Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. We are essential employees. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we are welcome to another edition of the Around the
Speaker 1: NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Ansis and I'm joined
Speaker 1: in the city filled with heroes in Bunker's Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: Chris Westling, and Gregg Rosletal. What is up boys? Hey? Dan?
Speaker 1: Happy Monday? I mean is it? Mondays are rough in
Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen era, especially with kids, and they they
Speaker 1: sense it. There's blood in the water. They know that
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a lot of work to do, um
Speaker 1: if you're a working person like my wife and I,
Speaker 1: but they still want to be entertained. And then you
Speaker 1: add in some rainfall outside here in Los Angeles and
Speaker 1: the caged animal feeling is real. I was thinking, Dan,
Speaker 1: how different every parents experience is going to be depending
Speaker 1: on like how old they are, Like I'm happy that
Speaker 1: mine are a little older than your yours are. How
Speaker 1: old are they five and five? See that that's a
Speaker 1: tricky one, Like marks are a little bit older. Like
Speaker 1: if they if you had kids in their teens or
Speaker 1: they're like fourteen, they're just gonna be leaving you alone.
Speaker 1: If they're younger, it would seem like it'd be the younger,
Speaker 1: the harder. Yeah, I mean, I I've essentially we we've
Speaker 1: given up and we've realized that we've just raised during
Speaker 1: the process of raising two obsessed gamers who once this
Speaker 1: all wraps, will not leave the house anyways. They've given
Speaker 1: up any inceptive outdoor exercise or healthy diet. They just
Speaker 1: walk around in virtual reality masks from We're not far
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, it's that is the next step for
Speaker 1: this household. Uh, generational divide. I have a nephew who's
Speaker 1: in his early twenties now, and when he was about eighteen,
Speaker 1: I was one of those gross adults who asked him
Speaker 1: what he wanted to do with his life, and he
Speaker 1: basically said, the only thing he likes doing is playing
Speaker 1: video games, So he's got to find a way to
Speaker 1: make money at that. He's yet to do it, and
Speaker 1: I don't think he's got a job, so it's video
Speaker 1: games all day. I thought that story was going in
Speaker 1: a different direction. He's like, Yeah, I just play video
Speaker 1: games and that's what I like to do. He's a millionaire. Yeah, millionaire.
Speaker 1: He just got seriously drop kicked on an international podcast.
Speaker 1: By the way, he's got to be feeling some sort
Speaker 1: of quiver in the and I just think that's that's
Speaker 1: a generational thing. Your kids are part of that generation too.
Speaker 1: You don't get it, Uncle West. I just want to live.
Speaker 1: Get off my back, drunk friends, headphones. Um, let's circle
Speaker 1: back before we get to the news that we should
Speaker 1: connect with a fun game of text or tweet. On
Speaker 1: Friday show, Mark and Erica both challenged West, Greg and
Speaker 1: myself uh to blindly pick a text or a tweet. Um.
Speaker 1: Greg texted Peter Schreeger. Peter Schreeger, by the way, will
Speaker 1: be on our program tomorrow catching up Pete the shrike
Speaker 1: Bomb and also his his mock draft. They're gonna start
Speaker 1: this week paying some more attention to the upcoming draft,
Speaker 1: which obviously makes sense. Um, Wes, you had done a
Speaker 1: tweet about ice cream. Let's start there. Wes, you had
Speaker 1: tweeted about ice cream, your favorite flavor flavors, and then
Speaker 1: a top five countdown, ending with um, you were not
Speaker 1: into dairy? Uh? No, doi something like that. No, I
Speaker 1: don't do dairy anymore. Yeah, So, Wes, what was the
Speaker 1: feedback that you got? Uh? One guy called me whiter
Speaker 1: than mayonnaise. Um. A lot of people expressed surprise that
Speaker 1: my taste was so horrible. Um, apparently not a lot
Speaker 1: of people like Rocky Road ice cream. Rocky Road was fine,
Speaker 1: but yeah, there are The responses were all over in
Speaker 1: the map, and then a few people, you know, of course,
Speaker 1: after they listened to the show, said oh that you know,
Speaker 1: that explains that this is fun. What what made your
Speaker 1: ice cream? Was it just the topic itself of the
Speaker 1: tweet that made you white white? Or the mayonnaise or
Speaker 1: was it the flavors that you selected? Did you get
Speaker 1: any more context on that? I deduced that it was
Speaker 1: the combination of the lame flavors involved and the statement
Speaker 1: done none of the above, I don't do dare you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sort of like an overly precious like vegan anthem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's getting it. Wasn't them like pecan praylin or something
Speaker 1: like a year old flavor. Yeah, it was a bunch
Speaker 1: of flavors that like your grandma would eat. I did
Speaker 1: read that tweet and the first thing that came to
Speaker 1: mind was the whites are at it again? So Greg,
Speaker 1: what about you? Did shrag bomb reply to you? Well?
Speaker 1: I was just thinking should we save that for tomorrow show?
Speaker 1: Because um, we could do well, I'll say it here
Speaker 1: and that I have not told them that that was
Speaker 1: I have still not told them there was a game.
Speaker 1: We did continue texting afterwards, but we can save it
Speaker 1: for tomorrow. He can learn on the show totally backwards
Speaker 1: and now he thinks stubly of Greg Mark, yours was
Speaker 1: like a tweet that it was no different than anything
Speaker 1: you've ever really done, right, So I imagine it wasn't
Speaker 1: a huge amount of feedback on it, right. Well, so, yeah,
Speaker 1: Erica crafted my tweet and it was about essentially, um,
Speaker 1: leaving the current society to group up in sort of
Speaker 1: a nudist colony with no possessions and no one's there. Not.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of people bumped on that, which predictive,
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, in reverse, the one I
Speaker 1: created for Erica was similar, but um, you know, she
Speaker 1: asked anyone to send me unicorn a unicorn symbol as
Speaker 1: a as an affirmative, and I did. My entire weekend
Speaker 1: was just like insane unicorn emojis and gifts. Jeff's brand
Speaker 1: You've built, Mark, that joining the nudist colony is right on,
Speaker 1: right on brand. But there again, well it was again
Speaker 1: it's and I think we've experienced this in in all
Speaker 1: of it, it was like um response from males wanting
Speaker 1: to go to the new dist colony. So I don't
Speaker 1: know what's what's happening this blind idea, Ricky. I can't
Speaker 1: remember what yours. Mine was about, like powerful women everywhere,
Speaker 1: but like men just like eat and play video games
Speaker 1: and eat fast food. Getting attacked by barstool Nation for that,
Speaker 1: I got attacked by a lot of dudes, and like
Speaker 1: people were basically like, why would you want to like
Speaker 1: gender stereotype when we're in a pandemic? Like what, like
Speaker 1: this isn't that, this isn't the time to liken. Someone
Speaker 1: asked if your mercedes? Yeah yeah, and someone else was
Speaker 1: like someone else was like wow, like I just lost
Speaker 1: so much respect for you. And then they tweeted again
Speaker 1: They're like, ha ha, just listen to the podcast like
Speaker 1: my bad. I was like, okay, cool, Like I kept
Speaker 1: a tweet up though, I mean whatever, My mind into
Speaker 1: a legitimate homework assignment and it was Mark had had
Speaker 1: me send out a tweet saying I've been reflective during
Speaker 1: these times and I wanted to hear from all the listeners.
Speaker 1: And I only realized that after the show that UM,
Speaker 1: and it's starting to go through the d m s
Speaker 1: which started flowing like a waterfall that a lot of
Speaker 1: people then provided heartfelt responses to that. Uh, and then
Speaker 1: maybe felt a little dumb after the show came out,
Speaker 1: which I didn't like that. I felt like I was
Speaker 1: being a jerk. I didn't think of that in the moment.
Speaker 1: So I did make the effort. I've responded to every
Speaker 1: single person. It took me all weekend. It was literally
Speaker 1: in the hundreds. Uh. And I had to say it
Speaker 1: went from Idaho to Iceland, Belgium, to Germany, Ireland, to Scotland, Australia, Canada,
Speaker 1: Mexico and of course England, who are certified hashtag mad
Speaker 1: for it. UM. It is amazing um our listenership from
Speaker 1: a global standpoint. Um, how passionate you guys are overseas.
Speaker 1: I mean, we got plenty of United States people, but
Speaker 1: it was by far a majority of UM listeners overseas
Speaker 1: or in Canada, in Mexico. And this will not come
Speaker 1: as a surprise. I'm gonna guess somewhere in the neighborhood
Speaker 1: of four hundred or five d tms, one woman one
Speaker 1: that's similar to the breakdown at our at our live shows,
Speaker 1: except that the differences life shows we get a few
Speaker 1: more because there's dates I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on at the last but not last time
Speaker 1: they go on a date. And yes, while it was
Speaker 1: not something I would have typically sent out, I'm glad
Speaker 1: Mark that you did it or chose that because it
Speaker 1: was really cool UM hearing from the listeners. So many
Speaker 1: of them, UM had stories, stories about what's going on
Speaker 1: in their life and and hardships, uh and what the
Speaker 1: podcast is meant uh to them, people who are on
Speaker 1: the front lines of this COVID nineteen pandemic that UM
Speaker 1: are working all day and just use our show as
Speaker 1: something to wind down from. UM amazing some of the stories. Oh,
Speaker 1: I was happy to be in contact with everybody. I
Speaker 1: don't think I'll be doing that every weekend, but it was.
Speaker 1: It was a cool experience and again we are very
Speaker 1: lucky to have you guys as listeners. Well credit to
Speaker 1: you for you know, not just using the out which
Speaker 1: you would have been able to do an hour or
Speaker 1: so later and say sorry, not going to reply to
Speaker 1: any of you, uh, clown cell Well, that's why I
Speaker 1: was brilliant mark, because if I would have done that,
Speaker 1: I would have been just an A plus jerk. Because
Speaker 1: some once you see some of these messages to just
Speaker 1: blow it off as part of a podcast segment. I
Speaker 1: don't think that was an option quite frankly. I mean,
Speaker 1: when I can add fifteen or sixteen hours of hardcore
Speaker 1: online labor to your weekend, I want to do that.
Speaker 1: At one point, Emily and I were laying side by
Speaker 1: side with two laptops. She was reading them to me
Speaker 1: and I was dictating answers to her while I was
Speaker 1: doing my own answers on my laptop. It was it
Speaker 1: was that hardcore in terms of the task factory. Was
Speaker 1: Emily impressed. I mean, seeing all these d m's come
Speaker 1: in for you, that's kind of cool. I wish she
Speaker 1: was more. I wish she was more impressed. She doesn't.
Speaker 1: She seemed she enjoyed doing it. I will give her that.
Speaker 1: And my wife is amazing, and she um basically took
Speaker 1: on the job with me. But there was no point
Speaker 1: where she like closed the laptop and was like, wow,
Speaker 1: you guys really make a difference, which I was kind
Speaker 1: of hoping at some point that happened. But she was
Speaker 1: just doing the work. She was cranking. What did the
Speaker 1: female right to you? I'd like to know, is mark single?
Speaker 1: I believe was That's not I'm sure that's not what
Speaker 1: it was. I don't recall again there were many of them,
Speaker 1: but uh, that was common man. Ranking has never been higher.
Speaker 1: It is soaring right now. All right, I mean, I'll
Speaker 1: take that. I'll take that. I did get some replies
Speaker 1: along those lines, but that was not the intention of
Speaker 1: the exercise. Its Um, all right, let's do some news.
Speaker 1: The beautiful cover of the Graybeards theme by Danny Everett
Speaker 1: UM shout out to Danny uh using backing choir there,
Speaker 1: which is you know, pretty uh hardcore. And I want
Speaker 1: to point out just a reminder of how crazy and
Speaker 1: different this uh season offseason is, obviously with COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: and how that's affected the free agent market. Usually, by
Speaker 1: a week after the Graybeards article comes out at NFL
Speaker 1: dot Com, the roster has already been picked apart. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at this list. I'm sure there's been a couple
Speaker 1: of guys, but for the most part, the free agent
Speaker 1: market is just kind of ground to a halt, and
Speaker 1: almost everyone here, if not every single guy uh is
Speaker 1: still on the market a week later. So obviously things
Speaker 1: the way things have set up, with the inability to
Speaker 1: for players to travel, physicals, things of that nature. Um,
Speaker 1: whenever do get back to normal, hopefully sooner rather than later. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a flurry of signings that in the
Speaker 1: past would have already been done by now. So that's
Speaker 1: coming up on the horizon. Yeah. I wonder if that's
Speaker 1: partly because of the compensatory pick formula or partly Okay,
Speaker 1: let's sign our priority guys. And then once you got
Speaker 1: about a week into free agency, the world already seemed
Speaker 1: different than when it started out free agency. And I
Speaker 1: feel like like every business they're just pressing pause for now,
Speaker 1: and those players might lose out a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not like you need them in the building to
Speaker 1: attend meetings, so they can't do anything anyway. So why
Speaker 1: not see him in the in flesh before you hand
Speaker 1: over the money? All right, let's get to the news.
Speaker 1: The first one this was a report from our own
Speaker 1: Judy Batista Um who reported this on Monday that the
Speaker 1: past interference replay, which was in effect in twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: and was, you know, really not received very well, didn't
Speaker 1: go very well at all. Uh, that will, according to Judy,
Speaker 1: almost certainly not be extended into So it was set
Speaker 1: up as a one year trial run, and at least
Speaker 1: in the format it is now, Greg, it is not
Speaker 1: going to come back. According to Judy's reporting, she didn't
Speaker 1: say it with certainty, but almost certainly. Uh, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be one and done for the instant replay, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we know Judy is talking to people at the top
Speaker 1: to get that that info. The news would have already
Speaker 1: happened because we would have finished the owners meeting by
Speaker 1: now and they would have talked about it. And West
Speaker 1: West was one of the first people that I heard
Speaker 1: nationally certainly on our podcast saying he didn't think it
Speaker 1: was gonna be back. And I'm I'm surprised. Um, maybe
Speaker 1: they do find another way to do some sort of interference.
Speaker 1: They have the sky Judge thing happening this year. But
Speaker 1: it is kind of amazing that this is going to
Speaker 1: turn out to be a one year crash and burn.
Speaker 1: What is this? What is the sky Judge? I missed
Speaker 1: this entirely. I don't really know, you know, and omnipotent
Speaker 1: Um Ruler about lodged about two yards above the field.
Speaker 1: That we don't understand where it comes from. But it's
Speaker 1: never wrong. You said it, Greg, like everyone knew. That's
Speaker 1: why I asked that. Well, yeah, it's it's an extra
Speaker 1: replay official. I think that can that can um, that
Speaker 1: can help out and and buzz in. But that's not
Speaker 1: specifically for past interference. It would be like if you're
Speaker 1: sitting at home and you have advantage of all these
Speaker 1: replay angles. They picked the smartest viewer at home and
Speaker 1: he gets to make all the decisions as these are,
Speaker 1: except he's sitting in the stadium, not at home. And
Speaker 1: I thought the idea in general UM was a noble one.
Speaker 1: And of course it came after the Nickel Robie Coleman
Speaker 1: p I and the two thousand eighteen NFC Championship game.
Speaker 1: But it just, yeah, it just didn't work. And I
Speaker 1: wonder because it makes me think of instant replay, and
Speaker 1: older NFL fans will remember that they tried replay a
Speaker 1: couple of times in the early nineties. Didn't work. Uh,
Speaker 1: and well maybe be it was one of the time
Speaker 1: the early nineties they tried it, it didn't work, They
Speaker 1: got rid of it and then it came back a
Speaker 1: second time instant replay. I still think that's probably something
Speaker 1: that happens with this as well, but they might have
Speaker 1: to go underground for a while. Mark, I'm curious. So
Speaker 1: you think, um for them to come up with a
Speaker 1: different way to do it, because there's no way they're
Speaker 1: just gonna bring it back similar to what it was
Speaker 1: in En. I just think it makes sense that you
Speaker 1: don't leave yourself open to what we saw in the
Speaker 1: playoff games that basically triggered this, that you these disastrous
Speaker 1: talking point miss calls. But my other side of his,
Speaker 1: I think it just creates this shaky tension where refs
Speaker 1: are No one really believes anything that a referee does
Speaker 1: at this point at all. I can't think of a
Speaker 1: profession on the planet, um, you know, outside of a
Speaker 1: certain truly dangerous tasks, and I would not want to
Speaker 1: be a ref. I just there's no upside. You can
Speaker 1: make a hundred correct calls in a row and then
Speaker 1: you're at the center of some total technical meltdown where
Speaker 1: your word look ridiculous and it's like again, it's just
Speaker 1: the same old like refs. The refs are losing here too,
Speaker 1: and they just but also football needs more. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just it needs to be better officiated because it's
Speaker 1: too embarrassing when these calls go south. I think eventually
Speaker 1: the sky judge is gonna be the solution and the
Speaker 1: biggest problem right now. And this was the same thing
Speaker 1: with the catch roal. I think viewers understand that in
Speaker 1: real time action, officials are gonna miss some calls. What
Speaker 1: they don't understand is taking five minutes to review a
Speaker 1: call and still getting it wrong, which is what both
Speaker 1: the catch roll and the past interference role did. It
Speaker 1: messed with the integrity of the game and in addition
Speaker 1: to slowing it down and other news, Oh my goodness
Speaker 1: on that. You know who we have to get on
Speaker 1: the show, Andrew Marshants and haven't we done enough? Uh?
Speaker 1: Conversations on the show entirely based off the reporting of
Speaker 1: the New York Post Media sports media guy Andrew marshand
Speaker 1: We should have multiple Monday night football talk with him.
Speaker 1: This week. Let's do all right, Ricky, Let's get on
Speaker 1: Andrew Marshanda on the horn, Uh for the podcast this
Speaker 1: way this week? Maybe Yeah, I'll get right on it. Great.
Speaker 1: That means I will be doing that in about an hour. Um,
Speaker 1: here's what Marsian has the latest on the ESPN Monday
Speaker 1: Night football situation under the headline, Now this you know
Speaker 1: what NFL dot com can learn from the New York
Speaker 1: Post when it comes to headlines. ESPN's awkward Drew brees
Speaker 1: Chase isn't stopping after fifty million dollars Saints Steel. Now
Speaker 1: I'm in I'm reading this story. Um, this is the
Speaker 1: report for Marshaan that Breeze, despite resigning with the Saints,
Speaker 1: is still someone that ESPN covets and someone they want
Speaker 1: to They would hope to lock into some type of
Speaker 1: deal even before his playing games are over so that
Speaker 1: he can go straight from the field to the Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football booth and give them the name brand star
Speaker 1: that they've been craving for a long time now. But
Speaker 1: because Breeze is not ready to retire yet, uh, they
Speaker 1: for the time being have an I their sight set
Speaker 1: on a group comprised of Steve Levy, Lewis Reddick, and
Speaker 1: Dan Orlovsky. According to Marciaan, they've emerged as the top
Speaker 1: candidates for h next season's Monday Night Football booth, but
Speaker 1: that could be a short term answer if that's what
Speaker 1: they do go with because Brees is the guy they
Speaker 1: truly covet. Mark Cecil your thoughts, well, I just find
Speaker 1: it again. It's the same thing a little bit with
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. I I've never has anyone heard Drew Brees
Speaker 1: utter of a syllable um in in the idea of
Speaker 1: wanting to become a broadcaster. If anything, I feel like
Speaker 1: he's not someone who loves the media to begin with
Speaker 1: the Lewis Riddicks side of it, I think he'd be
Speaker 1: very intriguing. Same with Roulovsky. But Breeze, it's like you're
Speaker 1: chasing after Romo part two. But someone else tell me
Speaker 1: that he that why why he'd be a sensational shoe
Speaker 1: in on Monday night football. I don't. I don't see it.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of directions to go with this.
Speaker 1: But the one one thing that stood out to me
Speaker 1: just with Breeze was hearing this report on top of
Speaker 1: Sean Payton yesterday when he spoke to the media. I
Speaker 1: think it was a local radio calling two thousand, twenty
Speaker 1: Breezes last season and it not being followed up on
Speaker 1: by the host. He just he sort of just threw
Speaker 1: it out there and you didn't know if he was
Speaker 1: just like kind of saying it but not meaning it. Um.
Speaker 1: But then this report, and then if you look at
Speaker 1: Breezes contract where it's all guaranteed in the first year,
Speaker 1: nothing guaranteed in the second. That's at least one takeaway
Speaker 1: from from this for me is that maybe there is
Speaker 1: a feeling that this really Breeze is going into this
Speaker 1: season with the intention that he has done after. That's
Speaker 1: pretty wild, because yes, we know how NFL contracts work.
Speaker 1: They're inherently ridiculous. But he signed a two year deal
Speaker 1: like a month ago. But that helps, it helps the
Speaker 1: cap so and he's been doing stuff like that in general, right,
Speaker 1: I just mean more of the idea that you could
Speaker 1: make that announcement and then a few weeks later the
Speaker 1: head coach is saying it's his last season. It just
Speaker 1: it just seems so silly the way the contract world
Speaker 1: works in the NFL. Tony Romo is the exception. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've seen guys. The expectations for Boom Ossias and Tiki
Speaker 1: Barber were even higher than they were for Tony Romo
Speaker 1: and they were out after a year or two. I
Speaker 1: just you can't just assume that guys are gonna be
Speaker 1: great in the booth. Right, what if Nate Peterman is
Speaker 1: quietly the best analysts sitting out there and we just
Speaker 1: because you want to grab like this a lister, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be It could be extremely disappointing at Breeze
Speaker 1: one year at of football went and flopped on national
Speaker 1: television every Monday Night. I mean, that would be very disappointing.
Speaker 1: But that part of the whole Monday night football and mystique,
Speaker 1: if you want to call it, that, is that they
Speaker 1: want the big star and and Breeze if nothing is gone.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I mean that, I understand where you come from.
Speaker 1: On that Monday night football used to be the primetime game.
Speaker 1: It's lumped in with a group of games, and it's
Speaker 1: not even the premier game acording to the NFL schedule makers.
Speaker 1: But that's not the way ESPN looks at it. They
Speaker 1: look at it as one of their most precious brands
Speaker 1: and a major ratings monster for them still to this day,
Speaker 1: and they want that big star and Nate Peterman as
Speaker 1: good as he would be. They think that ratings are
Speaker 1: gonna be better with a big name. Now, you could
Speaker 1: then discuss, well are they do They have this whole
Speaker 1: thing wrong. Stop trying to chase a big fish and
Speaker 1: just get the best guy. But that's not how the
Speaker 1: machine seems to operate. They've had it wrong for a
Speaker 1: few years now. And the mystique isn't there, not because
Speaker 1: of the games. The mystique isn't there because the way
Speaker 1: ESPN runs their program, well, they might be changing it,
Speaker 1: and the and the timing of all of this is
Speaker 1: really interesting because there's a belief that it's going to
Speaker 1: go back to ABC and ESPN, you like, they'll they'll
Speaker 1: put it on both networks, but it will be on
Speaker 1: ABC maybe starting in two um and that these next
Speaker 1: this next year or two is this strange in between
Speaker 1: and so you could get Breeze in the building. The
Speaker 1: article indicates they might even try to sign him, you know,
Speaker 1: before the season starts, so that he's locked in, so
Speaker 1: that when they're selling themselves and part of this big package,
Speaker 1: all these TV deals are up, that he's going to
Speaker 1: be part of it moving forward, which makes it very
Speaker 1: strange for whatever they do for regardless, like this report indicated,
Speaker 1: it might be Riddick and Orlovsky, or it might be
Speaker 1: Riddick or Orlovsky and they and they choose one or
Speaker 1: the other. But it's very awkward and seemingly counterproductive into
Speaker 1: a season with those guys knowing that might be it
Speaker 1: for them. Yeah. No, I was just about to say,
Speaker 1: there's a roman colisseum vibe to the the whole thing
Speaker 1: where it's like you're high or the three of you,
Speaker 1: only two of you will have the job next year maybe,
Speaker 1: but one of you will almost certainly be gone. That
Speaker 1: seems like a tricky situation, but I guess if you're
Speaker 1: those guys, it's still such a great opportunity that you
Speaker 1: probably take it and assume ESPN won't kick you out
Speaker 1: the door entirely if they decide to move on from you.
Speaker 1: What happens if Lewis Riddick shines as many expect him
Speaker 1: to do in that role, and you know, whether it's
Speaker 1: him or or or low Sky are pulled from the
Speaker 1: lineup for a guy whose face we recognize because he
Speaker 1: was in a football helmet the year before, and the
Speaker 1: production totally it's not equal to what it was before.
Speaker 1: I just you know, to me, this is the whole
Speaker 1: thing feels like confused, like confusion and confused thinking from
Speaker 1: what we're hearing, you know, the word that comes to
Speaker 1: mind from me mark desperation. Yeah, I think they're like
Speaker 1: they they they know that they need to hit a
Speaker 1: home run next time around, but their plans don't suggest, uh,
Speaker 1: any real clear thinking on how to hit the home run. Well.
Speaker 1: They also apparently kind of the other option would be
Speaker 1: using their top college duo, which is Chris Fowler and
Speaker 1: Kirk curb Street, which also doesn't seem to make sense
Speaker 1: because then you're hurting your college, that your college coverage,
Speaker 1: and who wants the college guys doing the pro games?
Speaker 1: But what if there is in college football? There's also
Speaker 1: another thought that ABC SPN might be, you know, trying
Speaker 1: to get two packages of games in this next deal,
Speaker 1: and so then in Theory and Orlovsky, you know, and
Speaker 1: Steve in who was it Steve Levy combination might be
Speaker 1: doing games on this other package that they're getting. There's
Speaker 1: there's a lot out there, a lot to breakdown. That's
Speaker 1: all we need, marsh And on the show, Let's move
Speaker 1: on back to NFL league matters and a memo sent
Speaker 1: to the teams. On Monday, Roger Goodell announced the draft
Speaker 1: will be conducted. Here's the exact wording entirely outside of
Speaker 1: their facilities and in a fully virtual format. So let's
Speaker 1: get those um skin Amax VR masks away from the
Speaker 1: Sessler children and put them on the heads of gms
Speaker 1: because the draft is ready to cook. Mark, I know
Speaker 1: you were really enjoying the comedy that was coming from
Speaker 1: this story on Twitter. Well, I would fully get it that.
Speaker 1: You know, you're gonna have a lot of wise acres
Speaker 1: out there pitching their humor about uh, you know, this
Speaker 1: GM has never used a computer or he doesn't know
Speaker 1: how to plug in his you know, dial up. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's inevitable and everyone's stuck at home, and so
Speaker 1: it's it's just magnified, uh all, I'd say. And I
Speaker 1: think that there is. It is interesting. The last year
Speaker 1: I think I had a sandwich bet that a team
Speaker 1: would miss a draft pick um, and now that is
Speaker 1: tangibly an option if something weird happened to some team
Speaker 1: out there. I think it's reading like Peter King's column
Speaker 1: from today, that these gms and guys that are couch
Speaker 1: at home right now are dealing with what a lot
Speaker 1: of us are dealing with. You're trying to run a
Speaker 1: high octane um business while kids are like throwing baseballs
Speaker 1: against the bedroom door, and like you know, and dogs
Speaker 1: are barking, and there's fights between animals and children while
Speaker 1: you're essentially trying to get the cults trapped up and running.
Speaker 1: So it's more interesting than ever before. But I mean,
Speaker 1: tons of companies run this way. I don't I just
Speaker 1: don't expect it to be total armageddon. I'm gonna assume
Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but because there's there's millions and
Speaker 1: millions of dollars and jobs on the line with the
Speaker 1: draft that the NFL would probably DeCamp high level. I
Speaker 1: hope this is the answer, but I you never know.
Speaker 1: High level I t dudes to each of the locations,
Speaker 1: so the person the GM, like a Gettleman type, is
Speaker 1: not messing with his fifty six K modem uh furiously
Speaker 1: with the giants up next on the clock. I I
Speaker 1: imagine they'll they're gonna have these things taken care of.
Speaker 1: But it is, like you said, Mark, a juicy subplot
Speaker 1: to track. Will there be more wiggle room when it
Speaker 1: comes to the clock and what and if there are
Speaker 1: technical difficulties or will not? Will be like a no
Speaker 1: holds barred. You know, if you miss your pick, you
Speaker 1: miss your pick. I guess it adds a little juice
Speaker 1: to the proceedings. I want, I want some cameras in
Speaker 1: the house for the uh the animals versus children battles
Speaker 1: going on. It's like like, go read go read Peter
Speaker 1: King's you know, Monday Morning thing, because it basically talked
Speaker 1: about how these guys are having to adjust to that environment.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the animals, I think animals, and if animals
Speaker 1: are stirred in the wrong direction, I'd take an animal
Speaker 1: over a small child very quickly. I believe it's Football
Speaker 1: Morning in the USA with Peter King is the name
Speaker 1: of the column. I don't know. Things are changing fast.
Speaker 1: That was the title. I'm assuming that's still the title. Um.
Speaker 1: You guys remember um, you know, don't try to pretend
Speaker 1: like you don't. In the mid nineties, if you know
Speaker 1: you had the TV on a little later at night
Speaker 1: on certain cable channels, UM Cinemax or something like that,
Speaker 1: About fifty of the plots on those particular films revolved
Speaker 1: around virtual reality headgear. That was huge. That was one
Speaker 1: of the great tropes of that One out of every
Speaker 1: two Okay, revealing a lot. Right, you turn on, you
Speaker 1: watch a Red Shoe Diaries from six someone's wearing a mask. Well,
Speaker 1: why why why do the gms have to be, you know,
Speaker 1: wearing a mask. We're not wearing masks. You know, we're
Speaker 1: I'm just man. And most of those programs, somebody's wearing
Speaker 1: a headset and it's plugged in and it's really changing
Speaker 1: their experience. It cuts over to Bill Belichick. He's got
Speaker 1: like the goggles on. He's just like, the goggles are
Speaker 1: all fogged up. Bill, We're up, We're on the clock.
Speaker 1: David Duchovny used to host Redshoe Diaries, remember that, I
Speaker 1: like Greg and Mark and West, Like, what is this
Speaker 1: guy even talking about? No? I, if anything, I just
Speaker 1: my memories of that. That sort of part of media
Speaker 1: is a little bit different than what you're described. Premium
Speaker 1: cable did not exist in my life until the last
Speaker 1: few years. All right, fair enough, I mean, what are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? I can't afford cable, Dan. I had
Speaker 1: not claiming innocence on this front. I just I have
Speaker 1: maybe a different take on what I experienced West. Back
Speaker 1: in my day, we only had magazines. Victoria's Sacred magazine.
Speaker 1: There was full of playboys. In the nineties, there was
Speaker 1: a craze that went down in my um Rockland County
Speaker 1: where I'm from. Uh, it was called the Scrambler Box.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this was happening up in western
Speaker 1: mass or in Connecticut, but um, I believe the Statue
Speaker 1: of Limitations is up on this so I could talk
Speaker 1: about it. But um everyone got the scrambler Box, which
Speaker 1: basically gave you access to a hundred channels. Uh it
Speaker 1: was you know, it was off the books. It was
Speaker 1: not street legal. It even gave you access to the
Speaker 1: pay per view channels Channel ninety and Channel Request. It
Speaker 1: was called where we were from, and um, so you
Speaker 1: didn't need to pay the premium price for cable if
Speaker 1: you have the Scrambler So I don't know if that
Speaker 1: made it to Cincinnati. Knew was like seventies automobile where
Speaker 1: I came from. Yeah, I mean everyone had like the
Speaker 1: friend with it, but like it also required those the
Speaker 1: friends parents to be overtly breaking. It was in the
Speaker 1: back of it to like make it work or something weird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know where that where. Like my parents who
Speaker 1: aren't like rule breakers by any stretch got there scrambler
Speaker 1: from but like everyone I knew had it, they had
Speaker 1: a guy like New York, New Jersey. Maybe it fell
Speaker 1: off the back of a truck. Maybe it was one
Speaker 1: of those situations. Um, all right, let's get back on
Speaker 1: track here and talk a little bit about the two
Speaker 1: thousand ten All Decade Team which was announced. Here are
Speaker 1: the headliners. Um, Tom Brady, Aaron Donald, Rob Gronkowski. Uh,
Speaker 1: names that you expect, Greg, you love this stuff. Who
Speaker 1: are some names that surprised you on the All Decade list?
Speaker 1: And maybe some notable snubs. Um. The biggest surprises where
Speaker 1: guys like Tyrone, Matthew Newer player at Eric Weddle. Um.
Speaker 1: But then I have to like have my list and
Speaker 1: West is more prepared for that of who I would
Speaker 1: have replaced those guys with. My biggest takeaway was kind
Speaker 1: of the guys who get a Hall of Fame boost
Speaker 1: because if you get an All Decade team and they're
Speaker 1: not doing first and second teams anymore, which is a
Speaker 1: little confusing because they used to do that and I
Speaker 1: don't like that lack of consistency. But guys like Marshawn Lynch,
Speaker 1: Lashawn McCoy Klais Campbell, Cameron Jordan's, Geno Atkins, Tyrone, Matthew,
Speaker 1: Maybe someday, like all of those kinds, right when they
Speaker 1: come up for Hall of Fame, you know, consideration someday,
Speaker 1: And I know for some of those names that seem surprising,
Speaker 1: but they still have time to keep playing, like that'll
Speaker 1: be a big deal and it'll help some of those
Speaker 1: guys get over the finish line. Yeah, Devin Hester was
Speaker 1: the first guy I thought of because as a return specialist,
Speaker 1: there's been some debate over whether he would get in
Speaker 1: or not. And to me, you can make a strong
Speaker 1: argument he's the best return specialist of all time. Um
Speaker 1: and having All Decade in two different decades, I think
Speaker 1: that's enough to put him in point. I see Darrell
Speaker 1: Revas on this list. We talked about Revis. I think
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was, maybe when he officially retired.
Speaker 1: I can't remember exactly the the circumstances, but his uh
Speaker 1: truly great years were oh eight, no. Nine, I don't
Speaker 1: greg you would know. Uh maybe was he on the
Speaker 1: All Decade team in the previous decade. I don't know,
Speaker 1: because his those were two of the greatest years ever
Speaker 1: in the position. He was still a huge impact guy
Speaker 1: um in ten eleven, and then he had one final
Speaker 1: year with the Patriots where he got a ring A
Speaker 1: little surprised he gets all decade because his peak wasn't
Speaker 1: that high and the first two years, which were his best,
Speaker 1: weren't in the decade. But maybe a little bit of
Speaker 1: name brand nod there too. Yeah, I mean, like if
Speaker 1: they're starting in then he had three first team All
Speaker 1: pros uh, And it might have just been kind of
Speaker 1: a position that was tough to fill because Chris Harris
Speaker 1: got in as a offensive back, Um, you know, did
Speaker 1: the cornerbacks were pretty easy? I think to start with Peterson,
Speaker 1: uh in Richard Sherman. But again I keep thinking of
Speaker 1: like these really will come up as Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: kind of boosting, um, you know, reasons why guys should
Speaker 1: get in the other The other thing I would change.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's a little crazy, but wouldn't you put
Speaker 1: Breeze over Aaron Rodgers? Or is that crazy? Nick Shook
Speaker 1: has a piece on nfl dot com top ten snubs
Speaker 1: of the All Decade. Lessie has Breeze at number one
Speaker 1: over Rogers. It's kind of a fascinating conversation because Rogers
Speaker 1: at his peak, which would let's say ten to fifteen
Speaker 1: no brainer. But hasn't Breeze Mark been more consistent over
Speaker 1: the ten year stretch. I mean I could go either
Speaker 1: way with that one. I I it seems weird to
Speaker 1: me that Breeze often feels like the guy kind of
Speaker 1: left out of some of these conversations. Always never made
Speaker 1: at all pro this decade. I mean, he's been ultra ultra, ultra,
Speaker 1: you know, consistent, and for me, you know, it's just
Speaker 1: you're gonna pick two quarterbacks. There's gonna be a bunch
Speaker 1: of people freaking out. I have how many people made
Speaker 1: this list, I mean everybody made it except for the
Speaker 1: biggest snub I found, which was Lavonte David. We talked
Speaker 1: about my list a couple of months ago when I
Speaker 1: did this. Lavonte David number one among off the ball
Speaker 1: linebackers and forced fumbles, tackles for lost and solo tackles
Speaker 1: in the decade, and did not make the team. Right
Speaker 1: what West, There was a lot that it basically was
Speaker 1: they did a first and second team, but they didn't
Speaker 1: delineate between the two. So everybody made right. But it's
Speaker 1: the same it's the same amount of players that have
Speaker 1: always made it in terms of like they announced the
Speaker 1: second team along with the first team and there's four
Speaker 1: defensive ends for instance. But it does get you thinking, um,
Speaker 1: I think PF had a huge impact and it's going
Speaker 1: to be having an impact now on Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: cases stuff like that, like Klais Campbell, Cam Jordan's they
Speaker 1: were making this list without PFF. Geno Atkins, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's making this list without PFF. There there's Chris
Speaker 1: Harris is not, Eric Weddles not And it does show
Speaker 1: what a what a difference um, that site has made
Speaker 1: I think for some of these players and their reputations
Speaker 1: and their money. Gregg, one question for you, because if
Speaker 1: you if the argument helps the player get over the
Speaker 1: hump into the Hall of Fame. I mean, obviously for
Speaker 1: the coaches they picked Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll's you
Speaker 1: and I you know, I'm much more interested in seeing
Speaker 1: some coaches from days of old get Hall of Fame nods.
Speaker 1: I mean, did you consider Pete Carroll already a Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame coach or does this do anything for you
Speaker 1: if you didn't think that that he now is? I do.
Speaker 1: I did think you I did. I don't think you
Speaker 1: should even be on this list. I think Andy Reid
Speaker 1: should have been there. M H parcel. Nick Shook agrees
Speaker 1: he has a number four on the snub list. I
Speaker 1: mean that makes it's but you know, it's the next
Speaker 1: layer of people that haven't really imagine doing your job
Speaker 1: as well as and in any industry as well as
Speaker 1: Drew Brees did over the last ten years and not
Speaker 1: making the list. It just seems utterly it's close. Andy
Speaker 1: Reid did not have some of his you know, best
Speaker 1: Eagles years there early, and Carol kind of the timing
Speaker 1: worked out from he took over that program I think
Speaker 1: in oh nine or ten and then they went flying.
Speaker 1: That's about as good a like rebuild jobs as anyone's
Speaker 1: ever done. UH. In other news, sad news out of
Speaker 1: the NFL. UH. Tom Dempsey who famously kicked a sixty
Speaker 1: three yard field goal on November eighth, nineteen seventy UM
Speaker 1: really kind of a great human interest story too. He
Speaker 1: was born without He had no toes on his kicking
Speaker 1: foot his right foot. He wore a modified shoe UM,
Speaker 1: and he used the straight toe kicking style. UH. And
Speaker 1: he hit a sixty three yard or a record that
Speaker 1: stood for decades. UM. He passed away on Saturday night
Speaker 1: at the age of seventy three. He died after a
Speaker 1: contracting UH the coronavirus. The sound the Saints made this announcement. UH.
Speaker 1: He had been battling health issues for several years, Alzheimer's
Speaker 1: and dementia and these older people that they are the
Speaker 1: most susceptible as we've been hearing for weeks and weeks,
Speaker 1: and Dempsey obviously was So we lose Tom Dempsey at
Speaker 1: the age of seventy three. Yeah, he hit that kick
Speaker 1: in two Lane Stadium. And I read the the obituary
Speaker 1: and in the New Orleans Times picky, and it pointed
Speaker 1: out something I always noticed, even just being down there
Speaker 1: and knowing Saints. It's like that kick was the most
Speaker 1: memorable Saints moment they had in the first thirty years
Speaker 1: of their UH existence. So as as odd as it
Speaker 1: seems now considering the success that they've had, like that moment,
Speaker 1: they would show the replay and they would bring Tom
Speaker 1: Dempsey out and like he he lived in New Orleans
Speaker 1: and everything like that was that was you know, that
Speaker 1: was the biggest thing that had ever happened to them,
Speaker 1: and the record did stand for four decades, which there
Speaker 1: aren't many records out there that end up sitting there
Speaker 1: for four also noted that that before Dempsey lined up
Speaker 1: to kick that in the in that was a game
Speaker 1: winner nineteen seventeen over the Lions, that Lions players were
Speaker 1: openly giggling at Dempsey before he made the attempt, and
Speaker 1: then he just silenced them. And I love that. It
Speaker 1: wasn't until four that another kicker even made one from
Speaker 1: sixty yards and then he was finally the record finally
Speaker 1: was broken by Matt Prator, who had a sixty four yarder,
Speaker 1: but he kicked it. I think he kicked it up
Speaker 1: there in the mountains there in Denver, which is fine,
Speaker 1: it's fine, but it should be noted that he had
Speaker 1: the mile high air behind him. You can you can
Speaker 1: see over the generations that it's a much faster game
Speaker 1: with better athletes, but kicker is the one position where
Speaker 1: you could see it happening as it happened in the
Speaker 1: eighties and nineties. These guys were just so much better
Speaker 1: than they were in the sixties and seventies because they
Speaker 1: were toe bangers, and then they became soccer style kickers.
Speaker 1: You started to recruit old quarterbacks who would kick like
Speaker 1: the best athletes were going into kicking in instead of
Speaker 1: like the guy who was an afterthought. And Tom Dempsey's
Speaker 1: record to stand that long, a guy born without toes
Speaker 1: kicking with a wedge to stand for decades when the
Speaker 1: position just kept getting better and better. Uh. And here's
Speaker 1: one final stat that is kind of remarkable, and it's
Speaker 1: to your point West, how the kicking game involved. He
Speaker 1: was a rookie with the Saints in nineteen sixty nine
Speaker 1: and he earned his only Pro Bowl and All Pro
Speaker 1: nod uh in a season in which he kicked, had
Speaker 1: forty one UM field goal attempts, he only converted fifty
Speaker 1: three point seven percent. That's called a long of fifty
Speaker 1: three yards and he was at all pro. So yes,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a different world now in the kicking game.
Speaker 1: But Tom Dempsey, at least for one day, was king. Finally,
Speaker 1: in the news, we head to Tybee where there's some major,
Speaker 1: major news going down. The governor or of Georgia. I
Speaker 1: believe this is the same Governor West who was unaware
Speaker 1: that people could transmit COVID nineteen UM without showing symptoms.
Speaker 1: He was a little behind the curve on that he
Speaker 1: made the decision to open up the beaches in Georgia,
Speaker 1: and the people of Tybee Island West your former home
Speaker 1: uh and specifically the mayor of Tybee Island, Shirley Sessions,
Speaker 1: furious that the governor would put the people of Tybee
Speaker 1: in in danger. Here is the statement from Shirley Sessions.
Speaker 1: As the Pentagon ordered one hundred thousand bodybags to store
Speaker 1: the corpses of Americans killed by the coronavirus, Governor Bryant
Speaker 1: Kemp dictated that Georgia beaches must reopen and declared any
Speaker 1: decision makers who refused to follow these orders would face
Speaker 1: prison and or finds. Tybee City Council and I are
Speaker 1: devastated by the sudden directives and do not support his decisions.
Speaker 1: The health of our residents, staff and visitors are being
Speaker 1: put at risk, and we will pursue legal avenue is
Speaker 1: to overturn overturn his reckless mandate. West your thoughts, Well,
Speaker 1: you guys have met my friend Jason Bueltemann, who had
Speaker 1: been the mayor for the last fifteen years on Tybee.
Speaker 1: He grew up in Cincinnati with me. We went to
Speaker 1: the same high school. Um, he kind of abdicated the
Speaker 1: throne last year. He was sort of a centrist Republican.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he would have come out this
Speaker 1: strongly Shirley Sessions, who is now the mayor. It's a
Speaker 1: little bit older and more left leaning. And Tybee, you
Speaker 1: know people here that you lived in Georgia, the Deep South,
Speaker 1: and often the assumption is that things might be a
Speaker 1: little backwards. Um, Tybee is a pocket of independent thinking.
Speaker 1: Like most islands, it's an end of the road place
Speaker 1: where people wash up. Uh, people looking for something else,
Speaker 1: people trying to be apart from society. They are not
Speaker 1: gonna think the way the rest of Georgia does, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna think independently. The governor is it could be
Speaker 1: costing lives here and Tybe is saying, no, we don't
Speaker 1: want it. We want to do the smart thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was very much of the spirit of the island
Speaker 1: west absolutely. I mean it's making national news. I wonder, Um,
Speaker 1: you know your friend Jason who married you, He's the
Speaker 1: reason you went to Tybee in the first place. The okay,
Speaker 1: you guys knew what I met he. I wonder if
Speaker 1: he he wishes, you know, she's Shirley's getting a lot
Speaker 1: of pop here. This is national news, so I wonder
Speaker 1: if he interesting, um, you know, a little jealous. I
Speaker 1: think Jason got a lot of pop for the way
Speaker 1: he handled hurricanes, the beach renourishment. You know, he was
Speaker 1: he was on CNN and other news outlets himself. I
Speaker 1: think it got to the point where he was tired
Speaker 1: at like three thirty in the morning, drunk people showing
Speaker 1: up at his house complaining about, you know, whatever's on
Speaker 1: their minds. That probably got a little old after fifteen
Speaker 1: and twenty years minutes. Good for Shirley, I mean, Long
Speaker 1: Island's getting ravage right now because of a lot of
Speaker 1: people that left New York City and went to hang
Speaker 1: out in Long Island, UH at their second homes and
Speaker 1: kind of brought the disease there. And so it's good
Speaker 1: for her to try to keep keep her her people safe.
Speaker 1: That's what's happening in the news. Before we say goodbye, Mark,
Speaker 1: I want to present a sliding door scenario. Took all right,
Speaker 1: but you have to promise to give a honest answer.
Speaker 1: I always promised that to everyone both on this chat.
Speaker 1: Right now, on the show and the listeners. All right,
Speaker 1: is this some form of revenge for the game from Friday? Okay, Nope,
Speaker 1: not at all. I'm gonna give you two life path choices.
Speaker 1: You have to pick one path. One you could be
Speaker 1: part part of the scientific team who develops the vaccine
Speaker 1: for COVID nineteen. Well, are okay? You take over again?
Speaker 1: This is in a different reality in about you take
Speaker 1: over as Brown's head coach or a quarterback. It's your choice,
Speaker 1: and go on a Patriots like run for the next
Speaker 1: two decades. You are Cleveland Royalty that makes Lebron James
Speaker 1: look like Danny Ferry. No one will ever know which
Speaker 1: life path you choose. You don't want me to tell
Speaker 1: you what is your choice. I'll choose, and I don't
Speaker 1: have any scientific skills at all, so I don't. I
Speaker 1: just think in this reality, just like you're not a
Speaker 1: real great quarterback, s are you? I believe you're an
Speaker 1: offensive line or a cornerback, multi position and quarterback or
Speaker 1: a head coach in this reality, the sliding door reality,
Speaker 1: you are a fairly gifted scientists, one that's um renowned
Speaker 1: enough to be on this team that develops the cure.
Speaker 1: But You're not the only person. You're not Jonah Salk,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, I'm going to be.
Speaker 1: I just think be like I would have. You're talking
Speaker 1: about number one. I do trust that, uh, without me
Speaker 1: being there, that someone else is going to create the vaccine.
Speaker 1: I already know what other people created in Cleveland. If
Speaker 1: I could have um put together two decades worth of
Speaker 1: incredibly happy Sundays and changed the history of the league, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be. You're gonna change the skyline in Cleveland. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the other thing will happen if it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: if you said that the virus will never be solved
Speaker 1: because of my we don't know that in this scenario,
Speaker 1: I'm going I'm going. I mean, I like, I admire
Speaker 1: your honesty on this. It's this the first one. Just
Speaker 1: you know, I who I hope and pray that happens
Speaker 1: on the second one. You know, I that's attractive to me.
Speaker 1: Would you be, like, would you be the head coach
Speaker 1: or the quarterback? If given the choice, I'd much rather
Speaker 1: be the head coach. That's what I thought. I thought
Speaker 1: you would choose that most people, and you know I'd rather.
Speaker 1: I'd also be sort of the GM, like Bill Belichiper,
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, you know they didn't pick a GM
Speaker 1: for the All Decade team. But it's just obviously Sessler.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, footballs are Yeah, alright, there you go.
Speaker 1: We can we can shut that music down because not
Speaker 1: even a hesitation, Greg, That's what jumped out to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Mark's willing to put a lot of lives
Speaker 1: at risk for his little glory glory time, Ricky, would
Speaker 1: you choose the same make the same choices, Mark, if
Speaker 1: you had part of the COVID nineteen cure team or
Speaker 1: like a kind of a best case life scenario for you,
Speaker 1: what would you choose? I mean it it is. It
Speaker 1: is hard. You know, it's like the glory, the fame,
Speaker 1: the you know you're taking. No, hell no, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be the human life all right, here we go.
Speaker 1: You are a Taylor Swift type figure in b Yeah,
Speaker 1: like no, no, no, I feel like right now like
Speaker 1: I'm not I might lie. Nobody will ever know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the scientist. I'm gonna I'm gonna save
Speaker 1: the world. You're also sixty seven year old pudgy white man. Um. Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. All right, all right, good stuff today, folks. Um,
Speaker 1: we will continue to come at you five days a week.
Speaker 1: We know you're loving it and we enjoy doing it
Speaker 1: as well, so why stop. The Bunker Cast will roll
Speaker 1: on Tuesday with our special guest Peter Schrager will do
Speaker 1: some frankly vaguely overdue draft talk. We don't we don't
Speaker 1: tend to really dive into this realm, and we kind
Speaker 1: of guess put it off, but it's really out of
Speaker 1: respect for the listener because it's not our bally Wick
Speaker 1: right west. But at some point we need to do
Speaker 1: some homework and get the listeners up to speed a
Speaker 1: little bit from the A t N podcast standpoint double
Speaker 1: use of Ballywick there, because like, if there was a
Speaker 1: podcast that the NFL provided that you covered the draft, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe we wouldn't need to do that. But since there isn't, um,
Speaker 1: we need to step and fill that hole. It seems
Speaker 1: like an underserved market that they should look into. That's
Speaker 1: the way. It's a huge part of the NFL, and
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of to me it is stunning a development.
Speaker 1: Is anything inside our media house that they have not
Speaker 1: come up with a draft centric program. What are you
Speaker 1: waiting for? I mean, I mean, we have the resources
Speaker 1: we have as the NFL to go out and find
Speaker 1: a guy, a guy that has experience inside a front office,
Speaker 1: that's been on the road, that could talk a little
Speaker 1: bit that might look okay on camera. Uh. It seems
Speaker 1: like an easy thing for our company and our league,
Speaker 1: but we just haven't done it yet. So when whenever
Speaker 1: that happens, maybe this is something, Ricky, let's get some
Speaker 1: of the big shadow League figures on the horn after
Speaker 1: the show and we'll maybe pitch somebody. I got Lands
Speaker 1: aer Line who does GISs very good total pro I
Speaker 1: don't know, Jesus, just we're just spitballing in real time
Speaker 1: right now. All right, Dan had the signing off for
Speaker 1: the Quiet Storm, the Mailman, the old Boss Ricky Hollywood,
Speaker 1: who definitely would be Taylor Swift no matter the circumstance.
Speaker 1: Peter Shrager tomorrow till Tuesday,