Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast disappoints at Open my kind
Speaker 1: from the Chris Westlan podcast studio. It's the Round the
Speaker 1: NFL Podcast. My name is dand hansis joined by Greg
Speaker 1: Rosenthal Mark Sessler. Tuesday show Baby A lot to get to,
Speaker 1: but I want to introduce a new friend of the show,
Speaker 1: new friend of NFL network, a woman who I mean,
Speaker 1: she's she's changing things, let's put it that way. She's
Speaker 1: changing the way the industry operates. And um, she hosts
Speaker 1: a television show. Greg's on it. Maybe she'll overpower him
Speaker 1: in time and it'll be her show loop. She's also
Speaker 1: a brown span can the name of the show. It
Speaker 1: is NFL Game Debut racheltast. Thank you guys, thanks for
Speaker 1: having me. I don't know where you were going with that.
Speaker 1: It's really excited about it. So Rachel, um, first of all,
Speaker 1: so great to have you here. I got a text
Speaker 1: shortly after your arrival at the network from an old friend,
Speaker 1: Dave damashek hey, fella kinda got this banetta involved. It's
Speaker 1: really good, it's really funny. So you could thank Dave
Speaker 1: for this, which I don't know if it's a gift
Speaker 1: or a burden. It's absolutely a gift. I'm such a
Speaker 1: fan of all of you guys. I just met you
Speaker 1: two seconds ago and we're both big Brownies fans. I
Speaker 1: can probably learn some things from you. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: Damnishek is great. Every single person that I've run into
Speaker 1: in this building said the same thing. That's funny, like
Speaker 1: I've got a reputation already, but I got a similar
Speaker 1: text from Damnishek. It was the exact same language that
Speaker 1: he said, Dan, So it didn't feel it actually start
Speaker 1: to be a little weird, almost weird. Oh you know,
Speaker 1: you know it is also a little bit weird. And
Speaker 1: you should know this, Rachel, because yes, Mark is a
Speaker 1: Browns fan. I wore my socks for him today. Yes,
Speaker 1: and that's all nice and that's a great gesture. But
Speaker 1: you're not the only You're not the only Browns fan
Speaker 1: in the building. And it's a little bit on Mark's
Speaker 1: radar that there are too many Browns fans connected to
Speaker 1: NFL media. So there is Greg, would you say there
Speaker 1: might be like a level of tensions, little tension, well,
Speaker 1: because he he looks at like Okay, the producers like
Speaker 1: gotta have someone to talk Browns today. And they're like,
Speaker 1: you know, Joe Thomas and Hawkins and Chris Rose Siliano,
Speaker 1: now Bonetta's in the mix, and yeah, it makes Mark
Speaker 1: less special. I mean my Mark in before they call, right,
Speaker 1: My problem is mostly with Joe Thomas and uh, you
Speaker 1: know he and I can you know we can get
Speaker 1: into that at a different time. Here's the thing. Can
Speaker 1: I just say one thing as a disclaimer? I know
Speaker 1: that it is so annoying that I'm a Browns fan
Speaker 1: because I've just only been a Browns fan for the
Speaker 1: last few years, and you, sir, have been through some pain. Okay,
Speaker 1: I experienced like a tic tac of pain, but not
Speaker 1: what you have, and now I get to enjoy some
Speaker 1: exciting years. On the other hand, he Connecticut, so well
Speaker 1: then what the heck? I picked them by choice, so
Speaker 1: it wasn't in a tik tak of pain. I don't
Speaker 1: wish on you either, So it's like it's not easy.
Speaker 1: It still isn't. And the idea that people in my
Speaker 1: lifetime we're jumping into the Browns experience, you know, by choice,
Speaker 1: is special and I knew that would have come back
Speaker 1: in Um, I think you're sort of like a flag
Speaker 1: bearer on that front. So, like you said, I am
Speaker 1: changing the game. You're changing the game in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways. Mark wasn't. That wasn't totally sincere though, Mark,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a pain and an anger inside. It
Speaker 1: might come out later on the show. The way the
Speaker 1: show works is, especially when a new person comes on,
Speaker 1: Greg will, Um, you know, he'll cook up four or
Speaker 1: five pot shots, then Dan will and they'll force me
Speaker 1: into some sort of like angry lather and I'll go
Speaker 1: at go at them and you'll enjoy it. So I
Speaker 1: just we need other people for that. Just saw his
Speaker 1: skin tone like turn he was saying that, Um, alright,
Speaker 1: so Rachel's here and it's awesome, and yes, Rachel Canadian.
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know that. Look at that. Really,
Speaker 1: I feel like I talked about it too much. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: I am for the listeners of this show that weren't aware.
Speaker 1: So uh. There was a time when Rachel picked a
Speaker 1: team it was the Brown and along those lines, where
Speaker 1: we are right now in the NFL season, where we
Speaker 1: are as fans of our own fandom, as everyone knows
Speaker 1: that listens to the show, I'm in a very dark
Speaker 1: place with the Jets right now. Um, what if you
Speaker 1: were picking a fan bay or picking a team right now?
Speaker 1: That what was that? I'm not doing that all right,
Speaker 1: that's I don't need that. Um, if we were picking
Speaker 1: a team right now, who would you pick? And we're
Speaker 1: all going to kind of share some thoughts on I'm
Speaker 1: legitimately angry. It was not It was not a good Sunday.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do that and Rachel's gonna help us
Speaker 1: out because Rachel actually has real world experience as a
Speaker 1: an adult woman. You you went through it all. I
Speaker 1: think in the last nine minutes everything is strange. Um,
Speaker 1: you made Twitter bio. Yes, as an adult woman, you
Speaker 1: made the decision to go with the Browns, and we're
Speaker 1: going to make a decision as adult men and you're
Speaker 1: still a woman. Um. Also, Thursday Night football recap of
Speaker 1: Thursday preview, I should say Packers Cardinals And you know what,
Speaker 1: the schedule makers that they didn't think this was gonna happen.
Speaker 1: They don't want to give the NFL network Thursday night
Speaker 1: game at this level. They thought, oh, the Cardinals will
Speaker 1: be an okay team. It's okay, but it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's once they switch it off, you know, they start
Speaker 1: going back, alright, schedules where you're going with? Thank you?
Speaker 1: All right, you're right, it's technically Fox, but NFL networks
Speaker 1: all over the coverage, yes or no, I'm saying they
Speaker 1: have the NFL Network games early and I give you Greg,
Speaker 1: But what about this time this season they're going big
Speaker 1: the number one showing Dan. Would you like me just
Speaker 1: to assassinate you right now here in right here in
Speaker 1: the middle. I would like to see it's to cap this, okay? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Thursday night, it was supposed to be a okay Cardinals
Speaker 1: team with a great quarterback against the great Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Instead we get two of the best teams in the league,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna preview that game. Um, and we got
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football to recap and put a cap on
Speaker 1: Week seven. But before that, I just want to play
Speaker 1: a couple of things real quick, a little catch up.
Speaker 1: We didn't have a chance to get to it, um
Speaker 1: on Sunday Night show. But can we get the Jerry Sandusky?
Speaker 1: Uh not that one w B. A. L. Ravens play
Speaker 1: by play man and his partner reacting to something crazy
Speaker 1: going down in the booth. You got that Ricky Tyler
Speaker 1: Boyd has the first short game out to the thirty
Speaker 1: four yard lot. Again impressive coverage by Anthony what are
Speaker 1: you doing? If you were listening, you're herd family saying
Speaker 1: what are you doing? What are you doing? He was
Speaker 1: not talking to the players of the coe. We actually
Speaker 1: had a fan of was trying to climb into the
Speaker 1: broadcast booth. She said, I'm a veteran and I'm looking
Speaker 1: for a drink. I don't serve drinks at the game.
Speaker 1: I might make some cocktails at home, but this is
Speaker 1: not the right time or place. You just never know
Speaker 1: what's gonna pop up or who's gonna show up on
Speaker 1: game day. Two things that were awesome about that one
Speaker 1: when Sandusky says, hey, what do you do? Or his
Speaker 1: partner says, what are you doing? And then there's a
Speaker 1: long pause. We cut it down there, so if you're
Speaker 1: a listener, like you tuned in to listen to your
Speaker 1: favorite team, you don't know what happened at that point.
Speaker 1: What's going on in that booth? A lot of mystery.
Speaker 1: And then the lady popping in, the woman popping in,
Speaker 1: the adult woman popping in. I'm a veteran. That's pretty ballsy.
Speaker 1: You gotta respect that I do. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: like I feel like like my friends at some stage
Speaker 1: of um, you know, spirits within you might be capable
Speaker 1: of a similar attempt non veterans not they are adult males,
Speaker 1: but like maybe climbing into a booth. I think that
Speaker 1: what is this, like Madman, is the booth in Baltimore
Speaker 1: have like a full liquor cabinet? Or what does everyone
Speaker 1: have like one moment in their lives that they've done
Speaker 1: something like this? Just me, there was one time I
Speaker 1: was at one one is there? Well, one time that
Speaker 1: stands out there was probably it was one time I
Speaker 1: was at a Drake concert and I had to get
Speaker 1: There was just too many people on either side of me,
Speaker 1: and I was on the floor and I wanted to
Speaker 1: get out to go get a drink. And I stepped
Speaker 1: on the wrong part of a folding chair and the
Speaker 1: chair clothes on my leg. That sticks out to me
Speaker 1: this probably this woman is you know this is a
Speaker 1: folding chair moment. She has used that Veteran card a lot. Look, look,
Speaker 1: we love the Veterans Marines sponsor of our fighters, but
Speaker 1: that's a step too far using the V card, Like
Speaker 1: that's not the time for it. Yeah, well that's typically
Speaker 1: not how I've heard. The V card wasn't a panic
Speaker 1: V card. It's like every once in a while, Chris,
Speaker 1: you know, our great friend Chris Wesley, and he would
Speaker 1: he would break out the cancer card, like when when
Speaker 1: he was recovering, like including like getting in line at
Speaker 1: a are something like. He wasn't he wasn't shy about it.
Speaker 1: But you have to be judicious. You have to do
Speaker 1: it at the right should you or if you have
Speaker 1: the card, to use it when you want. If I
Speaker 1: had a car, if I had any card, I would
Speaker 1: use it whenever I want it. I had a particularly
Speaker 1: rough post college breakup with a girlfriend who was up
Speaker 1: in Boston and I was living in New York, and
Speaker 1: we all went up there, me and my buddies because
Speaker 1: we went to school up there a few months afterwards.
Speaker 1: And earlier in the day I had had the lunch
Speaker 1: with the X to just say, hey, what's going on,
Speaker 1: and like I wanted to get back with her and
Speaker 1: she didn't want to get back with me. Tough situation.
Speaker 1: So then cut till later in the night, cut till
Speaker 1: later in the night. Uh, you know, some drinking had
Speaker 1: been involved and it got and I'm not saying it
Speaker 1: wanted to work if we got together, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: it would. Is she still out there? I mean she's
Speaker 1: a human woman somewhere that's kids in his area. I'm
Speaker 1: learning about you guys know it in time for you
Speaker 1: to approach her now. But anyway, so things got so loose.
Speaker 1: Cut to Fanuel Hall later that night, and I actually
Speaker 1: lift an entire bottle of jack from behind the bar,
Speaker 1: and it was kind of a legendary thing amongst our friends.
Speaker 1: But had I been caught doing that, the beating of
Speaker 1: all beatings from a Boston bouncer would have went down.
Speaker 1: That would be my veteran moment. I think, you say, dude,
Speaker 1: I just went through a bad breakup. That's your breakup card.
Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be break I thought it
Speaker 1: was gonna be a B car two B card, V card,
Speaker 1: C card, all sorts of cards. One other thing, we
Speaker 1: need to update the situation with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 1: fan who was rewarded for giving up Tom Brady six
Speaker 1: dred TV. This was a hot point of debate between
Speaker 1: Greg and Mark on Sunday Show, and uh, you know
Speaker 1: I had mentioned it seems a thousand dollar gift card
Speaker 1: he got, which is basically, here, we'll give you money
Speaker 1: to be a walking billboard for us. And it didn't
Speaker 1: seem like that good a prize for giving back Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's ball, But it turns out he got a lot
Speaker 1: more than that. Okay. So a team source told the
Speaker 1: SPN that Byron Kennedy, who was sitting in the end zone,
Speaker 1: got the ball, will receive two signed Brady jersey's, a helmet,
Speaker 1: another jersey geographed by Mike Evans, and Evans is gain
Speaker 1: warrened cleats. Uh. Brady also told the Mannings on the
Speaker 1: Manning Cast that he promised Kennedy that he'd received one bitcoin,
Speaker 1: which had a value of more than sixty two thousand
Speaker 1: as of Tuesday morning. So in the end, everybody kind
Speaker 1: of wins, Like the Bucks look like an amazing organization,
Speaker 1: and Brady is cool, and the fan is giving and
Speaker 1: also receiving, everybody wins. Rachel, No, I'm out on this.
Speaker 1: It was like I was watching him this morning. He
Speaker 1: was like negotiating. This is an important moment in Tom
Speaker 1: Brady and just football fans lives. Get the ball back,
Speaker 1: don't negotiate for a bit coin. He didn't give the back.
Speaker 1: You know who you're dealing with. First of all, this
Speaker 1: guy he was holding like a house in his hands.
Speaker 1: He could buy a house with them. Tom Brady has
Speaker 1: literally everything he could want. What what? What is one
Speaker 1: extra ball? And then you have to watch on the
Speaker 1: Manning cast. Brady goes on there and Brady while he
Speaker 1: pointed that out, and the guy got two years of
Speaker 1: season tickets to which is significantly Really, Brady pointed out,
Speaker 1: like his problem was he just gave the ball back
Speaker 1: immediately and then started negotiating. It's like I had him
Speaker 1: where I wanted him. Then Brady's ruthless, like another ball.
Speaker 1: I think he would just an other thing for his
Speaker 1: little trophy case. He can have anything, he says. He
Speaker 1: doesn't keep a lot of stuff, so maybe this was important.
Speaker 1: What you're saying he should not This is greg again.
Speaker 1: He should want it. I'm saying the guy if if
Speaker 1: he wanted, like if Brady is saying, the smart move
Speaker 1: would have been not to give it to me. I
Speaker 1: trust Brady in this scenario, like I I don't need
Speaker 1: him to do anything out of goodness of his Heartford,
Speaker 1: But this is why you give things to a small child,
Speaker 1: not like a sentient man looking to become result man.
Speaker 1: Got big coins going on. Please, all right, good stuff,
Speaker 1: we're all caught up. Let's do some money in football.
Speaker 1: They got seven deep in the secondary, drouts back in
Speaker 1: the ends. One after the snack gets away from pressure,
Speaker 1: runs in the end zone, stops plant throws. It's a
Speaker 1: mon center shot that in conclude with the tent. It
Speaker 1: goes over to New Orleans on downs and this baby
Speaker 1: is over. Doc Kevan Arlan with the call. Geno Smith
Speaker 1: had three chances in three weeks to be a hero.
Speaker 1: He's still us, sorry, Greg. Thirteen ten Saints over Seahawks.
Speaker 1: Gino takes two sacks, throws an incompletion on fourth and forever,
Speaker 1: and the Saints defense holds go on to win in
Speaker 1: a very very tough football game to watch, a game
Speaker 1: that didn't have a lot of action, didn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of elite quarterback play, but greggy in the end,
Speaker 1: the Saints got another win. They've got four of six
Speaker 1: now to start their season. Yeah, we get to the
Speaker 1: geno of it all maybe in a minute, but the
Speaker 1: Saints have kind of shown they're gonna beat up on
Speaker 1: anyone that's not a great quarterback like Taylor Heineke had
Speaker 1: his worst game of the season against the Saints. Mac
Speaker 1: Jones had his worst game of the season by far
Speaker 1: against the Saints. Aaron Rodgers, who is a great quarterback,
Speaker 1: had his worst game of the season against the Saints.
Speaker 1: And it was impressive to see, like Ta Mario Davis
Speaker 1: be this good, Marcus Davenport who returned and add a
Speaker 1: lot of juice to that group. Marshawn Lattimore gave up
Speaker 1: the big play early, but then you know, did much
Speaker 1: better he was he was on one last night, like
Speaker 1: not many defenses matter. They came in third in d
Speaker 1: v O ay, like they are a rare defense that matters,
Speaker 1: and that's going to give him at least a chance
Speaker 1: and I think get them to the playoffs? Is it
Speaker 1: my term? I don't know what you're talking about. No
Speaker 1: action happening. Did you not watch Pete Carroll throw his
Speaker 1: piece of gum on the ground? And I've ever seen
Speaker 1: somebody so mad that they threw their piece of gum.
Speaker 1: Are you guys chumps hard? But every once in a while,
Speaker 1: because it's like chilled, it's like you just want every
Speaker 1: different type of flavor in these games and it was close.
Speaker 1: You didn't know it was gonna win. It was ugly.
Speaker 1: I think it helped that I was watching the Manning cast,
Speaker 1: but I'm saying to me it was in joyably weird
Speaker 1: and ugly. Like to watch Geno Smith and Jamis go
Speaker 1: back and forth in a monsoon at first and there's
Speaker 1: like no scoring. They're like, I realized as I'm watching this, Oh,
Speaker 1: this will never happen. Speaking of Jamie's you know, if
Speaker 1: you want to live on the wild side and maybe
Speaker 1: you're not into like bungee jumping and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: take Jamis no picks and just see what happens in
Speaker 1: the langue. Because I was on my seat edge of
Speaker 1: my seat a few times. Um, I think that, you
Speaker 1: know what, I just feel really bad that got away.
Speaker 1: You write this down, which is that was my re
Speaker 1: on the show that we have on Friday are her
Speaker 1: Lock was Jamis Winston doesn't throw a pick came through.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. They're not going to do it. That's
Speaker 1: pretty goods happening, I think, I mean the last the
Speaker 1: last time someone fired a ball at Jamal Adams and
Speaker 1: it smacked him in the face mask as if he
Speaker 1: had never seen a football before. They're not exactly ball
Speaker 1: hawks um over there in Seattle. You know. I here's
Speaker 1: the thing. I did not love it as much because
Speaker 1: I think love is strong for whatever. Yeah, I did
Speaker 1: not like as much because I think back to a
Speaker 1: Saint Seahawks primetime game and I think about Drew Brees
Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson and slinging it back and forth, and
Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting Mark, how you had Drew
Speaker 1: Brees on the Manning cast and he's searching for the
Speaker 1: right way to put it, but it's very hard for
Speaker 1: him to watch Jameis Winston running his offense. And I
Speaker 1: just think these are two too. We know Geno's not
Speaker 1: Seattle's quarterback, but I don't think Jameis Winston is the
Speaker 1: quarterback of the future for New Orleans either. Um. So
Speaker 1: it just was kind of a rough watch. No running
Speaker 1: game really to speak of, no passing game to speak of,
Speaker 1: a lot of mistakes and unforced errors. This one is
Speaker 1: good in the in the rear view from total stop
Speaker 1: gap action at quarterback on both sides. Um. I can't
Speaker 1: help but just think about, you know, years from now,
Speaker 1: will this game have any meaning on the development development
Speaker 1: of myself as a person who I am. The answer
Speaker 1: is absolutely not that. How you look at sports events,
Speaker 1: it's hard. But I was Brown's game that that that
Speaker 1: would be yes to. Well. I don't know, Greg, I
Speaker 1: guess when the Seahawks are operating at four yards per
Speaker 1: play and the Saints at four point five and we're
Speaker 1: watching a flat Earth or a goo over two on
Speaker 1: primetime football two weeks in a row, it's a little
Speaker 1: bit distasteful for me. I'm feeling good, though. Um. We
Speaker 1: have a thing. We forked teams when we don't believe
Speaker 1: in them anymore. If they're not going to make the playoffs,
Speaker 1: you gotta do it. Early forked the Seahawks a solid
Speaker 1: week ago, and we're meant to agree, um, and we're
Speaker 1: i to lose that bet. A meet up group of
Speaker 1: my little pony friendship is magic. Um, Brownies would receive
Speaker 1: like a I don't know how much money a bitcoin made,
Speaker 1: but that is I'm not going to be contributing anything
Speaker 1: because this team is like multiple thousand games out of
Speaker 1: first place right now and heading nowhere. And I think
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll said it best that we're Russell Wilson. Not
Speaker 1: in his life he would have been eject or seated
Speaker 1: out of Seattle a decade ago. Here's the case, here's
Speaker 1: the case for Seattle getting back into this. First of all,
Speaker 1: the back end of the NFC not too hot, the
Speaker 1: front end loaded big time teams, five big time teams.
Speaker 1: Then there's some wiggle room in an extra wild card
Speaker 1: spot as of last year. They get the Jaguars next,
Speaker 1: then a bye, so just beat the Jaguars just then
Speaker 1: rust back comes back against the Packers and then Cardinals. Right,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, so yeah, so you get the you get
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, you get a buy. Then you're a Green
Speaker 1: Bay home Cardinals at Washington. So you don't come back
Speaker 1: with a soft schedule. But if you come back with
Speaker 1: Russ and get some things fixed up Rachel, then maybe
Speaker 1: they have a chance to get back in this thing.
Speaker 1: I just are you guys all? I know you're married,
Speaker 1: you're okay, all married so much so you know when
Speaker 1: your partner leaves, maybe on a work trip, and you're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I don't know how to work the
Speaker 1: laundry machine, I don't know how to make toast. Maybe
Speaker 1: am I projecting that's what my boyfriend? Okay, that's what
Speaker 1: I feel like happened with this Seahawks team being down
Speaker 1: Russ all of a sudden, Everyone's just like, oh, Russ
Speaker 1: has been carrying this team for so long and they
Speaker 1: had so much drama last year. As russna leaves, you
Speaker 1: gonna stay, what's happening. He's gonna come back to this
Speaker 1: team holds they get a win against the Jags, but
Speaker 1: you know, it's already kind of been a little bit
Speaker 1: of an icky situation this year. He's going to come
Speaker 1: back to a team that is not flying high with confidence.
Speaker 1: I know. I've seen his little pregame routine where he's
Speaker 1: out there and it's the saddest thing in the world.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, it's the saddest thing in the world.
Speaker 1: Uh So, I feel like he's gonna come back with
Speaker 1: the piste, but he's not self away. I don't think it.
Speaker 1: I think there's a camera right behind him. I think
Speaker 1: he just doesn't care because he's so into it. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if I respect that, if I'm for him,
Speaker 1: I don't. I think it is both for the cameras,
Speaker 1: but in the mindset of a Russell Wilson life, it
Speaker 1: should be let in front of the cameras, so like
Speaker 1: it's genuine but also forced at the same time, it's
Speaker 1: he's got like a weird thing going maybe in that
Speaker 1: two minute drill though he actually can like throw the
Speaker 1: ball on first down or second down. And so that's
Speaker 1: the thing about Geno, Like we know who Gino is,
Speaker 1: he hasn't played above where we expected in these two weeks.
Speaker 1: He's looked like an average backup quarterback who's going to
Speaker 1: struggle against the scenes Steers. But they are not putting
Speaker 1: him or any quarterback in Seattle, including Russell will And
Speaker 1: in a in a position to succeed. They ran against
Speaker 1: eight man boxes. Me and I was pointing this one out.
Speaker 1: I think eleven times in this game they average one
Speaker 1: yard per play. They were going to run, run pass
Speaker 1: all throughout. Now, you know, it's not like he engendered confidence.
Speaker 1: But if you're gonna just keep putting him in third
Speaker 1: and nine and third intents, like of course, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be terrible against one of the best past defenses. The
Speaker 1: reason why they but it's not the first time we've
Speaker 1: seen out of the Seahawks. They have been holding Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson back with this incredibly conservative mindset throughout and no
Speaker 1: matter what you think of your quarterback, if if you
Speaker 1: believe that he struggles, the thing to do is to
Speaker 1: throw on first down and then run and to adapt
Speaker 1: to the game that is in front of you, which
Speaker 1: is that we aren't running the ball well at all.
Speaker 1: That the Saints are a dominant run defense, maybe the
Speaker 1: best in the league, and they're killing us. So it's
Speaker 1: just like Kayton Manning got went crazy about it when
Speaker 1: when they forced the turnover and they got the ball
Speaker 1: on the thirty or whatever her uh in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning says like, now is the time. Do not
Speaker 1: set up second and nine and then third and eight,
Speaker 1: And it was hilarious because that was exactly what it is, like,
Speaker 1: now is the time to throw the ball. Do not
Speaker 1: like you are killing me with another one yard run.
Speaker 1: Here here it comes, one yard run, I mean, but
Speaker 1: another run, one yard run. Right. But to Rachel's point,
Speaker 1: the spouse is away on a business chair, Pete Carroll
Speaker 1: is running the offense he wants to run, and it's
Speaker 1: a run stuffing uh fest for the bros that love
Speaker 1: run stuffing festivals. I mean, it's like, that's what's happening.
Speaker 1: He loves it out of the Saints though, like, where
Speaker 1: are you like? You know, I mean, the strategy wasn't
Speaker 1: changing at all. I agree they didn't put him in
Speaker 1: a in a in a great spot, but I think
Speaker 1: they're stuck with cheers what I can't get them out
Speaker 1: of it too. Here's what I thinks, Mark, They're gonna
Speaker 1: win next week, They're gonna take a bye, russ Is
Speaker 1: gonna come back and win a big game on the
Speaker 1: road in Green Bay, and you're gonna be That's what
Speaker 1: I think. I would be nervous because I don't particularly
Speaker 1: want to see, even with Russell Wilson, the rest of
Speaker 1: this outfit in a playoff game. But I also don't
Speaker 1: want to be, you know, forking over a lot of
Speaker 1: money to my little pony supporters. I think I go ahead.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say you mentioned me and times.
Speaker 1: I feel like she was a perfect representation of all
Speaker 1: Seattle fans this morning. I've never seen her look so sad.
Speaker 1: She was ready. I think on a bigger on a
Speaker 1: bigger scale, I think this could be the end of
Speaker 1: the Pete Carroll run. And that's the whole idea is like,
Speaker 1: if he doesn't have a boss. He's been running this
Speaker 1: organization essentially without ownership since Paul Allen died, and at
Speaker 1: some point someone's gonna have to make a decision. Do
Speaker 1: we let Pete Carroll continue to run it or do
Speaker 1: we try to keep Russell Wilson because it's probably one
Speaker 1: or the other guys writing the obituary too soon. By
Speaker 1: the way, the Saints I think will be in that playoffs.
Speaker 1: I think Jamis played a lot better than you're giving
Speaker 1: him credit for. He missed some throws, for sure, But
Speaker 1: Trake I didn't mention Jamis, right. You said to you know,
Speaker 1: just him and Eggers that are going to be replaced,
Speaker 1: which just I didn't say him, And you said what replace?
Speaker 1: What did you say replacement? Jamis? Did you hear it
Speaker 1: see Russell Wilson on the scene? Did you hear Eli
Speaker 1: just ripping his hair out over the Smith screen pass
Speaker 1: at the end of the game? Jamis? Is he missiled James?
Speaker 1: I just mean he's back to back go balls to
Speaker 1: Kevin White, who's still in the NFL and Kenny Stills
Speaker 1: two perfect throws, Trake one, Smith stops enter out early.
Speaker 1: That's the Jami's experiences. You kind of need one of
Speaker 1: those three throws to come through, all three were on
Speaker 1: the receivers. He has a great two minute drive at
Speaker 1: the end of the first half. He's not great, but
Speaker 1: he's an average starter rough. When I say stopped gap,
Speaker 1: it's because I would imagine that if anyone running the
Speaker 1: show in New Orleans is thinking, do we definitely want
Speaker 1: to do this next year with Jamis Winston. Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: That's called a stop gap. It's a one year thing
Speaker 1: they're trying to figure out. I do want to throw
Speaker 1: in the Manning cast because this is the first time
Speaker 1: I actually gave it a long view, like from break
Speaker 1: the break. It was amazing. Yeah, I think it was
Speaker 1: perfect for this game, which wasn't I think you pay
Speaker 1: a little less attention to the game, which it could
Speaker 1: be good or bad. It's a totally different viewing experience.
Speaker 1: I thought the Brady Quarter was like one of the
Speaker 1: best hours of live TV I've ever seen, well to
Speaker 1: the point where you like to see the Greg hyperbole
Speaker 1: coming from a mile away and I was like, he's
Speaker 1: gonna do it? Is he really gonna say? Ever? The
Speaker 1: best ever? I'm saying, like, Okay, Sports TeV was better.
Speaker 1: The pilot of Friday night Lights the TV show. I said, like, no,
Speaker 1: you didn't know the first time? Best I said live TV.
Speaker 1: I said live like a live So basically that Greg's
Speaker 1: like a misquoting machine right now, I can't even promise
Speaker 1: it's happening, because first of all, they got better, they
Speaker 1: got better answers, and him being natural than anyone ever,
Speaker 1: they're giving him a ton of a ton of grief.
Speaker 1: He's giving it back. And the key thing is when
Speaker 1: they don't have a guest, or when it's a guest
Speaker 1: like Brady, unlike Breeze, who was not a good guest,
Speaker 1: they gave more salient and interesting football analysis than entire
Speaker 1: three hours worth of basically every other podcast there was.
Speaker 1: My stories are always great. It's analysis, and like how
Speaker 1: they're breaking down that defense and the fact that like
Speaker 1: he had been breaking down paulse in a debo this
Speaker 1: week because he's playing the bucks. Like you don't get
Speaker 1: Brady talking about a defense that he's about to play
Speaker 1: with all this stuff and like, no, he knows how
Speaker 1: many many snaps Bradley Roby's taken. He's telling you what
Speaker 1: not and what j r? Or that hour? I said
Speaker 1: live TV and said, no, I would just say like,
Speaker 1: like Eric and I, we've watched them, We've tracked them heavily,
Speaker 1: and we were talking. It was my least favorite Manning
Speaker 1: cast of them all. Um, So I would suggest if
Speaker 1: you can, if you said your LEI you've ever watched it,
Speaker 1: it is so much better than like of like Broadcaster
Speaker 1: A and B like exchange hideous, funky jokes. But it
Speaker 1: was of the of the episode so far, the least inspired.
Speaker 1: I think, I can I say that I think that
Speaker 1: what makes that show really good is for games like that.
Speaker 1: For me, my experience at the Mannecast so far, as
Speaker 1: I check in for about forty five minutes to an
Speaker 1: hour and then I go back to the telecast, because
Speaker 1: I do like, I feel like you're a little disconnected
Speaker 1: when you're on the Mannecast in terms of the moment
Speaker 1: of the game, but in a game like that where
Speaker 1: the game stinks and you're not really that invested in
Speaker 1: either team, That's where I was coming from that. I
Speaker 1: was just settled in with him. I was just like,
Speaker 1: and then my dad was old school. He's at the
Speaker 1: house right now and he's like, Danny, what is this? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't understand that they're just talking what I was like, Dad,
Speaker 1: They're just talking. They're just shooting. That's it. They're just
Speaker 1: talking the game. So that's Colleen Wolf's music. Let's take
Speaker 1: a break. Colleen in Hi Connie, though doesn't know you
Speaker 1: need to be on microphone after all these years. Hi Connie?
Speaker 1: How are you? Honey? Do you Connie? Do you wanna? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How are you? But good to see what's happening? So
Speaker 1: are you? Are you on the Tuesday show anymore? Or
Speaker 1: I want to do? Because my producer Eric has been
Speaker 1: she's been saying a lot of nose lately. Well, let
Speaker 1: me check in on you. We'll see the problem. If
Speaker 1: we did the show in studio, then I'd be able
Speaker 1: to be on the show. But I got to drive
Speaker 1: in here after and then I miss it because you
Speaker 1: guys have already started. So I don't think I've met
Speaker 1: a busier person. We lost you. I think I think
Speaker 1: we lost her. No, No, I'm here, we got her.
Speaker 1: I'm late. I'm just a little late, but I made it.
Speaker 1: You guys are still recording, right. We have not cut.
Speaker 1: We stop about thirty minutes. We've just been chit chatting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you if you wanted to swing back, I don't
Speaker 1: know if we have the mic set up, but it
Speaker 1: is great to see you. It's great to see you, guys.
Speaker 1: I plastered myself on the glass over here for a
Speaker 1: few minutes ago. She only Bonetta saw me, so I
Speaker 1: figured I should just walk in instead. So you guys
Speaker 1: get back to what you're doing. I just want to
Speaker 1: say hello. See how everybody is my dad? That's that's
Speaker 1: your mother, right, I love you. She goes the Great
Speaker 1: Connie Box, the tiny Box, Colleen Wolf. All right, that
Speaker 1: was nice anyway, good stuff. Ye, the Mannings are doing
Speaker 1: a good job. They found a niche good for them.
Speaker 1: All right, that's that's money night football. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Let's pick a let's pick a fan base from scratch.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know this, this segment hits home a
Speaker 1: little bit for me because I was just ranting about
Speaker 1: the darkness of being a Jets fan. Uh, I'm not
Speaker 1: doing that. I feel like I am not doing that.
Speaker 1: Feel like it's been it's been a time where of
Speaker 1: self reflection and Matt money Smith on on my program
Speaker 1: The Power Rankings, my satellite show, played back the end
Speaker 1: of the episode where I lost it about the Jets
Speaker 1: and said, oh, that's so silly that you would even
Speaker 1: think to bring your sons into your own sports and
Speaker 1: angry and um, and I'm not. I am not gonna
Speaker 1: make my son's be Jets fans. They're gonna let them
Speaker 1: do whatever they want. That was always the disgusting But
Speaker 1: now I'm actually going to push them away and say,
Speaker 1: do what you want. So when I do this exercise
Speaker 1: with you guys today, I'm actually gonna do it with
Speaker 1: Jack and Harry in mind. And what we're gonna do
Speaker 1: is go through I don't know whatever your thought process
Speaker 1: is heading into the show. For instance, Mark, what was
Speaker 1: your thought process as on how to pick a fan
Speaker 1: base team from scratch? Well, I really struggled with it,
Speaker 1: and I have a unique solution on how I'm going
Speaker 1: to want to do. I think we should stick a
Speaker 1: pin and in that right for the moment. All right,
Speaker 1: So miss Baneta, Yes, now you said you have a boyfriend,
Speaker 1: so I didn't say, missus h So we're learning about
Speaker 1: each other, we're learning things, but yes, I think so. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've been together for like over six years. Is that
Speaker 1: a real thing? And I think you can you can
Speaker 1: vote together, or you can that's the thing in Canada
Speaker 1: I think if you're together for over five your common law,
Speaker 1: I think it's ten. Here you're in a significant relationship
Speaker 1: on a long term patriot scale. How did you do it?
Speaker 1: How did you decide on the Browns? Um? You know,
Speaker 1: I was starting a brand new show and I had
Speaker 1: really only covered the other kind of football in my career, soccer,
Speaker 1: and I had just gotten back from Russia covering the
Speaker 1: World Cup. We're almost died story for another time. Um,
Speaker 1: trying to steal a bottle of Jack Daniels. No, I didn't, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I wasn't suffering a heartbreak in Moscow. Um.
Speaker 1: And when I got back, I got this new show
Speaker 1: and it was all about American football, and I really
Speaker 1: just kind of wanted to dive in. Grew up in Canada.
Speaker 1: My house always had hockey on it on in it
Speaker 1: in whatever. Um and uh, that was the year that
Speaker 1: the Browns were on Hard Knocks, and I just fell
Speaker 1: in love with Hugh Jackson and Baker was such a
Speaker 1: character on that show, and I love like. I was like,
Speaker 1: this team has a beer fridge that's locked because they've
Speaker 1: just not wanted forever, and they're gonna unlock it and
Speaker 1: give everyone beer when they win. Like that sounds right
Speaker 1: up my alley. Um wow, so that was ground So
Speaker 1: that was coming off, that's what he said there. It
Speaker 1: was a tip tach pain. They were still pretty bad
Speaker 1: that first year. I was exciting the Baker came back in.
Speaker 1: I did, Yes, I chose them. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm all in. This is such a fun team with
Speaker 1: lots of personalities. If Baker leaves, um could have to
Speaker 1: find somebody else fall in love with. But and then
Speaker 1: they just had such a fun year to rod. Taylor
Speaker 1: goes down, Baker comes in, they win, the beer fridges
Speaker 1: get unlocked. The rest of the year was like touching go.
Speaker 1: Year two isn't very good. Seven or eight games of
Speaker 1: Greg Williams as the head coach. People get that. That
Speaker 1: was exciting. Pretty good. But so so that's interesting. So
Speaker 1: you've kind of you've felt the pain. It's been a
Speaker 1: nice little sample the last three or four years for
Speaker 1: the Browns. So you didn't have to deal with in sixteen,
Speaker 1: but you have dealt with some you know, bad times
Speaker 1: as well. Um, the Freddy Kitchens era for example. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, so that's interesting, And Mark, do you have
Speaker 1: any of the add to that to add and I again,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm proud of the choice that you made
Speaker 1: and thinks the Kitchens year would have been maybe enough
Speaker 1: for you to be like, people might not even remember
Speaker 1: that I picked the Browns. I could get off this
Speaker 1: and get on something, you know, because I I don't
Speaker 1: know why. I just really like the underdogment just have
Speaker 1: always cheered for, like the Patriots. I'm have never been
Speaker 1: a big fan of them because they've always been so bad.
Speaker 1: Now that they're they've always been so good. Now that they're,
Speaker 1: you know, going through what they're going through, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of like, Okay, maybe I'm going to deal with this team.
Speaker 1: I think also Brown's fandom needed um some new blood honestly,
Speaker 1: because it's like it's a little it's a bit of
Speaker 1: a tired thing where it's like I've been rooting them
Speaker 1: for them for decades. It's been such a hard road.
Speaker 1: It's like, dude, we're tired of hearing about you and
Speaker 1: your issues as someone that vicariously lives through other athletes
Speaker 1: like settled down on that. So isn't that your whole brand? Well,
Speaker 1: my brand is like the building doesn't want my brand
Speaker 1: at the point, So it's but I think there is
Speaker 1: no there is new blood in this situation. I I
Speaker 1: you know, I'm on all on board. It's wonderful. That's great.
Speaker 1: Browns fans have been very welcoming and nice, right, nice group.
Speaker 1: It's exciting that they have like a quarterback that's on
Speaker 1: every commercial and stuff. It's pretty and the commercials are great.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was like some kind of
Speaker 1: backhanded things. Really it was good. It wasn't what it
Speaker 1: was Alice Cooper one, I'm not even kidding. When that
Speaker 1: commercial came on, the other three members of my family
Speaker 1: all got excited, was like, it's a new one. It's
Speaker 1: a new one, like gather around. They were so they didn't,
Speaker 1: you know, their kids and did not understand any Alice
Speaker 1: Cooper jokes. So that's good to see Coop again. It's
Speaker 1: been a while now. That did I but I still
Speaker 1: appreciate it anyway. So this is how I did it,
Speaker 1: by the way, I actually I did some like I
Speaker 1: did some notes. I try to figure. I took it
Speaker 1: seriously in terms of how if I were to pick
Speaker 1: a team from scratch, how would I actually do it?
Speaker 1: And my past as a fan informs my future decision here,
Speaker 1: because I'll start right here. I am not picking a
Speaker 1: team that doesn't have stable ownership, Okay. I am not
Speaker 1: going to pick a team that um makes bad decisions
Speaker 1: and it's cyclical. Uh So I'm not doing that, okay,
Speaker 1: because one thing that stands out, A lot of the
Speaker 1: successful organizations have that solid base. Um So that is
Speaker 1: a that is a category. And also want to look
Speaker 1: at the roster, and I want to look at the
Speaker 1: fan base and the stadium and that vibe of it
Speaker 1: all and I want to for the rest of your
Speaker 1: life and when they play. And also ground floor kids
Speaker 1: I called ground floor pop. So I don't want to
Speaker 1: get on a bandwagon. I want to get like where
Speaker 1: you got on with the Browns is a nice little
Speaker 1: spot that's good ground floor pop, so you get in
Speaker 1: early before their success and then you can kind of
Speaker 1: enjoy it as well. So I broke down and then
Speaker 1: I had a full twelve out of the thirty. Uh
Speaker 1: two teams eliminated outright for various issues connected to my
Speaker 1: own past. So that's how I did. And then I
Speaker 1: did come down with two. So that's how I did it.
Speaker 1: How about you, Greg, how did you figure it out?
Speaker 1: I did not really hard for you, because you truly
Speaker 1: do love twenty seven teams. I just thought, get in
Speaker 1: with the coach and quarterback right now. That life is short,
Speaker 1: and um, who knows if you're gonna make it to
Speaker 1: the next coaching quarterback? Who knows? Who knows what's at
Speaker 1: least block in the next ten years if you can
Speaker 1: um with a quarterback and go from there, which leads
Speaker 1: you to certain teams that do not have good ownership.
Speaker 1: So you had told us, like, look look at these
Speaker 1: teams that have a quarterback, uh, yet don't have a
Speaker 1: history of success or ownership. And in a perfect world,
Speaker 1: you don't want a team that everyone. You don't want
Speaker 1: the Packers, you know you don't. You don't want the Patriots,
Speaker 1: you don't want even the Bears, like with that sort
Speaker 1: of tradition. You want something a little left field. I
Speaker 1: would be willing to bet um my rental house that
Speaker 1: I could pick. Yeah, I mean, we're not, but it's
Speaker 1: one of two teams. It was really just one of two, okay,
Speaker 1: And are you going to pick one to I don't know,
Speaker 1: just let me go last, let me go the time
Speaker 1: I pick something. We were starting over the Browns thing
Speaker 1: and never happened. Yeah, I thought I thought about it,
Speaker 1: so I'll start it out. So let me just tell
Speaker 1: you so as I kind of set it up for you,
Speaker 1: like my categories, but these are the disqualified teams. So
Speaker 1: this is coming from a Jet fan that's starting from
Speaker 1: scratch and is thinking about the Boys. Okay, so disqualified
Speaker 1: everyone in the a f C. I'm legitimately angry. The Patriots,
Speaker 1: the Bills, the Dolphins, obviously the Jets. They're all out.
Speaker 1: It's just it's too close. It's I wouldn't be right. Um,
Speaker 1: the New York Angles, so the Giants are out. I
Speaker 1: can't jump from the Jets of the Giants would be
Speaker 1: a disgrace. You already liked the Giants anyways, I kind
Speaker 1: of like them, but they wouldn't be my favorite team.
Speaker 1: That's not allowed. And my son's being Giants fans and
Speaker 1: that's weird. Um, the Browns and I just have next
Speaker 1: to it m s because Mark Sesler would not be
Speaker 1: about it. And I can't imagine imagine doing a podcast
Speaker 1: where the Browns when the a f C championship and
Speaker 1: I'm like crawling about how exciting this is as a fan.
Speaker 1: Mark's head would explode. It's for Mark's head. That's I
Speaker 1: think our listeners would revolt. It would just be far
Speaker 1: too single topic. Yeah, we couldn't have more Brown's content.
Speaker 1: I eliminated the Dallas Cowboys because I'm a Yankees fan
Speaker 1: and everyone hates Yankee to Cowboys. Fans can't do it,
Speaker 1: won't do it, So I eliminate that, and then my
Speaker 1: old Pain Rankings Calm. I don't want it. I've already
Speaker 1: been involved with the Pain Rankings team, the Jets, so
Speaker 1: I am not getting in bed with anyone that is
Speaker 1: cursed or otherwise has a sad pass. So that eliminates
Speaker 1: the Chargers, the Vikings, the Browns again, the Falcons, the Bears,
Speaker 1: and the Bengals. M So, then, okay, can I ask
Speaker 1: you one question ahead? Where exactly are you from? I'm
Speaker 1: from the suburbs of New York. Okay? So uh now
Speaker 1: next fun fan base stadium pop. I like that the Dallas,
Speaker 1: Seattle Chargers, Rams, Cleveland, Vegas, Casey, New Orleans, and of
Speaker 1: that group, Chargers and Casey came out of it. I
Speaker 1: like those because the most of those teams have been
Speaker 1: eliminated due to another stipulations. The Chargers were eliminated too
Speaker 1: right sore ground floor pop, which is you know you
Speaker 1: don't need it, but I'd like to be it. Okay.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati eliminated their pain rankings. Chargers eliminated pain rankings. I
Speaker 1: thought the Jaguars in here because said Trevor Lawrence. And
Speaker 1: then knowing that Urban is gonna get fired probably in
Speaker 1: the next eighteen months, no one could kill you for
Speaker 1: jumping on that. Yeah, you would get a lot of respect, alright.
Speaker 1: And then regional plus it would be good if it
Speaker 1: was a team around here. Uh so Rams, Chargers Raiders. Okay.
Speaker 1: So now we've got the Raiders for fun fan based
Speaker 1: stadium pop and also regional pop. Okay, it's a quick
Speaker 1: it's abouts from here. UM Chargers eliminated Generational QB Young Superstar. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's the other category. I don't know if I mentioned that. Casey,
Speaker 1: Green Bay, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Chargers, Dallas, Tampa Bay, Arizona, Seattle, Okay,
Speaker 1: Stable Ownership Pittsburgh, New England, Casey, Dallas, Giants, Green Bay.
Speaker 1: And when I looked at all the circles around, who
Speaker 1: checked what boxes? The Chargers checked the most boxes. But
Speaker 1: it's a tortured franchise. I can't get in bed with
Speaker 1: a tortured franchise. So what was left was and I
Speaker 1: feel like right now where this team is, it's it
Speaker 1: doesn't uh, it doesn't hurt. It won't be seen or
Speaker 1: frowned upon as much because people are kind of out
Speaker 1: right now. Kansas City Chiefs, that was just disappointing. Wait,
Speaker 1: that's your that's who you're picking. I mean that's the
Speaker 1: opposite of ground floor though at the top self, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like one of the best three year runs you know,
Speaker 1: non Patriots, which in the last years, which is why,
Speaker 1: um I feel more comfortable with it because maybe the
Speaker 1: best has already happened. Maybe maybe this is going forward.
Speaker 1: But I know I still even if they rebuild and
Speaker 1: things are trending down, I know with that quarterback, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be okay. They're gonna be a fun watch going forward.
Speaker 1: I know I'd love to go to Arrowhead. I know
Speaker 1: it won't clash with anybody. I know that factor is
Speaker 1: in as well. I don't want to have an awkward situation.
Speaker 1: This is a Jets fan that's desperate to just put
Speaker 1: like a band aid over a bullet hole. I think
Speaker 1: maybe I just need. I just needs something good in
Speaker 1: my life, and I know the Chiefs aren't. Maybe what
Speaker 1: the Chiefs taking up the Packers in like two thousand
Speaker 1: twelve basically, and the Packers were a team that I
Speaker 1: thought about as well. And but then I thought about
Speaker 1: what Tony said in uh s one e one, it's
Speaker 1: good to be in something from the ground for I
Speaker 1: came to wait for that, I know, But lately I'm
Speaker 1: getting the feeling that I came in at the end
Speaker 1: the best is over. So think about that. That's Packers
Speaker 1: go to lambeau Field every year. Uh, this great fan
Speaker 1: based stable front office. The great quarterbacks still there, but
Speaker 1: he's almost forty and Brett Farr was there before. What
Speaker 1: are the chances they get another great quarterback? Uh? Tony
Speaker 1: s one am I like you guys. Notice how Tony
Speaker 1: by the way, that's uh eas in one Tony, James
Speaker 1: Gandelfini totally different accents, sounds different, totally different accents anyway.
Speaker 1: So Chiefs, I know it's not sexy or fund The
Speaker 1: Raiders are the the other one I was thinking about.
Speaker 1: But Chiefs were the pick for me. It would have
Speaker 1: been fun. You got to question the process if it
Speaker 1: lands on a question your process. I mean you said
Speaker 1: ground floor. I didn't say that was a category you
Speaker 1: need to check the box. I didn't say it was
Speaker 1: because yeah, they have they have. You know, the guy
Speaker 1: who has put up the best three years of any quarterback,
Speaker 1: I would argue in the history of the sport to
Speaker 1: start his career. And you say, you're kind of like
Speaker 1: picking them out a downstick. I mean, what they're three
Speaker 1: and four on the way to like eleven, and you
Speaker 1: know their down year is going to be eleven and sixth,
Speaker 1: you know, winning a couple of playoff games. Maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's it's it's a time of adversity. I
Speaker 1: think that it shows some courage. You've jumped in during
Speaker 1: a rough patch. Um, you know there's conviction on your side,
Speaker 1: and I you didn't get Hall of Fame coach chief
Speaker 1: at a bad weekend, right, is not a long term
Speaker 1: solution there. So I'm again, I'm looking at the next
Speaker 1: forty years. I'm not looking just for the next five years.
Speaker 1: But with Mahomes, I know he's there and he's signed up,
Speaker 1: he'll be there another I mean, and he's like, you know,
Speaker 1: five or six years younger than Bill Belichick right now
Speaker 1: and a couple of weeks ago. You know, let's let's
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's the coach in ten years,
Speaker 1: but it that way anyway. That's me Chiefs. Everybody's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't care. You gotta get you. Well, you're the
Speaker 1: face that you've made when ye was yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: all right, get Mark. What is Greg gonna pick? He's right,
Speaker 1: it's I think it's. Um, it's the Chargers And I'll
Speaker 1: give you my quick bullet points because a, um, you
Speaker 1: can bring your kids to Chargers games. I think that
Speaker 1: matters to you. Greg is one of the better dads
Speaker 1: I know on the planet that that I do mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that as some sort of political statement. Um. Secondly,
Speaker 1: I think that um it would it would appeal hardcore
Speaker 1: to your employer, which matters to Greg Um. And Justin
Speaker 1: Herbert and Brandon Staley are are both ground That's like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't Justin Herbert, it's not ground floor at this point,
Speaker 1: but you know it's also apparently, uh in theory a
Speaker 1: father figure to to Rachel or not Justin Herbert is
Speaker 1: my dad, Greg, and I You've nailed it. I mean
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert's twenty three I love him, watch him as
Speaker 1: a rookie. So I'm starting there, and then you get
Speaker 1: the Brandon Staley weekly like wise thing and his press
Speaker 1: conference that everyone tweets out. It's like, everyone's gotta listen
Speaker 1: to this nineties seconds from Brandon Staley talking about what
Speaker 1: really mask? I like that, I like I want that
Speaker 1: to be my It's become like I think some people
Speaker 1: have likened him to ted Lasso. It's the same thing
Speaker 1: like with ted Lasso. It's like, stop telling me to
Speaker 1: watch ted Lasso. I'm not gonna watch ted Lasso. Like
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna watch this this Brendon Staley clip. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's inspirational, as Mark would say, have a nice day.
Speaker 1: He's fun. But those are those are the two guys
Speaker 1: that matter now. The fact that their ownership, you know,
Speaker 1: we've gotta be somewhat careful here, has has struggled. I
Speaker 1: mean they're only here in a Jets like situation where
Speaker 1: they're the little they're the little brother and the Rams
Speaker 1: are the big brother. It's the ultimately the Rams Stadium,
Speaker 1: and they're kind of here and they jumped along board.
Speaker 1: They've they've had a lot of problems over the years.
Speaker 1: It's in the same family, they don't have the same um,
Speaker 1: they don't have the same maybe cash that that everyone
Speaker 1: right now Chargers Stadium least details. Think about your kids here,
Speaker 1: think about what didn't just bring your boy to a
Speaker 1: Rams game. Doesn't he love Bobby Trees? He does like
Speaker 1: Robert Woods. When it comes to the kids, I know
Speaker 1: that I'm not going to be able to make my
Speaker 1: kids like any team. Uh maybe that's where money was
Speaker 1: coming from. Like, I can certainly help push them in
Speaker 1: a certain direction. They're into the Celtics like they kind
Speaker 1: of like. But ultimately I think if I push them
Speaker 1: hard in one directions, they're not gonna go They're gonna
Speaker 1: like us Father, They're gonna like Spicy House, Ms Charges,
Speaker 1: They're gonna like who They're gonna like um Ellis is
Speaker 1: already Rams for life and and I'm good with that.
Speaker 1: I'm not a Rams fan in particular, but I like that.
Speaker 1: But the whole Yeah, they're local and Herbert and Staley.
Speaker 1: I thought about Cincinnati, I mean the other ones, the Bengals,
Speaker 1: that to me is the other obvious choice because of
Speaker 1: obvious Yeah, those are the two. And there's something and
Speaker 1: you're getting in on the ground floor. And there's something
Speaker 1: special with Joe Burrow here because something special with Joe.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I like it because you're thinking
Speaker 1: of West and you're thinking of Western Ohio and everything.
Speaker 1: But give me something to talk about with the Remember
Speaker 1: why Chris quit the Bengals is ownership? Do you remember this?
Speaker 1: It's the same owner and as hot as things are
Speaker 1: right now for Cincinnati, it's the same guy. It's the
Speaker 1: same organization. Be very careful. And it's funny to me
Speaker 1: that it's that you're saying the Chargers or the Bengals
Speaker 1: two teams that have a very en history. It's very
Speaker 1: but there's part of me also I'm jumping in. I
Speaker 1: am myself in this from the Patriots that I kind
Speaker 1: of want something that's a challenge and that if they
Speaker 1: do win it, it will be fun too. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I want to You want to be at the Chargers
Speaker 1: game and it's like the road team takes over the stadium,
Speaker 1: but you're trying to defend it and you're like, you know,
Speaker 1: you're the underdog even when you're at home. There's so
Speaker 1: I hear this from and I love Philip, You're some
Speaker 1: other Patriots fans that I know that are like, I
Speaker 1: kind of like the idea of going through a tough
Speaker 1: time as a fan. It's really novel for like a
Speaker 1: fortnight for about fourteen sixteen days like this just sad
Speaker 1: one seven and either like everything must go, we must
Speaker 1: start over, we must be champions again. But I like Chargers,
Speaker 1: say the Chargers or Pats. I mean I am a
Speaker 1: Pats fan. I don't think you're like the good thing
Speaker 1: about picking other teams, and I love watching the Chargers
Speaker 1: and different teams depending on the years, you never have
Speaker 1: that same high and you never have that same low
Speaker 1: because I think in sports you get out what you
Speaker 1: put in. It's like it's like if you don't watch
Speaker 1: a baseball team all year and you jump in for
Speaker 1: the playoffs, like it's fun to watch that, but you're
Speaker 1: not gonna get the highs or the lows because you
Speaker 1: didn't really put in the time. The lows make the
Speaker 1: highs feel so much better. Absolutely, So, no matter what
Speaker 1: team you pick, I don't think you're gonna get it
Speaker 1: in the same gut like torture that you got from
Speaker 1: the team that you had as a No matter what
Speaker 1: makes you think of the old Parcels quote he used
Speaker 1: when he retired, maybe for the fourteenth time, he decided
Speaker 1: he had to walk away when the losing hurt more
Speaker 1: than the winning felt good. Um well, and also when
Speaker 1: he paid off his divorce. But um yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: do you he said, Yeah, I have no defense mechanism
Speaker 1: for losing. I'm doing the Wallberg and fear tattoo across
Speaker 1: my chest with the ink. Alright, Mark, here's the thing,
Speaker 1: because like not to, you know, bring up my sad
Speaker 1: Browns fandom. Here a minute, the minute I jump ship
Speaker 1: like they're gonna go fourteen and fourteen and three, and
Speaker 1: you would never you don't even want to have this
Speaker 1: that your credit Like West would try to convince you
Speaker 1: to jump ships sometimes and you would be so against.
Speaker 1: But I will free, I will play. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to just not do it like i'll play the game.
Speaker 1: I can't do that. But I'm going to use something
Speaker 1: that we've used in the past, and it's our pick
Speaker 1: an NFL team wheel. What's the name for this device,
Speaker 1: wheel Team Generator, Wheel of Destiny. Erica is going to
Speaker 1: film it because I don't want you coming up with
Speaker 1: some sort of answer back there from behind the glass.
Speaker 1: So we don't trust, want something for social don't stick
Speaker 1: me with the ship. We don't trust work on that.
Speaker 1: What do you mean sticky with the jets? I got
Speaker 1: Christie over my shoulder to watch. That's why. That's why
Speaker 1: it feels I'm nervous. Why nervous? Drag wheel? Okay, I
Speaker 1: hope it's like the past, something that's like any like
Speaker 1: it's working right? Oh god, Oh the Indianapolis cults. It
Speaker 1: was so close to the lions. It was so close
Speaker 1: to the line. You know what. I think that's like,
Speaker 1: I think that's a good I think that's good that
Speaker 1: you wanted to get like that something after they've had
Speaker 1: their great moments and they're well after their peaks. So
Speaker 1: I just kind of getting out a nice Sunday night.
Speaker 1: Is if you were in a room with thirty two
Speaker 1: people and they were NFL teams like the cults would
Speaker 1: not catch my eye across the Yeah, maybe we we're
Speaker 1: gonna see a whole different side to that. Hard knocks
Speaker 1: like this has never not that's not canonical hard knocks, right,
Speaker 1: it's a frank you've got you've got kind of you've
Speaker 1: got ownership, which is, you know, very active and a
Speaker 1: little left of center. Sometimes you've got a quarterback who
Speaker 1: sometimes forgets to pull his mask up or down, so
Speaker 1: there's like a danger element gets in there. That's good.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is gonna be the best hour of
Speaker 1: travition we've ever seen. Drag me to the games, Drag
Speaker 1: me to the television. I'll give it. I mean we've
Speaker 1: been in Lucas Oil Stadium. That's a nice building. Great good,
Speaker 1: good fan base, really good. I mean, I'm glad that
Speaker 1: two of you are so excited about it. Well, you
Speaker 1: made this decision to spend the wheel, bro, it's not
Speaker 1: my team culture paying for it, all right, Rachel, Now
Speaker 1: that you've had the opportunity to see the process process,
Speaker 1: how are you going to do? This is what are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? Okay, I think that I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: go from history. I've I'm gonna go with Greg. I've
Speaker 1: been to two Chargers games this year, once against the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and then when they um when Justin Herbert became
Speaker 1: my father. Uh. And I just think it's a really
Speaker 1: kind of like what you said. You you show up
Speaker 1: and it's like half Chargers fans and half Browns fans,
Speaker 1: and they're on the other side of the country, and
Speaker 1: you're like, where are all these people? That stadium belongs
Speaker 1: to the Rams. I think over the next few years,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see, you know, all they have to do
Speaker 1: is be good, and I think that they can be good.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, all these people are
Speaker 1: gonna start jumping on this bandwag and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be really exciting. So get in now, get
Speaker 1: in the ground floor. Plus you know, I guess move
Speaker 1: the sticks and money? Are there announcers? That's a problem.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, there's not a lot of like
Speaker 1: media pop, like if you cared about even covering the
Speaker 1: team or doing little fun things like when you go
Speaker 1: to a Chargers practice, it's like a small market team,
Speaker 1: like the Jaguars have more people covering them than Greg scenario. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm worried about you guys. It starts at the bolts up,
Speaker 1: boltsp bolts up, bolts down. But some of some like
Speaker 1: fun up and down drama where you know they kind
Speaker 1: of waste a lot of Justin Herbert, but maybe he
Speaker 1: does it in the end on like rivers like that
Speaker 1: would be satisfy. His skin is clearing up Pop on
Speaker 1: Board Guys podcast. Yeah, that's true. That all right, bolts
Speaker 1: up before we get to t NF. Let's take a break.
Speaker 1: All right, there we go, we figured out our teams.
Speaker 1: Uh so that's something I'm end's mad at the reaction
Speaker 1: you get for the Chiefs. I know it was kind
Speaker 1: of kind of lame. I'm not. I mean, the idea,
Speaker 1: the whole idea is, you know, it's a flawed premise
Speaker 1: because I already picked the team. It was the Jets.
Speaker 1: I'm never going to pick another team. I mean I would,
Speaker 1: so there's no way for me to like the segment
Speaker 1: doesn't work. The segment premise. This is yeah fourth I
Speaker 1: tried to share that, um but I tried. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to be passionate about picking another team.
Speaker 1: I got into it, will you. You know, I'm sure
Speaker 1: the boys into this. The boys aren't born into it.
Speaker 1: And it is a different time of like I think
Speaker 1: kids picking teams that a lot of them jump around
Speaker 1: or they picked players. I think this is you cover football,
Speaker 1: so your kids have been they watched Fanas exactly, but
Speaker 1: that's where we live. Like l A kids a lot
Speaker 1: of times pick and choose, and I've talked with a
Speaker 1: lot of parents who aren't. You don't just live like
Speaker 1: kids are into red zone and fantasy. That's what they're into,
Speaker 1: So it makes it a little different. I think if
Speaker 1: you live in a city, I'm a basketball fan, and
Speaker 1: the Toronto Raptors winning the championship a few years ago,
Speaker 1: I was sawing in my chair. There was no better
Speaker 1: feeling than rooting for like Country Pride, City pride. If
Speaker 1: your kids live in l A that should choose a
Speaker 1: I would hope they've choose a team and actually fall
Speaker 1: in love with the team, because I do helps at
Speaker 1: that point the payoff is there. And that's why I
Speaker 1: can never although I talk about it, I can never
Speaker 1: leave the Jets because I've invested so much or the
Speaker 1: Browns with Mark, you invest so much that to get
Speaker 1: out at any point after all the suffering and miss
Speaker 1: uh the idea that glory could ever happen. I mean
Speaker 1: that it's also you know, if you want to grow
Speaker 1: as a person, it may be the worst investment I've
Speaker 1: ever made in anything in my entire life. Do you
Speaker 1: at some point say, but we're getting back into why
Speaker 1: we did the segment which you approve of the segment,
Speaker 1: So we're done. You don't approve of the segment. You
Speaker 1: absolutely did the most homework I did. I I tried
Speaker 1: so hard to took it serious. You did feel it
Speaker 1: your free it's a fashion. Yes, I went through it,
Speaker 1: and I guess I'm a Chiefs fan in another world.
Speaker 1: But that's never gonna happen. So it's over, Johnny, all right,
Speaker 1: let's get to it. Thursday Night Football. What a matchup.
Speaker 1: Even though it's not on NFL network. Is Greg was
Speaker 1: quick to point out, but it is you can also
Speaker 1: watch Oh so now it is on NFL network. Is
Speaker 1: Colin both prominently involved in the pre of course, she
Speaker 1: had a great jacket on last n so it's great.
Speaker 1: My point is we have the the ones that are
Speaker 1: our only games, and they give us the dogs. But
Speaker 1: I well, do you do you watch when it's on
Speaker 1: the dial. When you're watching it, are you watching NFL
Speaker 1: network or do you want? Absolutely NFL network got to
Speaker 1: support the company. Plus gotta check out company. What new
Speaker 1: game their showing this week? You know that's that's an
Speaker 1: important thing as well. So let us now get into
Speaker 1: the game. Packers, okay, Cardinals undefeated. We have a problem though,
Speaker 1: and it's an annoying one. It's Davante Adams has COVID
Speaker 1: and he's probably not playing, and he's not alone Alan Lazard. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you talk yourself. Okay, that stinks that Davante is
Speaker 1: out because he's such a big part of the offense. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe Alan Lazard will step up something I think I
Speaker 1: said on another format on this network earlier today. Well
Speaker 1: he's not either, because he's got COVID too. I think,
Speaker 1: um so a compromised version. Rachel of the Packers will
Speaker 1: head to Arizona to face the undefeated Cardinals. Maybe they
Speaker 1: shocked the world, but now I'm starting to feel like
Speaker 1: this is a playing into the Cardinals hands very nicely.
Speaker 1: I think that this game was going to be difficult
Speaker 1: for the Packers in the first place before we had
Speaker 1: this COVID news, because the Cardinals are a roll in
Speaker 1: right now. But I do think this is how you
Speaker 1: always talk. I do think that there's a chance that
Speaker 1: this is like weirdly nicky close. It could just be
Speaker 1: a weird game. Uh. Maybe. One of my favorite things
Speaker 1: about working at NFL Network is you can send an
Speaker 1: email at any damn time of the day to l
Speaker 1: A researchers and they respond in two sexs and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to know how Aaron Rodgers does in primetime
Speaker 1: this morning, and they sent me a side by side
Speaker 1: Rodgers and Kyler Murray. Aaron Rodgers has just played so
Speaker 1: many more games. Obviously, He's played way longer than Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: He's played so many more games on this level than
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. I think he's only had four primetime games.
Speaker 1: I just feel like his experience in this space and
Speaker 1: with this team. I don't know. I just have a
Speaker 1: feeling that this could be closer than what are the
Speaker 1: cards of six point favorite? I think this could be close.
Speaker 1: I like that thought because Aaron Rodgers, he is a
Speaker 1: tremendous competitor, as we know, and the idea that he's
Speaker 1: going to go into this game with everyone talking about
Speaker 1: how the Packers are shorthanded could play right into him
Speaker 1: having like a ridiculous foreman's uh so, I mean, even
Speaker 1: though you wish they were at full strength, it doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that they don't have a chance. Because Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: is prominently involved, and he's a bad man. He loves
Speaker 1: a chip on his shoulder, right Thursday nights are totally wacky.
Speaker 1: We're coming off a Thursday night where Team A was
Speaker 1: missing all sorts of parts and throttled Team B. But
Speaker 1: three Team B was the Broncos. That's different than facing Arizona.
Speaker 1: Arizona's defense has been putting heat on quarterbacks, destroyed Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield two weeks ago. Davis Mills looked like a nightmare
Speaker 1: last week. And I look at the Packers. They don't
Speaker 1: have Joe Barry either defensive coordinator. I kind of think
Speaker 1: that COVID has been bad for some of these coaches because, um,
Speaker 1: you'll see this over and over, coaches out that person's
Speaker 1: territory that they coach improves or has a better game
Speaker 1: than you think. I mean, both head coaches that have
Speaker 1: been out their teams rocked the house double COVID banging right.
Speaker 1: But maybe that's good for Joe Berry and this Packers
Speaker 1: defense that finally had their red zone issues figured out
Speaker 1: last week. They also gave up ninety five yards on
Speaker 1: the ground to tail Or Heinegee and Greg You pointed
Speaker 1: on Sunday that, like Kyler Murray, on the ground just
Speaker 1: hasn't really been a thing this year. But if it
Speaker 1: needs to be. Maybe this is a nice defense to
Speaker 1: do it against. I just wonder how you slow Arizona
Speaker 1: with all their weapons because they haven't need to run them.
Speaker 1: I think Gire Alexander being gone has really changed the
Speaker 1: Packers defense, and they might get Kevin King back for
Speaker 1: this game, but even then you're you're throwing out Razul Douglas,
Speaker 1: who pick up who's played pretty well for them. But
Speaker 1: Arizona just test the depths of your secondary, and I
Speaker 1: think they were going to have big time problems green
Speaker 1: Bay that is on defense in this game anyways, Like
Speaker 1: Rogers last week, he overcame the offensive. Why not playing
Speaker 1: that well? Bak Try might return that would be absolutely
Speaker 1: massive for them, but they're going up against this defense
Speaker 1: who it is balling. Like Chandler Jones might come back
Speaker 1: for this game. There was a stat that I think
Speaker 1: the only three players, you know, it's a force three
Speaker 1: different turnovers as pass rushers are watch Chandler Jones and
Speaker 1: Marcus Golden. Marcus Golden has maybe been the best guy
Speaker 1: on their front week to week of their entire team,
Speaker 1: which is crazy. They're pretty good on the back end
Speaker 1: and they only have to make a couple of plays
Speaker 1: against Green Bay, So I, I don't know. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: of taking the Packers, I mean the Cardinals even to
Speaker 1: cover that set that six points. Do you know and
Speaker 1: I mentioned this? I did. I failed to mention this
Speaker 1: on Sunday, that the Cardinals thirty one to five over
Speaker 1: Houston was a score Agamy wind and score Agami winners
Speaker 1: are six hundred and three the following week. They have
Speaker 1: won six hundred games and lost three times. Scoregomi winners
Speaker 1: the following week. Am I supposed to score Agami? Is
Speaker 1: a score that has never occurred? It's that's a real
Speaker 1: thing that you know, thinking fans are intrigued by it
Speaker 1: is Uh, it's a score that has never hatory. Is
Speaker 1: that my mind is blown? Okay, well it's not for everyone.
Speaker 1: I didn't like the way the way against Washington. That's
Speaker 1: what they've been like all year though they up winning
Speaker 1: by two touch and they don't look great doing it.
Speaker 1: And now, but what happens when you're playing an elite
Speaker 1: team like this? So I I don't want to lock
Speaker 1: up the Cardinals, but I think I feel very good
Speaker 1: about getting close to where you can't because when Davante
Speaker 1: Adams went out the spread didn't jump up and makes sense.
Speaker 1: You're getting close. Yeah, I'll stay off this, but I
Speaker 1: like the Cardinals. But I'd like the Benetta theory that
Speaker 1: you know, Aaron Rodgers, he knows what everyone's saying. There
Speaker 1: is like maybe something to the idea. This is like,
Speaker 1: this is a veteran team that's won a lot of games,
Speaker 1: and you know, sometimes you need a big game to
Speaker 1: get your juices flowing. Maybe noon against Washington football team
Speaker 1: and Taylor kind Heinecke isn't doing it there yet, but
Speaker 1: Thursday night with the world against you. The only thing
Speaker 1: that I can compare to was once upon a time
Speaker 1: an athlete voyage and we were terrible. We were really bad,
Speaker 1: and the best game that we played was against the
Speaker 1: best college in our region, and it was every other
Speaker 1: game that we played was just against other crappy teams,
Speaker 1: and we all sucked, and we really stepped up for
Speaker 1: that one. Did your personal performance peak? Um? Spikes some digs? Um,
Speaker 1: We can't check that. I covered some. I covered some
Speaker 1: volleyball for the Journal News in Westchester County. I covered
Speaker 1: some swimming and diving, just many events mark that I
Speaker 1: had no idea what was happening. Boys lacrosse, had never
Speaker 1: seen lacrosse game. You sent me to cover like the
Speaker 1: county quarterfinals, and I was like, oh, he shot it
Speaker 1: fast and in the thing, then that thing, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure the coverage whenever. This is the secret if you're
Speaker 1: if you're a youthful sportswriter and they have you on
Speaker 1: crappy beat. Okay, this is very important. And uh, this
Speaker 1: especially save me in the state diving competition, where I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know what's happening. Just find the
Speaker 1: kid that's uh the best in your county. This is
Speaker 1: if you're covering states or sections and then asked him
Speaker 1: about his family and just turn it into a human
Speaker 1: at your story. Don't don't even try to write with
Speaker 1: knowledge of the sport. Just like he won the he
Speaker 1: did the double flip to win it. But it's not
Speaker 1: just about winning this competition, it's winning for his dead grandmother. Well,
Speaker 1: and then you get into it, Yeah, you move into
Speaker 1: territory that no one can critique because you've done something nice.
Speaker 1: The first thing I ever announced on Mike was a
Speaker 1: four hour long UM women's gymnastics meet, which, outside of
Speaker 1: like the Olympics, for about twelve minutes every four years
Speaker 1: tough and I I did something which was wise. There
Speaker 1: was an injured um gymnasts and Christine Lefarati that I
Speaker 1: just sat down next to me and said, just give
Speaker 1: me some during breaks, you know, to be like lines
Speaker 1: like that girl just did something very special with that
Speaker 1: piece of equipment, but you're like, you need more ways
Speaker 1: to describe what's happening. She's a story. It's so hard
Speaker 1: to watch, but also to see my teammates thrive has
Speaker 1: been special in its own way. There's a league and
Speaker 1: you're until like hour three of interviewing her and people
Speaker 1: are just like turning the channel. Every sportscaster should take
Speaker 1: an improv class because I's how yeah, alright, I do
Speaker 1: want to I do want to throw in one other
Speaker 1: random thing I heard from Cliff Kingsbury during the press
Speaker 1: conference after the game, which is that they asked him
Speaker 1: some question like making light of like, oh, did it
Speaker 1: really pay off that you you know, we're watching uh
Speaker 1: the opponent ahead, you know during the game or something,
Speaker 1: remember that that whole story working so hard? And they
Speaker 1: asked him so ques some question and he alluded to
Speaker 1: the fact that he had been spending He doubled down
Speaker 1: spending much of this last week already working on Green Bay.
Speaker 1: He was literally looking past Houston like he was saying,
Speaker 1: I did that work, so that then I was ahead
Speaker 1: on I was onto green Bay last week. They've been
Speaker 1: they've got this game. Wait, because of course you there's
Speaker 1: one thing to actually do that, and there's another thing
Speaker 1: to go out of your way to tell the reporter
Speaker 1: that you're doing that, because you know what he puts
Speaker 1: myself until I want I'm buying it, and you gave
Speaker 1: me this idea, but I'm gonna run with it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna lock up this Cardinals. I like, I like the
Speaker 1: chance you are three and four, so right, I'm out
Speaker 1: of it anyway. Time seems like a nice move. Um, Rachel,
Speaker 1: you've said it all. I mean, you've come in here
Speaker 1: and you've you've established yourself on the podcast and uh,
Speaker 1: you also said, I'm a leader in the industry, industry leader,
Speaker 1: industry leader women, but not just women, humans, lots of achievements,
Speaker 1: like right, like shoot up there with a bullet doesn't
Speaker 1: so much you want to get a plug in on anything,
Speaker 1: that's the best way to ask for um host a
Speaker 1: show on Fridays like that kind of plug. Anyway, Greg,
Speaker 1: what time is it on five pacifics that they show it?
Speaker 1: They showed on Sunday mornings to people seem they showed
Speaker 1: on Saturdays. They show it on Sunday morning. On the
Speaker 1: Sunday Morning it's you know, you pick, you pick the spread.
Speaker 1: I do the Sunday Morning show. I've got a pretty
Speaker 1: nice Halloween costume planned. Oh that's cool. What's what's eyes
Speaker 1: onlike on the show? Lovely? Yeah, yeah, everyone's too. Honestly, no,
Speaker 1: everyone's games happening in Sunday's episode where they're not. Yes,
Speaker 1: that was quite terrifying. Actually, I beat Michael Irvan in
Speaker 1: a egg race. That's an achievement of mine. Add that
Speaker 1: to the resume, Well you should you should know that
Speaker 1: in I've been at this company since two thousand ten.
Speaker 1: You've had more FaceTime with Michael Irvan than I have.
Speaker 1: So you're off to a great start here. Well, I
Speaker 1: am a leader in the industry. Really, we like to
Speaker 1: have people on to work out our own like industry,
Speaker 1: we a therapy session when everything, That's why, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just a lot to get to, all right. Yes,
Speaker 1: Rachel Banetta, she's the best. We're so happy to have
Speaker 1: our follower on Twitter, Rachel Banetta and uh, that plug
Speaker 1: is dynamic and we'll be back on Thursday night, Greggy,
Speaker 1: you will be on the tn F recap with I
Speaker 1: think Claybon But you asked them in the newsroom and
Speaker 1: it didn't seem too hot about it. But you kind
Speaker 1: of put him on this, he said, Yet I don't
Speaker 1: think so that's not a fair I don't He had
Speaker 1: to think about what he was doing that night. It
Speaker 1: is a big ask, you know, so you know someone
Speaker 1: has to take some time out of their night mark.
Speaker 1: You should know. There was a little bit like, oh,
Speaker 1: how do I play this from a social standing, and
Speaker 1: then Clay said, I'll do it trepidation. I understand, what
Speaker 1: do you mean? Alright, he's kind of I think he's
Speaker 1: a straight shooter. Though if he didn't want to do it,
Speaker 1: he would tell me. So Y, Ricky, did you have
Speaker 1: anything you wanted to add before we say goodbye? Um? No,
Speaker 1: I mean I on split Ends. This morning, Colleen and
Speaker 1: I had a celebrity astrologer from the Drew Barrymore show
Speaker 1: on and we looked at some of the matchups for
Speaker 1: Halloween weekend. And after that conversation, which is dropping soon.
Speaker 1: I'm leaning towards the Cardinals when in this game, Wow,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna lock it up to she must know,
Speaker 1: oh you got you got the old tam Posty curse
Speaker 1: attached to you know, it's happened like three or four
Speaker 1: straight weeks. I feel like it's been a Can I
Speaker 1: say one thing about Ricky Hollywood playing her in Fantasy
Speaker 1: this week? And I was really excited because this first
Speaker 1: year in my life that I've done well at Fantasy.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to like egg her on in the
Speaker 1: chat and she's not answering. So I messaged her and
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, I'm trying to have some fun, trying
Speaker 1: to make some friends here. This is what she said
Speaker 1: to me last night. You suck at fantasy? Is your
Speaker 1: team a vacuum cleaner? Because it sucks? I remember my
Speaker 1: first Fantasy league? Are you single? Because you can't even score?
Speaker 1: I beat her a hundred and thirty to ninety points
Speaker 1: and I didn't even I was missing a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: So here's what. No, I'm so good at so many things. No,
Speaker 1: but this is a league. Shout out to Cynthia Freeland.
Speaker 1: Lover her to death, but she texts me maybe like
Speaker 1: a couple hours before I was like, hey, like, we're
Speaker 1: trying to get teams filled just joined, and I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, whatever. I was on a hike and then
Speaker 1: I'm driving down Laurel Canyon drafting my team and I
Speaker 1: totally forgot about it. And then I didn't even know
Speaker 1: you were messaging me on the app until you had
Speaker 1: so together. Yeah, it was bad. It's bad. Also, the
Speaker 1: league name is Lombardi lu Batons. It's too bad. So
Speaker 1: I blocked that out. I worked that part out. But
Speaker 1: I'm a good win, you know, I'm a fair sport
Speaker 1: and yeah that um, all right, good stop. We'll be
Speaker 1: back yes Thursday night recaptain of course, the the Saturday
Speaker 1: and around the NFL broadcast and the old network. We're
Speaker 1: doing huge numbers, big numbers, so that's something to be
Speaker 1: excited about and proud of. And then the Sunday night
Speaker 1: Flagship program of course. Thank you, thank you, Rachel, thank
Speaker 1: you Greg, thank you, thank you for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: My new favorite team nailed it rageous until Thursday. He's
Speaker 1: a call