Speaker 1: Do you Around the NFL Podcast? Keep it above the
Speaker 1: tree tops while opening their kimono's Welcome back to another
Speaker 1: edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is
Speaker 1: Dan Hansus, and I am joined by a room filled
Speaker 1: with heroes, Kevin Patra, Who's Westling? And Greg Rosatal. What's up? Boys?
Speaker 1: Hey Dan, I think I did a better last show.
Speaker 1: Your impression was definitely better than Greg's. Hey Dane, wait,
Speaker 1: let's do it? Hey Dan off? Alright Patrick first? Hey Dan? Alright,
Speaker 1: Hey Diane, see you're too twinky. Hey Dan, I don't
Speaker 1: have a twang. Mine's a little cartoonish. Yeah, just to
Speaker 1: make it a little more fun. Uh, Kevin Patrick back
Speaker 1: for a second show the record. Uh oh, that shirt
Speaker 1: can barely contain him. You grunt explains who you are.
Speaker 1: It's your identity in the gym. Oh really, Kevin, I
Speaker 1: don't even know what that was, honestly. Oh, I thought
Speaker 1: that was you never said those words ever. Uh. I
Speaker 1: know there's always been a little bit of heat between
Speaker 1: West and Patron the body tip and now you're on
Speaker 1: the kissing cousins side of the table. Where are we
Speaker 1: at on that? Well? He looks like he's got to
Speaker 1: run around the shower just to get wet. WHOA, I
Speaker 1: was trapped two by four to back to make sure
Speaker 1: it didn't fall on me. I'm noticing the theme can
Speaker 1: you run around? West is a competitive guy. He does
Speaker 1: not like it when someone's you know, put up on
Speaker 1: a pedestal. For instance Mark's Instagram account. He got competitive
Speaker 1: man uh Patrick's body, which he takes pride in. So
Speaker 1: let's not forget about shortstop Tony Garcia of the field.
Speaker 1: How awkward that one? Well, that one was actually true
Speaker 1: any time that West's challenge is the greatest at something.
Speaker 1: He comes out with the Daggers. Well, Tony was proven
Speaker 1: to be way better than me as a shortstop. It
Speaker 1: wasn't the position of shortstop, it was the number three
Speaker 1: hole in the lineup that was the managing. Don't it
Speaker 1: all beared out well with the trophy? You are clearly
Speaker 1: the manager of the year in that league? I hope. So. Um,
Speaker 1: this is the Friday edition of the Around the NFL podcast,
Speaker 1: sponsored by No One Beholden to Nobody to Nobody. So
Speaker 1: that's good, um. Today's show, we'll focus on two principal
Speaker 1: things with a little slice of news. Thursday Night Football
Speaker 1: six games and week two of the preseason, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna go through all of them, touch on them. Um see,
Speaker 1: you know what are the big takeaways from those games?
Speaker 1: So we'll make sure to give you a real good
Speaker 1: look at what we saw so far, and then come Monday,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll check in on the rest of the games.
Speaker 1: There will be six games today, thirty two teams, thirty
Speaker 1: two two, ten games on Friday and Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 1: We got there. I wasn't sure if you were serious
Speaker 1: or just around. Oh no, that was then then takes
Speaker 1: that show your work motto seriously very much so uh.
Speaker 1: And we will also then continue god our division preview series,
Speaker 1: wrapping up mercifully the NFC by taking on the NFC
Speaker 1: West Division. So we'll do that, um and no no
Speaker 1: reason to waste any time here Before we uh do
Speaker 1: any of that, though, we gotta do the news. And
Speaker 1: before we do the news, we gotta say hello to
Speaker 1: the Irishman. I wasn't here last Friday when you guys
Speaker 1: did it solely took over for me, So I was
Speaker 1: just wanting, do you guys have any plans this weekend?
Speaker 1: What are you guys up to? Gonna hang out with
Speaker 1: Kevin Patrick. Yeah, Kevin Patrick in town all weekend? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh all weekend? Ye Tomorrow, Mark Sessler and I
Speaker 1: and are significant others. We're going under the big stars
Speaker 1: in the sky to check out the Cold Plan Rose Bowl.
Speaker 1: I must have not got the invite hanging out with
Speaker 1: Patrick though he said no, are you not ready to
Speaker 1: hang out with? Uh? The I mean, I'm just stating
Speaker 1: a fact. He didn't get the invite, didn't say he
Speaker 1: couldn't he couldn't get one in the future. Out, just
Speaker 1: pointing out a fact. Now, I bet you feel bad
Speaker 1: about asking about what people are doing this weekend a
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, all right, let's do some news right
Speaker 1: on Friday for America. Yes, Eric Kush, Erica's first name
Speaker 1: center for the perfect, perfect name to be moving to California.
Speaker 1: Very true. Uh, let's start with news that will affect
Speaker 1: the a F C. Levan Bell, the best all around
Speaker 1: running back in football, who has suspended four games this
Speaker 1: season for violating the Leak's Substances of Abuse policy. That
Speaker 1: suspension has been now knocked down to three games. Uh.
Speaker 1: The league announced on Friday the suspension was reduced on appeal.
Speaker 1: Bell had missed several drug tests, uh Ian Rappaport add reported.
Speaker 1: So with that said, that's a you know, any game,
Speaker 1: any amount of games without Levy on Bell is a
Speaker 1: big deal. So this is great news Greg for the
Speaker 1: Steelers who now are getting their guy back a game
Speaker 1: earlier than they expected. Yeah, they get him back for
Speaker 1: a Sunday night football game against another a f C
Speaker 1: playoff team from a year ago, the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: That helps. I mean, they've they've been getting used to
Speaker 1: playing without some of their star players. They were pretty
Speaker 1: good without Bell last year. So uh, if I was
Speaker 1: a real Steelers optimist, I'd almost look at it like,
Speaker 1: this is a playoff team, this is guy. It's gonna
Speaker 1: get a lot of work. It's not the worst thing
Speaker 1: in the world to have him a little fresher, three
Speaker 1: less games going and coming back from a terrible knee
Speaker 1: injury a c L M c L tear. He gets
Speaker 1: that extra three weeks. A lot of guys they rush
Speaker 1: back because they want to be involved with week one
Speaker 1: and get the season going. He doesn't have to rush anymore.
Speaker 1: He's got that time. So this could work out was
Speaker 1: that they've got a quality backup. I think the big
Speaker 1: big takeaway I have was that his next is if
Speaker 1: he has another infraction, it's four games not And because
Speaker 1: of the agreement they reached here, they need to They
Speaker 1: need their defense to step it up, they need their
Speaker 1: defense to be better and they'll be fine. I mean
Speaker 1: with mart Tavios Brian being out last year, we have
Speaker 1: to remember they were also without him for the first
Speaker 1: four games last year when Bell was gone for two
Speaker 1: as well. This is an annual thing, him having it
Speaker 1: reduced by a game right before the season started and
Speaker 1: went from three to two at this point, still have
Speaker 1: five to four next years that we're saying we'll just
Speaker 1: go ahead until he's a seventeen year veteran be suspended
Speaker 1: for the entire So for your test, Levi and Bell,
Speaker 1: he he hasn't taken very little criticism for a superstar
Speaker 1: player who who blew it? Yeah, he's been a little
Speaker 1: bit irresponsible, not only responsible, but if you're his teammate,
Speaker 1: you can't be happy with him. And yeah, speaking of
Speaker 1: Levy on Bell whoa The third annual Around the NFL
Speaker 1: Podcast Fantasy Extravaganza takes place next week and I booked
Speaker 1: a big fish. I'm gonna I'm gonna leave it there.
Speaker 1: I booked a big fish. I reeled in a big one. Uh,
Speaker 1: in terms of a guest, hold on tight, got him
Speaker 1: in the boat. What is that that you raised my
Speaker 1: competitive iro again? What do we need a big fish?
Speaker 1: But we got gragging me? Oh not Mark though, huh,
Speaker 1: he's an outsider. It's a good thing that Mark doesn't
Speaker 1: listen to the shows when he's well. You have stationed
Speaker 1: him outside the house like you're Fred Flintstone and can
Speaker 1: you know the dinosaurs? I gotta do some prep. That's
Speaker 1: why I was making a face, being like, oh, I
Speaker 1: gotta get part of the reason I gotta get in
Speaker 1: the lab and get ready for this. Yeah, part of
Speaker 1: the reason I keep referencing it. I'm trying to remind
Speaker 1: you to put on your hard hat, your fantasy hard hat.
Speaker 1: I'll be ready, same hard hat you wore when you
Speaker 1: built roadal World brick by brick. Never happen with those
Speaker 1: masculine hands. What's so funny? I didn't that as a
Speaker 1: joke because I don't know everybody laughed at it. No
Speaker 1: one's ever accused me of masculine hands, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: It's hard work moving strawberries. Oh, uh. And also um,
Speaker 1: just before we get into the Thursday and recap, I
Speaker 1: just want to cycle back again the new kissing cousins
Speaker 1: over here, almost adversaries. Uh. The last time they they
Speaker 1: shared a dais together. This is what happened, West. I
Speaker 1: feel like you have something to get off your chest
Speaker 1: after the Kevin patra Um comments about his workout regiment
Speaker 1: and how you've been. If I'll go ahead and tell us,
Speaker 1: he's making some great progress as you can see. But
Speaker 1: as I'm coming from the sidelines up to my seat,
Speaker 1: I almost stepped on him. He's like a hundred seven Wow,
Speaker 1: that's yeah, all in good, all in good fun. Las.
Speaker 1: Last February that was are where are you at now?
Speaker 1: Are you physically bigger in your mind? Well, I've been.
Speaker 1: I told you earlier this summer that I was. It
Speaker 1: was its summertime you cut down, lean down, was lean time,
Speaker 1: we'll get into winter. Then you bulked back up. So
Speaker 1: I'm actually done a few pounds Dan, Thanks you look
Speaker 1: at thanks? All right? He's checking in over there. The
Speaker 1: common strategy make it awkward at all. I think he
Speaker 1: looks great. I think Kevin looks better than he's ever
Speaker 1: looked since he worked at the NFL. That's a true statement.
Speaker 1: I love does that for people. See he's glowing. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about a Thursday night football got Well, it
Speaker 1: wasn't Thursday Night football that brand built by the NFL,
Speaker 1: but it was Thursday night football being played. And let's
Speaker 1: go down all through the six games. We want to
Speaker 1: touch on something from all these games. Um, of course, Greig,
Speaker 1: we don't care about the final score. Okay, who cares
Speaker 1: about I mean anyone, who's any anyone read Dan's end
Speaker 1: around last week? Read the full thing, one topic and
Speaker 1: then you learned all about not taking the preseason too seriously.
Speaker 1: Spelled it out for Greg. Uh, I see that was
Speaker 1: that's a private joke, you know best editor, Um said
Speaker 1: to me today or earlier today, he said, you know,
Speaker 1: what's the focus of your end around? And then Greg
Speaker 1: cut him off and said, oh, if you knew anything
Speaker 1: about the end Around, Eily, you know that it's multiple
Speaker 1: topics every week. And the truth of the matter is,
Speaker 1: last week it was a la reveal Magnify coll A
Speaker 1: one week says the man who's running bit is literally
Speaker 1: that he never reads any of our articles. Who, yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you mean? It was running bit is that
Speaker 1: he didn't. Yeah, and I read your Tony Romo piece
Speaker 1: and I really enjoyed it, and I take it out.
Speaker 1: But the reveal was that I had started writing it
Speaker 1: on one topic at one topic column last week, so
Speaker 1: eally check one of the victory box for really, I'll
Speaker 1: take the al. All right, let's start talking about NFL
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Speaker 1: old baby. I put it on paper, I read it,
Speaker 1: put it on paper, put forth some strong arguments which
Speaker 1: I will rebut within the next couple of weeks. I
Speaker 1: love it. That will be fun. Let's start in Seattle, guys,
Speaker 1: with our Thursday night recap, a game between the Vikings
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks, a rematch, of course, of the wild
Speaker 1: card game last year, the one that ended with a
Speaker 1: Blair Walsh blowing the game. And his name will come
Speaker 1: up a little bit later, but Chris Wessling. Let's start
Speaker 1: with the man that keeps on popping up now in
Speaker 1: any conversations about the two thousand sixteen season, Mr Revelation himself,
Speaker 1: Kristen Michael, and I call him a revelation awakening is
Speaker 1: what that's been attached to him a lot. But West
Speaker 1: you wrote and are what we learned recap that the
Speaker 1: man was a revelation against the Vikings. He was, he
Speaker 1: was explosive, He looked like he was shot out of
Speaker 1: a cannon. On a few runs, he lost yards because
Speaker 1: he slipped on the carpet twice and still average six
Speaker 1: yards to carry. They lined him up wide as a receiver.
Speaker 1: We're leading with this because I'm guessing because I think
Speaker 1: Kristen Michael is a much bigger story than the rest
Speaker 1: of the football world does. But he looks to me
Speaker 1: like an elite running back, not just like a guy
Speaker 1: who's gonna step in in Week one because Thomas Rowles
Speaker 1: isn't ready. They've got two stud running backs. Now, what
Speaker 1: is the chance Devil's advocate here that this is a
Speaker 1: classic preseason illusion situation where he is You know, we
Speaker 1: talked about this guy two years ago that he was
Speaker 1: gonna the same exact type of accolades, that he really
Speaker 1: has had an awakening other than what we've seen, which
Speaker 1: is a very limited sample size. If you want my
Speaker 1: honest opinion, there's a zero percent chance that this is
Speaker 1: not I trust my zero. I trust my eyes. This
Speaker 1: is an explosive who has seen the light, and the
Speaker 1: coaches have all talked about it. His teammates have all
Speaker 1: talked about it. He's a different player than he was.
Speaker 1: He always had the talent, Now he's got the discipline
Speaker 1: and the fundamentals. And I think we saw it at
Speaker 1: the end of last year. It's not like it just
Speaker 1: happened in the preseason. He had a good end of
Speaker 1: last year in a good playoff game. Absolutely true. If
Speaker 1: you go back and watch Week seventeen and the wild
Speaker 1: card round of the playoffs, he ran with authority and
Speaker 1: he looked like an every down running He's earned a role.
Speaker 1: He has that ability to cut while moving forward, which
Speaker 1: is a Mall Charles type of trait. And they used
Speaker 1: them out of the backfield splitting out wide, So maybe
Speaker 1: they'll maybe they'll use him in that role a little
Speaker 1: bit more to get him on the field back I
Speaker 1: kind of expect them to split carries earlier here, where
Speaker 1: was Teddy Bridgewater in this game? It's weird he didn't play,
Speaker 1: and Mike Zimmer isn't telling us why he didn't play,
Speaker 1: other than he didn't want him to play. I think
Speaker 1: not hurt. I think it was just been I think
Speaker 1: they were playing the Seahawks, and you know Ben Roethlisberger
Speaker 1: didn't play, Aaron Rodgers hasn't played yet. I know Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridger was not at that stage, but I just think
Speaker 1: he decided to rest him. It was weird though, That's
Speaker 1: kind of how I looked at it, like why put
Speaker 1: him out there? And with this defense, You're still working
Speaker 1: in an offensive line that hasn't messed yet, so why
Speaker 1: put him back there? And uh, should the Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 1: be concerned about Blair Walsh m I mean he he
Speaker 1: hooked another one left or pushed it left. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think kickers in the NFL, if you've really if
Speaker 1: you've read Michael Lewis has written about this, kicker in
Speaker 1: the NFL isn't usually about talent. It's about mental toughness.
Speaker 1: Will see. It's it's a tricky position because you can
Speaker 1: only stay with him so long. But that though, obviously,
Speaker 1: I hope that it's all straightened up by the regular season.
Speaker 1: My concerned, if I was the Vikings in this game,
Speaker 1: is more Lakwan Treadewroll, who had a rough game, didn't
Speaker 1: create much separation. I think the chance of him moving
Speaker 1: up the depth chart before the season starts is over.
Speaker 1: At this point, I don't no nonsense job is safe
Speaker 1: on the team. Yeah. Not only that, I don't think
Speaker 1: Treadwill is gonna get a lot of snaps early. Not
Speaker 1: on the end of the world, but their last two
Speaker 1: first round picks, him and Trey Wayne is not getting
Speaker 1: a lot of production out of those two guys. What
Speaker 1: also tells you, I mean, we still think they're gonna
Speaker 1: be a good team with him not having a lot
Speaker 1: of that. They don't necessarily need that to be a
Speaker 1: contender in the NFC. They don't need their first round
Speaker 1: pick to come in and be explosive right away. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on to the Cincinnati Bengals. At the Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions and Kevin Patrick, you are are resident Lions fan.
Speaker 1: We all know you hang in there. You're a real
Speaker 1: tragic figure in that sense, but you're in good company
Speaker 1: with the Browns fan and Jets fan. Also attached to
Speaker 1: his podcast, Matthew Stafford and Marvin Jones. I was just
Speaker 1: talking about Marvin Jones as my breakout star candidate this season.
Speaker 1: They continue to look good together, don't they. Yes, I
Speaker 1: mean that's the one. One of the biggest takeaways you
Speaker 1: can take from the Lions offense is that Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: looks very comfortable and Jim Bob Couter's looks very comfortable.
Speaker 1: He was slinging it around on the first drive, and
Speaker 1: then the connection with with Marvin Jones up the down
Speaker 1: the field, not just on little short five yards six
Speaker 1: d routes. He had a thirty two yard catching tap
Speaker 1: to toe tap and then I followed directly by a
Speaker 1: nineteen yard one. So I think that that combination is
Speaker 1: already where it where we've heard it talk about that
Speaker 1: He's Marvin Jones, is gonna be the number could be
Speaker 1: the number one. I still think it's gonna end up
Speaker 1: where take and him balance each other out. But he's
Speaker 1: looking great so far. Stafford that more wow plays, I think,
Speaker 1: in this tiny sample size of the preseason than any
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league. And I don't think you get
Speaker 1: carried away because Russell Wilson, for instance, didn't score, didn't
Speaker 1: do anything at a terrible game less thing. It's like
Speaker 1: that doesn't change my opinion on him, but it's nice
Speaker 1: to see. If your a Lions fan, I think that
Speaker 1: the Lions are gonna have to throw the ball like
Speaker 1: fifty times a game to win. I don't think you
Speaker 1: can't move the ball the the The offensive line was
Speaker 1: better this week as a pass blocking unit, but they
Speaker 1: cannot open a hole to save their lives. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: just too stiff and tall. By the way, Patrick, I'm curious, uh,
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford in all your years as Alliance and he
Speaker 1: has to be the most maddening player to watch right, Yes,
Speaker 1: because he goes through spurts where he looks phenomenal when
Speaker 1: he's run. I think they're gonna run a lot of
Speaker 1: no huddle because that's when he looks the most comfortable
Speaker 1: latent games last year we saw it against Miami for instance,
Speaker 1: when he's just a gun slinger just throwing it around
Speaker 1: the park. He looks great, and he looks he looks
Speaker 1: like a kid. But all right. And on the on
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati side, Patrick, Tyler Boyd, we have Marvin Jones
Speaker 1: now making plays in Detroit. Tyler Boyd, is he gonna
Speaker 1: step in and be that number two that they need
Speaker 1: behind a J. Green. Yes, he had a phenomenal sideline
Speaker 1: catch today and you can see he knows where to
Speaker 1: go in the zone. He had that he caught it
Speaker 1: touchdown pass against the safety on the inside. I think
Speaker 1: that he's gonna easily step in into that. Jones um
Speaker 1: it's a new role in Cincinnati, and I think we
Speaker 1: don't need to worry about the Cincinnati offense. I think
Speaker 1: that's what they proved in the first two weeks of
Speaker 1: the preseason. Jeremy Hill looked fantastic yesterday in limited time.
Speaker 1: He looks like he has his burst back. He was
Speaker 1: running downhill, no stuttering at the line like we saw
Speaker 1: early last year. And I think their their offensive line,
Speaker 1: their offensive line was creating huge holes. That says Boyd
Speaker 1: Duke Tobin might have done it again with Boyd. They
Speaker 1: were disappointed not to get Treadweller Dots and in the
Speaker 1: first round right before them, and they might they might
Speaker 1: end up happy with what they got and boys. A
Speaker 1: report from Rob Wintraub, who's a freelance writer who specializes
Speaker 1: in the Bengals, said the Bengals did not want Lakan
Speaker 1: Lakwan Treadwell, whether he failed to them or not. They
Speaker 1: were gonna take William Jackson. Wow. Uh, let's move on, guys,
Speaker 1: to the factory of gladness. Wow, the hype around the
Speaker 1: Browns right now is through the roof and it's all
Speaker 1: because r G three, Robert Riven the Third and Terrell
Speaker 1: Prior continue to connect on deep balls long reception for
Speaker 1: the second week in a row, this time for a
Speaker 1: touchdown as the Browns. You know, let's let's face it, Greg,
Speaker 1: the Browns are a team that they're not gonna win
Speaker 1: the division. They're not going to go to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But are there are we starting to see some hints
Speaker 1: that this team could be fun to watch? Or is
Speaker 1: this one of those cruel uh get the Browns fans
Speaker 1: excited and then about their guts situations right now? I
Speaker 1: think I don't have an answer yes or no. That's boring,
Speaker 1: But I think Hugh Jackson's gonna make them more fun
Speaker 1: to watch regardless. I don't know if this is a mirage,
Speaker 1: but he's going to make them more aggressive and he's
Speaker 1: gonna maximize what they have. I think from the receivers
Speaker 1: and the skill position. It's a wait and see for
Speaker 1: me on Griffin, but it's nice to see him getting
Speaker 1: some protection and throwing a nice deep ball like he
Speaker 1: used to. I mean, he's good at that. I think
Speaker 1: yesterday one thing. One thing yesterday proved. I think what
Speaker 1: their offense is going to be is a lot of
Speaker 1: short screen passes that go for a few yards and
Speaker 1: if somebody can break a tackle and then you're gonna
Speaker 1: see the bomb. I mean he had. He he had
Speaker 1: seventeen yards on his four receptions that weren't the two
Speaker 1: bombs that he threw the two deep passes, and he
Speaker 1: looked great on that. So I think that's what they're
Speaker 1: gonna be. Their offense is gonna be quick passes to
Speaker 1: get the ball of his hand so he's not hit,
Speaker 1: and then when you can take a shot, you take
Speaker 1: a shot. If Terrell Prior can't run more than a
Speaker 1: go route, that's not gonna carry over to the regular season,
Speaker 1: But that's a valuable trait. If you can beat a
Speaker 1: great cornerback like Desmond trufon that badly with that sort
Speaker 1: of size, you know, if they get Terrell Prior to
Speaker 1: get yards and in five touchdowns, to me, that's a win.
Speaker 1: If regular season defenses know that all Terrell Prior is
Speaker 1: doing his running straight down the field, they're gonna play
Speaker 1: defense a little bit differently than true font. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: I don't know that that that's gonna carry over into
Speaker 1: the regular season, but I think it's what Greg point
Speaker 1: was at the top. It's definitely gonna be more exciting.
Speaker 1: They're gonna try at least, But I think that playing
Speaker 1: against the Falcons had something to do with his good play.
Speaker 1: They didn't touch him in a lot of situations. They
Speaker 1: just didn't have a pass rush. Vic Beasley didn't play
Speaker 1: because he's got a shoulder issue already, and I just
Speaker 1: like we talked about last episode, I I'm I don't
Speaker 1: think the Pelicans have a pass rush, and I think
Speaker 1: that helped r G three. So this is this is
Speaker 1: also where you have to look at it both ways.
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson is not gonna show anything in the preseason
Speaker 1: good or good or bad. So to me, like, we'll
Speaker 1: see what the Hugh Jackson offense is when the regular
Speaker 1: season starts. The funniest thing I saw last night was
Speaker 1: it's obviously been drilled into r G three's head that
Speaker 1: he needs to slide sliding. It's hilarious. Still slides been
Speaker 1: two ft like a two year old. Yeah, it's weird,
Speaker 1: so hard. The best athletes in the world cannot do
Speaker 1: a baseball. And he's not alone because, like I played
Speaker 1: little league baseball growing up, and you you learn how
Speaker 1: to slide. It's not the hardest thing to do. You
Speaker 1: don't have to be a gifted athlete to pull it off.
Speaker 1: Let's try to hit the number here. Gotta be like
Speaker 1: six year olds playing litterle league can do a baseball slide. Well,
Speaker 1: it's weird because isn't Wolden sliding with two feet be tougher?
Speaker 1: You have to like jump into the ground or something.
Speaker 1: It's it. I'd be mildly annoyed by the way, as
Speaker 1: someone who wants to take Devonte Freeman early in Fantasy dress,
Speaker 1: I mean mildly annoyed that they're mixing in Tevin Coleman
Speaker 1: with the first drive. Hopefully they keep seeing the fact
Speaker 1: that Freeman is just a much better player. But but
Speaker 1: they do seem serious about the fact that they want. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, but it annoys me that Coleman's in there
Speaker 1: on the third, fourth snap of the game. I mean, Coleman,
Speaker 1: he doesn't impress me at all because he can't get
Speaker 1: into space. I get that he's got this breakaway speed
Speaker 1: or whatever, but he can't break a tackle to save
Speaker 1: his life. He just runs right into the line. He
Speaker 1: can't get to daylight in order to use his speed,
Speaker 1: where Freeman is making one cup, getting up hill, getting downhill,
Speaker 1: and just running over people. Not a great night, ficulous
Speaker 1: for the Brown's offense overall, I mean defense overall. Rather
Speaker 1: and it was interesting to see barkibious mingo in the
Speaker 1: until the very last snap of the game in Danny Shelton,
Speaker 1: who I think they really want to see more out
Speaker 1: of in there at the end. Uh, from the beginning
Speaker 1: to the end. What did you ask me about Carl
Speaker 1: Nassa coming into the podcast studio? Oh, well, they gotta be,
Speaker 1: they gotta When are they building the statue for him?
Speaker 1: It's got outside the under instruction already. Do you guys
Speaker 1: have any interest, by the way, in going inside the
Speaker 1: head of Mark Sessler? Last night? I did get some audio, okay,
Speaker 1: big old anime eyes jumping through the West side of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles collecting gold coins. His Twitter feed was was
Speaker 1: a joy to watch. Here's one tweet, My favorite tweet.
Speaker 1: There are a bunch of them Griffin to Prior, It's real,
Speaker 1: all of it. Hashtag Brown's is getting excited. I mean,
Speaker 1: even Connor woke up early on his day off to
Speaker 1: write uh r G three word porn story like, Well,
Speaker 1: the Browns fans, they're adorable, they love it. The hype
Speaker 1: is already here. They deserve something, you know. We we
Speaker 1: get on Patrick for having that whiteboard of of enemies,
Speaker 1: but uh, I think Connor Honner keeps his enemy. He
Speaker 1: keeps his enemies foremost in his mind more than any
Speaker 1: of us, I believe. And I think Patrick just stepped
Speaker 1: on that list with that guy. Well with the word
Speaker 1: porn comment, well, I mean I think he would have
Speaker 1: not don't don't worry about You're not a word porn fan. Greg,
Speaker 1: You're you're sharing your opinion. Julian Edaman is still dead.
Speaker 1: To Connor, I don't know. You're in trouble, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I would not want to cross that guy.
Speaker 1: Let's move to lambeau Field or the Raiders and Packers played,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what good times for the Packers offense.
Speaker 1: Tremendous first drive, chewed up clock that he Lacy making plays,
Speaker 1: getting in the end zone. And then Patrick, you notice
Speaker 1: the secondary's looking sneaky. Great? Yeah, well, first off on
Speaker 1: the offense, I thought I was impressed with the offensive line.
Speaker 1: We talked about how the Raiders defensive front was much
Speaker 1: better this year than last year, and they just kind
Speaker 1: of bully the Packer's offensive line bullied him around on
Speaker 1: that first drive. Which is if they can get a
Speaker 1: pass protection and run blocking and the way Eddie Lacy
Speaker 1: looks just fresh and willing to be patient to the
Speaker 1: hole and hit the whole hard and Aaron Rodgers gets protection,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's you. This offense could revert back to
Speaker 1: where it was well before being down last year. West
Speaker 1: talked about haw Haw Clinton Dix maybe breaking out to
Speaker 1: Marius Randall is a guy to watch if he can
Speaker 1: take a more than sleep. He was pretty good, pretty
Speaker 1: good already because he makes There's just not enough cornerbacks
Speaker 1: that our playmaker like makes plays on the ball, and
Speaker 1: he seemed great at that. I think this is like
Speaker 1: I kind of asked in the what we learned, like,
Speaker 1: is this one of the most underrated secondaries in the league.
Speaker 1: We don't really talk about that much on the upper
Speaker 1: echelon with the you know, with some of the other
Speaker 1: the Seahawks and others, But I mean Clinton Dix, as
Speaker 1: you said, Randall shields hide Ladarius Gunter. I think they
Speaker 1: have a lot of good young pieces that when they jell,
Speaker 1: they could be one of the best secondaries in the league.
Speaker 1: They showed it yesterday. Just frustrating the crap out of
Speaker 1: Derek Carr. West. We shouldn't be concerned about the Raiders
Speaker 1: offense not looking too hot, should we know? Okay, stop
Speaker 1: a checking, no checking move on Chicago and the Pats
Speaker 1: and uh Greg some more up and down from Jimmy Garoppolo.
Speaker 1: What is your grade for James Garfield Garoppolo after two
Speaker 1: preseason games? I thought he was better last night. He
Speaker 1: had a few uh off target throws as West mentioned, um,
Speaker 1: but I in preseason, I don't get too carried away
Speaker 1: with much of anything. I try to look for the
Speaker 1: traits that you like and the things I like. He
Speaker 1: has that quiet like people talk about Tom Brady for
Speaker 1: his quiet feet, that he maybe early in his career,
Speaker 1: showed that better than than just about any quarterback we've seen.
Speaker 1: And and you see that a little bit with Garoppolo,
Speaker 1: that he's so calm and in the pocket, he doesn't
Speaker 1: get bothered by the pass rush around him. He goes
Speaker 1: through his progressions well and he seems mature. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's a super talented, accurate guy, but I
Speaker 1: think he can be solid. I think he shows those
Speaker 1: sort of veteran quarterback traits you don't see how have
Speaker 1: a third year player When you're looking for traits and
Speaker 1: you watch Jimmy Garoppolo, does it occur to you? Did
Speaker 1: He's essentially Alex Smith when it comes to throw and
Speaker 1: beyond the stip. Yeah, he's not gonna he to me
Speaker 1: I talked about with you. To me, he could be
Speaker 1: like an Andy Dalton. You know, he's got a little
Speaker 1: plus athleticism and in a game manager type of guy.
Speaker 1: But if you're you know, that's that's the NFL. If
Speaker 1: you win from the neck up at quarterback. If he's solid,
Speaker 1: by the way, and makes some plays, they're gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: They're gonna go three and one or worst case scenario
Speaker 1: two and two, which is all that they can ask
Speaker 1: for me. Worst case scenario they going for. Well, I'm saying,
Speaker 1: but if he's solid facts, even if he's I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a huge difference between Tom Brady and solid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're saying they could go and four if they could
Speaker 1: go for If you must not like this Patriots team
Speaker 1: that much. I love this Patriots team, but I don't
Speaker 1: think solid is necessarily what Tom Brady is. I'm not
Speaker 1: asking him to be Tom Bradys, I think is a possibility.
Speaker 1: One reason I don't think they'll going or it is
Speaker 1: because I'm starting to like some other things that I
Speaker 1: see from this team, whether it's Trey Flowers, whether it's
Speaker 1: it occurred to me watching this game last night and
Speaker 1: these two games, like Jamie Collins. You know, we haven't
Speaker 1: talked about him much. He might have another level to
Speaker 1: go up like he he is that talented, and the
Speaker 1: way that he's flashing these couple of games started making
Speaker 1: me think, like, does he have another level of defensive
Speaker 1: player of the year type of of step up to go.
Speaker 1: I'm worried about their secondary, but overall, I think their
Speaker 1: defensive yard unless Garoppolo is a disaster, Bill Belichick is
Speaker 1: not gonna let this team go home for They're gonna
Speaker 1: scheme their way or figure out things have happened than
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback failing to win games for a month. Still,
Speaker 1: if he's bad, I'm saying, if he's good. I think
Speaker 1: there's a basic why I do think home games in
Speaker 1: that mix, which I've been underwhelmed by him. But it's
Speaker 1: worth pointing out that he hasn't had Gronk Edelman, Amndla, right,
Speaker 1: Mac Malcolm Mitchell didn't play last night. They didn't have
Speaker 1: Rob Nikovich on the It's like and the Bears didn't
Speaker 1: have half of a lot of their good players. These
Speaker 1: preseason games are tough from like a team perspective, uh,
Speaker 1: to take a lot out of, but you look at
Speaker 1: the individuals. I'm still waiting to he something out of
Speaker 1: Kevin White. I think you know that they're having a
Speaker 1: hard time kind of getting him into that mix. He's
Speaker 1: he's on the field. Yeah, he didn't really do anything.
Speaker 1: One catch and then terrible drop yesterday. He just hasn't
Speaker 1: been in that offense since has hasn't clicked at all.
Speaker 1: You know they're doing okay, right? What the Patriots are
Speaker 1: the Bears? Oh, Kevin White, Kevin White? Yeah, Oh you're
Speaker 1: James James White. Oh, I'm excited this Anthony Johnson guy,
Speaker 1: if that was the only game you ever watched in
Speaker 1: the NFL, you'd think he was a Defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year. Looked like an All Pro um by the way,
Speaker 1: a little bit of shaking this from the backup quarterback.
Speaker 1: Isn't the only problem for the Patriots run for cover?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? Oh no, Tom Boydy got the scissors.
Speaker 1: Oh Tom body swept lacerated, his right thumb scratched from
Speaker 1: the starting lineup. No, you think that's a bad that's
Speaker 1: a good thing. He didn't that's a throw of East. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly, that's a It didn't do it in week five,
Speaker 1: so he couldn't play the first game back he did it. No,
Speaker 1: is that okay, he's got a month. That's a that's
Speaker 1: a good twisting this to make your narrative and it
Speaker 1: just doesn't like this twist in there. And I will
Speaker 1: take away your microphone right now. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: what that lacerated thumb proves. Who's gott he bleeds? Does
Speaker 1: he bleed his own blood? He's just a man. I
Speaker 1: want to show you he's just a man. Since this
Speaker 1: decade started, they've won at least twelve games every year.
Speaker 1: That is an outrageous thing. Patriots are good. I guess
Speaker 1: I don't really realized that. Oh yeah, that was the
Speaker 1: other thing came out of it. West said downstairs that
Speaker 1: your prediction is that the Patriots once Tom Brady returns,
Speaker 1: will not lose for the rest of the year. I
Speaker 1: want to put a sandwich on like this, so they're
Speaker 1: gonna go. They're gonna go twelve and four with Garoppolo
Speaker 1: going on for it. That would be quite I'm not
Speaker 1: saying is gonna go on for I'm saying it's a possibility.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you got when you got a j
Speaker 1: Derby on your team, you're not going on on for
Speaker 1: he looked amazing yesterday ends. I think it's funny. How
Speaker 1: how scared to death Dan is of Tom Brady? Why
Speaker 1: do you think it's funny? Of course I am. You
Speaker 1: don't know what it's like, Wes. You just don't know.
Speaker 1: It's been a brilliant quarterback. Uh, I was a college junior.
Speaker 1: This is ridiculous. I totally agree. I have the luxury
Speaker 1: of sitting back and just watching his greatness while you
Speaker 1: have to sit there and hope for bad things to
Speaker 1: happen to him. Listen, it's not even a bad thing.
Speaker 1: We all get older, and the last line of defense
Speaker 1: for people like me this human biology. Maybe check it
Speaker 1: out a calm and dot com slash and that's what
Speaker 1: we got. Left. Everything else has failed, coaches, players, schemes,
Speaker 1: different different situations. Nothing has worked, but his body will
Speaker 1: be the one that fails him. Father time is the
Speaker 1: one figure towers over Tom Brady. It's true, but it's
Speaker 1: such a long wait for you. Hey, It's been a
Speaker 1: long wait. This is the beginning of a gradual decline.
Speaker 1: Mark my words, not decline every year for the next decade.
Speaker 1: I put it on paper for a reason today. I
Speaker 1: remember when he was no longer elite two off seasons ago,
Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP. I never said that years old. I mean,
Speaker 1: Dan's gonna be right. Decline Like it's not a bold
Speaker 1: statement to say a guy's gonna decline. He keeps every
Speaker 1: year for the next half decade. At some point he's
Speaker 1: going to be right. This is the year. This is
Speaker 1: the year. Finally the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers played
Speaker 1: a battle for Pennsylvania guys, whoa rematch in the regular sea.
Speaker 1: You can believe this year? Right? Yeah? And west Uh.
Speaker 1: Some intrigue with Martevis Bryant out of the picture of
Speaker 1: this season. Eli Rodgers playing well. Sammy Coates look out,
Speaker 1: Sammy coach is inconsistent. He made a beautiful toe toe
Speaker 1: tapping side line catch and another hands catch I think
Speaker 1: on a slant, but had an offensive pass interference penalty,
Speaker 1: and twice Landry Jones was intercepted going to Sammy Coates
Speaker 1: when he could have made a play on the ball.
Speaker 1: I think it's that inconsistency and when the ball's in
Speaker 1: the air, do you trust his hands. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if his instincts and hands are good enough to play
Speaker 1: when frankly, the offensive coordinator has a crush on Eli Rodgers,
Speaker 1: who looks to me like the week one slot receiver. Yea,
Speaker 1: he fits that offense better. Doesn't mean Sammy's not gonna
Speaker 1: play the slot as well as Eli Rogers has shown,
Speaker 1: which it's just weird that Sammy Coates has been so
Speaker 1: terrible in the last two prison in games when everything
Speaker 1: we heard of from training camp, which you usually judge
Speaker 1: better than usually that takes precedence over a couple of
Speaker 1: preseason drives. But he just looks so and we've heard
Speaker 1: it was so good in those training camps that it's
Speaker 1: just weird, Like whatever happened in like in the different
Speaker 1: what's what was the difference? They gotta get a new
Speaker 1: backup quarterback or interceptions for Landry Jones for the problem,
Speaker 1: especially when Ben Roethlisberger is a guy you fully expect
Speaker 1: to miss games. It just happens every year. To me,
Speaker 1: that's the game or two. The only chicken. Roethlisberger's armor
Speaker 1: at the stage of his career is his durability. And
Speaker 1: you got a guy throwing four picks in twenty past attempts.
Speaker 1: That's scary. And he and he's never he's never shown
Speaker 1: reason to believe in him. I'm not saying that Big
Speaker 1: Ben is a picture of durability, but believe he hadn't
Speaker 1: missed a game in three years before he missed games
Speaker 1: last year. Maybe he complete. He talks about his injuries
Speaker 1: so much that he loves that's true. That's true. He
Speaker 1: wants you to know that he's playing. He missed five
Speaker 1: starts last year. He did play two full seasons before that,
Speaker 1: missed three starts the year before. He is. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's not a picture of durability because he takes so
Speaker 1: many hits. But I couldn't agree more. They've needed, they've
Speaker 1: always needed a better backup than they've had. How about
Speaker 1: Caleb Sturgis. Where is that rank on the all time
Speaker 1: worse freak injuries. I was asking Patrick, like, honestly, how
Speaker 1: I want to hear the story of how a kicker
Speaker 1: can possibly get injured get a concussing in a pregame? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all as we knew was that well at first, they
Speaker 1: just announced that all of a sudden, the kicker got
Speaker 1: a concussion. I was like, did he run into the wall?
Speaker 1: Like what were you what was he doing? Style? And
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, so that was my initial thought, like
Speaker 1: he was walking and he banged his head on a
Speaker 1: pipe or something. But like that was what I mean,
Speaker 1: how else do you get a concussion before the pregame?
Speaker 1: But apparently random punt and arrant punt hit him in
Speaker 1: the head. And I didn't, you know, concussions are flukey
Speaker 1: like that. What would it hit him in the right way?
Speaker 1: I guess what would Deacon Jones say about that? Man? Up,
Speaker 1: it's a different era, Greg, It's a different in the NFL.
Speaker 1: That is absolutely true. Just I don't want to get
Speaker 1: onto it. They're just a bunch of guys playing Patty
Speaker 1: kick out there. It's like, who the who the hell
Speaker 1: am I know it is I'm a little weekly and
Speaker 1: these guys are you know, they're crazy. Great, Well, they
Speaker 1: say that, They say that soccer players get concussions all
Speaker 1: the headballs they do. Yeah, you would think that, right.
Speaker 1: And then this is the same week where we just
Speaker 1: got treated to the flashback to l a Rams training
Speaker 1: camp where we saw the carnage on the field in
Speaker 1: a in a practice during a training camp back in
Speaker 1: It's just a much different game now. So the guy
Speaker 1: gets cocked on the head by a punt. I think
Speaker 1: Pam Oliver. She fought through it. Ian Rappaport got banged
Speaker 1: in the head. She fought through it. But under the
Speaker 1: new policies of the NFL, the kickers gotta sit it out.
Speaker 1: Did anybody ever give Rappaport a concussion test for that?
Speaker 1: I would have done it live on air. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I mean. I would turn it into a teachable moment. Okay,
Speaker 1: Eagles might not be any worse with that, Chip Kelly,
Speaker 1: but they're definitely gonna be more boring. Are you starting
Speaker 1: to get edge yourself away because you were excited about
Speaker 1: the Eagles. I'm sticking with the Eagles. Yeah, I believe
Speaker 1: that when I see it. What do you mean, I
Speaker 1: just did this offense? The offense is gonna be dysfunctional.
Speaker 1: It's not a great offense, not a great division. I
Speaker 1: think they can find ways to win, but it's not
Speaker 1: going to be an exciting thought that you're talking yourself
Speaker 1: into this, just so we can take advantage of you
Speaker 1: picking the Eagles and Jim Schwartz's defense can get up
Speaker 1: to the quarterback and they have some they can force turnovers.
Speaker 1: So that's what they have going for them the best
Speaker 1: from what we've seen so far. All right, there's the
Speaker 1: Thursday night recap, the Monday Monday show. We'll look at
Speaker 1: the rest of the storylines to come out of week
Speaker 1: two of the preseason preseason. Let's move on now, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: to a division preview, wrapping up the NFC with the
Speaker 1: NFC West Division, And just like we have done for
Speaker 1: the other three previews, we will name a breakout star,
Speaker 1: a biggest concern, and underrated storyline, and then pick a
Speaker 1: song that best describes a main storyline or the state
Speaker 1: of the division. You know, let you go with it.
Speaker 1: A little disappointed that we don't get one of Mark's
Speaker 1: um bizarre offerings today, but I know Patrick will do
Speaker 1: an excellent job in his place, and and speaking Kevin Patrick,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get us going with the breakout star of
Speaker 1: the NFC West in two thousand sixteen. My guy is
Speaker 1: the my making the leap camp of it from this year.
Speaker 1: One of them, Tyler Lockett, wide receiver, Seattle Seahawks. UM
Speaker 1: doesn't have the size of prototypical guy, but we've, like
Speaker 1: we talked about that he's a fantastic route runner. I think,
Speaker 1: just south of Antonio Brown when it comes to that
Speaker 1: that skill in the in the NFL. He can get
Speaker 1: open deep and he's not just a deep guy. He's
Speaker 1: not just a guy that's like Turrole probably talked about earlier,
Speaker 1: who's just gonna go deep on you. He can run
Speaker 1: the back comeback route, and his comeback routes are so
Speaker 1: precise he seems like it almost makes it look like
Speaker 1: the defensive back blue the coverage because he's usually so
Speaker 1: wide open. He can make catches and tyke space. And
Speaker 1: I think with the Sea these Seahawks offense opening up
Speaker 1: more this year with Russell Wilson taking charge, I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a phenomenal breakout year. Great matchup with
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's deep ball. Not that they haven't had some
Speaker 1: guys who can go deep. You know, but that right
Speaker 1: now he I mean, they needed a true deep threat
Speaker 1: and he's going to be that guy. And he can
Speaker 1: run the whole I mean, over the last five games
Speaker 1: when they open the up offense up last year, he
Speaker 1: had twenty three catches, eighteen yards and three touchdowns. I mean,
Speaker 1: you strapolate that over the full season, he's got over
Speaker 1: a thousand yards seventy plus catches. Well, that's funny you
Speaker 1: say those numbers, because I'm gonna give you a little
Speaker 1: over under game here, buddy over under seventy catches over
Speaker 1: eleven hundred yards. Wow, Oh, come on, you're gonna say
Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna say it. I was gonna go
Speaker 1: ten fifty, but I'll go over. And Russell Wilson ever
Speaker 1: had a wide receiver go over yards. Well got bald
Speaker 1: And I felt like Baldwin had like a thousand yards
Speaker 1: in seven weeks last year. Nine touchdowns in four weeks
Speaker 1: I think anyway, eight touchdown Nope, ten sixty nine for Baldwin. Anyway,
Speaker 1: eight touchdowns over runner um eight and a half. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go under, all right, So he's gonna just sneak
Speaker 1: into the star category a little lower end star, but
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl type season. Yeah, well, I mean he
Speaker 1: also doesn't kick kicking punt returns. Does that count in
Speaker 1: your touchdowns? Actually, I guess I should read I was
Speaker 1: not Juno, but that's good to know as well. If
Speaker 1: he's gonna standout special teams player West a breakout star
Speaker 1: in the NFC West, Well, I was going to talk
Speaker 1: Kristen Michael, but since we already covered him, let's go
Speaker 1: with the most obvious breakout star in the entire NFL,
Speaker 1: David Johnson. You called Levan Bell the best all around
Speaker 1: back in football. I think by the time this season
Speaker 1: is over, You're gonna be calling David Johnson the best
Speaker 1: all around back. Hello, and Steve come has called him
Speaker 1: the best receiving running back he's ever seen, including Marshall Falk.
Speaker 1: Pretty high praise. How did you already miss on this guy?
Speaker 1: I don't understand how he is this good and went
Speaker 1: in the third round last year. He went well where
Speaker 1: he went to school. I was gonna say he wasn't
Speaker 1: playing against and you try to project that a lot
Speaker 1: of times they miss Also, the Cardinals developed him well,
Speaker 1: I think the other it was a guy who did
Speaker 1: not want to run between the tackle Arizona and then
Speaker 1: the knock was coming out of college and that he
Speaker 1: wasn't going to be able to run it inside well
Speaker 1: for that size. Uh. To his credit though, like Greg
Speaker 1: Costell and some other people, they were h John David
Speaker 1: Johnson right after the draft because of that skill set
Speaker 1: and it's come come to fruition. Yeah. I think if
Speaker 1: you watch his his rookie tape, what stands out a
Speaker 1: lot is early in the year, Bruce arians is really
Speaker 1: creative with him as a wide receiver, lining him up
Speaker 1: all over the field, and once Chris Johnson gets injured,
Speaker 1: they just used him more as a normal running back.
Speaker 1: He's still involved in the passing game, but not running
Speaker 1: those same creative routes that he was early in the season.
Speaker 1: And I think you're gonna see a lot of that
Speaker 1: this year. That what they're gonna do with him as
Speaker 1: a receiver. I mean, it wouldn't it wouldn't surprise me
Speaker 1: if he has seventy five or eighty catches. So you
Speaker 1: say breakout superstar, I'm talking like m VP candidate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that good. Keep that in mind, Fantasy heads, Westling High
Speaker 1: and I will now share my breakout star good times
Speaker 1: prosperous times in the NFC West, because mine is Todd Gurley,
Speaker 1: who uh went over a thousand yards last year, missed
Speaker 1: the first four weeks coming back from the day clare
Speaker 1: in the same situation. Todd Gurley's already star, but I
Speaker 1: think he becomes a superstar this year. Now He's got
Speaker 1: his legs under him. No concerns about the knee he's
Speaker 1: he's slowed down in the last eight games last year.
Speaker 1: My only concern is that their passing game is going
Speaker 1: to be such a disaster that it's gonna lead to
Speaker 1: eight in the box and all that stuff. But I
Speaker 1: think he's good enough to make that not be as
Speaker 1: big an issue as it would be for other running backs.
Speaker 1: I'm saying he's going over yards rushing and having that
Speaker 1: type of monster season where he will be viewed as
Speaker 1: uh if David unless David Johnson eclips him, I could
Speaker 1: see him the torch being passed from a p to
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley is the best running back. You're not worried
Speaker 1: about that offensive line at all. I'm I'm worried. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm It's not a perfect team. I mean that, and
Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing working against him, But I'm just
Speaker 1: going off what he did when he was at his
Speaker 1: best last year and the buzz around him coming into
Speaker 1: the league given that second year, that maybe this is
Speaker 1: the year that he becomes just a total stud. And
Speaker 1: that's who's who's the favorite to lead the NFL and rushing,
Speaker 1: that's a good question, will be a good race. I
Speaker 1: would say it's a p and Gurly can't discount ap
Speaker 1: but he is thirty one though Jamal no, he's not
Speaker 1: gonna be in the mix. It is a cool thing
Speaker 1: to think about. This conversation, just getting me thinking that
Speaker 1: these two guys in the NFC West could be battling
Speaker 1: for for best running back in the league for years,
Speaker 1: facing each other a lot of times. In general, I
Speaker 1: think best running back in the league Crown is kind
Speaker 1: of out there, uh this year for for someone to
Speaker 1: take and we're gonna get a bunch of Tweeks is
Speaker 1: certainly in that mix. Peterson, but who do we not mention?
Speaker 1: I don't think it's being disrespectful to Jamal Charles considering
Speaker 1: the injuries coming off, but he certainly has to be
Speaker 1: in the mix. I think Frank Gorey always have to
Speaker 1: talk inconvenient truth. Uh, breakout. I'm gonna go alec Ogil
Speaker 1: Tree and no one of West's favorites too. I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk someone different. Uh. And he's a guy who
Speaker 1: think can make a lot of plays. He's moving to
Speaker 1: middle linebacker. Uh. That front seven is just fantastic for
Speaker 1: the Rams. We talk a lot about the offense and
Speaker 1: everything that's wrong about the Rams, but that front seven
Speaker 1: is so deep and the front four creates so many problems.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna make it even easier for Ogal
Speaker 1: Tree to run all over the field, make plays in
Speaker 1: the passing game, in the running game, and just make
Speaker 1: some of those plays that get noticed on television. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's one of those guys where his athleticism just jumps
Speaker 1: off the page. So I could see him having that
Speaker 1: type of season. That's absolutely true. He jumps off the film.
Speaker 1: I think the one question with him, I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's a no brainer move to middle linebacker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true because of his over pursuit, which he has
Speaker 1: a big habit of doing. By the way, one of
Speaker 1: my sneaky highlights of episode two of Hard Knocks is
Speaker 1: alcohol Tree in the swimming pool looking to the camera
Speaker 1: and dead panning Michael Phelps Black Edition. By the way,
Speaker 1: it was, is there anything that you would want to
Speaker 1: do less than be chased by one of those guys
Speaker 1: when they want to throw you into the pool? Like
Speaker 1: the coaches genuinely fearful Like no, like no, like they
Speaker 1: genuinely were fearing for their lives. I like, Um, they
Speaker 1: get the poor lifeguard get hip checked into the pool.
Speaker 1: No chance. And I was I'm like, maybe it's because
Speaker 1: I'm a dad now, but I'm like freaking out as
Speaker 1: these like athletes that run like four six is are
Speaker 1: sprinting around the wet pool. I'm an old man. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. Dan's yelling at the tvsow down, You're
Speaker 1: gonna hate yourself. Biggest concern Kevin patri in the NFC West, Um,
Speaker 1: biggest concern for me. I'm going with that. Jared Goff's
Speaker 1: future is in the hands of Rob Boris and Jeff
Speaker 1: and Jeff. Who is Rob Boris? That's the big question.
Speaker 1: Who isn't Rob Boris? That's the question you should be
Speaker 1: asking yourself. But I mean, this offense, what did we
Speaker 1: see last year? I mean it was a bunch of
Speaker 1: screens to Tavon Austin and a deep shot every here
Speaker 1: and there and then girly that's it. And if that's
Speaker 1: your offense, how are you expecting to get this quarterback
Speaker 1: to progress forward? Jeff Fisher has never had hasn't done
Speaker 1: it in years. I mean, why, why do we think
Speaker 1: that this is gonna be a no brainer that Jared
Speaker 1: Goff's is gonna progressed to be where we think he
Speaker 1: could be as talent wise? Is Rob Boris the new
Speaker 1: Tom Savage? No? I think Rob Boris is real. I
Speaker 1: mean he's on hard knock. Yeah, he's on hard knocks,
Speaker 1: is Dwell Loggins. But do you Boris was all cheesed
Speaker 1: off on hard Knocks. I know that he was. I
Speaker 1: agree with you if you're if you're golf, that's It's
Speaker 1: not the organ you know. The l A. Rams situation
Speaker 1: is obviously cool in terms of getting your name out
Speaker 1: there and everything, but it's not the organization you picked
Speaker 1: the develop quarterbacks. Sam Bradford down the tube. West's biggest concern.
Speaker 1: John Brown, one of my favorite wide receivers, has not
Speaker 1: played football in August, has not practiced, has not done
Speaker 1: anything since the start of August because he's had a
Speaker 1: concussion and has lasted two and a half weeks so far.
Speaker 1: That's a concern to me, and Bruce Arians admitted Friday,
Speaker 1: I'm concerned about John Brown. So that's you know, that's
Speaker 1: a pretty big red flag. Now, all this could go
Speaker 1: away at any time, who knows, but a two and
Speaker 1: a half week absence for a concussion has to be
Speaker 1: a concern. The positive is they do have they are
Speaker 1: deep at wide receiver. As far as the concern, I mean,
Speaker 1: you want to be concerned for a guy's health, but
Speaker 1: I mean as far as the team goes, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean he's a special he is, but a special guy.
Speaker 1: And of course that absolutely. They have Floyd d have Fitzgerald,
Speaker 1: they have J. J. J. Nelson Nelson, but Brown to
Speaker 1: me is the He should be the best receiver on
Speaker 1: that team, which is it's tough, maybe he could be
Speaker 1: the best. He definitely has t Y Hilton esque skills.
Speaker 1: We've been hearing that and he you know, I thought
Speaker 1: he was somewhat still an unpolished player, you know, left
Speaker 1: some yards on the field at times last year. This
Speaker 1: could be his real breakout year where he becomes a
Speaker 1: breakout star in a true way. But he needs to
Speaker 1: get his health right. Um my underrated excuse my biggest concern.
Speaker 1: All right, West, you're not gonna like this one either,
Speaker 1: but Carson Palmer you're gonna be okay. But hey, that's concern.
Speaker 1: He He had a blessed season last year hashtag bless
Speaker 1: played pretty terribly and was fortunate to get out of
Speaker 1: the NFC Divisional playoffs against the Packers, and then had
Speaker 1: one of the worst playoff games ever uh in the
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game where he threw I I kind of
Speaker 1: forgot about this when I went back to just did
Speaker 1: not forget about had six turnovers. I knew it was bad,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was six turnovers bad in the
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game. I mean, that is the stuff that
Speaker 1: that's that goes in your obituary. Let's face it. So
Speaker 1: you got you got a guy. I'm not gonna go
Speaker 1: crazy about his age or anything like that, because I
Speaker 1: think he'll he'll still be um a gifted physically guy,
Speaker 1: but physical guy. But the idea that the psychological scars
Speaker 1: that go along with that type of playoff run, I
Speaker 1: wonder if that's gonna stick with them a little bit,
Speaker 1: because I do see them as a playoff team this
Speaker 1: year again, and he's gonna face down those demons and
Speaker 1: get a week full of questions about can you come
Speaker 1: back from what happened last year? Perhaps perhaps I'm misremembering,
Speaker 1: but didn't you defend Cam Newton coming off of a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl lost last year and that he didn't play
Speaker 1: that great? What's the difference between the two? How can
Speaker 1: you say one's gonna bounced six turnovers? Well, he still
Speaker 1: had the key turnover the game, and the list of
Speaker 1: problems I'm just game Cam Newton was not near the top,
Speaker 1: I think said. My point is that one, how can
Speaker 1: you put one mentally can come overcome it and the
Speaker 1: other one? To answer your question, it's apples and oranges
Speaker 1: between their playoffs struggle? I agree, And here's why, because
Speaker 1: you can. Part of me wants to write it off.
Speaker 1: Palmer's injured index finger on his throwing and which was
Speaker 1: clearly an issue, and our reporters reported that that it
Speaker 1: is an issue going into that game. But you saw
Speaker 1: the look in his eye and the Packers game and
Speaker 1: the Panthers scouts saw the look in his eye. Look,
Speaker 1: he didn't look like he was confident playing there. And
Speaker 1: maybe it was because of the finger that he wasn't confident. Well,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals worried, they gave him an extra year on
Speaker 1: his contract. I don't think their word, and Arians has
Speaker 1: said that repeatedly that a week and a half after
Speaker 1: that game he thought Palma Palmer was back to normal.
Speaker 1: So we'll see. I think it's fair for Dan or
Speaker 1: anyone else to ask the question, though, Well, my biggest
Speaker 1: concern is that all the Chip Kip Chip Kelly believers
Speaker 1: out there like me, are gonna see this as his
Speaker 1: last possible season in the NFL. Because this forty Niners offense,
Speaker 1: if any other person was running it, we would just
Speaker 1: be mocking it on a day to day bab if
Speaker 1: Mike Mularkey had had Bruce Ellington and Quentin Patton. Not
Speaker 1: that Bruce Ellenston I think could be good this year,
Speaker 1: but he's he's unproven. Let's tap the brakes in the
Speaker 1: Bruce Ellington. Well, let's see. More importantly, if he had
Speaker 1: Blame Gabber, Jeff Drisco and this version of Colin Kaepernick
Speaker 1: as his quarterbacks and all these questions on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: we would just assume this offense has no chance that
Speaker 1: it would be one of the worst two or three
Speaker 1: offenses in the league. It's an insane looking offensive roster.
Speaker 1: It's a real could be in the underrated storylines too.
Speaker 1: How insane this forty Niners offense looks on paper, and
Speaker 1: we have so much faith in Chip Kelly to just
Speaker 1: figure it out. I sort of dude too, but it
Speaker 1: worries me that this will all just go up in flames,
Speaker 1: and that no coach could could fix this mess. Let's
Speaker 1: hold that because that's going to resurface later. I was
Speaker 1: gonna say one of my underrated storylines I had written
Speaker 1: down just as a preface was going to be that,
Speaker 1: how let's talk about talking about a little I give
Speaker 1: about the forty Niners. See, I'm kind of the other way.
Speaker 1: It's so crazy. Do you think that's an underrated national story?
Speaker 1: Kevin Patrick doesn't care about that? I know. I think
Speaker 1: that most of us after the fall has been so
Speaker 1: hard that nationally people don't care anymore. I'm just like
Speaker 1: an afterthought. Oh they're gonna be awful, and nobody really,
Speaker 1: nobody's even intrigued by Chip Kelly. I am. I'm fascinated
Speaker 1: by how how weird this team is. It's such a
Speaker 1: strange team. I want to see, like I want to
Speaker 1: see what happened. I don't want to watch a single
Speaker 1: forty underrated storyline. Kevin Patrick, I'm gonna go with the
Speaker 1: the Seahawks replacing Bruce Servant. I mean very little has
Speaker 1: we have we talked about it. I know Frank Clark
Speaker 1: is gonna be on their passing a lot. Take the
Speaker 1: passing downs, which or when you Irvin used to rush,
Speaker 1: But on the running downs, how how are they going
Speaker 1: to divvy up those snaps? Are they going to be
Speaker 1: as effective on the second level without without him there?
Speaker 1: And that we haven't heard a lot about it. Cassius
Speaker 1: marsh was in there yesterday and a lot of those rundowns.
Speaker 1: So if Frank and Frank clarkson knuckleheads, so you never know. Well,
Speaker 1: here's why. Because Bruce Evans was the seventh three most
Speaker 1: valuable player on the team last year on the defense, right,
Speaker 1: Frank Clark, I think says much potentially he's a different
Speaker 1: sort of player much. Running downs has to be about
Speaker 1: four on the list of like things that their defense
Speaker 1: would have to worry. It's it's telling that if that's
Speaker 1: a concern for them, you're right and they're losing a
Speaker 1: guy that got a monster contract, and yet it seems
Speaker 1: so minor to them West biggest concerns. Let's stay with Seattle.
Speaker 1: The Legion of Boom is better than ever. The last offseason,
Speaker 1: every perennial All Pro in that secondary was coming off
Speaker 1: of surgery or a major injury. They started a little slowly,
Speaker 1: and that was one of the problems while they were
Speaker 1: three and three at one point last year. They're all healthy.
Speaker 1: This year. They bring back Brandon Brown and which probably
Speaker 1: isn't even a great thing, but Richard Sherman's talking up theer.
Speaker 1: Old Simon is a guy who has a higher ceiling
Speaker 1: than he does, and he's a perennial All Pro. Jeremy
Speaker 1: Lane is back, which caused Pete Carroll to say, this
Speaker 1: is the deepest Our secondary has ever been. I think
Speaker 1: this defense and particularly legion of Boom, is better than ever.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get another bad earl time of season
Speaker 1: like ye had a year ago. It wasn't even bad.
Speaker 1: It just wasn't like best safety in the league. We
Speaker 1: are in lockstep on this West because I had written
Speaker 1: the Seahawks or they're not so sleeping giant. Uh in
Speaker 1: a year where we I think we are openly talking
Speaker 1: about it, not all of us, but ken Carolina maintained
Speaker 1: what they did last year? How about Arizona? Will they'd
Speaker 1: be able to be as good as they were last year?
Speaker 1: And Seattle's kind of forgotten about a little bit here.
Speaker 1: But I have a feeling a bit of a sessler
Speaker 1: uh that they are going to be back in a
Speaker 1: big way this year and be maybe to me the
Speaker 1: NFC favorite um going into the season. Uh, I'm with yous.
Speaker 1: I was getting that Super Bowl feeling about the Seahawks
Speaker 1: in late July, which I think was about a month
Speaker 1: or two after Greg was getting that Super Bowl. Now
Speaker 1: you guys are giving me grief for saying they were
Speaker 1: the favorite. Well, what is your under there? A sexy
Speaker 1: little team there? Uh? My, my underrated? That's creepy. I
Speaker 1: wish we had the DEBI does Dallas drop for Greggy
Speaker 1: does Dallas right now? My my underrated storyline is something
Speaker 1: West hit on in his most Improved series this week,
Speaker 1: which everyone should check out was really good NFL dot
Speaker 1: Com slash whistling. He's he did most improve different position
Speaker 1: groups and one of the most improved front sevens with
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, and that's the one thing no one ever
Speaker 1: talks about with the Cardinals. And I totally agree that,
Speaker 1: like Chandler Jones is set up to have a really
Speaker 1: big season there just because I think his role is
Speaker 1: going to be different. If nothing else, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: rushing the passing more. Marcus Golden, I think is a
Speaker 1: good player. Alex so Oachen first coming back, you got
Speaker 1: class Campbell. You're a little healthier in uh kim DJA
Speaker 1: hopefully gives them some juice eventually. Why why kim d
Speaker 1: Jack kim D jackim d ch Why did you fall
Speaker 1: out that Windo him D chick him d J kim
Speaker 1: d J. He'd explained your fall down the draft board.
Speaker 1: It's one of my all time favorite hits. You said it, Patri,
Speaker 1: What was like to see that live? A terrifying eyes
Speaker 1: like rolled back into your head. It's really weird. Why
Speaker 1: go into a different place at that point? I'm a performer.
Speaker 1: Stage doesn't take a year or two off your life
Speaker 1: every time. Yes, you suffer a previous song. Do you
Speaker 1: have an answer to that? By the way, what is
Speaker 1: the question why do you fall out? The windows? Question
Speaker 1: you about? Oh? I thought you were asking why did
Speaker 1: he fall out the window? He was on drugs, That's
Speaker 1: what I thought. I don't even remember it was what
Speaker 1: was my question? He was setting I was setting you up.
Speaker 1: I wanted to know why you fell out the window.
Speaker 1: John Stockton stayed over the red kid there did all right?
Speaker 1: There we go? Did you do here? Yeah? That was
Speaker 1: that was? That was it. I mean, this segment it
Speaker 1: never ends. I mean, let's be honest. Finally, the song
Speaker 1: that best describes your opinion on the NFC West Get
Speaker 1: us Go and Patrick, it's either gonna be eminem or
Speaker 1: d m x no. Out of the box, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have guessed the song in the Little Jim
Speaker 1: Croachy Yeah, the Kissing Cousins out of the same own gun,
Speaker 1: Big Jimoga pull shooting. So I just I just thought
Speaker 1: of this song when I thought of this division, because
Speaker 1: we got explained, got old, too old, too old frisky men,
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll and Bruce Arians And that's the clashing at
Speaker 1: the end. Those are the only two teams this division
Speaker 1: I think are worth watching. And I think I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say that this song is gonna what is the
Speaker 1: name of the song Uh, don't talk on Superman. You
Speaker 1: don't mess don't mess around with Jim. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say that the end of the season
Speaker 1: is gonna end the same way as the song with
Speaker 1: Slim beating up Jim. But I think that those that's
Speaker 1: what it's gonna be coming by the back. I like it.
Speaker 1: You don't you don't pull the mask off the old
Speaker 1: little Ranger and you don't mess around with you. The
Speaker 1: song the best describes the NFC West Chris West. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Greg, I'm I'm on your corner here with
Speaker 1: hip hop. I tried to get off the corner today
Speaker 1: taking this back to the late eighties cool mode? How
Speaker 1: you liked using my rat and I'm playing the background meanwhile?
Speaker 1: That you can't forget that. I'm like the opinion that
Speaker 1: every hip hop song sounded exactly the same, and I
Speaker 1: guess we did. I think this is probably like eighties
Speaker 1: seven or something. All right, why does that song? How
Speaker 1: do you like me? Now? The Seahawks? You know, Cardinals.
Speaker 1: As much as I love the Cardinals, they took the
Speaker 1: division last year, but this division belongs to the Sea Fawks.
Speaker 1: They're coming back. They've got that Super Bowl feeling and
Speaker 1: how you like me now when they're sitting there with well,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna have the Lamarti Trophy because Tom Brady's
Speaker 1: gonna have it. It's super Bowl from Owen Ford to
Speaker 1: I like this. I like that, all right? I uh,
Speaker 1: you know you guys are you're flying high on the
Speaker 1: kissing Cousins corner. But I gotta look at the other
Speaker 1: side of what's going on in this division. To me see,
Speaker 1: I'm going to sad Christions all let's go back to
Speaker 1: the star loding scoos, coming faces on the side. It's
Speaker 1: rocking a baby bodies the party. Listen to the sea.
Speaker 1: It's such a shame. I'll just listen to Alright, Okay,
Speaker 1: nobody said I don't know what I understand. Nobody said
Speaker 1: it was easy. Nobody ever said it was gonna be
Speaker 1: this hard. Chip Kelly, uh, you know he is about
Speaker 1: to join unfortunately or fortunately if you're not a fan
Speaker 1: of Chip Kelly. Uh. Steve Spurrier, Nick Saban, Bobby Petrino,
Speaker 1: Dennis Rickson, Butch Davis, lou Holtz goes on and on.
Speaker 1: The college coach that dominated at one level and couldn't
Speaker 1: get it done on the other But in In Kelly's defense,
Speaker 1: this might be more a situation where as opposed to
Speaker 1: taking and he could take blame for this as well
Speaker 1: as opposed to taking a better job and maybe as
Speaker 1: an offensive coordinator and re establishing his stock and then
Speaker 1: jumping to a better head coaching position. He wanted to
Speaker 1: stay in the top chair. The Niners were willing to
Speaker 1: give him the chance, which is good, But be careful
Speaker 1: what you sign up for, because just like poor Jimmy
Speaker 1: tom Sula, who has never seen again, you're rearranged on
Speaker 1: the deck chairs in the Titanic. I think this is
Speaker 1: the same situation. This is a situation where you have
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick who doesn't even look like the same person
Speaker 1: anymore physically, uh and has a fatigued arm and hasn't
Speaker 1: even done anything and now and blame Gabbert. The your
Speaker 1: only hope is blame Gabbert. In two thousand sixteen, Maron
Speaker 1: and and and Jim Kelly's banged in a big spot,
Speaker 1: and every and everyone knows around the league that it's
Speaker 1: so hopeless that the best Chip Kelly could do to
Speaker 1: run his defense is Jim O'Neill. The Browns defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: from a year ago, which you never would have thought
Speaker 1: that guy would have gotten a job, but Chip Kelly
Speaker 1: had a hard time finding people would take the job.
Speaker 1: Not a good situation for Chip. Have fun in college,
Speaker 1: Buddy next year. Who's writing over our game watching schedule
Speaker 1: on Sundays this year? He lee, Probably I need to
Speaker 1: request never to be put on a forty game. Finally, Greg,
Speaker 1: the song the Pister new all right. I wanted one
Speaker 1: that would play in the room better, but I couldn't.
Speaker 1: Just it's hard to think of these songs that really fit.
Speaker 1: So let's do it. Do you want it to be?
Speaker 1: Do you want it to be? It's a little up
Speaker 1: get excited love songs more than anyone. All Right, this
Speaker 1: right here, this is the Champa. This is the Champ
Speaker 1: by Ghost Space Killer because this is where the champs
Speaker 1: coming from. Seahawks are gonna win the Super Bowl this year.
Speaker 1: I think these are the best two rosters in the NFL.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals and the Seahawks have the best two rosters
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And I like the Seahawks to win
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl this year, and so they're the champ.
Speaker 1: I like that. A lot of can't debate anything, it's good.
Speaker 1: I I and look at that energy. If if if Pete,
Speaker 1: if Pete Carroll was a rapper, he'd be ghost face
Speaker 1: killer does NonStop energy. He thought he was out of
Speaker 1: the game for a little bit and then he comes back,
Speaker 1: comes back with this. I would put the Patriots on
Speaker 1: the same level as the Cardinals and Seahawks, and not
Speaker 1: for their roster though, which is offensively. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be like two thousand seven level offense once Brady
Speaker 1: comes back. And also he's an assassin and Carson Palmer
Speaker 1: is not. It's a good roster, you know. I give
Speaker 1: the other the other things there that make the Patriots good,
Speaker 1: finishing strong, figuring out their weaknesses Belichian how that helps.
Speaker 1: But just pure roster, I think those two teams have loaded.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for today's show. A little special,
Speaker 1: uh special edition with you around the NFL podcast because
Speaker 1: just like Mark Ceiler, Mark Cesler and I got our
Speaker 1: start on the ut L Debate Club by tacking on
Speaker 1: at the back of the Damask show, a little treat
Speaker 1: for everybody. We'll call it the pilot of marital Blitz
Speaker 1: with Connie Fox, Colleen Wolf and Gonzo John Gonzalez, who
Speaker 1: are West not just friends of the show, but friends
Speaker 1: in real life and good people, talented people, very handsome,
Speaker 1: handsome people. An attractive couple absolutely and a fun couple,
Speaker 1: a couple that embraces life. They are they are married.
Speaker 1: Uh and I don't know if this podcast will be
Speaker 1: any good. It could be bad, it could be great,
Speaker 1: better than ours. You never know. It's not gonna be bad.
Speaker 1: Talented people who put out great work throughout their careers,
Speaker 1: but sometimes great things don't produce great people don't always
Speaker 1: produce great things. I'm just throwing that out there too,
Speaker 1: they think, by the way I'm throwing it to them,
Speaker 1: So maybe it's a way to uh to welcome them
Speaker 1: to the podcast community here at NFL dot com, because
Speaker 1: I'm always welcoming Greg too, different podcasts joining our I
Speaker 1: see where this is going. You're trying to undercut another
Speaker 1: podcast like you did the Rosenthal and deinly Vandy project.
Speaker 1: JP Um Are you done though? I'm hats over bro
Speaker 1: happy for the day. Who knows? Maybe it is, maybe
Speaker 1: it isn't get tweets about it every day every day?
Speaker 1: Oh many? Are you done? Are you done? Turning this
Speaker 1: into being my best friend podcast on This is about
Speaker 1: narritle Blitz, but I will not be throwing it to them.
Speaker 1: So this is Dan Hanss signing off for Kevin Patrick,
Speaker 1: coming at you, the mailman, the boss that's all excited,
Speaker 1: and the irishman behind the glass tell Monday. Wow. Thanks guys,
Speaker 1: how about this? That was so nice of them to
Speaker 1: actually hand it off to us. And here I am
Speaker 1: here colleague Wolf with John Gonzalez, this guy that won't
Speaker 1: leave me alone? Now for what has it been eight years?
Speaker 1: About that about seven or eight years? Do you think
Speaker 1: that they actually tossed to us? Are they just getting
Speaker 1: this getting us to do this now? I think that
Speaker 1: somebody made them do it and they just sort of
Speaker 1: agreed to it and they were like, all right, fine,
Speaker 1: I guess we'll like tack them on at the end
Speaker 1: of our podcast, but hopefully they don't drag down the numbers,
Speaker 1: which almost certainly will happen. Oh yeah, absolutely, we're gonna
Speaker 1: ruin their podcast for them. Whatever success a t N
Speaker 1: had before this is over. Yeah, hey, everybody, this is
Speaker 1: marital Blitz, the podcast that the NFL. We're not really
Speaker 1: sure if NFL media has picked it up yet. Or
Speaker 1: will pick it up and we might actually get fired
Speaker 1: for this, but well I don't work here. You might
Speaker 1: get fired, and then neither one of us will have
Speaker 1: a job. Excellent, my job and moved to California, so
Speaker 1: that'll work out nicely. Good luck. I'm glad we're taking
Speaker 1: this risk. It's gonna be awesome. So this podcast, it's
Speaker 1: not going to be the hardcore football podcast. That's why
Speaker 1: you guys have the A t N guy is to
Speaker 1: cover all of that. They do such a good job
Speaker 1: with it. We're going to do some of the lighter
Speaker 1: stuff and get into some of the more things like actually,
Speaker 1: Dan Hansis has the end around and it's sort of
Speaker 1: like that. We're basically just making a pot out of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we decided to take Dan's blog and turn it into
Speaker 1: a pod without Dan. But Dan, we do invite you
Speaker 1: to come on our podcast. Yeah. Well we've had I've
Speaker 1: had uh the A t N guys on the show
Speaker 1: that I abandoned to cot with you. How that goed?
Speaker 1: Is that the reason why you don't have the show anymore? Right?
Speaker 1: And here we are, so well, maybe Dan will join us,
Speaker 1: maybe the guys will join us at a later date.
Speaker 1: Should well when we're doing the pod actually on Venice Beach,
Speaker 1: because you're gonna get fired. Yeah, I know, all right, yes,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be really sound that back some coins in
Speaker 1: the hat that all place out there. Okay, so let's
Speaker 1: get to some news here. First off, r G three.
Speaker 1: I got to talk about this because he's getting a divorce,
Speaker 1: which I didn't really know much about his wife, and
Speaker 1: why would I? Why would really anybody because it's not
Speaker 1: like she's in the spotlight, but she's they're getting a divorce,
Speaker 1: and we find out like days later that he already
Speaker 1: has a tattoo on his arm of his new girlfriend's name. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is pretty amazing. So the ink on his uh
Speaker 1: his divorce papers not yet dry before he gets ink
Speaker 1: on his arm about the new girlfriend. And MY reaction was, dude,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? I don't Oh god, no, God please, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: That was actually me. That's that's what it sounded like
Speaker 1: when I heard about this, because Okay, first of all,
Speaker 1: tattoos in general, I'm not really into them because I
Speaker 1: love tattoos. I like tattoos on guys, but I don't
Speaker 1: have a tattoo. And I know you don't have a tattoo.
Speaker 1: But hey, John, by the way, I really like tattoos
Speaker 1: on guys. I think they're like really hot. So I
Speaker 1: don't like a sleeve is really Yeah, So I don't
Speaker 1: have any tattoos. Yeah, what guy tattoos? Do you find hot?
Speaker 1: That I'm just from finding out about on this pod
Speaker 1: that it's just now happening. I've been out here for
Speaker 1: two years? What happened it? So his new girlfriend, her name,
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure if I can pronounce it right,
Speaker 1: but I think it's like it's great Sadika or something right. Yes,
Speaker 1: she's a heptath right, dudes do the heptathlon, no decathlon,
Speaker 1: and the ladies do the heptathlon. Hard for me to
Speaker 1: keep my athalon straight. I'm not even really sure what
Speaker 1: that is. I just know it's track and field and
Speaker 1: do stuff on the field you throw and running all
Speaker 1: that stuff. But so, this is a terrible idea r
Speaker 1: G three has made. Yet, in a surprising development, r
Speaker 1: G three has made another mistake. I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: But what is the worst uh, pre like, aside from
Speaker 1: marrying me, what is the worst relationship decision you've made?
Speaker 1: Because that would that I mean you took my answer,
Speaker 1: that would be it. But god, I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I've been pretty perfect. No, I I
Speaker 1: actually know yours. I actually know yours. You gave keys
Speaker 1: to a dude who came into your place. This is
Speaker 1: an actually true story. Who came into your place while
Speaker 1: you were sleeping to go through your phone. That actually happened. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's super creepy. Um. I don't even know why you're
Speaker 1: bringing that up right now. Is that was the worst
Speaker 1: decision you made? I guess so. But we were dating whatever,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's what happens. But I mean it
Speaker 1: was coming to an end. And yes, I can't tell
Speaker 1: you how many dudes of coming to my room while
Speaker 1: I was sleeping from the keys that I gave them.
Speaker 1: I have, of course, like you said, who hasn't been
Speaker 1: there mine by far? Was. I learned this the hard way.
Speaker 1: You should never break up with somebody at your own
Speaker 1: place because you you can't leave. You lived there. And
Speaker 1: I remember when I lived in Dallas, uh, and I
Speaker 1: was working for radio station down there, and like she
Speaker 1: worked at the station with me, and I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, when we're done, just come over and
Speaker 1: I was like gonna do this thing. It was so
Speaker 1: it was about five o'clock, and I wanted to go
Speaker 1: to Arby's because Arby's had This is true, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: Arby's had like the I've like basically told guys or
Speaker 1: told myself that I'm not going to break up with
Speaker 1: a guy because I'm too hungry at that moment. This
Speaker 1: is all. This all makes complete sense. So and this
Speaker 1: is why we're together because we'd love to go to
Speaker 1: Arby's together. So I wanted to go to Arbies like
Speaker 1: five o'clock. So I broke up with her, and I
Speaker 1: just anticipated that she would leave, but she didn't leave,
Speaker 1: and she didn't leave like I broke up with her,
Speaker 1: and she just sat on the couch next to me,
Speaker 1: and so I already like broke up with her, and
Speaker 1: she's like really sad. It was there like a show
Speaker 1: on or a movie or anything. I think we were
Speaker 1: watching like Segnfellow, There's something. There was some sort of marathon,
Speaker 1: but she didn't leave for hours, and I was messing
Speaker 1: my army's window. How did you finally get her out?
Speaker 1: I think I think at some point I was I
Speaker 1: don't even remember. Maybe I went to the bathroom and
Speaker 1: barricaded myself. I don't, I don't remember that. I'm sure
Speaker 1: she probably has a tattoo of your name on her arm. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wasn't. When was the last time, by the way,
Speaker 1: that you had fast food? Because we don't really eat
Speaker 1: fast food. It's yeah, I don't. It's been a really
Speaker 1: long time. Was it Christmas Eve when we went to
Speaker 1: In and Out? It was probably that we had a
Speaker 1: really romantic Christmas Eve gang, By the way, best place
Speaker 1: to go on Christmas Eve is In and Out. Everybody
Speaker 1: does it in southern count Yes, all right. So also
Speaker 1: this week Hard Knocks, we are super current and um,
Speaker 1: we're talking about it days after the fact. But we're
Speaker 1: not gonna be long on this. It's just gonna be
Speaker 1: really quick and it's just like it's not the Mermaids
Speaker 1: or the Dummies. We've got our finger on the pulse
Speaker 1: of what's current, Colleen. We're doing Hard Knocks days later.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that Game of Thrones finale
Speaker 1: that everybody we're not shut up about. It's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 1: This pod is for you. We're just trying to stay
Speaker 1: afloat here. But listen, Hard knocks. We have to talk
Speaker 1: about this. Um, I I love Mike Waffle defensive line coach.
Speaker 1: He kind of reminds me of my mom a little bit. Um,
Speaker 1: they're both they both have hot takes, pretty angry. I
Speaker 1: know you look at Mike Waffle and you're like, yes,
Speaker 1: he is very motherly. Well, well, if you're saying that
Speaker 1: he reminds what basically what you're saying is he reminds
Speaker 1: you of your mom, which means that like I am,
Speaker 1: basically like my mother in law is Mike Waffle? Yeah? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, don't you see it a little bit? I
Speaker 1: I when I watch because I've been looking at all
Speaker 1: the different coaches and assistants, and he's the one by
Speaker 1: far that I want to see more of. I would
Speaker 1: like to see more of your mother. We should find
Speaker 1: out from your mother what she thinks you would like
Speaker 1: to see more of my mom. Yeah, I like your mom.
Speaker 1: I mean I I love my mom too. Well, should
Speaker 1: we get her on the phone. Get your mother on
Speaker 1: the get a wolf on the phone immediately? All right,
Speaker 1: Well we'll work on that. We'll call her up. Um,
Speaker 1: can we get her? Can we get her live in here? Dialing?
Speaker 1: Of course, we can't call in cool. See this is
Speaker 1: an He's a whole podcast. It's Brandon still behind the glass.
Speaker 1: Everybody by the way, the whole cruise back there. It's
Speaker 1: still me. Yeah, I just never left from a t N.
Speaker 1: I like that they don't let you go home. They
Speaker 1: probably do. They let you take launch or they just
Speaker 1: like flog you with extension cords or what. I feel like.
Speaker 1: I listened to the plods. No, I feel I listened
Speaker 1: to the pod and I I feel like you're the
Speaker 1: undervalued member. You're like the fifth member of the a
Speaker 1: team that nobody knows about. I really, I'm loving this
Speaker 1: podcast already. Right, you're on board with us. You're a
Speaker 1: full fledged member of whatever this thing is. Check is
Speaker 1: in the mail, and by check I mean a smile
Speaker 1: and a thank you. I'll take it. Yes. Um so yeah,
Speaker 1: my mom has this like irrational hatred for the Seahawks
Speaker 1: and Pete Carroll and a lot of just random other
Speaker 1: things that I can never tell why she doesn't like
Speaker 1: it or whatever. Um, but she gets very angry and
Speaker 1: he did about different things. And I think that's why
Speaker 1: that's the connection there between Mike Waffle and my mother. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who do you think curses more. Oh, that is a push.
Speaker 1: I would like to hear the two of them just
Speaker 1: talk to each other, like what kind of like what
Speaker 1: would the percentage be between those two uh, swear words
Speaker 1: to regular words? Um, it would be like yeah maybe
Speaker 1: like yeah, I think so, all right, here we go,
Speaker 1: Hi NFL Network. Oh Mom, Hi, So I guess dad
Speaker 1: told you that we can't call. What did you say?
Speaker 1: I said, I guess Dad told you that we were
Speaker 1: going to call. Yeah, and then I read the phone
Speaker 1: because I'm in the kitchen. Um, yea, why how are you?
Speaker 1: It's good, We're just at work. Um. We were talking
Speaker 1: about different teams that we were thinking about would maybe
Speaker 1: make it back to the Super Bowl. Um, and I
Speaker 1: know how much you love the Seahawks, but do you
Speaker 1: think that they can make it back? In a way,
Speaker 1: I'm trying of thinking they might, but uh, I know
Speaker 1: they'll be in the final playoff game probably, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. But I hate them. You know how much
Speaker 1: I hate them? Why? Because they don't like see Carol.
Speaker 1: First of all, he's a jerk, and the rest of them,
Speaker 1: I just I don't know if some of the players
Speaker 1: on there, I just don't like and they're just like
Speaker 1: smug and smart ass and kind of like the Patriots,
Speaker 1: who I disliked immensely. And then, um, oh, the guy
Speaker 1: I can't think of his name with the crazy uh
Speaker 1: black long to uh curly hair. What the hell is
Speaker 1: his name? Who? Richard Sherman? Yes, yes, I kid stand him.
Speaker 1: What about his lung? No? She said black long hair? Oh?
Speaker 1: I thought she said he had the black had some
Speaker 1: sort of like pirate skirt. You M talking from home
Speaker 1: to is just like a conference thing or what? Definitely
Speaker 1: at home? Yeah, it's like it's like a conference thing.
Speaker 1: Are you excited about? What about the Eagles? Are you
Speaker 1: excited about the Eagles? Oh? The Mountain Pittsburgh, Well, you
Speaker 1: know what, yeah, Pittsburgh, I mean the Eagles that I
Speaker 1: don't know. Nobody likes Pittsburgh. What's wrong with There's always wins?
Speaker 1: There's that is, um, you know the teams out all
Speaker 1: sorts of teams out Pittsburgh. They're great, but on the
Speaker 1: East Coast and silly here they suck everything. Philly's wars everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but Eagles might be better this year though it doesn't
Speaker 1: really Like Carson Wentz, he ended up getting a hairline
Speaker 1: fracture of its ribs. Yeah, I know it's not a
Speaker 1: good sign. As there you go, there, you go right there,
Speaker 1: even though they weren't planning while playing him, Yeah this year,
Speaker 1: like giving him arrest and letting Sam get out there.
Speaker 1: But I know how they always played the you know,
Speaker 1: the new newbies before so the other ones don't end
Speaker 1: up getting injured in the preseason games. Yeah, now he's hurt.
Speaker 1: Now now Chip Kelly is trying to figure out stuff
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. He's got a major quarterback problem. Really Yeah,
Speaker 1: who the hell is calling? Hold on? How about we'll
Speaker 1: call you back in a little bit. Okay, Um, oh
Speaker 1: that's okay, all right, I'll talk the other bye bye. Okay.
Speaker 1: So um, that was my mom and everybody. She little
Speaker 1: did she know that she was on the podcast. But
Speaker 1: I'll us tell her later. It'll be fine. I'm sure
Speaker 1: it'll go over really well, that's gonna Here's what I
Speaker 1: know about the Wolf family. They take everything and stride
Speaker 1: and she won't be angry. And there are never any
Speaker 1: grudges that are held, never any grudges that are held.
Speaker 1: So uh, now I understand why you think that your
Speaker 1: mom reminds you of lawful, Yeah, a little bit. And
Speaker 1: you know we did touch a little bit on the rams.
Speaker 1: She didn't have any hot takes on the rams. I
Speaker 1: thought maybe she would, That's why I went there. But um,
Speaker 1: when we were watching Hard Knocks the other night, Jared
Speaker 1: Goff was asked Justin Bieber or justin Timberlake? Yeah, well
Speaker 1: he was actually so there was like a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of questions where like he was asked binary situation, Sushie,
Speaker 1: your Hamburger's suit or sweats and he answered wrong on
Speaker 1: both of those. By the way, he wants sushi, it
Speaker 1: should be Hamburger, he went, sweats, that should be suit.
Speaker 1: Here's the part that he really completely disagree. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't even matters what he really screwed up Bieber or
Speaker 1: timber Lake. And it made like so he was right.
Speaker 1: It was a hard thing to decide because they're both good, right,
Speaker 1: like who doesn't like sorry, who doesn't like Timberlake. But
Speaker 1: ultimately he went with Bieber because it was a generational thing.
Speaker 1: I know, he said it was he's closer to my
Speaker 1: like I almost I almost had a literal and figurative
Speaker 1: heart attack because I am closer in age to Timberlake,
Speaker 1: and also he is he's the one who basically birthed
Speaker 1: Justin Bieber. Without Justin Timberlake, there is no biber I guess.
Speaker 1: But Justin Bieber was like a sensation on YouTube and
Speaker 1: stuff right first. And it wasn't like one of the
Speaker 1: Disney kids. I don't know, it doesn't it wasn't. What
Speaker 1: I know, Timberlake was a Disney kid discovered him, that's all. God, Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, well whatever I mean, like basically he's like
Speaker 1: a cut out. He's like a starter kit of of
Speaker 1: Justin Timberlake. And just to back John's point, I mean,
Speaker 1: Timberlake still does stuff like this, that's true. I'm stop
Speaker 1: the film like this at first, you know what, I
Speaker 1: don't want to stop the feeling Brandon all right, now
Speaker 1: he's dancing and that's that's enough. Luckily there's no video
Speaker 1: component to this show yet. I apologize to everybody who
Speaker 1: was looking for football on this podcast. We will get
Speaker 1: to it, I promise in my pocket. Yeah all right,
Speaker 1: thank you for that. We'll have more on another time
Speaker 1: of you. Listen, Casey, case Um, I don't know what
Speaker 1: is he still alive, but if he's not, this could
Speaker 1: be my next gig. Yeah maybe, Hey, you do need
Speaker 1: a job, so that's great, and you're not gonna have
Speaker 1: one after this, so it's gonna be all right. Let's
Speaker 1: move on to Odell Beckham Jr. So there was an
Speaker 1: article in g Q which I have yet to read,
Speaker 1: but um it sort of talks about his stardom and
Speaker 1: how big of a star he can be and where
Speaker 1: he is. It doesn't does not talk about that. That's
Speaker 1: what I was going to ask you about. But what
Speaker 1: it does talk about is Odell Beckham. It's great you
Speaker 1: jumped the gun. Odell Beckham is twenty three, right, and
Speaker 1: he's rich and he's famous and he's popular. And this
Speaker 1: summer Wait pause, when what were you doing when you
Speaker 1: were twenty three? Uh? Where was I was in Dallas?
Speaker 1: This was pre couch breakup? Uh in my place, I
Speaker 1: was probably eating tuna out of a can. I didn't
Speaker 1: have any money. Not not like what were you at?
Speaker 1: Not dissimilar to what I am now at? Not twenty three?
Speaker 1: But what were you doing? I was finally, I was
Speaker 1: out of college. I was working at Comcast Sports and
Speaker 1: I actually met you in the Eagles locker room. And
Speaker 1: you know what, let's play the game of when you
Speaker 1: were twenty three? How old was I? I don't like
Speaker 1: to play that game. So anyway, Odell Beckham was twenty three,
Speaker 1: uh and this summer like he was looking for stuff
Speaker 1: to do. So he's buddies with Drake and he decided
Speaker 1: Drake had him house sit for him in his house
Speaker 1: in Calabasas. And so in this g QP, so Adell
Speaker 1: Beckham is going through like what an amazing house this is? Right?
Speaker 1: And he was saying that we're on two different levels
Speaker 1: right now, basically implying that he hopes to get to
Speaker 1: Drake's level because he was watching Drake uh and his
Speaker 1: management team and how hard Drake works and how hard
Speaker 1: he works at being Drake. And he said that he
Speaker 1: saw how Drake quote iced out the people and things
Speaker 1: in his life that didn't matter because he's all about
Speaker 1: being Drake. Right. So my my question is how like
Speaker 1: on the level of celebrity, Jake Drake is massive, right,
Speaker 1: So where do we think Odell uh, where do we
Speaker 1: think Odib can get to Because he's handsome, he's super talented,
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's in New York, he's young. Are
Speaker 1: we thinking like, you know, like an Aaron Rogers Olivia
Speaker 1: mund level fame. Are we thinking like a Brady and
Speaker 1: Giselle level fame or are we talking like one day
Speaker 1: Lebron Drake level fame, because that's like once you get
Speaker 1: to Lebron and Jake are like co equals. And well,
Speaker 1: I mean it all depends on how he plays this
Speaker 1: and I mean literally on the field, if he continues
Speaker 1: to play at the level he is at right now. Also,
Speaker 1: though he's got to do other stuff too, like movies.
Speaker 1: He has to do those other things, endorsements. Maybe he
Speaker 1: comes out with some shoes like or some type of
Speaker 1: item that people are like headphones anything like that. I
Speaker 1: know those are all like kind of old and done.
Speaker 1: But like whatever his thing is, and it needs to
Speaker 1: be like popping off these attendant like ancillary things. These
Speaker 1: are sort of like satellite concerns that that are around
Speaker 1: athletes and um, musicians and entertainers or whatever that you
Speaker 1: just rattled off are important to like raising celebrity. And
Speaker 1: this is probably a bad example, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: do it anyway. Like when O j knew going, I know,
Speaker 1: and I hate to do it, but I had like
Speaker 1: watched the documentary and whatever Hurts commercial well not just
Speaker 1: the Hurts commercials, but he was in movies I forget what,
Speaker 1: Like Spaceman movie he was on when he was on
Speaker 1: the Naked Gun. He was in one of the Naked Gun.
Speaker 1: He was in the Naked Gun. He was in a
Speaker 1: movie also though, where he had like a big acting
Speaker 1: part where he was like on a planet somewhere and
Speaker 1: at the end he dies like alone, you got it.
Speaker 1: You know what it was? You don't Brandon doesn't know
Speaker 1: what Brandon said. When he was twenty three, he was
Speaker 1: on marital blitz. He definitely doesn't know what the hell
Speaker 1: you're talking about. All right, Anyway, My whole point here
Speaker 1: is that O. J got out of football to pursue
Speaker 1: these other things and also to continue with them because
Speaker 1: he was doing them like simultaneously. So I think O D. B. Like,
Speaker 1: if he's he's already in g Q, he's already hanging
Speaker 1: out with Drake. It's not like he's not kind of
Speaker 1: already going down that road. I think he's going to
Speaker 1: be massive. I mean, he definitely has the potential, but
Speaker 1: he needs to permeate the pop culture landscape a little
Speaker 1: bit more. He's getting there, but I mean Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: Olivia Munn, Tom Brady, Giselle. This is why they are
Speaker 1: where they are. They're really good. And also, like they
Speaker 1: their partner is also very popular. Right, that's a big
Speaker 1: deal famous. You can get a fun, popular, talented, employed partner.
Speaker 1: That's what you want, Yeah, jackpot as opposed to the opposite.
Speaker 1: By the way, let me know if you find one, yeah,
Speaker 1: or you rather. Um, the movie was called Capricorn one.
Speaker 1: Who could forget that? Colleen? Really, we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: watch that to see. Here's the problem with doing a
Speaker 1: pop culture slash football podcast. The pop culture component is
Speaker 1: not exactly Colleen strong suit like I can't get her
Speaker 1: to sit down, Like, I'm so glad you're selling this, right,
Speaker 1: We said, well, so we play the celebrity because we're
Speaker 1: in l a, right, and who doesn't play the celebrity
Speaker 1: sighting game? Everybody does that. So, like our big one
Speaker 1: was John Goodman. We were at the uh we're at
Speaker 1: the car wash, and he leaned across to toss some
Speaker 1: garbage into a can. Kind of had a moment. It
Speaker 1: was a big deal. Um, But so we have always
Speaker 1: talk about like like Colleen's friend the other day had
Speaker 1: dinner next to hassle Hoff. Hassle Hoff, I know there's
Speaker 1: there's a lot of celebrities in Santa Monica that we've
Speaker 1: seen a lot in the Whole Foods is like a
Speaker 1: hotbed for celebrities. But how many do you think you've
Speaker 1: missed out on? Because a lot I don't really you know,
Speaker 1: I don't really play that game. So I'm sure I've
Speaker 1: been around maybe fifty celebrities. I would ball park it
Speaker 1: around fifty that I just didn't even know. Random celebrity
Speaker 1: encounters that you don't know about. We're gonna put a
Speaker 1: game prow on you. So then on the next show,
Speaker 1: because I'm hoping that there is a next one, well,
Speaker 1: we shall see. Um, maybe we'll uh, maybe we'll do
Speaker 1: something with all the celebrity sightings I have missed or
Speaker 1: maybe that you have seen in the last week. It's
Speaker 1: a podcast, so what I'll do is I'll just bring
Speaker 1: in visual clues and you'll just do it that way.
Speaker 1: It'll be great for all the listeners. That's great. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: that's all the time we have here. I want to
Speaker 1: thank all of the around the NFL Guy Eyes for
Speaker 1: letting us actually be on the back end of their podcast.
Speaker 1: That was very nice of them. Um. Also, everybody for
Speaker 1: behind the Glass for helping us put this together. John,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining me. You had no choice. He already
Speaker 1: took off his headset. That's great. You're already slacking. You
Speaker 1: don't even have a job. That's great. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: we're hoping NFL will pick us up. Let us know
Speaker 1: your thoughts, give us your feedback. You can tweet us
Speaker 1: and um just let us know what you think. In
Speaker 1: the meantime, maybe we will see you next time. Have
Speaker 1: a great week, everybody,