Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast refuses to use the nickname
Speaker 1: Daddy Rich. Welcome back to another edition of the Around
Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansis, and I
Speaker 1: am joined by a room filled with some heroes. Chris
Speaker 1: Westling to my left and Gregg Rose with All to
Speaker 1: my right. What's up boys? Hey, Dandy Rich? Hey, I
Speaker 1: like it right in your face money Smith. Of course,
Speaker 1: that that was the nickname that Dan wishes if he
Speaker 1: had started to call him. Not true. I think he
Speaker 1: hasn't really caught on it was. It was thrown my
Speaker 1: way by West actually Chuck Daily, and I said, oh,
Speaker 1: I kind of like that. Incidentally, I saw the Bad
Speaker 1: Boys doc last night was on TV, and then that
Speaker 1: was the first time ever there Rich, and I never
Speaker 1: forced it. I said, I do like that, but you know,
Speaker 1: we'll let Lindsey decide. Lindsay, actually I think went with
Speaker 1: Daddy Rich. But we just rolled with old Zeuzer anyway,
Speaker 1: and I never fought it. The listeners clearly preferred the
Speaker 1: old Zeus Yes, so, Greg, I feel like maybe a
Speaker 1: tech Loosa News type retraction is an auder right now.
Speaker 1: I'm not retracting anything. I stand by that you set
Speaker 1: up lindsay in a way that she was going to
Speaker 1: pick that one. But that's you know, old news. Mark
Speaker 1: is a way. He's not here today. He's he's relaxing
Speaker 1: or doing something. I have no idea what Mark's doing,
Speaker 1: but I know that we're here and we have what
Speaker 1: I like to call a good show. M big show,
Speaker 1: big show, good show. We are going to you know,
Speaker 1: the top one hundred wrapped up The NFL Network's top
Speaker 1: one hundred players of two thousand, fifteen wrapped up. Um
Speaker 1: spoiler alert J J. Watt Number one got us thinking, hey,
Speaker 1: what if we use that top one hundred, uh and
Speaker 1: then kind of did a little in house draft here
Speaker 1: and each pick some players and then maybe leave it
Speaker 1: to you, the listeners, to decide who has the best
Speaker 1: drafted team of the top one hundred between the Maleman,
Speaker 1: the Old zeus Er, A K. Daddy Rich and the Boss.
Speaker 1: So we'll do that. That's gonna be fun. I like
Speaker 1: all that. I like all that kind of stuff. That
Speaker 1: kind of party. Yeah, I like that kind of party. Um. Uh,
Speaker 1: we were gonna get Connor on the phone, and you
Speaker 1: know what that means. It means it's a Thursday, and
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's a fun time because are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: We'll be back for another week. Uh. And also one
Speaker 1: one thing before we uh get into the news with
Speaker 1: t D is downstairs, I saw Elliot Harrison. Who really,
Speaker 1: when you talk about who is the um, the trivia maestro,
Speaker 1: or the most knowledgeable NFL media employee when it comes
Speaker 1: to the overall league history, the only person that you
Speaker 1: would everything could challenge West is Elliott. Uh. And I
Speaker 1: challenged Elliott outright and said, hey, you gotta get in
Speaker 1: the ring and take on West. It's time next time
Speaker 1: we play when West's toaster in August and uh, he
Speaker 1: kind of backed away from the question, pretended like he
Speaker 1: was hurt that he hasn't really been invited on our
Speaker 1: podcast too often, so why would he do the show? Uh?
Speaker 1: And by two often, you mean never, right? And then
Speaker 1: I said, listen, I know you're just ducking it. Give
Speaker 1: me an answer. And this is all he said, and
Speaker 1: this is a direct quote. I think my knowledge in
Speaker 1: the afwamentioned area is well established. So I think we're
Speaker 1: heading towards something. I'm gonna don king this. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: dan king this and hopefully you know well. Listeners out there.
Speaker 1: Let us know if you even know who Elliott is
Speaker 1: much less? Also, are we sure he's even smart? He
Speaker 1: knows more about NFL history than a guy like Jeff
Speaker 1: Birchfield Birch who was rattling off seventies that today Jeff
Speaker 1: Birchfield works downstairs as well. I don't know, we'll see anyway,
Speaker 1: but I do think that, um, that would be an
Speaker 1: epic matchup. That's the holy Field Tyson matchup. I've always
Speaker 1: gone for hope, for the Fraser Foreman type stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: something to keep an eye on. I've got a statement
Speaker 1: of my own. I am not scared of Elliot Harrison
Speaker 1: one bit. Bring him on. Where's the bunts of blur
Speaker 1: burning blowtorts? Need it? He's like, I don't like that
Speaker 1: drop too much. This was nine sixties football trivia. He
Speaker 1: do pretty well, but he's not getting dick buckets, commercials
Speaker 1: and stadium names and who let second in the NFL
Speaker 1: and interceptions last year. This is uh the only scenario
Speaker 1: where I would root for West. So there is a
Speaker 1: lot of heat between Harrison and Rosenthal TD. Do we
Speaker 1: have the Bunsen burner? We do have the blowtorch? Yes,
Speaker 1: I thought you retired it in honor of the gold standard.
Speaker 1: Well I didn't love it. Yeah, he retired himself. That's
Speaker 1: an important distinction. Yeah, he feels a way about the
Speaker 1: Bunsen burn or blow Georges, Greg does about my toaster
Speaker 1: and Elliot Harrison apparently. Okay, TD, how you doing, buddy,
Speaker 1: I'm doing good. I just heads up that we did
Speaker 1: the podcast outro nominees in the last show and lad
Speaker 1: this show we shall be revealing the winner has voted
Speaker 1: on by the listeners. Oh that's exciting. Yeah, look at that.
Speaker 1: It's just went from a good show to a great show,
Speaker 1: just real quick. I actually forgot to give out the
Speaker 1: podcast MVP last episode retroactive. You know how many people
Speaker 1: came up to us on Twitter and mentioned, No, no,
Speaker 1: I didn't hear anything. I didn't he Actually I didn't
Speaker 1: get any. However, it was shocking because Mark Sester wasn't
Speaker 1: the lead that was that was actually going to happen,
Speaker 1: and any of the guys. I'm gonna watching Wacky Races
Speaker 1: back in the day. Wacky Races, Yeah, with Dick Dastile
Speaker 1: and Mutley, and there was a race that he never
Speaker 1: won the laugh Olympics. Are you thinking of now this
Speaker 1: a Nigeria program, It's a cartoon in a cartoon network
Speaker 1: back in the day. Either way, they never won, they
Speaker 1: always they always came close. And that kind of reminds
Speaker 1: me of Mark the Wily Coyote be the better reference there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I like I like wacky racist. Alright,
Speaker 1: so no MVP then, um not from it was going
Speaker 1: to be Mark. Let's leave it that way. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that counts. That's an asterisk. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: let's do some news there. It is the winner of
Speaker 1: the podcast contest. Wait, way to really build the suspense
Speaker 1: over the course of the show. Yeah, later, you are
Speaker 1: a master. You're like Hitchcock. Yeah, there it is. You
Speaker 1: know you gold that out the whole time. I want
Speaker 1: to do it that way. Well, congratulations Greg. I like
Speaker 1: Dan's song, so I don't leave you it as a
Speaker 1: personal victory. But uh TD did a great job with
Speaker 1: the material I gave him choosing she saw he was
Speaker 1: He did do a great job with the material. You game.
Speaker 1: It was a little bit it was a little bit
Speaker 1: crooked because Greg also cited an actual song he went
Speaker 1: up to t D privately, which was not within the rules.
Speaker 1: It was supposed to be just off ten words, so
Speaker 1: I don't like that aspect of it, But overall I
Speaker 1: liked the song. So I loves Dandy York coming out.
Speaker 1: It's all right, listen, we're all happy with it. We
Speaker 1: all thought the song was good. All right, let's start
Speaker 1: with UH, the New York Giants and some rough news
Speaker 1: obviously out of their camp. Jason Pierre Paul, who of
Speaker 1: course suffered that injury to his hand UH while lighting
Speaker 1: fireworks on the fourth of July. On Wednesday, he had
Speaker 1: a medical procedure to amputate his right index finger, which
Speaker 1: was badly damaged enough that the decision was made. I
Speaker 1: don't know whether it was for career reasons or just
Speaker 1: because it was a situation where it wasn't gonna ever
Speaker 1: be back too close to what it was, but they
Speaker 1: made the decision to lose the finger. UM, so that
Speaker 1: will actually potentially help his recovery period in getting back
Speaker 1: onto the field to play football. Also, um, and this
Speaker 1: is obviously not on the same level, but also suffered
Speaker 1: a broken thumb with the fireworks incident, and that is
Speaker 1: another issue he has to come back from. So Jason
Speaker 1: Pierre Paul um lifetime ramifications of this incident. Chris Wesley. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seemed like he made the decision on this. He
Speaker 1: made the call, and the decision was made so he
Speaker 1: could speed it up and ideally be back in two months.
Speaker 1: But you wonder with the broken thumb too, how strong
Speaker 1: is his hand going to be and how is it
Speaker 1: going to affect his game. We can cite Ronnie Lotton,
Speaker 1: Whitney Merciless who had portions of their fingers cut off,
Speaker 1: but we really don't know how a guy who really
Speaker 1: practiced his hand fighting on every play of the game
Speaker 1: with three pound offensive lineman, how that's gonna affect his game.
Speaker 1: This story it's really wild. I mean, well, think about
Speaker 1: this story for tenure. Think of think of a story
Speaker 1: where you hear the news he had his finger amputated
Speaker 1: so that could get him back on the field faster.
Speaker 1: Like that. It was sold as good news, it's great news,
Speaker 1: he'll get his finger, and that the broken thumb actually
Speaker 1: could be a bigger problem in terms of just strictly
Speaker 1: getting back on the field. That could hold him back more.
Speaker 1: That's that's pretty weird. The report initially came out with
Speaker 1: his hospital records, which was very strange. The Giant went
Speaker 1: to Miami to go see him that day, and Jason
Speaker 1: Pierre Paul and his family did not allow them to
Speaker 1: see Jason Pierre Paul. That's that's a strange thing, too,
Speaker 1: very weird. It seems like he was getting skin graphs,
Speaker 1: having bones put in his fingers for multiple breaks. There
Speaker 1: was all kinds of gianers going on going on at
Speaker 1: the time. But the reports say, but they could have
Speaker 1: told the Giants that. Therefore, say the Giants found out
Speaker 1: that he was getting his finger amputated from ESPN. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they can't be too thrilled about that. No, I can't
Speaker 1: imagine they'd be too thrilled. And I guess JPP maybe
Speaker 1: he wouldn't be so thrilled that the Giants publicly or
Speaker 1: made it known that they were revoking the long term
Speaker 1: deal so soon after all this went down. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe there's some bad blood between the two sides. But
Speaker 1: obviously a very very tough situation, uh for JPP, who
Speaker 1: was again you know, where do we where do we
Speaker 1: put him one of the top ten pass rushers in
Speaker 1: the league or maybe fifteen? I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: big time star player who may never be the same again,
Speaker 1: A big time star player who's set up to make
Speaker 1: more money this year, I believe than he's made in
Speaker 1: his entire career by far up to this point. So
Speaker 1: it's a massive year for him and his decision not
Speaker 1: to sign the franchise. Second, there's just there's a lot
Speaker 1: going on here. Yeah, and amazingly, I mean, this is
Speaker 1: just incredible. This is not the only fireworks related injury
Speaker 1: suffered over the weekend. C J. Wilson, a cornerback for
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Bucks, also suffered a hand in hand injury,
Speaker 1: his agent told NFL media on Wednesday, and rap sheet
Speaker 1: Ian rap Report later reported um that the injury is
Speaker 1: serious enough to warrant that Wilson's career might be in jeopardy. Um.
Speaker 1: His health is the focus right now and will be
Speaker 1: for some time. Rap Report reported, Uh, this sounds like
Speaker 1: uh and even more serious injury than JPP, who at
Speaker 1: least knows he's going to have a shot to get
Speaker 1: back on the field. C. J. Wilson does not have
Speaker 1: that same benefit. It's insane might end his career. There's
Speaker 1: never been a fireworks finger accident in NFL his street
Speaker 1: as far as known, and then too at the exact
Speaker 1: same time, We're living in a world where these were
Speaker 1: different segments that were on television, which finger is the
Speaker 1: most important to play football? Ranking them, Um, you know
Speaker 1: the index finger wasn't that highly ranked. And then another
Speaker 1: one was her Edwards showing how you do need fingers
Speaker 1: to play football. Her and just like ever since you
Speaker 1: left the Jets, and maybe he was on the cheese,
Speaker 1: he still had it all together. But that guy is
Speaker 1: a maniac. I give him all the money just having
Speaker 1: in front of Gava saying crazy stuff. You could pull
Speaker 1: a homeless man off the street and he could explain
Speaker 1: why you need fingers to play football. Uh yeah, so
Speaker 1: But anyway, C J. Wilson friend roster player, he can't
Speaker 1: affords you feel for him again, it's an accident. And
Speaker 1: you can be sure that now every coach as part
Speaker 1: of their we'll see you later for the Summer's speech
Speaker 1: from now until the end of maybe at least the
Speaker 1: next ten years, is going to make the fireworks speech.
Speaker 1: Don't play with fireworks on July four. Have one of
Speaker 1: your flunky friends handle all the fireworks for you. It's
Speaker 1: weird that this needed to be explained, but apparently it does.
Speaker 1: Because these guys thought they I guess we're invincible, so
Speaker 1: I think my anti fireworks stands. I'm entrenched on that now.
Speaker 1: And everybody calmed down with the fingers jokes on Twitter too,
Speaker 1: because it is you know, it's a sad thing. Moving forward,
Speaker 1: the supplemental Draft has has gone down. You know, handsome
Speaker 1: hand Henry Hodson. Really one of the highlights in the
Speaker 1: terms of analysis on NFL dot com every year is
Speaker 1: his his mock draft. He he said one player would
Speaker 1: get picked. He said it would be Clemson offensive tackle
Speaker 1: Isaiah Battle. He got that right, nailed it again. But
Speaker 1: he goes to the St. Louis Rams and the fifth
Speaker 1: round of the supplemental Draft. Hank said, the fourth round
Speaker 1: to the Bucks. So, uh, the Rams give up their
Speaker 1: fifth round selection the draft, Uh to get Battle? Who
Speaker 1: is a prospect that people are excited about? Yeah, your boy.
Speaker 1: Less sneaed Rans general manager basically tacitly acknowledged that Isaiah
Speaker 1: Battle isn't ready to play in the NFL. He's he
Speaker 1: said that this time next year we'll start his rookie season.
Speaker 1: M That sounds like just setting really low expectations for
Speaker 1: a guy that will have some attention on him just
Speaker 1: because he happened to be the supplemental draft pick. It
Speaker 1: really stands out to me that the Rams tick an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman. Hank Hanks should have seen this coming because
Speaker 1: the Rams took four offensive linemen in May's draft, which
Speaker 1: I've never I don't think I've ever seen a team
Speaker 1: take four offensive lineman in wonder. I'm sure it happens
Speaker 1: here and there, but that that's a lot of offensive
Speaker 1: lineman one draft, and then you had another. They've got
Speaker 1: an entire starting offensive line just of rookies. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that could present problems. That you've got most of
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman on your roster have never played it
Speaker 1: down before. That could be a problem. You don't exactly
Speaker 1: have a history of swinging and hitting home runs with
Speaker 1: offensive line picks. In St. Louis, Greg Robinson not looking
Speaker 1: great after one year. Jason Smith one of the underrated
Speaker 1: all time bus he was Remember he was the safe
Speaker 1: pick in that drift and you know, again unless need Yeah,
Speaker 1: my boy, if he didn't have the best hair in
Speaker 1: the game and dress impeccably well, and really, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: he's basically a nine people would be saying, what what
Speaker 1: is this guy doing? Why is he blown picks. He's
Speaker 1: already took four offensive linemens. But because he's hot, everyone's like, hey,
Speaker 1: this guy knows that. Don't let's be honest. Your opinion
Speaker 1: unless need is basically done. A one eight over the
Speaker 1: last two years has well, you had nothing but praise
Speaker 1: for him. There's some hair. I don't remember that. There's
Speaker 1: some hair heat, you know, like the kids like to
Speaker 1: say real recognized real, It's like hair recognize his hair.
Speaker 1: He's a little teflon. I don't like anybody that's teflon. Well,
Speaker 1: aren't you in what sense? Nobody has anything on you
Speaker 1: that's not true? That's true, and your hair is kind
Speaker 1: of teflon like to Alright, moving on, here we go.
Speaker 1: J J. Watt Zach Mettenberger, it's back on boys, Ding
Speaker 1: Ding Ding. In a recent interview with Campus sports dot net,
Speaker 1: Uh Mettenburger, the Titans quarterback, uh had this to say
Speaker 1: about J. J. Watton, just in terms of a little reminder.
Speaker 1: Right before his first start, Mettenberger posted a selfie of himself.
Speaker 1: J J. Watt took umbradge with that um and after
Speaker 1: sacking Mettenburger in the first game that they played against
Speaker 1: each other, did a mock selfie pick you know, had
Speaker 1: some fun with it, as J. J. Watt is known
Speaker 1: to do. Now Mettenburger strikes back. Here was a quote
Speaker 1: JJ had to say. JJ had to say, it's a
Speaker 1: bit high schoolish that I take selfies, and I think
Speaker 1: he still rags on me on Instagram every time he
Speaker 1: posts a selfie, he said Tuesday via the Houston Chronicle.
Speaker 1: At the same time, if that's high schoolish, he got
Speaker 1: a letterman jacket, made a Texans letterman jacket. That's pretty
Speaker 1: high schoolish to me, don't you think, hey, hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: hey hey. Absolutely, I mean, listen, I'm not gonna get
Speaker 1: on the Attenburger train. But he's right that the Texans
Speaker 1: letterman jacket was one of the cheesiest things in recent
Speaker 1: NFL history, and anyone who disagree disagrees is a cheeseball himself.
Speaker 1: It really started the downfall of that franchise. They were
Speaker 1: on their way to go face the Patriots in Foxburg.
Speaker 1: They were ride and high, they break out the letterman jackets,
Speaker 1: they get blown out of the building, coaches end up
Speaker 1: getting fired. A year later, Shob gets injured. It all
Speaker 1: tased back to the They're getting mocked by the Patriots
Speaker 1: afterwards and everyone in the football world because you just
Speaker 1: I mean, you're a bunch of like twenty seven year
Speaker 1: old dudes and you're like reliving your glory days like
Speaker 1: you're the high school prom. This story belongs in a
Speaker 1: high school newspaper, not on NFL dot com. Selfies. J
Speaker 1: J J. J. Watt went way overboard with his disgust
Speaker 1: of especially if he's still taking selfies. Well, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Selfies are ridiculous, they are immature, they're
Speaker 1: high school is in it. I've seen about enough selfie
Speaker 1: sticks in l at the let's the rest of my
Speaker 1: life that this newde trend is horrible. That's true. It
Speaker 1: is weak though that J J. Wat. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't I can't verify this is true, but I would
Speaker 1: I would always trust with Zach Mettenberg says that J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt takes selfies on Instagram and then makes fun of Mettenberg. Right,
Speaker 1: It's like it's like in a selfie sack dance, didn't
Speaker 1: he Yeah, it's it's it's like the guy that makes
Speaker 1: fun of, you know, his girlfriend or something for having
Speaker 1: Miley Cyrus albums and then has like seven songs on
Speaker 1: his iTunes playlist from her it is, you know, keep
Speaker 1: it real, bro, It's like, no, we started heat with him.
Speaker 1: You you J. J. Watt is on your list. That's
Speaker 1: a quality analogy. Wod look at you? That's Sully looks
Speaker 1: different all of a sudden, that's Sully's music. Sully like
Speaker 1: as soon as he hears anything about a music artist
Speaker 1: like Elbow drops TV and then gets behind the class,
Speaker 1: which I I applaud. I applauded him for that. Good
Speaker 1: job there, Sully. By the way, I think Dan for
Speaker 1: that analogy, He's got to be the m v P
Speaker 1: for today already. Well, actually I should have went with
Speaker 1: something the Mile of Cyrus. That's a little two thousand thirteen.
Speaker 1: I could have done a little better. Maybe it should
Speaker 1: have went with Grande. Whoa, Wes, where did that come from?
Speaker 1: She has been in the news lately, so I whoa,
Speaker 1: that was like a rain Man esque It just came
Speaker 1: from nowhere. I don't even know who are even like
Speaker 1: West's faces even stunned after he said the words just
Speaker 1: like float out of him. Grand have you took it
Speaker 1: to the next level and said, you know what what
Speaker 1: was doing is is like licking donuts. Then yeah, I
Speaker 1: really would have been. You know that's about I don't know.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, listen, you can't build rome in a day,
Speaker 1: made anything like a window liquor, a donut liquor. Kind
Speaker 1: of look it up when we get downstairs. A movie
Speaker 1: on Marcus Lattimore, the San Francisco Ford and I was
Speaker 1: running back. They retired abruptly last fall, this after the
Speaker 1: Niners invested a fourth round pick on him in the draft,
Speaker 1: after Lattimore suffered really one of the word usknee injuries,
Speaker 1: uh that we've ever seen. Um. He told Espionnation, who
Speaker 1: did um writer for Espionation did a pretty uh involved
Speaker 1: profile of him. He explained that all this talk and
Speaker 1: all the posts that we wrote about Lattimore working his
Speaker 1: way back, it was never really the real deal because
Speaker 1: he never felt right. This was a quote. I went
Speaker 1: out there and put a smile on my face like
Speaker 1: everything was all right, but it was hell every day.
Speaker 1: And he added, My running backs coach was like, good job,
Speaker 1: good job, he'd say. My offensive coordinator, you know I
Speaker 1: was catching balls out of the backfield, was like, man,
Speaker 1: you look good, and I was like, you have no clue.
Speaker 1: So he said that he was in so much pain. Basically,
Speaker 1: first of all, his recovery plateau, and he knew that
Speaker 1: he would never be able to do the things he
Speaker 1: used to be able to do. And then the pain
Speaker 1: was so much that he started taking oxy cotton h
Speaker 1: codeon uh oxy coda oxy cotton, which is a powerful
Speaker 1: and addictive pain killer. And he was smart enough to say,
Speaker 1: my dreams are over. This is not gonna happen. But
Speaker 1: kind of enlightening and surprising to hear this. I was, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was shocked by this report. It wasn't really I
Speaker 1: don't have the quotes in front of me, but this
Speaker 1: wasn't the song he was singing when the forty Niners
Speaker 1: drafted him. He was very optimistic about his career. Well,
Speaker 1: that's how you have to be. He's probably a denial
Speaker 1: as well, Yeah, what what else can you do when
Speaker 1: you're speaking to the media. It's it is amazing. I mean,
Speaker 1: a player having that miserable of an experience, you're gonna
Speaker 1: try to put a happy face on it. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot going on and in that Espion Nation piece,
Speaker 1: and if like myself, I was always interested in his
Speaker 1: story just because that he was even able to get
Speaker 1: drafted and try to come back after suffering that. Dr
Speaker 1: James Andrews, who performed the second knee surgery, said that
Speaker 1: his his ligament looked like literally looked like spaghetti. It
Speaker 1: would it would have been shredded. So he tore three ligaments,
Speaker 1: which is almost earnheard of, and dislocated his kneecap, almost
Speaker 1: lost the leg. So um, just almost making it back
Speaker 1: is amazing, but it just wasn't gonna happen. Well, the
Speaker 1: good thing of reading the story was he seemed that
Speaker 1: piece that the thing he was really surprised about was
Speaker 1: when he decided, you know, to stop playing that suddenly
Speaker 1: he was relieved and he was happy and he was
Speaker 1: ready ready to move on. I mean he even questions,
Speaker 1: I mean he questioned the very idea that they drafted him.
Speaker 1: He said, I mean, why would you take a running
Speaker 1: back with two horrible knees? That's true? Wow, the shot
Speaker 1: at Trent Balky, I guess old Balco investigations investigation, I
Speaker 1: mean I get that, and I'm glad he told Peace.
Speaker 1: If if you're the forty niners, I think you have
Speaker 1: to be thinking where was all this two years ago
Speaker 1: or three years ago when we drafted you. I don't
Speaker 1: you do you give him heat for that? I give
Speaker 1: him heat for these statements now they make the forty
Speaker 1: niners look bad like they don't know what they're doing. Um.
Speaker 1: And finally the top one hundred ten to one was revealed.
Speaker 1: As I alluded to earlier, J J. Watt was the
Speaker 1: number one player, the first defensive player at every win
Speaker 1: that or get top honors on this list. And it's
Speaker 1: five years that it's been around. Uh, here's the rest
Speaker 1: of the top ten. Uh, Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, de
Speaker 1: Marco Murray, Peyton Manning, Calvin Johnson, Andrew Luck, Antonio Brown,
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch, and Rob Gronkowski. Greg you wrote a reaction
Speaker 1: piece to the final ten, and you took special issue
Speaker 1: with DeMarco Murray all the way up at number four. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's insane to think that he's the fourth best player
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I would not have him in my
Speaker 1: top four running backs. I would take Adrian Peterson, Levy
Speaker 1: On Bell, Jamaal Charles, and Marshawn Lynch certainly over de
Speaker 1: Marco Murray and maybe a couple other running backs. So
Speaker 1: it just seemed like an insane thing to see him
Speaker 1: up with the greatest players in the league, like Rob
Speaker 1: Gronkowski and Calvin Johnson. I mean, to put Murray in
Speaker 1: that class seems to be fair. This voting has done
Speaker 1: before the Super Bowl, with Murray coming off Offensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Year honors. Nobody knows when Peterson's gonna be
Speaker 1: back on the field. There are a lot of facts
Speaker 1: says of two thousand fifteen. Though it's right, but the
Speaker 1: voting took place right then, and nobody knew that Murray
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna be playing for the Cowboys then either don't
Speaker 1: care about that. It's not the best stats. It's the player.
Speaker 1: You put Levy on Bell in the Cowboys, he'd have yards.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that. I think you're underselling what Murray
Speaker 1: did from September through December last year. Rust doesn't think
Speaker 1: that meat was left on the bone as much. I
Speaker 1: think he's a top six or seven running back in
Speaker 1: the NFL. That means he's a great, great player, but
Speaker 1: that means he's very good at his position. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It seems weird to put him up in the category
Speaker 1: of those kind of players, and kind of used to
Speaker 1: made the point about Levy on Bell, I was thinking
Speaker 1: Jamal Charles, who seems to be having an Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame career that is being overlooked in a way. If
Speaker 1: you put him behind that Dallas line, wouldn't he have
Speaker 1: been significantly better than I think you guys are severely
Speaker 1: underselling what DeMarco Murky DeMarco Murray did from September through December.
Speaker 1: The the other thing that stuck out to me on
Speaker 1: the list I know will move on is the guys
Speaker 1: eight and nine Antonio Brown and Marshawn Lynch to think
Speaker 1: of different points of guys career. At one point, Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown was backing up Emmanuel Sanders as a rookie. At
Speaker 1: one point, they signed Brown to a huge contract and
Speaker 1: the real reaction at that point was Wow, they didn't
Speaker 1: give the money to Mike Wallace. They gave it. They
Speaker 1: wanted to give it to Wallace and he wouldn't take
Speaker 1: and they turned around and gave it the Brown. And
Speaker 1: how how well did that work out for this deal? Is?
Speaker 1: And then Lynch he used four years into his career
Speaker 1: and he was kind of looked at as a mid
Speaker 1: level starter and malcontent. He was the third stringer before
Speaker 1: they traded into Seattle behind Fred Jackson and someone else,
Speaker 1: and now there. It always makes you wonder how so
Speaker 1: many other guys would doing a better environment and better
Speaker 1: set up, Lynch being a great example of that. Um.
Speaker 1: But so that the top one hunter, and that gets
Speaker 1: us to our next topic. Um, we are going to
Speaker 1: now pick a team. And I'm already nervous because West
Speaker 1: has like a highlighter out and that means that he
Speaker 1: was doing some prep on this, and I feel I
Speaker 1: feel like the guy at the fantasy draft that that's
Speaker 1: not taking it seriously and ends up getting banged out
Speaker 1: so I can scratch out the guys you take. Oh
Speaker 1: is that what that's for? Okay, less intimidated? How about you?
Speaker 1: Are you preparing at all? I'm just some he's Mark
Speaker 1: didn't show up just to avoid any fantasy draft comments
Speaker 1: from you? The uh? Speaking of which, yeah, well, I
Speaker 1: should say that we will be doing our Fantasy Week
Speaker 1: NFL around the NFL podcast in August. I'll get ready
Speaker 1: for that with these two Rota World studs to my
Speaker 1: left and right. Do you think Mark will have anything?
Speaker 1: Mark will be here that I can tell you? So
Speaker 1: who gets first pick? Here? All right? That's a great question.
Speaker 1: We explain that this is a draft. Yeah, it's a draft.
Speaker 1: So we'll go, Uh, we'll do snake draft and the
Speaker 1: first pick, Greg, you will as as the guy with
Speaker 1: the highest income, you will pick first, and uh, it
Speaker 1: will go toward west and then west you double back.
Speaker 1: Does that seem fair? I'm fine with unless you want to.
Speaker 1: I'll give you two if you want, but it just
Speaker 1: makes more sense. I'm fine with however you want to
Speaker 1: do it. Okay, what's um? All right? So are you
Speaker 1: going with that? Greig? I'm glad with that. How much
Speaker 1: money do you make? Um? I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: for well, I guess I do know for a fact
Speaker 1: that you don't know for a factor, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just assume assume it's more than me. And I
Speaker 1: just wanted to know potentially, so you will not tell me.
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you on the podcast. All right, off
Speaker 1: the podcast? Um, all right, let's let's get it going
Speaker 1: with the first pick. Thank you and welcome fans who
Speaker 1: are watching in the NFL network and to all of
Speaker 1: our fans around the world. The heartfelt thank you for
Speaker 1: making the NFL great. The two thousand and fifteen NFL
Speaker 1: Draft is officially open. Rock Finally, Thank you. Rock Finally
Speaker 1: comes by the studio and joins the podcast. Thanks a lot, Rock,
Speaker 1: How you doing today? I'm testing songs every Roger word problem,
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell? Not here, No, just a matter of time though,
Speaker 1: who's tracking these picks? Uh? That will be up to
Speaker 1: behind the glass? Alright, irishman? Al right, well with the
Speaker 1: first pick. Now that it's a draft, you know, I
Speaker 1: had J. J. White is my top player because I
Speaker 1: think he is the best. Okay, but if I'm drafting
Speaker 1: to make my team, I'm taking here and Roight, what
Speaker 1: the This is not the spirit of the exercise. You're
Speaker 1: supposed to draft the best player. Not this again, I'm
Speaker 1: drafting Aaron Rodgers. I don't understand why you would call J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt in your own top ten that you did for
Speaker 1: our site, you took J. J. Watt, but you won't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, well, now it's like we're drafting a team,
Speaker 1: so I want you're not drafting a team, you're drafting
Speaker 1: the best player. What I just turned your card in? Though? Alright, fine,
Speaker 1: this is the top one exercise all right. By the way,
Speaker 1: and just so everyone's clear, what we're gonna each pick.
Speaker 1: I don't know eight to ten players haven't decided yet
Speaker 1: said it. We'll do it on time, and after we
Speaker 1: have our players, we will leave it to the listeners
Speaker 1: to decide. Just more work for TV, which is always good.
Speaker 1: The second pick Aaron Rodgers, Thank you Greg for falling
Speaker 1: into that trap. Yes, so so we'll have the listeners
Speaker 1: send send to us at around the NFL on Twitter,
Speaker 1: which which again, guy has the best team Team Hansas,
Speaker 1: Team Wesley or what team champion? Dan's off to a
Speaker 1: great start because Aaron Rodgers played sports most important position
Speaker 1: at the highest level it's ever been played. So that's
Speaker 1: was it higher? Was it that much higher than Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers in two thousand eleven? I would take his head.
Speaker 1: Coach said it was much higher. Well, what's he gonna say?
Speaker 1: I mean, well, I think he knows a little bit
Speaker 1: more than Greg Rose, Sunshine and Beauty Lot's better at
Speaker 1: what he does. Then, by far, that's not the other defender.
Speaker 1: He's the best defense. You're on the clock. I am
Speaker 1: taking Rob Gronkowski only two unanimous All pros along with J. J. Watt. Reach.
Speaker 1: It's not a reach at all. Snakes back buddy, Oh okay, well,
Speaker 1: let's take my God, I might have to go off
Speaker 1: their list here Andrew Luck, who I like that nice pick.
Speaker 1: Would be fun to watch Gronk and Luck playing together.
Speaker 1: I didn't Gronk makes sense outside of a quarterback. Who
Speaker 1: changes the opposing defense in the NFL more than Gronk.
Speaker 1: I think he does now more than Calvin Johnson, more
Speaker 1: than any running back. Yeah, I agree. Speaking of running backs,
Speaker 1: I will take Adrian Peterson good good pick way down
Speaker 1: at number sixty two on our cheat sheet. But it
Speaker 1: was still well, I know it is good. I just
Speaker 1: mean that's that's how they ranked him in the top
Speaker 1: one hundreds. Still, though, you know that it's kind of
Speaker 1: like a fantasy draft. This is where you gotta have
Speaker 1: the fantasy chops. No, I would have definitely picked him
Speaker 1: with a deep position. I can wait to take a
Speaker 1: running back. There's no there's he's in a different pool.
Speaker 1: This isn't building a team, Greg, it's just picking the
Speaker 1: best player. Care I'm taking Calvin Johnson, all right. There's
Speaker 1: a reason Calvin Johnson has was in the top three
Speaker 1: of this list four straight years. I believe do you
Speaker 1: get do you get his walking cane with your pick?
Speaker 1: He's thirty. He's not even thirty years old. Yet he's
Speaker 1: still the best receiver in the game. Give you a
Speaker 1: break walking pick? Wait, so do we keep sneaking? Is that?
Speaker 1: How was just Greg's pick? I like, I like just
Speaker 1: taking one pick at a time. Yeah, let's let's start
Speaker 1: that now, right, making rules. I don't know he's got it.
Speaker 1: So he's got his hand in his head. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't take it too seriously. Yeah, Dan, then can
Speaker 1: have the next I'm just saying you, like we have
Speaker 1: back to back all right, let's keep snakes. The only
Speaker 1: fair way to do it is the snake. Let's the
Speaker 1: first pick in every round. Well, it's what's the big deal?
Speaker 1: All right? Here we go? Then your vote your team
Speaker 1: the strongest. Alright, So it means Greg's up again again.
Speaker 1: I'm up again, and uh I need a quarterback for
Speaker 1: this group, and I'm gonna take Tom terrific. What a
Speaker 1: value this deep The stunner on the throne of easy said,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you want to you wanna mess with what
Speaker 1: Calvin and Brady to start your team? It's pretty strong. Wait,
Speaker 1: does that mean that Greg's team is doesn't have a
Speaker 1: quarterback for the first four weeks potentially that that's what
Speaker 1: it means. That's cool. We're instructed to draft this team
Speaker 1: based on two thousand fifteen expectations talent. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: one of my boys because I love my boys, so
Speaker 1: it will be Dez Bryant m again. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of receivers. They're all kind of the same. Julio.
Speaker 1: On that note, I'm gonna take a receiver who is
Speaker 1: not kind of the same. Lodell Beckham. Wow, that's just
Speaker 1: stole that from West just to bury himself. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't think that would have buried me. So West sees
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham as a top ten I put in fifth
Speaker 1: on my top ten list. Have you noticed a commonality
Speaker 1: between all of these players outside of basically Tom Brady?
Speaker 1: They all play offense. Except for what they're the physical
Speaker 1: marvels of the NFL. There's so much better physically. They
Speaker 1: all have been built and constructed in football labs, basically,
Speaker 1: and that's why we picked them first. I like that,
Speaker 1: all right. I will select Justin Houston, whoa interesting who
Speaker 1: was totally disrespected with the number twenty seven ranking on
Speaker 1: this list, even though he had he almost broke the
Speaker 1: sack record last year and has had more sacks per
Speaker 1: game than any player in the league over the last
Speaker 1: three years. Can someone please break this damn sack record? Finally,
Speaker 1: Michael Strand doesn't deserve to be near it, and it's
Speaker 1: been able to stand now for fourteen years. Let's move on, society.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take another wide receiver. I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: I'm feeling real good because Des Bryant and Julio Jones
Speaker 1: are lining up on the on the outside for me
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers as my quarterback in Adrian Peterson in
Speaker 1: the backfield, everyone can suck. You got Julio Jones? Got
Speaker 1: no defense? Is what you got? You got? I got
Speaker 1: j J. Watt. He's a one man defensive recon credit.
Speaker 1: I might take another one here. I might put You're
Speaker 1: not up? Are you? Are? You are up? I'm right
Speaker 1: after you. The Sully Snake thing is really confusing me. Oh,
Speaker 1: you're gonna follow the rules. Ude, I'm gonna take a
Speaker 1: defensive player and uh. He goes by the name of
Speaker 1: round of them, takes them away from Dan Monster. The
Speaker 1: hardest thing to find a cornerback and uh, and then
Speaker 1: I'll throw something that's a little easier to find a
Speaker 1: running back, but I do love me some leavy On
Speaker 1: Bell's a good pick. Nice, finally a good pick by Greg.
Speaker 1: My team looks. Look at that? What Calvin Brady Revus
Speaker 1: and I will take? Uh? What do we need? Give me?
Speaker 1: Give me Richard Sherman. Mm hmm. The room reacts with
Speaker 1: no excitement whatsoever. Sorry, I'll take the second best cornerback
Speaker 1: in football. He does enough talking for himself. We don't
Speaker 1: need to say anything. So I'm up again. Sully waving
Speaker 1: the Seahawks like I can't remember what team? Do you
Speaker 1: support the Seahawks? Yeah? I have a Seahawks fan. We've
Speaker 1: had this, Yeah, yeah, Zack Dan doesn't know. Mark's the
Speaker 1: only one that has my back. Do hear anyone lower
Speaker 1: on the depth chart than him? True? Let's go back
Speaker 1: to the physical Marvel team here. Why isn't Dominican Sioux
Speaker 1: still on the board. He's gone? Now? That was that
Speaker 1: was thinking of that last round? I love him. You
Speaker 1: don't have to hang out with him. You're up again,
Speaker 1: west Antonio Brown still out there? Nice pick. I was
Speaker 1: gonna take him. Oh I like that. How many picks
Speaker 1: deep are we going here? Where are we at we're
Speaker 1: at six, I might have to make it eight. We
Speaker 1: each had six. We're at six or did I just
Speaker 1: take my seventh? You took your sixth. I will now
Speaker 1: double up on legion of boom and take Earl Thomas.
Speaker 1: That was very good. That would take him over. Richard
Speaker 1: Sherman was in the defense. That was gonna be my pick.
Speaker 1: I am gonna go with a man by the name
Speaker 1: of Jerald the quite talk about a guy who was
Speaker 1: underrated in this exercise, I would take Jerald McCoy over
Speaker 1: and Dominican Sue and I would not. And it's not
Speaker 1: that close. I think it's not that close. And Sue's favorite.
Speaker 1: What well. I want my guy to be able to
Speaker 1: play the run too, and preferably play more than ten games. Alright, my,
Speaker 1: uh my next pick, I think just because uh, because
Speaker 1: Brady is suspend at the beginning of year, I don't
Speaker 1: want any voters to knock me and uh, I do
Speaker 1: want this guy just just around. He's got of a
Speaker 1: good vibes guy for the lockers. Everyone loves him. Good
Speaker 1: good guy. Ben Roethlisberger charming, fellow, talented, one of the
Speaker 1: most underrated players at the last Speaking of underrated players,
Speaker 1: at least in this fake draft. I know I have
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson bunging the handcuff on now with Marshawn Lynch.
Speaker 1: That's that's a lot of Seahawks on your team. You
Speaker 1: basically are just putting yourself out as a Seahawks lover.
Speaker 1: That's for Sully. I oh no, there's no, it's no,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt to dance currently winning this and I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying because I'm a Seahawks. Of course,
Speaker 1: you're just saying it because that's the only reason. Come on,
Speaker 1: my team is also nasty. That's factor in as well. Well,
Speaker 1: we're only three. I'm actually really I'm really bummed that
Speaker 1: Sessler is not here because when we have these type
Speaker 1: of competitions, Cecili gets really worked up, an emotional and
Speaker 1: damn it, we're missing that. I told you we should
Speaker 1: have waited for Celi. How is this guy still on
Speaker 1: the board. I'm going to build a dominant defense here,
Speaker 1: Luke Keikley, Okay, it's nice. I mean, that's fine that
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go crazy about maybe the second best
Speaker 1: linebacker on the Panthers. Stop last, you're up again, all right?
Speaker 1: Let's go, Uh this guy? How is this guy is
Speaker 1: so underrated because he had one injury in his career
Speaker 1: and it happened last year in October a j Green
Speaker 1: mm hmm. That's fair. M hm. That's a fair guy
Speaker 1: in this world, in this realm. Is Andy Dalton throwing
Speaker 1: the passes? What did just took? Andy d that's a
Speaker 1: that's how you're scared, baby. Okay, it's scared baby. What
Speaker 1: a weird idea that was and has always defended Andy.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm just curious if that means that you
Speaker 1: think Andy Dalton is good. We're drafting D player. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. I will take I will now my
Speaker 1: third wide receiver and listen, this is gonna be tough.
Speaker 1: It's another outside got Mabel movement. I don't know. Uh,
Speaker 1: Julio can run the route tree, he could do it.
Speaker 1: But I'll take Jordy Nelson. Oh yeah, that's who I
Speaker 1: was waiting. And guess what I also have? And Sully,
Speaker 1: you're paying attention because I know you love my team.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is my quarterback, so I got his number
Speaker 1: one target in the history of his life. That does
Speaker 1: not matter for purposes of the It doesn't balance team
Speaker 1: three wide receivers. It does matter because West might be
Speaker 1: building like all time defense, but you're not gonna stop
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Teams are and Jordy. Okay, I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I'm pitting him against you. I trust what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: The audience. You're not getting a point perception. The audience
Speaker 1: could take this wherever they want to go. When they
Speaker 1: say what teams the most, we gonna give a balanced
Speaker 1: team and let them look at it that way. Well,
Speaker 1: if you want well rounded, you gotta make a pick
Speaker 1: that would make Connor or proud Tyron Smith left tackle
Speaker 1: the football. Well, and uh, I'm gonna get von Miller too.
Speaker 1: I'm a big von Miller believer. Do we two guys
Speaker 1: I was looking at for my next do we drug test?
Speaker 1: In this world doesn't matter. Drugs are actually encouraged weirdly,
Speaker 1: m m. It seems odd, Yeah, very strange. Rosenthal's team,
Speaker 1: it's like the Raiders of the seventies, just a bunch
Speaker 1: of renegades. Alright, So how many how many picks are
Speaker 1: do you have? Greg? I think I have nine? Alright,
Speaker 1: So we're getting near the end here. And I was
Speaker 1: I was gonna take somebody, but I don't want to
Speaker 1: go nuts. You can take a seahawk. Who do you
Speaker 1: want to take? Russ No dangerous still on the board
Speaker 1: us his biggest weapon. Am I read in your mind
Speaker 1: right now? He was top ten last year, wasn't he? Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's just roll with it. Let's go, Jimmy Graham. If
Speaker 1: you can take you know, a tight end the camp
Speaker 1: box and this old teams didn't want him, you gotta
Speaker 1: do it right now. I got back to back right
Speaker 1: and that wraps you up. Well, let's continue to build
Speaker 1: this dominant defense and take a guy who got an
Speaker 1: m v P m v P vote last year. Bobby Wagner.
Speaker 1: M wow, interesting he made this kind of like that.
Speaker 1: And Dmarrius Thomas. Yeah, that's a good pick. He was overdue.
Speaker 1: West is done. That's it. Sign. How many defensive players
Speaker 1: did you take? Less all of them? Did you take
Speaker 1: the defensive player in the league, Keekley Wagner sue justin Houston.
Speaker 1: I think that's it. He took four four out of ten.
Speaker 1: I'm going for balance and dominator gambling his lack of
Speaker 1: prep showing up it is but I actually I have
Speaker 1: one locked in. But I just want to Jamal Charles
Speaker 1: still out there. I don't want to be feeding you
Speaker 1: answers I do. Yeah, I don't need another running back though,
Speaker 1: that's not how this exercise works. You just take the
Speaker 1: best player. Is that what it is? You don't need
Speaker 1: another running back, just take something else. Jamal Charles stick
Speaker 1: it right in Greg's cross. I was sticking in. I
Speaker 1: don't know why I told you that I was gonna
Speaker 1: take Jamal Charles. Yeah, he was next on my list. There,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wrap up. Then it's not as spicy, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wrap up with Cameron Wake. Yeah. I like Cameron.
Speaker 1: Why is that terrible? That was the most boring ultimate
Speaker 1: pick that you can have? All right, let's let's read
Speaker 1: this out your favorite player. Oh you guys, your little
Speaker 1: sweetheart Payton Manning went undrafted. It's not my sweetheart. Everybody's defending.
Speaker 1: I'm annoyed. I am annoyed that I didn't get Jamal Charles,
Speaker 1: and I gave Dana pick when he clearly was scrambling
Speaker 1: and was going to do something stupid. We should all
Speaker 1: we should all read off our list and then give
Speaker 1: one sentence of why people should vote for us. How
Speaker 1: about that. Okay, there we go. You go first, Greg,
Speaker 1: all right, My team J. J. Watt, Calvin Johnson, Tom Brady, Durrell, Reeves,
Speaker 1: Levy On, Bill Gerald, McCoy, Ben Roethlisberger, Tyron Smith, and
Speaker 1: Von Miller. And you should vote Team Rosenthal because that's
Speaker 1: the most balanced team there is out there. It's got
Speaker 1: a little bit of everything, and it's all exciting. And
Speaker 1: you forgot one players. So obviously I forget Cameron Way.
Speaker 1: Who could forget him? Everyone well, by Mike count I
Speaker 1: have six of the top ten players in the NFL
Speaker 1: are my roster during Bronk Luck, O'Dell, the sack leader,
Speaker 1: Justin Houston, the receiving leader Antonio Brown, and the highest
Speaker 1: paid defensive player in the league in Dominican Sue and
Speaker 1: the only the four other guys. You've got A. J.
Speaker 1: Green and Damerius Thomas, two of the best six wide
Speaker 1: receivers in the NFL. And then I've got the two
Speaker 1: best middle linebackers in the NFL, Luke Keickley and Bobby Wagner.
Speaker 1: The team's domination is that your sentence? Yeah, that counts.
Speaker 1: His sentence was essentially, I drafted two guys from a
Speaker 1: position that's mostly growing extinct in the NFL and middle linebackerly,
Speaker 1: weren't the Seahawks in the Super Bowl back to back?
Speaker 1: Save the best for last? This is the greatest collection
Speaker 1: of talent. Hold On, hold on, I think I think
Speaker 1: he just answered your sentence for you. Weren't the Seahawk
Speaker 1: and backed back super bowls? Well? Yes, that's good timing,
Speaker 1: perfect thing. Sell He's my GM by the way, Uh,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Uh, greatest quarterback on the planet, Adrian Peterson,
Speaker 1: the best running back on the planet, Des Bryant, ju
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, Richard Sherman, Earl Thomas, the best safety on
Speaker 1: the planet, Marshawn Lynch, Jordy Nelson, Jimmy Graham, and Jamal Charles.
Speaker 1: Was the most underrated player of his generation. And my
Speaker 1: my line for you guys to take to the voting
Speaker 1: booths vote for me because the other teams are total
Speaker 1: barth that could win you the vote. People always want
Speaker 1: to talk last in these things. Yeah, that was an
Speaker 1: act that was on an accident. That was some real part.
Speaker 1: That was basically the Cameron wake of politicking. Jake, Really
Speaker 1: that hurts. That took down your average little bit. I
Speaker 1: have no one who gave you Jamal Charles right here
Speaker 1: and well I didn't see that. West really deserves the
Speaker 1: credit for that, but it shows unlike is Lee Evans
Speaker 1: still available. Unlike um Matt Millen who listened to too
Speaker 1: many people in the room and made all the mistakes,
Speaker 1: I listened to the right people. It's about you. You
Speaker 1: can't can't view yourself as omnipotent. You need to be
Speaker 1: able to take other things into account. And that's what
Speaker 1: I did, and that's why I'm gonna win this. I
Speaker 1: like that I'm my own GM and your personnel director,
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying it I'm Nipotent's definitely been sitting
Speaker 1: around West too long, all right. So those are teams
Speaker 1: and and TD who who had to leave early. Of course,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine what he's doing right now. He's at
Speaker 1: a meeting of some kind. He's taking a selfie of
Speaker 1: of lifting weights. Um. He will h find a way
Speaker 1: to package the three teams in some way and allow
Speaker 1: you guys to vote. So just whatever he writes, just
Speaker 1: make sure you follow um the protocol for voting, so
Speaker 1: your vote counts. Because I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: with our outro song, Uh, maybe didn't follow TD's words.
Speaker 1: So maybe that's why am I I'm gonna win? Who knows? Um?
Speaker 1: But that's that all right. Finally, before we get out
Speaker 1: of here, it's that time. Uh. You know, we have
Speaker 1: this writer in New Jersey's name is Connor Or. He's
Speaker 1: very talented, former beat writer for the Giants and the Jets.
Speaker 1: And when you work on New York beat, that's how
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of stuff can build up inside.
Speaker 1: And to this day, even though he's off the beat now,
Speaker 1: he still gets this rage and in him. And we
Speaker 1: we thought to ourselves we had to sit down and said,
Speaker 1: how do we get this out of him? How do
Speaker 1: we keep Connor productive and uh and healthy and alive? Really,
Speaker 1: so we came up with a segment which I like
Speaker 1: to call or you get all right, Connor? How are
Speaker 1: you doing, buddy? What's happening? What's going on? What's up? Buddy?
Speaker 1: What is on your mind? I want to know, uh,
Speaker 1: Dan and everybody. Uh, what's the deal with people inviting
Speaker 1: athletes to their wedding? M m hmmm. It's Uh. I
Speaker 1: was thinking about it the other day and like, can
Speaker 1: you imagine like some guy invited Chip Kelly to his
Speaker 1: wedding recently, Like can you imagine if it was like
Speaker 1: a really crappy, like short term head coach and then
Speaker 1: like you're looking back at your wedding twenty years later
Speaker 1: and your wife's like that was great, but you spent
Speaker 1: the whole time with like Brian Schottenheimer at the bar
Speaker 1: talking about shot it. What's he doing there? You're here
Speaker 1: Jets fan and and you have a picture of rich
Speaker 1: code type making out with your wife. You look very
Speaker 1: pretty and that dress that's rich type. You're gonna bury
Speaker 1: the ball. I don't know. I just want to know
Speaker 1: what the plan is, Like what if they actually say yes?
Speaker 1: Then like what do you do? It's just like, oh yeah, Chip,
Speaker 1: we'll sit you next to my colleges because they're huge
Speaker 1: Eagles fans. Like, I don't know, And it kind of
Speaker 1: hits on a good point. All this like inviting to
Speaker 1: the wedding, going with athletes to the prom, buying presents
Speaker 1: from the wedding regis. It's cute for a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's the problem. Things weird too when when it's like
Speaker 1: a twenty four year old professional athlete that's a millionaire
Speaker 1: and I've just actually talked to Connor today, we don't
Speaker 1: want to step on his own segment, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get out of my opinion. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: it's like, come on, you know, we don't trust those
Speaker 1: guys a twenty year old with my eighteen year old daughter.
Speaker 1: I'll trust them whether it's the broom, whether it's the
Speaker 1: groom or the bride. In this situation, you're playing a
Speaker 1: high stakes game of chicken here, because whoever's idea it
Speaker 1: is to bring the athlete to your wedding is an
Speaker 1: unmarriable person. I mean, are you kidding me? You want
Speaker 1: to you feel that badly about your you have no
Speaker 1: self esteem. You have to invite an athlete to make
Speaker 1: your wedding worthwhile? What else do you have? Kind of
Speaker 1: you have anything else for us today? Already have something
Speaker 1: more on that point. It's just it's a continuation of
Speaker 1: this this trend, Like I feel like this has replaced
Speaker 1: the film near crying Child in an uniform to go
Speaker 1: get to meet Champ Bailey phase, which like happened That
Speaker 1: is an excellent he is hitting on something. Keep going.
Speaker 1: It's just like, you know, you could line up like
Speaker 1: everybody else to get an autograph instead of like exploiting
Speaker 1: your marriage or your children like it. Think what's important?
Speaker 1: Gus small autograph? I just yeah, I mean you know,
Speaker 1: and then what do you do? Like you just have
Speaker 1: that Chip Kelly declining your wedding indication on your mantel
Speaker 1: next to your kids graduation photos like second bed thing
Speaker 1: in my life. But Billy, you know it doesn't make
Speaker 1: any sense. So well, this all goes back to one
Speaker 1: one very big question that you have. Were you kidding me? There?
Speaker 1: It is? Thank you, Connor, Thank you guys, all right,
Speaker 1: thanks Connor. Or listen, he he waits around well passed, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, dinner time at his house that he pays
Speaker 1: a mortgage on uh, to do that call and just
Speaker 1: get things off his chest. And you could tell even
Speaker 1: by if you when he said goodbye just right now,
Speaker 1: you could tell that he was feeling better. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure his wife approves or fiance. Youngest guy, uh,
Speaker 1: like he's younger than Patra right, he's younger, youngest guy
Speaker 1: around the NFL, but he's the only one that's paying
Speaker 1: a mortgage. Definitely the most cratchety, also the most mature. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that when we were in Indianapolis for the
Speaker 1: comb for the combine, he was like, hey, cats, follow me,
Speaker 1: and he took us down like the stairwell and freaking Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, this is a real good
Speaker 1: cigar joint where we can have some whiskey and some
Speaker 1: sea gulls. And then we just hung out in this place.
Speaker 1: It was all drenched in red light, and I was like,
Speaker 1: how old are you? How do you know about this place?
Speaker 1: That's Connor. He was point today that those were some legitimate, right,
Speaker 1: that was legit, especially especially because when I write the
Speaker 1: end around column during the season. Uh, when it first
Speaker 1: happened a couple of times with the adults um having
Speaker 1: their kids crying over like a loss or something, you know,
Speaker 1: I would write about it. But then it became so
Speaker 1: clear that it was just cynical and ugly. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a there's a problem when it it's like a twenty
Speaker 1: two year old NBA player with like a hot eighteen
Speaker 1: year old problem. That's that's where it's a problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't trust it. Don't trust it all right, So that's it,
Speaker 1: and uh, it is that time now that we have
Speaker 1: a new outro song. Greg now enjoys the spoils of victory.
Speaker 1: We will be back next week. I will not be
Speaker 1: back actually, I will be going away on vacation, so
Speaker 1: we'll be up to as well West so we'll be
Speaker 1: up to Gregg and Mark down and I need to
Speaker 1: get this right until next week. H oh. Can you
Speaker 1: tack this on to the end of the pot today?
Speaker 1: Duh winning, don't do it.