requested him as well, so
Speaker 3: you know, he's one of those guys. He's had interviews
Speaker 3: in the past. You think his time is coming. He's
Speaker 3: a really sharp coach who's done a good job on
Speaker 3: that team. You know, these coordinator situations, though, are always
Speaker 3: hard to predict. Some of them are relationships, some are
Speaker 3: you know, who have you gone up against. Every team's
Speaker 3: going to have, just like with head coaches, different criteria.
Speaker 3: If you want a guy who's been a coordinator and
Speaker 3: has experience, you're probably going to go toward, you know,
Speaker 3: the Jonathan Gannons of the world, not Deronte Jones. But
Speaker 3: he potentially have an opportunity here. I was surprised, you
Speaker 3: know that Chris Cooper was let go as the offensive
Speaker 3: line coach that wasn't on radar. I don't get the
Speaker 3: sense that it was on coops radar either, But there's
Speaker 3: going to be when you look at what the Vikings
Speaker 3: are working with, when you look at, you know, the
Speaker 3: respect that Kevin O'Connell commands within the league, I think
Speaker 3: he's going to have options. One of the things that
Speaker 3: I would point out is there's still so many offensive
Speaker 3: coordinator jobs, just like defensive coordinator jobs. When you add
Speaker 3: up nine new coaching staffs or takes give me ten now,
Speaker 3: the number keeps increasing every time I'm on the show.
Speaker 3: Ten new coaching staffs. Only one I believe is opted
Speaker 3: at this point to retain a defensive coordinator and his
Speaker 3: hired an offensive coordinator. That's you know what's taking place
Speaker 3: in Atlanta with Kevin Stefanski hiring Tommy Reech, bringing back
Speaker 3: Jeff Ulbrick. You've got some of the other offensive coordinator jobs,
Speaker 3: Zach Robinson going to Tampa, Eric b Enemy back in
Speaker 3: Kansas City that have filled up. But there's still enough
Speaker 3: dominoes here that some of those let's say the in
Speaker 3: limbo offensive coordinator Canis are still waiting to see, all right,
Speaker 3: am I going to go be at OC somewhere or
Speaker 3: am I potentially going to go and be a position
Speaker 3: coach or have some type of an elevated title. Like
Speaker 3: one name that would jump to mine to be Frank Smith,
Speaker 3: who's been the offensive coordinator with the Dolphins, has been
Speaker 3: one of the most highly regarded, you know, coordinators. He
Speaker 3: was named the number one coordinator an NFLPA poll a
Speaker 3: couple of years ago. He well could be an oc
Speaker 3: dependy who gets some of these head coaching jobs. If
Speaker 3: he's not, He's always been a respected offensive line coach.
Speaker 3: You know, somebody like that. I don't think that Kevin
Speaker 3: O'Connell is just going to go and you know, hire
Speaker 3: a first time or there's a team that's ready to roll.
Speaker 3: You have to one way or another. Get Christian Deresaw back,
Speaker 3: you're ready to ready to go, fully healthy and ready
Speaker 3: to play seventeen games this season. I would think you'd
Speaker 3: want somebody with experienced, somebody who can work with players.
Speaker 3: You know, that's just one name, Frank Smith, But I
Speaker 3: would say that you know, certainly he's going to be
Speaker 3: looking and he's going to have options just because of
Speaker 3: the situation and the environment that they've got in Minnesota.
Speaker 6: Tom, before we let you go, I'm go and ask
Speaker 6: you just a real quick question that you'll be able
Speaker 6: to answer quickly.
Speaker 1: Why is football so popular?
Speaker 3: You said, that's one quick question. Why is football so popular?
Speaker 3: Why is it the biggest sport on the planet.
Speaker 6: Yeah, let me tell I'll give you a lot little
Speaker 6: insight on why I'm asking. Chuck Kloserman just released a
Speaker 6: book two days ago. It's called Football. It's about that
Speaker 6: exact subject. And I don't know if you know who
Speaker 6: Chuck Loserman is. He's one of my favorite authors at
Speaker 6: Cory Field the same way I love him. Can't wait
Speaker 6: to have him on the show again and talk to
Speaker 6: him about it. But that's essentially what the book is about.
Speaker 6: Why is football the most perfect sports? Specifically for Americans?
Speaker 6: If you were, off the top of your head, how
Speaker 6: would you answer that question?
Speaker 3: I would start by the fact that the NFL, unlike
Speaker 3: other professional sports right now in the United States, is
Speaker 3: a national and they hope to be a global sport.
Speaker 3: Baseball is hyper regional, and it's been impacted over the
Speaker 3: years by the lack of a salary cap, by the
Speaker 3: lack of any type of structure, the fact that the
Speaker 3: Yankees can buy every player and the Twins can choose
Speaker 3: to bank their money instead of spending it on free agents.
Speaker 3: The NBA also has been hyper local. The NHL has
Speaker 3: as well. Part of that is a big part of
Speaker 3: it is the media deals. It's the fact that the
Speaker 3: regional sports networks have gobbled up, you know, all these
Speaker 3: different things. And you know, as everybody who didn't watch
Speaker 3: a Timberwols game for five years like me knows, you know,
Speaker 3: there were a lot of fights. There were there were
Speaker 3: business models that were no longer effective. Now that streaming
Speaker 3: has become a bigger piece and I can have the
Speaker 3: fan Duel Sports TV app on my TV. Hey, I'm
Speaker 3: back to watching some Minnesota sports again. But there was
Speaker 3: a phase where you know, there were bankruptcy hearings and
Speaker 3: there's you know, the major sports leagues taking over the
Speaker 3: television rights to some teams. It's because the model was
Speaker 3: upside down, because there were some teams that could draw
Speaker 3: far more money from those rights deals. If you're the
Speaker 3: New York Yankees, you've got a lot more money coming
Speaker 3: in than the Colorado Rockies. And that's just the way
Speaker 3: that it is. The NFL based upon the brilliance of
Speaker 3: the people who were running the sport in the nineteen fifties,
Speaker 3: and nineteen sixties and putting games on CBS and putting
Speaker 3: games on national networks, and that's only expanded. They've been
Speaker 3: ahead of the game for many years as well. You know,
Speaker 3: there was Mark Cuban had the quote years ago, you
Speaker 3: know that the NFL was going to get too big.
Speaker 3: Pigs get what it was it pigs get something, hogs
Speaker 3: gets slotted, whatever, whatever the hell that got what was?
Speaker 3: But it was, you know, the prediction was the NFL
Speaker 3: was going to become too big, it was going to
Speaker 3: eventually wear people out and the golden goose would get cooked.
Speaker 3: The opposite has happened, and it's because fifteen years ago
Speaker 3: they already they're broadcasting committee Jonathan Kraft. You know, the
Speaker 3: one of the Patriots owners was a big piece of it.
Speaker 3: They were ahead of the game and understanding that rather
Speaker 3: than having three or four networks like have been the
Speaker 3: traditional bidders. In other words, when people were saying, well,
Speaker 3: these billion dollar contracts aren't going to exist anymore because
Speaker 3: people are going to stop having cable TV and the
Speaker 3: networks won't have as much power. The way the NFL
Speaker 3: looked at it was we've only had three or four
Speaker 3: bidders at the table for years now with these streaming services,
Speaker 3: will have one hundred bidders that are all trying to
Speaker 3: get a piece. And not only is it well, there's
Speaker 3: been the CBS package of the Fox package and all right,
Speaker 3: NBC has one game a week, in ESPN, ABC have
Speaker 3: one game week. Now it's worth selling off random ass
Speaker 3: Black Friday games and gave them Brazil and Christmas games
Speaker 3: and you have all these other entities and they're being
Speaker 3: sold to these bidders. They weren't even in the space.
Speaker 3: It all began. People forget about this. They did streaming
Speaker 3: games on Twitter that didn't work out great, but it
Speaker 3: was an initial experiment. What if we took a game
Speaker 3: and put it on a specific micro thing. Twitter was huge,
Speaker 3: but it was this thing that the average NFL fan
Speaker 3: wasn't used to having to log onto Twitter and figure
Speaker 3: out how to watch a game. That didn't go great
Speaker 3: because the stream wasn't great, but it also opened the
Speaker 3: eyes of we can definitely do this and people are
Speaker 3: going to come. And that's where you now have Prime
Speaker 3: and Peacock and I can't even remember all the different places.
Speaker 3: You know, Prime has a game all the time, but
Speaker 3: you know there's an exclusive Peacock game, and you're gonna
Speaker 3: put these things in different places. That's going to continue
Speaker 3: to happen, and people are gonna bitch and moan about
Speaker 3: it because now I gotta pay, I gotta have all
Speaker 3: these different streaming services. What they lose oo is that
Speaker 3: you still get every one of your games, every one
Speaker 3: of your team's games that are free. You're not paying
Speaker 3: for an app, you're not paying for a regional sports network.
Speaker 3: You still get all these other the national games. You
Speaker 3: still get two other games every single Sunday in the
Speaker 3: noon window and or the three pm windows Central. You
Speaker 3: get the NBC game, you get the Thursday night game
Speaker 3: that's on Prime, but you get the Monday night game
Speaker 3: as well, that's streamed on all kinds of different places.
Speaker 3: And if you have any streaming service at all, you
Speaker 3: don't have to pay separately for it. You still have
Speaker 3: a larger chunk of games that are going out to
Speaker 3: a broad national audience. The next level of this and
Speaker 3: where they're trying to extend it, and where the twenty
Speaker 3: twenty eight Olympics are so important, is because that's their opportunity.
Speaker 3: The reason the NFL owners are going to be sitting
Speaker 3: there going, God, I don't want Justin Jefferson out there,
Speaker 3: you know, playing, and he you know, shreds his ACL
Speaker 3: in July and I lose him for the season. The
Speaker 3: NFL is going to go, guys, do you understand the
Speaker 3: billions and billions of dollars if we can launch this,
Speaker 3: we put the best players out there. And even if
Speaker 3: it's you know, ar Jackson throwing to Justin Jefferson dunking
Speaker 3: over some poor kid, the one NFL player from Angola
Speaker 3: as to use the nineteen ninety two Dream Team example,
Speaker 3: it's still gonna be like, oh my god, this is awesome,
Speaker 3: and the world will be watching. You're going to see
Speaker 3: an extension where every team eventually is playing an international game.
Speaker 3: My personal prediction, not speaking on behalf of the NFL.
Speaker 3: I believe eventually it'll be two international games for every team,
Speaker 3: and you will send pods into different countries, four teams
Speaker 3: at a time, and they'll play crossover games and do
Speaker 3: two games over a two week span, and you can
Speaker 3: place those different things. You can launch it in China,
Speaker 3: you can launch it not just you know, in Germany.
Speaker 3: You can take it to Africa, you can take it
Speaker 3: to South America. Australia where the Rams are going to
Speaker 3: play a game next year. That's a long answer to
Speaker 3: a short question, hawk, But essentially the reason it's the
Speaker 3: biggest sport in the country is because where all the
Speaker 3: other teams became tribal and very much hyper focused on
Speaker 3: you were going to pay to watch your team one
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty two games this summer, and we're not
Speaker 3: going to pay to actually bring in players you want
Speaker 3: to see. We're gonna pocket the money. Is Hey, we
Speaker 3: don't have the deal the Yankees have, So what are
Speaker 3: the odds we're gonna spend extra fifty million dollars and
Speaker 3: we still are We're closer to three and are million
Speaker 3: dollars payroll? Well, or we're just gonna be the little
Speaker 3: engine that could and try to win. The NFL is
Speaker 3: a salary cap. They have a salary floor. Everybody in
Speaker 3: the aggregate spends the same amount of money roughly over
Speaker 3: a long period of time. You have national audience, you
Speaker 3: have national games all the time. You cannot avoid the NFL.
Speaker 3: If I don't subscribe to an app on my TV,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't even know it's basketball season unless I accidentally
Speaker 3: stumble across something. The NFL is unavoidable. It is woven
Speaker 3: into the fabric of society. And whether you want to say,
Speaker 3: you know the NFL, the NFL is greedy, the owners
Speaker 3: are greedy, whatever, it has been extremely effective and you
Speaker 3: still get more free football than you get free anything else.
Speaker 2: Fantastic answer, excellent brother. We also have accepted cool catches.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's also very paradous. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought about trying to fill a buster all
Speaker 3: the way to the top of the hour, just to
Speaker 3: see if even almost off. Yeah, just blow through your break,
Speaker 3: piss off your sponsors.
Speaker 6: And that answer is why you're there and we're still here.
Speaker 1: Tom. That was really good. Well done man.
Speaker 6: Well saw your answer was because I like football, That's
Speaker 6: what I said. Yeah, and you like you said boobs
Speaker 6: at one point.
Speaker 1: I've never been able to talk that long on this show.
Speaker 3: Fantasy football in there either.
Speaker 6: No, thank you, brother, Tom, You're the best man. Thanks guys,
Speaker 6: no doubt.
Speaker 1: That was outstanding. Good question. Why don't you try Why
Speaker 1: do you think football is so big?
Speaker 8: Fantasy football it's something, No, but it's it's not on
Speaker 8: for eight months like the basketball season is, which starts
Speaker 8: in October and ends in June. Is that eight months. Yeah,
Speaker 8: it's on too long. And even Zacho's sport, it's on
Speaker 8: too long. You you miss football.
Speaker 3: Football.
Speaker 8: The NFL makes the heart girl fonder, even though they
Speaker 8: have put themselves in every month. I think it's it's
Speaker 8: just made. It's a sport made for TV. Yes, the
Speaker 8: yellow line they own a week, a day of the week,
Speaker 8: easy to follow. You don't have to watch the whole
Speaker 8: game to get an idea where you were at. It's
Speaker 8: it's a cool sport. And I'm sorry that.
Speaker 6: Honestly, you guys, you got to listen to close to
Speaker 6: me because he talks about why hockey isn't as good,
Speaker 6: he talks about why basketball isn't as good. Why he
Speaker 6: breaks it all down, not in a way that sounds
Speaker 6: homerst you know, he's not like saying it's my favorite
Speaker 6: sport and this is why he's saying, this is why
Speaker 6: it's a better television sport than any other sport. And
Speaker 6: it makes so much sense. It's he's so good. I'm
Speaker 6: only two chapters into it court and I'm super bo
Speaker 6: had not heard about it at all. It's called football.
Speaker 6: It's Chuck Close came out two days ago.
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Speaker 2: years ago. Conan O'Brien accepted a forty five million dollar
Speaker 2: buyout and made his final appearance as the host of
Speaker 2: the Tonight Show.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's hard to be too upset man.
Speaker 2: He got completely screwed, but forty five million makes it
Speaker 2: a little easier.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well a lot of that went to his staff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he's the best dude ever paid offs to go
Speaker 1: his entire staff. Yeah, he's a good did Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: the goat. Good for him. He's very good on TV. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like this podcast is incredible. What's his podcast called? Hawk?
Speaker 1: Two Girls, one cup? My god? You you need you
Speaker 1: need to self. I didn't name it. I think he's
Speaker 1: self burked this morning. Yeah, no, I don't think he.
Speaker 1: I think I was in the parking lot. Ow dare you?
Speaker 1: It's too cold out there? Twins.
Speaker 2: Picture of Pablo Lopez makes his Power Trip debut tomorrow.
Speaker 2: He should be here around seven fifteen or so. He'll
Speaker 2: play initials at eight fifteen. John criesil tomorrow probably mistress tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Who knows, Mark Parrish, Marni Gelliner, lots to get to
Speaker 2: tomorrow five thirty to nine, nine to noon, it's next.
Speaker 1: I already have a running for day to Abadaba. Stay warm,
Speaker 1: bundle up, everybody, take care of yourself. Kn't be careful.
Speaker 1: Love you bye. Ques