WEBVTT - Mega-Mailbag 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:08.920 The Around the NFL Podcast, Come back to us. Welcome 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:12.160 back to another edition to the Around the NFL Podcast. 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:15.440 My name is Dan Hansas and I am joined. They 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:21.959 refilled the some heroes, Mark Sessler and Connie Fox people. 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:26.200 Who's the song? Who's part of a hero here? Well, 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:30.120 we're missing We're missing West of course, and we're also 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:35.000 missing Greg right now because Greg he admitted himself that 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:39.040 he had had procrastinated with some type of child duty 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.880 that he has with signing up his daughter for something 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.360 like the whole being a dad thing. Yeah, he pushed 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.280 it back multiple times and now he had to do it, 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:47.840 and he was hoping to be back by the start 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.320 of the show, but he's he's stuck in traffic or something. 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.440 He will be here, he's just not here yet. Hence 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:55.880 some I think it's one of these in a good 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.640 job by Greg on this because it's a pr level campaign. 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:02.160 We're very publicly while all of us are here ignoring 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:06.240 family members. Greg has put family first. He's out on 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.560 the road and most people think what a great husband 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.600 and dad Greg is. That's gonna be the takeaway. It's 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.440 gonna help him. Well, is that how you view our jobs? 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.280 Because I look at our jobs. That supporting our family, 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:21.560 not ignoring them. Right, that's a fair argument. But uh, 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.039 I mean during the season. You you know, this is 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:26.240 the time of year where Gregg and Theory is doing 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.479 the right thing. Also, is it good for the show? 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.959 It's not great for the show, not not the best anyway. 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:33.720 By the way, speaking of the show, this is our 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.399 first show without the great uh La sid who has 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:41.760 moved on to greener pastures. Well put that way, or 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:45.880 Utah is it greener than southern California? I don't know. 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.240 I thought you met money, probably making more money. We 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.720 didn't get into the specifics, but yeah, I think also 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:53.360 living at home for a while, so you're just you're 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.720 stashing away cash, and she had the influx of cash 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:00.840 from our own listeners. Uh. Basically, she basically is a 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:02.920 trust fund set up for her own children. One day. 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.920 Money is no object for her never never will be again. Yeah. 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:10.959 So behind the glass, uh filling in or in the interim, 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.560 he is our interim producer put it that way, much 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:19.440 like a uh Dan Campbell, he's our Dan Campbell. He 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.520 is Sully. What's up, buddy? What's up? Guys and gals? 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:29.280 Uh Sully of course, Uh, the producer of the I 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.000 was gonna say popular, but the producer of the movie 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:36.600 six podcast, I'm not going to be ignored with Daniel Jeremiah. 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:38.720 So thank you for sitting in the chair. It is 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.000 a big shoes to fill. Tiny feet for Sydney, but 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.919 large shoes. But we have complete faith in you, Sully. 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:47.800 Thanks guys. Yeah, it's it's been a while. It's it's 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:49.400 going to be back in the chair. I think I 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.600 filled in for said going into last football season. That's 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.120 the last time I was on, so so it's good 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.760 to at least see a familiar face behind the glass, 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.799 although it's bitter sweet knowing that Sydney's on and I'm 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.800 hoping to have a big announcement in the next week 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:08.160 or so regarding uh, that chair right there that Sully 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.600 currently occupies. But Sully a very busy man, not our 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.359 full time uh answer there, but in the intern, Dan 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:17.280 Campbell not the best choice to use. Who would be 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.920 a better interm coach to throw out there? I like 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.440 the Dan Campbell I did too. I mean Dan Campbell, 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.760 if anything else, was sort of a striking figure, very handsome. 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:28.920 Looked better, It looked better as a football player than 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.680 most of his players on that team in shape. Yeah, 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.919 and didn't keep the job though. I guess that's maybe 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.840 where I rubbed you. And and you know, barring Sully 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:41.560 pulling some sort of massive comeback, neither will he. I'm 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:45.800 waiting for you, sullenly Sully behind the glass and today's show. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.720 Greg will join us eventually. Uh, this is a show 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.600 that will feature some good things. I'm excited about the show. 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.320 And it's a very slow time, extremely slow time of 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.120 year news wise. But we haven't been with you since 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.000 last Thursday, so there are some things to talk about. 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:05.600 And um, I will say things are slow, things are dark. 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.480 But today marks we are one hundred days away from 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:17.839 real football September seventh, two thousand seventeen. The the Chiefs 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:21.119 will get waxed by the Patriots in Foxboro to start 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:25.200 the seventeen season, and we are one hundred days away. 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:29.120 Is that why we celebrated this weekend your house? It 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:34.200 wasn't Memorial Day, No, although we certainly love and respect 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.920 all the people in the armed forces that have served us, Colleen, 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.520 past and present. Uh, like my dad, I know, yeah, 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:47.200 like your old man, Uh, Doug Fox, Uh, what is 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.919 your father's name. You haven't you met Wolfe? You haven't 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:55.560 great name. Ed wolf is a solid name. Ed Cessler's 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.160 not bad either good. I mean it's a name from 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.240 a little bit of a different genation. Let meet a 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.960 lot of Ed Edwards of this. Yeah, his nickname is frenchie. 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:08.440 I'm just not sure that, which is strange. Yeah, we'll 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.560 get into the party maybe a little bit later. But 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.600 we have much to get to because we're also a 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:20.160 mega mail bag episode. Whoa who doesn't love mail? We 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.360 got a lot to get to, a lot of listeners. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:28.080 It is a packed show, to say the least. Just happened. 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.480 All right, let's let's get it going, Sully, let's do 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:40.200 some news Cindy from beyond the Grave. Mark, I think 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.320 you know Sully's doing an excellent job out of the gate. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:48.280 A lot of a lot of good nons. Not surprised 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.240 at all. It's a professional. I just you know you've 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.880 been working on a show not quite dup to par 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.600 with ours, but you can I'm not going to be ignored. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.800 This is a I'll just stop talking to um. Let's 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:05.000 aren't with the Cleveland Browns? Who listen? Browns are making moves? 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:10.200 Rap Sheet reported on Tuesday that linebacker Christian Kirkzy has 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:14.120 signed a four year, thirty eight million dollar deal UH 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:19.200 packed a twenty million in guarantees. UH. The team later 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:23.440 converned confirmed the signing, with Executive VP of Football Ops 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:28.800 Sashi Brown saying in a statement that Kirkzy represents, quote 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.880 another example of a young talented football player that we 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:37.520 want to be part of our organization for the long term. Mark, 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.360 I'm sure that's how he speaks. You've got Kirksey fever. Well, 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.720 I know that probably most people don't even know who 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.320 Christian Kirksy is. And the one thing I'd say is, 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.920 along with Joel Btonio, the only positive news to come 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.120 out of a two thousand and four teen draft that 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:58.320 was among the most disastrous for any team ever Johnny 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.160 Manziel and Justin Gilbert in the first round, that Kirksey 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.160 has been Who would have thought that Christian Kirkzy, the 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.400 third round pick, would have been far more productive than 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.560 both of those players put together in times five, Yeah, 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.239 I would multiply it by twelve, but you can multiply 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.320 it by and twelve. Yeah, people don't recognize his name maybe, 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.720 but he finished top three in the league and tackles 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.000 only Bobby Wagner and Zach Brown had more. I mean, 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.040 he is getting paid a ton. He's getting paid more 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.600 than Donte high Tower. He's now the fourth highest paid. 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.680 He's a week side linebacker, fourth highest paid inside linebacker 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.040 in the league. And I will say that, Um, there 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.880 was talk that Kirkzy maybe didn't even fit in with 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.400 Greg Williams scheme. Apparently they've now decided that he will 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:43.080 fit into Greg Williams scheme. Whether Greg Williams, I mean, well, 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.160 I would hope that he had a say in this. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.520 The key is their problem is they keep finding players 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.640 that fit into filling the blank defensive coordinators scheme, and 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.840 then the guy's gone two years later. It doesn't work. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.240 If he's he's already switched away. Was inside, he's now 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.840 going to move outside. He's not a good coverage linebacker 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:01.880 and last year, but he's a great run stuffer. And 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.200 the bottom line, they don't have a lot of players 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.200 They've got to keep adding. But their defense is getting 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.400 a little bit better if you look at it is 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.720 an improving defense that Justin Gilbert has nothing to do 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.000 with Mark You mentioned him as one of the busts 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:17.520 of that infamous draft class for Cleveland. Justin Gilbert has 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.680 been suspended by rod for four weeks, the first four 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:24.360 weeks of the seventeen season. Uh Courtney Fallon of NFL 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.400 Network reported rap Sheet reported it was due to violating 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:31.040 the NFL Substances of Abuse policy. The number eight overall 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.640 pick in the draft was cut by the Browns last year, 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:36.880 or they traded by the Browns last year to the 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.800 Steelers for a sixth round pick next year's draft. He 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:41.800 played twelve games with the Steelers last year, but then 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.240 was released in February. I don't know we're gonna see 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:49.040 him again in the NFL. Colleen, Oh, he's not helping 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.280 himself here. Two cuts in three years and now he 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.120 suspended the first four games. I mean, this is a 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.880 guy who uses I don't know if you guys remember 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.800 this story, but he uses ten daily alarms to be 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:04.000 oversleeping and missfan meetings. And they did not do the 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.760 proper homework before they brought him in to find what 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:08.959 kind of If you look at quickly at the players 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.839 drafted in between Gilbert in number eight in two thousand 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:16.720 fourteen and Manzelle's depressing exercise. You've got Anthony Barr, Taylor, Luan, 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:21.920 Odell Beckham, Aaron Dollar, Ryan Shazier, Zach Martin. It goes 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.440 on and on, Brandon Cooks. I mean they it was. 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.920 It was a major whiff. And Gilbert who they traded 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.960 up for is and it's a ridiculous misfire. And I 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.520 guess they didn't draft Odell Beckham because they had Josh 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.680 Gordon in the house coming off like an eighteen hundred 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.880 yard season as might who was essentially it was. It 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.839 was hours later we found out the next day that 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.520 Gordon was sent back into the wilderness. So I hate 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.560 that story. I just feel so bad for Josh Gordon. 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.880 I know he did it to himself. But and finally, 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.880 in Brown's news, Deshaun Kaiser, things are looking good. What 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:03.920 powers act power is active? Wow, I'm mixing this news item. 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.520 I called veto on it. All right, this is all right, 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.000 very good, Connie. This is a new a new tool 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.040 that each of us will get one per month. You 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.760 have veto activation powers at any point during the news 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:18.839 to completely wipe out a story you don't want to 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:20.760 hear about the Shaan Kaza No, because we're going to 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.520 keep hearing about this all preseason, all season up until 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:28.080 they finally kick off. Look, I mean, you see these quotes. 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.560 He's attached. Now you're talking. So I thought I had 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:37.480 to explain myself that I'm My only issue would be 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.360 why only once a month I could use that all 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.880 day long? I didn't know about this. It would become 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.760 our entire news. Uh if we had more than one 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.679 per show or per week per month, that would all 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:50.640 the news would be come around here. So that's true 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.160 because I think I think the next news item is 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:58.439 like definitely worth talking about. Here's yes and guess what 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.480 Today's May three youth. So you've got a fresh new 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.000 veto June first. So at the time it works out 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:10.120 for you. Moving on good Strategy by Colleen Michael Vick. Oh, 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:15.520 this was funny. It was Sunday night. I believe I 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.839 was on my couch. Everyone else was asleep and I 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.760 was just scrolling through I think it was ESPN, and 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:27.160 I saw this headline Michael Vick Colan no talks with 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:31.840 Falcons on one day retirement deal, and I thought to myself, 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.680 we've done it. We have reached the bottom of the barrel. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:40.040 In the two thousand seventeen offseason news cycle. We cannot 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:44.880 go lower than Michael Vick larifying that they're having no 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.439 talks yet on a one day retirement deal to retire 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:54.320 as a Falcon. Who, by the way, Mike, yeah, come 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.000 back to us just a little bit. Why would the 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.600 Falcons a team you were elect, you're fighting in your 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.000 first several years of the team, but then basically, uh, 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.880 submarine the entire franchise for you know, two years about 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:12.680 with your dog fighting stuff that led to a federal 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:17.920 prison or a situation your antics, antics feels almost a 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:22.120 little week in this your he but he was at 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.920 a home game during the regular season. I think Arthur 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.120 Blank maybe invited him to the final game of the 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.160 regular season in Atlanta, so which is maybe things are 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:32.240 a little bit better. I'm just saying that's fine. I 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:33.920 don't think he should be run out of town forever. 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.760 He's obviously cleaned his life up and and done the 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:40.280 right things since getting out of prison. But that doesn't 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.599 mean now that the Falcon should call press conference to 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.400 to retire. You're You're not. You know what if Michael 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.280 Vick was just like sitting at home or was out 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.679 somewhere and a reporter or writer just saw him and 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.920 just asked him randomly about this, and now all of 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.360 a sudden, we're like, Michael Vick calmed down, man, That's 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.720 exactly what happened. This is what told the man. Well, 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.360 I haven't talked to anybody about it specifically. It's something 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.120 that I've really been thinking about trying to get done. 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.839 I was asked the question the other day, is that 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.160 what I want? And I said, yeah, so yeah, I 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.760 think in due time it's something that can potentially have 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.600 Oh my god, where at the bottom. This is the bottom? 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.800 I mean news. They talk about news being information that 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.400 you don't already know and you might not like when 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.400 you get it, And this is not news. I could 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:26.120 care less about this story, but I do. I do 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.600 think that one thing, if you're Michael Vicker, if you're 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.600 someone with a complex past, think about how you want 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.720 to retire. I would just ghost out of there. Yeah, 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:36.839 when I leave this company, I'm just gonna ghost out. 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.400 You don't want to retire here, I will vanish one day. 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.319 Well I would retire here, but just you just you 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.400 disappear entirely. Well, you need a party in eight team 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.480 going away events? No, you just you. It's a weird 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.480 thing that that guys do. I mean, I I sort 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.680 of understand it, but also it's kind of like, Okay, 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.120 that's enough, you're done playing what you need another ceremony? Now? 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.959 That just too much about Sorry, there's just people went 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.120 too hard on that. Yeah, Mark, by the way of 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:08.319 all of us, um at least in the newsroom portion 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:12.200 of the around the NFL group, could he's best equipped 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.079 to just pick up and go. You don't have a 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.880 lot of items on your desk. I think you've done 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.520 it before in the past, haven't you where you just 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.640 basically pick up one picture frame, uh, and maybe one 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.920 notebook and just walk away. Not not as a married person, 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.640 because you've got a different level of responsibility, but in 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.480 your twenties, you know, you're working some temp job. Just 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.720 send in like a typewritten note with the other friend 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:35.000 that you had that was working there, and give it 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.680 to the boss and you never reappear. Greg just got 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.000 here and he's doing something behind the glass And I 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.200 don't understand, Greg, What are you doing? I know you 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.080 can hear us. Why don't you just come sit down? 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:49.080 What do you you have a bit planned? Are we 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:50.920 stepping on a bit. I think he brought in his 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:58.240 own headphones. Here he comes, he's coming. We'll get him 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.360 on the second is the and the entrance. There he 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.200 is NFL Networks. Greg Rosenthal, thank you very much here 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:09.360 with NFL dot com. Greg ros dot com dot com 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:21.240 dot com dot com. See if you had stood up, Dan, 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:25.320 you could see that I brought my daughter and I 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.600 was setting her up because we were we were running late, 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:30.640 and so I was trying to set her up at 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:37.120 a station, Dy Bubbles, So you were doing a good job. 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:38.600 You're doing that. I was trying to set her up. 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.840 She was she, I was funny, I was. She was disappointed. 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:43.800 She was like, oh, is Sydney going to be there? 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:45.800 And I was like, no, she's done at Sully. And 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:50.680 she was like, Sully, come on, yeah, who's that? Did 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:53.760 you say, no, honey, Sydney quit on us? Did you 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.440 say that? I would never You've just left her in 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.040 Sully's care for the next thirty forty minutes. I can 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.720 sell here. I got my Uh let's move on. And 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.120 it's good timing, Greg, because now we're onto the throne 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.320 of ease. It's the place I know that you know 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:11.440 very well, very comfortable. The New England Patriots have added 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:16.360 yet another wide receiver to their group. Uh. They announced 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:20.400 the thief excuse me, Andrew Hawkins announced the former Cleveland 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.840 Browns wide out is joining the reigning Super Bowl champions. 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.080 Rap sheet said it's a one year deal. Uh. The 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:31.040 white Out turned down more lucrative offers elsewhere to join 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.880 New England and maybe that won't be the best decision. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.640 We'll see, but there's a lot of wide receivers on 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.600 the paths, including Julian Edelin, Chris Hogan, Malcolm Mitchell, and 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:44.440 Danny Amandola. Not to mention Brandon Cooks. It's even gonna 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.360 make this team, Greg I would say he has a 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.680 less than fifty percent chance to make the team. But 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:53.160 you would think, you know, sometimes injuries happen in training camp. 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:57.280 On paper, you would think him and Danny Amendola at 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.440 Bastar would be fighting for one spot and would give 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:05.000 old baby Hawk a chance at winning that battle. Yes, 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.360 it is. This is a guy who months ago went 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.960 into the front office of the Browns and basically asked 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.160 to end his career with the team, and months later, 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.119 here he is in New England. I mean, he just 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:19.240 he just got his degree right from Columbia last week, 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.040 so he's clearly a smart guy. One of my favorites 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.720 going way back in the day. One of the first 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.720 athletes ever I think to tweet at me because I 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:29.879 was a big fan. I was a big fan of 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:33.120 Michael Irvin's I probably told this story before Michael Irvin's 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.000 reality show Fourth and Long, where they were going to 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:40.520 find a player that could join the Cowboys four training camp. 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.000 It was actually a pretty good show and Baby Hawk 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.840 came in second on that show, did not get the 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:47.600 free spot, but he did. You know, he was kind 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:49.400 of a fan favorite and ended up having a nice 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.760 little career here. You have reference that program before Near 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:54.520 and Dear to your Heart. Yeah, that's fun. I was 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.240 like the only person watching it, and uh, I think 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.840 Baby Hawk appreciated my weekly recaps on Pro Football time. 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.879 I think it's brother to like talked him into playing 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:05.960 for them because his brother spent some time with the team. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.760 I mean, it's a curious decision considering he took half 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.760 as much as other teams were offering him. With the 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.040 plethora of receivers they have there, it's crazy. They're they're 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:20.240 basically building like an all slot offense, Edelman him, Gronk Cooks. 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:23.159 It's like everything is between the numbers. But that the 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.800 tallest one. Hogan's a big guy. I think he's the 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.800 tallest dude, and the rest of him's big. Malcolm Mitchell's big, 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:31.440 but yeah, the rest of him. It sounds like a 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.920 fatal roster construction for the Patriots. Seven and nine. Here 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:40.560 we come. I can't do it. Moving on, Oh, it's 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:48.920 time to talk bucks Kickers Folk. Two men enter, one 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:58.879 man lives, all right, here's aggressive. Wow, that soundtrap almost 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:00.720 didn't even sound like a sound have just sounded like 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:02.960 our normal I didn't know they were playing for their 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:06.800 lives either. On some level, it's his football life, I 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:12.560 would say. Robbie Aguayo certainly the second round pick who struggled. 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.600 In the two practices of an O t a s 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:23.800 that were that the media could watch. Aguayo went five 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:27.360 for nine, including, of course we know, one for four 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:31.040 on the narrow goal posts kicks eight and a half 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.040 feet wide, and as our friend Joe bucks Fan reported, 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:38.560 you could hear a pin drop a practice, total hush 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.919 fellow over the crowd. Uh and and the next practice 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:44.920 Greg was like, who cares? Went about the next practice, Well, 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:47.879 he did better. He went on. He went four or 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.200 five from thirty five for four thirty five to forty 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:54.679 yards on regulation posts, which, by the way, mark our 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.720 eighteen and a half feet. Good to know you are 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.399 on top of this subject, and you have been from 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.719 beginning to end. Five is not even that good. From 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:06.720 thirty five to four, I mean it's fine. Do the 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:11.679 math five for nine uh four aguayo. Nicky folk, by 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:13.639 the way, not for nothing. The most accurate kicker in 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:21.639 Jets history nine of nine and now Dark Cutter spoke 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:25.040 to Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times about the situation. 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:30.440 The competition has definitely started. I know everybody feels it. 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:34.040 There's a little tension we're when we're going through that. 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:38.600 That's a good thing. That's a good thing. This is 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:50.560 pro football. They're supposed to be competition. Whoa folk, it's 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:58.240 a hard knocks life, get it. Yeah's up that. I'm 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:01.840 just so happy that I have Dan through this entire 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:07.000 process to update us on every Yeah, that's true, that's true. 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:10.680 But you really are our expert with the kicking battles, 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:12.920 and I'm just I'm so happy that we have you. 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:15.080 Two well eighteen and a half. Keep us up to date. 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:17.200 This is gonna end with Aguayo like in a car 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:19.440 chase in the middle of Tampa somewhere in the final 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:21.720 episode of Hard Knocks. I'm a little worried they're they're 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:24.400 not going to have anything, you know, any time left 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:26.960 for the rest of the Bucks, that the Kicker battle 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.760 will essentially take over all of Hard Knocks and UH 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:35.040 and other Bucks news Cutter is not happy with the 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:40.359 Tampa Bay Buccaneers social media team, which I don't think 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:41.880 we talked about this last week, but I did write 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:44.200 about it on the end a round. They had trolled 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:48.040 the Atlanta Falcons on Twitter, the Bucks social account. Oh 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:51.240 that's wonderful. I love that. Yeah, this is part of this, 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:55.560 this whole culture. Anyway, they had posted a photo uh Falcon. 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:57.760 The Falcons social team had tried to get into a 0:21:57.800 --> 0:21:59.760 little back and forth fund back and forth with the 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:05.879 and then the Bucks replied uh with a comment we 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:09.680 ain't worried about nothing, and then a photo of who 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:14.159 is that Greg? I think that's Vernon hard Graves. Vernon Hardgraves. Uh. 0:22:14.200 --> 0:22:17.880 The running back number twenty eighth, fist pounding number three, 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:20.840 jamis Winston in the Bucks locker room at some point 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:24.520 last season three, which of course has become kind of 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:29.200 an Internet meme of sorts for taunting Falcons, the team 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:32.000 and their fan base, and Derek Cutter had this to 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:34.480 say once that went viral, I want to make sure, 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:37.280 on behalf of the Bucks organization that I apologize to 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:39.480 the Falcons for whatever that was supposed to be that 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:42.520 went on social spent on social media. That's not what 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:47.879 our organization is about. Somebody is getting well, this is 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:51.159 like the This is the multiple incidents this offseason of 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:57.480 team executives having to apologize for the clunky like you know, 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:01.080