1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: M the Around the League Podcast starts. No, welcome back 2 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:12,960 Speaker 1: to another addition to the Round League Podcast. My name 3 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: is Dan Hands and I'm joined by Rouville, the Heroes, 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:22,919 Speaker 1: Chris Westling, Mark Sessler, and Greg Rosa Ball What up? Boys? Actually? Yeah, 5 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: actually it's more a roomful of trunks. We've been put 6 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: in the back room of a Sheridan in Times Square 7 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 1: and that's why it might sound like we're recording under water. 8 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: So I understand the production is going to be a 9 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 1: little off there. But the energy, the love of the game, 10 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: the love of the media day, the weird way that 11 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: Dan's voice sounds in this strange room, bouncing off. That's 12 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: going to be on top of things literally like twenty 13 00:00:51,120 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: two massive black boxes filled with potentially arms. So alright, 14 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: so today it was media Day. I guess maybe that's 15 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: where we should start. There's so much to get to 16 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: we have, The four of us haven't been together in 17 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: a while, but media day was today, So why don't 18 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: we start there? And Greg, I throw it to you, 19 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: the boss, your big picture takeaway from the day at 20 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Well, I like the 21 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: beginning of it. We get off the bus and there's 22 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: a band just naking music upon our arrival made us 23 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 1: feel like we were athletes, and then after that it 24 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: was just pretty much, I don't know, the same media 25 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: day as always. You know, it's a lot of nonsense, 26 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:41,319 Speaker 1: a couple of good questions mixed in there. I'm more 27 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: interested in Westling because he hasn't been to any of these, 28 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: just for the general impressions of the spectacle of it all. Well, 29 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:55,279 Speaker 1: it's not really my thing that you guys might effect media. 30 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: I don't really get into, like why who cares what 31 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch says? And why why does it matter that 32 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: everyone has to be riveted by Richard Sherman. You know, 33 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: that's not really my thing in order I get really into, uh, 34 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: these precious, self important media personalities that have to be 35 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: shoving through everyone else with a notebook and a pen 36 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,239 Speaker 1: just to ask, you know, what's your favorite color or 37 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: something like that. So yeah, I wasn't that impressed with it. 38 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's anyone's thing, though. I remember 39 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: Dan said during it that this it kind of freaks 40 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 1: them out. Every year, stresses you out, Dan a little bit. 41 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: I felt a little claustrophobic, especially this year because this 42 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: is now my third ball, third Super Bowl marks as well, 43 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: and the first two at Indie and then New Orleans 44 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: were in the stadiums this one because obviously it's eleven 45 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 1: degrees out in New York right now, so they weren't 46 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 1: gonna have it a met Life stadium. They go down 47 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:49,839 Speaker 1: to Newark and it's a smaller space but the same 48 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: amount of people, and you know that one thing not 49 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: to have two side track. But the thing that really 50 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:57,959 Speaker 1: gets me a little, it gets me a little weirded out, 51 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 1: is the when you're so all these strangers trying to 52 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: talk to this athlete, and you could smell everyone and 53 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: you can smell coffee on their breath, and you can 54 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: smell their cheap after shave, and it's just like, it's 55 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: kind of gross, to be honest with you. And I 56 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 1: don't know if I'm becoming a little O C D 57 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: with my age, but I don't know. It was just 58 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 1: it's it just bothers me. I got a little anxiety. 59 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: It has a subway feel to it in that sense 60 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: where you really are it's it's critical that you're there. 61 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: The same way if you were writing a subway somewhere 62 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: you need to do it, but you are smashed up 63 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,519 Speaker 1: against people you would never touch otherwise, and yeah, all 64 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: the sense I think the thing that's good about it 65 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: is avoiding all the cluster around Sherman and wandering off 66 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: and talking to like like we all have a chance 67 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: to talk to some coaches today who you essentially never 68 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 1: hear from all year, like coordinators, and they are surrounded 69 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: by fifteen people, and you can actually ask four or 70 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: five questions in a row and have a conversation. That's 71 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: the good part. The craziness of it, I'm with Wes. 72 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: It's it's sort of something I'm not drawn to it. Well, 73 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: there's no one that is. I don't know who's I 74 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: think some are. I don't think that dude that still 75 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: dresses up as an unknown superhero, uh pick boy, I 76 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: believe his name is. There's a guy, a Waldo character. 77 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 1: It's like, bro, your thirty seven, you know, get a 78 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: girlfriend stopped going to this event? You have who else? 79 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:26,359 Speaker 1: Wildough the got dressed up like a founding father, somebody 80 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 1: who looked like George Washington or John that guy. There's 81 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: always a few women that set out their dignity so 82 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: they can have like them. I had no problem with 83 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: the way she was dressed. Though you're one of those 84 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: leers sports, right, But it is it does make you 85 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: think for who's benefits? Benefit is it? Because I think 86 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: our reaction to it is probably the normal reaction. Pretty 87 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: much every writer that's there is thinking the same thing. 88 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: No one really likes it. I don't know. There's not 89 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: a ton of news that comes out of it, like 90 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 1: Dominique Rogers, Crimarty, you know, clarify that he's not really retiring. 91 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: We get some good quotes, but the rest of the 92 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:08,799 Speaker 1: week we do that. Tomorrow and Thursday are great days 93 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 1: if you want to talk to players and coaches somewhere. 94 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: I think it just got lost. I'm not sure who's 95 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 1: benefit it's all for. I don't think fans are really 96 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: that interested in it either. It's we're not that interested 97 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 1: in The players certainly aren't that interesting. It's sort of 98 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 1: just it's one of the events that sort of shows 99 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 1: how big the Super Bowl has become, that it's just 100 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: lost control and now it's its own thing. But I 101 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 1: don't I don't know if anyone really likes we took 102 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: We took a police escort from Manhattan into Jersey on 103 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 1: shuttles to get to the event, and the guys sitting 104 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 1: two rows behind uh Mark West and I are the 105 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: way back, had like a thick German accent. I mean, 106 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 1: this is not this is a different type of event. 107 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 1: I will say one thing that I do. I do 108 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: like it, like I liked about the day, because I 109 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: don't want us to come up as like, you know, 110 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: bitter sports writers. It just this event is a little weird. 111 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 1: It's different than the rest of the Super Bowl week, 112 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: obviously in a lot of ways. But I did like 113 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: I liked Marshawn Lynch the way he kind of carried himself. 114 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: I thought it was funny. He obviously had a hundred 115 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 1: thousand dollars plus riding on the event if he didn't 116 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 1: show up, based on the terms of his appeal. And 117 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: then he he arrives and he's not on a podium. 118 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: They keep him in a pen with some other lesser 119 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,679 Speaker 1: known seahawks and he speaks for six minutes and twenty 120 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: one seconds and then just slips away into the ether. Yeah. 121 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: And I was there when he was there, and I 122 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: remember I was like ten rows back and again I 123 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 1: was starting to get a little antsie, like Rick Riley 124 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 1: was straining in front of me, and I was like, 125 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: what am I even? Why am I here? And I 126 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: walked to try to get some air, and uh, I 127 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: see Randy Moss who works with Fox Now, and he's like, 128 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: I gotta talk to Beast mode and he and I saw. 129 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, maybe they'll interact. So I go 130 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: to walk back. This is like fifteen seconds later, Marshall 131 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,359 Speaker 1: Lynch is gone there, He's nowhere to be seen, but 132 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: then he returns. I went to go talk to Percy Harvin, 133 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 1: who had a podium close to where the pen was 134 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 1: of lesser seahawks, and there was beasts like randomly sunglasses on, 135 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: hoodie pulled over his head, leaning up against like a 136 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: temporary structure, not saying a word and yeah, looking like 137 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: a boss, and all the media like shouting to him 138 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 1: and taking pictures. It was just like it was kind 139 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 1: of like what I thought was a rock star move. 140 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: I was in for that. West West hasn't slept in, 141 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: none of us. None of us have eaten all day, 142 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: so you know, but by the way, West didn't even 143 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: have any clothes until four am. This had a very 144 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: Griswold family vacation experience. On Monday. They sent my luggage 145 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 1: to Miami while I was here in the cold, wandering 146 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: around the streets of Jersey City, which has all the 147 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: charm of late eighties Bulgaria. Cessler has been describing. Jersey 148 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: City is like a like a hellscape of sorts. Well, 149 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: it's like piles of rubble on every corner, billowing smokestacks, 150 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: gray bleak landscape. That's like you got blasted out meadows 151 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: on both side of you. And West and I took 152 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: like a hundred and twenty five dollar taxi rides New 153 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: York City to escape, just like Oswaldy and Russia. Well, 154 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: let's let's clarify. First of all, let's set the stage. Uh. 155 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 1: West is covering the Broncos all week. Yeah, and Cessler 156 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: is covering the Seahawks, and those teams are situated in 157 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: a Jersey City hotels. Uh. And then Greg and I 158 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: are both in Manhattan covering more at the Media Center 159 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,959 Speaker 1: and Radio Row and doing other things. Uh. So we 160 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: will not be united until later later in the week 161 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 1: of Manhatty and these guys are you know, they're up 162 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: here sipping Martini's and West and I, you know, trying 163 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 1: to desperately to find you like being out there for 164 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: that reason, you said it was good for the time. 165 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: But case and point. You know, West has no coat 166 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: because he has no clothing. The airline decided he doesn't 167 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 1: need luggage or toiletries. And so we're wandering through like 168 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 1: an eighty mile per hour wind gust to what we 169 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: find is a chili's that is no. It's like two 170 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 1: hallways stacked on top of each other, a couple of 171 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: blasted out tables on the first floor upstairs, some bar 172 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,719 Speaker 1: with no waitress. We get two beers, we don't even 173 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,839 Speaker 1: order food, and we're like, we literally can't tell other 174 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:26,319 Speaker 1: men that this is the first place we ate in 175 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: New York. Well, we just saw New Jersey. We wrote 176 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: a visitors guide that's up on the Around the League 177 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: blog for people coming into Manhattan for the game, and 178 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 1: I think Greg road Road wrote it, and I certainly 179 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 1: agree is that you can Greg, why don't you say it? 180 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 1: I don't know which part of it. Can never go 181 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: to a chain restaurant when you're in the New York 182 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 1: City area. In fairness, now, they could have done a 183 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 1: little research, taken a cab. We're in a desperate situation 184 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: and had I slept in the past few days and 185 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: had clothing suitable to the environment, I would have been 186 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: a lot more ambitious. We went the Chilies because it 187 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: was basically right next door, and when we got in there, 188 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 1: we were so just what's so disappointed with the menu? 189 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: I mean, there wasn't anything on there. I would think 190 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 1: about eating and then the thought of having to come 191 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 1: back hat in hand and explained to Dan that we 192 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 1: went to a chain restaurant. I mean, I just couldn't 193 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 1: bring myself to eat that. I think what I like 194 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: about this show so far as the current of positive 195 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,439 Speaker 1: energy running, yeah, we should point out the Jersey people 196 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: could not have been was awesome. By the way, for 197 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 1: the media day, we get off this again. Police escorted 198 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:39,320 Speaker 1: shuttle bus and the Elizabeth New Jersey marching band is 199 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: playing for us, and we're walking through, uh into the 200 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:46,439 Speaker 1: Prudential Center and they have all these people saying hello. 201 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: They gave us a commemorative pen. Uh, they fed us. Uh. 202 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 1: You know, these are all things. It was very nice 203 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,959 Speaker 1: degree weather. They're all sitting out there. I would second that. 204 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: I think, you know, maybe this is a perfectly fine 205 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 1: place to live of in the summer months and Uh, 206 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: in other parts of New Jersey. But the people have 207 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 1: been exceptional. They've been so welcoming. You can tell they're 208 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: trying really hard just to be great hosts. And I 209 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: totally appreciate that. And let's let's go a little further 210 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: down the Sessler wormhole. I guess it is a deep Yeah. 211 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 1: When West went to bed last night, Mark ended up 212 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,679 Speaker 1: at a bar alone, and uh, he starts sending me 213 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: these texts. Sure everybody sends me these texts. And he's 214 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: saying music blasting, and then he's reading the lyrics of 215 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: these songs. She lies and says she's in love with him. 216 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 1: That's better man Pearl jam Uh father of Mine by 217 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: Ever Clear old Smashing Pumpkins song like this sounds like 218 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: the saddest bar experience of any anyone's ever dealt with. 219 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 1: It was a little morosse, I cannot lie. And in fact, 220 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 1: the drinks were twice as expensive as they aren't in 221 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, which baffles me. All right, so what you 222 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 1: what else do we want to talk about? Because uh, 223 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: obviously this is where out closing it on the game 224 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: one thing, because this is something that's been speculated upon 225 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 1: for it feels like two years. It's probably not gonna 226 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: snow or there won't be a blizzard for Super Bowl 227 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 1: for UH, it's supposed to be in the high thirties 228 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: and UH overcast, the partly sunny, So all that all 229 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: that hand toy stand handwringing about how it was going 230 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: to play out. We don't have to worry about that. 231 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: And I'm thankful for that because that I don't I 232 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: didn't want to have to hear that or have that 233 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: be a major storyline throughout the week. I never thought 234 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 1: that the weather was going to be some deciding factor 235 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,959 Speaker 1: and whether the Broncos or Seahawks was more capable to 236 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 1: play in that kind of uh conditions. But I think 237 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 1: it's a relief that we don't have to hear that storyline. 238 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: I think it's harder to throw the ball if it's 239 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: below freezing and there's some wind, which that stadium often has. 240 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,959 Speaker 1: I don't think it's it's undeniable that that games changed 241 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,599 Speaker 1: a little bit in that sort of weather. Precipitation is 242 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 1: another thing, and it's great that that's not gonna happen. 243 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: But yes, i'd rather these conditions, which it sounds like 244 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 1: it's going to be about as ideal as possible. Although 245 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:05,559 Speaker 1: the conditions this week here, I mean I lived here 246 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: ten years. You do not see weather like this very often. 247 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 1: You see whether like this here every couple of years 248 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 1: for a week at most. They got bad luck with that. 249 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: But the game should be fine. Well, but if there 250 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: is a wind, Because when Russell Wilson had to deal 251 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 1: with the wind against the stats a couple of weeks 252 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: ago that did not go well for me. Admitted that 253 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 1: messed him up big time. And I taught actually asked 254 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 1: a few Seahawks players about that yesterday, and Zach Miller said, look, 255 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:29,080 Speaker 1: when it was that windy, we couldn't do what we 256 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 1: wanted to do. It's always about the wind more than 257 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: the temperature and and the precipitation. Really it's always the wind. 258 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: But that rarely gets talked about. You know. I just 259 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,199 Speaker 1: realized by the way, and maybe this is the differences 260 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: in the podcast, is we are in a room no 261 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: one knows we're here. We could be murdered in this 262 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 1: room and not be found for seriously, six eight weeks 263 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:53,960 Speaker 1: and right across the hall. Eisen just did a podcast 264 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: with Jerry freaking Seinfeld in which Jerry was supposed to 265 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: do thirteen minutes, and then they were they were finished up, 266 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,319 Speaker 1: and then Jerry's like, oh, let's keep going. He did 267 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: like thirty minutes. Rich did thirty minutes with the biggest 268 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: sitcom star of all time. We are in a sad 269 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 1: room where anything could happen in here, and this room 270 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: has been rented out by like Iranian militants. I don't 271 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: know what are in these boxes. We actually, we actually 272 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: tried to get Johnny Cakes on the podcast. He was 273 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: walking around downstairs. If you're not a Sopranos fan, uh, 274 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: you know a key character in the somewhat misunderstood second 275 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: to last Sopranos season. He's been plugging something. You can 276 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 1: tell the level of stars based on the day they 277 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: show up at the super Bowl, because the big hitters 278 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: come on Friday. That's when you know they don't want 279 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: to spend the whole weekend. They'll they'll do the media around. 280 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 1: Then that's when Sada Sandler shows up. You know, if 281 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: you're one rung below that maybe your your Thursday because 282 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 1: that's when you can get the time on the Dan 283 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: Patrick Show or Rich Eyes whatever. Johnny Cakes radio row 284 00:14:55,720 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: are you that's different. He's not going around Radio Row 285 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 1: making the round. Johnny Cakes is doing everything he's doing. 286 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: West Fork said that we we tried to get Johnny 287 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: kicks on. Literally, this is how we could have gotten 288 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 1: Johnny kicks on. Hey, Johnny Cakes, and then he would 289 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: have been I'll do it nothing against this Johnny Kikes guy. 290 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: And I know probably ninety eight percent of our listeners 291 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: probably don't know who we're talking about. I don't even 292 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 1: know if that was the character's name. He was a 293 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: squat man from from that Soprano season. But he was 294 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 1: walking Rome with a giant jug, like one of those 295 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 1: Poland spring jugs that are in like an office setting, 296 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: and it had a big, massive New York Giants cuzy 297 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: on it and he's carrying it around Radio Row and 298 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 1: it's just very strange. It was like one of the 299 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: stranger things. And that was on Monday Tuesday. I walked 300 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: around Radio Row today, bumped into Matt money Smith, who 301 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 1: does our intros. Of course, we need to get him 302 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: more content, by the way, guys, we gotta we gotta 303 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: get going on that. Well, you guys talked to Dan Quinn. 304 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 1: You said that was one of or moments today that 305 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: you enjoyed some of the coaches. Do you have any 306 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: feel I mean from talking, like, what were your takeaways 307 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: from him? Why? Why was he such a surprising fellow? 308 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 1: Well I asked he was a fellow, and well West 309 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: talked to him too. I think we came away with 310 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: with the sense that you know, some of these assistants, 311 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: they're buried underneath the head coach. You never hear from 312 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: them all year. But he has such a major role 313 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 1: in the way that that team operates, and it's it's 314 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: very clear that he's extremely creative. He went on and 315 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: on about what he had seen from Peyton Manning on 316 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 1: tape this week. But any every guy I talked to, 317 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 1: including him, when you ask about Manning, it's like, look, 318 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 1: we've got what since we have a tape on this guy, 319 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 1: he's untouchable. There's no new cork we can find that 320 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: suggests how to beat him. It'll be interesting to see 321 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: if they change things up, though, because they're not a 322 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: defense that that mixes things up. There not a defense 323 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: that confuses the opposing quarterbacks. I think if you do 324 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 1: that against Peyton man and you usually get in trouble 325 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:05,159 Speaker 1: that you want to throw in some extra stuff to 326 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 1: get not to confuse him, but just so he doesn't 327 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 1: know exactly what you're doing each play. No matter how 328 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: good your players are, they might not be that good 329 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:14,159 Speaker 1: enough to take these receivers one on one. Yeah, he 330 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 1: basically said, we're just gonna do what we do where 331 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 1: we put our cleats in the grass, as he said, 332 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: and we just attacked. It's like, we're not going to 333 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:22,639 Speaker 1: change who we've been and why well why should they. 334 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: They've they've detonated everyone who gets the Peyton manning. Anyways, 335 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 1: cleats in grass, that's like, save that for your interview. 336 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: But that's the good stuff. By the way, the Spromo's 337 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 1: character's veto oh yeah, of course, because there was like 338 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 1: a breathless pocket of listeners waiting for that correction. Well, 339 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 1: how about how about it? So West? You are embedded 340 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:45,879 Speaker 1: right now with the Broncos, and maybe we'll go west 341 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: and mark Um, what have you taken from your meetings 342 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:51,680 Speaker 1: with them so far? You know a lot of people 343 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 1: are kind of asking, this is what I got out 344 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 1: of media day. Your coach listens to Fleetwood Mac, what 345 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: do you think about it? That's the this is the 346 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: kind of of questions are being asked. I've been trying 347 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 1: to figure out how the Broncos defense cut good has 348 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:08,200 Speaker 1: playing their best ball all season without Von Miller. So 349 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 1: that's kind of like what I've been concentrating on. And 350 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: they took that Week fifteen loss to the Chargers and 351 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 1: just decided they weren't gonna play they were gonna play 352 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: as a cohesive unit and not rely on Von Miller. 353 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:23,239 Speaker 1: Everybody's doing their part. Uh. I think Danny Trevathan has 354 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 1: really picked up his game and has become one of 355 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:29,120 Speaker 1: the best all around linebackers in football. Pot Roast has 356 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:32,119 Speaker 1: been playing great, and um, they point to Sean Phillips 357 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: leadership a lot, and I can think. I think you 358 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,919 Speaker 1: can throw in Paris Lennon and Nate Irving playing on 359 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:39,840 Speaker 1: early downs has really helped to run defense. Lens one 360 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 1: of those guys that you never think twice about, but 361 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 1: it's cool when he makes the Super Bowl and you 362 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 1: start reading the features that he was in two different 363 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: leagues that are now defunct, the XFL. He's the He's 364 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:54,399 Speaker 1: the last player that's still in the NFL that once 365 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 1: played in the XFL. I can't imagine that was a 366 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 1: long list. Anyways, some of these guys hate me was 367 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,639 Speaker 1: in there. Rod's smart, and he was also in the 368 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 1: Arena League. He's been in the league for thirteen years, 369 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,159 Speaker 1: and yet most people would have no idea who he is. 370 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,160 Speaker 1: And here he is sort of on the big stage 371 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: and he's suddenly playing a ton over guys that were 372 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 1: supposed stars, Wesley Woodyard or whoever. They've made some changes 373 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 1: to the defense too. Some of these guys, when you 374 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 1: see them without their pads on, they kind of look underwhelming. 375 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 1: You think they're gonna be bigger than the Paris or 376 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: Paris Lennon looks huge. That's gonna say, I don't know 377 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,239 Speaker 1: where you're going bulging. His neck muscles are coming out 378 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: the air like all right, that's the perfect early down 379 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: thumper to play linebacker. Who's somebody that you spoke have 380 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:39,440 Speaker 1: spoken to. It's been surprising either and how he how 381 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 1: he approached the interview or just said things you weren't expecting. Well, 382 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 1: I think Greg touched on this two. Dominique Rodgers crom 383 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 1: Marty is a very kind of a charming guy in 384 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 1: the same kind of way that Brandon Marshall is charming. Like, 385 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,639 Speaker 1: you know, he's very easy going, easy to talk to. 386 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 1: Um Handles himself. Well, isn't really worried about cliches too much, 387 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,120 Speaker 1: so you're gonna get better, answers him him. I felt 388 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 1: the same way about Percy Harvin. You've heard some things 389 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,159 Speaker 1: about him, and I got um an audience with him 390 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,679 Speaker 1: where we were basically want almost one on one at 391 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: the end of media day, and he was like very 392 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: open and had a good, good attitude about things. And 393 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: I guess sometimes maybe he doesn't have the best reputation 394 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 1: and back in Minnesota, but he was he was pretty 395 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 1: cool me Mark, you with the Seahawks, what have you? 396 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 1: What have you seen? The first thing about them in 397 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: general is they are so confident and so loose, like 398 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 1: they really reflect Pete Carroll from the top down. And 399 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 1: they're having fun with this week. I don't sense a 400 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: team that you know, we talked about outside of one 401 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:41,639 Speaker 1: practice squad or no one's been here before. They seem 402 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 1: very organized and they're and they're doing this part of 403 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 1: this media, part of the whole week, uh, and they're 404 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 1: enjoying it. And I talked to a couple of the 405 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: guys about what kind of game do you want against Denver? 406 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 1: What's the kind of game when we all know they 407 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 1: love to run the ball and stuff, but a couple 408 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:00,040 Speaker 1: of the guys said, listen, if it turns in, it 409 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: would shootout like Denver would want it to. We are 410 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 1: completely confident that we have the receivers and we certainly 411 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: have the quarterback to play that kind of game and win, 412 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 1: which surprised me because I mean not that they're not 413 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: gonna sound confident about anything they say, but they really 414 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:19,160 Speaker 1: do believe that whatever happens, um Seattle has the type 415 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 1: of team from top to bottom to beat Denver. Outside, 416 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,679 Speaker 1: they didn't care one iota about the cold, and I 417 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,120 Speaker 1: think it's been driven into their head you can play 418 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 1: football in any weather, and they really there wasn't a 419 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: sense of wind, temperature, anything that there's very little botherming 420 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: on that they couldn't care less well. They did it 421 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 1: last year they were in shootouts. People forget how on 422 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 1: fire Russell Wilson in that offense was as as a 423 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 1: passing game at the end of last year. In terms 424 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 1: of the two playoff games. Maybe now you get Harvon back. 425 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: You know, we haven't talked a lot about his impact 426 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,640 Speaker 1: in the game, but if if he could actually stay 427 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 1: on the field of an entire game, which has not 428 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,159 Speaker 1: happened once. Wouldn't it be amazing if it was the 429 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: Super Bowl? And wouldn't that change the entire Seahawks offense 430 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: were said, he said to me that that he has 431 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 1: never felt better, and he thinks that he's going to 432 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 1: be more explosive than he's ever been on Sunday. Obviously 433 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,400 Speaker 1: it's gonna be some hyperbolee involved, but he's also he's 434 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,199 Speaker 1: gonna be pumped up, just like all these guys are. 435 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 1: And if he said his legs are feeling good and 436 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: he's got the drive back and his legs and his 437 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: head is fine after that concussion, and we saw how 438 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,160 Speaker 1: he looked in the divisional game against the Saints before 439 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,360 Speaker 1: he got hurt, I would not be surprised at all 440 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: if he made big plays, impact plays on Sunday. We're 441 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 1: talking about a guy who last season two thousand twelve season, 442 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 1: when I was watching all these games for my Rotor 443 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,879 Speaker 1: World job. Every week, I'm watching it and thinking, Percy 444 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 1: Harvin is one of the five best players in the NFL. 445 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,399 Speaker 1: He he was the best receiver in the NFL in 446 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: the first half of last season. Yeah, m V P. King, 447 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,080 Speaker 1: I mean, this is not a minor player. This is 448 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: a major, major, significant difference maker that the Seahawks are 449 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: getting for this game, and I think the coaches are 450 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,679 Speaker 1: overjoyed he's back, that he's here. That even obviously this 451 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: has been a kind of a disaster of a season 452 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 1: and an acquisition, but in the end, you'd much rather 453 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: have Percy Harvin in your pocket going into this game 454 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: than than the opposite. Maybe it's just because they're so positive. 455 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: I mean, you mentioned Quinn, this team sort of takes 456 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: on the personality of Pete Carroll. He seemed like a 457 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: mini Pete Carroll. Gus Bradley kind of seems like a 458 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 1: mini Pete Carroll. All the players are just it's like 459 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,159 Speaker 1: he brought a bunch of guys that are just like 460 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 1: happy to be there and positive, and that's the Pete 461 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 1: Carroll sort of thing. But also Quinn mentioned that he's 462 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: never been with a team or in a system where 463 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: the head coach coaches the coaches the way he's been 464 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,639 Speaker 1: coached off by Carol. The Carroll behind closed doors with 465 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,360 Speaker 1: his staff is doing all he can to prepare each 466 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:46,440 Speaker 1: of them to be head coaches, and so I think 467 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: there's more attention given one quick thing on Harvin though, 468 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: that's that's what I try to do with you guys, 469 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 1: coach daily basis. But with Percy Harvin. I think we 470 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: asked last week some of the players, are they in 471 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,679 Speaker 1: an awkward spot with him maybe coming back into the 472 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 1: fold now? Every single guy said we were expect him 473 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 1: to be out there and to contribute. They're thrilled, and 474 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: they talked about him specifically as the reason they could 475 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 1: succeed in the passing game against Denver. One. I this 476 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:20,719 Speaker 1: isn't gonna be a smooth transition, but I wanted to 477 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 1: mention it when we were talking about the Broncos and 478 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,479 Speaker 1: and their media availability. Uh, Wes Welker is over this 479 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 1: by the way. Oh yeah, I you know, before you 480 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,920 Speaker 1: guys got in, I went to the first media availability, 481 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,919 Speaker 1: which which by the way, was in Jersey City on 482 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 1: a boat, and I think, is that where these that's 483 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: where the Broncos are Majesty or whatever, which is actually 484 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: a good fantasy team name for anybody that's looking for one. Uh. 485 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: And when west Welker was sitting in his little podium, 486 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 1: I mean he could not be more disinterested. And the 487 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,880 Speaker 1: media at media day today, I from what I heard, 488 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: I didn't get too much up close action with him, 489 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 1: but he had a similar attitude. If if there's one 490 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,560 Speaker 1: guy that cannot wait till Sunday and could use a 491 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 1: teleporter device to get to Sunday, it's poor Wesley Walker. Welker, 492 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 1: who um lost two of these already played a prominent 493 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,160 Speaker 1: role in the last loss. I think he just wants 494 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 1: to get to this game, win this game, go home. 495 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: You're giving me flashbacks to my first Super Bowl. Though. 496 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,440 Speaker 1: It was an eye opener at one of the first 497 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: media availabilities in two thousand and eight after the OH 498 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 1: seven season to be in front of Welker and there's 499 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 1: only two or three people there at the time, and 500 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 1: realized that he wasn't there, that his eyes were totally 501 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 1: glazed over, and he was like speaking sentences that almost 502 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,439 Speaker 1: had no connection with his body. It was like it 503 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:52,719 Speaker 1: was just an automaton program. And he just couldn't have 504 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,439 Speaker 1: made it more obvious that he didn't want to be there. 505 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,119 Speaker 1: And it sounds like, you know, he's just that was 506 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 1: just the sounds like a real dynamic personality. Well, this 507 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 1: is a totally manufactured week. It's it's not natural, and 508 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: these people are trained to play football, and I think 509 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: as every year goes by this, this two week, two 510 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 1: weeks of events becomes less about football and more about entertainment. 511 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 1: And I think that's like probably the biggest takeaway for me. 512 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 1: I think you start to feel for the players on 513 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 1: some level because they're wheeled out to such an excess 514 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,640 Speaker 1: this week, and the problem is you put them out 515 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 1: there for twenty minutes that a guy that rolls in 516 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 1: a minute fifteen is invariably asking a question that the 517 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: guys players can asked three or four times already, and 518 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,880 Speaker 1: they're very patient, and they've been two of men who's 519 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: done a great job with it. But I kind of 520 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,960 Speaker 1: get Welker's drifting nous. One guy also I want to 521 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,400 Speaker 1: give a little credit to because it seems to be 522 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,880 Speaker 1: shaping up to go in a different direction. But Richard Sherman, 523 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: the fact that his name hasn't come up yet and 524 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 1: we're at super Bowl week after what happened after the 525 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,439 Speaker 1: NFC title game, Uh, he is not used this stage 526 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 1: and media day is another good example to make it 527 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: all about him. I think he's it seems like he 528 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,919 Speaker 1: was a sincere that maybe his comments got away from 529 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 1: him after that game because he has not. It doesn't 530 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 1: appear like he's trying to bring more attention to himself 531 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 1: this week and make it the Richard Sherman show. Well, 532 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,880 Speaker 1: the players handled themselves well today. The media did not. 533 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: I got pushed and shoved and big times by Alt 534 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 1: Lighter a few times Alt Lighter former Yankees man. Yeah, 535 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 1: what a creep that guy was to happen because I 536 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 1: have a beef with somebody else. So it takes you know, 537 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:33,639 Speaker 1: all these guys are around, and if you want to 538 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 1: talk to like no Sean Marino, I mean not the 539 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: biggest name, but it might take fifteen minutes to kind 540 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: of nudge your way up there, wait patiently for everyone 541 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,640 Speaker 1: else to ask their questions. Here there with a notebook 542 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 1: and a pen in front of you, obviously ready first 543 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 1: in line to ask a question. Lighter comes by, elbows 544 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: in the side. I got a question I really need. 545 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 1: Oh well, I'm not sitting here like I got a 546 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 1: pen in the notebook, obviously ready to ask my question. 547 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,159 Speaker 1: He takes Edward pushes me all the way. You know, 548 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,439 Speaker 1: because No Sean recognized him as an athlete, he obviously 549 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 1: goes to him. Lighter proceeds to ask like six or 550 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,920 Speaker 1: seven questions about being from New Jersey while I'm trying 551 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 1: to ask football questions. Yeah, Alice from Tom's River, New Jersey. 552 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 1: But wait, is it weird to me that no Sean 553 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: Mareno would have an active knowledge of al Lighter and 554 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: his career. It's a little he said, he recognized his face. Oh, 555 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,439 Speaker 1: well he does. There were two guys like Mitch Burger 556 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,400 Speaker 1: came in and pulled the same routine, the former punter, 557 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: he came in and told the same routine, and well 558 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 1: he played. He played with No Sean at one, so 559 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:33,879 Speaker 1: he recognized him and and then he looked at out 560 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: Lighter like like, oh yeah, that's rights Burger played. I 561 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: don't I don't even know who Mitch Burger is. Here's 562 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 1: here's my beef. Matt Prator, kicker for the Broncos at 563 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 1: the NFL record sixty four yard or you know, I 564 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 1: tried to get some time with him. Matt Prador has 565 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: been ill or he was ill last week, missed three practices. 566 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 1: John Fox quelled any doubts about his play whether he 567 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 1: play on Sunday, saying he'll be fine. You know, we 568 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: kind of quarantined him, quarantined him, They joked, that they 569 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 1: kept him in a bubble. So I wanted to check 570 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 1: in with Matt Prator, the kicker, just like how you feeling, Matt, 571 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,880 Speaker 1: you know, blah blah blah. So at first, there's too 572 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: many people around him, because I think one thing, the 573 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: reporters when they have a big group of guys, they 574 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: they navigate to the kickers and punters. You could take 575 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 1: that how how you will. But they had a lot 576 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: of people talking to him, and Brock Brock Oswilder also, 577 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 1: um so then so then finally I kind of worked 578 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 1: my way back and there's only like three or four 579 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: people trying to get to Matt Prador. First of all, 580 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 1: Matt Prator has got a huge diamond stud in his ear, 581 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 1: and it's okay, kickers can be how they are, but 582 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 1: that was surprising to me, you know that he had that. 583 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:45,960 Speaker 1: And then I'm trying to talk to the guy, and 584 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: I noticed that there are people just kind of staring. 585 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 1: And then I look up and Matt Prators talking on 586 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 1: his phone. And this this one hour of media availability, 587 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 1: all you have to do is stand there. You have 588 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 1: people clearly three feet away from you, separated by a barrier. 589 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,480 Speaker 1: They want to askue questions, get off the phone, bro, 590 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: what if it was his doctor? Well, let's I wrote 591 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 1: that actually what we learned our post wrapping up the day, 592 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: I said, I hope it wasn't an emergency because then 593 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 1: I feel bad about this. But you know, get a 594 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 1: by the way, there's no shadowy League figure this time. 595 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 1: They've actually just locked the door and they're gonna not 596 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: let us out. The blue gas is gonna start to 597 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,200 Speaker 1: appear from the door. A note slid under the door 598 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 1: just said goodbye. No, We're no. And I can't stress 599 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 1: this enough. We are literally in a small room in 600 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 1: a large hotel filled with black trunks across the hall. 601 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld, the greatest sitcom star of all time, just 602 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:51,160 Speaker 1: interviewed by a proper podcast. I like being the underdog. 603 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 1: You know, you can you know, downloads and whatnot. We're 604 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: the scrappy guys. That's Those are the teams that end 605 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: up on top in the end before and they just 606 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 1: get full of themselves on success. Prepare yourself for the ship. 607 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 1: We continue to make friends in this episode. Anything else 608 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 1: after staying with the teams a little bit, I mean, 609 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,600 Speaker 1: are you feeling any different about this game? Not? Based 610 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 1: on that but I guess as we're getting closer to Sunday, 611 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 1: we've now had nine days to marinate on these two teams, 612 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,959 Speaker 1: has your feelings on who might win this game changed 613 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 1: in any way? I would say as much as the 614 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 1: Seahawks are feeling confident, they haven't played their best football 615 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 1: the year entering the Super Bowl, the Broncos have and 616 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 1: they know it, and I feel like they're the team 617 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 1: to beat now. I do feel like that has solidified 618 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 1: my opinions the Broncos. You remember, you know, yes, I 619 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,719 Speaker 1: know that you have guaranteed the Seahawks. Seahawks blowout victory 620 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 1: over the Broncos. This is guaranteed in November. And I 621 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 1: don't like to kind of put this out there a 622 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,520 Speaker 1: lot because that, you know, it takes a lot of 623 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 1: fun out of the game for people, but it must 624 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,320 Speaker 1: be said, that's what's going to happen. I disagree with Dan, 625 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,680 Speaker 1: I don't think I disagree with half of it. I 626 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna be a very close game. I 627 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a Seahawks win. Though. I when 628 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 1: you're with the Broncos and you're hearing all this positivity 629 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 1: and there's reason to think Denver will win the thing 630 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,000 Speaker 1: out right, But I guess I'm getting that from the 631 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 1: Seattle side. They seem to me unified from top to bottom. 632 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,960 Speaker 1: They're all just so close together in this thing, and 633 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 1: I really feel that A They've got the one defense 634 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 1: in the league that Manning has I'm gonna have real 635 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,160 Speaker 1: problems with. I think potentially there's not a weak spot 636 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 1: on that defense, and we haven't seen them play anyone 637 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,240 Speaker 1: at that level, and that, to me is the is 638 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,400 Speaker 1: the difference more than anything Seattle will have to do 639 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 1: on offense. I think it's gonna be like a twenty 640 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 1: three to twenty one type Seahawks win it, we'll get 641 00:32:54,520 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 1: into the game a little deeper, right, Well, that is fluid. 642 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 1: Take Here's that Mark and Mark and I have both 643 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 1: been snowed. I don't care what they say all week. 644 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:12,640 Speaker 1: Nothing possibly mattered of that anyone said this week will 645 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,960 Speaker 1: possibly have an effect on the outcome of the game. 646 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 1: The only thing it'll affect is Dominique Rodgers Grimarti's agent, 647 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 1: because he cost himself a little bit of money by 648 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 1: kind of making it clear he's not that in love 649 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,280 Speaker 1: with football and all that. I just think, you know, 650 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 1: forget the conversation, how about Richard Sherman, Richard Sherman's performance 651 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,600 Speaker 1: this year and what he's doing as a cornerback, and 652 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,280 Speaker 1: then putting next to him Byron Maxwell, who might be 653 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,800 Speaker 1: a top five cornerback in his own right, and then 654 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,640 Speaker 1: Earl Thomas, who's one of the best safeties that we've 655 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,480 Speaker 1: ever seen, and Cam Chancellor who's so versatile, and that 656 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 1: this secondary and this defense overall is such a force 657 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 1: of nature that I think in this class where we'll 658 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 1: talk about kind of these two teams classes, I think 659 00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 1: they're even greater than the highest scoring offense in NFL history. 660 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: I think that's that'll be our takeaway at the end 661 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,240 Speaker 1: of Sunday night that people are writing. I think the opposite. 662 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,200 Speaker 1: I think as great as the Seahawk defensive backs are 663 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,279 Speaker 1: possibly the best we've seen, definitely the best in the 664 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,239 Speaker 1: two thousand and two bucks. They haven't seen anybody like 665 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,880 Speaker 1: the Broncos, And nobody in my lifetime, nobody in the 666 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:24,440 Speaker 1: history of the NFL has is in sync and pre 667 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 1: snap reads right now like Peyton Manning is. I mean, 668 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,759 Speaker 1: he's doing things before the snap or you can tell 669 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,160 Speaker 1: he's identifying and he's got so many weapons that he is, 670 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 1: He's in so smooth of an area right now, and 671 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,239 Speaker 1: I think, um, no quarterbacks ever done that. People. I 672 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 1: have to say with this Super Bowl, it it is 673 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 1: has more strong matchups in then I can I can remember, 674 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,279 Speaker 1: because it's all these chess pieces and it is like 675 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,799 Speaker 1: it's an offense that hasn't seen anything like this on 676 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,080 Speaker 1: defense and you flip it over and West is right, 677 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,479 Speaker 1: they haven't dealt with anything like what the Broncos produced. Well, 678 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,520 Speaker 1: there was a great post on a psychlled football perspective 679 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 1: about the matchup in the dumps of historical significance that 680 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:09,680 Speaker 1: there has never been a greater difference in matchups of 681 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,839 Speaker 1: a great defense and a great offense. And you can 682 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,680 Speaker 1: slice it up a lot of different ways, but in 683 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,640 Speaker 1: terms of the point differential of the two teams that 684 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,880 Speaker 1: are playing, in terms of what one defense gave up 685 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,759 Speaker 1: and what one offense gave up, and that's any game. 686 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,400 Speaker 1: It's not the greatest Super Bowl ever, it was the 687 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 1: greatest NFL matchup ever from nineteen fifty that there's never 688 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:34,480 Speaker 1: been a defense this good in terms of being better 689 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,560 Speaker 1: than the rest of the league in that year against 690 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,760 Speaker 1: an offense being better than the rest of the league 691 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,279 Speaker 1: in that year, and we get to see him just 692 00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,240 Speaker 1: smash against each other like those helmets at the beginning 693 00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:52,120 Speaker 1: of Monday, Greg is off the trunk. The closest other 694 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:56,560 Speaker 1: Super Bowl in terms of point differential was what thet 695 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,520 Speaker 1: did with the number one offense since my bank no 696 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:04,160 Speaker 1: against them, talking nine season against the number one defense 697 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,719 Speaker 1: in Denver, and you look at that game that tilted off. 698 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,160 Speaker 1: That was the final school. I was in the backseat 699 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,200 Speaker 1: of a car driving home from a Vermont ski trip 700 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:20,880 Speaker 1: watching that on a Watchman television. I was fifteen, wondering 701 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,640 Speaker 1: what a ski trip was. This is this is where 702 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:27,120 Speaker 1: this is where the generational difference comes in. We were 703 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,680 Speaker 1: talking about this downstairs, just that. Yeah, you guy, Chris 704 00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,880 Speaker 1: and Market. Sometimes there's a division between the four of us. 705 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:35,760 Speaker 1: We all try to we try to be like a group. 706 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,760 Speaker 1: But you guys are the old You're the older guys. 707 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,000 Speaker 1: Dan and I are kind of the young cool guys. 708 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,239 Speaker 1: We're here. We're like, we're like the cool cats and 709 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,520 Speaker 1: you're like the old men. And that's how I see it. 710 00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:50,080 Speaker 1: We're above cool. We're gonna have time for cool. That's 711 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,880 Speaker 1: exactly right. We're fun Chili's and eating a Chili's done. 712 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,960 Speaker 1: This is all I gotta say. You know, this is 713 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,520 Speaker 1: a fun chat and we're gonna come back Thursday and 714 00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,959 Speaker 1: do more podcasting, maybe from a room where people haven't 715 00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,360 Speaker 1: been murdered. But I'm getting text now from Damna Scheck. 716 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,760 Speaker 1: Tonight's the big media party on Chelsea Pire in Manhattan. 717 00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:13,920 Speaker 1: I told Damna Check we'd meet up with him. He 718 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:17,799 Speaker 1: texted me earlier doing the podcast food. Who's in from 719 00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:20,000 Speaker 1: your gang? And then he followed up, but where are 720 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,399 Speaker 1: you you g d Prima Donna, Prima Donna? And then 721 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:26,680 Speaker 1: I said, rapping pod, stop being a bad person. We 722 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,799 Speaker 1: gotta get We gotta get in contact with Damn Check. 723 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,960 Speaker 1: We gotta get out first, we gotta go to this party. Um. 724 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,000 Speaker 1: When we come back Thursday, we will have our official 725 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,480 Speaker 1: super Bowl predictions other than sesslor here. He gave his 726 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:43,160 Speaker 1: very professional one media day by the way, by asking 727 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:49,480 Speaker 1: players if Sunday was a must win. This question the 728 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,920 Speaker 1: media so good and shows how humorless this business can be. 729 00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,319 Speaker 1: It got picked up in several outlets that it was Oh, 730 00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:00,319 Speaker 1: someone just asked the new worst Super Bowl question ever, 731 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,640 Speaker 1: and it's like, are you are you kidding me. You 732 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:06,920 Speaker 1: don't understand that that was a joke. Society. He uh 733 00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,040 Speaker 1: previewed his material with us before he went out there 734 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 1: and asked the questions and we were we were rolling 735 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,560 Speaker 1: on almost all of his questions. And he also got 736 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:18,240 Speaker 1: Peyton Manning to be a real human and hilarious. Should 737 00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,520 Speaker 1: tease that we shouldn't take that. That should be for dation. 738 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,640 Speaker 1: You should listen to Dave's show. Hopefully it'll be on 739 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,359 Speaker 1: that in the audio. All works out with his interaction 740 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,960 Speaker 1: with Peyton Manning at the end, All right, let's get 741 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:30,480 Speaker 1: out of here. We literally have to get out of 742 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,799 Speaker 1: the room. I think the oxygen is starting to um 743 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,600 Speaker 1: leave the room. Uh, we'll be back Thursday, like we 744 00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:40,239 Speaker 1: said with our super Bowl predictions, and also really dig 745 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,320 Speaker 1: into the game and also of course let you know 746 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,200 Speaker 1: what's going on from New York and and by that 747 00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:48,200 Speaker 1: time Mark and West will be in the big city 748 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,360 Speaker 1: and out of Jersey City and you'll be happy about that. 749 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,919 Speaker 1: I love New Jersey, but that's just me. That's great. 750 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,399 Speaker 1: You are wearing a hat that says I love New York. 751 00:38:56,560 --> 00:39:00,239 Speaker 1: Literally that is your hat. That's your hat. And anyway, 752 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:01,880 Speaker 1: all right, so let's get out of here. Since Dan 753 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,120 Speaker 1: hansis signing off with the Sizzler, the Mailman, the Boss 754 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,040 Speaker 1: and all these trunks and of course our our producer, 755 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:13,279 Speaker 1: our filling producer to the a thank you Calve for 756 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:17,080 Speaker 1: helping us out. Um we're cheating under build standard and 757 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:18,960 Speaker 1: kay Rick until Thursday