Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast is really stretching this offseason context.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansa's name. Joining the room filled
Speaker 1: with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Wesley, and Greg Rosen thought,
Speaker 1: what is up? Boys? Hey? Dan? It is officially we
Speaker 1: are one hundred days away from NFL one hundred. The
Speaker 1: kickoff of the nineteen season is one hundred days away.
Speaker 1: How about that? Exactly as we tape, as we tape
Speaker 1: on Tuesday afternoon, we are well, now, we'd be in
Speaker 1: the middle, we'd be at the edge of the first
Speaker 1: games of the morning. Here in l A. It's one
Speaker 1: twelve pm and feering into the second games, right, but
Speaker 1: from a day's I'm not saying to the hour or
Speaker 1: to the minute. I am one hundred days away. Well,
Speaker 1: this is our time. This is the best time of year.
Speaker 1: Let's be real about it. Memorial Day weekend is a
Speaker 1: nice part of it. We had West's wedding and it's
Speaker 1: still continuing until about you know, training camp. So this
Speaker 1: is this is the time. So you can Matt money
Speaker 1: Smith can eat it with his uh, his little start.
Speaker 1: In terms of stretching content, this is time of the
Speaker 1: year to stretch your legs, enjoy our families and friends.
Speaker 1: Let's continue verbally assault people who have been working for
Speaker 1: free for almost seven years on this show. Um, speaking
Speaker 1: of spending time with family, I was at Lego Land,
Speaker 1: a very nice family west. Since you know you're on
Speaker 1: the plan, you're on the May plan, which means engaged
Speaker 1: in May, married and May kid one and May and
Speaker 1: kid kid two and May. You're gonna become familiar with
Speaker 1: Lego Land in about four years or so, and it
Speaker 1: was quite nice. I enjoyed it. I also enjoyed Um
Speaker 1: getting a bunch of mentions about being a shirtless firefighter.
Speaker 1: And I don't know all the context yet. I have
Speaker 1: not dug into Friday's show, but it sounds like it
Speaker 1: was a fun time with Steve Weisch. But Um, that
Speaker 1: was surprising. I think you were celebrated. Would would that
Speaker 1: be fair? Absolutely, you're You're a focal part of Mark
Speaker 1: Sessler's guided meditation sixty seconds Only. It was a nice
Speaker 1: little interlude that relaxed everyone or aroused the others. A
Speaker 1: certain population of the audience. No deeds of your own, Dan,
Speaker 1: I now think of you as a much more manly
Speaker 1: presence because of Mark's guided meditation. Well that sounds good.
Speaker 1: Part of me doesn't even want to check. It is
Speaker 1: a little bit of a mystery to you. Pretty much,
Speaker 1: you pretty much you know you could probably fill in
Speaker 1: the story at this point. Um, all right, coming up
Speaker 1: on today's show, Um, we're gonna hit the news, including um,
Speaker 1: the death of one of the great players in NFL history.
Speaker 1: So we'll get to that. And also, genies are hot
Speaker 1: right now. I mean there's no way around it. There's
Speaker 1: no two ways around it. Everyone's talking about people are
Speaker 1: buzzing about geniees. We're living in the age of the
Speaker 1: genie signs. Aladdin, Greg, I know you love that website
Speaker 1: box office mojo dot com. I just, uh, well, I
Speaker 1: went with box Off as guru Darren Ride. It was
Speaker 1: just to check what Aladdin did for the weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well it cast out over one million over Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 1: So genies are hot and there's no way around it.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna lean into that, and that's a good
Speaker 1: way to grow listenership and also just be part of
Speaker 1: the zices. You want to be part of the national
Speaker 1: Uh conversation. Is that a sitar that that's some Arabian music, right,
Speaker 1: feels like the Aladdin though, I mean it did monster business,
Speaker 1: mixed reviews, a lot of people away around it, whining
Speaker 1: about it, but kind of like how Big Bang Theory
Speaker 1: gets higher ratings than Game of Thrones, yet like no
Speaker 1: one really talks about I mean even this season with
Speaker 1: Game you know, you know, but no one really talks
Speaker 1: about it. I feel like Aladdin, it's not on the
Speaker 1: tip of a lot of people's tongues that I know. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it was. It was to your lashed by critics,
Speaker 1: which I've not seen the film, so I don't know why,
Speaker 1: but they were. They found it to be wanting so
Speaker 1: so within the box office proof. With that in mind, uh,
Speaker 1: we will put on our Genie hats. I don't want
Speaker 1: to say something culturally insensitive, so I'm just gonna call
Speaker 1: it a Genie hat. I don't really know the background
Speaker 1: of Genie's in a big picture. I don't know what.
Speaker 1: I never saw a Laddin the cartoon or this live
Speaker 1: action film. So the Genie hat you put it on,
Speaker 1: he's got the feather on it and the jewel. Am
Speaker 1: I doing? Okay? I've never seen a Laddin. Ricky this
Speaker 1: was your generation, right, Aladdin? How could you guys not
Speaker 1: have seen a Laddin was? Now? Aladdin is our generation.
Speaker 1: That's how old. I never saw any Disney movies almost
Speaker 1: they saw like one or two and then it was like,
Speaker 1: whoever you people? It was like, what do we need?
Speaker 1: Why would I be wanting? But he's never seen any
Speaker 1: Disney movie that I'm saying my mom my mom took
Speaker 1: me to like Beauty and the Beast or something when
Speaker 1: I'm seven. I was like, I don't need to see
Speaker 1: any more of these and that it was like, now
Speaker 1: that's anymore. That's classic bourn Age thirty two. Because everyone
Speaker 1: knows that Beauty and the Beast came out ninety two.
Speaker 1: Greg's just making up stuff saying he was seven that
Speaker 1: would have been like what whatever. The first Disney probably
Speaker 1: was not Beating the Beast. It was well it might
Speaker 1: have been. Yeah, I think that was it, but it
Speaker 1: was one when I was like eight or nine, and
Speaker 1: it was like that once was enough. I was trying
Speaker 1: to get out of there. Half it was nice. I
Speaker 1: like the Mermaid alright. Anyway, what I was trying to
Speaker 1: say was that we're gonna put on those hats and um,
Speaker 1: and then we're going to grant a wish to NFL team.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna go around the horn a couple of times,
Speaker 1: maybe three times, try to hit a bunch of teams
Speaker 1: and give a wish. That will grant a wish. That's
Speaker 1: that's the correct way to put it. That will aid
Speaker 1: a team immeasurably in and perhaps beyond. All Right, there
Speaker 1: you go, let's do some news think. Ah. Yes, Bart's Star,
Speaker 1: his famous quarterback sneak in the Ice Bowl. Um Star
Speaker 1: passed away on Sunday in Birmingham, Alabama, at eighty five
Speaker 1: years old. Uh one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time,
Speaker 1: of course, part of the holy Trinity of Green Bay
Speaker 1: quarterbacks Star Farv Rogers. While it all started UH with Star,
Speaker 1: who won an unprecedented five NFL championships as the Packers
Speaker 1: starter UH in sixty six sixty seven and was known,
Speaker 1: in addition to being the leader of that team in
Speaker 1: the quarterback but one of the great playoff players of
Speaker 1: all time, the guy that, in addition just being Um
Speaker 1: the field general, stepped up to play in January when
Speaker 1: it mattered most. And that's how legends are made. And
Speaker 1: that's what Bart Star was He had suffered a number
Speaker 1: of health setbacks over the years, including strokes that had
Speaker 1: severely limited his ability to communicate. Peter King wrote about
Speaker 1: it in his column on Monday. Uh the effort just
Speaker 1: to say a simple sentence late in his life became
Speaker 1: a great challenge. So Start dealt with a lot of
Speaker 1: challenges late in his life. But he will be remembered.
Speaker 1: Uh as a packer is great and one of the
Speaker 1: more important players. Chris Wesley and the history of the
Speaker 1: National Football League. I think a lot of people think
Speaker 1: of Vince Vince Lombardi is the greatest football coach of
Speaker 1: all time, and some people consider him the greatest American
Speaker 1: coach in any sport of all time. Bart Starr was
Speaker 1: an extension of him on the field. And this is
Speaker 1: a time for our younger listeners. Are those new to
Speaker 1: the game. In the nineties sixties, quarterbacks called their own plays.
Speaker 1: With the exception of Paul Brown's quarterbacks. Listen up, Temposy.
Speaker 1: He could learn something here. Bart Star called his own plays.
Speaker 1: And I remember reading a book called One More July
Speaker 1: by George Plimpton and Bill Curry, and they were talking
Speaker 1: about coming up with the perfect quarterback of the nineteen
Speaker 1: sixties based on composite traits, and a lot of it
Speaker 1: is Uniteds like Uniteds toughness, his accuracy. But the one
Speaker 1: area I think where they talked about you would want
Speaker 1: bart Stars game management, strategy and play calling. He was
Speaker 1: calling his own plays. He looked across the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: diagnosed defenses in the same way that Peyton Manning Tom
Speaker 1: Brady have done in this generation, and he was the
Speaker 1: best at it. So I think that to me. You
Speaker 1: know about his playoff record, you know about the five championships,
Speaker 1: the quarterback of arguably the greatest dynasty in the twentieth century,
Speaker 1: and um, I think that that's his legacy. Well, and
Speaker 1: he first of all, he won three straight, so he
Speaker 1: has the five titles. Because a lot of times when
Speaker 1: they show, Okay, Brady's got six and they show Super Bowls,
Speaker 1: it always kind of bothers me because it's like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, bart Star kind of gets job there because
Speaker 1: just because it's not the one of the first two
Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVPs, first of all, which is you know,
Speaker 1: that's no one's ever gonna do something like that. He's
Speaker 1: the only person who have won three straight as a quarterback.
Speaker 1: You know, Tom Brady hasn't been able to do that.
Speaker 1: But I think what stands out with him is that,
Speaker 1: like Lombardi wouldn't have gotten to Lombardi without bart Star.
Speaker 1: You know, he was a backup, he had gotten benched
Speaker 1: at one point, but at some point they were starting
Speaker 1: to role teams offensively. There was a big championship game
Speaker 1: against the Browns where it was expected to be like
Speaker 1: this Titanic battle of the two best teams, and they
Speaker 1: rolled them up fifty five to seven. Bart Stars, throwing
Speaker 1: passes all up and down the field. I I kind
Speaker 1: of went into, you know when I first started in football,
Speaker 1: thinking the same thing, that he's just kind of this
Speaker 1: game manager that got carried along by the team around him.
Speaker 1: But it really wasn't like that. You mentioned that the
Speaker 1: Lombardi needed Star and starting Lombardi could say the same
Speaker 1: thing with Belichick. It's a conversation we have today about
Speaker 1: who's more important. And this is to me one stat
Speaker 1: that stands out in terms of all time dominant stretches,
Speaker 1: and yes we're witnessing one right now in a never
Speaker 1: ending fashion in New England. But from nineteen to sixties,
Speaker 1: seven Star went eighteen and four as a starter in
Speaker 1: the regular season and nine and oh in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: They defined the sixties football. I also think like he
Speaker 1: played till age thirty seven, which you think back then, oh,
Speaker 1: no quarterback obviously could farewell, which there were a handful
Speaker 1: of guys that played way longer than most thought. And
Speaker 1: he played his last three plus seasons as almost a
Speaker 1: favorite of the Packers, per stories, because he wanted to
Speaker 1: retire and they didn't have the proper quarterback to hand
Speaker 1: the team off too, So who would do that today?
Speaker 1: Hang around for nearly half a decade longer to do
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers a favor. There's this other great
Speaker 1: story where a fan basically wrote him and said, you know,
Speaker 1: after one of the many infrequent failures they had they
Speaker 1: were so easy to watch, that he was running out
Speaker 1: and that he was done with the Packers. This fan
Speaker 1: and Bart Starr wrote him, and he said, we are
Speaker 1: sorry to lose you as a fan, of course, but
Speaker 1: what is sadder is the example you were setting for
Speaker 1: your own sons. I hope while you redirect their young
Speaker 1: minds in the future, you will include tolerance so that
Speaker 1: when you occasionally air or unintentionally disappoint them. They will
Speaker 1: not lose their faith in you dropping a bomb on
Speaker 1: someone through the US Mail. I Only the other thing
Speaker 1: is around the time and I know West and are
Speaker 1: so much older than you, Stube. It's like when we
Speaker 1: would start watching football in the decades. Every Sunday they
Speaker 1: would drop on you flips of the Ice Bowl clips
Speaker 1: of bart Star and to us, and when you're growing up,
Speaker 1: you look back and you think that those guys must
Speaker 1: have toiled fifties, sixties, seventy years ago because it's grainy
Speaker 1: black and white footage, But the space between that time
Speaker 1: and when the clip they were showing, it's no different
Speaker 1: than watching rookie year highlights of Tom Brady at this point,
Speaker 1: meaning we are very old, but that ancient time really
Speaker 1: was not as far as a way as we think
Speaker 1: in Bart Star was a pivotal foundational member of the
Speaker 1: NFL we watched today in a million ways. Coach for
Speaker 1: nine seasons two and had a really rough record that
Speaker 1: would that would never happen and in the NFL now
Speaker 1: that he almost had no win winning seasons that didn't
Speaker 1: go well because he was always almost they said he
Speaker 1: was afraid to criticize, but like one of his famous
Speaker 1: moments as a players essentially told Lombardi stopped. You know,
Speaker 1: he confronted him stop kind of taking me down in
Speaker 1: front of the team, that he thought it was bad
Speaker 1: for the team. No one had really stood up as
Speaker 1: much to Lombardi before and that was kind of when
Speaker 1: he became the guy well united. His famous quote is,
Speaker 1: you don't become a quarterback until you can tell your
Speaker 1: coach to go to hill. Yeah, there you go. Bart
Speaker 1: Star dead at the age of five. Moving on to
Speaker 1: modern NFL talk will start on the Throne of Sleeves,
Speaker 1: where the New England Patriots, of course, are moving on
Speaker 1: or seeking to move on from the Rob Gronkowski era.
Speaker 1: Part of that was bringing Ben Watson out of retirement. Uh.
Speaker 1: But there's a little bit of a snag there because
Speaker 1: Watson revealed in a Facebook post on Sunday that he
Speaker 1: failed a drug test administered in March. And there's a
Speaker 1: little more to this story, uh than usual when these
Speaker 1: things pop up, because Watson was very open about it.
Speaker 1: He owned it. He said, hey, listen, I retired thirty eight.
Speaker 1: I was done. I went to a doctor. I was
Speaker 1: all banged up. Because these guys, their bodies just get brutalized,
Speaker 1: and I was administered or prescribed a medication that would
Speaker 1: make me feel better and make me heal up, and
Speaker 1: in a more speedy fashion. It happens to be what
Speaker 1: that was bio identical testosterone spinnate, which West takes uh
Speaker 1: every day. Um that that explains the body to make sense.
Speaker 1: That falls under the NFL's banned substances list. So when
Speaker 1: the Patriots brought him out of retirement, Watson didn't even
Speaker 1: realize at first, and then bang he gets hit h
Speaker 1: with the positive test which triggers the four game band
Speaker 1: uh so again. And we talked about this. I feel
Speaker 1: like on this podcast, we're all mock step that the
Speaker 1: idea of performing performance enhancing drugs. There's a difference between
Speaker 1: when a guy like Dan Jordan gets popped what was
Speaker 1: the famous uh it looked like his shoulders were inflated, Yeah,
Speaker 1: blown up, and what happens with these players because their
Speaker 1: their bodies take such a beating. They just trying to
Speaker 1: get better. And Watson was not trying to beat the
Speaker 1: system or anything like that. He's just trying to get better.
Speaker 1: In general, I would think that they should loosen up
Speaker 1: some of these things. Just to let the players heal
Speaker 1: and let modern medicine do what modern medicine can do.
Speaker 1: But Watson out four games, but he'll be back, And
Speaker 1: the Patriots built into the contract uh potential escalators to
Speaker 1: recover the loss of money. They knew, they knew, So
Speaker 1: he found out he had already decided he wouldn't come back,
Speaker 1: or he was open to it. But then he found
Speaker 1: out literally that week as he was talking to teams,
Speaker 1: primarily the Patriots, that this was gonna happen. So they
Speaker 1: knew it before they signed him, and they decided to
Speaker 1: sign him. Anyways, maybe not the worst thing in the
Speaker 1: world for a thirty eight year old guy to play
Speaker 1: twelve twelve games. It does kind of point out, though,
Speaker 1: like how crazy that, like doctor, you know, how crazy
Speaker 1: a spot at his for players and the league that
Speaker 1: like it's good for his body. You know, doctors prescribed
Speaker 1: what the NFL counts as p ds all the time.
Speaker 1: At this point, you know, test out, you know that
Speaker 1: it was like good for him to recover, and yet
Speaker 1: it's something you can't take on. The cloudiness that must
Speaker 1: be draped over any time anyone goes into a doctor
Speaker 1: post career or even during a career and has recommended
Speaker 1: something whose job is it to safety check all the
Speaker 1: ingredients and find out if you're gonna get banged with
Speaker 1: a He said he didn't even think about it because
Speaker 1: he thought he was retired. I will tell you once again,
Speaker 1: and I mentioned it before, and I'll mention it every
Speaker 1: two weeks. Seth DeValve will be signed to the Patriots.
Speaker 1: He unsigned right now. What's he's saying? He's on Cleveland.
Speaker 1: So either I think he's gonna get dumped by Cleveland
Speaker 1: at one point and get added, or I can see
Speaker 1: a low level trade which which in theory will become
Speaker 1: a high level trade when he catches eight. How what's
Speaker 1: your peace scale on DeValve and Gordon having some key
Speaker 1: playoff moments to your constern nation? You know, I think
Speaker 1: last year when when Gordon went to the Patriots, the
Speaker 1: Browns were nothing that they are right now and it
Speaker 1: was just another massive annoyance. Couldn't care less to do
Speaker 1: you deal with Josh Gordon? Um. And it's interesting around
Speaker 1: this time with this Ben Watson situation is coming out
Speaker 1: Chris Long, who recently retired, so that you know he
Speaker 1: smoked weed all the time as a player, because the
Speaker 1: NFL drug policy was fairly easy to manipulate or just
Speaker 1: use common sense because you knew you're testing uh date
Speaker 1: ahead of time. And he said he didn't do you know,
Speaker 1: he's not doing that to be you know, listen to
Speaker 1: Sublime records and hang out at huck a Poose. He's
Speaker 1: doing it because it was it helped him heal mentally
Speaker 1: and physically. Yeah, really rich details of analysis to that
Speaker 1: object on Friday, was it Steve you know, by the
Speaker 1: way Steve body, by the way, it's tight, It's it's outrageous,
Speaker 1: guys talk about that. We knew you would want to.
Speaker 1: I made you would have wanted I made a comment
Speaker 1: just how he was elder states alder statesman in the room,
Speaker 1: but he clearly was in the best shape and that
Speaker 1: and that inspired him to flex, which was caught beautifully
Speaker 1: by herself. That's the only thing I think you would
Speaker 1: have wanted to have been in the studio for it.
Speaker 1: What have it? Was quite would like that, But I
Speaker 1: also would like if we don't talk about that show anymore.
Speaker 1: We've it's come up twice now, I think it's brought up.
Speaker 1: I was being magnanimous early on, you know, you're taking
Speaker 1: a little shot at Sublime. But I feel like there's
Speaker 1: been like a mild critical um reckoning with Sublime, that
Speaker 1: they're getting a little more love now than they were
Speaker 1: back in the day. People are like, you know what Sublime?
Speaker 1: Actually they were pretty good. I always loved Sublime. You know,
Speaker 1: not everything needs a think piece, you know, the Sublime needs.
Speaker 1: Do we need to reckoning? I think they were fine,
Speaker 1: they were great. I think the word mild was appropriately
Speaker 1: used there. Uh. Gerald Gerald McCoy is still on the market.
Speaker 1: He met with the Cleveland Browns last week after his
Speaker 1: lease from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after ten seasons there.
Speaker 1: He spent time with Cleveland but left without a contract.
Speaker 1: Tom Pallisera reported, Uh, they had a good meeting Cleveland,
Speaker 1: Mark pay attentioneer. They had a good meeting. It was
Speaker 1: termed between McCoy and the Browns. But he's going to
Speaker 1: meet now with the Baltimore Ravens. That was supposed to
Speaker 1: happen today Tuesday, the Bengals and Panthers, according to Mike Garrefol,
Speaker 1: other teams that have expressed interest in signing the six
Speaker 1: time Pro Bowl defensive tackle. McCoy has also let it
Speaker 1: be known, he wants to sign with a contender, speaking
Speaker 1: of things that have changed mark for your Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: So that does not take the Browns out of the
Speaker 1: mix by any stretch. Uh So, McCoy expect him to
Speaker 1: sign with a team that's you know, in good in
Speaker 1: good uh condition right now as we enter the twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen season. Just hasn't happened yet. Well, I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're the team that he's already visited and left the
Speaker 1: building and upcoming are the Ravens, the Cults, the Saints
Speaker 1: and potentially the Patriots, is interested suitors, you'd want to
Speaker 1: have gotten him I think before the holiday weekend, got
Speaker 1: him signed, get the whole thing moving. Now you're having
Speaker 1: to like track him down while he's hanging out with
Speaker 1: John Harbob. Not as easy, big time player forty five
Speaker 1: plus pressures the last two years. It's if he was
Speaker 1: one of our top one one free agency, would have
Speaker 1: been in my top six or so. But does the
Speaker 1: game match the name at this point? Yes or no?
Speaker 1: Chris Westling, Yes, So I don't study into your defensive
Speaker 1: lineman as much as I should reverse humble breg But
Speaker 1: what I've read about him is that he can still
Speaker 1: rush the passer, but more than ever, he doesn't hold
Speaker 1: the line against the run that he cheats to get
Speaker 1: into position to rush the passer and freelances a lot.
Speaker 1: And freelancing it's one of those fuzzy terms that's hard
Speaker 1: to pick up on tape if you don't know the
Speaker 1: defense or the assignments, but it's usually what that's how
Speaker 1: players get released. Got you moving on Donovan McNabb. You
Speaker 1: remember him. He played many years for the Eagles. Uh.
Speaker 1: Spent some time with the Redskins, but eleven of his
Speaker 1: thirty in NFL seasons with the Eagles, hundred sixty seven games. Uh,
Speaker 1: he threw for two thirty four touchdowns, pile up a
Speaker 1: whole messy yards almost thirty eight thousand yards uh, and
Speaker 1: in general was one of the If we did the
Speaker 1: Dalton scale back in McNabb's prime, he certainly was on
Speaker 1: the right side of that scale for many years. UH.
Speaker 1: He would like to say he was on something called
Speaker 1: TMZ Sports, like a television show. Apparently I know they
Speaker 1: have the website, but there's a TV show and he
Speaker 1: was on it. Uh. He was asked if he deserves
Speaker 1: to be in the Hall of fame, and McNabb said, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I'm not hesitating on that. I am a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1: My numbers speak for itself. My numbers are better than
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman. But he has sper Bowl rings and he
Speaker 1: he's played with Hall of famers as well. Greg you
Speaker 1: you just you what it's scoffed? Yeah, yeah, is is
Speaker 1: Donovan McNabb. I'm gonna open up the floor here worthy
Speaker 1: of the Hall of Famer at least in the discussion,
Speaker 1: a serious consideration, absolutely consideration and discussion. And he seems
Speaker 1: like a guy who might be right near the border,
Speaker 1: uh to me that that he is in that mix,
Speaker 1: because I look at it more like how many top
Speaker 1: ten seasons did you had? More importantly, how many top
Speaker 1: five seasons did you have? If I was doing the
Speaker 1: old QB index back then, I think McNab would have
Speaker 1: been about five or six in the league for a
Speaker 1: long time. Like he was, had a much better career.
Speaker 1: I think it was a better player than Eli Manning
Speaker 1: for instance, or or some other quarterbacks that have have
Speaker 1: gotten in just off of playoff run that he was
Speaker 1: a top five to six type of guy from for
Speaker 1: much of his career. Sometimes it comes down to one
Speaker 1: game for these Hall of Fame things, and I remember
Speaker 1: ten years ago, I think it was late in the
Speaker 1: game playoff game against the Arizona Cardinals for the NFC Championship.
Speaker 1: McNab ends up throwing for three d seventy five yards
Speaker 1: and three tds. The Eagles lose, and I remember thinking,
Speaker 1: if he wins that game, he's going to the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame, right, He's still got five years left in
Speaker 1: his career. He still can do this. And then they lost,
Speaker 1: and I said, I bet he doesn't go to the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame because of that loss. And if he
Speaker 1: that game, if he finds a way to beat the
Speaker 1: Patriots and the Super Bowl, uh, and it is I
Speaker 1: would say Eagles fans would probably think this, although I
Speaker 1: think he has a bit of a complicated relationship with
Speaker 1: the Eagles fans. The story, whether it's true or not.
Speaker 1: I think it's true that he threw up on the
Speaker 1: field and and that last key drive against New England.
Speaker 1: That's kind of to me anyway. What if you say,
Speaker 1: Donovan McNab, what what do you think of I think
Speaker 1: of him throwing up on the field and the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl against the Patriots and being completely winded when the
Speaker 1: clock's taking down and they're down two scores. Uh, and
Speaker 1: Andy Reid's finest moment either that. No, Read deserves heat
Speaker 1: about how they handled the clock there, and Read has
Speaker 1: always been famous about being poor with the clock. But
Speaker 1: that sticks to you too. I mean, Eli Manning maybe
Speaker 1: not as good a quarterback as Donovan McNabb talent wise,
Speaker 1: but he has two Super Bowl m vps and McNabb
Speaker 1: threw up on the field. And I know he's also
Speaker 1: on television and in that world he has to see
Speaker 1: provocative stuff. Well, he was on Art Network for a while.
Speaker 1: I remember once sitting next to him. No, but he
Speaker 1: was like consistently seems like, hey, can you look this
Speaker 1: up for me? And I'm like, I'm actually writing articles,
Speaker 1: but I'll be happy to look up stats for Donovan
Speaker 1: McNabb was sitting next to me studio. But he I
Speaker 1: don't need the I don't need n't to bring up
Speaker 1: the Aikman comparison on any level that this is what
Speaker 1: he does. He can't he can't compliment himself without tearing
Speaker 1: someone else down. That but that's like his Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame argument is completely separate to me. Aikman did exactly
Speaker 1: what he was asked to do, and there were a
Speaker 1: huge pocket of people that started the Tony Romo has
Speaker 1: better stats than Troy Aikman. We're talking about a different generations. Now.
Speaker 1: McNab stats actually look as good as they are for
Speaker 1: much of his career. They would look even better now
Speaker 1: because he was throwing four hundred passes a year, four
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty. He was a running quarterback. But like
Speaker 1: you know, I think Terrell Davis and some of the
Speaker 1: guys that have been on our air and and other networks,
Speaker 1: I think it helps them ultimately get into the hall.
Speaker 1: I think it helps a little bit that they're just
Speaker 1: kind of in the mix. Mcnabs like the opposite. The
Speaker 1: more he talks, the less chance I think he gets
Speaker 1: because he this is not this is not the first
Speaker 1: time he's popped up in the news. It has been
Speaker 1: many many times, and he's it's self awareness, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna get harder and harder for quarterbacks of yesterday year
Speaker 1: to make any fringe quarterbacks to make any argument because
Speaker 1: their numbers are gonna be utterly drowned. I think I'm
Speaker 1: very high on him, and I think he's borderline. I
Speaker 1: think he has very very little chance to actually make
Speaker 1: it though. Also stop using stats in football discussions. Bang, Okay,
Speaker 1: three more quick items here, I'll just spend through them.
Speaker 1: Richie Incognito signs a one year contract with the Raiders.
Speaker 1: Mike Mayock spoke at Raiders O T A s today
Speaker 1: and and made it clear that this is very much
Speaker 1: a touch and ghost situation. Incognito, who's had a host
Speaker 1: of issues on the field, off the field, you name it,
Speaker 1: has to be a good citizen inside and outside the
Speaker 1: locker room. But after coming out of retirement, he was
Speaker 1: still a very um productive guard for the Bills in
Speaker 1: those recent seasons. So he signs a deal. J J.
Speaker 1: Watt he's engaged to a soccer player k Leah ohi um.
Speaker 1: And he did the thing on Twitter or Instagram or
Speaker 1: social media where he had somebody stationed with a camera
Speaker 1: to get the in real time photo, which I'm a
Speaker 1: little disappointed Weston to do this. I feel like there's
Speaker 1: something west would do, but maybe he didn't have a
Speaker 1: handler nearby to take the photo him actually proposing in
Speaker 1: the same thing. A Rod did it and now J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt does it, and there's some connected tissues with a
Speaker 1: yacht in the background, with a yacht in the background
Speaker 1: on a jetty, it appears, and what maybe nantuckets are
Speaker 1: we already at the stage where West is receiving brush back,
Speaker 1: and you know, I guess it would be criticism for
Speaker 1: the process of his getting married and when he went through.
Speaker 1: We're a week away from the app are a very
Speaker 1: social media savvy couple. Probably knew Erica better back then.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know that's true, Eric, I didn't shoot the wedding.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever been accused of being social media,
Speaker 1: so I know this. This one was on this these
Speaker 1: pictures were on Mars Rdar for sure. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think I'm happy for him and he's ah over
Speaker 1: sort of luscious mail product. He looks very good at
Speaker 1: the photos, looks great. And his clothing line, I mean
Speaker 1: what I have learned shirts and I wear it all
Speaker 1: the time, a product every day, tremendous. And finally, the
Speaker 1: news Pat Shermer spoke at Giants ot As talking about
Speaker 1: their quarterback situation, Eli Manning and rookie Daniel Jones. You know,
Speaker 1: noted that they both have calm demeanors, but both are
Speaker 1: quote fiery under the covers would not have guessed it.
Speaker 1: But sometimes you never know how did that come up
Speaker 1: they were talking about. Um, I don't know. I can't
Speaker 1: piece it together to you. I'm just saying what he
Speaker 1: said under the covers fireballs. Sometimes you get surprised by
Speaker 1: those things. Yeah, yeah, just Steven that Sherman would know, right,
Speaker 1: how is this bend diagram of information and scouting department?
Speaker 1: I do like all the the pictures which just was
Speaker 1: part of the combined by the the memes where it's
Speaker 1: just basically like the Spiderman meme, except it's Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: and it's like them, just like as Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's like a secret late period Manning brother that
Speaker 1: was raised up in a different family, like much younger,
Speaker 1: he's a little bit better looking, and if he's a
Speaker 1: little bit better as a player, well they made the
Speaker 1: right move. Let's just drill down there. What marks implying here?
Speaker 1: So you're saying that Archie Manning potentially had a secret
Speaker 1: child that was raised elsewhere under I'm not necessarily um
Speaker 1: you know, putting Archie Manning out there is the guilty party.
Speaker 1: It could be anyone related to the either parents, but
Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting that this this also is the case
Speaker 1: if they look this much alike, their body language mirrors
Speaker 1: each other. I would just say it's out there as
Speaker 1: a suspicious scenario, and your best friends with the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and then you're drafted by the Giants after the Giants
Speaker 1: have spent two years coddling Manning waiting for Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: to be a graduate from college. That is a great
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Speaker 1: he had that. I think it was a Geico commercial
Speaker 1: where he and it was played constantly, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: it was a nice windfall from financially, which doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like a bad thing. Um and uh he was. He
Speaker 1: seemed pretty pleased with himself. This is about two thousand
Speaker 1: fourteen or thir I maintained he has always been an
Speaker 1: interesting character and he made following football more enjoyable for
Speaker 1: a lot of people. Uh see, there's that soft spart
Speaker 1: in your heart for the Cincinnati Bengals. Yeah, that was.
Speaker 1: That was back when when I was a fan. That
Speaker 1: was not not bloody likely. I mean it was really
Speaker 1: a one year sensation of sorts. He's well, he blew
Speaker 1: but blew out his a c L. The next year,
Speaker 1: you got your money worth. Genies are hot right now.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows. No one's refusing it. It's just that's what's
Speaker 1: going on in society. And as I noted earlier, we
Speaker 1: have a popular NFL podcast, We'll does it happen by accident?
Speaker 1: We surf a zig geist. That's what we do here,
Speaker 1: surf the zike geist. So what we're doing it the
Speaker 1: big there's a big Genie show to a cartoon Shimmer
Speaker 1: and Shine. So you're popular with the young girls. Okay,
Speaker 1: very good. See plugged in Genie's unstoppable right now. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put on the Genie hat and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hand them out to you guys. Bang bang bang Genie hat,
Speaker 1: Ruby feather, Erica. Can you look up the proper term
Speaker 1: for the genie hat? Isn't it a turban? Oh? Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just want to make sure we
Speaker 1: have it right. I'll let someone else go on record
Speaker 1: with the Yeah. I mean, the only potential thing that's
Speaker 1: been offensive about any of this is you even just
Speaker 1: bringing up and it could be a fan. Wait, doesn't
Speaker 1: Will Smith have a topknot and not even a hat whatsoever?
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the film, but you sound like you know.
Speaker 1: I read an article on Will Smith soon d This
Speaker 1: is more like, uh, this is more like the cliche,
Speaker 1: you know, the signature genie of our past. All right,
Speaker 1: and I dream up Now you went too far back? Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. So we're all gonna go around the horn.
Speaker 1: We're genies. We're gonna grant one wish to NFL teams. Uh,
Speaker 1: be somewhat quick about it. We want to hit as
Speaker 1: many teams as possible. But dig in, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: start with Greg Rosenthal. No, I have pointed over there.
Speaker 1: I want to see I want to see the vibe.
Speaker 1: You want to get the vibeeah, yeah, you want the vibe?
Speaker 1: All right, Chris Wesley, Well, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: should be all right, let me start. I'll do I'll
Speaker 1: do it. Okay, go ahead. You know I'm the lead
Speaker 1: off hitter here. All right, there you are, and we
Speaker 1: got a big game coming up Wednesday, the Shield after
Speaker 1: the rain out, four and two. I gotta finish in
Speaker 1: the top three to be in the top four to
Speaker 1: be in the playoffs. Any threat not to four and
Speaker 1: two sounds because I think we're gonna have to essentially,
Speaker 1: um win about five of seven to close out to
Speaker 1: make the players, which isn't really possible. Different structure this year, Well,
Speaker 1: you could feel a team of garbage cans against some
Speaker 1: of these teams in the league and still win. There's
Speaker 1: eight teams you gotta get in that top four to
Speaker 1: be in the player Okay, alright, and I like I
Speaker 1: like your chances, guys, Thanks great, appreciate. All right, here
Speaker 1: we go West, get us going. Well, it's a make
Speaker 1: or break season for the Texans offensive line and the
Speaker 1: wish I'm going to grant them is that their first
Speaker 1: and second round draft picks Titus Howard and Max Sharping
Speaker 1: become instant impact book end tackles and they never have
Speaker 1: to play Matt Khalil or Central Henderson for even one
Speaker 1: snap of the two thousand h concise, beautiful. That's why
Speaker 1: you should I had Greg go first. I was I
Speaker 1: was too busy. I was trying to communicate with eyes
Speaker 1: with Erica and I wasn't listening, so I missed it. Well,
Speaker 1: what I was looking forward to clues from Gregor mark it.
Speaker 1: I think it's a great wish to grant because it's
Speaker 1: not just a wish for Deshaun Watson or Texans fans
Speaker 1: or Bill O'Brien. It's for all NFL fans because it's
Speaker 1: if you guys see you seen on Twitter the last
Speaker 1: handful of days, those tear makers, you know that it's
Speaker 1: it's been very you know, the tears of the zeitgeist quarterback.
Speaker 1: It's one of it's it's a delightful little, uh internet joke.
Speaker 1: But what I've noticed in some of these tears Deshaun Watson,
Speaker 1: it's like people are still like waiting and seeing to
Speaker 1: see about Deshaun Watson and they're kind of like, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's good, but like, I don't think people are giving
Speaker 1: him the full respect for a man who came back
Speaker 1: from a torn a c l and did what he
Speaker 1: didn't did what he did as a rookie. And it's
Speaker 1: partly because of these offensive it's largely because these offensive
Speaker 1: linemen aren't giving him the optimal chance to shine as
Speaker 1: much as he can. So I want to see that.
Speaker 1: I think the one negative result of that would be
Speaker 1: that Bill O'Brien and his GM friend like who have
Speaker 1: essentially done nothing, is love him like they did. They
Speaker 1: did too little to solve this issue. They've tried, they've tried,
Speaker 1: they had tried, They've thrown stuff at it, but I
Speaker 1: don't think they've thrown anything. It's it's the opposite of
Speaker 1: what a team in their own division, the Cults did
Speaker 1: with their offensive line over the past couple of years,
Speaker 1: and they get away with looking too good. But that's
Speaker 1: what Genie's too. Genie's give you things you maybe don't
Speaker 1: deserve organically, just to play devil's advocate. I think Brian
Speaker 1: Gaine would say, look what I've had to pick from
Speaker 1: on the free agent market, in the draft, I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't expect me to make chicken sound yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I think Brian Gaine escapes some of the don't point.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean the the offensive line. I
Speaker 1: think offensive lines largely about coaching. All right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: grant a wish. I'm putting on the hat. What is
Speaker 1: the name? What is it called? Seeing Jeanie Turban or
Speaker 1: Sultan Turban. The fez is occasionally thrown in as well.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm doing that off of research. It's not
Speaker 1: there you go, you'll see the fez. All right, here
Speaker 1: we go. Here's mine Sammy Watkins. Uh, you know, here's
Speaker 1: my wish. It's a wish for the Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 1: that Sammy Watkins becomes the star. Two teams have been
Speaker 1: waiting for him to become for six years. And he
Speaker 1: was limited to ten games last year because of that
Speaker 1: foot injury. It was the fifth straight season he didn't
Speaker 1: play a full season, the second time in three years
Speaker 1: he's missed at least six games. And um, he tweeted this,
Speaker 1: and this is an interesting tweet. I will be the
Speaker 1: best this year, mark my word. I want it more
Speaker 1: now than I ever did before. In my life. I'm
Speaker 1: sacrificing everything to get where I once was. The world
Speaker 1: will now get to witness my greatness again. Hashtag Starship fourteen,
Speaker 1: hatch tag limitless four UM, a lot of stuff there,
Speaker 1: But anyway, Tyrak Hills and Limbo Kole Hardman from Georgia.
Speaker 1: They took him in the second round, and a lot
Speaker 1: has been made about that that Hardman needs to make
Speaker 1: a instant impact in year one, and that's probably true,
Speaker 1: but I think a lot of people, at least I'll
Speaker 1: speak for myself, are kind of overlooking that. Sammy Watkins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they gave the guy three or forty eight million dollars
Speaker 1: deal last year, about fourteen months ago, with thirty one
Speaker 1: million thirty two million guaranteed in the first two years.
Speaker 1: He's supposed to be the guy. He's supposed to be
Speaker 1: a star with UM Travis Kelsey and and and they're
Speaker 1: supposed to make this offense go still, So that is
Speaker 1: the wish I grant as the genie. That's Sammy Watkins
Speaker 1: finally realizes that potential. And he's still only twenty five,
Speaker 1: which is crazy. He's turning twenty six next month. Does
Speaker 1: anyone in this studio no, whether Sammy Watkins is a
Speaker 1: good or bad football player relative to who I have
Speaker 1: no idea if he's good or band he's He's the
Speaker 1: least confident football evaluation in my life. I think I
Speaker 1: think he's I'm confident he can play, you know, as
Speaker 1: a starter in the NFL. Whether he's a difference maker
Speaker 1: at all to me is the last time we saw
Speaker 1: he had four for one fourteen against the Pats and
Speaker 1: the championship game. Uh that loss. He can do it.
Speaker 1: He just moments together. He has his moments. But I
Speaker 1: will say this, and I even texted rap Sheet to
Speaker 1: get his name. Uh, everybody's got to fire their agent
Speaker 1: and hire Tory Dandy. That's Sammy Watkins is agent. That
Speaker 1: guy did a nice job. Well, you want to get paid,
Speaker 1: you got to Tory Dandy's office. Tory Dandy obviously a
Speaker 1: bit of a genie himself. But I I look at
Speaker 1: a guy in Sammy Watkins who had early career injury
Speaker 1: issues left and right, played with Kyle Norton, Tyrod Taylor,
Speaker 1: a bunch of nothing in Buffalo, and suddenly you go
Speaker 1: to the Rams and it's like, right now you're gonna
Speaker 1: get a chance to see what he's really about but
Speaker 1: then suddenly he's in Kansas City. He's running out of
Speaker 1: excuses from the quarterback angle. At this point, he's in
Speaker 1: a great He's in the best situation of his career.
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't put it past some receivers once in
Speaker 1: a while, finally in around year five or six, becoming
Speaker 1: what they want. But I couldn't agree more that he's
Speaker 1: totally an enigma. I think he was a making the
Speaker 1: leap candidate at one point and we're still waiting on
Speaker 1: the enigma. No more the wish after this, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He's been in like the two best offenses in the
Speaker 1: league and he's just put on the turban. In the
Speaker 1: turban And now I know that's fine. Greg, Alright, I'm
Speaker 1: putting on the turban and I'm granting a wish to
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars receivers this year. And I'm saying, D
Speaker 1: D Westbrook, DJ Chark, how about let's throw him in
Speaker 1: the Mark Easley. I'm gonna I'm gonna grant you a
Speaker 1: wish that the ball is where you expect it to
Speaker 1: be when you try to catch it this year, where
Speaker 1: you're gonna catch it, and stride, something new, something new
Speaker 1: in your life. A j Booi a Uh said this
Speaker 1: week that he notices in practice. He noticed his place
Speaker 1: in he's not making as many plays because Nick Fole
Speaker 1: is actually putting the ball where it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1: This is a franchise that hasn't seen an accurate pass
Speaker 1: in like six years. That's what I wish. That is
Speaker 1: one of the most useful wishes. Yeah, I've granted it.
Speaker 1: Give it, they deserve it. They I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: just PEPs, gonna be in their step. Gabett was drafted
Speaker 1: in two thousand eleven, so it's been longer than six
Speaker 1: It's been like a decade since they've seen an accurate pain.
Speaker 1: Who knows, these guys might be unbelievable. Westburgh might be
Speaker 1: Jerry Rice probably know. We're gonna find out now. That's
Speaker 1: why this is such an exciting seg Mark. It's a
Speaker 1: useful wish. I mean, I when I think of having
Speaker 1: a Genie, I think of asking for something like the
Speaker 1: most powerful thing I could ever imagine. So as mine
Speaker 1: move for Genie, and we just talked about him, I'm
Speaker 1: giving Pat Shermer the rare human power to create a
Speaker 1: lightning strike from the sky and to hear me out
Speaker 1: before you just that we know the Giants, they're a
Speaker 1: hot mess and they're probably going to, Oh, we're gonna
Speaker 1: play Eli Manning for two. You know you're gonna be
Speaker 1: probably inserting Daniel Jones into the lineup by the end
Speaker 1: of September. Lots of issues. What I want to do
Speaker 1: is give Pat Shermer the power to unfurl a bolt
Speaker 1: of lightning from the sky at any moment during game
Speaker 1: action so he can buy the Giants time on Sunday's
Speaker 1: According to Article four of the NFL rule Book, if
Speaker 1: the commissioner himself decides if a lightning strike hits, he
Speaker 1: can decide how long to do a delay a game
Speaker 1: commission even by days if if the if it gets
Speaker 1: if it goes beyond the refs SAMPA absolutely, So week three,
Speaker 1: they just put the lightning strike delay in now just
Speaker 1: as a matter of course, before the game. They just
Speaker 1: assume it's already there. And so this is another situation
Speaker 1: where Pat Shermer thanks to me every time the Giants
Speaker 1: get into trouble with their young quarterback. Instead of having
Speaker 1: to think quick something the Giants have not been Uh
Speaker 1: you know giants of industry at Pat Shermer can send
Speaker 1: down bolt of lightning and then he can just casually
Speaker 1: and calmly look over at the Fox camera and just
Speaker 1: sort of give him I told you so. Look once again,
Speaker 1: I'm delaying the game. The Giants can regroup, rethink their plan,
Speaker 1: and put a better football product on the field. Thank me.
Speaker 1: So this is like in a baseball rain delay that
Speaker 1: goes on for an hour and a half. I think,
Speaker 1: as much as you need to on Sunday, Patrick doesn't
Speaker 1: come back out, this is a good time to say,
Speaker 1: this is quarterback whatever, it's what you just sit back,
Speaker 1: you reassess, and oh it's mother nature. No, it's Pat
Speaker 1: Shermer using supernatural power. So I thought this was like
Speaker 1: you were saying, this was gonna be how he transitions
Speaker 1: from me like to Daniel Jones. But it seems deeper
Speaker 1: than that that. It's just like, if he doesn't like
Speaker 1: the way the run games coming together that day, you
Speaker 1: may need it more. You might need it more freely
Speaker 1: manning than Daniel Jones at this point. So whenever you
Speaker 1: need to slow things downs to go number two, you
Speaker 1: just like that too. Get to the locker rooms that's
Speaker 1: what you like. That's the true power that like a
Speaker 1: genie can give and be like you know, and he
Speaker 1: can't use it outside of football games, by the one
Speaker 1: that was the other. You can't just use it to
Speaker 1: like blow up Highway six so he can take a
Speaker 1: side room. I mean it could hopefully he's a good guy,
Speaker 1: because it could be used for evil. It could be like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're losing. Uh, we're losing to the Cowboys. Let's zap
Speaker 1: zeke Elliott over on the other sideline. Whatever ticks team first.
Speaker 1: All right, good, We're gonna go around the horn again.
Speaker 1: But I have some Genie conundrums for each of you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with Chris Westling West, I grant you
Speaker 1: one of the following superpowers. Shermer can throw a lightning
Speaker 1: stripe to take a top, so that's what he can do.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna give you three options. Unlimited intelligence, power
Speaker 1: of flight, selective invisibility. Choose one and realized the classic
Speaker 1: genie move is to make a thing, make you see
Speaker 1: him like, oh, these are all great, and then bang,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it ruins your life. Or this
Speaker 1: isn't what I wanted Genie. I put it back, put
Speaker 1: it back, No every time, No classic Genie move. You
Speaker 1: gotta pick one, though us the facts are and everything.
Speaker 1: That's a tough one. Um flight, I'm afraid of hid
Speaker 1: so that that's not really helping me out. I'll take
Speaker 1: unlimited intelligence, even though that's asking for a lot of trouble. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's asking for tons of trouble. I'll never have a
Speaker 1: full night's sleep again. I will be in a straight
Speaker 1: jacket within the next year. Yeah. Or you'll be on
Speaker 1: a slab in some underground government bunker and they're dissecting
Speaker 1: your brain while you're conscious. Where's Genie, then west Class.
Speaker 1: If I have unlimited intelligence, I'll find a way to
Speaker 1: make myself invisible. So there we go. Very good. Let's
Speaker 1: go around the horn again now, starting with Chris Weston
Speaker 1: taking that flight. Yeah, I lack invisibility putting on mine
Speaker 1: turban here with the with the sapphire yeah oh yeah
Speaker 1: uh and the lightning strike that came via Mark Sessler
Speaker 1: through Pat Schirmer's hands and struck New York. It has
Speaker 1: repercussions that extend to Buffalo, and it gives Josh Allen
Speaker 1: extra powers of accuracy. The wish I grant Bills fans
Speaker 1: long suffering Bills fans, is that Josh Allen adds accuracy
Speaker 1: to his game and becomes the most electric quarterback in
Speaker 1: football this year. Wow, now that would turn the a
Speaker 1: f C upside down. This guy was fun to watch
Speaker 1: last year down the stretch. He wasn't fun to watch
Speaker 1: the whole season. But when he's running for a hundred yards,
Speaker 1: just because he's more physically gifted than just about anybody
Speaker 1: out there, that's fun to watch. And he's almost kind
Speaker 1: of fun to watch when it's not going that well either,
Speaker 1: if you're not a Bills fan, because you don't know
Speaker 1: what the heck is gonna happen on any play. There's no,
Speaker 1: there's no, there's not many quarterbacks out there like them.
Speaker 1: And there's some thing about like seeing him throw fifteen,
Speaker 1: you know, feet over a guy's head that have you
Speaker 1: ever enjoy? Have you ever seen a quarterback like him?
Speaker 1: Sure there's some comparisons too, but not that inaccurate of
Speaker 1: good and bad with that reputation, like sure, like a
Speaker 1: Randall cunning Hammer or even a camera Cam Newton, Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: I think I think he's like a poor man's Cam
Speaker 1: Newton at this you know, at this point. For what
Speaker 1: I'd love about it because people assuming people wouldn't all
Speaker 1: know that there was a genie doing this, which would
Speaker 1: take some of the sort of magic away from it
Speaker 1: for the viewer, is that you hear all these off
Speaker 1: season stories whenever there's a quarterback that lack It was,
Speaker 1: you know, Blake Bortles initially mechanics um spending the off
Speaker 1: season with Tom House. Yeah, they please always like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're gonna come back and you're gonna be good as new,
Speaker 1: and nothing really ever changed. They're always revealed to sort
Speaker 1: of not really have you the next time. House He's
Speaker 1: definitely could be that. But what if it actually a
Speaker 1: quarterback did come back and suddenly was masterfully accurate with
Speaker 1: his running ability. The Bills suddenly go twelve and four
Speaker 1: and the Patriots with their zero tight end offense Ben Watson, Oh,
Speaker 1: look at me, I took the wrong supplement four and twelve,
Speaker 1: Bye bye. Sometimes that Tom how stuff works. Matt Ryan's
Speaker 1: MVP year, which is totally aberrant. Yeah, I don't mean,
Speaker 1: I don't mean that was Tom Town. If they if
Speaker 1: that did happen, we'd probably wildly overrate that one season,
Speaker 1: Like we did Blake Bortles. All right, moving on. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of people are gonna be surprised that
Speaker 1: I'm putting the turban on and going down to Nashville
Speaker 1: because you hate the Tytoons and all that. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: here to help because good health and sixteen starts from
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariotta is the wish I grant to you Titans
Speaker 1: fans who you annoy the be Jesus out of me
Speaker 1: and my mentions. But you know what, as I've said
Speaker 1: on the show, I respect your passion and that you
Speaker 1: you love your team and you believe in him. So
Speaker 1: that's what I that, That's what I will be stow
Speaker 1: upon you. And uh, that doesn't say he's actually gonna
Speaker 1: play well when he's healthy. I'm gonna still leave that
Speaker 1: up to Marcus. But I'm gonna he's gonna be healthy.
Speaker 1: Listen to these Listen to this. This is crazy. Um Uh.
Speaker 1: Last year, he missed three starts and didn't finish three
Speaker 1: games due to end game injuries. Here's the full list
Speaker 1: of injuries that Mariotta dealt with during the eighteen season.
Speaker 1: He had the ulnar nerve issue in his elbow, which
Speaker 1: gave him that the tingly throwing hand. That was Week one.
Speaker 1: He had the next singer against the Colts in Week eleven.
Speaker 1: Reaggravated in Week sixteen against the Redskins, which cost him
Speaker 1: the big Week seventeen game. He did not play. He
Speaker 1: also had a cracked vertebrae plant the uh plants. He
Speaker 1: had a significant tear during the season. It became a
Speaker 1: full tear in Week six In Week sixteen, he strained
Speaker 1: his oblique, He broke a rib, and he had a
Speaker 1: sprained a c shoulder joint. Now now not all of that,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, is bad luck. Um, maybe you're not
Speaker 1: just not built for it and what And there was
Speaker 1: just a report today I read that he has gained
Speaker 1: twelve to thirteen pounds. Now why not just say twelve
Speaker 1: worth thirteen? So we saw him on to even you
Speaker 1: can tell his his thighs are huge. This guy's put together.
Speaker 1: He looks physically built. And it all connects. The dots
Speaker 1: connect because he was a mess. He was not an
Speaker 1: NFL quarterback last year. Was like a regular guy on
Speaker 1: a field getting destroyed week after week. So that's the
Speaker 1: wish I grant. And you could find out Tytoons fans
Speaker 1: if he really is your golden boy, because given sixteen games,
Speaker 1: perhaps he could throw more than eleven touchdowns of the season.
Speaker 1: Do you have to take a connecting carpet when you're
Speaker 1: a genie and you're flying to Nashville? Liked it, enjoyed it?
Speaker 1: West has been sitting on that chenie Jokesode, Oh, I
Speaker 1: have another one. I have another genie conundrum. This one
Speaker 1: will be for Greg. Greg. Here's your choice. If you
Speaker 1: choose to accept the wish, I transport you back to
Speaker 1: where you will be the greatest tennis prodigy since Boris Becker,
Speaker 1: who famously won Wimbledon as a seventeen year old in
Speaker 1: nineteen five. Well, now Greg is seventeen in nine. Do
Speaker 1: you take it? Do you go back in time and
Speaker 1: become the tennis probigy and classic genie move? You might say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I love tennis. I'd love to be a star and
Speaker 1: rich and win all these tournaments. But guess what genies
Speaker 1: are all about. Butterfly effect and like building in the
Speaker 1: back end, and you don't know what's coming you then
Speaker 1: obviously Looke and your children. Your life is going to
Speaker 1: take you all around the world. You're gonna probably gonna
Speaker 1: make right. You can't. You don't know that. That means
Speaker 1: I'm not taking it, but maybe I don't know. Does
Speaker 1: that was a test? Does it wipe your memory? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that would have been. Yes, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a white but but I would know, Yeah, you can't
Speaker 1: do that, but it sounds like fun, you know, competing
Speaker 1: like that at such a high level. What's better than that?
Speaker 1: I don't get into tennis analysis much, but Mark and
Speaker 1: I are the only ones in the room old enough
Speaker 1: to remember what a sensation. Boris Becker, I actually watched
Speaker 1: match my grandparents house. He was the pitch what do
Speaker 1: you call it? Court? Did you guys know that he
Speaker 1: famously won Wimbledon as a seventeen year old. Watched it,
Speaker 1: watched the whole thing. I think I would maybe be
Speaker 1: more like Michael chang Stow winning the French Open as
Speaker 1: a seventeen year old Chang bang But then yeah, but no,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying because he's short, no kids, so definitely no,
Speaker 1: I'll say. Now then total memory, Well, the way you
Speaker 1: framed it, there's no way I could. I could do it,
Speaker 1: and you couldn't return home. Maybe I would have not
Speaker 1: thought it all the way through and just quickly answered, well, right,
Speaker 1: does the genie offering always come with a huge audience listening,
Speaker 1: like because maybe a Greg, if it were one on
Speaker 1: one thing, maybe thinks differently about his answer offers. Right,
Speaker 1: all right, who is up the orders? All? I'll go
Speaker 1: wait are we going? Am I gonna have two more?
Speaker 1: Just one more? Maybe a speed round one, but definitely
Speaker 1: whatever one you like more do I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: grant Jared Goff a great September, Jared Goff and a
Speaker 1: great September, and then it's up to him, kind of
Speaker 1: like the Mariota and I just wanna I just want
Speaker 1: to I want to avoid a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: these couples. This one's a little selfish. I want to
Speaker 1: avoid that becoming a storyline. I want to avoid just
Speaker 1: that being in the air late September? Did did the
Speaker 1: super Bowl change forever? Change the ramps? Now, let's just
Speaker 1: just get off to a nice quick start, play player game, move,
Speaker 1: move past that, and then move on to the I
Speaker 1: like anything. That's a narrative buster. But I think if
Speaker 1: you wanted to go an extra Genie step, you would
Speaker 1: have thrown Todd Gurley in there too, because that would
Speaker 1: have been a passive narrative buster Greg wants him to
Speaker 1: his career to be well, well he's I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going to happen there. That's just an injury. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, very good. Uh who's up? Uh? I? I actually, um,
Speaker 1: I should have gone off of yours dew because it's
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans related and it's um trying to deep, trying
Speaker 1: to dig deep into my genie powers. But I think
Speaker 1: actually the combination of yours and mine together, Um, well,
Speaker 1: one guy just had an extra one and just taking
Speaker 1: this one out. No, this one had to be the
Speaker 1: way it was. But that's how it is. And it's
Speaker 1: you know, the Titans get a lot of heat on
Speaker 1: this one on our podcast. So maybe this is a
Speaker 1: healing episode. We'll see. But what I would do is
Speaker 1: genie is I would put the finishing touches on a
Speaker 1: covert technology project that went dark in two thousand twelve,
Speaker 1: a project known to a small pool of scientists as
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft Dbuster Machine trademark all rights reserved. What
Speaker 1: does the NFL Draft Debuster Machine do? Some backstory. In
Speaker 1: two thousand twelve, scientists at Bland Tech Industries and Wildwood,
Speaker 1: New Jersey, were weeks away from putting the finishing touches.
Speaker 1: One second, I've been to Wildwo New Jersey. There are
Speaker 1: no scientists, not above not above, not above ground finishing
Speaker 1: touches on a carbon steel housing unit, and that, in
Speaker 1: Layman's terms, would allow them to feed draft bus into
Speaker 1: said unit and have them emerge as draft home runs.
Speaker 1: The only caveat being that these draft bus must willingly
Speaker 1: or unwillingly hand over their DNA to the fine folks
Speaker 1: over at Blantech Industries. These scientists would then feed that
Speaker 1: DNA into the carbon steel housing unit to illustrious results.
Speaker 1: For example, in Goes the acquired DNA of Vernon Golston
Speaker 1: outcomes a gold mine for the New York Jets, a
Speaker 1: monstrous peak condition pass rushing terror for Adam Gates to unleash.
Speaker 1: What a healing bomb for fans. You can pull out
Speaker 1: that dusty justin Blackman Jersey and put it right back on,
Speaker 1: because with one strand of Blackman's hair, he's back, baby
Speaker 1: and ready to spin eighteen hundred yards seasons for Nick
Speaker 1: Foles and the Jags Greg's wish. There are deeper ethical
Speaker 1: issues involved with the project. Yeah, I mean I hope
Speaker 1: they have like some substance of use counseling and everything,
Speaker 1: they would come out with none of that being an issue.
Speaker 1: Like they it's just just the perfect peak condition. But
Speaker 1: as Jennie, I'm looking past all the issues for the Titans,
Speaker 1: because here's what I do. I'm swapping out hot and
Speaker 1: cold Marcus Mariotto with his four and six injuries and
Speaker 1: his twenty eight position coaches in favor of a supercharged
Speaker 1: back from the abyss version of Jake Locker, ready to
Speaker 1: lead the team into the next decade. Titans fans, you
Speaker 1: can thank me later and send a nice little note
Speaker 1: to Bland Tech Industries in Wildwood Underground. In Wildwood Underground,
Speaker 1: I'd like to escort two thousand nineteen Joey Vado to Wildwood,
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Pop him into that machine and see what
Speaker 1: comes out. Watch a tram car please? Um wow, that's
Speaker 1: that would be the the idea of Jake Locker coming
Speaker 1: back into our lives. I just get goose bumps now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a powerful machine, supercharged Jake Locker, none
Speaker 1: of the former flaws well yeah, illustrious, non dre off us,
Speaker 1: no desires, to leave to follow outside of life. I
Speaker 1: think he was also worried about concussion issues and one
Speaker 1: of those yeah, all right, let's a quick one around
Speaker 1: the horn, Greg, all right, I will I'm gonna grant
Speaker 1: a wish to Russell Wilson. I grant Russell a coach
Speaker 1: that allows him to throw the ball a lot more. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is gonna be Brian Schottenheimer
Speaker 1: finding religion or or just a different coach. That's what
Speaker 1: I wish for Russell Wilson and the receivers to catch
Speaker 1: it too. I will grant a wish to my beloved
Speaker 1: New York Jets that they get this GM fiasco under control,
Speaker 1: end up with the right guy. And I'll even give
Speaker 1: you the guy Joe Douglas of the Philadelphia Eagles. Everyone
Speaker 1: Osanna's about Joe Douglas. Put him in the chair and
Speaker 1: make sure it's not a yes man situation and get
Speaker 1: that house in order, because if Adam Gates is not
Speaker 1: the answer and he gets a yes man and the
Speaker 1: Jets go under and they're firing everybody in two years,
Speaker 1: not only is that another two years out of the
Speaker 1: playoffs or a team that hasn't been there in a decade.
Speaker 1: Your messing with Sam Donald's future, and I will not
Speaker 1: stand for that. I've waited too long for Sam Donald
Speaker 1: for ineptitude in the front office. So I grant organization
Speaker 1: and trust in the highest reaches from West Travis Frederick,
Speaker 1: Cowboys center stays healthy, resumes a high quality of life
Speaker 1: after months of suffering. Cowboys offensive line vised with the
Speaker 1: Cowboys linebacker corps as the most dominant position group in
Speaker 1: football and forces Greg Rosenthal to take the second half
Speaker 1: of their two thousand eighteen seasons seriously. For once. It
Speaker 1: always cycles back to Greg. I love it. Greg acts
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys were barely five and the second half
Speaker 1: of the season just sneaked, sneak into the playoffs and
Speaker 1: are now a terrible team. Greg, you don't even have
Speaker 1: to answer them because I love the Cowboys. If it
Speaker 1: were the offense in the league, it was a great
Speaker 1: defense and allows the offense mark quick one for me.
Speaker 1: I think for Carson Wentz, after all he's been through
Speaker 1: the last couple of years to have a healthy season,
Speaker 1: that he finishes in m VP form the way that
Speaker 1: we saw him back when he was a top notch
Speaker 1: and we put all this Nick Foles drama behind him
Speaker 1: and his career resumes because I loved him when he
Speaker 1: was good, and I feel like what he's been through
Speaker 1: is more than you could ask most quarterbacks to deal with.
Speaker 1: There you go, and one fine final Genie conundrum for
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler. Mark, I can place you on the grassy
Speaker 1: Knoll Deely Plaza three at eleven thirty am Central time,
Speaker 1: or I can give you the opportunity to relive that
Speaker 1: summer of three at that camp in Connecticut. You're always
Speaker 1: going on about, well, all right, that was not three
Speaker 1: but ninety seven. That was before I would take the
Speaker 1: I would take Camp Camp waya Hasseck what is it was? Later?
Speaker 1: I would take the summer though, even the summer of
Speaker 1: ninety three, because I don't I think that anything else
Speaker 1: where you're trying to change history like I would be
Speaker 1: concerned about. And how do I get back? Uh, If
Speaker 1: you want a little more detail, I give you twenty
Speaker 1: four hours in Dallas. Yes, you could say that the
Speaker 1: if you want to go by the rule of greater good,
Speaker 1: preventing like a chaotic, unwanted death of president shooting would
Speaker 1: be better than reliving like a bunch of beer parties
Speaker 1: at a neighbor's house. So maybe I'll go grass you know,
Speaker 1: for you? What's that you assume you can stop it? Oh?
Speaker 1: I know, I can. Wow. I mean, it would be
Speaker 1: a nice time catching up with all those friends and
Speaker 1: you're in the prime of your life. Maybe the Gulf
Speaker 1: of Tonkin never happened, remember those days, But you might
Speaker 1: just gotta go great. I just get shot on the grassy, know, well,
Speaker 1: you gotta go greater? Good sitting around the fire. First
Speaker 1: girlfriend's first kiss? What do you think I was born?
Speaker 1: You're ten years old of kissing in the new Pearl
Speaker 1: Jam album. That sounds good to me? No you I
Speaker 1: I initially wavered, but I've taken the more responsible route
Speaker 1: here I be a good man Mark. Um, there you go,
Speaker 1: good genie work. Genies are hot. We surf that zeitgeist. Um.
Speaker 1: We'll be back later this week and a day to
Speaker 1: be determined. Thursday. Right, Thursday, The answer is Thursday. I
Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know either, but now I know,
Speaker 1: because you seem confident, I think, So okay, get the
Speaker 1: whole schedule. Another show on Thursday. All right, this is
Speaker 1: it's It's started. The mail Man, the Old Boss and
Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood Behind the Glass until Thursday,