WEBVTT - Deepest & Thinnest Position Groups 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:05.680 Be Around with the NFL podcast has a great swing 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:09.200 on the softball feel. Yes we do. Welcome to another 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.760 addition to the Around the NFL podcast. My name is 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:15.280 Dan Hanss and I am joined in a conference room 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:21.479 filled with some heroes, Mark Sesler, Chris Westling. What is up? Boys? 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:29.880 Heydn Can you turn me up in my headphones? Ricky? 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:33.680 Turn me up in my headphones? That's unnatural. When I 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:37.720 say that was extremely That's good. Now it sounds good. Thanks, Ricky, 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:41.240 you got it? Hi, Erica, is this our last show 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:43.839 in a conference room on the NFL media compound? It is? 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.839 It is? Yeah, wow, so make the most of it. 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.839 What an experience it's been. This would be where the 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.720 montage comes in and it's just us talking like shlubs 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.960 for like five different like camera shots and me lugging 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:01.720 equipment back and forth by myself, plugging in all this stuff. Yeah, 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:03.280 you got the worst of it. You don't have anybody? 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:05.960 What about it, Eddie Spaghetti? Yeah, not scrapping young man. 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.160 He can't be helping you. Yeah. I'm an independent woman 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:13.080 who don't need no man. I believe it, Ricky. Uh. 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:17.320 This is the Thursday edition of the Round the NFL podcast. Um, 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:21.880 this is the final week of the summer where we 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.679 just have two shows. That's it. Summer vacation is over 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:29.240 for the boys. Greg Rosenthal back Monday, uh and all 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:33.399 four of us heroes will be together three times a 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.480 week starting next week when all the training camps open. 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.479 In fact, we were talking about on Monday West. Some 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:44.800 camps have indeed opened this week, including the Denver Broncos, 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.040 your boys West, and don't think I'm not noticing West. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.680 I don't think I didn't notice this. They got to 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:55.240 camp early. Oh yeah, it all is checking out on 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.080 on your ledger in terms of you believe them to 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.680 be a powerhouse and he was already practicing there. Try 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.280 Hard has has gotten my attention because that's a try 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.920 hard move. Let's just get there before everyone else. Newer people, 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.120 newer listeners of the show might not be aware that 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.399 our podcast have been way ahead of the curve, tracking 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:15.080 teams that report to whether it's organized team activities in 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.720 the spring or training cape in August, the teams are 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.440 report earlier, or almost always the true powerhouses of football 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:25.359 the teams are report later. Cough cough two thousand seventeen 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.960 Lions cough cough usually fall by the wayside, I think, 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:33.200 and in Detroit's work speaks for itself up late and you, 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:37.239 you know, you spit out another hideously dull season. Speaking 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:41.960 of which, the Seattle Seahawks saw this report. They've decided 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.720 to come to camp a week earlier this year. But 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:49.239 it's just the rookies right still. It's it's never done 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:50.760 that under a pet Carell before. And this is a 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.040 playoff team last year. I don't have to ask you 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:58.880 to connect the dots. You're on the case. Uh, coming 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:04.040 up on today's the mail bag is back. I forget 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:07.760 have j Glazer or whatever competition is out there. I 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:09.720 don't even track the competition. It's one of those things. 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.680 There's no side view mirror, there's no rear view mirror. 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:18.560 Glazer feels the same way. Um My mail bag is 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.800 going up on NFL dot com on Friday, and we 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.040 will discuss some of the questions that we're in said 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.600 mail bag and perhaps a couple that were not a 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:32.079 little later in the show, also wes he's back to 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:36.320 grinding summer breaks over that that is using the word 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:40.800 grinding liberally. All I see is two pieces on his 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:45.880 um archive have been added in the last several days. 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.400 Uh so West, as you know a man that knows 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.960 the rosters of the NFL. He shared his thinnest and 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.760 deepest position groups as we enter twenty and nineteen. So 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.720 we'll take a look at that and talk about some 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.280 of the teams and units that jump out to us. 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.920 But before that, let us do some news. But all 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.600 of them were sharp and right where he wanted to 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:12.240 draw you do you know that? And warm ups if 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.320 you're gonna have it. They like that, like a starting 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:19.200 pitching or something. Uh warm ups, not really, But then 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.279 when I woke up this morning, I was feeling pretty dangerous. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.480 Listen to that kid, Mark Settler, That's what I call him. 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.560 The kid. Well, I don't think it's an act with him. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.160 I mean he is just he is who he is. 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:36.919 So I'm on board. Great piece on ESPN this week, 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:41.360 um a long form or feature on Baker Mayfield by 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.920 the great Mina Kimes And guess what Mark little early 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.840 birthday present for me to you or late depending how 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.680 you look at it. On our show next Wednesday, Mina 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.080 Kimes to talk about her up close and personal look 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.000 at your hero. I love it, she wrote, I would 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.520 just say, go read this thing, because I learned a 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.359 lot about Baker Mayfield, and I think that has a 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.640 lot to do with the way that she gets to 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.799 know her subjects, frames her questions. So and all Star guests, No, 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.159 that Mina did fine, But what about me? Oh you? 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.919 I mean I was saving that part for now. What 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.640 you've done is the Lord's work, Dan, And again it's 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.920 just for you, buddy. I appreciate it to no end. 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:25.679 Let's get going with the news. The Falcons doing business again, 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:30.040 but not with Julio Jones. Dion Jones, the playmaking linebacker, 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:32.839 had been set to enter the final season of his 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.839 rookie deal for Atlanta. Well, they like him. They're keeping 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:37.799 him around. The inc Jones to a four year, fifty 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.640 seven million dollar extension thirty four million guaranteed that is 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.880 confirmed by the team turning twenty November. This is one 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.680 of the top linebackers in the game when it comes 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.719 to past garbage. And I don't need to tell you 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:54.600 modern football fan that you need your coverage linebackers to 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:59.919 succeed on defense in the modern NFL West. The foul 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.680 Cans we know they can score, maybe not as pro 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.240 pro prolifically as they had a couple of years ago, 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.480 but they can always put up points. It's the defense 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:09.880 that you want, So you want to keep a guy 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.359 like this in the building, and they do well. You 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:14.839 mentioned it's he's sort of the new breed of linebacker. 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:18.000 This is what defensive coordinators want. It's what a lot 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.360 of people are calling a money backer, where you are 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:25.680 a linebacker with safety level speed, uh probably closer to 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.320 safety level level size, and you can cover tight ends 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.599 out of the backfield. They don't have to hide you 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.479 too much in the run game. And I think that 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.480 this is where linebackers are going in the NFL. Dion Jones, 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.520 it's and we saw the difference on that defense when 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:40.839 they lost him for a big portion of last year 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.680 along with their other entries. This is the Falcons to me, 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.919 is this is the team that is set up for 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.360 a major bounce back. I mean they I just I try. 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.560 I picked him for the Super Bowl last year and 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.880 that obviously went completely south. I wouldn't hesitate to think 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:57.760 about doing that again. It feels like it's one of 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.400 those teams that everybody is sleeping on just because of 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.960 the injuries last year. And then I guess the everybody's 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.960 got questions, and they're One question to me is can 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.920 those rookie offensive linemen step in and not be liabilities 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:11.760 right off the bat? And I think if that's the case, 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.040 there's no reason this cannot be a playoff. If that 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.640 works out. They have a deep line if that works out. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:21.000 And yes, Grady Jarrett, that deal got done on Monday. 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.960 As we said, Julio Jones, they're looking to get a 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.680 long term deal done there with the greatest wide receiver 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:31.160 in their franchise history. So this team remains um kind 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.480 of a model of stability in the NFC, and let's 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.080 see if they can get back to the playoffs. Uh 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.280 this season. In other news, West, you and I we 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.800 got a sandwich proposition locked in. And you know Nick Fortier, 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.680 he does the damn thing. I'd go get my lunch 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:49.920 dot org tracking every wager that we make on this show. Uh, 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:51.880 and I already have as they look at it. First 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:53.720 of all, of course, Nick has it updated, because that's 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.640 what Nick does. I'm already locked into two bets. Excuse me, 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.080 sandwich props already. I got one mark when you and 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.080 I were going at it a few weeks ago. Apparently 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.800 Jets will beat Browns in Week two. That's out there 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.880 as a sandwich prop. I don't remember that. Which which 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:10.800 side did I come down on that one? I mean, 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.560 you have you took me on it, so I guess 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.360 we we have a sandwich on that. I don't remember 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:16.760 that at all. I don't either, but that was a 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.200 heated um back and forth. It was a blur at 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.600 that point. Also, Rob Gronkowski, I have a wager with 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.800 West is is playing for the Patriots by December. Mike 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.720 Florio Pro Football Talk reported this week that a source 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.800 close to Gronk pegs his potential for a first annual 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:38.960 unretirement at forty percent. Oh s, you are so banged. 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.880 It's July six, and there's already sources putting it at 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.080 and you could point to, oh, he's down fifteen pounds. 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.120 All he has to do is gain like seven to 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.400 ten pounds and he's fine. You banged and you know it. West, 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.200 I'll let you get out of the prop right now. 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:54.920 Here's why I'm not worried. You want to get out 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.280 of the prop right now. Here's what I'm not worried. 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:00.360 If I'm Rob Ronkowski, I'm not dialing up my good 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.840 buddy Mike Florio to tell him how what percentage chance 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.880 I might play in December? How does Mike Florio I 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.560 know this? Gronk has an entourage. It's a leaky enterage. 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.280 Ron doesn't even know what percentage chance he's playing. A 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.680 weird thing to put a number to gros Yeah, that's unpleasant. 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.760 Why did you look at me? You have a leaky 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.360 entourage and when that becomes grosser when you put it 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.920 and that and that's you. Guys are my entourage and 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:30.240 we are leaky. Absolutely so. West I I'm giving you 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.079 the chance to get out now, put your tail between 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:37.839 your legs and just acknowledge that you were wrong. Who 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.880 am I talking to you? First of all, I can't 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.679 be wrong before it happens. I mean, we don't even 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.439 know what's going to happen here. That's what we do. 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.880 We look into the future as analysts and we predict things. Right, 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.800 I'm sticking. I have it just as much confidence now 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.240 as I did before. Rob Gronkowski told Mike Florio that 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.079 he might play. I mean, at the core of this, 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.480 are you concerned about your side of the bet and 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.720 you're try and to you know, put this on West 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:02.920 to get him to get out of a bet that 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.000 you don't want to be a part of. I'm I'm 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:08.400 resigned to it because as a Jets fan who perhaps 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.559 delusionally is harboring thoughts of competing in the division this year, 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.520 I don't want this guy coming back. Even if he's 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.240 not the same guy who once was. You know he 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.160 would he would provide a spark to the team if 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.840 they if they had him. I just I just acknowledge 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.079 it will happen. The first thing that concerns me, though, 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.920 is player X retires then immediately lose his I know 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.000 it's not he could gain some of it back, but 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.880 the mentality behind that tells me you're not thinking about 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.120 coming back a month from now just to skip training camp. 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:36.320 I mean, he's gronk. You know, he's in the gym 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.200 seven hours a day and then partying the next nine 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.679 hours after that, then sleeping and then repeating, I mean what, 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.800 he's not reading books. You know, that's a wine country, 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.400 you know, just smelling it and doing the thing where 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.040 you sip the wine and then spit it into the 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.520 metal thing. None of that's happening. He's not enjoying retirement. 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:58.520 He's not traveling. You know, well he's Gronk. Anybody else 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.800 want to take me up on it. I'll take you 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.520 up on it. He'll be back. You believe it will be. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:11.520 And wait, what is the parimeters? By December? December one, December, 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.080 by December, by the first minute of December. It needs 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.280 to happen. Get I'm signed by December seven. That doesn't 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.040 mean it happened. It happens in December. It could happen 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.160 in November twelve, just as long as it happens before 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.839 the calendar flips to December. I'll take you up on that. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:32.280 He'll be back, Okay, and I don't mean back on 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.760 the field, signed with the team practicing. Don't try to 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.240 catch me in any type of loophole there. I know 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.360 how you people operate on the other side of the table. 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:44.240 Why how we operate. Why would be he's either playing 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.400 for the Patriots or no. It can't be like, well, 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.959 he didn't play though until just you know, signed, signed, signed. No, 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:55.760 that's fine, all right, moving on. Yes, the Broncos began 0:11:56.280 --> 0:12:01.200 training camp and already there was an injury gere. Multiple 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.160 reporters at the practice reported that linebacker Todd Davis had 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:08.360 to be carted off with lower body injury. James Palmer 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.679 of NFL Media reports that Davis injured his calf. He'll 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.439 have an MRI I, but the initial feeling is that 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:18.040 he avoided a serious injury. UM. With that in mind, 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.960 I'd like to perform right here in the beast Quake 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.920 conference room. I wish we could lower the lights, but 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:37.839 join join me in a seance. Deer football gods, great, 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:45.000 mighty and powerful football gods, please bestow your mercy on 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:50.920 the players of the National Football League this summer, these 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:56.679 young men who represent the apex the human body is 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:02.920 capable of how cruel it is for us mortals to 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:15.480 see these fine specimens struck down. They're prime. If you 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:28.280 must injure, please focus on petty thieves, Bagel Bosco, certain 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:36.120 political leaders, the devisive ones for homes. Show your greatest mercy. 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:42.719 Two men in green and play in New Jersey and 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:54.679 say it's New York the Browns team. Thank you all, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:14:01.679 great and merciful football gods. We put our faith and 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:14.520 trust in ye. We're about specs of matter. Don't contendue 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.000 to notice that I would get a mad if he 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:22.560 said something. I think a football out masts we are 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:38.400 pawns in your one dress game show Mercy Show Mercy, Yes, 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.360 West your on. What are the odds would have a 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.200 seance on this podcast and it's not led by Mark Sessler. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.920 I think Marks rubbed off that was powerful. I mean, 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.160 I you know, I'm sure that will go according to plan, 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:55.400 no injuries all season long. Just it doesn't have to 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.400 be on these men, these these young men, these specimens 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.640 I'm gonna vote for. Also save that for the religious podcast, 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:08.280 the theology pod Theology coming up later this summer, perhaps 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.040 finally in the news, Mark, I wanted to get your 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:14.040 thoughts on this. Have you heard about this Area fifty 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:18.680 one thing? I have the Internet going nuts. Uh, they're 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:23.000 talking about a mass invasion of Area fifty one. More 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.680 than one million people have signed up on Facebook um 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.360 with the plan to breach the gates of the famous 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:32.640 and some people a lot of people that listen to 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.640 this podcasts are not from this country. Maybe they don't 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.360 know what Area fifty one is. A famous, top secret 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:42.680 government facility perhaps in the world, and there's you know, 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:47.120 for decades and decades, there is the general belief that, 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:51.320 in addition to military testing of various warcraft etcetera, etcetera. 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:56.160 If you believe on I believe in life beyond this planet, 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.680 that there might be spacecraft, alien space craft that is 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.560 being housed and studied at Area Roswell, New Mexico. Of 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:10.800 course back in yes, correct. Anyway, the event called storm 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:15.480 Area fifty one, they can't stop us. All is set 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:21.880 to go down on September mark and I ask you specifically, 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.960 are you in. I don't know if I'd be allowed 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:27.640 time off from work to go to I think it's 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.080 gonna lead to it is a little bit of a 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.120 rough time schedule wise. I think it would lead to 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:37.480 um many deaths if they attempt this. The military is 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.440 not going to fold the tent and just allow people 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.960 to roll in off a Facebook campaign. I think it 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:46.440 would um being an ultra tragedy if they if they 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.600 attempt this, This is just a joke, right, I don't. 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.600 I think it started that way and then it stocked 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:53.120 up a lot of kind of as a joke, and 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.960 now it's got some heat to it. A million people. No, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:58.720 this is this is totally a joke and this isn't 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:02.040 like that's never gonna happen. I predict that not one 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.920 person will march on Area fifty one on that day. No, 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.879 but take them crazy. I bet there will will be 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:12.520 some idiots that do it. But the government has contracted 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:17.640 out um defense forces that roam the grounds in big 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:23.399 like white like Dodge trucks and um like submachine guns 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.200 and things of that kind of hell escape is that, 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.600 and they're allowed to shoot on site because you're not 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:30.720 just a rolling up federal to the front door of 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.000 this place and catching them by surprise. It's it's viewed 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:39.440 as it is viewed as essentially a fortified military complex 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.359 of the US government. So you kind of forfeit, forfeit 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.399 your right to live if you choose to quote unquote 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.240 invade it. Yeah, I would. Here's what I would do 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.960 as a side mission to this is get a large 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.680 group of people to storm Antarctic up because I believe 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:58.320 that the the number one hot spot for alien technology 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:02.840 is underneath the ground in Antarctica, in the Arctic territory. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.320 Forget this, this is a diversion. Forget Area fifty one. 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.360 We all know that there's probably something going on there, 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:10.720 but this is what This is the part of the 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:15.480 Earth that no one's investigating. Global warming could affect whatever 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:21.840 is going on, not by sept That's what's happening in 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.760 the news. Remember, go ahead, now you go no, I'm 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:27.080 just gonna say, you seem to know a lot of 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.800 people that are a little bit out there. What do 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:33.920 you have anybody that signed up? But remember those kids 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.399 and like middle school that they'd be like at you know, 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:38.760 eleven fifty five when the clock strikes, we're going to 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.960 start a food fight. And then rolls around and then 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.159 like everyone's sort of like tense and like look and 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.000 the teachers like heard about it, so they're kind of 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.159 on watch. And then like one like jackass stands up 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.040 and throws like a bag of chips and then he 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:57.359 just gets in trouble. That's what's gonna happen one dumb person. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:00.399 You're not But instead of getting sent to the principal office, 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.000 that person will be shot seventeen times. They will be 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:06.880 scattered by multiple gunfire. Face. I can't put them back 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.840 together again. All right, that's what's happening in the news. 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:13.479 Let's get to Yes West Road. A double banger. I mean, 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:14.960 you want to talk about a guy putting in the work. 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:20.800 Let's let's calm down on that. This dude gets it, Uh, 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:25.439 West Road two pieces thinnest position groups and deepest position groups. 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.440 I read it. Of course, it's it's the stuff that 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:32.000 makes West one of the top NFL writers. Trademark to 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:35.760 West content exactly. Um, I'm gonna start with you, Mark, 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:37.800 Why didn't get us going? Why don't we pick out 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.399 some things? Uh? Some teams, some units that kind of 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.560 jumped out to you? And of course West pipe in wherever. 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.639 I like the the deep thin um aspect of this. 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.200 I like to call it thicker thin like th h 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.800 I c C. Some of these teams have a lot 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.119 of a lot of juice here, I come away with further, 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:58.640 I know everyone thinks that the Denver Broncos are your 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:04.119 ride or die. It's just West. Oh you're saying. I 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:08.600 think the West has been been pushing hard for the Broncos. 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:10.959 It's been a themed But I don't think nearly as 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.959 much as your belief in the Dallas Cowboys, because they 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:19.440 show up twice on the thick list. I think a 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:22.760 part of that is I can't believe that somebody as 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.919 smart as Greg or anyone else following the NFL does 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:28.480 not see that the Cowboys are an absolutely loaded team 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:30.920 and they're a playoff team, Like, I just don't see 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:34.080 why people expect them to come back to the pack. Well, 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:36.840 so you have their linebacker crew, which we are not 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:39.600 surprised at either because this should be evident, but also 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.879 their offensive line. Yeah, like the linebackers. To me, just 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:46.800 think of how much more successful Jason Garrett would have 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:51.560 been if he had depth at linebacker behind Sean Lee. 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:53.880 For the decade he's been in charge. Every time Sean 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:56.960 Lee went down during the prime of Sean Lee's career, 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:00.800 the defense fell apart. And now he's a luxury, not 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:03.359 a necessity. In fact, they're better off when he doesn't 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:05.920 play because then you've got Layton Vanderess and Jalen Smith 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:08.600 out there, so you have if one of those guys 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:10.520 go down, you've got Sean Lee you plug in there. 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.879 I think that's a great insurance policy offensive line. I 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:17.120 like this one because if you remember back to Zeke 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.960 Elliott's rookie year, a big part of um the discussion 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:24.080 there was not only did they do the move which 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:25.719 a lot of teams are afraid of, which is take 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:28.520 a running back early in the draft, uh, they then 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:31.560 put that player with an a lead offensive line We 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:33.440 didn't hear that as much last year, and I think 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:35.480 a part of that was what was going on with 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:40.879 ballpro center Travis Frederick. That is, I think people are 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:42.760 sleeping on that a little bit west, which you're not 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:46.359 obviously that if Frederick comes back and he's strong, uh, 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:50.800 and these other pieces, Tyrann Smith, if he's healthy and 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:53.639 is who Tyron Smith is, and these other strong players. 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:57.040 Of course, Zack Martin that the idea that this offensive 0:21:57.040 --> 0:22:00.200 line can be dominant in addition to having of a 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:03.359 dominant running back, and that's scary stuff, especially when the 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:05.719 factor in that they went and they got a premier 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:09.639 wide receiver on the outside. Now and Dak Prescott is fine, good, two, 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:13.080 very good. Perhaps that's a great offense, and I don't 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:16.320 think also it helps that the emergence of Kellen Moore 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:19.840 as their offensive coordinator. They talked about this team um 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:22.920 entering modern football after not really having one of the 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:26.080 more imaginative attacks in recent years. The prediction from our 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:28.280 last show, the one that I was wavering on doing 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:30.439 instead of the last one I did when I went 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:34.640 super negative, was that the Eagles and the Cowboys at 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:38.400 that date, what was it October or so will both 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:42.560 be six and oh and prepare for a Sunday night 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:45.760 football showdown in week seven. And I think that you 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:48.120 cannot sleep on the Cowboys with all the changes they've 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:51.199 had and and and the better drafting this team has 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:53.320 put forward in the last couple of years. What I 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:56.000 like about their line is even when two years ago 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:59.120 they were celebrated as one of the greatest offensive lines 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:01.600 of all time, the best position group in the NFL, 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:04.040 and they didn't rest on their laurels. They went out 0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:06.520 and drafted Connor Williams in the second round. Then they 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:09.640 went out and drafted Connor McGovern in the third round. Um, 0:23:10.040 --> 0:23:12.240 and they've got Joe Luney, a guy who played sixteen 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:15.960 games at center last year. Now he's just valuable insurance. UM. 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:19.200