Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. Missed out and do joy
Speaker 1: to the moon. Money is into that stuff. Welcome to
Speaker 1: another edition to the Around the NFL Podcast. My name
Speaker 1: is Dan Hands. I come to you from the virtual room,
Speaker 1: back in the old virtual room, filled with some heroes,
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Gregg Rosenthal. Wow, boys, listen. This time last
Speaker 1: year we were doing bunker casts. We were in the darkness,
Speaker 1: we were in caves and garages and and had no
Speaker 1: contact with the outside world. This weekend, you know, really
Speaker 1: starting with Thursday with the Pridecast, the first annual Around
Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast Pridecast from Rocos and great feedback on
Speaker 1: that show. Everyone seemed to really enjoy and we love
Speaker 1: being about out there. And then Connie and Gonzo and
Speaker 1: Kristen their friend launched the latest Dad's Summit, so we
Speaker 1: were partying at her place. And then there was a
Speaker 1: boat cruise out on Marina del Ray that I was
Speaker 1: lucky enough to be a part of. Wow, that was
Speaker 1: a summer weekend. Yeah, I was there on on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Was felt like more of like the training ground and
Speaker 1: the warm up. The kids were, you know, we're allowed
Speaker 1: to be there, part of the festivities. And then the
Speaker 1: boat was just like full on debauchery. But I give
Speaker 1: them a lot of credit. They had like good kids,
Speaker 1: free stuff to play with, like they were very they
Speaker 1: were very on top of it. And then it looks
Speaker 1: like Sunday was just I don't know, it's a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I'd like to I missed out. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we had we had a lot of soccer um activities
Speaker 1: in our house. So is playing that role You are
Speaker 1: getting a lot of mileage out of soccer is going
Speaker 1: on lately whenever any type of social engagement. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: well no, I mean I wasn't using that as a
Speaker 1: as a leverage to not go somewhere, but it was.
Speaker 1: It didn't work out. But um, I want to know
Speaker 1: more about this boat trip because it sounds um, it
Speaker 1: sounds frisky. It was great. It was booze cruise. Um.
Speaker 1: We had a nice crew there. My my wife was there,
Speaker 1: Connie Lakisha, Um, handsome Hank, our great friend Deaker drew
Speaker 1: from the network side. Just like a really very crew,
Speaker 1: a bunch of Philly maniacs like Channing, Eiggles and all
Speaker 1: this other stuff going on in the boat. It was fun,
Speaker 1: but I got the Farmers tan of all time really
Speaker 1: one of the top farmer tans I've ever had in
Speaker 1: my life, where it's just like it's crazy, like it's wild. Um,
Speaker 1: But that's part of being in the sun and we're
Speaker 1: back outside around other humans, and that's a part of
Speaker 1: being a farmer. I mean, you know, he's part of
Speaker 1: having alabaster skin. But living in Los Angeles Austrian skin, Dan,
Speaker 1: that you were does well? You know, I survived in
Speaker 1: the sun during the pridecast. M I made it. I
Speaker 1: just made it. I know you were. You were tucked
Speaker 1: away in the shade, Mark, and then I saw you
Speaker 1: text the next day. You were like, is everybody else
Speaker 1: It's okay? Man? That sun was killer. Mark was like
Speaker 1: on a t heat and vacation heat vacation underneath a
Speaker 1: palm tree during the whole show. That's what I don't get.
Speaker 1: I came home and I had like a killer sunburn.
Speaker 1: Yet I spent almost no time under the sun. So
Speaker 1: something very strange happening in the atmosphere. It's the lack
Speaker 1: of the Austrian Okay, we'll chalk it up to that.
Speaker 1: All right, Nice show today, Nice show today. I've got
Speaker 1: two more shows this week. Um. As we edge into
Speaker 1: summer and this is a a big week around the
Speaker 1: NFL because of the thirty two teams start minicamp, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna kind of just spin through it an old
Speaker 1: school bunker cast type vibe here. We'll just do a
Speaker 1: spin around the league, go deep dive on the new
Speaker 1: side of things. And I feel like that's that's the
Speaker 1: good way to get us caught up. That's what we
Speaker 1: do because Greg, you know, listen, it was a little
Speaker 1: frivolous um. You know, we got loo Sun Thursday, had
Speaker 1: some fun, but we are a football podcast and we
Speaker 1: just gotta like get very serious about that. I don't
Speaker 1: think we need to get too serious. If we had
Speaker 1: the juice to be able to pull that off like
Speaker 1: every show, I think we would, But I don't know
Speaker 1: if we have that inside of us to do. You know,
Speaker 1: that wouldn't it wouldn't be special anymore if we could do.
Speaker 1: I'm almost surprised that we reconvened before taking this little
Speaker 1: breakthrough this That was like a WrestleMania event for us,
Speaker 1: and now we're like that would have been a good
Speaker 1: last show. This is like a Nanuete New Jersey like
Speaker 1: undercard that people are apparently still going to be listening
Speaker 1: to like we're Monday Wednesday, and then we're off for
Speaker 1: six days, but we're still coming back next next Tuesday. Whatever.
Speaker 1: It feels like it's the last week of school, you know,
Speaker 1: like and everyone's going to get out for summer break. Um,
Speaker 1: but it really isn't you know. You guys have your
Speaker 1: TV show. I'll be gone next next by next week
Speaker 1: and we've got the right and then like it all,
Speaker 1: it all turns around pretty quickly, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It feels like because the NFL is about to take
Speaker 1: off for a month of half and my kids are
Speaker 1: done with school as of Friday. So you've gotta love
Speaker 1: You've gotta love the fact that Greg's first moves to
Speaker 1: downplay the concept of vacation. It's not really a vacation.
Speaker 1: We're not really getting away, were really doing anything. Well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be back next soon. Yeah, I know, but
Speaker 1: that's depressing. I don't want to I don't want to
Speaker 1: think about that until next week. We will have some
Speaker 1: time off. It'll be closer to the end of this month,
Speaker 1: early early July. But all right, let's get to without
Speaker 1: further ado. Um. We have sitting in because Ricky's still
Speaker 1: on this bachelorette party, which is wild. By the way,
Speaker 1: we got some dispatches, some unbelievers, some video clips, some
Speaker 1: crazy stuff going on with these bachelorette parties. And by
Speaker 1: the way, one of the people on the booze cruise
Speaker 1: was Ricky's girlfriend, and I did ask her, Uh, there's
Speaker 1: the a t N media insider. I did ask her,
Speaker 1: are you really okay with her going to this bachelor
Speaker 1: at party where the bachelorette is actually her Ricky's ex girlfriend.
Speaker 1: She said she sniffed it out, had conversations with when
Speaker 1: the relationship first started, UM, and feels comfortable with the situation.
Speaker 1: And I just wanted to say that's what eric had
Speaker 1: said as well, so it all checked out. I would
Speaker 1: say this too. I mean Erica in terms of what
Speaker 1: content we're getting from the party, and she's been very
Speaker 1: generous with sending along um clips that I don't think
Speaker 1: would be necessarily put out for the public. Um. She's
Speaker 1: the gatekeeper, and there is no hint of her running
Speaker 1: a foul of the rules. She seems to be to
Speaker 1: have her act together. Some of the other people involved
Speaker 1: in the the Lesbionic Bachelor Party. To me, do not
Speaker 1: seem to be played by any rules on any level.
Speaker 1: So I, if anything, Erics you know, done done her
Speaker 1: job to contain herself. Party. All right, let's do the news.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Dan, Greg Mark, you got a huge fan
Speaker 1: down here, some bloke and awesome loves Dan Hanzas Dan,
Speaker 1: You're the best. That's my story there. We got we
Speaker 1: corrected that issue. Mark, It's been corrected. And by the way,
Speaker 1: like I'm not sitting around fuming over that event, but
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think about it. I think that
Speaker 1: Kyle is an ally of our show and one of them,
Speaker 1: and I, by the way, I have I thought about
Speaker 1: it enough where I've actually spoken um to the person
Speaker 1: who spoke with Kyle, and I have um full details
Speaker 1: on what that actual conversation was. And we'll just sleep
Speaker 1: it right there. Wow. All right, Uh, speaking of which,
Speaker 1: we have developing news. We were looking for the mysterious
Speaker 1: Aussie big fan of our program, and sure enough, the
Speaker 1: miracles of social media, we found him and he is
Speaker 1: a It turns out he's an actor with a really
Speaker 1: really impressive I AMDB page and he's currently on an
Speaker 1: Amazon program. His name is Matt Lenevis. Let's listen in
Speaker 1: on Matt's social media Uh experience good I, Dane and
Speaker 1: Kyle on the mysterious Susie from the bus Stay nine
Speaker 1: of Quarantine. Clearly cars lost his mind. He's doing Ozzie
Speaker 1: accent impersonations. He's lot somewhere in this hotel. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure where. We're not allowed to see anyone, not allowed
Speaker 1: to open the door. No, he didn't hear it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Day nine has been made a lot more special because
Speaker 1: they've got a shout out from the round the NFL.
Speaker 1: I've been listening to you guys for ten years. You're
Speaker 1: the greatest, honestly, Dan, Greg, Mark, Ricky and the late
Speaker 1: great Chris. You guys hold a special place. You know,
Speaker 1: all your fans hearts. I just want to say thanks
Speaker 1: for everything that you do and hopefully one day we
Speaker 1: can all meet. Take care. What a class act. And
Speaker 1: you could see Matt le Nevis on Amazon's Absentia about that,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I'll tell you something else. He's on it.
Speaker 1: He was on a show because I when kind of
Speaker 1: did a deep dive into some of his work. He's
Speaker 1: the one I spoke to you. He's a wonderful guy.
Speaker 1: Total Sweetheart, and he is on a show called The
Speaker 1: You're breaking that news. No, he's just he's a great guy.
Speaker 1: He's he's on a show. He was on a show
Speaker 1: called The Offspring. Um and he appears and see he
Speaker 1: sort of shows up around season two, episode four, and
Speaker 1: he is that he is like the hunky love interest.
Speaker 1: Like he sizzles on screen. He is leading man um
Speaker 1: energy and vibes. So I would suggest anyone go check
Speaker 1: that out. Um, he is a genuinely talented actor. Wow, hunky, sizzling.
Speaker 1: And I haven't heard Mark this excited since Brad Pittock
Speaker 1: is shared I would have well that I would have um, Emily,
Speaker 1: you know she's in casting to take a look at
Speaker 1: his at his skills too. They are legit. Wow. And
Speaker 1: to be clear, Mark, we didn't think that he like
Speaker 1: said Dan Gregg and the guys, we we never thought that.
Speaker 1: You know that that we were putty on. Kyle, you
Speaker 1: know that we're putting on. But I think there was
Speaker 1: a bit of a game of telephone that happened with
Speaker 1: Um with that interaction. But that's fine. I do appreciate
Speaker 1: all the tweets that have come since seeing like great
Speaker 1: to hear Dan Gregg and the guy is all back together.
Speaker 1: I do not I don't like those at all. Um,
Speaker 1: they bring me to a pleasure. In fact, they border
Speaker 1: on annoying. You know it did it also crossed my mind?
Speaker 1: You know, Matt is a successful actor. I wonder if
Speaker 1: we have any other well known listeners, like people that
Speaker 1: are successful in the entertainment field or you know, sports
Speaker 1: and another sport or whatever. I doubt there's a lot
Speaker 1: of NFL stars listening to our show, But you never know,
Speaker 1: I would, um wageer no, Like what if like Jack
Speaker 1: Nicholson was like a huge fan of our podcast, that
Speaker 1: would be awesome. I don't think so. But all right,
Speaker 1: let's get to the news. All right, Let's start with
Speaker 1: Greg's Patriots Stefan Gilmore, the two thousand nineteen NFL Defensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Year star cornerback. You know, he is
Speaker 1: at a bit of an impasse with the team regarding
Speaker 1: his contract act and he is not at mandatory minicamp.
Speaker 1: The Patriots one of these eighteen teams this week. Um,
Speaker 1: everybody needs to be there, and if not, you're getting
Speaker 1: a fun Gilmore is not there, and it's unclear if
Speaker 1: he plans to be there for the rest of the week.
Speaker 1: He's subject to almost ninety four or dollars and fines
Speaker 1: if he misses all three days. Greg, we know how
Speaker 1: Belichick can be, and he is not afraid to move veterans. Uh.
Speaker 1: Do you think Stefan Gilmore is going to be on
Speaker 1: the move at some point before season begins or do
Speaker 1: you think this is just contract posturing and they'll get
Speaker 1: something done. I don't think he'll be on the move
Speaker 1: because Belichick loves Stefan Gilmore so much. He made very
Speaker 1: similar noise before last season, and they gave him some
Speaker 1: extra guaranteed money going into the year, which is very
Speaker 1: rare for them to do that, where they didn't give
Speaker 1: him a contract. This thing just like gave him a
Speaker 1: little extra money, which is I can only remember them
Speaker 1: doing at with like Wes Welker. Uh. He speaks so
Speaker 1: fondly of Gilmore, and he tried to Belichick did almost
Speaker 1: cover up that he wasn't there today like there were
Speaker 1: weather issues. So we're not totally sure if everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: get here. And they asked specifically about Gilmore and he
Speaker 1: was kind of putting it off. He almost trying to
Speaker 1: do Gilmore a favor. I can't imagine they're going to
Speaker 1: give him some monster contract extension, so that's problematic. He's
Speaker 1: coming off a quad surgery, which is pretty serious for
Speaker 1: an aging cornerback. But I think he's all in it
Speaker 1: to win it this year, and Belichick is, and that
Speaker 1: they'll come to some sort of agreement, maybe with something
Speaker 1: similar to what they did a year ago, and they're
Speaker 1: not too worried about mini camp, is my guest. Training
Speaker 1: camp is a little different. Yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 1: he you know, Gilmore has a point. He's the twenty
Speaker 1: four highest paid quarterback in the league. He's making about
Speaker 1: seven million based salary. So it's just you know, even
Speaker 1: his camp is probably saying, look at we've got to
Speaker 1: maximize um, your earnings. Your thirty one in September. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's get you as much money as we can. But
Speaker 1: do I think that you're gonna get a multi, massive,
Speaker 1: multi year deal. No. I mean, but but maybe it's
Speaker 1: just what they did last year, because it would be
Speaker 1: a typical of the Patriots this offseason to suddenly start
Speaker 1: shedding star players. If anything, they seem like a team
Speaker 1: totally trying to bounce back and win the a f
Speaker 1: c's it's funny like you mentioned that Greg about you know,
Speaker 1: weather issues, are having some travel Like this is the
Speaker 1: same Bellichick who remember when the bomb cyclone blizzard hit
Speaker 1: New England and it became a big story in Janus,
Speaker 1: like nobody nobody is late for practice, I don't care
Speaker 1: what you have to do. And the guys were so
Speaker 1: scared of Bellichick that they were all like checking into
Speaker 1: local hotels so they could walk to the facility if
Speaker 1: they had to. Now Belichick's like, oh, you know, it
Speaker 1: is a summer, storms and things of that nature deal, right,
Speaker 1: It's all about the player, because in that case he
Speaker 1: was using that specific example. I remember well in the
Speaker 1: snow too to make an example of a DAILI as Thomas,
Speaker 1: who was on his radar from the moment that he
Speaker 1: signed with New England and that was like one of
Speaker 1: the last OZ And I think he loves Gilmore and
Speaker 1: Gilmore wasn't quite as good last year when he was
Speaker 1: healthy and then he had a pretty serious injury. So
Speaker 1: he's he's a little bit of a question mark in general.
Speaker 1: But I just can't imagine they would they would trade
Speaker 1: him because you're not going to get like another good
Speaker 1: veteran in return. The only draft picks would would be
Speaker 1: what people would send for him. In two thousand nine,
Speaker 1: linebacker Dahlias Thomas told ESPN he showed up nine minutes
Speaker 1: late for a team mating after snowfall nearly caused him
Speaker 1: to get into an accident on the way to the facility.
Speaker 1: Belichick sent him home. You guys like shaking up. He
Speaker 1: almost comes killed trying to get big football practice and
Speaker 1: he gets sent back in the car. It's funny because
Speaker 1: they're kind of similar. There two of, if not the
Speaker 1: two biggest free agent contracts the Patriots have ever signed,
Speaker 1: and Dahlias Thomas was a total bust and Gilmore, who, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: he's twenty four in bass salary this year. But that
Speaker 1: stuff is always a little misleading because when he signed
Speaker 1: the contract, it was, you know, it blew the oars
Speaker 1: off for cornerback contracts, and everyone was like, I can't
Speaker 1: believe they're signing someone to the number one cornerback contract
Speaker 1: in the league. It's just since then it's been totally passed.
Speaker 1: He's gotten that signing bonus money and that's why, you know,
Speaker 1: just sprinkle him a little money, Belgic. Stop sweating the
Speaker 1: small stuff. You're out, you're on your boat and you
Speaker 1: know this, Yeah, it doesn't sound like that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Sprinkle him a few million and hopefully this will this
Speaker 1: will go away. By the way, over at the piers
Speaker 1: at the marina Marina Marina del Rey, uh Snoop has
Speaker 1: a boat out there, a big purple yacht. And there
Speaker 1: was another one, a really obscenely large yacht um called
Speaker 1: the Hotel California. And the you know how with the
Speaker 1: boat on the back it's the name of the boat,
Speaker 1: and then where it's from, and it was Winslow, Arizona,
Speaker 1: which is you know famous line from Take It Easy
Speaker 1: by the Eagles. I figured that, as Don Henley noted
Speaker 1: Dick of rock and Roll, um with an obscene ugly
Speaker 1: yacht parted rain adel Rey. These just things you noticed
Speaker 1: when you're ound on. Well, was anyone embarrassing on that boat?
Speaker 1: By the way, did anyone on our boat? On our
Speaker 1: on our boat, everyone was I wouldn't say good behavior,
Speaker 1: but everybody was able to uh comport themselves with dignity.
Speaker 1: I saw one woman on a neighboring yacht, um and
Speaker 1: we were on a yacht. We were on like a
Speaker 1: little party pontoon basically, but a woman being she was
Speaker 1: completely passed out and she was on the top level
Speaker 1: of this like multimillion dollar yacht and they had to
Speaker 1: carry her body and she was a large woman, had
Speaker 1: to carry her body straight down, Uh, like some like
Speaker 1: a ladder to get her down to the main level
Speaker 1: of the boat so they could get her off the boat.
Speaker 1: And I guess get her into an ambulance. I hope
Speaker 1: she's that's like an alcohol poisoning scenario that son I
Speaker 1: will get you. Um. And also speaking of the since
Speaker 1: we're in the Patriots realm, Greg and you mentioned bus,
Speaker 1: did you see this report from the Boston Herald that
Speaker 1: nikkil Harry And maybe that's just an observation and don't
Speaker 1: put too much into it. Could be fighting for a
Speaker 1: roster spot this summer. This is a first round pick
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, Greg, and I went and checked out
Speaker 1: your projected Starters series. You don't have Harry listed as
Speaker 1: a starter of Patriots. Obviously made some big signings across
Speaker 1: the board on offense. Uh. Do you would that be
Speaker 1: stunning to that if Harry got cut third year of
Speaker 1: his career as a first round pick, did I have
Speaker 1: a note that he's not a lock to make the team.
Speaker 1: I don't. You didn't. I went to check specifically see
Speaker 1: if you would addressed it. That's why I wanted to.
Speaker 1: He looks like, yeah, I should. He looks like the
Speaker 1: fourth receiver. But then if you're like the fourth receiver
Speaker 1: and you don't play special teams and he has been
Speaker 1: a stiff, you could very well see them do one
Speaker 1: of these fake face saving trades August twenty where they
Speaker 1: trade him for a conditional seventh, which is like, the
Speaker 1: condition is nikkil Harry is no longer nikkil Harry after
Speaker 1: we trade him, which you know they don't get anything
Speaker 1: for him that it wouldn't shock me. He's he's not
Speaker 1: looked good. It's not like it's rough that that that
Speaker 1: would be rough. He was taking four picks before Deebo
Speaker 1: Samuel nineteen before A. J. Brown, And then out of
Speaker 1: curiosity is like, who else in that first round is
Speaker 1: no longer with their team? And there two interesting cases.
Speaker 1: You had one quarterback of course, Dwayne Haskins, and then
Speaker 1: Giant safety DeAndre Baker, who had major legally well, that's
Speaker 1: usually the earliest that first round pick ever gets cut
Speaker 1: is training camp of their third year. And that's even
Speaker 1: that's pretty rare. But that's like that, that's like always
Speaker 1: the unless there's something crazy like the two men, the
Speaker 1: two guys you mentioned all the Haskins. I guess that
Speaker 1: was just that was an al Teimer. That's a lot
Speaker 1: of time. Uh. In other news, another Rosenthal favorite, Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: spoke to the media at the end of O t
Speaker 1: AS late last week and he addressed, you know, all
Speaker 1: the drama that swarmed around him earlier this offseason and
Speaker 1: how in some ways they got blown out of proportion.
Speaker 1: Let's hear what Danger Russ had to say, you know, say,
Speaker 1: I love Seattle, I love playing here. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I've had I've had a great career here so far. Um.
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to play here for my whole career. Obviously. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think there were some you know, unfortunate frustrations after
Speaker 1: the season. Obviously, want to win it all and do
Speaker 1: it all and do everything you can, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think everybody on our team does. We we all
Speaker 1: want to win it and um, you know, I think
Speaker 1: unfortunately got a little uh you know, um, a little
Speaker 1: bit blow blown on proportion, a little bit mm hmm.
Speaker 1: I was race. I don't know, like who who's the
Speaker 1: Unford If you're saying that they they had unfortunate feelings
Speaker 1: and he's including himself and that that would make sense.
Speaker 1: I mean, he had a little bit he was saying
Speaker 1: right after the season, there were some frustrations about how
Speaker 1: things ended, first round exit after a twelve and fourth season.
Speaker 1: But you're you know who you are, Russell Wilson. You've
Speaker 1: spent years building yourself up to where you are. Your agent, forget,
Speaker 1: forget all the off the record stuff that they were
Speaker 1: clearly doing. His agent literally went on the record with
Speaker 1: Adam Schefter enlisted the more teams that he would be
Speaker 1: traded to, and so they asked Russell Wilson, I don't
Speaker 1: know who it was, but kudos because that was the
Speaker 1: follow up to have about that quote. And he was
Speaker 1: just like, well, I just wanted to, you know, make
Speaker 1: it clear if they were going to trade me, where
Speaker 1: would I want to go. But the Seahawks were like, oh, wait,
Speaker 1: we don't want to trade you. We never brought that up.
Speaker 1: John john Snyder was clear about that. He was on
Speaker 1: the record to this. Yeah, So to try to like
Speaker 1: paint that as like it was blown out of proportion.
Speaker 1: You guy literally was like, I just I just threw
Speaker 1: a piece. But I agree, I agree with you were
Speaker 1: saying he's not he's a little clumsy with how to
Speaker 1: play the game. There are other guys out there that
Speaker 1: can do this in a way that doesn't lead to
Speaker 1: this type of I wouldn't call us a mia Kulpa.
Speaker 1: But walking back certain elements of his offseason strategy, well,
Speaker 1: what about the the anecdotes of him storming out of
Speaker 1: meeting rooms and you know, being so upset with the offense.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think when he was at the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl sitting with Goodell watching Tom Brady, um, you know,
Speaker 1: win it again after going to Tampa Bay and having
Speaker 1: incredible say and pull on a new franchise that started
Speaker 1: him in five other quarterbacks down this road of malcontent
Speaker 1: status and yes, it got it, got it, JUSTI it
Speaker 1: didn't happen for me, didn't get moved. I think they
Speaker 1: addressed his concerns to some degree by trading for a
Speaker 1: couple alignment and adding people and you know, resigning Chris Carson.
Speaker 1: But like had the Bears trade scenario been okayed by
Speaker 1: Seattle and Russell, Wilson wants to finish his career with
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Would he have been okay going to Chicago?
Speaker 1: Would he have been okay being traded or just none
Speaker 1: of that happened. So now you're back in front of
Speaker 1: reporters and you have to make good with all this
Speaker 1: um of surge drama that occurred, right, I get. I
Speaker 1: just have some faith in the audience a little bit here.
Speaker 1: It's like we can handle the truth. You don't have to,
Speaker 1: like everyone sees through this stuff anyway. So you know,
Speaker 1: Seahawks fans are gonna love you if if you play well.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is a tricky thing to like go
Speaker 1: back and you know, get them back all on, all
Speaker 1: on your side. But I don't know, just be honest. Um.
Speaker 1: Speaking of malcontents, Levy on Bell UH, currently without a
Speaker 1: job in the NFL. He made some news earlier this
Speaker 1: week by coming after Andy Reid on social media, UM,
Speaker 1: writing I'd never play for Andy Reid again, dot dot dot.
Speaker 1: I'd retire first, uh. And then this had one of
Speaker 1: my favorite headlines of UH the year so far the
Speaker 1: off season. Levyan Bell apologizes for public comment about Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs coach Andy Reid, but does not regret at
Speaker 1: all what I said. That's not really how it works.
Speaker 1: Levian walked it back thusly, I said what I said,
Speaker 1: and I don't regret at all what I said. For
Speaker 1: those who have a personal problem with me because of
Speaker 1: what I said, that's fine. You have your right, just
Speaker 1: understand I also have my right for how I feel
Speaker 1: about my personal problem with dude because of what he
Speaker 1: said to me. Bell, of course, was cut by the
Speaker 1: Jets um in the middle of the season after signing
Speaker 1: a huge deal with New York a couple of years earlier,
Speaker 1: and bombed out there, went to Kansas City, wasn't even
Speaker 1: didn't even play in the n f C title game
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, and now is back on the
Speaker 1: on the street. And this is probably not a way
Speaker 1: to hang around in the league going on going public
Speaker 1: with this stuff. But that's what he did. And he's
Speaker 1: an outspoken dude, and he always has been. Who would
Speaker 1: have thought a couple of years ago, Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you go back to seen which is great season. If
Speaker 1: we said in one, I mean running back careers changed drastically,
Speaker 1: But like Wayne Gollman has a job right now, Taiwan
Speaker 1: Jones is on a roster and Levy on Bell cannot
Speaker 1: find a job and to to waste um the fact
Speaker 1: that I mean the a we're discussing this and it
Speaker 1: was you know, it's a light time for the NFL,
Speaker 1: and it popped up, and so of course we're going
Speaker 1: to but the fact that this is something that was
Speaker 1: I had to ponder in my mind, this stupid scenario
Speaker 1: um going after Andy Reid without clarifying what it was
Speaker 1: Andy Reid said. And then as you said, Dan, a
Speaker 1: totally um, a totally false, absurd, fraudulent, uh semi apology
Speaker 1: that really wasn't one at all. I just I find
Speaker 1: it to be extremely mentally tired. Probably the agent saying, hey, hey, dummy,
Speaker 1: go apologize on Twitter. We're trying to get you a job,
Speaker 1: and he couldn't do it. He couldn't successful at all.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of apologies are like, I'm sorry if
Speaker 1: you were offended. This wasn't this wasn't quite that. This
Speaker 1: was just I apologize, but I don't regret what I said,
Speaker 1: which doesn't just doesn't make any sense. Uh. Yeah, It's
Speaker 1: it's that time of year where this was a comment
Speaker 1: as a it was like a response to a comment
Speaker 1: and someone else's Instagram post or whatever. But I think
Speaker 1: the reason why it made news not just because oh wait,
Speaker 1: you know still around, is no one, no player has
Speaker 1: ever disliked Dandy Reid, Like that is the one NFL
Speaker 1: coach that seems to have like a ninety nine point
Speaker 1: nine percent approval rating and that every like the ultimate
Speaker 1: players coach. So when when you talk on Andy Reid,
Speaker 1: I think then that got people's attention. And it's funny
Speaker 1: when when he was talking his way out of New
Speaker 1: York and he was burying Adam Gates, everyone was kind
Speaker 1: of siding with Bell because everyone knows Adam Gaze was
Speaker 1: in over his head and really bad at communicating. And
Speaker 1: I remember thinking to myself, I was like, I think
Speaker 1: this one's getting like a little mixed up because I
Speaker 1: think Adam Gaze is awful as a head coach and
Speaker 1: a communicator, but I also think that Live Bell is
Speaker 1: a bit of a knucklehead. And and now he's doing
Speaker 1: it again at at this latest stop, you said it,
Speaker 1: You said it, Mark. At two thousand seventeen, you could
Speaker 1: say Levian Bell and tied Gurley with the two best
Speaker 1: running backs of football, and neither of them have a
Speaker 1: job here in June two Thoe, both still in their twenties. Alright,
Speaker 1: the post the post stealers Levian Bell and Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: experience has made not just Mike Tomlin looked better for
Speaker 1: keeping the train on the tracks for as long as
Speaker 1: he did, but just the decisions to let them go
Speaker 1: better in Hindsey. One last note on this honey Badger,
Speaker 1: he chimed in um on the controversy, or if you
Speaker 1: want to call it that um, He tweeted, these fellas
Speaker 1: blame everybody for their lack of success. That's how I
Speaker 1: know I'm built different. That that cuts the fellow star,
Speaker 1: Uh tyrone Matthew. All right, here we go. Moving on.
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, the former number one overall pick entering a
Speaker 1: very pivotal third season in the NFL with the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: And this feels a little trophy a running quarterback sharing
Speaker 1: his feelings in the off season about wanting to run
Speaker 1: a little bit less. Let's listen in to Kyler Murray. Honestly,
Speaker 1: the way I see it is, uh, you know, my
Speaker 1: legs should be a luxury um and and it kind
Speaker 1: of it kind of wasn't like that last year. It
Speaker 1: was kind of me, um having to run for us
Speaker 1: and souf or in a sense, and um, you know
Speaker 1: once once, you know, I was you know, my shoulder
Speaker 1: was named up or whatever, and I was, you know,
Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to put myself out there and take
Speaker 1: those hits and stuff like that. We kind of we
Speaker 1: kind of took a law and you know, hit a
Speaker 1: law and you know, honestly, I think it was good
Speaker 1: for us. You know, I think it was a lesson
Speaker 1: for us that, um, you know, we we can't be
Speaker 1: one dimensional. We just gotta be better in all all areas,
Speaker 1: all aspects of the game. Mark we were socially distanced
Speaker 1: in my old garage. Uh, last late last season, it
Speaker 1: was a Thursday night game, I want to say, maybe
Speaker 1: late November when he injured that shoulder, and that maybe
Speaker 1: gets slept on a little bit of their their season
Speaker 1: and he was never the same after that. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: he's thinking, I need to avoid that type of injury
Speaker 1: happening in there in the future. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: like this is what makes them special, right it is.
Speaker 1: I mean it totally, It totally neutralized their offense. You know,
Speaker 1: they scored after that game nine fewer points per game. Uh,
Speaker 1: And it was an offense that I found frustrating to
Speaker 1: watch to begin with, especially in the red zone. And
Speaker 1: we've talked Cliff Kingsbury, but when you took away his
Speaker 1: running element, because you know, they tried, he played hurt.
Speaker 1: Give him credit for that, but he wasn't able to
Speaker 1: just take off and run the same way they were,
Speaker 1: not that they just were not. They were easily kind
Speaker 1: of suppressed on offense, and that they fell apart they
Speaker 1: were six and three. I mean that that Hail Mary
Speaker 1: game against the Bills feels like a million years ago
Speaker 1: because the way that season ended. So I hear what
Speaker 1: he's saying, just because in terms of like career longevity,
Speaker 1: I mean, no one had more rushing yards outside of
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson than him on the ground from the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: But if you do take that away, what's special about
Speaker 1: their offense? From from looking at them today, I just
Speaker 1: don't see something special at all. Yeah, I'm glad I
Speaker 1: heard the quotes with him saying it because I think
Speaker 1: he's talking about his own improvement too. I mean I
Speaker 1: think he's talking about I don't I don't want to
Speaker 1: rely on that either. And we had to he was
Speaker 1: on pace to break Lamar Jackson's rushing record before that injury.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like, Okay, players are just better now
Speaker 1: in terms of athleticism than they used to be. But
Speaker 1: to me, he's there with Lamar and Michael Vick as
Speaker 1: the three best running quarterbacks ever. Just in terms of
Speaker 1: just purely good at running, he is an unreal I mean,
Speaker 1: he still put over eight hundred yards. He made guys
Speaker 1: missed and and I think that was part of the
Speaker 1: excitement early in the season was he was just making
Speaker 1: stuff up. But they did not have a lot of
Speaker 1: plays within the structure of the offense. And I think
Speaker 1: the other NFC West teams, which you know, have some
Speaker 1: big defenses, the Rams and the forty nine, they seem
Speaker 1: to have a pretty good beat on what Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: wanted to do and knew how to stop it. Transaction Wire,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins signed linebacker Jerome Baker toly three year, thirty
Speaker 1: nine million dollar contract extension. That is the same Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker coming up back to back century mark tackle season's
Speaker 1: career high seven sacks. Good for you, young men, get
Speaker 1: Shaw dollar, Jamison crowd are gonna have less dollars in
Speaker 1: his pocket uh this season after rap sheet reported that
Speaker 1: the Jets renegotiate had their deal with the wide receiver. UM.
Speaker 1: I heard from a little Bertie basically got his salary
Speaker 1: slashed in half. UM. So he's probably gonna make it
Speaker 1: in the area of five million on a one year
Speaker 1: deal and still not out of the question that he
Speaker 1: gets traded um before Week one. And finally, Nick Mullens,
Speaker 1: the former forty Niners quarterback, has signed with the Eagles.
Speaker 1: A bit of an interesting landing spot because, of course
Speaker 1: your favorite Mark Stone age pony, Joe Flacco is they
Speaker 1: are already backing up Jalen Hurts. Um. You wonder if
Speaker 1: Mollens is a camp farm or a legitimate option for them. Mullins, Like,
Speaker 1: I get that he's, you know, not maybe a starter,
Speaker 1: but Mullins did some good things in San Francisco. I
Speaker 1: kind of wondered if maybe, you know, with the Niners
Speaker 1: link in New York, that maybe the Jets would have
Speaker 1: gone after, um, someone like Mullins. They've got James Morgan.
Speaker 1: It's a little telling, to be honest with you. Why
Speaker 1: the like I wouldn't want anything to do with it
Speaker 1: there crazy? I mean, remember they always show those stats
Speaker 1: of like the best yards per attempt in the first
Speaker 1: you know, a thousand throws of his career, and it's
Speaker 1: like Nick Mullins is there with Dan Marino, and I
Speaker 1: think he's a great example of like if you're a
Speaker 1: football fan or you're not like plugged in seven on
Speaker 1: the team, you looked at some of his games and
Speaker 1: his numbers are like, oh, Nick Mollins is good. And
Speaker 1: then the forty Niners couldn't wait to get rid of him,
Speaker 1: and then he sits on the market for all this
Speaker 1: time before getting Yeah, he's coming off an injury, so
Speaker 1: that that's partly why I think he took so long
Speaker 1: to get signed. I don't even know if he's healthy.
Speaker 1: He has come back from an elbow that is true,
Speaker 1: John or anything, but it was an elbow injury. They
Speaker 1: of these three signings, the Baker one, it was such
Speaker 1: huge money. It just got me thinking how the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are very unpredictable team. And one of the reasons I
Speaker 1: think they're unpredictable is I don't know if, like any
Speaker 1: team disagrees with PF more than the Dolphins. PFF has
Speaker 1: a pretty large influence I think in the way that
Speaker 1: the media, including myself and others talk about players and
Speaker 1: a lot of times at these positions when it's like,
Speaker 1: but I don't really have that how to Jerome Baker take,
Speaker 1: you know, you head over to PF and PFS you know,
Speaker 1: buried him as one of the worst players. And the
Speaker 1: Dolphins also have made these moves where they've cut or
Speaker 1: traded players who are very highly graded at PF. They
Speaker 1: seem to love their young offensive line with PF hates.
Speaker 1: I don't know like what this all means in the
Speaker 1: long run, but it's like they just gave a guy
Speaker 1: who PF things is one of the worst linebackers in
Speaker 1: the league, like massive money. So we'll see who's right,
Speaker 1: Miami or PFF. The war is on. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you like what Brian Flores said about him, like
Speaker 1: Brian Flores loves him, and they've got Jail and Phillips
Speaker 1: and you know this guy can rush the passer, he's
Speaker 1: good in coverage. They also though, like, which is rare
Speaker 1: for a linebacker, do you resign a manual log? But
Speaker 1: I mean that's someone out there. And also Mike is
Speaker 1: SICKI who I think is like definitely someone to hold
Speaker 1: onto is in the final years contract. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: to start paying players soon. It's interesting with Crowder and
Speaker 1: the Jets last season when the season opened and it
Speaker 1: was a forgettable season on so many levels. But do
Speaker 1: you know Chris Hogan was their starting wide receiver. He's
Speaker 1: now in the National Lacrosse League and now flash row.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying the Jets are loaded a wide receiver
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, but all of a sudden, it's
Speaker 1: like it's gotten to the point where Jamison Crowder, especially
Speaker 1: with the emergence of Elijah Moore, who people are going
Speaker 1: nuts about and every right of about the Jets having
Speaker 1: an amazing initial camp with the team, that Crowder doesn't
Speaker 1: really have a spot. He was there clear cut number
Speaker 1: one last year. Um, we'll see how that old sorts out. Well.
Speaker 1: I I would like to say they should keep them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think smart teams need like four or
Speaker 1: five options now in the passing game, and the Jets
Speaker 1: are one of those teams that has it. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: And shout out to Chris Hogan, by the way, we
Speaker 1: were there while he was making some catches in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter of the Super Bowl comeback against the Falcons,
Speaker 1: Chris Hogan, a little bit of a forgotten player in
Speaker 1: that game, made some pretty big plays in that game. Chris,
Speaker 1: I actually lost a sandwich bet because I think I
Speaker 1: had a sandwich bet something along the lines that that
Speaker 1: he'd have a hundred and twenty yards receiving. Didn't go
Speaker 1: that high, but I know he had at least four
Speaker 1: or five catches in some big place. I I because
Speaker 1: I blocked out a lot of that Super Bowl second half.
Speaker 1: But I do remember more with the Miami Dolphins as
Speaker 1: an undrafted free agent, Chris Hogan seven eleven, always open.
Speaker 1: He was one of those the great underdog stories of
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks about seven or eight years ago. Greg, I
Speaker 1: want to check in here. You know we're this on
Speaker 1: this podcast. We're tracking that Denver Broncos quarterback room very close.
Speaker 1: I'm not putting them in the show anymore. Let's stop
Speaker 1: this please. And you had pointed out no, I think
Speaker 1: it's only fair. It's only fair, Greg, because when you
Speaker 1: wanted to surface von Miller uh quotes when he was
Speaker 1: apparently giving a little nod to Teddy Bridgewater as the
Speaker 1: guy he wants to be the quarterback. I must just
Speaker 1: let you know that Bond's going ball ways on this one. Okay,
Speaker 1: So they're asking him, uh, they're asking him about Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: and Vaughan said, listen, I gotta ignore all that stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, why hold on, wait a minute. He said,
Speaker 1: We've got Drew lock That's who we're running with. That's
Speaker 1: who we're going into the season with until anything changes. Greg.
Speaker 1: That is a shot across your bow directly. Well maybe
Speaker 1: he maybe he's a leader on the team that heard.
Speaker 1: You know, Locke wasn't too happy about these other conversation,
Speaker 1: you know, so now he's just trying to make up
Speaker 1: for it. You know, I don't know, people have talked.
Speaker 1: I think that one shook Greg up a little bit. Mark, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't, but I Menakis pointed out to me just
Speaker 1: you know recently, Teddy seventeenth in QBR last year, thirteenth
Speaker 1: in completion percentage over expected. Hey, the stats are the stats.
Speaker 1: The stats don't lie, you know, they don't. That's never lie.
Speaker 1: That's true. They're having a tough time though. The receiver's
Speaker 1: dealing with both quarterbacks because people are saying that Drew
Speaker 1: Locks passes and I'm not saying the guy is Mr Accuracy,
Speaker 1: but Uh, that they come in fast, hard, but that
Speaker 1: Teddy's balls, like Teddy's throat football throws are like these looping,
Speaker 1: more looping arrangements where it's tougher to they don't come
Speaker 1: to you as quickly and so it's you can't they're not.
Speaker 1: Both quarterbacks are very different. Which one would you rather have?
Speaker 1: I'd rather have the catchable ball and we've seen those
Speaker 1: Drew Locket rocket bats firing into the shideline since since college.
Speaker 1: I want that like Chad Pennington after his third shoulder surgery,
Speaker 1: looper comeback player of the year. He made it work.
Speaker 1: Uh was awesome. He was awesome. By the way, since
Speaker 1: it's the total offseason depth right now, I do have
Speaker 1: a Chad Pennington take. I think I think he's pretty.
Speaker 1: He's now like used this some sometimes as a as
Speaker 1: a not a punch line, but it's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: this guy who was nice, he like overcame like shoulder
Speaker 1: and your people do. I don't think I understand what
Speaker 1: a baller Chad Bennington was. He is historically underrated, like
Speaker 1: he had incredible quarterback skills and if he had a
Speaker 1: better situation app points like he would have won even
Speaker 1: more games. He was a great player, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I think what he really got danged for more was
Speaker 1: he was in the Tom Brady draft and he was
Speaker 1: a first round pick. So everyone says, oh, the Jets
Speaker 1: they below it Tom Brady one and eight seven picks later.
Speaker 1: But yeah, especially before he got hurt. One of the
Speaker 1: better Jet seasons of the last twenty years is when
Speaker 1: Pennington replaced an aging Viney test of Verdi and the
Speaker 1: Jets won the division in a playoff game in two
Speaker 1: thousand two. He was a legit badass. Hurt his shoulder.
Speaker 1: His next level like the throws he could make an
Speaker 1: attempt because of his accuracy. He is one of the
Speaker 1: best throwing like quarterbacks of all time in terms of
Speaker 1: putting it where he wanted to right and great with
Speaker 1: the play action. He really was. He was the best
Speaker 1: Jets quarterback in my lifetime until this kid, you know,
Speaker 1: the Chipotle kid, came along. Zack Wilson is now he's
Speaker 1: already superseded, I like to think. So that's the way
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be positive about this. Finally, in the news,
Speaker 1: I did a little search of this just so I
Speaker 1: had the article in front of me and It came
Speaker 1: up the Spanish language version for ESPN dot com, and
Speaker 1: I just thought the headline was funny. So here it
Speaker 1: is Dallas Cowboys. Then Ezekiel Elliott in la major forma
Speaker 1: de su vida, which means sound the trouple art Graver
Speaker 1: triplet triplet that means Dallas Cowboys. On Zeke Elliott, he's
Speaker 1: in the best shape of his life. Art oh boy,
Speaker 1: cess was ready for vacation. No, no, no, I mean
Speaker 1: it's I actually like I went back and looked at
Speaker 1: a couple other off seasons and there were there were
Speaker 1: similar headlines in like Cowboys running back Zeke Elliott is
Speaker 1: still in Cabo, reportedly in great shape. Ezekiel Elliott's weight
Speaker 1: is at the lowest it's been since his rookie year.
Speaker 1: I will say this, if there's one thing, like one
Speaker 1: of the first conversations I had about football with West
Speaker 1: was about running backs, and he really am I think
Speaker 1: bought into when you found a running back hit the
Speaker 1: scene in August in like truly great shape. Uh. Then
Speaker 1: they started to run really hard in the preseason. It
Speaker 1: was predictive of a big year. I mean, Elliott, if anything,
Speaker 1: played behind an offensive line last year that was an
Speaker 1: absolute injury wrangled mess. They had three the three best
Speaker 1: lineman Zack Martin, Tyrone Smith and Lall Collins played a
Speaker 1: combined six hundred snaps six eighteen snaps, a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty four and zero. I mean they just didn't they
Speaker 1: were They were a hot mess. So would Elliott in
Speaker 1: good shape be better? Maybe? Is it a trope? It's
Speaker 1: a huge trope. Well, it should be stated that his
Speaker 1: backup ran really well last year and looked better than Zeke,
Speaker 1: and he did he had a hundred attempts. I mean,
Speaker 1: do you that I like Pollard a lot, but did
Speaker 1: you is Pollard suddenly like I'm not saying Elliot, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying it's not like that line. I mean, if
Speaker 1: Pollard was bombing out as well, I just think Zeke
Speaker 1: Elliot probably maybe? Yeah. Was it the same guy physically
Speaker 1: last year? Maybe? And now he's realizing that this is
Speaker 1: his money's involved here because if he's in trouble it
Speaker 1: Covid missed a lot of work, like he um, he
Speaker 1: is someone he's a trope being in the best shape
Speaker 1: of his life personally, like this has happened three times.
Speaker 1: He does you know for what it's worth you know.
Speaker 1: I think it's tough to put this on players too often,
Speaker 1: but I having gone to ox Nard very often, like
Speaker 1: on the first day of their training camp or a
Speaker 1: couple of times. This story is always either Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 1: is totally out of shape and winded, or Ezekiel Elli
Speaker 1: is an amazing shape. And it seems to go every
Speaker 1: other year, like you know, and that just seems to
Speaker 1: be where he's been as a as a player. And
Speaker 1: often when they have when he has shown up and
Speaker 1: people are all excited about it, he does play awesome
Speaker 1: that year. And when he shows up in the you know,
Speaker 1: out of shape, you other than that's what happens. I
Speaker 1: would if I was you know, and I will have
Speaker 1: Fantasy draft Um like millions of other people later this summer.
Speaker 1: I wonder. I feel like he's a nice bounce back candidate.
Speaker 1: I think so. He was on my team last year
Speaker 1: and I had I shipped him um in a multiplayer
Speaker 1: trade to Handsome Hank's son in about week eight. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm getting off. This is Ukulele at thing. He was smart,
Speaker 1: highly frustrating, well done, Mark Well taking advantage of a
Speaker 1: young young child. No, he was not a young child.
Speaker 1: He was making more. Henry's son was making more transactions
Speaker 1: than anyone in the league by two. Um, but my
Speaker 1: team cats are overrated. Was not swayed by that. I've
Speaker 1: concocted a deal with him and we made the playoffs. Plus,
Speaker 1: he's my size of Henry's sons, even like the five
Speaker 1: year old is bigger than me. The five year old
Speaker 1: is larger than his five year old is giant. It's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting. He I think he's going to
Speaker 1: be a professional wrestler. I'm pretty sure of it. Something
Speaker 1: scientific is going on with that that third child, he's
Speaker 1: far too large for his age. Well, it's Alphie right,
Speaker 1: healthy young. I mean, Henry will admit it to Henry
Speaker 1: will admit there's something. He said it. There's something. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the word would be. Something, let's just
Speaker 1: say special. There's something special going on. It's special. It's wonderful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he could be one of those pro athletes like a
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge, like six seven to seventy five al muscle.
Speaker 1: Like maybe he's just that's his r Henry is six
Speaker 1: four or whatever. The framework is there, Yeah, are he
Speaker 1: was there on Saturday. Check money it was quite a
Speaker 1: like that was outrageous when I heard that guest check
Speaker 1: Back on the scene. That's how they're mostly known as
Speaker 1: around the NFL guests. But yeah, it's like that. It
Speaker 1: was It was quite a It was nice to see
Speaker 1: how these people I haven't seen in a year plus
Speaker 1: in the flesh. If you know how things work here
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, um, certain people that live in like
Speaker 1: certain like if you live in the valley like check does,
Speaker 1: he will never come to the West side of Los
Speaker 1: Angeles or it's surround territories unless something deadly serious is
Speaker 1: going on. So for him to go all the way
Speaker 1: to where uh, Colleen and Gonzo lit they moved to
Speaker 1: that So yeah, that's that's that's a long term. That
Speaker 1: was a show. That was a show of respect, that
Speaker 1: was a kiss of the ring of Connie. Ultimately, absolutely
Speaker 1: there you go. Anything else to add here? Now, you know,
Speaker 1: things are pretty slow in the sports world. Where the
Speaker 1: the top headline right now on ESPN dot com source
Speaker 1: Colin Crowder takes pay cut to stay with Jets. That's
Speaker 1: the number one headline in sports. Now, we're probably jinxing
Speaker 1: it and we're gonna have to do an emergency podcast
Speaker 1: in ninety eight minutes. But that's where things are. But
Speaker 1: we got you caught up today. You know what's going
Speaker 1: on around the NFL after the last forty four minutes,
Speaker 1: We've done our job. I feel like I'm taking a
Speaker 1: pay cut at our at our company to keep doing this.
Speaker 1: I literally did take a pay cut during Corona, and
Speaker 1: there's been no there's been no like, hey, let's circle
Speaker 1: back and correct that. It's like, you'll be fine. By
Speaker 1: the way. We also took water out of the break
Speaker 1: from like, I mean, what next, do you want to
Speaker 1: use this platform to make a formal pitch to the
Speaker 1: powers debate to get that those wages back. I just did.
Speaker 1: I think if they heard that, they understand that I'm
Speaker 1: annoyed and I would like, um it to be addressed
Speaker 1: fast quickly. Now there you go. You heard it now, boys,
Speaker 1: I am getting a little head start. I'm heading back
Speaker 1: East for the first time in two years. Coronavirus took
Speaker 1: so much from all of us. I did not get
Speaker 1: a chance to go see my family last summer. Um.
Speaker 1: I will be on a plane on Wednesday, which means YouTube, gentleman,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure a filling hero to be named later
Speaker 1: are going to handle the show. I have full faith,
Speaker 1: absolute faith that you guys can do it, um, and
Speaker 1: I look forward to not listening. Yeah, I kinda say please,
Speaker 1: but that's it. I'll be out this week. But we
Speaker 1: got one more show and uh yes, just too. So
Speaker 1: the audience knows, because it's like they around the NFL
Speaker 1: podcast that I will be missing. I'm gonna get my
Speaker 1: whole family around. We're gonna we're gonna check it out.
Speaker 1: Savvy jobs scheduling these vacations. I why am I doing
Speaker 1: all of this activity? I don't I think I wanted
Speaker 1: I should be. We got some of we got just
Speaker 1: so everyone knows. Here's the schedule. We got, yes, two
Speaker 1: shows this week, two shows next week, and the network
Speaker 1: show is back next Friday, and then we're gonna go
Speaker 1: dark for a full week and maybe even um the
Speaker 1: July four week. So we're we're we've never really done
Speaker 1: that before, but we thought this year, UM, for a
Speaker 1: lot of reasons, it would be good to take time.
Speaker 1: It's been a tough year and just just spend some
Speaker 1: family time. And we hope you're still there when we
Speaker 1: get back after that hiatus. But we're not there. Yet Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go Justin Graver. A good job, buddy, really nice
Speaker 1: work filling in for Ricky. And I'm sure when Justin
Speaker 1: Graver has a bachelor party it gets as crazy he
Speaker 1: has a Ricky Hollywood Batchel. I'm no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: That would be my guest, just by my limited interactions
Speaker 1: with the man. Thank you, buddy. This is Dan Hands
Speaker 1: a signing off for the whiet Storm, the Old Boss
Speaker 1: and yeah, just Engraver. I call him the undertaker behind
Speaker 1: the virtual glass until they heed the call t to
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