Speaker 1: The Around the NFL podcast. That's a great point. Mark
Speaker 1: from the Chris Wesley podcast studio. It's Around the NFL.
Speaker 1: That's the voice of God, Jason get a going away
Speaker 1: party for Jason's moving east but remaining with our program
Speaker 1: through the miracle of technology. Did I say I'm Dan Henses,
Speaker 1: I am Mark Sessler here. Also I'm Lakisha.
Speaker 2: Westling and this is the beautiful intelligent funny force today.
Speaker 3: Colleen what Ways?
Speaker 4: And gentlemen, everybody?
Speaker 5: Was that from the podcast I did with Lakeisha?
Speaker 3: We weren't able to post it because your.
Speaker 1: Guess is as good as mine, but it sounds like
Speaker 1: you're onto something because.
Speaker 6: What what a what an folded?
Speaker 1: Yeah, a good time, Randy behind the glass, I can
Speaker 1: connect the dots on that dug that out of the
Speaker 1: archives and I was like, I've never heard that in
Speaker 1: my life, but I love it me too. Actually, I
Speaker 1: want to hear it again.
Speaker 2: I'm Lakisha Westland and this is the beautiful intelligent funny
Speaker 2: Colleen what way is a gentlemen, everybody?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, there's something to be said for echo effect.
Speaker 1: Has it ever not stepped up in a big spot?
Speaker 7: I think in that big spot it certainly added to
Speaker 7: the sound clip.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that it always enhances my opinion.
Speaker 3: It always adds to the clip.
Speaker 1: Look, there is some humanoid stuff creeping in the.
Speaker 7: I don't know why I left the last episode. I
Speaker 7: was wandering around my place being like, what did I
Speaker 7: just what did I? What do I think I accomplished
Speaker 7: over the last hour and a half?
Speaker 1: Yes, fellow human Dan, I also on that bit humorous.
Speaker 1: That's not who I wish to be, so and I
Speaker 1: typically are.
Speaker 6: That's why I don't know. I think it's I'm.
Speaker 1: Wondering if you're an alien has taken over in your
Speaker 1: Where's mark?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not sure something is ocurring.
Speaker 1: Wow, you were out last week for that second show.
Speaker 6: It's not because of anything.
Speaker 1: And then these last two shows there's been a couple
Speaker 1: like alieny type things. Yeah, I'm just a little red
Speaker 1: string in this thing a little bit. I think it's
Speaker 1: fair to dig into. I can't have no you know
Speaker 1: deep Ranch.
Speaker 3: That story about the alien that landed in the eye.
Speaker 5: And big glassy eyes were staring back at him and
Speaker 5: he was like calling nine one one.
Speaker 3: I was I'm terrified right.
Speaker 1: Now, we're red string in this thing. Yep. Figure of suspicion.
Speaker 1: And you better not.
Speaker 7: If you are, especially myself though, because I don't, I
Speaker 7: can't connect the Jats.
Speaker 1: Mark better be safe if indeed, all right, it's it's June.
Speaker 1: It's a June podcast madness and all this is madness.
Speaker 1: I walked in. The NFL network is currently playing the
Speaker 1: Dan Reno Fake Spike game, Week thirteen, nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 1: a game that I attended with my father, my uncle,
Speaker 1: my cousin, and that's when I lost my innocence as
Speaker 1: a football fan. The Jets had a seventeen nothing lead
Speaker 1: and Marino throws four touchdown passes in the second half,
Speaker 1: including the fake spike. We've talked about this.
Speaker 7: We have because there's an incredible little nugget to it.
Speaker 7: Was that, you know, a year before Bill Belichick, the
Speaker 7: Browns coach mercilessly cut Bernie Coozar in city at the
Speaker 7: City of Cleveland, wanted to find Belichick and set his
Speaker 7: hair out fire. He winds up with the Cowboys and
Speaker 7: winds up with the Dolphins as a backup. And it
Speaker 7: was Bernie Coozar who was always described as cerebral and heaty,
Speaker 7: which meant he wasn't very athletic, but he came up
Speaker 7: and basically advised Marino and the Dolphins to run that
Speaker 7: fake spike. So, of all the people to take your innocence,
Speaker 7: you were victimized.
Speaker 6: That's a tough that's.
Speaker 1: Bernie's Bernie is cool with me, So I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be down on Bernie.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well he was.
Speaker 1: He was.
Speaker 7: He would have done the same for the Jets. Had
Speaker 7: to be on the Jets, so the final go ahead.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about it now, Dan, Well.
Speaker 1: Once, once your innocence is lost as a sports fan,
Speaker 1: you're never the same again. So I still think about it.
Speaker 1: I could still from the lows where we were sitting,
Speaker 1: I could see the last boomer of size and desperation
Speaker 1: pass heaved through the back of the end zone and
Speaker 1: actually threw the uprights as time ran out. I could
Speaker 1: picture fans walking through the parking lot at Old Giants
Speaker 1: Stadium tearing up there. Johnny Mitchell free poster we got
Speaker 1: before the game. Johnny Mitchell didn't do anything wrong in
Speaker 1: fac Johnny Mitchell. I they got a touchdown of the game,
Speaker 1: just ripping it up in anger because we had once
Speaker 1: again been tricked by the Jets.
Speaker 7: I think the fan base collectively lost its its innocence,
Speaker 7: perhaps on.
Speaker 1: That long before that.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, but I'm so sorry for your loss.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Connie, how are you? How's the summer of
Speaker 1: Connie going?
Speaker 3: Great?
Speaker 5: It is, it's going fantastic. I've been outside a lot.
Speaker 5: I have a tan for the first time.
Speaker 1: There's a lot going on with Connie. She's got like
Speaker 1: a platinum blonde look.
Speaker 6: A distinctive change. It's a pleasant one.
Speaker 1: The Game of Thrones, lady, thank.
Speaker 5: You, Denaris Targarian, Emily Clark, Amelia Clark, right, Billy Clark.
Speaker 1: Also new glasses. We clocked that as well. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: Lisa Lobe vibe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's got a little bit of a cat I going.
Speaker 1: The real ones know that Lisa Lobe reference in a
Speaker 1: big spot. So it's happy. We're happy to have you
Speaker 1: as always gone.
Speaker 3: It's great to be back and be in the same
Speaker 3: room with you, guys.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we've ever had Connie on the
Speaker 1: show in studio in June before, so I feel sure
Speaker 1: you have feels like a blessing. Just feels it.
Speaker 3: But we'll make it feel new.
Speaker 6: We'll need to fact check that tons up.
Speaker 1: You came up.
Speaker 6: But I think she's done a June show, and I believe.
Speaker 1: Probably Greg is not here today. As you've probably noticed,
Speaker 1: he will be back. He What if Greg.
Speaker 7: Just had not spoken this entire episode yet, that would
Speaker 7: have been a typical.
Speaker 1: I think everyone was able to deduce that he wasn't
Speaker 1: here based on the past. We will have and I said,
Speaker 1: coming up today, even the name, I think is kind
Speaker 1: of like interesting.
Speaker 3: I'm excited about this.
Speaker 1: Who am I? I love it.
Speaker 3: Some mysteries evolved.
Speaker 1: Who am I? I'll just leave it there for now,
Speaker 1: but for some news. Dude.
Speaker 8: So I was passed out and I woke up to
Speaker 8: nothing but text messages, phone calls.
Speaker 9: I had no idea what was going on.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 9: I got dressed, I came out.
Speaker 8: I look down and I smell like a smoky smell,
Speaker 8: and I'm like, damn, dude, So.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, Uh, Colleen, what are you people?
Speaker 5: We are proud Philadelphians, and we have a very specific
Speaker 5: way that we talk, and when I hear it, it
Speaker 5: makes me homesick.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's hear a little more of our
Speaker 1: friend who kind of looks exactly like my brother if
Speaker 1: he lived in Northfield. I can see that and saw it.
Speaker 1: Did they know what was happening or did it just
Speaker 1: look like well?
Speaker 8: No, So I got all those text messages screenshots. I'm like,
Speaker 8: everybody's like, yo, where's this at? Like nobody had like
Speaker 8: a direct location. So I was like, look out my window.
Speaker 8: I see a bunch of cops. I'm like, bro, that's
Speaker 8: right by my apartment. News, So when did you figure
Speaker 8: out and realized that the freeway collapse.
Speaker 9: I was passed out when that happened.
Speaker 3: Just passed out when that happened.
Speaker 6: Bra it's right outside.
Speaker 5: Ye that my both my parents are from the northeast,
Speaker 5: northeast Philadelphia, So that is actually how my family that
Speaker 5: reminds me of home Wind does tomatoes.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 6: How did I not know about that news story? Also
Speaker 6: a highway collapse?
Speaker 1: No, I didn't know about it. I mean, not tracking
Speaker 1: zero news when I'm not here. So, oh my god, Well,
Speaker 1: wherever the real mark is? Yeah? Probably is he? Probably this? Yeah?
Speaker 1: This species whatever we're talking to you right now, still learning
Speaker 1: about news and how it works exactly humans track the
Speaker 1: news from around the region and beyond, and make mental
Speaker 1: note for future conversations. All right, here is the latest
Speaker 1: UH drama out of Buffalo and it is drama. It's
Speaker 1: just like, what is it? What is this?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Light June drama, Light June drama with a little twist
Speaker 1: because of the you know, there's so much on pressure
Speaker 1: on Buffalo to get over the hump. You you want
Speaker 1: everyone going into the season feeling great. And yet the
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs, he did not show up for a mandatory
Speaker 1: mini camp. We talked about it on our Tuesday show
Speaker 1: that Sean McDermott then came out and said that he
Speaker 1: was very concerned about it. And then we learned after
Speaker 1: Mark we did some discussion about what could this be?
Speaker 1: Is this about money? Is is it something else going
Speaker 1: on behind the scenes? Here is Josh Allen as all.
Speaker 1: This was cresting. I think on Tuesday.
Speaker 11: You know, Steph, he's my guy. I ses I love him,
Speaker 11: He's a brother of mine. You know, this does not
Speaker 11: work what we're doing here without him. You know, we
Speaker 11: we wish he was in here today and was out
Speaker 11: there on the field with us, and that's that's not
Speaker 11: the case. But I've got his back no matter what.
Speaker 11: And again I I I've got no doubt that that
Speaker 11: we will figure out what's going on and freaking love him.
Speaker 11: I can't stress that enough. You know, there's things that
Speaker 11: I could I could do better, and you know, to
Speaker 11: help out with this process and try to get him
Speaker 11: back here and and you know, be the buffalo abilities
Speaker 11: that he's meant to be.
Speaker 1: Later, Sean McDermott said that Diggs and the team are
Speaker 1: in a real good spot. He did apparently show up
Speaker 1: at the facility and practice a day later. So, Mark,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on what's going on here?
Speaker 7: I think I would if anyone cares about this particular
Speaker 7: June drama. I I listened to that quote audio alone
Speaker 7: driving in and then if you go watch him in
Speaker 7: the eyes of Josh Allen, there is a disquiet. There's
Speaker 7: something else happening here, and I think that there are
Speaker 7: just seeds of discontent. Stephan Diggs is like top three
Speaker 7: most competitive wide receiver in the league, and like he's
Speaker 7: in a great position. This trade worked for the Vikings,
Speaker 7: it worked for the Bills, It's worked really well for
Speaker 7: Stephan Diggs. But during Super Bowl week he had some comments.
Speaker 7: Guy turned to find like what has he said in
Speaker 7: what's he talked about? Beyond some of the tweets that
Speaker 7: I think there was a build up building frustration about
Speaker 7: the Bills offense.
Speaker 6: On some level, I think.
Speaker 7: We kind of forget that they went through some real
Speaker 7: peaks and valleys, not only the team emotionally for obviously
Speaker 7: what happened with DeMar Hamlet, but the offense itself and
Speaker 7: some of Josh Allen's play I thought regressed a little bit,
Speaker 7: especially like in the red zone and in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: I think Diggs just wants to be that guy.
Speaker 7: And I wonder if there's some disquiet around Ken Dorsey
Speaker 7: taking over for Brian Daboll and how that all went down.
Speaker 7: I think it needed to be worked out, It needed
Speaker 7: to be talked about. The last time we saw Diggs
Speaker 7: on the field, he was angry at Josh Allen, and
Speaker 7: right there in the eyes of Josh Allen, I thought
Speaker 7: that we saw a quarterback take some responsibility for all
Speaker 7: this because he's a great leader and there is a
Speaker 7: bit of frustration. I don't need some money thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Josh Allen. It was interesting when he said there's
Speaker 5: things I could do better to get him in a
Speaker 5: better spot, meaning Stephan Diggs, which we saw Stephan Diggs
Speaker 5: kind of reached the frustration crescendo against the Bengals, and
Speaker 5: you saw that frustration over and over again. But I
Speaker 5: found McDermott saying the other day that he was very
Speaker 5: concerned after Diggs, you know, left before the team practice
Speaker 5: and then came around and said, there are a lot
Speaker 5: of things out there that aren't accurate. He was here
Speaker 5: on Monday for his physical, reported for all meetings, had
Speaker 5: a good conversation, got to a point yesterday where we
Speaker 5: felt we all needed a break, gave him permission and
Speaker 5: he was excused. So he went from being very concerned
Speaker 5: to oh, it was an excused thing, no big deal.
Speaker 3: So that's really telling.
Speaker 5: It really does feel like it's all coming from Ken
Speaker 5: Dorsey and the offense.
Speaker 3: And that's what I kind of think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think there's if we look at some
Speaker 1: broad like what the Bills are where they're at. I
Speaker 1: think last even before the DeMar Hamlin situation unfolded at
Speaker 1: the end of the regular season, that was a tough season.
Speaker 1: Had they were this team that was on this kind
Speaker 1: of meteoric rise together in the twenty twenty one season
Speaker 1: ends after a great season from Josh Allen and the
Speaker 1: offense was unstoppable times and really they felt like they
Speaker 1: could win a Super Bowl. They get picked off in
Speaker 1: the divisional round by the Chiefs and that unforgettable ending
Speaker 1: to that game, and then twenty twenty two just felt
Speaker 1: like a slog for that team. Like Brian Dabele leaves,
Speaker 1: they're expected now to win thirteen games and they have
Speaker 1: the regular season that they need to win the division,
Speaker 1: but nothing was as easy as it was the year before.
Speaker 1: They struggle through the first round of the playoffs, are
Speaker 1: they struggle in the playoff loss to the Bengals, and
Speaker 1: now here they are again, And maybe it's Digs looking
Speaker 1: up at a steep hill again and as a as
Speaker 1: a passionate guy, there's some frustration knowing how difficult the
Speaker 1: season was last year. I mean, it's it's interesting. I
Speaker 1: think it is a June story and this type of
Speaker 1: thing that we probably won't even think about in September
Speaker 1: unless it's deeper than we realize.
Speaker 6: I don't know, I think it is.
Speaker 7: I just think it's a personality thing, because I think
Speaker 7: Diggs is engaging.
Speaker 6: He's all in.
Speaker 7: I don't ever lack of trust about how much he
Speaker 7: wants to win and the kind of player he is.
Speaker 7: But I think there's a flip side to that where
Speaker 7: you get this where he was discontent in Minnesota after
Speaker 7: a while with that offense and how he was being used.
Speaker 1: I think it's just creeping up a little bit. You're
Speaker 1: so right about.
Speaker 7: Last season because Josh Allen battled through an injury that
Speaker 7: affected his accuracy, his confidence, I think to some degree,
Speaker 7: and that offense just came and went. And I think
Speaker 7: if you're Stephan Diggs, you're looking at the Bengals, You're
Speaker 7: looking at the Chiefs and saying, we cannot lose a
Speaker 7: step to them, and we cannot be Maybe we need
Speaker 7: to think about how we run this offense. I just
Speaker 7: think it ties back to who they are, their identity
Speaker 7: on that side of the ball.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and Stephan Diggs, we saw videos of him dancing
Speaker 5: at practice when he was finally there when the guys
Speaker 5: were stretching, so it seems like he's in better spirits.
Speaker 5: But the thing that sticks with me is a TNF
Speaker 5: years ago when Stepan was still on the Vikings and
Speaker 5: they won, and Kirk Cousins and Stefan Diggs both came
Speaker 5: to the desk after the game, and this was towards
Speaker 5: the end of the season, and you would think like
Speaker 5: they just won, this is going to be a happy crew,
Speaker 5: and the tension between Stefan and Kirk Cousins, I can
Speaker 5: still feel it like I could and I could see
Speaker 5: how he is such an emotional human and emotional player,
Speaker 5: and so obviously things did not sit well with him.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's money.
Speaker 5: Obviously, you guys talked about that on the last show,
Speaker 5: because he just got some last off season, so you
Speaker 5: look at what he's dealing with here. Von Miller talked
Speaker 5: about it, saying that he's supportive and he wants to
Speaker 5: be here and he wants to win a super Bowl.
Speaker 3: So I think it's just all that.
Speaker 1: Right, Maybe I'll just say it, maybe he's a bit
Speaker 1: of a pain in the ass. Maybe I think part
Speaker 1: of his personality he did get he ran himself out
Speaker 1: of Minnesota, right. I'm glad you brought that up, Connie.
Speaker 1: That was a previous style up where he was a
Speaker 1: star receiver there and made it very clear was unhappy,
Speaker 1: which Minnesota didn't trade him because they wanted to that
Speaker 1: he kind of asked his way out of town there,
Speaker 1: and then they used that first round pick they got
Speaker 1: in returned to get Justin Jefferson and everybody won. But
Speaker 1: now Stephan Diggs is unhappy again, so we shall see
Speaker 1: what happens. All right, let's move to you know, this
Speaker 1: doesn't do it, That kind of does it for me.
Speaker 1: That's that's some drama up there in Orchard Park. Now
Speaker 1: let's talk some contract stuff. We'll start with Justin Herbert
Speaker 1: on a possible the idea of a possible hold in
Speaker 1: if he doesn't get his new contract done.
Speaker 12: It's something I really haven't thought a whole lot about.
Speaker 12: You know, I think the most most of the offseason
Speaker 12: so far has been worried about, you know, getting my
Speaker 12: shoulder right. Make sure that I'm the best quarterback that
Speaker 12: I can be for this team. It's something you can address.
Speaker 12: You know, I'm not quite sure. I don't have any
Speaker 12: more updates for you at this time, but you know,
Speaker 12: like I've said earlier, I think I think the world
Speaker 12: of the Chargers organization.
Speaker 1: You know, I've got is that A, is this another?
Speaker 6: Is he visit loan? Same group that I was apparently.
Speaker 1: Getting my shoulder right.
Speaker 5: The shoulder thing, Yeah, you're surgery.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we'll see. It doesn't sound like any there's
Speaker 1: much fire there.
Speaker 7: Well, I think the hold and also he also had
Speaker 7: you know these quotes about that you want to be
Speaker 7: there if you're the quarterback, you've got Kellen Moore running
Speaker 7: and installing a new offense, it's it matters. But the holding,
Speaker 7: you can just cite any sort of malady injury wise,
Speaker 7: and you sit there and do meetings and don't do practice.
Speaker 6: He's coming off surgery. He could do this if he
Speaker 6: wants to.
Speaker 5: He's also not like a sassy drama queen. No, he's
Speaker 5: so laid back and he will remove himself from any drama.
Speaker 3: And he supports the Chargers organization.
Speaker 1: Organization, but we also know the history of that organization.
Speaker 1: Don't make this weird, hey, Chargers, don't make it weird. Please. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs have a star defender in Chris Jones.
Speaker 1: He's coming off a I believe a fifteen and a
Speaker 1: half sec season there. He was absent from case mini
Speaker 1: camp as they work toward a new contract. You know what,
Speaker 1: I think, we gotta I gotta pull out Tommy Lee
Speaker 1: Jones here. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 7: You know so, because Greg isn't Greg normally will send
Speaker 7: out early in the morning like the news rundown. Yeah,
Speaker 7: our ideas and we can add to it as it's
Speaker 7: a it's a working file. But so he's not here,
Speaker 7: so I thought I'd do that to try to did
Speaker 7: a great job well, but even but I will say
Speaker 7: when I came up with this rundown, I thought to myself, well,
Speaker 7: the Justin Herbert thing feels like a just wait a
Speaker 7: month's situation. The Chris Jones is sort of like, yawn,
Speaker 7: they've already said we're going to get this done at
Speaker 7: some point. But otherwise we had one news item, so
Speaker 7: it's like, you gotta it's June.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that works.
Speaker 1: No, but that was good. It was good that we
Speaker 1: hit it. We let people knows something that's happening, right,
Speaker 1: but we are making it publicly known. Also, don't care, Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't fine, it's fine. Everything's fine. In other June news.
Speaker 1: So the Bears are on the come up, at least
Speaker 1: that's what we're being told at this point, with a
Speaker 1: roster that's improving and a young quarterback that maybe people
Speaker 1: believe has a chance to really leap in Justin Fields,
Speaker 1: and perhaps now with Aaron Rodgers out of the NFC North,
Speaker 1: it is time for the Packers Bears rivalry to actually
Speaker 1: become a rivalry again, Connie. And then there's a man
Speaker 1: named Justin Jones, defensive lineman for Chicago, who had this
Speaker 1: to say about Packers fans who does not really care
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 13: Uh, we went up there and we played it. We
Speaker 13: played a pretty good game, you know, but they got
Speaker 13: away from us at the end obviously, and they won.
Speaker 1: But their fans are really so.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I wanted to go back up there and I
Speaker 13: want to play them, and I want to beat them,
Speaker 13: and I wanted him to be there so you can
Speaker 13: see it, man, I mean, man, like just just the
Speaker 13: way they're just freaking obnoxious, just yelling and all that
Speaker 13: other stuff about things that don't even matter, Like we're
Speaker 13: not even we're not even running to play. You guys
Speaker 13: are talking about oh yeah, like what do you even
Speaker 13: telling The games even started yet? Like what do you
Speaker 13: be talking about here? Like you know, Oh, it's so
Speaker 13: weird to me. But I'm just ready to go back
Speaker 13: out there and play. And I want to go out there,
Speaker 13: and I want to beat the hell out of them,
Speaker 13: you know, on their field, and I want to hear it.
Speaker 13: I want to hear the booze in you know that's
Speaker 13: what I look forward to.
Speaker 3: Yes, no, no, no, I love this.
Speaker 5: I love this so much because you can hear in
Speaker 5: his voice how annoyed he is. Imagine actually what you're
Speaker 5: getting on the unfiltered side, Like we just got him
Speaker 5: in front of a mike, in front of the media,
Speaker 5: and he's probably tempering it a little bit. I would
Speaker 5: love to care an unfiltered version of that.
Speaker 6: I love.
Speaker 7: I love the concept that Green Bay's fan base, compared
Speaker 7: to literally other fan base, has a pocket of fans
Speaker 7: that don't have any idea of what's going on.
Speaker 1: That's how he described the entire interesting.
Speaker 7: I've never thought of the Packers fan base as like
Speaker 7: distinctly lacking knowledge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm wondering what someone in the stands could
Speaker 1: be shouting at him. His takeaway is like, Oh, these
Speaker 1: people don't know their football. That's interesting.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a weird stance to have.
Speaker 7: It's a weird hit, it, I mean, it's totally you know,
Speaker 7: I believe him.
Speaker 1: You know they're playing Week one at Soldier Field. Oh
Speaker 1: so I think you're gonna sit here more from Justin Jones,
Speaker 1: hopefully after the game.
Speaker 3: I want to see when they're in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: And it should also be known that that Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: he was referring to, went twenty four and five in
Speaker 1: his career against Chicago in the regular season, with sixty
Speaker 1: four touchdowns ten picks in a one oh nine passer.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's like Brady against the Jets, It's like
Speaker 7: Big Ben against the Browns. It's like filling the blank
Speaker 7: against terrible trash bag operation.
Speaker 1: The Bears haven't beaten the Packers since twenty and eighteen,
Speaker 1: and they haven't won in Green Bay since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: How about that? All right?
Speaker 3: In other news, what else is happening?
Speaker 1: Let's head to the Kicker Club. Hot Rods back Baby.
Speaker 1: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers sign rod Ree Ego Blank and
Speaker 1: Ship formerly of the Cardinals, to a deal, also formerly
Speaker 1: of the Colts. He's converted eighty three point three percent
Speaker 1: of his field goals. It's entering the league in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Blew out a muscle in his leg last year early
Speaker 1: in the season, leading to his release and free agency,
Speaker 1: and now he's back. Mark always got the big goggles.
Speaker 1: Remember he has the weird He had the weird blog
Speaker 1: when he was in college or he just like was
Speaker 1: trashing his own team and stuff.
Speaker 5: He had the wheelies that he came in on during
Speaker 5: Colt's camp Wheelies.
Speaker 1: That's right, I love you back in the league.
Speaker 7: He also has like a vibrant lego collection that's Instagram
Speaker 7: account where he does these like complex, massive sets and
Speaker 7: he's all into it. So I think it's like when
Speaker 7: he went, when he left football, think he was completely
Speaker 7: filled with all these other hobbies. I'm almost surprised that
Speaker 7: he ever returned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of good for the Kicker Club to
Speaker 1: have a couple of like rogue weirdos in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just to keep things everybody on their toes a little bit.
Speaker 1: He's just like on the wheelies, like hopping over.
Speaker 3: Like an eccentric character.
Speaker 1: Yeah, inccentric. It's good to have accent tricks. Excent tricks
Speaker 1: nailed it. Uh. And that's what's happening in the news.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break and then Who am I?
Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, It's time once again
Speaker 4: for America's favorite guessing game, who am I?
Speaker 1: Ah favors go. It is who Am I? A game
Speaker 1: that dares that are contestants to use their brain to
Speaker 1: figure out who is.
Speaker 3: Speaking well, Mark's an alien, so he gets like this.
Speaker 7: The game show voice for a second after it, but
Speaker 7: you seem to have gone back.
Speaker 1: I figured an alien wouldn't know what a game show was,
Speaker 1: that's true. I didn't want to do any more reveals
Speaker 1: in that department, so he got the call there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but if I knew one hundred percent that you were real, Mark,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know hesitated.
Speaker 5: But well, I think you're trying to work with the situation, right,
Speaker 5: I think you're down playing aliens.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you believe of course?
Speaker 3: Yeah, my dad's all one.
Speaker 1: First time I ever met your dad, we talked about him,
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right.
Speaker 6: A staunch believer. He wasn't like I think he's like No.
Speaker 1: I know because from a military perspective, the government and
Speaker 1: this thing carried into the nineties and even into this century,
Speaker 1: they tried to downplay anyone that was a believer or
Speaker 1: saw something as a whack could do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, crazy person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and your father is no whack.
Speaker 3: Not a crazy person, not in that right at least.
Speaker 1: Hardcore professional and military man and worked for years in
Speaker 1: the aerospace space technology field.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he knew how to take apart nuclear bombs, and
Speaker 5: put them back together. Worked in a missile silo, worked
Speaker 5: at an oil refinery.
Speaker 7: Sound like someone like floating off the rocker Like he
Speaker 7: a very straight account of what he witnessed and he
Speaker 7: would not back down from it.
Speaker 1: Our huge audience for this game show is probably very
Speaker 1: confused about this digression. But let's let's get two things.
Speaker 1: Let's keep this organization together and go through it. We'll
Speaker 1: do two each and I could get things going here.
Speaker 3: I would love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's just lay down some ground rules before we
Speaker 1: do this. The job here is for the two people
Speaker 1: that aren't going to be able to guess who it is,
Speaker 1: and it is the job of the person to not
Speaker 1: make it so obvious, you know, like hopefully there should
Speaker 1: be a challenge here both for the people here in
Speaker 1: the studio with the Chris Wesley podcast studio and those
Speaker 1: listening at home.
Speaker 7: So you don't start saying like I'm the head coach
Speaker 7: of the New England Patriots.
Speaker 3: Are you nervous about the execution of this segment?
Speaker 1: I am always nervous about the execution.
Speaker 6: By the two of us, especially.
Speaker 1: No, I feel good about you. All right, here we go,
Speaker 1: let's get it going. Stop and who am I? Hey,
Speaker 1: crazy times? Crazy times?
Speaker 3: Are you this person?
Speaker 14: Now?
Speaker 3: This is the first okay, oh yeah, new chapter.
Speaker 1: I am a love of it.
Speaker 6: New chapter.
Speaker 1: So much stuff to do here, so many activities. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like this where I used to live. There
Speaker 1: was nothing to do there. It was so bored, so bored.
Speaker 3: When we have a guess what when do we stop?
Speaker 6: You?
Speaker 3: Should we let us play out?
Speaker 1: I would say, let me speak and share my thoughts
Speaker 1: and then share afterwards. But do you have a suspicion
Speaker 1: I do what I also do?
Speaker 3: So good job?
Speaker 1: So bored I didn't even open up the blind on
Speaker 1: some days, just laid there in the dark, nothing to do.
Speaker 3: Depression at all.
Speaker 1: God, looking back, I used to get a bunch of
Speaker 1: flack for doing weird stuff, but honestly, that was just
Speaker 1: to fill the hours. There wasn't anything to do, just
Speaker 1: trying to kill time. But not anymore. Now I've moved
Speaker 1: and I'm in this exciting new place and there's like
Speaker 1: so much stuff to do, and I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: I didn't even have to do all that other dumb stuff.
Speaker 1: So exciting here. I'm super busy. Everyone's really nice to
Speaker 1: me and.
Speaker 14: I'm definitely trying harder with my job, like I care now,
Speaker 14: so I think I'm gonna be better. I think my
Speaker 14: team's gonna be really good because I just gotta care
Speaker 14: more and I'm.
Speaker 1: Really good when I care. I'll probably get bored again
Speaker 1: next year, but right now everything is fun, really cool,
Speaker 1: really cool.
Speaker 3: Should guess who am I mine?
Speaker 6: What I thought it was? I'm not certain at all
Speaker 6: at this point.
Speaker 3: So really, yeah, Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: That is correct?
Speaker 3: Is that who you thought?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Who did you think?
Speaker 6: Well? No, so early on when you talked about I.
Speaker 7: Was in charge of something, but it wasn't really me
Speaker 7: according to a lot of people doing I thought you
Speaker 7: might be going Eric B. Enemy, who now has like
Speaker 7: a full fledged like No, that was like two clues.
Speaker 1: In then it went. Then I had no idea that
Speaker 1: would be really interesting to go with Eric B. Enemy
Speaker 1: to lead off this sege I love it. No, it's
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers who is in New York and is living
Speaker 1: up the life. Just got back from the Tonys.
Speaker 3: He's going to games, going.
Speaker 1: To games, going to concerts, going to summer summer. It
Speaker 1: is really it is really, I mean, now you painted
Speaker 1: a full picture. He's pattered himself after you colling. Have
Speaker 1: you met Aaron on the Thursday night football?
Speaker 3: I've interviewed him a few times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if he saw you, would he go oh hi, Collegen?
Speaker 3: I don't think so, but who knows.
Speaker 6: No, you never know, maybe you would.
Speaker 1: All right, So that's just the to get us going. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Colleen?
Speaker 3: Great, okay.
Speaker 5: So mine is not so much a cohesive story as
Speaker 5: it is a few clues.
Speaker 1: So all mine is similar to Colleen.
Speaker 6: So, okay, I've got a little bit of everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okin, great, Okay, here we go.
Speaker 5: I'm ready for the twenty twenty three season, and I'm
Speaker 5: just waiting for the right opportunity. If you're wondering, guys,
Speaker 5: I love a camouflage moment. And when I'm not on
Speaker 5: the field, I'm.
Speaker 3: In the field.
Speaker 5: I can give you great recommendations for a moving company,
Speaker 5: because you know what, I've done a lot of it.
Speaker 3: How you feeling over the place?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 5: One thing I absolutely hate though second stringers. You can't
Speaker 5: trust him. They're out to get you every single time. However,
Speaker 5: I am open to being one Uncorsionately.
Speaker 6: I believe I think I might have Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: Last three seasons, you know what? Not ideal?
Speaker 5: To be honest, the last time I felt joy was
Speaker 5: twenty seventeen.
Speaker 6: It's very clear to me who it is.
Speaker 3: Okay, I won a super Bowl, but not really.
Speaker 1: Oh oh doesn't like backups? Gotcha?
Speaker 5: My last relationship ended three months ago. In the silence
Speaker 5: since then is deafening.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, sir, did you say I won a super Bowl?
Speaker 1: But not really? That is really it's a low blow
Speaker 1: right at the knees. Who am I? You are?
Speaker 6: Carson Wentz?
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 5: Wow, he's in Tampa Bay right now working with John Gruden.
Speaker 1: And that's right.
Speaker 5: Since three months have gone by since he was cut,
Speaker 5: he has not heard anything from any team and he's
Speaker 5: just still waiting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there are teams that make sense. Gruden's former team,
Speaker 1: the Raiders, makes sense. Jimmy Garoppolo's health is once again uncertain.
Speaker 1: Brian Hoyer is his backup. Who's really closer to a
Speaker 1: coach than a player at this point? Over in Arizona,
Speaker 1: Your boy Mark Colt McCoy right now is in line
Speaker 1: to be this Like, there are teams know they don't
Speaker 1: want to win think games this season? What's working against
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz a little bit, is there is that's that
Speaker 1: creeping sense with Arizona for example, that they they don't
Speaker 1: want to win, so like they'll just roll with guys
Speaker 1: that they see is lesser than Carson Wentz. And then
Speaker 1: after that, like Tampa maybe would have been a spot,
Speaker 1: but they went with Baker. Like so like how many
Speaker 1: other positions? Does he even have a path to? The
Speaker 1: Raiders just make a lot of sense.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, just like I you know, the way
Speaker 7: the world works, there's going to be three problematic quarterback
Speaker 7: injuries once people start practicing. And then Carson Wentz makes
Speaker 7: a lot of sense because there aren't a lot of
Speaker 7: other options.
Speaker 3: True kind of good backup option. I mean when you
Speaker 3: look at the other.
Speaker 6: I think so too that are out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't the Eagles that Super Bowl year? Connie start
Speaker 1: like ten and two and Carson Wentz was a Super Bowl.
Speaker 5: Finger MVP candidate V And then he got hurt playing
Speaker 5: the Rams right here next door.
Speaker 1: So my point being, and then you said he didn't
Speaker 1: even really win a Super Bowl. You had a major
Speaker 1: role in that team.
Speaker 5: He did until he got hurt, and the Foles rose
Speaker 5: like a phoenix from the ashes and won them the
Speaker 5: Super Bowl.
Speaker 7: Parson Wentz the next year is the starter again walking
Speaker 7: into the stadium past a statue of Nick Foles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think that's out.
Speaker 1: My point being, I don't think Nick's in that position
Speaker 1: if Wentz doesn't go absolutely not No, all right, Mark,
Speaker 1: you're up, all right now.
Speaker 7: I maybe even approached this a little bit differently than
Speaker 7: uh oh yeah, so we'll just seeta. But these are
Speaker 7: just factoids. You can start to build a picture.
Speaker 1: Okay, facnoids.
Speaker 3: I think Dan is just hiding the plain sight is
Speaker 3: the actual alien.
Speaker 7: I think that's that's apt. So let's just start with
Speaker 7: my playing career. I played linebacker at UC Davis. That's
Speaker 7: where I where I got going. But there was a
Speaker 7: conflict because I really wanted to become a doctor. I
Speaker 7: was a neurobiology major, and what that We did some
Speaker 7: wild stuff. Okay, during one insanely long lab sessions. There'll
Speaker 7: be these like ten hour long lab sessions. We once
Speaker 7: had to wrangle a genetically mutated rat the size of
Speaker 7: a housecat. This is absolutely true. My father simultaneously has
Speaker 7: always been my family just deeply involved in sports. So
Speaker 7: I guess that's just been inside of me the whole time,
Speaker 7: and so during these long lab sessions, it was so
Speaker 7: serious that I just like, I don't know if I
Speaker 7: can do this with my career. I learned to love
Speaker 7: to work with athletes, with athletes with a specialty guys
Speaker 7: on offense. I've had one of the game's true stars
Speaker 7: say of me and quotes, no one brings me more
Speaker 7: joy than me what I've.
Speaker 1: Did for this person, that's pretty nice.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, and it came from a little goods and yeah,
Speaker 1: it felt really good.
Speaker 6: They said.
Speaker 7: That means a lot to me. I like to make
Speaker 7: the room smile. It has not always been a big
Speaker 7: bowl of cherries. My Q rating is in a bit
Speaker 7: of a troubled spot at the moment, but I think
Speaker 7: I'm back in a good place where I can do
Speaker 7: what I do well. Someone in the room, in this room,
Speaker 7: you guys, has seen me in person in at a
Speaker 7: non league event, so it's not like at the combine,
Speaker 7: but one of one of you saw me and texted
Speaker 7: your friends that you saw me, but you didn't come
Speaker 7: up and talk to me.
Speaker 6: I don't know why.
Speaker 7: And I think if John Elwig gets all that credit
Speaker 7: for recruiting Peyton manning Way back when then I think, I,
Speaker 7: quietly or not even quietly, like overtly, deserve a ton of.
Speaker 6: Credit for what I just pulled off this offseason.
Speaker 7: And literally it was I am a huge part of
Speaker 7: why my team looks the way it does today, and
Speaker 7: just fingers crossed that this player that I got doesn't
Speaker 7: fall off a cliff and cost me a job all
Speaker 7: over again like the guy I had.
Speaker 1: Last year got it. I was struggling there for a
Speaker 1: little bit and then it all came together.
Speaker 3: You want to you want to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's Nathaniel hack Absolutely, that rat thing is a
Speaker 1: true story.
Speaker 7: Yes, In fact, I pulled that from an incredible piece
Speaker 7: when he was hired by the Broncos. The first person
Speaker 7: I talked to in depth was Connor Orr, who was
Speaker 7: a Nathaniel Hackett before the thing went totally wrong. Was
Speaker 7: a figure of fascination last time see you. I think
Speaker 7: it was enjoyable, engaging, and we all knew that if
Speaker 7: I'd said, oh, I'm a hip hop instructor, we would
Speaker 7: have gone.
Speaker 6: There right away.
Speaker 7: But he was deep in medical lore in school and
Speaker 7: like he, Connor like wrote this whole story of all.
Speaker 1: Hackett was his father, an offensive architect in the previous.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just didn't want if I went Broncos early
Speaker 7: me being Nathaniel saying that sure, I would have given
Speaker 7: away too much.
Speaker 3: So he almost became a doctor, and then it was
Speaker 3: just too serious.
Speaker 7: I think he's just a very sort of a renaissance
Speaker 7: man who made a life choice.
Speaker 1: Huh. Yeah, Yeah, I think I saw him at the
Speaker 1: Las Vegas airport, that's what. Yeah, I think I think
Speaker 1: he's a hashtag girl dad. He is Scott daughter and uh,
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift was in town and half the city was
Speaker 1: at the concerts there when I was there that weekend.
Speaker 3: So obviously a good guy and you were you went
Speaker 3: to the concert.
Speaker 1: Obviously I would have loved to go to a concert,
Speaker 1: but I did not, But it seemed like everyone else
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas that weekend did. I didn't go up
Speaker 1: to him, though I really wanted to, but I was like, no,
Speaker 1: just leave the guy along. Yeah, live hashtag girl dad.
Speaker 1: Let him do that.
Speaker 7: I think that's that shows that you're not that you know,
Speaker 7: you know how to handle you know, celebrity in general,
Speaker 7: your own and others.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Also, that was prior to Rogers
Speaker 1: officially landing so I'm sure he just didn't. He wouldn't
Speaker 1: want anybody to be like, so, is it gonna happen? Amen,
Speaker 1: It's gonna happened.
Speaker 5: Would you have gone up to him after Rogers landed?
Speaker 1: No? Hashtag?
Speaker 9: Girl?
Speaker 1: Dad? Respect? I was going to give him his.
Speaker 3: If he had boys? Does that change to him?
Speaker 1: That an interesting boundary line you've created, but I respect it.
Speaker 1: I'm demanding conversation with him. If he has like a
Speaker 1: twelve year old son and a six year old it's weird?
Speaker 1: All right? Good stuff? Okay, so so far we've guessed
Speaker 1: all three, correct you, guys.
Speaker 3: I didn't have one.
Speaker 1: I know you know that one. I thought you guys,
Speaker 1: I didn't know the first one better job than me
Speaker 1: because for me, both of those only crystallized right at
Speaker 1: the end.
Speaker 7: I think that's like you called it in texting, like
Speaker 7: sort of peeling an onion.
Speaker 1: So all right, I got a tougher one for my second. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go.
Speaker 3: I love this game, Thank you?
Speaker 1: Here we go? So does America.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I did this. How am I going
Speaker 1: to get out of this? I feel like the kid
Speaker 1: who transferred from a great university to a less prestigious
Speaker 1: institution organization because I wanted to be closer to my girlfriend,
Speaker 1: but then she flunked out and transferred out of state.
Speaker 1: So now I'm here without the person I came here
Speaker 1: to be with, and I've been set up on a
Speaker 1: blind date with a new girl who's really pretty, like
Speaker 1: a legit smoke show on a pure, like physical carnal level.
Speaker 1: This girl is objectively hotter than my ex.
Speaker 6: I know who this is, but I don't know if
Speaker 6: there will.
Speaker 1: Be any chemistry. I had chemistry with my ex. I
Speaker 1: miss her, a really really miss her, and I actually
Speaker 1: have a lot of I have some doubts, sincere doubts
Speaker 1: about this new hottie. So now school is getting ready
Speaker 1: to start again and I'm heading back to a campus
Speaker 1: that I don't feel good about. I have a full
Speaker 1: ride scholarship, you know, so that financially things are good
Speaker 1: and I'm expected to be a great student like I
Speaker 1: was last year. But all I could think about is
Speaker 1: getting out and starting over again. It's like how Mark
Speaker 1: Sessler went through his college experience. Just you know how
Speaker 1: many times you're going to start over. I've made a
Speaker 1: huge mistake and I need some advice.
Speaker 3: This is good.
Speaker 6: Now I don't know who this is.
Speaker 3: I thought I knew, and then I was like, no,
Speaker 3: it's not.
Speaker 1: Organization was a red herring, by the way, don't Okay,
Speaker 1: so it's not. Can I file a guess, although I
Speaker 1: don't feel good about it. I want you both to
Speaker 1: guess and then I'll say if either of you are right.
Speaker 7: Well, So for a big chunk of that, I thought
Speaker 7: the chemistry with X kind of all right, with new
Speaker 7: smoking hot show person, but like it's the chemistry may
Speaker 7: not be there. It's that's more, you know, visceral visual,
Speaker 7: Like I thought it was Josh McDaniels dealing with He
Speaker 7: thought he was going to get Tom Brady, but then
Speaker 7: he gets stuck with Jimmy g after not drafting anyone.
Speaker 7: But then you talked about him being a good student
Speaker 7: last year. I thought that Josh McDaniels sort of failed
Speaker 7: to test. So I'm a little lost.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: At first I was thinking DeVante Adams, but that is correct,
Speaker 5: is great?
Speaker 1: All right, Adams's right, Church wrong, Pew Well success in
Speaker 1: Christine that it's the you know what the problem is,
Speaker 1: Like there's people listening that knew it was DeVante Adams.
Speaker 7: Then I spent a minute explaining the wrong ad like
Speaker 7: that's just that's like when you lose on a real
Speaker 7: game show.
Speaker 6: Turn the channel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, DeVante, Yeah, he's just like that transfer student and
Speaker 1: you never leave, you know, get closer to your girlfriend
Speaker 1: in college. You know, I could just know it goes
Speaker 1: that melts away and all of a sudden, it's like,
Speaker 1: now what am I doing? That's kind of where he is.
Speaker 1: And I think Adams in like put some serious football
Speaker 1: guy hat.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I wonder like if he's had a lot of talks
Speaker 1: with his agent like this offseason, and he knows part
Speaker 1: of the reason he left, not the whole reason Green
Speaker 1: Bay was like to get paid like a super duper star.
Speaker 3: Right and respect respected.
Speaker 1: They wanted to show he could do it without Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: And but getting that huge contract makes it it prohibitive
Speaker 1: for the Raiders to move on, is what we're hearing. Anyway,
Speaker 1: these things always tend to work themselves out, but right now,
Speaker 1: it's like, I don't always even if the Raiders wanted
Speaker 1: to reallocate the resource and go in a different direction
Speaker 1: right now, they really can't. And Adams is kind of
Speaker 1: locked in there for another year of his prime which
Speaker 1: is now he's getting later into his prime, so I
Speaker 1: wonder just where his headspace is as he gets ready
Speaker 1: for a new school year. Put it that way.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and that regime can't just say this was the
Speaker 7: move of the last regime. They went and got him,
Speaker 7: and it's their job to make it work out. And
Speaker 7: you're in a chaotic situation, especially if Jimmy G is
Speaker 7: not If he's just Jimmy G, you're gonna have problems
Speaker 7: to send degree if he's not healthy.
Speaker 1: Jimmy G is the Smoke Show by the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Derek Carr is the girl who flunked out.
Speaker 7: And that's what's threw me because I was thinking, we're
Speaker 7: talking Jimmy G is the Smoke Show individual. But I've
Speaker 7: already described why I had this wrong, so I don't
Speaker 7: need to do it again.
Speaker 5: I'm a little worried about the summer of DeVante, like
Speaker 5: definitely different from last very different.
Speaker 1: Wow. I mean the whole hook around DeVante Adams last
Speaker 1: summer was that like, no one who's having a better center's.
Speaker 3: Friends right together? Yeah bummer? All right, Okay, that one was.
Speaker 1: Good, but we are now we're four for four, by
Speaker 1: the way, which is both good and bad. But it's
Speaker 1: actually good that we have some wrong answers in the
Speaker 1: mix too. Colleen, you're up, Okay, here we go.
Speaker 5: So I've never met a camera that doesn't love me.
Speaker 5: I grew up, guys, kind of being a little bit
Speaker 5: of a ham. I also played hockey at home in Wisconsin,
Speaker 5: spent some time delivering pizzas. I feel like it makes
Speaker 5: me more of a man of the people. Sure, if
Speaker 5: you're wondering, my hobbies include winning.
Speaker 3: Awards and working out. Yea, those things I live for,
Speaker 3: I breathe for.
Speaker 5: I have a big season of just like chilling coming
Speaker 5: my way, unless I decide not to do that. My
Speaker 5: last team, well, it's an abject disaster, and the team
Speaker 5: before that has been a wasteland for years. I'm joining
Speaker 5: Bob and Andre in a very exclusive club.
Speaker 3: Bob and Andre.
Speaker 5: My mom, Connie, this is true, probably doesn't have her
Speaker 5: own summer of Connie, but she must be proud of
Speaker 5: all of her athletic kids.
Speaker 3: Sure, very athletic.
Speaker 6: Yeah it is.
Speaker 3: My first name is Justin Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yep, well you I had it at Wisconsin hockey player.
Speaker 3: I should have put that lower.
Speaker 7: I interviewed him once during Super Bowl week when he
Speaker 7: was had just played his first season, and I knew
Speaker 7: about the pizza delivery thing, and so we talked about
Speaker 7: that at length.
Speaker 3: All Right, it's like you guys follow the league or something.
Speaker 1: If the audience is unaware, it is justin James Watt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Is there talking about what potentially coming out of retirement?
Speaker 1: Is there? Well?
Speaker 5: So I thought that the fact that he doesn't want
Speaker 5: to sign the one day contract with the Texans to
Speaker 5: enter their ring of honor, which is just two people,
Speaker 5: Bob McNair and Andre John, that.
Speaker 1: Was a good one. Yeah, didn't throw me up at it.
Speaker 1: Also was like I wonder what the hell she's talking.
Speaker 5: About exactly, But you can't really have a ring when
Speaker 5: you only have two people. So now he's going to
Speaker 5: enter this like triangle I guess of honor. But he
Speaker 5: does not want to sign the one day contract And
Speaker 5: it's interesting that he doesn't want to sign it because
Speaker 5: I guess signing it makes it a little more complicated
Speaker 5: if he does want to come out.
Speaker 1: Of Isn't that just a piece of paper that's exactly
Speaker 1: filing of the actual paper over the league? Isn't that
Speaker 1: where because.
Speaker 3: He hasn't filed any of his retirement paper.
Speaker 1: Well yet or should he? Yeah? Why would anybody?
Speaker 6: Like I'd wait a while?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, see where where take your time? You've played
Speaker 1: football since you were ten years old, and you've decided
Speaker 1: to shut it down. You don't know or what if the.
Speaker 6: Chiefs come calling or something.
Speaker 7: It's like, you're not going to go play for an
Speaker 7: absolute and enfranchise, but maybe a Super Bowl contender.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to feel a little without any anything to
Speaker 1: back this up, I'm starting to feel a sandwich prop.
Speaker 1: Oh JJ Watt signs with a contender and it's like
Speaker 1: a it's I kind of love that. Yeah. No, he
Speaker 1: doesn't have to go through summer OTA's training camp, even
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season where he gets dinged up
Speaker 1: like he just stays in shape, shows up around Halloween
Speaker 1: maybe a little after, and all of a sudden, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's on the He's playing an Arrowhead at the end
Speaker 1: of January for a chance to go to this.
Speaker 6: A great idea.
Speaker 1: He's never won, that's true, seems like a guy that
Speaker 1: would be like I always wanted to win one.
Speaker 6: Most guys go to like Pittsburgh and play with TJ.
Speaker 5: Watt, But I just always thought, you know, it's it's
Speaker 5: a one day contract, just a piece of paper, which
Speaker 5: is what he said. But if he did sign it
Speaker 5: and then retired after the fact, he would be on
Speaker 5: the Texans reserve list, and then he would need to act.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't want let's know, that's messy to release.
Speaker 1: Let's in general, if you're J. J. Watts, steer clear
Speaker 1: of the Cardinals and Texans. Yeah, give him some space.
Speaker 1: You could always come back to either organization and time.
Speaker 1: I'd let this marinate of him him. Where's justin Herbert from?
Speaker 5: I mean I always think Oregon just because he played there,
Speaker 5: but I think he's from California, somewhere.
Speaker 3: Like Organization, Orange County.
Speaker 1: And Eugene, Oregon. Does anyone my neighbor is from Oregon?
Speaker 1: I am going to tee him up on that word
Speaker 1: and just see what. I'm gonna see what he says.
Speaker 1: I say, Oregon, it's a big NHL. Should I call
Speaker 1: my neighbor see the answer? Yeah? Do it?
Speaker 3: I love this.
Speaker 6: What's uh? What's the neighbor's name?
Speaker 1: Nate? He's a really good guy.
Speaker 6: Don't even tell me he's on the show.
Speaker 10: I should I should tell him?
Speaker 9: Yo?
Speaker 1: Uh? Nate? I am right now in the podcast studio,
Speaker 1: and you're on right now because you're from Oregon. Correct correct?
Speaker 1: A famous quarterback Justin Herbert, as you know. He he
Speaker 1: was in the doing the media earlier this week and
Speaker 1: he said a word that we bumped up against. And
Speaker 1: we're wondering if all people from Oregon say this word
Speaker 1: this way? Can I text you the word and then
Speaker 1: have you pronounce it? Okay, here it comes.
Speaker 3: I got the suspense.
Speaker 1: All right, you're here by the way with Mark Sessler
Speaker 1: and Colleen Well, okay, here it comes.
Speaker 6: I hope you type this correctly.
Speaker 1: Everybody happy, June?
Speaker 3: Yes, good, all right?
Speaker 1: I just sent you the word organization.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, okay, so outlier, yeah, outlier.
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert said organization. And we didn't know if that
Speaker 1: was an Oregon thing.
Speaker 6: Like was it territorial?
Speaker 3: Are his parents Canadian?
Speaker 1: What is there?
Speaker 9: Is there?
Speaker 1: Weird organ stuff? We were just going over some weird
Speaker 1: Philadelphia stuff earlier show today.
Speaker 3: A lot of weird phillies.
Speaker 1: You get, Oh interesting? All right, I owe you a
Speaker 1: beer for this. I'll see it slicing plant later, all right, guys,
Speaker 1: all right, later there he goes my neighbor Nate, So
Speaker 1: that was an outlier. Yeah, is there any Canadian blood?
Speaker 3: And I'm trying to find I'm not sure. I haven't
Speaker 3: come across anything yet.
Speaker 1: All right, Uh, well, who's up?
Speaker 6: I believe I am?
Speaker 7: Yeah, the last one, Yeah, and last one and there
Speaker 7: we go. That's two percent energy. So I'm gonna read
Speaker 7: this off my phone.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 7: I was born about forty minutes from your Chris Wesleyan
Speaker 7: podcast studio here in West Covina, Californias. That seem about
Speaker 7: how long you're out in the ten. I was a
Speaker 7: first round pick, obviously. One strange fact about me. When
Speaker 7: I was in high school, you have to pick an elective. Yeah,
Speaker 7: all in your core classes. My friend and I we
Speaker 7: picked typing because, uh this it had the like this
Speaker 7: is a quote from when someone said about why we
Speaker 7: picked up. My friend basically had all the good looking
Speaker 7: girls in it. We were the only two guys in
Speaker 7: this typing class. He bowed out. I took typing two,
Speaker 7: like two point zero or the next.
Speaker 1: Levels of second level.
Speaker 7: Well, if he stuck with it, he was the only
Speaker 7: guy in the cl I was the only guy in
Speaker 7: the class. But then my competitive nature took over because
Speaker 7: I was raised in a well no, this is high school.
Speaker 1: I was raised in a well university.
Speaker 7: I was raised as an adult, basically from age six
Speaker 7: or seven on, to be extremely competitive, and so in
Speaker 7: this typing class, I didn't care who was in the class.
Speaker 7: I started to take it very seriously, and I wound
Speaker 7: up winning the state typing title by typing ninety more
Speaker 7: than ninety words a minute without a mistake. I mean absence.
Speaker 1: That's remarkable.
Speaker 7: Yes, from an early time, you knew that that that
Speaker 7: I was competitive.
Speaker 1: That means he's probably you have to have a level
Speaker 1: of I think intellectual brain power and coordination.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think that's exactly what I was feeling when I
Speaker 7: was winning that title. So my pro career got off
Speaker 7: to a rocky start in my third season, and the
Speaker 7: team I came to was literally worse than the college
Speaker 7: team I left. It was and for a number of years,
Speaker 7: but by the third season we started to sing. But
Speaker 7: I got injured and the backup came in and won
Speaker 7: the final five games of the season propelled us to
Speaker 7: the playoffs. And my coach, who was a very fiery,
Speaker 7: very fiery individual with a lot of opinions and also
Speaker 7: was essentially our general manager replaced me in the playoff
Speaker 7: he didn't have. He put the backup in the playoff
Speaker 7: game and they won, and so it was a huge
Speaker 7: pivotal win for a franchise in search of itself. And
Speaker 7: the next week we got our doors blown off and
Speaker 7: one of the one of the biggest wipeouts our franchise
Speaker 7: has ever experienced in a playoff game. And then the
Speaker 7: coach stuck me back in there in that game for
Speaker 7: me to be on the losing side of at the end.
Speaker 7: So I basically almost wanted to trade this coach. Also,
Speaker 7: when I was draft it drafted another player at my position,
Speaker 7: also in the first round.
Speaker 6: Technically it was in the supplemental draft.
Speaker 7: And so the first season plus I kept going back
Speaker 7: and forth being told I'm not even sure in the
Speaker 7: starter of this team. Finally they traded that guy and
Speaker 7: I became the dug in starter, and I went on.
Speaker 6: To have a celebrated career.
Speaker 7: And I would let you know that like it's you
Speaker 7: may be thinking this is a player from the past,
Speaker 7: I'm still in your world all the time. My coach,
Speaker 7: that fiery coach is in television. My star wide receiver
Speaker 7: was in television, My my full back was in television.
Speaker 7: My star running back tried television but kind of flamed out.
Speaker 6: I did not. I'm there with you every single week
Speaker 6: I would.
Speaker 7: I'd say that I'm widely considered to be manly good looking,
Speaker 7: and if you if you knew the position I played,
Speaker 7: you'd be like, that's what that that's what that position
Speaker 7: should look like.
Speaker 6: That's that. They always said that.
Speaker 1: And so I'm in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 7: I spend football Sundays and Mondays with my best friend
Speaker 7: and Joe. I had a ranch next to Pat summer All.
Speaker 7: I believe I still do. I'm not sure before Pat
Speaker 7: summer All passed away. Okay, that's all I'm gonna tell
Speaker 7: you for now. I can provide more facts, but.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was completely in the dark. What do
Speaker 1: you got, Colleen, No, I don't.
Speaker 3: I'm meandering through this maze right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you mentioned I hang out with my friend Joe.
Speaker 1: So is Troy Aikman. Yeah, Troigman's an expert typer. Yeah ninety.
Speaker 7: When I went and did this like research, I was
Speaker 7: like starting to go down massive wormholes because like, there's
Speaker 7: a lot of stuff out Troyigman that people don't.
Speaker 1: Know I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2: What.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so much of that stuff was just like, so,
Speaker 7: Jimmy Johnson, they drafted Troy Aikman first overall in nineteen
Speaker 7: eighty nine, and a couple months later, Jimmy Johnson drafts
Speaker 7: Steve Walsh, his Miami quarterback, in the supplemental draft, and
Speaker 7: so the first couple of years of Aikman's up and down, like,
Speaker 7: is Steve Walsh the guy that Jimmy Johnson really wants
Speaker 7: is then they traded Steve Walsh and then Steve Berline
Speaker 7: was this guy that like that, Doug basically dragged the
Speaker 7: Cowboys into the playoffs and they wouldn't start Jimmie Johnson
Speaker 7: wouldn't start Akman when they beat the Bears, and what
Speaker 7: was a very pivotal It's like this Cowboys team is
Speaker 7: starting to take shape. But after that, they lost to
Speaker 7: Detroit the next it's the last time Detroit won a
Speaker 7: playoff game. They blew the Dallas absolute lights out, and
Speaker 7: Troy that's right kind.
Speaker 1: Of because it was a lot of this happened twenty
Speaker 1: five years ago, like a quarter so well, I know,
Speaker 1: so I was like, I go slowly lead you there.
Speaker 1: It was cool because he is still highly relevant for
Speaker 1: football thing.
Speaker 6: I feel like I see more of him than anyone.
Speaker 3: So that was well done.
Speaker 1: If you didn't mention the buck thing, I would have
Speaker 1: never put it together. Well, that was like the last
Speaker 1: clue because it was just like, Okay, here's what he is.
Speaker 3: Good work, great stuff.
Speaker 1: That's so we did get them all, but we really
Speaker 1: some of them. We really needed that last little good.
Speaker 6: Stuff makes for a good game show.
Speaker 1: I think good seg, good seg? Who am? I will
Speaker 1: be back? Maybe? Maybe not.
Speaker 3: We have the listeners do one one time maybe and
Speaker 3: then have.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of pressure on the listeners, you know, and.
Speaker 5: Then the producer will have answers. So if it's Randy,
Speaker 5: he'll know, and then we guess maybe next June.
Speaker 1: Put that in the ideas file. Colleen does it again? Colleen,
Speaker 1: you've said it all.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Where you go next? What happens next?
Speaker 3: What happens next? Are you leaving us great questions?
Speaker 5: I'm here for all of June, and then I'm going
Speaker 5: to Hawaii July, anywhere else, just up to San Francisco
Speaker 5: and then a little Maui and then I'm back here
Speaker 5: in July, ready to rock and ready for training care.
Speaker 1: We are living vicariously through you county. Absolutely all right,
Speaker 1: good stuff. Everybody enjoy their weekend. Greg will be back
Speaker 1: on Monday. Until then, you know what we've got to do.
Speaker 1: Pay the call.