Speaker 1: From the King of sports Books comes the Key Sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unleashed, presented by the MGM. Here's your host, Jerry
Speaker 1: Ferrara and Olivia Harlan Decker. How will the world week
Speaker 1: to follow Week one? Oh my god, kickers, kickers. A
Speaker 1: lot of teams will be trying out new kickers this week.
Speaker 1: The opening NFL weekend was just nuts. We will get
Speaker 1: to that shortly, as well as preview Week two storylines, betting, trends, advice,
Speaker 1: and birds the Bird Gauntlet. No team has ever defeated
Speaker 1: all five Bird teams in one season. One team in
Speaker 1: the NFL is trying to do that this season, so
Speaker 1: we'll waste all of our time by talking a little
Speaker 1: bit about that. Jerry Ferrara, how was your first NFL
Speaker 1: weekend with two kids? Yikes, Olivia, Let's just say it's
Speaker 1: not going to be my Unleashed today, but in a
Speaker 1: future Unleashed is coming. And I love our neighbors. But
Speaker 1: let's just say someone had a two year old birthday
Speaker 1: party at two pm on a Sunday. We'll discuss that
Speaker 1: far differently. It's a different Unleashed and I didn't attend,
Speaker 1: but we'll talk about that at another time. Yeah, what's
Speaker 1: more foul worthy? Having a fall wedding on a Saturday
Speaker 1: or having a child's birthday? Really any day? No one
Speaker 1: wants to go to a kid's birthday party? No one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I still say the wedding thing is is almost unforgivable.
Speaker 1: The child birthday. It's like, look, I just I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be there. Send gifts. I will not be attending.
Speaker 1: What about you? I mean you, you know you're now
Speaker 1: in London five hour difference. I've always talked about how
Speaker 1: much I love Pacific time for football. Do this time
Speaker 1: is like? Okay, what is it like London time five
Speaker 1: hours ahead of East time? Well, it just sucks when
Speaker 1: your team plays at night. So like Packers Vikings, I
Speaker 1: was all excited it. I stopped watching at halftime because
Speaker 1: it was late, and honestly I switched to Entourage. I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding. I switched because I knew I wanted to
Speaker 1: finish season two before we talked, and I was sick
Speaker 1: of seeing Aaron Rodgers eye roll. I had seen enough.
Speaker 1: I know how the story ends. It was not dissimilar
Speaker 1: to Week one last year, when the Packers only put
Speaker 1: up three points to New Orleans. We got seven points
Speaker 1: on the board thanks to A J. Dillon, which is
Speaker 1: exactly how our season ended last year. I'll talk about
Speaker 1: that later and unleashed because I know we have some
Speaker 1: Packer fans listening, and I know everyone's as upset as
Speaker 1: I am. But yeah, so first NFL weekend in London,
Speaker 1: I was okay going to bed at halftime and watching
Speaker 1: some ententrages as we went to bed. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I would survive. I have a hard time
Speaker 1: even with the Sunday night game in the Monday night
Speaker 1: game these days, so you kind of are in night
Speaker 1: game mode for a while. But look, it's a good thing.
Speaker 1: London is a great place. We do have an amazing
Speaker 1: guest coming up today, which I'm very excited about, the
Speaker 1: guy go way back with NFL insider j Glazer from
Speaker 1: Fox Sports. We love them on the NFL Fox Sunday.
Speaker 1: We're gonna try to get him to break some news.
Speaker 1: It's always tough with Jay. He likes to hold stuff.
Speaker 1: But also he's doing some really amazing things in the
Speaker 1: mental health space where is he has an unbreakable podcast.
Speaker 1: So we got a lot to talk about with Ja.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get a nugget from him. Possibly it's he
Speaker 1: saved the good stuff for the company that pays him
Speaker 1: a lot of money to do so. So but we'll see.
Speaker 1: I'll pray on our friendship. I'll see if I could
Speaker 1: guilt him into uh well maybe you could. I don't know.
Speaker 1: We'll figure it out. And how do you guys know
Speaker 1: each other? Tell us about your friendship. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: met Jay. I was getting ready to prep for a movie.
Speaker 1: I got the rights to play a turo Gaddy, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite fighter of all time. We've all seen
Speaker 1: Wahlberg in the movie The Fighter. That's the Mickey Ward's story.
Speaker 1: The kind of other half of that story. A lot
Speaker 1: of it is a touro gatty story. So I I
Speaker 1: was at okay shape, but Jay would task with training
Speaker 1: me to look and fight like a turo Gaddy and
Speaker 1: we formed a fast friendship. I was his first client
Speaker 1: at his Unbreakable gym, and now I might be his lee.
Speaker 1: Memorable because everyone in the NFL has worked out there
Speaker 1: at some point, and even a lot of other actors
Speaker 1: and musicians. So but yeah, I expected Jay to be
Speaker 1: like the you know, you're like the dude, and there's
Speaker 1: just so much more to that guy, so we became
Speaker 1: fast friends. I really consider him like a big ber.
Speaker 1: He he almost got me in a fight with an
Speaker 1: NFL player at the gym. I'm gonna definitely talk to him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell that story you almost got Yeah, I
Speaker 1: almost got into a fight with an NFL player a
Speaker 1: boxing match of sorts, so it wasn't gonna be like
Speaker 1: a street fight, but he had me way over my head. Yeah, Jerry,
Speaker 1: I love you, but I don't know if you have
Speaker 1: any place doing that. I don't know. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: never seen you in the ring. But I fake it
Speaker 1: till you make it, baby, fake it till make it
Speaker 1: that That's that's how I That's how I was looking
Speaker 1: at that and my best role yet pretending I wasn't scared. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to hear Jay's version of that story. Look
Speaker 1: from the NFL Weekend. I was thinking about you because
Speaker 1: you're Seattle Seahawks there in the first place in the
Speaker 1: NFC West. But I was thinking too because it was
Speaker 1: at the same time as the Emmy's and I mean,
Speaker 1: you're a guy, you know, I like watching Emmy Red Carpet.
Speaker 1: I kind of him into it. For that. But you've
Speaker 1: been to Emmy's. Your your show has been nominated in
Speaker 1: one Emmy. So do you have any good Emmy's stories?
Speaker 1: Like is it what's it like? Give me behind the
Speaker 1: scenes scoop. It is definitely surreal. Here's a little known
Speaker 1: fact my opinion, the Golden Globes were always a little
Speaker 1: more fun. The Emmys are kind of dry, meaning you
Speaker 1: there's no drinking. Really, there's nothing there. You keep like
Speaker 1: you're in a theater, whereas the Golden Globe you're at
Speaker 1: like a banqueting table. There's drinking, there's eating. Everyone's a
Speaker 1: little loose. To Emmy's, you're in like a theater. You
Speaker 1: go outside to like get a pretzel. You can't get
Speaker 1: back in so the commercial break is over. It's still
Speaker 1: an awesome experience. But one time I'll share a very
Speaker 1: very quick story. The worst part about the Emmys, I'm
Speaker 1: not complaining. It happens during the first few weeks of football.
Speaker 1: So myself and Kevin Connolly, who's a big football fan,
Speaker 1: we had like Kevin Dillon and Piven were nominated in
Speaker 1: Supporting Actor and then were nominated for Best Comedy. Those
Speaker 1: awards are like two and a half hours apart. So
Speaker 1: we strategically made friends with the behind the scenes people
Speaker 1: at the Emmy's listen to this move and Connolly I
Speaker 1: gave him credit he orchestrated this move. We were in
Speaker 1: our seats for Dylan and Piven's award. I think Piven won,
Speaker 1: and then we had two and a half hour break.
Speaker 1: We sneak out of the theater. We talked with someone
Speaker 1: behind the scenes people. We get a golf cart and
Speaker 1: we drive like three blocks were downtown in l A.
Speaker 1: I think we went to like a mashed steakhouse. We
Speaker 1: had a steak dinner, and I want to say the
Speaker 1: Packers were playing. Watched the Packers and someone because it's
Speaker 1: five thirty eight thirty Eastern, the Sunday night games, we
Speaker 1: watched like most of the game. We even took a
Speaker 1: walkie talkie that was communicating with the Emmy's and when
Speaker 1: he got like a half hour away from Best Comedy,
Speaker 1: we got the chirp on the walkie and we took
Speaker 1: the golf cart back to the Emmy's and we're back
Speaker 1: in our seats to watch us lose Best Comedy to
Speaker 1: the office. That one like nine years in a row.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there you go, did anyone recognize you? At
Speaker 1: Mastros where they like toxos, were two idiots eating stealing
Speaker 1: no one and also the only good no one's there
Speaker 1: really because everyone's like either watching football at home or
Speaker 1: they're at the Emmy's so downtown, like we had the
Speaker 1: whole place to ourselves. It was cool and in the
Speaker 1: other worst I'm complaining about it. I'm not complaining. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: We always had to work the next day and our
Speaker 1: call times are like five am. So I remember one
Speaker 1: year we went and we got home kind of late.
Speaker 1: I remember like my head hitting the pillow and then
Speaker 1: my alarm clock going off and I didn't sleep. That
Speaker 1: might have been after a Golden Globes because I felt
Speaker 1: like I was drinking. So it might have been after
Speaker 1: a Golden Globes because those are more fun. Okay, good
Speaker 1: to know that. If I ever get an Emmy invite,
Speaker 1: I'll say, no, I'm good, have a reservation at Masters,
Speaker 1: but I'll see at the Golden Globes. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: But hey, you're Seattle Seahawks. I mean you're looking pretty
Speaker 1: smart right now. What do you think of that game?
Speaker 1: So exciting? With Russell Wilson getting food and then the
Speaker 1: missed field goal to win it. I mean the Seahawks.
Speaker 1: I don't think this prediction and lottery ticket bet could
Speaker 1: ever look as good as it's gonna look like. If
Speaker 1: I could cash it out right now, I probably would
Speaker 1: be for a much much lesser rate. But it's look,
Speaker 1: everything I said is coming to fruition. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: I'm smart. I'm getting very lucky. The Rams definitely have
Speaker 1: a hard schedule the Niners. We don't really quite know
Speaker 1: what Trey Lance yet. And that was a monsoon of
Speaker 1: a game. We'll talk about that one. We got Peter
Speaker 1: Andrew coming in. We're gonna have definitely talked to Peter
Speaker 1: about his Niners. But yeah, and you know now they
Speaker 1: got the Niners next week. They go to a note.
Speaker 1: It's what I said weeks ago. You know, it starts
Speaker 1: to take shape, these narratives that we fall in love
Speaker 1: with the NFL. I that one looks like it could
Speaker 1: take shape. Gino Smith too, really really great game. Always
Speaker 1: rooted for that guy. Got definitely bumm deal with the Jets,
Speaker 1: even bummer deal with the Giants. They wanted him to
Speaker 1: start as one of the few things that um I
Speaker 1: remembering the coach's name, wanted Geno Smith to start over ELI,
Speaker 1: and every Giant fan was in an uproar because it
Speaker 1: was Eli's last kind of parting shot one song. But
Speaker 1: you know, they wrote me off and I didn't right back.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking about that quote for a while.
Speaker 1: What a line? Okay, what's a better line? Do you
Speaker 1: remember last year? I think it was after a win
Speaker 1: in Arizona and Aaron Rodgers said, how can you not
Speaker 1: be romantic about football? Man? I had that as my
Speaker 1: Twitter bio. I loved that quote so much. But what's
Speaker 1: a better line? That they wrote me off and I
Speaker 1: didn't write back? Or that one. I think Aaron's is
Speaker 1: just better for like football as a whole. That should
Speaker 1: be like at that inscription should be at his Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame statue when he gets it. But Genos was
Speaker 1: just more inspirational for a guy who's really had a
Speaker 1: up and down and now back up again career. So
Speaker 1: I'm happy for the Seahawks. There's room on the bandwagon.
Speaker 1: People been now starting to talk about this. I just
Speaker 1: I'm first. We got the dates, it's stamped. I'm first
Speaker 1: on this, okay, I know, and we have the proof
Speaker 1: we can always go back to an episode a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. Another thing you have to be excited
Speaker 1: about is with the Cowboys losing Dak Prescott for a
Speaker 1: handful of weeks. We don't know. They're saying six to
Speaker 1: eight weeks. We'll find out, but it's opening up the
Speaker 1: NFC East a little bit. And dare I say, you're
Speaker 1: New York football giants there want to know beat the Titans.
Speaker 1: Week one, Brian day Ball gets the game ball from
Speaker 1: se Kwon Barkley, which really that to me showed that
Speaker 1: there's a culture shift happening here. That se Kwon Barkley,
Speaker 1: who had a great game, what do you have over
Speaker 1: nine yards per play? A hundred sixty four yards? Like
Speaker 1: absolutely incredible, and he gave the game ball to Joe
Speaker 1: Shane and Brian day Ball. So I I love the
Speaker 1: synergy I'm seeing in New York and I'm I'm excited
Speaker 1: for you long suffering Giants fans. They've lost the last
Speaker 1: five season openers. They win this one. Brian day Balls
Speaker 1: era starting well, but I was looking their next three
Speaker 1: games are all at home, Jerry, and I think they're
Speaker 1: all winnable. What do you have them in front of you.
Speaker 1: They I do, Carolina knew that the cow Boys. They're
Speaker 1: beating the Cowboys and then the Bears, who I don't
Speaker 1: know what we saw week one with them in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: but I would think they could beat the Bears at
Speaker 1: home and then the Packers in London. So we might
Speaker 1: be on rocky ground that week. But who knows what
Speaker 1: the hell will happen. The Giants could go into that
Speaker 1: one four No, So look I don't I don't want
Speaker 1: to get too far ahead. We definitely all fell in
Speaker 1: love with Joe Judge early on too, But this is different.
Speaker 1: This is not just the raw ra guy who gets
Speaker 1: in Daniel Jones's face when he throws a bad red
Speaker 1: zone interception. The other big key this is now two
Speaker 1: years we haven't seen a healthy say Quon Barkley, and
Speaker 1: we're seeing it. So pray that he stays healthy and
Speaker 1: you know, you see him rapping like I think he would,
Speaker 1: playing juicy in the locker room. Here's what I say
Speaker 1: to my fellow Giant fans. Okay, that was amazing. It
Speaker 1: was a terrible first half, big bounce back went for two.
Speaker 1: We know all that now and we want a home
Speaker 1: for season one opener, which we haven't won in a
Speaker 1: long time. The next big deal is get some kind
Speaker 1: of a home field. Giants have been terrible at home.
Speaker 1: I think they have one of the worst home not
Speaker 1: saying the fans just like home field. They it's like
Speaker 1: it never even matters to them. You got three in
Speaker 1: a row at home. Really, that's the next step for
Speaker 1: Brian Dable. We know you're a culture changer, we know
Speaker 1: you have balls. Excuse my language. Now, let's go win
Speaker 1: some home games. Let's go speaking of balls. God, I
Speaker 1: love my career. I'm sorry. How about how about Tyreek
Speaker 1: kill in Miami is quote after the game is You're
Speaker 1: gonna need a wheelbarrow. I'm gonna let people who didn't
Speaker 1: hear the quote use their imagination. Maybe producer Matt Let's
Speaker 1: insert the quote there, because that was a pretty good SoundBite. Mcnaiels,
Speaker 1: you'n got a lot of you know. So, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a great one. And uh, there's so many teams
Speaker 1: like we just still know nothing about Dolphins to me
Speaker 1: or one of those teams, like, we know they're good.
Speaker 1: The Patriots definitely were not. I'm not gonna say they
Speaker 1: weren't ready, but they have their own stuff going on.
Speaker 1: So that and the Ravens we don't know a whole
Speaker 1: lot about because they, you know, they beat the Jets.
Speaker 1: I love my Jeff fans outraged on Twitter that they
Speaker 1: started that, like they thought Joe Flacco should have won
Speaker 1: that game. Joe Flacco been winning Ravens games. He just
Speaker 1: got them another win in Week one because he threw
Speaker 1: fifty nine times. Like my Jeff fan friends expected the
Speaker 1: Jets to compete in that game. I'm sorry, but now
Speaker 1: we got Ravens Dolphins week two. I think those are
Speaker 1: two teams that we still need to see and a
Speaker 1: lot of their identity will come out, I think after
Speaker 1: that game, because I really don't know. That's a tough
Speaker 1: one to pick. Yeah, no, that is. Yeah, Dolphins are confusing,
Speaker 1: but there's enough to be excited about there. I was
Speaker 1: curious to see how Tyreek Hill was going to do
Speaker 1: there and and to see the evolution there and if
Speaker 1: Kansas City would miss him, and boyd, kN City did
Speaker 1: not seem to miss him. Just next man up, get
Speaker 1: a rookie and there get some new guys traded in.
Speaker 1: Nice to meet you. My name is Patrick Mahomes. And
Speaker 1: here's what we're gonna do. I was. I was really
Speaker 1: impressed with Kansas City, but yeah, Tyree Kill had a
Speaker 1: great Sunday as well. You know who did not have
Speaker 1: a great week is the Packers. And you know last
Speaker 1: year I mentioned earlier they laid an egg in New
Speaker 1: Orleans put up three points, so we know that it's possible.
Speaker 1: And then last year Aaron Rodgers told everyone to relax. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to relax. I'm going to on leach.
Speaker 1: The last season obviously ended with a loss at home
Speaker 1: against San Francisco, and it was a horrible game to watch.
Speaker 1: It was kind of snow sleet, and you know, neither
Speaker 1: teams scored an offensive touchdown. In fact, Packers running back
Speaker 1: A J. Dillon was the only offensive touchdown of the
Speaker 1: whole game, and then he got hurt and left and
Speaker 1: special teams did enough to leave land both a win.
Speaker 1: It was horrible, horrible to watch. I hate forty nine,
Speaker 1: as our friend Peter Andrew knows. But this season started
Speaker 1: just the way last season ended. A J. Dillon the
Speaker 1: only touchdown for Green Bay, and I knew it was
Speaker 1: bad when our rookie receiver Christian Watson out of North
Speaker 1: Dakota State do. I covered a lot of his college
Speaker 1: career and he was fantastic there. And he was with
Speaker 1: Trey Lance at North Dkota State and he dropped a
Speaker 1: wide open pass four a touchdown to start the game.
Speaker 1: Did you watch that, Jerry? Oh? Not only did I
Speaker 1: watch the minute I saw Aaron Rodgers reaction to that drop.
Speaker 1: It might have been over right there. It's like when
Speaker 1: you do something bad and your parents give you that
Speaker 1: look and you're like, oh can say And all the
Speaker 1: memes of Aaron Rodgers after that, it's like, you're done.
Speaker 1: I saw one that was Gus from Breaking Bad that
Speaker 1: was like, and I don't know if he saw that,
Speaker 1: he was like, you're done. I'm done. Like if Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers targets Christian Watson much more this season, I may
Speaker 1: be surprised because he seems kind of petty like that, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's going to target him too much.
Speaker 1: But look, I mean, we lost. MBS went to Kansas City, obviously,
Speaker 1: Davante Adams went to Las Vegas. Alan Lazard is our
Speaker 1: number one receiver. He was hurt. But I get frustrated
Speaker 1: and why I'm Unleshan is because why to Green Bay
Speaker 1: not bring in anyone this offseason, Like it's you don't
Speaker 1: just need guys in the receiver room, you need studs,
Speaker 1: you need dudes, and we don't have that. And when
Speaker 1: you have a back to back m v P quarterback,
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame quarterback, how are you not giving
Speaker 1: him weapons? It's just kind of baffling. And I really
Speaker 1: do want to ask Jay Glazer when we talked to him, if, like, oh,
Speaker 1: b J is a possibility for the Packers to get
Speaker 1: if anyone at this point is a possibility, because we
Speaker 1: cannot do all season like this. It's so horrible. And
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers said in camp the young receivers are inconsistent.
Speaker 1: So the writing was on the wall and we just
Speaker 1: pull up to Week one in Minneapolis, like we don't
Speaker 1: know it. We just have to make it official and
Speaker 1: put it on game tape. So yeah, that's the problem.
Speaker 1: It was sickening to watch. I only watched the first
Speaker 1: half here in London. Yeah, look, I'm with you. Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers got a great contract. Andrew Brant mentioned it on
Speaker 1: our show a few weeks back. There's like some teams
Speaker 1: who are saying we have the quarterback regardless of the
Speaker 1: receivers and other teams are saying, we don't know if
Speaker 1: we have the quarterback, so let's bring in as many
Speaker 1: great receivers around him as possible. I'm look, I'm not
Speaker 1: that worried, and you can't be too worried. I mean,
Speaker 1: it sucks to go all in one to your division
Speaker 1: rival who looks really, really good. But if I'm a
Speaker 1: betting man, which I am still betting on the Packers
Speaker 1: to be more than okay, but yeah, catch the ball
Speaker 1: to win the NFC North, Yeah, I think so. I
Speaker 1: definitely a wild card, but it's gonna be right there,
Speaker 1: I think in the end. Okay, what about you? I
Speaker 1: said my piece? What do you have? Lesh? Oh? I
Speaker 1: got the un leash about this because I don't know
Speaker 1: how to fix it. Here's the only thing I could
Speaker 1: come up with. Look, first things first, if you are
Speaker 1: still drafting kickers in your fantasy football league, stop it,
Speaker 1: just stop it. I don't want to wait till the
Speaker 1: last round taking a relevant kicker anymore. I've won a
Speaker 1: fantasy football league because of young wai Wu had like
Speaker 1: an unbelievable years, like my third highest score. It doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense. And as we saw this past Sunday
Speaker 1: kicking is a mess NFL. Maybe you gotta move the
Speaker 1: extra point back to its original marker instead of trying
Speaker 1: to make it longer and more difficult. Let's maybe keep
Speaker 1: the extra point as easy as possible. I love blocks.
Speaker 1: Block kicks are great. That is a sign that the
Speaker 1: special teams did their job. They worked on it all week.
Speaker 1: That's okay. And look, I was I benefited from missed
Speaker 1: field goals always Broncos missing a field goal, Titans obviously
Speaker 1: missing the field goals. So I don't want to lose
Speaker 1: field goals altogether. Let's move up the extra points. And
Speaker 1: my last bit of unleashed is parents out there. You
Speaker 1: are now one Olivia. You have a beauty, a full son.
Speaker 1: I have two sons. This is not even a son.
Speaker 1: This is a daughter that you know what, Maybe try
Speaker 1: and raise some kickers. Let's maybe not all play quarterback.
Speaker 1: Let's not maybe not all play point guard. You know,
Speaker 1: you're obviously your kid's gonna be athletic, at least whether
Speaker 1: he likes it or not. We'll see. Mine are not
Speaker 1: going to be athletic. They're not gonna be tall. But
Speaker 1: we could work on some kicking. Let's get some kickers.
Speaker 1: That's the greatest gig in town if you are a
Speaker 1: reliable kicker, greatest gig in all sports, I think right now,
Speaker 1: because there are none. Jerry, I could not disagree more
Speaker 1: because I was going to say, I want my baby
Speaker 1: boy to do whatever makes his heart sing, and if
Speaker 1: it's sports, there's just one rule. No, there's one rule
Speaker 1: in our house. If he wants to do any sport,
Speaker 1: he cannot kick Football's he I refused to let him
Speaker 1: kick football because I refused to be the mother of
Speaker 1: a kicker sitting there in the stands, just you know,
Speaker 1: white knuckling the whole game. I feel so horrible. These
Speaker 1: kickers get death threats. Yeah, look I get it. I do.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm not going to be the mother of
Speaker 1: a kicker. Just no, But I see what my take is. Great, Like,
Speaker 1: let's let's really work on this. Like Gray's Adam Vinatieri.
Speaker 1: That's what we're looking for here, Okay, we're looking for
Speaker 1: Adam Vintieria. That's that's the poster we're gonna put on.
Speaker 1: Jacob and James's wall Adam Vinetieria. We want to play football.
Speaker 1: That's what we're playing. And that's what we're gonna work
Speaker 1: on because being a reliable field goal kicker right now,
Speaker 1: after that Week one and the Week five last year
Speaker 1: had like the all time record, it's like eleven missed
Speaker 1: extra points. It's it's insane, and it's starting to affect betting,
Speaker 1: fantasy and obviously the outcome for the organizations, and that's
Speaker 1: really what it's about. So let's get it together, kickers
Speaker 1: and move the extra point back make it easier. Well,
Speaker 1: and how about two veteran, well respected quarterbacks who just
Speaker 1: moved to a new team and they didn't get a win,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and Matt Ryan, two guys who probably should
Speaker 1: have gotten to win in Week one and they didn't
Speaker 1: because of the kicker. Oh, I hate it and act overall,
Speaker 1: kickers went two in Week one and last year the
Speaker 1: average was that doesn't sound like a huge difference, but
Speaker 1: in one week, I think that's actually fairly significant. I
Speaker 1: am so excited to bring on our next guest. You
Speaker 1: see him every Sunday on the award winning Fox NFL
Speaker 1: Sunday pregame show. He always has the late breaking news.
Speaker 1: He's one of my good friends too, which is just
Speaker 1: a little bonus for me. He's also one of the
Speaker 1: best in the business and dare I say one of
Speaker 1: the best dressed in the business. J Glazer. So, J,
Speaker 1: You've been on the front lines, so to speak, of
Speaker 1: really generation defining moments in the NFL, from deflate Gate,
Speaker 1: spy Gate and everything in between. So what does that
Speaker 1: feel like when you start to put together some facts
Speaker 1: of a story that you know will have significant impact.
Speaker 1: What does that feel like? Well, listen, I want who
Speaker 1: have the game video? And a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: know this. That was only my second week inside studio
Speaker 1: at Fox, So those guys didn't want me in there,
Speaker 1: like you know, they're the best who's ever done it?
Speaker 1: And here comes the new guy and they're like, what
Speaker 1: are we giving up airtime to this guy? And so
Speaker 1: I get the tape actually earlier in the week, but
Speaker 1: it was on a Jewish holiday and I don't work
Speaker 1: on Russia. Shan and Young keepor I forget which one
Speaker 1: it was. So I know I got it, but I
Speaker 1: can't look at it until like sundown. I'm dying about
Speaker 1: this if I finally like eventually, I do it, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, I I'm trying to think how I can
Speaker 1: say this because I'm still trying to protect certain things.
Speaker 1: I watch what's on the tape, and at the first
Speaker 1: part of it, the guy was like zooming in on
Speaker 1: like girls in the stands and yeah, like the Jet
Speaker 1: City Dancers or whatever they were called. And I'm like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I got punked, and somebody just you know, my guy
Speaker 1: or gal whoever gave it to me, just totally is
Speaker 1: screwing with me. And then all of a sudden, Brady
Speaker 1: comes into focus and then all of a sudden, bam
Speaker 1: there it is like there's the Jets coaches full defensive signals,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my god, my life just changed.
Speaker 1: And it was that was that moment for me. That
Speaker 1: was my unbreakable moment where it just changed everything. And
Speaker 1: I was going through really hard I was going through
Speaker 1: marriage that was was just fell apart. So man, I
Speaker 1: needed something. I need a life preserver. And thank you
Speaker 1: God Almighty in Heaven, I got that life preserver. And
Speaker 1: then the story became not so much that I had Spygate,
Speaker 1: but how did I get spy because supposedly everything was
Speaker 1: you know, every copy was room. I'll say this too,
Speaker 1: and I read this in my book. I called Roger
Speaker 1: Goodell that morning and and I texted him like, hey, dude,
Speaker 1: you gonna call me. And that's how I talked to everybody,
Speaker 1: Gerald Tay, I talked to everybody. It doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: you're my grandma, you're my Rabbi, or Roger Goodell or
Speaker 1: Jerry are you Olivia? I'm gonna talk to everybody the same, right,
Speaker 1: so let me hate me. It's authentic. You know who
Speaker 1: you're a getting. And I said, dude, you gonna call me.
Speaker 1: So he hits me up and I said, hey, I
Speaker 1: just want to tell you before I go on with this.
Speaker 1: See if I you know, you have a comment or anything.
Speaker 1: But I got copy spy game and he said you
Speaker 1: can't have did you do that? Like we destroyed them all?
Speaker 1: And I said, well you thought, but I have a
Speaker 1: copy and you'd expect Roger Goodello kind of go nuts.
Speaker 1: And he went, wow, that's big from Yeah. He was like, wow,
Speaker 1: that's big for you, that's big. Wow. What was your
Speaker 1: relationship with Goodell up to that? How well did you know?
Speaker 1: It was great? Again, it's the same, Jerry will tell you.
Speaker 1: I talked to everybody the same. The way I look
Speaker 1: at life. You got two groups. You got God in
Speaker 1: group B and the rest of us in group B.
Speaker 1: If you're not in group BY, you're in group B
Speaker 1: with me, and nobody else in Group B supersedes anybody
Speaker 1: else like they live in group That's how I kind
Speaker 1: of operate. But it was, it was, it was wild.
Speaker 1: And then after that though, the story became how to
Speaker 1: Glazer get it? And I even got a call from
Speaker 1: Senator Arl Inspector, who did the Kennedy assassination, and he's
Speaker 1: asking for my copy of the tape. And I'm telling them,
Speaker 1: you know, listen to you know, respectfully, center, respect I
Speaker 1: think Congress should be spending their time, you know, doing
Speaker 1: better things with you know, than trying to get my
Speaker 1: copy of Spygate. And then he offered me a bigger
Speaker 1: scoop if I gave it to him. I said, hey, center, respecter, respectfully, man,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm Bobby Thompson. Right now, you know, i just
Speaker 1: hit a home run in the bottom of the night
Speaker 1: there in the world. Serious, like, there's no way, there's
Speaker 1: nothing you can have bigger. But also that's not how
Speaker 1: I operate. And then he threatened jail time if I
Speaker 1: didn't give it to him, and I was just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: what the hell do I hear? All I do is
Speaker 1: fight lift anyway, And my dad is sitting right there
Speaker 1: and he's like, what are you saying. I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to show Congress and them off. You're trying to
Speaker 1: show Congress that you're off. I'm like yeah, yeah. And
Speaker 1: then my bosses are like, we're imploring you to shut
Speaker 1: the hell up. And I'm like, no, trying to show
Speaker 1: Congress that I'm off. And They're like, show Congress that
Speaker 1: you're off. I'm like, see us working right out, you guys,
Speaker 1: And then uh, I never heard from him again. But
Speaker 1: all my sources back then started calling. I thought my
Speaker 1: phones were getting tapped. They thought their phones were getting
Speaker 1: tapped with the investigation that was launched. But that was
Speaker 1: a pivotal moment for me, and it was like and
Speaker 1: to this day, you know, nobody can ever take that
Speaker 1: for me. And you know, I had the biggest scoop
Speaker 1: in NFL history. You know one thing I always say, too,
Speaker 1: and I was telling Olivia a little bit too, like
Speaker 1: when you will you break a story or break news
Speaker 1: like it's a hundred, like you don't do it unless
Speaker 1: it's a hunter. And you even told me back in
Speaker 1: the day, like when you were coming up, I think
Speaker 1: it was what the New York Post, you were working
Speaker 1: for the Daily News, and like it made so much
Speaker 1: sense that, you know, you had a bunch of journalists
Speaker 1: going and talking to whoever the quarterback, when you were
Speaker 1: kind of the guy who would talk to the you know,
Speaker 1: second string alignment about what's going on. You built these
Speaker 1: relationships that are amazing. When I worked walk to the
Speaker 1: Gihant locker Roo, I didn't have the education. Everybody else
Speaker 1: had no experience. You know. I looked at there and
Speaker 1: I said, man, how could I be different? I want
Speaker 1: people to really get this year. How could I be different?
Speaker 1: And you know most people are afraid to be different.
Speaker 1: They want to be facing the crowd. My a lot
Speaker 1: of curse in your podcast. Okay, fuck that, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be my crowd, right, Like, I don't want to be
Speaker 1: facing the crowd for everybody out there. Fuck that, beat
Speaker 1: the damn crowd. Be your own damn crowd. So I said, Okay,
Speaker 1: these guys they're gonna work forty hours a week. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna work a hundred hours a week, and which screwed
Speaker 1: me up. I was making hundred bucks a year living
Speaker 1: in New York City and straight hand would drop feel
Speaker 1: bad for you drown me back in the city. Every
Speaker 1: single day I only have enough money for subway and
Speaker 1: bus fare. And one day I often to pay my
Speaker 1: rent and I jumped his ship over and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I'll take three rids, but I'm not taking money. And
Speaker 1: I got all the flares kind of like to kind
Speaker 1: of understand my plight. And so I said, man, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna out working by you know, double And how could
Speaker 1: I be different? I felt they were using their pen
Speaker 1: as a weapon. Well, I was gonna start relationships, and
Speaker 1: how do you do for me? A good way to
Speaker 1: start relationships is um, yeah, that kind of mentality. So
Speaker 1: you know, back then, you don't have the daily news,
Speaker 1: New York Times, New York Post News Day. They're all
Speaker 1: the same story up right. So if someone's talking to
Speaker 1: let's say Michael Strayan, they all talked to Michael strand
Speaker 1: they gather round together. So if all one player, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go forward relationships with the other fifty two that
Speaker 1: no one's talking to, and I'll have something different. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna have the stray And story because you can
Speaker 1: read it everywhere else, in every other paper, I'll have
Speaker 1: stuff from everybody else. And that's how I've always kind
Speaker 1: of affords. I've always tried to be different and different
Speaker 1: scary for a lot of people. When I tell everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody coming up in this business, stand out, like stand
Speaker 1: out in the crowd. We all want, you know, once
Speaker 1: I became like an entrepreneur, I want someone that could
Speaker 1: stand out for me, that I could say, you know what, Okay,
Speaker 1: I could put this on that person's back. That's powerful.
Speaker 1: So I always would talk to Jay Olivia, like when
Speaker 1: we be training. You know, I was one of the
Speaker 1: Jay's early clients and his gym. He was training me
Speaker 1: for a movie Jerica Fight. Well there's a there's a story.
Speaker 1: Almost got me in a in a fight. Wait wait, wait,
Speaker 1: let's tell people why how this got started. In the
Speaker 1: first place, he was supposed to play or Taro Gottas
Speaker 1: also was playing Taro Gotti in the movie. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I was training him to look like or Taro Gotti
Speaker 1: and he started really picking up and he could go.
Speaker 1: And so Jerry was legit like he could fight. But
Speaker 1: that was my my gigging, Like, hey, I got Jerry's
Speaker 1: our first ever client and unbreakable. Our second client, by
Speaker 1: the way, was Army Hammer, who fucked us over, so
Speaker 1: fuck him. Yeah, yeah, I don't want to pile a
Speaker 1: lot here, but yeah, he poached some of our trainers
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know what fun this motherfucker?
Speaker 1: And now look what's happened Army Hammer. So you were
Speaker 1: out on Army Hammer before anyone was. I will say
Speaker 1: that Glazon was out on Army Hammer long before any
Speaker 1: recent stories, long before the world. I was like, Jerry,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna up if I see him somewhere, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I should have. Oh, I don't know that he's into
Speaker 1: weird stuff. You might not want to mess with. No, No,
Speaker 1: I'd beat the funk at Army happen. Well. I would
Speaker 1: always ask Jay, like if I put in a good
Speaker 1: training session, then I would always get like, you know,
Speaker 1: we'd be chilling in the back and on the cover
Speaker 1: and now though, that's where I would ask j like
Speaker 1: my NFL things specifically, and like he knew you know,
Speaker 1: there's things he can tell me and the things he
Speaker 1: couldn't tell me. Or if you're getting tired, you're pretending
Speaker 1: you had to ask me something right then, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the other thing too, and I'd be gassed, Like I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a phone for that, I'd be gassed. I'd be like, Jay,
Speaker 1: just tell me the truth is Tom Brady retiring? And
Speaker 1: he would start the two minutes to be like, all right,
Speaker 1: shut your mouth, hit the bag. Look, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: a big Giants fan, a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: interesting Wait wait, wait, go back to the story. You're
Speaker 1: saying we had getting ready to fight, you haven't getting
Speaker 1: ready to fight. And and I'm training and then so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I could say his name right, we don't care.
Speaker 1: Orlando Scandrick was training at story right, and this is
Speaker 1: not a bad story, Cowboys. And he's like talking a
Speaker 1: little he's talking a little trash to me. Now physically
Speaker 1: and Orlando Scandrick like, athletically, there's no competition. He's a
Speaker 1: world class athlete, a lot bigger than me, a lot
Speaker 1: stronger to me. But he's watching me train. He's kind
Speaker 1: of like making fun of me a little bit. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we start talking and Jay's like, Orlando one just
Speaker 1: getting the cage with Jerry if you if you really
Speaker 1: think that he, you know, can't fight, and he kind
Speaker 1: of brushed it off. So the next day we're in
Speaker 1: there training and Jay's like, watch what we're gonna do Orlando. Today.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hype him up and I'm gonna put you
Speaker 1: in the cage with Randy Quatre and I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: Randy hold the mix for you, and we're gonna make
Speaker 1: you look like the beast that you are. So Jay
Speaker 1: comes in, He's like, Orlando, ju beat your ass. We
Speaker 1: did a tell of the tape. Also, we did a
Speaker 1: talent's five inches tall than me, forty pounds heavier. We
Speaker 1: put together a tale of tape. Yeah, we just kind
Speaker 1: of spoke the bear as much as we can. And
Speaker 1: next you know, I'm in the locker room over there.
Speaker 1: I'm in the cage with Randy Kature and he's like
Speaker 1: and he's calling out the punch is real early. He's
Speaker 1: like slapping the pads really hard. He's like pretending I'm
Speaker 1: hurting his hand. It's like Randy gattur like, I could
Speaker 1: possibly actually hurt his hand with a punch, and I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie, Orlando, if you're listening, he looked a
Speaker 1: little shook. I heard him say, no, that dude can fight.
Speaker 1: A little bit. No, Jerry got up in his chase
Speaker 1: a little bit too, and we're like, oh damn looking
Speaker 1: at this, and Orlando was like, come on, man, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna hurt Turtle. And Jerry's like, I'm right here, man,
Speaker 1: I'm right here, and we're standing right there. We took
Speaker 1: a picture at some point. That's when we did the
Speaker 1: tell the tape. We'd like photoshop. You don't have the picture.
Speaker 1: I would put that up on Instagram. I have. Pure
Speaker 1: was hilarious and this is the kind of stuff that
Speaker 1: would happen at Unbreakable at Jay's Jim that he built,
Speaker 1: and it really was like an incredible experience because also
Speaker 1: it was you know, like one kind a guy like
Speaker 1: me who has no physical gifts. I trained with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: I trained with Jadevian Clowney, training like with the I
Speaker 1: have no business being there. You haven't told me that.
Speaker 1: One day, me and the Rock we're training together there
Speaker 1: one day and Jerry is over on the on the
Speaker 1: ground there. He was like, kind of stretching, are you
Speaker 1: doing yoga? I ain't doing part of this ship. Jay
Speaker 1: and the Rock are doing like shoulder lifts, like ridiculously
Speaker 1: coming the back doing like a hip flex or stretch
Speaker 1: and downward dog. But it's a pretty cool thing, you know. Again,
Speaker 1: it's like I run a good lock him over there,
Speaker 1: and it's the whole thing is like it's community. I
Speaker 1: need a community. I need teams for my own mental
Speaker 1: health issues, I need teams and so over there. I
Speaker 1: try to really put together a fun team where no
Speaker 1: one really cares who you are as long as you're
Speaker 1: part of the team. Like Unbreakable is the only gym
Speaker 1: in America or maybe the world has zero mirrors because
Speaker 1: we don't want anybody's back turned to the rest of
Speaker 1: the team, like looking at himself. You're all part of
Speaker 1: this team together. But also like you'll be in there
Speaker 1: and it'll be Jerry and Stallone and whis Khalifa and
Speaker 1: a guy in the Seahawks and a guy and the
Speaker 1: Lakers and you know, and everybody kind of training together
Speaker 1: and it's just it's bizarre world. But it fits all
Speaker 1: any women, oh tons of women, And that's the whole
Speaker 1: thing that's our and that those our sisters. Only how
Speaker 1: do you get in this gym? You gotta kind of apply.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like we have we have we have. That's
Speaker 1: we try making the Soho house train him. Like Jen
Speaker 1: Morrison is like, oh my god, She's like what our
Speaker 1: greatest ambassadors we could ever have. And um, we have
Speaker 1: a ton of women in there, all ages, all body shapes,
Speaker 1: all body types. One yeah, we have to lose a
Speaker 1: hundred thirty five pounds and we were having her work
Speaker 1: out with Snoop every day. It was like crazy, like
Speaker 1: you just never expect but in there, we're all part
Speaker 1: of the same team. It's beautiful. I'm just I'm picturing
Speaker 1: Snoop working out and I'm picturing it just really mellow
Speaker 1: and chill. Just I can't picture Snoop working out like hardcore.
Speaker 1: No Snoop got after it what we do there and
Speaker 1: unbreakable to it. Like the workouts, especially fighting, we kind
Speaker 1: of look at it like, hey, you're all part of
Speaker 1: the same fight team. So finding comes out of your soul,
Speaker 1: especially nowadays where it's a hard We always tell people
Speaker 1: it's a hard world outside these doors, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: give you a whole team, in the whole family, to
Speaker 1: walk this walk together with. When you're walking outside of
Speaker 1: those doors, you know you've got a crew that gets
Speaker 1: your back. Especially women in Hollywood right now, they need that. Yeah. Absolutely, amen.
Speaker 1: I heard you on a podcast Jay saying if they
Speaker 1: could put the feeling of work out in a pill
Speaker 1: that I forget how the quote ends, but no one
Speaker 1: would have any problem with great antidepressed, great antidepression. It
Speaker 1: would be the number And I got that from Troy
Speaker 1: Acheman actually said if you put working out in a pill,
Speaker 1: would be the number one selling antidepress in the world.
Speaker 1: So I was kind of thinking, Jerry, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers was there. So that's a perfect example of
Speaker 1: someone who has been very outspoken about life off the
Speaker 1: field and his ayahuasca journey and finding himself and all
Speaker 1: of this thing, this stuff that people haven't talked about,
Speaker 1: especially a franchise quarterback, especially the face of a franchise.
Speaker 1: Were you finding that refreshing? You know, Aaron, he's coming
Speaker 1: out with things that are more alternative. What was your
Speaker 1: take on his stance on protecting his own mental health.
Speaker 1: Anytime a dude comes out and talked about mental health,
Speaker 1: I applauded. I'm happy, we need it. You know, I
Speaker 1: just wrote a book called him Breakable. How I turned
Speaker 1: my depression, anxiety and a motivation and you can too.
Speaker 1: And that led to a podcast and I'm not doing
Speaker 1: a breakable. It was a mental health podcast because we
Speaker 1: need more dudes to talk about it. Like I said,
Speaker 1: the scary world, and look I was. Whether I was
Speaker 1: born with it or early childhood trauma, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: it's my earliest childhood memory. Like I live in what
Speaker 1: I call it GREG, which is depression anxiety throwing some
Speaker 1: a d D. I don't know how to wake up
Speaker 1: or go to sleep any other way. It's I just
Speaker 1: live in the gray. And I didn't sign up for
Speaker 1: this ship. I want to be very clear, like this
Speaker 1: is not something I asked for. But while I suffered
Speaker 1: in silence for a long time, and I created this
Speaker 1: character of the glaze that you guys see on TV,
Speaker 1: it was all to hide the pain. And I suffered,
Speaker 1: like I said, in silence while I wasn't doing anybody
Speaker 1: any good by being silence anymore. So I decided to
Speaker 1: start speaking up. And one thing, God blessed me with
Speaker 1: the ability to communicate, and I wanted to help others
Speaker 1: know they're not alone. And you know, the more I
Speaker 1: talk about it, and this is really big, the more
Speaker 1: I've opened up to my friends about it. And my
Speaker 1: friends are the baddest fucking dudes on the planet. They
Speaker 1: are the Rock and Chuck Lidell and Randy Kutur and
Speaker 1: Michael Strayhead. The more where I've opened up to them
Speaker 1: about it, the closer it's gotten us. Nobody's called me
Speaker 1: a wuss, nobody's told me to suck it up. Nobody said, oh,
Speaker 1: come on, j your life is great, and listen, my
Speaker 1: life is great. It is, but between my ears is assessable.
Speaker 1: It sucks. But I didn't sign up for that. But
Speaker 1: now I could do something about it the more. And
Speaker 1: it's interesting when the book came out, I thought would
Speaker 1: be predominantly male who bought it, it's not. It's mostly
Speaker 1: female and also trying to understand, trying to show that
Speaker 1: they're not alone, but also just trying to show their husbands. Hey,
Speaker 1: this is how I feel. We need more of these
Speaker 1: dudes to start diving into that and start looking at
Speaker 1: it so they can start getting vulnerable and realizing that
Speaker 1: vulnerability is true strength, and the vulnerability is the one
Speaker 1: that's gonna help out your marriage and help with your kids,
Speaker 1: and help with your relationships. More than anything, help what
Speaker 1: goes on between our ears, because man, when you have
Speaker 1: anxiety and depression, the only way I could say it
Speaker 1: is it fucking sucks. I get a little you know,
Speaker 1: emotional about talk about it, and it fucking sucks every
Speaker 1: single morning of my life. I was compelled to call
Speaker 1: you after I saw you drop the first episode of
Speaker 1: the Unbreakable pod, which everyone should listen to. Sean McVeigh
Speaker 1: was your first guest, and I'm listening to it, and
Speaker 1: obviously I kne would be good because you know, I
Speaker 1: know you, and but really it was more so impressive
Speaker 1: of just how McVeigh opens up to you in the way.
Speaker 1: That's why I think and I had to call you because,
Speaker 1: like I, I couldn't text it. There was something like
Speaker 1: how to say. I'm like, there really is no better
Speaker 1: person to do this, because I don't know if Sean
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh is not gonna open up to me that
Speaker 1: way on this podcast, like you have these relationships. But
Speaker 1: and like you said, everyone sees you on Fox and
Speaker 1: they know you from fighting and all that stuff. But
Speaker 1: I always say that one Jay's like the most healthy
Speaker 1: vulnerable guy, meaning he's not afraid to tell you his
Speaker 1: troubles and show you his scars. And I think that's
Speaker 1: why people are going to not be afraid to tell
Speaker 1: him about There's the McVeigh episode again. I encourage everyone
Speaker 1: to listen to it on break. It's it's incredible when
Speaker 1: he talks about going oh for November and how he
Speaker 1: didn't think the team could tell he was suffering. And
Speaker 1: you were like, Sean, your players are calling me, they
Speaker 1: know talk to him right, yeah, yes, to be vulnerable
Speaker 1: and and also like how you know with Sean was
Speaker 1: cool because I was like, sport like yours. It's not
Speaker 1: a sports podcast. I want people to know that we
Speaker 1: I have two mental health chuck ups during the week.
Speaker 1: John Gordon wrote the Energy Buss. He's on with me tomorrow.
Speaker 1: That's you know, there's it's every I'm gonna have people
Speaker 1: who have just been through it. There's somebody who recently
Speaker 1: I had planned to commit suicide and by accidents, stumbled
Speaker 1: upon my book, started reading it, packed up and went
Speaker 1: home instead of killing himself. I'm having him on like
Speaker 1: to just really talk about what goes to your mind
Speaker 1: if somebody wants to make that, you know, the ultimate
Speaker 1: bad decision. But for Sean too, like, hey, you learn
Speaker 1: in a world where your guys are so afraid to
Speaker 1: show vulnerability because they may think I can get cut
Speaker 1: or bench or ostracized, how do you give them a
Speaker 1: landing spot? And Shawn was great about Look, I have
Speaker 1: to be vulnerable to show them it's okay to be
Speaker 1: vulnerable and show them it hurts my feelings when people
Speaker 1: ripped me in trash me like he was. It was
Speaker 1: cool because you know, you know, Seawan didn't really get
Speaker 1: the mental health part, the depression and anxiety. Does me
Speaker 1: and Andrew Witworth, who really had a big talk with
Speaker 1: them about it to get him to really understand it.
Speaker 1: And thank god we did, because yeah, there were times
Speaker 1: last year he needed that vulnerability to lean into it
Speaker 1: because he was he was suffering. So think how interesting
Speaker 1: that is that is during a Super Bowl winning season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's crazy to the outside world. I'm married to a
Speaker 1: professional basketball player. I've been a network TV Jerry, You're
Speaker 1: an accomplished actor. Jay, you have reached the peak of
Speaker 1: our industry. Think about that and think about just those
Speaker 1: are four people I can think of right away of
Speaker 1: a lot of ups and downs. So when you look
Speaker 1: at Sean McVeigh, super Bowl winning coach that while he's
Speaker 1: on his way to the peak, is having such a valley.
Speaker 1: And at think, especially in the NFL and NBA and
Speaker 1: basketball and athletes are a lot like vets. And I
Speaker 1: know you work a lot with vets of macho guys,
Speaker 1: accomplished guys. They're kind of one per centers, you know,
Speaker 1: And that now it's coming forward to be more popular
Speaker 1: to just talk about it. How are you facilitating these conversations? Well,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. You know, we talked about mental health,
Speaker 1: but who gives it words. I want to be the
Speaker 1: one that gives it words. I want to be able
Speaker 1: to give people words to have this conversation. That's the
Speaker 1: coolest reaction I've gotten from my book was Grandmother's reaching out.
Speaker 1: And I get choked up saying this. See, and here's
Speaker 1: the thing, Like you talked about me, Jerry fighting football
Speaker 1: baller is all that because in the center of dudism,
Speaker 1: I could cry right here to you on the drop
Speaker 1: of a dime. No one's questioned in my manhood. People
Speaker 1: think it's the other way around. Always so dutely, dude,
Speaker 1: how can you talk about no? Because I am such
Speaker 1: a dude. No one's gonna question my manhood. But I
Speaker 1: get tear ey'd like this one. I think of grandmother's
Speaker 1: reaching out saying thank you for the first time in
Speaker 1: eighty years, and now have the words to have this
Speaker 1: conversation with my husband and kids and grandkids. That's pretty empowerful.
Speaker 1: That's so it's kind of I guess it's worth my
Speaker 1: own suffering to get reactions like that. And you know,
Speaker 1: I want people to understand this also because Oliba just
Speaker 1: brought up a great point. You brought up four of
Speaker 1: us right here who have great lives, but all our
Speaker 1: problems were the same, no matter who you are. The
Speaker 1: thing for me is because I don't know how to
Speaker 1: get love from the inside out, and that's what my
Speaker 1: mental health issues do to me. I have no idea
Speaker 1: what it's like to feel that love from the inside out.
Speaker 1: It motivated me to do so many big things to
Speaker 1: get love from the outside in hoping that will fulfill me.
Speaker 1: And I got to the top. I was the first
Speaker 1: ever minute by minute breaking news guy in America. Beaver's
Speaker 1: Lynn passed early and John Clayton when the internet thing
Speaker 1: first came out, which I think is gonna take off,
Speaker 1: and we're in the again inducted in Television Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: and I was the first. You know, the amount of
Speaker 1: money that I made doing this stuff, man, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: And I thought it was gonna be rainbows and unicorns
Speaker 1: when I got there, and it wasn't. And I still
Speaker 1: suffer the same because I don't know how to love
Speaker 1: myself for the inside out. So now I'm spending all
Speaker 1: my time doing this trying to find a way to
Speaker 1: feel it for the inside out because my problems. Or listen,
Speaker 1: those first eleven years when I was making ninety seven
Speaker 1: hundred bucks a year, I was broken and ship living
Speaker 1: in crap and you know, like at an apartment where
Speaker 1: the refrigerator blocked the bathroom door and you couldn't go
Speaker 1: to bathroom with that with the door should ever, and
Speaker 1: I'd have to play like bill Roulette, Like Okay, which
Speaker 1: Bill am I gonna pay this month? So which is
Speaker 1: gonna get cut off? My heat's gonna get caught off,
Speaker 1: My electricity is gonna get cut off? Man, my telephone bill, Bill,
Speaker 1: I couldn't get that cut off my rent. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to just take penalties. So I understand both sides.
Speaker 1: I understand broke and I'm breakable and my problems feel
Speaker 1: the same in both, right, So I've got to start
Speaker 1: doing the work for the inside out if I'm gonna really,
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna feel the way i'm I've always held
Speaker 1: out hope that I could feel one day. So our
Speaker 1: wallets are not antidepressants. That's a great line. There's different,
Speaker 1: you know, different problems when you're broken, different problems when
Speaker 1: you're unbreakable, but they're still fucking problems. And Jerry, I
Speaker 1: do not want to step all over you here. There's
Speaker 1: just so much to unpack. And you can text j anytime.
Speaker 1: I only got him on this podcast. But but j
Speaker 1: you mentioned something just with the Internet. And the only reason,
Speaker 1: to be clear why I brought up our professions is
Speaker 1: because their public and with the age of social media,
Speaker 1: I mean, people are just so vicious. And I mentioned
Speaker 1: my husband and it makes me sick reading some stuff
Speaker 1: fees had to see. And I'm sure the three of
Speaker 1: us can all tell our own stories with that sense.
Speaker 1: But how do we as a s it is the
Speaker 1: human race, how do we overcome the evil of the
Speaker 1: internet in social media and how vicious we can be
Speaker 1: to each other. We've got to start using social media
Speaker 1: for good. And that's what I've tried to do. And
Speaker 1: we've got to promote that more. And I think we're
Speaker 1: probably five or ten years away from it. But look,
Speaker 1: that's the thing I'm telling people. I am talking about
Speaker 1: mental health. It's not schooling that makes me an expert.
Speaker 1: If you will on this, it's by suffering. But you
Speaker 1: don't have to have my level of clinical depression and
Speaker 1: anxiety and a d D and bipolar and everything. We all,
Speaker 1: like you said, like then, we look at Instagram and
Speaker 1: Facebook and we think our lives shuck, and we think
Speaker 1: we're left out because we're comparing ourselves to everybody else's
Speaker 1: filtered fraction of a second, not even a full second,
Speaker 1: filtered fraction of a second of one day. We're going, ma'am,
Speaker 1: why does my mill not look like that? My car
Speaker 1: doesn't look like that, because my body doesn't look like that?
Speaker 1: Why am I left out? Why am I not at
Speaker 1: that party? Or on Twitter? We're man like, could you
Speaker 1: imagine walking into someone office and just screaming outside their
Speaker 1: boss's office? Look how fat your worker is? Look how
Speaker 1: shitty is accounting is? Hey? I hope his fucking wife bird?
Speaker 1: Like what do you like, that's what we get. That's terrible,
Speaker 1: and the human psyche is not made to see so
Speaker 1: much bullying and hate. So what whereas on all of us?
Speaker 1: You know, and I think something somehow we've I'm hoping,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm doing my part to try and
Speaker 1: use social media for good. I hope more and more
Speaker 1: and more we start doing that, because otherwise, man, this
Speaker 1: job of all of us to try and help us
Speaker 1: out with mental health is gonna get even harder and harder.
Speaker 1: I want people to realize at home that when you
Speaker 1: do tweet ship out like that, it affects all of us.
Speaker 1: And just think about how you feel. If we walked
Speaker 1: in your office and your job was on the line
Speaker 1: and we just started killing you in front of your boss,
Speaker 1: You'd all be like, what the fund is wrong with
Speaker 1: Jerry Ferrar? How can he come in and do this
Speaker 1: to me? Like that's awful, it's a horrible thing. Well,
Speaker 1: that's what you all doing to each other out there,
Speaker 1: So just think about that I would make you feel
Speaker 1: before you tweet that, well, boy, I'm proud to be friends.
Speaker 1: I'm grateful that you're doing again. The book is Unbreakable,
Speaker 1: the podcast is unbreakable. Check it out. Now. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pretend for a minute. We're gonna go back in the
Speaker 1: day you're training me. You got the mits up, I'm
Speaker 1: hitting the mits. I'm out of breath. I need a break.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm jay. You got anything for us that's
Speaker 1: spicy in the NFL? Do we have to wait till
Speaker 1: Sunday to watch you on Fox? If we had to
Speaker 1: wait till Sunday, will wait, We'll wait. If we gotta Waitabe,
Speaker 1: you gotta wait till Sunday, Maybe you gotta wait till Sunaright, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry about that. Gotta wait till Sunday. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: We'll all be watching Sunday. Jerry would say, were you wait?
Speaker 1: Were you were in there the day that I helped
Speaker 1: facilitate a certain trade? Oh? Yes, I was there for
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I forgot that the guy he's replacing
Speaker 1: was in the gym. I'm not gonna say names. Oh man,
Speaker 1: don't don't, don't say the names. Oh so uncomfortable, so uncomfortable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was helping kind of facilitated trade between these two teams.
Speaker 1: And um, then I come back and I announced it
Speaker 1: to all the players. There's one guy like, what the
Speaker 1: funk that's my position on that team. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: my bad, dude, my bad. Like shoot it. I'll always
Speaker 1: say working out the Unbreakable is like like when you
Speaker 1: get it's like waking up in the morning saying I
Speaker 1: had the craziest dream yesterday. And that's that's the one
Speaker 1: way I would describe I had the craziest dream yesterday.
Speaker 1: That you will, right, That's what it's like. And by
Speaker 1: the way, anybody can go Downbreakable. We just charge you
Speaker 1: a lot of money and I and we kind of
Speaker 1: interview you and make sure you fit in and you're
Speaker 1: not gonna fan out and you're gonna like but it's
Speaker 1: the coolest thing because like you'll never see what ever
Speaker 1: like in your life come up with excuse me to
Speaker 1: drop your towel. Hey, good work over there, you know, Hey,
Speaker 1: great work over there. You just don't see that anywhere
Speaker 1: except inside Unbreakable. Yes, Hey, but you're your giants now, man, Joe,
Speaker 1: Shane and day Ball, and it's just they are changing
Speaker 1: the culture. There what you need because the culture is, hey,
Speaker 1: we're the giants. But at the same time, it was
Speaker 1: like we're waiting for the sky to fall. They always
Speaker 1: have this thing of they're waiting for the sky to fall.
Speaker 1: And also like in the last Regimes with Dave Gettlman,
Speaker 1: it wasn't a place that was work, was fun to
Speaker 1: go to. Now it's changed. They're bringing all like Strand
Speaker 1: said on our show, Joe and Brian are bringing all
Speaker 1: the giant legends back. They're bringing him in there, which
Speaker 1: why they're in't do in the past. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but they're doing it now. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you know, you know, their cap situation isn't great,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna change the culture in there for your giants.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna end up being a They're on
Speaker 1: the right track. I'm trying very hard to get him
Speaker 1: on the show. I've reached out to my contacts and
Speaker 1: I've not gotten as far as I would like. Have
Speaker 1: you kept in touch with uh I hooked him up
Speaker 1: with Kevin Stefanski, Yes, last year, kept up. I have
Speaker 1: kept up, but I I typically don't text their call
Speaker 1: during this. Yeah, Jay calls me up one day, He's like,
Speaker 1: I know you're in Cleveland. Be a friend. These guys
Speaker 1: have no friends. You gotta be a friend during the season.
Speaker 1: I don't want to bother him while he's like preparing
Speaker 1: for a game. That's what everybody does. Okay, So that's
Speaker 1: the problem is that these guys have no friends because
Speaker 1: everybody's like, oh, I don't want to bother them during
Speaker 1: the season, and then nobody talks to it. That's lonely
Speaker 1: at the top. You got to be his friend, yes,
Speaker 1: be his friend all the time. You know. Another interesting
Speaker 1: story that you broke just on Sunday is that the
Speaker 1: Steelers don't plan to play can you pick it this season?
Speaker 1: After Mitch to Risky struggled in Week one? Do you
Speaker 1: think they may change their tune on that they don't
Speaker 1: want to change your tune? I could say that, you know,
Speaker 1: like certain things, it's gonna have to align in a
Speaker 1: certain way for them to do it. But like, and
Speaker 1: this is you know right from Mike tom on that
Speaker 1: he really wants Kenny to sit and learn for a year,
Speaker 1: and you know, could I had said to him also,
Speaker 1: like it's kind of like you look at Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: and we've seen a lot of quarterbacks over the years
Speaker 1: just get show shocked in year one and they don't
Speaker 1: recover from it. Now, I don't know if that's gonna
Speaker 1: be the case with Trevor, but he certainly doesn't look
Speaker 1: like Joe Burrow does, right, So you're like, you're hoping
Speaker 1: that he's not totally show shocked from first year. But
Speaker 1: we've seen it with a ton of you know, the
Speaker 1: Tim Couches and the David Carrs and the Achille Smith's,
Speaker 1: and we've seen it with somebody first and second picks
Speaker 1: of the draft. And I think he's trying to protect Kenny,
Speaker 1: and you know that's his plan. So good things change, yes,
Speaker 1: but the plan going this year is to not going
Speaker 1: up Kenny Pickett all this year. What about What do
Speaker 1: you know about their quarterback situation? Try Lance struggled in
Speaker 1: the opener. Jimmy g standing there on the sideline and
Speaker 1: he has no trade clause. But is he just going
Speaker 1: to sit there for insurance or will they find a
Speaker 1: team for him to go? No, I don't think they're
Speaker 1: gonna find a team because their draft they're asking has
Speaker 1: gone up. Now. They got him to reduce his salary.
Speaker 1: They got the best backup quarterback in the league. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna take like a two to get a guy,
Speaker 1: you know, a second rounder to pry Jimmy away from them,
Speaker 1: and once Jimmy came back and started working with him,
Speaker 1: it actually boosted Tray because Trey is a competitor. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Man, you just started seeing him. Wasn't
Speaker 1: around a lot more, you know, a lot, a lot
Speaker 1: harder in practice in having that competition. I think it's
Speaker 1: something Train needs. Okay, what about the Cowboy. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna keep going because because I know you know, and
Speaker 1: I want to be sensitive to your time. But speaking
Speaker 1: of I think that will be back a little bit
Speaker 1: sooner than they originally thought, like eight weeks it was
Speaker 1: first reported, and yeah, now it's probably like four wish so.
Speaker 1: But again, he's he's a really good healer. That's a
Speaker 1: great healer. So that's a certain things some guys don't heal. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a great healer. Yeah. But now, Jerry Jones can
Speaker 1: be very impatient, and he said in the preseason that
Speaker 1: he has a championship roster. But if Dak is missing,
Speaker 1: let's say, for nothing out there though, there's nothing out
Speaker 1: there that cool the temperature, Like, why is Jimmy Garoppolo
Speaker 1: going to go to the team with a beat up
Speaker 1: offensive line, he won't trede his no training clause for
Speaker 1: that right, And and it takes Jimmy a while to
Speaker 1: pick things up, Like, yeah, it's gonna taken a wile
Speaker 1: to pick up that offense, is what I mean. By
Speaker 1: the time he picks it up, that will be back.
Speaker 1: If I'm Jimmy, I'm I'm staying put, and like you're
Speaker 1: gonna I don't know who else is that, Like Mason Rudolph,
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, it's just not really kind of worth it.
Speaker 1: And again, if Dak is back in four weeks, it's
Speaker 1: gonna take somebody two weeks right to pick up to
Speaker 1: pick everything up. So I think you're you're better with Cooper. Okay,
Speaker 1: last player I'm asking you about because I went off
Speaker 1: on this and are open, but I'm a big Packer fan.
Speaker 1: Can we somehow get O b J there? Can we
Speaker 1: get anyone there? He's not healthy, he's not healthy. He
Speaker 1: will be well. Take him in remember December, So they
Speaker 1: might they were talking him in the past, but I
Speaker 1: think also the last time they did that, he kind
Speaker 1: of let them. I think I think they felt they
Speaker 1: were getting him, and the whole time he was just
Speaker 1: playing everybody to get to the Rams. But he joined
Speaker 1: that team in November and won a Super Bowl. So
Speaker 1: I feel, oh, I hear you there. But if the Packers,
Speaker 1: the Packers may think that, hey man, he he bamboozled
Speaker 1: us last time. But yeah, the Packers. And it's it's
Speaker 1: interesting because you think, man, if the kid caught that
Speaker 1: first pass, right, would everything have been different. I don't
Speaker 1: know the answer to that is worried, but I think
Speaker 1: it might have been too. But also like that team
Speaker 1: should not have let the Vante Adams go. It's bottom one.
Speaker 1: Absolutely no, Aaron should have got in a plane, phone
Speaker 1: out there. Man, what whatever I need to do. I'll
Speaker 1: give you a foot rob every day. I'll give you
Speaker 1: some of my ayahuasca. I'll take you down in Brazil.
Speaker 1: Anything you need, We're in. And you know it's just man,
Speaker 1: they that one right there was a head scratcher for me.
Speaker 1: Well we got we got a little bit. Buddy. Thank you,
Speaker 1: you're the best again. Unbreakable, the book, Unbreakable, the podcast,
Speaker 1: My guy Jay Glazer. Have a good rest of the day.
Speaker 1: We will see you Sunday. Anxiously waiting for you to
Speaker 1: talk and give us some some scoop ee. I hope
Speaker 1: I could have some this weekend. Alright, buddy, thank you,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. All right. I have been working hard, Jerry,
Speaker 1: I really have. I told you I would. I finally
Speaker 1: finished season two of Entourage, and it's incredible. You're so right.
Speaker 1: You told me it was a great season. Everything gets
Speaker 1: richer and more meaningful as time goes on. So first
Speaker 1: of all, you said season two is one of your favorites.
Speaker 1: Why is that. It's because we really as actors started
Speaker 1: figuring out like what we were doing and what really
Speaker 1: works and what doesn't work. And then something happening between
Speaker 1: our first season and our second season, HBO started on demand.
Speaker 1: So every college kid who went back to their dorms
Speaker 1: in September kind of caught up on the show and
Speaker 1: binged it. And that's how it binge. Binge TV wasn't
Speaker 1: even the thing back then, And that was the beginnings
Speaker 1: of binge TV. As I saw, were one of the
Speaker 1: highest on demand viewed shows of all times. So by
Speaker 1: season two we were kind of in the public eye.
Speaker 1: That's really interesting how that followed. What is a trend
Speaker 1: of how we now consume TV in movies? That's crazy.
Speaker 1: But I texted our group chat last night saying, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: my new favorite character is Lloyd, and our producer Joel
Speaker 1: wrote back, I can't believe I'm getting this text in
Speaker 1: two so I know I'm really really late to the party.
Speaker 1: But tell me about Rex Lee. He's the guy who
Speaker 1: plays Lloyd, and he is gold. He's amazing, you know Rex.
Speaker 1: When he came on, it was one of these parts
Speaker 1: and this has happened on the show before, and this
Speaker 1: happens all the time and TV. I don't think Doug
Speaker 1: Ellen laid out his character of like, hey, I got
Speaker 1: five years of material for you. I think when he
Speaker 1: got the part, it was this one episode maybe like
Speaker 1: another one, who knows. And he was so good from
Speaker 1: the moment he came on set and was just perfect.
Speaker 1: And the juxtification of like Ari and Lloyd becoming like
Speaker 1: this bromance in a way was incredible. And yeah, he
Speaker 1: just killed it so hard that it, Doug was. He
Speaker 1: became a series regular four years, and that was purely
Speaker 1: based on he came in ready. I think at the
Speaker 1: time Rex was a casting director and might have like
Speaker 1: self submitted himself for the show. He's a casting director
Speaker 1: for Entraage. No, I think he was in casting and
Speaker 1: I think he submitted himself or and it came in
Speaker 1: for the audition. He killed it so hard. It was
Speaker 1: immediately like, Okay, we're this guy is going to be
Speaker 1: a big part of the show. Oh, and you just
Speaker 1: end up cheering for him so hard. They're like Batman
Speaker 1: and Robin like it's oh, he's so good. And then
Speaker 1: the Valley episode, you got so much more in front
Speaker 1: of you. By the way, it's so much more in
Speaker 1: front of you good. The Valley episode is one of
Speaker 1: the most popular, and I can see why that episode
Speaker 1: must have been so much fun to film. It was,
Speaker 1: and it is definitely in most people's top three. It's
Speaker 1: the one I get, one of the ones I got
Speaker 1: asked about the most. And it's weird because it was
Speaker 1: so removed from like a typical Entourage episode. There was
Speaker 1: no big premiere. The whole episode was about, you know,
Speaker 1: Vince doesn't want a big deal, We're gonna go to
Speaker 1: a theater in the valley to watch the movie. And
Speaker 1: but what you really got exposed to, which I always
Speaker 1: back in the day, wondered if people in like Middle America,
Speaker 1: basically outside of l A and New York, would care
Speaker 1: at all about tracking. That's what a lot of the
Speaker 1: episodes about this movie. Up and coming movie Star has
Speaker 1: a big, giant studio movie coming out, and it's all
Speaker 1: about tracking the numbers. And I guess in the age
Speaker 1: now where analytics and numbers are everything, the episode was
Speaker 1: kind of ahead of its time because obviously the blackouts
Speaker 1: skewer the numbers and all that. But yeah, we end
Speaker 1: up at a high school party and people love that episode. Yeah. Tracking,
Speaker 1: I hadn't really thought about before this episode, to be honest,
Speaker 1: but I can see how stressful that is. My god,
Speaker 1: It's like if you were, you know, in any other industry.
Speaker 1: It's hard to think of a parallel of It's like
Speaker 1: if you're a salesman and like you're waiting for a
Speaker 1: sale to come in. But I mean, you're you're in movies,
Speaker 1: and has that been a dramatic moment for you in
Speaker 1: real life? You know? I really only experienced where once
Speaker 1: where you know, I was a big enough part of
Speaker 1: the movie where I certainly felt some of the pressure.
Speaker 1: But it was weird because the movie I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: it's called Think Like a Man. It was one of
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart's first movies that helped launch him into the stratosphere.
Speaker 1: But that cast as a whole is just amazing. It's
Speaker 1: Gabrielle Union, it's Regina Hall, Michael really, Rominy malcol so
Speaker 1: many great actors, and I'm I'm lucky enough to be
Speaker 1: in it. And it was made for a reasonable number,
Speaker 1: and I remember that. Folk. If the movie opens at twenty,
Speaker 1: we're all thrilled. Then you say, hey, it's tracking pretty well,
Speaker 1: might get the five, maybe be number two in the country.
Speaker 1: If that happens, forget it, guys, Christmas presents for everyone.
Speaker 1: And then by Saturday, the movie, Oh my god, this
Speaker 1: movie might hit forty and it's gonna be the number
Speaker 1: one movie. And knock out. I forget whatever was number
Speaker 1: one at the time. And the emails and the people
Speaker 1: coming up and calling. It was all day, all night.
Speaker 1: Affair was so exciting but also terrifying, and it all
Speaker 1: ended for me. It did hit those numbers. It was
Speaker 1: the number one movie. It ended up making a hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars at the box office, and we did a sequel,
Speaker 1: but in almost pure Entourage fashion to celebrate, one of
Speaker 1: my agents says, look, you have the number one movie
Speaker 1: in the country. Guess where We're going taking you courtside
Speaker 1: to the Laker game, just like out of the show.
Speaker 1: And it was Easter Sunday, it was Lakers Thunder. It
Speaker 1: was the game that Metal World piece elbow James Harden
Speaker 1: in the head and knocked him out cold. It was
Speaker 1: that game, both teams chasing playoff seat. We're sitting courtside
Speaker 1: in the best seats at Staples Center, and I hate
Speaker 1: this always ends with a Kobe Bryant story. I know
Speaker 1: everybody has a Kobe Bryant story. I have video to
Speaker 1: back the story up. Sitting next to my agent. Fourth
Speaker 1: quarter of the game, close game, loose ball heads towards
Speaker 1: the stands right where we're sitting. Kobe Bryant and Sergebaka,
Speaker 1: who are large men. Serge is a really large man,
Speaker 1: full speed ahead right at us. Kobe Brown dives shoulder
Speaker 1: head first with Serge Vaca into us, totally obliterating my agent.
Speaker 1: I'm talking shoulder to the face, elbow to the face.
Speaker 1: Serge Ivaca takes out the woman next our chairs, got
Speaker 1: ripped out from the ground and we flipped backwards and
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant landed on top of what on top of me?
Speaker 1: All the players run over there, peeling bodies off of
Speaker 1: each other. And I get up and Kobe gets up,
Speaker 1: and everyone's up. My agents bleeding, his mouth is bleeding,
Speaker 1: his elbows bleeding, and Kobe kind of looks at me,
Speaker 1: but not like fully, like clocks me, and it's like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I think like a man, congrats and goes
Speaker 1: back into the game. I'm like, And then they won
Speaker 1: the game. My agent had to get brought backstage for
Speaker 1: medical tension. And I have the video if you watch
Speaker 1: in slow motion. I did not get anything. I just
Speaker 1: the momentum knocked me back. I mean, Kobe went full speed,
Speaker 1: shoulder first into my agent's face. So is the video
Speaker 1: you taking the video of the game that then became
Speaker 1: this crash. No, it's on like the ESPN broadcast, Mike
Speaker 1: Breen's like dies into the front. It's in slow motion.
Speaker 1: They reviewed it a hundred times. It was again, it's
Speaker 1: like fourth quarter, thirty seconds left. It was a crazy
Speaker 1: moment in the game. Two good Kobe stories out of
Speaker 1: you so far, those are I think those are my
Speaker 1: only two. But I'll stand by though. I'll put those
Speaker 1: up there with any with anyone who didn't actually play
Speaker 1: with or against Kobe. That's okay. Well, I'll start season
Speaker 1: three yells more questions three next week. Pete. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get to your hundred dollar weekly challenge in just a second.
Speaker 1: But first, for the first time in NFL history, something
Speaker 1: is in played a here that has never happened before.
Speaker 1: And I am tracking this like a hawk. No team
Speaker 1: has ever beaten all five Bird teams you heard me
Speaker 1: correctly in one season ever. But the Saints have a
Speaker 1: chance now. They've already downed one with their big comeback
Speaker 1: against the Falcons in week one, and here's the other four.
Speaker 1: They have the Seahawks in week five, the oh and
Speaker 1: one Cardinals in week seven, Ravens in week nine, and
Speaker 1: then the Eagles in week seventeen. So, Peter Andrew, can
Speaker 1: the Saints make NFL history and go five out of
Speaker 1: five for the Bird Gauntlet? So yes, And I think
Speaker 1: we actually had that as a bet on bet MGM
Speaker 1: Fortunce beat all the Birds. I forget what the odds were,
Speaker 1: but it can happen. I mean, if anything, this is
Speaker 1: the one they had to take care of. This is
Speaker 1: the upset Central Falcons looked really good for most of
Speaker 1: the game. To care business. You gotta beat the first
Speaker 1: one to get to the next four. So there's a shot. Yeah, Jerry,
Speaker 1: what do you think your Seahawks Are they gonna let
Speaker 1: that slide? Uh? You know, I do fear for my Seahawks.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be going to New Orleans for that game.
Speaker 1: And Week five, oddly enough the one that I think
Speaker 1: and obviously the Ravens and Eagles will be a challenge
Speaker 1: for sure, but the Cardinals in Week seven, which Thursday
Speaker 1: night football in Arizona that has like sleepy, like ah,
Speaker 1: we're here. Yeah, that that could just be a problem.
Speaker 1: I think that might be the one that might get him.
Speaker 1: That's my early prediction. I'm on fire with some of
Speaker 1: these predictions that are really weird. So that's another weird
Speaker 1: one for you. I love that it's his Seahawks, none,
Speaker 1: none of this makes sense. It's also his coastal Carolina
Speaker 1: chant of clears in Michigan Wolverines. We are all over
Speaker 1: the map here. Okay, Pete, let's recap quickly last week.
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to give you hell for this.
Speaker 1: I know you're expecting that, but your picks last week
Speaker 1: for your challenge, we're not bad, and I think we
Speaker 1: almost signed off on all of them. But just to recap,
Speaker 1: you lost half half of your bets on Carolina. God
Speaker 1: blessed Baker Mayfield. You were right behind him. That was
Speaker 1: five units of your ten. Do you have any thoughts
Speaker 1: on that? Boy? Did he look bad in the first
Speaker 1: half and now, but fourteen seconds left in the game,
Speaker 1: it looked like they were going to pull it out
Speaker 1: yarder to win the game. So it was close. But
Speaker 1: there's some things that team has to figure out. I
Speaker 1: think they gotta get McCaffrey more involved. Like I said,
Speaker 1: Baker just did not look good for most of the game.
Speaker 1: Stepped it up in the second half, so I stuck
Speaker 1: with my pick. I actually took him again with the spread,
Speaker 1: which I think I had him at minus one and
Speaker 1: a half. So I have lost that bet regardless in Vegas.
Speaker 1: But it's one game I'm not gonna get and it's
Speaker 1: one week I'm not gonna get too crazy on it.
Speaker 1: There was a sounds like a coach. It's only one
Speaker 1: We're onto the Giants. He sounds like a cod he does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll see. But Baker is gonna have to
Speaker 1: step his game up if he wants me betting on
Speaker 1: the next week, which I'm sure he's worried about. And
Speaker 1: then you know this one, I've got to give you
Speaker 1: a little hell on because you give me so much
Speaker 1: with any of my teams. So let's talk about your Niners.
Speaker 1: So they're they're in Chicago Solder Field, disgusting turf Solder Field.
Speaker 1: It is horrible driving rainstorm and yeah, your boy Tray
Speaker 1: Lance and it looks so good. My friend Jimmy g
Speaker 1: sitting on the sideline and they don't know what's going
Speaker 1: on there. Yeah, Niners minus seven and they lost to
Speaker 1: the Bears by nine. That was also that was a
Speaker 1: part of a parlay Giants plus six, Chiefs minus four
Speaker 1: and a half. So your own team was the one
Speaker 1: who lost you that parley and that was one and
Speaker 1: a half units. If you thought I sounded bad like
Speaker 1: a coach, the last one, I'm gonna sound more like
Speaker 1: now growing pains are being essentially a rookie QB. Now
Speaker 1: he I think he took the blame the game, and
Speaker 1: it was on him a couple of really poor passes.
Speaker 1: But you can see how much they struggled with that weather.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was freaking disgusting, missing tackles, left and
Speaker 1: right and fairness fields look great scrambling out of the pocket.
Speaker 1: And now I'm worried because now they're playing Jerry Seahawks
Speaker 1: next week minus nine and a half. We'll get to
Speaker 1: that in a second, but yeah, I'm a little worried.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's it's one week again. Trey Lance
Speaker 1: is young. He's to make these mistakes. They kind of
Speaker 1: signed onto that, and no, that's going to be the case.
Speaker 1: But that was I think a win a bowl game
Speaker 1: that should have you know, should have taken open the dub.
Speaker 1: And then I should mention you won two and a
Speaker 1: half units Texans plus eight and a half. That game
Speaker 1: was a tie and then the one I know seriously
Speaker 1: and then lost one unit. And I'm with you on
Speaker 1: this one because you should have won this one. It
Speaker 1: was a one game parlay for Bill's Rams Thursday Night
Speaker 1: Bills minus two and a half. You got that, Josh
Speaker 1: Allen over to seventy four and a half, you got
Speaker 1: that Gabe Davis over sixty nine and a half receiving yard,
Speaker 1: got that cup ninety four and half receiving yards. The
Speaker 1: one thing he missed was anytime touchdown for Allen Robinson
Speaker 1: and he only had one catch all game. I was
Speaker 1: really disappointed with his lack of involvement, but I really
Speaker 1: liked that one game parlay. So I think our our
Speaker 1: listeners should still take your advice because I think you're
Speaker 1: right there. Yeah. And two things. One, if the Rams
Speaker 1: are going to do anything this year, it can't just
Speaker 1: Pete Cooper cop It's gotten Robin as well. I think
Speaker 1: he might have had three targets if that so, I
Speaker 1: know he had the one late one. Jerry and I
Speaker 1: were talking late. I think like last drive of the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter almost had that touchdown. I think it was
Speaker 1: a bit overthrown. They have to get him involved. Second thing,
Speaker 1: if you would opted into our one game party insurance
Speaker 1: on bed MGIM, if one leg fails on a four
Speaker 1: plus leg parlay, you get your steak back. So considering right,
Speaker 1: you would have gotten your steak back. Just a little
Speaker 1: nugget for those that aren't opted in on any dues
Speaker 1: opten once and it's it's good for the season. So
Speaker 1: anytime you place one each day and get that stick back,
Speaker 1: that's perfect for a guy like me. I go four
Speaker 1: out of five a lot. You got three out of
Speaker 1: five insurance too. I'll take that if you got that too,
Speaker 1: A special one for you. So yeah, it's tough, but
Speaker 1: I feel good about some of these one game parlays.
Speaker 1: I think we're on something. You just gotta get over
Speaker 1: that home, all right. I want to take us through
Speaker 1: your picks this week. Yeah, so keep it short and
Speaker 1: sweet here. I'll go with the three straight bets first,
Speaker 1: and they're each thirty dollars or three inne so against
Speaker 1: against my heart and going with my head. Seahawks plus
Speaker 1: nine and a half to cover against the Niners. Gino
Speaker 1: Smith's quote at the end of the game just was
Speaker 1: the tell all for me. They wrote me off, but
Speaker 1: I didn't write back. I think that's what it was,
Speaker 1: which is just like a brilliant quote. So I think
Speaker 1: they keep a competitive Niners are at home. Obviously a
Speaker 1: tough loss last week, but I think it's a close game. Gino,
Speaker 1: in fairness, looked really good. I think there's some things
Speaker 1: they have to sort out a little bit. I think
Speaker 1: they need up their their run game a little bit more.
Speaker 1: I think the split between pass and run was a
Speaker 1: little bit Yeah, I think the run pass game was
Speaker 1: just a little bit unbalanced. So I think there's some
Speaker 1: things to work on, but a great win. Twelfth Man
Speaker 1: was a big help. Revenge game. I see what you're doing,
Speaker 1: Peter Andrew. I see what you're doing, the reverse jinks
Speaker 1: you reverse, you're doing the reverse. I see what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Mental hedge, whatever you wanna call it. It's need that
Speaker 1: in my life. Peter. I loved. I actually like the bet.
Speaker 1: I like what you say, but I don't like the
Speaker 1: reasons why I think you're doing it. I don't need
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff in my life. You're trying to
Speaker 1: tank my Seahawks call early, but I do like, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm very par I like to pick. All right, so
Speaker 1: that's for three units. I like that. Okay, what else
Speaker 1: you got for us? Yep? So Houston plus ten again
Speaker 1: until they do otherwise, and they're gonna be a nine eight,
Speaker 1: nine ten point dog. Take them. I think they did
Speaker 1: really well. O. G Howard, strong game, two touchdowns, Brandon
Speaker 1: Cooks as the number one receiver, had a strong game
Speaker 1: on the defensive side. Pittman and Jonathan Taylor had monster games.
Speaker 1: They were all you know, able to hold them to
Speaker 1: twenty points. I think all around, pretty impressive game. Davids Mills,
Speaker 1: I thought, did what he needed to do. He's not
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, he's not Aaron Rodgers, but he did what
Speaker 1: he needed to do that unfortunately get the tie. So
Speaker 1: I'm going to keep them as long as they're a
Speaker 1: seven plus point dog. I think it's worth the value.
Speaker 1: You know, one of these games they'll get blown out
Speaker 1: and go the other way. But until then, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm riding. All Right, you got four units left. Last
Speaker 1: one of the straight bets. I'm gonna go Dolphins plus
Speaker 1: three and a half against Baltimore at Baltimore. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what it was, you know, I think two will
Speaker 1: look pretty good. Their defense looked rocking, probably a top
Speaker 1: five defense in the league this year. But also the
Speaker 1: Pats looked awful, so we'll see. I took it because
Speaker 1: of the hook. Who's two and a half. I probably
Speaker 1: would have laid away, but three and a half I
Speaker 1: can definitely, you know, see it being a closed field
Speaker 1: goal game. Can certainly see them winning. Going to an
Speaker 1: oh offense looked great to will look good. Everybody was involved,
Speaker 1: whether it was Wattle, Tarik had I think close to
Speaker 1: a hundred yards chase Edmonds out of the backfield, also passing,
Speaker 1: so it looked like they're well oiled machine like McDaniel genius.
Speaker 1: I won't say the quote that Tyreek said about him,
Speaker 1: but but they yeah the cone exactly. But but he
Speaker 1: said it funny. I don't think he said con I
Speaker 1: think he's anyway great, gonna need a wheelbarrow exactly. So
Speaker 1: there are another team. I think, you know two is
Speaker 1: the question mark. If he plays well, they've got all
Speaker 1: the other tools. Maybe don't have an RB one, but
Speaker 1: it's a we kill genmen, baddle on both sides at
Speaker 1: wide opposition, hard not to take them with the extra
Speaker 1: half point, and then the last one. We're gonna give
Speaker 1: us another shot. We're probably gonna do this every week.
Speaker 1: Ye Bursday night football. We're gonna do another one game.
Speaker 1: Parlay ten dollars plus seven seventy five, so you'll win
Speaker 1: back fifty that includes your stake. So I've got I've
Speaker 1: got five things here, Chargers plus three and a half
Speaker 1: again taking the hook. I see this being a high
Speaker 1: scoring game in a close game. I think Chiefs and
Speaker 1: Chargers always play those type of games. So I've got
Speaker 1: Chargers plus three and a half. I've got the over
Speaker 1: fifty four and a half. I don't think that's going
Speaker 1: to be close. I can see a sixty plus point game.
Speaker 1: I have Ekeler to score a touchdown. Yeah, he didn't
Speaker 1: have one last week. Yep, so Ekeler to score touchdown.
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen is likely out, so there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: little bit more production from him. He'd like he said
Speaker 1: he didn't have a touchdown last week. I have him
Speaker 1: plus over thirty five receiving yards, so again, out of
Speaker 1: the backfield, he will be a prevalent piece of the
Speaker 1: offense and then the shore hands on the other side.
Speaker 1: With Kansas City Kelsey over seventy five yards that I
Speaker 1: think he's obviously their number one. They spread the ball
Speaker 1: around nicely, but he will be the target. Seventy five
Speaker 1: yards seems pretty easy to go, easy to do, and
Speaker 1: what I think with the high scoring game. Hey, Austin
Speaker 1: Nickler only had thirty six yards last week, so that
Speaker 1: one's kind of close. But that's that's weird. I wish
Speaker 1: out he had fourteen carries for thirty six yards. Interesting
Speaker 1: he didn't get more production. Chargers had some things to
Speaker 1: figure out last week. I think they opened things up
Speaker 1: a little bit more again, Keenan Allen out. Most likely
Speaker 1: he's going to be a bigger part of the offense.
Speaker 1: Should have been last week. But but I feel good
Speaker 1: about that. I think the only one concerned about is
Speaker 1: a late touchdown by Kansas City and Chargers don't cover
Speaker 1: what everything else I think is, you know a good
Speaker 1: chance of it hitting Gary? Do you like it? I
Speaker 1: like it alright, Peter Andrew. Always a pleasure. Thanks for
Speaker 1: coming on. Alright, Olivia. That's another one in the books
Speaker 1: for us and football is here. I feel already relaxed.
Speaker 1: Thank you to Peter Andrew. Thank you, of course to
Speaker 1: my friend and now your new friend, Jay Glazer. Another
Speaker 1: good episode. Also quick shout out congrats to Levy on
Speaker 1: Bell knocked out Adrian Peters and came on the show.
Speaker 1: So we're one in oh boxing wise with guests, were
Speaker 1: one in oh Olivia. We will be back next week.
Speaker 1: We'll have a lot to talk about. Another episode of
Speaker 1: Unleashed Faith.