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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast, Watch Them Whip, watch Them

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Speaker 1: natie Fulcome back to another edition up the Around the

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Speaker 1: NFL Podcast, presented by New Era. Name is Dan Hansas

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Speaker 1: joint the Room Build with heroes Mark Sessler, Chris Westling

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Speaker 1: and Greg Rosenthal. What is up, boys, Hey, Drew, Happy Monday.

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Speaker 1: It's grind thirty Mark. It is worked yesterday, so it's

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Speaker 1: already in the middle of my week grindt it's grind

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Speaker 1: quarter to grind, big, big, big weekend. Greg, How is

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Speaker 1: your weekends? Delicious? Delicious? Sure? Why not? That's good? So

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Speaker 1: I barely ate. So that's maybe the right nice descriptive word, though,

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Speaker 1: because later on in today's show, we're gonna use one

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Speaker 1: word describing a team player situation after one week of

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Speaker 1: training camp. Delicious a nice way to describe the weekend,

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Speaker 1: even if it's not literally about food. Yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: just you know, on there's a lot to chew on.

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Speaker 1: Very nice, well done? Uh, West I was your weekend?

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Speaker 1: It was delicious. I made my thirty six ingredients spaghetti

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Speaker 1: sauce yesterday thirty six. Oh, I've got plenty. I'll bring

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Speaker 1: it in. Are you just throwing random things from the

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Speaker 1: refrigerator in when you get past. First of all, that's

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Speaker 1: how people should cook. Whatever is in your kitchen, you

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Speaker 1: throw it in. That's how cooking has always been done.

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Speaker 1: This idea that you have to follow a recipe is ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Was like a Southern woman from nineteen twelve. The sugar

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Speaker 1: cooking is done. That's the art of it. Like this

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Speaker 1: cook if you follow recipes because you're doing someone else's cookie. Mark.

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Speaker 1: You're a noted food atarian, So maybe you wouldn't use

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Speaker 1: delicious as a descriptive term, but maybe maybe it would.

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Speaker 1: How was your weekend? B minus C, C plus tops.

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Speaker 1: I saw your friend I have my grapes, your friend

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Speaker 1: Nicki Glazer at the Battle I went to the taping

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Speaker 1: of Roast Battle. Did you say that you you worked

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Speaker 1: with me and we're best friends. Did you talk to her? Now?

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Speaker 1: It wasn't It wasn't a deep conversation or anything. I

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Speaker 1: saw your friend Tony gesle Nick at a Jeff Frost

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Speaker 1: was very nice. Hey, great, I worked with him. That

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Speaker 1: complete the circle conversation. Yeah maybe next time. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: So we got a good show coming up today, Yes,

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Speaker 1: the one word seg and then some news including uh uh,

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Speaker 1: we're down to just one rookie, first round rookie without

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Speaker 1: a deal, thank goodness, my team is not attached, and

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Speaker 1: some deaz Brian juice. You know it's uh, it's it's

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Speaker 1: that time. It's that time, folks, it's time to talk

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Speaker 1: some football. Let's do some news. They were with the dogs,

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Speaker 1: tough vacation. What is that? I mean, I know it's

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Speaker 1: Colleen Wolf I have I haven't heard Colleen it so long.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if that's her. What is the

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Speaker 1: She was on vacation for roughly forty five to fifty

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Speaker 1: a real thing. Yes or no? Yeah, it's mutual though,

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Speaker 1: no doubt, definitely mutual. There's tons of evidence to point

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Speaker 1: or shake your head? Is the obsession mutual? Emma, Let's

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Speaker 1: start with yes. The first round rookies, UH Sam Donald

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Speaker 1: and the Jets get a deal done, and thank god.

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Speaker 1: UH rap sheet reported Monday that the Jets and Donald

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Speaker 1: agreed to terms four year, thirty point to five million,

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Speaker 1: fully guaranteed. The signing became official this morning. Donald joined

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Speaker 1: drama is in the rear view, and it was a

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Speaker 1: But it's just kind of you felt like, this will

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Speaker 1: was forfeiture language, according to Michael Silver and the other

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Speaker 1: get hurt skiing or or silver referenced hiking. I don't

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Speaker 1: Jets did bend on that topic, and so the Bears.

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Speaker 1: like the Jets didn't try to like pretend like they

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Speaker 1: they went with because they could have done like the

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Speaker 1: hands up emoji or some type of thumbs up or

427
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Speaker 1: something else. The wink. Really you don't like his tone.

428
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Speaker 1: I would imagine he's coming back over and over saying no,

429
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 1: I came up with this, and I think I think

430
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:05,640
Speaker 1: he's got a case. But at the same time, even

431
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 1: in our direct messaging client today, I suggested, how about

432
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 1: a manual aug Bark and Andy Yeah, but Andy Hagman,

433
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 1: our editor, said they already came up with that, and

434
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 1: it's a case in point. There's just this collective group

435
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 1: think here. Yeah, I think really like to take away

436
00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 1: from me, is he really missed his calling that he

437
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,520
Speaker 1: has the same brain that really like a social media

438
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 1: intern hands So this is causing you know, it's causing

439
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:34,119
Speaker 1: a lot of drama between Eally and the Browns and

440
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 1: everything Mark, because Mark's always tied in with anything. But

441
00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 1: I used my boss, so I have to kind of

442
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,359
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, I agree with you, Dave. I have

443
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 1: some sources actually down in the newsroom that Elie's continued

444
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,440
Speaker 1: presence on this show and now with this running dog

445
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 1: bit here and he gets on it again is becoming

446
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,639
Speaker 1: a bit of source of consternation and jealousy within the

447
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 1: Root newsroom. And I've actually obtained through these sorts and

448
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,439
Speaker 1: audio file, an audio file which we're gonna listen to

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Speaker 1: right now. It's been two softball seasons where I've been

450
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,239
Speaker 1: a star player and you guys talk about me and

451
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 1: then don't have me on, but then you call Frog

452
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 1: we need you to do a voice and who needs you?

453
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: That was that was brassy. That is catch That is

454
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: of the harangue that she went on for an hour.

455
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Speaker 1: I mean, she's our Dez Bryant, this character Brassie, who

456
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 1: she's She probably mentioned a handful of character on the show.

457
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 1: And she said that we've been exploiting her, that we're

458
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: using her name, uh, and that she is very upset

459
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,440
Speaker 1: that she hasn't been on the show. There she mentioned Fraggs,

460
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 1: who has been done some voice over work. But she

461
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,879
Speaker 1: also was very dismissive of of David Eally and his

462
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,120
Speaker 1: presence on the show. Some of that I just decided

463
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 1: I could not put in good conscience on her air. Yeah.

464
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: I've spent a lot of times professionally in newsrooms in

465
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Speaker 1: my life here in other places, and I could say

466
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 1: that newsrooms are viper pits by their nature, and none

467
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: of this surprises me. But I just I think what

468
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 1: Brassie needs to understand, who is again a part time catcher?

469
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: Uh for our team? And she said she was a star? Yeah,

470
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 1: she was a part time catcher. I would say, what

471
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,120
Speaker 1: did she say? Yeah, I's hear it again. It's been

472
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 1: two softball seasons where I've been a start player. Did

473
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 1: you guys talk about me? And then but then you

474
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:30,679
Speaker 1: call from we need you to do a voice, And

475
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 1: I think that's she is? She? You know, you know, Brassie,

476
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:39,639
Speaker 1: she's the player, the charismatic player, the Santonio Holmes type

477
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 1: that that when things are the only player ever kicked

478
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 1: out of his own offensive Hundele. Yeah, exactly when things

479
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 1: are going good, And you can maybe put Des in

480
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,359
Speaker 1: this category as well. He's a great or she's a

481
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,680
Speaker 1: great person to have in the locker room, almost like

482
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: glue type character. But when things maybe start to swerve

483
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 1: in a not so great direction and the rats are

484
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 1: jumping off the ship, I'll leave it at that ship.

485
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 1: Well I did. I did, uh tell her she does

486
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 1: have a point that she would be a great character.

487
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: So I'm in favor of having her on at some point,

488
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 1: and we'll have to talk. After all, we did offer

489
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 1: this one now. But now we can tell her, Look,

490
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 1: you have been on this. I'm not love other tone.

491
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: I'll just put it that way. Yeah, but you're hanging

492
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 1: out at David Eely thing. It's a little bit of

493
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,640
Speaker 1: God a few more minutes. That was the PG point.

494
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:31,239
Speaker 1: Yet that was the we We had to get it

495
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 1: so safe. We don't want you guys didn't give her

496
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: a confirmed yes. Now. In fact, Greg left was waiting

497
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 1: for his uber and she was in the backyard, still

498
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: ranning about Greg threatening her and she doesn't appreciate it. Well,

499
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,399
Speaker 1: I said, I said, look, you have to keep this

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00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 1: quiet until Monday. If you if you chattered anyone, that'll

501
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: prove she took that as a threat. Finally in the news,

502
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: very interesting developments down in the news room. Finally in

503
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Speaker 1: the news, Uh, David Ealely's favorite team, the Carol Line

504
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,919
Speaker 1: of Panthers. They still have a superstar quarterback in the fold,

505
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. And Uh this from ESPN staff writer David

506
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: Newton uh and uh. Cam Newton sported a pair of

507
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: fashionable sunglasses as he strutted through rows of teammates already

508
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 1: on the grass stretching at the start of Sunday's practice.

509
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,119
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something Cam said, ain't nobody dripping

510
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: like um dripping? And Mr Newton, the staff writer for ESPN,

511
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: then translated that to mean dripping means something that is

512
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 1: awesome or super cool. Look at look at Cam. Just

513
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,160
Speaker 1: like changing the world. You know, more people learning vocab.

514
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: There's people dabbing all over the world now partly because

515
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:47,679
Speaker 1: because of Cam. He's just that. But he is Cam

516
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: is you know, some people like Cam, some people don't

517
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 1: like him. But you will learn new things that maybe

518
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: don't always tie into your your nature or where you

519
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: grew up. Cam is a great guy to teach you

520
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: about things. Some things were work the dad worked. That

521
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: dripping that's out there that it's not like that's a

522
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 1: Cam creation, but he's bringing it to you know, people

523
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:14,640
Speaker 1: like sports reporters. Uh, not everything works. Remember his fake

524
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: language he uses on Instagram. All his Insta posts have

525
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: a fake language that he uses like he's hit or miss.

526
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 1: He has but he never stops innovating and teaching, and

527
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: I respect that. It also means extremely highly fashionable, and

528
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,959
Speaker 1: that if you look at his press conferences, the guy

529
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,360
Speaker 1: is never dressed normally on any level. So I think

530
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: he's speaking. Greg played Cardi B's Drip song for us

531
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: at the fire pit the other night, and it's catchy

532
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: song of the summer. It's catchy, but you can't help

533
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: think that, like, so music songs were invented, say ten

534
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: thousand years ago, because some someone had something profound to

535
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 1: say about the human condition, Like you're the one at

536
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: the camp fire who's going to speak out. You've got

537
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: this story, and in this case, this woman just has

538
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: bobbles dangling off body part that she thinks make her trip.

539
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 1: I just think, like that's is that what really we

540
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: need for music? I don't know, a creativity? Come on,

541
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: I did sometimes we slip into this segment. This is

542
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: the Greg likes rap. I didn't. He brought it almost

543
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: every show. What do we have? What is the name

544
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: of the song trip classic takeoff First of the Summer.

545
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it's not a classic. That's what's happening

546
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: in the news. By the way, don't be self conscious

547
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: that Greg likes raps. I'm just saying, I didn't you know,

548
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: you made it sound like it's like a self promotional one.

549
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: He brought it up. I didn't bring it up. Greg

550
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: did not slide into that segment. It was okay, okay, Dan,

551
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: Dan keeps us. You know, if you're counting on. All right,

552
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: that's what's happening in the news. All right, here we go.

553
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: It's time to play the game. One word, one word

554
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: to describe something camps are about. There were some late stragglers,

555
00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: which are way on my radar. By the way, there

556
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: were two or three teams that wait until Friday to report.

557
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 1: Who's that? Which you know, Come on, guys, it wasn't

558
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: the Lions, wasn't not I will say it wasn't lines.

559
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: I don't even want to say what the teams are.

560
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:11,479
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait and see how the rest of their

561
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: accounts out. If they if they're going on bowling trips,

562
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: and well, we're proud we're calling practice off. Let's go

563
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: to the arcade. You know who you are, and you

564
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: reported late. I will be watching this so you're not

565
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: convinced that it's it's They show up on a mandated day,

566
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: which is based on when their first preseason game shows up. There. Clearly,

567
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: I'm not totally convinced. Clearly, I think they took a

568
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 1: loophole and they will pay for it once football comes around. Uh,

569
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 1: in regular season form anyway. So camps for the most

570
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 1: part are a week old. Everyone is preparing now for

571
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: the season. So, UM, let's now get into it. One

572
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: word to describe something we've picked up on and then UM,

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00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: an explanation. I'll get it going, just to to so

574
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: everybody knows actually what we're going for here. UM, I'll

575
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: start with the team, the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles. Why

576
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: not start with the champs? And the word here it

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00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: comes the word. I wrote it down on my phone

578
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: and ah, here it is. Here's the word. The Eagles

579
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: are maybe conflicted. How great is it that, uh, Carson

580
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: Wentz is practicing and looks healthy. His head coach Doug

581
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: Peterson said that he maybe he's a little hesitant still,

582
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: and it's tying into what was a very serious knee injury.

583
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: I was a little bit I'm only now learning, uh,

584
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: and maybe because it was in the middle of the

585
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: season when it happened, and he just kind of. Oh.

586
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: He he tore his a c L. It happens, but

587
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: it was a more serious knee injury, uh than just

588
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: to torn a c L. He also ripped up his

589
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: L c L. So it's a considerable reconstructive knee surgery

590
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: that when Carson Wentz underwent and it was late last

591
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: year uh that he had the surgery, and maybe even

592
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: early January, as I recall, one of the waiting for

593
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: the swelling to go on down situations. Anyway, everything is

594
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: going in the right direction. He's practicing, uh, referenced the

595
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: Peter King calm I read this morning. Uh. King was

596
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: at the camp and said that he was able to

597
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: avoid pass rushers, make good throws. Everything seems to be

598
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: in the right direction. But I would think that the

599
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: Eagles must remain conflicted about how they're gonna play this

600
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: situation because you do have the defending Super Bowl MVP

601
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: in your building, your first uh, your schedule to start

602
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:40,719
Speaker 1: uh the season uh is not unforgiving. I mean, they

603
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: could probably survive with Nick Foles and maybe even thrive

604
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: with Nick Foles. So I'm wondering what Carson Wentz is

605
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: gonna have the show to make them say all right,

606
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 1: we are a percent confident he's our Week one started,

607
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:54,959
Speaker 1: because I don't think they should start him unless they

608
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: are fully confident that they're not putting any risk on

609
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: the on the situation. I think that's how medical teams

610
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: in the NFL work. If he gets the green light,

611
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: he plays. If there's any reservation like they usually end

612
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: up playing. But they have such a good backup plan here,

613
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: they have the best backup plan possible. I don't think

614
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: that really figures into it. I think if he's cleared,

615
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: he plays. I don't think it matters who's behind him.

616
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 1: He's reportedly looked great everyone that's gone down and watched

617
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,719
Speaker 1: the Eagles, and Doug Peterson essentially echoed it by saying,

618
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: if you didn't know that he had surgery, he just

619
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: looks the same. And so when I hear that in

620
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: the first few days of camp, I'm figuring it's gonna

621
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 1: I'm expecting him to be the Week one starter barring

622
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: some sort of setback. What about the conflicted side about

623
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: how much to play him in the preseason and put

624
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: him out there and test him that way versus playing

625
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 1: it's safe getting him fully healthy. That maybe is where

626
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: they have to game plan for him in August. That's

627
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: a little ton of it because you don't want to

628
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: not give him enough work, and then you don't really

629
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: know how the knee is gonna operate when the comes

630
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: time to actually play, or if you give him too

631
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: much work and he suffers setback. All that stuff. They

632
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: have to be a little bit conflicted, but still, ultimately

633
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: it's a good problem. And the Eagles right now, a

634
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,399
Speaker 1: lot of things around the Eagles are good. They are,

635
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 1: but they're balancing a lot of these situations. Outstand. Jeffrey

636
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Speaker 1: has an injury. I don't know that series, but Jason

637
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 1: Peters obviously coming back from a really serious injury. Brandon

638
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:21,240
Speaker 1: Graham is coming back from surgery. Timmy Journ again probably

639
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 1: not gonna be ready for the beginning of the year

640
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 1: coming back from surgery. So they're managing a lot of

641
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 1: key players and trying to figure out when they're going

642
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 1: to be available. Mark, you are going to give us

643
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Speaker 1: one word, uh, involving the Indianapolis cults, I will as

644
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: soon as the drum roll begins rum roll, And I'm

645
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: hyphenating this word. It is sleeper cell. And I'll tell

646
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Speaker 1: you why you call to the drum roll, but didn't

647
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: wait for the drum roll I have. That's my fault, Erica, apologies,

648
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 1: Now you can end it. Sometimes I do my version

649
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: of Colleen, who you're obsessed with by not no in

650
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: how games operate um already slipping into a hyphenated two

651
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: word word. But sleepersion according to Erica, two way, it

652
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: goes both ways, according to you leave it right there.

653
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: She's not responding sleep her self for the cults, and

654
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: because I just viewed them as a sleep for all

655
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: of last season and for really for a while, and

656
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: I think under Pagano they to me had just lost

657
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: any sort of intrigue. Their luster was gone. And then

658
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,959
Speaker 1: you've lost Andrew Luck. Last year they were a rough

659
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: watch week after week. Now over the weekend, because this

660
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: is about what happened in the last week. Finally we

661
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 1: get to see Andrew Luck play in this scrimmage and

662
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 1: he's nineteen of twenty two and full pads. And it's

663
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 1: not your forget the numbers, it's that he immediately is

664
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: connecting twice on deep passes with t Y Hilton. The

665
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,919
Speaker 1: offenses is waking up and suddenly, look at this team

666
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: that I would have without Angrew Luck just simply buried

667
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: as a Top I pick in the next year's draft.

668
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: I could see them doing a little bit of damage.

669
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: They're not a complete team, but they never have been

670
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 1: with Andrew Luck. You could see them doing some damage,

671
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 1: riding basically riding Luck through the season, taking out a

672
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: few a f C South teams and being in the

673
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: mix in December. Sleeper cell a sleeper in the a

674
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Speaker 1: f C. Yes, I'm with you. That seen the week

675
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 1: a Sunday evening to a special you know, season ticket

676
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 1: holders come and watch the team situation. And there was

677
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: one tweet where Luck had hit four straight deep passes

678
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: and like that got me excited right this season, that

679
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite items and most significant I

680
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: think items of news that we've had because a week

681
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: ago at this time, you didn't really now, and now

682
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,720
Speaker 1: now I think it's fair for Colts fans to get excited.

683
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: Sleeper cell extends to fantasy too. I want the Colts

684
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: quarterback in a lot of shootouts with that defense in fantasy.

685
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: Sleeper cell is that hyphen It uh, it's a word.

686
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: It's just I'm seeing a lot of two words. Is

687
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Speaker 1: just saying no, no, I think that you have a

688
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:12,919
Speaker 1: cold isn't the white isn't the White House? A word? No,

689
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,280
Speaker 1: it's two No, it's two words. I'm going by definition.

690
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: You're going by amount of words you can. When I

691
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,800
Speaker 1: when I realized the words, I feel like it's probably

692
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: the right. When when we got so booked on the

693
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Speaker 1: one word thing, I was like on the like the

694
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,720
Speaker 1: soreus dot com during this podcast trying to find something

695
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: else for sleeper sell and it could not come up

696
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:37,439
Speaker 1: with about sleeper a little boring. Okay, yeah, all right, um,

697
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:41,320
Speaker 1: and again as we move on to the next person, West,

698
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Speaker 1: the name of the segment one word. This is one word,

699
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: wool gathering. Let me set you up. Sorrys um, that's

700
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: a word. I'll set you up. Jeez, Dallas cowboys, wool gathering.

701
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: That isn't word. I'm looking it up. It's probably used

702
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 1: by your grandma and grandpa at some point. All right,

703
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: they both passed on. But thanks for making up. Are

704
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: you gonna tell me what it means? And we all gathering?

705
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: One word? West is then the money indulgence and aimless

706
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: thought or dreamy imagining, absent mindedness, lost in fanciful dreams,

707
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: trying to stuff clouds into briefcases like the Cowboys are

708
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: doing with Tavon Austin and Cole Beasley. Give me a

709
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: break your day dreams of Tavon Austin. Is this hybrid

710
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: running back receiver getting fifteen touches a game leading your

711
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:36,399
Speaker 1: receiver's room, Give me a brick, cool Beasley, We're gonna

712
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: have him run the whole route tree. We're not gonna

713
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,760
Speaker 1: put the five ft nine white guy in the slot anymore.

714
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: We're gonna put him outside and have n't beat the

715
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: best cornerbacks in the league on the outside. You guys,

716
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: don't check your mentions. Cole, you guys are wool gathering.

717
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: I knew West would be good at this game. By

718
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: the way, I knew this would be a West specialty.

719
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: Excellent word. Yeah, there's there's something to what he's saying

720
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 1: to like their backup situation, quarterback situation. It's funny how

721
00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: the storylines are always based on what happened the previous year.

722
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: So like the year when after Romo got hurt. It's

723
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 1: like everyone's talking about the backup quarterbacks in Cowboys camp.

724
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: Now Dak Prescott's the starting quarterback. Their backup quarterbacks are

725
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush, Mike White and Dalton them. And when I

726
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: and when I that that Dalton Strm is an undrafted

727
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: free agent, probably not in the mix there, but Mike

728
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: White and Cooper Rush, and they like Cooper Rush. And

729
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,240
Speaker 1: I heard them talking, I might say, like and maybe

730
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: he's maybe he's fine. But when I hear them talking

731
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,399
Speaker 1: about how they're really excited about the depth at their

732
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: quarterback position, that feels like a little cloud stuffing or whatever.

733
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: We'll gather he said cloud stuff and he said stuff

734
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: in those sales in your briefcase. Jerry loved it was

735
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 1: a great image, very good, very good football all the

736
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: neck pro football. All that is that what it's called.

737
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott was one of the worst quarterbacks in the

738
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: league in the second half of last year. It will

739
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 1: be an interesting guy to track this year. Great, great

740
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:04,959
Speaker 1: looking offensive line with like that was what killed Yeah,

741
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: I do too. Smith went down that that killed them

742
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: even more than when Zeke went down. In Football Outsiders

743
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 1: wrote about that great great purchase. If you're if you're

744
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: into little preseason book, Greg one word on the Tampa

745
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. Okay, I didn't, I didn't know. We were

746
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: just looking for like a hard word or anything. Yeah,

747
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,399
Speaker 1: I was just again the segment one word I was looking,

748
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: all right, Tama Bay Buccaneers. Awkward. Okay, all right, that

749
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: is my word, even his word in it. Awkward. They

750
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 1: put up all of these signs all around the stadium,

751
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 1: get excited for the next season. They're starting quarterback not

752
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: on any of those signs. Even more importantly, Ryan Fitzpatrick

753
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: is taking first team reps because he has to get

754
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: ready for the start of the season. Jamis Winston with

755
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 1: the backups sometimes with the first team. That's awkward. And

756
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:05,280
Speaker 1: then what really made me want to talk about them

757
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:09,720
Speaker 1: is that Dirk Cutter has talked to Jamis Winston about

758
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: possibly toning down his vocal leadership and that now I

759
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 1: don't know if this is this is something that that

760
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: the writers in Tampa, uh that I'm talking about. Roy Coming,

761
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 1: who wrote the column, said that maybe Jamis was going

762
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,359
Speaker 1: to do anyways a little bit, maybe tamp it down

763
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: a little bit some of his antics. But the fact

764
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: that you have you the coach of your team kind

765
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 1: of telling your quarterback, hey, lead from behind. That was

766
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 1: his wording, maybe lead from behind this year. And this

767
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: is a coach without a lot of long term security

768
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: either and you're telling your starting quarterback that, and to me,

769
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,279
Speaker 1: that's just awkward. And it's and what a point of

770
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: departure from a year ago and even the year before,

771
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: where the word out of Tampa Bay was always how

772
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: enamored they were with Winston's leadership, and he was the

773
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: centerpiece of Hard Knocks for being that vocal leader. And

774
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 1: one season later, it's please tone it down. I feel

775
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 1: like um and I'll count myself in this kind of

776
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: got taken for a ride a little bit by Jamis

777
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: Winston on Hard Knocks. I even named him the Hard

778
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 1: Knocks m VP because he came off as not only

779
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 1: a guy that just twenty three years old last summer,

780
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: and a guy this is who you want to build

781
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: your roster around. You're he's taking to his old neighborhood

782
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: and showing how he grew up and how how friendly

783
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,879
Speaker 1: he was and how everybody seemed to connect with him.

784
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 1: But as it turns out, and he was drafted one

785
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 1: was it, it's now turning out four years on, alright,

786
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: three or four years on, it's turning out that he

787
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: is kind of all the things that people worried about

788
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: and what made a lot of like handwringing, and the

789
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: consternation is Jamis Winston a guy you really want to

790
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 1: build your franchise around here. The Bucks are in and

791
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: they're still asking themselves that question, and that is not

792
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: a good thing. Leading from behind is the last thing

793
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 1: you ever would have hoped, uh for your for that

794
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,760
Speaker 1: to be the message to your quarterback at the stage possible,

795
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 1: they'll have a new coach next offseason who has to

796
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,320
Speaker 1: rethink this whole Jamis Winston experience clear. I think Cutter

797
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 1: is making a mistake. You let you know obviously you

798
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 1: have conversations with Jamis Winston about all of these things.

799
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 1: But to put it out in front and say that

800
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 1: we kind of don't want you to be as much

801
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 1: of a leader. He's going to be the starting quarterback

802
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: in week four, and that, to me, it's a confusing

803
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: message to send to tell him, don't be as much

804
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: of a leader. Yeah, it's not confusing to the other

805
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: fifty two players on the roster though. Like he's he doesn't.

806
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: He's not just Jamie's coach, he's the whole team's coach. Alright,

807
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,879
Speaker 1: one more time around the horn, Mark, get us going.

808
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: Do you want to announce the team as we've been doing.

809
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: Are you ready, Yes, I am ready. One word, I

810
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:54,839
Speaker 1: repeat one word on the Atlanta Falcons. Drum roll. It's

811
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Speaker 1: gonna take some I got you covered, Dan, when you

812
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 1: get back to me, Okay, Disruptor, you gotta wait till

813
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:15,359
Speaker 1: the stops disruptor. Alright now. I initially had it as

814
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: dynasty Dynasty disruptor because I think the Falcons. Yeah, I

815
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 1: just went disrupted because thank you, they to me. I

816
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,240
Speaker 1: was when I was watching them yesterday on NFL Network.

817
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,359
Speaker 1: They brought Dan Quinn over, and we've met with Dan Quinn.

818
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: We liked dan Quinn for a long long time. I

819
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 1: just think that he had last year was all about

820
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: how do you shake the Super Bowl and how do

821
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: you deal with this new offensive coordinators? All this like

822
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: hideous psychological adjusting that he needed to be in charge of.

823
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 1: They from top to bottom seem ultra competent. All their

824
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 1: star players are back. I think this coaching staff has

825
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 1: done a better job than almost any team in the

826
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 1: league of drafting and developing young players. You've seen the

827
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: defense where they were at the end of last season,

828
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 1: when we were at that playoff team, when they shut

829
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: the Rams down. We're gonna get more of that, and

830
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: they just have a great core of veteran and young players.

831
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: This reminds me a little bit of the Broncos team

832
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: after getting whipped in the Super Bowl by Seattle the

833
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 1: two years later came back against all expectations and won

834
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl when most people thought, no, it's gonna

835
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: go somewhere else. I think this is a super Bowl

836
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 1: team that's gonna disrupt Philadelphia's plans to become a dynasty disruptor.

837
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: One thing I've noticed how quickly they've turned around that defense,

838
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:40,239
Speaker 1: basically purely with draft picks. They placed an inordinate emphasis

839
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 1: on explosive, dynamic athletes with high spark scores. It makes

840
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:47,760
Speaker 1: me wonder why every team in the league doesn't rebuild

841
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: their defense in the same way. I think Quinn got

842
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: that from we want to redo what we had in Seattle,

843
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: similar type of like edgy athletic players. And sometimes that's

844
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: a nice plan, But then four years later you don't

845
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: have any of those guys. They found them in, turned

846
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 1: them into good players, and they're they're gonna start signing.

847
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: Grady Jarrett's next up in line for a contract extension,

848
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 1: and he deserves one. Chris Westling one word to describe

849
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns Brigadoon Brigade for those of you under

850
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,439
Speaker 1: the age of eighty, is a musical I believe from

851
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 1: fifties about a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only

852
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 1: one day every one hundred years. It's a musical, so

853
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:34,879
Speaker 1: you know when the Scottish village appears, people spanishly break

854
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 1: unto dances. There's galas seductions, romantic dalliances, trists in Cleveland.

855
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,720
Speaker 1: In training camp, you got puppies, you got r vs,

856
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 1: you got the hard Land, You've got bone on me,

857
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: You've got festivals, you got everybody's darling. It's gonna last

858
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:53,359
Speaker 1: one day and then be buried again, fade away into

859
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:58,839
Speaker 1: the mountain mist like Brigadoon did. Wow, a little bit

860
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: of a drive by. That's great. Mark's actually under the

861
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: table and now I do I see what you mean

862
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 1: from that. I see what you mean from the training

863
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: camp angle where it acts like they it's a it's

864
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,319
Speaker 1: a month long celebration of all that has been and

865
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: is to come. And then September arrives typically and by

866
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: around September twelve you realize you don't have a team.

867
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: The one thing that I think is a little bit

868
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: different here is that Tyrod Taylor is giving them some

869
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 1: consistency and taking almost all the first team reps when

870
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: last year, for instance, in many years, it was three

871
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 1: quarterbacks all splitting first team reps. None of them were

872
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 1: first teamers. And I am starting to buy into everything

873
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 1: that's being said about Baker Mayfield is growing daily. But

874
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: this is the problem that that your head coach, who

875
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:46,839
Speaker 1: last year could not pick us quarterback and stand by

876
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,239
Speaker 1: him for a week at a time, this year has

877
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:52,319
Speaker 1: picked a quarterback and it's sticking by him and saying

878
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: there's no competition, even though Baker Mayfield is so far

879
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 1: proving to be everything that would make you want to

880
00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:00,360
Speaker 1: draft him at number one overall and buy a Tober.

881
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: People are gonna be saying there will be a controversy.

882
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 1: Why isn't Baker Mayfield playing. Browns are a high profile

883
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: team for a team that never wins any games. It's

884
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: interesting that that's helped national a high profile team that

885
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:18,359
Speaker 1: they've They're never boring, but they're also never good on

886
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 1: the field. Right, there's special type of bad that makes

887
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: them a story. They're not just the Bengals or the

888
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 1: Jets or some other team that's just kind of like

889
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 1: wandering through lost seasons. They're really good at being bad

890
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 1: and now they're trying to be really good. There's there's

891
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: a lot of there's juice to it. I think at

892
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:39,760
Speaker 1: the end of the brigad dune, isn't there a happy reunion.

893
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: I think it ends happily. I'll have to go back

894
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 1: and rewatch that. I'm not sure i've seen it the

895
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 1: first time around. One word, one word to decide to

896
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: describe the state of the Seattle Seahawks. Listen up twelves

897
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 1: mid stream and you can look it up. That's one

898
00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: word midstream. Uh, Earl Thomas is still what's the definition

899
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: of it? The kind of just in the middle, just

900
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:09,959
Speaker 1: you're caught. Don't want to interrupt someone mid stream, Yeah,

901
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: you don't want to be They're not a one side

902
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: or other of land. They're kind of just floating there

903
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 1: the middle of a stream. There in the middle. There

904
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 1: literally there's an organization I'm looking at that's online right now.

905
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 1: There's the middle period of a process course or the

906
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 1: like that works as well. Mid stream. So that Seattle obviously,

907
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: who's gun Michael Bennett, Richard Sherman, Cliff um As Cam

908
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: Chancellor and Earl Thomas is just this one guy that's

909
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: held over from the famed legion of boom days. Uh

910
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 1: And really it is overdue that he should have been

911
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 1: moved out of here if they decide, if they thought

912
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: they weren't going to give him a new deal, they

913
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,400
Speaker 1: should have moved him out before the draft. They should

914
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 1: have picked a better time that maybe last year when

915
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: they could have seen this all coming, but they didn't.

916
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 1: And now they still have him here, and you have

917
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll and press conferences at training camp saying he

918
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 1: should be here, and you have Earl Thomas who's digging

919
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: his heels in, and you're looking at a situation that

920
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: could be a a huge distraction for the team. But

921
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: b and that's kind of where the midstream thing comes in.

922
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: It's time for this organization to fully move on. But

923
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 1: the Earl Thomas thing is kind of keeping them in

924
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 1: this past, this recent past, and not allowing them to

925
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:34,879
Speaker 1: fully do that. And I don't know if if at

926
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,360
Speaker 1: this point things are so toxic and the timing of

927
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: the NFL calendar makes a trade very difficult, but I

928
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 1: would take what I could at this point and just

929
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:47,280
Speaker 1: move on and give the younger guys a chance to play.

930
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 1: I know they have uh Maurice Alexander, a guy they

931
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 1: picked up last year. He was working with the number

932
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 1: one defense today. Uh Bradley McDougald is a free safety.

933
00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: So they have they have these guys that are kind

934
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,800
Speaker 1: of the future a team, move on, get out of midstream,

935
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: get to the other side, get the dry land. So

936
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: what to what end is this Seahawks current stance on

937
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas? What did they hope to get out of

938
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: this to just play out his deal? That makes that's

939
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 1: what they're hoping. That makes no sense to me. And

940
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: what is a midstream year? We're not gonna use rebuilding

941
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: a midstream year. I don't think they're strong enough to

942
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: contend for the Super Bowl title this year, So why

943
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 1: why are you trying to get one last h season

944
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 1: out at Earl Thomas? So you're gonna get a draft

945
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 1: pick that you can get in the off season anyways,

946
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: you can get it now. If you get it in

947
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: the off season, you can't use it until another year,

948
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: except part of it like this mean, I mean either way,

949
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 1: it's a two thousand nineteen draft picks. So so if

950
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 1: they let him go through, they get a compensitive in

951
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: a potential trade. I mean, they could franchise him, they

952
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: can't trade him in the off season. The whole problem, though,

953
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:56,799
Speaker 1: is that Seattle's trying to sell to their fans and

954
00:51:56,960 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: everyone this idea that we're no, it's not rebuilding, but

955
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: we're going to give you a second version of the Seahawks,

956
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 1: and that means a new culture where a lot of

957
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 1: these players that were around that got tired potentially of

958
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:11,440
Speaker 1: the Pete Carroll message have been moved on and and

959
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas is sort of like the guy that's still there.

960
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 1: You you you you blew up the whole legion of

961
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 1: boom and he's still there. He's not hat Right now.

962
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: The rosters midstream, we don't want to trade Marcus. I

963
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:30,280
Speaker 1: mean they're they're playing guys because there's a couple injuries

964
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 1: at wide receiver, and guys like Keenan Reynolds and and

965
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 1: David Moore and Marcus Johnson are getting a lot of snaps.

966
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:39,320
Speaker 1: And if you look at who's getting the snaps on defense,

967
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 1: and maybe these will turn out to be good young

968
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 1: players like t Drich Thompson. But it's Drawn Reid on defense,

969
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 1: Marcus Smith, you know it's it's it's a midstream roster,

970
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that I don't necessarily think will

971
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 1: be a big part of when they are getting. Maybe

972
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 1: the case for a trade is you can bring somebody,

973
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 1: an actual player back that can build a whole um.

974
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:00,120
Speaker 1: If I don't know what his value, trade value you

975
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:01,919
Speaker 1: is at this point a year ago, maybe they could

976
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 1: have gotten a second round pick, or who knows, maybe

977
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:08,280
Speaker 1: a late first round pick, But now what fourth rounder?

978
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 1: I think if they wait, I think there they'll wait. Leverage.

979
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 1: He has to show up at some point or else

980
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:16,399
Speaker 1: he loses that year of eligibility. So he will show

981
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:18,799
Speaker 1: up at some point, and so you either trade him,

982
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: I guess, or you try to get some value out

983
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 1: of him and maybe bag him next. Seems like him

984
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:28,360
Speaker 1: come in after. To Dan's point, the timing of it

985
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:30,279
Speaker 1: all is a disaster right now, and he seems like

986
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 1: a pretty strong willed individuals a rough situation. Uh. Finally, Greg,

987
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 1: one word on the Buffalo Bills dispiriting. Maybe I was

988
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:43,799
Speaker 1: hoping you're going to go in a positive direction because

989
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 1: some people are getting excited, but you're saying dispiriting. There

990
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: are people getting excited about the Bills seven. You know,

991
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 1: you wait to make the playoffs for seventeen years. You

992
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 1: finally have a good young head coach I think in

993
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, and you would hope to be building on that,

994
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 1: and instead you're splitting reps three ways between AJ McCarron,

995
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:04,279
Speaker 1: Nathan Peterman and Joshua and that never really seems to work.

996
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 1: And depending on who you read, you know, Peterman started

997
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 1: off very slow, but he's getting a lot of first

998
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 1: team reps. Mccaren has isn't really processing the offense. Allan

999
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,319
Speaker 1: is up and down. But you've got to make some decisions.

1000
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 1: This is not notneing. The two veterans between mccarroen and

1001
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 1: Peterman aren't good enough to bother to split it three

1002
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 1: ways and keep josh Allen out the field developed Josh

1003
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 1: Allen and make a choice with one of the other

1004
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 1: two because they're gonna need all the work they can get.

1005
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 1: They got Andre Holmes and Malachai Dupree as starting wide

1006
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:35,920
Speaker 1: receivers right now, so they need to get as much

1007
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 1: work as they possibly can with the quarterback that they're

1008
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 1: gonna go with in week one, Dez Bryant pulling the

1009
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 1: late period Terrell Owens move and going to Buffalo. It's

1010
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 1: a logical team because he would make them better. They

1011
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: showed interest reportedly from the beginning, and Dez didn't want

1012
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 1: to go there. Well, that may, I wonder now when

1013
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 1: he realizes how few options he has, except why not

1014
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 1: wait two weeks because everyone's getting injured left, right, and

1015
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 1: then you see maybe another option opens up. I couldn't

1016
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 1: agree more Greg, because the teams that do this where

1017
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 1: you're you're giving reps three ways, it never works? Is

1018
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 1: this it never works? And their offensive line is going

1019
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:11,839
Speaker 1: to get two of these quarterbacks killed before the third

1020
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 1: one has to start anyways during the season. Is that

1021
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:16,280
Speaker 1: really their fault? Or is it that the off season

1022
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 1: program is so much shorter now that they don't have

1023
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:20,239
Speaker 1: enough time to figure out which one of those three guys? Well,

1024
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 1: that's that's that's fair. But at the same time they're

1025
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 1: dealing with the same limitations that every team is. Why

1026
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:28,440
Speaker 1: not have one guy get as much preparation as you

1027
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: can going into Week one? Right, the other guys are

1028
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 1: gonna get snaps. It's just gonna be with the third team.

1029
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,759
Speaker 1: And the biggest problem is they signed the wrong guy

1030
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 1: in free agency. They signed A J. Mccaren is that

1031
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 1: is somebody better they they reportedly I think wanted to

1032
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:43,640
Speaker 1: be in on Sam Bradford. That didn't happen. And yeah,

1033
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 1: and Karen, do you think des Mark knows about you know,

1034
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 1: Western New York is a beautiful Harry. I think he

1035
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:55,880
Speaker 1: knows about Niagara Falls. I would imagine it's probably, you know,

1036
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:59,359
Speaker 1: anecdotally been introduced to him. He's been there, and I don't.

1037
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: I just looked it up. It's not one of the

1038
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: seven Wonders of the World. Niagara Falls absolutely has a case.

1039
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: In my mind, let's get on that to be one.

1040
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 1: Let's get on that committee. There are like three hundred

1041
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:14,840
Speaker 1: wonders did have a case? Which wonder are you knocking

1042
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:16,400
Speaker 1: out the lineup for? You know, you want to hear

1043
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: you want to hear what I'm getting. Get out of here.

1044
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 1: Hanging gardens of Babylon that doesn't even exist in don't

1045
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:27,359
Speaker 1: need you Those are ancient wonders world. Update this list,

1046
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 1: get Niagara Falls on there, present that to DEAs and

1047
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 1: see what happens. He's signing all right, I would have

1048
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 1: replaced something else. But I believe there is an updated

1049
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:39,920
Speaker 1: Wonders of the World list. Well, that was the classic seven.

1050
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 1: I only I used it there is. I don't think

1051
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:45,760
Speaker 1: the Colossus of Roads is still around either. That big

1052
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:49,360
Speaker 1: donut near the airport at l A X, that's that's in.

1053
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:53,359
Speaker 1: I only recognize the classic seven Wonders. What about Si

1054
00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: later taj Mahal, that's that's one of the new ones

1055
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 1: that don't take out is great? You know you're not

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Speaker 1: getting rid of the Roman Colosseum. He's been doing good work.

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Speaker 1: Machu Picchu in Chichen Itzza. What about that one of

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Speaker 1: those ones? So kind of you can maybe sort of

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Speaker 1: combine those two. And I've already stated my case to

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Speaker 1: get rid of the hanging gardens. All right, that's it

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Speaker 1: for the Around the NFL Podcast presented by New Era.

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Speaker 1: Have you nominated the Around the NFL Podcast for the

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Speaker 1: Listener Podcast Awards yet? Uh? It's free, easy to do.

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Speaker 1: Just head to Podcast Awards dot com. Nominated Around the

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Speaker 1: NFL in the Sports category. You know, if you just

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Speaker 1: do this, I'll never read this ever again, and you'll

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Speaker 1: never have to ever worry about hearing this. Just just

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Speaker 1: vote and once we win Erica, Are we gonna win? Definitely,

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Speaker 1: it will be a bit of a lot of Ravia

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Speaker 1: Magnify call if we don't win. Put it that way,

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Speaker 1: And I don't think you guys listening. I want to

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Speaker 1: know who's being exposed the subject to that. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: anyway again. Podcast Awards dot Com nominated Around the NFL

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Speaker 1: in the Sports category. And a reminder that our video

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Speaker 1: show is coming up later this week. So where our

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Speaker 1: next time you'll hear from us is Wednesday? Uh and

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Speaker 1: then on Thursday, starting at noon eastern NFL dot com

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Speaker 1: slash a t N Live, you could check out our

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Speaker 1: video show. Good stuff. We'll be back. Oh. One announcement,

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Speaker 1: not a minor one. Yes, we'll be in the studio

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday. On Friday Friday, show will be recapping our

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Speaker 1: time at Los Angeles Rams Camp. How about that the

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Speaker 1: two thousand and seventeen team of a t L. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna be at Rams Camp. We're gonna talk to some

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Speaker 1: big fish, not Evan Silver, but some big fish connected

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Speaker 1: to the Rams. Uh. So we're gonna be on the road,

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Speaker 1: road trip. It's a big announcement, Shotgun, I mean you

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Speaker 1: put it out a list of who you want to

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Speaker 1: talk to, and sometimes like they might try to give

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Speaker 1: you the lowest level. But our list of seven or

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Speaker 1: eight requests are all major names. Than you're just setting

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Speaker 1: us up for failure. We don't know we're gonna end

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Speaker 1: up with. I think him Everett's like Cattie. We can

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Speaker 1: quit that, al right. That's it, First Survy, Next Top London.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh, we heard you. All of the people

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Speaker 1: excited about our trip to London first week in September,

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Speaker 1: Twitter blowing up over that. We cannot wait to see you,

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Speaker 1: so we'll get We're gonna have more London talking. Maybe

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Speaker 1: a famous London sports personality or British sports personality coming

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Speaker 1: on our show soon to talk about that. Oh it's

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Speaker 1: Prince Harry Baby. All right, let's go. Is dan Anson

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Speaker 1: signing off for five Storm, The Mailman, The Old Boss

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Speaker 1: and the Loose Cannon behind the Glass till Wednesday