Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast, are taking for dam posey,
Speaker 1: We'll upcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Fan Kansas, and I'm coming to you
Speaker 1: from a country filled with heroes again historically perhaps, And
Speaker 1: three different time zones. Mark Sessler California, Greg Rosial California
Speaker 1: Pacific handled the old Zeuser here in Central Texas Central Time,
Speaker 1: held down and over in New Hampshire, Eastern Time at
Speaker 1: the Don Corleone State, Ricky, Hollywood, What is up, boys
Speaker 1: and girls? Hey, damn holding it down here in l A.
Speaker 1: Holding it down that we are. I also, I don't
Speaker 1: know why we need to tank for Tamposey we have
Speaker 1: on the payroll already at a very affordable rate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: accomplished this range. That was our that was our two
Speaker 1: thousand seventeen season. I think we tanked for tam Posse
Speaker 1: and then ended up getting the number one up your
Speaker 1: draft pick after that disaster. Um no comment. John Ward
Speaker 1: is the top insurance guy here in Gatesville, Texas, my
Speaker 1: wife's hometown, and he's been so nice to let me
Speaker 1: use his offices here in the downtown Gatesville sector for
Speaker 1: today's show. And um so shout out to John, and
Speaker 1: I have to say, I'm really enjoying the small town
Speaker 1: Texas life. It's very hot here. I mean it's absurdly hot.
Speaker 1: The people know it. They might not talk about it
Speaker 1: all the time, but I know that they can tell that, like,
Speaker 1: it's hotter than it needs to be here, it's not
Speaker 1: gonna be They're aware, they live they lived there, right,
Speaker 1: But at a certain point that this is there was
Speaker 1: just a understanding that it's never gonna change. So we're
Speaker 1: just gonna live with it. But you know, when somebody
Speaker 1: like me comes in, maybe I'm putting the conversation back
Speaker 1: out there again that it's too hot in Texas and
Speaker 1: start that conversation. I do find and each of your
Speaker 1: comments about um, your experience there seems to paint you
Speaker 1: as someone coming in from out of town and operating
Speaker 1: as like a societal rainmaker. It just it's sort of like,
Speaker 1: I wonder if they'll do a story about me in
Speaker 1: the local newspaper with a comment from last week. I
Speaker 1: just yeah, I have an update on that. I've been
Speaker 1: talking to some of the town's people here. It's a
Speaker 1: very nice, close knit community. UM My wife Emily, who
Speaker 1: went to school here. I hung out with some of
Speaker 1: our high school friends yesterday and I did again broached
Speaker 1: the idea of Okay, so the old zeusers in town.
Speaker 1: He came in on a steed. Is cowboy? Is steel cowboy?
Speaker 1: Steel cowboy? Bon Jovi? Was that what it was? Greg?
Speaker 1: You were a Jovi guy? Your brother was? I was, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was not even he was, Um it was a
Speaker 1: steel horse. He rode steel horse. I'm a cowboy and
Speaker 1: a steel horse. Right. Anyway, I came into town, and
Speaker 1: I'm doing the podcast here, of course, and we have
Speaker 1: a very successful pro football podcast and we're all very proud.
Speaker 1: Bit on top of that, we're gonna be um doing
Speaker 1: the our NFL network show, um, and I'll be doing
Speaker 1: it from here in Texas when it returns next week.
Speaker 1: That feels in a small town in Texas. And I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to be the meaning I'm I'm being serious
Speaker 1: like a pretty big deal. So I talked to some
Speaker 1: of the town's people. I said, can I get in
Speaker 1: the Gatesville Messenger, which is the paper of record, uh here?
Speaker 1: And I did, But I did also throw out there,
Speaker 1: um important caveats. One. I need the cover. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna put me in the inside of the paper. I
Speaker 1: want to be on the cover. It's weekly like a
Speaker 1: weekly thing, or it's a weekly. It's a weekly periodical.
Speaker 1: Very very nice job they do covering the region. And
Speaker 1: I want a photos. I want a photo and I
Speaker 1: want the cover. And if I do that, I'll agree
Speaker 1: to an interview. What is the headline, Raging egotist arrives
Speaker 1: from California. But I don't you've announced yourself. By the way, Also,
Speaker 1: you opened that comment by suggesting that you're the cowboy
Speaker 1: and the horse rider and you'll have a Texas town.
Speaker 1: I don't think you've ever ridden a horse area area.
Speaker 1: Man using third person flies down demands article. All right,
Speaker 1: you want the headline? I mean I said, you guys
Speaker 1: are stuck in your homes in l A. And I
Speaker 1: understand there's a bitterness involved there. I'm telling you, I've
Speaker 1: been at the speech three out of the last five days.
Speaker 1: Give me a break with a hundred degrees. I've never
Speaker 1: had a better time than these last three months. We
Speaker 1: all know that, correct. But this headline NFL Networks star
Speaker 1: lands in small town, Texas. I don't. I don't understand
Speaker 1: the concert. This is what's filling most of your mind
Speaker 1: during your trip to Texas. How are you happening? How
Speaker 1: are you pitching this to to the paper? Uh? Like
Speaker 1: I said, this is a great fine close in the community.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows everybody, and one of Emily's friends is connected
Speaker 1: to the higher ups at the Messenger. So who is
Speaker 1: She's going to put in a word? She's going to
Speaker 1: do the pitching? She here, she easier pr flack again.
Speaker 1: I need front page, I need a photo and if
Speaker 1: I get that, they get the interview right. Well, God
Speaker 1: speed to you. This is a noble mission. If nothing else.
Speaker 1: All right, today's show, it's gonna be a good one.
Speaker 1: We spun the wheel and it landed on the Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 1: the defending a f C North champion. So we are
Speaker 1: going to have a conversation with Greg, someone that you
Speaker 1: have a good relationship with and who was very knowledgable
Speaker 1: of the team. Want to tell the audience Glenn and Clark. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been covering at the Ravens as long as I
Speaker 1: can remember. I would guess over a decade. But does
Speaker 1: does radio out of Baltimore? Yes? What do I say? Yeah? Good?
Speaker 1: I thinek I feel like we've done a really good
Speaker 1: job procuring talent to discuss these teams for the deep dives.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure Glenn is gonna be another hit. So
Speaker 1: we got Glenn coming up. Uh but before that, let
Speaker 1: us hit the news. This is Mob Baates d s
Speaker 1: a t N correspondent for all matters Dan Jail ma'am
Speaker 1: both the universities and back toward Lady Chicken Bears. See,
Speaker 1: I'm bringing that Texas flair here. I mean, Bob Bates
Speaker 1: is on the show today. Get Bob's voice on there.
Speaker 1: You know you're doing something right. Yeah, we have a
Speaker 1: varied list of stringers, that's for sure on this Imagine
Speaker 1: if there is no Baylor Bears this year, he who knows,
Speaker 1: he might have to be full time Denzel Men's correspondent.
Speaker 1: I might have to be a daily, daily feature on
Speaker 1: the podcast. You're also assuming there's gonna be Denzel mill
Speaker 1: Men's playing football, which maybe it's tremendous leap to make
Speaker 1: at this point. All right, let's let's get to the news.
Speaker 1: Will start with some very bad news for the Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 1: who lose one of the best guards in the league.
Speaker 1: Brandon Brooks suffered a torn left achilles tendon while working
Speaker 1: out at the Eagles complex on Monday. And this is
Speaker 1: a guy when you you know, some people put more
Speaker 1: into pro football focused than others. I understand that. But
Speaker 1: he was ranked as the number one overall guard in
Speaker 1: football last season. Uh, he is thirty years old, he's
Speaker 1: entering his age thirty one season. He hadn't missed the
Speaker 1: game since. But he also tore the right achilles during
Speaker 1: the playoffs a year ago, a year and a half ago.
Speaker 1: So terrible blow for the Eagles. Greg, You you like
Speaker 1: their roster, you loved it last year, you still like it,
Speaker 1: and you take Brooks out of the mix. How much
Speaker 1: does this hurt them? It's a killer. I mean not
Speaker 1: just PFF, but that you know, the real tape jockeys
Speaker 1: who are into it, like Brandon Thorne or Brian Bollinger,
Speaker 1: they think books Brooks the best guy in the league.
Speaker 1: I think right now he had the title. And you
Speaker 1: and you feel for him first. I mean, he's a
Speaker 1: guy who's spoken about, uh, you know, very publicly about
Speaker 1: his mental health issues and how you know anxiety had
Speaker 1: had prevented him, if you remember, um from playing at
Speaker 1: one point and to go through two major injuries like
Speaker 1: this in such a short amount of time for what
Speaker 1: you know, who knows it could have been maybe a
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame type of career. He certainly you know,
Speaker 1: was having as great a career as you could. Is
Speaker 1: a killer. And then it's it's a killer for the
Speaker 1: Eagles to who have to have the worst injury luck
Speaker 1: of any team in the league. I mean, they're always
Speaker 1: right near the bottom of that football outsiders you know,
Speaker 1: missed games from starters list, and they've been like that
Speaker 1: really since they won their Super Bowl. Even that year
Speaker 1: they were pretty banged that. But those last two years,
Speaker 1: I don't think we really saw who the Eagles were
Speaker 1: because they were so hurt. And now they're they're stuck
Speaker 1: with it again one of their key pieces. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, in a league where we might not get
Speaker 1: a full helping of training camp um preseason games. Suddenly
Speaker 1: it sounds like Matt Prior, who is he's six ft seven,
Speaker 1: by the way, he is like bigger than most human beings,
Speaker 1: like front doors. But but but you you're talking about
Speaker 1: a line that won't have a chance to gel even
Speaker 1: with Brooks, and now you've got got his back up
Speaker 1: in and I can. You can think of teams every
Speaker 1: season where they look good and then the offensive line
Speaker 1: suffers injuries, especially along the interior. Sometimes the whole offense
Speaker 1: is affected and it crumbles. And uh, you know that's
Speaker 1: not the only issue injury issue right now in the offseason.
Speaker 1: So problems for for for the Eagles right away. Well,
Speaker 1: and you think about their offensive line. I think that's
Speaker 1: what they're known for, that and their defensive line. So
Speaker 1: now you're replacing Jason Peters at left tackle and Brandon
Speaker 1: Books at right guard. And you, yeah, you have a
Speaker 1: first round pick I left tackle, but you haven't really
Speaker 1: seen him play at a high level. And so now
Speaker 1: now suddenly you're kind of like the Cowboys where you're
Speaker 1: known for your line, but your two best players at
Speaker 1: least from two three years ago in terms of Peters,
Speaker 1: are are gone. So it's not the same line anymore.
Speaker 1: I've seen it in various places that this ramps up
Speaker 1: the chance that Jason Peters returns. But what what would
Speaker 1: he kick to guard? Is that how it seems like
Speaker 1: a bit of a weird fit at this stage of
Speaker 1: his career. But a lot of people seem to be
Speaker 1: connecting dots on that. Yeah, the BT writers seemed to
Speaker 1: think that's not gonna happen, but who knows. They're gon Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to come up with something. I mean,
Speaker 1: just slide and prior. Who knows, there's some free agents
Speaker 1: out there be either way, it's it's a big loss.
Speaker 1: In other news, the San Francisco forty Niners have done
Speaker 1: some business with their head coach Kyle Shanahan and the
Speaker 1: team agreed to a multi year extension to cover six years,
Speaker 1: and it replaces the three years that were left on
Speaker 1: his deal, so he's tied with San Francisco now through
Speaker 1: the season. As you might expect. It makes him amongst
Speaker 1: the highest paid coaches in football. And this feels like
Speaker 1: a no brainer quite frankly, Mark Sessler, because Shannon has
Speaker 1: proved proven that he knows what he's doing. He's just
Speaker 1: fresh off a Super Bowl berth and he's one of
Speaker 1: the young most impressive offensive minds in the league and
Speaker 1: has shown that he could handle the big chair as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's no brainer, is a perfect way to
Speaker 1: put it. And you know, Shanahan, we saw what you know,
Speaker 1: you talk about injuries in Philadelphia the Niners during his
Speaker 1: first two seasons in San Francisco were utterly ravaged by injury,
Speaker 1: and so you know, the stock was low, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't too long ago that on this show we were
Speaker 1: questioning whether or not Shanahan and John Lynch might be
Speaker 1: hot seat material if last year's team didn't do what
Speaker 1: they did, but with a fully healthy roster. UM. I
Speaker 1: think you saw what Mike Shanahan or what Kyle Shanahan
Speaker 1: is as a head coach, and I do think that, honestly,
Speaker 1: he will be seen in time as one of the
Speaker 1: best around UM right now. You know, I tweeted at
Speaker 1: something about that yesterday. I got a lot of flak
Speaker 1: for it that I do I honestly and look at
Speaker 1: I'm happy to be wrong about that, but UM, I
Speaker 1: honestly think he will be. I think he already has
Speaker 1: the traits UM, and I think he's seen around the
Speaker 1: league as UM genius material. And you know, you can
Speaker 1: point to the playoffs stuff the Super Bowl, but the
Speaker 1: two Super Bowls that people want to pin on him,
Speaker 1: that's not how I would judge him entirely. I look
Speaker 1: at the whole body of work and I think if
Speaker 1: you have him as your head coach, if you're a
Speaker 1: Niners fan, you're sitting pretty for a long time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My immediate thought was, first of all, that's the biggest
Speaker 1: respecting get. You get that, you get a big extension,
Speaker 1: three years left in your contract. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: what you're looking for. You think they're extending any of
Speaker 1: us with three years left, No way, They're gonna wait
Speaker 1: till it gets down to the to the end. You know,
Speaker 1: there's that much time. Let's just give him more. Let's
Speaker 1: give them a big time raise. I mean that would
Speaker 1: be great. Uh. The second thing was is where is
Speaker 1: John Lynch in this? Because they signed to six year contracts,
Speaker 1: it was sort of famous, Wow, they're really committing to
Speaker 1: both of them for a long time, and they kind
Speaker 1: of were on the same timeline. And some some of
Speaker 1: the Beat writers do believe that John Lynch could and
Speaker 1: should be next, and that he might get a promotion
Speaker 1: in terms of his title. But it is I think
Speaker 1: telling that that Shanahan comes first. They didn't announce them together,
Speaker 1: which I don't know if it says anything. We'll see
Speaker 1: if Lynch gets extended. He's got plenty of time left
Speaker 1: on his deal. But Shannahan's the key guy of those
Speaker 1: two guys. Well, sometimes you find out too, you find
Speaker 1: out that like John Lynch was extended two months and
Speaker 1: they just didn't announced, you know, I could see them,
Speaker 1: like a lot of teams do. UM angling this from
Speaker 1: a pr angle where there's no question that the two
Speaker 1: of them would their journey would continue together. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put a little uh respect on the names of the
Speaker 1: all time great coaches, Mark, because one of the things
Speaker 1: that you need to really be an all time grade
Speaker 1: is show that you can evolve and stay great over
Speaker 1: a long period of time. Shanahan were still I know,
Speaker 1: he had a nice run, a great runners, an offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: He's been a coach for three years, six and ten,
Speaker 1: four and twelve, thirteen and three. He's obviously trending in
Speaker 1: the right direction. But that is that's a bold take, Mark,
Speaker 1: does it? Is it connected at all with some passion?
Speaker 1: Uh to you? Because he was in the building of
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns and they let him out the door
Speaker 1: very quickly, not at all. I thought they handled that
Speaker 1: disgracefully if anything, Um, And this is not in any
Speaker 1: way I'm not in any way trying to that's the
Speaker 1: passion I'm talking about that maybe or no, I's connected.
Speaker 1: I think that. I think he um everywhere he's gone.
Speaker 1: He has done remarkable stuff with his offensive players. And
Speaker 1: you want to look at early career troubles from a
Speaker 1: coaching record, I would point to the person I was
Speaker 1: fanning out hard for back in the nineties, Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1: Where I and I'm not saying, hey, I look at me.
Speaker 1: I got this right. A lot of people knew he
Speaker 1: was a super talented defensive coordinator, but he struggled mightily
Speaker 1: as a head coach and struggled in every way that
Speaker 1: you could UM in Cleveland, went to New England, what
Speaker 1: were they? Five and eleven the first year there? One
Speaker 1: in three the year after, and everyone thought this Belichick guy.
Speaker 1: The fact that they traded picks for him, I don't
Speaker 1: get it at all. All these people were down on him.
Speaker 1: Three months later they've won the super Bowl. So you
Speaker 1: know I would I would look at Kyle Shanahan also
Speaker 1: that when he's had a chance this offensive corner, every
Speaker 1: team he's touched were transformed. And the same is now
Speaker 1: true of a Niners team that was a laughing stock
Speaker 1: four seasons. And it's a projection, but it's a bald
Speaker 1: One and he you know, if you wanted to look
Speaker 1: at offensive minds in the NFL over the last decade,
Speaker 1: who you know, there aren't many better than Kyle Shanna.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people you know would
Speaker 1: agree with you on that. And and if you want
Speaker 1: to look at the offensive minds in terms of impact
Speaker 1: in the last three decades, four decades, there's not many
Speaker 1: higher than Mike Shanahan. They almost should get more credit
Speaker 1: as like a as an incredible family dynasty, but they
Speaker 1: don't have quite the amount of of titles as probably
Speaker 1: they would like. Uh. In other news, Colin Kaepernick continues
Speaker 1: to be at the forefront of the conversation. This time
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers coach Anthony Lynn spoke out in conversation
Speaker 1: with reporters saying teams would quote be crazy not to
Speaker 1: have Kaepernick on their workout lists this summer. He also
Speaker 1: told reporters on Wednesday that the Chargers have not made
Speaker 1: plans to work out with Kaepernick and that he has
Speaker 1: not spoken to the former forty his quarterback, but like
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll before him, says the Kaepernick obviously is worthy
Speaker 1: of consideration on a depth chart somewhere in the league
Speaker 1: and it only takes one. Yeah, he said that he
Speaker 1: he'd fit the offense they want to run, which is interesting.
Speaker 1: You know they have a top ten draft pick, so
Speaker 1: that you know, Justin Herbert's the guy it's all about,
Speaker 1: and you have Tyrod. But he did say, look, if
Speaker 1: there was an injury, that that could be a guy
Speaker 1: that we would call the whole like putting him on
Speaker 1: a workout list, like that's not an official thing necessarily
Speaker 1: he did. He did point out though that he they
Speaker 1: were not a team that called up Pete Carroll, so
Speaker 1: that is that as another team and as we sort
Speaker 1: of wonder if Kaepernick can get back and link. It
Speaker 1: really did strike me today as the Premier League was
Speaker 1: starting in someone alerted to this, UH us to this
Speaker 1: in our mentions how the two teams in the first
Speaker 1: Premier League game back took a knee before they you
Speaker 1: know started the game, as did the official I noticed too. Um,
Speaker 1: it's really it's really pretty amazing. It's a it's amazing
Speaker 1: to see on a different continent. Um, you know, protesting
Speaker 1: of racial in a quality really started with like the
Speaker 1: way the police have handled black people here, but it's
Speaker 1: it's something that has made a worldwide impact. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: I know I'm rambling a little bit, but why. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just like it really strikes you when you see
Speaker 1: it across halfway across the world. Well, I would, I
Speaker 1: would suggest that Anthony Lynn, whom of all the coaches,
Speaker 1: probably came out with the most most heartfelt, passionate statement
Speaker 1: about what was happening in our country. You know, a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, Um that I buy this, and
Speaker 1: I would. I would look from a football angle to uh,
Speaker 1: you know Dan remember that game and Rex Ryan who
Speaker 1: had a fascination with Tyrod Taylor. Um, because he always
Speaker 1: was struck by how hard it was to deal with
Speaker 1: mobile quarterbacks. And now you can say Rex Ryan was
Speaker 1: was you know, behind on the times with that one,
Speaker 1: but he was a Tyrod fan. And I'll say this,
Speaker 1: that thirty four nothing game when Kaepernick was sprinkled into
Speaker 1: the Niners offense thirty four nothing over the Jets, Anthony
Speaker 1: Lynn was part of that team. He was part of
Speaker 1: the Bills team that was fascinated with Rod Taylor. He's
Speaker 1: gone out of his way to stand for Taylor and
Speaker 1: call him his starter right now. So the idea that
Speaker 1: Kaepernick would have a place if they needed someone. I
Speaker 1: totally buy it from. They need an injury, they need
Speaker 1: probably everyone right now, yeah, not every Yeah, you're right
Speaker 1: in in in l A. At least I think he
Speaker 1: needs a Tyrod injury probably yeah. But you know that
Speaker 1: said and you will look at their roster and Tyrod
Speaker 1: is amongst the best backups in the league. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, everybody's got the same similar opinion. It
Speaker 1: seems on Kaepernick for the most part, that he would
Speaker 1: instantly become one of the league's better backups and maybe
Speaker 1: a starter if he got the opportunity. We're getting close
Speaker 1: to a tropiller here. I mean, I I just how
Speaker 1: many more coaches are we gonna hear say, oh, how
Speaker 1: a lot of talent this Kaepernick is. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to bring him into my team, but he
Speaker 1: would be great on somebody else's team. Somebody actually doesn't, right,
Speaker 1: It's just tricky. I don't I don't fall danthon Newlyn
Speaker 1: because he's he's just answering the question, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, like, what what can he do? He's trying.
Speaker 1: But if this is going to become the new m
Speaker 1: O of all these coaches, when they get asked about
Speaker 1: Karen Kaepernick, praise how great he is, and then say
Speaker 1: you know, I'm set, but you know, well I would
Speaker 1: I'll say this. I think that's something worth tracking here.
Speaker 1: I hear you were in a totally different place than
Speaker 1: we were six months ago, and I think there is
Speaker 1: um progress on some level there. It's fair to be suspicious.
Speaker 1: But when we start to get quarterback injuries and a
Speaker 1: bunch of no name or ham and egg type quarterbacks
Speaker 1: that have no experience are getting signed before Kaepernick, your
Speaker 1: point is valid. Until then, I want to see that
Speaker 1: happen first, and and the the one biggest, the biggest changes.
Speaker 1: He's already better than a lot of these guys. Everyone
Speaker 1: I well not not everyone is saying he's so much
Speaker 1: better than our backup quarterback, we just won't sign him.
Speaker 1: That's your That's a couple of wet We could tick
Speaker 1: through the list right now. We're not going to but
Speaker 1: a backup quarterbacks, and I know, without doing a deep dive,
Speaker 1: that would be worthless. But where you could just say, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I throughout Chad, he is the Chiefs back up.
Speaker 1: On Twitter, half that I would say, half to just
Speaker 1: talk about look at the Rams roster? Why talk about
Speaker 1: at the Rams? Right? Goes on and on. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are plenty of teams that could stand to use
Speaker 1: somebody like Kaepernick, And it is interesting in Goodell is
Speaker 1: going to be asked about it again. He's going to
Speaker 1: answer the question. But it was interesting to hear him
Speaker 1: quoted on ESPN seeing you know he would encourage it,
Speaker 1: he used, he used that word. I think he knows
Speaker 1: he would ultimately be good for the NFL, but he
Speaker 1: can't make an owner or a coach do it, right.
Speaker 1: I think there are coaches who would want to do it,
Speaker 1: and you're not here. This wasn't the problem. I'll go
Speaker 1: to my grave believing John Harbaugh specifically wanted to sign
Speaker 1: Kaepernick period in seventeen and that he was not allowed to. Well,
Speaker 1: I would, I would slow down to one thing though.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of coaches. There's having talked to
Speaker 1: just a couple of people who who said, of all
Speaker 1: my coaching friends, many of them were super turned off
Speaker 1: by the protest, the kneeling. They were absolutely turned off
Speaker 1: by one coaching others. I think, and that that was
Speaker 1: years ago. Where are we now? I mean, but when
Speaker 1: we have owners, when you have five or six owners
Speaker 1: saying we would love to sign Kaepernick. I think that's
Speaker 1: where the change needs to happen. The owners have stayed
Speaker 1: silent in other news. Let's do a little update and
Speaker 1: what's going on. We talked about Brandon Brooks, Uh, Eagles
Speaker 1: losing him Aushan Jeffrey, Uh, A little update on him
Speaker 1: is that there really is no update. Doug Peterson said
Speaker 1: that the wide receiver is focusing on his rehab and
Speaker 1: getting strong, but he had Liz Frank surgery and uh,
Speaker 1: still no timetable for a return. And this is obviously
Speaker 1: an important piece for the Eagles who kind of have
Speaker 1: to hope Greg that Jeffrey gets healthy and turns back
Speaker 1: the clock. Otherwise we might be dealing with a similar
Speaker 1: situations last year. I know they brought in a young
Speaker 1: wide receiver in the draft, but they kind of need
Speaker 1: Jeffrey to turn back the clock or they're gonna again
Speaker 1: be looking at a situation where there there there's a
Speaker 1: dearth of playmakers on the outside. Yeah. I wanted to
Speaker 1: thought about this one because I've seen like Fantasy football
Speaker 1: and some projections for this season talking about Okay, well
Speaker 1: they got you know, Deshaun and Jeffrey back. It's like,
Speaker 1: first of Austin, Jeffrey wouldn't be on this team if
Speaker 1: they if his salary wasn't guaranteed, they wanted to cut him.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna expect I would be shocked
Speaker 1: if he was playing at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. Like coming off of a Liz
Speaker 1: Frank's surgery that late in the calendar year, that's a
Speaker 1: quick turnaround for a guy who's had a lot of problems.
Speaker 1: And you did get the sense I I thought back
Speaker 1: in February March that he's more of a candidate to
Speaker 1: go on the pu P list, and it puts, You're right,
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on Jalen reagor their their first
Speaker 1: round pick. He's gonna have to kind of be a
Speaker 1: hit because he's gonna be a big part. I think
Speaker 1: anything they get from Jeffrey, who has just been beat up,
Speaker 1: is gonna be a bonus. I think there are Eagles
Speaker 1: fans that are still annoyed that the Cowboys a few
Speaker 1: spots ahead of them grab ceedee lamb. I mean, certainly
Speaker 1: all Eagles fans would be annoyed by that, But um
Speaker 1: thinking that the Eagles should have been more aggressive to
Speaker 1: go get one of the top one or two guys
Speaker 1: in the draft. Didn't happen. And you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's because I've spent like the past four
Speaker 1: months just sitting in essentially three rooms inside my house.
Speaker 1: But it's suddenly mid to late June. You know, this offseason.
Speaker 1: It's not three or four more months for these players
Speaker 1: to rehab. And you're hearing little whispers now about some
Speaker 1: players that have returned to the facilities saying not ready yet.
Speaker 1: And it is it's to have two of these issues
Speaker 1: with the Eagles in one news Rundown is problematic. M Hm,
Speaker 1: Erica looks concerned, just like on our video when you
Speaker 1: when you think about that Eagle's depth chart, how how
Speaker 1: concerned do you? I'm worried for that team. I'm worried
Speaker 1: for a lot of these teams, you know what. I like, Frank,
Speaker 1: you can't come back from I like when you take
Speaker 1: the mute off and you can hear the boats, you know,
Speaker 1: flying in the background or whatever. China. I'm just getting
Speaker 1: my son. Like you guys just keep going like like
Speaker 1: a woman on water skis, like waving to the whole crowd.
Speaker 1: She zooms past your your manner right the helicopter right above,
Speaker 1: waiting to land on the heley pad. Yeah, so I'm
Speaker 1: flagging it off. I'm like, come on, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get the show with dad. Move the helicopter. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: finally in the news, bad news in the kicker club.
Speaker 1: See but go on, DWN. Sorry, yes, daughter. This is
Speaker 1: why I like to keep my kickers in the club,
Speaker 1: because once they get out of the club, these guys
Speaker 1: are basically just maniacs. They're just uncontrolled in yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: Aldrick wrote. Rosas, who was a all pro level kicker
Speaker 1: for the Giants UH two seasons ago, was arrested and
Speaker 1: jail Tuesday for misdemeanor hit and run and driving on
Speaker 1: a suspended license. And he hit a car after running
Speaker 1: a red light. There's a belief that there could have
Speaker 1: been alcohol evolved. This is the second incident for the
Speaker 1: Giants UH in the last month. Of course, DeAndre Baker,
Speaker 1: the first round pick last year, was arrested in connection
Speaker 1: with an armed robbery in Florida. So a little bit
Speaker 1: of a messy offseason for the Giants. During COVID times,
Speaker 1: I would just ask when this is released on social
Speaker 1: an hour from now. What the response will be to
Speaker 1: a the tone of the music against the news that
Speaker 1: he was announced and Erica essentially operating like she's at
Speaker 1: a rave in um during what seems like a rather
Speaker 1: serious news pieces. Yeah, yeah, that's why we're not sending
Speaker 1: it on social. Uh. Yeah, Rossas is lucky. I mean
Speaker 1: he might get You would be so lucky to have
Speaker 1: Mark and Greg here? Is he all right? He was
Speaker 1: going over a hud he was going over a hundred
Speaker 1: miles an hour, they said, Uh so, obviously it's like
Speaker 1: lucky no one got hurt. But they also found him
Speaker 1: just walking along the side of the road, bloody with
Speaker 1: no shoes on, like you know, far away from where
Speaker 1: he left the car, and it's it's not a good enough.
Speaker 1: First of all, if you know who's going, you know
Speaker 1: he's going a hundred miles an hour. He's a I've
Speaker 1: heard of Shoelis kickers, He's a Shoeliss driver. Like, what
Speaker 1: what's happening here? Uh? And check in with Mark on
Speaker 1: the tone of Greg's comments right here, Mark at least
Speaker 1: being a little a little bit on a flighty from
Speaker 1: Greg here, I see what you're doing um and I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna be a party to it. I mean, it
Speaker 1: sounds like more like something that Dennis Hopper got up
Speaker 1: to in like nineteen seventy one than an NFL kicker
Speaker 1: in But you know, I don't know. I mean, he
Speaker 1: was greeted as a legend for it, one of the
Speaker 1: it's cool when a movie star does it, not one
Speaker 1: of the highest paid kickers in the league. And he
Speaker 1: went twelve or seventeen last year. I could, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if he's if he's kicked right
Speaker 1: off that team. Joe Judge, Judge, Judge, Joe is here
Speaker 1: and he may just spend some justice. That's a good one.
Speaker 1: There's so much, so many places to go. And when
Speaker 1: the head coaches Joe judge, because yeah, he could render
Speaker 1: a guilty verdict before the actual courts do on this
Speaker 1: one and say he gone right, throw the case out nice.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's what's happening in the news. Jaxons
Speaker 1: over the Middle top by Hollywood Cloud see you later,
Speaker 1: Hollywood to the house. Jackson trying to run forward. Jackson
Speaker 1: avoids strands. He's in touchdown. The march Jackson is a
Speaker 1: lucid quarterback, Will checking himself, plucked by Sneed, He's dropped
Speaker 1: the corner, a pluck by the rookie Wald receiver Puck touchdown,
Speaker 1: Big trust, Big Trust, the mar text, you don't get
Speaker 1: a super Bowl out of me. The Baltimore Ravens up next,
Speaker 1: and the Wheel of Teams, And as we do every week,
Speaker 1: we reach out and connect with somebody who gets it,
Speaker 1: someone who knows the team, someone who can give us
Speaker 1: the inside that we couldn't possibly have from our chair. Uh.
Speaker 1: And this man's Glenn Clark. He's a columnist for press
Speaker 1: Box and a guy that really knows his Ravens. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Around the NFL Podcast with Glenn Hero's it's
Speaker 1: a pleasure, thanks for having me. Look at that. Just
Speaker 1: coming with the heroes right off the top, I mean
Speaker 1: work officially, so Gregg is like one of my favorite
Speaker 1: people in the face of the planet. Guys, I don't
Speaker 1: want this to be offensive, but like almost you have
Speaker 1: to know how much I love Greg, Like I just
Speaker 1: want to stare into his eyes and talked tennis to him.
Speaker 1: But it's weird. It's weird case here. Glenn started off well,
Speaker 1: now it's going on. I do know now it makes sense.
Speaker 1: Gregg pushed very hard for Glenn, and that was all
Speaker 1: part of the payoff. It seems we just want to
Speaker 1: tack some serena by the end of it. That's really so,
Speaker 1: you guys know, I would ask Gregg. I would have
Speaker 1: Greg come onto my show every week and be like, dude,
Speaker 1: we'll do like ten minutes. We would legitimately go for
Speaker 1: like twenty five minutes, and about twelve of them would
Speaker 1: end up being about things that literally only and I
Speaker 1: cared about. Well they if that, if that goes uh
Speaker 1: in this in this direction on our show, Mark and
Speaker 1: I will just take a seat and maybe and we're lax,
Speaker 1: uh Glenn. The Ravens are in an interesting place right now.
Speaker 1: They're in that rarefied air, which is both good and
Speaker 1: also potentially cursed. Where you are in super Bowl or
Speaker 1: bust mode. You're the best team in the league last
Speaker 1: season during the regular season fourteen and two, setting records,
Speaker 1: you have the MVP behind center. It all goes to
Speaker 1: hell off the playoff by But at the same time,
Speaker 1: optimism is really probably never been higher or close to
Speaker 1: it in Baltimore right now, right and and it should
Speaker 1: be right, Like, you look at this roster, Um, what's
Speaker 1: the complaint? Right? Like? Could you have a little bit
Speaker 1: more in the true pass rush department? Like, could you
Speaker 1: have gone out and gotten somebody that was more of
Speaker 1: a true sack artist in stead of upgrading the defensive line,
Speaker 1: which was their priority and hoping that that will help
Speaker 1: in that department, You could have done that. I guess
Speaker 1: they could have added a little bit more as far
Speaker 1: as wide receiver was concerned. They grabbed the Uberna and
Speaker 1: Crochet and the draft, but they could have gotten more
Speaker 1: of a top guy outside of that. What's your complaint
Speaker 1: about the roster? They gotta figure out interior line a
Speaker 1: little bit with Marcia Yonders retirement, but it's stacked pretty
Speaker 1: much everywhere. The secondary is overwhelming. Lamar Jackson is the
Speaker 1: m v P. They have four legitimate NFL running backs
Speaker 1: in their back field. Um, it is really hard to
Speaker 1: figure out what you don't like about this roster and
Speaker 1: why they wouldn't be able to compete to win a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Not hard for Mark. He never likes the
Speaker 1: Ravens well. I mean, I certainly respect what they've accomplished
Speaker 1: as a suffering Browns fan, but I have that. I
Speaker 1: had to ask you this because you know you Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson last year a hundred and seventy six carries um
Speaker 1: and obviously the heart and soul of the offense. But
Speaker 1: you mentioned those four backs and J. K. Dobbins is
Speaker 1: a fascinating draft pick for them. How do you use Dobbins,
Speaker 1: Lamar and Ingram on the ground, um, how do you
Speaker 1: think they want to And do you see the offense
Speaker 1: just simply looking the way it did last year or
Speaker 1: are there any distinct um signposts that it may be
Speaker 1: changed a bit um to take some of that heat
Speaker 1: off of Lamar Jackson on the ground. I don't think so. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think that they've sort of not hidden from the
Speaker 1: fact that Lamar is gonna run. That's what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: They're not afraid of the injury stuff they you know,
Speaker 1: part of it is his athleticism. He does not take
Speaker 1: those types of hits um. He's not that type of runner.
Speaker 1: He is really good at getting out of bounds and
Speaker 1: avoiding it. So they're not afraid of that. And they
Speaker 1: know how much of a weapon it is. And when
Speaker 1: they put backs in front of him either they can
Speaker 1: block I mean, it's it's almost impossible. What can you
Speaker 1: do about that as a defender. So I don't think
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to get away from that at all.
Speaker 1: I do think Dobbins is fascinating, right, Like, can they
Speaker 1: have both of those guys on the field at the
Speaker 1: same time. Of course they can, but they're not wildly
Speaker 1: different types of backs right here in Ingram. So I
Speaker 1: think it'll be interesting to see if we see more
Speaker 1: of Dobbin's being used as a pass catcher. He was
Speaker 1: at Ohio State right where he was more of a
Speaker 1: true runner. They believe he has the ability to be
Speaker 1: that type of player, but we haven't seen a ton
Speaker 1: of it just because he wasn't asking to do it.
Speaker 1: That'll be fascinating. I think there's a lot of us
Speaker 1: that sort of quietly would not be surprised to see J. K.
Speaker 1: Dobbins ultimately be more of a featured back in this
Speaker 1: offense as the year goes on. And you know, that's
Speaker 1: not a knock on mark Ingram, who was very good.
Speaker 1: It's just look at the skill set of J. K.
Speaker 1: Dobbins and tell me why you wouldn't want that guy
Speaker 1: to have more and more touches as the year goes on,
Speaker 1: our our friend in the desert, or I guess he's
Speaker 1: no longer there. The Consigliari, Uh Spice Rack, you know,
Speaker 1: thinks thinks he's the next time at Smith. But that
Speaker 1: that's the comparison. And I think the thinking was a
Speaker 1: Ingram is not gonna be there forever and be. They
Speaker 1: ran the ball six hundred times last year, which is
Speaker 1: probably their ideal. They can't really expect to run six
Speaker 1: hundred times every year. It's just it's kind of outrageous,
Speaker 1: but really, well, it's like, you do need a bunch
Speaker 1: of guys if you're gonna try to run six hundred
Speaker 1: times and have all the plays that Greg Roman has,
Speaker 1: And you know he's not gonna come back with all
Speaker 1: the same you know tricks. He's gonna he's gonna try
Speaker 1: to advance it. He's gonna try to develop the running
Speaker 1: game even further. And he they're so hard to defend
Speaker 1: to me. The key that though, might be the receivers, though,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's Brown and Miles Boyke, and their
Speaker 1: top two receivers are second year players. They're they're hoping
Speaker 1: boy Can is their second best receivers, so that you know,
Speaker 1: I know everyone loves, you know, Hollywood Brown, but that's
Speaker 1: that to me is like where the growth can come
Speaker 1: from those two guys and Greg It's a major injury
Speaker 1: concern right, Like Hollywood Brown was literally not practicing for
Speaker 1: much of last season. They were sort of just trusting it,
Speaker 1: like and for good reason. He showed up and he
Speaker 1: played well and he was a great bit with Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: So there's some risk involved with that. Clearly, the way
Speaker 1: they used Mark Andrews was more like a receiver, and
Speaker 1: I think that we will see more of an expansion
Speaker 1: upon that, seeing him out wide more often. Uh, They're
Speaker 1: very comfortable with Nick Boyle as they're blocking tight end,
Speaker 1: and you know that they're probably going to keep a
Speaker 1: third tight end, either somebody that's not on the roster
Speaker 1: right now or one of the undrafted free agents like
Speaker 1: Jake Breeland Morgen because they want to have two three
Speaker 1: tight ends on the field at the same time and
Speaker 1: they want to be able to use Mark Andrews that way.
Speaker 1: So I think in their mind that solves some of that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they need Miles boy going to be more
Speaker 1: than he was an exceptional blocker and that sort of
Speaker 1: gets lost in the shuffle. He was an outstanding blocker
Speaker 1: for this team a year ago. In the run game,
Speaker 1: UM he showed some flashes of being able to make
Speaker 1: some plays. They needed him to be more of a
Speaker 1: downfield threat. And then how do they mix in both
Speaker 1: du Burnet and Prochet, who have great hands and that
Speaker 1: helps with whatever small accuracy things Lamar still has. How
Speaker 1: do they get those guys involved. I think Duvernet they're
Speaker 1: hoping in particular, can be more of a a weapon
Speaker 1: type that they can line up in a bunch of
Speaker 1: different ways. Not trying to pretend like he's Deebo Samuel,
Speaker 1: but that type of stuff. Lamar Jackson was on a
Speaker 1: podcast load Management podcast shortly after being named the Matten
Speaker 1: cover Athlete. UH pinched me and he said this about
Speaker 1: the playoff struggles of the past two years. We should
Speaker 1: have put in a request here. If he's going on
Speaker 1: load Management, we could have had Lamar come on. We
Speaker 1: didn't get him, and I'm not thrilled about it. It's
Speaker 1: all right, Lamar said, that's what what that's what's happened
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and we end up losing to the team.
Speaker 1: People had us favorite over It's any given Sunday. You
Speaker 1: can't underestimate no team, no opponent, opponent, and that's what
Speaker 1: we did. Referring to the Titans. Um interesting comment there
Speaker 1: that that perhaps, uh, the Ravens went in overconfident in January.
Speaker 1: Uh do you buy into that at all? Or is
Speaker 1: it more just an excuse? Is there a weakness? Is
Speaker 1: there an actual weakness on this team that was exposed
Speaker 1: in January could be done again? So look, do I
Speaker 1: buy into it? Maybe? I definitely think it's it's partly
Speaker 1: an excuse. They just did not play that well, and
Speaker 1: I think Lamar part of it. And this is one
Speaker 1: of the things we don't like talking about. For as
Speaker 1: good as Lamar was all season, and he was in
Speaker 1: the regular season before that, he hasn't played well, particularly
Speaker 1: in the two playoff games. He's put up numbers as
Speaker 1: the games went on because he's had to throw a lot,
Speaker 1: but he didn't play well out of the shooting the
Speaker 1: two playoff games. And you know, again, it's the first
Speaker 1: two playoff games. It is certainly not an indictment. And
Speaker 1: there's a lot of idiots and hot take artists that
Speaker 1: want to say he's a bad playoff quarterback. We have
Speaker 1: no idea that we're so early on Lamar Jackson's career.
Speaker 1: Are you hearing? No? No, And the rest of the
Speaker 1: country and the rest of the country, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of those types folk. Yeah, I'm just curious if I'm
Speaker 1: not here. Look, I mean, you can't have the season
Speaker 1: that he had and really have anybody that's a detractor
Speaker 1: of Lamar jacks And um, you know they all want
Speaker 1: to name their kids Lamar in this town right now. Um,
Speaker 1: but no, I mean, he's got to play a little
Speaker 1: bit better in the postseason. And the Ravens. The biggest
Speaker 1: story of what happened in the Titans game is they
Speaker 1: had to really gut Sea calls to go for it
Speaker 1: that backfired on them and it changed the course of
Speaker 1: the game. And then one big Derrick Henry run later,
Speaker 1: they were behind the eight ball and and they weren't
Speaker 1: able to dig out of it. Um did that happen
Speaker 1: because they were overlooking the Titans. It was the same
Speaker 1: thing they did all year. They went for it. They
Speaker 1: were aggressive in short yardage, fourthdown situations, no matter where
Speaker 1: they were on the field. It backfired in one game.
Speaker 1: The play calling was certainly questionable on those particular plays. Um,
Speaker 1: that's the biggest story what happened in the playoffs. The
Speaker 1: biggest story is they went ford and forth and short twice.
Speaker 1: They failed both times and it changed the momentum that game.
Speaker 1: I agree with you that you you know, you look
Speaker 1: at this roster, and every roster across the league is
Speaker 1: going to have a few spots that need some upgrading.
Speaker 1: But Um, but you're right, Baltimore, there's not an overt
Speaker 1: Achilles heel. I would say that it's interesting to see
Speaker 1: what happens if they wind up starting UM two rookie linebackers.
Speaker 1: I think Patrick Queen, just because I trust the Ravens
Speaker 1: and I feel like I've seen this happen a hundred times.
Speaker 1: He is my odds on favor to just um put
Speaker 1: him in there for Defensive Rookie of the Year, because
Speaker 1: that's just what the Ravens seemed to do. But you
Speaker 1: have Malik Harrison also pencil and potentially to start beside him.
Speaker 1: That's not the easiest UM scenario for two rookies to
Speaker 1: shine in typically in the NFL, So I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised if they try to use my leak a little
Speaker 1: more outside than necessarily line him up in day one.
Speaker 1: Inside they still have l J. Ford played really welcome
Speaker 1: them this season ago again I picked up off the
Speaker 1: scramp heep. And then I don't think any of us
Speaker 1: are gonna be surprised if they try to go five
Speaker 1: six defensive backs again this season. UM for a lot
Speaker 1: of snaps, and they did it a year ago. And
Speaker 1: they love the depth they have in the secondary. Again,
Speaker 1: it's and maybe them in the Chargers, right, the two
Speaker 1: best secondaries and all of football. Um, they've got the players,
Speaker 1: and they've got players. They feel comfortable using his hybrids,
Speaker 1: even on Anthony Levine, who's a veteran who's more of
Speaker 1: a special teams guy. They've been comfortable putting them out
Speaker 1: there in sort of safety and linebacker roles in the past.
Speaker 1: They are very comfortable with that. So I would be
Speaker 1: surprised up on day one Malik Harrison, that's just sort
Speaker 1: of his role. I think they're gonna try to use
Speaker 1: them in different ways and certainly hop get snaps there,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that that's just gonna be the
Speaker 1: case on day one. How is how like what's covering
Speaker 1: the Ravens? Like? Right, now, I feel like it's the
Speaker 1: other day I was mentioned there were one sport town
Speaker 1: I kind of forgot about the Orioles. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: you're right at the moment, at the moment, at the moment, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I just feel like the the energy around
Speaker 1: the Ravens when they're like halfway decent is just outrageous
Speaker 1: that it's one of the best football towns in the
Speaker 1: country and that so like right now, coming off of
Speaker 1: the season they have, I just I have to feel
Speaker 1: like they're about as dominant in their hometown as as
Speaker 1: anyone other, like than the Green Bay Packers and a
Speaker 1: couple other teams like that. Like that, they're just like
Speaker 1: superstars in a weird way. It's bad for column writing
Speaker 1: because you don't have anything to complain about, right, Like,
Speaker 1: there's nothing that you can say particularly negative ways. But no,
Speaker 1: you're a thousand percent right right, I mean, it is.
Speaker 1: It's pandemonium. It is absolutely a city that is completely
Speaker 1: lost and embraced and this franchise can do no wrong.
Speaker 1: Even in this the sometimes they do things wrong. It's
Speaker 1: it's really hard for anybody to buy into that because
Speaker 1: it's a franchise that is so often gotten things right
Speaker 1: and has so consistently one and competed at a high
Speaker 1: level that even when they do something wrong, it's really
Speaker 1: hard to say, hey, this might not be exactly the
Speaker 1: right thing to have done, like training camps like Lallapalooza there,
Speaker 1: like I don't know, like that that says a lot
Speaker 1: to me. It's wild, man, It's what I mean we
Speaker 1: liv been waiting for. Look, it helps right now the
Speaker 1: Orioles are not very good. In two thousand and twelve,
Speaker 1: thirteen fourteen, when the Orioles are playing well, you know,
Speaker 1: they mattered and people cared and it was a big deal.
Speaker 1: But it didn't still detract from the Ravens. This is
Speaker 1: a franchise that truly, Um, you know, it's bigger than life.
Speaker 1: It's it's what matters in this city. Um. And Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: you know, if they might have wanted a writing campaign
Speaker 1: for mayor, if if he had random time and maybe president,
Speaker 1: well at it. And it's that passion Glenn Clark which
Speaker 1: makes the decision of art model the right one. Ultimately
Speaker 1: to take the Browns out of it worked out okay
Speaker 1: for him. Look, it's a it's a source of subject
Speaker 1: even for us to talk about it, right, because we're
Speaker 1: always we in Baltimore wish that the story was told
Speaker 1: of what he did for our city, Um, after a
Speaker 1: wrong that we experienced and what my father went through
Speaker 1: as a football tuck the we want that side of
Speaker 1: the story. Now. We're also sympathetic to Like you know,
Speaker 1: I hold no ill will towards any Browns fan. In fact,
Speaker 1: I feel terribly sorry for what Browns fans that I
Speaker 1: had to put up with over the course of the
Speaker 1: last two decades. Um, it's just that we think of
Speaker 1: Art Modell in a way that, like I understand it's
Speaker 1: gonna be different, we feel very strongly about it. He
Speaker 1: did a wonderful thing for our city and really helped
Speaker 1: to change the dynamic of the city of Baltimore. And
Speaker 1: I don't mean that to be, you know, trite. I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to to pretend like there aren't still crime
Speaker 1: problems in the city of all. You don't have to
Speaker 1: like you don't have to. I was just trying. We
Speaker 1: always hear one. I mean, on the other side, I
Speaker 1: think it would be that the wound would have healed
Speaker 1: um more comprehensively if the Browns had done anything on
Speaker 1: their own in the past twenty years to resemble a
Speaker 1: real football team, and that's probably been the bigger costs.
Speaker 1: I get annoyed. Most Ravens fans that I run into
Speaker 1: our super passionate, knowledgeable and they love their team and
Speaker 1: they deserved to. It's the occasional twenty five year old
Speaker 1: that I run into in a sports bar. It was
Speaker 1: a Ravens fan and has no idea that they were
Speaker 1: the Browns. This one guy, I forget where it was.
Speaker 1: But ever since then, the Ravens fans but in Mark
Speaker 1: and marks the fence and it marks the fence. Year
Speaker 1: old guys are terrible people, Okay, but he's something that happened.
Speaker 1: I was definitely a terrible person. I might not be that.
Speaker 1: I was definitely a terrible person, Glenn, because because we're
Speaker 1: we're good to our guests, and because I know this
Speaker 1: would mean a lot to Greg Erica. Can you put
Speaker 1: sixty seconds on the clock so Greg and Glenn can
Speaker 1: talk tennis. Get on the clock and Mark, let's hit
Speaker 1: the mute and just let them enjoy themselves. We should
Speaker 1: talk that the US Open thing. They just announced that
Speaker 1: they're actually playing it this year. Djokovic says he might
Speaker 1: not even come over for playing and stop he's playing.
Speaker 1: He's trying to use his leverage in order to give
Speaker 1: me a friction here. We don't want to hear it
Speaker 1: like wine, like guys who make like forty million dollars
Speaker 1: a year complaining that they don't like they don't need Joker. Okay,
Speaker 1: you may be right about that. They need Joka, especially
Speaker 1: without Also can you be both innutritionist and a trainer
Speaker 1: at the same time. I couldn't live that way? Who
Speaker 1: can move that way? And I think there's like fifteen
Speaker 1: seconds talk about Venus Williams. That's one of the great athletes.
Speaker 1: Is today her birthdays? That right? It's amazing. I love
Speaker 1: Vinus Williams, not as much as you obvious there was
Speaker 1: no one possibly good, um, but the way that changed
Speaker 1: and it's help never top you're your older sister comes
Speaker 1: along and is the greatest ever. It's a tough spot.
Speaker 1: People forget that. Get the chatter. Thank you, Thank you. Glenn.
Speaker 1: You came and you dominated. You talked high level about
Speaker 1: two sports and I'll count the Orioles chatter in there too,
Speaker 1: so three sports. Uh. Follow them at Glenn Clark Radio
Speaker 1: and check out his columns, his work at press Box,
Speaker 1: and uh, you're a Boy Meets World expert according to Twitter,
Speaker 1: which to me all says is you weren't old enough
Speaker 1: to truly understand, say by the Bell. So you get
Speaker 1: your your generation gets boys, boy meets World and that's
Speaker 1: your birden not like you better get that clock going
Speaker 1: again again. I got a lot more here. Is truly
Speaker 1: an honor. Seriously, really appreciate you guys having on. Thanks
Speaker 1: all right, Thanks Glenn, all right, that was great. Glenn
Speaker 1: Clark at Glenn Clark Radio. Make sure you give him
Speaker 1: a follow. Greg, you have done such great work Yeoman's
Speaker 1: work on the Old Objected Starters series And uh, is
Speaker 1: there anything that we didn't really touch on that you
Speaker 1: noticed in your write ups? Well, I think that the
Speaker 1: signing of Derek Wolf and in Claius Campbell was just
Speaker 1: massive in terms of where this team goes. So Glenn
Speaker 1: kind of alluded to it that they chose not to
Speaker 1: really get a premier pass rusher. It's just Matthew Judon,
Speaker 1: who's a franchise to guy. I remember going to camp
Speaker 1: last year that was one of the big questions was
Speaker 1: where are they going to get a pass rush from
Speaker 1: and on paper it didn't look very good. And in
Speaker 1: the end, if you look at the numbers in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, the pressure that they created, they had a ton.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you get pressure by having a good secondary and
Speaker 1: then you have Wink Martindale dialing up all these crazy pressures.
Speaker 1: I think no one blitzed more than than they do.
Speaker 1: I just thinking of that like game against the Jets,
Speaker 1: but there were many more. We're just the blitzes are
Speaker 1: so creative. Now you have that, plus you have Klais
Speaker 1: Campbell who's still playing at a high level. And I
Speaker 1: say what, I think Derek Wolfe could end up being
Speaker 1: um one of the more underrated signings because I thought
Speaker 1: he played pretty well when he was healthy. He's had
Speaker 1: a lot of injuries over the last few years, so
Speaker 1: it's a boomer bus signing. But those two guys, they
Speaker 1: tend to find really good over thirty guys, and that
Speaker 1: could be wolf and Campbell, and their defense really does
Speaker 1: have some room to improve. Like they were just okay
Speaker 1: last year, they could be a lot better. Behind me,
Speaker 1: by the way, if you guys have been wondering, this
Speaker 1: is the Gatesville Courthouse behind you for the audio lists.
Speaker 1: Very nice so now you're in the office. Yeah, not
Speaker 1: in the court that's right down the street. And it's
Speaker 1: a beautiful old building. And Gatesville is also known as
Speaker 1: the spur Capital of Texas. And yeah, well, I asked
Speaker 1: my mother in law. It's like, you know, let's think
Speaker 1: bigger than that, because it's on the big water tower,
Speaker 1: spur Capitol of Texas. If you have the spur Capitol
Speaker 1: of Texas, you have to assume you're the spur Capitol
Speaker 1: of the United States. And if you have the spur
Speaker 1: Capitol of the United States, you have to assume they're
Speaker 1: the spur Capitol of the damn world. Well, I I agree.
Speaker 1: I mean you might get you might get a few.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, Dan, you're a cowboy, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: so you would understand that. But I mean some guys
Speaker 1: from New Mexico and Arizona probably would contend that they
Speaker 1: should be in the in the mix. But you're right,
Speaker 1: you know, their spurs. But if you're already saying yeah
Speaker 1: that you run sexis on that front, then then you
Speaker 1: you have to go world. And I think Dan, you're
Speaker 1: what you're bringing overall is a larger perspective to this
Speaker 1: town about how media can be um used to and
Speaker 1: well enlightened and help a town like that town. So
Speaker 1: um uh, it really comes back to you doing a
Speaker 1: quality job during your visit. And I'm not even joking
Speaker 1: about this. If I do get the interview, I'm going
Speaker 1: to bring up the Spur thing, yase. I think they could.
Speaker 1: I think in terms of branding, that could be big.
Speaker 1: You're a you're an idea man. You're an idea man,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think they're going to recognize that
Speaker 1: the minute they get two inches into this column the reader.
Speaker 1: So sometimes you know, something you could drop a little
Speaker 1: some bread comes about potential political office. Maybe maybe you're
Speaker 1: the mayor that they need, you know, I mean, this
Speaker 1: could be your first platform that that not just uh
Speaker 1: in Texas, but the world. The Spur capital that could
Speaker 1: be kind of your main platform. Sometimes you need an outsider.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, Liz Warren swoops into a Massachusetts
Speaker 1: just takes over. You know, she's an oaken just of this, Greg,
Speaker 1: Liz Warren. Not that you're stating that, but Liz Warren
Speaker 1: would not do well around these parks. But I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and I would align closer to Liz Warren than who
Speaker 1: is you know the person that gets supported around these
Speaker 1: I'm just saying she's an Oklahoma woman, but you wouldn't
Speaker 1: know it. She just comes into Massachusetts steps right now,
Speaker 1: carpet baggers. All right, good stuff, good show, the Ravens,
Speaker 1: super Bowl or bust. That's it. You're in a tough
Speaker 1: situation there. That's not an easy world to live in
Speaker 1: because the only one team gets the hoist of Lombardi.
Speaker 1: And if you don't do it, Harbaugh and Lamar are
Speaker 1: going to really be feeling the heat a year from now.
Speaker 1: That's just the way it works. You're right, And being
Speaker 1: like the number one seed that loses early in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right because you kind of get it on
Speaker 1: both ends. You wait, you kind of wasted last season
Speaker 1: and then you come into this one with like more
Speaker 1: expectations than possible. You're the only thing. I hate schedules,
Speaker 1: but we're getting close to Their schedule is markedly less
Speaker 1: thorny than it was a year ago. You go from
Speaker 1: the NFC West to the NFC East, and there are
Speaker 1: a million examples in the NFL of a team that
Speaker 1: went fourteen and two, um collapsed uh in the playoffs
Speaker 1: and came back with a lesser regular season record and
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl. I can think of a Bill
Speaker 1: Walsh Niners team that did that from eight to when
Speaker 1: he left the team eight eight, and then the year
Speaker 1: later they were even more dominant. I mean, the regular
Speaker 1: season record concerns me a lot less than other stuff.
Speaker 1: I think they were the best team I've ever seen
Speaker 1: other than the oh seven Patriots in the regular season,
Speaker 1: at least the last twenty year. I'm counting the last
Speaker 1: twenty years, and so it's sort of it's sort of,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just not overlooked. But because Lamar is
Speaker 1: so young, just like, how devastating that is to have
Speaker 1: that good of a team and to go out right away.
Speaker 1: The only thing I'd say about them is when and
Speaker 1: I can understand why they want to pad the backfield
Speaker 1: when they lost Ingram when he wasn't really healthy after
Speaker 1: that injury, and Mark Andrews got hurt a little bit.
Speaker 1: They were not the same offense, so they were healthy
Speaker 1: otherwise the entire time. They come into l A and
Speaker 1: they just dropped a megaton bomb on the Rams, but
Speaker 1: luck can you know carrying it over. We require everyone
Speaker 1: to stay um out of harm's way. Which is uh
Speaker 1: if he for any NFL so compelling, we were not
Speaker 1: even that, we weren't even done talking about him, that's
Speaker 1: how compelling. They're unbelievable. All right, Uh, we'll be back
Speaker 1: on Monday with another show. Like I said, um, we
Speaker 1: do not have a network show this week. It is
Speaker 1: Juneteenth and it's uh is it officially a national holiday? Now?
Speaker 1: If it's not, it's getting there and some states have it.
Speaker 1: Many of the teams I recognize you in the NFL did,
Speaker 1: but no, not nationally, and we are employees of the NFL,
Speaker 1: so we are recognizing on our podcast, so we you
Speaker 1: are and our broadcast show. So you won't see us
Speaker 1: on Friday and the network, but we'll be back with
Speaker 1: another uh pot on Monday, so make sure you tune
Speaker 1: in for that. Also have an astle do this in
Speaker 1: a while. But how about leave some reviews and some
Speaker 1: five star ratings over on iTunes and I think next
Speaker 1: week Mark, it's been a while, Ricky, it's been a while.
Speaker 1: Let's check in on the iTunes reviews and see what
Speaker 1: people have to say about our fair show. And speaking
Speaker 1: of checking in with Ricky, did you do the digging
Speaker 1: that I asked of you about the Guinness Book of
Speaker 1: World Records and has a sports podcast ever recorded in
Speaker 1: three time zones? Before I did, I went to the
Speaker 1: Guinness World Book of Records and Dan Greg you can
Speaker 1: shake your head at me and think that I'm lying,
Speaker 1: But Dan didn't I tell you on Monday after the
Speaker 1: show that I went on their website and there is
Speaker 1: a search function and I searched sports, I searched podcasts,
Speaker 1: I search time zones with radio. Nothing has come up
Speaker 1: so far. We just been made a face. That was
Speaker 1: why I was worried. So what what did it say
Speaker 1: like in the digital copy that you took out of
Speaker 1: the library. In the digital Oh, I didn't like read
Speaker 1: all the Guinness Record Books. I went to their website.
Speaker 1: You didn't check the act But what's the alright, Ricky,
Speaker 1: what's the really available? I mean you could just get
Speaker 1: it digitally, but I looked their database and it's not there.
Speaker 1: But why would I read all of the Guinness World
Speaker 1: Record Books? Know what? What's the next action step here?
Speaker 1: Because to get it? Uh, I would imagine a bulk
Speaker 1: of the records in that book and it's It's not
Speaker 1: like somebody looked it up and said I'm going to
Speaker 1: break this record. Some are set and no one even
Speaker 1: thought it to be a record until it happened, and
Speaker 1: I was, I think records, Well, why don't you go
Speaker 1: what if you were to go to Guinness? Um, And
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to put more work on your plate
Speaker 1: Erica UM, they're in New Hampshire, but you know, to
Speaker 1: maybe reach out to Guinness and suggest this is a
Speaker 1: title that should exist at this point. And by the way,
Speaker 1: podcast Bozos would let me speak before you cut me
Speaker 1: off again. There was a contact us on the page
Speaker 1: and I did send an email and your little dig
Speaker 1: about all this work I'm doing in New Hampshire, Mark,
Speaker 1: what's uncalled for? I insane? I don't want to add
Speaker 1: more work, like right, well you hard work and then
Speaker 1: in New Hampshire. Just got to add that because I
Speaker 1: already emailed Guinness World Record Books, Greg, and why don't
Speaker 1: you go read a digital library or something. It's not
Speaker 1: going okay, I would say, because I don't want to
Speaker 1: get you angry and I don't want to want to
Speaker 1: make this an uncomfortable situation. But if you don't hear
Speaker 1: back via email and the contact this page, because very
Speaker 1: rarely do people get positive results. This might be a
Speaker 1: pick up the phone situation seems appropriate. Yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you know. Guinness is fully you know, staff during a pandemic,
Speaker 1: So I'll assumption I'm not here in Texas. I'm telling you, Walmart,
Speaker 1: I went back in. I counted fifteen straight people before
Speaker 1: I saw a mask because some people are fully ramped
Speaker 1: up against the COVID nineteen spreading and other parts of
Speaker 1: the country seems to be back to normal. So yeah,
Speaker 1: but the second spike is starting to happen now to
Speaker 1: especially in Texas, so you make sure you keeping your masks.
Speaker 1: The first one, first of all, hasn't even ended. What
Speaker 1: other podcasts they're in there? What what other podcast records
Speaker 1: were in there? I don't know. You guys are listed
Speaker 1: for the most annoying one though we deserve that. That's good, Ricky,
Speaker 1: that's a nice job by you. All right, let's let's
Speaker 1: get out of here. This is Dan handsOn signing off
Speaker 1: for Quiet Storm the Boss rookie, Hollywood rookie, Ricky New
Speaker 1: Hampshire rookie until munder. Yeah, so we are there people
Speaker 1: working outside that door? Then he gone, um, no, maybe
Speaker 1: one person because he uh, can they hear you like
Speaker 1: sit like shouting like he gone, yeah I think so. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not great.