Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. Welcome to another edition of
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Speaker 1: official sponsor of the NFL. My name is Dan Kansas,
Speaker 1: and I'm coming to you from the city filled with
Speaker 1: heroes in Bunker, Mark Sessler, Chris Lessling and is up sho?
Speaker 1: How's everybody doing? I think, I don't know. I feel
Speaker 1: like today I took a walk out onto the streets
Speaker 1: of our proud city, Los Angeles, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I think up till now is kind of like it's
Speaker 1: nice out, there's no traffic. This might be actually like
Speaker 1: a good thing. But what I witnessed um walking into
Speaker 1: a crowded sort of urban outer mall area attached to
Speaker 1: a shopping um market Ralphs, I got the first sense
Speaker 1: of what seemed to be unrest. I don't want to
Speaker 1: overplay it because it was just maybe my feelings too,
Speaker 1: But there were like thirty or forty people, you know,
Speaker 1: it's sort of frustrated and waiting in line to get
Speaker 1: into a grocery store where nothing that they want will
Speaker 1: be in there, and a lot of people just sort
Speaker 1: of milling about and hanging out, and some people just
Speaker 1: lying on the ground and I thought, this doesn't feel
Speaker 1: um as vibrant as it felt a few days ago
Speaker 1: to me. Where I'll tell you my feeling is somewhat
Speaker 1: similar in the sense that when this thing went nuclear
Speaker 1: and it got very scary and became um, you know,
Speaker 1: the thing that changed everyone's lives here in l A.
Speaker 1: That coincided with a very rare about of poor weather
Speaker 1: where it rained over the course of several days, which
Speaker 1: kind of added to the claustrophobic nature of it all
Speaker 1: that you were inside and you didn't really have the
Speaker 1: option to go outside. I have noticed the last couple
Speaker 1: of days now when the sun's come back out, uh
Speaker 1: that when you go outside and there's blue skies and
Speaker 1: there's no one else outside, it is kind of a
Speaker 1: Hitchcock in type move where some of those great Hitchcock
Speaker 1: movies like The Birds, where part of what makes it
Speaker 1: scary is that you are outside and you're not, you know,
Speaker 1: in some haunted house running for your life. It even
Speaker 1: makes it more frightening. There is an unsettling vibe to
Speaker 1: the quiet nature of living in one of the most
Speaker 1: populated cities in the world, hustling and bustling Los Angeles
Speaker 1: and just nothing going on. There is nothing going on.
Speaker 1: It does feel like we're in a movie or that
Speaker 1: we've been reading like apocalyptic pandemic books and movies, and
Speaker 1: here we are. The thing that's hit me lately is
Speaker 1: it's just the beginning. I mean, we're talking about it
Speaker 1: like this has been going on forever the week, like
Speaker 1: this weekend, like the world was much different over the
Speaker 1: weekend compared to now. It's only Wednesday, So what's it
Speaker 1: going to be like in a month? You know? Like that?
Speaker 1: That is what I'm what I'm curious of. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: have some theories. I'll probably keep them to myself there
Speaker 1: so so as not to incite any kind of panic. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's that's part of our jobs. That we have heard
Speaker 1: from many many listeners out there that that are appreciative
Speaker 1: that we've been going every day during this free agency
Speaker 1: week of course today, and we're happy to do it
Speaker 1: because quite frankly, gives us something to do as well.
Speaker 1: So we're Although we are heroes in this specific case,
Speaker 1: we don't need to be called heroes. Not that anybody
Speaker 1: called as heroes. They just appreciated what we did. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep moving forward with my comments. Today was the
Speaker 1: beginning of the new league year. And now I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna go I'm not gonna go down Mike Florio lane
Speaker 1: here and start pounding the table and say, how could
Speaker 1: the league have done this? How could have stayed on
Speaker 1: schedule and and started free agency during this global pandemic? No,
Speaker 1: I don't believe that. In fact, I still think on
Speaker 1: balances has been great. That we've had this distraction. Why
Speaker 1: I not. This is not something that's gonna come and
Speaker 1: go in a week or two anyway, So you might
Speaker 1: as well just go on with the show while you can.
Speaker 1: One thing that has now changed, and it became very
Speaker 1: clear today was Monday and Tuesday the legal tampering period
Speaker 1: quote unquote basically the same as past years. But today
Speaker 1: right at four pm Eastern, when in the past you
Speaker 1: had all the signings becoming official, people giving interviews, UH,
Speaker 1: press conferences getting set up, more deals flying through. Uh,
Speaker 1: that did not happen at all. In fact, I felt
Speaker 1: bad for Andrew Ceciliano and risch Eisen and I'm sharing
Speaker 1: all the other networks you're supposed to be. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be. It's literally called free agent Frenzy on
Speaker 1: NFL Network there was no frenzy today. As my three
Speaker 1: year old Harrison puts it, when he sees or has
Speaker 1: told something he doesn't like now bowing. And that was
Speaker 1: my takeaway of today today was bowing. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's right. Then you lose the press conferences, which added some,
Speaker 1: but I also think it just kind of a continuation
Speaker 1: of how these free agency weeks have gone. By Thursday,
Speaker 1: which would be you know tomorrow, it's been totally dead.
Speaker 1: And this year, especially all the trades, the Brady News,
Speaker 1: everything happened Monday Tuesday. I looked this morning, right when
Speaker 1: I woke up at our original top one oh one list,
Speaker 1: Chris and I, there was two players in the top
Speaker 1: twenty five that were still available, Clowney and Chris Harris,
Speaker 1: who was number twenty five. So it was like there
Speaker 1: wasn't that much less, that much more to settle. Today
Speaker 1: it's like almost every big name in Clowney still out there,
Speaker 1: and there's a couple of good players, but we we
Speaker 1: basically know, uh of like the big big names. One
Speaker 1: note to add to that, then, if if your list
Speaker 1: only had that many of the top twenty players still
Speaker 1: hovering around, then Dan the list that Dan and I
Speaker 1: created um suspiciously and in theory before your list has
Speaker 1: the same amount of player available Dan is that correct,
Speaker 1: same exact number, and in fact the same order because
Speaker 1: the order doesn't change, I believe into the mid sixties.
Speaker 1: So that was just another another subtle power play by Greg,
Speaker 1: whose eyes always on the prize and he didn't want
Speaker 1: to give our list the popa dessert. But what's that?
Speaker 1: What team are you on with? I? I tweeted, I
Speaker 1: tweeted bowing or I'm bored today And Mike Garifolo replied
Speaker 1: made a point that I didn't really um think of
Speaker 1: because obviously he's in the middle of it. He's like
Speaker 1: a nam here uh on the air, you know, twelve
Speaker 1: straight hours on the phone. That there's a lot like
Speaker 1: a soft guy's name by the way, Oh yeah, that's right,
Speaker 1: not really not jungle fighting, and you know that type
Speaker 1: of situation. But he's he's much busier than we are.
Speaker 1: Put it that way right now. And he pointed out
Speaker 1: that once you got past the Brady and the quarterback stuff,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of skill players on the market,
Speaker 1: and that's what kind of drives the excitement of this process.
Speaker 1: Remember Robbie Anderson, who's fine as a deep threat wide receiver.
Speaker 1: He was viewed as the top wide receiver around the
Speaker 1: open market. He's still out there. The running back market
Speaker 1: is very slow, which is not surprising after the events
Speaker 1: of the last couple off season. So there are there
Speaker 1: are still a lot of dominoes to fall, but maybe, uh,
Speaker 1: curb your enthusiasm because it's never gonna get as hot
Speaker 1: as it was Monday, and certainly Tuesday with the Tom
Speaker 1: Brady news, which was all time. That's the first time
Speaker 1: I've heard Robbie Anderson's name all week, and I've only
Speaker 1: heard Melvin Gordon's name once or twice. It doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like there are many teams in need of a running back,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if anybody wants to pay him
Speaker 1: even close to what he thought he might get at
Speaker 1: this time last year. All Right, you guys want to
Speaker 1: go through the news that we did get from the
Speaker 1: time we left you yesterday until right now, and perhaps Ricky,
Speaker 1: as you're as you do, you kind of keep an
Speaker 1: eye on anything that happens in case there's some breaking news. Okay,
Speaker 1: how are you. It looks like you're in a nice
Speaker 1: furnished room, with a framed photo of loved ones. And
Speaker 1: it just seems like a nice, nice set up for you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I set up my whole home office. I got my monitor,
Speaker 1: my TV going, I got my two computers set up.
Speaker 1: I've been grinding over here, are you guys? And and
Speaker 1: let it be said, I I believe that we have.
Speaker 1: But it bears repeating that Erica is doing an incredible job,
Speaker 1: um this week keeping the show going without Ricky. We're
Speaker 1: not on the air right now, So bravo to you,
Speaker 1: young lady. Thank you. Yeah, all right, but le's get
Speaker 1: into it. Greg, Greg just barely gives it. I was
Speaker 1: given the golf clap before anyone. Come on, all right,
Speaker 1: let's get into it. There was uh some saucy quarterback
Speaker 1: news is the biggest story of the day. Nick Foles,
Speaker 1: super Bowl fifty two m v P, the man that
Speaker 1: beat Tom Brady and that great shootout, Uh Eagles Patriots. Well,
Speaker 1: Brady's on a new team and Nick Foles, for the
Speaker 1: third time in three years, is also on a new team.
Speaker 1: The Bears are acquiring Folds in a trade with the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: Mike Garafolo reported Jacksonville will receive a fourth round pick
Speaker 1: in exchange for Foals one season in Jacksonville, ruined by
Speaker 1: the collar bone injury in week one, a Jaguar organization
Speaker 1: that was burning alive, and then he comes back, doesn't
Speaker 1: play well, and then gardener Minshew Uh takes back over
Speaker 1: for the end of the season. So just a total
Speaker 1: loss uh. And for just one season. The Jaguars paid
Speaker 1: thirty and a half million for Foals, who leaves behind
Speaker 1: only not almost nineteen million and dead money on the
Speaker 1: cap after the trade. So Jacksonville is just in a
Speaker 1: world of hurt right now and they just do not
Speaker 1: expect them to be a contender UH in the immediate future.
Speaker 1: But on the bear side, and we'll start with you
Speaker 1: on this west Um, Nick Foles comes to Chicago for
Speaker 1: one reason and one reason only to be the guy
Speaker 1: that could push Mitch Trobinsky, either push Trabinsky to be
Speaker 1: a better player or push him right out the door,
Speaker 1: the former first round pick who's coming off a very
Speaker 1: disappointing season. Yeah, you give a coaching staff like this
Speaker 1: where Matt Naggy, Bill Laser, and John D. Libbe all
Speaker 1: works with the holes in the past, you give them
Speaker 1: excuse to find a guy that they know and they're
Speaker 1: familiar with most coaching staff are gonna do that. And
Speaker 1: then you throw in the coronavirus on top of it,
Speaker 1: where people don't know if you're gonna have an off
Speaker 1: season program, people don't know how much work you're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to do before training camp. I think that
Speaker 1: ends up being a pretty big factor in a situation
Speaker 1: like this, where their familiarity with Nick Foles scored pretty high.
Speaker 1: And Bill Laser also worked with uh Andy Dalton with
Speaker 1: the Bengals too, so maybe you figured they just liked
Speaker 1: fALS better than Dalton. Well, Foals has a higher upside.
Speaker 1: It's been weird for me today to see all the
Speaker 1: flaming of the Bears for this move and all the
Speaker 1: jokes of just like, okay, well, now they have two
Speaker 1: terrible quarterbacks that that's really gonna help. And maybe I
Speaker 1: overrated Nick Foles when when West and I had him
Speaker 1: very high in our free agency and I was, you know,
Speaker 1: on our rankings, and I was leading that um drive.
Speaker 1: But he's not a bum. I mean, these two guys
Speaker 1: are even. The next time Mitchell Robinski has one of
Speaker 1: the best Super Bowl performances of all time, hasn't an
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game where he puts up forty points. As
Speaker 1: a full regular season where he has twenty seven touchdowns
Speaker 1: in two interceptions, nick Foles has done some things in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and to me, if it's even if it's
Speaker 1: actually a fair fight, there's no question. To me, nick
Speaker 1: Foles has a higher ceiling and gives them a better
Speaker 1: chance to win and maybe give them a little bit
Speaker 1: of juice. I'm with you on that. Like I don't
Speaker 1: hate the signing at all. My one concern with Nick
Speaker 1: Foles is not when he's available. He is an immediate
Speaker 1: upgrade for me over Mitch Drabinsky, and uh deserves another
Speaker 1: shot to be a starter. But his availability is suspect um.
Speaker 1: It's been that way for a long time, and you know,
Speaker 1: but but if you're you know, the Bears were looking
Speaker 1: into Cam Newton, there were reports to that. But Cam
Speaker 1: Newton is getting totally banged by our society right now.
Speaker 1: Where if you're someone that is open to moving from
Speaker 1: team A to Team B and you're count you're essentially
Speaker 1: someone who has been a figure nestled away in rehab.
Speaker 1: You can't take the physical, you can't show the team
Speaker 1: where you're at. Physically, you can't even go have that conversation.
Speaker 1: So to West's point, these teams with embedded coaching staffs
Speaker 1: that have been there for a while, that that fine
Speaker 1: players that they know, Um, they can plood right in
Speaker 1: that coming with especially at the quarterback position, with knowledge
Speaker 1: to teach other people and to be that presence. Of
Speaker 1: course Nick Foles makes sense. I don't think you would
Speaker 1: ever have chosen to start over with a risky free
Speaker 1: agent trade candidate instead. So I you know, I killed
Speaker 1: the Bears over and over. At least they've recognized that
Speaker 1: they need to upgrade the position and they've done something
Speaker 1: about it, So box checked. I hope that falls can
Speaker 1: stay healthy. To be clear, Mark, you said that society
Speaker 1: has banged Cam Newton. I feel like to be more clear,
Speaker 1: it's been this this pox had has fallen upon our
Speaker 1: society and change society the way the way we operate
Speaker 1: as human beings. You know, it's the it's the pandemic
Speaker 1: that's bang Kewton. That's that's a good clarification for me.
Speaker 1: To blame society in an isolated fashion is not fair. Well,
Speaker 1: and and the Jaguars are still paying for the original
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles sin they had. They were so desperate last
Speaker 1: year to find somebody to replace Bordals that they overpay
Speaker 1: for fools and now, like you said, nineteen million and
Speaker 1: dead money because they kept the fools tera going on
Speaker 1: for so long. They have three million total in dead
Speaker 1: money this year. So that's like money they could be
Speaker 1: spending on making the team around Gardner Minshew better, including
Speaker 1: the defense. I mean, you're gonna have to score a
Speaker 1: lot of points, uh, tone that defense. And that said,
Speaker 1: it's well known if you're a listening to this show
Speaker 1: that certain people on our show love Gardner means you
Speaker 1: and certain people don't, namely me. It's a good set
Speaker 1: up for him in the sense that I doubt where
Speaker 1: the Jaguars are, it feels like they are in more
Speaker 1: now of a rebuilding period. I would doubt that they
Speaker 1: would bring it a veteran an Andy Dalton type guy
Speaker 1: when they're so far away from contention at this stage.
Speaker 1: He might get in trouble because they're not going to
Speaker 1: have a great supporting cast around him necessarily. But I
Speaker 1: would also think that Minshew is gonna get a real
Speaker 1: shot now to be their starter, at least entering the season.
Speaker 1: And see how it goes from there. Well, I mean this,
Speaker 1: this spoke louder than anything they could have done, which
Speaker 1: was to clear up this two headed quarterback situation. A sap,
Speaker 1: but I don't like min shoes chances to win games.
Speaker 1: Um with the way this team is constructed there in
Speaker 1: cap hell, they are allowing every defensive player worth um
Speaker 1: anything at all to escape and be traded or escape
Speaker 1: and leave the team. And unless you're an offense that's
Speaker 1: gonna put up. I just this defense was terrible last
Speaker 1: year with half those guys on the roster. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know how he's going to survive um or
Speaker 1: to to add on to what he did last year.
Speaker 1: It feels like a regression season for the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: And I'm forever grateful for what Nick Foles did to
Speaker 1: Ricky and Greg's Patriots a couple of years back, but
Speaker 1: I would have thought Cam Newton to me, has more
Speaker 1: sex appeal as a guy to bring in, and he
Speaker 1: could be a guy that not only pushes Mitch Drabinsky,
Speaker 1: but can uh kind of get his career back on track.
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden they have a standout quarterback
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. It might have been a good a
Speaker 1: good gamble for that organization which kind of needs to
Speaker 1: hit on something big. But Falls is the safer choice
Speaker 1: at this stage, but not by that much. Like Mark said,
Speaker 1: this guy can't stay on the field himself, but Kim
Speaker 1: Newton and you're right, he is an attractive, attractive man.
Speaker 1: Um Vert this bears spot being filled. And then hearing
Speaker 1: a man talk about good looking remember his comment, his comment,
Speaker 1: it's funny to hear a woman talk about England. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be so mad. Yeah, I think that's where I
Speaker 1: was going with this. Erica, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you would go to New England. But the
Speaker 1: combination of this news today with Foals and then Ian
Speaker 1: rap report reporting very strongly that the Chargers, after losing
Speaker 1: out on Brady, are going forward with Tyrod Taylor and
Speaker 1: presumably a rookie. They have a top six pick and
Speaker 1: they can maybe move up um And and get tongue
Speaker 1: of Violoa, or they could take Justin Herbert, and that's
Speaker 1: kind of what I'm expecting the Chargers to do. It
Speaker 1: leaves the Patriots in a situation where if they want
Speaker 1: to go bargain bin hunting, they've got options. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's Jamis, there's Cam Newton, and there's Andy Dalton, and
Speaker 1: it feels like a very Bill Belichick move to see
Speaker 1: who sits out there the longest and is just the
Speaker 1: total deepest that they think they could build an offense around.
Speaker 1: And to me, Cam Newton would be the guy that
Speaker 1: I think would get Josh McDaniels excited. All right, let
Speaker 1: us now move on and talk about other news. You
Speaker 1: know what, let's let's check in on the jadeveon Clowney
Speaker 1: because he is the highest remaining player on the top
Speaker 1: one oh one correct. Yes, and you know some people
Speaker 1: surprised that he is not connected to a team, and
Speaker 1: you haven't heard a lot. Well, Mike garre Folow noted Wednesday,
Speaker 1: the Clowney has not found the market he expected. The
Speaker 1: Seahawks offer uh that he has in hand could be
Speaker 1: the best that he'll get. Gar Folo added, So the
Speaker 1: past rusher, we've talked about this forever on this show,
Speaker 1: or at least it feels like forever that his production
Speaker 1: has never matched his um his stats are. His production
Speaker 1: has never been a jibe with a guy that should
Speaker 1: be paid like a highest paid defender in the league.
Speaker 1: But then all the big D word gets thrown around,
Speaker 1: not the one you're thinking of, disruptive. Uh, He's very disruptive.
Speaker 1: And yet it seems like teams are shying away from
Speaker 1: an injured guy, a guy that has injuries that hasn't
Speaker 1: always produced Statistically. It's all relative though. I mean Dante
Speaker 1: Fowler for instance. You know, we'll talk to him, But
Speaker 1: he got sixty million dollars a year, so I'm assuming
Speaker 1: Jandavian Clowney is gonna get significantly more than that. And
Speaker 1: maybe he was thinking, like I was thinking, that he
Speaker 1: might get an insane amount and he's clearly not getting
Speaker 1: that offer, or else we would be hearing more. Seattle
Speaker 1: reported he made a very aggressive offer and that might
Speaker 1: end up being his best bet is to just return
Speaker 1: to the Seahawks. He won't be alone uh in Seattle
Speaker 1: if he can. If he does return, Bruce Irvin is
Speaker 1: back with the Seahawks. According to rap Sheet, the thirty
Speaker 1: two year old defensive ends agreed to terms of the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks reuniting him with Pete Carroll. They took him
Speaker 1: fifteen overall in two thousand twelve. If you remember back then,
Speaker 1: that was seen as a surprise. Um. Irvin had dealt
Speaker 1: with some off the field issues as I recall, but
Speaker 1: he's always been a very steady contributor. He went to
Speaker 1: the Panthers, had a nice season, but now he's back
Speaker 1: with Seattle. Uh So, if they can get if they
Speaker 1: do get Clowney back, he got Irvin in the building,
Speaker 1: they could really maybe make some gains getting to the quarterback,
Speaker 1: which was which was a problem last year. I like
Speaker 1: Seattle's like ability. One thing about them because when team,
Speaker 1: when players leave a team, it's almost like you're never
Speaker 1: allowed to have that player come back into the fold,
Speaker 1: Like you would never bring some of these guys back.
Speaker 1: Seattle is like, this is like the fifth or six
Speaker 1: guy that after a stop somewhere else, They're like, this
Speaker 1: guy fits our system. He was in a system in
Speaker 1: Atlanta that's similar to ours, and we'll have him right back.
Speaker 1: No hard feelings, like it's it kind of tells you that,
Speaker 1: you know, unlike some of these teams we talked about,
Speaker 1: like the Texans and others, that they don't burn the bridge.
Speaker 1: They keep the relationship alive and you might need a
Speaker 1: guy later. And Irvin is the perfect fit right now
Speaker 1: at this point Urvan. You know, it's fun to get
Speaker 1: him back together. He's with kJ Wright. It's like good,
Speaker 1: good memories. He's kind of a bit player. But their
Speaker 1: biggest moves so far as been bringing Drawn redback UH.
Speaker 1: And that was late last night. That was to a
Speaker 1: two year, twenty three million dollar contract, which is pretty
Speaker 1: good money. He's been an up and down player. Seahawks
Speaker 1: fans were thinking they were gonna go wild. I think
Speaker 1: they're a little disappointed that that's like the highlight of
Speaker 1: their first couple of days, but it's like, come come down.
Speaker 1: They've signed a couple of offensive linemen to Brandon shell
Speaker 1: And and b J Finney, and it looks like they
Speaker 1: expect both of them to start. Those aren't big names
Speaker 1: and they were not on our top one list, but
Speaker 1: there they are starting for the Seahawks. UH. In other news,
Speaker 1: a trade We Love Trades that Denver Broncos are acquiring
Speaker 1: Titans defensive lineman Jarrell Casey in exchange for a seventh
Speaker 1: round pick. Rap Sheet reports nine News. Denver my clie
Speaker 1: had that first. UH. Denver had a hole in their
Speaker 1: defensive line with several guys hitting free agency, so they
Speaker 1: add a five time pro Bowl or West. Did this
Speaker 1: surprise you that Casey came free for a bottom of
Speaker 1: the shelf uh? Draft pick? It did surprise me, but
Speaker 1: those things always surprise me unless I read a Greg
Speaker 1: article saying this guy's making too much money and needs
Speaker 1: to be cut and found jobless. Um, those are usually
Speaker 1: how Greg's articles go. When he does this, I cannot
Speaker 1: sound that was either a really nice compliment or a
Speaker 1: withering put down. Like I never really know when guys
Speaker 1: are gonna lose their job until Greg covers and I
Speaker 1: Darrell Casey was not on my radar. I've you like, Um,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Simmons played so well last year that I guess
Speaker 1: they feel like he can slide into that rule and
Speaker 1: they can maybe get more pass rush and sacrifice a
Speaker 1: little run defense. Uh, and then you some of that
Speaker 1: money for guys like Derrick Henry. I find it unjust that, uh,
Speaker 1: Darrell Casey, who has been consistently awesome and consistently outside
Speaker 1: of like you know, PFF football heads and certain types
Speaker 1: mostly ignored by the casual fan, and it's no one
Speaker 1: even knows who he is for the most part. The
Speaker 1: minute that the Titans get you know, kind of sexy
Speaker 1: and are going to have a bunch of prime time games. Bang,
Speaker 1: he's sent he sent off the team. It's it's God forbid.
Speaker 1: Darrell Casey ever get the attention he deserves for having
Speaker 1: been consistently awesome. I was stunned by this trade. Uh.
Speaker 1: I guess he had a soldier problem last year. He
Speaker 1: has been around a while, but he's been durable. He's
Speaker 1: been really productive. I know he's been one of your
Speaker 1: favorite players. West. It seems like a steal and they're
Speaker 1: trying to cut some salary cap. Maybe it's a Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry move. But it was on the same day that
Speaker 1: they signed Vic Beasley to a ten million dollar contract.
Speaker 1: Vick Beasley, who going into this free agency period was
Speaker 1: like the guy I would have wanted my team to
Speaker 1: sign the least because he just knew someone was gonna
Speaker 1: pay Vick Beasley hoping he could have the one good
Speaker 1: season that the Falcons basically we're hoping they would get
Speaker 1: out of him, and they never did. And they so
Speaker 1: they know. They played different positions. But I'm a little mystified.
Speaker 1: The Titans defense always seems like this formless. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: I know that they're a little more fun on offense.
Speaker 1: But the defense still has that old nickname that that
Speaker 1: Tan used to give him. So let's talk Broncos. Then
Speaker 1: we haven't talked about their side of the trade. They
Speaker 1: had Darrell Casey. Uh. They are picking up a J. Boyer,
Speaker 1: they kept Justin Simmons uh, and they get Bradley Chupp
Speaker 1: back next year. This defense was playing really well at
Speaker 1: the end of last year. I like what the Broncos
Speaker 1: are doing on the next side of the ball. If
Speaker 1: I was Tony really, you know, around the horn, I'd
Speaker 1: be giving you some points right now, West, I like
Speaker 1: that one. That's a I feel like I feel like
Speaker 1: we're on around the horn with these. I'll be holding
Speaker 1: up a sign thank you. How many points do I have? Greg?
Speaker 1: I feel like he would be negatively, You've got a
Speaker 1: lot of points. If he had started the points before
Speaker 1: the show, when you were breaking out a conspiracy theory
Speaker 1: about an NFL network mishap that I won't get into,
Speaker 1: I would that would have been negative points. But you're
Speaker 1: doing great once the Yeah, I saved the negative point
Speaker 1: conversations for off the air and before we get overly
Speaker 1: excited about the Broncos. West, you know Joe Flacco is
Speaker 1: about to be cut or it has been done. Uh
Speaker 1: they have Drew Lock and then two Jags, uh sub
Speaker 1: Jags behind him that it feels like quite a gamble
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position right now. I specifically mentioned the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball because although I like the
Speaker 1: Graham Glasgow signing, the once you mentioned are legit, we
Speaker 1: don't know about their quarterback. They only really have one
Speaker 1: proven wide receiver. I don't know that they got a
Speaker 1: lot of question marks on that side of the ball. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the thing, Cam and Jamis and Dalton have to
Speaker 1: go somewhere like they're not going to not be in
Speaker 1: the NFL next year. And so you know now that
Speaker 1: I've been like, I don't know, maybe Denver is a
Speaker 1: team even though they're in they say they're in on
Speaker 1: Drew Lock. It's like at a certain point, if these
Speaker 1: three guys are making you know, six seven million dollars
Speaker 1: like a backups type money, it's like they'd be crazy
Speaker 1: not to try try one of those guys. L A
Speaker 1: already swung and missed it, one washed up veteran, and
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco maybe Cam as a guy that he would
Speaker 1: wait on and then bring in again. He seems like
Speaker 1: a guy that would take a big swing there. He
Speaker 1: is the guy that got Peyton Manning once upon a
Speaker 1: time when he had injury issues. I mean, John Elway
Speaker 1: watched Cam Newton basically take the Super Bowl off. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's the greatest selling point for a
Speaker 1: prospective employer, but I mean, he took one lot happening
Speaker 1: outside of that one place. But I'll take your word
Speaker 1: for it. I just I did. It's so funny. I
Speaker 1: thought of that again today. And I know you Panthers
Speaker 1: fans as at the end of the Cam Newton era,
Speaker 1: so many of you are still thinking about that play
Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty about two or three minutes to play
Speaker 1: ball on the ground in a one score game, and
Speaker 1: Cam watched Salton. I'm just saying I think about it sometimes.
Speaker 1: If I was a Panthers fan, I'd probably think about
Speaker 1: it all the time. Uh. In other news, speaking of
Speaker 1: the NFC South, that Falcons make an addition to their
Speaker 1: defense their pass rush gets a boost. Tom Pellicero and
Speaker 1: rap Sheet report that they are expected to sign Dante
Speaker 1: Fowler to a three year deal. This guy is getting
Speaker 1: some frequent flyer miles in his career. UM the Falcons
Speaker 1: could not get to the quarterback last year, and Fowler
Speaker 1: has been a little up and down in his career,
Speaker 1: but he had a he had a nice run with
Speaker 1: the Rams, and now dan Quinn's defense is going to
Speaker 1: need him to be a consistent guy off the edge. Mark,
Speaker 1: do you think he could be that? Well? I think
Speaker 1: you know. We we hit on Vic Beasley and at
Speaker 1: this point you need an upgrade, and I if he
Speaker 1: plays the way he did with the Rams, that is
Speaker 1: a distinctive upgrade. Dan Quinn coached him at Florida, so
Speaker 1: it's another one of these um relationship scenarios. He's young,
Speaker 1: you're in theory getting him at a time where he
Speaker 1: could round into someone that does what he did last year,
Speaker 1: which was eleven and a half sacks, which was a
Speaker 1: personal best for him year after year. I mean, the
Speaker 1: Falcons to me, I need to see their defense before
Speaker 1: I trust it because it just seems like it's not
Speaker 1: really clicked in a while. At this point, how old?
Speaker 1: What is going on here? I'm with you, He's one
Speaker 1: of these guys almost forty, and this guy has been
Speaker 1: he was essentially twenty three for seven straight years. He
Speaker 1: was always distinctively younger than you. But or yeah, he
Speaker 1: entered the league young. Uh, he got this much money
Speaker 1: because the Rams reportedly really wanted to keep him and
Speaker 1: they went They went pretty high to keep him. So
Speaker 1: that's a good sign that a team that had him
Speaker 1: for a year and a half I wanted to pay
Speaker 1: him big money. And if I'm a Rams fan and
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm looking at this defense and you think
Speaker 1: of what they have lost so far. They've lost Michael
Speaker 1: Brocker's They've lost Dante Fowler, They've lost Corey Littleton, they
Speaker 1: got rid of Nicole Robie Coleman, who was a pretty
Speaker 1: good player, and Eric Weddle retired and Wade Phillips has gone.
Speaker 1: You have a first time coordinator in Brandon Staley. That
Speaker 1: is a lot of uncertainty. Yeah, but you're leaving out
Speaker 1: one thing. Greg Leonard. Leonard Floyd's in the building. He
Speaker 1: is being signed by the Rams. Uh, Pallisero and Garafolo reported,
Speaker 1: so they are essentially replacing Fowler with Floyd, who was
Speaker 1: released by the Bears on Tuesday, a former first round pick. Uh.
Speaker 1: So they're hoping that he will somehow find the spark.
Speaker 1: So get excited. It's not every day. You get the
Speaker 1: sarcastic retort um with that that was working on a
Speaker 1: lot of levels with a seg one of the hand,
Speaker 1: you know, one thing on oh on the Falcons defense,
Speaker 1: this is like a Congo line. Since we started the podcast,
Speaker 1: certain guys come in, then they come back. Adrian Claiborne's in,
Speaker 1: Jack Crawford, Vic Beasley, No it's Dante Faller. The names changed.
Speaker 1: The defense still finishes like and you can run on
Speaker 1: them all day. You Mark did have that great Super
Speaker 1: Bowl experience where he was the coordinator of the Seahawks
Speaker 1: and you guys just fell in love with Dan Quinn.
Speaker 1: There was a part two to that, which I believe
Speaker 1: I mentioned once before where it was an owner's meeting
Speaker 1: scenario where there's not a lot of Atlanta Falcons beat
Speaker 1: writers how ring around. But it was one of these
Speaker 1: breakfast table scenarios where it was Dan Quinn sitting there
Speaker 1: alone and me sitting with him, and de Orlando led
Speaker 1: better some of you have a lot of respect for
Speaker 1: um and ge Orlando showed up with a gigantic plate
Speaker 1: of like eggs, bacon and toast and I'm talk listen.
Speaker 1: This is the celebrated Falcon's beat writer. I'm gonna allow
Speaker 1: him to unferral three or four straight questions at Quinn
Speaker 1: before I drop in. You know what I need to
Speaker 1: go with d Lead just sat there and continue to
Speaker 1: eat Like I was like, at one point, you've got
Speaker 1: all this is a working function. I'm sure he got
Speaker 1: to his questions down the road, but I got shifted
Speaker 1: into small talk with Dan Quinn and asking him like
Speaker 1: nine or ten questions about the Falcons when I had
Speaker 1: best and maybe one maybe one. So you know part two,
Speaker 1: Mark just advanced anytime you have any time you have
Speaker 1: like a d Lead eating story and the automatic lead
Speaker 1: it love that guy. What you know, since we are
Speaker 1: adjacent to the you know, reporting world, at that level,
Speaker 1: you start to pick up on some things. And I
Speaker 1: think d Led gobbling down the breakfast before getting to
Speaker 1: work is to me the equivalent of Larry fitz Sr.
Speaker 1: At the Super Bowls taking out the folding chair and
Speaker 1: just putting it smack dab in the center of the
Speaker 1: clubhouse and just letting the chaos on furl around him
Speaker 1: before he gets gets his quotes. A perfect parallel and
Speaker 1: I and I'm only imagine that with his experience that
Speaker 1: de Orlando had a longer, slow play um plan at
Speaker 1: work there that I was the you know, I was
Speaker 1: the idiot that's trying to jump in and do my thing.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he got something great out of that meeting
Speaker 1: after I departed. I don't know. It's it's an ancient parable.
Speaker 1: It's the turtle in the hair, you know. Alright. Moving on,
Speaker 1: speaking of the NFC South and UH, big name players,
Speaker 1: Gerald McCoy, he is leaving that division and heading to
Speaker 1: Big D. The Cowboys not the Big D year thinking
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys agreed to terms with McCoy on a
Speaker 1: three year deal. Rap Sheet reported ESPN first had it. UH.
Speaker 1: Gary Folo says the deal has a base value of
Speaker 1: over eighteen million, could get to twenty million, UH with
Speaker 1: some incentives. Hit. He's thirty two years old, went to
Speaker 1: Carolina for one season, played sixteen games. Uh. West not
Speaker 1: the same guy that he was during his heyday in Tampa,
Speaker 1: but somebody that could still do some damage. And I
Speaker 1: would I would see this as a positive signing for
Speaker 1: a Cowboys defense that kind of needs some reinforcements. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Greg talked about the Rams losing so many guys. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys have lost as many snaps as anybody, I think
Speaker 1: in this free agency period with Robert Quinn, Byron Jones,
Speaker 1: Jeff Heath, Takeaway Jason and Randall Cobb, and then Malick
Speaker 1: Malick Collins, who Gerald McCoy is going to replace. And
Speaker 1: I'd say McCoy, even at age thirty two or whatever
Speaker 1: he is now is a better pass rushing present. So
Speaker 1: he's a more disruptive guy on passing downs and it's
Speaker 1: now a passing league. That was probably a Cowboys fan,
Speaker 1: I'd be I would have been pretty worried going into
Speaker 1: free agency, but I think the first few days have
Speaker 1: gone about as good as you could have hoped, considering
Speaker 1: how much you had to pay, doc that you got
Speaker 1: a Marie Cooper back. They resigned Anthony Brown, Blake Jarwin's
Speaker 1: back in the building. That's not a big deal, sound
Speaker 1: lee whatever. But the way you said it sounds like
Speaker 1: a pretty big deal thing here is uh Kai was
Speaker 1: resigned as like a day one free agency. Yeah what, Greg,
Speaker 1: can I just with all due respect, that was not
Speaker 1: your news to break. I mean, I'm setting it up
Speaker 1: for you because you know, the one the one place
Speaker 1: that does not close during the coronavirus pandemic is the
Speaker 1: Kicker club. Mm hmm. The Dallas Cowboys have signed Kai
Speaker 1: for bath he stays in the building after being just
Speaker 1: an app salute standout down the stretch for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: nearly kicked him in the playoffs. Let's face it, Uh,
Speaker 1: he went a perfect ten for ten on field goals
Speaker 1: down the stretch. So Kai, who absolutely was nearly drummed
Speaker 1: out of the league just because that's some bad word
Speaker 1: of mouth, that's how I see it. Start with me.
Speaker 1: But I was told some negative things famously at a
Speaker 1: area hospital here in Los Angeles before the birth of
Speaker 1: my first son. Uh that Yeah, you know, kis Kai. Guys,
Speaker 1: you know, guy's gonna do what guy's gonna do, which
Speaker 1: is the universal indicator for you know, maybe not the
Speaker 1: best dude. Um. And now Kai is back on his
Speaker 1: feet and he never deserved to be office feet because
Speaker 1: the boy can kick. Yeah. I think that, you know, Dan,
Speaker 1: if anything, you deserve at least half the credit for
Speaker 1: the career revival that he's experienced over the last six
Speaker 1: seven months. So I would say I put him, I
Speaker 1: put him more. This is what I'll take credit for, Mark, please, Um,
Speaker 1: I will take credit for enhancing his Twitter viability, his
Speaker 1: profile because there are more hashtags dedicated to Kai on
Speaker 1: the Internet now that that ever existed before. You know, well,
Speaker 1: let's not. Don't stop there. Like the original renaissance came
Speaker 1: out of the Boo Bop bubonic plade, it was a
Speaker 1: side effect of it. And here we are in coronavirus time.
Speaker 1: You have given a renaissance to Kai for Vat's career
Speaker 1: and think, well, maybe I will take a lap in
Speaker 1: the Kicker Club, which again is open for business. Uh.
Speaker 1: We we are one of those sets that do not
Speaker 1: believe in, uh the ability to pass germs. So the
Speaker 1: place is packed. It's so if you want to come
Speaker 1: on down to the Kicker Club were we have DJ
Speaker 1: Paul D spinning tonight and everyone because on a little
Speaker 1: Corona virus um promotion to get people in the building,
Speaker 1: everybody gets to go behind the velvet rope and shake hands.
Speaker 1: Uh so come on down to the Kicker Club. Somehow
Speaker 1: I'm good. I don't know. I don't feel the uh
Speaker 1: like the tractor being pulling me over to that event tonight,
Speaker 1: but perhaps down the road. Okay, okay, fair enough. In
Speaker 1: other news, the Chargers are expected to uh Land a
Speaker 1: premium name on the secondary market. Cornerback Chris Harris is
Speaker 1: signing in l A rap sheet reported the deals where
Speaker 1: two years and twenty million UM. Harris then confirmed to
Speaker 1: ESPN that he's going to the Chargers, a nice pick up.
Speaker 1: Nine years in the league. This will be his tenth season.
Speaker 1: We talked about it a little bit when we learned
Speaker 1: that he wouldn't be going back to Denver. Um greg
Speaker 1: that Harris maybe not the same player he used to be,
Speaker 1: but maybe stick him in the slot and he could
Speaker 1: do some good job. Good work for the Chargers. He
Speaker 1: looked awesome last year, and the combination of him, Casey Hayward,
Speaker 1: and Desmond King is about as good as it gets
Speaker 1: at cornerback. I'm gonna fall into the same trap, you know.
Speaker 1: I kind of like the signings. I've had Bulaga at
Speaker 1: right tack. Goal. They bring in Linval Joseph not so
Speaker 1: sure about that, but either way, it's like the Chargers
Speaker 1: roster outside of a quarterback, which seems like a significant position. Look,
Speaker 1: it looks pretty good again. Let's get back on the
Speaker 1: Charger's bandwagon. What a team they're built. They're building in
Speaker 1: every room. Can we send Can we send Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: there for a fourth round pick and be done with it?
Speaker 1: How about that? I mean they they are going to
Speaker 1: draft someone I don't know, if like Love justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: and so they feel fine that there if if he's
Speaker 1: there at six, or if they are gonna try to
Speaker 1: trade up, maybe they'll be the guy team that takes
Speaker 1: to Uh. It's funny because in Jeremiah's um pre free
Speaker 1: agency mocked draft, he had two teams, the Cults and
Speaker 1: Bucks back to back taking Love and Herbert. And I
Speaker 1: just think the Chargers are when you're when you're looking
Speaker 1: at potential free agents and you're making it clear that
Speaker 1: you're not chasing after a veteran. They are locked and
Speaker 1: loaded to go get a rookie and restart that position
Speaker 1: from scratch, and if they get the right one. To
Speaker 1: Greg's point, like the team around him, because the offensive
Speaker 1: line has been improved, at least on paper right now too,
Speaker 1: is this is a great situation for a rookie compared
Speaker 1: to some teams you could land with. The more I
Speaker 1: think about it, they really should be a team that
Speaker 1: should be thinking and maybe they are to give it
Speaker 1: all up to get to a you know, like that's
Speaker 1: a guy you can open your stadium with. And they
Speaker 1: have such a good rest of the team. They've been
Speaker 1: so patient, drafted pretty well. Like I could see them
Speaker 1: giving up a huge raft of draft picks to go
Speaker 1: get to h open the stadium with him. That'd be
Speaker 1: fun do it. That makes a lot of sense. That
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. Points if everybody was like
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, he opened the stadium with Tom Brady. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady is gonna be forty three in week one. If
Speaker 1: there's a week one, you go get a young quarterback.
Speaker 1: Then could put some meat in the seats. And then
Speaker 1: he's a guy that could be there for fifteen years.
Speaker 1: Let's fly. Oh my god, he could be forty nine. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, let's hit a little eight o'clock to light
Speaker 1: Ricky Malcolm Jenkins heading back to the Bayou four year,
Speaker 1: thirty two million dollar deal was sixteen and quartered guaranteed
Speaker 1: to go back to the Saints, leaving the Eagles because
Speaker 1: he got anything left grant he was playing well last year,
Speaker 1: replaces von Val. Saints fans love him, Sean Payton loved them. Yes,
Speaker 1: Andrew Whitworth is not going anywhere. The Rams are in
Speaker 1: a time of transition, but they decide that they want
Speaker 1: to keep Jared Goss blind side protector three year deal
Speaker 1: for Whitworth. If he plays out the contract West, He's
Speaker 1: gonna be in his forties like you. Yeah, that that
Speaker 1: means he should probably wake up with a different body
Speaker 1: part hurting every day and may only last about four
Speaker 1: games into the sep Uh, don't get too close to fort.
Speaker 1: Thomas Davis is reuniting with Ron Rivera on the Redskins.
Speaker 1: Can't kill Thomas Davis, Mark Sessler. I also wonder if
Speaker 1: the Redskins might um look at Eric Reid, who the
Speaker 1: Panthers just released as well, because Rivera feels like the
Speaker 1: kind of coach that, despite selling you fresh ideas, is
Speaker 1: going to bring in every aging player he can simply
Speaker 1: because he has them in his cell phone and that
Speaker 1: the I like Rivera, He's fine, but it just seems
Speaker 1: like we're getting a lot of X two points for you, buddy.
Speaker 1: And also maybe Cam Newton goes to Washington. Uh, stranger
Speaker 1: things have happened. Uh, Patriots defensive back to Ron Harmon
Speaker 1: is heading to Detroit, so Greg the Patriots exodus continues. Yeah,
Speaker 1: congratulations to the Lions for taking all of the players
Speaker 1: the Patriots didn't want, you know, Jamie Collins, Danny Shelton,
Speaker 1: Deron Harmon. This is the way you build a championship.
Speaker 1: Is there anybody left on the Patriots roster? It's not.
Speaker 1: It's all split of baby, it's just Greg. Remember when
Speaker 1: your biggest concern about the Patriots is why there weren't
Speaker 1: more coaches on their staff. Now you have real kids.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so huge, Goold. It's a huge concern that
Speaker 1: the Lions are overpaying like role players from the Patrios.
Speaker 1: I mean, one thing I know is that when Jamie
Speaker 1: Collins leaves New England and goes to a different team,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get the best version of Jamie Collins hands down.
Speaker 1: The Raiders in veteran cornerback Eli Apple, agree to a
Speaker 1: deal with former tenth overall pick. He's bounced around a
Speaker 1: little bit, most recently with the Saints. Now he's in Vegas.
Speaker 1: It's one of those guys you want as your third
Speaker 1: corner because if he's your second corner, they're picking on
Speaker 1: him all the time. And with the Raiders at this point,
Speaker 1: he might be their first corner because they tried for
Speaker 1: Chris Harris and offered three years and Harris decided to
Speaker 1: go to and finally West. It looks like the softball
Speaker 1: team is in dire straits. Uh, we're given away final
Speaker 1: years of our careers because Corona might take a take
Speaker 1: us out. Yeah. I talked to Keisha about that that
Speaker 1: I thought I might not have to make the retirement
Speaker 1: decision after I hope because Corona is making it for me. Uh.
Speaker 1: But yeah, after we talked through weards several days where
Speaker 1: I woke up and my right shoulder was hurting so
Speaker 1: bad that I could barely move that day. So I
Speaker 1: didn't think there was any chance I was playing softball.
Speaker 1: And that is eight o'clock to light. All right, boys, girl,
Speaker 1: any any final thoughts before we sign off on when
Speaker 1: Wednesday's edition? What do we look? What is the domino
Speaker 1: we're waiting now? Like? What do we want to learn?
Speaker 1: We want to learn where Clowney's going. We want to
Speaker 1: see where jamis and Dalton and cam end up um?
Speaker 1: What what else is out there that kind of interests you?
Speaker 1: I want to know where Robby Anderson goes. I hope
Speaker 1: the Jets bring him back. What about you, guys? I'd
Speaker 1: say back to Melvin Gordon, I brought him up earlier
Speaker 1: in the show. Um, a team like the Falcons who
Speaker 1: released DeVante Freeman could use him somebody. One of you
Speaker 1: guys brought up the Bills the other day. I still
Speaker 1: like that to pair him with Devin Singletary. But but
Speaker 1: he might be your new Falcons running back. I have
Speaker 1: a feeling but in the Patriots quarterback situation, and I
Speaker 1: know we're joking about how they're diminished, but I'm still
Speaker 1: very intrigued to see what Bill Belichick is going to do.
Speaker 1: And there's still some pretty good players out there, and
Speaker 1: it seems like they're going to jump in to this
Speaker 1: part of free agency. Emmanuel Sanders is a guy I'm
Speaker 1: kind of keeping an eye on UM Cowboys reporting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would be interested in with some of these tagged
Speaker 1: players that don't seem like UM necessary long term fits
Speaker 1: for their teams. I think of a guy like Anthony
Speaker 1: Harrison the Vikings, where there were whispers that teams the
Speaker 1: Browns are one safety needy. Teams might be able to
Speaker 1: go and trade with the Vikings for some of these guys.
Speaker 1: I think that's sort of and I think we hit
Speaker 1: on this maybe, But this new wave of like franchise
Speaker 1: these guys and then trade them versus letting them walk
Speaker 1: is a savvy um savvy move at this point, and
Speaker 1: I could see two or three uh at winding up
Speaker 1: elsewhere than where they are today. More points for Cecilier here.
Speaker 1: I think in GOA is gonna get trade. That's a
Speaker 1: pretty big name out there. And then Matthew, Judean Mike
Speaker 1: get traded, so cessler. I think one minute, I think
Speaker 1: he won. Who's getting out the points? I thought? I thought,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a smart move, just to appease me.
Speaker 1: And then in a separate text chat convinced, you know,
Speaker 1: tell yourselves that I absolutely did not win. What are
Speaker 1: they doing that? What are we doing that? Show you
Speaker 1: you mute somebody when they get annoying to you? Is
Speaker 1: that what happens? Ricky? Can you move? Mute Greg for
Speaker 1: ten seconds? I think? So? Maybe it doesn't seem fair.
Speaker 1: He's back. He's back, um. And one last one last
Speaker 1: note I have about Free Agency week is you know
Speaker 1: nine minutes segment with Dick Vitale today on NFL Network,
Speaker 1: the retired uh n C double A coach commentator Guy
Speaker 1: Heroes can't get on the any of this programming how much.
Speaker 1: I mean, you got hours of space to fill. We
Speaker 1: are the most popular NFL podcast in the goddamn world
Speaker 1: and we can't get on and Vitals on for nine minutes.
Speaker 1: I'm giving myself some points. Get us on that show.
Speaker 1: I'm not even saying we, you know, maybe we don't
Speaker 1: have the internet capability to do it, but Vital for
Speaker 1: nine minutes. How was he? It was on in the background.
Speaker 1: Did he play the character he played? I think he's
Speaker 1: a friend or a golf buddy of Brady, So it
Speaker 1: was basically getting his reaction to the Tom Brady news.
Speaker 1: He's like, Mr he's Mr Tampa. Oh, that's right, he's
Speaker 1: a buck season ticket holder. That was the hook. That
Speaker 1: wass the key guy? I think it is, so we
Speaker 1: will be Oh and one last thing, what's going on
Speaker 1: with the Beards. I know Ricky try to take the
Speaker 1: air out of it, but has everybody grown him? Yeah? Greg,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look like I supposed to do NFL now tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I gotta trim this thing at some point,
Speaker 1: but I'm not there yet. What do you mean you're
Speaker 1: growing that thing in hardcore during the season. That's true,
Speaker 1: but there's like a you know, there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: pretty ugly in between real soon. It's in that middle
Speaker 1: period where you look like you've done something wrong to
Speaker 1: a child potentially. So yeah, we need to we need to.
Speaker 1: I have some concerns about how the neck beard is
Speaker 1: growing at a far more aggressive rate than the face beard,
Speaker 1: and it just kind of makes me look like a
Speaker 1: homeless person. You got andrew luck situation going. It's a
Speaker 1: bit of a luck situation, and it's not lucky for
Speaker 1: the old juser. That's what I mean. Like you gotta
Speaker 1: I'm I'm trimming that neck sooner. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: If you're going on TV, I get it or whatever.
Speaker 1: But if you're in a situation where we're just gonna
Speaker 1: be doing internet content, I said, we just ride this
Speaker 1: out for as long as we can before we have
Speaker 1: to go on television. No blade shall touch my face
Speaker 1: for until we get the green light. And Ricky, that
Speaker 1: goes for you to put down the razor. Let's fly.
Speaker 1: Sure like the unshaven armpit is coming back with the
Speaker 1: younger generation. I've noticed a country that is some outrageous stuff.
Speaker 1: It's just an actual statement that I'm making you're right.
Speaker 1: You're right, and we have to tread carefully because certain
Speaker 1: things we're not supposed to have opinions on anymore. But uh,
Speaker 1: that you know, that's something I can't get behind that
Speaker 1: that's something that's happening in society with the kids. I'm
Speaker 1: with you. I don't. I don't see um. But again,
Speaker 1: it's not an impact me at all, impact me in
Speaker 1: any way. So good mark your good luck to your
Speaker 1: body hair and it's not your body and it's not
Speaker 1: your choice. No, but that's this is actually what you
Speaker 1: were saying a minute ago. So don't I don't need
Speaker 1: thee I am not instructing anyone to do anything, but
Speaker 1: I also make it clear that like I do shave
Speaker 1: anything before that gets global. Okay, yeah, bade them. And
Speaker 1: speaking of global, Ricky, we have a global audience. You
Speaker 1: want to get a plug in for your UM live
Speaker 1: streaming movie watching, live tweeting VMN Virtual Movie Night. I
Speaker 1: don't know if we're gonna do one tonight, but potentially tomorrow. Um.
Speaker 1: Colleen is in, John, I hope you guys will be in.
Speaker 1: We'll pick we'll pick a movie and we can all
Speaker 1: watch it together. From from afar my suggestions have been
Speaker 1: largely ignored. The two suggestions that I made even ours anymore?
Speaker 1: Do they mean anything? I know? My my suggestive roadhouse stands. Yeah. No.
Speaker 1: I think I feel like we need to do like
Speaker 1: a Legally Blonde because everybody can get behind some like
Speaker 1: Happy Reese Witherspoon right now. Yeah, but does Patrick Swayzy
Speaker 1: rip out a guy's throat and legally Blonde? Because I
Speaker 1: don't think that was part of the space. Does Patrick
Speaker 1: Swayzy say pain don't hurt while he's getting stitches without
Speaker 1: anesty anesthetic? Does that happen in ethel I don't know.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it in a while. So I like
Speaker 1: that you are bringing up Legally Blond as the movie
Speaker 1: that brings all genders together, And is that I think? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I just think that, you know, people that don't like
Speaker 1: women growing out their armpit hairs might not get behind
Speaker 1: the film like Legally Blonde. So if you don't fall
Speaker 1: in that category, Greg, I can't blame you. I'll get
Speaker 1: together with Lifetime. Have a little red wine. Yes, yes, drinking.
Speaker 1: I've been drinking a lot. I think that my drinking
Speaker 1: has gone up. You know, I've been trying to get
Speaker 1: on the bike daily. I've been on the pelt on
Speaker 1: trying to drop some weight and uh, but I can't
Speaker 1: stop drinking. So there's kind of like a bit of
Speaker 1: a trade off going on, and I don't know how
Speaker 1: the scales are gonna work out. Yeah, but the bike
Speaker 1: purchase looking good. I mean, I'm the idiot that joined
Speaker 1: Jim three days before COVID nineteen ruct the nation. So
Speaker 1: a hundred push ups, a hundred sit ups last night,
Speaker 1: and then made a root beer float with all the
Speaker 1: drunk I have in the house. It's a tough situation
Speaker 1: for It's a It's a classic tough tough sitch because
Speaker 1: we're all boards stuck in the house. It's gonna there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some unhealthy habits that are gonna just float
Speaker 1: up to the surface no matter how you cut it. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: no way around it. Good. I haven't touched the drop
Speaker 1: of alcohol since since it happened. Wow, us a little
Speaker 1: little solidarity with with your pregnant wife. No, she wants
Speaker 1: me to drink already pointed out like I didn't get
Speaker 1: the drink when I had cancer. I had to sit
Speaker 1: and watch her. So now you know it's my time
Speaker 1: it's getting even time, a personal campaign, then of sorts,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's good to take a step back, and finally
Speaker 1: a reminder washing hands twenty seconds. Twenty seconds can change
Speaker 1: the world, warm water, soap and get both sides including west.
Speaker 1: Why would it? This is an audio show his hands
Speaker 1: and then pointed to his cuticles. Ummuticles are clean. Also,
Speaker 1: if you're one of the web people that live in
Speaker 1: the sewers, make sure you get the webbing. These pipes
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Speaker 1: the NFL. This is Dan Hanson signing off for Quiet Storm,
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Speaker 1: stay well, stay isolated till Thursday.