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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL podcast needs more followers on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: We'll welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hands. I'm joined in the room

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Speaker 1: filled a virtual room, I should say, build with some heroes,

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Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, and this is a real treat everybody. Um,

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Speaker 1: you have a new contributor on the show. He's a

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Speaker 1: Connecticut native. He spent some time in England as a youth.

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Speaker 1: He supports get this the Cleveland Browns. Everybody give it

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Speaker 1: up for Mark Sessler. Make him feel at home, Mark Cessler,

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. Well thanks for having me. I really

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the chance to come on and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: talk with you guys today, are you buddy? Well, I

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Speaker 1: didn't mean to have this like um prolonged absence, because

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Speaker 1: there was a show that I was supposed to do,

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Speaker 1: um somewhere in the middle of this wilderness, and I'd

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Speaker 1: come home um from a trip at the same time

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Speaker 1: as my children and like my you know what it is,

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Speaker 1: one of my children got a terrible like twenty four

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Speaker 1: hour bug and like I woke the next morning, the

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Speaker 1: day of the show and was felled physically. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I had like like heavy motion sickness. And then I said, I,

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Speaker 1: you know, the minute I texted you guys saying because

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Speaker 1: I was then leaving again on a on my second

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Speaker 1: vacation the next day, and I thought, the minute I

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Speaker 1: texted these guys and told them I legitimately am not

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Speaker 1: feeling well, and I really wasn't. It's like, no one

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Speaker 1: is gonna believe me. Um, They're gonna think that I'm

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Speaker 1: basically just like eradicating this one little work event in

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Speaker 1: the middle of these two weeks off. But that was

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Speaker 1: not the case. It was one of the worst days

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Speaker 1: of my adulthood. I promise you that it's just it's

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Speaker 1: just a weird coincidence that these twenty four hour bugs

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Speaker 1: almost always hit right on the cusp of a vacation

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Speaker 1: to extend it on the front end or the back end,

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Speaker 1: and just about there is some there are some breadcrumbs

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Speaker 1: any in that direction. But you say that's completely a

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Speaker 1: coincidence over the years, I don't know. I don't you

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Speaker 1: need to provide facts about over the years. I can

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Speaker 1: comment only on the most recent um occurrence. But had

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Speaker 1: I come on, I would not have been a pleasant

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Speaker 1: experience for for me, for you or anyone listening. So

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Speaker 1: I think I was, because certainly I would never be

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Speaker 1: smirch you Mark, and and come after your integrity, uh

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Speaker 1: and say that Mark is faking illnesses uh to extend vacations.

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Speaker 1: But is there a possibility that the body Mark's mind

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Speaker 1: willing to grind out a summer podcast in the in

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Speaker 1: this little bubble of vacation time, but the body conspires

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Speaker 1: to shut things down. To speak to that, I can't

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Speaker 1: speak to that. I like this, like the part of

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Speaker 1: me that was conscious was hoping to do the show. Um,

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Speaker 1: but maybe they're deeper forces. Well, we're glad to have

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Speaker 1: you back. That's all that matters. Settler's back. Rosenthals here,

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Speaker 1: steady as a rock, rock stone, move, stay right where

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Speaker 1: they are. What if the studio Greg, Greg is stuck

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Speaker 1: right where he is? We have to carrying with us,

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Speaker 1: usters here too, tug boat here to pull things along

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Speaker 1: towards training camp just coming up. It's about to open

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Speaker 1: a couple of teams Steelers and cowboys, is there right? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And I mean it was only it's been a month.

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Speaker 1: We we we haven't done a show altogether since right

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Speaker 1: before Tybee or no, right after Tybee that's only been

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Speaker 1: one month. I mean, give us a break. I mean,

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Speaker 1: am I am I harping on the television show that

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Speaker 1: Greg missed, But I was present for that and I

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Speaker 1: put in a you know, a yeoman's effort. If that's

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Speaker 1: the speak to that. Greg. Yeah, he's right, I mean

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Speaker 1: I have I just it just is funny. You know

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Speaker 1: it's funny too. I'm glad though, because you look great.

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Speaker 1: I think we all needed it. Of course we didn't

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Speaker 1: mind at the time, but these shows they move along,

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Speaker 1: their off season shows. I want to have the best mark,

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Speaker 1: and you look fit, You look um, you have a

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Speaker 1: glow about you, and you're wearing like a beautiful Hawaiian

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Speaker 1: type shirt that reminds me of one of our old bosses,

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Speaker 1: Um that got swept out in a scandal from the NFL.

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Speaker 1: But you know which you specific well now that gentleman.

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Speaker 1: I don't like that he co opted um this type

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Speaker 1: we've met. So yes, there's a floral component to marks.

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Speaker 1: Button down and he looks refreshed. We're ready to roll.

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Speaker 1: We got a nice show coming up today. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: take a chance on ourselves and our ability to prognosticate

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League today. Um, with some high stakes,

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Speaker 1: we're going to guarantee I got I had two names

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Speaker 1: and and that's like playing a little bit of Russian roulette. Uh,

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Speaker 1: if we're not right, it's over, Johnny. How about that

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Speaker 1: for stakes coming back from vacations Sizzler. Well, I mean

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Speaker 1: we came up with this segment about eighteen minutes before

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Speaker 1: the show, so it feels like we've you know that

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Speaker 1: maybe we can look back at a bit of a

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Speaker 1: hasty decision if one of our players, you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: if you told me like Colin Coward did this as

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Speaker 1: a segment, I'm suddenly invested um in that player throughout

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Speaker 1: So I think it's gonna be effective. Dan As, like,

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Speaker 1: what we have. There are steaks. Our lives are on

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Speaker 1: the line. So we'll come up with some names there

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Speaker 1: and I hope for the best. But before that, let's

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Speaker 1: do some news, shall we. I've never been able to

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Speaker 1: know la uh that not just that, but anything I

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Speaker 1: I f that up. Uh. You know, it's been twenty

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Speaker 1: five years since the Cowboys have been in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: So Jerry Jones, it could go in any number of directions.

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Speaker 1: I believe that's his relationship. He was referring through his

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Speaker 1: interesting what's going on with Dallas And we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: reported and this has been confirmed, that Cam Akers, the

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Speaker 1: suffered a torn achilles tendon while training. Really, there aren't

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Speaker 1: in a group of UM football fans and gamblers who

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Speaker 1: thought who said that Jake Funk caught their eye and

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Speaker 1: running back. Oh, I know, it's every year that it's

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Speaker 1: not a squiver to that Gerhardt memorial, Mark Sessler love affair.

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Speaker 1: It's fair I mean you guys. You guys continue to

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Speaker 1: track past actions here with no um, with very little documentation,

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Speaker 1: but that one seems accurate. Um. But I'll pass it

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Speaker 1: off to you Greg. But no, uh no, Todd Gurley

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Speaker 1: way things should be. The Rams uniforms should be this way,

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Speaker 1: Someone tweeted at him, he's a free agent right now.

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Speaker 1: is just ponderous, man. That's Casey caysonone said, we'll forgive

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Speaker 1: you if you know, we'll forgive everything. The Packers fans

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Speaker 1: will too if he just shows up and nothing, you know,

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Speaker 1: and you're right, we'd be like, why would we waste

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Speaker 1: their time? But that would be better than the alternative,

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Speaker 1: which and it won't. There won't be any bad blood

431
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Speaker 1: for anybody after that. It will be over and you

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Speaker 1: just move on. It's not too late, uh to stop this.

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Speaker 1: But I would still be a little I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: like I will, I'll keep it inside, but I'd still

435
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Speaker 1: be a little annoyed at what he did um over

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Speaker 1: the last couple of months. It seems completely unnecessary, and

437
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Speaker 1: it involved thousands of people who are annoyed and us.

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Speaker 1: That includes us, most importantly, it includes us. UM COVID night,

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Speaker 1: that includes us. We're all connected to this, which is

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Speaker 1: another ponderous thing. Can't get on the same page about this.

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Speaker 1: There's medicine for that, and we can't get on the

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Speaker 1: same page. Tom Pallisera reports the NFL and just informed

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Speaker 1: clubs that if a game cannot be rescheduled during the

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Speaker 1: eighteen weeks schedule due to a COVID outbreak among unvaccinated players,

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Speaker 1: the team with the outbreak will forfeit, forfeit my friends,

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Speaker 1: and be credited with a law US. That's huge. More

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00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:06,199
Speaker 1: from the memo, which also says the team responsible for

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Speaker 1: a canceled game because of an outbreak among unvaccinated players,

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Speaker 1: SLASH staff will be responsible for financial losses, mod own

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Speaker 1: and subject to potential discipline from the commissioner. Uh Greg,

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Speaker 1: it's the NFL has got the iron fist. They're never

452
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Speaker 1: afraid to wield it, and it really feels like they

453
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Speaker 1: are listening. As a free country, you make your decisions

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Speaker 1: based on how you feel. That's one of the bedrocks

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Speaker 1: of the nation. It's a great thing. But in the

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Speaker 1: case of this situation, with the health of the players

457
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Speaker 1: and the fans and everything on the line, here iron

458
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Speaker 1: fists coming down and saying get vaccinated or else. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're doing what they can. And this was in a

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Speaker 1: four page memo where with a lot of other stuff

461
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Speaker 1: where almost nothing was in bold type, and this little

462
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Speaker 1: two sentence thing was like in bold types it's like, hey, um,

463
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Speaker 1: giant CEO, don't don't miss this sentence. And on one hand,

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Speaker 1: it sounds scary and it makes total sense. They're not

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Speaker 1: going to extend the season. They're already extending season. On

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Speaker 1: the other hand, if this was the rule last year,

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Speaker 1: no one would have forfeited a game and you would

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00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,919
Speaker 1: hope things won't be worse this year. Now, is it

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Speaker 1: an indication that the league might not bend over as backwards.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Steelers kind of got the short end

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Speaker 1: of it where they're playing like Wednesday to Tuesday, and

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Speaker 1: it was like never on them, Maybe they wouldn't bend

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Speaker 1: over as backwards to help out the team that's in

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Speaker 1: trouble this year. But if you just look at it,

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Speaker 1: they never they never had to reschedule. They did to

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Speaker 1: get in all the games last year. So there, it's

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Speaker 1: very I would say it's pretty unlikely that they would

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Speaker 1: have to use this rule. I think part of it.

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Speaker 1: I mean from from our angle a little bit. You

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Speaker 1: and if you're the team's it's like you're waking up,

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Speaker 1: remember waking up every morning, um, and the first thing

482
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Speaker 1: you do was check, you know, league news to see

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Speaker 1: which player got COVID. And it's like, if you can

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Speaker 1: get to the point where you reduce that by nineties

485
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Speaker 1: something percent, um, it takes what I think it was

486
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Speaker 1: a sinister element added to the season and for obvious reasons,

487
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 1: but there was no vaccine and no solutions. So the

488
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Speaker 1: league did everything they could, maybe even to the point

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Speaker 1: of critique of getting a season through. They pushed it through.

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Speaker 1: Now it's like we have a functional way to reduce

491
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Speaker 1: all that nonsense. And if you have thirty of players

492
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Speaker 1: saying I don't want to be part of that solution,

493
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Speaker 1: then it's like, look at your working for a company.

494
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Speaker 1: This isn't you out in a field hanging out with

495
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Speaker 1: your friends, um making those decisions. You're part of a

496
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Speaker 1: massive billion dollar company. Played by the rules or pay

497
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: the fine. And this delta variant which is causing issues,

498
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Speaker 1: big issues, and it's going to continue to cause issues.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know how. You know. We're seeing breakthroughs

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Speaker 1: all over the place, our own rich eyes and the

501
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Speaker 1: face of NFL network. He uh. He posted last week

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Speaker 1: on Instagram that he had contracted COVID even though he

503
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Speaker 1: had gotten his two shots. Big Yankees fan Aaron Judge

504
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Speaker 1: and several Yankees, some of them who had the vaccine.

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Speaker 1: Uh they tested positive are currently on the injured list

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Speaker 1: as a result. So, I mean, I think it would

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Speaker 1: be It's just it's overly um hopeful. I think to expect. Oh, well,

508
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: last year was last year was a mess. Is gonna

509
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Speaker 1: be much better because we're seeing we're seeing things that

510
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Speaker 1: we still don't understand and it's very scary. And the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, let's talk about one of those teams connected

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Speaker 1: to covid um. You have to get to over a

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Speaker 1: vaccination threshold, the team and the I guess it's not

514
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Speaker 1: just the players. Is at all personnel that I'm not

515
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Speaker 1: totally clear, but the players players specifically the personnel, we're

516
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Speaker 1: all like close. If you hit as a team, you're

517
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Speaker 1: able to go about your business in a much less

518
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Speaker 1: restrictive way. The Cowboys will open training camp under stricter

519
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Speaker 1: um COVID nineteen protocols because they did not reach that threshold.

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Speaker 1: Jared jones Um did one of his pressers on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: He had this to say about where the Cowboys are in, Uh,

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Speaker 1: this realm, we have out of our ninety players here,

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Speaker 1: we have a handful that in my mind have still

524
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Speaker 1: to commit to this handful hand in a hand is

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Speaker 1: five and and that's that's if he in that several

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Speaker 1: in my mind of that finger of five, or on

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Speaker 1: their way to potentially have in their bag scene what

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Speaker 1: my biggest takeaway, there's so a handful is five. The

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Speaker 1: gerred just I never knew that that was what a

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Speaker 1: handful is. And then he said, like hand up, each

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Speaker 1: finger can count a person Like I didn't know a

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Speaker 1: finger is a person. He's breaking news to me, that's

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Speaker 1: developing news. Handful. Let's say you took a handful of

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Speaker 1: M and m's that's not five, So I think he's

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Speaker 1: I don't know, that's that's Jerry Jones mouth. Jerry Jones

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Speaker 1: who spent um, you know, sixty one minutes opening the

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Speaker 1: press conference from what I could calculate. Then at one point,

538
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: remember that for sixty one minutes this thing, I was

539
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: actually this is one of these weird days where I

540
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: was tracking NFL network in my house. This went on forever,

541
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 1: like I saw the sun like moving watch on the

542
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: one day, like I'm back from vacation. That's going on.

543
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: We got the TV show Friday. They're an Oxnard. Like

544
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,199
Speaker 1: their training camp is starting. We're taping this on Thursday.

545
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,680
Speaker 1: They have their first practice today, so football is back.

546
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Speaker 1: But one little note about that, like after he went

547
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Speaker 1: on and on and it really was like the most

548
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Speaker 1: Jerry we already saw it during the Dak Prescott extension

549
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 1: press thing where it was just like who is this guy?

550
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Speaker 1: But at like sixty minutes in, he remembers that his

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Speaker 1: head coach, Mike McCarthy is actually there and sitting next

552
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Speaker 1: to him, and he just turned him. He's like, coach, coach,

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00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: would you like to make any introductory statements? And Mike

554
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: McCarthy is like about to talk and then n from

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00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: the nowhere. It's like, let's go to commercial, but we'll

556
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: be right back. This is your head, coach. That that

557
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 1: is the job. I love it. I love it. And

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00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: it's been Mike McCarthy has been in the wilderness for

559
00:28:58,120 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: a couple of years now. He was out of the

560
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Speaker 1: league to getting fired by the Packers. You had that

561
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: hatchet job, the hit piece on him, and I think

562
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: some publication when he was like getting a massage during

563
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: the meetings. He gets a job of the Cowboys. The

564
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: team sucks last year, he gets more fire this year.

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Speaker 1: He's got like the George Michael faith beard and the

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Speaker 1: aviators on. He's got like a pair of eight d

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00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: aviators on. And I'm thinking to myself, like, alright, middle

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Speaker 1: aged Mike McCarthy, you're you're showing the rest of us

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Speaker 1: head in that direction that you could still look a

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Speaker 1: little Yeah, that's your type of guy, you know, I

571
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: mean a little overrated. He looks fine. I don't it

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Speaker 1: isn't like you know about center. I'm not about to like,

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00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 1: you know, like station like a Trill movie trilogy around

574
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Speaker 1: him or anything. But you know they are loving. They

575
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: are loving this extra week of coverage. Though. I think

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00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: they volunteered to do the Hall of Fame game every

577
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: year just so Jerry can get like, oh yeah, no

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00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: other podcast is tracking this McCarthy glow up story? Ricky?

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Speaker 1: Did you this isn't You're not into these sorts of things,

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00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 1: um bearish males in their fifties. But I want to

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Speaker 1: ask you a question. Did you see Mike McCarthy in

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Speaker 1: the Beard with the aviators? Uh? Yeah, I did, And

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Speaker 1: I didn't make any of those noises you were did.

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Speaker 1: I never want to hear you make those noises again?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what are you the kool aid man? Just

586
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: take a look at everybody paused the podcast, pull up

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Speaker 1: a picture of that press conference, and tell me that

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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy isn't doing something right? How about it? Is

589
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: it he's doing something better than Mike the unshaven Mike McCarthy,

590
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 1: like of Old and Green Bay, where they were clearly

591
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: the you know, there are some issues going on. The

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Speaker 1: nude Mike McCarthy on the massage table in his office

593
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: that guy. Yeah, better than that incarnation, all right. Um anyway, Jara,

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00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: good luck with that. I just seems like he's wearing sunglasses.

595
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 1: That's basically what what's the difference. He just looks better.

596
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: He feels like he's got there's there's some something to

597
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: come in his his life. Not everything is in the

598
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: rear view mirror. And some people think that about Meg McCarthy,

599
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: Like he had the street named for him outside Lambeau,

600
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: he won the titles, he had all those runs, and

601
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: now this is kind of the epilogue. You know, this

602
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: is the the elderly lion out in the Safari, out

603
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: in the Safari being. You know, he's an offensive guy

604
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,239
Speaker 1: and this is the you know, I don't know if

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00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: any of those Packers team had as much talent as

606
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: this Cowboys team does on offense. There is that's a

607
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: that that is not a lion in winter. That is

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00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: that is a man that has more to accomplish. He

609
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: kind of looks like late period George Michael, Like when

610
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: things went really south for George and Rust and Peace. Uh.

611
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, this guy is plugged in.

612
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Speaker 1: I mean, you better have like eleven wins in his

613
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 1: future or it's not going to be sitting up on

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00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 1: that podium next summer. Dan is he's still in Texas.

615
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: He's coming back next week. He's gonna show up for

616
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Speaker 1: our first Like Network show back in l A with

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Speaker 1: the Aviators on with a nice beard with with a

618
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: cowboys hat. Weirdly, he's like, I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: could do the beard, that's the only thing. I could

620
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: definitely do the full face like McCarthy. I could do

621
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Speaker 1: uh the Aviators. Um, but I don't know about the

622
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: beard out. Does your beard not grow out like a

623
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Speaker 1: normal man's beard? Tried that, we all did it a

624
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: year ago. This you know what the thing is. You

625
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: know what COVID taught us. The normal man's beard is

626
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Speaker 1: actually closer two Greg's beard or my beard, which kind

627
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: of exists in this in between realm. I think you

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Speaker 1: had a fuller beard for sure. West was more in

629
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Speaker 1: the well. West had a pretty good beard, I think, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think he did. Um, but the man he was

631
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Speaker 1: at Man Yeah, West, West and Mark, you guys looked

632
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: a little unruly. Yeah. Yes, the truly full beard. That

633
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: is a positive thing. But the negative thing about having

634
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: a full beard and this thing I'm I'm happy about

635
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 1: in my own life is that I'm noticing even men

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Speaker 1: that I've known for years and years and years, you

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Speaker 1: just these men, you keep on getting harrier and harrier

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Speaker 1: and harrier and harrier, and hair is popping up in

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Speaker 1: all different areas of your body and it's just wild. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And so the guy that the guys that have the

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Speaker 1: big mountain beard, it looks good, it looks maskingly, but

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Speaker 1: you're paying for it typically elsewhere on the bod. Wait,

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Speaker 1: so you so you and your forties, you're saying that no, like, well,

644
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Speaker 1: I don't want to dive into it, but like that

645
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Speaker 1: that's not that's not a it's a credit to you

646
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: that you're sort of hit. It's like, I can't grow

647
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Speaker 1: a full beard. But I'm not like one of those

648
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: guys that has like a hairy back, and it's the

649
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: whole thing is a mess. Oh sure, the like just

650
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: hair pouring out of the back of the neck and everything.

651
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: It's just like, what is going on with your body?

652
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Speaker 1: You look like a wolfman. Like a lot of body

653
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: image things come in and out of vogue, but I

654
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: don't think harry back. And it's been probably hundreds of

655
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: years since that's been a all right, let's get the

656
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: next I like that he came back for this show

657
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: because Monday Night Football News. Mark Sessler hit it Ricky

658
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 1: former NFL quarterbacks Peyton Manning Eli Manning, We'll take part

659
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,439
Speaker 1: in an alternate Monday Night football broadcast over the next

660
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: three seasons, the Worldwide Leader announced on Monday. That's like

661
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 1: when Michael Jackson called himself the King of Pop. He

662
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,320
Speaker 1: just put out a press release one day in Please

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Speaker 1: refer to me as the King of Pop. ESPN, please

664
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Speaker 1: refer to us as the Worldwide Leader. Dion Sanders, please

665
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: refer to me as coach. Sanders said that the Monday

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00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,800
Speaker 1: Night Football Mega Cast, as it's called, will air on

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Speaker 1: ESPN two for ten games and each of the next

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00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: three seasons, and will include current and former NFL players

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Speaker 1: and celebrities joining the Manning brothers on the broadcast. There

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00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 1: is no host in place yet, but my agent will

671
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: be placing a call. And this is a statement from

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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. He's got a statement out Sessler here. It

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Speaker 1: is This partnership with ESPN and the Walt Disney Company

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00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 1: reflects an ongoing shared commitment to offering fans fun innovative content.

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00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: ESPN Plus has been a terrific partner for Omaha Productions

676
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: as we built out the places, franchise the places, and

677
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: we're excited to co create a new mega cash format

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Speaker 1: that will have something for everyone. Yeah, I added, I

679
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,240
Speaker 1: mean my first reaction was like, what's Brian Greasy thinking,

680
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: because this isn't like you have to sign up and

681
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: pay for ESPN Plus, Although it's I think, I'm sure

682
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: it'll be on that too. They're gonna put it on

683
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: ESPN two, right, is that is not a vote of

684
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 1: confidence for your number one team, Leavy Greasy, Riddick Salters,

685
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: And it's not it's not their fault. But if you're

686
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: like Greasy for instance, who you know, I know, you

687
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 1: like Dan he did a solid job. They all did.

688
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: It was you know, it was okay, it was a

689
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 1: solid thing. Greasy is in that draft with Peyton Manning,

690
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: it's like he he was like the sixth or seventh pick.

691
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 1: You know, he's down in the third round, he's you know,

692
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 1: been out of the league for a while. He's like

693
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: trying to earn his media career, and then here comes

694
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Speaker 1: old Peyton Manning who got taken right atop that draft

695
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,360
Speaker 1: Agett swooping in and it's like, I don't know personally,

696
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna watch that Manning thing and see how

697
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: it is like then then I'll then I'll adjust. But

698
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Speaker 1: that's my first instinct is I know they're not at

699
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 1: the game, which I do think hurts, but I kind

700
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: of want to hear what Peyton and Eli have to say,

701
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: especially if, like you know, they're they're giving each other

702
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 1: the business. It could be good. I mean, they've been

703
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 1: testing this with ESPN with college football, Um, you know

704
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: the National Championship game where they had coaches sitting around

705
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: a table talking. I thought I watched some of that

706
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: and like, I thought it was great. So I just

707
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: think this is the way that the way they're going

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00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 1: where it's like we don't have to convince all viewers

709
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: that are three man booth is the only way to

710
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 1: observe this event um. And I'm typically a little down

711
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: on the Manning as comedic talent um in commercials and stuff,

712
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,320
Speaker 1: but for this, I'd want to watch. I do wonder though,

713
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 1: because whenever you talk to guys that announced these games,

714
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: like they spend hours and hours and hours breaking down

715
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: film of the two opponents for that Monday Night affair

716
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: is that, like Lewis Riddick is doing that without question?

717
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: Are Eli and Peyton going to be like that? I

718
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: mean they're ultra competitors, so I would think so. But

719
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: that is extremely time consuming. Is that their method or

720
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 1: is it like, hey, let's just sit around and be us. Uh,

721
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: we'll see. And I'm the one thing that got me

722
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: nervous is them over stuffing the booth. You put in

723
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: a capable, capable guys the host, and you let Peyton

724
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: and Eli do their thing analyzing the game. They have

725
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: natural chemistry. Obviously his brothers. I don't need like Rob

726
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: Wriggle in the booth with him, or who's the voice

727
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: guy on Fox, like like Frank Caliendo doing his John

728
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: gruden An impression and mucking it up for some ABC,

729
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,800
Speaker 1: you know, ESPN, ABC Disney families like oh, here's Anthony

730
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: Anderson in for the second quarter, Like you will chase

731
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 1: me away immediately if you try to turn into a

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00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: promotional vehicle for your various various Disney entities. Just give

733
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: me Peyton Eli and a guy that's steering the ship,

734
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 1: and I think that would be I think it's a

735
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 1: really good idea. They can mess it up so easily, though,

736
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Speaker 1: and I think they will. You don't even need the

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Speaker 1: other Manning brother, the one that has like a gig

738
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 1: at Fox. You know, you know who you know who's

739
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: super excited. We don't need cover in there. But what

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00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:59,320
Speaker 1: we do need is UH New York Posts. Andrew Machard

741
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: are our clicker guy, Marta Martiaan doing constant columns about it.

742
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: I mean Marciaan. When he saw that, he was like,

743
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 1: I never have to think of a column idea anytime.

744
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit low. I just fire up the

745
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 1: last ESPN two telecast at the Sexy Beat. Yep, he's

746
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: he's got a lot to time with UH. Flying to

747
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 1: new destination. Melvin Ingram. Just talk about Melvin Ingram. He

748
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: was on the street as of the beginning of this week,

749
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: but not anymore. He signs with the Steelers a one

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00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: year contract, and I know it's sizzler. I know, as

751
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 1: a Browns fan, who you think you got the Steelers

752
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: by the throat? This is the type of signing that

753
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: you are. He's going to come back and haunt the

754
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: rest of the a f C North in December. Yeah,

755
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,359
Speaker 1: your name you know. The note I'm looking at right here,

756
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 1: Um that I put down is this is the kind

757
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 1: of signing that works for Pittsburgh. It just will. So

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00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,760
Speaker 1: I'm completely with you. And look, I know that he Um,

759
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: he had no sacks last year in seven games and

760
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 1: was injured the year before. He's missed two. He's gone

761
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: to i R with the issues two years, so there's

762
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,720
Speaker 1: a age. There's injury concerns, but there's also the fact

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00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,959
Speaker 1: that like, he recorded the most pressures last year without

764
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: a sack in seven games, twenty eight. So this is

765
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:13,800
Speaker 1: not a player who's done UM. By the way, Clowney

766
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: was the other. Clowney was the other. If you any

767
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 1: game where you lead with pressures and don't have a sack,

768
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: you pulled the Clowney, you pulled the tied Clowney. So

769
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:26,439
Speaker 1: he totally pulled the Clowney and really Clowney were tied

770
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Speaker 1: at the top of the list with twenty eight. So

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00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 1: you're dead on. I mean, I don't still if it

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00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: doesn't work out, UM, there's still very thin at edge Rusher.

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00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 1: I mean they're counting on guys who have not necessarily

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00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 1: been I mean T. J. Watt, And then you've got

775
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 1: Alex Highsmith. They have that. To me, that's you know,

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00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: if Ingram's healthy, that's a good one to three high

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00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,280
Speaker 1: Smith as the starter, Ingram comes off the bench. Hopefully

778
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: you keep him healthy that way. He's also just a beast.

779
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: And they lost Vince Williams, who wasn't like a great

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00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 1: inside linebacker, but he just retired surprisingly this week. He

781
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 1: was going to start for them. He kind of was

782
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: that locker room like fire everyone up like beast guy

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00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 1: and Ingram seems like one of the best guys in

784
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: the league that like I've I have like no player

785
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: has ever made a bigger impression on me. Just hearing

786
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: him talk in person two different times in Melvin Ingram,

787
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: I just wanted to like run through it through a wall.

788
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 1: People say that though, it's like what if I did

789
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: run through while they'd be like, what are you doing?

790
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: What are you going to be running through a wall

791
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 1: or just you, I don't think that's you just wanted. Yeah,

792
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: you wouldn't get to run through, you wouldn't go through it.

793
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 1: You would just hurt yourself and then everyone be like

794
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: what are you doing and be like, I don't know.

795
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 1: Melvin Ingram, I really like him can you do it

796
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: for someone? And then the person is like, wait, why

797
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: did you just do that? Your life is effectively over

798
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 1: now the life you knew, Well, I did it for you.

799
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: I didn't ask you, bro, what are you doing? And

800
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: finally some upsetting news, New York Jets assistant coach Greg

801
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 1: Knap fighting for his life after suffering severe injuries in

802
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:03,920
Speaker 1: a bicycle accident. Uh, he was on his bike, riding

803
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,399
Speaker 1: it near his home in Danville, California, fifty eight years old.

804
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: He was struck by a single motorist at toot PM.

805
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 1: The motorists thankfully cooperating with authorities. Drugs and alcohol not

806
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: a factor, So it just sounds like a horrible accident.

807
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 1: And uh, those type of things are when you're like

808
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: and hopefully that pulls through this. And he was a

809
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: new addition to the Robert Salis staff. He was working

810
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 1: with the quarterbacks and assistant coach. Um, he's gonna be

811
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,360
Speaker 1: working a lot with Zack Wilson and hopefully he will

812
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: down the line. But just those type of things are

813
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 1: like a guy going for a run or riding on

814
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: a bike and a car clips him or hits him. Uh,

815
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 1: you just never know when things can change. There's one

816
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,800
Speaker 1: thing that I thought about that was listening to Steve

817
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: weisch Um again. I was watching Network yesterday, but Steve

818
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:57,399
Speaker 1: weisch Um very like commenting about about him and this

819
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,879
Speaker 1: coach is one of the most popular guys around. He's

820
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 1: been around for a long time. And it wasn't just

821
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 1: other coaches. It was like journalists coming out there would

822
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: work to say how much um, how great he had

823
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: been to them over the years. So when he was

824
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: Steve was Steve Young's coach back in the day, he

825
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: was Peyton Mannings coach in Denver at quarterback coach while

826
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 1: he was breaking all those records. It's the type of

827
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 1: I swear like every friend I have that bikes a

828
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:21,839
Speaker 1: lot has some sort of terrible accident and it has.

829
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Speaker 1: It has scared me off of buying a bike. I've

830
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: been wanting to buy a bike to drive, you know,

831
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: to go around with my kids. I could do that

832
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,319
Speaker 1: around the neighborhood, you would think, but I don't know.

833
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: This is like it just seems like it always have

834
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 1: best wishes to Mr Nap. All right, that's what's happening

835
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: in the news, all right, as promised. Listen. Yeah, it

836
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 1: was listening you did a little peek behind the curtain.

837
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 1: Sometimes the segment comes together easily, an idea comes out

838
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: and everybody's on board. But sometimes these things are labors

839
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:53,320
Speaker 1: of love, you know. It's like you have your first

840
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 1: you have your whole life to write your first album.

841
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 1: It becomes a hit, and then you have six months

842
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,720
Speaker 1: to write your second. And sometimes that's what it feels

843
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 1: like when the the sand is has just fallen through

844
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: the hour glass. And in this case, I just kept

845
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: on sending like C plus after C plus segment idea

846
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:11,959
Speaker 1: at the guys, and I was like, I was hoping

847
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: one of you guys would throw one back, throw me

848
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: a life preserver, but I just kept checking the match before.

849
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: Then by the time it's like an hour before the show,

850
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 1: I'm driving kids to camp, and it's stuff you can't

851
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,280
Speaker 1: you know, you wait a minute. I threw out an idea.

852
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: I throwed an idea, and dance response was, actually, I'm

853
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 1: looking for an idea with some pops. So I was like,

854
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 1: all right, I'm out, like you down. Mine was mine

855
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:37,439
Speaker 1: weren't really any better than yours. But then I yours

856
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 1: is fine. Especially first you're off the I l you know,

857
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 1: you're we're using you back into action. Anyway, came down

858
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: on this, what do you do? Well? You got some steaks,

859
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: all right, let's add some steaks into this thing. Your

860
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: life's on the line, okay, and you need to pick

861
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: a player in our league who will have his greatest

862
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 1: season ever. And if you're not right, it's out. You're

863
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 1: time's up. The sand is through the hour glass for you,

864
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: my friends. So with that in mind, one Guideline and

865
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: Greg you were you were pitching on tax and it

866
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: was already in my mind. So we're on the same

867
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: page on this one. It cannot be a player who's

868
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:17,320
Speaker 1: entering a second season, because it's very natural for a

869
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: rookie to take the jump and have his quote unquote

870
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: best year and year two. It has to be someone

871
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 1: year three or beyond that their best season, and the

872
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: stakes couldn't be higher. If it's not his best season,

873
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 1: we're out of here. Mark, welcome back. You're in the

874
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 1: fryar Europe first, all right, I'm gonna go with a

875
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,399
Speaker 1: player who I think it's an ultra talent, but it's

876
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:44,359
Speaker 1: missed twenty one games over the last two seasons, because

877
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: I mean, an injury pretty much ends your life here. Well,

878
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 1: that's true. What we've seen of this player though, suggests

879
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: um that he could be the best in the league.

880
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 1: And that is Derwin James. And here's what I like

881
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 1: about Derwin James this season. Um, it is Brandon Staley.

882
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: And you know is watching the Flying Coach podcast with

883
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,399
Speaker 1: Peter Schraeger and he had Mike Tomlin on, and Mike

884
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: Tomlin said, when you're a coach, like it's one thing

885
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: to take like C players and turn them into going down.

886
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: We're gonna lose them, is just what we're dealing with this.

887
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 1: The guy's missed like last thirty two games, but keep going. Mark, Well,

888
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 1: I would know I would say this though. If his

889
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 1: rookie year alone, I mean, people were comparing him to

890
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: some of the great defensive backs of all time. And

891
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: if if, if he does not to pick him for

892
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 1: this exercise because he was a first team All Pro,

893
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 1: that is the bar. Let me finish my point here

894
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:39,800
Speaker 1: and I will explain. Okay, what Tomlin said though, the

895
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,759
Speaker 1: key to to to really becoming the next level coach

896
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 1: is keeping your A players at a level or better.

897
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 1: And I really think if you look at what Brandon

898
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: Staley did with Aaron Donald and Jaralen Ramsey a year ago.

899
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 1: It got him a job because of what he did.

900
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 1: I mean, the whole league by the end of the

901
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 1: year looked realized this is a defensive wizard. So I

902
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 1: think a Derwin James pair with Brandon Staley in that

903
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 1: defense and you go back to what what Derwin James.

904
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 1: The wave was creatively used in that first Lamar Jackson

905
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 1: playoff game where the Ravens lost to the Chargers. There

906
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,400
Speaker 1: are just signposts that tell me is not only going

907
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 1: to be that player, but that player plus more. I

908
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,399
Speaker 1: think he's probably supermovid motivated to come back. They picked

909
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: up his fifth year option, which says a lot to me.

910
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to see you know that I'm high

911
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:23,919
Speaker 1: on Brandon Staley. The pairing of Staley and Derwin James

912
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:25,919
Speaker 1: is going to create I think, one of the better

913
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 1: stories of the league. And there'll be no looking back

914
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 1: to the rookie season saying he wasn't who he was

915
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 1: as a rookie. It will be paired with the fact

916
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: that he came back from what he's come back with,

917
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 1: the way he's used here. It's gonna happen. To me,

918
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,800
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen, I promise you right now. Do you

919
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: are you a kind of a casket guy or more

920
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: like an earned guy. No, I would not want to

921
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: be put into I would not want to be put

922
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: below the ground um at all. That feels very old.

923
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 1: So that's good. That's a good call, Mark that because

924
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 1: Derwin James, if he does get back, you just worry

925
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 1: about the nature of the injuries the lower body. Is

926
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: he just going to be um even if he is healthy,

927
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 1: which is a huge if did he lose that magic

928
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: that was in his legs, that lower half? The football

929
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: gods were just not on board with him. There is

930
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: some risk and if if, if he if he's failed

931
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,800
Speaker 1: again then and I'm suddenly taken out by a female

932
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: assassin walking down the streets of Al sa Gundo. You

933
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: know why? But um, I am betting on a healthy season. No.

934
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:25,600
Speaker 1: I loved I love the instincts. I love Derwin James.

935
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,399
Speaker 1: I love you, Mark, though, so I want to see

936
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: you alive. And so I think I took this exercise literally,

937
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: and I think you don't want a guy that sets

938
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: such a high bar. He was the first team opro.

939
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 1: He he was getting some thoughts of like defensive player

940
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:39,839
Speaker 1: of the year. So he was like maybe the best

941
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 1: safety in the league already, and is he's gonna like

942
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 1: warm up to this season a little bit as he

943
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: gets over the injury. The one thing I love, though,

944
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,800
Speaker 1: is you're right Staley and that system has made safety

945
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: is way better. If you think about Vic Fangio or Staley,

946
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:55,840
Speaker 1: you know who he learned from. You know, Eddie Jackson

947
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 1: in Chicago, Justin Simmons in Denver, and then Staley laughter

948
00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 1: with john Johnson got him paid. That part of it

949
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 1: makes sense. It's kind of a safety centric offense. That

950
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: part of it makes sense. So I hope he stays

951
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 1: healthy and that you stay healthy, my friend, miss my

952
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: Michael Mack. You're up next, Greg Alright. I I took

953
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: it more um like trying to be safe here. So

954
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: I was life and death if we can't, Yeah, it's

955
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:21,839
Speaker 1: life and death if we If we can't do second

956
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: year players, I'll go third um because that's less years

957
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 1: to try to improve upon. And I'm gonna go Deante

958
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:31,280
Speaker 1: Johnson of the Steelers, who are always loved and everyone

959
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 1: always talks about his drops. He almost got bench last

960
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:35,960
Speaker 1: year because of his drops. Like that's like t O forever.

961
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: They talked about t O's drops, like to drop that

962
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 1: many passes, You've gotta be open all the time, and

963
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 1: Deonte Johnson is open all the time. He's uh. He's

964
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 1: a favorite of our friend Matt Harmon and receptions. I

965
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,800
Speaker 1: just love watching him after the catch, before the catch,

966
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: he's gonna be there. And his high right now is

967
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 1: nine yards last year and he was a guy who

968
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: when it's going he gets ten, fifteen, twenty targets. I

969
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: like Claike Chase Claypool a lot, but I think Johnson

970
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 1: is the number one. I think they'll throw him a

971
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: ton of passes. I feel like he clears that bar,

972
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: and he clears it by enough where this doesn't feel

973
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 1: like I'm trying to cheat. You know, he goes yards

974
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: and he's like the clear one and has a monster year.

975
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 1: I have a question though, specifically with this exercise, Greg

976
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:18,919
Speaker 1: is correct. I think it can surpass the yardage. Hope

977
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: is like he had eighty eight catches, so if he pass,

978
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: he's got to pass everything he's got seven Greg is

979
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:27,439
Speaker 1: Greg is off the earth. I mean, if he goes

980
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: eight seven for twelve fifty, you're taking me out you're

981
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: the mark. The other two guys are We're at the

982
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 1: gates St. Peter, and we decide. Only it's not heaven

983
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 1: or hell. It's just you live or die. It's it's

984
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: a little bit of a labored metaphor, but it's it's

985
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 1: in that realm. So we'll decide after the season, we'll

986
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: we'll circle back. What about the Ben Roethlisberger side of things,

987
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: you don't and the fact that they have Naja Harris

988
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: there is their new running back. Is it possible that

989
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: this just is not going to be an explosive passing

990
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,280
Speaker 1: offense at all. I think that's the biggest risk because

991
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 1: the field, Claypool is good. I think Juju is almost

992
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 1: underrated at this point. Uh, James Washington's good. They even

993
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 1: you know, they have a vibronic tight end. You're right,

994
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 1: it's a lot of mouse to feed. But I check,

995
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: check confused. Check actually got me. I almost retweeted this

996
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: um picture he sent out that Roethlisberger showed up to

997
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 1: camp in a shirt that said sevenge, like seven revenge,

998
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 1: and it was like the Roethlisberger Revenge Tour, and I

999
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, he is leading into this. I love this.

1000
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: And then I realized though, check just like got a photoshop?

1001
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: Did you see did you see in general at the

1002
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: end of his Uh, the end of Ben's career is

1003
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: really just conversations about whether he's bad or not. Did

1004
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: you see how he looks pretty tight? Looks pretty right?

1005
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I don't know if it's Tom Brady tight

1006
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:51,239
Speaker 1: because we were told that his fitness regiment was even

1007
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 1: better than Tom's or his diet um. But he looks

1008
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:58,359
Speaker 1: like he's ready for the season. One thing about that

1009
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 1: bothers me, though, like why all the people tracking the

1010
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,280
Speaker 1: fatter thing he did? There were times when he balloon

1011
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 1: a little bit. What are we asking him to be

1012
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 1: like a hundred and forty eight pound breadth arean. I mean,

1013
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: he is a larger boned human playing quarterback. That just

1014
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: his shirt said the word different on it. This was

1015
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: not photoshopped, So he he is one of those guys.

1016
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 1: I think he knows he's gonna have a lot of

1017
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,719
Speaker 1: pictures of him being taken in that walk to the

1018
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 1: up to the first training camp, and he wears a

1019
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: shirt different and he's looking good in it. So I

1020
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,760
Speaker 1: think you're both done for based on your first two picks,

1021
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 1: for Mark. You you really shot at the stars, and

1022
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:35,240
Speaker 1: Greg I was kind of with you. And then Greg

1023
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:38,839
Speaker 1: made the correct point about the how great, truly great

1024
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: Derwin James was as a rookie, So you have to

1025
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 1: get past that bar. And then Greg, I think there's

1026
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 1: so many reasons why the Steelers passing attack, but it's

1027
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 1: gonna be worse than a year ago. There's well, there's

1028
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 1: could be, absolutely could be. But let me give you one, Greg,

1029
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 1: Damian Harris, your boy third year wasn't used a lot

1030
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:00,120
Speaker 1: as a rookie, and right, he didn't even play as

1031
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 1: a rector. I mean, this is safe, but okay, of

1032
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: course it is. My life's on the line. Yeah, it's fair,

1033
00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 1: it's fair. Third year, great staff from PFF. The three

1034
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:14,799
Speaker 1: the three highest graded running backs according to that analytics site.

1035
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: Number one Derrick Henry. He better be number two ahead

1036
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: of Dalvin Cook, Damien Harris. And you know what, I

1037
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:25,920
Speaker 1: get it because the whole thing with PFF is studying

1038
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,840
Speaker 1: every snap and Damian Harris is one of those guys

1039
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: that passes the sniff test. You watch him, You're like,

1040
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: this guy is just better than a lot of running backs.

1041
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:37,760
Speaker 1: He's uh and he hasn't had that true breakthrough season,

1042
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:40,799
Speaker 1: but if you watch last season, his ability to run

1043
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 1: through tacklers just be someone that you don't want to

1044
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:45,839
Speaker 1: have to deal with. Once he hits the whole, it

1045
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:47,719
Speaker 1: was all there, and he got beat up last year.

1046
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 1: I think he had an injury that slowed him. He

1047
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: missed six games last year. Yeah, apparently didn't play at

1048
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 1: all as a rookie because of injury basically, right, So

1049
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:56,799
Speaker 1: that is I mean, that is my risk really more

1050
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: than anything. But I think he's the clear number one

1051
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: guy in a New England offense that is really trying

1052
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 1: to piece some things together right now, with Cam Newton

1053
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:06,840
Speaker 1: still there and now Mac Jones in the mix, you

1054
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:08,439
Speaker 1: get the idea this is gonna be a run heavy

1055
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:12,239
Speaker 1: offense with a guy Harris, that bellcheck. I think you

1056
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 1: trusts him. He says, I'm gonna give you the rock,

1057
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 1: give you the chance to be that dude, and I

1058
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: could I could see a thirteen d yards season coming

1059
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 1: out of Corey Dillon esque season for Damian Harris and

1060
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 1: year three and my life's on the line and I

1061
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: feel decent about it. I think you're fine. I mean,

1062
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 1: this is I wouldn't call this like Joseph Campbell, like

1063
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 1: heroes journey stuff he has to surpass. He's got a

1064
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:37,239
Speaker 1: family that he's got a family to worry about it.

1065
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: I can find an add Trent Brown. Uh, when you

1066
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,759
Speaker 1: looks good, you know they've got on paper they might

1067
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: have one of the best run blocking lines in the league.

1068
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:51,920
Speaker 1: That's kind of how they're built. And to your point, Mark, yeah,

1069
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 1: you could say I'm playing it safe, but again, the

1070
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: stakes are as high as the stakes could possibly be here.

1071
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: My life is online and b I don't think he's

1072
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 1: gonna run for some seven und written four yards at

1073
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: four point oh pop. I think he's gonna have a

1074
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:06,799
Speaker 1: big season that's going to there won't even be any

1075
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 1: need to even study the two years. It's like, oh

1076
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:11,359
Speaker 1: that was his big breakout year. Greg, I think you're

1077
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 1: doing some type of making the leap piece for the

1078
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: dot com. I hope Damian Harris is a part of it.

1079
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: Otherwise you're just you're you're thinking too much. Now he is,

1080
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 1: He's honest. All right, let's go around one more time, Mark,

1081
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,879
Speaker 1: I hopefully hopefully you have protected yourself a little bit

1082
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 1: more with your second choice. Um. I actually came up

1083
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:30,840
Speaker 1: with one that was extremely controversial in terms of the

1084
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 1: fact that no one would buy it. But I'm gonna

1085
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:34,319
Speaker 1: go with what I would consider the safer of the

1086
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 1: three options I came up with, and that is Joe Mixon. Um.

1087
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: And this is no home run. This is no home run.

1088
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:43,320
Speaker 1: He's never top twelve hundred yards, but he's come close.

1089
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:46,319
Speaker 1: But last year he was on pace when he got

1090
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 1: hurt in weeks six for six hundred yards. Do not

1091
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 1: play the funeral music just yet. I think this is

1092
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 1: a situation. You've got a healthier office, You're gonna have

1093
00:55:56,040 --> 00:56:00,560
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, You've got no Giovanni Bernard, and I've a bonus,

1094
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:03,880
Speaker 1: a little bonus, um nugget here. I think Giovanni Bernard

1095
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 1: down in Tampa Bay. I tried to get this out

1096
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:09,360
Speaker 1: during our West Hollywood broadcast. Um will have the biggest

1097
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:13,400
Speaker 1: passing receiving year of his entire career, and he's had

1098
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 1: a couple of good ones, as Tom Brady and What

1099
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:22,359
Speaker 1: to Happen both are happening, two former teammates will now

1100
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:26,080
Speaker 1: both have But for Bernard, it's a nugget. Do you

1101
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:28,359
Speaker 1: have a Basically, Mark has a death wish like he

1102
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 1: needs to feel alive. He's like, sorry, Simone, I just

1103
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 1: had to add g O to the mix to make it.

1104
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 1: This is not Groundhog Day. You don't the lights don't

1105
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 1: go out and you wake up in your bed at

1106
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:42,720
Speaker 1: six am. I think it would be ahead if Mixon

1107
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: does not eclipse yards. I think he is He is

1108
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 1: an easy candidate to do that. He stays healthy, easy

1109
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: because there's really no competition for him. There there isn't

1110
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 1: like a clear like he is the guy. And I

1111
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:57,479
Speaker 1: think that with Joe Burrow, Um, you know, healthy, there's

1112
00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot like more way to confuse a defense.

1113
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 1: And I mean they're passing game is they have one

1114
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 1: of the best wide receiver duos out there, and so

1115
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 1: that to me looks like it's a good setup for Mixing. Um,

1116
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 1: you'll have his best year, I will live. Full disclosure.

1117
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 1: When I was doing my research for this segment, I

1118
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:15,759
Speaker 1: did think about Mixing. And the reason I thought about

1119
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: it because I've written on the dot com that he

1120
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: to me is a long shot, superstar club type guy.

1121
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 1: He's a guy that I feel I could have a

1122
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 1: big year, but there's just so many reasons why it

1123
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 1: won't happen again. Injury, risk is a big thing. He

1124
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 1: missed half of last season with a lower body injury. Um,

1125
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 1: so you have that to contend with, you have a

1126
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 1: makeshift offensive line. They famously passed on pay Penny Sewell

1127
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 1: in favor of the wide receiver. And I know a

1128
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 1: lot of people are like, I was fine, that's good.

1129
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 1: If the wide receiver is great, it's gonna be awesome.

1130
00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 1: But uh, if Chase is not an absolute stud and

1131
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: Sewell turns into a rock um on the end of

1132
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 1: off line in Detroit, you're gonna think to yourself, my god,

1133
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:05,200
Speaker 1: how did you How did you look that gift horse

1134
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: in the mouth and walk away? Uh? And then it's

1135
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 1: like the coaching staff, I don't that's fair. Well, we've

1136
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:15,320
Speaker 1: talked about this totally anonymous coaching staff that Zach Taylor

1137
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 1: has done nothing to show that he's a true um

1138
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 1: coaching tree dude off the Sean McVeigh tree that you

1139
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 1: can trust. There's just these are all reasons why it

1140
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:25,479
Speaker 1: won't end with your life on the line. I feel

1141
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: like getting involved with the Bengals is never a good idea.

1142
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:30,920
Speaker 1: It's tricky one. I will say. They like, if you're

1143
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 1: gonna say that, injuries from a year ago, or predictive

1144
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: or potentially a problem like again, he was on pace

1145
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:39,120
Speaker 1: for sixteen hundred yards on the ground, three hundred through

1146
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 1: the air. Then he got injured. So I mean there

1147
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 1: was the production too, And I'm with you. The coaching

1148
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:46,439
Speaker 1: staff is slightly anhonest that I'm gonna have to hope

1149
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:50,120
Speaker 1: that they form an identity. What was that? Oh my god, Mark,

1150
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 1: stop it. I mean I actually I probably buy you

1151
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 1: with mixing. That That's why it's like, I totally am

1152
00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 1: with you on mixing. That's gotta just make it all

1153
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 1: the more painful when you're like in week fifteen. Oh wait,

1154
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: Jeoe Bernard has like two yards, uh, you know for

1155
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:10,480
Speaker 1: the season on the Bucks. Why did I add that? Unnecessarily?

1156
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 1: I feel more strongly about that point, and I think

1157
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:16,439
Speaker 1: that will go down as a historical, accurate, historically bob

1158
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 1: bombshell that I've just dropped. You should have gotten behind

1159
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: that random white Joe Funk Mark crazy. Don't get me

1160
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 1: started on Funk. Alright, Gret, how about you, Mark, I'm

1161
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 1: very worried about you. I'm worried um this one. I

1162
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 1: feel a little safer about this one than my first one.

1163
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 1: It's a fourth year player. It's tight end Dallas Goddard

1164
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:41,840
Speaker 1: um rising up to a top five tight end type

1165
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:44,480
Speaker 1: of player. Yeah, I think he's that good. I think

1166
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: he's been in tough situations. Zach Ertz is you know,

1167
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 1: expected to be on his way out and Goddard's career

1168
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 1: best numbers were in two thousand, nineteen fifty eight for

1169
00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 1: six oh seven and five. To me, he could be

1170
00:59:57,240 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 1: the number one there. I know, you know, I know

1171
00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 1: Davante Smith is gonna get a lot of run, but

1172
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, you know, not not maybe the most accurate

1173
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 1: guy deep into the outside, like he's gonna be feeding

1174
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 1: his boy got her. There's no words there. I could

1175
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:12,440
Speaker 1: see him like going over a thousand. I feel I

1176
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 1: feel confident about Dallas got Ter. I like it a lot.

1177
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:19,600
Speaker 1: It makes totally good. There is this though. There were

1178
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:23,240
Speaker 1: reports even this morning though that Art's um is likely

1179
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 1: to stay now. The just reports, but it's not an

1180
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:28,480
Speaker 1: absolute that he's out the door. It's a good point.

1181
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:31,400
Speaker 1: He is still showing that that whole thing fizzled and

1182
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 1: he is showing up the training camp. I I kind

1183
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:36,720
Speaker 1: of figure they'll they'll find a spot for him. Or

1184
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 1: even cut him by the time for six oh seven

1185
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:46,560
Speaker 1: and five. You know that's not that's okay, but that

1186
01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 1: I think. I think he's definitely I think he's gonna

1187
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:51,000
Speaker 1: be a Pro Bowl type of player where he's he's

1188
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 1: skying well above that. And I do think he really

1189
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:56,240
Speaker 1: doesn't have the talent, like he can block a little

1190
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:57,840
Speaker 1: bit and that's great. People like to talk about that,

1191
01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:01,760
Speaker 1: but he really is a good down field Kiddle type

1192
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 1: of player that I don't think, as you know, he's

1193
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 1: not Kiddle, but I don't think he's maxed that his

1194
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 1: ability because well, Earth's verts is there and healthy. It's

1195
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 1: a little bit problem. Did they share the field? Are

1196
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:15,439
Speaker 1: they gonna be splitting snaps a lot? I think god

1197
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:17,280
Speaker 1: Or is going to be the one regardless. I mean,

1198
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:19,720
Speaker 1: god Her put up five twenty four last year despite

1199
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:22,280
Speaker 1: missing five games, so I'm baking in a little bit

1200
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 1: of safety. All he would have to do is really

1201
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:26,640
Speaker 1: keep going what he was doing last You had the

1202
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:29,160
Speaker 1: lowest version of Earth's last year, who was hurt the

1203
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:31,520
Speaker 1: entire time. When I think everyone is ready to like

1204
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:33,920
Speaker 1: like throw him off the Earth. But if he's healthy,

1205
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:36,160
Speaker 1: that the first fact god Or got hurt so he

1206
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:38,440
Speaker 1: doesn't like have a history of it. Um. You know,

1207
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 1: he had two healthy seasons before that, so if he

1208
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:43,480
Speaker 1: you know, to me, he should get eight hundred falling

1209
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 1: out of bed. I agree with you, Mark, I've been

1210
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:48,920
Speaker 1: saying that on this show off season Zach ERTs the disrespect,

1211
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 1: throwing the men's away like he can't can't play anymore.

1212
01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:53,800
Speaker 1: Maybe he couldn't last year. Maybe it was just an

1213
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 1: injury thing, and I mean, it's gonna suddenly be healthy.

1214
01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:59,439
Speaker 1: But he could be healthy. He's also a proud man

1215
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:02,400
Speaker 1: and athlete. He'd a champion that perhaps he'll want to

1216
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 1: shut some of the Rosenthal's of the football community up. Oh,

1217
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 1: I mean he's shut me up in that Super Bowl.

1218
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:10,560
Speaker 1: How about you know what he did on the biggest

1219
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:14,320
Speaker 1: place in front of it. Yeah, you're talking against so

1220
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:16,360
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to shut you up again. That was

1221
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:18,960
Speaker 1: right in front of us, Greg, We were in that

1222
01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 1: second level there in Minneapolis, and he reached over that

1223
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:26,200
Speaker 1: goal line. That if only I didn't have like the

1224
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 1: greatest comeback in Super Bowl history the year before, and

1225
01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:32,800
Speaker 1: then a sixth super Bowl to top it off, like

1226
01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 1: old school, you know, the next year, it's really just

1227
01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:40,440
Speaker 1: sandwich that tough memory, I mean fair enough, all right. Finally, Uh,

1228
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:46,920
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, let's go. Oh, let's go. Third year he

1229
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:48,760
Speaker 1: was on pace for if he didn't get hurt, if

1230
01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 1: he doesn't hurt his shoulder on Thursday Night football last year.

1231
01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 1: I'm not doing this because I think his numbers, he

1232
01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 1: probably would ended up throwing for close to yards, he

1233
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:01,760
Speaker 1: would have went over thirty touchdowns. His rushing numbers would

1234
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:03,880
Speaker 1: be even better than they were and they were excellent.

1235
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 1: Um So again, and this is a this is a

1236
01:03:08,640 --> 01:03:13,520
Speaker 1: this continues to pop up in this conversation health. A

1237
01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:15,440
Speaker 1: lot of these guys are tied to health. And if

1238
01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:18,400
Speaker 1: Murray entering his age twenty four season and his third

1239
01:03:18,440 --> 01:03:22,760
Speaker 1: season in Cliff Kingsbury's offense, an offense that I think

1240
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:26,919
Speaker 1: is solid, maybe not spectacular, but it's solid, I think

1241
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:31,360
Speaker 1: he has a very good chance, uh, with his skill

1242
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:33,800
Speaker 1: set as a former number one overall pick, to have

1243
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:37,800
Speaker 1: a Lamarian type season UH in year three. And I

1244
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:39,640
Speaker 1: think he has the chance to do something no one

1245
01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:42,400
Speaker 1: has ever done, which is go four thousand, one thousand

1246
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:44,440
Speaker 1: in a season, throw for four thousand yards, run for

1247
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:46,720
Speaker 1: a thousand. That's at the high end of this. But

1248
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:49,439
Speaker 1: even if he's a step below that, I still think

1249
01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:52,560
Speaker 1: he could throw for around four thousand yards, throw for

1250
01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:55,360
Speaker 1: thirty touchdowns, which he has never done. Uh add the

1251
01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:57,400
Speaker 1: six seven or eight hundred yards in the ground in

1252
01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 1: another five or six scores, and clearly developed to the

1253
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 1: point whereas Y know, year three was the best we've

1254
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:07,560
Speaker 1: seen from Kyler Murray. Yet get behind superstars entering their prime.

1255
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:09,800
Speaker 1: If your life's on the line, and that's what I'm

1256
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:14,040
Speaker 1: doing makes sense, I think it's pretty safe. I think

1257
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:17,400
Speaker 1: you're counting on some people I'm not totally sure about

1258
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:19,360
Speaker 1: them to help you get over the line. Rondale Moore,

1259
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 1: everyone's excited about it, but he's like, you know, an

1260
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:25,080
Speaker 1: undersized rookie A J. Green and Chase Edmonds maybe as

1261
01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 1: they're starting running back. And then Cliff Kingsbury is the

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01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:30,520
Speaker 1: key one, Like can can Kingsbury with Murray and this

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Speaker 1: group around him? And you know, I didn't mention Hopkins obviously,

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Speaker 1: but I think you need those other guys to come through,

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Speaker 1: and you need Cliff to help him out to make

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Speaker 1: this safe. Because Murray did rack up those rushing yards

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Speaker 1: last year and it was a pretty good season, but

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Speaker 1: you need a little help from the other Cardinals, and

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Speaker 1: Cliff Cliff is kind of the guy that I'd be

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Speaker 1: most concerned about. I mean, I would argue that if

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Speaker 1: he just simply to your point and he just wasn't

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Speaker 1: able to do uh Kyler Murray things for that later

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01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:59,000
Speaker 1: part of the season after their injury and the offense

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01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:02,520
Speaker 1: fell apart. Even at the team is not great. Um statistically,

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01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:04,880
Speaker 1: we're talking about him besting his statistics. I think he

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01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 1: could do all that and more. Look at some of

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01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:10,680
Speaker 1: Matthew weren't that bad though. I mean he goes and

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01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:16,160
Speaker 1: twelve touchdown interception and pretty good. I think he could

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01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:20,120
Speaker 1: pass twenty six though, and and maybe even lower his picks, right, sure,

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Speaker 1: I think I think it's a pretty safe that. But

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Speaker 1: he did have a nice step forward as a year two.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't like the explosion, but he did take a

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01:05:27,680 --> 01:05:30,320
Speaker 1: step last year. For sure. His step forward to to

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Speaker 1: keep me alive in this exercise, will come as a passer.

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01:05:33,120 --> 01:05:36,600
Speaker 1: Because he ran for nineteen yards and leven touchdowns last year.

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01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:39,360
Speaker 1: That's really good. That's awesome, Like beating that will be

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01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 1: and if he does that and improves as a passer,

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01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:44,000
Speaker 1: he is absolutely going to be in the m v

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Speaker 1: P conversation. But I just think that's the ceiling. I

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01:05:46,600 --> 01:05:49,360
Speaker 1: think I'm just the Kyler Murray guy. So will Damian

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01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 1: Harris had more rushing yards than Kyler Murray and will

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01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:56,880
Speaker 1: that impact your survival rate? Well, if he matches Kyler

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01:05:56,960 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 1: Murray last year, I'll be safe because that will be

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01:05:59,640 --> 01:06:02,760
Speaker 1: Damian ris Is greatest year. We need him too, because

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01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:05,720
Speaker 1: you know the I'm not here to play hero ball Setsler.

1296
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:09,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play live and raise my children ball some

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01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:13,600
Speaker 1: Sons fans, all the Phoenix fans out there, they need

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01:06:13,600 --> 01:06:15,479
Speaker 1: to pick me up. They need Murray to come through

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01:06:15,600 --> 01:06:21,560
Speaker 1: after a heartbreaking NBA Finals. That's all the Cardinal is doing. Okay,

1300
01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:24,959
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, Cardinals beat writers and all the people covered.

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01:06:25,080 --> 01:06:26,880
Speaker 1: I get it. I'm going to give you a pass

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01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:31,080
Speaker 1: for this, you know, the summer months here because there's

1303
01:06:31,080 --> 01:06:33,120
Speaker 1: not a lot to write about. But we don't need

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01:06:33,160 --> 01:06:37,360
Speaker 1: any more. A J. A. J. Green profiles not like you.

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01:06:37,520 --> 01:06:39,880
Speaker 1: As I'm doing research for this seg and I'm trying

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01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:42,920
Speaker 1: to like learn more about Kyler Murray's season, everything is

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01:06:42,960 --> 01:06:46,000
Speaker 1: just about Kyler Murray. Thinking J. Green is gonna have

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01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:48,560
Speaker 1: a big year. I hope. I hope they're right, Like

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01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:52,240
Speaker 1: there's no evidence on the field last year, but I

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01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:54,640
Speaker 1: was really stunned how bad Green was. I always have

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01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:56,320
Speaker 1: been like an A. J. Green is a Hall of

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Speaker 1: Famer type of guy, and it's almost underrated for how

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01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:02,600
Speaker 1: dom in it. He was in a weird situation. It

1314
01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:04,440
Speaker 1: was ugly last year. But I want to hope that,

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01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:07,720
Speaker 1: you know, like Mike McCarthy, maybe he can he can,

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01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:10,680
Speaker 1: you know, show that aging men still have something in

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01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:13,240
Speaker 1: front of them. And I hope, I hope that Kyler

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Speaker 1: goes even a size greater with his helmet this year.

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01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:21,840
Speaker 1: Condicting the giant helmet and that tiny body. I love it.

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01:07:21,880 --> 01:07:25,640
Speaker 1: What a combo. That's entertainment, just the visuals. Wonder I'd

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01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 1: like to see you telling me has a tiny body

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01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 1: to his face. I mean, that guy is I'm sure

1323
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:34,880
Speaker 1: has cut up, is fit, you know, on the line,

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01:07:35,200 --> 01:07:38,800
Speaker 1: he's probably got a tremendous bod. But that helmet just

1325
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:41,320
Speaker 1: it's it throws everything out of whack. It's it's it's

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01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:43,920
Speaker 1: just it's hard to really get a grasp on his

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Speaker 1: entire physical makeup because his helmet is the size of

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Speaker 1: a refrigerator. Yeah, very top heavy. All right, good stuff, Mark,

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01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:57,560
Speaker 1: are you gonna stick around? You're with us? Uh for

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01:07:57,600 --> 01:07:59,920
Speaker 1: the network show tomorrow? Big network show and film that

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01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:05,800
Speaker 1: worked around the NFL broadcast Friday Eastern three pm Pacific,

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01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:08,000
Speaker 1: six pm Eastern. Check. I didn't show it up to

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Speaker 1: that I might start finally getting on the radar of management,

1334
01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:12,520
Speaker 1: who I don't even think they know that I am

1335
01:08:12,560 --> 01:08:14,600
Speaker 1: part of the company. But if you just continually don't

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01:08:14,600 --> 01:08:16,680
Speaker 1: show up to assignments, you've got issues. So, I mean

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Speaker 1: they've noticed those tweets that you had about going back

1338
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Speaker 1: to the office. I know some management figures definitely, well

1339
01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:28,559
Speaker 1: I've I've I'm I'm chilling on that front. Do wait,

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Speaker 1: do you have that? On authority? Good authority? It was

1341
01:08:33,240 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 1: sort of it was no more as a joking thing,

1342
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:37,960
Speaker 1: just like I don't think I don't think Mark wants

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01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:39,960
Speaker 1: to come back to the office, it seems, and then

1344
01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:41,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna check into today's show and it's like, oh,

1345
01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:44,120
Speaker 1: Mark's back, and he's literally wearing a Hawaiian shirt. This

1346
01:08:44,160 --> 01:08:48,120
Speaker 1: guy's checked out. He came with some great analysis and

1347
01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:50,839
Speaker 1: he put it. He did. He definitely took some risks,

1348
01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:55,479
Speaker 1: took some big risks, big costly ones. Watched NFL Network

1349
01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:58,320
Speaker 1: all day in preparation for today's show, and that shows

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01:08:58,360 --> 01:09:02,760
Speaker 1: that Sessler's back and he's ready happy to be How

1351
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:04,720
Speaker 1: you enjoyed Mark where we have a little mini book

1352
01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:07,600
Speaker 1: club going on? We did on Monday's show pop Culture Recommendations,

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01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:11,439
Speaker 1: and I was singing the praises of the Once Upon

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01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:16,840
Speaker 1: in Hollywood, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood book by Tarantino. Um,

1355
01:09:16,920 --> 01:09:18,680
Speaker 1: and we have a little mini book book club. Me

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01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:22,599
Speaker 1: you gonzo chopping it up. Um, this must be nice

1357
01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:26,880
Speaker 1: because you are the biggest fan of Tarantino's picture a well,

1358
01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:29,919
Speaker 1: and also not only that, but um, you know, because

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Speaker 1: Colleen will be traveling for training camp. We actually, you know,

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01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:36,320
Speaker 1: the book centers somewhat around the Sharon Tate murders. We're

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01:09:36,479 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 1: the three of us are going to go watch the

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01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:44,360
Speaker 1: film together at Gonzos sort of lush seaside um Kingdom,

1363
01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:46,479
Speaker 1: and watched the movie together on the night of those

1364
01:09:46,560 --> 01:09:48,519
Speaker 1: of that event. But the book, I think is the

1365
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:51,639
Speaker 1: book was excellent. Um, you guys had some some minor

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01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:54,000
Speaker 1: issues with some of the chapters. But you know what

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01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:55,600
Speaker 1: I get every time I talk about this, and I

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01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:58,000
Speaker 1: get someone tweeting me. It's like you guys always talk

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01:09:58,080 --> 01:10:00,240
Speaker 1: about this this movie in this book, and I read

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Speaker 1: it and I hated it. I I don't care if

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01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:05,720
Speaker 1: it's not my right, it's not my issue. Um. I

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Speaker 1: think he is. Here's what's concerning form most authors. He

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Speaker 1: wrote his first novel, Tarantino, and it's better. It's more

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01:10:13,360 --> 01:10:17,559
Speaker 1: inventive and obsessive and well written than of any books

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01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:20,599
Speaker 1: I've ever read. So you know, check yourself at the door. Um,

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01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:22,720
Speaker 1: Greg is shaking his head. But Greg read it. He

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01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:26,479
Speaker 1: did not shake my head at all. Suspicious, But it's

1378
01:10:26,479 --> 01:10:29,560
Speaker 1: like he, Um, he honestly is an incredible writer. And

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01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:32,080
Speaker 1: I think it was a huge notebook dump. Um, if

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01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:34,240
Speaker 1: you're into it, I would read it now. I was

1381
01:10:34,320 --> 01:10:37,360
Speaker 1: more saying you at the turn, because I got that

1382
01:10:37,439 --> 01:10:40,840
Speaker 1: you were annoyed with people criticizing you for talking about it,

1383
01:10:40,880 --> 01:10:45,960
Speaker 1: but then you just flipped it on the whole novelist industry. Right,

1384
01:10:46,040 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 1: take out the notch out. All right. We'll be back

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01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:51,559
Speaker 1: on Friday and then two more shows next week. Thank

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01:10:51,560 --> 01:11:00,360
Speaker 1: you everybody for listening, and remember always he's a call Eric.

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01:11:00,439 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 1: It's it was so funny. Eric, I was just about

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01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:07,360
Speaker 1: the tide Bee to hit the like at that very moment,

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Speaker 1: at it's time, it's time,