Speaker 1: From the King of sports Books comes the Key Sports
Speaker 1: podcast Unleashed, presented by the MGM. Here's your host, Jerry
Speaker 1: Ferrara and Olivia Harlan Decker. All Right, we have a
Speaker 1: great show coming up. Former NFL All pro Lavian Bell
Speaker 1: will be joining us. That is going to be such
Speaker 1: a good interview you won't want to miss that. Now
Speaker 1: he's rapping. He's even making his boxing debut against another
Speaker 1: NFL great, Adrian Peterson. So we'll talk to him all
Speaker 1: about that. We'll talk about him playing with the Steelers
Speaker 1: and what he meant by saying he wished he had
Speaker 1: a time machine to go back to eighteen. Okay, so
Speaker 1: last week my new co host was welcomed with rave reviews.
Speaker 1: Y'all love him. I love him. We had a lot
Speaker 1: of fun kicking things off. Jerry Ferrara, how are you doing,
Speaker 1: my friend. I'm just glad you guys had me back.
Speaker 1: I wasn't so sure. You never know. After you record
Speaker 1: a pod, you're like, I think I think we I
Speaker 1: think we did well. You know, I think it was good.
Speaker 1: So no, now I feel like every week two that
Speaker 1: goes by, we're getting closer to the football. And then
Speaker 1: obviously we got the hoops countdown, so I'm locked in,
Speaker 1: ready to go. Well, even if you totally stunk, I
Speaker 1: think your contract would still keep you around for a year.
Speaker 1: So good thing you did. Yeah, exactly, good good thing right? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't do ten days around here year contract. No,
Speaker 1: We're with each other all football season, all year. This
Speaker 1: is gonna be so much fun. One of the things
Speaker 1: I promised you last week because we kicked things off,
Speaker 1: is that I would start Entourage from the very beginning. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you played Turtle. That still is what a lot of
Speaker 1: people call you. What you know, When I tell people
Speaker 1: you're the co host, they say, oh, I loved her Turtle.
Speaker 1: I love Entourage. But I made it through four episodes
Speaker 1: and I'm really really loving this show. I'm laughing out loud.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and don't I'm twenty three years old. I'm
Speaker 1: probably a lot closer to two pounds back then. Yeah,
Speaker 1: walk me through your weight loss journey, because it doesn't
Speaker 1: even look like you. That was just, you know, I
Speaker 1: just I was always like a kind of chubby kid.
Speaker 1: But and also that's how they wanted me on the show,
Speaker 1: Turtle and definitely fit, you know, to be a little schlubby,
Speaker 1: a little a little overweight, and then you know, you
Speaker 1: end up working so much craft service is really good.
Speaker 1: I started enjoying dinner and stuff like that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: kind of ballooned up to like two oh five, And
Speaker 1: it wasn't until I turned like thirty years old where
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, I gotta get this together. This
Speaker 1: is really starting to go down the path of something
Speaker 1: that's gonna be hard to correct as I get older.
Speaker 1: And I just like it was very simple. I just
Speaker 1: like started lightly working out and eating a little bit
Speaker 1: better and just little by little over tight. Didn't lose
Speaker 1: like thirty forty pounds and two months like you hear
Speaker 1: some of those stories, but uh yeah, they were not
Speaker 1: happy when I you'll see later on like I come
Speaker 1: back like in between like year six and seven, which
Speaker 1: is only in the show, supposed to be like a
Speaker 1: month later, and I'm like sixty pounds and Doug Allen
Speaker 1: couldn't write all the kind of fat jokes that they
Speaker 1: used to hit me with in early in season one.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that that's kind of my fitness journey. So
Speaker 1: what I'm learning about your character is, I mean, you're
Speaker 1: just you take such a brunt of all the jokes
Speaker 1: and then obviously the the dog Honold and the attack
Speaker 1: like did you did you have a stunt devil in
Speaker 1: that scene? No, that was me And I'm definitely in
Speaker 1: a lot of I'm wearing like all Rangers goalie equipment,
Speaker 1: so you see, even like the sports was pretty prevalent
Speaker 1: in that first episode. I have a Yankee jersey on
Speaker 1: at one point a Yankee hat and in a Ranger jersey.
Speaker 1: So if you actually look at the dog attack closely,
Speaker 1: that dog was so sweet, was like licking my face
Speaker 1: and like they couldn't actually get him to violently like
Speaker 1: pull me by the crotch. So they had a really
Speaker 1: kind of edit around that because there's a sweet dog
Speaker 1: who didn't wanna, didn't even want to pretend to hurt me,
Speaker 1: so okay, okay, well and it was just like an
Speaker 1: actor dog like how does that work? And shows Yeah,
Speaker 1: we I think we've had two over the years that
Speaker 1: played Arnold. The one that was there the longest was
Speaker 1: like Rocky, his real name was Rocky. I mean even
Speaker 1: the later episode, so there's a switch. Well I notice
Speaker 1: it's a different dog. You won't notice. But it was
Speaker 1: funny because they actually had a little puppy also as well,
Speaker 1: that they were sort of grooming to replace Rocky. Imagine
Speaker 1: that it's kind of like some quarterback situations we've seen
Speaker 1: in the NFL, where like, hey, we're drafting this young kid.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna play. It's still your job, but eventually
Speaker 1: he will take your job and you will be sent
Speaker 1: it to retirement. So we had Rocky for a good
Speaker 1: amount of time and then Rocky stepped away from the
Speaker 1: camera and then I'm not remembering because there's only like
Speaker 1: one year that we had the new pup, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he filled in. But yeah, the dog just like stormed
Speaker 1: off set before when you didn't want to work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a it's definitely changing the dynamic of
Speaker 1: a scene when you're working with kids or animals. Eva's
Speaker 1: so then also, like the episode I just watched is
Speaker 1: when you're all going to go on a big group
Speaker 1: date because he has a date with Ari's assistant, and
Speaker 1: then everyone is trying to find dates and you get
Speaker 1: the one from the fan mail of the naked girl
Speaker 1: who comes and is obsessed with Finns. But the whole
Speaker 1: thing about your character is like you cannot get a
Speaker 1: girl to save your life because they just they want
Speaker 1: to see Vince's room. You, I think, give a piece
Speaker 1: of his clothing to one girl you have sleepover. I
Speaker 1: mean that your character. I feels so bad for your character.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, and I do even remember, like, god, how
Speaker 1: am I gonna let this make this line work? Where
Speaker 1: I'm basically like, yeah, I should her where Vince s
Speaker 1: eats breakfast. Then that was it, Like some of them
Speaker 1: was like, you know again, this is two thousand four
Speaker 1: different times. But you'll see. I think there there is
Speaker 1: a come upance that will you continue to watch, you know,
Speaker 1: of all those characters, I do think and maybe because
Speaker 1: I was the youngest and sort of like the little brother,
Speaker 1: I was the latest to evolve throughout the show. But
Speaker 1: when I do, I think a lot of the fans
Speaker 1: back in the day really appreciated Turtles Journey. And now
Speaker 1: I'm in New York with my kids were back in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: My kids are not Brooklyn kids, which makes me very
Speaker 1: upset because they probably know Ohio. But you know, the
Speaker 1: show was really popular in New York in l A.
Speaker 1: So there is a lot of people coming up like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Turtle take a picture. And my three
Speaker 1: year old is like mesmerized, like why are all these
Speaker 1: people coming up to you? So in bed we woke
Speaker 1: up one morning he looks at Me's like, Dad, Dad,
Speaker 1: are you a turtle? That's like you said that with
Speaker 1: the most honest, earnest like why did or you were tortoise?
Speaker 1: Why do people call you turtle? And I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: well we'll get to that down the road. So there
Speaker 1: that'll that'll come up over the years. You know, we'll
Speaker 1: find out. You'll find out when you're probably in your teens.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yeah, I mean this show is pretty racy.
Speaker 1: When will you let them watch it? That's the funny thing,
Speaker 1: right what let Like you know, it was a lot
Speaker 1: easier when there was no internet to be just like
Speaker 1: you're not watching this and you hide the VCR tape
Speaker 1: or the DVD. Nowadays, like he's gonna have a phone.
Speaker 1: You want your kids to have phone for safety reasons,
Speaker 1: so you know he's gonna And I haven't really fully
Speaker 1: thought that through of what happens when the kids stumbles
Speaker 1: upon your work from twenty five years ago by the
Speaker 1: time he has a phone, So I really don't know
Speaker 1: how I'm going to handle that. They're saying in Cleveland
Speaker 1: or just in the Midwest in general, like you don't
Speaker 1: get shouted out as much as you do on the coast.
Speaker 1: It definitely comes up. But there's just so you know,
Speaker 1: if it's just a numbers game, there's so much, so
Speaker 1: many more people out and about. Even this morning at
Speaker 1: the park, you know, there's hundreds, if not like a
Speaker 1: thousand people coming in and out. So your chances of
Speaker 1: getting spotted or a lot greater. Yeah, so yeah, he
Speaker 1: asked me a lot of people. Yeah, and you know,
Speaker 1: we were New York guys on the show, Like I said,
Speaker 1: l a and New York like the Midwest, the middle
Speaker 1: of the country. You love the show too, but the
Speaker 1: coasts definitely early on loved loved Entourage. Okay, so I
Speaker 1: haven't told you this, and again I'm just now catching
Speaker 1: up and I'm loving it like every spare second I
Speaker 1: have as I'm giving my baby a bottle anything we
Speaker 1: are watching on the kid loves Entrage too, by the way,
Speaker 1: he's watching the TV. It's funny now because back a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, I had an Entrage cast member
Speaker 1: slide in my d MS. Okay, well you know it's
Speaker 1: not me right, let's just clear the air right there. Me,
Speaker 1: we have never really met until we've okay, great, oh
Speaker 1: oh boy. All right, I'm buckling up here, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to play this game because no one like
Speaker 1: you don't need out people, you don't need to like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not gonna say all the hey, all
Speaker 1: the people. Boy, am I tuting my horn? Like who's
Speaker 1: sliding my d M? Is not like that? But in general,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to play that game. But
Speaker 1: this one is now very funny as I'm watching the
Speaker 1: show because I'm like, you know, I didn't really know
Speaker 1: who he was at the time. I had to ask
Speaker 1: my sister, Okay, I want you to take a guess
Speaker 1: who oh boy. Um. Well, here's how I'm gonna narrow
Speaker 1: this down. I'm gonna cross Kevin Dillon off the list
Speaker 1: because I don't know if Kevin Dillon knows how to
Speaker 1: slide into a d M technologically speaking, you know, that's
Speaker 1: the one thing I've always admired about Kevin Dialon. I
Speaker 1: think he just got like an iPhone, like not that
Speaker 1: long ago. He's just not like he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: be on the phone. He wants to interact with people,
Speaker 1: so I'm crossing him off. Okay, I Connolly two was
Speaker 1: very late to social media, if I had to guess,
Speaker 1: because I think he was the earliest on social media.
Speaker 1: Maybe and I'm gonna guess Adrian, that would be my guests.
Speaker 1: I don't feel great about it, but that's my guess. No,
Speaker 1: then I would have known who that was. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I probably would have responded to he's a good
Speaker 1: looking dude. No, I'll give you one more guess with Piven?
Speaker 1: Sure why not? Yeah? Okay, did that surprise? He was?
Speaker 1: He that kind of guy? You know, I really don't know,
Speaker 1: but you didn't know. Piven at that point was in
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of movies long before he
Speaker 1: probably had the most, the longest resume before Entourage either
Speaker 1: him while it was close right over my head, Well,
Speaker 1: I would see I would have lost that bed. I'm
Speaker 1: already damn already minus money on the pod. I'm oh
Speaker 1: for one, So I hope I could pick it back
Speaker 1: up on this episode. Oh yeah. I sent it to
Speaker 1: my sister and I was like, who's this guy? Because
Speaker 1: you know it was verified and who is this? And
Speaker 1: she told me, Yeah, Anyways, I had to tell you that,
Speaker 1: but no, uh, hey, he's great on the show. To
Speaker 1: my god, is he a funny character? Yeah? Three years?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, he's so good. Well yeah, so every
Speaker 1: week I'm going to tell you where I'm at in
Speaker 1: the show, and yeah, totally loving it. Okay, you promised
Speaker 1: me this week that you would find me some Houston
Speaker 1: Texans wins because last week we broke down the a
Speaker 1: f C and you thought that there would be some
Speaker 1: surprises in the Texans schedule. So that was your homework assignment,
Speaker 1: find me some Texans wins? Did you find any? What
Speaker 1: you got? So, guys, listen, I know I ran my
Speaker 1: mouth a lot last week that the Texans. I didn't
Speaker 1: even say the Texans are gonna just win more than
Speaker 1: four and a half game. I said they're gonna upset
Speaker 1: a good team, maybe more than once during the year.
Speaker 1: They sort of did it last year. I went through
Speaker 1: the schedule. Remember this now we're still we're barely even
Speaker 1: through preseason. So this is not final answer time. This
Speaker 1: is my early early picks. I went through it. You know,
Speaker 1: Bears Week three doesn't really qualify. I really don't know
Speaker 1: what the Bears are gonna do. And we'll talk more
Speaker 1: about the NFC eas We're gonna dive into the NFC later.
Speaker 1: They did already beat the Titans last year. I had
Speaker 1: that circle week. But here it is. I truly, truly
Speaker 1: like the Thursday night game. It's week nine. I do
Speaker 1: think the Eagles are going to be a good team.
Speaker 1: It's in Houston. I think that is going to be
Speaker 1: one of those sleepy it's Thursday night. Those are always
Speaker 1: a little weird. I think they might stumble into a loss.
Speaker 1: That's my number one. I do have a number two,
Speaker 1: and I'm already gonna pick on the NFC East Week fourteen,
Speaker 1: the battle for Texas Exans cowboys. That sounds like a cowboy.
Speaker 1: Let me trip over my own two feet, stumble against
Speaker 1: the Texans, loot and bring the NFC East back to
Speaker 1: craziness because we're supposed to run away with it. And
Speaker 1: now we just lost the Texans in Week fourteen, So
Speaker 1: the doors open for the Commanders to sneak in at
Speaker 1: eight and eight and nine. We'll get to all this.
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm coming in hot on the NFC East. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm loving this. I'm loving this, and I have a
Speaker 1: lot of concerns about the Cowboys too. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to to circle back to the great state of Texas.
Speaker 1: But that's what we're gonna do. After we talk to
Speaker 1: Mr Bell, we are going to break down the NFC
Speaker 1: and I think we both have a little bit more
Speaker 1: skin in the game. That's both of our teams, the
Speaker 1: Packers and Giants, who play each other this year in
Speaker 1: London at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. And I haven't said this
Speaker 1: on the show yet, but I'm moving to London in
Speaker 1: like a week, so I'm gonna go to that game.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited. Maybe I can do some live reporting
Speaker 1: for Unleashed there, but that game, Jerry, are we gonna
Speaker 1: be on good terms that week? It really all depends,
Speaker 1: because that's what we four or five said. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: October nine. Yeah, if the Giants are like one in four,
Speaker 1: if they get out of the gate like they've gotten
Speaker 1: out of the gate the last couple of years, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna want to win, but I might not be
Speaker 1: as obsessed. But if we get out of the gate
Speaker 1: and or even close to five hundred hanging around, that's
Speaker 1: the fun part about your team being in the NFC East.
Speaker 1: You are truly never out of it, even at since
Speaker 1: you're still sniffing around the division, so that it will
Speaker 1: be cool. But I will say the Giants play good
Speaker 1: in London historically, they have a lot of London games
Speaker 1: under their belt. They play well in London. Well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So as I was watching the Packers preseason, you know,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of talk Everyone's upset Jordan's Love
Speaker 1: through three picks. I think two of them were as
Speaker 1: the receiver's faults, but I don't know. It's uh. I
Speaker 1: told the story on Twitter Live the other day for
Speaker 1: bed MGM. We did a win total preview for the
Speaker 1: whole NFL and when we got to the Packers, I
Speaker 1: mentioned I was at a wedding this summer and that
Speaker 1: I was talking with Jordan's Love for a minute and
Speaker 1: did it really eyes it was him? And then my
Speaker 1: husband came up and I was like, oh, that guy
Speaker 1: was really nice, and he said live, that was Jordan Love,
Speaker 1: that was how cub me two. So it's a great guy.
Speaker 1: Great guys. So I'm I'm only cheering for the best
Speaker 1: for Room, but a little bit concerned about the health
Speaker 1: of Aaron Rodgers, the future of Aaron Rodgers, because we
Speaker 1: just we don't know what we're doing. You know, we're
Speaker 1: beat up on the offensive line with David Baktiari still recovering,
Speaker 1: and then our receivers. We're not sure who's gonna fill
Speaker 1: in for Davante Adams. So I certainly have question marks
Speaker 1: for the Packers. Yeah, I don't know when we do
Speaker 1: our NFC PREVI. I don't know if you're gonna like
Speaker 1: some of the things I'm I'm gonna say about your squad,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure you're gonna absolutely destroy my squad. So
Speaker 1: I'm ready for I'm totally ready. I'm defensive. I'm a
Speaker 1: defensive minded player today. I love it. Hey, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm ready for? What's that? I'm ready for you
Speaker 1: to take over the reins any topic you want to
Speaker 1: talk about. It is time for you to unlead. Unleached friend,
Speaker 1: It's time. Yeah, I'm nervous about this one because I
Speaker 1: know no one's gonna people are gonna this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a big eye roll for a lot of you listening.
Speaker 1: I know it. And this is gonna be on social media.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the lovely people at bet mgm A're gonna
Speaker 1: clip this put it out there. So but I want
Speaker 1: to prove to you that I'm going to speak my
Speaker 1: mind and not be afraid to take strong stances. I
Speaker 1: even discussed it at dinner last night. This is not
Speaker 1: my original idea, and some people have mentioned this before,
Speaker 1: but this is a everyone has that one friend. You
Speaker 1: have a few drinks, you just talk sports, and the
Speaker 1: conversation goes all over the place. This is his thing
Speaker 1: that I am now fully on board with it. You ready,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it to you in one line and
Speaker 1: then we'll talk it out. Super Bowl Saturday. Oh super now?
Speaker 1: Really exactly? That's the face everyone kind of makes. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: not the best idea. It's Super Bowl Sunday. Lord knows,
Speaker 1: the NFL does not need help marketing the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: to us. Why move it if it's such a successful thing.
Speaker 1: Just think about if you actually went to the Super Bowl, right,
Speaker 1: and it's on a Saturday, and then you have that
Speaker 1: whole entire next day, or even if you have to
Speaker 1: be up at work five am on Monday, that's kind
Speaker 1: of a bummer. But if it's on Saturday, you get
Speaker 1: all day to recover. Sunday. You could even actually still
Speaker 1: have a Sunday Funday after the Super Bowl. No one
Speaker 1: really owns Saturday night like college football obviously does. They'll
Speaker 1: be done by the Super Bowl UFC does. Hopefully you
Speaker 1: guys can get off that same weekend super Bowl Saturday.
Speaker 1: It will be great for the city that the Super
Speaker 1: bowls in because people won't you know, Sunday. We gotta
Speaker 1: get out here. I got worked. Next day, they might
Speaker 1: linger around, you know, Indianapolis for a couple of hours
Speaker 1: more than they actually would. This is an old head
Speaker 1: take because the bottom line is, I don't want to
Speaker 1: be up till one o'clock in the morning on the
Speaker 1: East Coast watch I struggle with it on Thursday and
Speaker 1: Monday night games. The super Bowl obviously you have to
Speaker 1: watch it. Why not super Bowl Sunday? Why not? What
Speaker 1: gain is it to have it on the Sunday other
Speaker 1: than historically that's what it's always just been. What other
Speaker 1: gain is there on Sunday one game? Coming from a
Speaker 1: TV network perspective, I'm sure there's a reason. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's some kind of programming issue. I'm sure there's a
Speaker 1: reason it's on Sunday, and I'll look into that next week.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you if I find anything. As someone who
Speaker 1: most years of my life goes to the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I will tell you it's great having a full weekend
Speaker 1: in the host city leading up to the game with
Speaker 1: all the hubbub, you know. It's like my dad calls
Speaker 1: the super Bowl on radio, and we always do a
Speaker 1: big Saturday night dinner. Like my mom books it whenever
Speaker 1: the city is announced of who's hosting the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: She finds the best steak house and and books it
Speaker 1: and we bring like beads and colors and like we
Speaker 1: do it big, and Saturday before the super Bowl in
Speaker 1: the host city is popping, like if it is an indie,
Speaker 1: if it is you know, in l A last year,
Speaker 1: it was popping, like it's it's just what you do.
Speaker 1: It's just a part of it. And you know what, Jerry,
Speaker 1: why ruin a good thing? I think, see a good thing.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna push back a little bit here. I hear
Speaker 1: what you're saying. I totally get it. The night before,
Speaker 1: there's all the hype, there's all the excitement. You slide
Speaker 1: that to Friday. I think you have the same effect.
Speaker 1: Now it's a lot easier. I feel like for people
Speaker 1: to either leave like you're gonna be there. Probably if
Speaker 1: you're either covering it, working it, or just going. You're
Speaker 1: probably gonna get there like Wednesday or Thursday, right, So
Speaker 1: it really doesn't shorten your stay, if anything, it just
Speaker 1: extends it. Now, those parties on Saturday night, why not
Speaker 1: have post game parties? Why can't it be the next
Speaker 1: day and you actually get to talk about the game
Speaker 1: with your friends that you just watch at a pool
Speaker 1: somewhere or what I mean, if it's in a warm
Speaker 1: city or at a casino or whatever, at some other party.
Speaker 1: Why can't you have the day after party? Why not?
Speaker 1: I will tell you the super Bowl crowd is so corporate,
Speaker 1: like disappointing lee corporate. In fact, every super Bowl I've
Speaker 1: been to is a quieter NFL game than a home
Speaker 1: game anywhere else, a Week four home game anywhere else.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's just people have to be at work
Speaker 1: at eight am on Monday morning, and they're kind of like, well,
Speaker 1: how much do we really want to get wild here?
Speaker 1: It's Sunday night. If it was on Saturday, maybe people
Speaker 1: would let their hair down a little more, knowing, hey,
Speaker 1: we can recover Sunday flights not till four pm. Will
Speaker 1: be in bed at eight o'clock Sunday night, wake up
Speaker 1: fresh as a daisy for work on Monday. This is
Speaker 1: a horrible take. It's an old head take. I get it,
Speaker 1: but I believe this in my heart. And the minute
Speaker 1: Vince Carter retired, making it so that I was older
Speaker 1: than every single NBA player active, I became an old head.
Speaker 1: That was the minute. That's the only time I ever
Speaker 1: felt like I'm really getting old in my life. And
Speaker 1: I said that to Vince Carter and he was actually
Speaker 1: mad because he's like, I'm not old. He's like, you
Speaker 1: might be old. I'm you know. He was still dunking
Speaker 1: in the layup line when I said, the minute you retire,
Speaker 1: I'm older than every NBA player playing. So I'm an
Speaker 1: old head. Okay. I have a similar story to that.
Speaker 1: So my husband Sam was playing in the NBA against
Speaker 1: Vince Carter, who he just idolized growing up, and they
Speaker 1: were warming up and he went over and said to him,
Speaker 1: he said, hey, VC, you know, big fan, Just so
Speaker 1: you know, I was born the year you were drafted.
Speaker 1: You know, like, yeah, well, I'm telling you. If you're
Speaker 1: driving listening to this, or if you're on the treadmill
Speaker 1: or whatever you're doing, your first reaction I deserve. Now
Speaker 1: take a second and really think about it and then
Speaker 1: come back to me. I'm gonna sleep on it. Sleep
Speaker 1: on it. I'm gonna sleep on it. Take a second,
Speaker 1: I'll bring up I'm sure there's a reason. Again, I'm
Speaker 1: going to get to the bottom of it why it's
Speaker 1: played on a Sunday. Okay, my time to unleashed. And
Speaker 1: this one feels a little personal as someone who has
Speaker 1: interviewed a lot of athletes what I do for a living,
Speaker 1: and I will tell you it's really really Hard's always
Speaker 1: a lot of build up to a sit down interview,
Speaker 1: especially in training camp like you see happening right now.
Speaker 1: You know, in those foldy chairs and certain networks are
Speaker 1: allowed some access. Okay, So this one went down in
Speaker 1: Washington with former Eagles quarterback current commander quarterback Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: get a sit down with Scott Abraham of seven News
Speaker 1: d C and it got, I mean, painfully awkward. One
Speaker 1: of the questions was real talk here, Carson. It's been
Speaker 1: well documented. Philly didn't want you, Indie didn't want you.
Speaker 1: Do you think this is your last chance to prove
Speaker 1: that you could be a starting quarterback in the NFL
Speaker 1: okay brutal, and he did preface it with real talk here,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't make it better. You know. Here's my
Speaker 1: beef with it is that people were all over this guy.
Speaker 1: People were piste. People thought that was really rude. And
Speaker 1: you can massage things, you can make things sound a
Speaker 1: little bit nicer than they are while still getting your
Speaker 1: point across and asking the tough questions. But my guy
Speaker 1: here got probably ten minutes with Carson ten fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: you know, and he's there to bring back his producer
Speaker 1: great sound bites and that's what his job is. And
Speaker 1: I don't want to play it because I think we
Speaker 1: did last season. But I I had a bad interview
Speaker 1: on the field with Nick Saban at halftime, and halftime
Speaker 1: interviews are a whole different animal because it's so tight,
Speaker 1: and you know, no coach or player once a talk
Speaker 1: at halftime. But Alabama is up like seven to three
Speaker 1: on Chattanooga. And he finished my first question with an
Speaker 1: answer of saying, you know, we just have to know
Speaker 1: what kind of game we're in, and he was pissed,
Speaker 1: and I'd simply asked, as a follow up, what kind
Speaker 1: of game are you in? You know, they're playing this
Speaker 1: lower tier school anyways, and he snaps at me, but
Speaker 1: it was an incredible sound bite, and I if I
Speaker 1: have to be the whipping boy a little bit, I
Speaker 1: don't mind, you know, It's I'm the one they're holding
Speaker 1: the microphone, and that's what you're there for is to
Speaker 1: get this great answer. So that's what I want to
Speaker 1: un leash on. Is my man here could have asked
Speaker 1: it a little bit nice. It certainly was awkward watching
Speaker 1: because Carson Wentz looks like confused and I'm not happy
Speaker 1: with the question, as you shouldn't be. And these athletes,
Speaker 1: they just have to hear the worst things about themselves
Speaker 1: all the time, and that's got to get so old.
Speaker 1: You're in show biz, you get it. It's like the
Speaker 1: world out there so tough. When you're sitting down face
Speaker 1: to face with someone who you have given your time
Speaker 1: to for an interview and they offend you like that,
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you think? Do you think that
Speaker 1: this interviewer was so out of line? I just think
Speaker 1: of it in a few different ways. It's one like,
Speaker 1: if that's the way you want to do your interviews,
Speaker 1: that's your choice. Good luck getting a lot more interview
Speaker 1: and maybe you will who knows, maybe players like, yeah,
Speaker 1: sure all talk to that guy. I doubt it if
Speaker 1: that's kind of going to be the mode of questioning.
Speaker 1: And also, like, what do you expect Carson Wentz to say,
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, I know nobody wanted me. You're right, like,
Speaker 1: and I it's up to me to work hard and
Speaker 1: make them want me. Like he could have said that,
Speaker 1: is that a great sound bite? Not really like you
Speaker 1: don't really You're not gonna get to a different place
Speaker 1: than you're gonna get to either. Right now he just
Speaker 1: has to say, oh, I didn't really ever think of
Speaker 1: it like that, but yeah, I know I have to
Speaker 1: work hard and just do my job. Like you're still
Speaker 1: gonna get the same kind of answer. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if he was trying to like get some other
Speaker 1: kind of reaction. Carson Wents from everything I've seen, is
Speaker 1: a pretty reserved I don't say reserved, but you know,
Speaker 1: always has his cool and interviews and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So I just don't get it. I don't unless you
Speaker 1: just said that day like I'm just gonna ask the
Speaker 1: hard questions brutally honest and then till you have to
Speaker 1: say real talk. Does that mean everything else you were
Speaker 1: saying was not real talk? But now I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: real talk. This really matters. This is the real like
Speaker 1: real talk. Uh, that's kind of the preface of like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a little bit of a dick right now,
Speaker 1: real talk. Yeah, and that's what he was. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was like trying to be boys with Carson. Anyways, So
Speaker 1: real talk, Jerry, Let's go ahead and bring in our guests.
Speaker 1: Let's bring in Levy on Bell cannot wait for during
Speaker 1: his NFL career, he's one of the most dynamic running
Speaker 1: backs in the league. Former NFL All Pro play with
Speaker 1: the Steelers, Jets, Chiefs, Ravens, and Bucks, and now he's
Speaker 1: traded in the helmet maybe for some boxing glows for
Speaker 1: his debut against Adrian Peterson. Levi on Bell, thank you
Speaker 1: for being here, Very excited to talk to you. Thanks
Speaker 1: for having me, Thanks for having me. So, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you get this feeling right. It's almost always
Speaker 1: always get this feeling, like the back to school feeling
Speaker 1: when fall would kick in. So now we're in like
Speaker 1: NFL preseason and camp, Like, where does your mind go
Speaker 1: when you see camp starting up? You like, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of happy I don't have to go through camp where
Speaker 1: you get those feelings again of like oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember camp. Yah um yeah. I mean obviously kind of
Speaker 1: bitter sweet. It's like little mix of both. I'm going
Speaker 1: through a camp still, I'm just like a different camp
Speaker 1: that I'm used to. You know, I'm absolutely doing boxing
Speaker 1: camp because I'm preparing for a fight, you know, So
Speaker 1: it's just obviously a little different preparing in the ring
Speaker 1: obviously on the field. But uh, you know, I watched
Speaker 1: a little highlights and stuff like that do make me
Speaker 1: miss football a little bit. But I've just been so
Speaker 1: locked in on boxing, you know. So you know that's
Speaker 1: where my focus has been. What did you used to
Speaker 1: do to kind of pass the time in camp? Like,
Speaker 1: I know you're a gamer, I'm a gamer. Two right.
Speaker 1: I would have definitely taken my place stay. I would
Speaker 1: have had my whole gaming set up if I had
Speaker 1: to go to like actual training camp. That was my thing.
Speaker 1: That was my thing. Crazy said that I call it duty.
Speaker 1: Smash Brothers does my games? How far do you go
Speaker 1: back with Call of Dude? You go back? I go
Speaker 1: back to like Modern Warfare one with the Gold Cross
Speaker 1: and Prestige Mode and all that. Yeah, I felt like
Speaker 1: I was playing called Duty before. Like it was low
Speaker 1: key called Call of Duty. It was called like like
Speaker 1: goes Recon or something like. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: I think Duty way way as long as I can
Speaker 1: remember playing, even the PlayStation like the regular Like you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like, I've been playing Call of
Speaker 1: Duty for a minute. Okay, if you're such a big
Speaker 1: gamer obviously right now the Madden ratings are out, did
Speaker 1: you ever get really upset with your Madden rating? Why
Speaker 1: do you guys get so upset with her Madden rate? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean because when you play a game, when you
Speaker 1: play a game grown up as a kid, the whole time,
Speaker 1: you kind of you know the good players and how
Speaker 1: you want your speed to be or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: So when they put you on the game and you
Speaker 1: feel like you're a certain speed or a certain strength
Speaker 1: or something, then give you what you feel like you is.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh dang, Like you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: you kind of take your personal you know, like I
Speaker 1: feel like uh. And there was a couple of years,
Speaker 1: like talking fifteen to six d seventeen, I had like
Speaker 1: a high rating like ninety six or whatever it was,
Speaker 1: and I was happy with that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I remember I was upset the only year I was
Speaker 1: trying to upset. It was like my rookie year. But
Speaker 1: I was a rookie. So it's like and believe it.
Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, they're always hard on rookies and mad
Speaker 1: and they're always hard with the rookie ratings, right right right.
Speaker 1: I was so upset with my rookie ready at first,
Speaker 1: Like I think I was like a seventy one or
Speaker 1: or like seventy two or something. Yeah, I was low.
Speaker 1: I was low. Then year two had that breakout year.
Speaker 1: Then next man, I was like a nineties six or
Speaker 1: something like. That's literally what happened. Yeah, So you mentioned
Speaker 1: you know you're training for boxing, Like I obviously love boxing,
Speaker 1: and it's boxing something you did kind of growing up.
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with like athletes who obviously like I came
Speaker 1: up with, like Bo Jackson, Dion Sanders, like guys playing
Speaker 1: multiple sports. I don't think we ever see that on
Speaker 1: a professional level game because you got to focus your
Speaker 1: energy on like one sports really hard. But what is
Speaker 1: your kind of boxing background you come up boxing or
Speaker 1: is this something that you're just kind of getting into now? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I always my uncle's like always watched it,
Speaker 1: so I kind of like always watched it, always been
Speaker 1: a fan of it. I started incorporating boxing as a
Speaker 1: football workout, so, like, you know, I started doing like
Speaker 1: my football training and on my own field stuff. And
Speaker 1: then like in two thousand and sixteen ish, I think
Speaker 1: I started doing some boxing just to help with like cardio,
Speaker 1: you know, just extra conditioning. And then over a while,
Speaker 1: as I kept doing it, I just started kind of
Speaker 1: liking it, you know. I started liking it more and more,
Speaker 1: start falling in love with it, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: start getting a little more serious about it. It's crazy
Speaker 1: now I look up and it's like I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is what I'm doing, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: I think it kind of started in sixteen when I
Speaker 1: started for a football workout. That's kind of like when
Speaker 1: it started from me. Now we're talking about this fight
Speaker 1: coming up with Adrian Peterson. Now, my first question is
Speaker 1: what did a p ever do to you? Don't your
Speaker 1: running backs kind of stick together? Like what's going on? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Maybe never did anything to me. You know, I like,
Speaker 1: I feel like this is like a decision I had made.
Speaker 1: Like I mean even last year, Like last year, I
Speaker 1: kind of was torn before I signed with Tampa to
Speaker 1: kind of like this focus all in on boxing. But
Speaker 1: I had to the opportunity to go play with terriffic Tom.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, all right, I'm a gonna go play
Speaker 1: with Tom Brady. I'm gonna go out, you know, within
Speaker 1: a ring, you know what I'm saying. It didn't turn
Speaker 1: out the way I wanted to, but you know, I
Speaker 1: took the opportunity of that chance. But like this year,
Speaker 1: I feel like I just gotta like hone in on boxing,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I've been trying to
Speaker 1: find opponents, Like you know, earlier in the year, I
Speaker 1: was trying to find opponents because already knew I could
Speaker 1: get the ring. I was just trying to find somebody
Speaker 1: who made sense for me it would be a good
Speaker 1: first fight. And I've seen somebody with a background like
Speaker 1: who does on boxing, who's a good athlete or something
Speaker 1: like that, because I didn't want my first fight and
Speaker 1: that'ssi'd be like a boxer in a sense. So I
Speaker 1: think once I already was signed up for the event,
Speaker 1: and now I knew I was doing an event finding
Speaker 1: an opponent with my next thing, and I think, you know,
Speaker 1: a piece people wanted to do the event. They reached
Speaker 1: out the apiece people AP wanted to do it, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So, and I think, like, you know,
Speaker 1: it was a couple opponents on the table, but I
Speaker 1: think AP made the most sense just because of the
Speaker 1: fact that, like, you know, he's the NFL running back.
Speaker 1: You know, he hasn't had any fights either, so we
Speaker 1: both brought the same size. So it's it's like, why not,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I thought, I thought that
Speaker 1: it kind of makes sense. He wanted to do it.
Speaker 1: I want to do it. So it's like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be fun. No, I know it got postponed, but
Speaker 1: what's the latest. Now have you guys set a date? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it just got nice yesterday to fight day, September ten,
Speaker 1: a fight timp So I got about three and a
Speaker 1: half weeks. You know, it gets or prep you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's been bitter sweet that I got postponed.
Speaker 1: Like it's like thing, I like, it's hard to kind
Speaker 1: of like get hyped for the fight the whole time,
Speaker 1: then like two weeks before the fight to like you
Speaker 1: can't do it. So then it's like I'm back to
Speaker 1: the training, back to training. But it's kind of good
Speaker 1: that I just get to keep training and keep getting better,
Speaker 1: you know, making sure I'm prepared when I get the ring. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, some days, the first NFL Sunday of the year,
Speaker 1: it's so our first NFL headlines though, could be a
Speaker 1: Levian Bell victory, right, I don't know if you can
Speaker 1: knock out of it. Look, I have respect for anyone
Speaker 1: who ever even attempts boxing. Like, where do you find
Speaker 1: the difference? So, you know, because obviously you've played a
Speaker 1: team sport on the highest level boxing, I mean there's
Speaker 1: a team because you have trainers and you have a
Speaker 1: team of people. But once you're in there, you know,
Speaker 1: it really is one on one. Yeah, do you feel that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of like, I mean, it's one
Speaker 1: of the biggest difference. I ain't gonna say the biggest,
Speaker 1: but it's one of the biggest differences because like in football,
Speaker 1: if there's a lot of times where you necessarily don't
Speaker 1: have to being your best shape or like you want
Speaker 1: to be healthy, like you know, because it's like a team,
Speaker 1: so like you don't or even to be good, you know,
Speaker 1: saying even to be good, you got to depend on
Speaker 1: so many other people, like you got depend on the
Speaker 1: line of block, where you got to depend on the
Speaker 1: quarterback to throw you the bar, the coach of all
Speaker 1: to play for you, versus like boxing is kind of
Speaker 1: like your teamwork is kind of like ah, before you
Speaker 1: get in the ring, it's like before the game technically
Speaker 1: like before the match, because like once the match starts,
Speaker 1: it's like all right, now it's just you. In football,
Speaker 1: once you do all your your team work during the week,
Speaker 1: you're doing the practice, you're doing in meetings, you're doing
Speaker 1: in the game, versus boxing, it's like you do all
Speaker 1: your team working, then once you're in the match, it's
Speaker 1: like you're just literally alone by yourself and everything that's
Speaker 1: been taught, all your training and where your body is whatever,
Speaker 1: it just prepped for that match and you buy yourself
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I think that was
Speaker 1: the biggest difference for me and understanding that, which is
Speaker 1: good for me because I always kind of feel like
Speaker 1: I was one of the most skilled and most conditioned athletes.
Speaker 1: You know in football, you know what I'm saying. Don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong. It was a team sport and I
Speaker 1: got a lot of help doing what I was able
Speaker 1: to do. But at the same time, I was like
Speaker 1: still like I worked hard and I was able to
Speaker 1: be you know, handled the ball. How many times they
Speaker 1: wanted to give me the ball, or being shape or
Speaker 1: stronger fast as they needed me to be, and or
Speaker 1: whatever position they need me to play because I was
Speaker 1: a skilled So I feel like it helps translating boxing
Speaker 1: and this is gonna be like the sport I can show,
Speaker 1: like a lot of people that I'm by myself and
Speaker 1: how far I can take you by myself. So do
Speaker 1: you see are there already? I don't want to look
Speaker 1: past a p We should never look past Adrian Peterson, right,
Speaker 1: just like I wouldn't look past you. But you come
Speaker 1: out with the victor. Do you already have other guys
Speaker 1: in your mind that you like? Do you kind of
Speaker 1: have the route where like I want to, I'd love
Speaker 1: to go out this guy, this guy. Are you just
Speaker 1: going one at a time, which is a very smart
Speaker 1: thing in boxing? Yeah, I mean there's obviously, Uh, with
Speaker 1: certain guys like Ka Saw and Jake Paul, Like those
Speaker 1: those two guys are definitely guys that's like on my
Speaker 1: my hit list. But in a sense right now, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's my focus all been on ap you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I think, Uh, like I said, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a good first opponent from me, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, because you know he's not experienced. I'm my experience.
Speaker 1: He's an athlete. You know, he's been the highest little
Speaker 1: athlete in the NFL. So if by you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, So now it's gonna be about skills. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying because we both translate, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like boxing wise, like it wasn't our
Speaker 1: sport at first. You know, there's no tape. There's no
Speaker 1: tape on no tape what I'm saying. So it's like
Speaker 1: it's literally like you know what I'm saying that people
Speaker 1: kind of like picking a fight over how we run
Speaker 1: the ball, Like what's just interesting me? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like people like like eight people, you know
Speaker 1: he's so powerful and slows and he's gonna come forward. Boy,
Speaker 1: I feel like you're like patient and you're like, you know, manipulated,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Something it's like that's kind
Speaker 1: of like my style of boxing, which is crazy, and
Speaker 1: you know, and e P posted the clip and it
Speaker 1: was like he was like one of those styles that
Speaker 1: he likes, powerful when they splosive, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it's like, I don't know, it's gonna be so fun,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be so fun to watch. Um, I just
Speaker 1: planned on putting on the show. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm just showing people how much how skilled I am
Speaker 1: in boxing, how how hard and how seriously it's how
Speaker 1: to take it. Yeah, now you mentioned Jake Paul. Didn't
Speaker 1: you originally call out Jake Paul? Did he duck you?
Speaker 1: What happened there? Yeah? Yeah, I'm done calling I feel
Speaker 1: like I feel like I've been calling him out so
Speaker 1: many times at this point, I feel like I'm a bully.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm you know what I'm saying, And
Speaker 1: I don't want to be a bully, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's like, if you don't want to if
Speaker 1: you don't want to fight me, it's like, all right,
Speaker 1: whatever bro, Like I just thought he was one of
Speaker 1: those guys who wanted who really wanted to like the
Speaker 1: challenge and like really fight people. What I thought, that's
Speaker 1: what he's about to do with Uh, I've seen Ramen,
Speaker 1: but that ain't up. Whatever happened, I don't even know whatever.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so it's like if you want to real fight,
Speaker 1: if you want to like somebody with some skill whatever,
Speaker 1: which maybe he don't even know because there's nobody's seen
Speaker 1: me yet. So right now I'm just all talk Like
Speaker 1: right now, people it's kind of look at me like
Speaker 1: just talking or whatever. But it's like once September Tim come.
Speaker 1: I wish it would happen in the thirty if I already,
Speaker 1: because then everything it makes it. But once September Tim come,
Speaker 1: people will see and then I feel like the people
Speaker 1: will be asking for that fight. And at that point
Speaker 1: it's gonna be on him, like because I'll be ready.
Speaker 1: I'll be ready to do the fight whenever you want
Speaker 1: to do it, so it would be up to him
Speaker 1: at that point. I got another idea for you, and
Speaker 1: then someone else who's been on our show, and you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta do this for the whole NFL you
Speaker 1: gotta carry the NFL on your back. Because Darren Williams
Speaker 1: beat Frank Gore in his first ever fight. We had
Speaker 1: Darren on the show. He was feeling pretty confident. I
Speaker 1: think he said he's one and done. He doesn't want
Speaker 1: to do it again, but the NFL needs a win. Here.
Speaker 1: Would you would you fight Darren? If you would do it,
Speaker 1: we could make a call. Yeah, fight Darren. I got
Speaker 1: my money on you. He did be Frank like, so
Speaker 1: it was like, yeah that that fight almost kind of
Speaker 1: happened if I almost happened. It was it was it
Speaker 1: was so close, like but yeah, it was like a
Speaker 1: p But Darren will find almost happened and that fight
Speaker 1: probably still could happen. You know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: don't want to fight people with losses like like they
Speaker 1: got wins. I'll fight him like, I just want to
Speaker 1: fight people with wins. I don't fight one people no losses,
Speaker 1: like straight up, I want to take people. I want
Speaker 1: to I want to be the one to put the
Speaker 1: l in a column like I want to be the
Speaker 1: guy to do that. Man, I'm not gonna lie. You
Speaker 1: know you're getting me hyped for this fight. Like I
Speaker 1: love fights. And stuff, and I watch them all, but
Speaker 1: like you, I mean, now, I just I gotta see it.
Speaker 1: I gotta see it. You're right, there's no tape, no
Speaker 1: workout video like a few here and there, but there's
Speaker 1: no like real sparring set. You got me, So you
Speaker 1: really just sold me big time. I've seen a p
Speaker 1: post the clip. It's like, man, I don't want to
Speaker 1: post it because you see people posting boxing stuff all
Speaker 1: the time. It's like in football. There's another difference to
Speaker 1: in football, when I'm training, it's like I post, I send,
Speaker 1: I post all my clips like I just send everything
Speaker 1: out like boom when everybody. I want everybody know what
Speaker 1: I'm doing. But in boxing it's more like you nobody
Speaker 1: seeing me. So I don't want nobody know how I look,
Speaker 1: don't do don't do it before like whatever, I don't
Speaker 1: want nobody even see how I look like because it's
Speaker 1: like y'all gonna see the timp and then when the
Speaker 1: timp come once the cats off the bag, it's like
Speaker 1: out the bag. But yeah, I want to surprise people
Speaker 1: on the timp, like, yeah, you know you did post
Speaker 1: something a few weeks ago. I thought, you know, it
Speaker 1: was a real honest post on your I g talking
Speaker 1: about like this next chapter in your life, and you know,
Speaker 1: you said out things you wish things were played out
Speaker 1: differently if you had a time machine and all that,
Speaker 1: And I always think about stuff like that, like what
Speaker 1: if I could go back? What? More so, like what
Speaker 1: do I wish I could have done differently? You know
Speaker 1: what exactly just explained a little bit. You know what
Speaker 1: what would you like to have been exactly different? Or
Speaker 1: you know, how would you have done something differently if
Speaker 1: you could? You know, I know you went into it,
Speaker 1: but I thought that was a very interesting post. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like just inen it was just like so
Speaker 1: much going on, not even just with football, because like
Speaker 1: that that post was like a lot of people kind
Speaker 1: of took it from me sitting out of the franchise
Speaker 1: tag gear, which that was obviously like that's what everybody
Speaker 1: knows about me, so everybody's thinking it's about that, which
Speaker 1: a little bit it was about that, Like well, I
Speaker 1: mean a lot of that year was about that, but
Speaker 1: it was just so much going on off the field too,
Speaker 1: and that I made maybe I want to say the
Speaker 1: wrong decision because it's like there's decisions that I made
Speaker 1: that made me who I am the day, and I'm
Speaker 1: glad that I made those the cities Scott learned from him.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's like there's like things
Speaker 1: that if I never did it, then I would never
Speaker 1: learn from And I think that kind of made me
Speaker 1: no a better father, better person, a better man, a
Speaker 1: better athlete, you know what I'm saying, Just a sense
Speaker 1: like so, I mean, there's not anything specifically that I
Speaker 1: can really because that's why that post could have been forever.
Speaker 1: I was gonna make that post for but it's just
Speaker 1: so hard to talk about everything that went on in
Speaker 1: that year. But obviously people majority talking about the franchise
Speaker 1: that year, and I'm not seniors saying I would change
Speaker 1: if I had the time to see I would go
Speaker 1: back and play. Like I just think there's different ways
Speaker 1: how to win about it, because you know, obviously, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, everybody just wanted to see
Speaker 1: me play football, you know what I'm saying, Like everybody
Speaker 1: just want to see me play. I was in a
Speaker 1: sense like I don't get me wrong, I wanted to
Speaker 1: play football, but my mind said like I had something else,
Speaker 1: like I was on a different mission, like that's something
Speaker 1: else set out to prove, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: And I feel like, yeah, like certain things was getting
Speaker 1: in the way of that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it turned out the way it turned out, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like, obviously everything happens for a reason.
Speaker 1: So I think I'm here today because you know, whatever
Speaker 1: happeneden or fourteen or whatever it was, you know, all
Speaker 1: these decisions made maybe the first on I I m of
Speaker 1: the day, and I don't I would I couldn't go
Speaker 1: back and change anything. I wouldn't go back and change
Speaker 1: anything because I'm proud of who I am today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like you have no regrets, which
Speaker 1: is great. But if you did have a regret, would
Speaker 1: it be that you couldn't watch yourself play, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of like watching the Beatles or Jesus performing crazy funny.
Speaker 1: I love a b broy be funny. But that's the
Speaker 1: thing about Ab gets such a bad rap. He gets
Speaker 1: such a bad rap and likes but he like one
Speaker 1: of my closest friends, Like he's so funny because he
Speaker 1: just like he just knows, like I don't know, he
Speaker 1: knows how to like just get the people to gravitate
Speaker 1: to him in a sense like because he's funny. He
Speaker 1: just like so funny. And I don't even think he's
Speaker 1: like tries to be funny, Like I don't think he
Speaker 1: I don't think he's like trying to be a joke guy.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But he likes saying how
Speaker 1: you feel and just like some people like man, I
Speaker 1: can't believe he said that, but it's like, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's like some people would just thinking.
Speaker 1: Some people would just think it, and you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, keeping to himself, he like one of the
Speaker 1: people who would think it about I'll just say it too,
Speaker 1: but I'll actually say it. That's like the difference is
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So it was like you
Speaker 1: know some people right man, like his pilter is not
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. His pilter that like everybody
Speaker 1: else filter. But I love aping death. They don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong. Would you ever fight him? I mean I
Speaker 1: think that fight would sell out. Maybe would be though,
Speaker 1: maybe you would fight. Yeah, yeah, of course, like I spared,
Speaker 1: I spark my friends all the time. I can fight.
Speaker 1: People will still be friends with him like that, no problem,
Speaker 1: You have no problems because to me is a sport.
Speaker 1: It's just why I'm not mad at you when i'm
Speaker 1: fighting you, like when I'm going there want to ring
Speaker 1: and fight a p I'm not mad at you. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna have to handle my visiness. I'm not gotten
Speaker 1: to do it like I do. But I'm not mad
Speaker 1: at even just you know what I'm saying. It is
Speaker 1: what it is. Yeah, this killless is getting along. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm saying another name and your friends no, like no,
Speaker 1: they don't post no video right camera out and post
Speaker 1: it could be like yeah, it's been like a little
Speaker 1: like a couple of like little small like small three
Speaker 1: more second clips on people's close friends or something like
Speaker 1: bro all right and you post that just posted in
Speaker 1: close friends and don't post uping the It's like maybe
Speaker 1: like that, like I'll be trying to keep it up.
Speaker 1: I don't want nobody see nothing. I'm saying, have you
Speaker 1: gotten like father loft along where like you know, like
Speaker 1: entrance music and stuff like that, or you haven't gotten
Speaker 1: to that point yet, not yet. I was actually it's
Speaker 1: crazy you said that we're talking about a b because
Speaker 1: I was actually thinking about as walking me out. Oh
Speaker 1: yeah you are. You are a boxer man, you're a showman.
Speaker 1: That's a show right, You're you're ready? Yes, absolutely, I
Speaker 1: was like I was thinking about that. Twitter will light
Speaker 1: up with that. We'll light up with that. I was
Speaker 1: talking to me about that. So it's like we're saying
Speaker 1: all that. It's crazy you've been bring that up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you already know, you already know. I'm a fight fan.
Speaker 1: So like for me, the fight begins the minute they
Speaker 1: show like the fighters walking at like the fight is
Speaker 1: begun in my mind. Like you're walking out, you're saying
Speaker 1: something when you're walking out. So like I always like,
Speaker 1: I'm all about the intros. I just I'm locked in
Speaker 1: from the moment you stepped out. I want to know
Speaker 1: what music. I want to know you're walking out, but
Speaker 1: I want to see your face, like I love all
Speaker 1: that stuff. I gotta think of good, I gotta think
Speaker 1: of like the fool Like, well, I want to come
Speaker 1: out and I know what colors. I don't want to say.
Speaker 1: I don't want to spoil it, but like I don't know,
Speaker 1: is that what I want to wear? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying? Yeah, take your time with that. Take your time.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Jerry, what colors do you expect?
Speaker 1: Let's let's brain from a little. I mean, I have
Speaker 1: some ideas what you might wear, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I love you, know, I don't think you're gonna I
Speaker 1: don't spoil nothing. I think you're gonna surprisin whatever we
Speaker 1: all think you may do. I think you are gonna surprise,
Speaker 1: like I think you're maybe gonna not do what everyone
Speaker 1: might think. You know. So, man, you sold the hell
Speaker 1: out of this. I cannot wait for this. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: I'm so fired up. I wish it was tonight. I
Speaker 1: can't wait. I'm telling you, bro Like, and then after
Speaker 1: the first, after this first one, then people don't really
Speaker 1: want to watch me fight because they're gonna see me like,
Speaker 1: because they don't know. They ain't just me talking about it.
Speaker 1: It's like I'm just talking about it. But I'm not
Speaker 1: one of those guys who are just talking. It's not
Speaker 1: like not backing it up, Like I'm going back up
Speaker 1: everything I'm saying. I'm not gonna just get on here,
Speaker 1: just say something. I don't believe. I'm not getting that ring,
Speaker 1: not believing this like, look, you know what exactly what
Speaker 1: I'm getting into. And I feel like if like I'm
Speaker 1: just one of those guys in the ring, I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm just I'm to the level where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just ready to show. I can't explain. I can't
Speaker 1: explain it. I gotta I gotta show it. I gotta
Speaker 1: show it. That's all it is. Cannot cannot wait. Oh yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: back to football for a minute. You've gotten a chance
Speaker 1: to play with some of the best quarterbacks of this era.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady mentioned earlier, Patrick Mahomes, Lamartin Jackson, Big Ben,
Speaker 1: kind of big picture. How were they similar? Like what
Speaker 1: makes those names so elite? Similar? Man, it's crazy because
Speaker 1: there's they're also different. But it's like, okay, then tell
Speaker 1: me that I mean, but like I mean similarities Obviously
Speaker 1: they all kind of like got leadership qualities about them,
Speaker 1: but they all lead in a different way, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like because Ben wasn't really a raw
Speaker 1: row guy, Like he talked to the team, but he
Speaker 1: wasn't like a guy who like who gives like a
Speaker 1: lot of hype speeches. He would every now and then,
Speaker 1: though he would step in every now and then Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahome is more like a hot raw rock guy. He
Speaker 1: more like the hype guy, like he gets how to
Speaker 1: get the team hyped. Lamar quiet, Lamar do sholn't really
Speaker 1: say anything? Like Lamar is kind of you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like everybody else get hyped, you know. Lamarg
Speaker 1: is kind of in his zone zone and who else?
Speaker 1: And then on Tom, Tom is more. Tom is a
Speaker 1: raw rot. Tom gonna get you hyped, like Tom and
Speaker 1: guy who being the huddle and Tom is like more
Speaker 1: he were like obsessed, Like Tom is like obsessed with football.
Speaker 1: That's why he's got six rings, like or seven. That's
Speaker 1: why yeah, seven right, seven. We can't even keep counting him.
Speaker 1: That's how we don't even know how many rings he
Speaker 1: actually has if I had seven rings, because he's obsessed
Speaker 1: with football. That's one thing I would say about Tom.
Speaker 1: The moment I got the Tampa, he kind of struck
Speaker 1: me different than all the other quarterbacks that I played with,
Speaker 1: just because like how like obsessed with it. Like even
Speaker 1: when we're out of the meeting, so we leave meetings
Speaker 1: and we're free like as a players, like okay, we
Speaker 1: got free time, like we might have you know, an
Speaker 1: hour here or whatever whatever. Tom is hosting his own meetings.
Speaker 1: Like Tom got the lineman, He has his lineman separate,
Speaker 1: you know, he had meet with the lineman. He then
Speaker 1: the lineman and the running backs to meet. We have.
Speaker 1: This is the only running back or the only quarterback
Speaker 1: I've ever played with who sat in like team run meetings,
Speaker 1: so like we're running the ball, We're only talking about
Speaker 1: run plays. That's it. Tom is sitting in the meeting,
Speaker 1: running the meeting. You know what I'm saying, for the lays,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because he would make sure
Speaker 1: everybody knows who everybody blocking on run plays, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. That's how different he was. He was
Speaker 1: like obsessed with it. You know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: never heard that, you know I'm saying, versus like quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and kind just do their job, Like all right, they
Speaker 1: being the quarterback meetings and you know, seven on sevens
Speaker 1: and be with the wide outs and the tight ends
Speaker 1: and stuff. That's fine. Tom does all that, but he
Speaker 1: does that extra too, like the extra like all right,
Speaker 1: we're on the field, and the time the offense is
Speaker 1: not on the field is supposed to be arrest. We're
Speaker 1: walking through like but pick up or you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, walk through routes or whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, He like is obsessed with
Speaker 1: it and that's what made him. That's that's why that
Speaker 1: that little taste. I got a time like that half
Speaker 1: a year and I got to play when he made
Speaker 1: understand like, oh yeah, you've got to be obsessed with
Speaker 1: what you're doing. That's why he's so great at you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, That's why you to go. Hey,
Speaker 1: you mentioned Lamar Jackson too, and that he's so serious.
Speaker 1: What's your take on him fighting for this contract right now?
Speaker 1: If you were him, would you not play until pen
Speaker 1: meat's paper? Yeah, I feel like because he's gonna get paid.
Speaker 1: You know what's crazy. I don't know exactly. I'm not
Speaker 1: really all caught up with the I just know he
Speaker 1: hasn't got paid, so I know, like Colin he got paid.
Speaker 1: I don't know all the numbers and stuff like I
Speaker 1: don't even know, like you know saying whatever all that,
Speaker 1: but like Lamar definitely won. He whatever he's asking for,
Speaker 1: I don't know, he deserves, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and this would be the problem because it's like why
Speaker 1: is some much backlash or why is he why is
Speaker 1: he not getting what he deserves? Yeah, because for the raves,
Speaker 1: think about the raves. Did you think about the raves?
Speaker 1: You're definitely thinking about Lamar. So it's like first and
Speaker 1: foremost the TS fight back is always or what if
Speaker 1: you get injured or we gotta pretend because you're running
Speaker 1: on But it's like yeah, like but that's what makes
Speaker 1: me Lamar. You know what I'm saying, Like, that's what
Speaker 1: that ar. Yeah, absolutely, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: lamartin outside of last year, before last year, eating at
Speaker 1: injured like he he like runs, he don't get hurt,
Speaker 1: you know, Like I think he has an eight last
Speaker 1: year or something. But like you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: it's football, you injuries don't happen. You can be Tom
Speaker 1: Tom Brady got hurt. You know what I'm saying. He
Speaker 1: don't run the ball for real. Like so it just
Speaker 1: I don't know. They tyed to find like little like
Speaker 1: reasons not to pay you. And I feel like with
Speaker 1: la Bar, I kind of knew this was gonna happen
Speaker 1: in a sense because he's so different, Like he's basically
Speaker 1: I mean he's not a running back. He's not a
Speaker 1: running back. I'm not gonna say that, but he's like
Speaker 1: a skill wise, he could run as good as running back, right,
Speaker 1: Yeah he could be if he wanted to be. He
Speaker 1: could have been, you know what, man like he could
Speaker 1: like skill wise like yeah, I can run the ball
Speaker 1: and running back, you know what I'm saying. But he
Speaker 1: plays quarterback. He plays the position quarterback, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It so like I don't know, I just do.
Speaker 1: It can be a problem with this, but me, if
Speaker 1: I'm the the guy handing out the money for the
Speaker 1: Ravens and I'm paying Lamar Jackson what he wants because
Speaker 1: he deserves that. Yeah, just should be don't fight Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray and don't fight. Yes, it should be don't fight. Yes,
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes wasn't on fight and like those guys, like
Speaker 1: those guys that you know, like these are the guys
Speaker 1: like you shouldn't be don't fight about it. Mhm No,
Speaker 1: you're right, right? Is he disadvantaged representing himselves? What's your
Speaker 1: take on players not having agents? I didn't know you
Speaker 1: don't have an agent. I didn't know that. I didn't
Speaker 1: know that he doesn't his mom does some negotiating for him.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean I don't think it's a disadvantaged no.
Speaker 1: Like Okay, I guess lawyers made no like a little
Speaker 1: like I don't know, fine line details and like the
Speaker 1: way to talk. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: lamar no like numbers like what do you want per year?
Speaker 1: And like how much guaranteed money and like you know,
Speaker 1: like the simple like like all right of it. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying that you can always hire somebody
Speaker 1: on the side to like look over like whatever little
Speaker 1: fine that you don't get. Yeah, but like him, Like
Speaker 1: I think Richard Sharton made that like popular. What I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Shermon was like one of the guys who made that.
Speaker 1: Probably I like that. I like guys kind of representing herself,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like I like that money
Speaker 1: you can negotiate your own contract. Why not? I wish
Speaker 1: I would have did that, just have a lawyer. But
Speaker 1: just think I'm just saying like if I would have
Speaker 1: did that, though, hey, I I don't know what I
Speaker 1: woul it did I can tell you one thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my my mom thinks I'm worth all the money in
Speaker 1: the world. So if he's got his mom, do you
Speaker 1: know he's not gonna understand. You know, she's not gonna
Speaker 1: undersell her son. There's doing better, you know. Now My
Speaker 1: eight did everything I was telling him to do. So
Speaker 1: it's like I wasn't like talking to him. I feel
Speaker 1: like if I was talking to him the way I
Speaker 1: would assist stuff and it came off different, right, I Like,
Speaker 1: I'm in a sense like thing, if I would have
Speaker 1: representing myself, maybe maybe things have turned out different or
Speaker 1: maybe if I'm even hearing the conversation, But it's like
Speaker 1: none of that was happening. So it is what it
Speaker 1: is at this time. Do you mean by that maybe
Speaker 1: taking the Steelers offer instead of going to the Jets.
Speaker 1: I mean like no, I wasn't saying that. I was
Speaker 1: just saying like yeah, or like yeah maybe out yeah,
Speaker 1: or maybe they wouldn't offer be something different, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It may be easier to said. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, like I just wentn't hear in
Speaker 1: the conversations for real, So like I wasn't really I
Speaker 1: just was saying, Oh, this is what I want. They
Speaker 1: come back or whatever, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: it was like I was just hearing the conversation, like
Speaker 1: on the outside, I wasn't really a part of the
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying the conversation. If I didn't
Speaker 1: have the agent that I like, Lamar, I feel like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like he doing the stuff like talking itself, basically telling
Speaker 1: him on itself, like direct you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: When you hear you directly, I feel like it's different,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know
Speaker 1: you're right. I could never do anything for myself like that.
Speaker 1: I'm way too emotional to be I'm just too emotional.
Speaker 1: I would I would tip my hand right away back
Speaker 1: you said what that's no, I would be way too
Speaker 1: emotional to speak on my own behalf. I just know
Speaker 1: myself then trying to have you like that, that's letterly
Speaker 1: what it happens. Like that's why they ain't want me
Speaker 1: on the call because they know I would be upset
Speaker 1: or maybe that takes Yeah, yeah, that's why that's what
Speaker 1: it was. So you right now, that save me for myself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well before we let you go, last thing for me.
Speaker 1: You're training tomorrow. What's a day, like are you road
Speaker 1: work in the morning or you're training every day? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I trained every day usually tomorrow condition today, So I like,
Speaker 1: I'll I'll probably do like a hike or something like
Speaker 1: a couple a mile, like four or five miles, and
Speaker 1: I hit the gym. Then I'll probably go like the pilates,
Speaker 1: because I'll do like either I'll try to speaks like
Speaker 1: pilates or like a hot yal stretch because that's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, bosting so much different in football in
Speaker 1: a sense, like I feel like every part of my
Speaker 1: body gotta be free, like you gotta be loose, like
Speaker 1: if I was like kind of tense, you can be
Speaker 1: tense because it's like more like you know what I'm saying, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's more like you're bracing up, you know what what I'm saying. Boxing,
Speaker 1: you gotta be a little more free. So I've been
Speaker 1: doing so much stretching in yoga. If Loties is like bro,
Speaker 1: but I feel good, I would like I wish I
Speaker 1: would do about this like what I was playing football
Speaker 1: because it would help me in football. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel yeah, I feel good. So yeah, tomorrow that's probably
Speaker 1: how my day would be like in the morning. It
Speaker 1: usually in the morning before you get too hot. I'll
Speaker 1: probably get get up at like six seven am, go hike,
Speaker 1: do like four or five miles. They hit the gym
Speaker 1: right after. Then after the gym, I go to pilates.
Speaker 1: After pilates, either I got my second work out in
Speaker 1: the gym or I'll do like my yoga stretch or whatever.
Speaker 1: Maybe like my second little partner may do. But like
Speaker 1: my day is kind of like intertwined and they all
Speaker 1: kind of switch. But that's my tomorrow looked like alright, true,
Speaker 1: last thing for me and I'm done. I'm gonna shut up.
Speaker 1: You good. You're good because you mentioned like West Coast.
Speaker 1: I think you're on the West like I'm always obsessed
Speaker 1: with when you know a lot of US fans watching football,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, you're the Steelers going to the West Coast?
Speaker 1: Time different? Does any of that matter with you guys, Like,
Speaker 1: oh we're on the Red Eye, We're going now to
Speaker 1: the West Coast of playing the four class That really
Speaker 1: ever factoring for you the players, we all think it does,
Speaker 1: or we're just making something out of nothing, or West
Speaker 1: Coast going east, That's what I'm saying. So there's a
Speaker 1: team sports. So like for me, it didn't bother me.
Speaker 1: It did not bother me, but it would be a
Speaker 1: certain teammates shopping, they're like, bro, they I hate like
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like they couldn't like like
Speaker 1: if we go went from like Pittsburgh to like Vegas
Speaker 1: or something like, they would hate that. Like all dang, bro,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be up all night bro because or I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get up too early. I'm gonna wake up too early.
Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying. Because like the time
Speaker 1: difference or whatever it is, and I'm saying something, it
Speaker 1: didn't bother me, you know what I'm saying. Because so
Speaker 1: if we play that if I want, if a one
Speaker 1: pm game would be like in Cleveland or something, right,
Speaker 1: if we play in the Vegas we're just playing in
Speaker 1: like eleven, Yeah, you know what I'm saying. So like
Speaker 1: it wouldn't necessarily bother me as much what it is
Speaker 1: what it is, but the time would be different over
Speaker 1: there and the times say twelve or whatever. But my
Speaker 1: body it felt like it's tent and it wouldn't bother
Speaker 1: the god, but some people and some people waited it
Speaker 1: so it's like, I don't know, but me personally didn't
Speaker 1: bother me. Levian, I was gonna say, boy, you came
Speaker 1: a long way from East Lansing. Now you're a yuppy
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. You're doing pilates and hiking Runyon Canyon with
Speaker 1: a bunch of girls and crop tops and what you
Speaker 1: bawls out there too, say the Spartans. You're vegan. It's
Speaker 1: like the thirty year old leaf. I saw it in
Speaker 1: the two year old league. Man, you know I supposed
Speaker 1: to tell you. Listen, no one who's done yoga and
Speaker 1: pilates has ever been like I don't really doesn't do
Speaker 1: not every everyone who's tried it always sticks with the
Speaker 1: people who don't ever try like I don't do that stuff.
Speaker 1: People I know who have like done it, I've done it,
Speaker 1: like you're never like, oh that doesn't help. It always help.
Speaker 1: That helps a lot. So no, good for you, man,
Speaker 1: Good for you. And let me say I'm forty two.
Speaker 1: You all that stuff is good as you get older.
Speaker 1: That's the stuff that's gonna really keep you, you know,
Speaker 1: feeling good man. Good for you. Appreciate that. Well, listen, man,
Speaker 1: you you got me high. I'm not gonna. I seriously like,
Speaker 1: I am now on the countdown for you get like
Speaker 1: the perfect thing to do the night before football on Sunday, Like,
Speaker 1: I just can't wait. You sold me man, I'm in.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I am in on this fight. I can't wait.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for you. Definitely make sure you tune in
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna definitely show. That's that's what I'm that's
Speaker 1: my mission. I'm putting on the show for people who
Speaker 1: want to see me get knocked out. I'm putting on
Speaker 1: the show for people who are supporting me and obviously
Speaker 1: know how hard I worked. I want to putting herself
Speaker 1: up too. I think our whole audience will be supporting
Speaker 1: you now too as well as us. Lavy, and thanks
Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Thank you. I really appreciate
Speaker 1: your v Thank you. Okay, well that was a ton
Speaker 1: of fun with Lavy. I think so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: And now, as promised, we're going to go through the
Speaker 1: NFC because last week we did the a f C.
Speaker 1: If you missed it, go back listen. There's some hot
Speaker 1: takes in there, a lot of hot takes, but now
Speaker 1: it's all NFC, which, as I mentioned earlier, means a
Speaker 1: little bit more because both Jerry and I have our
Speaker 1: teams in this division and they even play each other
Speaker 1: in October in London, So it's gonna have a lot
Speaker 1: of fun for us leading up to that one. Okay, Jerry,
Speaker 1: NFC East want to start there? Why not start there?
Speaker 1: I don't know if you watch the show Stranger Things,
Speaker 1: I know you're watching Entourage. If you don't, it's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of the listeners do. The NFC
Speaker 1: East is the upside Down, and if you watch the show,
Speaker 1: you will know what that means. It's another dimension where
Speaker 1: it looks the same, but everything's crazy. There's demo gorgans
Speaker 1: of bats and like, you never know what's going to
Speaker 1: happen in the upside Down. That is what the NFC
Speaker 1: East is. It is so much fun. Your team is
Speaker 1: truly never out of it. Do you want to dive
Speaker 1: in with the Cowboys? I know you you said earlier
Speaker 1: you might not be as confident in the Cowboys this
Speaker 1: year ten and a half wins. What are you feeling
Speaker 1: on the Dallas Cowboys? Well, yeah, and they're the favorite
Speaker 1: to win the division at plus one forty Here Giants,
Speaker 1: by the way, all the way back there at plus
Speaker 1: seven fifty. Just wanted to make you nice. Look, Cowboys
Speaker 1: had a rough off season. I think you know, trading
Speaker 1: away Amari Cooper leaves some question marks at the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position, and I just don't know if that preseason
Speaker 1: game gave us anything to feel good about. Seventeen penalties
Speaker 1: for a hundred twenty nine yards, and last year they
Speaker 1: led the NFL and penalties, so people are calling for
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy's head. They seem undisciplined. You know, it's not
Speaker 1: good that, Like I mentioned, Seedee Lamb will be the
Speaker 1: number one receiver and he just had one catch in
Speaker 1: their playoff game against San Francisco, their last game of
Speaker 1: the season, just one catch, and now that's their top
Speaker 1: wide receiver. So I don't know, I I think you
Speaker 1: you kind of look at well, Ezekiel Elliott will have
Speaker 1: to carry this team and Tony Pollard, who's a much cheaper,
Speaker 1: better value. Zeke Elliott was fantastic last year and is
Speaker 1: expected to be so again. So I don't know, Cowboys
Speaker 1: to me have a lot of question marks. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw this too, They're valued. This is
Speaker 1: totally off the field, but they're valued at seven point
Speaker 1: six four billion dollars. They're the most valuable team in sports.
Speaker 1: I mean that's wild. But apart from that, apart from
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones being a very rich man, I think he's
Speaker 1: going to have another headache of a season. What do
Speaker 1: you think? You know, I think they'll be okay. I
Speaker 1: don't think I would bet the plus one for you
Speaker 1: to win a division, because again it's the upside down.
Speaker 1: But I am a little like ten and a half
Speaker 1: win total. Yeah, I know, and I know they beat
Speaker 1: that last year. I just I don't know if I
Speaker 1: see them winning twelve games eleven twelve games, I could
Speaker 1: see them winning nine or ten. So I think it's
Speaker 1: like right on the line. But I'm definitely going under
Speaker 1: on that. And they you know, they always kind of
Speaker 1: stumble at some point and lose some games, potentially to
Speaker 1: the Texans in Week fourteen that you're like, what just happened?
Speaker 1: We're supposed to win this division. So yeah, I'm out
Speaker 1: on the Cowboys. But also, it's really hard for me
Speaker 1: to say positive things about the Cowboys really hard. Being
Speaker 1: a Giant fan, it's really hard for me to say.
Speaker 1: But they are, They're good. I think maybe nine or
Speaker 1: ten wins is a softer landing spot, so I would
Speaker 1: not take the over at all. Okay, you know, let's
Speaker 1: dig into your Giants while we're here. Was giving you
Speaker 1: a hard time. Obviously, they have a new coach, Brian
Speaker 1: day Ball. They had to top ten picks in this
Speaker 1: year's draft, cave On Thibodeaux and an offensive tackle Evan
Speaker 1: Neil from Alabama. So yeah, let's just dig into your
Speaker 1: quarterback Daniel Jones for a minute. He had thirty six
Speaker 1: fumbles in thirty eight games, and guess what their record
Speaker 1: is when he's starting games twelve and so obviously you
Speaker 1: can blame a lot of that on his O line.
Speaker 1: Last year horrible. They looked horrible in the preseason opener
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. And you know who really concerns me.
Speaker 1: Who was supposed to be a great target for Jones,
Speaker 1: a great playmaker for the Giants is your wide receiver
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay. He's just been a disappointment. He had zero
Speaker 1: touchdowns last year, and in that preseason game against the Patriots,
Speaker 1: which I don't know if you watch, I don't know
Speaker 1: how much you care about the preseason, but he had
Speaker 1: a bunch of red zone drops. So I'm down on
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay, I'm down on their own line again, and
Speaker 1: I am just never that optimistic with the ball in
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones hands. So it's kind of like the poll.
Speaker 1: That's why I say. I say it's the upside down.
Speaker 1: It's like the polar opposite of like the to a situation. Right,
Speaker 1: they're both entering year three, and with Daniel Jones it's
Speaker 1: very much well, he just hasn't been healthy and he
Speaker 1: hasn't had an offensive life. We really need this is
Speaker 1: the year we really need to see it from him.
Speaker 1: If he's the guy or else, we gotta get off
Speaker 1: him and move on. And they've never quite put him
Speaker 1: in that position to to show it, and he keeps
Speaker 1: getting like another year, it's all okay. With two, it's
Speaker 1: very much like you're gonna do this this year, like
Speaker 1: you gotta, we have a great offense for you, you
Speaker 1: got quarterbacks, coaches, like this is the year. If you
Speaker 1: don't do it, we're probably out. Daniel Jones has had,
Speaker 1: for some reason, a lot more leeway. I do actually
Speaker 1: think that, Yeah, look the fumbles and the turnovers are
Speaker 1: that's his thing, Like he has to cure that or
Speaker 1: else it's not gonna work out. If he does cure that,
Speaker 1: he is effective. He was making a lot of plays
Speaker 1: with his legs till he had that like back neck
Speaker 1: hamstring injury. But when I just talk about the over
Speaker 1: under six and a half on winds right, look, I
Speaker 1: loved what they did with coach coordinators, everything, massive upgrade.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna be running quarterback sneaks and
Speaker 1: handoffs on third and twelve anymore. I think we're actually
Speaker 1: gonna have an offense. Yes to Kenny Golladay stuff. But
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones wasn't. He was hurt last year. I don't
Speaker 1: fully blame him, however too on the six and a half,
Speaker 1: tell me if you see the path to seven wins
Speaker 1: for the Over. Now they play Texans, they play the Jags,
Speaker 1: they play the Lions. We do play your Packers and now, look,
Speaker 1: probably will lose to the Packers, but it's not in Lambeaux.
Speaker 1: I I like my odds ten percent more that it's
Speaker 1: in London where the Giants play, So we don't have
Speaker 1: to go into Lambeau at all. And then we get
Speaker 1: the Commanders twice. Maybe we steal one from the Eagles
Speaker 1: and Cowboys. Those are always like dog fights. So I
Speaker 1: love love, love and that you could call the home pick. Sure,
Speaker 1: love the Giants over six and a half wins. Don't
Speaker 1: love obviously the division. I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I feel comfortable on the plus seven fifty to win
Speaker 1: a division. But I love the over on the wind
Speaker 1: total because I think the rookies, the coaches, and maybe
Speaker 1: a healthy danger and also say Quon can see Quan
Speaker 1: stay healthy and being healthy player on this team. I
Speaker 1: think that's a layup for over on the six and
Speaker 1: a half wind total. Okay, Okay, so that you're going
Speaker 1: to ride that one heavy all year. I'm gonna keep tabs. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it. Like you mentioned, there's
Speaker 1: some there's some sneaky wins in there that I can
Speaker 1: see for sure. Okay, with the Eagles and Commanders. Just
Speaker 1: to round out the division, let's the Eagles nine and
Speaker 1: a half wins, Commanders seven and a half wins. I
Speaker 1: mentioned the awkward Carson Wentz interview. Carson Wentz has his
Speaker 1: work cut out for him. This is gonna be a
Speaker 1: tough year. They're trying to figure out their identity. I
Speaker 1: don't know, a team who doesn't even know their own name.
Speaker 1: What do you think of the commander's name? It definitely
Speaker 1: gonna take some some getting used to, for sure. It's
Speaker 1: still is just I just still will just call them Washington.
Speaker 1: But you know, for those two teams, you know, if
Speaker 1: I'm kind of fading the Cowboys on the under and
Speaker 1: kind of riding the Giants, and I kind of do
Speaker 1: the same thing with the Eagles, and I do like
Speaker 1: the Eagles over nine and a half wins. You know,
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts really has to kind of perform, but he
Speaker 1: has the wide receivers. Now hopefully Miles standards is healthy.
Speaker 1: The Commanders, yeah, I'm just uh, I'm sorry. Seven and
Speaker 1: I don't see eight wins. I just don't see it.
Speaker 1: They always surprised us. They always hang around and steal
Speaker 1: a wild card or division win. They stumbled into the
Speaker 1: division at seven and nine two years ago. I don't
Speaker 1: see it. So I go over on the Eagles win total,
Speaker 1: and I would throw the plus one sixty on the division.
Speaker 1: From fading the Cowboys, I kind of handed to the Eagles,
Speaker 1: which pains me to say, Okay, okay, you know, I
Speaker 1: think I'm going to agree as well. I think I'm
Speaker 1: liking the Eagles to win the division. Okay, let's go
Speaker 1: to the NFC North. This is where things get a
Speaker 1: little prickly. I'm not gonna start with the Packers. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start with the Lions because I'm loving Hard Knocks
Speaker 1: so much. Have you watched yet, of course, And I
Speaker 1: just will say all the Hard Knocks feelings that make
Speaker 1: you emotional, it never really quite works out. Just be
Speaker 1: careful of the Hard Knocks emotions that you feel and
Speaker 1: just being like with caution with the hard Knocks thing.
Speaker 1: I do love it, though, You're You're so right. You
Speaker 1: know what I love about the Lions. So their number
Speaker 1: two overall pick, who you know is everyone didn't know
Speaker 1: if you'd go first overall to Jacksonville, and he ended
Speaker 1: up going to his home team, which is the Lions.
Speaker 1: Aidan Hutchinson played at Michigan. He's from Michigan. Great story.
Speaker 1: His sister, by the way, one miss Michigan, USA, like
Speaker 1: right after he was drafted. So this is just an
Speaker 1: all star families. That's a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 1: The Lions are plus eight fifty to win the division,
Speaker 1: so not very good odds there, and six and a
Speaker 1: half wins. I mean, look, there's a lot of hype
Speaker 1: around this gritty you know, Dan Campbell, just the word
Speaker 1: grit just keeps coming to mind, and their own line
Speaker 1: is much improved. I don't know, I can see maybe
Speaker 1: seven wins. I don't think that's a crazy bet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if the old line and the young players that they
Speaker 1: have show up, I definitely see the path. But it
Speaker 1: might just be the historic, maybe it's the maybe it's
Speaker 1: under six and a half. But they just cover a
Speaker 1: lot more games. You know, they were kind of the
Speaker 1: Kings of like the back door cover. You know, they
Speaker 1: would just be down seventeen, it's like, all right, this
Speaker 1: is lock. Then somehow they'd like lose a heartbreaker. I remember,
Speaker 1: like they actually left a lot of wins on the
Speaker 1: field last year of games they could have stolen. So
Speaker 1: it's really hard to have any sort of a feel
Speaker 1: because if they close out some of those wins, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can absolutely see seven wins with the Lions. But
Speaker 1: it's almost like a stay away from you. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of fun watching because they're so
Speaker 1: young and you know, the golf of it all, So
Speaker 1: I kind of stay away but I just could we
Speaker 1: bypass the Bears. I want to get to your packers. Uh. Look,
Speaker 1: love with Bears, love justin fields. That offensive line very
Speaker 1: very worried. You know, they lose Allen Robinson, which I
Speaker 1: used to do segment after segment when I was big
Speaker 1: into fantasy football of Alan Robinson deserves a quarterback more
Speaker 1: than any other receiver NFL. You know, I did one
Speaker 1: segment the year about look what this guy's numbers are
Speaker 1: without really a you know, top even twelve quarterbacks. So
Speaker 1: you know, I would have loved to have seen him
Speaker 1: in fields though, would have been fun because I do
Speaker 1: like fields a lot. But I just I just worry
Speaker 1: about the line, you know, with the Bears, and are
Speaker 1: they going to give him time and or is it
Speaker 1: going to be he's just running for his life on
Speaker 1: the line horrible and the line looked back. Look, it's
Speaker 1: looking bad already in the preseason. I mean, they're not
Speaker 1: improved at all. And remember in Justin Field's first start
Speaker 1: last year, he was sacked nine times. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: with you, I'm not like the most all time sack
Speaker 1: quarters or David Carr. And then even on the on
Speaker 1: the defensive side, roke On Smith, the linebackers trying to leave.
Speaker 1: It's just it's very Cleveland situation where players are all
Speaker 1: requesting trades. But um, anyway, let's go to the Vikings
Speaker 1: because I think they are the stiffest competition to the Packers.
Speaker 1: They have a new head coach, Kevin O'Connell, who I
Speaker 1: think can really unleash something here, unleash branded. I think
Speaker 1: they were held back by Mike Zimmer and Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: is study at the Helm. You know, no one lost
Speaker 1: more close games last year than the Vikings. They seem to,
Speaker 1: you know, win games they weren't supposed to and lose
Speaker 1: games they weren't supposed to. And I don't know defensively.
Speaker 1: They get Zadarius Smith from Green Bay. I will miss him.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be great in Minnesota and they're
Speaker 1: kind of this perpetual wild card contender. But a lot
Speaker 1: of people are saying they might be the most improved
Speaker 1: team in the NFL this season. Do you think so?
Speaker 1: I really do I think? And you know, I like
Speaker 1: Zimmer as a coach, but they're always you know, we
Speaker 1: talked about teams stumbling. They probably stumbled more than anyone
Speaker 1: I mean that offense has been loaded for years now.
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook, if healthy, is one of the best backs
Speaker 1: I think I've ever seen. Like the problem is he
Speaker 1: just just gets hurt because like eighty guys wrap them
Speaker 1: up because that's how hard he is to tackle. This
Speaker 1: is who I would be the most worried about as
Speaker 1: a Packer fan if you're buying any of the well,
Speaker 1: Davante's gone, what are the Packers really gonna be? And
Speaker 1: we're gonna see so if there's a little fade there,
Speaker 1: like the Vikings are absolutely the team that needs to
Speaker 1: catch all that fade. I like them a lot on
Speaker 1: over nine and a half. I think they win some
Speaker 1: of those games that they should have one last year,
Speaker 1: and I think it's a real, real competition for that division.
Speaker 1: I think it's too dough. I think it's Vikings Packers.
Speaker 1: I give a slide edge to the Vikings. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: don't don't And I love Aaron Rodgers. If they're healthy,
Speaker 1: I see, I do see it finally, Yeah, Okay, okay, no,
Speaker 1: it's okay. I I mean the divisions always are, so hey,
Speaker 1: we'll take a little competition. I still like the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers. Let's get to them. I think what's been
Speaker 1: promising from what we've seen in the preseason when they
Speaker 1: played out in San Francisco is rookie wide receiver Romeo Dobbs.
Speaker 1: I like this guy. I like this guy a lot.
Speaker 1: He looked really good, and everyone is questioning what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do with receiver. Well, maybe receiver by committee, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It might just be one of
Speaker 1: those years. And obviously some offensive line injuries with Elton
Speaker 1: Jenkins David Bactieri like I mentioned earlier, but there's some
Speaker 1: options here. And then I like our run game with
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones and a J. Dillon Like I mentioned, we
Speaker 1: gotta get a j on the show. But uh, I
Speaker 1: think our run game is gonna be stout. So those
Speaker 1: are the Green Bay Packers and they're still a favorite
Speaker 1: to win the division. Let's see their odds and you
Speaker 1: you like Over, like, where are you with the eleven
Speaker 1: and a half wind total? I like Over. I like
Speaker 1: him to win at minus one and I like at
Speaker 1: least twelve wins. Sure do you? You gotta beat the
Speaker 1: Giants in London. If that's gonna happen, you have to
Speaker 1: go through the Giants in London. All roads go through London.
Speaker 1: That's good, okay, NFC South Tom Brady is back, but
Speaker 1: he's on vacation. I mean right. Don't you think that
Speaker 1: a lot of people were concerned when he stepped away
Speaker 1: for a little bit. And then it's kind of coming
Speaker 1: out some speculation of oh, maybe he's just on a
Speaker 1: vacation that was planned before his retirement was revoked. I
Speaker 1: don't know where. Where do you think Tom is? I
Speaker 1: don't know. But when I say who cares? I mean
Speaker 1: that will do respect. It's like me too, don't I know?
Speaker 1: Like when my mom retired, she had a bunch of
Speaker 1: sick time saved up, and she's like, oh, I can
Speaker 1: retire early and just use the sick time even though
Speaker 1: I'm not sick. I look at it like this is
Speaker 1: like sick time you never took. Guy hasn't missed a
Speaker 1: lot of games, you know, maybe phased out camp. I
Speaker 1: just think, look, I'll be there, guys, I'll be there.
Speaker 1: I'll be on time when the game's I'll be there.
Speaker 1: Like trust me. So if anyone's earned the trust to
Speaker 1: be like, all right, you want to go on an extent,
Speaker 1: like come on, man, I got forty five years old.
Speaker 1: Let go ahead, take an extended vacation. That's fine. I
Speaker 1: don't think that you're sitting a bad example for the
Speaker 1: young guys. I think they absolutely know who you are
Speaker 1: and what you've been about your entire career. So go
Speaker 1: heay do whoever it is. You hope everything's okay, right,
Speaker 1: you hope? Obviously he's not taking leave for any negative reasons.
Speaker 1: And if it's just I need a little more time
Speaker 1: before I get going. Take it. You're forty five years old,
Speaker 1: take it. Take it. Doesn't bother me at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And they are the favorite minus two seventy five to
Speaker 1: win the division. They're in such a bad division, so
Speaker 1: yeah that I don't think there's anything. And they're loaded,
Speaker 1: Yeah they are. They're absolutely Like Gronk retires and it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, you know what, even if like Julio
Speaker 1: Jones does like a half a Gronk impression, which he
Speaker 1: and I know they don't play the same position, but
Speaker 1: just on the receiving side, like they are low dead.
Speaker 1: Although yeah, but Julio, Julio is on his third team
Speaker 1: in three years, and I mean he's he's always supposed
Speaker 1: to be this big red zone target and I feel
Speaker 1: like he's just kind of disappointing. He's kind of flatlining.
Speaker 1: I hope I'm not going to eat my words, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna blow up with Tom Brady. He probably will.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady will probably make them look really good here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and when you when you got Mike Evans on the outside,
Speaker 1: who Mike Evans just like you know, as a touchdown
Speaker 1: machine that that could really open again. I don't think
Speaker 1: he needs to be Julio Jones of five years ago,
Speaker 1: but uh, to have that as like your third option,
Speaker 1: third or fourth option. They just loaded. They're loaded. They're loaded.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are like feeling good
Speaker 1: about the Saints, and the Saints have a lot of
Speaker 1: things to feel good about, but I still can't wrap
Speaker 1: my head around looking at anyone for this division in
Speaker 1: the books they're just low barring it or they're loaded. Yeah.
Speaker 1: With the Saints, I mean, obviously they have a new coach,
Speaker 1: Sean Payton steps away. You know, the defense is great,
Speaker 1: The New Orleans defense is fantastic. They have solid vets.
Speaker 1: And then remember they get Michael Thomas back this year.
Speaker 1: He was hurt wide receiver and Christal lave A rookie.
Speaker 1: He's been impressing at camp, so I think they've got
Speaker 1: a couple of good receiver options. And then Alvin Kamara,
Speaker 1: who's facing suspension right now, you know who You no
Speaker 1: opinion on why he suspended, but just from an X
Speaker 1: is no standpoint. His suspension is pushed back a month,
Speaker 1: so he will be playing. So offensively I like him,
Speaker 1: and defensively I like them. So still Buccaneers to win.
Speaker 1: But let's see what's the win total for the Saints,
Speaker 1: because I'm just going to take the over for the Saints.
Speaker 1: It's eight and a half, so that that's a sneaky
Speaker 1: good over. And I guess if you like, like it said,
Speaker 1: it's hard to really you know, there plus three to
Speaker 1: win a division, So yeah, I don't know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of tough. Do you have any Probably the hardest team
Speaker 1: to really figure out? What the Panthers right, Like, we
Speaker 1: haven't seen Christian McCaffrey healthy in a while. Okay, they
Speaker 1: have some weapons there. I do think they're well coached.
Speaker 1: Now they got Baker any sneaky little underdog. What about
Speaker 1: us Panthers stuff for them? Or like is it no?
Speaker 1: You guys are like, yeah, yeah, I don't know. Did
Speaker 1: you see their attendance at their preseason game by the way, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's pretty season though, it's really bad. So I'm kind
Speaker 1: of friends with Baker Mayfield and his wife. And his
Speaker 1: wife put on her Instagram the other day, Emily Mayfield,
Speaker 1: she's great by the way she put on her story
Speaker 1: that she you know, it's like, come on, Panthers fans
Speaker 1: like we we gotta get you in the stands like
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah, And I'm like, boy, that's bad.
Speaker 1: If the starting quarterback's wife is begging people to come
Speaker 1: to games, that's bad. I think they'll show up. It's preseason, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I I went to one preseason game in my life.
Speaker 1: Season preseason games and Lambo are rocking. Okay, Well, I
Speaker 1: mean talking about one of the more tradition bread fan
Speaker 1: like franchises ever. You know, I've been one preseason game
Speaker 1: in my life and I'll probably never go to another one,
Speaker 1: and something terrible happened. Jason Sehorn, don't know, It's might
Speaker 1: be before your time, okay. Jason Sehorn, whose top dB
Speaker 1: in the league for the Giants that had him running
Speaker 1: back kicks and punts preseason game against the Jets running
Speaker 1: back like his first kick blows his knee out, carded off,
Speaker 1: the whole season gone. Like I love the preseason, but
Speaker 1: I also hate it. I'm not buying into Like I
Speaker 1: think the fans in Carolina will will show up. Go
Speaker 1: beat the Browns, Watch and see if they show up
Speaker 1: in a week, two, three, and four, Go beat the Browns, Baker,
Speaker 1: and then they'll show up. Alright, it's time, Olivia, because
Speaker 1: I really this is a division I'm most excited about
Speaker 1: because I really do have a take and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: save it. And it's one of these takes where people
Speaker 1: are again gonna roll their eyes. But if I'm right, oh,
Speaker 1: the victory lap I will take when it comes to
Speaker 1: the NFC West. That's why I love the NFC because
Speaker 1: I think there's a few of these wild takes that
Speaker 1: could actually come true. Whereas the a f C, it's
Speaker 1: a little it's a little tighter at the top. So
Speaker 1: but let's let's slow play it. Okay, obviously we have
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl champs in this division. Are rams, Okay,
Speaker 1: we can maybe you know, let's not writ the Cardinals actually,
Speaker 1: because they had the most kind of talk in the
Speaker 1: off season with the Kylo stuff and all that. You know, they,
Speaker 1: I guess at bet MGM maybe expect a little bit
Speaker 1: of a slide because they're over under wind tonals eight
Speaker 1: and a half their plus three fifty division. Do you
Speaker 1: think that, since all this chatter has been about sort
Speaker 1: of just Kyler Murray, like how much you did this
Speaker 1: impacts the team, do you expect them to maybe step
Speaker 1: back from where they wore last year? I personally do
Speaker 1: not much but a little step back. Yeah. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals were so noisy, and one thing especially, I
Speaker 1: think you've got two divas, Kyler Murray and Cliff Kingsbury.
Speaker 1: I think they're both diva ish. And one thing that
Speaker 1: really led me to that assumption is that in camp,
Speaker 1: I guess Kyler Murray was kind of talking smack about
Speaker 1: the play calls and Cliff said, okay, you know you
Speaker 1: try it. If it's so easy, you try it, and
Speaker 1: I guess it went horribly. And Kingsbury said to the
Speaker 1: media after I wouldn't play for coach Kyler Murray. I
Speaker 1: guess he did horrible calling plays And I think this
Speaker 1: is like Toddler behavior, And it's so funny to me
Speaker 1: that it's come down to this, and then of course
Speaker 1: the addendum and the contract of must study four hours
Speaker 1: at home and then and here's my thing with that too.
Speaker 1: I know that's kind of old news by now, but
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray signed that contract with that verbage in it,
Speaker 1: So I don't know why it was so surprising when
Speaker 1: that leaked, when people saw that, you know, and he
Speaker 1: was he acted like he was so offended, and I
Speaker 1: think his quote was something like, you don't get this
Speaker 1: far unless you study, and blah blah blah. And obviously
Speaker 1: there are great quarterbacks in history, we know this that
Speaker 1: are not big film guys, not big prep guys, just
Speaker 1: athletic freaks, lucky, great feel for the game whatever. Like
Speaker 1: everyone knows Brett Farve didn't know what a nickel defense
Speaker 1: was to like his third year in the NFL, you know,
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But I don't know if that's who
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is. But look, they've got, you know, their
Speaker 1: work cut out for him. I feel like now they
Speaker 1: just have to play and and show that all this
Speaker 1: talk can dissipate as the season gets started. And but yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I don't like noisy teams by definition, so
Speaker 1: I don't have much hope in the Cardinals, so I'll
Speaker 1: take the under on eight and a half wins. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take the under as well. Losing Channel Jones certainly
Speaker 1: won't help. And you know, obviously they got Hollywood Brown
Speaker 1: and he had his whole, you know, speeding arrest situation.
Speaker 1: I just think they look put this way, if the
Speaker 1: Cardinals win that division, I am just way off and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be one of those like wow, what a bat, Like,
Speaker 1: let's maybe bury this tape early on, because I don't
Speaker 1: really I'm not saying they're an afterthought because they still
Speaker 1: have a lot of talent there and Kyler super talented,
Speaker 1: but they are not on my radar. To me, it's
Speaker 1: like a it's a three team race. I know that
Speaker 1: might sound crazy, and I'm gonna get into it now. Okay,
Speaker 1: get into it, okay, because everyone kind of would probably
Speaker 1: think it's a two team race if that, or just
Speaker 1: maybe slot the Rams in and go for and just
Speaker 1: everyone go home, which is very I mean, that wouldn't
Speaker 1: be a bad take at all. Okay, you're ready. Look,
Speaker 1: Rams obviously plus one the division, ten and a half
Speaker 1: win total, and for where Niners plus one seventy five
Speaker 1: similarly ten and a half win total, so they pretty
Speaker 1: even there. Now, Trey Lance, who I love. I think
Speaker 1: Tray Lance could be really really good. Is he gonna
Speaker 1: be good right now? It's a risk. We don't know.
Speaker 1: I think maybe he'll be good in two or three years.
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll be good this year. We don't know. Hard
Speaker 1: to really put your money on that. But the Niners
Speaker 1: are a good team. Obviously, we know the Rams, like
Speaker 1: Alan rob it's just loaded, loaded, loaded. You're gonna bets
Speaker 1: now we're talking about betting. This is a betting segment.
Speaker 1: Bet mgm, this is a betting segment. Okay, sure you
Speaker 1: could go sprinkle a little plus one seventy five on
Speaker 1: the Niners. That's cute, and you may hit that. You
Speaker 1: want to really have some fun responsibly, you know, I'm not.
Speaker 1: This is not a like, you know, bet the farm situation.
Speaker 1: This is a little a little dusting, just a little taste.
Speaker 1: Hear me out on the division. Okay, this is a
Speaker 1: long shot the Seahawks at plus sixteen hundred. I mean,
Speaker 1: all I'm gonna say is, let's hear me out. Let
Speaker 1: me make the pitch. Now again, we're talking long shot.
Speaker 1: If you're looking for a long shot. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: lock of the year. I do think the lock of
Speaker 1: the year is over five and a half wins. I
Speaker 1: do think you could penciled that and they will win
Speaker 1: six or more games. My opinion, they're probably not in division.
Speaker 1: But if you want to throw a little something at
Speaker 1: plus six D again, hear me out say, Trey Lance
Speaker 1: is still maybe a year away from being amazing, and
Speaker 1: I know they still have a lot of talent. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Niners have the fifth hardest schedule difficulty. The Cardinals
Speaker 1: have number two. The Rams have number one. Okay, the
Speaker 1: Rams open up Bills, Falcons, Cardinals. You could say they
Speaker 1: rolled through that. Niners opened up Bears, Seahawks, Broncos. You
Speaker 1: could say they rolled through that. The Seahawks have on
Speaker 1: the schedule, the Jets, the Giants, the Lions, the Falcons,
Speaker 1: the Panthers. These are winnable games. They still have DK Metcalf,
Speaker 1: they still left Tyler Lockett, they still have a running
Speaker 1: back there. Now. I know there's holes elsewhere. I get it,
Speaker 1: and I know we're talking you know, we're talking Gino Smith,
Speaker 1: We're talking Drew Lot, who the hell knows. But if
Speaker 1: you're gonna put a small little let's have some fun
Speaker 1: with a lottery ticket here. Definitely throw a little something
Speaker 1: on the five and a half wind total. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: I will be betting a small amount on the Seahawks
Speaker 1: to win the division based off their strength of schedule.
Speaker 1: You know, the Rams don't get the Lions. The Rams
Speaker 1: don't get the Jets, the Rams don't get the Giants.
Speaker 1: Neither do the Niners from what I see right here.
Speaker 1: And then the schedule does get tough, so they steal
Speaker 1: some of these division games, and if the Cardinals are
Speaker 1: the ones that maybe slide, and the Seahawks could sweep
Speaker 1: the Cardinals and beat the Jets, beat the Giants, beat
Speaker 1: the Lions, beat the Falcons. They are in business. It's
Speaker 1: all I'm gonna say. They're in business. Love Seahawks plus
Speaker 1: at over five and a half, and I am going
Speaker 1: to be sprinkling a little tiny plus sixteen hundred lottery
Speaker 1: ticket for some fun again. God, come on, all right,
Speaker 1: give it to me, Give it to me. Well, I
Speaker 1: think that take is ice cold. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a sizzling hot take. I think that is absolute trash.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks are plus sixteen hundred. Now, you did convince
Speaker 1: me that they'll win more than five and a half games.
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that, but I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: in a division with the Rams, forty Niners, Cardinals, that's
Speaker 1: three interesting quarterbacks. Obviously, Matthew Stafford's going through this little injury,
Speaker 1: and I don't know yet if we should be concerned
Speaker 1: about that. Sean McVeigh does not like to play starters
Speaker 1: in the preseason, so I'm not worried about, you know,
Speaker 1: any of that, or that he's not able to work
Speaker 1: out with some of his new receivers like Allen Robinson
Speaker 1: we talked about earlier. So that's kind of it. On
Speaker 1: the Rams forty Niners, I think they go as Trey
Speaker 1: Lance goes. I think that's going to be interesting. But
Speaker 1: you know, they paid Deebo Samuel Brandon Ayuk the wide receiver,
Speaker 1: he should take another step forward. They have great line
Speaker 1: play defensively, you know, great pass rushers Nick Bosa coming
Speaker 1: off the edge, Fred Warner. There's enough to like there.
Speaker 1: With the forty Niners, I just and then the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: like I mentioned, I'm not hot on them, but I
Speaker 1: still think they're far superior team than the Seahawks. So no,
Speaker 1: I think I think this might be a like did
Speaker 1: you just have a stroke? Are you all right? Are
Speaker 1: feeling okay? Not listen. I like lottery tickets. I like
Speaker 1: long shots. Now again, like I said, I feel a
Speaker 1: lot stronger about the over five and a half wins.
Speaker 1: I'm not telling anyone plus six hunds a lot, but
Speaker 1: you know, they open up Monday night against Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: and the Broncos in Seattle. That's gonna be an emotional
Speaker 1: game for both sides. If they could pull off that
Speaker 1: w Then they do go into San Francisco that's gonna
Speaker 1: be potentially rough, who knows. Then they go Falcons Lions
Speaker 1: get off to that good start. Listen. I know I
Speaker 1: get it, but let it be archive. If there is
Speaker 1: some action to this. We're gonna re play this all year,
Speaker 1: all winter long. If the Seahawks are like seven and two,
Speaker 1: this clip is gonna be on my social media the
Speaker 1: whole winter. All right, our producer, Matt, go ahead and
Speaker 1: clip this because I'm going to want to play this
Speaker 1: at the end of the season, because I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be looking much smarter here. My god, Hey, do
Speaker 1: you think the Falcons win one game. You mentioned Seattle
Speaker 1: plays the Falcons. Doesn't Lanna win one game? I mean
Speaker 1: I think so. I think, yes, I still think that
Speaker 1: they're like offensively, you know, I feel better about it.
Speaker 1: If calin Ridley was gonna be there, you know, but
Speaker 1: offensively they certainly have weapons. It's gonna be uh, yes,
Speaker 1: they will the Texans one if. Yes, they'll win some games.
Speaker 1: I don't know which ones. But can you love you
Speaker 1: love the Weekly, well you love the bottom of the barrel?
Speaker 1: I just I don't know. I feel like, at least
Speaker 1: in the betting sense, it's an underdogs kind of for me.
Speaker 1: I the underdogs, I just always they just stand out
Speaker 1: to me way way more and they're more fun. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: you've been sports gambling longer than I've been a lot,
Speaker 1: so maybe I should just take Joe Montana on the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Remember that? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, alright, that was an
Speaker 1: awesome episode. I've got my work cut out for me.
Speaker 1: I've got to go watch a bunch more Entourage and
Speaker 1: apparently some Stranger Things because I need to get your
Speaker 1: reference because I don't watch that. I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: like your pop culture liaison at this point. Yeah, stranger
Speaker 1: things just be next up in the queue for you
Speaker 1: for sure, all right, all right, buddy, I'll see you
Speaker 1: next week. Thanks everyone for listening.