Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where it's always a good day.
Speaker 1: To welcome Colleen Wolf back into the Chris Wesley podcast studio.
Speaker 2: I'm Greg Rosbald.
Speaker 1: Jordan Rodrigue of The Athletic is also here to see
Speaker 1: you next Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Crew is back for the offseason. You've been renew good.
Speaker 3: I love it. Hello, I'm back, baby, rejuvenated.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I get on by a threadit are we?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because because you were in Philadelphia for the parade
Speaker 1: and we're going to get to that inside and in
Speaker 1: just a second. But we actually have some breaking news
Speaker 1: to start the show. Just two minutes ago, NASA has
Speaker 1: updated that there is now a three per point one
Speaker 1: percent chance and asteroid will hit the Earth in twenty
Speaker 1: thirty two, which is up from two point six percent yesterday.
Speaker 1: This is the high risk assessment the asteroid has ever received,
Speaker 1: surpassing two point seven percent in two thousand and and four.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is this is worth stopping down.
Speaker 1: I can't really focus on the rest of the show
Speaker 1: at this point.
Speaker 5: I just want to know if we could pick up
Speaker 5: the pace a little bit.
Speaker 3: Twenty thirty two is a long way away. Yeah, just
Speaker 3: put us out of our I mean.
Speaker 5: Is it though?
Speaker 1: Like, imagine if you were told that you have a
Speaker 1: three point one percent chance of winning the lottery, wouldn't
Speaker 1: that seem awfully high?
Speaker 4: I would think it's pretty low still, but I guess
Speaker 4: it is high.
Speaker 3: It's definitely high.
Speaker 5: Let me put this into football context. When we said
Speaker 5: that number, I just was like, where have I heard
Speaker 5: something like this percentage?
Speaker 3: Before?
Speaker 5: The Rams had like a three percent chance of making
Speaker 5: the playoffs this year after start, look what happened.
Speaker 1: If you just say, what is every team's chance to
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl in a given year, it's pretty close.
Speaker 3: To Okay, I can only learn things through a football.
Speaker 2: Your team one, your team won much clearer. Now I
Speaker 2: feel like this this should be a bigger deal.
Speaker 5: It's asteroid of twenty thirty two. The Philadelphia Eagles were inevitable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you knew that the earth was going to
Speaker 1: end in seven years, Like, what would that?
Speaker 6: Do you know?
Speaker 1: What would you what would you change in terms of
Speaker 1: your life process?
Speaker 3: I'd quit my job. I'm just kidding. I love my job.
Speaker 4: I would probably move somewhere that's like exotic, by a beach,
Speaker 4: like Costa Rica.
Speaker 2: Maybe if you like, you wouldn't go to Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: The exotic land of Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: That's you know what tell us about the preak. We
Speaker 2: haven't talked at all.
Speaker 3: We edit out that I said I'm going to quit
Speaker 3: my job. Everyone would quit their job, all.
Speaker 5: Right, I could. I mean, nothing matters.
Speaker 1: A lot of people, don't, you know, have any money,
Speaker 1: So that would that would be a problem for the
Speaker 1: next seven years.
Speaker 5: I haven't saved at all.
Speaker 3: Do you think that I've saved money? No way, I'll
Speaker 3: plan on bartering.
Speaker 1: We haven't spoken Colleen since your team won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: And yeah, the Eagles have gotten a lot of love
Speaker 1: on this show since and yea, I need to hear
Speaker 1: more about it. I want to back up to Super
Speaker 1: Bowl night. But let's start with the parade. Because I
Speaker 1: saw on Instagram you're heading to Philadelphia. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. The NFL Networks having Colleen covered the parade again.
Speaker 1: And then I realized, no, you're You're just there in
Speaker 1: the crowd.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 4: I was like, hey, guys, I just so happened to
Speaker 4: be in Philadelphia the day that the parade is happening.
Speaker 4: You know you want me to do anything, No, we
Speaker 4: don't need your help. So I was like, okay, cool,
Speaker 4: well I can just like go enjoy it. The thing is,
Speaker 4: I was always going to be in Philadelphia that day
Speaker 4: because my uncle Jack was getting married that night.
Speaker 3: It was Valentine's Day.
Speaker 4: So I did a very aggressive double dip of the
Speaker 4: Eagles championship parade followed by a wedding in Northeast Philadelphia.
Speaker 4: And speaking of exotic locations, if you're not familiar with
Speaker 4: Northeast Philadelphia, maybe you should book a trip there at
Speaker 4: some point soon.
Speaker 3: Gorgeous sometime in the next seven years.
Speaker 2: Yes, what was it?
Speaker 1: What was it like? It looked like a scene. Did
Speaker 1: you go to the first Breed?
Speaker 5: I did?
Speaker 3: I so I covered that.
Speaker 4: That was the Cardi B Year when I didn't realize
Speaker 4: I was being recorded and then it was played back
Speaker 4: to me in broadcasts and singing Cardi B. Was very excited.
Speaker 4: But it it was interesting because it was two different
Speaker 4: vantage points. So this time I was just hanging out
Speaker 4: with my friends with.
Speaker 3: Some fireball in my pocket. Nice.
Speaker 4: That's different than being on the mic singing Cardi B.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's closed but different.
Speaker 5: It's fun. It's in the same realm. But I heard
Speaker 5: that this one felt like the first one. Felt like Catharsis.
Speaker 5: This one felt like a party. That's how like Les
Speaker 5: Bowen was describing it. Yeah, that people were just really
Speaker 5: like soaking this one in and enjoying it because they
Speaker 5: had already broken through.
Speaker 3: H huh.
Speaker 5: The ashes were poored at the last one of you know,
Speaker 5: people who never got to see a champion and ship that,
Speaker 5: and this one was just like an all out party.
Speaker 3: It was like a release the first one.
Speaker 4: The first one was like, okay, we got there, like
Speaker 4: just just a release and relief at the same time.
Speaker 4: And then this one was just like, look at us,
Speaker 4: now we're back in it.
Speaker 1: Like everyone gets into Super Bowl parades and World Championship parades,
Speaker 1: but there actually is no other city that's like Philadelphia
Speaker 1: and how they do it in terms of getting ready
Speaker 1: the night before and like the amount.
Speaker 2: Of people that are there and out there.
Speaker 1: They really do go harder, just like they did, you know,
Speaker 1: coming to the Super Bowl and kind of dominating the crowd.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 4: I will say the liquor stores the night before the
Speaker 4: parade were absolutely insane, and I completely forgot about all
Speaker 4: of the laws surrounding alcohol in Pennsylvania, all right, a
Speaker 4: lot of them, so it's some challenges, dealt with some adversity,
Speaker 4: But here I am.
Speaker 5: It's like a morning thing, isn't it, Like there's one
Speaker 5: where you can So I also saw him a post
Speaker 5: where it was like some people in the in the crowd,
Speaker 5: we're throwing up the airplane bottles of liquor to the wags,
Speaker 5: uh huh, and they were downing them and throwing them back.
Speaker 5: Like I was like, hell, yeah, that's everything. Yeah, like
Speaker 5: what a rad group of people.
Speaker 1: I know you were in the stadium announcing the freaking
Speaker 1: Super Bowl as the in stadium host. We're very proud
Speaker 1: to see that. We mentioned that on the post show.
Speaker 1: We have so many so like what was what was
Speaker 1: that like? And what was the the after glow and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I didn't somehow didn't see you in
Speaker 1: all of that.
Speaker 4: I know, I feel like I didn't see anyone. I
Speaker 4: don't know what happened. Where did I go? But it
Speaker 4: was It was surreal because last year was the first
Speaker 4: time I did the in stadium during the Super Bowl announcing,
Speaker 4: and that was really cool, just a totally different experience
Speaker 4: than I've ever had before. I know, it was Las
Speaker 4: Vegas and it was the final stadium that I needed
Speaker 4: to check off my list to get to all of them.
Speaker 4: So that was great, but this time with the Eagles
Speaker 4: in it, it was much more surreal. And also doing
Speaker 4: it with Rende Barber, who Eagles fans absolutely hate, so
Speaker 4: it just added this other layer of kind of fun
Speaker 4: to the whole thing. But I was standing on the
Speaker 4: field during the coin toss, and that's when I normally
Speaker 4: am not someone who can pause in the moment and
Speaker 4: be like, oh, this is cool. I'm like just waiting
Speaker 4: for it to be over to make sure I don't
Speaker 4: mess it up, and then I can enjoy it once
Speaker 4: it's done. But I was standing there during coin toss
Speaker 4: just looking around and thinking to myself.
Speaker 3: Holy shit, this is wild.
Speaker 2: That is badass, that's cool.
Speaker 1: Just think how angry the Chiefs fans there would have
Speaker 1: been if they had known that the lady and doing
Speaker 1: everything is an Eagles fan.
Speaker 2: But you kept your profess.
Speaker 3: Wearing Yes, yes, we talked about this.
Speaker 5: You were wearing red, right, but theory this isn't Maybe
Speaker 5: an ask Connie for later the show, but I have
Speaker 5: this question because so I loved your.
Speaker 3: Necklace that you were wearing.
Speaker 5: Oh thank you so much from far away, it looked
Speaker 5: like a bird with wings outstretched, like I know it wasn't,
Speaker 5: but it looked like. And I was like, is Connie
Speaker 5: like subtly go birds right like subconsciously go birds right now?
Speaker 5: Because I know you had to wear the red suit
Speaker 5: and be neutral and all of that. But I was like,
Speaker 5: that balanced it out, the universal balance.
Speaker 4: Now that I'm thinking about it, it was wing like
Speaker 4: the way that it was shaped.
Speaker 3: But no, that was not by design at all.
Speaker 4: So total coincidence, everything universe coming up Connie.
Speaker 5: It was like.
Speaker 4: Finally at the end when we did our final hit
Speaker 4: after they won and like the confetti's going, I was.
Speaker 3: Like, okay, can I can I now? Can I Can
Speaker 3: I now say something? Can I now talk about the Eagles?
Speaker 4: And they were like, go ahead, do it, and I
Speaker 4: was like, just went freaking wild amazing.
Speaker 1: I need to get that video and play it on
Speaker 1: this show since we forgot to, you know, consider having
Speaker 1: Connie on the show. On the field where we were
Speaker 1: right after the game, I was like, I was thinking
Speaker 1: about it as I'm leaving the stadium that night, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, well, maybe next time the Eagles
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl and we're all still employed there.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: I was just wandering around with a trash bag, feeling
Speaker 3: just like for.
Speaker 1: A minute or two to come join us, and we
Speaker 1: can have Howie Rose and A. J.
Speaker 2: Brown, we can have Connie. But next time.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you missed me with all those
Speaker 3: rhinestones there.
Speaker 2: I did see that from way way above. It was.
Speaker 2: It was real.
Speaker 5: It was. It was really sweet. So we were we
Speaker 5: got some videos and stuff of you on the like
Speaker 5: we were panning from the cottage. I'm so it was
Speaker 5: really cute. We were walking so the Superdome had so
Speaker 5: many steps everywhere, and just like so we were going
Speaker 5: up and down these steps in different booths and everything,
Speaker 5: and uh, Greg stops all of a sudden, and I'm
Speaker 5: like what white he stop and he got his phone
Speaker 5: out like a proud parent, and he was like filming
Speaker 5: you and he and I turn around and I just
Speaker 5: see his face and he's just grinning, like just the
Speaker 5: biggest smile and he's like, look, we know her. Like
Speaker 5: you guys, I.
Speaker 4: Actually get like this whenever I see my friends on TV,
Speaker 4: like when I see you guys, And it's so weird
Speaker 4: because this is our job.
Speaker 5: We work.
Speaker 1: Oh, it is like I've seen you on TV a
Speaker 1: million times for some and other friends. I'm lucky enough
Speaker 1: to see on TV. But for some reason, actually being
Speaker 1: in the stadium of the super Bowl and you're there
Speaker 1: on the that's cooler. That's cooler than all of it.
Speaker 2: Connie is so cool.
Speaker 1: We've built the whole show around ask your opinions. Uh, later,
Speaker 1: we're gonna ask Connie. We got We took listener questions
Speaker 1: and got a range of them.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what you're there about questions.
Speaker 2: They're about football.
Speaker 1: But first of all, haill hit a little bit of news,
Speaker 1: not a ton of news dropping right now. I did
Speaker 1: the franchise tag primer last week with our friend Nick Shook.
Speaker 1: As our people are listening to this as we're taping this,
Speaker 1: the door is open. The teams can officially apply the
Speaker 1: franchise tag. And our first item of news does come
Speaker 1: from that. It's from our towm Pella Sero saying that
Speaker 1: the Bengals are focused on a long term deal for
Speaker 1: t Higgins, but if they cannot reach it by the
Speaker 1: end of the franchise tag period, they are expected to
Speaker 1: place the franchise tag on T Higgins. This would be
Speaker 1: a second straight year, so he gets a twenty percent
Speaker 1: bump off what it was last year. I think he'll
Speaker 1: be around twenty six million. It looks like that's what's
Speaker 1: going to happen because they never get the deals done early.
Speaker 1: T Higgins, I guess, is likely staying with the Bengals.
Speaker 1: I'm still not even sure, but they're going to use the.
Speaker 5: Tag them releasing this or leaking it or however it
Speaker 5: came upon our timelines.
Speaker 3: It felt like a veiled threat almost.
Speaker 5: It's like, hey, if you're not going to make this
Speaker 5: easy or if we can't get this done, oh, we're
Speaker 5: going to tag you for a second consecutive year. When
Speaker 5: it's been extremely clear that Joe Burrow that other members
Speaker 5: of the team want this to get done. And I
Speaker 5: don't know, it seems like a half measure to me.
Speaker 5: It doesn't seem like it is a half measure to
Speaker 5: me to not be able to secure that long term
Speaker 5: deal with the player that the franchise quarterback has openly
Speaker 5: been discussing in terms of keeping and sort of pressuring
Speaker 5: the organization publicly in ways we have not seen from
Speaker 5: him before. And so to me, this is playing a
Speaker 5: dangerous game. They did it last year, as we know,
Speaker 5: it's playing a dangerous game again this year. Because it's like, okay, like,
Speaker 5: how how happy will you actually be with a half
Speaker 5: measure or like it's that meme of like the giant
Speaker 5: tub of water that's leaking and someone slaps a little
Speaker 5: piece of duct tape on it says fixed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this has to be so incredibly frustrating for T
Speaker 4: Higgins as what a twenty six year old, He's going
Speaker 4: to be one of the top skill position free agents
Speaker 4: that would be available if he didn't.
Speaker 3: Get the tag.
Speaker 4: Having the tag back to back years now, he can't
Speaker 4: go out and leverage what could be a bidding war
Speaker 4: and actually get paid here, Like he is one of
Speaker 4: the best number two wide receivers in the league. Maybe
Speaker 4: for some teams he could even be, yeah, a number
Speaker 4: one wide receiver. So I know that this team has
Speaker 4: so many issues with their defense and like paying obviously
Speaker 4: to wide receivers wouldn't be wise, so a tag makes.
Speaker 3: Sense for them.
Speaker 4: But it's just I think it's a real bummer because,
Speaker 4: as you said, Joe Burrow is out here, like, look,
Speaker 4: we can push money and we can do signing well in.
Speaker 5: It, and Joe Burrow put his over the cap on
Speaker 5: earlier and was like talking about how much could be
Speaker 5: restructured or front loaded and different things, and how his
Speaker 5: contract can be opened up in different ways. And I'm like,
Speaker 5: oht GM. He is public about this to the point
Speaker 5: where I'm not seen. I guess I wasn't expecting him
Speaker 5: to be this public about the pressure.
Speaker 2: This pressure.
Speaker 1: He's like, why are you better do every possible thing
Speaker 1: to get everyone paid or I'm going to be really upset.
Speaker 1: He is exerting as much public leverage as he possibly can.
Speaker 1: It's interesting about the timing because it was a team
Speaker 1: source that said, you know that they'll tag him by
Speaker 1: the March Worth deadline in order to have time to
Speaker 1: get a deal done. I thought maybe it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of like we're just we're not going to Jesse
Speaker 1: bates him, which is just letting him walk on the
Speaker 1: second tag that it also could be a signal to
Speaker 1: the rest of the league, like hey, you want to
Speaker 1: trade for him, Like, let's get those offers in because
Speaker 1: we can tag and trade him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's a whole that's a whole thing.
Speaker 5: They could do that and they haven't figured out the
Speaker 5: Jamar Chase situation. Yet, if they could go back in
Speaker 5: time and figure out the t Higgins situation before the
Speaker 5: Jamar Chase price went up even higher, you probably would
Speaker 5: want to do that. Now you're stuck between a rock
Speaker 5: and a hard place with two receivers and you might
Speaker 5: have to float, like you said, the idea of tagging
Speaker 5: and trading one and you know that's going to piss
Speaker 5: your quarterback off.
Speaker 1: Well that there's a report on ESPN that the team
Speaker 1: will attempt to secure all three stars who need new
Speaker 1: deals this offseason, Jamar Chase, t Higgins, Trey Hendrickson, which
Speaker 1: is like, yeah, that's that's great.
Speaker 2: I'm attempting to.
Speaker 1: Get like a color analyst job on one of the
Speaker 1: major networks for the NFL games.
Speaker 3: Like Live Past the Meteor, put me on it.
Speaker 2: That would be good too.
Speaker 4: Wait, did you guys see t Higgins mom tweeting too?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: No, tell us she tweeted last.
Speaker 4: Night so well, she tweeted Monday night, selfish bastards and
Speaker 4: that was it. Who However, like in the comments, everyone's like,
Speaker 4: is this about the Bengals And she's like, no, it's
Speaker 4: not not at all, Like so she's saying it's something
Speaker 4: completely different, but just no context.
Speaker 3: Selfish bastards.
Speaker 2: I think she just finished the first six episodes of
Speaker 2: Love Is Blind.
Speaker 5: She's definitely watching Traders if you're talking about Bengals.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, the Bengals are going to try to get
Speaker 1: everything done.
Speaker 5: Well, you know what, Greg, as long as they try
Speaker 5: their best, that'll definitely make Joe Burrow satisfied with this offseason.
Speaker 3: I think got them all to have fun.
Speaker 1: I think if you were a Bengals fan, though, actually
Speaker 1: you're happy that they're not doing the Jessee Bates thing,
Speaker 1: which is a letty and one way, because yeah, him
Speaker 1: or DeVante Smith are the best number two receiver in
Speaker 1: the league. He's a top twenty receiver in the league overall.
Speaker 1: He's my number one overall free agent of this entire class.
Speaker 1: And I kind of think, like, you can't really do
Speaker 1: all that. You have to trade either Trey Hendrickson or
Speaker 1: t Higgins. Probably I would probably.
Speaker 5: Know what you do.
Speaker 1: I would probably try to trade Hendrickson, see what you
Speaker 1: can get. But if it's not a lot, you get
Speaker 1: more for t Higgins. It's not that crazy to pay
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase pay Trey Hendrickson and if you can get
Speaker 1: like a high second for Tea where you drafted him, I.
Speaker 5: Don't think I don't think you're far off in that
Speaker 5: at all, actually, Greg, because I actually do you Sorry,
Speaker 5: I meant you made a very good point just now.
Speaker 5: The they're gonna be able to figure out what like
Speaker 5: basically who loses out on the potential Miles Garrett trade sweepstakes.
Speaker 5: Everybody's gonna know the teams that are involved in wanting
Speaker 5: to trade for Miles Garrett and what the capital would be.
Speaker 5: And if you're saying Trey Hendrickson could be tradeable, then
Speaker 5: there is a chance that you know, you could figure
Speaker 5: out like who the loser of that potential deal is
Speaker 5: or who's in the mix for it, and then that's
Speaker 5: where you push. There's not really anything like that for
Speaker 5: a receiver right now. So you would be then setting
Speaker 5: whatever the market possibilities would be if it's t Higgins
Speaker 5: as tradable, but you would already know them and be
Speaker 5: able to leverage and lobby whatever that top do.
Speaker 1: You just have a lot of time because if you
Speaker 1: tag them, it's just sort of this never end anything.
Speaker 1: You could have all the way into the draft to
Speaker 1: get that trade done. One item that popped up last
Speaker 1: week was there was a report, not from a regular
Speaker 1: NFL reporter that said the.
Speaker 3: Steelers reporter, not like a regular one, had.
Speaker 1: Made a call, not like a big Day be writer,
Speaker 1: that the Steelers had made a call about Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 1: And since that has happened, the Jaguars came out publicly
Speaker 1: and said that it was ridiculous that that never happened.
Speaker 1: Now there's sources on the Steelers side through Pro Football
Speaker 1: Talk and NFL dot Com where they said the Steelers
Speaker 1: never even made that call, but Trevor Lawrence is not
Speaker 1: going anywhere, and that's sort of an off season news
Speaker 1: cycle of things, but that it would be ridiculous for
Speaker 1: them to consider trading Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence was funny.
Speaker 4: He was talking about how his agent texted him was like, Hey,
Speaker 4: this is just like a report that's floating around. I'll
Speaker 4: check into it. And then he said, and then I'm
Speaker 4: thinking about it, and I have a no trade clause,
Speaker 4: so I would know about this if it was going
Speaker 4: to happen. Didn't even have a GM Still, right, Wow,
Speaker 4: that's who's making It's making the TRADEO.
Speaker 3: This is the time of year. You're right, now, we
Speaker 3: know who's pulling the strings.
Speaker 2: I mean it really really is him. It's him and
Speaker 2: Tony Vaselli. But uh, I don't.
Speaker 3: This time of year is so frustrating.
Speaker 4: It sucks because there are just so many non stories
Speaker 4: but also could be a story that you have to
Speaker 4: read into everything and read between the lines of everything too.
Speaker 1: I mean, Trevor Lawrence is about they would not put
Speaker 1: him up for a trade, but he's you know, he's up.
Speaker 1: He's about like one disappointing year with a new head
Speaker 1: coach that has a long contract away from it not
Speaker 1: being that crazy.
Speaker 5: I've sort of made this reference before and when it
Speaker 5: comes to Liam Cohen, but like he's a good vibes guy.
Speaker 5: Like I'm happy for Trevor Lawrence that he's got like
Speaker 5: a good vibes team around him in terms of his
Speaker 5: coaching staff and the people who will be working with
Speaker 5: him every day and maybe helping him feel like refreshed
Speaker 5: and better. Like Grant Udinsky, who came over from Minnesota
Speaker 5: is gonna be the oc literally gets lost intentionally in
Speaker 5: the Scandinavian wilderness every summer, like what right like goes
Speaker 5: off the grid. No, yeah, and like they why, Like
Speaker 5: it's just the most I guess it's a hobby.
Speaker 3: You know, it's get lost in the wilderness to control loss.
Speaker 1: Because if you wanted to get lost and die in
Speaker 1: the wilderness, like you could do it long, you have
Speaker 1: to have some guardrails on that.
Speaker 5: Seeing he searches the fjords, you know, that's kind of
Speaker 5: what he does for his like get away from football time.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying, I like, I just like the general
Speaker 5: dynamic in terms of bringing some freshness into that room. Uh,
Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence. You know, he's really an interesting guy. I
Speaker 5: know that we don't necessarily see that all the time.
Speaker 5: A lot of it's just been like he's been stressed
Speaker 5: and around people that kind of stank frankly in terms
Speaker 5: of his coaches and not not Doug Peterson, but prior
Speaker 5: to that the urban years. And he's he actually is
Speaker 5: pretty cool. Like his brother's an artist, Like he's got
Speaker 5: a good family. I just get the sense that like
Speaker 5: he's ready to take that step forward and like be
Speaker 5: around a collective like hive mind of people who all
Speaker 5: want to thrive and succeed together.
Speaker 4: Brian Thomas Junior also is like such a great vibes guy.
Speaker 4: I met him at Honors and like he was just
Speaker 4: so nice, so fun. Tried to do the duval thing
Speaker 4: with him, the Liam Cohen one.
Speaker 3: I was just the one that did it. But wait,
Speaker 3: do you have an impression?
Speaker 5: No, I just did.
Speaker 2: So good?
Speaker 1: Did you mention the tweet I had about Brian Thomas
Speaker 1: that he could not be that teams could not draft
Speaker 1: him too early, that that was my only draft take the.
Speaker 3: God so weird I forgot about.
Speaker 2: You should have next time I talked to him.
Speaker 1: A Jaguars fans were very upset about this because of
Speaker 1: the kind It would never make any sense to trade
Speaker 1: him right now either, although it is crazy if you
Speaker 1: were making a list of like the most valuable quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: if you include the contract, it takes a while before
Speaker 1: you get to Trevor Lawrence. Like he's not top twelve,
Speaker 1: He's probably not top fifteen, which is just crazy, even
Speaker 1: where you would have been with him like a year
Speaker 1: or two ago.
Speaker 2: I love fjords though, what a word and what like that?
Speaker 5: I know, I really brought that point up just to
Speaker 5: say the word fjords.
Speaker 1: There's a book called The Ice Palace that I bought
Speaker 1: in London this year. It's by tarjij Best Sass, one
Speaker 1: of the best books I've read of the last year,
Speaker 1: and it's about these two young girls who kind of
Speaker 1: get lost in these.
Speaker 3: Fjords, intentionally or not intentionally. The intentional part of this
Speaker 3: is the concerning kind of.
Speaker 1: Intentionally but that's a little bit of a spoiler, but kind.
Speaker 4: The thoughts of the wilderness. This gives me like heart.
Speaker 2: It's a dark book. I recommend everyone check it out.
Speaker 1: We'll wrap up the news where I just wanted to
Speaker 1: give a shout out to NFL dot com, who's cranking
Speaker 1: out some great off season content this time of year,
Speaker 1: and this is the type of article we could almost
Speaker 1: build a whole show out of, but we're not, so
Speaker 1: I'm just mentioning as a quick little news item. They
Speaker 1: had thirty nine different players who would be cut candidates
Speaker 1: you could possibly get released the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: You've already seen some of these releases happen. I mentioned
Speaker 1: how Raheem Moster and Kendall Fuller the Dolphins got cut already,
Speaker 1: so they listed thirty nine. Matt Acota, who does a
Speaker 1: great job. We wrote wrote that up and I recommend
Speaker 1: everyone check it out. But I just thought i'd throw
Speaker 1: five or six of the more interesting names out there
Speaker 1: and just if you guys have any thoughts, let me know.
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett, Yeah, that's an interesting one. Grady Jarrett of
Speaker 1: the Falcons.
Speaker 5: Wow, end of an era in that case.
Speaker 1: Would surprise me a little bit. I'm putting that under
Speaker 1: fifty percent. But he came off a really serious injury
Speaker 1: and he's a little older, and they might try to
Speaker 1: get younger. Sam Hubbard of the Bengals, that's where they
Speaker 1: can save someone. Von Miller seems very obvious to me,
Speaker 1: of the Bills, I think that'll happen. How about this one,
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa, I think I think the Bosa and Khalil
Speaker 1: mack era oh could be ending. And then I'll wrap
Speaker 1: with a bunch of Saints Derek Carr that that's a
Speaker 1: big quarterback Domino to drop. Does Kellen Moore want to
Speaker 1: keep him? Taysom Hill maybe because of his contract is
Speaker 1: really big. Cam Jordan, who's an NFL media colleague of our.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he can just go right over to the media side.
Speaker 4: I hate that the Saints are in such cap hell
Speaker 4: because their team name indicates that they shouldn't be in
Speaker 4: a place like hell, but the same that's where they are.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I gotta go.
Speaker 5: Somebody put me out of my misery driving. Can we
Speaker 5: expectse the meteor?
Speaker 3: I did it right.
Speaker 5: I did love seeing Cam Jordan riding around everywhere in
Speaker 5: New Orleans on a scooter, just like he owns that city.
Speaker 2: It is just it was, oh yeah, we saw that
Speaker 2: no one was with them.
Speaker 3: We were this masking smile on his face.
Speaker 5: It was cool.
Speaker 1: I was like eleven thirty am, no at night, and
Speaker 1: he just was by I'll buy himself on the scooter
Speaker 1: and we're like, oh wait, that's that's Cam Jordan on
Speaker 1: a scooter.
Speaker 2: And you know what, it's a great way to get
Speaker 2: around a city.
Speaker 1: It is like New Orleans, which is it's it's like
Speaker 1: you have maybe like a mile to go, but it's
Speaker 1: not worth getting an uber.
Speaker 4: It's any super Bowl city because like you made the
Speaker 4: road closures.
Speaker 2: I love that humidity.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break. We're gonna come
Speaker 1: back and we're gonna ask Connie.
Speaker 3: I'm nervous.
Speaker 2: Solves gonna be the universe's.
Speaker 4: Problems and asteroid, not a meteor.
Speaker 3: An asteroid. Well, what's the difference here, let's.
Speaker 6: Talking back on NFL Daily Living.
Speaker 2: To our fullest. Yeah, we cang as we can.
Speaker 4: Well, now I know the difference between an asteroid and
Speaker 4: a meteor.
Speaker 3: A meteor is just a streak of light. So that's
Speaker 3: not gonna end things. We need the asteroid.
Speaker 2: I think I think I would. I think I would
Speaker 2: still work. I don't know. That's not going to do anything.
Speaker 2: I saw that. I saw that. Did you see the
Speaker 2: clip of Jalen Hurts's.
Speaker 1: Mom the TikTok she did of like going into work
Speaker 1: the after you know her son?
Speaker 3: No, I need to see it.
Speaker 1: It's just like a little dance and with a little
Speaker 1: subhet of like, yeah, this is me, like going into
Speaker 1: work after my son is super Bowl m v.
Speaker 2: P, you know, a little dance or whatever.
Speaker 1: And it looked like a school, So I assume she
Speaker 1: works at a school.
Speaker 3: And I was I wanted to be ab elementary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had that vibe. Some of the commenters had
Speaker 1: that vibe. And half the comment was like.
Speaker 2: What what's she doing working? How come? How come she
Speaker 2: still has to work?
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking like maybe if she finds fulfillment and
Speaker 1: that's where bringing it back to the asteroids, like, would
Speaker 1: would I want to work?
Speaker 2: Out? Would I want to work?
Speaker 1: I guess if you knew it was ending and you
Speaker 1: had the means to not work, Yeah, I wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to work as much.
Speaker 4: However, I would like maybe work at a bar or
Speaker 4: do something where I could just like chill, like maybe
Speaker 4: get like a boutique.
Speaker 1: If I if I was missus Hurts boutique, I would
Speaker 1: want to keep working even if you didn't have to.
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do?
Speaker 5: All right? Greg?
Speaker 2: Right, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Machine do something more fun? I would come here at
Speaker 1: Chris Westley.
Speaker 3: He's gonna rescue Mark the.
Speaker 1: Studio and watch Jordan take charge of this segment. Ask Connie.
Speaker 1: She only Jordan knows the questions that we are asking
Speaker 1: and she is going to lead the way. Okay, thank
Speaker 1: you to everyone who follows us.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to hear the ones that just like
Speaker 3: Greg interrupted the.
Speaker 1: Drop, Well, I didn't know you existed on that, and
Speaker 1: it's news to me.
Speaker 3: Let's hear it again, Eric, ask Connie. That should be
Speaker 3: my text tone?
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: I don't like the encroaching use of AI on this show.
Speaker 3: It's fine, We're doomed in seven years.
Speaker 2: It's great, let's do it.
Speaker 1: It's got to be life questions, all questions, everything, And yes,
Speaker 1: thank you for everyone who follows us on Blue Sky
Speaker 1: and the questions there.
Speaker 2: We're off.
Speaker 4: I do feel like it's been very negative about like working,
Speaker 4: and I do want everyone to know that I do
Speaker 4: love my.
Speaker 3: Job and I'm grateful that I have it.
Speaker 4: And this is not at all like taking anything I
Speaker 4: have for granted.
Speaker 3: So just throwing that.
Speaker 5: Out, noted for the record today, noted for.
Speaker 2: That twenty second little SoundBite. We'll save you. That's the damn.
Speaker 1: It's going to be like decide, Yeah, what about those
Speaker 1: twenty seconds on February too much?
Speaker 5: Okay, I love I love this energy though it's good.
Speaker 5: We're all doomed, it's fine, okay. So this is a
Speaker 5: mixture of football life how too okay? And what's it
Speaker 5: all mean? Oh no? Which I find you perfect for
Speaker 5: it greatly. There was a really good football question we got,
Speaker 5: and I think it's a timely question, and I think
Speaker 5: we're going to need to all collectively start thinking about
Speaker 5: this as a football society heading into twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 5: And this is from on Blue Sky cartoon Steve Bold,
Speaker 5: and he nagged his own question. I liked his question.
Speaker 5: He said, I only have a boring NFL question. Not boring, Steve,
Speaker 5: what's the biggest impact the Eagles will have on other
Speaker 5: teams approach?
Speaker 3: This is a good question.
Speaker 4: You first, well, I think teams now are gonna look
Speaker 4: at their coaching stabs and their personnel and they're gonna
Speaker 4: need a big dom like that obviously, where they're maybe
Speaker 4: just more Italian influence altogether.
Speaker 1: We tried to get Big Don on the show. He
Speaker 1: was hanging right around our set after he thought he
Speaker 1: wanted to, and he wanted to, but the Eagles wouldn't
Speaker 1: let him.
Speaker 3: What what do you mean?
Speaker 2: Who he is?
Speaker 3: The Eagles?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we we big dom. If you're listening, love big Dog.
Speaker 1: They were like they didn't. He wasn't doing any any media,
Speaker 1: so I feel like.
Speaker 5: He was probably highly requested. I'm sure he was the
Speaker 5: set he was hanging around.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's let's get some.
Speaker 4: More like you know, Nick Sirianni vic Fangio, big dumb
Speaker 4: they have what Pennunzio.
Speaker 2: Oh that's it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're an Italian influence.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I see, I just missed the Italian market and
Speaker 4: having been home in Philly, I'm like the Cannoli's, let's
Speaker 4: get more of that. But I mean, well, everyone's gonna
Speaker 4: want to Saquon Barkley, but you can't Barkley also if
Speaker 4: you don't have that offensive line too, And it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: here's a novel idea. Why are you building the trenches?
Speaker 4: Like it all starts up front? Yeah, obviously, of course,
Speaker 4: and that's where we see it, like you have to
Speaker 4: wheel and deal a little bit like how we did
Speaker 4: and then hit on all your draft picks too.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think it's interesting because everybody says that too. Everybody
Speaker 5: says we're going to run the ball and we're gonna
Speaker 5: build both lines and all this stuff. The Eagles have
Speaker 5: actually really just been about it, like legitimately been about
Speaker 5: it for years and it's been a year's long process.
Speaker 5: We're seeing the fruits of their labor now. And we
Speaker 5: did a couple of years ago as well when they
Speaker 5: won in seventeen. But what this is a year's long
Speaker 5: collaborative like guess and check process. And I think what
Speaker 5: a lot of people are doing. And I actually heard
Speaker 5: this about this year's GM cycle where people were interviewing
Speaker 5: people a either in from and in the Eagles building
Speaker 5: or people outside of the building who are candidates for jobs,
Speaker 5: about different practices and methods that have since been publicized
Speaker 5: that the Eagles use, such as the insurance policies on
Speaker 5: players and some of the contracts that help mitigate some
Speaker 5: of the financial damage should anything happen injury wise, about
Speaker 5: risk assessment and risk management. I met, and I won't
Speaker 5: I'll keep her name out of this, but I met
Speaker 5: this lovely, lovely woman two years ago at the Combine
Speaker 5: who had done some consulting work for Eagles, saying, Hey,
Speaker 5: we're actually trying to assess and quantify the level of
Speaker 5: draft capital per like red flag for prospects. So if
Speaker 5: they have certain traits or qualities or background information that
Speaker 5: we find that are considered to be a red flag,
Speaker 5: whether that's medical, whether psychological, emotional, or personal, how do
Speaker 5: we quantify that toward draft capital?
Speaker 3: How do we move that needle.
Speaker 2: Up and down?
Speaker 5: Basically, they're constantly troubleshooting and constantly guessing and checking and
Speaker 5: trying these little micro experiments.
Speaker 3: Behind the scenes.
Speaker 5: They have a massive front office staff in which they
Speaker 5: can do this, and they sort of just like, let
Speaker 5: the no, it wasn't the good message.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, they sorry.
Speaker 5: She would be good at that though.
Speaker 4: I'm guessing who this person was trying to as we're
Speaker 4: sending messages on computers here.
Speaker 5: But I should have kept a straight face and I couldn't.
Speaker 5: She would be so perfect for them, though. And I
Speaker 5: just think that they try these little micro experiments and
Speaker 5: they when they're finally ready to go public with the
Speaker 5: outliers that they have ascertained for the positive, they've already
Speaker 5: done so much research and data building behind the scenes
Speaker 5: that it looks like, oh, they just keep winning, they
Speaker 5: just keep making these right. There's a whole process that
Speaker 5: goes into it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they do have a huge front office in general.
Speaker 1: I mean, their personnel guys weren't getting higher though, Like
Speaker 1: I'm still surprised Howie Roseman's right hand man for the
Speaker 1: last decade, alec Alaby, got one interview in this cycle.
Speaker 5: And it was the Jets who did the right thing
Speaker 5: by interviewing a smart candidate.
Speaker 3: And they interviewed everyone.
Speaker 2: And that's true, it's still there.
Speaker 1: But that's like a robust analytics department that all that
Speaker 1: stuff's happened. A lot of the stuff that they that
Speaker 1: they were doing in seventeen in the line.
Speaker 2: But like it's very consistent.
Speaker 1: They've always traded more than other teams, and I think
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of trades. But I think
Speaker 1: the most obvious basic thing that they do better than
Speaker 1: other teams that every team could and should copy is
Speaker 1: they just get their contract extensions done early with no
Speaker 1: drama and that's it, and so you actually end up
Speaker 1: getting a better price. So they're not going into Jamar
Speaker 1: Chase's contract year like the Bengals are. And you self
Speaker 1: scout well and identify who your guys are, and it's
Speaker 1: not just the superstar, it's the Josh Sweats, who's who
Speaker 1: had Like that first time they resign Josh Sweat, people
Speaker 1: are like, oh really, the first time they signed Brandon
Speaker 1: gram I remember.
Speaker 3: Second my lot oft first deal came so early.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and people like, oh really, but then that deal
Speaker 1: ages so well and then they signed they have already
Speaker 1: signed my Lot again to another deal.
Speaker 3: And it's the opposite of the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a lot of teams like DeVonta Smith,
Speaker 1: Like did the Landon Dickerson contract, you know, extension last offseason?
Speaker 2: Make a lot of news.
Speaker 1: No, but like, imagine if they hadn't done it, what
Speaker 1: he would be worth this year. And so like they'll
Speaker 1: probably sign Cam Jurgens this year, but teams need to
Speaker 1: do more of that. We're talking about the off season
Speaker 1: plans for a lot of these teams, and that is
Speaker 1: the best way to spend money is do it on
Speaker 1: like do it like if Jalen Carter, like the second
Speaker 1: he's eligible, they will be resigning him.
Speaker 2: He's not yet.
Speaker 5: But it goes hand in hand with continuity when you
Speaker 5: have a process, a scouting methodology. They have turned over
Speaker 5: that robust staff a couple of times in various ways,
Speaker 5: but that at the top between Howie alec and and
Speaker 5: also a couple of other people they've had person scouting
Speaker 5: department as well. Like that's that's a language, that's a
Speaker 5: process that's been developed and built over time that keeps
Speaker 5: that continuity. One of the best things at pieces of
Speaker 5: advice that I ever got from a front office person
Speaker 5: was if you it was about coaching hires. It's like,
Speaker 5: if you make the right hire the first time, you
Speaker 5: never have to make the hire again.
Speaker 3: It's a similar concept with these players.
Speaker 5: If you if you identify and pick and have an
Speaker 5: ecosystem around a player where you can adequately develop the
Speaker 5: first time. You literally never have to do it again
Speaker 5: until he's ready to retire or leave.
Speaker 2: Let's do our next Yes, ask Connie, Ask.
Speaker 5: Honnie up, asks Connie. Okay from brock on Instagram. My
Speaker 5: Big Game meal was an array of cereals thoughts, ask Connie.
Speaker 4: So that's bad they get ready for Big Day with Cereal.
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Sunday was watching use the seed in Cereal?
Speaker 3: An array of cereals.
Speaker 4: Oh so I haven't really had like old cereal in
Speaker 4: a while, but I will say, like frosted miniweats back
Speaker 4: in the day was my go to from Costco. So
Speaker 4: you got the double box, but I see nothing wrong
Speaker 4: with that. Some people like a game day Apple, some
Speaker 4: people like the cereals.
Speaker 1: But in a ray is cool because that is something
Speaker 1: as a kid, you sort of fantasize about just having
Speaker 1: a you know, option. The most exciting thing for a
Speaker 1: child is being at a hotel that has the multiple options.
Speaker 1: So it's like that you can relive that now, not
Speaker 1: a lot of nutritional value. Normally I still buy shredded miniwheats. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's it.
Speaker 4: They're not frosted though, just frosted frost Okay, yeah, like
Speaker 4: a Cereal buffet.
Speaker 5: Sure, I figured you was more of like one of
Speaker 5: those little like nodules that you have to soak for
Speaker 5: a while. We all know you have to, like great
Speaker 5: grains or something where you have to soak them for
Speaker 5: a while. It's like really good fiber.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big cereal person either. At this point,
Speaker 1: I would say, Hyme.
Speaker 4: Muslix, are you drinking milk with it? Are you doing
Speaker 4: like oat milk, milk, regular milk?
Speaker 3: Of course milk, I want to know.
Speaker 1: But I also probably only have a bowl of Cereal
Speaker 1: Max once every week or two. You know, it's not
Speaker 1: too often, it's not it's not a part of my
Speaker 1: regular diet. But I haven't grown up out of that.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that Connie is too mature. She's too
Speaker 1: cool for a series.
Speaker 3: I don't know what I eat.
Speaker 4: I eat also, I actually believe it or not before
Speaker 4: I came here. You know, those like infant little they're
Speaker 4: like packets of blueberry and spinach or whatever that's like
Speaker 4: crushed up into a.
Speaker 5: Why can't I think of the name of a pouch.
Speaker 3: It's like a punch. It's a pinka pouch.
Speaker 5: It's like a goo, like a cliff goo. Yeah. Baby,
Speaker 5: it's like a smoothie.
Speaker 3: It's a bit. It's baby baby in a pack. I
Speaker 3: eat that.
Speaker 4: I like that because I feel like I'm getting nutrients
Speaker 4: and I'm on the go the.
Speaker 2: Same diet as my nine months old son I do
Speaker 2: this morning. That's a bay.
Speaker 5: Another one.
Speaker 2: We got another.
Speaker 5: Joey says, how do I cope with being a Cowboys fan?
Speaker 5: I never experienced the nineties. I'm so sorry, Joey.
Speaker 3: You will never cope. It's just you'll You'll have to
Speaker 3: go to a new team.
Speaker 4: I think, unfortunately, you could stay in the division if
Speaker 4: you want and be a turncoat come to the Eagles.
Speaker 3: But I don't know what you do at this point.
Speaker 2: Why not? He always has Let it build your character.
Speaker 1: You know, you've had some fun with the Mavericks, assuming
Speaker 1: you're just like a Dallas sports fan.
Speaker 2: Al though with Cowboys.
Speaker 5: Fans, well, I was gonna say he always has the Yankees,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Joey.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know, buddy, but maybe this year
Speaker 4: is your year.
Speaker 5: Joey.
Speaker 3: My advice to you is to feel nothing. Ever, Yeah, Yea,
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's coming, Joey. Don't worry. You only got
Speaker 3: seven more years rooting for the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: The Cowboys fan, it's only seven more cues.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: They an interesting space though, because they get the most attention.
Speaker 2: That's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: If you're a fan, it might be annoying to but
Speaker 1: they get you get great coverage. You're no team I
Speaker 1: think has covered more in their home city than the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are in Dallas.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 3: You always have access to like it is next level.
Speaker 1: There's the amount of coverage that they have all year round,
Speaker 1: so that's cool and nationally and they're always we're making
Speaker 1: fun of them. But other than like the five every
Speaker 1: five years where they bought them out, they're always pretty good.
Speaker 2: It could be worse.
Speaker 1: I could come up with eight or ten teams which
Speaker 1: I'd rather not root for, and so like'll it'll build character,
Speaker 1: It will happen at some point.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, on the flip side, he if he stays
Speaker 4: loyal to his team and continues to suffer a little
Speaker 4: bit longer, then at some point, maybe before the asteroid hits,
Speaker 4: they'll win.
Speaker 3: And what a release that will be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you could say I was there for the McCarthy
Speaker 5: a time.
Speaker 3: I was there for the lot of times.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jerry Jones said we made a bunch of moves
Speaker 5: and we're going to be aggressive and then did nothing. Era.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was there at least as an adolescent,
Speaker 1: and they were truly bad.
Speaker 2: The Dave Campo and who is that quarterback? Quint? Why
Speaker 2: am I blanking?
Speaker 1: But they were like extremely bad for about five to
Speaker 1: eight years and they still were on national TV every week.
Speaker 2: Let's get our next question, Okay, ask Connie.
Speaker 5: Connie, if you could scream anything into the void, what
Speaker 5: would it be? Go?
Speaker 3: Birds?
Speaker 5: Maybe?
Speaker 4: But I have been doing that, it seems like for
Speaker 4: the past two weeks, screaming it into the void.
Speaker 3: I scream a lot of things into the void.
Speaker 1: Do you guys ever actually just scream for the sake
Speaker 1: of it, you know, because no one can hear, just
Speaker 1: like in your car or something like that.
Speaker 2: Do you ever scream to the void?
Speaker 3: I actually did that the other day.
Speaker 5: I just screamed, yeah, why at my steering wheel? Well
Speaker 5: in the car.
Speaker 4: I think there are things that happen that lead you
Speaker 4: to scream and just be super frustrated. There was one
Speaker 4: time in the ten years eleven years that I've worked
Speaker 4: here NFL Media that I was so upset and so
Speaker 4: frustrated with what was happening. I walked myself out to
Speaker 4: the parking lot and sat in my car and just
Speaker 4: screamed at the top of my lungs.
Speaker 2: Nice and I need more. Yeah, Well what led to that?
Speaker 4: It was a series of things and then just a
Speaker 4: lot of miscommunications and I got burned a lot. And
Speaker 4: so it was like I just I was tired of
Speaker 4: like preparing and preparing and preparing and then looking like
Speaker 4: I wasn't prepared. And so that's a screamed. I screamed
Speaker 4: a lot, and you know, I guess it felt better.
Speaker 4: I didn't scream at anyone. It was just into the.
Speaker 3: Void, into the void.
Speaker 5: This is actually why I think Grant Yudinsky goes to
Speaker 5: the Fjords. Maybe he screams into the fjords. Yes, two
Speaker 5: more fjords.
Speaker 1: Although you have you'll have like some voice coming back,
Speaker 1: some echoes like I bet it's cool.
Speaker 3: I'm just like babyfood, literal baby food.
Speaker 2: Oh all right.
Speaker 1: Always, by the way, we're in the wilderness. Quite as
Speaker 1: long as I thought that. Dave Campbo years three, straight
Speaker 1: five and eleven years.
Speaker 5: But other than that, I still haven't remembered the name
Speaker 5: of the cereal up next Quincy Carter. Tequila guy says
Speaker 5: seventy seven says nice handle, by the way, get it
Speaker 5: tequila joke. Handle. What's the best way to deal with
Speaker 5: being a fan of a mid team?
Speaker 3: Drink a handle of your handle?
Speaker 2: There you go?
Speaker 3: I mean, I I.
Speaker 4: Don't know, since the Eagles are good, I can't remember, no, I.
Speaker 3: You know what, you just gotta play fantasy.
Speaker 4: I hope that your own team is going to be
Speaker 4: better than your mid team that you're rooting for, and
Speaker 4: you know, just make sure everyone's having fun.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: They say they say comparison is the thief of joy.
Speaker 1: I think in this case that it's not true. Realize
Speaker 1: that that's the vast majority of experiences for all fans,
Speaker 1: every fancy oh, like this would only happen to blank
Speaker 1: and like every fan base thinks of that there are
Speaker 1: twenty to twenty five teams in the league and their
Speaker 1: fan bases. That our experience is sort of this mid
Speaker 1: existence that you're talking about. And then you can realize, like, well,
Speaker 1: what makes me so special that I would think I'm
Speaker 1: going to have a way better experience than most of
Speaker 1: the people. I'm sharing this experience. This is basically what
Speaker 1: being a sports fan is. So keep keep the expectations
Speaker 1: relatively low.
Speaker 3: Try not to be happy.
Speaker 1: Greg, is it I'm just saying, keep the expectations low,
Speaker 1: says the guy who got to watch that.
Speaker 3: That's a good rule, Patriot. He set the bar not
Speaker 3: too high and set it on the ground.
Speaker 5: And I think he's also saying you're not alone.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's what I'm saying, right, that's true. That's true.
Speaker 4: I will say that if your team is mid I
Speaker 4: think that's worse than your team being absolutely terrible, because
Speaker 4: if you're stuck in limbo, it feels way worse because
Speaker 4: you could maybe get over the hump, but you're kind
Speaker 4: of just like hovering over the middle of things.
Speaker 3: I don't like that purgatory, right, But like.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm fuddly thinking of the AFC
Speaker 1: North because the Browns, the Browns are truly tortured. But
Speaker 1: then also just think of that same division, like Bengals
Speaker 1: fans would say they're tortured and Ravens fans, I know
Speaker 1: they've had a lot of success, but they would like
Speaker 1: they find the current era and what's happened last ten years,
Speaker 1: like extremely frustrating. And Steelers fans they think, you know,
Speaker 1: how come everyone doesn't realize that Mike Tomin can't win
Speaker 1: a playoff game? And this is frustrating that we're always
Speaker 1: they are the definition of man, and so it's like
Speaker 1: everyone has.
Speaker 2: These frustrating See.
Speaker 5: I think I would be fine. I'd be patient with
Speaker 5: most of these things. I would not be a Browns
Speaker 5: fan for many obvious reasons. But then the other thing
Speaker 5: is I would be pissed to be a Bengals fan
Speaker 5: because I would be feeling like I was being gas
Speaker 5: lit all the time, because what do you mean you're trying?
Speaker 3: I hate that you see the potential right there. I'm
Speaker 3: frustrated by. I hope it's not a Bengals fan.
Speaker 2: Let's go to our next Conny question. I want the
Speaker 2: whole Oh.
Speaker 3: Fashion advice for men?
Speaker 5: Oh, this is good.
Speaker 4: I don't love super tight jeans on guys.
Speaker 3: Wait, Greg, you'll stand up.
Speaker 4: They are they were popular for a time, like super
Speaker 4: skinny jeans if you're because for women right now, it's
Speaker 4: like a lot.
Speaker 5: Of bands like Jackers, like sort of the.
Speaker 1: Bands Kendrick Walking across well that.
Speaker 4: Is, I loved his g they were like flares, bootcut
Speaker 4: flares bell Bottom me.
Speaker 3: That's not really my jam either. I know, I don't
Speaker 3: really know.
Speaker 4: A whole lot about men's fashion, so I like a
Speaker 4: good Henley and just make sure that your jeans are
Speaker 4: not like overly washed.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, what do you feel about the
Speaker 3: acid wash?
Speaker 5: Not that?
Speaker 4: What about don't like affliction anything that's like affliction vibes.
Speaker 1: Colleen is very stylish, but I don't think she's a
Speaker 1: good person that asks for I don't have a lot
Speaker 1: to offer that.
Speaker 3: I don't know why No, And also like I'm so fashionable.
Speaker 3: I'm wearing like a Target sweatshirt. It's really cute, Ago,
Speaker 3: but thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Ask Connie, if you weren't covering the NFL, what sport
Speaker 1: would you cover instead?
Speaker 2: There's two questions. Let's take that one first.
Speaker 4: Okay, figure skating just because it's what I know the most,
Speaker 4: So if you don't know, I was a competitive figure
Speaker 4: skater growing up, so I love it and every time
Speaker 4: I watch it makes me want to go and skate.
Speaker 4: So and I like actually know what they're doing, like
Speaker 4: before they even get her.
Speaker 5: LA Olympics, get her in the booth.
Speaker 3: This is me.
Speaker 1: You know some people at NBC do you do you
Speaker 1: know now I could haven't been able to get myself
Speaker 1: a job.
Speaker 3: That's my dream, cover the figure.
Speaker 2: Skating, and I've tried.
Speaker 1: I literally used to try very hard to get tennis
Speaker 1: gigs at the Olympics, not like I would on air
Speaker 1: broadcasting back then, just like working behind the scenes and stuff.
Speaker 1: I was not able to pull that off. But that
Speaker 1: would definitely be what I would want to announce if
Speaker 1: I let me work with another if anyone is out
Speaker 1: there listening, I mean, Randy works at the freaking tennis channel,
Speaker 1: I think my contract would allow it.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm very knowledgeable and I'm available.
Speaker 5: I was going to say, I could see you covering tennis.
Speaker 5: I could see you definitely covering tennis, like as a commentator.
Speaker 2: It's a time.
Speaker 3: What about the biathlon? A breadth of fresh air and shoot.
Speaker 2: Let's see that.
Speaker 5: The second question mine would be the Dog Show, by
Speaker 5: the way, I went to one.
Speaker 2: My friend produced the Dog Show for NBC once and
Speaker 2: I went out and went to it. It was a
Speaker 2: lot of fun.
Speaker 1: If you could pick a new team for one of
Speaker 1: the other members of the show to support. Which team
Speaker 1: would you pick for them?
Speaker 5: And I like the idea of assigning Greg a new
Speaker 5: team other than the Patriots.
Speaker 2: I have so many teams though, because you have.
Speaker 4: The Saints kind of just from that plane, So maybe
Speaker 4: maybe it's the Saints.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would give the Connie just for the.
Speaker 5: Con I was gonna say, are we mad at each
Speaker 5: other we're assigning teams or aren't getting Jets?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: You get the Jets. Congrats.
Speaker 2: It would be great to have Jordan have any team.
Speaker 3: I know I cover. I'm a root for stories.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know what you do, you do kind of
Speaker 1: you do kind of lean Cardinals, just loving what they
Speaker 1: do and you are Arizona Gal.
Speaker 3: So did you grow up with a team?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: I didn't grow up with the team really.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so because I grew up in Phoenix and it
Speaker 5: was like sort of like laughable at that time to
Speaker 5: root for the Cardinals and go sit in one hundred
Speaker 5: and fifty degree bleachers to go watch them play games
Speaker 5: on Sundays before they had a stadium. Now I like them.
Speaker 5: I like what they're doing. I think they're interesting in
Speaker 5: terms of, you know, they always have a strategy arm
Speaker 5: they had their schemes. Those Jake Plumber years were kind
Speaker 5: of fun.
Speaker 3: I do Revere the Lumber and I do Are you
Speaker 3: a Cardinals fan?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 3: My sister's a Cardinals fan and she's miserable every.
Speaker 1: Football so that would be a betrayal. Yeah, we got
Speaker 1: to get you out of the NFC West. There's too
Speaker 1: much NFC. I picked the Vikings.
Speaker 3: I'll be a Vikings fan. Wow, I like them. I
Speaker 3: like that for you. They're fun. Good vibes over there.
Speaker 2: All right, last question here.
Speaker 5: From Greg Rosen thought, Connie, why are you the way
Speaker 5: that you are?
Speaker 3: How much time do we have left for the show.
Speaker 4: There's so many reasons. Sit down, get yourself some refreshments.
Speaker 2: No, but if you had some like sort of drill
Speaker 2: down to one.
Speaker 5: And you only have seven years to figure it out, like.
Speaker 1: A starting point, why explains why are you?
Speaker 3: Wait?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: I get I don't know if it's because I'm like
Speaker 4: the baby of the family, like the youngest.
Speaker 3: So I'm just like, look at me over here.
Speaker 4: I can juggle, I can do this, I can do that.
Speaker 3: Like what do you need me to do?
Speaker 2: I'm not that makes sense?
Speaker 1: That actually that makes sense. As we wait, that explains
Speaker 1: Tim too.
Speaker 5: Okay, did you see Tim? I did adding good?
Speaker 3: Yeah, shout out uncle Jack. Jack and Bill got married.
Speaker 3: It was great.
Speaker 5: So you saw Tim.
Speaker 3: That's Tim was there and my sister miss listened to
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 1: No, he doesn't know, which is why I feel comfortable
Speaker 1: taking little jokes.
Speaker 5: I think that when you are in your between space
Speaker 5: before the asteroid hits, you're deciding, like kind of how
Speaker 5: you want to live your life. Your shop, the name
Speaker 5: of your shop that you run could be called essence
Speaker 5: of Connie.
Speaker 4: Oh, lots of odds and I love chokes.
Speaker 3: So yes, that's all I will say.
Speaker 1: All right, Eric, before we leave, we do have a
Speaker 1: very small item of news. I don't know if it's breaking.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we have developing, but I'll take you.
Speaker 5: A second asteroid.
Speaker 1: Oh god, one of those veteran quarterbacks is off the market.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: The Carolina Panthers have re signed back up Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: to a two year deal.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 1: I mean that's something good for his six million dollars guarantee.
Speaker 1: Thirty seven years old, six million dollars guaranteed is not bad.
Speaker 1: Two years, eight million dollars. I think he looked at
Speaker 1: what's been out there for some of these guys in
Speaker 1: the past few years, and he's just had He probably
Speaker 1: likes living there, and it's like, I'm sick of.
Speaker 4: That's a great gig, like a backup quarterback, especially for him,
Speaker 4: Like you're on the tail end of things, like just
Speaker 4: sit back, collect some of that money you come in on.
Speaker 3: There's an emergency.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he sagn Jimmy g make five million dollars in
Speaker 5: LA last year and he goes, I glowed up too, exact,
Speaker 5: give me six no one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, has has improved, his fashion forward hair, his hack,
Speaker 1: everything has He's incredible, has improved.
Speaker 5: That's a that's a swoop right there, Greg. I know
Speaker 5: you're working on your front swoop.
Speaker 2: Not anymore off there. Yeah, it really is. Andy Dalton.
Speaker 1: What a career and I'm glad you know we have
Speaker 1: a connection with him here in the Chris Westling podcast studio.
Speaker 1: The Dalton scale for all these years later, a guy
Speaker 1: who got picked on a lot at the beginning of
Speaker 1: his career and he's still making happened. And now he's
Speaker 1: not the the meridian for starting quarterbacks that was the
Speaker 1: Dalton scale. He's now the prime meridian. For backup quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: If you if you don't have a backup quarterback better
Speaker 1: than Andy Dalton, you need one.
Speaker 2: And if you have one better than Andy Dalton, then
Speaker 2: you're fine. You don't need to try to improve.
Speaker 5: He's also kind of a high point for finances for
Speaker 5: backup quarterbacks a little bit right.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good guaranteed for like truly true backups.
Speaker 1: And you know, Bryce youngs a not that he's had
Speaker 1: any injury issues, but he you could see Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: playing for the Bengals. By the way, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you saw this before we go Panthers, I thought
Speaker 1: this news was.
Speaker 2: A little wild shifter.
Speaker 1: Throughout on his podcast, he just kind of threw out that, hey,
Speaker 1: like Aaron Rodgers isn't going to cost as much as
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. So if the Rams wanted to get some
Speaker 1: picks for Matthew Stafford, maybe Aaron Rodgers would make a
Speaker 1: little sense there for like less money, and he would
Speaker 1: really interesting.
Speaker 5: I think I saw something similar in the Athletic dot
Speaker 5: Com this week about the previous interests by the Rams
Speaker 5: and Aaron Rodgers and the fact that the Rams would
Speaker 5: only be going for a bridge quarterback should they actually
Speaker 5: decide to move on from Matthew Stafford. I don't know
Speaker 5: where I read it.
Speaker 2: Do you write it?
Speaker 3: I think it was the Athletic dot Com.
Speaker 2: But just noticing, does he clarify?
Speaker 1: Does he Aaron Rodgers count as a bridge quarterback that
Speaker 1: they could be interested in?
Speaker 3: That he does count? I think is it for the.
Speaker 5: Limitations of the market that I believe he will have
Speaker 5: as well as his age? Yeah, but I think you
Speaker 5: know if they do. Bottom line, if they do move
Speaker 5: on from Matthew Stafford, it will be a bridge. They
Speaker 5: won't spend a significant amount of money or time like
Speaker 5: time parameters on a contract structure unless that person is
Speaker 5: their present and their future.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to read more about that on the
Speaker 4: Athletic dot Com.
Speaker 2: I just want better for for my family. My family,
Speaker 2: the Rams fans, they did not want Aaron Rodgers. They
Speaker 2: do not want to be rooting.
Speaker 5: For Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Well, but and yet it sort of makes sense he
Speaker 1: would take a Sean mcvaye discount because who's the one
Speaker 1: guy who could revive his career and have him go
Speaker 1: out pretty well. He actually might think about taking relatively
Speaker 1: little money for Aaron Rodgers, and they would be confident
Speaker 1: enough that they could make it work.
Speaker 2: But they shouldn't be. That's asked. It's asking for a
Speaker 2: box in the Henhouse.
Speaker 5: I will say, all that's true, I will say, and
Speaker 5: I don't mean to make this sound like a jab
Speaker 5: or anything. They're an extremely huboristic organization, like they think
Speaker 5: to do these things and then half the time they
Speaker 5: actually go do them.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I'm glad we got that in this show
Speaker 2: because that was.
Speaker 5: Just thank god, thank god, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: The Henhouse really got me.
Speaker 1: Let's play that music. Great having you back, Kelly's so good.
Speaker 3: To be here. That was fun. Ask Connie y.
Speaker 1: We will bring back Ask Connie this off season because
Speaker 1: wisdom excell it's there in the title.
Speaker 2: It's a daily show. There's a lot of shows coming
Speaker 2: out back.
Speaker 1: A previewing division with Patrick Claibahn and Steve Weiss.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is the regular season right now.
Speaker 5: Regular.
Speaker 3: I love when you're like this because that's my default.
Speaker 5: So I'm like, come on over, are you one hinge?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's all be on hinged together.