Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast a collaboration. It feels so eagoless. No,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Deaf Fansas and I'm joining with the
Speaker 1: room full of whatever you call yourselves. We got this
Speaker 1: sizzleman Mark Sessler and teen Wolf, Colleen Wolf and the
Speaker 1: businessman Greg Rosenthalal, what's going on? Everybody? Hi? God? That
Speaker 1: was horrible? What just happened? Where are we? Who are we?
Speaker 1: An absolute kude? Top? I gotta get out of here?
Speaker 1: Is your name? Connor? Yeah? I didn't recognize you. Finally
Speaker 1: it's happening. And now violently taking the headset off of
Speaker 1: Connor's head and putting it back on his own. Strident
Speaker 1: Lee doing so, Connor, that's the way to go out that.
Speaker 1: It's good that Colleen recognized you, though I have seen
Speaker 1: I haven't seen Dan this upset since the episode we
Speaker 1: really did start without him without him knowing well that
Speaker 1: that's like going back to when we were starting this
Speaker 1: podcast and Greg was the boss. He was like, maybe
Speaker 1: I should host it. I was like, no, No, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna go out good. It was fun. I would
Speaker 1: do it again. No, that was a deep whatever that was.
Speaker 1: It was years. It was years into the body and
Speaker 1: there was some code broken there if I remember. It
Speaker 1: was kind of one of those things were after the
Speaker 1: show is like, I wonder it was a proud d
Speaker 1: is going to think about that? It shows can you
Speaker 1: take a joke? And we found out the answer, uh
Speaker 1: that that joke, by the way from Connor was sell it.
Speaker 1: That's how you go out. Well, it's been a very
Speaker 1: weird week of shows, and I credit a lot of
Speaker 1: that to Connor. Yeah, Connor did a great job, and
Speaker 1: he pitched this little idea and we were like, not
Speaker 1: sure how that's gonna go, but I want to find out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said to him, listen, it's either gonna be very
Speaker 1: funny or it's not gonna work at all, and then
Speaker 1: we can make fun of how bad your idea was.
Speaker 1: I think I was like right in the middle. It
Speaker 1: was like right in between Jeff Hans is. I think
Speaker 1: that's what he said, right, Yeah, Jeff Hans, Good, Jeff,
Speaker 1: let's break it all down. Joke all right, by Connor.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Around the NFL podcast.
Speaker 1: By the way, you are such a rat, Greg because
Speaker 1: and now that I think about when you when you
Speaker 1: did start the show without me, it was because you
Speaker 1: were trying to win a bet that you had made
Speaker 1: with West or something. Oh yeah about that shows by
Speaker 1: a certain time. The show had to start by a
Speaker 1: certain time, and then you left to go get water.
Speaker 1: And so I just like I wanted to win the
Speaker 1: sandwich and say, went back to your your addictions. That's
Speaker 1: what it was about. I mean, I was rooted there.
Speaker 1: I like you. It's whatever is good for the show.
Speaker 1: I was playing into this bit that was on the show,
Speaker 1: so hard, savvy, moved by you. Good job, Um, all right,
Speaker 1: today's show, Colleen, thank you for joining us by You're welcome.
Speaker 1: This show is a real winner, I think today. Oh
Speaker 1: you could already tell it's just careening on the tracks
Speaker 1: without any problems. The amount of prep work done for
Speaker 1: this particular episode is it's kind of stunning. Yeah. In fact,
Speaker 1: if if the listeners paid for this show, I would
Speaker 1: feel guilty. I would feel guilty. But you know what,
Speaker 1: here we are, the four of us together, missing West
Speaker 1: of course, but um still forging on. And I want
Speaker 1: to first of all, a shout out to the subred,
Speaker 1: the subredit, the around the NFL uh subreddit, which we
Speaker 1: issued a challenge not two weeks ago, maybe even a
Speaker 1: week ago, I can't remember anymore, saying we were sitting
Speaker 1: around um followers of the subreddit and said, let's get
Speaker 1: it to five thousand and I guess they underestimated how
Speaker 1: much people want free stuff because we said there will
Speaker 1: be a prize to be determined. Flash forward to today
Speaker 1: and I think we're at about fifty every time. How
Speaker 1: many of those are bots? Like not real people or
Speaker 1: people you know interacting with others. I don't really know
Speaker 1: how that the bot industry works. I feel like they're humans.
Speaker 1: It seems to be trending swords towards another type of industry.
Speaker 1: From the bots that try to take hold of my tweets,
Speaker 1: they don't seem like very pure individuals. Why do you
Speaker 1: say that they're mostly people with very little clothing on
Speaker 1: commenting on a tweet that I did from like two
Speaker 1: thousand and thirteen, it just doesn't seem real. You go
Speaker 1: to their pain. The real excitement was the couple of
Speaker 1: days before Mark realized that these were bots. My demographic
Speaker 1: is fantastic at that point. By the way, the five
Speaker 1: thousands listener, we know what they win. Don't you write
Speaker 1: they win Sydney. We're just sending Sydney. You're a fine
Speaker 1: with that right into slavery? Feel good about it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not what I call I mean they could. I
Speaker 1: could be slavery in a worst case scenario, and the
Speaker 1: best case scenario you either make a best friend if
Speaker 1: it's a woman, or you fall in love. It was
Speaker 1: a career. Feeling good about that best case scenario. Um No,
Speaker 1: we haven't figured out what the prize was. There is
Speaker 1: a shadowy league figure meeting to come where I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pound the table to see if we can get something.
Speaker 1: What about the toaster? I thought it was going to
Speaker 1: be West's toaster. Better than that, did you guys? Just
Speaker 1: a little better? There was some standard I would love
Speaker 1: a toast. We don't even own the toaster, by the
Speaker 1: way Scheck has it, so it's like even better. There
Speaker 1: was a winner of an idea someone brought up on
Speaker 1: the subreddit, which was a personalized voice message written by Sessler.
Speaker 1: Sessler monologue. It's a pretty outgoing message. That's pretty it's
Speaker 1: pretty easy. I don't know if I like that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff out there on tape. Just one that's what
Speaker 1: makes more. How about this, I will call them five
Speaker 1: to six thousand times over the course of a year,
Speaker 1: and they totally alienate them and they'll buy the end
Speaker 1: they'll want nothing to do with So instead of having
Speaker 1: to write one short thing once, you would rather call
Speaker 1: them five thousand times, five to six thousand times. Um.
Speaker 1: So on today's show, we will debut the segment called
Speaker 1: this or That, which will be a segment in which
Speaker 1: we will present two things, this or that, and then
Speaker 1: the group will decide which one they would rather have.
Speaker 1: Is that? What it is? Something like that? Something like that.
Speaker 1: We'll have fun with it. Yeah, it's fluid right now.
Speaker 1: It's a very organic. Came up with it on his
Speaker 1: way out. He did a little producing word. A lot
Speaker 1: of good ideas from Connor related to the show. Two
Speaker 1: for two is what I said. Um. And then we
Speaker 1: will also of course hit the news, and to do
Speaker 1: that we look behind the glass and you know who
Speaker 1: it is. But it's the first lady of the around
Speaker 1: the NFL podcast New Money. How's it going on this Thursday?
Speaker 1: Are we beeping out or no? In general, because this
Speaker 1: is the second show in a row, I never listened
Speaker 1: to it. I could see shadowy leaks figures brain exploding
Speaker 1: within his skull, and then there's fluids leaking out of
Speaker 1: the ears and nostrils. If we don't believe it's almost
Speaker 1: more when that listens to. The show is on vacation anyway,
Speaker 1: So he still I would say this, it's almost worse
Speaker 1: to bleep out because the imagination then comes up with
Speaker 1: a much worse word or words or combination of all. Right,
Speaker 1: let's suspend bleeping out any foul language going forward. Oh sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: going out and flames my job. Right now, let's do
Speaker 1: some news. You've just crushed over into the Twilight Now, certainly, Colleen,
Speaker 1: you you are somewhat knowledgeable of the Twilight Zone series, right,
Speaker 1: oh expert expert status? Have you seen more than three
Speaker 1: episodes of the show? Never seen episode? I mean, actually,
Speaker 1: it's very possible that I have seen the episodes and
Speaker 1: I just don't remember any longer they've it's just been
Speaker 1: expunged from my memory. Well, this came up yesterday and
Speaker 1: there were people tweeting that were stunned that most of
Speaker 1: us were not Twilight Zone fishing. No, but see, I
Speaker 1: would say I've probably seen thirty episodes, like to do
Speaker 1: that which is not a big UM forty three was on,
Speaker 1: it wasn't on. It was on not I mean its
Speaker 1: original run. But I also watched Channel eleven. It was
Speaker 1: it was around. You just seemed you remember certain episodes
Speaker 1: so well. I don't that I do not with that show,
Speaker 1: Like what like what episodes would you remember? What? Like?
Speaker 1: What's an example? Uh? The one I cited yesterday, which
Speaker 1: is the Good Life about the boy that lives in
Speaker 1: this town and there he could read minds, and he's
Speaker 1: evil and he could wish people away to the cornfields. Uh.
Speaker 1: Talking Tina was one of my favorite ones about an
Speaker 1: evil doll. That one I think I recalled. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was more in the threes company when I was little.
Speaker 1: That's a very different program. Uh. Nightmare at thirty thousand
Speaker 1: feet with a young William Shatner when there's a monster
Speaker 1: on the plane on the wing of the plane and
Speaker 1: nobody believes him. He's the only one that can see
Speaker 1: this is this is pop culture touchstone stuff. I just
Speaker 1: thought more people knew. No. Somebody made the point that
Speaker 1: the first of all, very spar As West wasn't on
Speaker 1: board of it, um and then also pointing out that
Speaker 1: there are people that go back retroactively and watch the
Speaker 1: Twilight Zone to better understand uh references on The Simpsons
Speaker 1: and other programs. It was absolutely huge culture. It's a
Speaker 1: huge cultural moment. But I think you know someone ten
Speaker 1: years old, thirty two years old out of the womb.
Speaker 1: Here he is Gregor Rosenthal. Let's start with the news
Speaker 1: that new Englewood Stadium, the one that we're all going
Speaker 1: to move to and work out of. Yeah, it's been
Speaker 1: delayed the opening the two thousand twenty. And you know why,
Speaker 1: we're all very very aware of this, the terrible weather
Speaker 1: over the winter. UM. Both clubs, the that being the
Speaker 1: Rams and the Chargers have confirmed the one year pushback
Speaker 1: on Thursday, releasing statements that cited an unexpected amount of
Speaker 1: rainfall for a delay in construction. Uh. The new stadium
Speaker 1: was set to open a time for the twenty nineteen season,
Speaker 1: but now we'll be ready for in the summer. And
Speaker 1: this it was all timing issue that they they broke
Speaker 1: around in November and then it just rained for every
Speaker 1: other day, it felt like for about three months, to
Speaker 1: the point there was a six week span where it
Speaker 1: rained I think every day. Yeah, you should have seen
Speaker 1: the palm trees, uh per, the l a times. Water
Speaker 1: at times stood up to twelve to fifteen deep in
Speaker 1: the big hole, the big old hole that they were digging,
Speaker 1: and and everything's gonna be okay. It's a two point
Speaker 1: six billion dollar project, um, but they're going to put
Speaker 1: a little delay on it. So I think it's go ahead.
Speaker 1: The Chargers will end up staying it's stub Hub then
Speaker 1: for an extra year too. Yeah, like cozy, nice, quaint
Speaker 1: atmosphere for you're stread about a mark about the stub
Speaker 1: Hub scenario. Yeah, I think it's a it's listen, let's
Speaker 1: see where we are by the end of the year.
Speaker 1: It could be great, it could be an epic mess.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be a lot of fun. But now
Speaker 1: they're cutting it close because the super Bowl will be
Speaker 1: played assuming things don't change in the first season that
Speaker 1: it's open, so they schedule that, and they usually do
Speaker 1: this with the new stadiums, that you have one full
Speaker 1: season like the Vikings did last year, and then in
Speaker 1: that second season, that's kind of your first chance to
Speaker 1: hopefully they've ironed out the kinks and they figure out
Speaker 1: anything that was wrong the first season. Then you have
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So they'll be playing the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: there four, you know, five six months after it opened.
Speaker 1: I hope they send us. Maybe it's maybe it's God's
Speaker 1: same sit down, humble. I mean, at that point one
Speaker 1: we're talking about Colleen, who knows. I mean, there's there's
Speaker 1: definitely there's definitely a realistic there's definitely a realistic chance
Speaker 1: that that we don't have jobs here. It's certainly in
Speaker 1: the realm of possibility. Will certainly be swept out by
Speaker 1: some form of management. By that point, there could be
Speaker 1: no America America. We we have been here, what I've
Speaker 1: been here for five years. There has been at least
Speaker 1: three to four different people running kind of the l
Speaker 1: A operation in that time, so you get the wrong
Speaker 1: person in there, plus the threat of nuclear holocaust. So uh.
Speaker 1: Moving on Ladarius Green, so much for him making a
Speaker 1: big impact in Pittsburgh. The team announced Thursday that they've
Speaker 1: released the tight end with a failed physical designation. You
Speaker 1: may remember that just last year Green had signed a
Speaker 1: four year, twenty million dollar contract made six million for
Speaker 1: doing very little much and very little at all, I
Speaker 1: should say, And he was supposed to be a guy
Speaker 1: that was a perfect compliment to that offense. But he
Speaker 1: had concussion issues, uh, and other injuries, and they're not
Speaker 1: going to get anything out of their Green experiment. Colleen, Uh,
Speaker 1: what if. I'm not gonna call what if for the ages,
Speaker 1: But there was this idea. We we were glowing talking
Speaker 1: about the signing last year and it just never it
Speaker 1: was so exciting when they signed him. Everybody I remember
Speaker 1: we were all sitting in here and the fact that
Speaker 1: they added him to that offense. You have a big
Speaker 1: guy target for Ben Roethlisberger, and now they have Jesse James, Beau,
Speaker 1: Davier Grimble and David Johnson. Jesse James, James, Jesse James
Speaker 1: I thought was pretty productive lust year. Well, you you
Speaker 1: kind of saw what Green could be for them. I mean,
Speaker 1: he averaged seventeen yards per catch, He had a couple
Speaker 1: of big games. I mean, he made some plays down
Speaker 1: the field. But he is a young guy twenty seven
Speaker 1: this year, whose career might be over because of concussions.
Speaker 1: This to me is strictly because of his concussions, and
Speaker 1: they weren't even sure if he was going to be
Speaker 1: able to be ready for the start of the season.
Speaker 1: So you feel for a guy he did get paid
Speaker 1: that that's great, but he might be yet another player.
Speaker 1: It seems like there's been more and more that their
Speaker 1: career might be ending early. Most of them have appeared
Speaker 1: in are Making the Leap series another Making the Leap
Speaker 1: Star bites the dust. Where does calling a Xavier Grimble
Speaker 1: rank on your NFL name power rankings. It's a great one, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's probably top Maybe I'd have to go back
Speaker 1: and look at the rankings, but I haven't seen a
Speaker 1: Grimble in a while. It mixes like a very cool
Speaker 1: first name, was sort of a clunky last name, so
Speaker 1: it kind of throws you off almost like a like
Speaker 1: a forest like wood creature would be like, oh, look
Speaker 1: at that grimble, right right grimble, or like a small rodent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that. I think that is a children's story.
Speaker 1: It's something very very close. It's like a British you're
Speaker 1: not talking about Grendel, the mythological creature. My word, it's
Speaker 1: a talking wimble exactly has gold coins for us that's
Speaker 1: follow him deeper into the woods poorly. They get lost
Speaker 1: in the woods and starved to death. Actually it's not
Speaker 1: the starvation that gets them, it's the fluids. A classic
Speaker 1: children's tale Drake Water gonna stay hydrated. That's the moral
Speaker 1: of the story. Kelvin Benjamin, remember when he was one
Speaker 1: of the young rising stars of the league. He could
Speaker 1: still be that. He's a young guy the but the
Speaker 1: Panthers wide receiver um struggled last season in his first
Speaker 1: year back from a c L injury. Uh, he's had
Speaker 1: some weight issues and then he was kind of put
Speaker 1: on blast by his coaching staff. Came in heavier than
Speaker 1: the coaches wanted. And this is what Benjamin had to
Speaker 1: say on Wednesday, via the team's official website. I need
Speaker 1: to be in the best shape of my life. I
Speaker 1: have to get back to being dominant. Now. I was
Speaker 1: gonna sound the trope alert, but this is a little
Speaker 1: different because usually Kelvin benjam If he's a perfect example,
Speaker 1: Calvin Benjamin says I'm in the best shape of my life.
Speaker 1: Let's cut it though, because he didn't say that I
Speaker 1: need to be. So he's acknowledging that he is physically
Speaker 1: not where he needs to be and he's got some
Speaker 1: time to do it. But he better get to work.
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting with this team that under the
Speaker 1: same general manager with the same quarterback for a couple
Speaker 1: of years they stressed finding these massive targets, Devin Funch,
Speaker 1: just Kelvin Benjamin for Cam Newton, and then in this
Speaker 1: draft it's like they've they've added something they need, they
Speaker 1: need a speed component. But you go out and you
Speaker 1: get Curtis Samuel and you, I mean you you, you
Speaker 1: add Christian McCaffrey. It's a completely different type of approach
Speaker 1: on offense. Yeah, And I think like in the in
Speaker 1: the story that Patra wrote up, he has here that
Speaker 1: uh he said, I think people saw that first way
Speaker 1: in and we're like, whoa is he ready to play?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's definitely a concern when he reads
Speaker 1: that on other people's faces. You know what, I think
Speaker 1: it's time for Mark a little beach body. Beach body. Well,
Speaker 1: it surprises me. One thing you put him and Devin
Speaker 1: fund Just on that book. It surprises me because what
Speaker 1: is his job. Essentially, it's it's like an actor. You're
Speaker 1: supposed to keep your looks, you're supposed to keep your
Speaker 1: frame around you. As an athlete, you've got to stay
Speaker 1: in shape. And then you let them away from the
Speaker 1: team and they come back and they're not in shape.
Speaker 1: You're what are you telling an employer that's paying you
Speaker 1: millions of dollars. I don't give it. I agree. I
Speaker 1: gotta get it together, bro. Moving on Alex Smith, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, listen, he's still the quarterback of the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Has had a very nice career, maybe not what was
Speaker 1: expected as a number one overall pick, but a perfectly
Speaker 1: solid quarterback. But now he sees Patrick Mahomes in his
Speaker 1: building and he understands how this works. He had this
Speaker 1: to say to ESPN dot Com. I think the Chiefs
Speaker 1: are committed to me through this year. That's just the
Speaker 1: nature of it. If you don't go out there and perform,
Speaker 1: I mean, coach Read and quarterbacks coach Matt Maaggie are
Speaker 1: very honest. Uh, you've got to go out there and
Speaker 1: do your deal. We all have to. Whether or not
Speaker 1: we drafted Patrick, it doesn't change that right. If you're
Speaker 1: not good enough and didn't get it done, you're not
Speaker 1: going to be around along. That's just our culture. I
Speaker 1: know it. That's a nature of the position. Greg can
Speaker 1: you translate? Translate? I am I am Alex Smith, and
Speaker 1: I am fired up to keep this kid on the
Speaker 1: bench as long as humanly possible. I am going to
Speaker 1: treat him like Brett Farve treated Aaron Rodgers in trying
Speaker 1: to delay his career, because because this is a good
Speaker 1: situation for me in Kansas City, I'm feeling the heat.
Speaker 1: I think it's well translated. It's beautiful. That's the It's
Speaker 1: the perfect way to translate it. But that's the best
Speaker 1: thing that he could say. I mean, Alex Smith, what
Speaker 1: is he supposed to say in that situation? He said
Speaker 1: the exact like textbook response. That's perfect. There's a little
Speaker 1: bit of rasp in your voice today. Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: I was away this past that's right, you're on vacation.
Speaker 1: I had one of my best friends from college got
Speaker 1: married in the Bahamas. Oh yeah, you were doing the
Speaker 1: cliche Bahamas experience. I mean, I wouldn't say that, Dan, Well,
Speaker 1: but it was a beautiful Atlantis and there were water
Speaker 1: slides and I was in a tank with sharks and
Speaker 1: it was wonderful. Did I didn't know, but I did
Speaker 1: ride a tube. There was a tube in the water park.
Speaker 1: Back to the rasp though, I mean that comes directly
Speaker 1: from drinking alcohol. I would assume it does. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: there was a lot of everything. Well, that's that's a
Speaker 1: good transition. This actually is an intervention, Colleen. So let's
Speaker 1: bring in your parents here. They come, they're actually in town.
Speaker 1: I know. Yeah, Mark, thank you for reaching out. It's
Speaker 1: really nice. Good to them in, and we're going to
Speaker 1: get through this together because this is not an attack,
Speaker 1: rather a communal experience. This is the safe space on
Speaker 1: the pod. She was told that John Conzals, she told
Speaker 1: us before, always coming in to do the Dave damage
Speaker 1: to show. Didn't you say then? Um? Yeah. Ronald Gonzos
Speaker 1: Poor March twelfth is an American sports writer. Was married
Speaker 1: NFL meda broadcaster. College wolf. John, who was a posts
Speaker 1: resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two dogs.
Speaker 1: Every time I post anything online, everybody is he is.
Speaker 1: He's a little bit annoyed by it because, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: an established sports writer in his own right. He's on
Speaker 1: an Emmy for his tea work with the Ringer right now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: covering NBA. Everybody wants to know who he is. John.
Speaker 1: If you're just John, listened to the show, he does, John, Uh,
Speaker 1: we know who you are, and I think the listenership
Speaker 1: truly does. Wait, he's not here for my intervention. Well
Speaker 1: that was the point. He's not here for the Damie Show.
Speaker 1: He's here to This is one of those interventions where
Speaker 1: they try to separate the two people that both need
Speaker 1: in and invention, because you have to handle this yourself.
Speaker 1: It's your disease and he's got to handle his. And
Speaker 1: he can't help me until I help myself. And besides,
Speaker 1: he said, he got hung up because he's at the
Speaker 1: the courthouse downtown taking aware of some paperwork. He said, Oh, interesting, weird,
Speaker 1: that adds up. Okay, I'll look into this. That a
Speaker 1: divorce bit. It's a little bit of a divorce bit.
Speaker 1: The big spot. How about this day? Now, that's not
Speaker 1: the breaking news breaking news. Grimble is a children's book
Speaker 1: nineteen and sixty eight, A classic A boy about ten
Speaker 1: who returns home from school one day and his parents
Speaker 1: have left for Peru for a week. But you also
Speaker 1: might be thinking of the Gruffalo, which is about another
Speaker 1: another British children's book, where a strange, you know, forest
Speaker 1: creature comes after you, called the Gruffalo. Yeah, follow me
Speaker 1: into would Trimble. That's that's what it is, except it's
Speaker 1: the Gruffalo. I'll take you to safety. Does the Grimbles?
Speaker 1: Does Grimble's end with the parents being arrested. They take
Speaker 1: off for Peru without telling their child. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like sounds like a home alone type of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I see you grimble anyway from Sidney. That's my property.
Speaker 1: That is I mean, that is rude to even to
Speaker 1: say something like that, Mickey. I'm really concerned about there's
Speaker 1: happening moving on Amir Abdullah. He's he's been a darling
Speaker 1: of the fantasy community of this room in the past.
Speaker 1: It's never really come together for the Lions running back,
Speaker 1: who missed all but two games last year with an injury,
Speaker 1: but Abdullah said any offseason discussions about adding a running
Speaker 1: back did not threaten his status. He feels confident in
Speaker 1: his roster spot. It doesn't bother me. Here's the quote
Speaker 1: to talk about that stuff. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I don't really care what really happened because I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm a better player than whoever they were going
Speaker 1: to bring in, he told the Detroit News. It didn't
Speaker 1: matter to me. That's just me being a player and
Speaker 1: a competitor. Uh. Let's see, they got Theo Reddick there,
Speaker 1: Zack Zenter, Dwayne Washington Mark. Where does Amir Abdullah fit
Speaker 1: into the Lions picture in two thousand seventeen. He's healthy,
Speaker 1: he's the best running back in theory, But it just
Speaker 1: sounds like athletes speak to me. Everything that came out
Speaker 1: of his mouth right there is just mid May fluff.
Speaker 1: And there were a lot of running backs on the
Speaker 1: market that they could have signed in the off season,
Speaker 1: but they didn't, So I think that's kind of telling
Speaker 1: that maybe they do think that Abdullah can. It wasn't
Speaker 1: change things for them. I mean, the rushing offense was
Speaker 1: awful last year. It was an incredibly small sample size,
Speaker 1: but I went back because it was part of this article.
Speaker 1: I didn't watch, you know, the twenty five touches he
Speaker 1: had in He was a great player for the first
Speaker 1: game and a half of last season. I know it's
Speaker 1: only a game and a half, but some running backs
Speaker 1: don't show looking like a great player ever, and he
Speaker 1: looked like a pig time, big time difference maker. And
Speaker 1: the injuries you have haven't been like a torn knee
Speaker 1: ligament something where you think it's gonna be a lasting effect.
Speaker 1: It was kind of a freak injury. It doesn't annoy
Speaker 1: me any team that has had sort of the same
Speaker 1: issue over and over and over to position grew for
Speaker 1: I feel as long as we've worked here, the Lions
Speaker 1: have never had a running game and has come on.
Speaker 1: What kind of team and what kind of division would
Speaker 1: you want? You want to be able to run the ball.
Speaker 1: If you're the Lions, you gotta keep up with the
Speaker 1: with the Packers and these other teams. Abdullah, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: You gotta prove you can stay healthy. How many thousand
Speaker 1: yard rushers have they had since Barry Sanders retired? Is
Speaker 1: there someone in there that through in a couple has
Speaker 1: there been one? There has to have been a one
Speaker 1: or two you and a thousand is a low bar,
Speaker 1: But like I'm trying to think who would even it's
Speaker 1: It's just seems like for as long as you can remember,
Speaker 1: the Lions since since Barry Sanders have had not had
Speaker 1: someone in there. It's pretty ugly. Reggie Bush barely topped
Speaker 1: the thousand dan a few years ago for them. But yeah,
Speaker 1: looking at these names, Riddick, Abdullah, uh joke Bell uh
Speaker 1: job at best for a couple of years, he didn't
Speaker 1: get Kevin Smith. Remember he was supposed to be a star.
Speaker 1: You're right there, Jones. They have not had a guy
Speaker 1: other than that one season where Reggie Bush barely got
Speaker 1: over a thousand for the last decade. Can you remember?
Speaker 1: That's terrible? And Reggie made a real big deal about
Speaker 1: Russian for a thousand. I think he did it, and
Speaker 1: he went nuts. And I think he bought a bunch
Speaker 1: of in an age where that stat means nothing more
Speaker 1: but about a bunch of things for his lineman, which
Speaker 1: is a nice gesture. Finally in the news, um well
Speaker 1: it was. I think he got like one of those
Speaker 1: things where you stand on it, it goes by itself.
Speaker 1: I think he got a bunch of segways or cars.
Speaker 1: There was something. I feel like that segways and cars
Speaker 1: are too totally different. But I do feel like at
Speaker 1: least thirty percent of the segway market seems to be
Speaker 1: like offensive line presents from their running backs. And that's
Speaker 1: the Why is that an offensive line present? But it
Speaker 1: always is, it's like, oh, yeah, he got us some segways.
Speaker 1: If you're in l A, where are you going in
Speaker 1: a segue in l A by a car or a bike?
Speaker 1: What do you mean? Really? Like Santa Monica, Like people
Speaker 1: are zooming around and all sorts of weird things. Alright,
Speaker 1: I was thinking, I'm not in love that his first
Speaker 1: one thousand. I guess he had more than one thousand
Speaker 1: yard season. His first came as Miami's featured back in
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven. He had a thousand and eighties six
Speaker 1: yards that season, and he bought his entire line Segways,
Speaker 1: so I did have the right. That's amazing. He remembered
Speaker 1: that we might have wrote about it, and thanks Buddy. Finally,
Speaker 1: in the news, Trey Boston, the safety, signed with the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers this season and the reason why it
Speaker 1: might go back to some dude at a gas station.
Speaker 1: This is interesting. Boston was trying to decide between the Chargers,
Speaker 1: Bills and Steelers and free agency, and said that the
Speaker 1: decision was made when he stopped in a Charlotte area
Speaker 1: gas station to fill up his tank. I crossed two
Speaker 1: lanes to get to the gas station. I pumped my gas.
Speaker 1: After I pumped my gas, I put my wallet in
Speaker 1: my car. After I put my wallet in my car,
Speaker 1: there's a guy with three kids, and he asked me
Speaker 1: for a little bit of change. Where if I had
Speaker 1: a dollar or two, I game twenty dollars. Humble Bragg.
Speaker 1: So he tells me, thank you very much, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. And God put me in his for a reason.
Speaker 1: And in my mind I'm saying, you're here for a
Speaker 1: reason too. So in my mind I'm saying, should I
Speaker 1: ask him l A or Buffalo? And before I could
Speaker 1: ask him, my man told me, thank God, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. There aren't too many people like you in
Speaker 1: this world. God's children. My name's Mike Daniels, but people
Speaker 1: call me l No. I love it. That's crazy, great story.
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure where the story I mean, yeah, much
Speaker 1: nicer than than the guy who uh told my wife
Speaker 1: after my laughing children went by that that they reminded
Speaker 1: her of the communists that he killed in Vietnam. Yeah,
Speaker 1: better interaction in this case. A true story. You can
Speaker 1: almost make the argument that that guy came back with
Speaker 1: some mental issues for more that for ACP. He saw
Speaker 1: too much. Not to make any excuses for the guy.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a monster of a human. Did your
Speaker 1: poor children even pick up on it? No, they're too young,
Speaker 1: he kind of muttered it. Apparently were you there? No,
Speaker 1: I wasn't there. I got a text right after you
Speaker 1: been there. What would a few days ago, what would
Speaker 1: you have done. Had you been there, would you start
Speaker 1: to start cleaning? Are you talking to this the strong silence,
Speaker 1: I'm asking like, how would you? How would you handle it?
Speaker 1: The muscle comes in. You know, I'd probably keep walking,
Speaker 1: sprinting down the sidewalk in the oppice direction. But you
Speaker 1: don't really want to expose your two young children whatever
Speaker 1: unpredicted things. I really, I honestly, I admire your honesty there,
Speaker 1: because it could easily have said, Oh, I'd get up
Speaker 1: in his face and I tell him what's what it's like.
Speaker 1: But no, that's not that's not greg No, I honestly,
Speaker 1: and I'm not a guy who got has ever gotten
Speaker 1: into like a lot of fights or anything. Maybe I
Speaker 1: got into one my whole life. Um, it would be
Speaker 1: hard for me to not confront that guy. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: it depends on what it is. Depends on you have
Speaker 1: to assess the situation. But though too at the same time,
Speaker 1: because you don't really know what's going to happen next.
Speaker 1: It's definitely better. This guy is definitely better than then
Speaker 1: the guy who told Jimmy has them to draft Johnny Manzel?
Speaker 1: Was that it or something like that? That That is
Speaker 1: apparently how it went and that obviously you're right, that
Speaker 1: did not work out well. Greg. There's also a scenario
Speaker 1: where a switch is flipped, like Ralphie and a Christmas Story,
Speaker 1: and you just tear the guy apart like he's Scott Farcas.
Speaker 1: I could see that too. Still waters run deep, so
Speaker 1: keep that in mind for next time it happens. Greg.
Speaker 1: You live in Santa Monica, which there you know there's
Speaker 1: it's the vagrant capital of the city. I've had a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff yelled at me where yeah, you get stuff.
Speaker 1: This was like a black from your house to you
Speaker 1: would have to kind of assess the thing. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think probably the smart play is, you know, to
Speaker 1: keep moving because they're also there. What are they going
Speaker 1: to be doing? Um? Alright, moving on, that's what's happening
Speaker 1: in the news. Sorry for totally think no, that was
Speaker 1: I think it was important to bring it up, and
Speaker 1: I'm glad we talked about Sydney Do you have? Do
Speaker 1: you have? Odds? And odds and ends the jingle give
Speaker 1: me about seconds. Okay, this is what we need you
Speaker 1: to do. I had no idea that I was gonna
Speaker 1: have it's going to be this or that to the
Speaker 1: tune of odds are ends, or at least the background jingle.
Speaker 1: You could take the vocal any place you want. Don't blows,
Speaker 1: I won't remember. It's shorter than you always think. It's
Speaker 1: it's tough. Okay, okay, ready when you are this or that,
Speaker 1: it's not for this or that or that. I can
Speaker 1: never never end. That was serviceable. It's okay, we'll get
Speaker 1: the tone deaf if you haven't already recognized. The funny
Speaker 1: thing is, it's always solid until the moment where you go.
Speaker 1: I wish I could figure it out at the end.
Speaker 1: There's always The saddest West story that he's ever told
Speaker 1: is going to a Catholic school in Cincinnati and being
Speaker 1: a part of some type of chorus and being so
Speaker 1: tone deaf and he just couldn't sing. Poor West couldn't sing.
Speaker 1: But the nuns or whoever were the teachers, they couldn't
Speaker 1: take that. So they put his ear on the piano
Speaker 1: and we're like, listen to the pitch. Yeah, that's like
Speaker 1: a Catholic school thing. You have to be inquired. We
Speaker 1: did that too. That is a bygone era now. But
Speaker 1: and I didn't go to Catholic school, but I went
Speaker 1: to what was known as c C D after school. Uh,
Speaker 1: and you would hear horror stories even back then. There
Speaker 1: was one kid when I was in elementary school that
Speaker 1: had a what was known back then as a rat tail,
Speaker 1: and as legend has it, at our elementary school, this
Speaker 1: kid that we knew that went to the Catholic school
Speaker 1: had his tail ripped out. No, no, a nun could
Speaker 1: be folklore. Oh my god, school is crazy. My parents
Speaker 1: ended up paying tuition for my sister's um my sister's
Speaker 1: high school in pennies because they were so mean to her.
Speaker 1: So they paid the last installment in all pennies, like
Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars or so worth a penny, and they
Speaker 1: called the Federal Reserve and they were like, yeah, we
Speaker 1: need to get this amount in pennies. And they were like, well,
Speaker 1: Mr wolf Bank, we can only do that if it's
Speaker 1: a fundraiser. And he's like, oh yeah, it's a fundraiser
Speaker 1: for Gwended Mercy Academy. And they delivered like a Brinks
Speaker 1: truck pulled up to my parents house, delivered them all,
Speaker 1: but they were all in the little neat like rolled packages.
Speaker 1: So my mom and dad broke open all the packages
Speaker 1: and print amounts in different boxes, and then my dad
Speaker 1: delivered all the boxes and my mom wrote a note
Speaker 1: to the principal that just had a penny for your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Oh Bunsen burner, blowtorch for the ages. Yeah, they were awful.
Speaker 1: They were awful. That's very sad. So much about your parents,
Speaker 1: and it's all good. I love the pettiness, that creativity,
Speaker 1: the vindictiveness, like just the fortitude to fight through what
Speaker 1: works said all over her hands bound to come up
Speaker 1: during your intervention, which will start in about forty minutes,
Speaker 1: I want to circle back to the Detroit Lines running
Speaker 1: back situation. Since Barry Sanders, James Stewart ran for almost
Speaker 1: twelve yards and two thousand, Kevin Jones ran for eleven
Speaker 1: and two thousand four. James Stewart ran for another one
Speaker 1: thousand yards in two thousand two. I don't even remember
Speaker 1: James Stewart that Reggie Bush ran for ran for one
Speaker 1: thousand and six, and that's it. I believe James Stewarts
Speaker 1: on the Jaguars. And again I remember Kevin Jones was
Speaker 1: a very likable guy. Kevin Smith as well. Running for
Speaker 1: a thousand yards is not that big a deal. You
Speaker 1: just need to get like carries, which isn't a ton.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I trust your math anymore. I
Speaker 1: think I nailed that one average four yards to carry.
Speaker 1: Nailed it. We're gonna have to double check. All right,
Speaker 1: here we go. Now, let's go around the horn, um
Speaker 1: mark this or that? All right? This football example or
Speaker 1: that football example? You is that? What the segment is? Okay? Good? Really?
Speaker 1: I think that's that works. It's a little nebulous. So
Speaker 1: you're let's say you're you have a new franchise and
Speaker 1: you have a choice of of one of the other
Speaker 1: coach general coach front office combinations. You can have either
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson and the Browns in quotes four word thinking
Speaker 1: front office, or you can have Sean McVeigh in the
Speaker 1: Rams front office this or that. I see what you're
Speaker 1: doing here. I'm going to take the Browns and uh
Speaker 1: what am I doing? I you're doing it in a
Speaker 1: way to set us up to complimenting your team, like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're not We're not a lot of people. If Sean
Speaker 1: mcvagh everyone wants to treat the Rams like they're this
Speaker 1: really special thing happening, then get on board with it.
Speaker 1: I guess it's actually now that I think it's a
Speaker 1: tough answer because Wade Phillips comes along with the Rams,
Speaker 1: whereas Greg Williams comes with the Browns. That's the trade
Speaker 1: you definitely take for the Rams side. The Rams have
Speaker 1: struggled here with this front office for for a while
Speaker 1: and we haven't seen anything out of McVeigh, and I
Speaker 1: feel like Hugh Jackson's a solid head coach. I am
Speaker 1: going to go with the Browns. I'm with Greg. I'm
Speaker 1: going with the Browns too. I really like what they
Speaker 1: did in the off season with the offensive line and uh,
Speaker 1: I like that look they brought in Kenny Britt, which
Speaker 1: I don't know long move. I'm gonna gloss over the
Speaker 1: quarterback situation and Kenny. I do like what they did
Speaker 1: on offense, but I like what they did with the
Speaker 1: defense because you had Jamie Collins there already, and you
Speaker 1: brought in Jason mccordy and the guys that they drafted
Speaker 1: or studs. You have Myles Garrett, who people are already like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. Greg Williams and him are these alpha
Speaker 1: personalities and they're gonna take over. So yeah, I'm going
Speaker 1: with the Browns. You realize Kenny Bridge is like four
Speaker 1: months older than Terrell Prior. By the way, he's like
Speaker 1: twenty eight, right, Yeah, I feel like Kenny Bridge has
Speaker 1: been in the NFL for seventeen years and the Terrell
Speaker 1: Prior is not. But he's he's not. He's to Cleveland. Um,
Speaker 1: he has bad knees. But uh no, definitely the Browns
Speaker 1: are Wow, Definitely. I don't need I don't need anyone
Speaker 1: to say the Browns. By the way, things are looking up.
Speaker 1: I just like that the look on your face when
Speaker 1: he killed Kenny Bridd a minute ago. It wasn't it
Speaker 1: was more like appointment and sadness. Then it was usually
Speaker 1: don't see that. It was vastly unnecessary because Colleen brought
Speaker 1: up Britt, which surprised me a little bit frankly, and
Speaker 1: I could sign off and basically everything the Browns have
Speaker 1: done this offseason except for the Prior for Britt trade off.
Speaker 1: I will tell you what is a terrible move. And
Speaker 1: one reason you don't pick the Rams front office is
Speaker 1: just to confirm your own in house transactions. You give
Speaker 1: a massive extension to a guy like Tavon Austin who
Speaker 1: doesn't deserve it. This is what the Rams at least
Speaker 1: with Jeff Fisher, that they did this kind of stuff
Speaker 1: over and over. You don't want to see that from
Speaker 1: your front office. But that was Jeff Fisher was prominently
Speaker 1: involved with that. I mean, okay, the general manager there
Speaker 1: is certainly part of it. He picked them. I don't
Speaker 1: know what's going on with less need Like? Is he
Speaker 1: is he is less need like heading into that um
Speaker 1: that danger zone? Uh like a Doug Whaley situation. I
Speaker 1: think is that where we're well. Certainly, if they keep losing,
Speaker 1: you don't keep a GM job in the NFL in perpetuity.
Speaker 1: But I think he's getting a fresh start here with McVeigh.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to give him a couple of
Speaker 1: years here to that to see if this relationship works. No,
Speaker 1: but but by that, I mean is there someone else
Speaker 1: in the organization that could usurp him in terms of power?
Speaker 1: And they love they actually stand by, So he's getting
Speaker 1: a nice run here. All right, Colleen, it is time
Speaker 1: for you to offer you this or that. Okay, I
Speaker 1: am still coming up with one, So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with I mean to go and you can have a
Speaker 1: little more time. Why don't you go first. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make mine real simple, this or that. It's just you
Speaker 1: have a franchise and you can choose which quarterback, Which
Speaker 1: one do you want? This or that, Dak Prescott or
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston. West is always saying, you know, why do
Speaker 1: we have to compare Winston and Mariotta. How about compare
Speaker 1: Winston with another one of the best young quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the league. I'll go Jamis Winston. Really yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1: I agree. I will also go Jameis Winston. I believe
Speaker 1: Jameis Winston is on the verge of greg Is fist pumping.
Speaker 1: I don't know what. Everyone has some sort of an agenda.
Speaker 1: Davis Winston, I'm just Marcus Mary. I think that wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been the answer. I think Winston is to me
Speaker 1: as a higher upside. Prescott had an amazing rookie season,
Speaker 1: but I can't I don't want to hold it against him.
Speaker 1: But if you put Jamis Winston behind, then he he
Speaker 1: might have been the m v P last year with
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott behind, Natch the whole setup. And I think Prescott,
Speaker 1: if you put him on the Bucks, uh, maybe they
Speaker 1: could do some things and maybe they'll be a playoff team.
Speaker 1: But I think that Winston is just a superior player
Speaker 1: to Prescott. Yeah, I think that the offensive line has
Speaker 1: a ton to do with the way that Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: performed last year. But I'm gonna go with Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: because I don't want to go with the rest of
Speaker 1: the group. Yeah, I wanted to kind of test, Okay,
Speaker 1: where are we at with because yes, I think that
Speaker 1: what you guys are saying is right, and I would
Speaker 1: lean Winston. But the case for Prescott is that he
Speaker 1: did that as a rookie. Like just like Jamis Winston
Speaker 1: got a lot better as his second year, like Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott very well could get significantly better and be like
Speaker 1: a legit like m VP candidate or something like that.
Speaker 1: And like, I don't know, you don't see rookie seasons
Speaker 1: like almost ever, and I don't know what. I don't
Speaker 1: want to. Yeah, it's not fair to doubt him, so
Speaker 1: I won't. But it I still the thing with the
Speaker 1: Cowboys last year, and I've said it before in this podcast.
Speaker 1: Everything went right, Everything went right throughout the regular season.
Speaker 1: It was like this perfect, perfect thing. It was even
Speaker 1: I when you think back to Tony Romo's goodbye press
Speaker 1: conference in November and he was speaking like this is
Speaker 1: this is something really special going on with this team.
Speaker 1: There was a general belief in the league that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys had this like Super Bowl mojo, and then Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers assassinated it. But that was a perfect season. I
Speaker 1: want to see how Dak Prescott and company reacts to
Speaker 1: a little bit of adversity, because I can see that
Speaker 1: happening right. The one thing I would say us it's
Speaker 1: you can point to the Cowboys and say, oh, imagine
Speaker 1: quarterback X being in Dallas and how great they'd be.
Speaker 1: But how hard is it as a rookie who came
Speaker 1: in as with with not a lot of draft pedigree
Speaker 1: to take over the job of the Dallas Cowboys quarterback,
Speaker 1: one of the most pressure packed positions in all sports.
Speaker 1: And he did it in a tough situation with Romo
Speaker 1: going through what he was going through. And you never
Speaker 1: heard a negative word from Dak. Prescotty handled really well.
Speaker 1: So it is tighter than maybe I thought it was.
Speaker 1: Out of the game, I got one based on personal agendas.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the NFC East and the Giants or
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Let's just their offense. Take would you rather
Speaker 1: the Giants offense or the Eagles offense offense. Yeah, yea
Speaker 1: sounds so you have and you have them, you have
Speaker 1: them forever, You have them forever, you have them forever.
Speaker 1: At their peak, that is tough. I don't think it
Speaker 1: is at their peak, Carson, to be at their peace there,
Speaker 1: at their best. All of their players are health all
Speaker 1: their players are healthy right now. But right now, moving forward,
Speaker 1: it's not like two thousand eleven, Eli Manning. Okay, right
Speaker 1: now you got Carson Wentz there with all Shan Jeffrey
Speaker 1: La Garrett Blunt who they just signed from. I absolutely
Speaker 1: go Eagles because Eli Manning has got like another you
Speaker 1: automatically have to find another quarterback to come in and
Speaker 1: run that offense. Carson Wentz. You start with the quarterback,
Speaker 1: you build around him. It's easier to do that, not
Speaker 1: rather the Giants offense. It's not close. Yeah, yeah, because
Speaker 1: I'm I'm definitely I haven't given up on Eli. I
Speaker 1: think he's healthy and can have a bounce back season
Speaker 1: and he has the best role players around him ever.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna have to find a quarterback in the
Speaker 1: next seven. In the seven because it's it's going forward.
Speaker 1: It's not just for this year. How long I'm gonna
Speaker 1: look for I think he probably has like three or
Speaker 1: four years left, so I'm not gonna be on that.
Speaker 1: It's close to me because as good, you know, as
Speaker 1: much as we like Carson Wentz and as bad as
Speaker 1: we think Eli Manning was, Eliman was still better than
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz last year. And I'm you know, I was
Speaker 1: very critical. No, I get it, I get it. And
Speaker 1: then the offensive line in New York is certainly inferior,
Speaker 1: but the skill position talent I would definitely trust over
Speaker 1: Philadelia wide receiver like al Shan Like. We'll see how
Speaker 1: that works out. I mean, asked the Bears about how
Speaker 1: how how much he helped their team last year. I
Speaker 1: think I have mixed feelings. Tory Smith has no guaranteed money,
Speaker 1: you know, for a reason. Jordan Matthews he's there right now,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's there long term. So it's close.
Speaker 1: But I'm taking the Eagles anyway because I do think
Speaker 1: Wentz is going to get better, and I always want
Speaker 1: to believe the best in the Eagles. That's why I
Speaker 1: picked them to win the division just about every year,
Speaker 1: and it almost never works. Maybe don't do that anymore. Then,
Speaker 1: nice agenda, Colleen, I have my own agenda, surprisingly Jets. Corpse. Um,
Speaker 1: here we go again, Corpse corp, the factory of gladness
Speaker 1: over there. I just wait till the seasons, like you
Speaker 1: can just wait. Just the problem. Here's the problem. The
Speaker 1: season is going to be a rot fest for both
Speaker 1: of us. I'm just enjoying this time. But you can
Speaker 1: sell the corps for some organs. Get some cash for that, Jets.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you do with that. All right, good? Yeah, onto,
Speaker 1: You guys are very funny. Um onto the throne of sleeves, come,
Speaker 1: we trust thee. This is my favorite part. Um this
Speaker 1: or that? More columns debates, long forms essays, photo galleries
Speaker 1: about how the Patriots won the off season, or a
Speaker 1: root canal where the dentist runs out of no vacaine,
Speaker 1: so he hands you an oak stick and commends you
Speaker 1: to write down, what do you want this or that? Oh,
Speaker 1: definitely the photo galleries. That's the world we live in.
Speaker 1: It's happening anyways. So I didn't know this is. You've
Speaker 1: really stretched the bounds of this or that though I
Speaker 1: don't even know what this is or that is. You
Speaker 1: didn't just come up with that that that was that
Speaker 1: was typed out over lunch as I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: what a terrible segment this is that come with the
Speaker 1: reality that the Patriots are no longer a power on
Speaker 1: any level? Or is it just that people don't pay
Speaker 1: attention to the best team in sports. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Just everybody stop talking about the Patriots for one second,
Speaker 1: is all I want. You choose the biting on the stick.
Speaker 1: Somebody to the debtist office. Let's get to work. You
Speaker 1: go to a good dentist. Oh my god, he's a
Speaker 1: terrible dentist. Mark you got another one? Okay? This or that.
Speaker 1: You can have your favorite team win the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: this season, but you must spend from now through February
Speaker 1: in a vow of silence. You cannot speak to anyone
Speaker 1: and must live alone in a sealed off underground layer
Speaker 1: deep in Canada somewhere that all right, hold on or
Speaker 1: football will go away forever tonight at midnight, but one
Speaker 1: day a month for the rest of your life, you
Speaker 1: have the ability to fly for hundreds of miles at
Speaker 1: a time over earth. Oh I don't know that flying
Speaker 1: part kind of sounds good, but well, I also don't
Speaker 1: know what the game is, so I'm just doing what
Speaker 1: I feel like at this point, it's fair. Uh, then
Speaker 1: we lose our jobs too, football goes away, right or something? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that was well. Let's let's say that. Let's say
Speaker 1: that your ability to fly would quickly have you wanted
Speaker 1: in other areas, and you'd you'd be you'd be far richer,
Speaker 1: you could make the money back with your you'd have
Speaker 1: an incredible skill to be like a one man you know,
Speaker 1: FedEx or the government could take you and dissect you
Speaker 1: to figure out how you're flying. You could fly to
Speaker 1: where somewhere no one would find you, so I'd be alone. Though, Oh,
Speaker 1: because I like the idea of having cover somewhere in Canada,
Speaker 1: just in you know, with like the everything that's going
Speaker 1: on right now, that doesn't sound so terrible. But now
Speaker 1: that I could fly anywhere to where nobody could find me,
Speaker 1: this is this is also a viable option for me.
Speaker 1: Couldn't you just couldn't fly to a football game because
Speaker 1: there would be none. Um, I like the scenario where
Speaker 1: football isn't dead, so that one. Yeah, yeah, I'll go
Speaker 1: with that as well. I was going to and your
Speaker 1: team wins the Super Bowl. Why are we all so
Speaker 1: down silence and you're removed from your family and things
Speaker 1: of that nature. Yeah, but you're doing it. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Let's say you were doing it for that's more important
Speaker 1: than let's say you were doing it for the New
Speaker 1: York Jets. You would come back as an absolute hero.
Speaker 1: You this you took, the New York Jets would know
Speaker 1: forever that Dan Hans, this is the reason this has
Speaker 1: happened because you didn't speak for is that opened up
Speaker 1: a whole other camera candle worms though that they only
Speaker 1: one because I I colluded somehow, or I mean I
Speaker 1: also type this out during lunch, so I don't have
Speaker 1: all the background. I just think, Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: either option is really that happened, right, And it depends
Speaker 1: I I mean right, it's a throne of these type
Speaker 1: of comment. But yeah, the Patriots have won two of
Speaker 1: the last three years. Like there's been enough. I've had enough,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, So I told him, I knew that
Speaker 1: you wouldn't care about the Super Bowl part, not care,
Speaker 1: But so I came up with the other option, which
Speaker 1: is no football. And your Twitter bio simply says football, right,
Speaker 1: So I have. I want to say football. I don't
Speaker 1: want to ruin football for everyone and take it away
Speaker 1: for everyone, So then you have a job of violence
Speaker 1: for a year. I can live with that. In Canada
Speaker 1: and the Patriots win the Super Bowl, getting terrible for
Speaker 1: Canada doesn't sound like, yeah, you know, my my wife
Speaker 1: might not mind that violence, Sydney. I do like the
Speaker 1: idea of football disappearan and Greg just having to change
Speaker 1: his biot and nothing like one day later, be like tennis.
Speaker 1: I know Colleen's fresh out as m I know I
Speaker 1: haven't another Yeah, okay it on your feet. Today I
Speaker 1: saw on Twitter, um this new this new fashionable thing
Speaker 1: that you can wear, So this or that would you rather?
Speaker 1: Or I mean this or that? Sorry, it's detachable jeans
Speaker 1: that turn into shorts like a like a put down
Speaker 1: the leg or something, so they turn into Georgs. Yes,
Speaker 1: so detachable jeans that turn into George's or sneakers with
Speaker 1: wheels that can come up or down, so if you
Speaker 1: want to if you need to get somewhere quick. I
Speaker 1: think I've seen a couple of kids wearing those this
Speaker 1: or that. Frankly, I'm surprised this didn't involve the male
Speaker 1: rompers forcase that's quickly becoming. We're almost in a post. Right,
Speaker 1: you've kind of moved on a right. It just shows
Speaker 1: that you're a head of the curve um. What would
Speaker 1: I rather have own this or that? Not think about? Rather,
Speaker 1: I definitely don't want to wear shorts under any circumstances. No,
Speaker 1: And I feel like if I could master the nature
Speaker 1: of the wheels on the shoes, that could come in
Speaker 1: quite handy if you're running late at the airport. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm very scared about missing my flights. It's so awful
Speaker 1: traveling with Dan because every second that ticks off the clock,
Speaker 1: he's looking at his watch and he has to be
Speaker 1: at the gate. It's it's it's my worst fear is
Speaker 1: missing a flight. Oh it's great though, sometimes yes, because
Speaker 1: they don't. They will be like, oh, we'll reschedule you
Speaker 1: and you get put on like four hours later. You
Speaker 1: can go to the airport bar, you can hang out,
Speaker 1: or they'll put you in a hotel overnight. It's it's
Speaker 1: really good. You love you love hotels no matter where
Speaker 1: they are, more than I do. If it's not an
Speaker 1: airport hotel, isn't the coolest thing in the world. Typically,
Speaker 1: M I don't know, it's pretty good, Marks, like, actually
Speaker 1: might be the coolest thing. Uh anything else, Guys, I
Speaker 1: had a last one. Okay, go ahead. I mean I
Speaker 1: had a very like football generic one and feel like
Speaker 1: we can't go back to that at this point, like
Speaker 1: talking about which much offensive line is better? You know,
Speaker 1: let's hear it, Mark, Well, all right, so you must
Speaker 1: spend the rest of your life as either a Lions
Speaker 1: fan or a Jaguars fan. Oh, Lions fan. That one's
Speaker 1: easy for me because I want the tradition and the
Speaker 1: that they've been a team for like a long time
Speaker 1: and and eventually I think they'll win. I like the
Speaker 1: fact that they're fans have been around forever, and they're
Speaker 1: loyal and they've stuck with them. So I think the
Speaker 1: Lions get ump out with that. A Thanksgiving game at
Speaker 1: noon every year? How fun is that? Uh? That? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's easy for me to the Jaguars and Jags fans.
Speaker 1: By the way, you should get credit the ones that
Speaker 1: are loyal that yeah, they haven't had much to cheer about,
Speaker 1: so they deserve a lot of credit. But the Lines
Speaker 1: have the history. They're one of the original teams I'm
Speaker 1: I'm going I don't know, like that woman, that Jags
Speaker 1: fan that has a house at the beach or by
Speaker 1: the THEO and I was in Miami with my new
Speaker 1: beachs well, it was a couple of minutes from the beach, Like,
Speaker 1: I kind of want to hang out with her. So
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna pick the Jags. Right, it's more likely
Speaker 1: you'd be living maybe in a warm climate, rooting for
Speaker 1: the Jags. That's positive. I think I would go Jags. Well,
Speaker 1: I just it's like, I know Kevin Patrick's suffered forever
Speaker 1: as a Lions fan, so respect to that, but I
Speaker 1: there are certain teams that, ever since I've started watching football,
Speaker 1: I just find kind of boring, kind of annoying in
Speaker 1: The Lions are in that group. For me, I just
Speaker 1: don't like. The Jaguars are not in a much better group,
Speaker 1: but they're in a little bit of a better group.
Speaker 1: I kind of like, I think the tears have happened.
Speaker 1: Had the Jaguars started to turn the corner about a
Speaker 1: year ago, the whole energy around that team would have
Speaker 1: been amazing. Instead, it's like you've let us down so
Speaker 1: many times that we now simply don't believe in you
Speaker 1: at all. But I do think that if they got good,
Speaker 1: it would change a lot. It would be fun, maybe
Speaker 1: a fun team. There you go, It is, uh, the
Speaker 1: end of the game. You ready calling a lot riding
Speaker 1: on this final rent? Is this intervention? We're getting there.
Speaker 1: That's after we stop. We're actually not going to do
Speaker 1: that on the air here, but here we go. Wrap
Speaker 1: it up, Connie, it's time for this or that, this
Speaker 1: or that. Hey, everybody put on your this or that. Now.
Speaker 1: It's getting better. It's getting closer, pretty good. We will
Speaker 1: be back on Monday, uh with another week of shows. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you're not gonna believe what we got up our sleep?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? Really all right, we don't have anything yet,
Speaker 1: but the goal is by the time Monday rolls around,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have some big time stuff up our sleep,
Speaker 1: aren't well? Be Is that true? I'm not here next
Speaker 1: week I gave I sent you guys the spreadsheet with
Speaker 1: our vacations. I am going all next week. Really, that's true.
Speaker 1: He really did send it. I actually did update this
Speaker 1: bread sheet to include by off days as well. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it's just Greg next week, right, I will be finally, Colleen,
Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say we'll be heavily involved
Speaker 1: in the programs. Are you around depending on her availability?
Speaker 1: Looks like I'm free, please be around. We are you know,
Speaker 1: we peeling back the curtain. We're scrambling a little bit
Speaker 1: without West here now, and this time of year, it's
Speaker 1: a little tricky with off days, but we will be
Speaker 1: back and we will. Are you going to deliver the goods?
Speaker 1: We send so many things up our sleeves and if
Speaker 1: he and if he's listening, uh, sending our best thoughts
Speaker 1: to Wes, who we will see tonight at our sofa.
Speaker 1: Do you think people are still listening? I was, I
Speaker 1: was wondering if West we're listening. Really, I'm sure they are. Good.
Speaker 1: You find another girl. We did, we found we found
Speaker 1: we were short, and we've tried so hard to get
Speaker 1: Connie to help us out. I've made offers. Literally, we
Speaker 1: would have had the game was almost ca sold because
Speaker 1: you wouldn't do it tonight. I my parents are here.
Speaker 1: We're doing a little bit of a thing for my
Speaker 1: for my health. Oh yeah, that's right, right, So I
Speaker 1: can't make it because I have that. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a good point. You're you're gonna be on a
Speaker 1: You're gonna be on a plane to passages in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Speaker 1: Who is? Who is? Oh? You want to know who's playing?
Speaker 1: Playing a little breaking news right here playing now, batting
Speaker 1: number fourteen the right field, new money. Guys, really no,
Speaker 1: don't cheer the please don't. Sydney's like, if you guys
Speaker 1: need help in the pinch, I'll be there for you.
Speaker 1: But just one problem. Um, I don't have a glove,
Speaker 1: and I haven't played softball in what over a decade,
Speaker 1: not quite a decade, but at least since. But you've
Speaker 1: played it before, you'll be same way. I hadn't played
Speaker 1: since middle school. You'll pick it right. How much did
Speaker 1: she How much money is she commanding for this? Another
Speaker 1: go fund me? Yeah? I think this is gonna be
Speaker 1: good for you, Sydney. Just get away from the focus
Speaker 1: on materialistic objects and you know, things of that nature
Speaker 1: and be part of a team. Wait, you're gonna pay
Speaker 1: her and money and you wanted to pay me and beer. Well,
Speaker 1: you gotta pay what the people like the most. Fair.
Speaker 1: It's fair. That's the whole intervention thing. But it actually
Speaker 1: now makes sense. Why would we bring you to a
Speaker 1: beer based softball team, hiding what's about and enabled enough
Speaker 1: with the enabling around calling alright, Sydney. On Monday, we
Speaker 1: will have a full report on how the team did,
Speaker 1: including Sydney, who I promised, No pressure on Sydney. We
Speaker 1: just needed somebody out there and we're gonna find her
Speaker 1: a glove and who knows, maybe this will shock the world. Well,
Speaker 1: let's hold off on any promises. All right, let's let's head,
Speaker 1: let's let's take it home. Let's do that. That's how
Speaker 1: you talk. This is Dan Hanson signing off for Quiet Storm,
Speaker 1: Connie Fox, the old Boss and new money behind the
Speaker 1: Glass mat and seventh till Monday, m