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Speaker 1: Be Around with the NFL podcast has a great swing

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Speaker 1: on the softball feel. Yes we do. Welcome to another

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Speaker 1: Dan Hanss and I am joined in a conference room

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Speaker 1: filled with some heroes, Mark Sesler, Chris Westling. What is up? Boys?

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Speaker 1: Heydn Can you turn me up in my headphones? Ricky?

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Speaker 1: Turn me up in my headphones? That's unnatural. When I

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Speaker 1: say that was extremely That's good. Now it sounds good. Thanks, Ricky,

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Speaker 1: you got it? Hi, Erica, is this our last show

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Speaker 1: in a conference room on the NFL media compound? It is?

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Speaker 1: It is? Yeah, wow, so make the most of it.

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Speaker 1: What an experience it's been. This would be where the

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Speaker 1: What about it, Eddie Spaghetti? Yeah, not scrapping young man.

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Speaker 1: He can't be helping you. Yeah. I'm an independent woman

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Speaker 1: who don't need no man. I believe it, Ricky. Uh.

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Speaker 1: This is the Thursday edition of the Round the NFL podcast. Um,

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Speaker 1: this is the final week of the summer where we

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Speaker 1: just have two shows. That's it. Summer vacation is over

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Speaker 1: for the boys. Greg Rosenthal back Monday, uh and all

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Speaker 1: In fact, we were talking about on Monday West. Some

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Speaker 1: your boys West, and don't think I'm not noticing West.

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Speaker 1: teams that report to whether it's organized team activities in

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Speaker 1: your credit card to get three d dollars worth? They

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Speaker 1: have attempted that and they were successful, and we we

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Speaker 1: returned those funds. Um, I'll throw one out there on

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Speaker 1: West on your thinnest list. Um. The packers running backs

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Speaker 1: and that that gets as it gets again. Many of

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Speaker 1: us mark not you as much, but many don't want

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Speaker 1: to see Aaron Rodgers return to glory just because it's

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Speaker 1: football is more fun. But there is a lot to

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Speaker 1: be nervous about right west about this offense. We've talked

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Speaker 1: about whether there's enough around Davante Adam when it terms

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Speaker 1: to terms of skill players on the outside uh and

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Speaker 1: in the passing game, but the running back situation is

438
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Speaker 1: hardly settled. I think fantasy football players have been arguing

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Speaker 1: for Aaron Jones to get more playing time for a while,

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Speaker 1: and I've made the same argument. But he he really

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Speaker 1: hasn't done himself favors by playing at a bigger weight

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Speaker 1: than he should have been playing, and he hasn't been

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Speaker 1: in the greatest shape he's at an m c l

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Speaker 1: sprains in both of his first two years. The coach

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Speaker 1: and you can rip on Mark Mike McCarthy all you want,

446
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Speaker 1: but he knows Aaron Jones strength and weakness is better

447
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Speaker 1: than we do and decided not to play him much

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Speaker 1: on passing downs because that's not his strength. On the

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Speaker 1: other hand, they're passing specialist Jamal Williams just isn't a

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Speaker 1: good runner. He's averaged almost two yards per carry less

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Speaker 1: than Aaron Jones, so if he if Jones goes down,

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Speaker 1: you're left with a very pedestrian um rushing attack and

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Speaker 1: not much depth behind the two of them. I think

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Speaker 1: another concern is that when you read about Jamal Williams

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Speaker 1: and how he would fit into a Matt Lafleur offense,

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Speaker 1: that Matt Lafleur is a zone run scheme type coach

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Speaker 1: and Jamal Williams is not a perfect fit for that

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Speaker 1: on any level. Your biggest concern on your thinnest list

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Speaker 1: is the Giants. And while we've talked endlessly on this

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Speaker 1: podcast about the relative worth of Eli Manning, Uh, what

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Speaker 1: you're talking about here is their defense. And it's hard

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Speaker 1: to disagree. After you get rid of Olivier Vernon and

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Speaker 1: Landon Collins, what's left here West? How are they gonna

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Speaker 1: stop anyone? Forget about who's playing quarterback? How are they

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Speaker 1: gonna not be giving up twenty eight points a game? Well,

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Speaker 1: this is what happens when you rebuild. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: guess you could say it's a necessary evil. Some teams

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Speaker 1: don't believe that you have to rebuild all the time,

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Speaker 1: but the Giants tore it down, and you're hoping that

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Speaker 1: the young guys can eventually be as good as Snax

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Speaker 1: Harrison and Olivier Vernon and Landon Collins and the guys

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Speaker 1: who've been playing at near a pro bowl level for

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Speaker 1: a few years. You hope that the young guys eventually

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Speaker 1: get to that place. But I would be shocked if

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Speaker 1: it's this year that all those young guys started playing well.

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Speaker 1: Another case for uh Daniel Jones entering the lineup sooner

477
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Speaker 1: rather than later is that eventually gentleman is gonna have

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Speaker 1: to put something on the field to convince Giants brass

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Speaker 1: that he should be around beyond two thousand nineteen. And

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Speaker 1: if the defense and is in a full blown rebuild

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Speaker 1: and the old quarterback is obviously not the future, Jones

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Speaker 1: has to play the showed management that this guy is

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Speaker 1: doing something right, like what I mean? Otherwise, what are

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Speaker 1: we staring down the barrel of three and thirteen and

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Speaker 1: no hope and I mean and gentlemen created for obvious reasons,

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Speaker 1: a bit of a radioactive situation for himself. But it's

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Speaker 1: almost like the defensive side of the ball has been

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Speaker 1: not noticed or talked about as much because it's all

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Speaker 1: about Eli Manning all the time. But then suddenly you're

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Speaker 1: gonna put a lot of pressure on a broken down

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Speaker 1: Eli Manning or a rookie quarterback to probably score a

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Speaker 1: lot of points to win games. West During this exercise,

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Speaker 1: when you're you know, going through the rosters and doing

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Speaker 1: your process, which on either side of this thinnest, deepest,

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Speaker 1: what surprised you, What team surprised you? What unit you

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Speaker 1: know what? And some of this doesn't even make the list,

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Speaker 1: um just because something There might be some deeper or

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Speaker 1: or thinner units than I wrote about, But some of

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Speaker 1: it is what what's compelling to write about. So that's

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Speaker 1: how you end up making the choices. But I'd say

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Speaker 1: the Ravens, how they are so stark, they have a

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Speaker 1: the deep I think the deepest position group in the

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Speaker 1: NFL might be their secondary. They are just absolutely loaded

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Speaker 1: there number one on your list. But then they lost

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Speaker 1: Um Thick, they their pass rushers, They lose Sugs Zadarius Smith,

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Speaker 1: um Urban from upfront, and those guys have more sacks,

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Speaker 1: hits and hurries than the rest of their defense combined.

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Speaker 1: So you're asking a lot of unproven guys to do

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Speaker 1: work there. And I really thought about having their wide

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Speaker 1: receivers on this list for Thinness too, because they're they're

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Speaker 1: only proven guy. Really is Willie Snead, who's a slot receiver?

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Speaker 1: Seth Roberts, I'd guess another slot receiver. I just don't

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Speaker 1: see the depth there. So you're talking about a team

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Speaker 1: that has some very strong strong points and some very

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Speaker 1: weak weak points. When you went number seven on the

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Speaker 1: thin list Chicago Bears kicker, was that sort of a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a tidbit for Dan? Oh? Yeah, I

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00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: gotta keep Dan oriented and just gets it. That's why

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Speaker 1: you gotta keep the kicker fans interested. West totally gets it.

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Speaker 1: And people shouldn't sleep on how important it is to

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Speaker 1: have a solid kicking foundation on you just ask twenty

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Speaker 1: million dollar man Robbie Gold how important kicking. But well, Ricky,

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Speaker 1: you were a little young when Adam Vinetieri was a hero.

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Speaker 1: But in New England, no, he was. He was the best.

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Speaker 1: Why it was still kicking almost unbelieved that. You know

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Speaker 1: he's still the later. Yeah, but he's you know, not

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Speaker 1: my problem. He's regarded as the best. So I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you got I did not involve myself in it.

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Speaker 1: And now there's talk that Russia is stealing everyone's faces.

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Speaker 1: This this face app that everybody went crazy putting. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I did your picture though, that was actually very tedious

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Speaker 1: four hours on Twitter, but a screenshot of your Instagram

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Speaker 1: just to see what total violation like that. Uh, now

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Speaker 1: I'm in the system as well as well. But uh,

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Speaker 1: kudos to the Colts who did a nice job. And

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Speaker 1: they did like a a four screen of like luck whomever, whoever.

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Speaker 1: And then the last one there was no face app done.

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Speaker 1: It was just him with the white beard. The stunning

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Speaker 1: lack of that was a good one, but a stunning

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Speaker 1: lack of creativity by all thirty two team Twitter accounts

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Speaker 1: by doing the exact same social media post with their

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Speaker 1: players turning old. What would you have done if you

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Speaker 1: were in that, I'd be the one team that said

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Speaker 1: we're not going to do what every other everyone else

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Speaker 1: is doing. By the way, all in the course of

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Speaker 1: fifteen or twenty minutes, they all dropped the same tweet.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's slightly ponderous. I mean it is, but

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Speaker 1: I mean I have issues with that too. Anything else,

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Speaker 1: Mark West, anything that jumped out to you and you

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Speaker 1: good again. Check this out nfl dot com slash westling.

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00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: The archive is bustling. I don't want to I don't

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00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 1: want to throw too. I don't get up and go

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00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: read it. But the Patriots being on the thin list,

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Speaker 1: and for at this point in the off season, that

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00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: wide receiver group with your your kind of praying if

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Speaker 1: you're a Patriots fan, that Josh Gordon is brought back

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00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: into the mix because there's not a lot going on there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen Brady carry offenses with the releading

559
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Speaker 1: leading receiver is Jabbar Gaffney or Danny Ammondola or Malcolm

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Speaker 1: Mitchell as a playoff hero. That's a lot to ask

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Speaker 1: of a thirty nine year old beating father time. It's

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00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: a lot more to ask of a forty two year

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Speaker 1: old who showed actual signs of decline last year. Very fair,

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Speaker 1: All right there, you gonna check it out. West is back. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the the Infinity Stones put him into the big power

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Speaker 1: glove explosions. Everyone dies, lives. Do you live or die

567
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: when there's these stones are collected? I mean there's MALTI

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Speaker 1: I don't I'm not the expert on this. It's your thing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, live or die when the bad guy or

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Speaker 1: the good guy gets the stones in the power clove.

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00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: I don't watch that they have and they make the decision.

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00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: The bad guy war wiped out, like I believe it

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Speaker 1: was like Earth? What about the other planets? Aren't there

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00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: like other stars and stuff involved? Then we're going beyond.

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00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: We're going beyond what I know about at that point.

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00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: But yes, the mail Bag live NFL dot Com Friday Morning.

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00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: Check it out. It's the only mail bag that matters.

578
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: And Jay Glazer knows it. He knows Mark. Oh, I

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Speaker 1: think he's it's it's on his radar. There's no doubt

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00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: about that. Um. A bunch of questions. You guys are great. Um,

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Speaker 1: you always do annoy me listeners, no matter how much

582
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: I try to make it clear that these this this

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Speaker 1: prompt I do on Twitter is for my column, the

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Speaker 1: mail Bag. And then I get and inevitably fourteen questions

585
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: about which one of us would survive in an island

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00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: or is Mark happy? Or is Erica like you know

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00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: on bumble or whatever? Like it's just you know, I

588
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 1: it's not always about the podcast. But since we're here,

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00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: I'll go through some of the questions that I I mean,

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Speaker 1: what you endured Dan is just uh, you know, remarkable

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Speaker 1: to us. I appreciate their interest in our show and

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Speaker 1: and and my social media account. Has there ever been

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00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: a mailbag without that? Who would win on a deserted island? Never?

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Speaker 1: It's a lue Garrick streak. Well, Wes, it's interesting West.

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Speaker 1: I noticed that my mentions like favorite when someone said

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Speaker 1: West would would prevent And I really, honestly, you just

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Speaker 1: just you know, you caught me on a day where

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Speaker 1: I really like waffled on whether to click like on

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Speaker 1: this or not. I'm like, no, because I don't want

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Speaker 1: to encourage the narrative that that that this is what

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Speaker 1: I would be like. We don't like to talk about

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Speaker 1: these things. But I clicked like just because it was

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Speaker 1: somebody trying to connect with our show. And I was like,

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Speaker 1: all right, now you threw a bone. Yeah, I saw it.

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00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: And of course what I'm going to see is Wes

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Speaker 1: is agreeing with this person. And perhaps you do believe

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Speaker 1: that you would survive, does it? I don't think it's

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's ever been a part of me,

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Speaker 1: even before cancer, to be a divide and conquered person.

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Speaker 1: That's what that that I don't play politics enough to

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Speaker 1: do this. Yeah, Like, I'm not Richard Hatch. It's not happening. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I know I would not be the one to like

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Speaker 1: post cancer like strength, strength for sure. Did you see

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Speaker 1: me trying to run around the basis last to division champions? Baby?

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00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: We Yeah, we came to it. We knocked off a

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Speaker 1: team that was in first place all year, and now

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00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: we have the best team that the Shield has ever had.

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Speaker 1: Going into is a juggernaut. We go into the ship.

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Speaker 1: What some people we heard through a source that some

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Speaker 1: members of the opposing team believe that the first basement

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Speaker 1: of the Shield number twenty three, Dan Hansas, was taking

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Speaker 1: the game too seriously in what manner were you? I mean, oh,

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Speaker 1: is that because you argue with the umpire? You literally

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Speaker 1: were like, who can say it better? Rough me? Are

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Speaker 1: you blue probab? It was it was a it was

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00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 1: a blown call by the umpire. Let him know about it,

627
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: And I'm never gonna apologize for being competitive. Yeah, but

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00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 1: you were like, I'm right so still, but it was

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Speaker 1: like it was it was like it went on for

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Speaker 1: a little while and then Dan was like, bro, I'm

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Speaker 1: right on top of it. Who can see better? Me

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Speaker 1: or you, and the ref was like your two seconds

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Speaker 1: from being out of here. The best part was the

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Speaker 1: best part was and I'm never that guy, but I

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Speaker 1: was very frustrated that moment of the game. Um, I said,

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Speaker 1: that's bad, that's bad, and he goes, you're bad. Yeah,

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00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: all right, we're mixing it up. Um. Anyway, we're tendant

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Speaker 1: to we won the division. One more win for glory. Well,

639
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: we're streaking. As you pointed out last night, we have

640
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: played well now. They're the second and third place teams

641
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 1: in the league in the last few weeks and we

642
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: beat them by a combined thirty seven to nine. Yeah,

643
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 1: we've been rolling through some good teams. You don't want

644
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: to look past anyone, especially in the playoffs. But um,

645
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 1: this has like an eight five Bears feel to it.

646
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: There was a time with a previous team where I

647
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: thought you had an eighty nine Niners five, but maybe

648
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: we didn't even realize how good you could be. You're

649
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: peaking now. This feels eighty five Niners thirteen Seahawks. Well,

650
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 1: our girls have never girls are carrying the guys now

651
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,439
Speaker 1: sometimes and that has not happened off And I didn't

652
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: get mad at you when you had that embarrassing base. Yeah,

653
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: I really did screw up last night. I was just

654
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 1: standing on first and I like hit a really nice

655
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: like a slammer right down past the third basement, and

656
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 1: so like ran it out. It was so good, and

657
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: I was like yes, And then something happened where the

658
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: next person hit the ball and I like just like

659
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: stood there, like I didn't move. I don't know what happened.

660
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: I was like often thought, but I was paying attention.

661
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 1: I don't know you were like just daydreaming about your hit.

662
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: The pre I hit a slammer. Understand the total slammer? UM?

663
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 1: Anyway to use that during next week's hit a slammer? Uh?

664
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 1: In the mailbag, I I opened mail bag with a

665
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: question I do get every year around this time, but

666
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: I always answer it because to me, there's no better

667
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: way to end an NFL season, UM, besides the Jets

668
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: championship UH than a team winning a Super Bowl for

669
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 1: the first time. And the way history has it, it's

670
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: been happening now going back to the beginning of this century,

671
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: like every three to four years a team is winning

672
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl for the first time. So you go

673
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 1: back to UH, of course you have the Pats in

674
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: OH one. Uh, and then you have the Bucks in

675
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: O two than the Colts and OH six, the Saints

676
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: in O nine, the Seahawks and thirteen the Eagles and seventeen. Okay,

677
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 1: all right, Ravens fans, I remember you you were in

678
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: two thousand two. But anyway, so that tells us that

679
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen again. Maybe not this year, but soon.

680
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: So there are twelve teams that have never won the

681
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I put them in order of Super Bowl

682
00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 1: win probability this year. Tell if you have any disagreement. Cardinals, Bills, Lions, Bengals, Titans, Panthers, Browns,

683
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 1: and now the top five. It's pretty good list. There's

684
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 1: some real contenders Jags, Falcons, Texans, Vikings, Chargers, and I

685
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 1: think those top three teams are actual legit title contenders.

686
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: I think the Falcons and Jaguars, if a couple of

687
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 1: things to go the right way, are absolute title contenders.

688
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: And even the Browns, with all the talent they have,

689
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: if they get on a crazy run, you never know.

690
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: I think that Titans, Panthers, and Browns have better rosters

691
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: than the Jaguars. In Texans, Yeah, the Jaguars are the

692
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 1: ones that stood out to me too. I I know

693
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: that your stance on the Titans in general is not favorable,

694
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: but I might put them ahead of the Titans. On

695
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 1: the Panthers, depending on quarterback place you could flip flopped him.

696
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: I bet I think they're kind of in the same window.

697
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: I think only Cincinnati, Detroit, Buffalo, and Arizona are kind

698
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:11,399
Speaker 1: of completely out of the conversation, at least winning this year.

699
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: I am just like, I'm not convinced that the Nick

700
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: Foles experience as much as I like the person is

701
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: going to translate. I don't like doubting him. I just

702
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:21,240
Speaker 1: I don't want to see it. I don't like anything

703
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: about their offense really, Like what what excites you other

704
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 1: than if you believe that Nick Foles is going to

705
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,280
Speaker 1: really turn that offense? Other than the quarterback, what excites

706
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: you about about the Vikings of two? They're kind of

707
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: after all the hype going to last year, you almost

708
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: hear nothing about them right now, which I think is

709
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 1: a good thing. And it's good for Kirk Cousins. Uh,

710
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 1: this is still I think a loaded team, and if

711
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 1: Cousins can just play at a high level, why am

712
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: I doing too much hand stuff. No, Kirk Cousins just

713
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: is just going to hand off the ball every time. Well,

714
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: one of the biggest throws he's not gone on this year.

715
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,399
Speaker 1: We don't talk about assistant coaches enough except Mark he does.

716
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,720
Speaker 1: But I thought Kubiak was one of the biggest editions

717
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: of any coaching them all year. And I really like

718
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: the Vikings issue. I mean, that line needs to be better.

719
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: Chargers everybody agrees the most likely team to break the

720
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 1: Super Bowl jinks of this group it doesn't agree would

721
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,359
Speaker 1: put them in the in the driver's seat. I'd agree

722
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: with that. I mean, it's, if anything, they've not lived

723
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: up to their talent. They find a way to crumble

724
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 1: in January. I also think we've been talking about their

725
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: offense for the last few years and their defense is

726
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: probably better than their offense right now. Um here's one

727
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: from Justin Brill. He asks, if you could choose any

728
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 1: team from any year to be on Hard Knocks, which

729
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,800
Speaker 1: team would you choose? I'll tell you who. I went with,

730
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,879
Speaker 1: The eight five Bears, all time great team of course,

731
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,839
Speaker 1: eighteen and one arguably the best defense ever. He had

732
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 1: a ton of interesting personalities. McMahon, the fridge Singletary, Buddy Ryan,

733
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: Walter Payton, and then you have Peaked Ditka And I

734
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: think the cheat code for Hard Knocks is if you

735
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: can get any like an engaging, interesting, funny um personality

736
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 1: a head coach, the series is gonna fly. And Ditta

737
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,760
Speaker 1: in nine was one of the more famous sports figures

738
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: in the country. And UH with his mix of you know,

739
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 1: very confident man, a huge ego, a big star, I

740
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: feel like that would have been a great like centerpiece

741
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: of the show to have. I like that a lot.

742
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 1: I The one the name that came to me was

743
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 1: the Oilers, the ninety three Oilers, the team where Buddy

744
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: Ryan and Kelvin Gilbride had a punch out situation. The

745
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,720
Speaker 1: only reason though I'd go with maybe even an earlier

746
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: Oilers team is because you lose Jerry Glanville because the

747
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: head coach was Jack Party. I would love to see

748
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: Jerry Glanville as much as I despised him because as

749
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: a young Browns fan, the Oilers who were always an

750
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: annoying UH team to deal with, but I would love

751
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 1: to see them on Hard Knocks. They had a lot

752
00:41:57,960 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 1: of characters too. You would have warn Moo in the

753
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: whole crew, go love you blue oilers, get some bum

754
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: Phillips action in there. Um, I would. I would look

755
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: for the seventies as a sweet spot because the NFL

756
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: hasn't gone so overly corporate. The money is not as

757
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: much of a factor. It's more personalities involved, as more

758
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: people being themselves, less political correctness, and I think you'd

759
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 1: have a lot more interesting stories. I would choose, like

760
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 1: the John Madden era Raiders when they're just full of like, oh,

761
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: Al Davis would be all I want Al Davis coverage

762
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: that we do. I mean, we get Mark Davis this year?

763
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:37,800
Speaker 1: Is that an interest in his own right? Um? A

764
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: gentleman from Los Angeles named that's his name. Mark Sessler

765
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: asks Will Brown's Jets Week two national television and our

766
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: and during friendship you know, no, it won't end it,

767
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 1: but it will get dicey if they both become contenders legitimately.

768
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: I mean about I think the one time that we

769
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: really um hit on this topic in our studio it

770
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:09,360
Speaker 1: went very poorly explosive it is it is an explosive topic.

771
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: I mean, it would be a great problem market. I

772
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: think he'll be fine if Cleveland we're to win I'm

773
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:18,359
Speaker 1: much more concerned about um if it doesn't go well

774
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 1: what it was going to happen to Dan. I mean

775
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,240
Speaker 1: I I could throw it the other way. I believe

776
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: that you would potentially not do well. If I were

777
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:29,800
Speaker 1: crowing about the Jets beating the Browns in the f

778
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: C title game. I don't think I would do well

779
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: at all. I'd be probably steaming about it at I

780
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 1: know I want to do well with it. I mean,

781
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 1: I believe maybe you should admit to the same though.

782
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 1: I I think that at least half the problem is me,

783
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 1: So that's too much now, It's it's probably a sixty

784
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 1: five issue on my I mean, I think I can

785
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,360
Speaker 1: go back and forth. I can easily become the sixty.

786
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:55,879
Speaker 1: I just want one of those teams to be good

787
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,399
Speaker 1: for the first time in our podcast. The problem isn't

788
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: need never hand in hand situation. They almost need to

789
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,720
Speaker 1: be duplicates of each other in terms of their success.

790
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: If one of them were to totally take a dirt nap,

791
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: that then we're in, We're in. We're in bad territory.

792
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 1: But it wouldn't that at least keep them off each

793
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 1: other's radar. With steaks being high and no, because if

794
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 1: it's if Cleveland went three and thirteen and became one

795
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 1: of these like worst teams money can buy Bobby Manilla

796
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,719
Speaker 1: Mets type situation, it's gonna be awful. I would run.

797
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: I'd rather be on a deserted island and not to

798
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:28,879
Speaker 1: talk about it three times, four times, twenty five times

799
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:33,840
Speaker 1: a week. Negative. Uh, let's see, let's see a couple

800
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: more and then we'll get out of here. Uh. Area

801
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,879
Speaker 1: fifty one question. We hit area fifty one pretty hard today. UM.

802
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: I mean, this is what I'm talking about. This guy

803
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: in missour who of the four is most likely not

804
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:51,439
Speaker 1: to help someone in need? I believe we all help

805
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,720
Speaker 1: someone in need. I don't think there's a standout candidate

806
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: answer to that one. I think we're all unbalanced, decent people.

807
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: I don't know about Ricky. Ricky might run the other way. Well,

808
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,360
Speaker 1: she wasn't. I mean, if you want to expand it

809
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: to five, I think she's it's You've got a candidate

810
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 1: right there. Would you help somebody in need? Are you

811
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: kidding me? Of course not? Uh? Dumpster gets lit on fire. Uh.

812
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: This from Doc west is for you. Since Chris Westling

813
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:26,479
Speaker 1: is a recovering Bengals fan. What what miraculous event would

814
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:28,760
Speaker 1: have to occur to get him to join Bill's mafia.

815
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 1: I feel like that's a team that maybe you could

816
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,439
Speaker 1: fall in love with Wes. I like their fan base

817
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 1: quite a bit. Um, what about their quarterback? You like him?

818
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: I don't know yet. He I like watching him because

819
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's gonna do, and he's pretty

820
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: fun to see run around. He's a dynamic athlete. But no,

821
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: I I just don't see like I'm one of those

822
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: people if you're a fan, that has to happen organically

823
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 1: as you're growing up, as you're a child, And I

824
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 1: don't think anyone would ever replace like the late seventies

825
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:04,800
Speaker 1: and eighties Bengals for me Mark Um Benedict Morton asks

826
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: how does Mark's family cope with him being vegetarian? Are

827
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: they also off meat? If yes, have your kids ever

828
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: tried it and liked disliked it? Mark? They eat um anything.

829
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: I mean, they they have a very My kids are

830
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 1: not I don't restrict them in any way with what

831
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: they eat, and quite appalled by their diet on some levels.

832
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:27,320
Speaker 1: So it's like I'm not, you know, lording my waves

833
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: over anyone. Uh, Tyler asks, do you guys still talk

834
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: to k Rich? Also, when is spice Rack coming back? No?

835
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: And uh soon enough maybe draft time. I'll hear from

836
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: k Rich every once in a while. She sent me

837
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 1: some some very positive messages when I was going through cancer.

838
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: She's been she's been nice. Like a definitive no makes

839
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: it sound like we've decisively shut her out of that.

840
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 1: We're not interacting. We had a former producer, Erica. I

841
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: was gonna ask she's in Philadelphia now, Yes, very success,

842
00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: seems to be doing well. Um, all right, that's about it.

843
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 1: What were the question from that person? I don't know

844
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 1: the other question behind the k Rich question? There were

845
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: two questions. The meat thing. Have your kids ever tried

846
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: not eating meat? That wasn't the same tweet spice Rack.

847
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Speaker 1: Spice Rack, Oh, spice Rack, When is he gonna be

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Speaker 1: on the show again? Didn't we try to have him

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Speaker 1: on and just didn't work out? Time? He wise timing,

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Speaker 1: He got caught up with something with work and it

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Speaker 1: was around the draft. So yeah, he he kind of

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Speaker 1: missed his window as annual window. But it doesn't change

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Speaker 1: anything or feelings about spice Rack. We love spicy Yeah, exactly. Um,

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Speaker 1: all right, that's it. Summer breaks over back on Monday. Yes,

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Speaker 1: me and a Times of ESPN will join us on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: We also, it appears to be on track to happen

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Speaker 1: a visit to a NFL camp coming up that we'll

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Speaker 1: do a show from said headquarters. We look forward to

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Speaker 1: that and all the other stuff that you have come

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Speaker 1: to expect from the Around the NFL podcast. As we

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Speaker 1: head toward our seventh season together on the show, how

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Speaker 1: about that We started in the July of two thou

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Speaker 1: and here we are. I didn't think we'd get to

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Speaker 1: seven episodes and and Ricky, um, is that true? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I worried. I worried at the beginning that would be terrible.

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Speaker 1: I mean I thought my voice coming from Tybee was like,

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Speaker 1: nobody's gonna want to listen to this idiot? Um, Ricky Uh.

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Speaker 1: I've asked you also to track when or one thousandth

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Speaker 1: episode happens. That's coming up. It's coming up, So we

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Speaker 1: wanna celebrate that in some way, maybe with a live show.

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Speaker 1: Who knows. We're trying to do some different things this year,

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Speaker 1: maybe our Sunday night show. We might have some fun

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Speaker 1: A new wrinkle to that as well. So behind the scenes,

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Speaker 1: you know we're cranking Mark especial. Oh. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: have been about as lazy as can be the last

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. But back now. Flip the switch, baby,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's go do His dad had the signing

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Speaker 1: off for Quiet Storm. The mailman, Ricky Hollywood at the table.

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Speaker 1: We're back in the studio next week. Three times here

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Speaker 1: it comes until Monday,