Speaker 1: From the King of sports Books comes the key sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unleashed, presented by the MGM. Here's your host, Jerry
Speaker 1: Ferrara and Olivia Harlan Decker. Welcome back, Welcome back, Welcome back,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to a new season of Unleashed. I am
Speaker 1: so excited to be back, Olivia Harland Decker. I know
Speaker 1: it's been three months since I've been on the mic
Speaker 1: with you because I finally had my baby and he's
Speaker 1: three months old today, so maternity leave is over. But
Speaker 1: I'm so excited there's a new man in my life,
Speaker 1: not just my new little baby boy, because this man,
Speaker 1: I don't have to change his diapers, so he's already
Speaker 1: good in my book. It's my new co host. He's
Speaker 1: an actor, producer, and once at a three point shot
Speaker 1: in the NBA Celebrity All Star Games, so you know
Speaker 1: he's got range. Let's see how he does on our microphones.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Unleashed, Jerry Ferrara, Olivia, I'm so happy to
Speaker 1: be doing this with you. As you'll get to know
Speaker 1: me and my football fandom. You may have to change
Speaker 1: my diapers while watching Giant games because they drive me
Speaker 1: absolutely crazy and make me very very nervous, so I
Speaker 1: can't promise fully, but yeah, three months in, I'm glad
Speaker 1: that you're you're back now. But it's like back to
Speaker 1: school now, right, Like this season starting is a lot
Speaker 1: of good stuff going on. I love it. This time
Speaker 1: of year always feels like, you know, the weathery're starting
Speaker 1: to get a touch cooler, you know, leaves are changing,
Speaker 1: and like I grew up with my whole family working
Speaker 1: in football especially, so this time of year always felt
Speaker 1: like back to school. And even my husband who plays basketball,
Speaker 1: this is when he goes back to this season, so
Speaker 1: this whole like I have a teacher's schedule. Everyone in
Speaker 1: my family as a teacher's schedule, so this should be
Speaker 1: no different. What are you most excited for just to
Speaker 1: kind of like leave somewhere behind, move forward, get back
Speaker 1: into football. Yeah, it's uh, you know, football is the
Speaker 1: longest amount of time in between like Super Bowl ending
Speaker 1: to first season, and obviously I'm a big basketball freak too,
Speaker 1: so that gets to be going. But it's time now.
Speaker 1: Like I love all the sun. I have two kids,
Speaker 1: so I love all the Sunday fun days with the family.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. Wouldn't trade that for anything in the world.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm about to enter season two of football
Speaker 1: watching on Sunday with two kids, switching from the zone
Speaker 1: to a man defense. So figuring out how I'm gonna
Speaker 1: watch all these games, timing up the naps and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, It's could be really interesting. Are you guys
Speaker 1: like sticklers where you log like they nap at this time,
Speaker 1: they pooped at this time to eat it this time?
Speaker 1: Are you like that? We did that with the first
Speaker 1: for like the first first kids for the first six months.
Speaker 1: Let me say, the second one, you're kind of just like,
Speaker 1: he's probably good, it's probably it's fine, he's good. Let's go. Oh,
Speaker 1: I got an ages? What ages are your kids? So
Speaker 1: I got three and a half and one and a half.
Speaker 1: They're almost exactly two years apart. And yeah, like I said,
Speaker 1: with the one kid, it was kind of easy to
Speaker 1: watch football and do all my you know, my bets
Speaker 1: and fantasy stuff. And now with the second kid, that's
Speaker 1: definitely be a challenge. So things have to go in
Speaker 1: my life. Unfortunately, like you, as you're learning, your bandwidth
Speaker 1: is only so big. The kid takes most of it up,
Speaker 1: and I have to make some tough cuts. I don't
Speaker 1: get to watch baseball as much, which makes me sad.
Speaker 1: If things have to go, I would go ahead and
Speaker 1: nix the three and a half year old. It just
Speaker 1: seems like they've had a good run. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you said things have to go, I don't know, like
Speaker 1: you have to pick one. Yeah. The unfortunately thing, I
Speaker 1: think I'm making a really tough cut this year and
Speaker 1: some people. I know this might annoy some of you listening. Uh,
Speaker 1: I think I'm done with fantasy football. I know this
Speaker 1: is like sacrilogious to say, right, well, I mean now
Speaker 1: you're getting deeper into gambling, you're joining our show, You're
Speaker 1: more into sports gambling, and I bet you're going to
Speaker 1: watch sports a little bit differently now because every Tuesday
Speaker 1: you're gonna hop on the mic with me and we're
Speaker 1: gonna break it down. So, no, you don't have time
Speaker 1: for fantasy football. I will tell you that. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: look again, I love all fantasy sports. I go back
Speaker 1: to I did fantasy baseball and I drafted Moist Salu
Speaker 1: and we used to have to score it ourselves with
Speaker 1: a pencil and a paper. So like, I love fantasy
Speaker 1: the camaraderie of it to me, which is what I
Speaker 1: used to love to live drafts talking trash. Here it's gone.
Speaker 1: It's all gone, and I've just enjoyed more. And this
Speaker 1: is not even like a bet MGM homwer thing. I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I really just enjoy figuring out my own props for
Speaker 1: the weekend, make my own fantasy kind of element with
Speaker 1: some prop bets. So I'm sorry Fantasy Football. Although I'm
Speaker 1: getting a lot of heat from the commissioners about dropping
Speaker 1: out that people are pretty shocked by this. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if I if I'll hold strong, but I
Speaker 1: think I'm out. Well, yeah, and as I discovered, you
Speaker 1: have some pretty high profile commissioners, like how many leagues
Speaker 1: are you in? And who are some big names in
Speaker 1: these leagues? Because what I told you, I said, oh,
Speaker 1: just tell your commissioner you're out. And he said, well,
Speaker 1: one of my commissioners is c J McCollum, so you've
Speaker 1: got to explain more about that. Yeah, he did. He
Speaker 1: put something out on Twitter about doing like a fantasy league.
Speaker 1: I just responded, I don't really know CJ, like on
Speaker 1: a personal personal level, and I would like for replying
Speaker 1: on Twitter, It's all right, you're in. Someone's gonna text
Speaker 1: you and someone did, and I'm in this league and yeah,
Speaker 1: trying to like back out of this one, like not, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm out and getting pressure. Yeah, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: really hold the line here from from all but the
Speaker 1: other ones, Like there's a few of my friends. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm done, and I just put them all. I just
Speaker 1: basically ignore the text. Now I'm out. I got much
Speaker 1: more things to do with football season than fantasy. I
Speaker 1: love it, but yeah, not for me anymore. All the
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Speaker 1: or Pennsylvania. You know, we had c J McCollum on
Speaker 1: this show last year. He is fascinating. We had him
Speaker 1: around March Madness too, because he has such a good
Speaker 1: Cinderella story from his college basketball years. But something I
Speaker 1: didn't know about c J that was so cool is
Speaker 1: he has his own wine label. You know, he's when
Speaker 1: he was up with the Trailblazers, he really got into
Speaker 1: the wine game. And he has a rose and it's delicious.
Speaker 1: C J. I gotta tell my wife that, because she's
Speaker 1: all about the road. I didn't know he has. You know,
Speaker 1: all right, maybe I'll stick around in the league see
Speaker 1: if I can get a free case of rose. Is
Speaker 1: like a concert coming in ninth place, which I probably
Speaker 1: would while I'm focusing all my energy on if Travis
Speaker 1: Kelsey's gonna have nine and a half catches. Yeah. You
Speaker 1: know what's embarrassing though, is I reached out or I
Speaker 1: said on the podcast as we recorded, and I'm I
Speaker 1: don't shy away from asking for free things. You'll learn
Speaker 1: that about me. And I said, oh, c J, I
Speaker 1: would love if you could, you know, send some of
Speaker 1: that rose over. I never met a rose I didn't like.
Speaker 1: And he's like, okay, they sent me one bottle. I
Speaker 1: thought I was going to get a case at least
Speaker 1: one bottle. Come on, that's a that's a porch sipper.
Speaker 1: Well maybe they just were you know, if you like it,
Speaker 1: you know, hit me back. Maybe he's don't want to
Speaker 1: be presumptuous, like you're gonna love this so much. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna send you nineteen bottles of rose, which you've got
Speaker 1: to figure out how to store properly for the next year. Oh,
Speaker 1: I can store it, and I've got thirsty friends. How
Speaker 1: are your Sunday's gonna be now? You know you've got
Speaker 1: the three month old, It's gonna be great, lots of
Speaker 1: naps and all that, but you know you are you
Speaker 1: ready for this? Definitely gonna be different, It's gonna feel different. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we haven't talked about this yet as you and
Speaker 1: I are getting to know each other. But I have
Speaker 1: two NFL teams, which I know some people think is
Speaker 1: kind of sell out of me. But to be fair,
Speaker 1: I've grown up in two places in my life and
Speaker 1: still own property in two places now as an adult
Speaker 1: with my husband, And that's Kansas City and that's where
Speaker 1: I am right now. That's my home, ba Ace and
Speaker 1: grew up a Chiefs fan. My dad's career started with
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. I you know, grew up running
Speaker 1: around Arrowhead and and love the Chiefs, but also the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers are so my team. Spent part of
Speaker 1: the year every year of my life in Wisconsin. My
Speaker 1: husband's from Wisconsin. Kind of long story, but we're huge
Speaker 1: Packer fans. Our first date was watching a Packer game.
Speaker 1: First time we said I Love you was about a
Speaker 1: month later at a Packer game. Like, we are Packers
Speaker 1: through and through. My grandpa worked there for twenty years.
Speaker 1: I've worked there, like that's probably my bigger team. But
Speaker 1: to answer your question, my whole Sunday revolves around what
Speaker 1: time those two teams play, you know, so it's pretty
Speaker 1: easy and I like having an NFC team in an
Speaker 1: an FC team, you must have been a little nervous
Speaker 1: last year because the proposition of Chiefs Packers was definitely
Speaker 1: out there that that was a very that was very
Speaker 1: possible for the Super Bowl last year. So you you
Speaker 1: would just root for the Packers, but you wouldn't be
Speaker 1: sad if like the Chiefs won. Yes. So in my family,
Speaker 1: I'm one of four kids, so we're all kind of
Speaker 1: in the same position, but some of us, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: lean heavier one way, and a sister, one of my
Speaker 1: sisters and me die hard Packer fans, like go to
Speaker 1: most home games a year, I gotta say. And then
Speaker 1: my other two siblings are bigger Chiefs fans. But I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's like if our parents were to get
Speaker 1: divorced and we'd have to split down the middle. I
Speaker 1: think we know how we'd split it. Whoever has the
Speaker 1: Packer tickets? Yeah, that was like that Super Bowl isn't
Speaker 1: Niners Ravens with both Harbob brothers. I asked my mom, Mom,
Speaker 1: if that were me and my and my brother's name
Speaker 1: is and that like me and Anthony, what do you do?
Speaker 1: And I kind of called her out because he's the
Speaker 1: first born, and I just, I'm I just, I'm a
Speaker 1: big believer, Like, I don't think there's favoritism, but the
Speaker 1: first born, it's just different. Like I was talking about
Speaker 1: my second already, just like he'll figure it out, you
Speaker 1: know that first year you're logging in when they pee
Speaker 1: and poop into an app and do stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So I think my mom, if I was coaching against
Speaker 1: my brother in the super Bowl, deep down, would be like,
Speaker 1: come on, Anthony, you can win this one. She'll never
Speaker 1: admit that. Oh my god, oh that's horrible. I can admit.
Speaker 1: And I know my three siblings don't listen to my show.
Speaker 1: But my mom one time told me I was her favorite.
Speaker 1: She told me, and it was recent too, it's like
Speaker 1: last year. Oh gosh, well yeah, my grandmother did tell
Speaker 1: me one time. She said, you know, Jerry, you're like,
Speaker 1: you're cute. Your brother is handsome, Like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's grandma. We're airing out all the family laundry early
Speaker 1: on this shot. Yeah, And to make it worse, I'm
Speaker 1: the third kid, like I met such a random mortar
Speaker 1: of the four, and I'm still the favorite. So that's
Speaker 1: probably like my favorite thing. About myself. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite things about you, Jerry, is a lot of people
Speaker 1: when I told him you're the new co host, like friends, family, strangers,
Speaker 1: on the street, they all say, oh my gosh, Turtle.
Speaker 1: It's Turtle from Entourage. How often do people just yell
Speaker 1: out to you on the street or in an airport
Speaker 1: or something, Turtle, I love you, man. So look like
Speaker 1: if you, if you kind of turned the clock back to,
Speaker 1: say two thousand six, when the show was really kind
Speaker 1: of red in its height. We were in like the
Speaker 1: third or fourth season, it's like a twenty five year
Speaker 1: old meat head fresh out of Brooklyn. Yes it was.
Speaker 1: It was more often than not Turtle over Jerry. As
Speaker 1: the years wore on and kind of eleven itself out.
Speaker 1: Then I go and do power. I played a character
Speaker 1: and they're called Procter. So now it's kind of like
Speaker 1: split down the middle, Procter Turtle. I want you know what, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a perfect time for the story. So obviously
Speaker 1: you and I are just getting to know each other.
Speaker 1: But I have met your husband before, very very long
Speaker 1: time ago, and I hope he remembers this because I
Speaker 1: remember in this Okay, So all during that magical run
Speaker 1: Wisconsin had when Sam was playing and Frank Kaminski was there.
Speaker 1: Great run, great teams, super fun to watch, and I
Speaker 1: think it was Kaminsky. I think it was Frank who
Speaker 1: was very much on Twitter talking about how Entourage was
Speaker 1: his favorite show and was always quoting lines from the
Speaker 1: show that was quote Johnny Drama going like victory, all
Speaker 1: this stuff. So we would lean into that and we
Speaker 1: we became fans of theirs, pulling for them. So when
Speaker 1: they were out in l A, I think it was
Speaker 1: l A. Yeah, well they was somewhere in cal Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was l A. I don't know what point in
Speaker 1: the tournament they were at. It's like the Elite eight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Elite eight. This was right before Entreas movie is
Speaker 1: getting ready to come out. And again they you know,
Speaker 1: they were the toast of the tournament, that Wisconsin team.
Speaker 1: They really were. So I don't know who reached out
Speaker 1: to who. It might have been some agents who went
Speaker 1: to Wisconsin, but somehow we set up a screening for
Speaker 1: the Wisconsin basketball team and then like a little meeting
Speaker 1: of sorts. I went to a practice with our writer
Speaker 1: producer creative enter. I was Doug Allen. I think someone
Speaker 1: else was there. We drove out to wherever they were practicing,
Speaker 1: and I literally catch them coming off the bus and
Speaker 1: I have these pictures. I'll send them over to you,
Speaker 1: just like Frank literally saw me and Doug and like
Speaker 1: jaw dropped, dropped his bags on the floor, was like
Speaker 1: frozen and gave him a full hug. And I met Sam,
Speaker 1: talked to Sam, full of it. You go inside the
Speaker 1: practice and you know the shooting around. I'm standing in
Speaker 1: the corner with Doug and I don't remember who. I
Speaker 1: want to say it was, Sam, might not have been.
Speaker 1: I think it was someone as I'm like talking to dog.
Speaker 1: Just fires passed to me in the corner and instantially,
Speaker 1: and I played basketball in my whole life, obviously not
Speaker 1: nearly on a realistic level, but my instincts just kicked in.
Speaker 1: Caught the ball and then I looked in the entire
Speaker 1: team and coaches now looking at me at college three
Speaker 1: point corner and I just launched it and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie. I leave my hand and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's a little short ship. It's a little short went
Speaker 1: right in the whole place, exploded. That was my intro
Speaker 1: to the Wisconsin basketball team and your husband and my
Speaker 1: guy Frank and um, yeah, and I think they watched
Speaker 1: the movie that night. I'm pretty sure they got an
Speaker 1: early screening of I believe. So, yeah, we have a past. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's get of Sam the dime on that one. I
Speaker 1: think it was. If I had to bet, and this
Speaker 1: is a yeah, if I had, I would say he's
Speaker 1: easily like minus one fifty to be the guy who
Speaker 1: threw the past. Okay, Okay, then, so that's a pretty
Speaker 1: cool three pointer made like perfect time pressures on. Everyone's
Speaker 1: watching the other one NBA All Star Game? What year
Speaker 1: was that and who else was playing? Like set that
Speaker 1: one up for me? That was I think it was.
Speaker 1: It was when it was in l A. So I
Speaker 1: think it was, like I really have to look. I
Speaker 1: think it was or nineteen. It was at Staples Center.
Speaker 1: I got real shook up on that one though. There
Speaker 1: I got stories Olivia, and there's a story with this one.
Speaker 1: Problem with all these celebrity games, whether it's basketball, golf,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of proms all this stuff. I take
Speaker 1: it serious, like I want to win, I want to
Speaker 1: play well. I want to win, and no one's really
Speaker 1: like there's a few people taking it seriously, but no
Speaker 1: one's really playing. So I'm at the arena early. I
Speaker 1: got on my Kobe threes, I got from the Kobe pack,
Speaker 1: my Jeorge, my Kobe three's. I'm like, matched up in
Speaker 1: all purple, ready to go, and I hear a rum.
Speaker 1: I'm in the locker room, feel like t Max in
Speaker 1: the locker room with me, and I hear like fans
Speaker 1: like screaming and mainly women, but lots of screams. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is that? And someone comes in and
Speaker 1: it's like, do we have an extra blank jersey? I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. And I hear not scheduled to be
Speaker 1: there or play in the game, justin Bieber was now
Speaker 1: going to come play. Never told anyone I was in
Speaker 1: the starting line of our coach Rachel. Yeah, I was,
Speaker 1: but I was slated to start. I wasn't have the
Speaker 1: ball in my hand. This was gonna be my shot.
Speaker 1: And Bieber comes in, super cool, says what's up to everybody?
Speaker 1: Like very you know, taking pictures with everyone, and like
Speaker 1: cool guy. But of course I get it, Like who
Speaker 1: are you gonna start? Ferrara or Bieber? I understand the
Speaker 1: mechanics of it. So I got bitched. I got straight
Speaker 1: up benched for Biber shot one for you, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And then the one guy in my mind Jason Williams.
Speaker 1: Jason Williams is on the other team, and I'm like, god,
Speaker 1: I really hope I don't have to ever guard Jason
Speaker 1: Williams because I just don't want to look foolish, you know.
Speaker 1: That's you know, he made a lot of people look
Speaker 1: foolish in the NBA. So the one time Rachel looks
Speaker 1: like calls through me off the bench like go in,
Speaker 1: like whom I got Jason Williams, I'm like, son of
Speaker 1: got really? And Jason Williams like dribbling the ball down
Speaker 1: the corner. Yeah, I'll guarding him. I'm like, Jason, don't
Speaker 1: do it, please, I'm all, please, don't embarrass me. My
Speaker 1: wife's here. And he took it real easy on me, thankfully. Okay,
Speaker 1: I just typed in justin Bieber All Star Game. Are
Speaker 1: you sure it wasn't that long ago? Again, he was
Speaker 1: not scheduled to be there. That's the thing in probably
Speaker 1: was this was a just a drop like I'm here, hey,
Speaker 1: Like that's like if you if I rolled up to
Speaker 1: the park and like you and your family are out
Speaker 1: there playing. I'm like, can I get in? You're like, yeah, sure, Jerry.
Speaker 1: He rolled up to the NBA Celebrity All Star Game
Speaker 1: and the announced. I was like, hey, can I get
Speaker 1: to run? And everyone's like, yeah, sure, come on in.
Speaker 1: Oh I found it. Yep. Oh God. Should I watch
Speaker 1: the whole highlights or just take your word for it?
Speaker 1: You could take my word for all I know is
Speaker 1: I'm pissed and every single every anytime they come to
Speaker 1: me a bad expression on my face. Okay, to make
Speaker 1: this all full circle, this, uh, my dad always does
Speaker 1: the celebrity game dunk contest all that for Turner, and
Speaker 1: he would have been there and Sam was playing for
Speaker 1: the Clippers and we were in l A. Now we
Speaker 1: didn't go this night. I forget why. I think we
Speaker 1: had friends in town. We were, you know, out doing
Speaker 1: the scene that young kids, young childless in love people.
Speaker 1: But yeah we were there. So look, full circle, full circle.
Speaker 1: I can't believe you met Sam back in the day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a long time ago. So I don't know how we
Speaker 1: got to where we are right now. With me. This
Speaker 1: is what happens. You start telling stories and you're like,
Speaker 1: how do we get back on the path here? No,
Speaker 1: that is why I'm glad you're here, because I think
Speaker 1: you have so many stories. And that's something about Entourage
Speaker 1: that I think it's so cool, is that sports are
Speaker 1: kind of woven throughout it. But Darry, I got I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you. I gotta admit something. I've never watched Entourage,
Speaker 1: so so don't say anything. I don't say anything. I
Speaker 1: I didn't watch the Office until I met my husband.
Speaker 1: I'm just now watching Seinfeld. I mean, some of the
Speaker 1: most classic shows of all time. I just didn't grow
Speaker 1: up watching. So I here's how I want to make
Speaker 1: this up to you, is I want to start Entourage
Speaker 1: from the very beginning now that we are co host,
Speaker 1: co workers, friends, and I wanna pick your brain as
Speaker 1: I watch. And I think that'd be really fun to
Speaker 1: do on air. So you can keep telling stories, you
Speaker 1: can keep filling me in and tell kind of the
Speaker 1: behind the scenes stuff. What do you think about that?
Speaker 1: First of all, Yeah, I'm glad that we actually met
Speaker 1: before you went and watched the show, because now you're
Speaker 1: gonna actually watch me age we're in reverse. You're meeting
Speaker 1: me now forty two years old, You're gonna start this show,
Speaker 1: and I'm twenty three years old, fresh out of Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: Some people don't even understand me when I spoke because
Speaker 1: my accent was so thick. Okay good. We definitely could
Speaker 1: do that. And I've always wanted to take a peek
Speaker 1: back at some of these episodes because there's so much
Speaker 1: great sports stuff, from the cameos that of athletes that
Speaker 1: we've had on the show to just the references. It's
Speaker 1: like a time capsule for that time period. You know.
Speaker 1: I do think I at some point in the first
Speaker 1: episode I were a very very vintage like Bernard King
Speaker 1: jersey that people still ask if I have, and I do.
Speaker 1: I wasn't able to bring it out this episode, but
Speaker 1: it will make an appearance on this show. I have
Speaker 1: that jersey from that pilot. So of all the athlete guests,
Speaker 1: who who do you think is the biggest name or
Speaker 1: who was the coolest? Like who did he really enjoy
Speaker 1: being such a sports guy. I mean, it's hard to
Speaker 1: really just choose one. But this is gonna pain me
Speaker 1: to say this. I don't take any joy in saying
Speaker 1: this at all. I don't want to say this, and
Speaker 1: you'll get there in the show. It's probably season five.
Speaker 1: I think Tom Brady was pretty awesome. Why does that
Speaker 1: kill you so much just because you're a Giants guy?
Speaker 1: He was Patriots, Well there's that and that that's in
Speaker 1: the episode. That's woven into the episode right in a
Speaker 1: really cool way. But he actually like bowed us out.
Speaker 1: It was initially written and you'll watch the episode. There's
Speaker 1: originally written for Peyton Manning and Eli Manning because they
Speaker 1: I think had requested and asked to be on the show.
Speaker 1: So our show runner wrote this whole episode based around
Speaker 1: Peyton and Eli and then like a month before we
Speaker 1: were about to shoot, they called and canceled, Oh, we
Speaker 1: can't do it. Whatever the reason was, who knows, which
Speaker 1: is easy for them to do. But now we have
Speaker 1: this episode and we're already shooting. So that's where having
Speaker 1: Mark Wahlberg as your executive producer kind of helps out,
Speaker 1: because he basically was like, well, you want me to
Speaker 1: call Tom, who were like Tom who was like Brady
Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, you wanna whip out your phone and
Speaker 1: called yeah, that'd be great, And in two weeks Tom
Speaker 1: Brady was there. This was the year he got hurt.
Speaker 1: I believe. The year prior was I think believe was
Speaker 1: against your Chiefs where he got rolled up on on
Speaker 1: his knee, So no one seen him play football in
Speaker 1: over a year, and no one's really seen much of
Speaker 1: him at this point. It was the only significant injury
Speaker 1: in his career. And then you know it was the
Speaker 1: off season from obviously he came in on short notice
Speaker 1: and crushed it. Crushed the episode. You'll get there, you'll
Speaker 1: get there. He crushes the episode. So I gotta make
Speaker 1: it to season five to see this. That is the
Speaker 1: way is away. I mean, you could jump forward. It's
Speaker 1: not really gonna make a lot of sense for you
Speaker 1: if you do jump forward. But that is the fleet
Speaker 1: one of the more memorable episodes. That one's always popping
Speaker 1: up on my Twitter feed clips from that from that show.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm looking forward to that. Will there ever be
Speaker 1: an Entourage reboot? Oh, coy smile. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I really don't, because anything could happen. They reboot everything
Speaker 1: now every they're they're rebooting reboots like insane. Obviously there's
Speaker 1: you know, a premium on original content. Yeah, we did
Speaker 1: almost a hundred episodes. We did a movie. I'm forty
Speaker 1: two going on forty three. Like in the show, as
Speaker 1: you'll see, we used to all like live together. We
Speaker 1: are we still living together. Now it's just gonna be creepy.
Speaker 1: At this point we're like old men. Maybe if you've
Speaker 1: got a time machine, we could reboot the show. I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of potential. They're even like bring
Speaker 1: in former guests who have now completely gone into new
Speaker 1: chapters of their career. Like Tom Brady is gonna retire soon,
Speaker 1: so perfect, and he's you know, going to be working
Speaker 1: for five Sports, so he'll be in l A a
Speaker 1: bit more if he's doing games and some studio. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I see a lot of potential here. Well,
Speaker 1: if whoever were to happen, my plan my suggestion was
Speaker 1: always you do it, kind of like how Karate Kid
Speaker 1: did their show Cobra Kai, where all the original members
Speaker 1: were still in it, but there's like an all new
Speaker 1: cast and now we're just like, oh, it's like old
Speaker 1: uncle Turtle, let's go talk to my owld. It's like
Speaker 1: my nephews now, like the guy or something, and then
Speaker 1: we just are the old heads who provide wisdom. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I like that. Alright, So you did mention Giants are
Speaker 1: your team. You're born and raised New York. I still
Speaker 1: here a little New York accent, although you claim that
Speaker 1: it used to be much stronger. How do you say water?
Speaker 1: By the way, now I say water, but that you'll
Speaker 1: hear in in the early entourage. Everyday I got a
Speaker 1: glass of water, he will be like, excuse me, what
Speaker 1: did you what a glass of water? Oh? God, yeah, bad.
Speaker 1: So part of your accent metamorphos has to be because
Speaker 1: you live in the Midwest. Now why are you in Cleveland?
Speaker 1: If I could, I ask myself that quite often. So
Speaker 1: I love Cleveland. It's great. Uh, you know, New York
Speaker 1: for twenty years, l A for eighteen years. Cleveland. Now
Speaker 1: for two simple answer. My wife is from here. You
Speaker 1: know when we started having kids, she has a large family.
Speaker 1: You know the term it takes a village, that's the
Speaker 1: village takes many hands. So yeah, and you know we
Speaker 1: want a little more space and room New York. We
Speaker 1: were back in New York at this point and it
Speaker 1: was a little claustrophobic with the kids. So yeah, But
Speaker 1: I mean I have been around more Browns fans, and
Speaker 1: I call them my team in law. That's like my
Speaker 1: team in law. You know, I root for them because
Speaker 1: I like my in laws happy. But you know, push
Speaker 1: comes to shove. I would never say I'm a Browns fan.
Speaker 1: It's hard to like hate on the Browns now. I
Speaker 1: know it's maybe getting easier, but until this year, it's
Speaker 1: been hard. Up until this year, it's been hard to
Speaker 1: hate on the Browns. It used to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: the poor Browns. You know. Now obviously this year it's
Speaker 1: kind of going a lot of different directions. I don't know.
Speaker 1: And we lived in Cleveland for a year two and
Speaker 1: Sam played for the Calves. In fact, I pulled out
Speaker 1: his Calves picture just so you could see that, just
Speaker 1: for a little solidays be there. And I gotta say
Speaker 1: I love Cleveland. I loved living there. I'm just curious
Speaker 1: what massage parlors when you're going to I think everyone's
Speaker 1: kind of on high alert. Definitely not Yeah, I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to figure out where I'm going to travel this
Speaker 1: winter because the you know, New York winters are rough,
Speaker 1: and you know, when you know, Wisconsin, I'm sure is
Speaker 1: not much better. But this I'm learning what the lake
Speaker 1: effect is. Never heard of a lake effect before. I'm
Speaker 1: learning now what that is and went there and man,
Speaker 1: it's uh. Someone asked me a little Browns game last
Speaker 1: year in December, like you're out of your mind. Ye,
Speaker 1: I'm just not happening. I will say. The one fun
Speaker 1: place to be in let's say just the Midwest, like
Speaker 1: upper Midwest when it's that cold is at a football game,
Speaker 1: whether it's like an Ohio State football game, Wisconsin Badger
Speaker 1: football game, or NFL games, because you're like shoulder to
Speaker 1: shoulder with all of your people and you're wrapped head
Speaker 1: to toe and you're drunk, so you've got a lot
Speaker 1: going for you to keep you a little bit warmer.
Speaker 1: And it's about as good a place to be when
Speaker 1: it's zero degrees. I've been the one Browns game. It
Speaker 1: was November, it was cold. We were here visiting, we
Speaker 1: were at a wedding the night before. I remember asking
Speaker 1: some of her friends we were going to roll with them,
Speaker 1: and they're big tailgators and like, what time we're gonna
Speaker 1: leave for the game, Like, I'll probably leave it, you know,
Speaker 1: nine am. I'm like, gee, nine am for one o'clock
Speaker 1: starts kind of early, Like, oh no, it's a four o'clock.
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a minute, what it's a four o'clock game.
Speaker 1: We're leaving at nine, And we did and man the
Speaker 1: tail because Giants. You know, Giants Stadium is interesting. It's
Speaker 1: it's good tailgating, but not like anything in the Midwest.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's like different parking lots to get different.
Speaker 1: It was insane. My wife was doing keg stands. It
Speaker 1: was crazy. Oh yeah, I gotta meet the mrs. She
Speaker 1: has better half. I act like I do a hegstand
Speaker 1: all the time. I haven't done that. And she's a
Speaker 1: lot more fun. She might be if your wife, she
Speaker 1: might be co hosting with you. By the end, you
Speaker 1: might get rid of me and just start hanging aure.
Speaker 1: She's way more fun than I am. Oh my god. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know if your wife went through this, but
Speaker 1: after you know, you can't drink for nine months, or
Speaker 1: if you do, you're sneaking a glass of wine here there,
Speaker 1: but you're you have this like moment where you're so
Speaker 1: excited just to go to a restaurant and order what
Speaker 1: you've really been wanting to order for a long time,
Speaker 1: instead of like of one glass of like savignon blanc ice,
Speaker 1: you know, and for me, it was that like spicy
Speaker 1: skinny mes cal margharita. Did your wife go on a
Speaker 1: bit of a tear after she had her babies? Uh?
Speaker 1: Still on that tear. The tear is not over. Still
Speaker 1: on a tear. I don't care if you're listening, Brie.
Speaker 1: I don't care if you hear me right now. I
Speaker 1: don't care. You're still on the tear. It's still going,
Speaker 1: and God bless good for you. We went to a
Speaker 1: wedding pretty soon after my baby was born, and my
Speaker 1: parents were going to watch, and it was actually a J.
Speaker 1: Dillon's wedding. He's a packer running back and it was
Speaker 1: up in Wisconsin. You know, it's everyone in Wisconsin somehow
Speaker 1: knows each other. And I'm pretty sure everyone in Wisconsin
Speaker 1: was at this wedding. I want to get a J
Speaker 1: on the show. By the way, we got to get him,
Speaker 1: but they had a three hour cocktail hour. I guess
Speaker 1: that's just very Wisconsin e too. But my god, my
Speaker 1: husband had to like carry me out of there and
Speaker 1: my dad picked us up because it was right down
Speaker 1: the road from their house, and he's like, I'll drive
Speaker 1: you to this wedding. Oh my god. So that that
Speaker 1: post baby low tolerance is no joke, but a three
Speaker 1: hour cocktail hour and postpartum woman not a good combination. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't do anything for three hour. I can make
Speaker 1: like I can watch sports for three hours. It's like
Speaker 1: the only thing I could do without falling asleep. So
Speaker 1: three hour, Yeah, you must have been having fun. Good job, Age.
Speaker 1: I hope he's on the show because I want to
Speaker 1: ask about the three hour cocktail party. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: He's a great dude, especially looking forward this season, you know,
Speaker 1: and we can get into the NFC next week. We're
Speaker 1: going to break down the a f C today. But
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a big year. He's gonna have a
Speaker 1: really big year. And he was the only player to
Speaker 1: score in the forty Niners score a touchdown in the
Speaker 1: forty Niners Packers game to end the season, and then
Speaker 1: he got hurt, so that was I mean, there's so
Speaker 1: much to talk about with A. J. Dillon, with the Packers,
Speaker 1: with the NFC. I cannot wait to get to it.
Speaker 1: But what do you say we break down the a
Speaker 1: f C. Now? Yeah, let's let's do it, because I
Speaker 1: already feel myself wanting to talk NFC and I'll cap
Speaker 1: that with a j deal. I'm heavily looking at all
Speaker 1: his I'm gonna be looking at his props weekly. That's
Speaker 1: someone I'm definitely targeting prop wise and okay, over guy.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's a it's a f C S turn,
Speaker 1: and it should be because there's a lot to talk about,
Speaker 1: both exits and those wise and also just storyline wise.
Speaker 1: It kind of feels almost like the w W E
Speaker 1: with these storylines, like you couldn't have scripted him any better.
Speaker 1: You really couldn't have. I don't know where you want
Speaker 1: to begin. We could just throw a dart at a division. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's see that you do it. Let' let's start a
Speaker 1: f C North. Let's start with Cleveland your team. And
Speaker 1: I was joke about the massage parlors, but I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: It's in Deshaun Watson's contract that the only treatment he
Speaker 1: can receive is with team personnel. And I mean, we
Speaker 1: we heard all this stuff with Kyler Murray and the
Speaker 1: Cardinals having to do four hours of homework on his own,
Speaker 1: like all that. It's all funny as layman as non athletes,
Speaker 1: non athletic regular people narps. But I do love that
Speaker 1: and Deshaun Watson's contract, he can't go get a massage,
Speaker 1: So I was having some fun with it. But is
Speaker 1: the vibe in Cleveland in tense? Are people mad? Are
Speaker 1: people excited about Deshan? I mean, just from some of
Speaker 1: my talks with some of the Browns fans here, it's
Speaker 1: to them it's just kind of like, we just really
Speaker 1: want to see him play and not. I think it
Speaker 1: was the not knowing that was driving everyone crazy. Is
Speaker 1: he gonna get a year? Is he gonna get like?
Speaker 1: I think it was more that I think now that
Speaker 1: or at least four just for now, is the suspension
Speaker 1: is what it is? I mean, I know there's appeals
Speaker 1: and stuff. I think now that they could just set
Speaker 1: there like the Jacoby Brissette era has begun, you know,
Speaker 1: so I think they're gonna probably also want to extend
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt. I mean, I know he wants a contract extension.
Speaker 1: Maybe they shout it up like they're just gonna have
Speaker 1: to heavily rely on those two running backs. And uh,
Speaker 1: I know they upgraded their receiving corps. They made a
Speaker 1: lot of moves. Defense has always been pretty stout in
Speaker 1: the last few years, but this to me, the North
Speaker 1: is the toughest division because it has the most questions.
Speaker 1: Like we could talk about the Steelers all we want
Speaker 1: and say it isn't to be like a new QB.
Speaker 1: I get all that, but they still got Mike Tomlin
Speaker 1: and now Brian Flores as a coach there, Like you
Speaker 1: could outcoach your way into a lot of winds in
Speaker 1: this division. That's a good point. That's a good point.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I think they're the toughest division.
Speaker 1: I think the a f C West because of the
Speaker 1: good quarterback play. I mean Raiders, Chiefs, Chargers, Denver, Let's ride.
Speaker 1: So I think a f C West maybe the better
Speaker 1: quarterback division, and at n mg M, a f C
Speaker 1: West has the best odds to win the a f C.
Speaker 1: But you bring up good points. I mean Steelers, what
Speaker 1: do you see there with their quarterback shuffle? It's kind
Speaker 1: of like pick your best of these three. Mitch Robinsky
Speaker 1: seems to be kind of the leading candidate right now,
Speaker 1: and then the draft pick. Can you pick it? And
Speaker 1: then Mason Rudolph who's been the old guy there and
Speaker 1: knows the playbook the best. But I don't know, Steelers
Speaker 1: don't really raise my pulse at all. No, and please
Speaker 1: let me I didn't mean the North is like the
Speaker 1: toughest in terms of skill. I mean it's the toughest
Speaker 1: of the side who's gonna win this division at least
Speaker 1: with the And I know the West is like that too,
Speaker 1: at least with the West. Like if if you said
Speaker 1: my Chiefs are gonna win the division, like I can
Speaker 1: make an argument, but no one's really going to be
Speaker 1: like that has no chance. Like in the North, I
Speaker 1: really maybe with the exception of the Steelers, I I
Speaker 1: have no idea who's really coming out of this division.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the Steelers I my opinion. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm not like XS and oh is hard. I just
Speaker 1: unleashed the rookie I know, least here. I know you
Speaker 1: like you want to bring rookie is along slowly, but
Speaker 1: rookies play a lot more than they ever have in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Quarterback Like, let's see what we got. Because
Speaker 1: unless it's really like you think you have to bring
Speaker 1: them along slowly, or unless Mr Rabinsky really can reclaim
Speaker 1: the hype he had around the draft, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's Mason Rudolph, Like, are you really
Speaker 1: gonna He's you know, we're really going to compete for
Speaker 1: the division. So I'm not really worried about that. I
Speaker 1: want to know, I'm most curious about the Ravens and
Speaker 1: and Lamar you know, loses Hollywood brown you know, the Drafters.
Speaker 1: I'm most curious what we and no one's really talking
Speaker 1: about the Ravens as much in that division. It's really
Speaker 1: Bengals and Browns getting all the chatter right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and when people do talk about the Ravens, it's about
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's contract. You know, he's wanting an extension. He's
Speaker 1: on the last year of his rookie contract and his
Speaker 1: mom is doing the negotiating. You know, he doesn't have
Speaker 1: an agent and his mom's his manager, and this is
Speaker 1: just I think more from a you know, personal worry.
Speaker 1: Everyone's curious how this one plays out. And Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: is one of those players who's easy to cheer for.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's because he's so funny on
Speaker 1: Twitter or there's something kind of like naive about him.
Speaker 1: And I mean that in the nicest way, like he
Speaker 1: seems kind of unassuming. I've interviewed him once his Heisman
Speaker 1: season at Louisville, And I mean, I just was like,
Speaker 1: he's a just a nice kid. And again he was
Speaker 1: in college then, but even now, Like there's something kind
Speaker 1: of sweet about not having an agent. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you're in show biz, what do you think? Well, I
Speaker 1: tell you, if my mom was negotiating my contract for Entourage, right,
Speaker 1: he would give it to Anthony. She probably would think.
Speaker 1: She would for sure think I should be the highest
Speaker 1: paid actor of all time. That's just how she views me.
Speaker 1: She thinks I'm the greatest actor to ever walk the
Speaker 1: face of the earth. And just like I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: Lamar's mom thinks he's the greatest quarterback to ever live
Speaker 1: and she should think that that's her son. And when
Speaker 1: push comes to shove, I'm always like, moms are the best.
Speaker 1: So I think that it's gonna work out. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be that big of a deal. I
Speaker 1: think he's going to get what he should get and
Speaker 1: what he deserves because he's a great quarterback. And I
Speaker 1: do feel like we're not we're not talking about him
Speaker 1: as like the player as much. And I can't forget
Speaker 1: he's not that far removed from an MVP season. They
Speaker 1: are well coached, they do have good backs, the defense
Speaker 1: is always good. They are the favorites in the division
Speaker 1: as of right now, even over the Bengals. Bet MGM
Speaker 1: has him at plus one sixties. So if I wore
Speaker 1: picking my division winner, I would lean Ravens at the
Speaker 1: plus one sixty, although I'm not buying any Bengals hangover right,
Speaker 1: I don't even know is that really a thing? Super
Speaker 1: Bowl loss? Hangover? How is that a thing? Is it
Speaker 1: a thing? I think because then they assume that everyone
Speaker 1: comes in like all bitter the training camp. I think
Speaker 1: quite the opposite. I think you had a long season,
Speaker 1: you restructure how you want, and everyone knows the storyline
Speaker 1: with the Bengals last year was bad. Old line. Well,
Speaker 1: they've greatly improved that week area. They've had three new
Speaker 1: starters now, and so I don't know, but we should
Speaker 1: do that. Let's really pick our team for each division.
Speaker 1: You're taking the Ravens. I think I'm gonna take the Bengals.
Speaker 1: And I'm marking this in our notes because we cannot
Speaker 1: forget this. You hear me, No, we can't, and and
Speaker 1: and look plus eight there. The Ravens aren't heavy favorites.
Speaker 1: The Bengals are right there. I don't buy Super Bowl hangover.
Speaker 1: I think the only thing with the Bengals that could
Speaker 1: happen is you're not catching anyone by surprise anymore. Everyone
Speaker 1: knows you have three amazing receivers. Everyone know Burrow is outstanding,
Speaker 1: and the defense, which got criticized all year last year,
Speaker 1: had one of the best playoff runs the defense has had.
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's hangover. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of teams now know you guys are great, so they
Speaker 1: will maybe prepare even harder than they would have potentially so,
Speaker 1: but I I respect your pick, But yeah, I think
Speaker 1: those are the two teams to beat over there. Okay,
Speaker 1: see it's fun to disagree a little bit. Okay, we
Speaker 1: mentioned the AFC West, thought to be the best quarterback
Speaker 1: division and all of football. Right now, I made a
Speaker 1: joke about this ride wrestle. Well, let me hear you
Speaker 1: say it. Let's hear let's right, let's ride that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I think Keen Alan says it better than everybody. I
Speaker 1: watched that clip a hundred times today. Let's play that
Speaker 1: in right here. That's pretty good. And I think Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson is just so easy to make fun of. I mean,
Speaker 1: would you be willing to say on camera that he's
Speaker 1: kind of a square? Um? No, because I don't know
Speaker 1: in person, maybe his public persona. I really don't. I've
Speaker 1: I've met him a couple of times, but I have
Speaker 1: no idea to say that like that's him as a person.
Speaker 1: I think maybe the image that he's presenting, whether he
Speaker 1: wants it to be or not, is that maybe that's
Speaker 1: what he wants. I don't know. I wouldn't say no,
Speaker 1: he's that guy's a square, but I'll take anyone's word
Speaker 1: for it. Who knows him better than I do. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna question. I do respect that that's where he
Speaker 1: ended up in that division. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: control he had over where he was going to go,
Speaker 1: but man, for any division that you I mean, think
Speaker 1: about him in the a f C South. If he
Speaker 1: ended up in on like the Cults instead of Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: a lot softer landing for him and the freaking a
Speaker 1: f C West. So I am excited. This is this
Speaker 1: is the heavyweight division everyone's lining up. These are gonna
Speaker 1: be you know, pay per view events, these games, Oh
Speaker 1: for sure, for sure. We know chiefs are cooking. Uh
Speaker 1: you know, I'm here in kans City, so I'm watching
Speaker 1: a lot of the local coverage of it. And actually,
Speaker 1: a cool thing with this whole division is the wide
Speaker 1: receiver market trickle effect. Because as the Raiders got Davante
Speaker 1: Adams and paid him, he got the bag, it sent
Speaker 1: this whole domino effect and that ended up affecting the
Speaker 1: Chiefs because then we saw Tyreek Kill go to Miami
Speaker 1: for like record money, they got Juju Smith Schuster from
Speaker 1: the Steelers. All these receivers started just getting paid like
Speaker 1: crazy and just moving like crazy. And a lot of
Speaker 1: this was pre NFL Draft. So that's definitely a storyline
Speaker 1: here as we look at the f C West, as
Speaker 1: we look at the NFL in general, is all these
Speaker 1: new homes for all these new receivers. And then, not
Speaker 1: to mention, the draft happens and it was so heavy
Speaker 1: for wide receivers and so heavy defense. So yeah, five
Speaker 1: wide receivers were taken in the first round of the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft and the first five draft picks or defense.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it was crazy. So it is fun
Speaker 1: when we talk about some of these quarterbacks that none
Speaker 1: of these I mean, can you pick it aside. But
Speaker 1: none of these are that rookie you know, Marvel that
Speaker 1: we're so excited to talk about. These are names that
Speaker 1: were used to spitting around. So with that, Derek Carr, Raiders,
Speaker 1: with the Vonte Adams, what do you expect in Vegas? Okay? Uh? Well,
Speaker 1: for you are not getting off the Chiefs conversation this
Speaker 1: easy at all. We're going to stick with them. We're
Speaker 1: gonna We'll come back to the Chiefs in the second
Speaker 1: because I have some but talking about the Raiders, and
Speaker 1: again I go off of gut and feel anytime I do.
Speaker 1: I do the massive amounts of research, and I listened
Speaker 1: to every sharp do their trends of why they should
Speaker 1: bet this team. I get all that, and I'm not
Speaker 1: smart enough to keep up with all of it. I've
Speaker 1: won a lot of bets in my life, and I've
Speaker 1: lost a lot of bets. But I when I get
Speaker 1: the feeling, I get the feeling for me. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna put money on anyone in this division, I'm just
Speaker 1: talking about value play money wise. Raiders plus six fifty
Speaker 1: coming inside and came in second in division last year.
Speaker 1: They lost twice to your Chiefs. I think they kind
Speaker 1: of split with everyone else, or they swept the Broncos.
Speaker 1: And I think they actually split with the Chargers. I
Speaker 1: think that's the best odds. I can't really you know,
Speaker 1: Chiefs or plus one fifty five Broncos not bad. Plus
Speaker 1: two sixties pretty good. Chiefs Raiders are plus six fifty Davante.
Speaker 1: Everyone's saying like, oh, what's Aaron Rodgers gonna be like
Speaker 1: without Davante Adams. What's Davante Adams gonna be without? I
Speaker 1: think both of them are gonna be fine. I think
Speaker 1: they're both amazing players. I think Aaron Rodgers are going
Speaker 1: to elevate all the receivers in Green Bay and I
Speaker 1: think Davante islands and they're gonna be unstoppable. I really do.
Speaker 1: And that's what I would put some money on the
Speaker 1: Raiders for sure to win that division. And it's the
Speaker 1: long shot, and I respect that and it should be,
Speaker 1: but I think there's a lot of value that the
Speaker 1: Raiders were tough last year without Davante Adams. And I
Speaker 1: know Russell Wilson's in the division, so you might not
Speaker 1: get to Broncos wins. But if I'm putting down any
Speaker 1: of my heart earned entourage cash down I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I would put a little bit on the
Speaker 1: Raiders to win that division, but it's a blood bath
Speaker 1: in that division. And think about everything the Raiders went
Speaker 1: through last year and they still were able to have
Speaker 1: piecemeal together a really great season with an exciting finish
Speaker 1: and in good run there. But did you see what
Speaker 1: Davante Adams said when they asked him what's it like
Speaker 1: going from Aaron Rodgers to Derek Carr And he said, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's going to be different going from
Speaker 1: one Hall of Famer to another Hall of Famer. And
Speaker 1: then they asked Aaron Rodgers what's it like going from
Speaker 1: Davante Adams to Alan Lazard and he said, well, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the flight going from one Hall of Famer to
Speaker 1: another Hall of Famer. I I live for some of
Speaker 1: these training camp press clips, like people, it's really happening.
Speaker 1: Like you could tell those guys had a lot of Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had a lot of respect for each other obviously,
Speaker 1: but I think it's great. But yeah, they have some
Speaker 1: weapons there and in Vegas, but obviously like way more fandom.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know there's a huge Raider fans, but
Speaker 1: in that building. You know, they turned out last season
Speaker 1: like they had they had a real home field too.
Speaker 1: So in Chandler Jones on defense, they're stacking up new coach,
Speaker 1: and you know they're gonna show up in those Charger games.
Speaker 1: You know the Raider fans are going to show up
Speaker 1: in those Charger games. So that road game is like
Speaker 1: another home game. So I'm looking at the Raiders hardcore. Okay,
Speaker 1: what do you want to say about the Chiefs that
Speaker 1: you haven't said? When's the last time you were this
Speaker 1: nervous about a Chief season? Oh? Home, like before you
Speaker 1: have to be a little bit nervous, not that like
Speaker 1: you aren't gonna be good, but your expectations are obviously
Speaker 1: super Bowl championship, those are your expectations because they're great,
Speaker 1: but you gotta be I really looked up and down
Speaker 1: that roster. It's a great roster, but you do see
Speaker 1: that one big missing Tyree Kill name there and kind
Speaker 1: of trying to look at I know they're trying to
Speaker 1: plug the hole with four guys and all that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not down on them, but a
Speaker 1: little nervous. What about McCole Hardman, He had such a
Speaker 1: good season he's in what like his third or fourth
Speaker 1: year or something. He went to Georgia with me. I
Speaker 1: know him. I love Nicole, but then also Jujus ms Schuster,
Speaker 1: he's got some wiggle in there. He's he's great, and
Speaker 1: then their run game is gonna be so much better
Speaker 1: with Clyde Edwards Hilaire. He's a great number two. And
Speaker 1: then they've invested so heavily in their old line. I'm
Speaker 1: not that worried about the chief, So I was surprised.
Speaker 1: Do you even ask me that. I'm just trying to spice.
Speaker 1: So I do think Edwards Hilary is going to be
Speaker 1: a big you know, I think they gotta really I know,
Speaker 1: keep saying unleash and might be trying to throw the
Speaker 1: pod cast name, and I do think they got to
Speaker 1: unleash him and like, let just let him cook a
Speaker 1: little bit, because uh, and I listened to all this
Speaker 1: stuff about mahomes how he was looking to downfield and
Speaker 1: holding onto the ball too long and there's fifteen yard
Speaker 1: routes that were open that he passed. And I love
Speaker 1: my Homes's he's I think he's my favorite quarterback to
Speaker 1: watch in the NFL. Yeah, I was just checking with you.
Speaker 1: I want to see if I can get a little
Speaker 1: poker face out of you, but if you have any nerves,
Speaker 1: but well, well played, well played, well a little fresh
Speaker 1: prince of bel air pun mahomes to hell Aire. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna be hearing that a lot. I can't you.
Speaker 1: I stole that from somewhere. I don't even remember I
Speaker 1: hear that. Okay, charges, let's finish up the West Chargers.
Speaker 1: They've been underachieving. They bring in Khalil Mack on defense,
Speaker 1: They've they've stacked up a little bit on defense with
Speaker 1: cornerback j C. Jackson too. That was a big signing.
Speaker 1: They sailed Joey Bosa and then Justin Herbert, who at
Speaker 1: any moment I think can be m v P. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I and I do think we joked about the Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen clip earlier. He's kind of like mocking Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: But I think that's exactly what that team needs. Not
Speaker 1: saying that it was like a like a swagger clip
Speaker 1: from him, but that like, and to me, that's kind
Speaker 1: of like, I don't know how serious, not that they're
Speaker 1: not taking the Broncos serious on the field, but like
Speaker 1: I think if you asked him, he thinks the Charges
Speaker 1: are way better than the Broncos, and the Broncos are
Speaker 1: going to be a problem for a lot of teams.
Speaker 1: I think that's exactly what the Chargers need. They need
Speaker 1: a little bit of that swag, a little bit of
Speaker 1: that confidence. Keenan Allen has earned every right to be
Speaker 1: confident going up against the Broncos or any team in
Speaker 1: the West. For the for the Charges, it's always like,
Speaker 1: can they stay healthy? Can they stay out of their
Speaker 1: own way? I think they can now. I think those
Speaker 1: kind of demons have been exercised, all the missed field
Speaker 1: goals and extra points and things, and and how just health.
Speaker 1: Health is going to be a big, big component. Can
Speaker 1: the run games stay healthy? Because you know what Herbert
Speaker 1: is gonna do. So but I do think they need
Speaker 1: that second level of offensive threat. And Cleo Mack if
Speaker 1: nothing else, And I was getting a little up there,
Speaker 1: but that guy is still scariest help on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. So that division is insane, It's beautiful,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be great. The games are going to be great.
Speaker 1: That is hands down the best division in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Just storylines alone, Like you mentioned, but in the a
Speaker 1: f C East, the favorite to win it all Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: They're the highest ticket and handle at bet MGM. And
Speaker 1: we're recording this on Tuesday. Unless by Thursday Josh Allen
Speaker 1: breaks his leg. I would say that's gonna be the
Speaker 1: way it is for the next couple of weeks until
Speaker 1: the season starts, and probably up until February. So Bills
Speaker 1: are you buying in um? The value is not great?
Speaker 1: But do you like the Bills? Yeah? Well, I mean
Speaker 1: what's not to like? Right, Really, what's not to like
Speaker 1: is the odds, Like, you know, it's really hard to
Speaker 1: lay to twenty minus two, Like that's a pretty that's
Speaker 1: a heavy favorite. It's hard to really But in the
Speaker 1: same breath, I can't really justify put money on I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe the Dolphins at plus four fifty to win that division.
Speaker 1: You kind of know what's not gonna happen. To me,
Speaker 1: that's sort of dead money. But if I had to
Speaker 1: choose another option, that Dolphins offense is ridiculous. Offensive line
Speaker 1: is really gonna have to to show it. And let's
Speaker 1: just say to us not getting sort of the same
Speaker 1: relief that like saying Daniel Jones is getting where Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones like, well, this has gotta be the year and
Speaker 1: it wasn't the year. Well, now this has got to
Speaker 1: be the year. And it's like with two of like,
Speaker 1: this is the year. You have weapons, you have quarterback
Speaker 1: coach that, you have gurus, like, this is the year.
Speaker 1: So if you believe in two uh, and I do,
Speaker 1: I think that plus four fifty with the Dolphins is
Speaker 1: That's the only other thing I can wrap my head around.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to relax Patriot fans. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to count you out. You never count out Belichick. But no,
Speaker 1: back to the Bills, No, there's not. They had Von Miller,
Speaker 1: who's just come off a Super Bowl. The only knock
Speaker 1: I could find on them is Josh Allen's golf game
Speaker 1: and that foursome that they played with Brady and Roger.
Speaker 1: That's the only knopf I could find on him is
Speaker 1: that like Brady kind of talk trash to him and
Speaker 1: he like laughed it off. That's the only negative I
Speaker 1: could find for the Buffalo Bills this year. Okay, you
Speaker 1: mentioned the Patriots year two under Mac Jones. I'm hearing
Speaker 1: rumbles that Belichick might retire after this season. Do you
Speaker 1: buy any of that. I don't like he's all sure
Speaker 1: because you just look at it on on the surface.
Speaker 1: But I mean, when have you When has there ever
Speaker 1: been a rumbling about the Patriots that's been proven to
Speaker 1: be true? Like everything is usually pretty air type, So
Speaker 1: you can never count out Belichick. And that is a
Speaker 1: playoff team. That's a wild card team barring any crazy
Speaker 1: stuff happening with the Bills. Matt Jones is really good.
Speaker 1: If he continue, if he evolves and has a even
Speaker 1: better year two, it's they're gonna be a tough out.
Speaker 1: They always are. But you know, you just look at
Speaker 1: those two rosters. It's really Bills pats. It's and even
Speaker 1: Dolphins pats. But you just can't count out that Patriot
Speaker 1: it way and the belt. You just can never count
Speaker 1: that out, as annoying as it could get for all
Speaker 1: of us non Patriot fans. Really the Giants because we
Speaker 1: sort of figured that out a long time ago. I
Speaker 1: can't count them out. But uh yeah, the only the
Speaker 1: only negative thing I can find about the Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen's golf matchup, that's it. That's some good scouting. Jerry,
Speaker 1: You really are you going to mention the Jets. You're
Speaker 1: just gonna go right over there brush Jets. No, let's
Speaker 1: let's do the Jets. Obviously, the big story of the
Speaker 1: Jets to top ten picks, one on each side of
Speaker 1: the ball ride receiver Garrett Wilson, cornerback Sauce Gardener, maybe
Speaker 1: the best name in the draft, Sauce Gardener. I love that.
Speaker 1: I don't know you got anything else. You like Zach Wilson.
Speaker 1: Don't forget the last year preseason, Aaron Rodgers was singing
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson's praises, So there's there's something with Zach Wilson.
Speaker 1: I think that's big. Yeah, he couldn't have been more
Speaker 1: excited about him. I know a lot of Jeff fans.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of Jeff fans in my life
Speaker 1: growing up in New York, and the trash talk has
Speaker 1: always been amazing amongst us. Both have really not had
Speaker 1: much the trash talk over the last I don't know
Speaker 1: how many years, but the Jets do. Like, even when
Speaker 1: the Jets have been bad in the last few years,
Speaker 1: they still compete, and you know, I like Robinson, I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna continue to compete. And they're just so
Speaker 1: young so it is. But they're I think they definitely
Speaker 1: have the most fun team they've had in a long while.
Speaker 1: They're super young. But Jeff fans, you know, if he
Speaker 1: asked Jeff Fans, they're still standing by when all of
Speaker 1: them told me Sam Donald was gonna be first battlet
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer and maybe he will be. Who knows.
Speaker 1: He still has he's still playing, he's still out there.
Speaker 1: But they'll still say but it still was the right
Speaker 1: pick and it doesn't matter. I'm like, well we could
Speaker 1: they just you know, they're they're super positive and maybe
Speaker 1: they should be. No. I just love that look, great helmets.
Speaker 1: You know they did the kind of new helmet thing,
Speaker 1: great helmets that could be a banner. You could hang
Speaker 1: that up, like really don't helmeto. You know, that could
Speaker 1: fly in the in MetLife stadium. That's that's No. They'll
Speaker 1: be really fun and they have a lot of lot
Speaker 1: of young talents. So who the heck knows? Yeah, who
Speaker 1: the heck knows. I like your optimism. What do you
Speaker 1: think about the Jets? I don't think about the Jets
Speaker 1: other than Aaron Rodgers saying that that that's really good
Speaker 1: that you have not yea you don't really have an opinion. No,
Speaker 1: I mean they're they're not even really on my radar
Speaker 1: in in just the a f C. East. I feel
Speaker 1: like in general, I'm I'm just focused on the Bills
Speaker 1: and I don't know. You you even, I think are
Speaker 1: giving the Dolphins a little too much credit. I think
Speaker 1: what's going on with their offseason events and tampering and
Speaker 1: whatnot and finds and whatnot. And now obviously a lot
Speaker 1: of their punishment is going to affect them moving forward,
Speaker 1: not this season. They lose a draft pick, first round
Speaker 1: draft pick this time in draft, in a third round
Speaker 1: pick the next year, and what a million and a
Speaker 1: half dollar fine. That's nothing to their owner, who's worth
Speaker 1: eight billion. I don't know. But is it just distraction
Speaker 1: and people getting sick of them? I don't know. Does
Speaker 1: that play out on the football field, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But other than that, I don't know. It's just it's
Speaker 1: the Bills and no one else in that division. I think.
Speaker 1: Do you think, though it's Fairest, Dolphin's offense is loaded, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I we've got to acknowledge that they are loaded. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: they're loaded. The Chiefs gave him the option to pick
Speaker 1: where he went and he I'm just I do want
Speaker 1: to see what it how it looks. I agree, I agree.
Speaker 1: Now Tyreek is a beast. We've had the pleasure of
Speaker 1: having him in Kanas City the last handful of years
Speaker 1: and it's fun to see cheetah. Okay, let's move on
Speaker 1: to a f C South, which again not so many
Speaker 1: sexy headliners. You mentioned earlier with Matt Ryan going to
Speaker 1: INDI what do you think that does to a team
Speaker 1: who lost the season so brutally with Carson Wentz but
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville in the final week of the regular season
Speaker 1: seen the playoffs, I mean that was that was horrible.
Speaker 1: What does Matt Ryan do to spark something I have
Speaker 1: always enjoyed? Matt Ryan. You know, we talked earlier about
Speaker 1: fantasy football. He's arguably one of the greatest fantasy football quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: especially in especially down to ten. You could count on
Speaker 1: him putting up two touchdowns that don't really do a
Speaker 1: whole lot, but we'll will help you win your fantasy matchup.
Speaker 1: But that being said that, the cults are so balanced
Speaker 1: and Matt Ryan we talked about him a lot, but
Speaker 1: you know, Jonathan Taylor's who we got to talk about
Speaker 1: on that offense, Like, I just hope that they really
Speaker 1: just let him do, like let him ball out. That
Speaker 1: dude is so talented and scary for a defense. And
Speaker 1: the Colts they like, they're just I mean, gosh, if
Speaker 1: they to lose this divisions. It almost feels like an
Speaker 1: impossibility for him to lose this division. I do think
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan gives them a enough experience and stability that
Speaker 1: maybe they just have not had at the court back
Speaker 1: positions since Andrew Andrew Luck. You know that Wentz game,
Speaker 1: and I know there was circumstances at the end of
Speaker 1: the year and how healthy was he who knows, But yeah,
Speaker 1: that loss was one of the biggest. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I don't remember. I remember the
Speaker 1: odds last year talking about that one of the most
Speaker 1: memorable games of the season. I thought last year in
Speaker 1: a game that no one, everyone already circled that game.
Speaker 1: They already penciled and where the Cults might end up
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. And that's what's really gonna make this
Speaker 1: division interesting to me. I mean, it's hard to find
Speaker 1: a lot of tons of things that are interesting this division.
Speaker 1: But and I know, like the Texans, right, like, wow,
Speaker 1: they might struggle this year, and we said the same
Speaker 1: thing last year, but they're plus to win their division plus. Yes,
Speaker 1: So you're stepping away from the division odds for a
Speaker 1: second though. But Houston was eight and nine versus the
Speaker 1: spread last year, eight and nine some of the but
Speaker 1: some of those were you know they you know it's
Speaker 1: not even research. I was on them last year. I
Speaker 1: love looking for those under I just love on the dogs.
Speaker 1: I always have always will you want to talk home
Speaker 1: dogs on grass? I go off on that. So they
Speaker 1: they paid out last year like they I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: watching the Houston Texans. They're gonna win two or three games,
Speaker 1: and you just want to really try to find one
Speaker 1: of them. Okay, then that all season just find me too,
Speaker 1: Texans wins. I don't know, it's gonna be really hard,
Speaker 1: but they're they're they're on the schedule somewhere, and I
Speaker 1: don't even know if they're all gonna be against the
Speaker 1: Jaguars this year, because I do think the Jaguars are
Speaker 1: improve and I think Trevor Lawrence could be a lot
Speaker 1: off that last game against the Colts. Would you have
Speaker 1: any Jaguar takes? How much. How much Jaguar research if
Speaker 1: you've done so far, well, we just got to see them,
Speaker 1: you know, in the Hall of Fame game. They have
Speaker 1: the number one pick, Traymon Walker. He was a beast.
Speaker 1: He proved he was worth a salt. And Doug Peterson,
Speaker 1: I Doug Peterson's hard to you know, overlook. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not down on the Jaguars at all. And
Speaker 1: that's the thing about a bad team like the Jets,
Speaker 1: like the Jaguars. Teams that have been bad recently is
Speaker 1: did they get better as the season went on? And
Speaker 1: the Jaguars did, I mean to finish how they did
Speaker 1: was exciting, So I think it gives you momentum going
Speaker 1: into your off season. So I like, look, their plus
Speaker 1: seven fifty to win the division. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I would put too much on that, but maybe i'd
Speaker 1: sprinkle a little bit of your entourage money on there.
Speaker 1: But the Colts at minus one twenty, I feel pretty
Speaker 1: good about that. And like you said to me, Jonathan
Speaker 1: Taylor's the bigger story than Matt Ryan. And that might
Speaker 1: sound like sacrilegious, but I just I'm more excited about
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor. You know what, I don't think even bet
Speaker 1: MGM could have made the odds for is that of
Speaker 1: this entire division, the last we haven't even brought up
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. Yeah, And is that a bad sign?
Speaker 1: Apherly vibes wise a bad sign that we haven't even
Speaker 1: brought up the Tennessee Titans. Well, and we've seen especially
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I'm a Chiefs fan and the Titans
Speaker 1: always are a pain in our side. So I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna undersell them. And how much load does Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: carry for them? And I mean I'm looking there their
Speaker 1: plus one sixty two to win the an FC South,
Speaker 1: So that's that's not terrible odds. I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe that's what you stick out your neck for a bit?
Speaker 1: What do you think? I just you know, I do
Speaker 1: think the A. J. Brown loss will hurt. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's sucked that dude like he's He definitely was a
Speaker 1: kind of a safety valve that is a luxury to
Speaker 1: have because he could, you know, turn a ten yard
Speaker 1: slant into a sixt r touchdown or so I'm curious
Speaker 1: to see how the offense looks without him. And but
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry can absolutely carry you to a victory over
Speaker 1: anyone if he if and and they just know exactly
Speaker 1: who they are and how to use them. And I
Speaker 1: just wonder, like do they have enough because they've been
Speaker 1: on a great run the last few years and we
Speaker 1: all keep sleeping on them, and they all keep going
Speaker 1: deeper in playoff runs and you know, knocking on the door.
Speaker 1: So it is one of the hardest teams for me
Speaker 1: to ever read because I don't feel like they should
Speaker 1: have been successful there, but they always they are always
Speaker 1: there in the end in that division. So I think
Speaker 1: I really haven't we haven't. We didn't talk about them
Speaker 1: at the top because it really is just hard for me.
Speaker 1: It's hard to get a read or a feel for
Speaker 1: how good they're good. They're going to be good. The
Speaker 1: question is how good are they going to be? And
Speaker 1: Tannehill's contract, I think a lot of people think is
Speaker 1: too long and too much and has kind of tied
Speaker 1: their hands a little bit. That people are hot and
Speaker 1: cold on tanne Hill. But boy are they're gonna by
Speaker 1: the way, Texans beat them. Texans beat the Titans. Texas
Speaker 1: the Titans last year. Let's offer you the Titans last year.
Speaker 1: My homework assignment for you for next week is going
Speaker 1: to be picked the two games on the schedule that
Speaker 1: the Texans win. I'm gonna hold you to that one. Alright, alright,
Speaker 1: it's early, but very early for I will do it
Speaker 1: because you know it's episode one. I gotta prove myself
Speaker 1: to you and to the listeners. I'm down. I just
Speaker 1: give me like subject to change. We'll I'll just put
Speaker 1: the little asterisk next to it. It is subject to
Speaker 1: change during the season based on information. But I'll give
Speaker 1: you some preseason Texans upset alerts. I'm not scared. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Hey. By the way,
Speaker 1: one thing that is kind of fun again not in
Speaker 1: the a f C, but this week the Detroit Lions
Speaker 1: are on Hard Knocks and that comes out this week.
Speaker 1: So my question you one, do you watch Hard Knocks?
Speaker 1: Do you like it? And to do you care about
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions or there another team you would have
Speaker 1: put in there. So I've always been a Hard Knocks fan, always,
Speaker 1: and from me that's kind of always where I start
Speaker 1: locking into football season. Right back in the day, used
Speaker 1: to be like get your fantasy football magazines. That's that
Speaker 1: was always at the time Okay, it's time to start
Speaker 1: hard knocks. Always for me, he's like, Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start really locking in and get back to consuming information.
Speaker 1: I've been in a little rough the last two years,
Speaker 1: won't I haven't really kept up with him as much
Speaker 1: as I as I kept as much as I used to.
Speaker 1: But and no disrespect to the lines, they gave us
Speaker 1: some amazing entertainment and wins. At the end of the year.
Speaker 1: They had a really great draft. I have one of
Speaker 1: my best friends as a Lions fan, and you know,
Speaker 1: he's a very realistic Lions fan, so lots of love
Speaker 1: for the lines. We went through too Bengals hard knocks
Speaker 1: seasons and you know, we had Ocho Sinko. It was
Speaker 1: a lot of entertainment, but like they weren't really a
Speaker 1: threat to do any damage. Wouldn't this have been an
Speaker 1: ideal time to get the Bengals And I'm sure they tried,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure or maybe like, no, we're locked in
Speaker 1: on winning a Super Bowl. We're not doing hard knocks.
Speaker 1: No cameras here, but man, we we watched the Bengals
Speaker 1: twice already on hard knocks and that team didn't really
Speaker 1: go so far. I would love to have seen the
Speaker 1: Bengals this year. Loved You know who I would want
Speaker 1: to see this year is the Panthers. And I don't
Speaker 1: know when they pick the team for Hard Knocks, but
Speaker 1: it was probably well before you know, Baker Mayfield was
Speaker 1: going to Carolina, but with Christian McCaffrey coming back healthy
Speaker 1: and he's dating Olivia Colpo, I would have loved to
Speaker 1: see like a cameo of Olivia Culpo. She's my girl crush.
Speaker 1: And then also just the Sam Donald Baker Mayfield competition,
Speaker 1: as well as getting Malik Willis as QB three from
Speaker 1: All Miss in the draft. And now what I'm hearing
Speaker 1: is that Sam Donald is being chopped around. They're not
Speaker 1: going to cut you know, at what five year old
Speaker 1: guy who was the number three pick a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, but I do think they would trade him
Speaker 1: for a couple of draft picks. Make Baker the starter,
Speaker 1: have Malik Willis the rookie b the number two, which
Speaker 1: I don't think he's necessarily ready for at but I
Speaker 1: mean the Panthers are a story like that. There's a
Speaker 1: lot going on there, so I would love to have
Speaker 1: that as the hard knocks. As a hard knocks, but
Speaker 1: that wouldn't be fair to do to Baker. He already
Speaker 1: had to do that with the Browns. Be on hard Nucks.
Speaker 1: Remember sitting in that little trailer and did you watch
Speaker 1: that season? That's right? Yeah, I do, right, that's where
Speaker 1: I get yes, And those are one of the last
Speaker 1: seasons for me and I didn't really keep up with
Speaker 1: that Chargers season. Those some of the lost seasons for
Speaker 1: me in there. But you know what, you you laid
Speaker 1: out a really good case. I think you just swung
Speaker 1: me Bengals. Sure, we get it. We saw a lot
Speaker 1: of Burrow being cool, all right, you swung Panthers would
Speaker 1: have been a better maybe soap opera play. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you just want the drama. I'm with you. You sold me.
Speaker 1: Oh that was really fun. What do you think, Jerry?
Speaker 1: Your first episode? I think I probably talked too much.
Speaker 1: So I gotta work on that. That's what my wife
Speaker 1: tells us. I'm going to work on for next week.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my homework on the Texans. I would
Speaker 1: love to do this in person one of these days.
Speaker 1: I hope we get the opportunity to do that, maybe
Speaker 1: a live show something like that. But this, this was great.
Speaker 1: I'm ready for the season to start, and I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I I'm ready to not talk to my friends on
Speaker 1: the phone about all this stuff over and all and
Speaker 1: just actually talk to you in a professional environment and
Speaker 1: interact with our fans and really like lock into this year.
Speaker 1: I'm ready for it. Oh yeah, no, there's there's so
Speaker 1: much fun. It's so fun, like you know, everyone else
Speaker 1: goes to work, right, and like this is our job
Speaker 1: and we are joking earlier as now parents of young
Speaker 1: ones especially, is we've got to start telling our spouses
Speaker 1: that this takes a lot longer than it does, just
Speaker 1: so we can kind of be left alone for a
Speaker 1: minute too, like look at sports memes online and to
Speaker 1: be like check in on degenerate gambling sites to for
Speaker 1: like I just want to scroll on my phone and
Speaker 1: disturb for a minute. So yeah, there's a lot more
Speaker 1: we can do. But I mean next week, Hey, we
Speaker 1: do this all again next week, Yes, and we will.
Speaker 1: We will navigate the the kids situation and how we
Speaker 1: have to do what we have to do to get yes, yes,
Speaker 1: because they're they're just still too young to watch this
Speaker 1: stuff just yet, but hopefully they'll be watching with us
Speaker 1: in a few years, and uh, we could have them
Speaker 1: on the podcast to talk about why the Texans are
Speaker 1: gonna upset a really good team at some point. And
Speaker 1: that's something to do when we get off this call
Speaker 1: right now is I'm gonna start researching now. Wow, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be like Texans beating the Jets. I got
Speaker 1: news for all of you. It's not gonna be. No,
Speaker 1: they're gonna upset a good team, a really good team
Speaker 1: this year. That's what we're looking for. You're gonna start
Speaker 1: looking at like linebacker depth or something to really see
Speaker 1: where we stay. You're not going to mess around. Also, Jerry.
Speaker 1: Next week we are joined by Levyan Bell. What are
Speaker 1: you excited to talk to him about? That's gonna be good.
Speaker 1: What am I not excited to talk to him about?
Speaker 1: I don't want to give away too too much, but
Speaker 1: a lot to ask Mr Bell. I mean, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be ringing the bell right, this is gonna be this
Speaker 1: is gonna be pretty insane when he's got coming up, yeah,
Speaker 1: up coming fight against a p Adrian Peterson and maybe
Speaker 1: he'll let us know to what he thinks of his
Speaker 1: former teammate Antonio Brown's rap career or just Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: in general. That's pretty good. But I'm excited for next week. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm very excited to talk to him. Yeah, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be watching a lot of Entourage, so get ready
Speaker 1: next week. I'll text you what episodes I've notched, and
Speaker 1: then I love to get some behind the scenes and
Speaker 1: you know, if anyone wants to tweet at me questions
Speaker 1: or some of their favorite episodes, let me know because
Speaker 1: then I can make sure to ask Jerry about that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get all the behind the scenes scoop. But
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun, my friend. I'm excited. Yes, good
Speaker 1: episode one. I'm ready for episode two right now. And yeah,
Speaker 1: let's just keep this going. I love it. See you
Speaker 1: next week.