Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast wants to find Mark Sessler
Speaker 1: a new job. Welcome to another edition of the Around
Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansis. I come
Speaker 1: to you from a virtual room filled with some heroes.
Speaker 1: The offwad mentioned Mark Sessler. Don't go anywhere, Mark, we
Speaker 1: need your buddy now more than ever. And Greg Rosenthal,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you were to voluntarily leave the company
Speaker 1: to pursue other projects and you reached out for help,
Speaker 1: obviously we would help you on that end. But uh,
Speaker 1: and I just don't really want to pursue that. Even
Speaker 1: as I thought, well, I mean, these are either listener
Speaker 1: generated or it came from inside our own company. That
Speaker 1: that message, and it said that the It didn't say
Speaker 1: that I'm looking for a new job. It said the
Speaker 1: a t N podcast I believe is looking at help,
Speaker 1: hoping to find me a new job. So it's sort
Speaker 1: of an unsettling way to open um a show that
Speaker 1: will probably wind on for eighty or ninety minutes, but
Speaker 1: I'll do my best. No one said it means you
Speaker 1: have to leave this job. Maybe it's a white you
Speaker 1: know deal where you get a side hustle you start
Speaker 1: working for the Browns. You get that double stream of
Speaker 1: income and suddenly like the whole assessler household is just flying.
Speaker 1: I mean, we know a few people that have worked
Speaker 1: for the Browns and there, um, you know, they're not
Speaker 1: far from us right now. Dan. It also doesn't always
Speaker 1: turn out well. You know, sometimes those stays with the
Speaker 1: Browns end under mysterious circumstances. What's that I hear in
Speaker 1: the background. Oh, oh my gosh, that's oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's Nick Stoke's music. Just right crash, just right, crushed
Speaker 1: the beer cans and like dump them over my head,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean I've been known to do that.
Speaker 1: I've been known to do that. Well you know, Um,
Speaker 1: some things are best left to mystery. Oh, Shook, he's back.
Speaker 1: How about that? You know? Nick? I was thinking, um,
Speaker 1: what did Freddie Kitchens do? I know, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to get some drinks inside of Shook sometime just to
Speaker 1: get the load on this. Got to get him inside
Speaker 1: that the chiseled body, Shook. I was thinking, you are
Speaker 1: a rising star with NFL media. I see you on
Speaker 1: Network now a lot. You're football writing is top notch. Um,
Speaker 1: You're you have a striking appearance because of your well built,
Speaker 1: built physique and your bald head and you're fairly symmetrical face.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things going for you right now, nick, um.
Speaker 1: But we need now is to put the We need
Speaker 1: to put together some symmetrical It would be nice. But
Speaker 1: I had a few project ideas, some um and you
Speaker 1: could take this I p and run with the run
Speaker 1: with it, and then of course if it takes off,
Speaker 1: you can just give me a producer credit and I'll
Speaker 1: stay out of it on the creative end. But maybe
Speaker 1: I just get a paycheck. Um, Nick shook? And that's
Speaker 1: kind of just you on various personal, domestic, global affairs
Speaker 1: that concern you. Yeah, I mean I like that idea.
Speaker 1: I get that a lot. You know, people think they're
Speaker 1: really clever when when I'm like wow, I say I'm
Speaker 1: in a social setting and I say wow, and they go, oh,
Speaker 1: would that? Um, would that make you perhaps shook? Are
Speaker 1: you sure I was gonna say that not the first
Speaker 1: time that you've gotten that as a potential programming idea?
Speaker 1: Or I usually pat them on the back and say,
Speaker 1: you know what, I've never heard that in my life before.
Speaker 1: Thank you on the back. Yeah, how about Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: at just the start. How about Nick Shook Me All
Speaker 1: Night Long? And that's a sex and relationship podcast that
Speaker 1: one would would take off on a different podcast network.
Speaker 1: I think, um, it would be dangerous, but in a
Speaker 1: good way. And then finally, um, I just got Chook,
Speaker 1: Cole and Nick on earthquakes and other seismic activities. I
Speaker 1: have experienced a few months living in l a And
Speaker 1: and we even had one here in the Cleveland area
Speaker 1: a couple of summers ago that was so small you
Speaker 1: couldn't even feel it, but the news told you about
Speaker 1: it for five days because it's so rare. That is
Speaker 1: a nice sort of breaking news element to it as well,
Speaker 1: where people would say, you know, we've felt something in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night, you know where to go?
Speaker 1: You go to where you know you have to suddenly
Speaker 1: start an earthquake oriented podcast at three twelve am. Um,
Speaker 1: I like it. I love it. Just imagine like here
Speaker 1: in southern California, whenever there's a tremor, everyone runs the
Speaker 1: Twitter and says earthquake or you feel that, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Shook has a live link. It's a live stream and
Speaker 1: he's breaking it down for two hours, like doing my
Speaker 1: corn acky. I got my sleeves rolled up. I'm in
Speaker 1: front of some big board that and like you know,
Speaker 1: the the Richter scale and the seismic graph and where
Speaker 1: the epicenter was. Here's another one, Shook not Stirred, a
Speaker 1: podcast about mixology. That's good, that's see, it's all there.
Speaker 1: When you are blessed with the physique, well you've earned
Speaker 1: that with the that dome, with the fairly symmetrical face,
Speaker 1: with the mind that you have, and then the name
Speaker 1: to top it off. It's it's the off season and
Speaker 1: it's time to start thinking bigger. That's all. Nick. I'm
Speaker 1: just lucky that when I shaved my head for the
Speaker 1: first time that I didn't have an oblong head at
Speaker 1: least to what I can so important sound like, go ahead, Mark, No,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, Nick, you could do a lot
Speaker 1: of things with Nick as well, shaving Nix and you
Speaker 1: know Nix and Razors like a little shaving podcast. People
Speaker 1: with beards are very um, you know, they're very trendy.
Speaker 1: Right now, there's people with the fashionable beards. You can
Speaker 1: cater to them. How about this shook about Nicks And
Speaker 1: it's all about cutting yourself, shaving and how to avoid that.
Speaker 1: You know, I think this brainstorming session just produced a winner.
Speaker 1: That's great. Um. On a more serious note, Nick, this
Speaker 1: is your first show with us since you so beautifully
Speaker 1: how us UM handle recaps on Sunday Nights and uh,
Speaker 1: you know you would you would come in and tag
Speaker 1: in for Chris westling Um last season, which was, you know,
Speaker 1: a very kind of difficult, vulnerable time for the podcast,
Speaker 1: and UM, you know, especially as West was getting sicker
Speaker 1: and he started to worry about where where it was
Speaker 1: all going. Shook was always there and always very um
Speaker 1: versatile for us and always cool to jump on whenever
Speaker 1: and fill in, and you do feel, um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a very important place in the history of this podcast. Nick,
Speaker 1: and UM hope to have you involved in this upcoming
Speaker 1: regular season on Sunday Nights because God knows we need
Speaker 1: the help. But thank you for being part of that
Speaker 1: time in the history of the show. As difficult as
Speaker 1: it was. Well, I'll tell you what, guys, Ever since
Speaker 1: I had since Gregg first hired me seven years ago, UM,
Speaker 1: I always wanted to be a part of this and
Speaker 1: it was always It's always been on her and will
Speaker 1: continue to be an honor for every time that I'm
Speaker 1: able to join you guys, So thank you for having me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks man, it was if you were I remember you
Speaker 1: were there on that that. I'll never forget that episode
Speaker 1: now that you know, the last you know, Brown's win,
Speaker 1: not not the last Browns win ever, but the Browns
Speaker 1: playoff win where you have West kind of tagged tagged
Speaker 1: out for you like that. That was an amazing show. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, coming up on today's show with Nick Shook
Speaker 1: sitting in for the whole banger of that, how long
Speaker 1: did you say, Mark, eighty to ninety minutes? We'll try
Speaker 1: to come in under that, but no promises. I mean
Speaker 1: ninety would be I is where I'm sitting out? Was
Speaker 1: where you know now we're now, we're ten minutes and
Speaker 1: I think we got at least another ninety three minutes ago. Uh,
Speaker 1: coming up on todays show. You know we've talked about it.
Speaker 1: We talked about it last week, and um, in general,
Speaker 1: Greg's biggest offseason written piece on NFL dot com is
Speaker 1: his projected starter series. And you would think during this
Speaker 1: time of year, when things are a little slow, that
Speaker 1: we would have been hitting it hard. And yet we
Speaker 1: neglected the series. We didn't. It came up casually in conversation,
Speaker 1: but it never got its own sag. And now days
Speaker 1: and weeks have passed, you know, since the debut of
Speaker 1: the series. We're now finally going to address it in
Speaker 1: a series that in a segment we like to call
Speaker 1: projected Starters, Yes, projected Starters Autopsy, where we dig through
Speaker 1: the corps of Greg's brilliant series and share some takeaways
Speaker 1: of our own. Also slightly grizzly, but I think that
Speaker 1: people are going to enjoy it. Poke in the corps,
Speaker 1: it took weeks to make up this sound drop, so
Speaker 1: it's worth the way. Also, we promised them you get them.
Speaker 1: We share some of the iTunes reviews out there at
Speaker 1: the end of the show, but before that, let's hit
Speaker 1: the news. I mean, let's face for the giants are
Speaker 1: coming off a worst week than Harvey. Weinste Andre up
Speaker 1: four boys. That's what we chose for Al. Come on,
Speaker 1: granted it was um not Al's finest moment, that that
Speaker 1: would not be his do you believe in miracles moment?
Speaker 1: It might be the opposite of it, It might be
Speaker 1: the unbreakable, it might be the Samuel Jackson to Bruce
Speaker 1: Willis moment and Al Michael's career, but it might be
Speaker 1: more like, do you believe in Mike Tarico taking over
Speaker 1: in one more year? Mike Tarko hired by uh NBC
Speaker 1: several years ago. I was always thought to be the
Speaker 1: heir apparent to Al Michael's. Now we're at a stage
Speaker 1: where Al is in the final year of his contract.
Speaker 1: NBC has the Super Bowl, it's in Los Angeles, al
Speaker 1: Michael's hometown, and now here we are in a situation
Speaker 1: whereas Al going off into the sons that probably not
Speaker 1: al Michael's loves what he's doing, even at seventy six
Speaker 1: years old. And this report from friend of the show
Speaker 1: Andrew Marshawan, NBC's Al Michaels has emerged as Amazon Prime's
Speaker 1: top choice to do play by play for its forthcoming
Speaker 1: exclusive Thursday night NFL package. The Post has learned recording
Speaker 1: has already begun, with NBC an active part of the
Speaker 1: discussions that could include its top production people being part
Speaker 1: of a potential deal as well. According to sources, Amazon
Speaker 1: begins it's exclusive broadcast up Thursday Night Football next season.
Speaker 1: Greg It's Michael's is the target here but there's also
Speaker 1: talk about Joe Buck and an Eagle. I love it.
Speaker 1: There's a weird Jay Leno announces he's retiring in seven years,
Speaker 1: and Conan's waiting to take over Vibe going on. It's
Speaker 1: another NBC boondoggle potentially here where Tarico has earned his
Speaker 1: shot and the old guy is still there. Um giving
Speaker 1: Al a final act to his career on a great
Speaker 1: platform that feels perfect. I hope it happens. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love this. We we've talked about it now for a
Speaker 1: few years. It's not that I want all out of
Speaker 1: my life. I still think he's, you know, top four,
Speaker 1: you know, I want him to be on one of
Speaker 1: these prime time neews. He's just taking you know, he's
Speaker 1: just a late career Joe Montana in front of Steve
Speaker 1: Young doesn't belong on that Sunday Night so perfect. Put
Speaker 1: him on the new Amazon and we fly. I'm into it.
Speaker 1: But he'd still do the NBC Sunday Night games this
Speaker 1: year according to that Oh yeah yeah. So Amazon doesn't
Speaker 1: start till two, so he then would segue pretty naturally.
Speaker 1: He gets his swan song at NBC. It's in l
Speaker 1: a As as Dan mentioned, he gets the super Bowl
Speaker 1: and then he just moves to Thursday night and Joe
Speaker 1: Buck doesn't have to work as hard. I mean, Trico's
Speaker 1: very much feels like a New England based Jimmy Garoppolo
Speaker 1: product where you you know, you thought maybe he's the
Speaker 1: heir apparent, but the lead guy is just too good
Speaker 1: and staying around too long. And like IM think on
Speaker 1: Michael's is this maybe he's not where he was like
Speaker 1: years ago. Um for me, he's he's still like the
Speaker 1: top of the mountain and I would love to be
Speaker 1: his age and still passionate about, um, what one is doing.
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of There's these announcers that have
Speaker 1: been in our lives for like our entire lives. It's crazy,
Speaker 1: I mean, and he's the dude that announces like every sport. Um,
Speaker 1: I love it. I find another part of this job
Speaker 1: as we must continually chat about other men becoming very
Speaker 1: rich and you have to have the stomach for that.
Speaker 1: I'm most curious to hear Al Michael's read, like the
Speaker 1: ad reads or the information about streaming during those broadcasts
Speaker 1: being in Amazon Prime, and how he handles the whole
Speaker 1: concept of that. You you would think that they might
Speaker 1: be a little looser. I guess it's still an NFL partner.
Speaker 1: But you know that if the gambling shackles are coming
Speaker 1: off in general across the coverage of the NFL, you
Speaker 1: would think like Amazon would maybe be the one that
Speaker 1: pushes the boundaries a little bit, and Al would love
Speaker 1: to dive into that kind of like how in Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball they using the minor leagues to try to
Speaker 1: figure out some rules to make the game go uh
Speaker 1: in a more expedient manner. Maybe maybe the streaming platform
Speaker 1: is the setup for primetime in Sunday and Monday and
Speaker 1: all that. I like that, and I hope Al gets
Speaker 1: that final act and was like one other little nugget
Speaker 1: in that like and it's not surprising, but they talked
Speaker 1: about Nate Burlison as perhaps the partner to whoever they
Speaker 1: hire as the play by play man, which is you
Speaker 1: know again, I think it's like his next ascension. But
Speaker 1: Amazon is like, We're not going to try to like
Speaker 1: put a bunch of kids out there. We're gonna try
Speaker 1: to put together a team that is like one of
Speaker 1: the best teams around. In other news, Lamar Jackson in
Speaker 1: his three NFL seasons, which of course, includes an m
Speaker 1: VP award in t nineteen. He has operated almost totally
Speaker 1: out of the pistol formation. That's changing, we hear in June,
Speaker 1: ESPN dot coms Jameson Hensley reports that the offense and
Speaker 1: Baltimore this season will include play with Jackson starting under center.
Speaker 1: Greg Roman, the team's OC, told reporters on Wednesday the
Speaker 1: changes coming to the team's approach. He doesn't know what
Speaker 1: the percentage will be or the extent of how much
Speaker 1: they're going to use it, but they're working on it
Speaker 1: and evaluating it every day. Shook, Why do you think
Speaker 1: the Ravens are doing this? And do you think this
Speaker 1: is important or just the June non story. I think
Speaker 1: it good. Jump starts their passing offense a little bit,
Speaker 1: and and the reason for that is is first variety,
Speaker 1: but secondly the boot opportunities and how well you can
Speaker 1: get him on the rollout. In that sort of situation,
Speaker 1: it's more natural coming from under center with a run
Speaker 1: fake and breaking back to your opposite side than necessarily
Speaker 1: doing the read option type of thing where it's more
Speaker 1: lateral than it is gaining depth on your rollout. So
Speaker 1: I think that that's probably one of the goals of
Speaker 1: going under center. They also have a rushing attack that
Speaker 1: has proven in part because of Lamar Jackson's presence in
Speaker 1: that offense is proven to be very effective and um
Speaker 1: coming out of some traditional sets. I think adds more
Speaker 1: unpredicted ability and limits team's ability to potentially stack the
Speaker 1: box or or trying to game playing against that running attack.
Speaker 1: Can't do what you did before the year before. It's
Speaker 1: like the history of offensive evolution in the NFL. If
Speaker 1: you do it, you're gonna get stuck like once once
Speaker 1: you get past the mid nineties two started the two thousands,
Speaker 1: and I think that was part of the Ravens issue
Speaker 1: last year. Not that they were bad offensively. It's still
Speaker 1: a good running game, but they didn't really evolve what
Speaker 1: they do. You have to change in some way each
Speaker 1: year or else it's not gonna work. And as long
Speaker 1: as they don't lose kind of the core of what
Speaker 1: they do. And it's not like they're not gonna use
Speaker 1: his legs and it's not like play action can't be effective.
Speaker 1: From under center could be more effective, and they're a
Speaker 1: great play action teams, So you they got they need
Speaker 1: to have a few more flavors to throw out there
Speaker 1: each week. I mean it was like two seasons ago
Speaker 1: they were appropriately lauded for um bludgeoning teams with their approach.
Speaker 1: But last year, you know they didn't have Nick Boyle.
Speaker 1: They tried to do that again. Um. They were largely
Speaker 1: successful for parts of the season, but there were all
Speaker 1: these sideshow is that we talked about on Tuesday, with
Speaker 1: you know, Lamar Jackson saying that the defenses were calling
Speaker 1: out plays. Pre snapped like, you know, that's the trick
Speaker 1: with the Greg Roman offense, and he said all offseason
Speaker 1: we have to expand. I mean, I will say this though,
Speaker 1: the Ravens social media team got a little too um
Speaker 1: excited about the concept of this yesterday and put out
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw this this um Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: passed to Sammy Watkins and it was like an ultra
Speaker 1: duck and all these people were like, why did you
Speaker 1: put that clip out there? Like it's it did not
Speaker 1: help this messaging on any level. You have to go
Speaker 1: check it out. I get you could look at it
Speaker 1: cynically and say it's a you know, tacit admission that
Speaker 1: the offense was kind of going a wrong direction last year,
Speaker 1: or you could just say, Okay, this is smart. This
Speaker 1: is smart. Yet, like you guys are saying, you have
Speaker 1: to evolve. You can't just stay the same way. And
Speaker 1: imagine if if if Lamar is comfortable on this and
Speaker 1: he's got some better playmakers this year, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: his game takes a jump and that would be very
Speaker 1: exciting for the Ravens. And other news, the COVID nineteen vaccine.
Speaker 1: It's very important that we all get vaccinated. And um,
Speaker 1: there are some people in our country and and uh
Speaker 1: that don't feel that way, and that is creating a
Speaker 1: level of tension in our nation. There's always tension in
Speaker 1: this country, especially I feel like in the last few years.
Speaker 1: But the new thing now is the idea of being
Speaker 1: vaccinated and and the Buffalo Bills are kind of a
Speaker 1: case study in the NFL. The Bills, let me set
Speaker 1: up this way the NFL, if you get to UM
Speaker 1: vaccination on your roster, it allows you to relax some
Speaker 1: of the restrictions on your team. It just makes life
Speaker 1: a lot easier for the team in addition to makes
Speaker 1: it safer, uh for everyone. But the Bills aren't really
Speaker 1: talking about it. They don't want to talk about when
Speaker 1: they're asked about a quarterback, Josh Allen and linebacker Tremaine
Speaker 1: Edmonds did not want to talk about the vaccines, and
Speaker 1: then Jordan Poyer said, according to the Buffalo News, the following,
Speaker 1: real quick, before we start, I'm not gonna be answering
Speaker 1: questions about vaccines. So if you guys can direct your
Speaker 1: questions on a football I would love to answer them.
Speaker 1: All respect I appreciate it. What is this? What's this
Speaker 1: all about? Greg? What's going on here? I think they
Speaker 1: have been put in the spotlight because Josh Allen and
Speaker 1: especially Called Beasley have been so vocal and I think
Speaker 1: player player or a family member I think was his wife,
Speaker 1: you know it was too. But Beasley was so vocal
Speaker 1: about essentially not believing the science and wanting the social
Speaker 1: media to his own research, and Josh Allen essentially alluded
Speaker 1: to that too, Like if you're if you don't want
Speaker 1: to answer the questions and you're saying it's private, it's
Speaker 1: it's pretty clear which which direction you're going. And I'd
Speaker 1: like to think they actually huddled a little bit and said,
Speaker 1: we don't want this to be a problem within our team, um,
Speaker 1: and let's just shut it down in terms of the
Speaker 1: media as a story. At some point though, it'll be
Speaker 1: a bigger deal because the les, as you mentioned, Dan
Speaker 1: are are different depending on how vaccinated you are, and
Speaker 1: then when you get to the season, they really get different.
Speaker 1: Like if you're in the bye week and you're not vaccinated,
Speaker 1: you gotta show up to get tested every day, and
Speaker 1: if not, you can go. You know, you can go
Speaker 1: to Hawaii. You go with Jason Witten and Tony Romo
Speaker 1: and Ticago. I think they just lived there now. They
Speaker 1: just hang out, the four of them in Cabo and
Speaker 1: you could do whatever you want. So that would seem
Speaker 1: to be like where the rubber hits the road there,
Speaker 1: where it's like, are they really gonna stay away from
Speaker 1: it during the season when you get these advantages as
Speaker 1: a team, I don't know. I'd struggle to think that
Speaker 1: by training camp of of rosters players would not would
Speaker 1: not be vaccinated. But you know our country though country's
Speaker 1: are vaccinated or had at least one shot right now,
Speaker 1: and tons of people have bailed on the second one.
Speaker 1: So you know, there's just that, like last year, there's
Speaker 1: a human element to how it's being processed to some degree,
Speaker 1: And I mean I guess, listen, like, it's not really
Speaker 1: fair that Josh Allen would be like picked apart by
Speaker 1: everyone um for doing something different than we all did.
Speaker 1: But I totally get it. And the bill, the bills
Speaker 1: are in a weird spot if if if like he
Speaker 1: refuses to answer those questions to your point, I could
Speaker 1: just simply suggests that he's against it. Not only that,
Speaker 1: but then you think about the competitive advantages or disadvantages,
Speaker 1: you know, like Greg had you know, mentioned it. I mean,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the coaching staff, they can't even
Speaker 1: be involved with they're not vaccinated. You know, there's there's
Speaker 1: like a clear separation. There's the masking that's involved, and
Speaker 1: there's also the vulnerability associated because let's face it, according
Speaker 1: to the CDC, you know, you get vaccinated, you the
Speaker 1: chance that you're infected and can spread are extremely low,
Speaker 1: which is you know, led to the change in mask
Speaker 1: advising and everything else. Well, if you're unvaccinated and you
Speaker 1: contract COVID nineteen, guess what you're stuck in where we
Speaker 1: were last year, which is you're out and and anybody
Speaker 1: who's near you who wasn't vaccinated is out. And if
Speaker 1: this is something that's prevalent more among one team. You're
Speaker 1: setting yourself up for issues going into the season. I hate,
Speaker 1: and we don't to go down this road too far,
Speaker 1: but I hate that this has become on some level
Speaker 1: a political side taking scenario. It's it's it's just it's
Speaker 1: it's very frustrating because it's the science is there that
Speaker 1: this works. Everybody should get a shot. And if you're
Speaker 1: listening to some for your fellow man, I mean, you
Speaker 1: hear a lot about patriotic thoughts. It's like, let's let's
Speaker 1: have some concern for other people, all right. And other
Speaker 1: news hit the trope alert. Ricky troth let, troth let,
Speaker 1: tropolet trothlet. Jared Goff has a fresh start with the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions, and head coach Dan Campbell loves what he sees.
Speaker 1: He made about five throws yesterday that we're just wow.
Speaker 1: Campbell said that via the Detroit Free Press. Now, Mark,
Speaker 1: we went to Rams camp a few years back, and
Speaker 1: one thing that you jumped out is that that boy
Speaker 1: can throw a football. That has never been an issue
Speaker 1: with Aured Golf. So it doesn't surprise me that he's
Speaker 1: throwing tight line drive spirals on target. That's how he
Speaker 1: became a note number one overall pick. But unfortunately for Golf,
Speaker 1: the football at quarterback is goes beyond that, and that's
Speaker 1: where he's gotten into trouble in the last couple of years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess it's in Detroit. It's more like who is
Speaker 1: he throwing it too? When real games started and they
Speaker 1: were one of the thinner wide receiver groups out there. Um,
Speaker 1: but I mean this is the kind of stuff that
Speaker 1: I hear. It goes in one ear and out the other.
Speaker 1: Jared Golf throwing good passes when there's no pass for us, like,
Speaker 1: no no scheming against his weaknesses. Okay, he's a great athlete,
Speaker 1: He's a supreme athlete. I should I don't think this
Speaker 1: should be surprising any of us. That's why it is
Speaker 1: a trope. Well, yeah, the trope is like, um, you know,
Speaker 1: disappointing player for other team, you know, is wowing in
Speaker 1: the off season practices, Jared Goffkin, spin it. Let's pump
Speaker 1: him up. Yeah, let's remember that seeing hard knocks right.
Speaker 1: You know where Sean McVeigh said, who wasn't was it
Speaker 1: Sean mc there was a Jeff Fisher standing back And
Speaker 1: have been on so many NFL films properties that I've
Speaker 1: lost traction. Man, that's an NFL throw right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well it's yeah. Now, you know, I was thinking we'll
Speaker 1: save this for the Fantasy Spectacular coming up later this summer. Uh,
Speaker 1: but I wonder they're gonna be playing from behind a lot.
Speaker 1: Um Goff is probably gonna get a season full of starts.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of wide receivers. How about t J.
Speaker 1: Hockenson under the radar as a big ad tight end,
Speaker 1: very thin and fantasy He was great last recent years.
Speaker 1: Um all right. In other trope alert news, trop at
Speaker 1: tropolt tropet, Hey listen, mac June mac Jones is the
Speaker 1: new hot quarterback with all the swag with the Patriots,
Speaker 1: But do not forget that Cam Newton is a former
Speaker 1: m v P now in the second year of the
Speaker 1: Patriots system. And guess what offense coordinated. Josh McDaniels had
Speaker 1: this to say. He came back this year at a
Speaker 1: much different position. He has a different grasp of the offense,
Speaker 1: different understanding of the terminology. Now we're working on refining
Speaker 1: the precision, the details. Okay, so what does that mean?
Speaker 1: He just had no idea what he's doing Last year.
Speaker 1: What are we doing? I mean, yeah, that's the that's
Speaker 1: the year too. We get the guy, gets the offense
Speaker 1: a little more. It's usually more about like you, but
Speaker 1: it's yeah, but it's it also can be for free agents,
Speaker 1: especially it might be like a pandemic trope because you
Speaker 1: didn't have the off season last year. And that part
Speaker 1: makes sense. I'm buying it. I mean also, it's like
Speaker 1: they're a completely different offense, like they you know, you
Speaker 1: can read this in Greg's projected starters, but it's a
Speaker 1: stat that's out there. I mean, no team ran less
Speaker 1: two tight ends. They probably will be you know, top
Speaker 1: tree in the league with that this year. It's so
Speaker 1: it's like it's not like the same playbook. They got
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of different players that finally in the news. Oh,
Speaker 1: Greg on Tuesday show, you were just talking about it. Um,
Speaker 1: we're talking about You'll see I'll see you the crossroads
Speaker 1: where you won't be lonely. I see you went. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna missay everybody, especially the uncle Charles Um, Chandler Jones,
Speaker 1: J J. Watt both at the crossroads. Well popped up
Speaker 1: that Chandler Jones, you know, maybe connected to some trade rumors,
Speaker 1: and what did he do? Speaking of trope alerts, he
Speaker 1: deleted the Cardinals from his social media in it's as
Speaker 1: entirety no more mentions of the Arizona Cardinals on Chandler
Speaker 1: jones social greg. It is looking it up right now.
Speaker 1: He can't even believe it. He needs to get to
Speaker 1: the Graham right now? What does that mean, Chookie? Is
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones on the way out? He certainly must be disgruntled.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think athletes do this seventy percent of
Speaker 1: the time solely for the attention, as if they don't
Speaker 1: get enough. So I get pretty annoyed by stuff like this.
Speaker 1: But again, we are in June, so we need something
Speaker 1: to feed the beast, and if we're gonna feed a
Speaker 1: controversy beast, it's definitely somebody wiping stuff out from their
Speaker 1: social media. Personally, I don't know if this really does
Speaker 1: mean he's to scrountled, or if he's preparing for what
Speaker 1: could eventually be the inevitable, or if we just have
Speaker 1: some people who are just scrubbing social media timelines and
Speaker 1: just happened to look and say, oh look, he doesn't
Speaker 1: mention his team anymore. Oh no, like like what if
Speaker 1: I deleted around then? What if I got rid of
Speaker 1: that around the NFL right out of my bio? Is
Speaker 1: everybody gonna think I'm just Gronald? What if I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to say Maybe I think perhaps David Eally would
Speaker 1: would ping you on the messenger with a few questions.
Speaker 1: But maybe Jones doesn't like all the pop J J.
Speaker 1: Watt's getting as like Mr Cardinal because you know, you
Speaker 1: see him at the Sun's game and J. J. Watt
Speaker 1: immediately is like always tweeting about the Suns and Phoenix Sports.
Speaker 1: He's in the front row at the game, and it's
Speaker 1: like Chandler Jones. It's like, what's up? What's up with me?
Speaker 1: You know? What about my shine? There also some whispers
Speaker 1: that it could be related to a trade for Julio Jones,
Speaker 1: Jones for Jones. In fact, that came from our friend
Speaker 1: Jason some Waldi texted us with some concerns about that.
Speaker 1: So not a report, it's just Cardinal super fan Jason. No,
Speaker 1: he didn't come up with that out of thin air.
Speaker 1: He said that, you know, the streets were talking that
Speaker 1: he's got his own I guess chat rooms in areas
Speaker 1: that he hangs out in where this was becoming a thing.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it's from the Associated Press necessarily,
Speaker 1: but hey, listen Chandler Jones and in a second, uh
Speaker 1: for Julio Jones. But I don't know if that that
Speaker 1: helps the Falcons salary cap fish. I don't know, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I love you jack Um all right. If I,
Speaker 1: by the way, if I scrubbed you guys from my
Speaker 1: social entirely and then any reference to the A T
Speaker 1: N podcast, do you think that would maybe that would
Speaker 1: earn like a subreddit post or something. Would that get
Speaker 1: a little pop? Is Dan on his way out? Is
Speaker 1: he starting his own platform, the Dan Hanss Network? Just think?
Speaker 1: And uh, the boys on your and Squirrels. I think
Speaker 1: you might be like a little annoyed with the I
Speaker 1: think in your mind. I mean, anyone would think that
Speaker 1: stead it's going to generate this sort of American groundswell
Speaker 1: of attention. It might just be a little bit lesser
Speaker 1: or at least it would be like an hour of
Speaker 1: attention and then people would move on to the next
Speaker 1: anti drama. So I don't think it's worth it. It's
Speaker 1: like Chandeler Jones the same thing, only on a smaller scale,
Speaker 1: basically like one hour of people writing up a aggregated
Speaker 1: blog post about it. Yes, Chook shook. The leads off
Speaker 1: of is around the NFL stuff no one notices In
Speaker 1: like a week later, he's like, can I put it back?
Speaker 1: Is that it's like when you post a picture on
Speaker 1: Instagram and deleted because it didn't get enough likes. Yet
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff nobody saw. This tree falls in
Speaker 1: the woods, Nobody hears it. That's a great episode of
Speaker 1: Nick Shook. By the way, when you're social posting, you
Speaker 1: keep going back and expecting pop and it doesn't get
Speaker 1: you a little shook there. I like that. All right,
Speaker 1: that's what's happening in the news projected starters. We dig
Speaker 1: through what's left Greg's projected orders series, what work Greg did,
Speaker 1: and now it's upon us too. Look upon it on
Speaker 1: a cold slate, take out the scalpel, another cutting devices,
Speaker 1: poke around and see what's inside. Market is gone. I
Speaker 1: think one of the most you know, so it's split
Speaker 1: up into eight divisions, and I noted this last week.
Speaker 1: I think one of the most um intriguing entries is
Speaker 1: the a f C South because there was a period,
Speaker 1: you know, when the Texans were rising with the Shawn
Speaker 1: Watson and uh, you know, the Colts had Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: and you can look at the Titans as a team
Speaker 1: that was a Super Bowl threat, and then then suddenly
Speaker 1: the Jackson Dill Jaguars got Trevor Lawrence that you might
Speaker 1: just think that this division, after so many years in
Speaker 1: the past of having issues, had risen. I think the
Speaker 1: way that you've outlined what's happened to NFC South, it's
Speaker 1: completely different. Um, and I think the one that they
Speaker 1: caught my attention the most was the cults. And just
Speaker 1: for a couple of little things. I thought this was
Speaker 1: imaginative because you mentioned, um, the quarterback position, and we've
Speaker 1: talked about Carson Wentz a billion times, but if you
Speaker 1: want to talk about not a corpse, but someone that's
Speaker 1: been under the knife a lot, it is Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: And his backup is Jacob Eeson, who is completely untested.
Speaker 1: And you know, any one of these teams that lose
Speaker 1: their starters, you're in some you're in fair hot water,
Speaker 1: and you have a lot of you can make some excuses,
Speaker 1: but that would be the floor falling out in a
Speaker 1: division they very clearly could win and you made a
Speaker 1: note that why not um reunite Frank Reich with none
Speaker 1: other than Nick Foles. It's too awkward, as you pointed out, Um,
Speaker 1: but that would be one of the more intriguing things
Speaker 1: to happen in the offseason if you wanted to generate
Speaker 1: one more story. The other thing I thought about the
Speaker 1: cults because you couldn't you know, you know that they
Speaker 1: just after years of getting better and better under Chris Ballard,
Speaker 1: that that's there's a pause on that they did not
Speaker 1: get better this year. And I think if you're kind
Speaker 1: of casually watching football, you would say, but yeah, but
Speaker 1: they have the best offensive line. UM pans down like
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is in the best situation because of their
Speaker 1: whole line. They're not gonna get Eric Fisher for you know,
Speaker 1: we don't know, like it could be weeks, but in general,
Speaker 1: like they aren't the number one offensive line in the league,
Speaker 1: and you pointed out that they had taken a step
Speaker 1: back and who knows where they are this season. Offensive
Speaker 1: lines are so unpredictable, like they were seventh last year
Speaker 1: in Pro Football Focus. But it's just one of those
Speaker 1: things that like every play by play guy just says
Speaker 1: because I don't know. He's heard other people saying it's
Speaker 1: like they're the best offensive blind in the league now.
Speaker 1: They really weren't. A year ago. They were good, they
Speaker 1: weren't maybe like dominant, and they're counting on you know,
Speaker 1: they're counting on guys to step in right away and
Speaker 1: do things on on both sides of all, Like Quiddi
Speaker 1: pay has to come in and I think be a
Speaker 1: factor for them. They lost a lot on the defensive line,
Speaker 1: not not feeling the Colts. You want to keep that
Speaker 1: in the division. You go to Houston and just look
Speaker 1: at their backfield. We know the Deshaun Watson situation. We
Speaker 1: know how they've thrown a lot of stuff at the
Speaker 1: wall to address that or prepare for Plan B. You know,
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor, Jeff Driscoll, Davis Mills, that draft pick. But
Speaker 1: you wanna talk about throwing stuff at the wall and
Speaker 1: seeing if it sticks. Look at their running back room.
Speaker 1: There's seven guys on this list, not one of them.
Speaker 1: To me, it looks like your potential like the definite
Speaker 1: lead back. Because you got David Johnson, who they we
Speaker 1: know how they got him in the trade with DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: They signed Mark Ingram, they signed Philip Lindsay, who might
Speaker 1: have gotten a raw deal in Denver. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: Nick Casterio Pools went out of his New England bag
Speaker 1: and signed Rex Burke Head. Not to mention the other
Speaker 1: three guys on the list, Buddy how Dontrell Hilliard and
Speaker 1: Scottie Phillips. There's so many running backs in this room
Speaker 1: and no clear leader or direction. I mean, they could
Speaker 1: have them all battle it out, I guess, and see
Speaker 1: which one survived. But um, I mean, I guess for
Speaker 1: this type of team, this is the best approach. It's definitely,
Speaker 1: um an intriguing, if not hilarious approach. I had looked
Speaker 1: at they were on my list, the Texans, they have
Speaker 1: two and fifteen written all over them. If Tyrode is
Speaker 1: the quarterback, right and who knows if he even makes
Speaker 1: it through the season, and then you start going down
Speaker 1: the depth chart there if is not even like I
Speaker 1: mean he, I guess he is high up on their concerns.
Speaker 1: But there are position groups that I think are worse,
Speaker 1: you know, compared to compared to league average. You know
Speaker 1: that I counted three defensive players that I know are starting,
Speaker 1: and like the rest of the defense is just total competition.
Speaker 1: I think if anything, though, like they for all I
Speaker 1: look at the Texans as a team, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of like delusions of grandeur um running around inside that organization.
Speaker 1: But um, I don't think that extends to the general
Speaker 1: manager who went out and signed a ton of people
Speaker 1: to one year deals because it's a patch here and
Speaker 1: I think they knew that. And it's like, you're gonna learn,
Speaker 1: gonna look a whole lot different a year from now
Speaker 1: and start to get some draft picks back, but it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a really ugly autumn. Um. I'll move over
Speaker 1: to the a f C. West, where Greg had rightly
Speaker 1: pointed out that there are some questions on that offense,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, kind of a bummer. You don't
Speaker 1: want there to be questions about the offense because you
Speaker 1: have this fantastic young quarterback in Justin Herbert coming off
Speaker 1: a record breaking rookie season, but now you have him
Speaker 1: on a new offense. Um, Joe Lombardi is the new
Speaker 1: UM offensive coordinator. Uh, the offensive line should be better,
Speaker 1: but yeah, the skill group that that is on my radar,
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen needs to stay healthy here. Um Hunter Henry's
Speaker 1: gone Jared Cook in two thousand twenty one. Like I,
Speaker 1: like everyone else, I've been sucked into Jared cook um
Speaker 1: for a bunch of years, like two thousand eighteen through
Speaker 1: two thousand twenty, maybe even before that two thousand seventeen maybe,
Speaker 1: But at this point you kind of know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna get. Um. Mike Williams another guy very up and down. Um,
Speaker 1: and you know they picked up his fifth year option.
Speaker 1: They're hoping he has a big breakthrough year. Uh. Josh
Speaker 1: Palmer's there an unproven guy, Julio Jones. As you point out,
Speaker 1: Greg makes a lot of sense there, but the Charges
Speaker 1: probably aren't gonna do that cool thing for their fan base. Uh.
Speaker 1: So this is what you're gonna get, you know, they
Speaker 1: gotta get. They need Keenan to stay healthy. Austin Ekeler's
Speaker 1: gotta stay healthy, or this could go sideways. Oh yeah, autopsy.
Speaker 1: Look underneath the curtain with the chart. I think it's
Speaker 1: all like right, not a fear of things going wrong
Speaker 1: for Herbert, because I like Herbert so much, and I've
Speaker 1: seen them try to rebuild these offensive lines before, and
Speaker 1: it does all look great on paper. It's a little
Speaker 1: hard to imagine that they don't improve to average with
Speaker 1: the with the personnel they brought in, But I don't know,
Speaker 1: something always goes wrong. And then this week, you know,
Speaker 1: Lombardi was talking about that, you know, he thinks Mike
Speaker 1: Williams gonna have big numbers. Yeah, that they raised a
Speaker 1: lot of fantasy alarms because essentially Mike Williams is playing
Speaker 1: the X is like Michael Thomas in the Saints offense.
Speaker 1: It's more or less what Joe Lombardi's trying to do.
Speaker 1: He's not trying to reinvent the wheel that the Saints
Speaker 1: run a pretty conventional um but effect the NFL offense.
Speaker 1: And if Mike Williams is that guy that they're relying
Speaker 1: on to count, like to catch like ninety hundred balls,
Speaker 1: I don't know. That just feels like a lot to
Speaker 1: be counting in. They're not really the same player. And
Speaker 1: I mean, like Mike Williams like two years ago lead
Speaker 1: the league in yards per catch, I mean at a
Speaker 1: thousand yards season. He's never had more than fifty catches
Speaker 1: though in any year, and he's had some durability issues.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of of a projection to suddenly say
Speaker 1: he's our Michael Thomas, I mean we will see not
Speaker 1: only that, but I also worry about their death because
Speaker 1: if there's one team that's been bitten by the injury
Speaker 1: bug pretty bad on the offensive side of the ball
Speaker 1: last three to five years, it's them, Keenan Allen being
Speaker 1: one one year. And if that happened again, whether it
Speaker 1: was him or Mike Williams or somebody else, God forbid,
Speaker 1: they're they're in a world of trouble if that happens, right,
Speaker 1: LOBARTI is not scheming you out of injury problems. I
Speaker 1: don't feel like in case you're just joining us. This
Speaker 1: is projected starters. What else you got? They're worth it?
Speaker 1: The worth it? Then you've been pushing this projected starter
Speaker 1: seg I think that I think the drop you know
Speaker 1: I'm up to drop. I've used it three times now,
Speaker 1: and I think that's pushing us over the finish line
Speaker 1: right now. In some medical like sort of autopsy type
Speaker 1: talk into her, I'll throw one in. Maybe just you
Speaker 1: want your doctor, Michael Boden cap go ahead and your
Speaker 1: blue scrubs, or how about that what's who's that quack
Speaker 1: that that everyone gets on that everyone retweets despite him
Speaker 1: getting like you know, fired from the Chargers and kicked
Speaker 1: out of the NFL and political license. Yeah. Um, Devin
Speaker 1: Bush is a guy coming off of a major injury.
Speaker 1: And just because we haven't mentioned his name all off season,
Speaker 1: he does strike me as this guy like everyone thinks
Speaker 1: Devin Bush is already Devin White or Roquan Smith and
Speaker 1: they're just like, Okay, you're gonna get Devon Bush back,
Speaker 1: and like that's going to really help the The history
Speaker 1: of the Steelers defense and inside linebackers incredible. It's like
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that out of Devon Bush. Like he
Speaker 1: is a lash player that you see with with splash plays.
Speaker 1: I I don't know if he's been particularly effective, and
Speaker 1: he's coming off of a major injury, and that that
Speaker 1: is a thin position for the Steelers if you want
Speaker 1: to pick on their defense. Their their defense was number
Speaker 1: one in d v o A last year. It was
Speaker 1: a good defense. But they've lost a couple of people
Speaker 1: and they need Devin Bush uh to be to take
Speaker 1: a big step and people are just kind of assuming
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. It's like I gotta see that happen.
Speaker 1: I mean, also, I think the thin a cornerback I'll
Speaker 1: stay in the af C North. And you know, if
Speaker 1: you want to talk about a team that could be
Speaker 1: experiencing some shortness of breath, maybe even you know, heart
Speaker 1: issues if they don't um get production at the past
Speaker 1: rushing position, it could be the Ravens. And Gregg points
Speaker 1: out that, you know, every year it feels like they
Speaker 1: lose their number one dude, uh, and like that happened again,
Speaker 1: but they now have Tighess Bowser, Pernell McPhee and Jalen
Speaker 1: Ferguson as their lead dudes who last year and they
Speaker 1: you know, they have the rookie too, but last year
Speaker 1: those guys combined for seven sacks. You're asking, and the
Speaker 1: Ravens aren't necessarily like when you're a rookie jump in
Speaker 1: in um play as much as you normally would like.
Speaker 1: They kind of slow baked them, so they're gonna need
Speaker 1: help there. I also look at their backup quarterback position
Speaker 1: if anything happens to Lamar Jackson, and I guess, like,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe it's cliche to say you worry about
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson getting injured, but he's that kind of a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Your backup is Trace McSorley, who I like is like
Speaker 1: maybe a little gadget type player here there. But I
Speaker 1: wonder if Eric to Costa, who is always an act
Speaker 1: of GM, might look for some veterans um and both
Speaker 1: of those spots, you know, heading towards the end of
Speaker 1: training camp to patch that up. I think we got
Speaker 1: a glimpse of what the Ravens would look like with
Speaker 1: Trace McSorley in that Monday night game against the Browns,
Speaker 1: lav Lar Jackson had to run to the locker room. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: he is able to um overcome the quote unquote cramps
Speaker 1: and come back in time to lead them to victory.
Speaker 1: But you wouldn't want to be caught in that situation.
Speaker 1: You're feeling good. When Trace McSorley was out there, he
Speaker 1: did make like one throw, but after that it pretty
Speaker 1: much bogged down. Brown's fans were just where they were
Speaker 1: feeling themselves. And then and then there comes Lamar running
Speaker 1: out of the bathroom. I really turned into like the
Speaker 1: game of the year in the NFL, toilet paper hanging
Speaker 1: out of his pants. That was not a great ending
Speaker 1: for the Browns and their fans, but that was great theater.
Speaker 1: That whole drama, the whole game was really I mean
Speaker 1: if anything, you could say the Browns like answered a
Speaker 1: lot of doubters on their on their offense too, but
Speaker 1: it was Lamar was playing the Browns. How did I
Speaker 1: not connect that? Uh, I'm gonna keep this. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep this in the a f C. North and go
Speaker 1: back to Pittsburgh real quick, just because Greg you brought
Speaker 1: you know, Devin Bush. Another defensive situation that I think
Speaker 1: is worth watching is t J. Watt's effectiveness now that
Speaker 1: Buddy Pree is not opposite him. After Buddy Pree got
Speaker 1: hurt last year, his pressure percentage Corn the next Gen
Speaker 1: dropped by like ten, which was because he was watching you.
Speaker 1: You're the next gen guy. You that's kind of you
Speaker 1: steak that as your corner, your next gen. Cynthia is
Speaker 1: there too. I don't know if there's a little bit
Speaker 1: of no, no, we're we're friendly. Were the same team, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but she has her supercomputer. She's not just leaning on
Speaker 1: sparaging comments about the supercomputer at least passed through your mind.
Speaker 1: You haven't shared them in public. I mean, I got
Speaker 1: a laptop. We're all right, We're We're cynthiaon soon. It's
Speaker 1: been on my list of to do this too to answer, Um,
Speaker 1: all the slights that Nick has thrown, Yeah, and all
Speaker 1: the mental ones also keeping it in Pittsburgh. Their offensive line,
Speaker 1: for me, is still a concern. Um. You know, I
Speaker 1: recall Draft Day and and Adid's report, which was that
Speaker 1: it was clear that they knew they needed offensive line help,
Speaker 1: but they liked to blend their board and need at
Speaker 1: the same time. And they went with Nazi Harris in
Speaker 1: the first round. And you know, on paper, you're like, well,
Speaker 1: that's an upgrade over James Connor. But I look at
Speaker 1: that starting five and I'm not super encouraged. I know
Speaker 1: some people are bullish on Kevin Dotson at left guard.
Speaker 1: They drafted a center in the third round, Kendrick Green.
Speaker 1: Will see if he starts, and you have David DeCastro,
Speaker 1: but I'm not happy about their tackles. Um. From this
Speaker 1: point right now and another next gen dive real quick, Um.
Speaker 1: The Steelers were second to last in the league and
Speaker 1: expected rushing yards per attempt, which basically measures how effective
Speaker 1: their offensive line is. The only team that was worse
Speaker 1: than them was the Browns. But the difference between the
Speaker 1: Browns and them was the Browns running backs overcame that consistently.
Speaker 1: They posted the best rushing yards over expectation per at
Speaker 1: temph in the entire NFL, the Steelers, and that was
Speaker 1: at plus one point one five yards per attempt. So
Speaker 1: those running backs were consistently exceeding expectation and doing their
Speaker 1: job to a very high degree. The Steelers were at
Speaker 1: negative zero point zero one yards per attempt, So the
Speaker 1: running backs were getting effective and their offensive line was
Speaker 1: also ineffective. So if you run back a line that
Speaker 1: looks very similar this year, you add nausea Harris, that's
Speaker 1: a lot to put on the shoulders of a rookie
Speaker 1: who does have a lot of mileage on him coming
Speaker 1: out of Alabama. So I think that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: big thing to watch, um for the Steelers this year.
Speaker 1: And how in the chances for their offense. And if
Speaker 1: we're carving up the a f C. North, I might
Speaker 1: as well plug in on the Bengals here and Greg
Speaker 1: you pointed out and it makes ends, um, there's potential
Speaker 1: here for this offense to take a big jump. Now,
Speaker 1: the Joe Burrow a c L situation and ripped up
Speaker 1: his knee something fierce, uh, And it's good that he's
Speaker 1: back practicing and O T A s and you hope
Speaker 1: he's close to the same guy. Um, there's a bit
Speaker 1: of a projection here that he makes the second year
Speaker 1: leap and and improves as a player if the knee cooperates.
Speaker 1: And then you have you know, you got Jamaar Chase there. Now, Uh,
Speaker 1: you have Tyler Boyd, underrated guy, te Higgins, Joe Mixing
Speaker 1: and running back. And I don't know what to take
Speaker 1: from the Joe Mixing experience at this point, but we
Speaker 1: know he's fantastically talented and he still has prime years
Speaker 1: ahead of him. The offensive line, as you point out, Greg,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe Penney Sewell would have been the guy. A
Speaker 1: logical pick there, but you know what, there are pieces
Speaker 1: there that they that are developing. If the offensive line
Speaker 1: gets better, and they did bring in Riley Reef. Of
Speaker 1: course they're to help on that end with these weapons
Speaker 1: and burrows. Henchel, I'm not saying there's gonna be four
Speaker 1: teams in the a f C North with nine plus wins.
Speaker 1: I just think that Cincinnati might muck some things up.
Speaker 1: And you know the bullies like Cessilaer and the Browns,
Speaker 1: uh looking down and pointing and laughing at them, they
Speaker 1: might not be doing that if this team comes together
Speaker 1: a little quickly, more quickly than people anticipate. I mean
Speaker 1: a year ago I said that I thought Zach Taylor
Speaker 1: had a chance to be Coach of the Year. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of it comes down to the specialness
Speaker 1: that they've known where Zack Taylor brings. But I don't
Speaker 1: think the Bengals are a two or three win team.
Speaker 1: They they have a pretty pretty good roster on offense.
Speaker 1: They should be a team that goes out and you know,
Speaker 1: they beat Tennessee last year. That's the one game I
Speaker 1: look at where I thought you kind of got a
Speaker 1: glimpse bad team to give you a little glimpse of
Speaker 1: what they can be with Borrow healthy and all that business. Um,
Speaker 1: they lost their quarterback, the floor fell out. They've been
Speaker 1: ravaged by injuries really as much as any team in
Speaker 1: that division or that conference. Over the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: You haven't really had a chance to see what they
Speaker 1: can be. They can win eight games. I don't know
Speaker 1: if the defense is gonna be worth a damn there,
Speaker 1: and that's problem and we've talked about the coaching staff
Speaker 1: on this show. But their offense I think can keep
Speaker 1: them in games. I would take that young skill group,
Speaker 1: not counting quarterbacks. I guess I'm going like just running
Speaker 1: back receiver group of young players over any in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I can't, I can't. I mean Dallas would be in
Speaker 1: the mix. I mean, there there'd be other teams in
Speaker 1: the mix. But I think I would take that because
Speaker 1: I partly because I just loved T Higgins so much,
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm kind of assuming Jamaar Chase is gonna
Speaker 1: be awesome. But I did notice kind of doing this exercise,
Speaker 1: the Bengals have completely changed their approach of like player acquisition.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's gonna work, but they were
Speaker 1: the number one team in terms of drafting development in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Year after year they dominated this stat which
Speaker 1: was just like how many snaps did you have from
Speaker 1: players he drafted? They would be like far and away
Speaker 1: ahead of the entire NFL. Now was that working particularly?
Speaker 1: It was working? Okay, they were, you know, they were
Speaker 1: making the playoffs and losing usually under Marvin Lewis. Now
Speaker 1: you look at their defense, it's all free agents from
Speaker 1: other places that you know, we're mostly let downs and
Speaker 1: at least at some points like DJ Reader, Ogan, Jovi Hendrickson,
Speaker 1: Von Bell Wuzier from Dallas, you got Trey Wayne's, Mike
Speaker 1: Kelton came in like that is just a lot of
Speaker 1: guys from other places in your county on lou Albano
Speaker 1: to just make it work that usually doesn't work. They're
Speaker 1: like they are. Everyone says like the middle class of
Speaker 1: free agency is kind of dead. You know, it's either
Speaker 1: like start but except for the Bengals, they are all
Speaker 1: about the middle class. I'd have to think Green Bay
Speaker 1: would be up to two. But I can already see
Speaker 1: um a trend, and I can already tell what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen on this show. If Cleveland starts out like one
Speaker 1: in three or one in four or two and four,
Speaker 1: it's it's like here we are. Cleveland had one nice
Speaker 1: season and everyone's over it. Now it's like they've been
Speaker 1: It's it's an off season where they're being a little overrated.
Speaker 1: Now at this point, it's tune. People are tired of that,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be exhaustions sit in. You know, the
Speaker 1: Saints could be good for like eighteen years in a row.
Speaker 1: The Packers can be good for but Cleveland had their
Speaker 1: one season. Now let's have the Bengals come nipped them
Speaker 1: in the butt and you know, take them from fourth
Speaker 1: to third, third to fourth place, and the Steelers suddenly
Speaker 1: are seeming like there's so much better than Cleveland, and
Speaker 1: we just trust the Ravens and the whole you know what.
Speaker 1: That's why I have Nick Shook who's about six ft
Speaker 1: three and built a bricks to start throwing punches. If
Speaker 1: you guys get to uh you know, loose on this front,
Speaker 1: you better keep it. You better keep your traps closed.
Speaker 1: I'm a little annoyed. I mean, Mark, we've been We've
Speaker 1: been prepared for this. We've been steeled by the year
Speaker 1: that was two thousand nineteen. I'll tell you what. The
Speaker 1: vitriol that I endured online while working for the Browns
Speaker 1: as they went down in a massive ball of flames,
Speaker 1: it was unlike anything I've ever experienced working here and
Speaker 1: ranking players and upsetting fans because they're guys ninth when
Speaker 1: he should be second in their opinion. Uh So, people
Speaker 1: love for the hype machine to to go down and
Speaker 1: crash and burn. But um, even if they did start
Speaker 1: one and three, it's a long season. Remember they got
Speaker 1: blown out in Week one last year. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: guys will be totally calm on a Sunday night podcast
Speaker 1: that if they're oh well yeah, yeah, it's a long season,
Speaker 1: very measured. All your points about the US getting on
Speaker 1: you for the Browns and market like those are Thursday
Speaker 1: show stuff. By then you'll love calm down a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think I'll be too afraid on Sunday nights, like
Speaker 1: we know not. You gotta look in the eyes. You
Speaker 1: gotta see where the Sessler eyes are at before you
Speaker 1: make any comments at all. But there's you know, there's
Speaker 1: being a Browns fan right now. Yes, you have to
Speaker 1: deal with the expectations. But on the plus side, like
Speaker 1: well draft time as an example, it's like everyone is
Speaker 1: just genuflecting at the altar of the Cleveland Browns that
Speaker 1: everything they do is genius. So if you're gonna get
Speaker 1: that type of positive buzz around your organization, you've got
Speaker 1: to deal with the expectation heat that comes with it.
Speaker 1: It's part of the price. I had this very weird dream.
Speaker 1: I will not take more than a minute on this
Speaker 1: last night. Um, it's one of those ones where you
Speaker 1: wake up and it's like five twelve in the morning
Speaker 1: and like you have no idea who you are. But
Speaker 1: I was at an airport with you, Dan, and we
Speaker 1: were in this like insane chase to try to find luggage.
Speaker 1: And I was trying to get Kevin Stefanski's luggage um
Speaker 1: for him, and I was meant to then take it
Speaker 1: to the Browns Complex, but I couldn't find it, and
Speaker 1: I kept getting lost and it was snowing out, and
Speaker 1: then you were like, hey, man, I'm good, Like we
Speaker 1: were going to a hotel, and You're like, I found
Speaker 1: my baggage, so are you good? Like can you figure
Speaker 1: this out? I'm like, I guess so. And I'm walking
Speaker 1: around with this like sort of rather like strange, colorful
Speaker 1: bag that belongs to Kevin Stefanski. And then the dream ended.
Speaker 1: I didn't fulfill the journey on any level. What the
Speaker 1: dream about that Stefanski is like jockey? I think I
Speaker 1: was like the guy that would be like, hey, can
Speaker 1: you do us a favor? Can you just you know,
Speaker 1: Fancy's gotta go go bring his luggage to the complex
Speaker 1: and don't don't forget anything. And I was like there
Speaker 1: was baggage everywhere people were Wearing's final day with the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. That may be true. Stefanski is like, I've
Speaker 1: got some sensitive materials coming in from nick Oaragua. Can
Speaker 1: you call up Sessler to pick it up? That is
Speaker 1: that's the dream book would say that that's market dealing
Speaker 1: with the stress and weight of carrying the Browns bag
Speaker 1: on the national perspective and dealing with the fire from
Speaker 1: you guys and the pressure and it's getting to him
Speaker 1: and it's getting into his subconscious and the season can't
Speaker 1: get here. An I could not think that's well well
Speaker 1: assessed into that anymore. Um, I have one last one
Speaker 1: before we uh if anybody else jumps in and go ahead,
Speaker 1: jump in. But you know, Greg, I don't know. Listen,
Speaker 1: we do a lot of stuff together on on television
Speaker 1: and on this podcast, and so I've heard this a lot,
Speaker 1: and I've read this now in your piece of record
Speaker 1: on the two thousand one season upcoming projected Starters. I
Speaker 1: need receipts on this Russell Wilson League m v P promotion,
Speaker 1: this this theory or this thing you've been propagating for months.
Speaker 1: It was Sunday Sunday night football game where it was
Speaker 1: like it was a pregame interview and it was all
Speaker 1: about in all the media outlets saying how he's never
Speaker 1: received an m v P boat like that. You know,
Speaker 1: that was all part of it. Yeah, But your theory here,
Speaker 1: um and correct me if I'm wrong, is that Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson spearheaded this media narrative. That right, that's what you're saying.
Speaker 1: You're calling it a promotion, that he was running behind
Speaker 1: the scenes. I mean, yeah, pretty much that he was.
Speaker 1: He was um contributing to it. He talked, He talked
Speaker 1: publicly about like what an m v P would mean
Speaker 1: to him, and that he wants to be the greatest
Speaker 1: in the game, and like that is what he wants.
Speaker 1: He was asked about it. I'm sure unless you can
Speaker 1: shop point. I'm just saying you're bringing up enough that
Speaker 1: I need proof at this point that he was actually
Speaker 1: doing this. I don't want to vote. More importantly, I
Speaker 1: want to win the award, Wilson said September. I mean,
Speaker 1: what are you what are you asking me here? He's
Speaker 1: doing it. He's got the pr arm I stand by it.
Speaker 1: I do. Like you also ended your Seahawks right up
Speaker 1: with this little blurb also popular with Seahawks fans, and
Speaker 1: he shout out to their status as a special breed
Speaker 1: of humanity, more knowledgeable and inexplicable than any other collection
Speaker 1: of people on Earth. What do you have to do
Speaker 1: over there, rosent Bow, Yeah, what's that about? Just messing around?
Speaker 1: You also jumped off the last year. Uh yeah, well
Speaker 1: that I don't And they didn't think it's an Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't like that. And they just like the Seahawks fans.
Speaker 1: They do have a great twitter um presence. They're smart,
Speaker 1: they're weird um, but they don't like to hear that.
Speaker 1: Any other fan base could also have, like a smart,
Speaker 1: weird fans base. They they want to feel special and
Speaker 1: once you say like, okay, I'm not really feeling them
Speaker 1: as a Super Bowl team this year, then then they
Speaker 1: come out market down June three one, Greg Rosenthal officially
Speaker 1: became fatigued with Seahawks and Seahawks Twitter keep the twelves weird.
Speaker 1: They should read um anybody else? Before we close out
Speaker 1: this segment, which by the way, has a title, and
Speaker 1: that title is projected starters. It's the rule of fours.
Speaker 1: Most people think three times you do it. That's the
Speaker 1: peak comedic efficiency. Four five, six. I will say, um,
Speaker 1: my girlfriend, which you guys had love to discuss many
Speaker 1: ties in this podcast. In the past, she's in physical
Speaker 1: therapy school and last semester, uh, she had to dissect
Speaker 1: a cadaver, which meant that she was studying a lot
Speaker 1: of images of like you know, for Malde high preserved
Speaker 1: dead humans and their various tissues. And every time I
Speaker 1: hear that drop, I just think about looking over my
Speaker 1: shoulder at her computer screen and seeing nerves and hearts
Speaker 1: and brains and always grew some stuff. Was it a
Speaker 1: man or a woman that she had to cut open
Speaker 1: and explore? It was a man, and I'll never forget
Speaker 1: She came home one day and said, today I shaved
Speaker 1: the back fat off of a man. Oh question, and
Speaker 1: it is likes you know, it was like it was
Speaker 1: amazing and also the least surprising part of this pet.
Speaker 1: That's where Mark's mind went immediately. And if it is
Speaker 1: a woman, do you know where I can go to
Speaker 1: get one? No? I just you know there there are
Speaker 1: some follow up questions, but that's for one of your
Speaker 1: other podcast, Nick, but maybe you could send some questions in.
Speaker 1: I can't think of a title to loop in Dissection
Speaker 1: of Cadavers, but we'll get there. I have one last one,
Speaker 1: and it's the Raiders um and their secondary, just because
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily much different on paper. But my big
Speaker 1: question Marcus Damon Arnett. You know, you spend a high
Speaker 1: pick on him, and he was a non factor last year.
Speaker 1: He dealt with injuries, and but after Mike Mayock spent
Speaker 1: the offseason trashing their defense, and then they, you know,
Speaker 1: put some effort toward it. They drafted safety Travon Merrigg.
Speaker 1: I just I need to see. I don't know what
Speaker 1: to expect from this group. I mean, it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: that I don't know who is projected to be the starters,
Speaker 1: but I have no idea what they're gonna get, um,
Speaker 1: other than that Jonathan Abraham is going to be in
Speaker 1: the box more and he already plays like a psychopath,
Speaker 1: so we might as well, uh, you know, enjoy him
Speaker 1: being around the ball more. I mean, he might have
Speaker 1: been the biggest problem in the defense. Full of them,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought them up, just because I kind
Speaker 1: of forgot about Casey Hayward. They signed Casey Hayward. He
Speaker 1: might be their slack guy. But I I mentioned, uh,
Speaker 1: I'm probably basing this on like too small of a
Speaker 1: sample size and everything. But when I watched Damon Arnette
Speaker 1: last year, I thought he looked pretty good. I know
Speaker 1: he did not test out well and he gave up
Speaker 1: some big plays, but him and Trayvon Mullen, like I thought,
Speaker 1: they have shown some things. And young cornerbacks are It's tough, man.
Speaker 1: It is tough to come into the NFL as a
Speaker 1: young cornerback. And I think both of them actually have
Speaker 1: flashed a lot. Like people think they're busts, and I
Speaker 1: thought both of them have shown something. So it wouldn't
Speaker 1: shock me if those two guys improved. Yeah, definitely like
Speaker 1: Mullins more than our net. But I mean Mullins has
Speaker 1: a little bit more of of you know, sample size
Speaker 1: so far. So it's disgust Bradley to put it all together.
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure. Alright, good stuff and check it
Speaker 1: out NFL dot Com slash projected starters. It's kind of
Speaker 1: pretty much ever in content you could read it now
Speaker 1: projected starters that you could read it now, you could
Speaker 1: read it a month from now, and you'll kind of
Speaker 1: be up to date. But I told Ali, I'm done
Speaker 1: until the season. This works as a season preview I
Speaker 1: didn't tell Ali. I'm just hiding. I am unreachable. I
Speaker 1: have more content to get to Ali today. As the
Speaker 1: rule of fives. As promised on Tuesday, we asked for
Speaker 1: were some reviews and stars over on iTunes. Checked it out,
Speaker 1: went over to the iTunes. Got a decent amount. I
Speaker 1: gotta be honest with you, Greg, you appealed to the audience.
Speaker 1: They didn't. We gotta. We got a nice handful, but
Speaker 1: I was hoping for many, because again, it's the only
Speaker 1: thing we ask for. Well, that's maybe, it's it's not
Speaker 1: maybe again, five stars, five stars, leave review that's all
Speaker 1: we ask. All right, let's get into it. This one
Speaker 1: from this from c l GO three. I love the hosts,
Speaker 1: not enough cults five stars. Apparently the way for a
Speaker 1: small market team to make the potty each week is
Speaker 1: to sign Teddy Bridgewater. That said, a great podcast even
Speaker 1: in the off season. Up next, Mark Sessler, five stars.
Speaker 1: I enjoy Marx Brown's fandom with and literacy. Nice comment there,
Speaker 1: Mark oh I wrote that you think Eric Stabe Mark
Speaker 1: Mark's brother Eric Seer, Zach Attack Curry, longtime listener, first
Speaker 1: time reviewer. The NFL is lucky to have these heroes
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Speaker 1: Player up next? Miss my Uncle Charles, Miss my Uncle Charles.
Speaker 1: Just here for the Bone Thugs talk. People loved that.
Speaker 1: I wasn't missed. Opportunity shook without you on the show.
Speaker 1: You you know, the guys make jokes that I like wrap,
Speaker 1: you like rap even more, and you are Clevelander. So
Speaker 1: Bone Thugs if the floor is yours, if you have
Speaker 1: anything to say about them, Um, well, I will say this,
Speaker 1: and this is gonna date myself, but Bone Thugs was
Speaker 1: hot when I was like a kid. I know that.
Speaker 1: But I think you maybe listened to him. Of course, absolutely, um,
Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt about it. Not so much in
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, but they're definitely in the
Speaker 1: in the rotation every once in a while. Blukewarm. By
Speaker 1: the way, there is great. There's no Greg, there's no
Speaker 1: kind of joshing you about your rap enjoyment. It's just
Speaker 1: simply pointed out on the show. Greg likes rap respectual.
Speaker 1: I like some of it too, not at your level.
Speaker 1: I like, like you know, lesbian indie rock too, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't get its own at all. Pop It doesn't,
Speaker 1: and maybe it should all right. Up Next favorite podcast
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Speaker 1: listened to a fair amount of podcasts, mostly football, Great
Speaker 1: NFL Insight with just the right levity. The different personalities
Speaker 1: bounce off each other perfectly. Erica, Ricky jump in here.
Speaker 1: Erica has the finishing touch, occasionally bringing them all back
Speaker 1: to earth without any damper on the amusement. Go Erica.
Speaker 1: I hope this podcast carries on just as it is
Speaker 1: for my lifetime. If the universe would be so kind,
Speaker 1: all the best for he in heart, all of you. Wow,
Speaker 1: that was so nice. That was very nice. Why do
Speaker 1: we not assume that Erica wrote that when you're immediately
Speaker 1: suggesting that a pro mark one was written by myself?
Speaker 1: Up Next, Smart with NFL Comma Woke Ideology two stars
Speaker 1: out of five Smart NFL analysts. If you brush off
Speaker 1: the woke rhetoric they spew when they veer away from sports,
Speaker 1: I can't stomach the ignorance on real world matters. No
Speaker 1: one cares about your opinions on vaccines. And politics. You're
Speaker 1: losing listeners because of it. Wake up, guys, Trump voters
Speaker 1: and people who don't want to get vaccinated are in
Speaker 1: every room you walk in. Maybe time to show them
Speaker 1: a little respect, all caps by, So just being in
Speaker 1: a room that you walk in is worth they ever respect.
Speaker 1: Now if you even if you just use the term oke,
Speaker 1: I don't, we don't need you. That's he jumped out
Speaker 1: just in time. You know, today's episode touched on things
Speaker 1: he finds unpleasant. So I was gonna say he definitely
Speaker 1: tuned out about the first ten minutes. Let Mark Cook
Speaker 1: from VATTA all right, I listened to this podcast more
Speaker 1: than I watched the NFL. I mean, there's not a
Speaker 1: better selling point for for our show. And finally, best
Speaker 1: podcast around parentheticals in the tone of Dan my favorite
Speaker 1: podcast by far, and in Quarantine I dabbled in many.
Speaker 1: I listened to each episode as soon as I can
Speaker 1: on a day. It comes out love everything you do.
Speaker 1: I recently lost a close friend, and your openness and
Speaker 1: friendship talking about Chris really helps me through it. I
Speaker 1: would call him West, but that seems like a nickname
Speaker 1: you have to earn. I'm just a lowly listener. That
Speaker 1: is not true. West was down to be called West
Speaker 1: by anyone. I don't want to lessen my compliment with
Speaker 1: an NFL question. I'd have some, but I'd rather just
Speaker 1: leave a great review. Oh that's very nice, Williams. Thank
Speaker 1: you Williams, and you understood it. These were good reviews.
Speaker 1: I assumed you maybe maybe picked the best of them,
Speaker 1: so they were even more. But good job. I think
Speaker 1: I think we can do better, maybe come back strong again.
Speaker 1: We'll do it again some other time. Yeah, that's that.
Speaker 1: We call for more reviews. Send us uh your reviews
Speaker 1: and we will read them on the air potentially. All right, shure. Oh,
Speaker 1: before we say goodbye, Ricky, something very exciting, speaking of
Speaker 1: vanity projects, you have something to share. Yes, So the
Speaker 1: broadcast my podcast that I do with Emma got signed
Speaker 1: by All Things Comedy. So we're gonna be on the
Speaker 1: A t C network. Really excited. So, um, if the
Speaker 1: A t N listeners want to do me a little
Speaker 1: favor and go over there and subscribe or check out
Speaker 1: an episode. There's episodes, actually not Nick, but everyone else
Speaker 1: in here that you guys have your own episodes and
Speaker 1: they're great. We wrote a funny scrap to where Mark
Speaker 1: red basically him going crazy and getting a huge tattoo
Speaker 1: of Baker Mayfield after they win the super Bowl. So
Speaker 1: a little foreshadowing about what life would be like. Um,
Speaker 1: I think it's great. But yeah, I'm excited. Congratulates. So
Speaker 1: you're now being you're being paid now for for the show? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: ad sales potentially any retroactive kicks to the people that
Speaker 1: I think the you know between the lines there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well but yeah, Mark, if you go, you know, pump
Speaker 1: up your own episode, I can work something out for you.
Speaker 1: Then when the Browns do win the super Bowl, we
Speaker 1: should like have a listening party to that episode. Compare
Speaker 1: it with reality. It'll be it'll be fun, good, really excited.
Speaker 1: Check out the broadcast. Check out j r VP. I
Speaker 1: have a throwback podcast. My buddy Bob would do the
Speaker 1: show with him kills me. He absolutely destroys for never
Speaker 1: promoting the show, and I say, listen, I'd like to
Speaker 1: keep my world separate whenever possible. But since everyone else
Speaker 1: is uh getting their plugs in, and I will mention
Speaker 1: it and I'll make sure he knows that I did,
Speaker 1: and the listeners will as well. I imagine. Well, let's
Speaker 1: give Bob Show a pop too, because my kids were
Speaker 1: literally I'm not exaggerating, counting down the days before Lego
Speaker 1: Masters came back. And first, you know, we had that DVRD.
Speaker 1: Bob's working on Lego Masters. We had a DVRD and
Speaker 1: first thing, you know, get home from school. That's it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a total hit. And I think I like
Speaker 1: that Bob is a producer on the show and he
Speaker 1: works very closely with Will Arnette, the host. I just
Speaker 1: I can't share any of the stories that I've heard,
Speaker 1: but it's it's very interesting to learn what goes on
Speaker 1: inside the Hollywood machine with someone on the edges of
Speaker 1: the Illuminati. Now you want to think Arnette was on
Speaker 1: the edges, but he's there exclusive club. Whoa. That was insane?
Speaker 1: What did I oversell it? It's just, you know, it's
Speaker 1: you get a good peek into the show business world.
Speaker 1: That's I mean, yeah, I was kind of wondering, like
Speaker 1: the photos of him with all the legos behind, I'm like,
Speaker 1: how did you get that? You know, you gotta do
Speaker 1: some bartering behind the scenes, you know, to make that happen,
Speaker 1: which I any Illuminati people out there I'm willing to
Speaker 1: have a conversation. Oh Ricky, this is not a good
Speaker 1: look for you, but you'll give up anything to be
Speaker 1: inside the circle. Yeah, your quest for fame is just endless,
Speaker 1: it is, and it's leaving a path of destruction in
Speaker 1: his wake. Like what do I have to do to
Speaker 1: get a yacht? Like it could have been that bad?
Speaker 1: Just ask dad? Um, alright, yes, check out Ricky's show
Speaker 1: the broadcast. Hey you and Nick Chook, you've done it again.
Speaker 1: You said it all and um thank you for joining
Speaker 1: us today and look forward to having you on again
Speaker 1: on the show again soon and of course during the
Speaker 1: regular season as well. Yeah, certainly love being on, love
Speaker 1: being around you guys, even though you know we're remotely,
Speaker 1: you know, not quite hanging out in l A. But
Speaker 1: uh yeah, it's it's it's been a blast as always.
Speaker 1: The thanks, Yeah, thank you, Choky. All right, this is
Speaker 1: Dan hands Is signing off for the Quiet Storm, the
Speaker 1: Old Boss, the Unshookable Nick Shook. What I think I
Speaker 1: had like a really bad nickname that everyone hated. No,
Speaker 1: I'm forgetting it, damn it. It was something inappropriate like
Speaker 1: the pipe. The pipe, the pipe. The pipe did not
Speaker 1: catch trying to get this pipe, Ricky Hollywood. Check out
Speaker 1: the around the NFL broadcast Friday on the network right
Speaker 1: after Good Morning Football. Until then, heed the call.