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Speaker 1: It's the Hard Knocks Podcast. We are here, que the
Speaker 1: water sprinkler noise and let's go be Around the NFL Podcast,
Speaker 1: will beat the Medium See Welcome to another edition of
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansas
Speaker 1: and I am enjoying like heroes in a virtual sense.
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Greg Roseal, What is up boy saying? Greg
Speaker 1: I'm not Greg, I'm leaning on you too. Wanted to
Speaker 1: ride out the silence, like be then in the silence
Speaker 1: and see see what happened. That's the kind of stuff
Speaker 1: makes me very anxious when suddenly I'm not talking, Greg's
Speaker 1: not talking, Dan starting to raise an eyebrow. You gotta
Speaker 1: be comfortable, you know, we had You know, if you
Speaker 1: wait for the music to write so you don't talk
Speaker 1: when you're supposed to talk, and then when somebody else
Speaker 1: starts talking, you start yelling. We did a really good
Speaker 1: um zoom type chat with Neil Reynolds and Kurt Warner
Speaker 1: and Baldy and all sorts of personalities yesterday Thursday for
Speaker 1: the nfl UK audience went really well. Chris Westling was
Speaker 1: even part of it. And yes, this reminds me again
Speaker 1: of how much we miss west both for his great
Speaker 1: insight and personality and also for the very simple fact
Speaker 1: that he fills that gap after I throw it to you, guys, Hey, Dan,
Speaker 1: that's just sort of a throw back to you. Then
Speaker 1: you can and you can. We we just I just
Speaker 1: saw by the way that uh, that show that we
Speaker 1: did yesterday, Cliff Avriel jumped in, Rob Ryan um Is
Speaker 1: on NFL game Pass, which I think is still free
Speaker 1: for people out there. That's cool for all for on
Speaker 1: both sides of the Atlantic. You're saying, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Neil Reynolds must must be right. It was fun, It
Speaker 1: was fun. It was great to see Weston and west
Speaker 1: quick update doing well. He's going through it and we
Speaker 1: hope that he'll be joining us on the show very
Speaker 1: soon if things line up the way we hope they do.
Speaker 1: But for now, you're stuck with the three of us,
Speaker 1: and we have a nice show, UH lined up for you.
Speaker 1: Get you caught up to date where we are. The
Speaker 1: window is closed for the COVID nineteen opt outs. The
Speaker 1: final number mark sixty nine, maybe sixty seven sixty nine?
Speaker 1: All right, Well, should have gone with my first answer
Speaker 1: and nice bro Gronk's favorite number. So we'll get into that.
Speaker 1: And also coming up next week, I like any slice
Speaker 1: of normalcy we could find. Hard Knocks returns next week.
Speaker 1: I have a preview piece going up on the dot
Speaker 1: com on Monday, and Uh, I got to speak with
Speaker 1: the show runner of Hard Knocks. Um great guy. So well,
Speaker 1: I'll share some of that conversation I had as well.
Speaker 1: But before that, let's do some news. You know that
Speaker 1: that's where you're rubbing up against another body for hours
Speaker 1: on and in that definition of football. That's how you
Speaker 1: define football on Wednesday show M. Well, that's true. I
Speaker 1: stand by that. It's just a lot of ugging up
Speaker 1: on people's body ultimately another body for hours on and
Speaker 1: in I think you can find that in Steve Belichick's
Speaker 1: scouting methods on page twelve, if you ah, if that's
Speaker 1: where you pulled that from Greg, I mean it's true,
Speaker 1: like when Tyrone Smith is matching up again, like Tyrone
Speaker 1: Smith and Ryan Carrigan have spent more time rubbing their
Speaker 1: bodies against each other than like many couples in their
Speaker 1: seventies and eighties have for for decades. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: just what they do three hours at a time. Will
Speaker 1: you allowed? Maybe there's another way to put it, But
Speaker 1: would it be as evocative? Is uh? Really it would not?
Speaker 1: Certainly not. You. You are on the right track in
Speaker 1: terms of winning listeners, and I like it. Let's start
Speaker 1: with Greg's favorite team, the New England Patriots. The throne
Speaker 1: of ease Tom Brady gone, no problem because now they
Speaker 1: have Cam Newton as their new quarterback. Perhaps Jared's did
Speaker 1: him is in the mix? Of course? Maybe Brian Hoyer
Speaker 1: starting sixteen games for Rosie's team this year, We don't know.
Speaker 1: But Newton I spoke with the media in a very
Speaker 1: fashion via video conference, and he had this to say
Speaker 1: about life with the Patriots. I brought the fresh air
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, and uh challenge that you
Speaker 1: know I had to expect each and every day. But
Speaker 1: no challenge is ever gonna be greater than the challenge
Speaker 1: a personal challenge that I challenged myself personally. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: we all know what that was and what that is
Speaker 1: and it needs no mentions. Newton also added that he
Speaker 1: understands the challenges that lie ahead, but yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: same for me. I think I got my hands full
Speaker 1: with trying to language much as people in short period
Speaker 1: of time, and that's what I'm trying to do coaches
Speaker 1: day to day. Getting the assistance you know, from from
Speaker 1: Oyster as well as Stitty. You know, those guys have
Speaker 1: been on the leievable throughout this process. Greg, you gotta
Speaker 1: love what you're hearing. Maybe we don't love his hair,
Speaker 1: Maybe the hair is a little crazy, Okay, are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? I love the whole thing. I mean, the
Speaker 1: hair is crazy. I like the outfit, the crazy glasses,
Speaker 1: the Babushka. I mean, he's still going with the bab
Speaker 1: He's got the Babushka with the map and I don't
Speaker 1: know what's going on, but it just makes it all
Speaker 1: like reminds me, Oh, this is gonna be wild and fun.
Speaker 1: And he's calling you. He's got he's calling uh, Brian.
Speaker 1: He referred to the other qbs on the roster as
Speaker 1: Oyster and stitty. You know he's uh, he's Oyster, that's Hoyer.
Speaker 1: I guess that he comes out of names for his quarterback.
Speaker 1: Was that a nickname? Is that he actually not? No,
Speaker 1: he cam I guess I didn't know this, but it
Speaker 1: was from a tweet from Jonathan Jones Um at CBS,
Speaker 1: who says he always nicknames all his quarterbacks that he
Speaker 1: plays with, and so that their Oyster and Stitty. Um,
Speaker 1: he's like fired up, but he's also he said, waking
Speaker 1: up mad every morning. That his family is in Carolina
Speaker 1: where he would have ultimately liked still be and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, play, and so it gives him a little
Speaker 1: extra motivation that he's all by himself up there in Foxboro.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna it's gonna be a wild ride on
Speaker 1: the field and off. It is the perfect, I think
Speaker 1: way to just like get over the Tom Brady departure
Speaker 1: is just go totally opposite and totally crazy. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean it's you know, you kind of it's almost easier
Speaker 1: to forget about Tom Brady because instead of a personality
Speaker 1: free Jarreeds did him, just that we don't know jareds
Speaker 1: did him? We know Cam And suddenly Cam's in the
Speaker 1: most intriguing landing spot and you know, you just have
Speaker 1: to ask what happened to guys like Matt Castle and
Speaker 1: Frankly Brian Hoyer, you know when when he went out
Speaker 1: on his sojourn to start around the league and you know,
Speaker 1: flittered back to New England in the end, Guys like
Speaker 1: Jimmy g it's great to be a quarterback other than
Speaker 1: Tom Brady New England. You you find out that you're
Speaker 1: gonna get paid on the other end of that, and
Speaker 1: I think it's one of the best. Um it's not
Speaker 1: a rehab assignment. I mean everyone's concerned about his body.
Speaker 1: It's a great match and I'm sure this line annoyed
Speaker 1: um Da and highly uh, when he said that he
Speaker 1: was blown away by the professionalism that he's encountered in Foxboro.
Speaker 1: You know, frankly, he was in Carolina under Ron Rivera
Speaker 1: probably considered to be one of the more professional oriented
Speaker 1: programs out there, but New England just takes it to
Speaker 1: another level. Dan, and I would imagine that's not what
Speaker 1: you were aching to hear on August seven, I could
Speaker 1: not care less about that quote that of all the
Speaker 1: things I get angry about with the Patriots, the fact
Speaker 1: that they're well running professional that's just a fact of life.
Speaker 1: There's nothing again. But what if he looks like a
Speaker 1: like a muscle bound front door ready to run over
Speaker 1: the rest of the a f C. East does that
Speaker 1: annoy you? Well, yeah, then if he was great, But
Speaker 1: like I said, when when the side, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: We'll see if he's still anything close to Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: But really, the perfect way, since you guys brought it up,
Speaker 1: for the Patriots have handled this quarterback situation was to
Speaker 1: actually foster a positive relationship with the greatest quarterback in
Speaker 1: the history of the sport, Tom Brady, and he got
Speaker 1: to finish his career where he started it and just
Speaker 1: have some class as an organization, but they went in
Speaker 1: a different path and best of luck to him. I
Speaker 1: hope it goes great, no doubt, use you know, I
Speaker 1: would believe. I think you probably have the best hopes
Speaker 1: for New England. You know, you know it's great. Right now,
Speaker 1: you can't see it. I'm going to do a screen
Speaker 1: grab for the listeners. Greg is staring with a demented,
Speaker 1: angry look at us, and I thought it was just
Speaker 1: in silence, and I thought it's because he was unhappy
Speaker 1: with my Cam Newton Patriots takedown, which I thought was stellar.
Speaker 1: It turned out that Greg's screen had frozen and he
Speaker 1: had gotten booted off, and now he's back. I just
Speaker 1: I was hoping you would have just keep talking until
Speaker 1: I was back. This really ay. I have the screen grab.
Speaker 1: I'll send it to you after the show. Particularly upset
Speaker 1: with me for my comments taking down the Patriots enterprise,
Speaker 1: that was the moment where I realized I didn't I
Speaker 1: was not plugged in like I normally, and and things
Speaker 1: were going haywire on my internet and it was all
Speaker 1: on me, unprofessional, unlike that Patriots building. All right, let's
Speaker 1: let's move on. Bad news for the This is actually serious.
Speaker 1: Cornerback DeAndre Baker has been charged with four counts of
Speaker 1: armed robbery. That became official on Friday when the Broward
Speaker 1: State Attorney in Florida UM made that announcement. It was
Speaker 1: up obtained by network insider Ian Rappaport. And if Baker
Speaker 1: is convicted, this is serious stuff. The punishment comes with
Speaker 1: a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years in prison with
Speaker 1: a maximum life sentence. The charges stem from a May
Speaker 1: thirteenth incident and Miramar, Florida and Baker twenty who's twenty
Speaker 1: two years old, I was formally charged. He was accused
Speaker 1: of stealing money and watches from four men at a
Speaker 1: house party and he this went down. Quentin done are
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. The cornerback was also initially charged, but the
Speaker 1: States Attorney announced Friday they declined the prosecutor to file
Speaker 1: criminal charges against Dunbar. So we'll see where that goes.
Speaker 1: But both players still on the Commissioner exemple list, Mark
Speaker 1: and Dunbar and Baker a first round pick last year.
Speaker 1: He might be done with the Giants at least. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't see him joining if he were to have
Speaker 1: a ten year sentence per se probably not gonna be
Speaker 1: hopping onto the one New York Giants defense at that
Speaker 1: point if they still owned his rights. I mean, for you,
Speaker 1: you can look at what they've done on offense in
Speaker 1: in s Quan and Daniel Jones, there's no reason not
Speaker 1: to like them and other pieces they've added on that
Speaker 1: side of the ball. But on defense, I don't I
Speaker 1: can't remember the last Giants defense outside of some of
Speaker 1: those like the latter Super Bowl year, where you really
Speaker 1: thought the defense had any identity. They struggled to with
Speaker 1: some of their draft picks get any sort of momentum
Speaker 1: going here. And this is another example, first round pick
Speaker 1: totally wayward. And can you you know, can anyone out
Speaker 1: there like name the the Giants defensive coordinator who, by
Speaker 1: the way, he was coaching the defense you know under
Speaker 1: a special teams coach Joe Judge, not a guy with
Speaker 1: a defensive but it's Patrick Graham. Patrick Graham who last
Speaker 1: year pilot like the thirty second uh thirty second ranked
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense. And maybe he'll be great, he'll be fine,
Speaker 1: but he's very inexperience too. So you're right, that's a
Speaker 1: fiasco and he's gone because Ian is on our air
Speaker 1: saying the Giants are gonna start going after his money,
Speaker 1: and it seems pretty clear they're just ready to watch
Speaker 1: their their hands of him. Dunbar. The news there that
Speaker 1: they're dropping the charters, and you would think that the
Speaker 1: NFL he's not gonna punish him, or wouldn't punish him severely,
Speaker 1: is significant. Dunbar played awesome in Washington last year and
Speaker 1: now with Jamal Adams, Seattle's got a case for one
Speaker 1: of the best secondaries in the entire NFL, and I
Speaker 1: think Dunbar is a key part of that. And their defense,
Speaker 1: which I'm I'm not in love with overall, at least
Speaker 1: not upfront there as bad as they've ever been. Suddenly
Speaker 1: with that secondary, and then maybe they sign Everson Griffin
Speaker 1: Michael Silver mentioned earlier this week could happen. Then you're
Speaker 1: cooking with Gas a little bit and you feel like
Speaker 1: they could be right right back in the mix. Looking
Speaker 1: at Clay Matthews to potentially so what happened with that thing?
Speaker 1: You would claim Matthews something he wrote or said on
Speaker 1: our show like a love letter. No, I it would
Speaker 1: be poetic and something like an inexpensive late you know,
Speaker 1: latter career and his sister. His sister responded to you
Speaker 1: on Twitter, you put that up. That was on NFL
Speaker 1: network to Mathew and neither from NFL network executives who
Speaker 1: probably thought that that landed like adult thought as well.
Speaker 1: But I mean it made some sense. Um. I think
Speaker 1: the Brown's front office basically is just not into these
Speaker 1: veterans like this. That's something the kind of player they
Speaker 1: want where the Seahawks definitely are right. It's I think
Speaker 1: it's would be a great fit or why not try
Speaker 1: it in Seattle. I'm not gonna tell you that I'm
Speaker 1: deeply nuanced on how well claim Matthews played in his
Speaker 1: lone season with the Rams last year, but I would
Speaker 1: not be as surprised if an evaluator called him more
Speaker 1: name than game at the stage. But it wasn't great,
Speaker 1: but he produced, did not have a lot of hurries
Speaker 1: and hits. It's one of the things that's weird with Griffin,
Speaker 1: although I guess you have to understand this is a
Speaker 1: guy who's openly battled mental illness and you know that
Speaker 1: interrupted his career. Everson Griffin was one of the best
Speaker 1: ten or twelve pass rushers in the NFL last year.
Speaker 1: If you're just looking at Hits, Harries and sacks. He
Speaker 1: was productive. He's thirty two thirty three. But man, the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: I think about the I mean, the Patriots have so
Speaker 1: much cap space and no pass rushers they could use
Speaker 1: a guy like him. And Clowney is still out there
Speaker 1: as well. We'll see what happens with that. Uh COVID talk,
Speaker 1: it's COVID talk. Six offense players have been benched over
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen concerns. They land did on the list on Thursday.
Speaker 1: We'll see what that means. Though we just talked about
Speaker 1: this the other the other day. These guys go on
Speaker 1: the COVID list and the assumption is, oh, they have
Speaker 1: the coronavirus, and then a few days later they're they're
Speaker 1: back in the building because it's a false positive test
Speaker 1: and all that. So we'll see where this where this
Speaker 1: goes for these players. But uh Shack Lawson, Rae Kwon Davis,
Speaker 1: Benito Jones, Brandon Jones, Solomon kid Kinley, and Kirk Merritt
Speaker 1: all landed on the COVID nineteen list. Um, so we'll
Speaker 1: keep tracking mat and on the on the subject of
Speaker 1: opt outs and COVID nineteen, we talked about it on
Speaker 1: Wednesday show TREDDA. Treddavious White, the star cornerback of the Bills,
Speaker 1: has decided not to opt out of the season. So
Speaker 1: when the Thursday four pm Easter Denloe came and went,
Speaker 1: White decided he was gonna stick with the Bills. In
Speaker 1: very good news for Buffalo in Miami. Some concern, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the six players all happening on the same day, and
Speaker 1: it being in Florida where not only the Marlins, you know,
Speaker 1: the baseball teams run into trouble, but obviously that the
Speaker 1: state is in trouble. It's just it's just eye opening
Speaker 1: um to watch and you wonder what would be like
Speaker 1: during the season. But the opt outs, I think people
Speaker 1: around the NFL that work in the NFL are almost
Speaker 1: heartened that there wasn't more. That sixty players wasn't too bad.
Speaker 1: It is important to note that they still can opt
Speaker 1: out if things change, like someone in their family gets
Speaker 1: sick or if they have an underlying condition, they could
Speaker 1: still opt out. And I feel like that was the deadline,
Speaker 1: but it was the deadline basically for the voluntary opt out.
Speaker 1: So I think if you have a medical reason, you
Speaker 1: still could and wouldn't everyone over like three pounds they
Speaker 1: have a medical reason. I don't get that part. I
Speaker 1: don't know you have. There are a couple of teams
Speaker 1: down to like two offensive guards right now. I mean
Speaker 1: it is impacting that those alignment especially is impacting certain teams.
Speaker 1: Jamie Collins, I thought, you know, he had some interesting comments.
Speaker 1: He basically and you know, we argued this as a group.
Speaker 1: I think on our last show that the deadline for
Speaker 1: an opt out, if anything, should have pushed been pushed
Speaker 1: down the line. I get, you got it. Front offices
Speaker 1: and coaches have to organize what players are going to
Speaker 1: go into the season with. But Jamie Collins basically said
Speaker 1: that a lot of players just don't feel comfortable with
Speaker 1: the time frame and knowing enough at this point and said, look,
Speaker 1: forget the deadline. The NFL is deadline to a certain
Speaker 1: type of player means nothing. And you're gonna still get
Speaker 1: people that say, you know, you're not right. You might
Speaker 1: not get the hundred and fifty thousand dollar loan. But
Speaker 1: to someone like Jamie Collins or or Russell King, for instance,
Speaker 1: who's reportedly considering retirement because he's sold if he sat
Speaker 1: out the season, it would probably be it. Um, the
Speaker 1: deadline means less because they don't they don't necessarily need
Speaker 1: that that hundred and fifty thousand dollar a lot. Right.
Speaker 1: In other news, it's kind of a weird one um this.
Speaker 1: According to Mike Arefolo of NFL Network, the Raiders logged
Speaker 1: onto a zoom team meeting, expecting to be addressed by
Speaker 1: their head coach John Gruden, but instead it was an
Speaker 1: assistant head coach and special teams coordinator Rich and He
Speaker 1: informed the team that Gruden had been hospitalized because of
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. But guess what, waca waca, That wasn't true.
Speaker 1: Trudon and the Raider's staff wanted to test how the
Speaker 1: players would react and prepare them for this most unpredictable
Speaker 1: NFL seasons. And let me just say this, boys, this
Speaker 1: is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. That's really what
Speaker 1: this is. That what I don't even believe it. By
Speaker 1: the way, what it really was was Gruden just wanted
Speaker 1: to mess with the guys. That's all it was. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like and I guess it gives you a little
Speaker 1: bit of cover. It gives you a little bit of Ever,
Speaker 1: when it leaks to the media and he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this was a test, but really he was just right,
Speaker 1: And um, I think we should bring back WACA. WACA
Speaker 1: by the way, I think even if you don't know
Speaker 1: where it came from, like that's it's awesome and then
Speaker 1: and everyone knows, everyone knows what it means. I I
Speaker 1: wish Hard Knox was there for this one because we
Speaker 1: you know, we were on that zoom call and and
Speaker 1: Neil Reynolds did a great job integrating like the nine
Speaker 1: different people on at some point it was like Cliff
Speaker 1: April and and Warner and us and Ricky's on it.
Speaker 1: But you know, the zoom call can be awkward, and
Speaker 1: like they announced that Gruden as COVID, Like I doubt
Speaker 1: it went over as some like super great joke. They
Speaker 1: maybe are trying to like snuff out who's like secretly excited,
Speaker 1: Like they're looking like they're gonna look back at the
Speaker 1: tape and see who they pumped their they kicked them
Speaker 1: off the team. I don't know what the point of Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. At one point they kind of hatched
Speaker 1: it as hey, here's the punchline, look at me on Gallagher,
Speaker 1: This was a really funny stage move here to suggest
Speaker 1: I have Corona. I mean, what point does that like?
Speaker 1: I don't I'd like to see the reaction. I think
Speaker 1: it's kind of like playing a trick on your children, like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, Grandma's no longer around, and then an hour
Speaker 1: later like, actually she is. You're you know what. It
Speaker 1: was just a good joke on Dad's part. It reminds
Speaker 1: me of one of the Great Office episodes when Michael
Speaker 1: tells Dwight that jan had called him and said that
Speaker 1: he has been demoted and Dwight was now the branch
Speaker 1: manager and it was not true, but he just wanted
Speaker 1: to see what Dwight would do and let Dwight go
Speaker 1: down in flames, which is what happened. I guess that's
Speaker 1: maybe he's an Office fan. Maybe Gruden's a guy that
Speaker 1: just like he streams that he loves it. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a master motivator and a master comedian. Yeah. I I
Speaker 1: mean I would imagine human resources, might you know at
Speaker 1: some point say that this isn't the tactics were trying
Speaker 1: to approach Corona with. But that's their issues and only
Speaker 1: in the news. ESPN's Jeremy Fowler reports that the NFL
Speaker 1: is considering using virtual fans and stadiums. They see it
Speaker 1: as a viable option for game days. This has popped
Speaker 1: up with the n B a major league soccer. We've
Speaker 1: seen it. Fox is using it for MLB in their
Speaker 1: Games of the Week on the weekends. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: I used to have a take on this a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and I was all fired up about it.
Speaker 1: But now it's just like, whatever makes people happier, and
Speaker 1: as long as it's not too distracting, fine, I have
Speaker 1: fun with it, and like I'm super I you know,
Speaker 1: have only been on the baseball thing for a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. You guys are the experts, But I don't
Speaker 1: miss well, the cardboard cutouts to me, Um, I'm not
Speaker 1: getting either fine to you. I'm I'm in your camp, dwan.
Speaker 1: If people like to cutouts, have a nice time with you.
Speaker 1: Those are a little distracting to me, actually, but well
Speaker 1: they're too big that like, you don't need humans that
Speaker 1: are like weirdly sized. But I don't miss fans from
Speaker 1: a t the angle at all. In fact, I mean,
Speaker 1: like I'm not even seen what the plus is to
Speaker 1: be honest, I mean, if it's on the radio, though
Speaker 1: down to baseball fans in the sound of baseball, especially
Speaker 1: on radio. To me, I think it's great. Football stadiums
Speaker 1: also at like radio football, I think is great when
Speaker 1: you can hear the fans. I could care less. On
Speaker 1: the TV side, it isn't I've watched more NBA in
Speaker 1: the last week, and my family has been probably the
Speaker 1: last three years combined, and there is something to the
Speaker 1: intimate feel of it that I think it's cool. I mean,
Speaker 1: fans would be better. It's fans are important in an
Speaker 1: indoor basketball game, but there is sort of this intimate
Speaker 1: field where the players are going crazy, but you know
Speaker 1: there's no one there, and it's kind of I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's something cool about it. That said my son, we
Speaker 1: watched a lot. Every time they focus on the fans,
Speaker 1: he caused them. It's like, oh no, those creepy fans.
Speaker 1: So they're losing the five year old boy demo, at
Speaker 1: least in my house a little a little creepy. I
Speaker 1: think no fans is crushing. I think it's kind of heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: There are small positives when I'm watching Yankee games, like
Speaker 1: the the sound of Aaron Judges bat when it makes
Speaker 1: contact with the ball the way it echoes through the stadium,
Speaker 1: or when an umpire is getting just absolutely destroyed by
Speaker 1: a manager over a strike zone. You can hear that
Speaker 1: stuff now, but the absence of a crowd is really
Speaker 1: to me, like it cuts deep because it's part of
Speaker 1: the whole experience to me as a fan, is that
Speaker 1: crowd at the game. And and I just hope this
Speaker 1: is a one and done deal in two thousand twenty, right,
Speaker 1: especially these stadiums, and like you're used to like eight
Speaker 1: people the in NFL game without without fans, is it's
Speaker 1: gonna be weird. We're gonna hear the football games because
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna end up being empty stands across
Speaker 1: the country, even though I know the states, some of
Speaker 1: the states are hoping to use fans. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be very odd, especially with football, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: hear just that clatter of the pads and then a
Speaker 1: lot of hooting and hollering on the sidelines and otherwise.
Speaker 1: Is I feel like it's just gonna be strange, very strange.
Speaker 1: That's this year, all right, That's what's happening in the news.
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Speaker 1: l A County. What it's amazing. That's a positive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And many people upset about the direction of the country. Well,
Speaker 1: you don't get to complain if you don't vote, So
Speaker 1: do what you gotta do. That. See, that was just
Speaker 1: editorializing that. Now, that was that was a fresh um.
Speaker 1: Unless you're like fifteen, you can complain if you're politically
Speaker 1: active and you're not allowed to vote, you can you
Speaker 1: can still complain if you politically active in your fifteen go,
Speaker 1: you know, try to get a girlfriend. You don't, go
Speaker 1: play with friends, have some fun, don't worry about there's
Speaker 1: so much time in your life to worry about geopolitics
Speaker 1: in the state of the nation. When you're fifteen, be
Speaker 1: a kid. That's that's another right. If anything right out
Speaker 1: And when you're eighteen, I mean it might be you
Speaker 1: might just you know, get to that point. Um, enjoy
Speaker 1: your youth. Greg was on the Big Club, so I
Speaker 1: imagine as a teenager, Greg all the way plugged in. Um,
Speaker 1: I was more into it. I was more into it
Speaker 1: that I was warranted. Some people don't have the luxury
Speaker 1: to ignore it until they're eighteen. You know, they gotta
Speaker 1: they gotta get involved. With a very woke comment there, Dad,
Speaker 1: that's what a great comment from Greg. Hey, children change history. Alright, um,
Speaker 1: all right, let's talk some hard knocks. I'm so happy
Speaker 1: that Greg brought us down there. We got a little
Speaker 1: too flipped. Thank you. Greg. Oh yeah, you know it.
Speaker 1: You know what that is. And if you don't, well
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna have premium cable. That's a problem too. Greg.
Speaker 1: I know it's disappointed that so many of our listeners
Speaker 1: might not know Hard Knocks because it's such a great show,
Speaker 1: all right, So Hard Knocks. Hard Knocks is coming back
Speaker 1: on Tuesday on HBO and it is titled Hard Knocks
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and it will cover for the first time
Speaker 1: ever two teams, the Rams and the Chargers. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I have a primer preview type piece going up on
Speaker 1: the dot com on Monday, and I'll set it up
Speaker 1: this way in terms of a conversation. So, and I
Speaker 1: know this is something you've said many times before, Mark that,
Speaker 1: and I think West as well, although I think West
Speaker 1: just isn't much of a Hard Knocks guy period. But
Speaker 1: one thing that you kind of can get a little
Speaker 1: down on with Hard Knocks sometimes is if you've watched
Speaker 1: so many of these seasons, and this is that the
Speaker 1: show can sometimes feel predictable after a while. And the
Speaker 1: world decided that Hard Knocks would have no chance to
Speaker 1: be predictable this year. And the way these training camps
Speaker 1: are set up, the fact that there's no preseason, it
Speaker 1: completely changes and up ends what Hard knoxes. And I
Speaker 1: had a conversation two days ago with Ken Rogers. He's
Speaker 1: a vice president with the NFL and he has run
Speaker 1: the show at Hard Knocks for years now, and he said, yes,
Speaker 1: like it was kind of maddening to try to scramble
Speaker 1: to get this show going in but also in his words,
Speaker 1: creatively inspiring. And I really like this quote that he
Speaker 1: had that I'm that I have in the piece and
Speaker 1: I'll read it to you guys here. Uh. And it's
Speaker 1: in relation to the premier, but the show in general
Speaker 1: this year, this first episode to us is starting to
Speaker 1: become a look into an American workplace, going back to
Speaker 1: productivity in the midst of the biggest story in the
Speaker 1: last one hundred years in American culture. It just so
Speaker 1: happens to be the industry is football. But anyone who
Speaker 1: watches this is going to recognize what people are going through.
Speaker 1: And he and Ken told me that don't back to
Speaker 1: see a lot of football. Obviously in this premiere, it's
Speaker 1: more about what's gonna happen, the strangest things. We're gonna
Speaker 1: see first overall picks and first round picks meet their
Speaker 1: head coach for the first time, put on their uniform
Speaker 1: for the first time. This has been everything has been
Speaker 1: so mangled by Corona that all this is happening in
Speaker 1: a very different way. So if you're looking for a
Speaker 1: different type of Hard Knocks, this is the year. I.
Speaker 1: You know, I've come around on this because initially, before
Speaker 1: everything happened, I was a little bit down on the
Speaker 1: idea that we were revisiting the rams um just because
Speaker 1: something that really got that. I before the RAMS episode
Speaker 1: even happened that season, I already in my head pictured
Speaker 1: these like very sort of cliche l a um backdrop,
Speaker 1: you know, establishing shots before you go into more predictable stuff.
Speaker 1: Forget all that. I think this is actually we are
Speaker 1: kind of lucky to have two teams because we've been hearing,
Speaker 1: you know, covering football for weeks. Teams are doing to
Speaker 1: deal with Corona and it. You know that the team
Speaker 1: facilities look different than they ever have and ever will
Speaker 1: again that it's completely alien to everyone involved, and it's
Speaker 1: cool to see one team handle that and we learn
Speaker 1: a lot more than we normally would from a Hard
Speaker 1: Knocks in general, but to see how two teams do
Speaker 1: and how they do it differently, um right there in
Speaker 1: the same city. I I go into this um pretty
Speaker 1: excited to see it, because it is impossible to hit
Speaker 1: those normal beats. You're not gonna get bored by the
Speaker 1: normal beats. There are no normal beats right I. I
Speaker 1: think it's a look into a world we're not getting
Speaker 1: into anymore as a media. Makes me wonder if if
Speaker 1: they will you know what training camps are going to
Speaker 1: be like when this is all over, because it wouldn't
Speaker 1: surprise me if media has cut back a little bit.
Speaker 1: But you know, one of the reasons the news is
Speaker 1: weird this week, like the road to World news. I mean, nothing,
Speaker 1: nothing's been going on because there's no reporters in the building.
Speaker 1: You know, things are happening behind the scenes. I have
Speaker 1: a feeling that our news worthy in terms of ease
Speaker 1: or different things in terms of making plans for the
Speaker 1: season and players. For the most part, right now, we're
Speaker 1: just working out, but we don't really know about that
Speaker 1: because right now the media access is just you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of zooms a week. No one's in the building.
Speaker 1: No one really has any clue of what's going on.
Speaker 1: And this should be granted, a sanitized version of it,
Speaker 1: and you know, a team approved version of it on
Speaker 1: some level. But I still think it's going to be
Speaker 1: interesting based on all the hard knocks has gotten in
Speaker 1: the past. These teams have to be loving the The
Speaker 1: access has been going this way um slowly, year by year,
Speaker 1: but the limited access now it's like they probably never
Speaker 1: wanna going from daily daily. I was thinking about that
Speaker 1: that he went from daily press conferences. Not to mention
Speaker 1: he got to skip about ten between April and now
Speaker 1: he's gone from daily morning press conferences two once a week,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's on zoom. He doesn't even have
Speaker 1: to be in the same you know room as uh
Speaker 1: low lifes like like Tom Current, you know, ouch Current
Speaker 1: takes a shot kidding an amazing an amazing reporter and
Speaker 1: an arrow to the breast. Uh Ken also gave me
Speaker 1: a little bit of an insight into what the vibe
Speaker 1: is there. So these guys and they're all already locked
Speaker 1: into the routine where they show up, they get tested,
Speaker 1: uh they go through that process and there you know,
Speaker 1: as the weeks go on, it will become more and
Speaker 1: more like football. But that wasn't what the first week
Speaker 1: and their coverage was. And he also said that the
Speaker 1: building is not used in the way it has in
Speaker 1: past years, so a lot of things are outside even
Speaker 1: I believe, I believe he said with the Rams team
Speaker 1: meetings are under a big overhang outside and they're using
Speaker 1: zoom a lot more. So you'll see Hard Knocks using
Speaker 1: zoom calls themselves. You'll see they have to use a
Speaker 1: longer lens to try to capture things because everything is
Speaker 1: more at a distance. But I thought that maybe they'd
Speaker 1: be working with skeleton crew as well NFL films, but
Speaker 1: that's not the case. They're at capacity compared to past years,
Speaker 1: and that still means thirty personnel at each site logging,
Speaker 1: and then once they collect what they have, it is
Speaker 1: then the editor's job to go through four hours of
Speaker 1: footage for one episode. So it's really cool conversation and
Speaker 1: you could read about it more on Monday when my
Speaker 1: piece goes live. But you know, I just I think,
Speaker 1: I think the thing that I when I was thinking,
Speaker 1: all right, what else will be different now that the
Speaker 1: structure has been upended. One thing that I think they'll lose,
Speaker 1: which they probably will struggle to get back, is I
Speaker 1: always thought the heartbeat of the show is studying some
Speaker 1: of the long shots, some of the guys that are
Speaker 1: bottom of the roster, undrafted or seventh round underdogs, and
Speaker 1: that has always been where Hard Knocks is really thrived
Speaker 1: telling those human stories. I think it's like the only
Speaker 1: reason my wife watches Hard Knockses. She loves that human
Speaker 1: element of it. I don't know how they're even gonna
Speaker 1: find those guys when part of like the narrative process
Speaker 1: and the storytelling process of Hard Knoxes, you meet these
Speaker 1: guys early in camp. You get to know them their
Speaker 1: families and then their chance to shine as the preseason
Speaker 1: which doesn't exist, and the rosters were cut down from eight,
Speaker 1: so it's it's it makes it takes it from a
Speaker 1: long shot to almost no shot to make the team.
Speaker 1: I wonder if we just lose that element and you
Speaker 1: can still fashion a story around it. You're right, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna get the like assistant coaches pumping their fist
Speaker 1: after like excusees me Week three, like huge like wide
Speaker 1: receiver eight yard touchdown that somehow he makes the team
Speaker 1: on But like their story is I think is gripping
Speaker 1: as ever, because you've got like legitimately good athletes that
Speaker 1: have no chance um that are on the outside, and like,
Speaker 1: can one of them penetrate that like force Field and
Speaker 1: still get on the team. That would be cool. It's
Speaker 1: just a while till there is competition, that's the trick.
Speaker 1: I mean they you know, they're gonna have their first
Speaker 1: show on Tuesday. I guess practices will start. Lighter practices
Speaker 1: they're starting I think next week on some level, and
Speaker 1: then the padded practice August seventeen. So there's that, there's
Speaker 1: a pretty long build up towards there's any competition. But
Speaker 1: in the meantime, you just gotta lean on the personality
Speaker 1: of Jared Goff, you know, plug in what is the
Speaker 1: personality of Justin Herbert? Like I do think like there's
Speaker 1: a couple of players here where it's like I have
Speaker 1: no idea what Justin Herbert who he is at this
Speaker 1: point we've been given no access, and it's like I'd
Speaker 1: like to I want to see because it happened three
Speaker 1: years ago with your Brown's marker, two years ago, Anthony
Speaker 1: Lynn and the coaches breathlessly talking up Tyrod Taylor only
Speaker 1: to Bencham for the first round pick in week three.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's happening, will happen to think has got
Speaker 1: a longer, a longer chance this time. We always do,
Speaker 1: we always do. He'll yeah, he'll be He'll be spoken
Speaker 1: of and hushed tones by the coaching staff on this
Speaker 1: show though, as one of the great quarterbacks we've ever seen.
Speaker 1: That's just the way it is with this, all right,
Speaker 1: So check it out. And of course I write the
Speaker 1: recaps Tuesday nights on NFL dot Com. I've been doing
Speaker 1: it since two thousand twelve, which is insane. So check
Speaker 1: that out as well. Our knocks love it. That was good.
Speaker 1: Oh and don't forget one other thing. Schreg Bomb Peter
Speaker 1: Schregor a buddy Good Morning Football. He does a hard
Speaker 1: Knocks podcast and he has good access himself. You heard
Speaker 1: that at the top of the show, Um, the trailer
Speaker 1: for that, So I would say go check that out.
Speaker 1: That would be what I would do. But check it
Speaker 1: out because Shreig Bomb is great as he is on
Speaker 1: every Timeay he's on the show. All right. So before
Speaker 1: we go, Mark, you promised us a top ten list
Speaker 1: of why you love Estonia, and before you do that,
Speaker 1: I just want to touch on something um from Wednesday's show,
Speaker 1: because I thought that your aggression about my Canada top
Speaker 1: ten list and your aggression towards Greg was a little
Speaker 1: unfair and it was aggression that I don't think should
Speaker 1: go unchecked. So I just want to tell you that
Speaker 1: I am going to enjoy your Estonia list. But I
Speaker 1: also was heard a little bit by your behavior at
Speaker 1: the end of the show, because when Greg rightfully pointed
Speaker 1: out that the reason you were so mad was because
Speaker 1: you would claim the Blue Jays, the Toronto baseball team,
Speaker 1: as your own, that did get me thinking that, you know,
Speaker 1: you've been killing baseball for many years and then you
Speaker 1: become a baseball fan. I had no problem that. I
Speaker 1: was happy for you, and then when I mentioned Canada,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's it's an attack moment. I mean,
Speaker 1: number one message received. And you know, like we've been
Speaker 1: doing these for hundreds of pond hundreds of hours of
Speaker 1: these shows, and there are moments when I'll sign off
Speaker 1: and think, huh, I maybe could have handled that a
Speaker 1: bit better, and I'll think about it for like the
Speaker 1: next eighteen to nineteen hours, And that might have been
Speaker 1: one of those cases. I adore everyone. There was some
Speaker 1: character attacks. There was some character attacks during that. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, when you get into it on the show,
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta bring the heat right. So it's
Speaker 1: like I did that and I maybe brought too much
Speaker 1: to an issue that didn't require it. Well, Dan is
Speaker 1: like very forgiving and open hearted. You know I'm a
Speaker 1: smaller person. Well, I lost greg friend emotionally and and
Speaker 1: you know as part of that, you have your top
Speaker 1: ten you know list about Estonia. I guess coming up. Well,
Speaker 1: I've got my top ten, uh favorite things about lat Via.
Speaker 1: You know, Estonia's big time rival. I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of lot. All right, well, I like this. There's some
Speaker 1: you know, let's see. I hope that's true. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it is. Let's start with mark, and I
Speaker 1: will give you the floor mark because I said my piece,
Speaker 1: I'm that piece of it. I liked your response, so
Speaker 1: we're cool. Now. I will be supportive of your top ten. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm a wildly imperfect person, so take my apology to
Speaker 1: be genuine. All right, here we go. Ten cool things
Speaker 1: about Estonia. Let's go. Number ten. Estonia owns the fifteen
Speaker 1: quickest internet speed in the world, faster than the United States,
Speaker 1: by the way to look at me United States. Number nine.
Speaker 1: The capital city of Taleen features a puppet theater, which
Speaker 1: recently staged their own version of Roman Polanski's Chinatown True Story.
Speaker 1: Number eight. Astonia has a bar dedicated to depeche Mode.
Speaker 1: It's also the birthplace them Very Good Band. It's also
Speaker 1: the birthplace of West fetish Margus Hunt Little NFL Connection
Speaker 1: for you. Number seven. Estonia's young mothers are rich with nutrients.
Speaker 1: Number six, home to the Werner Sisters, is Estonia, who
Speaker 1: became famous for crossing into Rush on weekends to assassinate
Speaker 1: naughty horses. Number five. You know what we don't need
Speaker 1: to do the rest of the list, Ricky, Take us
Speaker 1: to the real song, Take us to the rat Yo,
Speaker 1: turn my mic up a bit. We're all my Estonia
Speaker 1: is at He's so trean. Estonia, Estonia. It's really nice
Speaker 1: to Knowingia, Estonia. It's really nice knowing you. Estonia, Estonia.
Speaker 1: It's really nice Estonia, Estonia. It's really nice knowing you.
Speaker 1: My name is Mark Sessler. I'm Estonia's biggest fan. They
Speaker 1: got these frigid winners across the whole land, voted best
Speaker 1: Internet in two thousand twelves, Canada, UK and the US
Speaker 1: collecting dust on Ah. You know my favorite player. I
Speaker 1: can't even front the big BMF monster named Marcus, Hunts,
Speaker 1: Dan and Gregg. All they do is wine, my Estonia is.
Speaker 1: All they do is sha Stonia, Estonia. It's really Nicetonia, Estonia.
Speaker 1: It's really nice Estonia, Estonia. It's really nice Estonia, Estonia.
Speaker 1: It's really weird day. Oh he's in Estonia. Was smooth
Speaker 1: goal with some girl. I just read the line girls,
Speaker 1: I read the lines that. You know, I have a
Speaker 1: writer who helped me with some of those lines. Um,
Speaker 1: someone attached closely to the show, and I thought that
Speaker 1: it was a supreme job by the writer. Did Yeah,
Speaker 1: this was like a long apology to when Mark got
Speaker 1: the Baltic States upset a couple of weeks ago. I
Speaker 1: didn't even connect all of that that. It's all you know,
Speaker 1: you've been feeling well, you can bring you can try
Speaker 1: to bring your lot being heat. Let's see that was great. Well,
Speaker 1: I love to but I got really enjoyed on it.
Speaker 1: I'm already late to pick up Walker, so Lot the
Speaker 1: Latia will have well, good luck to you and I
Speaker 1: will see you all right. All right, Wow, Mark, that
Speaker 1: was I didn't expect that. I gotta say, well, it's
Speaker 1: a character for you. Yeah, I don't think I thought
Speaker 1: it was good. I don't think it's a career path,
Speaker 1: but I had I haven't you know, we have a
Speaker 1: talented producer. So wait, was Ricky the ghostwriter on it too?
Speaker 1: You're saying, or is there somebody else involved? Ricky? Does?
Speaker 1: I mean? She can do it all? So she did
Speaker 1: do it all essentially, um on this production outside of
Speaker 1: me delivering you know, a C minus uh rap showmanship there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Greg likes rap. But now the only documented rapper on
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL podcast is Sesslor Sessler dropping bars
Speaker 1: and the biggest of all spots. Not who you would
Speaker 1: have been on. But take it seriously, you know, would
Speaker 1: you think Ricky? Be honest? Now you're you're close to
Speaker 1: the product obviously as the producer and co writer, But
Speaker 1: what did you think assessor's flow? I I was super
Speaker 1: impressed actually because like I wrote it to that beat
Speaker 1: and then I recorded, you know, like the first songwriter's
Speaker 1: track so he could or of copy mine, and yeah,
Speaker 1: he killed it. Well i'd say this, you know, not
Speaker 1: I think there's a way to improve. But um, I
Speaker 1: was dedicated to do it. And if that was the
Speaker 1: first take, I could have re recorded it fifty times,
Speaker 1: you know, but I said, first take, bang, let's keep
Speaker 1: it raw, let's get That's what Estonia does. Awesome dude. Awesome,
Speaker 1: but a way to go into the weekend. Everybody. Mark
Speaker 1: Sessler drops a rap solo in the biggest of all spots. Um,
Speaker 1: do we actually have listeners from Estonia by the way, Oh,
Speaker 1: yes we do, Yes we do. We had someone send
Speaker 1: in the video which we can share. What's up that
Speaker 1: I from odsdown Duden just wanted to say much loved
Speaker 1: Greg Ricky West special. Shout out to Mark as I
Speaker 1: like to call him, for his unwavering belief in the
Speaker 1: Estonian people, and shout out to Damn for being the
Speaker 1: fan Canada or whatever it's just want to say when
Speaker 1: he was staying in the show, keep up the good work,
Speaker 1: and uh and thank you. That is our listener Christian
Speaker 1: from Estonia. And there are others he believes there are others.
Speaker 1: But it's a small nation, you know. It's not a
Speaker 1: gigantic listenership there, right, And I don't want one thing.
Speaker 1: I want to make clear the Christian kind of insinuated
Speaker 1: a little bit there. This is not Canada versus Estonia.
Speaker 1: We don't need that, No, we don't, because right, why
Speaker 1: lop off like our third largest audience in some sort
Speaker 1: of in house feud feels not productive. All right, good
Speaker 1: good stuff. We'll be back on Monday. Hopefully we got
Speaker 1: West on the on deck for next week, but we
Speaker 1: could just cross our fingers on that one, and until then, everybody,
Speaker 1: have an excellent weekend. Bricky, you stay out of trouble.
Speaker 1: You're You're a house on fire behind the scenes right now.
Speaker 1: And I just want you to. I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I don't want to read you in the news. What's
Speaker 1: that home alone this weekend too? So if if, if
Speaker 1: I'm if something bad's gonna happen, it's probably gonna be
Speaker 1: this weekend. Oh my god. Alright, well, I guess Mark
Speaker 1: and I are gonna have to come over and keep
Speaker 1: you company. You're gonna have to any minutes, all right,
Speaker 1: that's it. Turn my mic up a bit. We're all
Speaker 1: my Estonia alright, Estonia, Estonia. It's really nice to know you, Estonia.
Speaker 1: It's really nice to know in Estonia. Estonia. It's really
Speaker 1: nice to know Estonia. Estonia. It's really nice to knowing you.
Speaker 1: My name is Mark Sessler. I'm Estonia's biggest fan. They
Speaker 1: got these frigid winners across the whole land. Voted best
Speaker 1: Internet in two thousand twelves, Canada, UK and the US
Speaker 1: collected dust on US. You know my favorite player I
Speaker 1: can't even front the big bm it monster named Marcus
Speaker 1: hunts Dan think Greg. All they do is wine my
Speaker 1: Estonia just all they do is shah Estonia, Estonia. It's
Speaker 1: really nice Estonia, Estonia. It's really nice in Estonia. Estonia.
Speaker 1: It's really nice to know. And Estonia, Estonia is really
Speaker 1: nice nowing you wheresay? Oh he's in Estonia is small
Speaker 1: gold