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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL podcast gets pretty podcast privilege. We

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Speaker 1: do SESSI from the Chris Wesley podcast studio. It's Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL.

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Speaker 2: I am Dan hanss We've got a two hander today,

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Speaker 2: joined by my longtime friend and colleague Mark Sessler.

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Speaker 1: It's up Mark.

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Speaker 3: I am sitting in the chair for YouTube purposes. They've

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Speaker 3: scrunched us closer together, and I'm sitting in the chair

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Speaker 3: where Greg normally sits, and it's, you know, from a

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Speaker 3: bodily angle, very awkward. I don't know where it's I've no,

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Speaker 3: I don't I understand why I sit where I sit

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Speaker 3: and Greg sits where he sits. Yes, yeah, just out

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Speaker 3: of the gate. Something to deal with.

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Speaker 2: That's something to fight through, and I think you will

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Speaker 2: because you are a professional broadcaster. In fact, it did

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Speaker 2: just occur to me. We're probably coming up on what

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Speaker 2: would it be. I mean, we're talking about maybe the

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Speaker 2: twelve year anniversary of the first show we did, the

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Speaker 2: original iteration of the Around the NFL podcast, which was

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Speaker 2: the ATL Debate Club, Me and you in the old

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Speaker 2: closet there in the Culver City offices. Things are very

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Speaker 2: different now, but I think back of those days and

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Speaker 2: always am thankful to Dave Damashek for giving us our

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Speaker 2: start on the back of the Dave Damashek Football program

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Speaker 2: and those initial wild episodes of the Debate Club, which

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Speaker 2: you know was the embryo of this program, and it.

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Speaker 3: Was, you know, I think it was an appropriately appropriate

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Speaker 3: sized project and scope. It was about eleven minute eleven

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Speaker 3: minutes long aage time, and I think you can't even

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Speaker 3: find them anymore. But like when when they were available,

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Speaker 3: like a couple of years ago, I went back and listened,

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Speaker 3: and we're so like, it's like we've never spoken on

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Speaker 3: Mike before. It was I think I think it prompted

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Speaker 3: Greg at one point to tell us that if we

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Speaker 3: were going to take on a project of that scope

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Speaker 3: to do professionally. I'll never forget that comment from.

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Speaker 1: Greg, right. Greg said that, yes, okay, when he was

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Speaker 1: like the master broadcaster that he is, I always found

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Speaker 1: with bosses, and Greg's on vacation still in Hawaii, well earned.

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Speaker 3: And he'll never listen to this, and don't anyone tell him.

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Speaker 1: And this is a good advice everybody with bosses.

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Speaker 2: You can listen to some things they say, and some

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Speaker 2: things you just give them a little nod and be like, do.

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Speaker 3: I think I think we have that tactic down in

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Speaker 3: the current times.

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Speaker 2: Today's episode is a good one, by the way, developing news.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of Greg at the beginning of our last episode,

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Speaker 2: I said, I got to take this opportunity with Greg

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Speaker 2: out of the office and off the continental United States

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Speaker 2: to dig in on Delaware his high school band. And

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Speaker 2: we have major, major movement toward the long standing goal

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Speaker 2: of hearing hearing his high school band.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, talk about twelve years in the making. This has

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Speaker 3: been a longing, ongoing investigating.

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Speaker 2: We put out a call, we had named names from

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Speaker 2: directly tied to Greg's high school band, and I think

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Speaker 2: we are closer than ever Mark Sessler to hearing Greg singing.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps that will be an opportunity for you to say

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Speaker 2: to him, if you want to be in a band,

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Speaker 2: perhaps it comes full circle, it's time.

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Speaker 1: To be a little more professional. That could be an opportunity.

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Speaker 3: it took was announcing on the show that were this

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Speaker 3: There was probably a five year gap where we never

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Speaker 2: In fairness, we've gotten to this level of investigation in

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Speaker 1: But this is different.

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Speaker 3: Well, he also, I think, you know, stuck his fingers

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, So stay tuned, That's all I'm gonna say. Stay

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Speaker 2: We're going to welcome our old friend Connor or in

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Speaker 4: It worked out great.

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Speaker 2: I'm one hundred feet from Greg Roman. He's got a

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Speaker 4: Gerro's got a really really good RV.

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Speaker 2: My wife is long pushed for the Hanss family to

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Speaker 1: But it's sometimes easy to forget Mark that there's an

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Speaker 2: This guy is an interesting dude, and he's a little

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Speaker 1: But I'm telling you it's not going to be boring

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Speaker 3: No, And it's it's like an interesting study in brotherhood

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Speaker 3: John Harbaugh is very different to me than Jim Harbor.

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Speaker 3: And like Jim Harbaugh, I think you're right. I think

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Speaker 3: But I also thinks he's going to change the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: I really do. That's Harbor at nine. Now we're up

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Speaker 2: Like people, I think we're taken it back by Dan

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Speaker 1: Jack Nicholson and Batman nineteen eighty nine. Wait, did they

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Speaker 2: Oh, let me hear a little more Jim from that

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Speaker 4: That mentality of that group. I mean, that's like a fist.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with good news for the Rams, who add

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Speaker 2: a decorated cornerback to their secondary It is Tradavious White,

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Speaker 2: formerly of the Bills, signs a one year, eight and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like why not?

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Speaker 3: And I think, you know, some of the signings that

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Speaker 2: And let me rephrase that about Cousins, it does matter

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't wait to see how that all plays out.

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Speaker 2: It actually makes the you know, I've never been a

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Speaker 2: Buy into us right? They want to They want to

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Speaker 1: But here's a little bit of relief.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we saw Cleveland do this with Deshaun Watson.

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Speaker 3: and I think if Dak, if he Ay truly believe

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: But also just because of exhaustion with you, because in

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Speaker 1: That's what happens.

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Speaker 3: I'm not doing it this time. It's not happening.

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Speaker 2: They got you last year. They finally got you last year.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're back in other news. Let's hear God

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Speaker 1: Save the King. E t P. What do you think

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like nickname free and now that's not the case.

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Speaker 3: A little creepy.

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Speaker 1: That's a little bit of heat to it, pop to it,

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Speaker 2: You're I'm looking for the national anthem of the United Kingdom.

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Speaker 1: Terms with ree Semmate, who is from Wales.

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Speaker 3: We do, I mean kind of a perfect landing spot,

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Speaker 2: E Oh so so we'll see and shout out to

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Speaker 2: Henry Hotson because future commissioner. It's a interesting I think

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Speaker 2: this is the next step for the NFL. You look

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Speaker 2: at a sport like baseball, just populated by so many

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Speaker 2: players from throughout throughout the glove. I'm wearing my opening

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Speaker 2: day for the Yankees and the rest of MLB. This

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Speaker 2: is the Dugout, which is the bar where my brother

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Speaker 2: Kevin Danger works in the Bronx, right outside Yankee Stadium.

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Speaker 1: So go say hi to them at the Dugout if

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Speaker 1: you're a Yankee fan.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, the NFL wants to continue to bring in

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Speaker 2: these international players and make it a global sport.

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Speaker 1: And we'll see how it's like.

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Speaker 3: There are large people and fast people in places outside

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Speaker 3: of America, so it kind of makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look at the NBA.

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Speaker 2: I mean, geez, my goodness, we're going to take the

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Speaker 2: gold home even anywhere in the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: Mark let us know.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I think that's a great question. I'm

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Speaker 3: not like a finally, like the Dream Team days, we

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Speaker 3: may be in our place beyond that at this point.

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Speaker 2: Uh media minute, the Eagles will open the season and

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Speaker 2: send Paolo Brazil on the Peacock Network. So all those

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Speaker 2: things you saw with a playoff game last year, it

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Speaker 2: was the Bills Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: That game was also on Peacock. Chiefs Dolphins, Chiefs Dolph.

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Speaker 3: Is that our fourth coldest NFL game ever?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So this game, if you want to check out

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Speaker 2: the Eagles, will be on Peacock. Amazon will also get

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Speaker 2: a wild card game, so they will get that game

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Speaker 2: like last year's game at Arrowhead, hopefully better weather. By

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Speaker 2: the way, there was some news that came out. This

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Speaker 2: is not obviously anything. Oh do you want to hit?

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, Eric, It's time for the late I was

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Speaker 5: always forget the script.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, you got it.

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Speaker 5: It's time for the latest edition of the Media Minute

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Speaker 5: with Dan Hans's very good at P. You know, when

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Speaker 5: I played it, I totally was like, damn, I have

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Speaker 5: no idea what I'm supposed to say.

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Speaker 1: You know what you do after the show, this would

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Speaker 1: be a good thing. Go record it with this right,

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Speaker 1: and then you hit the drop and there it is.

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Speaker 1: We have the technology. I do I have to say,

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Speaker 1: I do like ETP struggling through it a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's part of the fun. So let's

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Speaker 3: not do that.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, So Amazon gets the wild Card game and peak out.

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Speaker 2: This is the future, man, this is they're going to

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Speaker 2: play games overseas. More and more the streamers are going

488
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Speaker 2: to get continue to get a piece. So that's what

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Speaker 2: it is.

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Speaker 3: It's people. Certain people were freaking out over over especially

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Speaker 3: the Eagles opener, like Matt Dog went nuts over it,

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Speaker 3: and I kind of get it for certain. But these

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Speaker 3: games are still available for people to watch. They're streamed

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Speaker 3: elsewhere and like they I mean that you can get

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Speaker 3: to without having just to get a subscription by the way,

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Speaker 3: I mean it's on NFL Plus as well, which we

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Speaker 3: are as well. But see, that's the thing that sounds

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Speaker 3: like a very sound purchase, all right for anyone who's

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Speaker 3: listening up on the third floor from this building. I

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Speaker 3: couldn't be a bigger backer of the product.

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Speaker 1: Finally, in the news, Hard Knocks News, my favorite football show.

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Speaker 2: Colleen Wolf and the old Zuzzar have done a Hard

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Speaker 2: Knocks podcast the past two summers. Hopefully we'll do it

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Speaker 2: again with a team to be named later here in

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Speaker 2: the Bears being floated this year now, since twenty thirteen,

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Speaker 2: they've had a strict set of rules in place for

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Speaker 2: who is Hard Knocks quote unquote eligible, and they've changed

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Speaker 2: it this year for the first time, so it used

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Speaker 2: to be teams can avoid being selected for Hard Knocks

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Speaker 2: that they qualify in one of three things, no head

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Speaker 2: coach change. They've been on the show in the last

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Speaker 2: ten years, or they've made the playoffs in each of

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Speaker 2: the last two years. Either of the last years, which

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Speaker 2: always felt like a weird one. They got rid of that,

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Speaker 2: so no longer is that a rule. Now it is

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Speaker 2: first year head coach in place. They're participating in the

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Speaker 2: NC show during the upcoming year or the following season,

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Speaker 2: and then they knocked it down to have appeared on

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Speaker 2: Hard Knocks in the past eight years. The other change

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Speaker 2: that they're making is the in season Hard Knocks, which

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Speaker 2: by the way, that opens up from three to sixteen

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Speaker 2: teams now eligible. With With that change about the playoff

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Speaker 2: teams no longer being impacted, the n season Hard Knocks

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Speaker 2: is reportedly going to a division format, which is worth

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Speaker 2: a try.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 3: I kind of like that only because I thought when

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Speaker 3: they had the cults on in season, and I think

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Speaker 3: in season's tough to deal with when you're like I've.

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Speaker 1: Found that as a huge Hard knocksent.

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Speaker 2: I've always found that challenging just because you're in the

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Speaker 2: season and there's so much other football to take in.

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Speaker 2: What makes the offseasons training cap one so special is

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Speaker 2: that it's when you're you're most starved and excited for

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Speaker 2: football season.

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Speaker 1: It's just perfectly timed.

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Speaker 3: I always thought, yeah, I think the Division one works though,

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Speaker 3: because just a lot more happening, and I don't know

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Speaker 3: that for me that that might solve that that shows

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Speaker 3: is you in in season, but.

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Speaker 2: It also covers you if if the team falls out

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Speaker 2: of contention right or there's not a lot of juice.

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Speaker 3: So I think I think you're onto something. With the Bears,

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Speaker 3: I don't know if they seem like they would well,

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Speaker 3: I think it's certain teams just if they're if they

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Speaker 3: embrace the concept, like it's good for Matt Eberflus, for

547
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Speaker 3: people to know more about Matt Eberflus. You do you

548
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Speaker 3: would have a rookie quarterback, that's a lot of heat

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Speaker 3: on them. But they did with the Browns and Baker

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Speaker 3: and others as well. But now it's like that could

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Speaker 3: the Texans or someone like that be And it's like

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Speaker 3: a lot of intriguing concepts.

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Speaker 2: All right, well see what happens and we'll be all

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Speaker 2: over that. When the announcement comes out. That's what's happening

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Speaker 2: in the news. Let's take a break and then welcome

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Speaker 2: in an old friend.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Heat and Light Podcast. I am

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Speaker 3: your co host, Mark Sessler, joined as always by my

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Speaker 3: co host Connor. Or and Connor, we're equal co host

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Speaker 3: just I think that just that the people understand the

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Speaker 3: power structure were equal well co hosts.

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Speaker 6: That's always how when we set out to do this

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Speaker 6: a long time ago and informed people about the ways

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Speaker 6: of the world, that's how we set it up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it, you know it. It creates a

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Speaker 3: sense of partnership there. I you know, we often when

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Speaker 3: I see you, we're on the road because you don't

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Speaker 3: live here in La and I don't live where you live,

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Speaker 3: and so you're a man that travels, uh to and fro.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever been to in your reporting days to

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Speaker 3: Antarctica to cover any sort of a story.

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Speaker 6: No, because I know the true dangers that that exists there.

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Speaker 6: I mean, beyond beyond the ice and snow. Uh, there's

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Speaker 6: a good chance that we're looking at deep cities beneath

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Speaker 6: the caverns of ice, potentially a group of you know,

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Speaker 6: crystal people, something dealing with the future of energy and

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Speaker 6: deep government secrets.

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Speaker 7: So I try to stay away.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I I could see why you would. You know,

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Speaker 3: you aren't you know, alone in your concerns about this

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Speaker 3: part of the world, And I was doing some reading.

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Speaker 3: We'd like to deep dive into these subjects. And this

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Speaker 3: kind of tracks back to the winter of nineteen forty seven,

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Speaker 3: when Admiral Richard E. Byrd claimed on a trip to

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Speaker 3: Antarctica to discover a massive, like hundreds foot wide hole

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Speaker 3: that when he sunk his plane into it, essentially found

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Speaker 3: that the ice and snow disappeared. It was a lush, warm,

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Speaker 3: forested world with animals that had not been seen by

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Speaker 3: the human eye. To your point, these crystal palaces. He

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Speaker 3: met someone called the Master that warned the Earth about

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Speaker 3: nuclear technology. Connor, I want to just let you know,

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Speaker 3: because you know we're here today not just to drag

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Speaker 3: up old information, but I actually.

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Speaker 4: So new.

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Speaker 2: All right, we are back, and yes, as promised, we're

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Speaker 2: going to bring in one of our very favorite men,

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Speaker 2: a long time buddy, also a former colleague and a

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Speaker 2: great damn journalist, Connor Or, Welcome back to around the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Always great, Thanks.

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Speaker 7: For having me, fellas.

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Speaker 6: It's great to fully realize the part three of my plan,

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Speaker 6: which is to take Greg's spot and exact an exact,

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Speaker 6: a full one to eighty revenge from back when he

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Speaker 6: was my boss at NFL Media.

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Speaker 3: A lot of Greg Boss talked today. I think that

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Speaker 3: that sewed it up well right.

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Speaker 2: Now and almost like a lot of either revenge or

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Speaker 2: plotting against him. It's it's almost like he's made enemies

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Speaker 2: along the way, but he's on a well earned vacation,

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Speaker 2: maybe a permanent one perhaps based on this appearance. Connor,

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Speaker 2: how are you, buddy, what's new in the life of mister.

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Speaker 7: Or what's happening?

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Speaker 6: You know, everything is good, just just dealing with a

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Speaker 6: lot of flooding and power outages here in western New Jersey.

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Speaker 6: But we're living the life. It's rustic out here.

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Speaker 2: We've had a lot of storms as well, and poor

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Speaker 2: weather and more coming in here in southern California, which

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Speaker 2: is very unusual.

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Speaker 1: I wonder what that's all about.

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Speaker 2: Maybe something for you guys to discuss on your whenever

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Speaker 2: you come back with your famous offshoot podcast, The Heat

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Speaker 2: and Light Pud whenever, that that might be a good topic.

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Speaker 3: When struggling for the name of the show.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, call it what it was.

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Speaker 1: Please thank you?

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Speaker 2: All right with Connor here, we we like to dive

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Speaker 2: in and connect with our audience over on the mail

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Speaker 2: bag side. And as always a disclaimer, if this doesn't

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Speaker 2: go well as a segment, it is not on us,

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Speaker 2: not at all, It is on you.

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Speaker 3: We typically have to save it, you know, out of

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Speaker 3: the gate.

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Speaker 1: Right, So either either.

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Speaker 2: The sessions weren't good enough or people that are listening

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Speaker 2: to be like this, this segment sucks.

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Speaker 1: Well, did you send in a question? So it's really uh,

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Speaker 1: it's we're just calling calling it like we see it,

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Speaker 1: being honest with the listeners.

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Speaker 3: You know, you've got a man up some time.

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Speaker 2: And if one segment swims beautifully, well that's that's me

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Speaker 2: and Mark and Connor just being professionals and being broadcasters.

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Speaker 2: So now that the everything's set, uh, let's hit the

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Speaker 2: first question. It is from Brandon Lorie.

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Speaker 1: Uh. I like his handle. Brandon is right, but w

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Speaker 1: R I t e Uh.

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Speaker 2: If you had absolute control over the competition committee, what

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Speaker 2: rule changes would you make? I like this one, Connor,

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Speaker 2: I thought, and we you know, we gave the NFL

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Speaker 2: some flowers on our Tuesday show in that the league

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Speaker 2: and West always said this. The league has never been

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Speaker 2: shy about taking chances to improve the product and make changes.

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Speaker 2: Not all of them work, but at least you give them.

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Speaker 2: Give them at I will say my long standing Connor

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Speaker 2: call for more protection for the officials on personal fouls,

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Speaker 2: for roughing the passer, for defenseless receiver. The game move

656
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Speaker 2: so fast that getting more help there and from upstairs

657
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 2: would only help.

658
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: But that's one for me.

659
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 6: What about you, I've long been so I'll blame Tom

660
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 6: Pellisero for this.

661
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: I love Tom, the pell Raiser himself, the.

662
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 6: Pell Raiser, like maybe it was last year or the

663
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 6: year before, had had noted accurately.

664
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: You know how.

665
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,719
Speaker 6: The NFL was really considering the fourth and fifteen on

666
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 6: side kick alternative, and I prepared so much content on

667
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 6: my end based on just blind excitement, all the possibilities

668
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 6: and to have it be and again this is a

669
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 6: knock on. Like Tom knows more about football than I

670
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 6: could ever hope to know, and the inside mechanisms of it,

671
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 6: but got me so excited for it, and then to

672
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 6: have it never happen was such a letdown.

673
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 7: And it's the perfect rule.

674
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 6: And for those who don't know, right it was the

675
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 6: in lieu of an onside kick. You can go for

676
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 6: it on your own twenty five yard line and it's

677
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 6: a fourth and fifteen basically, and if you lose possession,

678
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 6: the other team basically gets the ball right inside the

679
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 6: red zone. NFL owners who don't have Josh Allen and

680
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 6: Patrick Mahomes are terrified of this and they won't vote

681
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 6: for it because most of their quarterbacks suck, and I

682
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 6: understand that, but just imagine like the entire cottage industry

683
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 6: that could be built around that single play. Like you

684
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:49,800
Speaker 6: could find like a massive, like Cam Newton type human

685
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 6: being who's only really valuable for that play where he

686
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 6: can just like carry a bunch of bodies for fifteen

687
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 6: yards or like but maybe throw a pass.

688
00:34:58,600 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 7: It's like, there's so.

689
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 6: Many amazing things that could happen just by virtue of

690
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 6: that moment, and you could get these great NBA jam

691
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 6: type moments where maybe these teams are hitting two or

692
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 6: three of these in a row and they're bonkers, and

693
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 6: you can't do that with the non site kick.

694
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 3: And the Eagles particularly have been trying for this for years.

695
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,280
Speaker 3: I think it's like ten years in a row or something,

696
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 3: and no one. I think there is some fear out there.

697
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: You're right, and I just want to add one other thing.

698
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: And I don't know, Mark, did you have one?

699
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 3: I have two quick ones, yes, one, because I know

700
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 3: I don't claim to come up with everything on my own.

701
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 3: This is we'd mentioned Dave Danishak earlier. I always thought

702
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 3: this was the most ingenious concept to prevent tanking, to

703
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 3: prevent teams taking a dirt nap, and you know folding

704
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 3: tent for the last month plus of a season. Is

705
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,319
Speaker 3: that you take the two worst teams that are vying

706
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 3: for the number one pick and you have them square off.

707
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,760
Speaker 3: And in this case, the timing of this would be unusual,

708
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 3: but I thought maybe just a little Wednesday in between

709
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 3: the wild card and divisional round.

710
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 1: Not everyone need to track it. Well, we have Wednesday

711
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: football now, so that checks out.

712
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 3: That fits like a glout. They they would play each

713
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 3: other and the winner gets the number one pick. So

714
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 3: it's like you you have to fight right down to

715
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 3: the end.

716
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: Uh, we could do it you know where, and you

717
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: could do it.

718
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 2: Actually, you could slot it in in the old Pro

719
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 2: Bowl spot that's Sunday before the Super Bowl.

720
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 3: I thought about that, except that you're asking like a

721
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 3: team to they're kind of like doing the college thing

722
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 3: where you're off for like twenty something days or something.

723
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 2: Well, don't finish amongst the worst two league, stay out,

724
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 2: stay out of the toilet bowl.

725
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 3: Here's my other one. Yeah, this would this would take

726
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 3: you're talking about fear, This would take the opposite. No

727
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 3: commercial breaks. We get through these games in about an

728
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 3: hour and forty five minutes, and it's a it just okay, Well,

729
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 3: I'm just saying that I'm trying to think at what

730
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 3: I want that would be what I want. All the

731
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 3: dads at like DVR games and they wait like an

732
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 3: hour and a half in to like fast forward, so

733
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 3: they don't to deal with commercials.

734
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 1: It's like they don't have to do it anymore. And

735
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,320
Speaker 1: you just want the games to end as quickly as possible.

736
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: And I get it.

737
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 2: But uh, and all the people that are like, oh

738
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 2: and let's get rid of the chain gangs, get off it.

739
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 2: Can we in this world, this digital world where we're

740
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 2: increasingly controlled by bots and robits and micro technology, can

741
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:16,280
Speaker 2: we just get a couple of bros with two sticks

742
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 2: and a chain figure and something out still like, can

743
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 2: we keep that? Can we keep that. Can we make

744
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 2: the world simple in one way? That's all I'm gonna say.

745
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 2: Count that's all.

746
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: That's all.

747
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 6: Like does that if I'm breaking any news here? But

748
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 6: there are computer chips in the chains, So when you're

749
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 6: breaking news to the two of us when I don't

750
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 6: know if a lot of people know this, but like

751
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 6: whenever anyone's like they need to get rid of the

752
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 6: chain gang, it's like like we have all this technology.

753
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 6: It's like, yeah, the technology is in the chain, so

754
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 6: we're good. Like, yeah, does sometimes does the chain break? Yeah,

755
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 6: like once during the super Bowl I think, or it

756
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 6: happened twice during the playoffs last year, if I can't remember,

757
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 6: if I can remember correctly. But yeah, the the technology

758
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:02,479
Speaker 6: is in there, We're good.

759
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: That is I mean, breaking news for the podcast. So

760
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 1: thank you Connor and that, like I said in the intro,

761
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: this is a very talented journalist.

762
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 3: It is great sometimes to occasionally like the chain gang

763
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 3: guy A or B you don't know which one gets

764
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 3: you know, not paying attention, gets whacked by a player

765
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,280
Speaker 3: coming off the field, and it's just a delight to watch.

766
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: Let's hit another question.

767
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,399
Speaker 2: We'll finish this in about two hours with this right,

768
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 2: bo Brooks asks, will Jordan Love win more Super Bowls

769
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 2: than Aaron Rodgers? Well, he just needs to win two.

770
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 2: But there aren't a lot of quarterbacks that have ever

771
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 2: won too. What do you think, Connor? He's got a

772
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 2: bright future ahead of what he's already probably twenty five

773
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,439
Speaker 2: or twenty six, right, So you got that as well

774
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 2: to consider.

775
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 7: I say no.

776
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 6: And the reason I do is because every time a

777
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 6: team ends the season with some vague semblance of promise,

778
00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 6: we get on this just path of stupidity where we

779
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 6: project things in an upward trajectory for no re like

780
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:08,280
Speaker 6: you know, oh they're young and contracts and I pretending

781
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 6: to talk like a GM and everything works, and like

782
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 6: it doesn't. We don't know how good the Packers are

783
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 6: going to be. They'll clip this and they'll show this

784
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 6: to me at the combine next year, I'm sure, but.

785
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:20,919
Speaker 1: I don't know how hard too.

786
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 6: I don't know how good the Packers are going to

787
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 6: be in the future. But like winning two Super Bowls

788
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 6: for any quarterback that isn't you know this sort of

789
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 6: you know colossus of a human talent like Patrick Mahomes

790
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 6: or you know, Tom Brady or something like that it's difficult.

791
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 7: It's hard, so I would say.

792
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 3: No, And like the career of Aaron Rodgers kind of

793
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 3: proves the point. He won one right away, and it's like, oh,

794
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 3: he could win five or six, and you could say

795
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:49,760
Speaker 3: the Packers probably should have gotten there a number of times.

796
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:51,760
Speaker 3: But uh, tbduh.

797
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 2: While we're here, Yeah, let's might as well address it,

798
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 2: because we did play it on the show last week.

799
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 2: I believe that in my opinion, Uh, an ambush by

800
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 2: the general manager of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Jason light

801
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:07,360
Speaker 2: On Connor?

802
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: Or do we have that? Let's play that.

803
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 4: Hey, good Connor, how are you everything good? Yeah? We

804
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 4: uh we have history. No, No, we just we won

805
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 4: a lot more games than what he predicted us to

806
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 4: get last Yes, yeah, it's for two. I haven't hanging up.

807
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 4: I haven't hanging up in more.

808
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 2: Office there it is, Connor, What was the the general

809
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 2: vibe between you and light in that spot? Was there

810
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 2: any real tension or was it all in good, good fun?

811
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 6: No?

812
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 7: It was it was funny.

813
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 6: I mean, like so to kind of deal everybody back

814
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 6: behind the curtain when you're at when you're at the combine.

815
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 6: A lot of times like if the gms do the

816
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 6: podium stuff and if you just want to have like

817
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,839
Speaker 6: a casual conversation with them and you know, not have

818
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 6: it be quoted somewhere.

819
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 7: Sometimes I'll ask to talk to a GM.

820
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 6: Or a coach or if it's like a really niche

821
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 6: question that I don't want to bother anybody, Like you know,

822
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 6: you're trying to yell in a pack of people, you

823
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:04,760
Speaker 6: asked them off to the side.

824
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 7: And so I asked.

825
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 6: For Jason Light, thinking like we were talking off the record,

826
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 6: and so we like, you know, everything gets shuttled. I

827
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 6: never saw a camera, and so him and I are

828
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 6: talking and like he brings it up, which every right

829
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 6: to do it. I mean, it was a horrible decision

830
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 6: on my part. I picked him to win two games

831
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 6: they made the playoffs.

832
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 2: But do you think it was a coordinated attack like

833
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 2: they had they had this in mind that they were

834
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 2: going to have this ready and they were going to

835
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 2: play it up on social.

836
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 6: See, this is what's wild to me, So they would

837
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 6: have to assume that I was there, right, And then

838
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 6: so I asked the PR guy. I was like, hey,

839
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 6: can I get Jason just for a second, And he's like, yeah, no, problem.

840
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 6: So then between Jason walking off the podium and then

841
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 6: like traveling the eleven feet over to where I was standing,

842
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 6: they had to have like briefed him on this and

843
00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 6: they flagged down a social media person concealed camera and

844
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 6: then I tolosted five five days after it happened, which

845
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 6: is like may it was like three days after happened.

846
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 6: But that was the funniest part. Like I was, I

847
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 6: was on a job with my neighbor and I get

848
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 6: like text messages sent to my phone and like I'm

849
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:18,839
Speaker 6: getting dozens of text messages like I can't believe they

850
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 6: did that.

851
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 7: Are you okay?

852
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: Are you okay?

853
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:22,319
Speaker 7: What's going on?

854
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 6: Like people from high school that I hadn't talked to

855
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 6: in you know, twenty years. And then I was like,

856
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 6: like I have no idea it was filmed, and so

857
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 6: I did. I did get a kick out of it.

858
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 6: My parents liked it. Everyone thought it was funny.

859
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 7: But it was just like in that moment, I was like,

860
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 7: were you like hiding? Where was the camera? That's all

861
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 7: I wanted to know, really, was like where where was

862
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 7: the device? Who was filming it?

863
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 6: And then like in the back of my head, I'm

864
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 6: like Okay, is all the stuff that I asked him? Like,

865
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 6: did they post that too? I don't know, but yeah, no,

866
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 6: it's fine, We're good.

867
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: So, as a Syracuse graduate one of the great programs

868
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: of journalism in the country, you know the perils of

869
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 1: gotcha journalism. I think that was really on turning it

870
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:11,760
Speaker 1: turning around on the reporter.

871
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 3: Not too far away from like muck raking journalism, which

872
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 3: is danger of its own.

873
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: But I would say, in some ways fair play by

874
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: Light and company.

875
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 6: Here's my thing. Now, you've created the public ripe about

876
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 6: my season predictions. Every year from here on out, I'm

877
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 6: going to predict you to win sixteen games, and so

878
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 6: what would you rather live up to that? Or would

879
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 6: you rather have poor little?

880
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 2: You know what I see where you're coming from that.

881
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 2: But I also have to say, just respectfully, don't let

882
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 2: them impact your true feelings, because that means you're going

883
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 2: to end up adjusting all of your win total for

884
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 2: all their opponents. Where you might autoty it might be

885
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 2: a swing of eight to ten games in your actual mindset,

886
00:43:57,719 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 2: don't let them win, you know what I mean?

887
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:02,800
Speaker 3: I hope that Light approaches you at every future. Combine

888
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:04,880
Speaker 3: with the similar, you know, yes or no scenario?

889
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 1: All right, Next, Daniel Crespo asks, every year there is

890
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: always a team that surpasses expectations. Who do you think

891
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 1: will be the surprise teams of the NFC and AFC.

892
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:18,959
Speaker 1: So we're you know, who are the Texans this year?

893
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: Who are the Rams this year? What do you think? Mark?

894
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 3: You know, I was looking at the list and there

895
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:29,840
Speaker 3: there aren't a lot of great options here. NFC. I

896
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 3: thought that maybe the Commanders. I thought they've added a

897
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 3: lot of interesting pieces. I think Quinn has experienced, You're not.

898
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 3: It's not a total fill in the blank on what

899
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:41,799
Speaker 3: kind of persona he is. We kind of know that

900
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,799
Speaker 3: they have the chance to add a quarterback that could

901
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 3: make a big difference out of the gate if you

902
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 3: play as well. So it was that for me in

903
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 3: the NFC. In the AFC, I think the x this

904
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 3: was tougher because, like I was looking at last year's

905
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 3: record and like the Chargers won five games, yet expectations

906
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 3: seem high because of her and your quarterback. So that's

907
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 3: my answer there. I just didn't see a lot of

908
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 3: other options.

909
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: Although you know what, I'll.

910
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 2: Throw them some flowers because I really did like their

911
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:14,280
Speaker 2: most recent move to get Snead in the building the Titans.

912
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 2: If Levis does take a leap here, they have given

913
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 2: him some structure so that team could surprise in the

914
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 2: AFC if a couple things go their way.

915
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:24,479
Speaker 1: What do you think, Connor?

916
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:27,280
Speaker 6: I think the Colts are going to win the AFC

917
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 6: South this year. I think the Colts are going to

918
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 6: be really good. I think Anthony richards richards is going

919
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 6: to be great. And if I were to pick a

920
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:38,840
Speaker 6: team in the NFC, okay, let's say surprise in air quotes,

921
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 6: like if the Carolina Panthers go from a two win

922
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 6: team to like an eight or a nine win team,

923
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 6: would that be I think that would be a surprise

924
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 6: generally given that they weren't really able to upgrade much

925
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 6: this offseason.

926
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 7: But I think there's gonna be a lot of improvement

927
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:51,919
Speaker 7: there too.

928
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 2: What does Anthony Richardson learn from that cameo in terms

929
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 2: of protecting himself but still remaining a dangerous out. I

930
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 2: think it's a big time subplot around the Colts because

931
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 2: he's got to stay healthy for them to make that

932
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 2: leap next now, bag all right, this from Simon King

933
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 2: is West Broms are you aware of what's going on

934
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 2: with around the NFL and West Bromwich the soccer team.

935
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 6: Connor vague vaguely like, I remember learning about this dishwasher

936
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 6: man from this podcast, so I do like I'm sort

937
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 6: of bally in the know here.

938
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: Well, anyway, a guy in my fantasy football league owns

939
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: this team, and so now they are the football team

940
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: of atn But anyway, so is West Brom's boiler man

941
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,840
Speaker 1: mascot better than every mascot in the NFL. So for

942
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:42,759
Speaker 1: people and you're watching YouTube, you can see, but it's

943
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 1: quite literally a boiler that you would find in your

944
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 1: basement or on the side of your house or what

945
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 1: have you, with legs and arms sticking out, and that

946
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: is a wild mascot.

947
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,879
Speaker 2: And Boying Boying I support everything they do. So I'm

948
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 2: gonna say that is a great mascot. In terms of

949
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:03,320
Speaker 2: best mascot in the NFL, I have three.

950
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 1: I really like kind of he doesn't get a lot

951
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: of pop, But I like Steely mcbeam of the Steelers.

952
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 3: Does any mascot get a lot of pop? I feel

953
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 3: like they kind of.

954
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 1: I'll give you one.

955
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 2: Jackson Deville of the jaz right, that is yeah, he

956
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 2: is probably the uh, the biggest star of the moment

957
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 2: in that world. But I also like and I met

958
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 2: him at the International Series and him very nice man

959
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 2: or slash creature Captain Fear of the Buccaneers. Also, I

960
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 2: quite enjoy him. Anybody have a spot mascot, take.

961
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 7: Sir per and I'll say, why they they? I don't

962
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 7: know why the Panthers Panthers.

963
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 6: The there's like a there's like a Panthers in house

964
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,800
Speaker 6: video from like nine years ago that I recently stumbled

965
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 6: on where he's just in the office doing regular cat stuff.

966
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 7: Nice and it is.

967
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,359
Speaker 6: It's so funny and I watch it probably once a week.

968
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 6: So Sir Perr is awesome. A quick sub question, is

969
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 6: your friend who owns West brom like like a Packers

970
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 6: fan who says he owns the Packers or is this

971
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 6: a real like you're you're in a fantasy football league

972
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 6: with like a billionaire.

973
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 2: The second one whoa Yeah, his name is Sheelyn Patel

974
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:23,840
Speaker 2: and he is seen as a savior by the fans

975
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:25,600
Speaker 2: of the Boy.

976
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:26,800
Speaker 1: And Boy cool.

977
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, And before we move on, if you're going to

978
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 2: bring up Sir Perr and the Panthers, you got to

979
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:37,399
Speaker 2: hit us with one, Connor hit us with one piled.

980
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 1: In next never gets old? Can we cut that as

981
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:43,439
Speaker 1: a drop? Thank you? Eric?

982
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 2: At py Guy, Tomlinson asks, with Christmas so far away,

983
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 2: does Connor watch Hallmark films through the years with different events,

984
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 2: I e. Valentine's, summer holidays, the fourth of July and

985
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 2: what have you? A great question people that are maybe

986
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 2: new to the show and don't know that Connor every

987
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:06,800
Speaker 2: Christmas comes on. He and his wife are religious about,

988
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:12,239
Speaker 2: no pun intended about watching every Hallmark type holiday film

989
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 2: they can get their eyes on, starting I believe the

990
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,240
Speaker 2: day after Thanksgiving or maybe the day after Halloween.

991
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 1: Something insane like that day after Halloween.

992
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is insane, but I love you for who

993
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 2: you are, and then all the way through to the

994
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:28,800
Speaker 2: Christmas and it does it carry over to other holidays?

995
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:29,479
Speaker 1: That's a good question.

996
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 6: So it's funny about that is my Hallmark obsession has

997
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 6: now It's created like shockwave effects through my immediate family,

998
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,800
Speaker 6: and so my in laws have it on all the time,

999
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:43,920
Speaker 6: and so every time we go over there for dinner

1000
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 6: now it is on like twenty four hours a day,

1001
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:51,240
Speaker 6: and so by virtue of that, we have now become

1002
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 6: aware of and are very much fans of. Sort of

1003
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 6: there's like a New Year's collection, a Valentine's collection, a

1004
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 6: Spring collection, a summer collection with kind of all your

1005
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 6: favorite stars, and they just sort of spin.

1006
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 7: It forward into different times a year, which is great.

1007
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 3: Have you ever thought about as a side job writing

1008
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:13,280
Speaker 3: reviews for the vibrant publication TV guide?

1009
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 6: Okay, I think that my reviews of Hallmark movies would

1010
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:23,719
Speaker 6: be so glowing that coming from me, it would be

1011
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:26,919
Speaker 6: interpreted as like a very mean satire, right, And it's

1012
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:31,360
Speaker 6: really not like. There was that really well meaning, lovely

1013
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 6: woman from like the Dakotas who reviewed an olive Garden

1014
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 6: like ten years ago, do you remember this? And there

1015
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 6: was never like an olive garden in her like state,

1016
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:42,440
Speaker 6: and she reviewed it as if it were this like

1017
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 6: breathtaking five star Italian restaurant, and everyone made fun of her.

1018
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 7: She was like in her seventies, but that's she was serious.

1019
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 7: She loved it.

1020
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 6: And imagine having an olive garden breadstick for the first

1021
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 6: time in your seventies, Like it's unbelievable. Yeah, So I

1022
00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 6: think that it would probably come off a little bit

1023
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 6: like that, and I I would be worried about affecting

1024
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:03,399
Speaker 6: my current relationship with Hallmark, which is very good.

1025
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 1: I think that's very fair.

1026
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:08,280
Speaker 2: I do feel like watching a spring like springtime version

1027
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:10,320
Speaker 2: of that type of that's like scrape in the bottom

1028
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 2: of the barrel, like what is the hook of your

1029
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:12,879
Speaker 2: what is your hook?

1030
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 1: At that point?

1031
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 3: Well, they don't, they don't. There's a lot of people

1032
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 3: involved in the productions, actors, actresses, directors, camera people.

1033
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: They don't right, Like, what's the inciting moment? Like the

1034
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 1: trees are blooming all right? At t mac asks where

1035
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 1: do the Vikings land on the pain rankings? And why

1036
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: are we cursed? What spirit walks the halls of US

1037
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 1: Bank Stadium? A true unsolved mystery.

1038
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 2: Now, fans of the show know that I have a real,

1039
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 2: I feel like a kinship with the Vikings and their fans.

1040
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:46,840
Speaker 2: I'm again going to nominate them as team of Around

1041
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 2: the NFL, which feels like a curse in its own way.

1042
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 2: Good luck with that this season, especially if Sam's at QB.

1043
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 2: I'm gonna refrain from answering this one, guys, because I

1044
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 2: do think this summer on Around the NFL, We're going

1045
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 2: to revisit the pain rankings. Nine years after the publication

1046
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 2: on our fair site. But the vikings are still there.

1047
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 2: I'll put it there. I'll leave it there. Let's move on.

1048
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 2: But yeah, pain rankings, We're going to hit that this

1049
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 2: summer on this podcast.

1050
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: There's a tease. Next.

1051
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 2: Colin asks at Mets, speaking of cursed at Mets, please

1052
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 2: save me call here an opening day. The New York

1053
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 2: Mets aren't going to save you, Bud, I say that

1054
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:32,279
Speaker 2: would love Well.

1055
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 3: We don't know when he created this handle, but it's

1056
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 3: never been successful unless you were unless you know, nineteen

1057
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 3: eighty six Worlds or something.

1058
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 2: All Right, Anyway, what under five hundred team in twenty

1059
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 2: twenty three is under the most pressure in twenty twenty four?

1060
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,360
Speaker 2: You know, the Jets jump out to me obviously, because

1061
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 2: they are so when you know they are so in

1062
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 2: for this season and there's so much pressure around Aaron

1063
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 2: Rodgers and making that work.

1064
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:00,919
Speaker 1: Is there another team that I'm said to you mark

1065
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 1: as a high pressure team coming off a losing season.

1066
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 3: This was another one where I thought a lot of

1067
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 3: teams that were in turmoil, had coaching changes or have

1068
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 3: are about to draft quarterbacks where there's a fair amount

1069
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 3: of freshness or hope there. The Giant stood out to

1070
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 3: me because I think you're just in a situation where

1071
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 3: you went from coach of the year, playoff surprise playoff

1072
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:26,319
Speaker 3: berth to you know, the owner speaking kind of hot

1073
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 3: and cold about day Ball and day Ball taking it

1074
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 3: very well. And I think Daball is a good coach.

1075
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 3: You might take over play calling duties. You know what's

1076
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 3: going on at quarterback. So I think the Giants are

1077
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 3: in these in a bit of a strange zone right now.

1078
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 1: What do you think, Connor?

1079
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 7: I would go?

1080
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 6: I don't know, this is good. I would go the

1081
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 6: Bears because if you think about what Ryan Poles has

1082
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 6: had going on, he's been able to like artfully keep

1083
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 6: extending the prestige moment where he has to show everyone

1084
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:57,320
Speaker 6: what he's been working on, you know. And at some point,

1085
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,480
Speaker 6: you know, I certainly if they don't win this year,

1086
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 6: you replaced the head coach. I was under my like November,

1087
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,919
Speaker 6: I thought they were replacing the head coach. I mean,

1088
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:07,399
Speaker 6: you know, there was a lot of people who did,

1089
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:09,879
Speaker 6: so I think if they don't, if they don't win,

1090
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:11,839
Speaker 6: your at least replacing the head coach. And I think

1091
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Speaker 6: at some point people start wondering, Okay, is this is

1092
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,399
Speaker 6: this the right thing for a GM as well?

1093
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 1: And I'll throw the Falcons out there as well.

1094
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:23,879
Speaker 2: This is a team that has been trying to get

1095
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 2: back and trying to you know, work their way back

1096
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 2: to being a truly relevant team, and they've had pieces

1097
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 2: around the last few years, but then the quarterback kind

1098
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:35,719
Speaker 2: of killed them. Now they have the quarterback that they

1099
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 2: have to develop a defense around the QB and we're

1100
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 2: going to see if they can because Arthur Blank obviously

1101
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 2: is counting on this team returning to the playoffs. I

1102
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:47,879
Speaker 2: think with Cousins, given the amount of money they gave

1103
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:52,760
Speaker 2: the quarterback. All right, next, AFC East, where is it going?

1104
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 2: Have Buffalo and Miami peaked? How long will the New

1105
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 2: England rebuild take? Whither the Jets? All right, let's I

1106
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 2: that's a good one. Connor Wake what the New England rebuild?

1107
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 2: We already we know the Jets are very high low.

1108
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 2: We don't know where they're gonna fall, so they're a

1109
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 2: tough one to figure out. Obviously, the Patriots are team

1110
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:15,439
Speaker 2: very clearly in a rebuild. I am very interested to see.

1111
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:18,319
Speaker 2: I guess I still think Buffalo is a playoff team.

1112
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 2: Are they a top echelon team and the Dolphins to

1113
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:23,479
Speaker 2: me are one of the biggest mysteries in the league.

1114
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,320
Speaker 6: If I had to, if I had to handicap the

1115
00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 6: division today, I would probably say that Buffalo wins the

1116
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 6: division the Jets come in second, because I do think

1117
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 6: even though it's a high low, I really do think

1118
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 6: Robertsal is a good coach. I think that he's able

1119
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 6: to I mean, to get seven wins or whatever they

1120
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 6: did out of that team last year was pretty phenomenal,

1121
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 6: and then I would see it being Miami third and

1122
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 6: New England a pretty distant fourth. I just think that

1123
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 6: what Miami conceptually is trying to do, it works, but

1124
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 6: it does not work for the entirety of a season.

1125
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 6: And I just think they're a little bit fundamentally flawed.

1126
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 6: Like I think that they need to develop more of

1127
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:07,040
Speaker 6: a power element, and I think the drop off at

1128
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:09,400
Speaker 6: DC this offseason is pretty stark.

1129
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:13,000
Speaker 2: And you would it's a very you know what, I

1130
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 2: respect because you're hanging onions with your annual preseason. You know,

1131
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:21,319
Speaker 2: guess of everyone's schedule. You go through every schedule and

1132
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:23,799
Speaker 2: pick every game. You got dinked a little bit on

1133
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 2: the Patriots as well this season, So you're not going

1134
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 2: to be in on New England in twenty four.

1135
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 6: It sounds like, Yeah, Chris Broussard called me foolish on Fox,

1136
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 6: which was something that everyone really liked.

1137
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:41,280
Speaker 1: And I'll just say this, and hey, you put yourself

1138
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:43,240
Speaker 1: out there for a living man. Yeah, you know, people

1139
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: need to respect you for that.

1140
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 6: And it's one of those things where like all my

1141
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:50,680
Speaker 6: friends were texting me after the Jason Light thing and

1142
00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:52,239
Speaker 6: they're like, oh my god, I can't believe how well

1143
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:54,240
Speaker 6: you're handling it. My wife's like, I really can't believe

1144
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:57,440
Speaker 6: how well you're handling it, And like, inside my mind,

1145
00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:01,320
Speaker 6: I am plotting, like I'm reading every reply and I'm

1146
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 6: plotting the absolute demise. Like someone put the Curb your

1147
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 6: Enthusiasm music on and I was like, I'm gonna find

1148
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 6: where that person is, Like I'm gonna find their house,

1149
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:12,880
Speaker 6: I'm gonna disconnect the power lines.

1150
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,240
Speaker 7: I'm gonna just let you know, I'm gonna start moving

1151
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 7: chairs around at night while they're sleeping.

1152
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 6: Like it gets it, you know, the violence of the

1153
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 6: old or you kidding me?

1154
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 7: Connor is still very.

1155
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:24,439
Speaker 1: Much alive in there. I love that guy.

1156
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 6: I love that guy, so that the all two seventy

1157
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 6: two predictions is a tough It's a tough thing.

1158
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:31,920
Speaker 3: How long does that take? I mean, are you just

1159
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 3: kind of rip it going off the top of your head?

1160
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 3: Are you just you're going It takes a really long time.

1161
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 6: And then every year I get done and I have

1162
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 6: like two hundred and seventy four wins and two hundred

1163
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:44,439
Speaker 6: and seventy losses, and then you have to go through

1164
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 6: every gersh darn game again and try to figure.

1165
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:52,120
Speaker 7: Out Oh yeah, it's an absolute nightmare. Yeah, it's the worst.

1166
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 1: Uh.

1167
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:55,520
Speaker 2: I struggled enough when I did the power rankings and

1168
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:57,320
Speaker 2: I was coming up to the list of thirty two,

1169
00:57:57,360 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 2: and I kept on being either a thirty three or

1170
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:00,640
Speaker 2: thirty one, as like, am I missing?

1171
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 1: Who did I put in here? Twice? It would like

1172
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 1: stop me down for half an hour.

1173
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:07,960
Speaker 6: I don't even know how you One year I got

1174
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 6: I did all the records on like loose leaf paper,

1175
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 6: and I turned them in and they were accurate, and

1176
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 6: then I threw them away.

1177
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:17,360
Speaker 7: And then like a week.

1178
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 6: Later, my boss was like, hey, the social team wants

1179
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 6: to post the individual records, and so you have to

1180
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 6: go and I was.

1181
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 7: Like, I don't even know like that.

1182
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 6: That would be like backtracking the equation for like the

1183
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 6: black hole, and so I literally had to start completely

1184
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:34,080
Speaker 6: over again.

1185
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:36,800
Speaker 7: And it was yeah, I was, I was, I was

1186
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:37,280
Speaker 7: a bad.

1187
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 3: And he's got floods happening. The basement's flooding, there's weather,

1188
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 3: there's no warriors.

1189
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 2: All right, a couple more questions to take a break,

1190
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 2: and then we'll finish up with Connor. All Right, all right,

1191
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 2: all right, welcome back, Connor. Thank you for taking a

1192
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 2: crack at that one we've been See it's like that

1193
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 2: when I got floored by that. When you're wing a

1194
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 2: task is storing of you. We realize it's a bit

1195
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 2: of thorny.

1196
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:13,720
Speaker 1: Let's hear it. Let's hear Mark's attempt.

1197
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 3: All Right, we're back showing us continuing.

1198
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 1: Do we have Colleen's excuse me? Do you have gregs?

1199
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 6: Right?

1200
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:33,920
Speaker 7: Everybody?

1201
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 3: What is so hard about it?

1202
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:41,760
Speaker 2: I don't know, Like I take it as a good

1203
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:44,240
Speaker 2: sign that it's not an easy thing to imitate. That's

1204
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:47,280
Speaker 2: how I look at it personally. No, you've perfected it.

1205
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 2: We're just chasing. We're chasing your abilities on that one.

1206
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 2: All Right, we're back a couple more questions and then

1207
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:56,840
Speaker 2: we'll say goodbye for the week. When fellas asks, are

1208
00:59:56,880 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 2: the Texans more likely to regress or progress in twenty

1209
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 2: four I think Connor, that kind of hits on something

1210
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:06,920
Speaker 2: you said earlier. The wide assumption, the widely held assumption

1211
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 2: seems to be the Texans are going to make that

1212
01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 2: leap and be a powerhouse this year. But a lot

1213
01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 2: of things have to go right for that to happen,

1214
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 2: and the development has to continue.

1215
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 1: Obviously, the draft is still ahead of us.

1216
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 2: I would say it's more likely that they do build

1217
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:24,560
Speaker 2: on last year, but the grand assumption and in general,

1218
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:27,200
Speaker 2: the idea of having a ton of expectations heaped on you,

1219
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 2: that could be that's a different vibe than they were

1220
01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:32,760
Speaker 2: last year as well, So there's a lot don't assume

1221
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:34,160
Speaker 2: that's all.

1222
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:37,240
Speaker 6: It's a different it's a different situation. And I remember,

1223
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 6: like would I would compare CJ. Stroud's theatrics towards the

1224
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 6: middle and the end of that season, like when the

1225
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:46,120
Speaker 6: Rookie of the year candidacy really started to build through

1226
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 6: the end of that season, it was a lot like

1227
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 6: early Herbert And then I think we spent the last

1228
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 6: three years wondering when Herbert was going to elevate to

1229
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:59,120
Speaker 6: this like more consistently theatrically incredible player, or when the

1230
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 6: offense was going to get built around him to be

1231
01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:04,720
Speaker 6: able to facilitate that. And I do think that, you know,

1232
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:09,160
Speaker 6: we forget how amazing CJ. Stroud was situationally last year,

1233
01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:13,080
Speaker 6: and those performances are sometimes like a once in a

1234
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 6: every few years kind of thing, you know, and they don't.

1235
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 6: You don't always get him in back to back to

1236
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 6: back weeks, and we don't know if he's Steph Curry yet.

1237
01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 6: He might be, But you know, I think the rest

1238
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 6: of that division is getting much better and will be

1239
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 6: a lot more challenging.

1240
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:29,919
Speaker 3: They all have a different schedule that that starts right there.

1241
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 3: But I like the fact that Bobby Slowick wasn't hired

1242
01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:36,120
Speaker 3: away somewhere else, that there's consistency. I get worried about quarterbacks,

1243
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:39,200
Speaker 3: good or bad, like when there's a lot of coordinator shifts.

1244
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 3: But they lost Tank Dell for a big chunk of

1245
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:43,480
Speaker 3: time last year. They lost Stroud for for a bit

1246
01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:45,080
Speaker 3: for a spell and lost a game in the middle

1247
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 3: of all that. And I trust this coaching staff a lot,

1248
01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 3: so they don't feel like a regression candidate to me

1249
01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:52,720
Speaker 3: the way that like a year ago, the Giants certainly

1250
01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:55,320
Speaker 3: seemed like they were the Vikings winning a billion like

1251
01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:58,640
Speaker 3: you know one score games, like they were legit thumping people.

1252
01:01:58,680 --> 01:02:00,919
Speaker 3: And I both, it's the balls a lot.

1253
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:02,000
Speaker 1: To like all right?

1254
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:06,840
Speaker 2: Next, oh from our body Dave Ealy from the newsroom. Hi, guys,

1255
01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 2: first time, long time, okay with football? Not on what

1256
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 2: are y'all watching right now?

1257
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 1: He's from North Carolina. Excuse him? I know Greg was

1258
01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:17,760
Speaker 1: big into Love is Blind, any pop culture Rex.

1259
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:22,400
Speaker 2: I will throw out a couple I am.

1260
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 1: I want to give some serious flowers in the podcast

1261
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 1: game to Rob Harvilla of The Ringer. He just recently

1262
01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:34,240
Speaker 1: completed his sixty Songs that help Explain the Nineties series

1263
01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:37,000
Speaker 1: that actually ballooned into one hundred and twenty songs that

1264
01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:41,880
Speaker 1: explained the nineties, and it was I thought it advanced

1265
01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:44,920
Speaker 1: the medium. But I will say it like that.

1266
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:48,840
Speaker 2: He was a great, great storyteller, kind of an essayist,

1267
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:52,200
Speaker 2: like where he wrote on not just the music and

1268
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:55,480
Speaker 2: the song, but the you know, the era, but also

1269
01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:58,880
Speaker 2: his his personal experiences and being a lot of the

1270
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:01,680
Speaker 2: reasons why like I do a music podcast with my

1271
01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:05,400
Speaker 2: buddy Bob, the throwback podcast where the music becomes the

1272
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:09,040
Speaker 2: soundtrack for your adolescence and it brings it has this

1273
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:12,680
Speaker 2: powerful nostalgia that kind of keeps you connected to it

1274
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:16,160
Speaker 2: as you grew older. And he really I think Harvilla

1275
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:19,600
Speaker 2: nailed that sentiment while also giving you a varied look.

1276
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:22,520
Speaker 2: It started as I think more slanted towards alternative rock,

1277
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:26,680
Speaker 2: which was my wheelhouse when I was a teenager. Hartville

1278
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:29,040
Speaker 2: is a couple of years older, but it became as

1279
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:33,040
Speaker 2: the show developed and progressed. Like our own podcast, it

1280
01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:35,960
Speaker 2: turned into something else and it was a deep dive

1281
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:38,840
Speaker 2: into all different genres and a look a great look

1282
01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:40,720
Speaker 2: at music and life in general.

1283
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 1: So sixty songs that.

1284
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:44,439
Speaker 3: By the way, what does what does wheelhouse mean?

1285
01:03:47,560 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 1: What do you mean was wheelhouse mean?

1286
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 3: What is the definition? I understand it means like it

1287
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:53,240
Speaker 3: was a place that you thrived in int a certain time.

1288
01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:56,160
Speaker 3: But why is it called wheelhouse versus like hot zone

1289
01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:57,959
Speaker 3: or I don't know, I don't know. We can answer

1290
01:03:57,960 --> 01:03:58,440
Speaker 3: that another time.

1291
01:03:58,440 --> 01:03:59,960
Speaker 7: Beliek red Basket.

1292
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:03,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. Mark, I don't how about you?

1293
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:06,840
Speaker 3: Mark feels mechanical? I think Connor might like this. This

1294
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 3: is I don't know how I stumbled upon this because

1295
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:11,600
Speaker 3: I started watching it. Like it's on like HBO Max.

1296
01:04:11,640 --> 01:04:15,080
Speaker 3: But it's called Seeking Sister Wife, and it's these like

1297
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:17,680
Speaker 3: couples that are trying to like find like a second

1298
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:20,080
Speaker 3: or third or fourth mate, and it's it's they're not

1299
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:23,840
Speaker 3: traditional like that's typically a Mormon thing. Yeah, I done those,

1300
01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 3: but it's people just in society trying to do it,

1301
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:29,440
Speaker 3: and it's like total chaos erupts. It's it's it's a

1302
01:04:29,560 --> 01:04:30,480
Speaker 3: roller coaster ride.

1303
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:30,920
Speaker 1: Uh.

1304
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:34,120
Speaker 3: I don't know. It's on HBO. It's I was like,

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Speaker 3: you know, the Serving Through four Thousand Things, and I

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Speaker 3: was like, I'll give this one a shot and kind

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Speaker 3: of pulled me in Sesta.

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Speaker 2: Deep on HBO Max on a three AM. I could

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Speaker 2: I could sense it. Calm down, gun, how about you, Connor?

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Speaker 7: Can I do a book or is yeah anything.

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Speaker 6: Like all right, yeah, he needs to bring back his

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Speaker 6: Instagram cooking show.

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Speaker 7: By the way, it was really uh it was fantastic.

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Speaker 1: He'll be to know that you just cited that, so

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: So I'm I'm halfway through Lonesome Dove, which is a

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Speaker 6: book by Larry mcmurdy and it was it's known as

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01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:17,919
Speaker 6: Stephen King's favorite book ever, and it's from nineteen eighty five.

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01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:21,320
Speaker 6: It's it's like a classic western, but it won the

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Speaker 6: Pulitzer that year, and it is the first book I

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Speaker 6: think that I can ever remember that made me laugh

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Speaker 6: out loud, like it's but it's there's a lot of things.

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Speaker 6: It's like a western. There's drama, there's romance, there's like

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01:05:35,120 --> 01:05:38,120
Speaker 6: there's a mystery, there's a plot, and there's a lot

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Speaker 6: of things about life.

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Speaker 7: But it's also very very funny.

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Speaker 6: So I would I would say, like Eli should read

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Speaker 6: a damn book for once.

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Speaker 1: So there you go, Dave.

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Speaker 3: That was also a TV show for years. It had

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Speaker 3: like look at this, Who's in this? It was a

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01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:56,000
Speaker 3: series Robert Duval, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane,

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Speaker 3: and it goes on and on.

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Speaker 1: Powerhouse Diane Lane, Special special person. All Right, one more.

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Speaker 2: Eric Blasell asks what are your all time favorite sound

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Speaker 2: drops from the show? Top three for me are hanging onions.

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Speaker 5: You try to these onions, you'll like them, the real

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01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 5: sweet onions.

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Speaker 1: Hot butts acone always a favorite, and of course the

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Speaker 1: great Chris Westling standard.

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Speaker 2: It's about me, it's about those are all great. I

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01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:31,480
Speaker 2: love all those. I thought this would be a good occasion.

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01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:35,960
Speaker 2: I had really originally had asked Eric to send me

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01:06:36,040 --> 01:06:40,120
Speaker 2: a couple of my favorite Sessler isms, and that very

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01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:42,160
Speaker 2: quickly turned into we have to do a top ten

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01:06:42,560 --> 01:06:45,000
Speaker 2: Mark Sessler drops on the podcast.

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01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:47,880
Speaker 3: So maybe on maybe I just take that show off

1349
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 3: and that you can There'll be plenty of me as.

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Speaker 2: Is, without further ado, the top ten Mark Sessler drops

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Speaker 2: on around the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Number ten, what manacured joke? Number nine, I'm having a

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01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:07,920
Speaker 3: weird day. Number eight, I'm annoyed. Now, Oh I love

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01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:10,240
Speaker 3: that one. I think that might be should be higher.

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Speaker 3: I'll have to think about that.

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Speaker 1: Number seven.

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Speaker 3: I feel power prompted. That number six, I am begging

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01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:20,360
Speaker 3: you to shut up.

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01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:24,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that one. That's a good's that's classic. Number five.

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Speaker 3: I always return, Yes, he does you know?

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01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:30,520
Speaker 2: That one brings me peace when I when I sometimes

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01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:34,680
Speaker 2: lose Mark, he's off the grid, I do I when

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 1: To myself, what does he always say? I always return?

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Speaker 3: Probably was in response to a voice concern of yours.

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01:07:42,160 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 1: What are we at? Number four? Number four?

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Speaker 3: Heavens to Betsy my grandmother used to say that that's right,

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Speaker 3: pick that up.

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01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:53,760
Speaker 1: He says that after every time we use it, he explains.

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Speaker 5: Why my grandma used to say that we.

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Speaker 1: Need a drop to explain him explaining the drop. Number

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Speaker 1: three metals stand.

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01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:02,479
Speaker 3: Check you later, brock.

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Speaker 1: Number two good for you.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, let's get a little timpany drum here for

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01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 2: the number one Mark Sessler drop. That is a you know,

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01:08:16,280 --> 01:08:18,719
Speaker 2: Eric the producer, when I said I need the good

1378
01:08:18,760 --> 01:08:21,200
Speaker 2: for you scream, he didn't know it was you.

1379
01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:23,360
Speaker 1: He didn't realize that's Mark's voice.

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01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 3: It was a different version of me.

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Speaker 5: I listened to it and I was like, because he's

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01:08:27,360 --> 01:08:30,080
Speaker 5: asking for Mark drops, and I'm like, is this can't

1383
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:31,680
Speaker 5: be it? So I have to make sure And I'm like,

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01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:33,880
Speaker 5: that doesn't even sound like I'm in his explanation, A

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01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:35,120
Speaker 5: different period of Mark.

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01:08:35,040 --> 01:08:36,120
Speaker 1: A different Mark period.

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Speaker 2: I'll give me a little timpany drum for the number

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Speaker 2: one Mark Sessler drop on the Around the NFL podcast

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01:08:43,040 --> 01:08:44,720
Speaker 2: and so many choices, and thank you to.

1390
01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:50,160
Speaker 1: Everyone did it.

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Speaker 3: Football is completely different than basketball. I knew that. I mean,

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01:08:56,080 --> 01:08:57,600
Speaker 3: that was going to be in the top ten. But

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01:08:57,760 --> 01:08:59,519
Speaker 3: thank you to everyone, thank you to me. I produced

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01:08:59,520 --> 01:09:00,599
Speaker 3: those ten sound bites.

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01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:01,320
Speaker 1: You sure did.

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01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:03,479
Speaker 3: So you know, let's start right there.

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01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:08,680
Speaker 1: Connor, you've said it all. Is there anything else you

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01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:09,280
Speaker 1: want to add?

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01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:12,800
Speaker 2: And he plugs anything you want to get out there,

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01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:14,639
Speaker 2: anything about yourself, your your family.

1401
01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:16,720
Speaker 1: Advice to that.

1402
01:09:16,920 --> 01:09:21,400
Speaker 2: Tens of thousands of listeners use this bully pulpit as

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01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:21,760
Speaker 2: you will.

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01:09:23,920 --> 01:09:26,960
Speaker 7: I would just say, you know, keep on keeping on.

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01:09:27,520 --> 01:09:29,080
Speaker 7: You know, I think that's.

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01:09:28,920 --> 01:09:32,360
Speaker 1: Uh spoken like a true dead End friends fan.

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01:09:34,360 --> 01:09:36,200
Speaker 7: Keep on, keep on trucking everybody.

1408
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:39,360
Speaker 1: You know you're going to see Dead in Company at

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01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:41,640
Speaker 1: the Sphere in Vegas.

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01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:47,480
Speaker 6: Uh So, maybe I the Philly Show felt like the

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01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 6: culmination of I had avoided seeing them for years. I

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01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:54,040
Speaker 6: had never seen them before, and they're my favorite band

1413
01:09:54,080 --> 01:09:56,320
Speaker 6: of all time. And then I saw them because it

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01:09:56,360 --> 01:09:58,280
Speaker 6: was like the final tour, and I brought my best

1415
01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:00,240
Speaker 6: friend with me, and we both are obsessed with it,

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01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:02,880
Speaker 6: and I was like, Okay, now it's over and that

1417
01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:04,760
Speaker 6: and that chapter of my life is done and it

1418
01:10:04,800 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 6: can't be any better than it was. And so part

1419
01:10:07,360 --> 01:10:10,080
Speaker 6: of me is like, do I spend nine hundred dollars

1420
01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:13,559
Speaker 6: to catapult myself back into Las Vegas after I just

1421
01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:15,599
Speaker 6: escaped and do it again I don't.

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01:10:15,400 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 3: Know, that'sure maturity.

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01:10:17,439 --> 01:10:20,479
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I think I have to let it go good.

1424
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Speaker 1: And finally, on opening Day in Major League Baseball, Baltimore

1425
01:10:24,280 --> 01:10:29,280
Speaker 1: Orioles over under ninety four and a half wins.

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Speaker 6: Oh over. But I'll keep this very short. I finished

1427
01:10:33,920 --> 01:10:39,200
Speaker 6: the book about the Astros winning fixes everything, and I

1428
01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:42,040
Speaker 6: was like, my god, what a bunch of horrible people.

1429
01:10:42,160 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 7: And then at the end they're like, yeah, they're all

1430
01:10:44,280 --> 01:10:46,080
Speaker 7: running the oriole now, and I was like, oh, that's

1431
01:10:47,240 --> 01:10:47,960
Speaker 7: that sucks.

1432
01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:50,520
Speaker 6: So like I'm kind of like, I'm a little conflicted,

1433
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:52,760
Speaker 6: you know, a little bit. You know, this is I

1434
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:56,040
Speaker 6: would have rather just do it in a plucky way,

1435
01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:59,240
Speaker 6: but Maryland needs this right now. So I'm rooting for

1436
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:00,679
Speaker 6: a big season the other All.

1437
01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:05,880
Speaker 1: Right, Connor, thank you, buddy, thank you. There he goes

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01:11:06,439 --> 01:11:10,960
Speaker 1: the legend himself. Mark.

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01:11:11,040 --> 01:11:14,880
Speaker 2: I will be now heading off on a vacation, and uh,

1440
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:17,679
Speaker 2: you're really the anchor in a lot of ways here

1441
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:22,479
Speaker 2: because I will leave, Greg will return, but you will

1442
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:24,120
Speaker 2: be the calm in the storm.

1443
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:29,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I vow that we will not be constructing

1444
01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:31,320
Speaker 3: any pranks with you at the center of it while

1445
01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:33,559
Speaker 3: you're on a vacation. I don't think the I think

1446
01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:36,840
Speaker 3: Delator just like Jason.

1447
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:39,519
Speaker 2: Light fair play if there's any type of schemes that

1448
01:11:39,640 --> 01:11:40,479
Speaker 2: Greg wants to hatch.

1449
01:11:40,479 --> 01:11:41,559
Speaker 1: But I really it's not.

1450
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:47,439
Speaker 2: I think the whole thing with the Delaware investigation, it's

1451
01:11:47,479 --> 01:11:50,360
Speaker 2: completely something that is a service to the audience.

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01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:52,519
Speaker 3: Oh, I think so one hundred percent. In like that

1453
01:11:52,720 --> 01:11:55,360
Speaker 3: across our studio, the football that you received from Clemson

1454
01:11:55,439 --> 01:11:58,519
Speaker 3: for your public service to apparently a group of people,

1455
01:11:58,600 --> 01:12:01,640
Speaker 3: the orphaned youth of that's what it's morphed into. But

1456
01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:04,920
Speaker 3: I would put this, George, what this investigation right over

1457
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:05,760
Speaker 3: on that mantle two.

1458
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:10,439
Speaker 1: All right, hit the music, Thank.

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01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:13,800
Speaker 2: You everybody for listening as always, and we will be

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01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:15,800
Speaker 2: back with two shows next week. You'll hear from us

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Speaker 2: Tuesday atm We'll be back on Tuesday and then back

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01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:20,840
Speaker 2: to three times a week in the March to the

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01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:23,160
Speaker 2: draft till then hear the call