WEBVTT - The Twilight Zone? 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:08.719 The Around the NFL Podcast a collaboration. It feels so eagoless. No, 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:12.800 Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:16.040 My name is Deaf Fansas and I'm joining with the 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.599 room full of whatever you call yourselves. We got this 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:24.239 sizzleman Mark Sessler and teen Wolf, Colleen Wolf and the 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:30.400 businessman Greg Rosenthalal, what's going on? Everybody? Hi? God? That 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:35.400 was horrible? What just happened? Where are we? Who are we? 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.000 An absolute kude? Top? I gotta get out of here? 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:44.839 Is your name? Connor? Yeah? I didn't recognize you. Finally 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:49.360 it's happening. And now violently taking the headset off of 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.960 Connor's head and putting it back on his own. Strident 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:56.279 Lee doing so, Connor, that's the way to go out that. 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.320 It's good that Colleen recognized you, though I have seen 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:04.680 I haven't seen Dan this upset since the episode we 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.840 really did start without him without him knowing well that 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.080 that's like going back to when we were starting this 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.440 podcast and Greg was the boss. He was like, maybe 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.240 I should host it. I was like, no, No, I'm 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:18.840 not gonna go out good. It was fun. I would 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.880 do it again. No, that was a deep whatever that was. 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:24.240 It was years. It was years into the body and 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.600 there was some code broken there if I remember. It 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:27.880 was kind of one of those things were after the 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:29.760 show is like, I wonder it was a proud d 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.720 is going to think about that? It shows can you 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.559 take a joke? And we found out the answer, uh 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.200 that that joke, by the way from Connor was sell it. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.080 That's how you go out. Well, it's been a very 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.200 weird week of shows, and I credit a lot of 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:48.920 that to Connor. Yeah, Connor did a great job, and 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:50.800 he pitched this little idea and we were like, not 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.760 sure how that's gonna go, but I want to find out. Yeah, 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.000 I said to him, listen, it's either gonna be very 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.440 funny or it's not gonna work at all, and then 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.200 we can make fun of how bad your idea was. 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.000 I think I was like right in the middle. It 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.640 was like right in between Jeff Hans is. I think 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:08.560 that's what he said, right, Yeah, Jeff Hans, Good, Jeff, 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.520 let's break it all down. Joke all right, by Connor. 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:17.000 Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Around the NFL podcast. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.800 By the way, you are such a rat, Greg because 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.360 and now that I think about when you when you 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:25.480 did start the show without me, it was because you 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:27.440 were trying to win a bet that you had made 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:31.320 with West or something. Oh yeah about that shows by 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.040 a certain time. The show had to start by a 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.040 certain time, and then you left to go get water. 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.040 And so I just like I wanted to win the 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.720 sandwich and say, went back to your your addictions. That's 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.160 what it was about. I mean, I was rooted there. 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.880 I like you. It's whatever is good for the show. 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.640 I was playing into this bit that was on the show, 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:52.600 so hard, savvy, moved by you. Good job, Um, all right, 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:57.040 today's show, Colleen, thank you for joining us by You're welcome. 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.240 This show is a real winner, I think today. Oh 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.680 you could already tell it's just careening on the tracks 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.600 without any problems. The amount of prep work done for 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:09.799 this particular episode is it's kind of stunning. Yeah. In fact, 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.600 if if the listeners paid for this show, I would 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:17.600 feel guilty. I would feel guilty. But you know what, 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.240 here we are, the four of us together, missing West 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.679 of course, but um still forging on. And I want 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:28.000 to first of all, a shout out to the subred, 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:32.040 the subredit, the around the NFL uh subreddit, which we 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.800 issued a challenge not two weeks ago, maybe even a 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.920 week ago, I can't remember anymore, saying we were sitting 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:43.400 around um followers of the subreddit and said, let's get 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.880 it to five thousand and I guess they underestimated how 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.720 much people want free stuff because we said there will 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:53.800 be a prize to be determined. Flash forward to today 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:58.600 and I think we're at about fifty every time. How 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.120 many of those are bots? Like not real people or 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.520 people you know interacting with others. I don't really know 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.600 how that the bot industry works. I feel like they're humans. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.560 It seems to be trending swords towards another type of industry. 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.080 From the bots that try to take hold of my tweets, 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.920 they don't seem like very pure individuals. Why do you 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.280 say that they're mostly people with very little clothing on 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:22.400 commenting on a tweet that I did from like two 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.719 thousand and thirteen, it just doesn't seem real. You go 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.600 to their pain. The real excitement was the couple of 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:34.680 days before Mark realized that these were bots. My demographic 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.200 is fantastic at that point. By the way, the five 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.599 thousands listener, we know what they win. Don't you write 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:45.280 they win Sydney. We're just sending Sydney. You're a fine 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.680 with that right into slavery? Feel good about it? Yeah, 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:49.720 that's not what I call I mean they could. I 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.400 could be slavery in a worst case scenario, and the 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.880 best case scenario you either make a best friend if 0:04:55.880 --> 0:05:00.200 it's a woman, or you fall in love. It was 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.240 a career. Feeling good about that best case scenario. Um No, 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.360 we haven't figured out what the prize was. There is 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.839 a shadowy league figure meeting to come where I'm gonna 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:10.559 pound the table to see if we can get something. 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.240 What about the toaster? I thought it was going to 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:15.840 be West's toaster. Better than that, did you guys? Just 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:19.280 a little better? There was some standard I would love 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:20.840 a toast. We don't even own the toaster, by the 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.720 way Scheck has it, so it's like even better. There 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:25.600 was a winner of an idea someone brought up on 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:30.120 the subreddit, which was a personalized voice message written by Sessler. 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.400 Sessler monologue. It's a pretty outgoing message. That's pretty it's 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.080 pretty easy. I don't know if I like that kind 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:40.200 of stuff out there on tape. Just one that's what 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.120 makes more. How about this, I will call them five 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.560 to six thousand times over the course of a year, 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.840 and they totally alienate them and they'll buy the end 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.080 they'll want nothing to do with So instead of having 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.159 to write one short thing once, you would rather call 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.719 them five thousand times, five to six thousand times. Um. 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:02.679 So on today's show, we will debut the segment called 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:08.760 this or That, which will be a segment in which 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.920 we will present two things, this or that, and then 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.440 the group will decide which one they would rather have. 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.640 Is that? What it is? Something like that? Something like that. 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.320 We'll have fun with it. Yeah, it's fluid right now. 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.800 It's a very organic. Came up with it on his 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:26.760 way out. He did a little producing word. A lot 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.040 of good ideas from Connor related to the show. Two 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:34.279 for two is what I said. Um. And then we 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.160 will also of course hit the news, and to do 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:41.200 that we look behind the glass and you know who 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.640 it is. But it's the first lady of the around 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:49.120 the NFL podcast New Money. How's it going on this Thursday? 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.520 Are we beeping out or no? In general, because this 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.479 is the second show in a row, I never listened 0:06:55.480 --> 0:07:02.919 to it. I could see shadowy leaks figures brain exploding 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.040 within his skull, and then there's fluids leaking out of 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.159 the ears and nostrils. If we don't believe it's almost 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.640 more when that listens to. The show is on vacation anyway, 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.360 So he still I would say this, it's almost worse 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.880 to bleep out because the imagination then comes up with 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.760 a much worse word or words or combination of all. Right, 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.840 let's suspend bleeping out any foul language going forward. Oh sure, yeah, 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.760 going out and flames my job. Right now, let's do 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:37.280 some news. You've just crushed over into the Twilight Now, certainly, Colleen, 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:41.560 you you are somewhat knowledgeable of the Twilight Zone series, right, 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:46.200 oh expert expert status? Have you seen more than three 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:50.680 episodes of the show? Never seen episode? I mean, actually, 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.800 it's very possible that I have seen the episodes and 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.160 I just don't remember any longer they've it's just been 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.800 expunged from my memory. Well, this came up yesterday and 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.000 there were people tweeting that were stunned that most of 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.240 us were not Twilight Zone fishing. No, but see, I 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:09.040 would say I've probably seen thirty episodes, like to do 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.440 that which is not a big UM forty three was on, 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.240 it wasn't on. It was on not I mean its 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.040 original run. But I also watched Channel eleven. It was 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.480 it was around. You just seemed you remember certain episodes 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.480 so well. I don't that I do not with that show, 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.240 Like what like what episodes would you remember? What? Like? 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.640 What's an example? Uh? The one I cited yesterday, which 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:29.760 is the Good Life about the boy that lives in 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.800 this town and there he could read minds, and he's 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.080 evil and he could wish people away to the cornfields. Uh. 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.560 Talking Tina was one of my favorite ones about an 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:39.920 evil doll. That one I think I recalled. Yeah, I 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.000 was more in the threes company when I was little. 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:46.640 That's a very different program. Uh. Nightmare at thirty thousand 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.040 feet with a young William Shatner when there's a monster 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:50.520 on the plane on the wing of the plane and 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.480 nobody believes him. He's the only one that can see 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.760 this is this is pop culture touchstone stuff. I just 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.000 thought more people knew. No. Somebody made the point that 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:00.760 the first of all, very spar As West wasn't on 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.559 board of it, um and then also pointing out that 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:07.400 there are people that go back retroactively and watch the 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:11.920 Twilight Zone to better understand uh references on The Simpsons 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.640 and other programs. It was absolutely huge culture. It's a 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.559 huge cultural moment. But I think you know someone ten 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:25.240 years old, thirty two years old out of the womb. 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:30.080 Here he is Gregor Rosenthal. Let's start with the news 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.720 that new Englewood Stadium, the one that we're all going 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.079 to move to and work out of. Yeah, it's been 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:42.120 delayed the opening the two thousand twenty. And you know why, 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:46.040 we're all very very aware of this, the terrible weather 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.520 over the winter. UM. Both clubs, the that being the 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.640 Rams and the Chargers have confirmed the one year pushback 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:57.200 on Thursday, releasing statements that cited an unexpected amount of 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.560 rainfall for a delay in construction. Uh. The new stadium 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.760 was set to open a time for the twenty nineteen season, 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.280 but now we'll be ready for in the summer. And 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.280 this it was all timing issue that they they broke 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:14.400 around in November and then it just rained for every 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.760 other day, it felt like for about three months, to 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:18.719 the point there was a six week span where it 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.120 rained I think every day. Yeah, you should have seen 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:29.880 the palm trees, uh per, the l a times. Water 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.000 at times stood up to twelve to fifteen deep in 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.840 the big hole, the big old hole that they were digging, 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.640 and and everything's gonna be okay. It's a two point 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.559 six billion dollar project, um, but they're going to put 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.600 a little delay on it. So I think it's go ahead. 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.360 The Chargers will end up staying it's stub Hub then 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:54.400 for an extra year too. Yeah, like cozy, nice, quaint 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.400 atmosphere for you're stread about a mark about the stub 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.920 Hub scenario. Yeah, I think it's a it's listen, let's 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:02.199 see where we are by the end of the year. 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.640 It could be great, it could be an epic mess. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:06.839 I think it'll be a lot of fun. But now 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.040 they're cutting it close because the super Bowl will be 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:13.720 played assuming things don't change in the first season that 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.760 it's open, so they schedule that, and they usually do 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:18.720 this with the new stadiums, that you have one full 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.320 season like the Vikings did last year, and then in 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.680 that second season, that's kind of your first chance to 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.120 hopefully they've ironed out the kinks and they figure out 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.000 anything that was wrong the first season. Then you have 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:29.760 the Super Bowl. So they'll be playing the Super Bowl 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:33.040 there four, you know, five six months after it opened. 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.840 I hope they send us. Maybe it's maybe it's God's 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:41.920 same sit down, humble. I mean, at that point one 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:46.040 we're talking about Colleen, who knows. I mean, there's there's 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:50.360 definitely there's definitely a realistic there's definitely a realistic chance 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:55.080 that that we don't have jobs here. It's certainly in 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.520 the realm of possibility. Will certainly be swept out by 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.640 some form of management. By that point, there could be 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:04.679 no America America. We we have been here, what I've 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.480 been here for five years. There has been at least 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.320 three to four different people running kind of the l 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.600 A operation in that time, so you get the wrong 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:20.840 person in there, plus the threat of nuclear holocaust. So uh. 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.720 Moving on Ladarius Green, so much for him making a 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.600 big impact in Pittsburgh. The team announced Thursday that they've 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.520 released the tight end with a failed physical designation. You 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.599 may remember that just last year Green had signed a 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:37.520 four year, twenty million dollar contract made six million for 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:41.199 doing very little much and very little at all, I 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:43.720 should say, And he was supposed to be a guy 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.280 that was a perfect compliment to that offense. But he 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:50.760 had concussion issues, uh, and other injuries, and they're not 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:55.400 going to get anything out of their Green experiment. Colleen, Uh, 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.000 what if. I'm not gonna call what if for the ages, 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.360 But there was this idea. We we were glowing talking 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.120 about the signing last year and it just never it 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.160 was so exciting when they signed him. Everybody I remember 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.560 we were all sitting in here and the fact that 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.240 they added him to that offense. You have a big 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:17.360 guy target for Ben Roethlisberger, and now they have Jesse James, Beau, 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:23.720 Davier Grimble and David Johnson. Jesse James, James, Jesse James 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.480 I thought was pretty productive lust year. Well, you you 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.400 kind of saw what Green could be for them. I mean, 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:35.240 he averaged seventeen yards per catch, He had a couple 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.440 of big games. I mean, he made some plays down 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:41.920 the field. But he is a young guy twenty seven 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.520 this year, whose career might be over because of concussions. 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:50.600 This to me is strictly because of his concussions, and 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.400 they weren't even sure if he was going to be 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.640 able to be ready for the start of the season. 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:56.600 So you feel for a guy he did get paid 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:00.280 that that's great, but he might be yet another player. 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.320 It seems like there's been more and more that their 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.880 career might be ending early. Most of them have appeared 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:08.160 in are Making the Leap series another Making the Leap 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:12.240 Star bites the dust. Where does calling a Xavier Grimble 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:16.559 rank on your NFL name power rankings. It's a great one, Yeah, 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:23.240 it's it's probably top Maybe I'd have to go back 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.560 and look at the rankings, but I haven't seen a 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.360 Grimble in a while. It mixes like a very cool 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.040 first name, was sort of a clunky last name, so 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.600 it kind of throws you off almost like a like 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.280 a forest like wood creature would be like, oh, look 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:43.720 at that grimble, right right grimble, or like a small rodent. Yeah, 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.080 I think that. I think that is a children's story. 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:51.600 It's something very very close. It's like a British you're 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.800 not talking about Grendel, the mythological creature. My word, it's 0:14:54.840 --> 0:15:01.840 a talking wimble exactly has gold coins for us that's 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:09.200 follow him deeper into the woods poorly. They get lost 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.400 in the woods and starved to death. Actually it's not 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:17.320 the starvation that gets them, it's the fluids. A classic 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.040 children's tale Drake Water gonna stay hydrated. That's the moral 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.840 of the story. Kelvin Benjamin, remember when he was one 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:25.800 of the young rising stars of the league. He could 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.320 still be that. He's a young guy the but the 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:32.080 Panthers wide receiver um struggled last season in his first 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.160 year back from a c L injury. Uh, he's had 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.640 some weight issues and then he was kind of put 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:42.520 on blast by his coaching staff. Came in heavier than 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:46.040 the coaches wanted. And this is what Benjamin had to 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.800 say on Wednesday, via the team's official website. I need 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.440 to be in the best shape of my life. I 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.200 have to get back to being dominant. Now. I was 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.200 gonna sound the trope alert, but this is a little 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:01.240 different because usually Kelvin benjam If he's a perfect example, 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.240 Calvin Benjamin says I'm in the best shape of my life. 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.240 Let's cut it though, because he didn't say that I 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.320 need to be. So he's acknowledging that he is physically 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.400 not where he needs to be and he's got some 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.240 time to do it. But he better get to work. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.600 I think it's interesting with this team that under the 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:24.240 same general manager with the same quarterback for a couple 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.680 of years they stressed finding these massive targets, Devin Funch, 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.120 just Kelvin Benjamin for Cam Newton, and then in this 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.800 draft it's like they've they've added something they need, they 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.320 need a speed component. But you go out and you 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.480 get Curtis Samuel and you, I mean you you, you 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.360 add Christian McCaffrey. It's a completely different type of approach 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.680 on offense. Yeah, And I think like in the in 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.480 the story that Patra wrote up, he has here that 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.520 uh he said, I think people saw that first way 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.120 in and we're like, whoa is he ready to play? 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.320 I mean, that's that's definitely a concern when he reads 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.480 that on other people's faces. You know what, I think 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:02.840 it's time for Mark a little beach body. Beach body. Well, 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.080 it surprises me. One thing you put him and Devin 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.960 fund Just on that book. It surprises me because what 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.520 is his job. Essentially, it's it's like an actor. You're 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.760 supposed to keep your looks, you're supposed to keep your 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.080 frame around you. As an athlete, you've got to stay 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:17.639 in shape. And then you let them away from the 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:21.119 team and they come back and they're not in shape. 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.520 You're what are you telling an employer that's paying you 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:27.879 millions of dollars. I don't give it. I agree. I 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:33.280 gotta get it together, bro. Moving on Alex Smith, Um, 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.600 you know, listen, he's still the quarterback of the Chiefs. 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:39.159 Has had a very nice career, maybe not what was 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.280 expected as a number one overall pick, but a perfectly 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.560 solid quarterback. But now he sees Patrick Mahomes in his 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.280 building and he understands how this works. He had this 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:50.879 to say to ESPN dot Com. I think the Chiefs 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.440 are committed to me through this year. That's just the 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:55.680 nature of it. If you don't go out there and perform, 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:59.360 I mean, coach Read and quarterbacks coach Matt Maaggie are 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.679 very honest. Uh, you've got to go out there and 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.119 do your deal. We all have to. Whether or not 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.959 we drafted Patrick, it doesn't change that right. If you're 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:09.480 not good enough and didn't get it done, you're not 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.119 going to be around along. That's just our culture. I 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.960 know it. That's a nature of the position. Greg can 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:21.359 you translate? Translate? I am I am Alex Smith, and 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:25.479 I am fired up to keep this kid on the 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.280 bench as long as humanly possible. I am going to 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:32.200 treat him like Brett Farve treated Aaron Rodgers in trying 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.160 to delay his career, because because this is a good 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.880 situation for me in Kansas City, I'm feeling the heat. 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.360 I think it's well translated. It's beautiful. That's the It's 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.520 the perfect way to translate it. But that's the best 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:46.800 thing that he could say. I mean, Alex Smith, what 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:48.960 is he supposed to say in that situation? He said 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.320 the exact like textbook response. That's perfect. There's a little 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.600 bit of rasp in your voice today. Yeah, I was. 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.880 I was away this past that's right, you're on vacation. 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:02.200 I had one of my best friends from college got 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.639 married in the Bahamas. Oh yeah, you were doing the 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:09.359 cliche Bahamas experience. I mean, I wouldn't say that, Dan, Well, 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.639 but it was a beautiful Atlantis and there were water 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.400 slides and I was in a tank with sharks and 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:20.440 it was wonderful. Did I didn't know, but I did 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.520 ride a tube. There was a tube in the water park. 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:25.679 Back to the rasp though, I mean that comes directly 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.199 from drinking alcohol. I would assume it does. Yeah, so 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:32.119 there was a lot of everything. Well, that's that's a 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:35.840 good transition. This actually is an intervention, Colleen. So let's 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.840 bring in your parents here. They come, they're actually in town. 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:43.320 I know. Yeah, Mark, thank you for reaching out. It's 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:44.879 really nice. Good to them in, and we're going to 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.800 get through this together because this is not an attack, 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:51.479 rather a communal experience. This is the safe space on 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.280 the pod. She was told that John Conzals, she told 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:56.480 us before, always coming in to do the Dave damage 0:19:56.600 --> 0:20:00.640 to show. Didn't you say then? Um? Yeah. Ronald Gonzos 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:02.960 Poor March twelfth is an American sports writer. Was married 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.199 NFL meda broadcaster. College wolf. John, who was a posts 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:06.920 resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two dogs. 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:15.280 Every time I post anything online, everybody is he is. 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.520 He's a little bit annoyed by it because, yeah, he's 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:21.280 an established sports writer in his own right. He's on 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:25.320 an Emmy for his tea work with the Ringer right now, Yeah, 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:29.520 covering NBA. Everybody wants to know who he is. John. 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.760 If you're just John, listened to the show, he does, John, Uh, 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:35.440 we know who you are, and I think the listenership 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:38.760 truly does. Wait, he's not here for my intervention. Well 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:40.760 that was the point. He's not here for the Damie Show. 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:43.520 He's here to This is one of those interventions where 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.080 they try to separate the two people that both need 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:50.240 in and invention, because you have to handle this yourself. 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.840 It's your disease and he's got to handle his. And 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:56.320 he can't help me until I help myself. And besides, 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:57.879 he said, he got hung up because he's at the 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:03.359 the courthouse downtown taking aware of some paperwork. He said, Oh, interesting, weird, 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:06.280 that adds up. Okay, I'll look into this. That a 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:08.919 divorce bit. It's a little bit of a divorce bit. 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:16.960 The big spot. How about this day? Now, that's not 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:20.480 the breaking news breaking news. Grimble is a children's book 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:23.960 nineteen and sixty eight, A classic A boy about ten 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:26.720 who returns home from school one day and his parents 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:29.480 have left for Peru for a week. But you also 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:32.240 might be thinking of the Gruffalo, which is about another 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:36.520 another British children's book, where a strange, you know, forest 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:39.920 creature comes after you, called the Gruffalo. Yeah, follow me 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:43.280 into would Trimble. That's that's what it is, except it's 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:48.040 the Gruffalo. I'll take you to safety. Does the Grimbles? 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:51.360 Does Grimble's end with the parents being arrested. They take 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:53.800 off for Peru without telling their child. It's kind of 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:56.680 like sounds like a home alone type of thing. Yeah, 0:21:57.080 --> 0:22:02.359 I see you grimble anyway from Sidney. That's my property. 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:07.680 That is I mean, that is rude to even to 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:11.400 say something like that, Mickey. I'm really concerned about there's 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:17.240 happening moving on Amir Abdullah. He's he's been a darling 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:20.560 of the fantasy community of this room in the past. 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:24.000