Speaker 1: Who is out. Welcome to another edition of The Friday
Speaker 1: Fun Show, working title Your Guy to week seventeen and
Speaker 1: perhaps beyond the season finale of The Friday Fun Show.
Speaker 1: After the season finale of Thursday Night Football. Dan Hands
Speaker 1: is here and we got a full house. Greggy Rosenthal,
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, and our old friend Ricky Hollywood. Ricky, Hey,
Speaker 1: is this song new? Do you? Guys? I haven't listened
Speaker 1: to a single episode, so I don't know if this
Speaker 1: is how we start the show now or yeah, this
Speaker 1: looks only like episode of this show, um, where we've
Speaker 1: used the song every week since the first week of September.
Speaker 1: But wait to tell yourself right off the bat. But
Speaker 1: that's I mean. Erica didn't really listen to the show
Speaker 1: when she was the producer of it, so I would
Speaker 1: not listen to it too many times. I listened to
Speaker 1: it live and then I had to go back and
Speaker 1: listen to it again. I I had my fill for sure, Ricky,
Speaker 1: I understand that. Can you imagine listening to any of
Speaker 1: our episodes twice? Um? How are you? Erica? How is like?
Speaker 1: And I know you can't say everything you want to
Speaker 1: say about your time with the Rams right now because
Speaker 1: it's been a tough year in l A. But do
Speaker 1: it anyway. No, I definitely can't, especially since since we're live. No, No,
Speaker 1: it's been. It's been amazing. I'm really happy. You know
Speaker 1: a lot of people are like, oh, the record has
Speaker 1: been tough. It is hard, um, of course, Like and
Speaker 1: it does make my content a little bit more limited,
Speaker 1: like you know, the players McVeigh. Everyone's not super like hey,
Speaker 1: like Eric's up to her dumb s h I t again,
Speaker 1: Like they're like, hey, we just got blown out for
Speaker 1: the fifth time in a row. Like no one wants
Speaker 1: to talk. Um. So that's been. That's been a little tough,
Speaker 1: but everything else like it's really it's just awesome. Like
Speaker 1: I was like getting a coffee the other day and
Speaker 1: like Cooper cups behind me waiting to get his coffee
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, the coffee is pouring, Like should
Speaker 1: I move and like let him go? But I'm like
Speaker 1: the coffee is already here coming out of the machine,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it's like stepped on
Speaker 1: his foot and resprained his ankle and nobody he was like,
Speaker 1: he was like please just like crush this right now.
Speaker 1: And I was like, just this woman hurt a bit, Coop.
Speaker 1: I love it. I could see right now we have
Speaker 1: the live stream, viewers are excited to see Eric again
Speaker 1: Eskimo Pizzas missed you so much. Ricky, you sassy legend.
Speaker 1: I thought like sassy was reserved for the likes of
Speaker 1: Jack Kay from two to seven fame, but apparently crosses
Speaker 1: overall culture barriers when someone's as sassy as Erica, No
Speaker 1: you got you gotta be a little sassy. I think
Speaker 1: if if I would describe the three of you, the
Speaker 1: world and West too, sassy fits you guys like you
Speaker 1: guys know when to sass back. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I think you sassy all right? Ricky is um. Yes,
Speaker 1: it works for the Rams and it's great to have
Speaker 1: her back, and she's going to be the centerpiece of
Speaker 1: the episode a little bit later. I think you know
Speaker 1: what that means if you are a fan of the
Speaker 1: Friday Fund Show. We're gonna get to some fearless predictions. Oh,
Speaker 1: I forgot to tell Erica you need to give us
Speaker 1: a fearless prediction for Week seventeen. At the end of
Speaker 1: the episode, I gave you a little bit of a
Speaker 1: runway to plan for that so there you go. Um uh.
Speaker 1: It involves the Rams winning against the Chargers in Ram's House,
Speaker 1: with the Chargers hopefully resting most of their starters. Yeah, baby,
Speaker 1: the slugfest in the South sid Uh we're going to yes,
Speaker 1: have some listener feedback, of course, and uh we start
Speaker 1: as we always do. Oh. Of course the injury minute
Speaker 1: with Greggy very important ahead of the penultimate week of
Speaker 1: the regular season. But first let's wrap up the first
Speaker 1: game of Week seventeen, the final Thursday night football Reaca
Speaker 1: al Michael's is still at Moonshadows. Here comes second down seven,
Speaker 1: Prescott back looking left, throwing it in the back of
Speaker 1: the end zone for Schultz. Want a grab touchdown, Dalton Schultz.
Speaker 1: Oh what a grab by Dalton Schultz. Is second touchdown
Speaker 1: of the night. Brad sham the sham, but God, shamn
Speaker 1: God with the call. The Cowboys had a layup on
Speaker 1: Thursday night. Yes, they were on the road, but they're
Speaker 1: facing a Titans team that had nothing to play for
Speaker 1: with their season all about Week eighteen against the Jaguars. Uh,
Speaker 1: and they took care of business. After a bit of
Speaker 1: a sloppy first half, Dak Prescott through for two eighty
Speaker 1: two and two touchdowns to Dalton Dawson Schultz. Dalton Schultz
Speaker 1: can't talk today. And that was enough for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to take care of the Titans seven to thirteen. That's
Speaker 1: six wins in seven games, Mark scesslor for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: uh to take care of business. Yeah, I mean, it
Speaker 1: was what a delectable evening of football. And I actually
Speaker 1: watched this game, um in real time, which stunts even
Speaker 1: myself because I believe I told you Thursday that I
Speaker 1: was gonna hard skip this and watch it on the
Speaker 1: forty minute version. But I thought, that's not what I'm
Speaker 1: when I what I want to do when I wake up.
Speaker 1: So I observed it, and I thought the Cowboys, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I think they wanted to get
Speaker 1: out of town as quick as possible, and it was
Speaker 1: made a little bit tougher than planned. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think ideally they you know, You're sitting in Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: to be up twenty four nothing at half and Dac
Speaker 1: throws two picks. I think you know one of them
Speaker 1: is I blame on Dak. The other came out of
Speaker 1: the hands of a tight end. But the turnovers have
Speaker 1: been an issue for Dak Prescott. The other thing I
Speaker 1: think the biggest takeaway from me with the Cowboys is
Speaker 1: they lost their starting center. I hate that they have
Speaker 1: to rotate guys, and now they've been using Jason Peters.
Speaker 1: It's like more of a swing tackle. He could have
Speaker 1: to participate play left tackle full time. Now. I think
Speaker 1: that is a what is the what is the injury
Speaker 1: update on? I mean, I think they I think someone
Speaker 1: set a high ankle spraining Tyler Biades and right they're
Speaker 1: hoping maybe he can return for the playoffs. It's one
Speaker 1: of those it's tough to know. M hmm. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's like that injury is a problem
Speaker 1: and it's gonna make them sit players next week, as
Speaker 1: they should. Anyways, if the Eagles win on Sunday, which
Speaker 1: they will against the Saints, the Cowboys have nothing to
Speaker 1: play for next week. So that makes Commanders Browns. I
Speaker 1: know there's a little bit of a side tangent, but
Speaker 1: coming off last night, Commanders Brown's to me, is like
Speaker 1: the biggest game in the NFC wild card race, because
Speaker 1: if the Commanders win that, then they'll probably get the
Speaker 1: Cowboys sitting down and get that last spot. But I
Speaker 1: thought last night was like a good night for them.
Speaker 1: People get a little carried away with their turnovers. Doc
Speaker 1: is playing very well. They sat Pollard because they could
Speaker 1: afford to sit Pollard. To Marcus Lawrence was like wrecking shop.
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons is out there with like one hand and
Speaker 1: he still somehow gets like a fumble recovery with one hand,
Speaker 1: which was kind of awesome. And t Y Hilton looks
Speaker 1: good like. I love the fact that t Y Hilton
Speaker 1: is a guy now and he was supposed to be.
Speaker 1: I mean, this was supposed to be Odell Beckham hypothetically
Speaker 1: a month and a half ago, and that never came
Speaker 1: to fruition and to pivot to Hilton, which I think
Speaker 1: is essentially what they did. That's looking very smart right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think Dallas never seemed to be concerned.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think about exactly zad he said coming
Speaker 1: out of the half when Mike McCarthy was interviewed. Um,
Speaker 1: I think he was just like he made a comment like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we gotta knock this out or something whatever the way
Speaker 1: he used to describe it, is like nobody was taking
Speaker 1: the ten six score seriously. Obviously with Josh Dobbs and
Speaker 1: and Derek at quarterback and Derrick Henry on the bench,
Speaker 1: just was never going to be a game They're gonna lose.
Speaker 1: It does uh, But the fact that they did take
Speaker 1: care of business, that's fine. Good job by the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: You hope to get out of there without injuries, you don't,
Speaker 1: but nothing too devastating. Um, I do have a thought. Well,
Speaker 1: I want to save the thought because it's kind of
Speaker 1: post not about the game itself. Does anybody else have
Speaker 1: anything about the game they wanted to share? How about
Speaker 1: Dobbs himself? Do you think I would start Dobbs next week?
Speaker 1: And I think they will. I think they will because
Speaker 1: I think, like clearly, I think Frabel has sort of
Speaker 1: verbalized this for weeks that Malik willis like there's a
Speaker 1: little bit of potential there, but is the it is
Speaker 1: just not ready. He's too raw, he's not ready for this.
Speaker 1: And Dobbs, if anything, um, he's he's been in the
Speaker 1: league since seventeen. He just looked like and he looked
Speaker 1: composed at least, and he and I thought he made
Speaker 1: some throws. I mean, he's not perfect. You're in a
Speaker 1: bad situation, but I mean, you can roll with Dobbs
Speaker 1: next week and see what happens. I think Malik Willis
Speaker 1: to me, let's check him out next year. I mean
Speaker 1: this is he is not ready. What do you think?
Speaker 1: I totally agree. Dobbs gave them life to I mean
Speaker 1: the offense that they had a passing game without Ryan Tannehill,
Speaker 1: which they haven't had. Dobbs finished with two thirty two
Speaker 1: yards passing, which Bryan Tannehill has only done in half
Speaker 1: the games he's played this year, and Malik Willis hasn't
Speaker 1: even topped a hundred in a game. This is almost
Speaker 1: Malik Willis's total for the season, appearing in seven games,
Speaker 1: and just jobs did in one night. So yeah, he
Speaker 1: had his um receiving weapons healthy. Malik Willis didn't always
Speaker 1: but he was playing with four backup offensive alignment and
Speaker 1: still only took two sacks. He had two fumbles through
Speaker 1: an interception, lost one of those fumbles. He had a
Speaker 1: couple other throws that could have been interceptions that make
Speaker 1: you kind of, you know, hold your breath, but at
Speaker 1: least he was moving the ball. He hit a deep
Speaker 1: she He had three completions over of over thirty yards,
Speaker 1: which you know, we haven't seen that in the Titans
Speaker 1: offense for a while. How's the tension here between Um,
Speaker 1: former producer Justin Graver and Ricky? Are you like, are
Speaker 1: you proud of what Justin has done in your absence? Erica? Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm so. I'm so proud. I think it's it's amazing
Speaker 1: and there's there's absolutely no tension whatsoever. I'm excited. No,
Speaker 1: I did. I honestly felt for him last night watching
Speaker 1: this game. I was like, Oh, they have to single
Speaker 1: this game out for you know, a series of time,
Speaker 1: aside from a normal recap show, which is just you know,
Speaker 1: you guys kind of I would have liked the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to put this away way faster, like go going into
Speaker 1: the half, I was just like, are they gonna actually
Speaker 1: get into gear? If they're this team that they keep
Speaker 1: saying that they are and that people think that they are.
Speaker 1: I thought to Hilton, look great, dak Um. I just
Speaker 1: felt like the offense, even with Zeke, he wasn't really
Speaker 1: getting a lot of of yards, which I guess that's
Speaker 1: that has to do with the Titans defense, of course,
Speaker 1: but it just the second half took too long to
Speaker 1: get there. You know what, I'm saying, like, when they
Speaker 1: went into the first half, I'm like, who are these
Speaker 1: the Cowboys that are playing against Titans backups that we've
Speaker 1: been talking about is like finally making a playoff run
Speaker 1: and being this team. I would have liked to see
Speaker 1: more in the iris half. I hear that, Ricky, I
Speaker 1: hear that. But you know, like Zeke for instance, we
Speaker 1: now know at this stage of his career he's better
Speaker 1: as a tandem duo Tony Pollard. You didn't have Pollard
Speaker 1: in there, And I would say the only thing that
Speaker 1: in terms of concern I would have is, yeah, the
Speaker 1: Dack turnovers three and one half. He can get away
Speaker 1: with that stuff, um right now. But there's some there's
Speaker 1: some big time teams in the NFC that I think
Speaker 1: are better than the Cowboys that they're gonna run into
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. And even if they run into a
Speaker 1: team like say the Packers, uh, that's how you lose
Speaker 1: a game. You turn the ball over, you give team
Speaker 1: short fields, you're getting, you get behind. They have to
Speaker 1: play clean football. Um, they're not. They're not running into
Speaker 1: anyone good in the first round. They're running into the
Speaker 1: NFC South champion, no matter what but they are locked
Speaker 1: in point like you don't. I watched this Cowboys team
Speaker 1: and I think when they're good, they're explosive and you
Speaker 1: can see it. But do I trust them to win
Speaker 1: three road playoff games? Of course? Um, if they're gonna
Speaker 1: turn the ball over like this, I don't know. They
Speaker 1: haven'toff game in like thirty years. So even playing a
Speaker 1: NFC South champion, like I personally, I'm gonna go into
Speaker 1: that game with some trepidation, like show me Dallas that
Speaker 1: you're not gonna lay an egg now that you're going
Speaker 1: against the Titans quarterback who's been there less than a week,
Speaker 1: and it's it's dobbs. I mean it's not you know,
Speaker 1: superstar Baker Mayfield coming in on only twenty four hours
Speaker 1: of practice, Like you know what I'm saying. If this
Speaker 1: is if this is the team Monday Night football, I have, yes,
Speaker 1: Baker is very very what's the vibe? What's oh? Yeah? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: I go, I go, hey, Bake, And are you taller
Speaker 1: than him? No? But that is absurd. No, No, he's
Speaker 1: a he's a beefy boy. Mark. If that answers your question,
Speaker 1: And now you're talking Marks language, I know, here's my poem,
Speaker 1: my non game related thought. Um, I think uh and
Speaker 1: Greggy you're plugged in on these matters. But as a
Speaker 1: as the Thursday night football schedule wraps up the first
Speaker 1: year with Amazon, which paid a buttload of money obviously
Speaker 1: to get the slate of games, and some of the
Speaker 1: games were good and somewhere leaky as al Michael said.
Speaker 1: And the way this season end, it ends in a
Speaker 1: week seventeen game where one of the teams doesn't even
Speaker 1: have anything to play for and is resting their their players.
Speaker 1: Just no jews. My prediction for the near future of
Speaker 1: the NFL is you're gonna see like a c change
Speaker 1: in the flexing of all these primetime games because there's
Speaker 1: so many there's so much money now involved with the
Speaker 1: networks and the streamers in terms of how they're paying
Speaker 1: the talent um on top of everything else that goes
Speaker 1: with it, that these networks and streamers are gonna feel
Speaker 1: like they have some leverage. And I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: see some form of Thursday night flexing. Uh. I know
Speaker 1: it's harder on a shorter week, but they'll maybe there's
Speaker 1: a more of an advance to it. Maybe you have
Speaker 1: to do it a month in advance or something, and
Speaker 1: certainly Monday Night and Sunday Night will continue. I just
Speaker 1: see that becoming more of the thing based on the dollars,
Speaker 1: follow the money. Yeah, I think we just got bad luck,
Speaker 1: Like all the prime time schedules did. Like these Rams
Speaker 1: games were highly sought after. This Cowboys Titans game might
Speaker 1: have been the most sought after, seemingly like the safest
Speaker 1: game on the entire t NF schedule. Because the Titans
Speaker 1: a never evo losing record, it was hard not to
Speaker 1: think about the last time they were on t NF,
Speaker 1: the night when Mark Sessler jumped on the Titan bandwagon,
Speaker 1: and they have not won a single game since. But yes,
Speaker 1: t n F, I think it's gonna feel like kind
Speaker 1: of the ugly step sister here they are flexing Monday
Speaker 1: Night starting next year, and uh, I think t NF is,
Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately for Amazon and now and Kirk gonna
Speaker 1: be like the third explosive to the Titans bandwagon. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't intend to, but I think that's exactly what happened. Dan,
Speaker 1: I had the same thought, like you, you probably need
Speaker 1: to give teams um a long runway to schedule or
Speaker 1: reschedule a Thursday night game. But the league in general
Speaker 1: is acting things that aren't competitive, Like it took a
Speaker 1: long time, but the Pro Bowl checkulator, I mean, we're
Speaker 1: flexing everything else in last night's game. I mean on
Speaker 1: the fact that beyond the fact that it drove certain
Speaker 1: fantasy heads nuts, and that's beyond my concern. But like
Speaker 1: it's just sitting out there as an island game with
Speaker 1: zero consequence. And I think the NFL is, like, our
Speaker 1: product is far too dominant to even suggest that we'd
Speaker 1: be spending Friday talking about that game versus something else
Speaker 1: they could have put in. But you looked at it
Speaker 1: a month ago, you wouldn't have changed this game. That's
Speaker 1: the problem. Stuff sneaks up on you in the last time.
Speaker 1: I agree Greggy about the bad luck side of it,
Speaker 1: But I just wonder if the amount of money involved
Speaker 1: with these deals, if they're gonna start asking in the
Speaker 1: negotiations for more protection, and whether the NFL pushes back
Speaker 1: and says, no, we can't, We literally can't help you
Speaker 1: on Thursday night. That's part. Maybe that's that wins in
Speaker 1: that debate, But I would imagine, like Amazon, whoever the
Speaker 1: next bidder involved is down the line is gonna say,
Speaker 1: we don't you know, we're not gonna pay Al Michael's
Speaker 1: and Kirk herb Street a trillion dollars and pay a
Speaker 1: bazillion dollars for this package to get the worst game
Speaker 1: of the week in terms of consequential nature. Anyway, Well,
Speaker 1: you can also save money on like the cop that
Speaker 1: they put up there to keep Kirk hurt speaking like
Speaker 1: awake during the game, like he's taking naps. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't like it. He's I mean, he's just fine.
Speaker 1: He's good, but he's just like it's not his favorite sport,
Speaker 1: college football is, and it's like his fourth job. Like
Speaker 1: I want someone brings a little more enthusiast. They always
Speaker 1: talk about that too. Al Michael's just like and then
Speaker 1: tomorrow you're off to here and then Saturday and like
Speaker 1: it's like okay, like let's get back to the game.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, and then how do you do it?
Speaker 1: You're just like, I think Ricky, Ricky hit the nail
Speaker 1: on the head there. I think it's telling that at
Speaker 1: the end of the telecast, and it's like her, it's like,
Speaker 1: al you know, watched and listened to you for years
Speaker 1: it's been such an honor. You're such a pro. And
Speaker 1: then and I was like, yeah, you're so busy anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, let's check in with the viewers on the
Speaker 1: live stream. What you got for us with Ricky Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Harvey White asks has Erica's Patriots fandom been tossed to
Speaker 1: the waist side? I like that, it's the wayside. Uh
Speaker 1: now she's working for the Rams. Um. No, The answer
Speaker 1: is no. The answer is I have had to take
Speaker 1: a step back with maybe tweeting about like, you know,
Speaker 1: taking a bunch of viagora to watch the game and
Speaker 1: the cold weather and and stuff like. I have to
Speaker 1: be a little bit more forward facing. I'm still watching
Speaker 1: every game, still following mac Daddy on Instagram and all
Speaker 1: those types of types of things. Excuse me, mac Daddy said, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's my boy, um, and he's fine, And you
Speaker 1: guys have been way too hard on him this year.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going anywhere. Um. But that being said,
Speaker 1: I do have to, you know, be a little bit
Speaker 1: more kind of choosy with my words, which has been
Speaker 1: an adjustment for me. Um for for sure. But yeah,
Speaker 1: every like video Dan, the you know you were on
Speaker 1: Rocky's Ram Jam this week and we were talking. I
Speaker 1: went on YouTube to look at the comments and even
Speaker 1: one of them was like Patriots bandwagon or like it's
Speaker 1: been a year now and everyone, even Rams fans are like,
Speaker 1: oh hey after Patriots. I'm like, I'm not even I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about them. I'm not bringing them up, like
Speaker 1: let me live. But no, it's been great. Let the
Speaker 1: Ricky live. I agree. What's next? Dylan R? Why is
Speaker 1: Mark allowed to have a cat in his cell? Again?
Speaker 1: I think people, Mark, let me answer this one for
Speaker 1: you and then you could you could uh follow up
Speaker 1: as you're a court representative. Um, this is not a
Speaker 1: like a state penitentiary, Marcus, not in Rikers. This is
Speaker 1: a country club outside of Greenwich, Connecticut. Uh, it's a
Speaker 1: work release. He's allowed to come to l A on
Speaker 1: Sundays and Tuesdays and Thursdays, uh Fridays through Saturdays. He
Speaker 1: spends uh in the country club correctionals facility. He plays tennis,
Speaker 1: and yes he has a feline. Mark anything to add there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a controlled environment, but um, it doesn't control any
Speaker 1: of my impulses. I'm allowed to do whatever I wish
Speaker 1: and uh I would suggest it for an adult. It's
Speaker 1: a great it's a great situation. And Mark, I am working.
Speaker 1: I am working with authorities and the district attorney to
Speaker 1: see what I could do about your case in terms
Speaker 1: of appeal. Right now, it's a pretty air airtight case
Speaker 1: against you. The evidence is overwhelming. But I'll continue to
Speaker 1: fight it until my legal recourse is exhausted. Do I
Speaker 1: seem like I'm in a rush to exit this facility?
Speaker 1: I think you love it there? What else have we got, Mark,
Speaker 1: Farisi Uh, Greg, this one's for you, best and or
Speaker 1: most intriguing landing spots for Derek car Everyone's staying the
Speaker 1: Jets right off the bat. You know what feels right
Speaker 1: is the Washington Commanders. He just just feels like two
Speaker 1: sides that need each other and he would he would
Speaker 1: make them better. He he is the he is the
Speaker 1: like quarterback that makes sense to just make them respectable.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Yeah, the Jets makes sense. I
Speaker 1: think the the Jimmy Garoppolo thing, as much as I
Speaker 1: would be lukewarm on it, just because the connections with
Speaker 1: Michael floor Uh and San Francisco and what they're I
Speaker 1: think they're looking for in a quarterback, Garoppolo. He makes
Speaker 1: sense for the Jets, but I don't know if I
Speaker 1: would which I would rather have Car. Put it that way,
Speaker 1: Robert Tanaka asks me, what that QB makes the most
Speaker 1: sense to be the Jets QB in twenty three? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like I just said, I think Aroppolo makes sense.
Speaker 1: I think Car makes sense. Because you were kind of answering,
Speaker 1: it was a good follow up question. I would love
Speaker 1: like to kick the tires on Matt Stafford if that
Speaker 1: was potentially thing, but maybe it's not. Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 1: kind of a fun idea, but I wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: give up a ton of resources to to see there.
Speaker 1: And I want to bring back there. I want Gino
Speaker 1: back as the Gina, and I'm fine with Gino Geno
Speaker 1: the future this weekend and then everyone brings Zina back.
Speaker 1: The one thing that that is a lot of fun
Speaker 1: to think about, and um, I don't know what to
Speaker 1: make of it. But like, if Tom Brady ever wanted
Speaker 1: to come back to the a f C East and
Speaker 1: exact some revenge on Bill Belichick with a really good
Speaker 1: Jets roster, that would be interesting and fun. It happens
Speaker 1: he's going to Vegas, and so is Gronk's Tom Brady. Like,
Speaker 1: I think tom Brady and Belichick are still linked by
Speaker 1: the one unending fact that they both hate the Jets
Speaker 1: with everything inside of their beings. So I don't see
Speaker 1: that it's tom Brady's final season, I know, But wouldn't
Speaker 1: it be so delicious that he joined the Jets to
Speaker 1: stick it to Belichick? You know, I love to watch it,
Speaker 1: but I want to know what their relationship is. I
Speaker 1: think it would be very put it this way to
Speaker 1: be very telling if that ever happened, it won't what
Speaker 1: else It's like some fan fiction stuff here. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: like Robert Salid getting fired that was being reported. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, show me one local reporter, Greggy, that's reporting
Speaker 1: that Robert. I asked them. I asked, you can guess
Speaker 1: the reporters at our network whether it would be possible,
Speaker 1: and they said a non zero chance. So that's all. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll keep dreaming. But Lee West, if you were a
Speaker 1: Giants GM, would you keep Daniel Jones or Barkley? Marky Barkley.
Speaker 1: I would be willing to move on Barkley at this point. Um,
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones I think is a tough assessment because I
Speaker 1: think other teams would want him, but like for me,
Speaker 1: it just boils down to what else you can have,
Speaker 1: because I think Daniel Jones just has a ceiling that
Speaker 1: feels pretty tangible, and he's been coached up well this year,
Speaker 1: but it's not someone I'd invest a lot of money
Speaker 1: and I'd take him on like a short, manageable deal.
Speaker 1: But actually, I think it's a problem for all these
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that there's too many of them available this year,
Speaker 1: like for Gino, for Daniel Jones, not for Brady as much,
Speaker 1: Jimmy G's out there, Mike White, Donald Baker, Teddy Dalton,
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissett, Like it's just I know those aren't guys
Speaker 1: you all want to be, like a franchise quarterback, but
Speaker 1: without much competition, I think it's gonna hurt the guys
Speaker 1: like Gino and Danny Dimes. Jacob triplet Esque, what has
Speaker 1: happened to Gino and the Hawks lately? Is there a
Speaker 1: way for them to turn it around in the last
Speaker 1: two weeks. I'm glad that Jacob asked this question because
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen sometimes, and it's very meaty narrative. Jet
Speaker 1: Season I know we did a lot of Jets stock
Speaker 1: in the preview yesterday. Let's talk a little Seahawks side
Speaker 1: of where they're at right now. What do you think,
Speaker 1: Ricky as someone that saw saw the Seahawks. I I
Speaker 1: have my doubts that they can suddenly turn on a dime.
Speaker 1: But Tyler Lockett is probably playing this week, I think,
Speaker 1: which really helps. I don't think Gino has been playing
Speaker 1: that poorly, so they could maybe outscore the Jets. They
Speaker 1: are out of it in yeah, I I agree. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're necessarily out, but I don't think that
Speaker 1: they're gonna turn it around either. And also this last season,
Speaker 1: you know Week eighteen game the Rams going up to Seattle,
Speaker 1: that was a game that the Rams really felt like
Speaker 1: that was when we sort of started turning the tide
Speaker 1: and when McVeigh was even like, you don't want to
Speaker 1: celebrate moral victories, but that game against the Seahawks really,
Speaker 1: you know, the Rams should have won. So I do
Speaker 1: think with this new momentum and everything that that's going
Speaker 1: and if the Rams can play like they played against
Speaker 1: Denver even this weekend against the Chargers. With Bobby Wagner
Speaker 1: back in Seattle for the first time. I do feel
Speaker 1: I do feel strongly that this team has been kind
Speaker 1: of working towards this pinnacle and the Rams like, of course, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm drinking the kool adum there every day. I want
Speaker 1: to believe in this. But I really do feel watching
Speaker 1: the Rams Seahawks game to have them play again after
Speaker 1: the way the last month of Rams football been going,
Speaker 1: I could see them hopefully beating beating the Seahawks that week. Um. Gino,
Speaker 1: by the way, was asked about if he wants revenge
Speaker 1: against the Jets and has he as he's done all
Speaker 1: the year. I feel like Gino's, in addition to playing
Speaker 1: his best football the year, has been very good in
Speaker 1: the media and and uh and kind of sidestepped it,
Speaker 1: but and talked like honestly about the I K and
Speaker 1: Polly jawbreak incident. Um. But Pete Carroll was then asked
Speaker 1: the same question, like there's anything extra against the Jets
Speaker 1: this week? And He's like, well, me and Gino both
Speaker 1: share a link of you know, things didn't end the
Speaker 1: way we wanted to with that team, and he kind
Speaker 1: of left it at that, So I'm sure behind the scenes, Uh,
Speaker 1: those two guys are looking at to stick it to
Speaker 1: the Jets and end their season. You know what annoys
Speaker 1: me about that? That That was like Pete Carroll flamed out
Speaker 1: with the Jets. I thought he was one of the
Speaker 1: nicest people on the planning when he was their coach.
Speaker 1: Maybe two nice for New York. But Gino Smith did
Speaker 1: the Jets no great favors when he was there, either
Speaker 1: the idea that there's this revenge against the Jets because
Speaker 1: they didn't really they didn't come as advertise, like I
Speaker 1: don't have patience for that nonsense. Carol's their one year
Speaker 1: in ninety four. It was the year of the fake Spike.
Speaker 1: They lost their final five games, and Leon has fired
Speaker 1: Carol after one year. Hired rich Coe Tight in the
Speaker 1: first one year and they won six games. That it was.
Speaker 1: And the first thing that rich co Tight did when
Speaker 1: he got the job, Pete Carroll, always a player friendly coach,
Speaker 1: had put up like a full court um blacktop basketball
Speaker 1: court on the Jets grounds. And the first thing co
Speaker 1: Tight did was he paved over that whole thing and
Speaker 1: got into bit which and then went four and over
Speaker 1: two years. All right, last question, uh t J Summer
Speaker 1: Gray Ricky, where's the ring that's that's a good that's
Speaker 1: a great question. Um, when are you going to commit? Well,
Speaker 1: it's it's not. We just got a puppy, so that's
Speaker 1: a big commitment. No, we just celebrated four years. But
Speaker 1: I actually got to tell you something. Jet has been
Speaker 1: playing daily Fantasy with some classmates in school. Right. She's
Speaker 1: been coming between one and fourth place every week against
Speaker 1: like two hundred classmates at school. So she has been
Speaker 1: so plugged into football this year. I woke up literally yesterday,
Speaker 1: come out into the kitchen and she's sipping coffee watching
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football like she like put it on the TV.
Speaker 1: She she listens to you guys and like watches every
Speaker 1: social clip Like she's more plugged in to you guys
Speaker 1: than she listens to anything that I ever do. So
Speaker 1: that being said, I'm not going to tell you my
Speaker 1: plans just in case this gets this gets clipped. Um,
Speaker 1: but I would just I would say that is a
Speaker 1: is a going to be a great year for us.
Speaker 1: I love that, Erica. Can I just say and this
Speaker 1: is listen, this is spoiler alert. I don't wanna just
Speaker 1: playing Devil's Advocate here. There's like five like TLC and
Speaker 1: Beyonce songs about um men who instead of giving a
Speaker 1: woman a ring, they give him a puppy. Like, at
Speaker 1: what point, let's let's get off, let's you know, let's
Speaker 1: get going, Let's get off. Yeah, you're right, Grevers, Like
Speaker 1: this show is going long. It's true, it's the season finale,
Speaker 1: all right, he all right for the last time this season,
Speaker 1: it's it's about about me when one of us gets
Speaker 1: the chance to take the floor and share their thoughts
Speaker 1: and no one interrupts, especially me and Erica Tampos is
Speaker 1: our guest, Ricky take it away. Okay, So here are
Speaker 1: my top five NFL storylines that I would have liked
Speaker 1: to talk about if I wasn't working for a team.
Speaker 1: And this is nothing to do. This is all my
Speaker 1: own thoughts and opinions and has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams. So if I was doing a
Speaker 1: NFL podcast and I could talk about these kind of storylines,
Speaker 1: this is what I'd want. Number six honorable mention is
Speaker 1: Zach Milfson. I would have loved to talk about that.
Speaker 1: Number Five Taylor Heineke getting a new pair of Jordan's
Speaker 1: after every win in the losing team Colors. I would
Speaker 1: have loved to talk about that for Mike McDaniel, just
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, his press conferences, him yelling who talking about
Speaker 1: cheese this week? Wearing long shorts and walking around practice
Speaker 1: like totally off beat and with no rhythm to music,
Speaker 1: Like just a whole corner dedicated to curiosity that lives
Speaker 1: within me. About that man. Number three the Lions tweeting
Speaker 1: out a map of Michigan with the Commander's w UM
Speaker 1: logo on it after beating them, trolling them for when
Speaker 1: they accidentally printed the commanders mugs over the state of Washington,
Speaker 1: which was hilarious. I would love to talk about that
Speaker 1: if I was, you know, if I would comment on
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. Don't, um, I don't. And number two,
Speaker 1: this is this is a story and that really didn't
Speaker 1: make major headlines. But there were videos of Cowboys fans
Speaker 1: after their first win riding a horse into Walmart with
Speaker 1: the horse tail paint and blue and everything, and it
Speaker 1: was just like Cowboys fans don't know how to act
Speaker 1: after winning their first game of the season. Just to
Speaker 1: juxtapose where we are now and where you know, we're
Speaker 1: seeing Jerry Jones and like they haven't won a road
Speaker 1: playoff games since five or whatever. It's just funny, like
Speaker 1: get off your horse and Walmart. If I had a
Speaker 1: comment on that, I wouldn't comment on that. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: a Number one My top storyline that I would have
Speaker 1: liked to talk about if I didn't, you know, work
Speaker 1: for a team would be Russell Wilson. Um in general,
Speaker 1: just everything from this season, the way he's played, the
Speaker 1: way to the high knees on the plane to admitting
Speaker 1: he schedules his bowel movements. Like I would never dare
Speaker 1: to comment since you know, I represent a team, and
Speaker 1: I would never call him cringe e or tired or
Speaker 1: overdone or just playing mid as the kids say at football.
Speaker 1: Um it I care you? Are you saying that working
Speaker 1: for a team prohibits you from talking about another player's
Speaker 1: bowel movements? Um? I don't think that the Rams would say.
Speaker 1: They would say, Erica, you don't need to talk about
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's bowel movements, you know, Like, has the have
Speaker 1: the Rams or anyone from the Rams, you know since
Speaker 1: you've been there, because you keep talking about having to
Speaker 1: kind of hem yourself in which I get, But have
Speaker 1: they have there any incidents where they looked at one
Speaker 1: of your tweets and said, that's not something that we'd
Speaker 1: want you to to tweet where you kind of maybe
Speaker 1: had to be talked to. Well, yes, it was during
Speaker 1: the preseason and we were playing the Chargers and there
Speaker 1: is someone on the Chargers name and his last name
Speaker 1: is Clap and he I said, Clap he caught it,
Speaker 1: and they were like, come on it. See I think
Speaker 1: that adds fund to the game, you know. But they
Speaker 1: were like, hey, come on, that's like all right, but
Speaker 1: he caught it. You know you, Greg, did you beautiful? Jab?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Would you like that? I think you did
Speaker 1: a plus work right, just um, just because if Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel were to lose six games in a row at
Speaker 1: the end of the season, and this is an ownership
Speaker 1: that is also notoriously hard to predict, and they had
Speaker 1: a yacht and Sean McVeigh and Tom Brady involved in
Speaker 1: all that, or uh not Sean McVeigh, Peyton, Sean Payton involved.
Speaker 1: Do you think that Mike McDaniel's job is potentially in danger.
Speaker 1: I think there will be some surprise And yeah, that
Speaker 1: was one that I it doesn't make any sense, but
Speaker 1: that would be a bad owner move. They literally tried
Speaker 1: to have Sean Payton and Tom Brady last year and
Speaker 1: like lost draft picks and money because of it. At
Speaker 1: this point, it seems like McDaniels proven you wouldn't get
Speaker 1: rid of him. But would I put it past Steven
Speaker 1: Ross to do something dumb, because he's done a lot
Speaker 1: of dumb things. Not Really, My takeaway is that Dan
Speaker 1: has not stopped thinking about this Washington Post report that
Speaker 1: Gregg brought up. I didn't make it. I don't know
Speaker 1: this for some reason that it didn't say well, because
Speaker 1: it didn't come from any of the local reporters. Greg
Speaker 1: is big on like report with your chest out and
Speaker 1: all this stuff, and and then he's kind of floating
Speaker 1: this dream scenario of the Jets going into it. It
Speaker 1: wasn't a dream. I was doing something just the smell
Speaker 1: test for me, serious about their sources. I was doing
Speaker 1: some vital speculation early in the week, and then the
Speaker 1: Washington Post thing came out, and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: like people, people who know the inside of the Jets building,
Speaker 1: like the Washington Post. The Washington Post has some reputation
Speaker 1: attached to it. Yeah, it was our former net NFL
Speaker 1: Network insider Jason Lock in for who you guys spent
Speaker 1: a lot of time within the news in the news room. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave that right there, Greg wow Um, It
Speaker 1: is time now for the Greg Rosenthal Week seventeen injury Minute,
Speaker 1: presented by Akrashaw saw Harry Palm's miracle cure formulated by
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler himself. All right, let's get to it. Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson will be out again. This is sad. Claus Campbell
Speaker 1: and Marcus Peter has also been out of practice for
Speaker 1: the Ravens. The Giants are gonna have Leonard Williams back
Speaker 1: because he's Olari back. Dorry Jackson a game time decision
Speaker 1: might get Xavier McKinney back next week, so they're getting
Speaker 1: help here. Tyler Lockett, as I mentioned, has been practicing,
Speaker 1: so it sounds like he might play in that Jets game.
Speaker 1: Hayden Hurst is back for the Bills on Monday Night.
Speaker 1: Mitch Morrise their center, the Bills center rather, is also back.
Speaker 1: Greg Dulcich, if you've been playing him in fantasy, is
Speaker 1: probably out for the Broncos. The Raiders quietly like is
Speaker 1: sitting everyone. It's not just Derek Carr, but rock Ya
Speaker 1: Sin there starting cornerback Denzel Perryman is on, I R.
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones is on, I are like everyone's out for
Speaker 1: the Raiders now. It's kind of we're gonna what are
Speaker 1: we doing here? I think they're actually hurt in their case,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, Like you're you're you're soiling the
Speaker 1: end of this car relationship to get a look at
Speaker 1: Jared Stidham and then you're not even giving that could
Speaker 1: a chance with a real team. What are we doing?
Speaker 1: You mentioned mostly defensive guys whatever, So yeah, I I
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I mean McDaniels knows what Stidham is
Speaker 1: already though, that's right, I understand. Josh mc daniels is
Speaker 1: about a tecrety to a tongue of Voloa is officially out.
Speaker 1: Brad Bradley Chubb is a game time decision in New England.
Speaker 1: New England looks like they're gonna be down there three
Speaker 1: of their top four cornerbacks, Jack Jones, Marcus Jones and
Speaker 1: Jalen Mills and Devonte Parker and John new Smith. Uh.
Speaker 1: Not a good time for all these injuries. For the Patriots.
Speaker 1: Joey bos is practicing. Maybe he'll return this weeker next
Speaker 1: uh Antonio Gibson's out for Washington Lane, Johnson Avante Maddox
Speaker 1: out for the Eagles. Christian Watson still hasn't practiced, although
Speaker 1: they're giving him a chance. Herbs Smith for the Vikings
Speaker 1: is practicing again, might return for the playoffs. The Bucks
Speaker 1: got some good news Donovan Smith and Tristan Worth, their
Speaker 1: tackles have been practicing, and Derwin James has been limited
Speaker 1: in practice, so maybe he'll play in that RAMS games.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're sitting start as Ricky, but I
Speaker 1: could be wrong. Finally, the one that I'm keeping the
Speaker 1: eye on the most is Alvin Kamara hasn't practiced because
Speaker 1: of personal reasons, and he's zeroed out his entire Instagram account,
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I'm just looking to see what's
Speaker 1: going on there. Like there's nothing. Yeah, they asked in
Speaker 1: a sound about It's like you got to ask Alan
Speaker 1: Kamara about it. It's like something strange and they're still
Speaker 1: playing for something. So I'm just going I have no idea, Hey,
Speaker 1: how do you how do you play wide receiver in
Speaker 1: the NFL? Like a week after having finger surgery. That
Speaker 1: seems Tyler Lockey a lot of respect to him if
Speaker 1: he plays that game. That sounds painful and dangerous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's see he's still sounds like a game time decision.
Speaker 1: But who knows. Um. All right, now, before we say goodbye, Ricky,
Speaker 1: what do you think of the Gregor Zatal minute there?
Speaker 1: I thought that was that was really great And actually
Speaker 1: I think you should clip that part out and put
Speaker 1: it on Instagram because for people setting fantasy lineups like
Speaker 1: that would have been great to know. Honestly, that's good point.
Speaker 1: That's that's a real producer, Greg. Like when I did
Speaker 1: it once and Greg said, you know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: more updates that happened because we take this so early,
Speaker 1: so it's like super incomplete or things change, so it
Speaker 1: just feels but it's something to watch. And now I
Speaker 1: know going into Sunday, it's like, oh I Greg said
Speaker 1: on Friday that Tyler Lockett may like now I'm I'm
Speaker 1: tracking this versus just set him Greg. Greg is waiting
Speaker 1: to see what the Washington Post has to say about
Speaker 1: any final injury scenarios before going official with the last
Speaker 1: week's predictions. Mark or this is two weeks ago. Who
Speaker 1: cares about two weeks ago? It's so long ago, so
Speaker 1: let's just move on. You missed them all. Just know that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we missed them all. All right, let's make our predictions. Greg,
Speaker 1: you get us going, baby, all right. I'm weirdly excited
Speaker 1: about the return of Teddy two Gloves like I'm worried
Speaker 1: about two as. My prediction is that the Dolphins and
Speaker 1: Teddy two Gloves put the Patriots out of their misery.
Speaker 1: Teddy two Gloves with two touchdowns in a win for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins in Fox I will mind dovetails there. Uh,
Speaker 1: we talked about it on Thursday. Just like a lot
Speaker 1: of funky stuff going on with the Patriots, perhaps behind
Speaker 1: the scenes, I say Mac Jones gets benched in that
Speaker 1: very game, Dolphins win due to disciplinary issues, some type
Speaker 1: of whether whether it's something we see on the field
Speaker 1: or something in the locker room. At halftime, you're gonna
Speaker 1: see Zappy in the lineup, and then it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a big story in the week that fan fiction see
Speaker 1: if we can both do it. But how about Ricky
Speaker 1: what you got? Sorry? I know I gave you about
Speaker 1: thirty one minutes to prepare this. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is good. I've I love the idea of the
Speaker 1: bucks and Panthers game right this NFC South has been Um,
Speaker 1: what would let's let's use one of your words moribund
Speaker 1: this year? And how about Steve Wilkes and Sam Donald
Speaker 1: the reserve agents? Like, what about sticking the knife into
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and the Bucks this weekend? I think the
Speaker 1: Panthers are gonna win and I'm with you the winner
Speaker 1: of this game. That's who's hosted a playoff game. Crazy
Speaker 1: as it sounds, all right, Mark, close it out? Uh,
Speaker 1: three little items A. A coach is fired Sunday night. Uh,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz throws two pick six is not on board
Speaker 1: with that whole situation. We get another fantime player who
Speaker 1: will retire by the next Friday Fun Show. Although the
Speaker 1: next Friday Fun Show is when is that j j Okay?
Speaker 1: Then let's just say by next Friday at noon, another
Speaker 1: big time player retires. Beautiful, We'll never be checking whether
Speaker 1: these come true? Where never? I mean, Mark, I think
Speaker 1: you might get the firing coaches one, but I think
Speaker 1: you're oh for thirty seven on the season so far,
Speaker 1: so yeah. But when he hits, he hits, we all
Speaker 1: are basically though, Um, who gets fired on Sunday on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Well not Robert sal you worry about that. That's what
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, if it would makes sense. All right, interesting,
Speaker 1: all right, Thank you to everybody for watching along. Amazing
Speaker 1: stuff from the live streamers. What do we decide they were?
Speaker 1: They were the a the stream of a t L stream.
Speaker 1: I love that this is the shortest show you guys
Speaker 1: have done in the history of you know, the thirty
Speaker 1: years you've been doing this, and I'm having so much fun.
Speaker 1: I don't want to stop. It's like, wait, you're cutting
Speaker 1: it at forty minutes. This is great. You said it all.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else you want to add? I'm just
Speaker 1: so so happy to see you guys, and I'm so
Speaker 1: proud of all that you're doing. And I am tracking.
Speaker 1: I'm not listening to the episodes. You guys do way
Speaker 1: too much content for me to keep up with it.
Speaker 1: But I'm very very proud of you, and I can't
Speaker 1: wait to see all that brings you guys as well. Love.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year Year to Erica, Happy New Year to
Speaker 1: all of the listeners and viewers, and we will see
Speaker 1: you on Sunday on the other side in remember what
Speaker 1: you Gotta do? Heed the call