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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast,
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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hans, come to you from a
Speaker 1: room filled of heroes, Mark's Ester, Chris Westling and beautiful
Speaker 1: voice of Greg ros What is up voice? Hey? Dan
Speaker 1: Finesse in that note, I like when you were a
Speaker 1: goth lead singer back in the day, where the levels
Speaker 1: of um talent that you were producing vocally far with
Speaker 1: a singer, Well you weren't. You weren't and you were
Speaker 1: the singer. I think it was more like, uh, they
Speaker 1: might be giants dead Milkman. They might be giants and
Speaker 1: Dead Milkman couldn't be any farther removed from each other.
Speaker 1: They're totally sort of just like talk there do you
Speaker 1: always bring up the Dead Milkman? I always talk about
Speaker 1: your band? Well, that's you know, that was the start.
Speaker 1: We did some you know, some Nirvana, but not publicly
Speaker 1: more just that's just for the basement. Now. Nirvana famous
Speaker 1: for the their pixies like soft loud dynamics, So the
Speaker 1: verses would be very low building up. Then the chorus
Speaker 1: would explode you. You have some recordings where you're kind
Speaker 1: of doing the build up in the verses, and then
Speaker 1: that those vocal cords, that powerful voice just go. No,
Speaker 1: no recordings, no powerful voice, No Nirvana demos, Nirvana demos.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but no, you were the singer though,
Speaker 1: correct love you bro. Yeah, that will be fine. But
Speaker 1: you remember circling back to this, you do remember, Greg,
Speaker 1: that we said we would make a beefy donation to
Speaker 1: a children's charity if you just produced the tapes children, Greg. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you could do that anyway. So that's on you.
Speaker 1: I've been told that there are tapes out there. We're
Speaker 1: never going to give up the chase, just so you know,
Speaker 1: always time to help. I mean, I've I've learned if
Speaker 1: there's a bit on this show, it never dies. So
Speaker 1: I'm aware, will be, will be like this is not
Speaker 1: not a bit like sixty years old. It's like, hey,
Speaker 1: remember that time we went up to a big bear
Speaker 1: that West was crazy That It's not a bit. It
Speaker 1: is a quest, Greg, and it it involves the assistance
Speaker 1: to children, which there this is the right time, right,
Speaker 1: it's the opposite. It's weird how little you do to
Speaker 1: help children, you know other than this. No, the bit
Speaker 1: is you preventing? Yeah, I mean in our house and
Speaker 1: outside our house, Friday show, having fun, getting excited. It's
Speaker 1: all been building to this. The Connie Fox theme song
Speaker 1: sweepstakes finals today. We picked the song Connie will be
Speaker 1: here a little bit later. She initially was going to
Speaker 1: be on the whole Oh and then she started sending
Speaker 1: some video texts out last night about a yacht rock
Speaker 1: show she was at, and I'm imagining she hit it
Speaker 1: pretty hard and she pulled back. She said, I'm doing
Speaker 1: one seg. So that's that's her right. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: We're not paying her for this. But I just wanted
Speaker 1: you and the listeners to know that initially, Connie whole
Speaker 1: Show kind of goes out late last night, Connie part
Speaker 1: of the show. Do I have that right to just
Speaker 1: raise my hand for maybe two minutes of the show,
Speaker 1: moved by a host for the guests that's coming in,
Speaker 1: to immediately throw her under the bus while she's not here.
Speaker 1: I mean, we went through all this effort to give
Speaker 1: her her own song, and I think she little um. Also,
Speaker 1: Zusa wrote a banger uh the uh here's the headline.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's up with these headlines? Two thousand
Speaker 1: twenty nfl QB Carousel colin best slash worst case scenario
Speaker 1: for fifteen big names in limbo. What if, Heavens to Betsy,
Speaker 1: that is a mouthful. What if just once when there
Speaker 1: was a quarterback overview, somebody slipped in like landscape instead
Speaker 1: of carousel? Can I can I tell you this? I'm
Speaker 1: right on that. I'm right on that same place with you.
Speaker 1: And oh, Greg, Greg just knocked over my bubbly soda?
Speaker 1: Why are you leaving an open cannip so on? What
Speaker 1: were you attempting to do when you reached over to
Speaker 1: it towards Dan's body? Ricky, we might need a paper towel.
Speaker 1: I got tissues that will be good, all right, Just
Speaker 1: keep talking anyway, delicious bubbly. Now you watch out West,
Speaker 1: it's over near near you. I should have known to
Speaker 1: put it up. I speak with my hands. Um. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Erica brings in a box of ultra thin tissues that
Speaker 1: should help with These are the ones that were right
Speaker 1: by your dorm room bed mark back in college. Do
Speaker 1: they make a thick tissue? I don't know. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying versus like a hefty note. Uh, some sort of
Speaker 1: going to Costco for your clean xbox as I are solved.
Speaker 1: I don't think Costco even existed when I was in
Speaker 1: college anyway. Um, I wrote like six words this piece.
Speaker 1: Never use the word carousel once. Why does carousel need
Speaker 1: to be connected to quarterbacks? It's and like editing one
Speaker 1: oh one. Well we do get to use this dry,
Speaker 1: so that's good. But I did not write carousel. Alright,
Speaker 1: so we're doing that also some news, so let's get
Speaker 1: to it. Let's do some news. But this I'll follow
Speaker 1: up with because someone who had had been seeking quarterback
Speaker 1: stability for so many years, now you seem to have
Speaker 1: it with Sam Tharnald. But which of those four would
Speaker 1: you want if you could go after one of them?
Speaker 1: What was that? I'm sorry? I missing which of those
Speaker 1: that worst case scenario? Uh? I was on live TV
Speaker 1: with Money yesterday. Didn't hear a word he said? And
Speaker 1: he's setting me up for a quiet and he's continuing
Speaker 1: to set me up for the question. And I have
Speaker 1: no idea what where, what he's saying or what's coming.
Speaker 1: Why didn't you hear him? I don't know. I just
Speaker 1: missed one word one and he was setting up, and
Speaker 1: then I couldn't, based on context clues, track what the
Speaker 1: question was. I think the victim is the viewer. It
Speaker 1: was a bit scenario. I think it was me more
Speaker 1: than anyway, because it was just Hameda, Hameda Hammeda. Actually,
Speaker 1: it's great when you watched any sort of news program
Speaker 1: and in an f OP occurs, it's like that gets
Speaker 1: your attention. All right, let's get to it and let's start.
Speaker 1: Oh big Monday Night football speculation o. ESPN missed out
Speaker 1: on Tony Romo, who decided to sign that mega deal
Speaker 1: to stay at CBS for at least three years and
Speaker 1: perhaps a decade or more. But ESPN they're not going
Speaker 1: down without a fight as they look to potentially I
Speaker 1: move their Monday night football telecast ESPN plans. According to
Speaker 1: Andrew Martin of the New York Times New York Post,
Speaker 1: ESPN plans to attempt to acquire Al Michael's from NBC
Speaker 1: Sports for Monday Night football. ESPN would like to team
Speaker 1: Michaels with Peyton Manning and what would be their dream booth.
Speaker 1: According to sources, Manning is now ESPN's top choice as
Speaker 1: an analyst after Tony Romo, agreed to his deal. Al
Speaker 1: Michaels is under contract with NBC. However, stranger things have
Speaker 1: happened in the media landscape money talks. I don't know
Speaker 1: if Al wants to walk or move. Well, We're gonna
Speaker 1: see if any anything comes to this, But at the
Speaker 1: very least, Greg, this is really spicy and a best
Speaker 1: case scenario potentially, I think for the viewer. I mean,
Speaker 1: stranger things have happened in Al Michael's career when he
Speaker 1: got traded away from ESPN and ABC for Oswald the Rabbit, right,
Speaker 1: so it all would come full circle and there's a
Speaker 1: little of awkward um ego and you know, taking care
Speaker 1: of a legend and al Michael's going on here though
Speaker 1: that like, you can't let Al Michaels know that you
Speaker 1: would be happy to trade him and replace him with
Speaker 1: Mike Tariko unless Al's really on board with that, and
Speaker 1: if I don't think Al would even consider it unless
Speaker 1: it's like a home run pairing with like with Peyton Manning,
Speaker 1: if they if they strike out with Peyton Manning and
Speaker 1: everyone that's close to Peyton Manning says he wants to
Speaker 1: work in the front office someday and doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: he's in a huge hurry to be doing anything that
Speaker 1: serious right now. So like, if they don't get Peyton Manning,
Speaker 1: there's I wouldn't think they can get Michael's. Well, Peyton
Speaker 1: has already turned down ESPN twice in previous year. There
Speaker 1: was a source quoted in one of these articles saying
Speaker 1: he already outplayed Romo every week while they were playing.
Speaker 1: Why does he want to be compared to Romo every
Speaker 1: week as a TV guy? Which seems like maybe Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning doesn't think he can do as well as Tony.
Speaker 1: That's the huge X factor because it's a dream booth
Speaker 1: in terms of name and prestige. But Peyton Manning's persona
Speaker 1: and career would change sharply if he went in there
Speaker 1: and pulled essentially a Jason Witten, like he has to
Speaker 1: know inside, I don't know you you test, you test
Speaker 1: these games, you go, and I'm sure he's in the
Speaker 1: past done like a test run announcing, But how do
Speaker 1: you know if you're Tony Romo, it's the person you're
Speaker 1: just gonna be. If you're not as good as Tony Romo,
Speaker 1: you're going to start off on the wrong foot one
Speaker 1: week into the assignment. Well, two things. One it's about
Speaker 1: I think the deal that Romo got probably could lead
Speaker 1: to Manning being more interested in this job because the
Speaker 1: money is probably gonna be a lot different. This works
Speaker 1: to Manning's advantage in a negotiation. I would think you
Speaker 1: wouldn't get Tony Romo money probably, but he would get
Speaker 1: a beefy paycheck too. He's a competitor. He's a competitor Roo.
Speaker 1: He's a competitive guy. So the idea that I need
Speaker 1: a new challenge in my life. He's certainly comfortable on
Speaker 1: camera and he doesn't shy away from the spotlight. So
Speaker 1: if the money is right and the spotlight is something
Speaker 1: that is attractive to him, he also doesn't need to
Speaker 1: be Tony Romo, Like I know. That's like the idea here.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, if he can't be Tony Romo, he
Speaker 1: shouldn't be doing this. All he has to do is
Speaker 1: be better than Jason Witten, you know, he has to
Speaker 1: be better than Booger, and he has to be competent.
Speaker 1: He's got to be kind of like what Gruden was,
Speaker 1: which some people liked him, some people loved him, some
Speaker 1: people didn't like him. I think that's more of the
Speaker 1: bar that he needs to meet, but he could a
Speaker 1: great TV figure though he made people have opinions whether
Speaker 1: you liked him. I liked opinions, right, uh. I think
Speaker 1: Manning though the bigger questions just like would he want
Speaker 1: to do it? I I don't get the sense, like
Speaker 1: you mentioned, you know, he would want another challenge. Who
Speaker 1: knows what he thinks. But my feeling would be he
Speaker 1: would want it more of a challenge that this is
Speaker 1: not like he would He might write like it's very difficult,
Speaker 1: like it's a very difficult thing to do, but it's
Speaker 1: not necessarily like is he is his dream? If it
Speaker 1: was his dream to do it, he would have taken
Speaker 1: the couple of Well. I think getting Eli Manning out
Speaker 1: of the league helps because I don't think he wanted
Speaker 1: to announce anything involving Eli's Giants fading Giant's career. But
Speaker 1: I you know, competitive is fine. Competitive doesn't necessarily make
Speaker 1: you an innately good communicator or observer of the game.
Speaker 1: It's just like when Romo. What Romo has done is
Speaker 1: it's not it's surprising, but it's a delightful surprise because
Speaker 1: you found out that he can translate what he knows
Speaker 1: so well to the viewer it. So many quarterbacks have
Speaker 1: gone and tried to do this. Johnny Unitis totally flailed
Speaker 1: out at CBS way back in the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just there. It's the next you can you play
Speaker 1: the game. The fact that you can make the regular
Speaker 1: like a casual viewer, understand the game and love it
Speaker 1: more is a total unknown. Everyone thought Brett Farve was
Speaker 1: going to be like the next big TV star and
Speaker 1: that never happened. Could stumble into an even better announcer
Speaker 1: than Peyton Manning because their second choice is reportedly Kurt Warner,
Speaker 1: who has done some announcing it has been very good.
Speaker 1: Bill Versus been connected to this, but it certainly seems
Speaker 1: like Philip Rivers still wants to play. I think Greg
Speaker 1: Olsen would would be great, but he's he wants to
Speaker 1: continue to toil. But the other big part of this,
Speaker 1: it's fun to talk about because it's saucy, but al
Speaker 1: Michael's who's in his late seventies now, he's under contract
Speaker 1: for I believe two more years. Everyone knows that Sunday
Speaker 1: Night is the best game of the week or the
Speaker 1: best prime time game of the week. Uh, he's probably
Speaker 1: comfortable where he is. Does he how much of a
Speaker 1: fight does he want to put up here? That would
Speaker 1: he want to go to Monday which is a lesser
Speaker 1: game and it's not as big in terms of ratings.
Speaker 1: He loves ratings. I'll talks about ratings all the time
Speaker 1: on the broadcast. He would kind of have to get
Speaker 1: nudged or getting maybe a little saucy package himself to
Speaker 1: make this work. There's a lot of things that happening
Speaker 1: without getting more money. Yeah, I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of things have to fall into place for this to work.
Speaker 1: But it's a fun idea and I think, like I
Speaker 1: was saying, like, I think viewers would be the winners here,
Speaker 1: especially if you get Tariko out there. But wouldn't wouldn't
Speaker 1: it maybe change the Monday night lesser game scenario. Suddenly
Speaker 1: you have al Michaels and Peyton Manning and they It
Speaker 1: would make it a better game to watch, even if
Speaker 1: the matchup isn't as good. Well, the crazy thing First, firstly,
Speaker 1: they did have a great schedule last year and it
Speaker 1: was a little up and down. They ended up having
Speaker 1: a better schedule than Sunday Night Football. They sort of
Speaker 1: looked into having a lot of big games. But he uh,
Speaker 1: it's supposedly according to you know this reporting, you know,
Speaker 1: on his way out the door after the next Super
Speaker 1: Bowl that NBC has, which I think is two, that
Speaker 1: Tarko was already gonna start taking more games maybe starting
Speaker 1: this year, that Al would just like have some regular
Speaker 1: weeks off. So like what, Yeah, it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: as comfortable. It's like a free agent quarter. But like
Speaker 1: if you're Tom Brady and or your Al Michaels, you
Speaker 1: gotta go to a whole another system, a whole another thing,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, I hope it happens, Probably won't though. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: if your booger and testor you're dying, right, it's like
Speaker 1: just a they they've been doing college for years and
Speaker 1: that that they would still be working. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's got to be the ugliest thing to sit around
Speaker 1: and ponder. You're like everyone somewhere, you've been replaced by someone, right,
Speaker 1: You're kind of like the afterthought. Um, all right, well,
Speaker 1: so we'll track that and see how it all plays out.
Speaker 1: We had a trade that went down shortly after we
Speaker 1: did our show on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Chargers. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a tentative trade. Tentatively agreed to a trade of
Speaker 1: tackle Russell Okung to the Carolina Panthers in exchange for
Speaker 1: guard Trade Turner. Rap Sheet reported this Uh the trade
Speaker 1: but of two offensive lineman, two starters is an interesting
Speaker 1: one West. Why did it happen? Well, if the Panthers
Speaker 1: had the highest sect percentage allow allowed to edre rushers
Speaker 1: last year, and if you watched their games, that comes
Speaker 1: as no surprise their tackles were terrible. Also, I think
Speaker 1: as much as people criticize this trade, because Trade Turner
Speaker 1: has been probably a more reliable, better player than Russell Okung,
Speaker 1: you have no idea what Matt Rule, the new coach
Speaker 1: once in his guards. It could be the trade Turner
Speaker 1: doesn't fit that system, especially at nine million dollars or
Speaker 1: what ever. So go get your left tackle and they
Speaker 1: must have information that RUSSELLO Kung's recent health problems will
Speaker 1: not be problems in two thousand twenty. I just think
Speaker 1: like Trade Turner, being much younger, gives the Chargers to me.
Speaker 1: I give the wind to the Chargers, And I think
Speaker 1: that Tom Telesco pulled off a nice deal. And I
Speaker 1: read that from the Carolina side that it was Pat Meyer,
Speaker 1: their O line coach who used to be with the Chargers,
Speaker 1: who lobbied hard for this trade. So it tells you
Speaker 1: your assistant coaches have a lot of power under Matt
Speaker 1: rule to help shape the roster. Well. Plus the Panthers
Speaker 1: they're trying to trade anyone on their roster by some reports,
Speaker 1: including like Christian McCaffrey. They I mean, I think they
Speaker 1: they're willing to totally blow it up and Russell Kung's
Speaker 1: thirteen point five million dollars this year like they It's
Speaker 1: a reminder that Matt Herney, who was the GM drafted
Speaker 1: a left tackle and Greg Little in the second round
Speaker 1: neck last year, and now that picks just kind of
Speaker 1: like a waste. It's tentative because all deals are not
Speaker 1: official until the start of the new league year in
Speaker 1: March eighteenth, but this looks like it's happening, barring some
Speaker 1: type of medical situation and other Chargers news. Austin Ekeler
Speaker 1: Got Paid rap Sheet reported that the running back agreed
Speaker 1: to a four year, twenty four and a half million
Speaker 1: dollar contract extension that includes fifteen million and guaranteed money.
Speaker 1: ESPN had it first good for Eckler Mr Sessler, guy
Speaker 1: who went from undrafted free agent to a key to
Speaker 1: their offense, especially when Melvin Gordon's hold out extended last season,
Speaker 1: he established himself Eckler did as a real playmaker behind Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess it's like, so Melvin Gordon out the door,
Speaker 1: And I thought, what I like is that again, Tom
Speaker 1: Talasco and the rest of the coaching staff identified that
Speaker 1: Eckler was just better when he was in there alone,
Speaker 1: that when they were together, he was not the same guy.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that he's he's they got a
Speaker 1: good deal. Number one, twenty four point five million is
Speaker 1: not It is not a bad deal at all. He's
Speaker 1: still twenty four And it kind of reminds me I'm
Speaker 1: not seeing the same player of watching priest homes when
Speaker 1: he was with the Ravens and you could see his
Speaker 1: numbers weren't all there, but you could see a player
Speaker 1: who was about to blow up. And when he went
Speaker 1: to Kansas City and they isolated him, allowed him just
Speaker 1: to do his own thing. He had three straight fourteen
Speaker 1: heart four hundred yard rushing seasons with two hundred and
Speaker 1: six catches over a three year span. And I think
Speaker 1: that Eckler is a dude that can do it all,
Speaker 1: and I love that they are going with him over
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordons is like he's the forgotten superstar of that era.
Speaker 1: It didn't last very long, but he was one of
Speaker 1: the very best running backs in the league for a
Speaker 1: stretch there. This is a testament to development, sort of
Speaker 1: like James White with the Patriots. You come into the
Speaker 1: league and you're not a very good runner, and then
Speaker 1: you turn yourself into what I believe is the best
Speaker 1: passing down back in football last year. I mean, he
Speaker 1: had catches for yards like Robbie and has never had
Speaker 1: anything close to that, and he's about to get paid
Speaker 1: triple this and eight touchdowns receiving that that is double
Speaker 1: the amount of Christian McCaffrey. Alvin Kamara turned eighty one
Speaker 1: catches into five hundred thirty three yards and one touchdown.
Speaker 1: Ekeler turned nine catches into nine yards and eight touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And I know Kamara was injured, but that is the
Speaker 1: guy we thought who was the best passing down back
Speaker 1: in the NFL last year, and Ekeler played circles around him.
Speaker 1: There's some chatter that why did he take um such
Speaker 1: a team friendly deal. But I that's the problem with
Speaker 1: being undrafted. You get you kind of get hurt on
Speaker 1: both ends. Like like he hasn't made much money in
Speaker 1: his career. He could have been a restricted free agent
Speaker 1: and gone out and maybe got an offer sheet that
Speaker 1: was better. But I don't blame him. He would not
Speaker 1: would you would not want to play one more season
Speaker 1: without a ton of guaranteed like life changing money if
Speaker 1: you're him. Uh. In other news, Trent Williams, the holdout
Speaker 1: left tackle, former All Pro of the Redskins. It just
Speaker 1: doesn't look like it's gonna happen with Williams in Washington,
Speaker 1: and now the Redskins are allowing him to seek a trade.
Speaker 1: Two teams have popped up. That makes sense our teams
Speaker 1: mark the Cleveland Browns um According to the Cleveland Plane
Speaker 1: Dealer report, the Browns will explore a trade uh Williams,
Speaker 1: and The Athletic reported that the Jets are one of
Speaker 1: the teams also pursuing the left tackle. UH. He is,
Speaker 1: when healthy, one of the best in the league greg
Speaker 1: as a blindside protector, but he's been out of the
Speaker 1: league for a whole year now. Essentially he's in his thirties,
Speaker 1: there's some risk here, but it makes sense for a
Speaker 1: team that needs an instant upgrade. Right, There's there's some risk,
Speaker 1: but he's played at like a borderline Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: level when he's played, and I think from other players,
Speaker 1: like when they talk about the best tackles in the game,
Speaker 1: they sometimes say Trent Williams is like number one, like
Speaker 1: the number one, most ferocious guy to try to get past.
Speaker 1: And the back injuries are concerned and the miss right,
Speaker 1: it's that's all find a helmet that we've worked last year.
Speaker 1: That's that is all like a concern, but you know
Speaker 1: how good he is, and the fact that tackles are
Speaker 1: lasting longer and longer, like it's a position. The age
Speaker 1: thirty one is not old to me. The back injuries
Speaker 1: are a concern, but that's someone you could have for
Speaker 1: three or four years. Yeah, I mean the Browns and
Speaker 1: Jets pick tenth and eleven, and I just wonder what
Speaker 1: the asking prices because first round picked, I guess I
Speaker 1: mean Dwayne Brown also thirty one when he was traded,
Speaker 1: that was a second and a fifth. Fuller does not
Speaker 1: think there's any way they're getting the first. In fact,
Speaker 1: he said the Redskins cannot believe they're getting a first
Speaker 1: round second and a fifth sounds second. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, if you're Cleveland or the Jets and have
Speaker 1: been reportedly interested, the Athletics said the Jets are one
Speaker 1: of the team's interest, I get it. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you have you're looking at a really good tackle draft,
Speaker 1: and you you're gonna give away the tenth pick for
Speaker 1: a thirty one year old player. Now, if you get
Speaker 1: five awesome years out of him, I have. I don't
Speaker 1: care what the cost is here, you have if you
Speaker 1: have got a Hall of Fame level left tackle for
Speaker 1: five years, first round pick, and even if he's great
Speaker 1: for two years or even one, and then he's okay
Speaker 1: for a few years. This is such a big year
Speaker 1: for both of the quarterbacks of the Jets and the Browns.
Speaker 1: They need year three for all these guys from that
Speaker 1: draft class is going to be an important uh. Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson is the only one that I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about him at all. But I think
Speaker 1: they want to see big progress here, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think to get a left tackle that they can
Speaker 1: trust and and plug and play there like I get it.
Speaker 1: The trick is he'll be the high You know, he's
Speaker 1: not gonna do it without becoming the highest paid tackle
Speaker 1: in the league. That's the whole point of the trade.
Speaker 1: That's the reason why he's not going back to the Redskins.
Speaker 1: Apparently they kind of settled the off field stuff, but
Speaker 1: he says, you gotta make me the highest paid tackle
Speaker 1: in the league. So it's a big commitment. But it's
Speaker 1: what are the Jets doing with all this cap space?
Speaker 1: They got eighty million dollars in cap space, Just spend it.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if somebody makes him the highest
Speaker 1: paid tackle in the league. I think you're really downplaying
Speaker 1: the risk here. Uh. Jadevan Clowney wants to be among
Speaker 1: the highest paid players in the league, and Ralph Vacciano
Speaker 1: of s n Y reports that the impending free agent
Speaker 1: is quote interested in playing for the Giants. Uh. Clowney
Speaker 1: is what top three on your free agent lists? Uh?
Speaker 1: Scientists's number three, I believe. But Chris Jones kind of
Speaker 1: taken off because he was tagged or report did that.
Speaker 1: He's going to be taken. As we talked about back
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, Mark another situation like Trent Williams, where you
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to pay top of the line potentially
Speaker 1: for a guy that I don't know, the injury risk
Speaker 1: and the production is gonna be there is gonna match
Speaker 1: up with the salary. Well, Vacciano did question. Vaciano Ralphie
Speaker 1: did question whether the g men would be willing part
Speaker 1: with twenty two to twenty three million per season for
Speaker 1: that kind of a player. Does that feel like a
Speaker 1: Dave Gettleman type move? Eric, can you tell Colleen that
Speaker 1: you think it does? You can hear her laugh, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we can hear her cackling and yell, and she's gonna
Speaker 1: be honking that loud. It might as well be on
Speaker 1: a mike. I can't listen to what you guys are saying.
Speaker 1: She's like, stop talking. Oh yeah, yacht rock anyway, go on, guys,
Speaker 1: I have nothing more to add, right, I don't know
Speaker 1: you got he'd does seem like a Gettleman guy. He's
Speaker 1: the hoggest of them all. He's, isn't he? I think
Speaker 1: Gettleman it is just gonna spend terrible money after terrible money. Yes,
Speaker 1: every everything is gonna I mean Clowney is good. I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna spend it on Leonard Williams. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be tagged or get a huge deal, and they're they're
Speaker 1: just gonna spend all the money because they know they're
Speaker 1: all going to be fired in a year if it doesn't.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks are a smart organization, and uh, if they're
Speaker 1: not going to be aggressive to pay the guy, and
Speaker 1: they're desperate for defensive line and they are reportedly getting
Speaker 1: pretty in the cloudy business, they want him. I guess
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see if if that actually plays out.
Speaker 1: But if they don't put up much of a fight,
Speaker 1: if I was a lesser GM, I'd be like, why
Speaker 1: aren't the Seahawks wanted to keep this guy? It feels
Speaker 1: like a nineties blockbuster movie. We want to be in
Speaker 1: the clowney business. Finally, in the Green Blotter mentioned the
Speaker 1: Jets my boy Quinnin Williams, who's, by the way, by
Speaker 1: all accounts a really good dude and down to earth
Speaker 1: sweet guy. Uh just finished up his rookie year, the
Speaker 1: number three overall pick last year, arrested at Laguardi Airport.
Speaker 1: First all, I can't imagine anything worse than being in
Speaker 1: an LaGuardia airport jail cell, the worst airport in the world,
Speaker 1: and now you're in a jail cell in the worst
Speaker 1: airport in the world. All right, According to Pro Football Talk,
Speaker 1: port authority police revised earlier statement now say quinnin Williams
Speaker 1: did not have ammunition near a gun at time of
Speaker 1: airport arrest. Well, that's great, but that's a big deal.
Speaker 1: I just I just think it's pretty crazy, uh that
Speaker 1: this happens occasionally. How how are these guns in the luggage?
Speaker 1: And why are we taking guns on planes? You can't
Speaker 1: take a gun on a plane, Quinton. I immediately thought
Speaker 1: of plaques because of New York's harsh guns and there
Speaker 1: could be repercussions here. But if you're a millionaire athlete,
Speaker 1: I think you're more interested in security than you are
Speaker 1: if you're a podcast host. Oh yeah, I agree, But
Speaker 1: you also I'm saying I don't I'm not saying I'm
Speaker 1: judging him for having a gun and it's a licensed gun.
Speaker 1: I don't think PAX is licensed in Alabama, not in
Speaker 1: New York. That well, that that is a problem, but
Speaker 1: it's more the idea of there's pretty solid in terms
Speaker 1: of common sense laws that everyone knows and one of
Speaker 1: them is that you can't take a gun on the plane.
Speaker 1: I would, I wasn't happen personally if I were walking around,
Speaker 1: what was the type of weapon a K something It
Speaker 1: wasn't an a K. Well, I mean I I would,
Speaker 1: I would fact check whether or not I'm allowed to
Speaker 1: get onto an aircraft with that before. But it was
Speaker 1: not an AK gun. Laws are so strict that that
Speaker 1: difference that he doesn't have the gun. Uh, he didn't
Speaker 1: have any ammunition in the bag, according to the revised
Speaker 1: press release, could change what the minimum sentence is like. Supposedly,
Speaker 1: the minimum sentence if you do have ammunition and the
Speaker 1: gun is prison. You know, it's years. But Mike Garafola
Speaker 1: Plainton Bowers had literally the exact same story. Happened to him.
Speaker 1: A Buck's defensive end LaGuardia gun, ammunition in the bag
Speaker 1: but not in the gun, and he didn't you know,
Speaker 1: he faced the hefty find him, but he ended up
Speaker 1: not facing any jail time and not any league suspension.
Speaker 1: By the way, worst airport I'm going l A X
Speaker 1: with literally no reside. Really, I cannot ever, whenever anyone
Speaker 1: says to me, you're just wrong, You're wrong, Well, whenever
Speaker 1: anyone says to me, can you come pick me up
Speaker 1: at l a X, like like a wave of like
Speaker 1: trauma goes through me. I don't want to deal with it.
Speaker 1: As far as Lagartia is liked, l a X is awesome,
Speaker 1: and I'm not awesome. Some gates are much much better
Speaker 1: than Lagartia has a disaster. L a X is overmax
Speaker 1: like they need help and they're trying to address it. Good.
Speaker 1: L a X talk guys. Logan Boston, Logan, You're insecurity
Speaker 1: lines for three hours and terrible. I'm always surprised by
Speaker 1: how quickly I get through security l a X. That's
Speaker 1: I'm saying. What I really cannot stand is like, hey,
Speaker 1: it's l a X. Bring your guns. We love it. Okay,
Speaker 1: Oh you want to uber out of l a X. Here,
Speaker 1: get on a Get on a hideous bus back to
Speaker 1: its four hundred and sixty people's bags up at the
Speaker 1: front of the bus. Everyone is sweaty and angry. It
Speaker 1: takes you seventeen minutes to get to this ridiculous parking
Speaker 1: lot three miles away, and then you gotta wait in
Speaker 1: line for thirty minutes to get in an uber. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is one of the least functional exit strategies of
Speaker 1: any report I've ever experienced. To my cab bro, if
Speaker 1: the NFL is playing, just take the cab. You don't
Speaker 1: have to wait a little extra when they're paying. I
Speaker 1: think they've done a nice job. But there, all right,
Speaker 1: that'll be fine. That's you know what I'll be probably
Speaker 1: be frist next time I tried to get out of
Speaker 1: that airport. And speaking of Jets, defensive lineman in trouble,
Speaker 1: Moll Wilkerson arrested for d w I possession of marijuana
Speaker 1: and procession of drug paraphernalia. He got arrested last June. Also,
Speaker 1: oh man, he went from one of the best defensive
Speaker 1: linement in football two completely out of the league. And
Speaker 1: that's just sad. I think curb your enthusiasm has shown
Speaker 1: you what a few years with the Jets does to
Speaker 1: the fans. But also maybe some of these defensive people
Speaker 1: perhaps perhaps that's what's happening in the news. All right,
Speaker 1: let's I guess, because it was decided by Phil Specter
Speaker 1: that we have to spin the carousel. Here's the headline,
Speaker 1: NFL QB carousel col in best last worst case scenario
Speaker 1: for fifteen big names in limbo. This was the germ
Speaker 1: of this article. Idea came out of in real time
Speaker 1: on this podcast last week, and I just counted out
Speaker 1: how many quarterbacks that we knew had some type of
Speaker 1: state of limbo, and it actually grew since then. It's
Speaker 1: I think it was thirteen the count, then it got
Speaker 1: up to fifteen. They got Jimmy g involved. Now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pitch a ranking of airports to leave on party
Speaker 1: after this seven years and you can't get his last
Speaker 1: name right? Still? Is? I mean at some point that's disrespectful.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting to see the world worst the luggage carousel
Speaker 1: carousel rankings now that um so, I went through these
Speaker 1: fifteen quarterbacks and I laid out a best case scenario,
Speaker 1: worst case scenario, and then a most likely scenario. So
Speaker 1: it is striking that there's this many guys that have
Speaker 1: some level of indecision around them. And then some people
Speaker 1: on Twitter, some people say I miss I missed people.
Speaker 1: I left Josh Rosen off the list, but you know, whatever,
Speaker 1: come on, Josh. I mean, Kim Sacco made the list,
Speaker 1: which I felt was generous. So you could have a
Speaker 1: former Super Bowl MVP, Marcus Mariota I did not put
Speaker 1: on the list, but I mean, yeah, you could say
Speaker 1: Marcus should be on this list. But Marcus, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't have much little back for the game of
Speaker 1: Mr Mario. He's uh he you know, he's a factor
Speaker 1: in one of these other guys names. But we'll get
Speaker 1: to him. Okay, So how do we want to attack
Speaker 1: this boys? Um? Was there any names? Uh? Yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 1: and we'll also start because Mariotto was in the news
Speaker 1: today related to the third guy on your list, Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: And I think somewhere between your best case scenario UM
Speaker 1: for Derek Carr, which is just you know, they believe
Speaker 1: in him, that they can move in to the house
Speaker 1: he bought in Vegas and in the worst case, which
Speaker 1: is Brady arriving in cars just for sale, is a
Speaker 1: middle ground where Mike Garret Foller reports they're more likely
Speaker 1: to go after kind of a veteran backup, go the
Speaker 1: Tannehill two thousand nine teen Titans route, And he mentioned
Speaker 1: specifically that they are definitely interested in Marcus Mariota and
Speaker 1: that they might have competition for Mariota. I think some
Speaker 1: teams out there probably look at Mariota and think, hey,
Speaker 1: if he comes at a bargain price. This is absolutely
Speaker 1: a guy worth taking a swing on. Mayock had Mariota
Speaker 1: as his number one quarterback in that draft. Grooden sung
Speaker 1: songs about him on you know the qb Uh what
Speaker 1: was that show? Whatever it was? Qb hangout with John
Speaker 1: Groods in the cubes. That's what it should have been
Speaker 1: in the cubes. And so that kind of is like
Speaker 1: a one bee where Car is somewhere in between, like
Speaker 1: a guy who's like on his trail. Derek Carr and
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota as my two choices. So Cars the starter
Speaker 1: and Mariota's the guys. Seven things go poorly, at least
Speaker 1: we have another guy. But you're Derek Carr, you say
Speaker 1: bring it on. Yes, it also means the Raiders know
Speaker 1: they can't get Tom Brady. I I threw it. I
Speaker 1: threw in his The most likely scenario that they do
Speaker 1: stick with him. But is Mike Mayock for a second
Speaker 1: year at the Controls and he's the straft maestro. Is
Speaker 1: he gonna be able to resist taking a quarterback that's
Speaker 1: his guy? I kind of see a young guy coming
Speaker 1: in and that being a major issue for Mr Car
Speaker 1: unless he plays out of his mind. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think this has been an extremely annoying and uncomfortable month
Speaker 1: for Derek Carr, and it's only getting worse. He bought
Speaker 1: that house in Vegas right next door to Grood I
Speaker 1: mean next door to Grood in Yeah, and see that
Speaker 1: as trouble coming. He goes to the new Allegiance Stadium
Speaker 1: in Vegas and he breaks ground or wherever he cuts
Speaker 1: the rib. And I didn't check out the telecast of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was part of that home is he's trying so
Speaker 1: hard to just ingratiate himself and put him into this
Speaker 1: team's future. But we'll see if he really is. Well.
Speaker 1: It's because of like the specifics of some of these reports,
Speaker 1: because there's this this vacuum of news. There was a
Speaker 1: report um from a long time Raiders beat writer that
Speaker 1: Mark Davis is not a fan of Derek Carr, that
Speaker 1: if it was up to Mark Davis that he might
Speaker 1: be part of the reason these stories are getting out
Speaker 1: air that you know, he wants something better, like he's
Speaker 1: sick of it. And so now you know the owner
Speaker 1: who by the way, dragged you not draft, you know,
Speaker 1: brought you to Vegas for this uh dog and Pony
Speaker 1: Show wants out of there, I'd be annoyed. Well, the
Speaker 1: worst scenario with the draft in Vegas is, of course
Speaker 1: Derrik car will probably be there, you know with Raiders
Speaker 1: fans and all this other stuff and wem you've seen
Speaker 1: this happen before. We're like quarterback is at you know,
Speaker 1: draft location and draft location team attached to that draft
Speaker 1: location bears to the Bears draft party with Mike Lennon,
Speaker 1: and as an ian level, I just think that we're,
Speaker 1: you know, this worst month for Derek Carr could become
Speaker 1: a worse two months for Derek Carr. We're even worse
Speaker 1: scenario would be like if if Joe Burrow or one
Speaker 1: of the picks like has a has a rough night
Speaker 1: in Vegas the night before and like falls off one
Speaker 1: of those boats on the way of getting drafted. They're
Speaker 1: taking a little boat up to the up to the
Speaker 1: where is the draft? That does anything? Now? I do not?
Speaker 1: I mean I know where it's a draft in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: That's as far as I can tell you that minute.
Speaker 1: Like a local Ricky dit Vegas. Cool. She's like listen
Speaker 1: to music back there barely so it's like a normal
Speaker 1: all right, spin the carousel, Ricky somebody else on a
Speaker 1: bring up. I have fifteen quarterbacks. Here, I go, okay,
Speaker 1: Wes it is at the Bellagia the one I think here,
Speaker 1: here's one. I think that you Your analysis is spot on, okay, good.
Speaker 1: The most likely scenario for Jacoby Brissette, his days as
Speaker 1: a starter are numbered. If it's not Rivers, it will
Speaker 1: be someone else. And my sense from sitting there at
Speaker 1: the press conference with Chris Boward is that they love
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissett the person, but they're ready to bring in
Speaker 1: another quarterback. And if it's not Philip Rivers, then you're
Speaker 1: going back to the Frank Bright, Nick Foles connection or
Speaker 1: even Jason Michael. They're tight ends. Coach used to be
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for Marcus Mariotta and
Speaker 1: the Titans. And if you bring in a Fools or
Speaker 1: a Mariota, it would not surprise me if hangs onto
Speaker 1: the job, and against all hangs onto the job. But
Speaker 1: if you bring in Rivers, I think is he's done.
Speaker 1: I think it's a good point to you know, note
Speaker 1: that Brissette could be there with whoever they because so
Speaker 1: much of his money is guaranteed in the so much
Speaker 1: cap room. I mean, they're paying him starter money, so
Speaker 1: that's uncomfortable. But if they're stuck with it anyways, why
Speaker 1: create another like your roster. I believe it's more than
Speaker 1: like million or fourteen millions. All he did was do
Speaker 1: exactly what they asked when they were thrown into total chaos.
Speaker 1: And I mean, speaking of cap space, they are right
Speaker 1: behind I believe the Dolphins the most in the league,
Speaker 1: so they can they could probably afford to carry that
Speaker 1: from the short term his uh yeah, he has thirteen
Speaker 1: million dollars in in two thousand and twenty, pay still coming.
Speaker 1: I think attached to that. The Nick Foles scenario is
Speaker 1: intriguing to me just because well, it's spend that thing.
Speaker 1: Spin that wheel. It's a wheel. It doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: a wheel. Sounds sounds like a war zone. Um, what
Speaker 1: do you do with Nick Foles? Because I think he's
Speaker 1: completely untradeable. Colleen wrestle her away from them? What what
Speaker 1: is Colleen doing back there? It is undetermined. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think for your segment that makes sense, But why not?
Speaker 1: I mean I told her to come about and she
Speaker 1: did right on time, even a little bit early. But
Speaker 1: she seems to be in good spirits. Yeah, she's feeling good.
Speaker 1: She's saying how that she doesn't have to take an
Speaker 1: umber from L A X and then a black car
Speaker 1: picks her up. Well exactly, See, I'm just I am
Speaker 1: from the from the earth, and I'm a normal person
Speaker 1: from normal from the proletarius or crew from the ground,
Speaker 1: like a tulips back. They're building that puzzle. Alright, Um,
Speaker 1: Nick Foles ahead, I think you've got to keep him
Speaker 1: because I'm a huge Gardner Minshew guy, and I think
Speaker 1: he's the better quarterback. Yeah, I think he's the dude.
Speaker 1: Come on, but no, no, no, you have to We
Speaker 1: live in a world where these second year quarterbacks like
Speaker 1: look at last season, Look where we were last year
Speaker 1: with Baker Mayfield and Sam Donald. Things can change quickly,
Speaker 1: and look at Nick, folks, things change quickly. Suddenly your
Speaker 1: career is in freefall. And you mentioned that if anything,
Speaker 1: if he got stuck with a if they shifted into
Speaker 1: a a disastrous team with a bad offensive line, he
Speaker 1: starts to rethink about retirement again. And it's like, what
Speaker 1: is a good landing spot for a quarterback that I
Speaker 1: personally love? Again? I love Nick Foles the person, great
Speaker 1: guy like Philly is the best place that I could
Speaker 1: pick for Tampa would be good I as a starter,
Speaker 1: though maybe I mean backup, Well, here's the thing. You're right,
Speaker 1: he is untradeable at that salary, but which is um
Speaker 1: fifteen point one million? I mean he has a much
Speaker 1: They had to eat the money. The Jakes had to
Speaker 1: eat half the money. If they trade him, they actually
Speaker 1: get some cap savings. They get three million dollars in
Speaker 1: cap savings, and they get rid of it, and they
Speaker 1: solve sort of the problem. If they have him on
Speaker 1: their roster, they can't cut him, like cutting is not
Speaker 1: an option. So I could see a scenario where a team,
Speaker 1: maybe even in April, after everything dies down a little bit,
Speaker 1: like the Bucks or the Chargers or some team that
Speaker 1: wants a backup, says, if you pay half his salary,
Speaker 1: like we'll take Nick Foles for nothing, And that's what
Speaker 1: that's all. Tannehill was Tannehill. They cut his Dolphins were
Speaker 1: so you know, willing to get rid of Tannhell. They
Speaker 1: paid half his salary and they gave him away for nothing.
Speaker 1: It was a six to seventh round swap. If I'm
Speaker 1: I think Falls would be a great pickup. At that
Speaker 1: price because like it's all about Bilow sell high, like
Speaker 1: he still has values. Terribly year. He had a terrible year.
Speaker 1: He got injured, he didn't play well. But I guess
Speaker 1: I with foals, like maybe he's never gonna be just
Speaker 1: the guy for a team. But I wouldn't use last
Speaker 1: year as the be all end all in terms of decider.
Speaker 1: You can look at all his other years when he's
Speaker 1: been put in there as a starter for more than
Speaker 1: a month, and it's touchdowns and two interceptions. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had one big year and then he had one
Speaker 1: huge postseason. I would be very dubious about selling him
Speaker 1: to a fan base or to my own coaching staff,
Speaker 1: as as your quarterback right needs to be in the
Speaker 1: right system, and I don't think he's going anywhere as
Speaker 1: an unquestioned starter. It's basically just how desperate is Jacksonville
Speaker 1: get rid of them. I think they might be pretty
Speaker 1: desk and to get rid of him, and then you
Speaker 1: can get him for cheap. And of all the best
Speaker 1: case scenarios I have on this list, his is kind
Speaker 1: of the softest. I think the best case for him
Speaker 1: is that he is in a camp battle with Minshew
Speaker 1: and I think it's based on what we heard at
Speaker 1: the combine, based what's a point that you've made that
Speaker 1: where the league's going with quarterbacks. It just feels like
Speaker 1: Minshew would be the you know, heavy favorite to win
Speaker 1: that job, and it feels like his best case scenario
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, he's tricky for for a trade to
Speaker 1: another team if you're if you're in a stampus quarterback
Speaker 1: for another team. Nick Foles is such a good guy
Speaker 1: that you're like, okay, that well, that's cool, and then
Speaker 1: you realize that the media is going to try to
Speaker 1: have him taking your job every other day because he's
Speaker 1: Nick Foles former playoff m v P. I think um
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers is an interesting guy to talk about. Spend it,
Speaker 1: spin it, stop talking to Colleen scenario because he's probably
Speaker 1: gonna end up with the calls. That's what I hope for.
Speaker 1: I love Philip Rivers. It's like my two sons last night,
Speaker 1: Jack and Harrison, for whatever reason, decided they wouldn't go
Speaker 1: to bed last night. I just decided to like themselves,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, it was like ten thirty
Speaker 1: at night. It was two hours past when they usually
Speaker 1: go to bed, and there's really nothing you can do.
Speaker 1: You can't make them go to sleep. That's how you
Speaker 1: end up in jail. So you basically keep going back there.
Speaker 1: You're like, go to sleep, it's time to go to sleep.
Speaker 1: I will take away this in the morning. You won't
Speaker 1: do this this weekend. But you can't make them, and
Speaker 1: you just kept it, kept on hearing them at the
Speaker 1: end of the hallway. That's what it is again. Now
Speaker 1: with Erica and Colleen. I feel like I'm right back
Speaker 1: and you see what they used to do in people
Speaker 1: used to do back in the day, you know, slip
Speaker 1: them a little like actually Mickey was for different We'll
Speaker 1: take whiskey back here. One of you apparently has plenty
Speaker 1: of it in you. That would be a thing that
Speaker 1: you take whiskey and you put it in the gums
Speaker 1: of the child there. But that's you know, they say
Speaker 1: to do that for airline airline trouve as well. I
Speaker 1: wonder if Indianapolis didn't happen, is there a chance that
Speaker 1: he doesn't get an attractive and that he does consider
Speaker 1: a Monday night football option, Because I don't think Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers wants to be competing with someone anywhere. I don't
Speaker 1: think he wants to be entering a scenario where it's
Speaker 1: like him and he, but we might draft someone in
Speaker 1: the top five, Like if if the Colts didn't work out,
Speaker 1: is there a chance he could retire? I think Tampa
Speaker 1: would jump on that. But I see him as a
Speaker 1: locked in, loaded starter with someone, even if it's not
Speaker 1: the cop. So does he want to be an announcer
Speaker 1: or we is that just being thrown up proposed on
Speaker 1: the ESPN had some interest but no, no one's I
Speaker 1: did include Flack on this uh, and he is a guy,
Speaker 1: He would be a guy, would be very considered, just
Speaker 1: like Pie in the Sky's the best case scenario. I
Speaker 1: thought Aarons could be like, oh, he's kind of like
Speaker 1: Carson Palmer. He's a big veteran guy that could throw
Speaker 1: the ball downfield and all that stuff. It is amazing
Speaker 1: to see Jimmy g second on the Yeah, it is
Speaker 1: pretty wild. But that market did cause me to do
Speaker 1: a search of Flacco's aborted Johnny Unitas biopic screenplay, which
Speaker 1: you wrote a Around the League post on in two thousands.
Speaker 1: Not only I, but we you know the around the
Speaker 1: NFL team was um all over the trench and beat
Speaker 1: here we were all over this in West, you know.
Speaker 1: Months later wrote a sizzling follow up which got into
Speaker 1: why that vehicle, that movie vehicle did not happen West?
Speaker 1: Why did the uniteds Flacco biopic follower? There was a
Speaker 1: brother feud. John United's son, John Jr. Was angry at
Speaker 1: Joe Unitis, who I believe was his son from a
Speaker 1: second marriage, for this film. And John Jr. Said of
Speaker 1: Joe in this movie, it is awful. The guys are tirred.
Speaker 1: No Joe Uniteds. He never talked to me. He never
Speaker 1: talked to any of the first five children. He's a
Speaker 1: guy that's just making money off my father, you know
Speaker 1: where at sun Flacco. Although the Falcons just re upped
Speaker 1: with Matt's shop, which I don't get. Why is match
Speaker 1: Shops still to the backup to Matt Ryan? This is
Speaker 1: this bothered me like three years ago, and it and
Speaker 1: it um, it goes on and it looked pretty good
Speaker 1: in that one game last year. I gotta say, I
Speaker 1: mean what, but Flacco could land behind someone like Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan and I'd be like nice landing spot for both sides,
Speaker 1: or or lands at the old you know Screen Actors
Speaker 1: Guild Theater just down the road. I mean when I
Speaker 1: think charisma and leading man, well yeah, and he was
Speaker 1: just gonna do the football part, right, He wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: he wasn't gonna actually thought it was just for the
Speaker 1: on field stuff. I mean, United felt like he was
Speaker 1: keys to his father, his own father article that I
Speaker 1: wrote Joone Flaccos, own father said this is a terrible idea,
Speaker 1: and my son has no charisma and he's dull. No,
Speaker 1: I think he was gonna play. But but you know what,
Speaker 1: Donnie Uniteds was kind of known, as you know, famously
Speaker 1: tacit here and no, you know, not a lot of it.
Speaker 1: That's not how you don't want to build a movie
Speaker 1: for that. Come on, Greg, you know it's just because
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, he's gotten forgotten and all this.
Speaker 1: What is happening to Jamis Winston. If the Bucks really
Speaker 1: do want to move on, which it sure sounds market,
Speaker 1: it really sounds like the Bucks and Arians are just
Speaker 1: kind of over it. Another backup, but he is not
Speaker 1: a starter at this point, although he's he does these
Speaker 1: amazing things, but he also could I could see him
Speaker 1: in a very messy backup situation with Derek Carr in Vegas,
Speaker 1: that just this seems like something Jon Gruden will just
Speaker 1: like love the chaos of it all, like that. I
Speaker 1: would take Winston in that battle over car. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he'd end up winning it. And Tom Brady's at
Speaker 1: the top of the list for a reason. He's the
Speaker 1: big domino. Everything falls after Brady. There was a report
Speaker 1: this week that he finally spoke on the phone with
Speaker 1: Belichick and didn't go well. Didn't go well. Who come on, Greggy,
Speaker 1: you gotta handle this. Don't let this get messy. It wouldn'
Speaker 1: matter if it if it went really well, that would
Speaker 1: be we'd be I told you, I'm hanging out on
Speaker 1: Jared'stidham corner, and uh, there are open lots available. There's
Speaker 1: just tumble weeds going through like we're gonna have some
Speaker 1: businesses eventually, but like the land is cheap Jared's Stidham Corner, Like,
Speaker 1: come on over, let's ride with Stidham. You know, it's
Speaker 1: disappointing to hear that, greg this is the greatest player
Speaker 1: of all time. He's brought so much joy in millions
Speaker 1: of New Englanders that they're gonna do Tom Brady dirty
Speaker 1: like this. They're not doing it your organization is not
Speaker 1: always they have not always comportant, not my organization. But
Speaker 1: if they and they make this an ugly divorce, shame
Speaker 1: on them. Yeah, this is Tom Brady. I mean, there
Speaker 1: is no there is no scenario where he's playing for
Speaker 1: another and it's that it's not in some way ugly.
Speaker 1: He wanted the freedom to choose his own team. That's
Speaker 1: why they said they haven't really been that worried about
Speaker 1: him going out and testing other teams because it's like
Speaker 1: that's what he wanted. He go do it and we'll see. Well,
Speaker 1: but it looks like Belichick is giving him a little
Speaker 1: bit of a what for damage. He's not gonna I
Speaker 1: don't think Belichick's gonna kiss the ring, and I don't
Speaker 1: think Tom Brady would expect him to. He should, though,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, this guy is different than everybody else. Think
Speaker 1: Belichick like some face timing with the Titans coach months
Speaker 1: after good Titans defeated that's his teammate, former teammate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but come on, I don't know, I don't know, Belichick
Speaker 1: doesn't even probably understand. I mean, connect to FaceTime call,
Speaker 1: how about hanging out with that fallon character. Yeah, little eyebroweries.
Speaker 1: I got you on that real quick before we get
Speaker 1: Connie in here. Best case, worst case, most likely for Garoppolo.
Speaker 1: Best case Brady reports are just smoke. Garoppolo is the
Speaker 1: man in San Francisco. Worst case noters land Brady, Garoppolo
Speaker 1: get shipped out of town. I said it for a
Speaker 1: first round pick. What do you think Rappolo's value would
Speaker 1: be on the open market for as a trade? First
Speaker 1: and more? This year is different because it's a buyer's market. Right?
Speaker 1: What team the Patriots? I mean best case scenarios? He
Speaker 1: leads the Patriots to a super Tom Brady about art
Speaker 1: Stadham Corner having any buildings really sprouting up around Stidham Corner?
Speaker 1: How quickly you're corner for literally like two and a
Speaker 1: half minutes open and available? Uh and not too expensive? Sure,
Speaker 1: then you're right. How about Jimmy G to the Colts?
Speaker 1: Why are you signing up with the age old Philip Rivers?
Speaker 1: You get have Jimmy G. I think remember when remember
Speaker 1: when stid Him played last year and then Belichick was like,
Speaker 1: I better go sign Cody the month or two. Why
Speaker 1: is Cody Kestler not on this list? He didn't just
Speaker 1: didn't make the cut neither the gino. Wow yeah, stuck
Speaker 1: into Greg on that. I mean, it would have been weird.
Speaker 1: He was on there. All right, Let's bring her in.
Speaker 1: Let's wheeler in. Who knows the conditions? Right now? What
Speaker 1: a night she had? According to some of these texts,
Speaker 1: we got at the uh at the yacht the yacht club.
Speaker 1: It was a yacht rock concert. Eric, are really doing
Speaker 1: a bang up jabs producer. Colleen's knocking chairs over, harrying
Speaker 1: her own chairs the tiny bucks. Look at Greg, who's
Speaker 1: this gentleman? Look at this white knight on his horse.
Speaker 1: Greg wheel and took the head. This is happening on
Speaker 1: National International Women's Day. That Greg is lifting a chair
Speaker 1: over Dan to give to Colleen. Very nice. Eric has
Speaker 1: just passed out at the board right now. That is
Speaker 1: that is Erica's like a soft contract hold out right now.
Speaker 1: Don't even know she's at work, which is not really working?
Speaker 1: All right? Get this? What time does the plot start? One?
Speaker 1: What do you do it? You're rubbing a microphone on
Speaker 1: the podcast West of It doesn't sound good, West doesn't
Speaker 1: sound good? Man. All right, here we are, Colleen. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the show. Hey, thanks for having me walked into
Speaker 1: a trap. But it's fine in what way? Because you
Speaker 1: were like, well, you could just come for the last
Speaker 1: segment or if you want, and I'm like, yeah, cool,
Speaker 1: that's great. And then here you've been disparaging me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I a little bit. Well, No, I just said that
Speaker 1: a bad job at a host to disparage rock concert
Speaker 1: wasn't fun at the Wiltern? What was it real bands
Speaker 1: or was it cover? It was a cover band. I
Speaker 1: thought you were on a boat, a physical boat. No,
Speaker 1: but I felt like I was at points that Christopher
Speaker 1: cross song was taking me place. I want a lot
Speaker 1: of places. Um. Last time we saw Colleen was at
Speaker 1: the waffle house at around four fifty in the morning
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, wearing the same outfit I believe. No, I
Speaker 1: just wear the sweatshirt a lot. Okay, Connie, let's just
Speaker 1: above the tree tops, as they say, as we now
Speaker 1: we reached the finals and we're going to be choosing
Speaker 1: your own song. You've had a career that's really gone
Speaker 1: through the roof. There's no glass ceiling with Connie Fox
Speaker 1: and and on National Women's Day, we celebrate what you've
Speaker 1: been able to do and build international career, international women
Speaker 1: around the world glow Buld Woman's Day. Uh, this has
Speaker 1: to be near the top of your accomplishments that you're
Speaker 1: about to have your own song. It's it's this between
Speaker 1: this and having NFL Network live from my old neighborhood, barning.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty good. That's better. What
Speaker 1: was the bar wave? Anybody wants to just a taste
Speaker 1: of the Connie life Connie and Gonzo. I'm sure I
Speaker 1: spent many hours on the wall in there. Head over
Speaker 1: to new Wave, get your picture, uh, in front of
Speaker 1: the picture of Connie and Gonzo and it ended our
Speaker 1: way and we'll shoot a retweet. Yeah. What are our
Speaker 1: chances of doing a live hit next year? From the
Speaker 1: Irish Times? It's probably low. Is that our home bar? Alright?
Speaker 1: I'm just you know, get a chance of any around here.
Speaker 1: We have five finalists and this is how we're gonna
Speaker 1: do this. Of the five finalists and Erica, this is
Speaker 1: when we're going to reveal the names of the composers
Speaker 1: and uh, it would be great potentially even get the
Speaker 1: winner on the phone, if we can make that happen.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's possibility, but we're gonna listen
Speaker 1: to each of the songs one more time. And now
Speaker 1: I don't want anyone to reveal what their choices. That
Speaker 1: the when I when I say, everyone write down your
Speaker 1: choice one through five. There's five finalists, and then I
Speaker 1: will Ricky will also write down hurt choice. So it's
Speaker 1: the five of us in the studio that get one vote.
Speaker 1: Ricky gets a vote, and the listeners voted. Um this week,
Speaker 1: In fact, twenty five thousand people vote. It's two that's
Speaker 1: in that's increasing. Two point five million people voted, and
Speaker 1: whatever the number was. You guys came out and droves
Speaker 1: to pick a song which is funny and great, so
Speaker 1: they get a vote. So the listeners get a vote,
Speaker 1: Erica gets a vote, the heroes get a vote, and
Speaker 1: Colleen honorary hero as well, gets a vote. So that
Speaker 1: is drove six at seven. No time it's necessary, right, No,
Speaker 1: it's still gonna be a time, you know, sure, right,
Speaker 1: But here's how you break the tie. If we have
Speaker 1: a tie, since it's Colleen's song, Colleen, you will choose.
Speaker 1: It could be three songs in a tie, a deadlock? Right?
Speaker 1: Have you talked about the prize yet? Could it be
Speaker 1: three songs in a deadlock. There's seven total votes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you could have a three way tie with seven, alright, well,
Speaker 1: I i am should not be answering math questions. I'm flying.
Speaker 1: I'm not in last place right now. Yes, Colleen, we
Speaker 1: had talked about what will be the grand prize for
Speaker 1: the winner of this contest, and why don't you let
Speaker 1: the listeners know? Well, there can only be one amazing
Speaker 1: prize given out, and that of course has to be
Speaker 1: a puzzle. I mean, if you guys are writing these songs,
Speaker 1: the best gift I could give to you is one
Speaker 1: of the puzzles that I completed. Yeah, just not any puzzle.
Speaker 1: It's a special puzzle. And what makes it so special
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of weird animals smiling on it.
Speaker 1: And also it made the song and we all signed it.
Speaker 1: I put together some pieces so we can get that going. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're all going to sign. This already featured on the
Speaker 1: around the NFL instagram page. I believe this puzzle the
Speaker 1: iconic Connie Weird Animals puzzle that she put together during
Speaker 1: one of her many off hours a couple of weeks back.
Speaker 1: That's the prize. Plus maybe we'll be on the show
Speaker 1: purchased by Gonzo too, so Gonzo has touched it with
Speaker 1: his own hands. And is Gonzo now at this point
Speaker 1: aware of the song contest. He is? He was like,
Speaker 1: I saw something about songs piled in. No, I don't
Speaker 1: think you tweet, all right? So alright, Erica, UM, are
Speaker 1: you do you have any thoughts questions? We can We
Speaker 1: can get on the same page with Gott to stick
Speaker 1: the landing on this one. So we're going to listen
Speaker 1: to the five songs again. We'll talk about the songs
Speaker 1: after each one, but do not reveal what your choices, um,
Speaker 1: and then we have to rank them one to five.
Speaker 1: Just your winner. Here is song one. Who is the
Speaker 1: name of the artist? This is where are they from?
Speaker 1: Dylan Stein from Denver? Number one? M hm, So that's
Speaker 1: the type the St. Lucia that we like, Gorge Cayman
Speaker 1: power maybe little m m maybe. Probably probably has strong
Speaker 1: just like a sound in production as as any of them.
Speaker 1: And it reminds me the most of and I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's a positive of like the damn a
Speaker 1: check intro type songs like Dick Banks, the one little
Speaker 1: a little Dick banksy. Okay, I gotta think about the
Speaker 1: fact that you're gonna listen to this roughly five thousand
Speaker 1: times over the next couple of years. Does that song
Speaker 1: have a title? Colleen's never been on the show now, Okay,
Speaker 1: so that was Dylan from Denver. I like that song.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of drinking with Cessler for some reason. Specifically,
Speaker 1: that's not a bad I can see that. I can
Speaker 1: see a favorite of mine too. It's a bit of
Speaker 1: a woozy banger. A woozy banger, alright. Number two. Number
Speaker 1: two is Joe de Prospero from Jersey. Okay, this dude,
Speaker 1: her heart's is big as tilly. She likes to as
Speaker 1: so silly you call her tiny tiny box? Do make
Speaker 1: your box is here? Box is here? Do is reach boxes?
Speaker 1: This feels like a like a sick um. I'm like
Speaker 1: coming in, I'm spilling coffee down to the camera. The
Speaker 1: tone is correct, alright. That song is Connie Fox Is
Speaker 1: Here by Joe d from Production to like the little Touches,
Speaker 1: Great Flourishes and Joe, I, well, you know what I
Speaker 1: don't want to say, I'll say afterwards, all right. Song
Speaker 1: number three, alright, three is Greg Skamato from l A
Speaker 1: Bison some both caller Conni Fox Othery say it's Tony Box.
Speaker 1: But no matter who you know who they mean, she's
Speaker 1: here today on a t N talking with your favorite man.
Speaker 1: NFL's Loan Wolf. For the names, Calli Fox. I don't
Speaker 1: really like that one. That one's beautiful little soggy bottom boys,
Speaker 1: saggy bottom boys again, amazing production value and it's things
Speaker 1: the artist sounds like. For West, I would say that's
Speaker 1: the only maybe interesting. I knew my name would come
Speaker 1: up because you guys think I'm a hay seed and
Speaker 1: always talking with grass coming out of my teeth. So
Speaker 1: anytime you do any dress like they're the cable guy.
Speaker 1: Right now, I picked the right show for southern Um,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts about that country song? Mark? I
Speaker 1: liked it a lot. I mean also, the artist is
Speaker 1: right here in Los Angeles, so if I were to
Speaker 1: vote against it, he could potentially find myself. It's also,
Speaker 1: these are the finalists, like, there's no more trash. That's
Speaker 1: a great coming. All five of these are great, and yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead. I hate to be a stickler, but to me,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit more bluegrass and not country. That's fair, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it's blue. I'm gonna change it to bluegrass, cut,
Speaker 1: bent note, beauty, and um mark you you'll appreciate this
Speaker 1: because you sent me a gift recently. I'm in a
Speaker 1: very like good Los Angeles place right now because I
Speaker 1: did a late night viewing of Bagnolia last night, which
Speaker 1: is one of the great l A movies. So the
Speaker 1: fact that he's a local guy, I'm happy for you
Speaker 1: that you watch that. Watch out for those frogs coming
Speaker 1: from the sky today. Yeah, the ending felt a little
Speaker 1: a little off. That was very nice. I've never seen it.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what you're talking. Okay, Paul Thomas Anderson.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you should watch them skip the first fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes and the last. It's not really but it's like
Speaker 1: the three hours in between. Yeah, it's got some good stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, couched in the middle. All right, we have
Speaker 1: two more. Here's the fourth. Option. Number four is Sam
Speaker 1: Stringfield from North Carolina. Magnolie catching heat. Go ahead, I
Speaker 1: love it, Steel Magnoliance. Maybe Connie's here, She's gonna piece
Speaker 1: it all together for us. Finally, someone week Connie's here.
Speaker 1: Why are all these animals smiling? What could they be hiding.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I mean he's probably the most deserving
Speaker 1: of the prize because he had the he was clairvoyant
Speaker 1: enough to put that in the lyrics about it had
Speaker 1: no idea that was the prize. Also, it sounds like
Speaker 1: he's had a few to drinks. He sounds like he's
Speaker 1: three Yeah, he's like three bands into the yacht rock show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that makes kind of like him more. He tapped into
Speaker 1: the Colleen weirdness. He really did two things on that.
Speaker 1: I wish we could add, Am I missing something? What
Speaker 1: is the called why are these animals? Is that from
Speaker 1: one of your YouTube videos? It's the puzzles Are they smiling?
Speaker 1: What are they hiding? Okay? And also multiple people on
Speaker 1: Twitter thought that that was our good buddy Jason Zumwalt,
Speaker 1: But it is not Jason sounds like but it is
Speaker 1: Sam Stringfield from North Carolina. It's a bit of a
Speaker 1: Harry Chapin Field to it could call West totally right.
Speaker 1: And the final the final entry, this is from Rick
Speaker 1: M from Seattle, Maratis. There's a wolf. There's a wolf.
Speaker 1: There's a wolf. Can't your house down? There's a wolf.
Speaker 1: There's a wolf. There's a wolf. House don't mess where,
Speaker 1: don't don't do it, don't do stupid, don't mess where,
Speaker 1: don't don't don't he's stupid. That one slaps, it slaps,
Speaker 1: it captures. I think, like the Black the last two
Speaker 1: I would say, capture the essence of you in different ways,
Speaker 1: very sort of like ways that are unspoken. Like that.
Speaker 1: That song makes me think of Connie Wolf, even with it,
Speaker 1: even before the the rare Connie Wolf, even before the
Speaker 1: words come in Wolf, Connie tiny box Wolf. That is
Speaker 1: it's that song because I always like the titles. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a wolf. Fantastic all right. Now, everybody, you have
Speaker 1: a note card in the market in front of you,
Speaker 1: and it is time. I want you to hide your answers.
Speaker 1: Remember it's like old scantron test. Cover your papers. When
Speaker 1: you're done, flip flip it over and here are your choices.
Speaker 1: I don't want anyone to mistakenly choose the wrong one.
Speaker 1: Dealing from Denver, the Woozy Banger and the St. Lucia
Speaker 1: Vibe Joe d from Jersey. Connie Fox is here, Greg
Speaker 1: asked from l A. The Bluegrass Connie Song, Sam Stringfield
Speaker 1: from North Carolina. Connie Fox is here. The puzzle song.
Speaker 1: Rick M. From Seattle. There's a wolf stupid. Okay, I
Speaker 1: gotta vote to Colleen's vote should count double. That's the
Speaker 1: one I'm most curious about. At least, I feel like
Speaker 1: the listeners, though, their votes should probably carry more weight
Speaker 1: because they got are you putting? Are you guys? Did
Speaker 1: you just put a number or just wrote down based
Speaker 1: off what you just told us? I believe I had
Speaker 1: the number read I wrote that number. Okay, you don't
Speaker 1: need to fold. Do you want our names? Just wanted
Speaker 1: nice here out of luck? Smooth? A little late in
Speaker 1: the game, that you want our names attached to this?
Speaker 1: You could speak afterwards? Why you chose what you choke?
Speaker 1: This is the moment, guys. Oh my god, I'm nervous.
Speaker 1: Did Erica walk in here? Very all right? Let me
Speaker 1: do mine? Okay, here we go? All right, here we go.
Speaker 1: This is why I was late. I've missed some sleep
Speaker 1: because of it. I was thinking about it all night.
Speaker 1: Now this I am going Jeff Probe's Survivor style. Right now,
Speaker 1: I have each of the votes. I'm gonna shuffle him up.
Speaker 1: I don't know who the winner is. I don't know
Speaker 1: even though who the listener's choice was you would like
Speaker 1: you would like to be approached, wouldn't you? I stand
Speaker 1: in all of your integrity throughout this whole process. Hey,
Speaker 1: well I know, um which one the listeners did you
Speaker 1: note that? Okay, I would like to know that. All right,
Speaker 1: here we go, it's time West. Can you tabulate? Oh?
Speaker 1: Happy happy to what an honor vote one? No hanging
Speaker 1: chats please West. In the Connie Fox theme song, sweep
Speaker 1: Steaks goes to number four, Sam Stringfield, Connie foxes here
Speaker 1: the puzzle song vote to remember, seven votes total, any
Speaker 1: tiebreaker Connie breaks, So Connie gets a vote and the
Speaker 1: potential tiebreaker, so she really does have kind of potentially
Speaker 1: two votes. Okay, what this is the listener's vote that
Speaker 1: the listeners have selected Rick m from Seattle. There's a wolf?
Speaker 1: Was it close? Ricky very till the end? And then
Speaker 1: Rick him really between five and on three shoes? Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. We can know what the vote when
Speaker 1: he's been muzzled, the only one propes in the room.
Speaker 1: Respect the propes alright, So we got one for five,
Speaker 1: one for four, vote three again Sam Stringfield, Connie Fox
Speaker 1: is here. The puzzle songs Your style of telling this
Speaker 1: up is interesting. Now, Greg, you're good at math, so
Speaker 1: we'll know at what point does it? Is it a
Speaker 1: win if someone has four four when they have more
Speaker 1: out left? Yes? So right now we're ways away from
Speaker 1: the magic number. Okay, both into clock scenario here for
Speaker 1: for us to five is one. The rest are in
Speaker 1: trouble right now. You need something, need something right now,
Speaker 1: big spot to be a part of show history. Number
Speaker 1: four Sam Springfield the puzzle song and now Sam Springfield
Speaker 1: Stringfield in a commanding position up to four to go,
Speaker 1: four to go, but he gets one more and it's
Speaker 1: over right. Uh No, who there could still get between
Speaker 1: that and four? A few have four. This is why
Speaker 1: loves them four out of seven. Yeah, it's there's three
Speaker 1: votes and there's one for the rap songs and you
Speaker 1: can still tie, but he has to win out. I'm
Speaker 1: saying one more. He's Dad's got it. Yep. Yeah, take
Speaker 1: it to the bank beat job. Maybe it's gonna need
Speaker 1: a massive comfort thinking the Connie double the next vote, fifth,
Speaker 1: how many you should you should have? Seven? This is
Speaker 1: where you need to Jeff Probes would know what the
Speaker 1: answers build does this? Propes doesn't know number five, Rick M.
Speaker 1: There's a wolf that's got to be very good. Three
Speaker 1: scenario I would not have such good handwriting. This is Eric,
Speaker 1: I believe. So with two votes left, let's break it down.
Speaker 1: That's Colleen Coyle. What we could say who we voted for.
Speaker 1: Colleen voted for number there's only one probes possibly allowed
Speaker 1: Dan to go through with the ex stepping on his toes.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I knew it was Colleen immediately as well. Well,
Speaker 1: don't you want to tell the list there? It's what
Speaker 1: we talked about after yes, Oh my god. So eliminated unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Dylan den from Denver number one, Joe d from Jersey
Speaker 1: number two, eliminated, Greg s from l A. The bluegrass
Speaker 1: song also literate, It's down, It's down to Stringfield, Connie Foxes.
Speaker 1: Here are the puzzle song, and there's a wolf parenthetical
Speaker 1: stupid Clowes parenthetical m. Here we got the sixth of
Speaker 1: seven votes bluegrass on that's West's vote. Absolutely, it was
Speaker 1: the best one. Now, this is what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: If this is anything other than well, if it's the
Speaker 1: Sam Springfield song, it's over. But if it's any other
Speaker 1: song besides Rick M, it's also over. And it goes
Speaker 1: to Stringfield. Wait, if it's five, then there's a tie. Yes,
Speaker 1: this needs to be Rick M. To force the tie, Ricky,
Speaker 1: this is it? Scoreboard is really working? Here? Will it be?
Speaker 1: Connie Fox is here the puzzle song where there's a
Speaker 1: wolf stupid. We're about to find out West looks nervous.
Speaker 1: I'm just interested. Dan's got me on the edge of
Speaker 1: my seat. Here here it is the final vote in
Speaker 1: the Connie Fox theme song sweepstakes goes to number five.
Speaker 1: Got a don Rick M from Seattle. There's a wolf stupid?
Speaker 1: What a comeback? And you know what has Greg ruined?
Speaker 1: We know that Colleen voted for number five, totally ruined
Speaker 1: what would have been a great tiebreaker scenario. So Colleen,
Speaker 1: this is now your decision to make. Are you gonna
Speaker 1: double up? And it makes sense that you would, but
Speaker 1: maybe you would see that the Connie Fox is here,
Speaker 1: a puzzle song really pulled extremely well. The listeners chose
Speaker 1: your song. That's interesting. You know, I am very susceptible
Speaker 1: to peer pressure, but in this scenario, I'm gonna stand
Speaker 1: my ground. I'm gonna double down, and I'm going with
Speaker 1: number five is stupid by Rick M. From Seattle, that is,
Speaker 1: if you're Connie's Fox theme song sweepstakes winner. Congratulations to Rick,
Speaker 1: what a moment you are simpatica with the listeners here,
Speaker 1: what a moment that I ruined? That works, It's all right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did take a little area of I mean, they
Speaker 1: built the coalition number five. You know, they got the listeners.
Speaker 1: That's broadbast. They got the song, they got the person
Speaker 1: the song is about to get on board. That's that's
Speaker 1: the way to look at it. Built by you know,
Speaker 1: getting different genres of people. I like that the song
Speaker 1: is vaguely threatening to because it's like, don't mess with her,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know what's going to happen if you
Speaker 1: do mess on Global Woman's Day, especially for that to
Speaker 1: be international. But okay, that the same kind of though
Speaker 1: I don't know your chef probes tire holiday as as Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's let's get Rick on the phone. And you guys
Speaker 1: are right, because although my vote all of West you
Speaker 1: had the bluegrass song. I guess obviously then Mark I
Speaker 1: had Tell and Erica I think must have voted for
Speaker 1: sam Stringfield and that would have been my second choice
Speaker 1: if there was like you got a feel for him
Speaker 1: because it looked like he had it in the bag. Well,
Speaker 1: had you read the cards in a different order, will
Speaker 1: look look his He would have had the great comeback
Speaker 1: that ended in a tie. But it looks like he
Speaker 1: was the Atlanta Falcons versus the Patriots. A little bit
Speaker 1: of five for Sam. But we love your song, and
Speaker 1: like like I've said, even though there's only one winner
Speaker 1: and it is rick m from Seattle, there's a wolf
Speaker 1: stupid um parenthetical. Uh, we're gonna you'll hear some of
Speaker 1: these songs again, but there's only one official theme song.
Speaker 1: There's only one person that gets the puzzle, the autograph puzzle,
Speaker 1: and only one man that potentially gets to uh joined
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL podcast heroes right now is Connie
Speaker 1: Tiles in Colleen final thoughts on what's been really I'm
Speaker 1: sure a HEDI did. It's it's really been a stressful
Speaker 1: sort of experience. Like I told Ricky Hollywood, I didn't
Speaker 1: really ask for this, but then once it was bestowed
Speaker 1: upon me, I felt it was my poty to pick
Speaker 1: the best song, and I think that's what we did
Speaker 1: here today. Now you are a noted hip hop head.
Speaker 1: How huge was that that he went down that road, uh,
Speaker 1: using kind of Uh, what was a really solid hip
Speaker 1: hop beat, had a good flow to it. That must
Speaker 1: have been really a deal maker for you. And well,
Speaker 1: it was like he knew what I was thinking. It
Speaker 1: was like he was one with my brain. And I
Speaker 1: like the vibes that that whole song cast. I want
Speaker 1: that to be sort of the atmosphere when I walk in.
Speaker 1: It's like a walk up. It's like a walk song.
Speaker 1: And many other people tried hip hop and none of
Speaker 1: them made the finals, so you had to, like you
Speaker 1: had to be good. I like that. We had so
Speaker 1: many different styles, so many different types of songs. Let's
Speaker 1: talk to Rick. Rick is on the line. Rick Seattle,
Speaker 1: the winner Natty Fox Theme Song Challenge. Congratulations, Rick, welcome
Speaker 1: to the Around the NFL podcast. Hey, I'm going thank you.
Speaker 1: Tell us tell us how how it how it happened,
Speaker 1: how the song came to you? Uh? And and you
Speaker 1: know how excited you are right now, which I imagine
Speaker 1: is quite basically I just started speech berg and then uh,
Speaker 1: when I came up with it about like thirty minutes
Speaker 1: and then I just recorded it on my phone. Are
Speaker 1: you somebody that has a simple process? You have like
Speaker 1: a hip hop background, or you are recording artist yourself,
Speaker 1: or is it just something you do in your own time? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do Rabin of music very good. So we're you're
Speaker 1: gonna throw a plug in here? I mean, why not?
Speaker 1: Where could people hear more of your stuff? Actually I
Speaker 1: haven't released anything yet, so oh yes you have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my first song. It's a banger. It's a number
Speaker 1: one hit. What's it like? What's it like living in
Speaker 1: a submarine? According to the sound of your connection, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm driving right out. I mean, actually, are pretty lucky.
Speaker 1: We just caught him without any warning, even we and
Speaker 1: here he is, like, how do you feel about puzzles?
Speaker 1: But what puzzles? Well, Rick doesn't know. One of the
Speaker 1: prizes you get is the autographed cat puzzle that colleague
Speaker 1: self together. We all signed it and we're gonna send
Speaker 1: that your way. I don't think there's any cats all here.
Speaker 1: Nobody has. Yeah, your prizes you get to put together
Speaker 1: a seven piece puzzle. No, but in all serious is Rick,
Speaker 1: it was awesome. We had so many great competitors and
Speaker 1: your song. We loved it immediately, And you are imagine
Speaker 1: as a fan of the podcast forever now tied to
Speaker 1: the show and you're part of the show's history. You
Speaker 1: won the fan and you won vote the two most
Speaker 1: integral votes. It came down to a tiebreaker, but Colleen
Speaker 1: got a two votes essentially, and she chose your song.
Speaker 1: Did did I tie with the Animal Collective? That or
Speaker 1: what you did? Collective? You tied with the Connie Foxes
Speaker 1: here with the French horn and talking about the puzzle
Speaker 1: and the little Animal Collective. Guy, I think the Animal
Speaker 1: Collective played the first Super Bowl halftime. Yeah, well, I
Speaker 1: mean everybody was great. I'm just happy that the band
Speaker 1: show's mind is just to be nominated. All right, Rick,
Speaker 1: and are you a Seahawks fan? Yeah? Do you want
Speaker 1: to drop a go Hawks before you sign off? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well boys, yeah please. If you got it, Rick, thank you,
Speaker 1: and America will be in touch with you about getting
Speaker 1: you your amazing prize. Rick from Seattle, congratulations, Wow, what
Speaker 1: what a competition it's been and what what a what
Speaker 1: a journey that we have now completed and it is uh.
Speaker 1: I think the only way to sign off the show,
Speaker 1: if anyone has any other thoughts they want to throw in,
Speaker 1: I would take the puzzle and like hide it inside
Speaker 1: it like all the pieces of a giant bag of cocaine.
Speaker 1: So he's getting a little more than he bargained. Well,
Speaker 1: that's quite illegal though. I mean that puts him in
Speaker 1: danger as well, because it's great narcotic. Are you gonna
Speaker 1: where who's gonna get it? Who's gonna I don't have
Speaker 1: access to it. You're also working on the assumption that
Speaker 1: he would want the cocaine, which we know. I think
Speaker 1: he could sell it for a lot of money. And
Speaker 1: so suddenly the prizes and now you're turning him into
Speaker 1: a drug mules. Definitely put it in some flour though.
Speaker 1: Now little Box, we're learning more about what Mark has
Speaker 1: been doing. No, just you know what, No, just ship
Speaker 1: it up through eli X. It's so easy to get
Speaker 1: it through eli X. Is so convenient and easy for everyone.
Speaker 1: I have no problems, all right, Rick, Well be on
Speaker 1: the lookout and open it in private. All right, Thanks
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Speaker 1: let's say goodbye and play out the new official theme
Speaker 1: song of Colleen Wolf. This is Dan Hanson signing off
Speaker 1: for the Quiet Storm. The Mailman Connie Fox, the Tiny Box, Uh,
Speaker 1: the Old Boss, and Rick Hollywood behind the Glass till
Speaker 1: Monday hit it. Rick, I mean with there's a wolf,
Speaker 1: I gotta go places in the parking lot. It's grown
Speaker 1: on me pretty fast too, to start every Thursday night football.
Speaker 1: I got. It's way better than prow song and this
Speaker 1: will get on TNF. One time I predicted stupid the
Speaker 1: parenthetical put it over the top of it was stupid.