WEBVTT - Kurt Warner On His New Film, Advice For QB’s, and NFL Week 1 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:08.479 From the King of Sports Books comes the key sports 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:19.000 podcast Unleashed, presented by bet MGM. Here's your host, Joanna's 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:29.200 Papas and Olivia Harland Decker. Welcome to another episode of 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.680 Unleashed from bet MGM, the King of Sports Books. It 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.880 is Week one, people, it is the most heavily bet 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.960 NFL season ever and it all kicks off Thursday. Janna's 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.920 Papas is my co host and friend Janice. How is 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.000 your Labor Day weekend? Did you just watch a ton 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.000 of college football like I did? I did. I parked 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.239 it on the couch, popped a couple of truly's and 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:56.800 watched some beautiful, beautiful college football. America's back. Baby. I 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.120 didn't take you for a truly drinker, to be honest. 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.600 I know, you know. It's some kind of calories and 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:07.039 it's it's they're they're a nice summer drink. Yeah, yeah, hey, 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.119 I'm with you. I just you don't really look like 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.200 a truly drinker. Well that's a very nice way of 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.160 calling me fat. I look more like a beer drinker. No, 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:19.039 you just look like a man's man. Yeah, I got dad, Bob, 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.400 I get it. No, no, no, Hey, someone who is 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.319 going to want to pop a truly when they hear 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:27.080 that they have won this contest in five hundred dollars 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.559 to bet MGM. Actually three people who won our Apple 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.440 podcast review contest. Do you have the winners of those? 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.760 I do have the three lucky winners. Give it up 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:42.480 for Ta pipes, lamar age, L M, A R E 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.600 E J. Don't know what I pronounce it. I'm not French. 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:50.120 And then we have Taylor Luccini, a good Italian kid. 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:54.000 All three of you have one congratulations. You have just 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:58.280 won five hundred dollars in credit to bet with from 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.440 bet MGM. What you gotta do is either DM me 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:06.160 Olivia or bet MGM on Twitter to claim your prize. 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.919 Will do the rest your reviews. Really funny, you know 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.520 Olivia agreed on all three. It's probably the only three 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:15.080 things will agree on on this coming season, and I 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.400 hope we don't agree on three things. Later in the show, 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.440 Peter Andrew are betting expert with bet MGM is going 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:24.160 to pick three random NFL games every week, and you 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.520 and I are going to pick the winner. Every week. 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.399 We're gonna see who had the better weekend, and that 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.600 person is going to have to read an outro that 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.480 the other one writes you already know I blush at 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.600 potty humor. I am really nervous that you're going to 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.240 write something nasty for me to read every week, So 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:44.520 I'm taking this one seriously. We call the segment punishment picks. 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.400 Make sure to listen at the end of every episode, Nana, 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.800 so you can be real competitive on this one. That 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.360 it's just so fun. I was just smiling while you 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.800 read that. We're gonna pimp each other out. And here's 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.920 the thing, Olivia, you you have to read whatever I write. 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.799 Of course, you're gonna lose more than I am. So 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.280 I can't wait to punch these keyboards and pimp you out. 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.399 I don't know. I'm going to study it pretty hard 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.680 on that, but I'm looking forward to that segment. Also 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:11.919 coming up in the show, we have Kurt Warner. He's 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.679 one of the best stories in the NFL. He went 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.959 from stocking grocery store shelves to winning Super Bowls m 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.120 v P, and he's a Hall of Famer. This is 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.760 one of my favorite interviews we have ever had. You honest, 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.640 wasn't he great? It was incredible. He's got his movie 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:29.800 coming out telling his amazing story. Uh. He really was 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.200 an incredible interview. He gave us a lot of football 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.680 insight and told his story and really got us excited 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:37.960 for the movie that's coming out. And he has really 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.320 good insight on the first Monday night football game of 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:44.200 the season. It's Ravens at Raiders, and he's calling that 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.680 game on Westwood one, and he is going to give 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.400 us his take on both of those quarterbacks. Let's get 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.320 to the rest of the Week one matchups because there's 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.840 a lot to get to, you know, be honest, this 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:56.840 season is going to be so different because we have 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:00.240 packed stadiums. We saw it in college football last week. Again, 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.320 it is so refreshing to see that. And there's a 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.320 lot of data to the home advantage with crowds that 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:10.200 we learned from the season. So home advantage is back, 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.760 and I think bigger than ever because I think fans 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.080 are going to be crazier and louder than ever. This 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.640 is also the first season in NFL history with seventeen games. 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:23.080 There's also a new crackdown on taunting. What do you 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.640 think of that, Yannis, Don't we think that's like, I 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.600 think that's ridiculous. Yeah, I I hate when they take 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:30.599 the theatrics out of the game. I mean, that's what 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.400 makes the modern game fun. Let these guys dance, let 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:38.000 them do a TikTok. Why not. I'm with you, I'm 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.520 with you. The taunting is is kind of a silly 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:42.880 thing that makes it fun. I think so. And what 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.320 a random thing for them to crack down on. Anyway, 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.640 So we're going to see that in Week one. All 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:51.640 the action starts Thursday, Cowboys at raining super Bowl champs 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.560 Tampa Bay. The Bucks are an eight point favorite and 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.120 that has gone up. Check at at MGM to see 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.160 that the Cowboys. They have a new defensive coordinate later, 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.599 but not much talent, although I do like that first 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.240 round draft pick Michael Parsons. He's been quite the character 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.840 on Hard Knocks. Dak Prescott will be playing after a 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.360 right shoulder injury in the preseason. You know, he had 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:15.000 an ankle injury early last season, so he is ready 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.120 to go. It has been hard to watch that shoulder 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.479 injury on Hard Knocks as well. But six time Pro 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:24.240 Bowl guard Zack Martin is in COVID protocol. His status 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.919 is unknown for Week one. This isn't just any offensive lineman. 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.360 He is their offense, Ezekiel. Elliott even said that's their 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.080 best player on offense. He has a huge presence on 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.240 this team. So that one I'm like in Tampa Bay 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.880 for reasons galore. But once I saw Zack Martin was out, 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:42.840 I was like, it's done for Dallas. They don't have 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.840 a chance Week one. Yeah, that's a He's the one 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.880 who would help out Ezekiel the most. And if the 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.760 if that running game isn't on point, they got no shot. Yep. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.160 And Brady's five o versus the Cowboys in his career 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.040 and listen to this, Johnnie. The Super Bowl champ goes 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.479 thirteen and three overall in season openers in the last 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.880 sixteen years, and against the spread, the Super Bowl champ 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.719 is eleven four and one, So there's some stats to 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.200 back up your bet. I would definitely go with Tampa Bay. Yeah. 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.080 They bring it back all twenty two starters, right, Yeah, 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.960 yeah they are. And not all of those starters were 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.640 with them at the beginning of last season, like Antonio Brown, 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.520 so they have even more cohesion than they did last season. 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:26.640 I like Tampa Bay to be better than they were 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.680 last year. I agree with you, damn it. We agree, 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.520 damn it, hopefully not at the end. Okay, there's a 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.240 lot of excitement around the Chargers this season. They have 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.479 a new stadium, they have a new head coach, Rookie 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.479 of the Year Justin Herbert ready for his sophomore season. 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.880 But look, it's his first season with packed stadiums, on 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.600 the road and at home. He's learning a new offense, 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:49.760 new coach. I don't know. I think it's something to 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.080 think about. I don't know if Herbert can live up 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.760 to that freshman campaign. And they start on the road 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:58.720 at Washington Basing fits magic and the spread is at 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:02.279 one point favoring l A. I think that's a sneaky one. 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.000 I don't know if I would even touch that one. 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.039 What do you think? I agree with you. I'm not 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.800 touching on one. That's a little sneaky. I think the 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.480 crowd does play a role. We'll see how he reacts football. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.160 The game slows down as you gain experience, and this 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.080 is this is him just getting his feet wet. So 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.800 I agree with you. I like it. There's a really 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.240 good one in the a f C three thirty Browns 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.840 at Chiefs. Those are two sexy teams. The Chiefs are 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.200 favored at six and a half. Look, the Browns have experience, 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.600 they have great skill players. Baker Mayfield is ready for 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.520 a big season. He's sniffing a big contract like other 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.200 guys in his draft class have already gotten. And he's 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.720 not learning a new offense for the first time since 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.240 he's been a Brown. But I like the Chiefs. I 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.840 like healthy Patrick Mahomes gives a new offensive line. I 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.200 think they win by at least a touchdown. I'm laying 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.680 the points there. Mahomes has never lost in September. Can 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.040 you believe that it's his birthday month? He's never lost 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.480 in September. I can't believe it. He's incredible. I've never 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.360 seen a or back like him. I don't. I never 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:06.040 liked the wild card of Odell Beckham Jr. I'm a 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.480 jive fan, so I'm a little bitter. But you cannot 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.400 bet against Mahomes and the Chiefs. I think they're gonna 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:16.000 win and win big. Actually, I'm calling a blowout, blowout. Jeez. 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.680 Now your team's the Giants, right, yes, big time. So 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.600 they play the Broncos. Broncos have new quarterback Teddy Bridgewater. 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:25.360 That's a home game. You're not going to it, are 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.560 you No, I'm not going to it unless bet MGM 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:30.320 pays for it. Okay, I'll put in a good word. 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.680 So quarterback Daniel Jones will be praying to keep his 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.000 jersey clean. He has a terrible offensive line, and he's 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.280 also going to be praying that his running back State 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.800 Kwon Barkley is cleared in time. As of Tuesday when 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.160 we're recording this, his status is up in the year. 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.720 Denver is a two and a half point favorite. That 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.760 will definitely change as we get closer to kickoff based 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.880 on State Kwan's status. So look, i'd say take the 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.360 points now. I hope that Barkley is back. What do 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.480 you think? Oh God, this is just the same old 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.800 story in New York right now. Terrible offensive line and 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:07.040 a questionable say quon I mean, and it's just I'm 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.440 gonna I'm gonna bet against the giants. I'm trying to 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.120 make some money. Like Olivia, she doesn't bet with her hard. 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:16.040 I gotta get a little colder. They're gonna lose. Goddamn it. 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.360 I hate when I do that. You have a daughter 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:22.360 to support, exactly, I gotta be you know, capitalism wins. 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.360 I like it. Look Sunday night. That is such a 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.840 good game. That's the NBC game. Bears at Rams. Rams 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.000 are a seven and a half point favorite with new 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.600 quarterback Matt Stafford from Detroit. Look, a lot of pundits 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.080 are saying that he'll be m v P. This would 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.160 be a great debut if he's trying to put together 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.520 that type of season. And they also got running back 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.960 Sony Michelle a couple of weeks ago from New England. 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.520 He was the only player to score a touchdown verse 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:48.880 l A in the Pasts Super Bowl win a couple 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:50.960 of years ago. He's also a u G A guy 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.280 like I like the Rams at over a touchdown. I 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:55.920 wish it was a little bit lower. I wish it 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.600 was a seven point favorite. Seven and a half is tricky, 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.360 but I will take the Rams here. Yeah, I mean, 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.920 I'm not going to bet on this one at all. Yeah, 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:05.880 So I'm gonna pass on this one. But I'm just 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.240 gonna say, if you're not going Josh Allen for m 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:11.760 v P this year, then you've got another thing coming. 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.600 I mean, they're basically shining that trophy for the kid. 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.000 He's unbelievable. Oh, I like, you're very confident on that one. Look, 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.920 I land in Vegas on Thursday, I am immediately going 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.400 to our sports book in placing all these bets. I 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:28.040 have data analysis notes. I am so ready to win 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.520 some money this weekend. It's not even funny. As soon 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.120 as I get there, I'm doing the same thing. I 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.520 might even just blindfold myself and just you know, just 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.040 picking by chance can be fun too. It's a little 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.880 more exciting. I may do no research and just play 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.280 pin the tail on the donkey and just let my 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.439 finger do the talk. Just watch. You are going to 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.200 win so much money doing that. And here I'm gonna 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.680 be there with my little legal notepad and I'm gonna 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:54.280 lose because I overthought it. Well, that's a difference between 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:56.760 me and you. You prepare, I wing it. I love it. 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:58.960 You know I should mention next week we are doing 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:02.120 our podcast in Las Vegas of the Mandalay Bay. I'm 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.240 so excited, honest, We're gonna have so much fun. I 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.480 even made us a dinner reservation. We are hitt in 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.280 Vegas hard. Yeah, I mean, actually, this is the first 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.000 time we're going to see each other in person, so, uh, 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:16.520 this is a very twenty twenty one post COVID type 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.839 of relationship we have where we're finally seeing each other 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.240 in person after we've been working together for a long time. 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.680 While I hope you don't catfish me and come out 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.480 like a five hundred pound man and a trailer in 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:31.000 Louisiana or something. Well, you already think I live in 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.560 a cabin, so yeah, I mean I've been using a 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:37.000 filter this whole time. I mean, yeah, I'm actually I'm 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:40.559 a Romanian troll. So I'm just a troll bot. I'm 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.320 a Russian bot. I love it. Let's finish off with 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.240 the last game of the weekend. It's Monday Night football. 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.440 It is in Vegas. I hope you and I are 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.360 still standing by Monday, because it's gonna be a long weekend. 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.880 But the Ravens are a four and a half point 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:57.280 favorite in the first NFL game at Allegiant Stadium. Look 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.319 buy you fans gotta break in the stadium. This past 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.720 weekend against Arizona, they really traveled well. That was impressive. 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:05.599 So that's going to be such a good one. I 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.040 think it will be high scoring. So I would advise 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.240 all our betters to take the over at fifty one 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.240 and a half and here's why it's a big national game. 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:17.559 So sometimes refs have this. Let them play mentality right, 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.520 not as many penalties. And last year the Raiders were 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.040 the best team in the NFL at allowing the over 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:26.400 to hit at twelve three and one. Ravens are so 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.200 explosive on offense, but they do have some injuries in 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.800 the receiving corps. They'll be running a lot, obviously with 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:35.320 quarterback Lamar Jackson, and he almost always covers on the road. 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.760 So I'll take the Ravens. I'll lay the points. So 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.400 all of that is so interesting. Make sure if you 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.520 do place a bet this weekend and it goes horribly 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:46.959 wrong for you and you have a bad beat, to 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.680 tweet at bet MGM and you could win our bad 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.840 Beat of the Week. We're going to select whoever has 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.040 the worst beat and send them fifty dollars credit to 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.720 bet MGM. All you have to do is tweet us 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.400 at bed MGM. Not only that, we're gonna read it 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:04.439 live on the podcast and give you a little pub 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.439 We already have a winner for this weekend, and so 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:12.600 are you ready for it? Ready? Bad Beat all the Week? 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.600 Our poor guy Tommy. Tommy gets at t y n 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.000 l g Z. Poor guy. He cashed a parlay before 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.280 the game started just to put it on the only 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.400 losing leg of it. He's talking about Week one college football, 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.040 and I feel you, Tommy, because his game that lost 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:33.120 was Penn State at Wisconsin. Penn State wins. That was 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.920 an ugly game. It was zero zero at halftime, and 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:41.880 our man lost some money. I'm so sorry, Tommy. Tommy, 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:43.640 you can't win them all, buddy, but you know you 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:45.680 did get a shot out, so that's the silver line 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.480 and fifty bucks. Not bad, not bad. Just put it 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.440 on some of these Week one games. Hopefully he was 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:53.560 listening to us, Tommy, we gave you a lot of 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.360 free advice there, my friend. So make sure you listen. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.840 And the last segment of the show with Peter Andrew, 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.360 he gets into the nitty gritty that's going to be good. Hey, 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.959 before we get to this Kurt Warner interview, I was 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.800 really thinking a lot and this stumped me because when 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.480 we were asking him about his movie coming up in December, 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.160 I think he had some creative input on who was 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:18.040 cast as himself, his wife, his kids, his coach, teammates, 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.280 all that, and I started thinking Okay. If I had 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.600 to cast my whole family and myself in a movie, 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.960 who would I pick? I don't know. And then j honest, 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.000 I was asking you too. Have you ever had like 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.960 a celebrity lookalike who could play you in a movie. Absolutely, 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.240 it's got to be John Stamos. I mean, you saw 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.800 the Irishman, right, It's crazy what they can do with 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:39.760 c g I. Now they can make him look a 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:44.000 lot less good looking. Oh my gosh, anyone else in 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:50.360 case Stamos is busy? Uh? Michael B. Jordan's people say yes, yeah, yeah, 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:54.640 I mean where he's like my doppelganger. Either that Treat Williams. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.360 People tell me I look like Treat Williams. The only 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.840 problem is he's seventy, so that's gonna be tough. All 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:05.760 the watch people say that I look like. Also Leonardo DiCaprio, 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.720 I get a lot. Oh yeah, if he's squint and 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.760 drink a bunch of Trulies until your head. Yeah. I 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.840 mean people say me and him as far as on 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.200 the scale of how good looking we are, they say 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:21.800 me and him were a tie? Would you were a tie? Yeah, 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.640 let's move on. You know, my mom, if if anyone's 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.400 ever seen my mom. She looks just like Christie Brinkley. 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.360 So I would definitely cast Christie Brinkley to play my mom. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.280 And they're around the same age. Dude, she's gorgeous. I 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:37.000 would cast Nick Saban or Tom Hanks to play my dad. 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.880 I've thought a lot about this one. Can Nick Saban act? 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.440 Probably not, but he's not bad on those aft Flat commercials. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:44.880 There you go, Yeah, but he kind of looks like 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.840 my dad. I don't know something about their hair or something. 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.840 And then for myself, I hate this. I get Lady 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.880 Gaga a lot. I've literally been sitting at an airport 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.360 bar and someone came up to me and was like, 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.520 I'm so sorry to bother you, ma'am. I just want 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:00.160 to make sure you're okay, Like, you know, you have 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.840 no security. They couldn't believe Lady Gaga was sitting, you know, 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:07.520 at the Detroit airport alone having a martini. Well that's 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.640 the only place I think you could get mistaken for 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:15.000 Lady Gaga when somebody has had fifteen martini. Because I 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.480 don't get that at all, Thank you. I I really 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.200 don't see it. I'm a big fan of hers, but 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.240 I get it all the time and it blows my mind. 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:26.320 And then also Sydney Sweeney, who is closer to my age. 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.640 She's in White Lotus, which I cannot get enough of 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.040 right now. I love that show, but I get that 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.479 one a lot. But if anyone else has any opinions 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.680 on who could play Janice or myself in a movie, 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:39.120 check out that MGMs, Twitter and Instagram. They are putting 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.280 together a little poll. You can tell us what you think. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:46.240 We are good natured about it, we are not easily offended, 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.600 and clearly we think very highly of ourselves. With John 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:53.040 Stamos and Sydney Sweeney playing us in a movie, don't 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.880 forget Leonardo DiCaprio. He's my top choice. Yeah, I mean 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:58.960 I could also play your dad. I mean I'm old enough. 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.160 You're a little too Greek from my dad. My dad's 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.040 a little bit more wonder bread he is. Yeah, I 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.240 mean you are very wonder bread. You are. You're from 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.919 the Heartland. I mean you you look like Taylor Swift. 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:17.560 I would say Taylor Swift could be a good one. Now, okay, okay, okay, 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:21.439 let's just okay, let's get to our Kurt Warner interview. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:25.200 He is incredible. He was an undrafted quarterback. He went 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.840 four years without making an NFL roster. He was working 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.560 at a grocery store. Shout out hi V. He ended 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.760 up playing twelve seasons, two time m v P Super 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.679 Bowl champ and m v P Hall of Famer. If 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:41.040 it sounds like a movie, it's because it is American Underdog. 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.160 The Kurt Warner Story is in theaters this December. Let's 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:47.399 get a friend of the podcast Hall of Famer Kurt Warner. 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.240 While we mentioned earlier, he has one of the best 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.200 stories in NFL history and he's still in the game 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.040 now as an analyst. Also a great Twitter, followed by 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.440 the way you can catch him on NFL Network and 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.399 Monday Night Football on Westwood one Radio actually with my 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.400 dad Kevin Harland. More on that aspect of it later, 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:14.480 and I do want to pick your brain Kurt on 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.600 some QB questions going into week one, but I want 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:19.360 to get into your story. So first of all, thanks 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.000 so much for joining us. This is really awesome. You 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.920 got it on my pleasure. Well, I was looking back 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:27.680 at kind of your start when you were named the 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:31.240 starter your second season, and really, who knows if any 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.840 of this fantastic story would have happened if Trent Green 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.520 never tore his a c L ahead of the season, 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.159 and boom, you're the starter. And we saw what your 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.560 head coach, Dick for Meal said in his press conference, 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.680 the whole we're behind Kurt, We're gonna play good football. 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:48.520 What do you remember him saying to you? Do you 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.399 think they knew your potential? I don't think they had 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:55.280 any idea, even a good job of hiding it, because 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.400 I think they were stuck with me. I've actually heard 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.520 some stories or some other guys over the years that, uh, 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:03.880 that the Rams actually did reach out to a couple 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:07.119 of veteran quarterbacks. Did that mean to bring them in 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.080 to be the starter? Did that mean to bring them 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.960 in to be the backup. I'll let you speculate on that, 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:14.359 but I know that they've reached out to some people. 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.720 And again I don't blame them. I mean, I I 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.000 completely understand. I think we always have to have a 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:24.240 realistic viewpoint of other people's perspective on us or where 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.920 we stand at a particular time, and and I get 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.800 it at that point in time. Uh, you know, Dick 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.000 when he when he mentioned those words in that press conference. 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:36.639 It was three tiers, and so, you know, I always 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.520 joke because that knowing Dick, obviously there's tears all the time, 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.000 and there was I'm sure some tears for for Trent, 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:44.320 but I think there were also some tears like, oh 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:47.639 my gosh, we gotta go with Kurt. Because this was 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:51.600 Dick's third year, and you know that the speculation there 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.399 was that if he didn't win, he would be fired. 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:56.800 He was on the hot seat. They were four and twelve, 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.360 where we were four and twelve the year before, things 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:01.560 hadn't gone well. He was out of the game for 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.159 almost a decade and a half. Everybody thought the game 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.440 had kind of passed him by, And so I'm sure 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:09.480 part of those emotions was, really, is this the hand 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:11.440 that I'm doubt, Like, you know, now I gotta go 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:14.240 with this guy, uh, you know, and he's got to 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.920 save my job, and so yeah, I think there was 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:19.760 a lot of emotions. And I'm not gonna sit here 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.359 and say that that Dick, you know, and some of 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.639 the other staff didn't believe that I could play. I 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:27.399 just think it was an unknown and I don't know 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:29.840 if they knew it I could play at that time, 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.359 Like I was ready to be able to handle, you know, 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.720 what was being laid on my plate at that particular time. 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:38.680 But you know, to to their credit, um, you know, 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.159 and I'm very grateful that they did give me that opportunity. 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.440 I knew when when I took over that the least 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:48.600 probably wasn't gonna be very long. That I didn't know 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:50.880 if i'd give one game or two games, or until 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:52.879 they found a veteran quarterback. I didn't know what it 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.200 was going to be. But I knew that, you know, 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:56.920 there wasn't gonna be a lot of opportunities if I 0:20:57.000 --> 0:21:00.320 went in and didn't play well, you know early, you know, 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:02.240 maybe I get a second start, but you know, it 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:04.080 wasn't one of these things like, hey, we're gonna roll 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:07.080 with you for sixteen games if you're not playing well. So, 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:10.600 you know, I think, again, I'm grateful. I'm thankful there 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.320 was enough belief there that they actually did put the 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.720 ball in my hands. But no, I don't believe any 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:19.159 of those guys really knew what I was capable of 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:21.840 or believed in me to the extent that they would 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:24.920 later in the year. I just think, hey, he showed 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:26.720 as he can throw a football and he's done some 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:29.080 good things in the year that he's been here. Let's 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:31.520 give him a shot that you know, we're not throwing 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:33.920 all of our eggs in one basket. You just said 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:36.040 you knew that the or at least you thought the 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:38.440 leash would be short. Was there a moment where you 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.520 loosened up and you were like, I got this. You know. 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:44.359 The funny thing is is that there was never a 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:47.000 moment I didn't think I had it. Ah. That's the 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.560 flip side of it all the time, is that, you 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.120 know when you talk about my story, and I say 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:54.280 this all the time, everybody looks at my story and 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:56.840 they look at all the negative stuff. But he's had 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:58.960 on the bench for four years, and again they look 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:01.480 at it now. Obviously sat on the bench for four years, 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:04.240 got cut by Green Bay, worked in the grocery store, 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:07.280 or played arena you know, all these things that on 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:10.440 the surface go, oh my gosh, this guy can't play 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:13.240 for me. All I looked at was what I was 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:15.960 between the lines. So I played one year in college 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:17.760 and I was the player of the year in our 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:20.719 conference that one year. I played three years in Arena football, 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:23.360 was in the championship game twice, and voted the best 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:26.240 quarterback in the league those last two years I was there. 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:28.280 I went to play in Europe for a year, lad 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:31.359 the being statistically over there. So when everybody else was 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:32.920 looking to go, oh my gosh, it's a guy coming 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:36.240 from a grocery store, my mindset was, what do you mean. 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:38.520 Every time I played, I've been really, really good, and 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:42.040 so nobody's ever shown me that I can't play. Yes, 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:44.680 this is the NFL. Yes it's as good as it gets. 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:48.119 But there was never a lot of confidence because I 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:50.920 had never been in a situation with the ball in 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:54.760 my hands where I wasn't successful and so um so 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:57.439 you asked that question, and I completely get it because 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:00.920 it's different and it's bigger and there's a lot of pressure. 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:02.840 And as I said, you know, I don't know how 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:05.040 long my leash was. But the bottom line is I 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:07.840 knew I could play football. I knew that's what I did, 0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:09.960 and that's the one thing that I did really, really well. 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:13.200 So I wasn't intimidated by oh my gosh, I have 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:15.520 to play at the highest level. No. I mean, it's 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:19.399 just you're still throwing and reading and making decisions and 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:22.399 playing the game that you've played forever. So I was 0:23:22.600 --> 0:23:25.800 very confident that I could play well. I wasn't what 0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:28.440 it's confident that I would play like I did. You 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:30.600 know that first year. I mean, so many things came 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:33.080 together and it was like a perfect storm. So I 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:35.359 didn't know I would play at that level or up 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:38.399 to that level, especially that quickly. But I did believe 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:39.960 that I could play and that I was going to 0:23:40.080 --> 0:23:42.200 prove it to UH, to everybody that I could play 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:44.920 at that level. You've had all these years to think 0:23:45.000 --> 0:23:47.760 back on this. What do you think teams missed on you? 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:50.159 When you bring up the Packers cutting you early, but 0:23:50.320 --> 0:23:52.639 so many other teams missed on you too. What they forget? 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:55.920 I don't think it was missing from the standpoint that 0:23:57.119 --> 0:23:59.200 seeing this guy and we don't think he can play. 0:23:59.640 --> 0:24:01.359 I think it was missing from the standpoint that I 0:24:01.480 --> 0:24:03.719 just never got the opportunity. You know, I played one 0:24:03.800 --> 0:24:06.000 year in college and so yeah, I played really well 0:24:06.080 --> 0:24:09.199 that one year. But you know, when you're looking at 0:24:09.240 --> 0:24:12.320 the landscape of college football, I mean there's guys all 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:15.399 over the place that played in bigger schools, that played longer, 0:24:15.600 --> 0:24:18.280 that had more success, and so you know, I did 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:21.320 get three or four opportunities from a free agency and 0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:25.280 point three three or four offers to play with teams 0:24:25.320 --> 0:24:28.080 when I got done. So it wasn't like, you know, 0:24:28.200 --> 0:24:31.120 nobody thought I could play. It was just okay, one 0:24:31.200 --> 0:24:34.959 year Division one, double a school, smaller school, we got 0:24:35.040 --> 0:24:37.639 lots of other guys we're gonna take first, and so 0:24:37.960 --> 0:24:40.239 there just wasn't a big body of work. And then 0:24:40.640 --> 0:24:42.080 you know, from there, I went to green Bay and 0:24:42.160 --> 0:24:45.000 green Bay had you know, Red Father Market now and 0:24:45.080 --> 0:24:47.800 ty Denver. I mean it's it's a pretty good quarterback room. 0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:49.840 And you know, I went there and knowing that they 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:51.960 only they were only gonna invite me to camp, so 0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:53.959 it was only four of us. So I went there 0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:55.720 with the mindset, well, you didn't have to beat one 0:24:55.760 --> 0:24:57.480 of these guys out, or maybe I can make the 0:24:57.560 --> 0:25:00.520 practice squad because at that time, you we kept three 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:03.320 quarterbacks on the bost and one on the practice squad. 0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:06.800 So that was kind of my mindset that again, there 0:25:06.840 --> 0:25:08.600 I didn't really get an opportunity. I didn't play in 0:25:08.600 --> 0:25:11.639 a single preseason game. I didn't throw a preseason you know. 0:25:11.720 --> 0:25:15.200 Past that, it was really just, hey, we got these guys, 0:25:15.320 --> 0:25:19.240 were happy with them they're healthy, they're not hurt. We 0:25:19.320 --> 0:25:22.040 don't really need to explore another guy. And so then 0:25:22.240 --> 0:25:24.200 you know unti Arena football and at Europe, and so 0:25:24.640 --> 0:25:27.359 I don't think it was people just looking and going on, 0:25:27.400 --> 0:25:29.000 I don't think he's got it. I don't think he 0:25:29.040 --> 0:25:32.520 can play. I think it was just simply there's better options. 0:25:32.600 --> 0:25:35.080 You know, we've got a bigger book on more people 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:38.360 that you know, nobody ever really got. You know, got 0:25:38.440 --> 0:25:40.480 to see me play, and a lot of times we 0:25:40.600 --> 0:25:43.119 just said that. In preseason in the NFL, you're like 0:25:43.200 --> 0:25:45.480 writing your resume. So even if you don't make the 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:48.280 team that you're on, when you get to play in preseason, 0:25:48.880 --> 0:25:51.719 everybody gets to take everybody gets to see your throws. 0:25:52.280 --> 0:25:55.040 And like I said, I get these rows. I didn't 0:25:55.040 --> 0:25:58.400 get a chance to showcase anything. So everybody else around 0:25:58.440 --> 0:26:00.480 the league is probably just thinking, oh, no, he was 0:26:00.520 --> 0:26:02.960 what he got. He was. It was Division one quarterback 0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:05.399 that wasn't drafted and he didn't make the Packers, So 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:07.960 you know what makes us think that we should give 0:26:08.040 --> 0:26:10.159 him a shot at that point. It's also amazing that 0:26:10.480 --> 0:26:13.359 you played in Amsterdam and you played on a team 0:26:13.560 --> 0:26:18.879 with another guy who ended up becoming another amazing story 0:26:19.520 --> 0:26:23.760 with Jake the home did looking back, did you guys 0:26:24.440 --> 0:26:27.640 reminisce about that or talk about that now, going wow, 0:26:27.800 --> 0:26:31.040 isn't that amazing? We we did, and uh, you know 0:26:31.119 --> 0:26:33.119 we've caught up about that. You know, Jake ends up 0:26:33.560 --> 0:26:35.960 taking his team to the super Bowl. I got to 0:26:36.040 --> 0:26:38.840 play in three super Bowls. I mean Rad Johnson's another 0:26:38.880 --> 0:26:40.920 guy that played in Europe, took his team to a 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:43.600 Super Bowl, won a Super Bowl, and so, um, yeah, 0:26:43.680 --> 0:26:47.560 we we talked about that a lot because for both 0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:50.159 of us, you know, we were you know, looked at 0:26:50.240 --> 0:26:53.760 looked upon it playing at smaller places and you know, 0:26:54.520 --> 0:26:56.600 maybe couldn't play at that level, and so we were 0:26:56.640 --> 0:26:59.320 both trying to just earn our spot. And it's pretty 0:26:59.320 --> 0:27:03.240 cool when you've got guys that that can play this game, 0:27:03.320 --> 0:27:06.359 that that are really good at this game, but get overlooked. 0:27:07.240 --> 0:27:09.359 I think we're both just grateful that there was that 0:27:09.520 --> 0:27:11.760 league at the time. You know, I looked back now, 0:27:12.480 --> 0:27:15.520 um and you know you sit here and aliving that 0:27:15.600 --> 0:27:17.640 you were talking about it. You know, if something doesn't 0:27:17.640 --> 0:27:20.200 happen to try Green, do we ever hear this story? 0:27:20.560 --> 0:27:22.159 But I could say the same thing if there was 0:27:22.280 --> 0:27:25.560 no NFL Europe, if there was no arena football, kind 0:27:25.560 --> 0:27:27.479 of very similar to where we're at right now. I mean, 0:27:27.520 --> 0:27:30.960 I know there's a few smaller football leagues, but if 0:27:31.000 --> 0:27:33.720 there were, there, weren't those leads for me at least 0:27:33.760 --> 0:27:36.280 get a chance to play and be successful and kind 0:27:36.320 --> 0:27:39.440 of hone my craft. There's probably no story either. So 0:27:39.640 --> 0:27:42.680 I was so grateful for arena football and for NFL 0:27:42.760 --> 0:27:44.879 Europe at the time because I got a chance to 0:27:44.960 --> 0:27:47.120 get back on the field. As I said, no polic 0:27:47.160 --> 0:27:51.320 season passes in Green Bay. My tryout was NFL Europe 0:27:51.359 --> 0:27:53.200 to get back on the big field and show people 0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:55.840 that I could play. And the same was true for Jake. 0:27:55.880 --> 0:27:59.160 I'm sure Jake's probably thinking seriously, then I finally get 0:27:59.200 --> 0:28:02.040 over here, and now I got a suit behind Kurt. 0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:04.760 For Aye, it's like, when do I get my opportunity? 0:28:04.880 --> 0:28:07.560 And lucky he went back another year and went back 0:28:08.000 --> 0:28:11.280 the following year and ended up playing the following year 0:28:11.320 --> 0:28:14.200 before he got his opportunity. So both of us reminisced 0:28:14.200 --> 0:28:16.560 about it. Uh grateful we get to go each other 0:28:16.600 --> 0:28:18.800 at the time. They're both grateful for the opportunity to 0:28:18.840 --> 0:28:21.760 actually play and have a league where we could parlay 0:28:21.840 --> 0:28:25.160 that into a into great careers in the NFL. Well, 0:28:25.200 --> 0:28:28.359 the rest of your story is so incredible. It's documented 0:28:28.400 --> 0:28:31.760 in the movie American Underdog, the Kurt Warner story. I'm 0:28:31.840 --> 0:28:34.480 curious how involved you were in the casting of this, 0:28:34.720 --> 0:28:37.760 because a game that Lehman people play all the time 0:28:37.880 --> 0:28:39.760 is who would play me in a movie? And Joannie 0:28:39.800 --> 0:28:41.840 and I were playing that in the first segment had 0:28:41.880 --> 0:28:44.040 a lot of fun with it. Were you very involved 0:28:44.080 --> 0:28:46.480 and who was going to play you? I was not 0:28:46.680 --> 0:28:48.760 very involved in the casting part of it. That you 0:28:48.840 --> 0:28:51.280 There's so many things that go into the casting, especially 0:28:51.600 --> 0:28:54.760 in the middle of the pandemic and COVID. There were 0:28:54.800 --> 0:28:57.840 so many projects that were put on hold with the pandemic, 0:28:57.920 --> 0:29:00.880 and so there were a number of people that were 0:29:00.960 --> 0:29:05.240 scheduled to start shooting with different projects that just weren't available, 0:29:05.440 --> 0:29:08.080 and so a lot of it came down to, uh, 0:29:08.200 --> 0:29:10.720 even trying to figure out who your wish list was, 0:29:11.320 --> 0:29:13.840 see who might be available when we were going to 0:29:13.920 --> 0:29:17.360 shoot the movie again as it fluctuated through COVID, and 0:29:17.480 --> 0:29:21.040 that became probably the biggest issue with it. But I 0:29:21.160 --> 0:29:24.160 said all that too uh to say when we actually 0:29:24.200 --> 0:29:27.200 see the movie. The casting is awesome. I mean, the 0:29:27.280 --> 0:29:30.880 casting is incredible across the board. I think you know, 0:29:31.080 --> 0:29:33.320 the people that put it together. Uh, you know, our 0:29:33.400 --> 0:29:36.960 directors and lions Gate did an unbelievable job with the cast, 0:29:37.400 --> 0:29:40.160 even though there were there were limitations. I suppose from 0:29:40.200 --> 0:29:43.440 probably what they're their wish list might have been to 0:29:43.600 --> 0:29:47.080 begin with. But I think everybody really hits the nail 0:29:47.120 --> 0:29:48.920 on the head and we got some really really great 0:29:48.960 --> 0:29:51.520 actors and uh, I think people are gonna be uh, 0:29:51.720 --> 0:29:54.040 people are gonna gonna love the movie. It looks like 0:29:54.120 --> 0:29:57.680 an amazing movie. And you know, the one requirement might 0:29:57.720 --> 0:29:59.480 have had to be the hair. Now that the guy 0:29:59.520 --> 0:30:02.440 who played you, because I remember every time I watch you, 0:30:02.560 --> 0:30:05.040 you pulled your helmet off, your hair doesn't move. You 0:30:05.160 --> 0:30:07.800 got nice You've got a nice spike flat top. Do 0:30:07.880 --> 0:30:11.920 you use JEL or is that hairspray? Not on hair experience, 0:30:11.960 --> 0:30:14.280 that's jel. But the real key was not my head, 0:30:14.720 --> 0:30:18.640 It was my wife's here. That was thing is making 0:30:18.720 --> 0:30:21.440 sure that somebody can pull off the shot here on 0:30:21.600 --> 0:30:24.960 the female perspective. So that was I think more of 0:30:25.040 --> 0:30:28.440 the challenge than than the opposite. But again, exactly lead 0:30:28.440 --> 0:30:31.600 by it's crazy. You know, he looks very similar to me. 0:30:31.680 --> 0:30:34.120 I mean there's definitely times when my kids even see 0:30:34.400 --> 0:30:37.120 the scenes from different angles and they're like, oh my gosh, Dad, 0:30:37.200 --> 0:30:39.880 itoks just like you. And so, you know, so there's 0:30:39.880 --> 0:30:42.360 so many different aspects when they you know, cast for 0:30:42.440 --> 0:30:44.520 a movie is of course the one thing we think 0:30:44.520 --> 0:30:47.680 about is who looks like us, right, But then there's 0:30:47.680 --> 0:30:49.480 the whole other aspect is that you've got to take 0:30:49.480 --> 0:30:52.480 an actor and make him an athlete. Uh, you know, 0:30:52.520 --> 0:30:54.320 you gotta you gotta put them into that role and 0:30:54.480 --> 0:30:57.680 that that's that's to me is probably the bigger challenge 0:30:57.760 --> 0:31:00.520 than anything is. You know, when people go watch sport movies, 0:31:00.880 --> 0:31:04.160 you know, everybody is going to scrutinize everything. Like if 0:31:04.200 --> 0:31:06.680 I went into acting after you know, fifty years, I'm 0:31:06.720 --> 0:31:08.360 sure I wouldn't be very good at it after a 0:31:08.440 --> 0:31:12.280 few months. Uh. To put you know, an actor into 0:31:12.320 --> 0:31:14.560 a role of being, you know, hall of Fame quarterback 0:31:14.920 --> 0:31:16.880 for a few months and expecting him to look like 0:31:16.960 --> 0:31:20.120 a Hall of Fame quarterback, that's probably not going to happen. 0:31:20.160 --> 0:31:22.520 But you tell people when they watched the movie, that 0:31:22.640 --> 0:31:25.200 will be one of the crazy things that that they 0:31:25.240 --> 0:31:29.360 scrutinized because they, for whatever reason, expected to look just 0:31:29.600 --> 0:31:32.960 like an NFL player, And that's that's probably the bigger 0:31:33.080 --> 0:31:35.720 challenge than finding somebody that looked like me and could 0:31:35.720 --> 0:31:38.040 play the part. Did you help coach him up at all? 0:31:38.120 --> 0:31:41.480 Or did they have a football coach on set? Both? 0:31:41.800 --> 0:31:44.000 I actually he had to the house and we did 0:31:44.040 --> 0:31:45.480 a little bit of work. I would get a little 0:31:45.480 --> 0:31:47.640 bit of work, And ironically enough, they had a football 0:31:47.680 --> 0:31:51.000 coach that was actually a quarterback that played against me 0:31:51.080 --> 0:31:54.080 and the Arena Football League. Uh, the kind of coached 0:31:54.160 --> 0:31:55.480 him up and work with him on a lot of 0:31:55.520 --> 0:31:57.400 the stuff and work with him through through some of 0:31:57.440 --> 0:32:00.320 the different scenes. So yes, they they put about time 0:32:00.360 --> 0:32:02.720 into two working with Zack. I'm not sure you got 0:32:02.760 --> 0:32:06.720 it right the time when I see clips like, dude, 0:32:07.160 --> 0:32:09.680 I told you you need not. But that does a 0:32:09.720 --> 0:32:12.840 great job. You mentioned your wife, Brenda. She has such 0:32:13.000 --> 0:32:16.880 an incredible story herself. Anna pack Win plays Brenda. How 0:32:17.200 --> 0:32:20.040 do you make sure that that story is told right 0:32:20.200 --> 0:32:24.000 and that you do justice by Brenda's story. That that's 0:32:24.040 --> 0:32:27.080 the challenge of you know, this Harme movie. We've actually 0:32:27.080 --> 0:32:29.720 been in the process of making this movie for gosh, 0:32:30.160 --> 0:32:34.040 seven eight years, you know, shortly after I retired, and 0:32:34.160 --> 0:32:36.400 it was about getting the story right. We always said, 0:32:36.480 --> 0:32:38.600 you know, everybody always said, you know, your your stories 0:32:38.640 --> 0:32:41.920 made for the big screen, blah blah blah. But as 0:32:42.000 --> 0:32:44.120 we went through the process, you know, the bottom line 0:32:44.160 --> 0:32:45.720 for us was we just didn't want to throw a 0:32:45.800 --> 0:32:48.520 movie up on the big screen. We wanted to make 0:32:48.560 --> 0:32:51.120 sure it was the right movie. And for a long time, 0:32:51.600 --> 0:32:53.880 people couldn't just couldn't see the vision. I had a 0:32:53.960 --> 0:32:56.200 vision for what the movie would be for a long time, 0:32:56.240 --> 0:32:57.760 and a lot of people couldn't see it. We had 0:32:57.800 --> 0:33:00.520 a number of different scripts and we just saying not that, 0:33:00.560 --> 0:33:02.560 this isn't it, This isn't where we want to go, 0:33:03.200 --> 0:33:06.040 this isn't true to what the story is. And so 0:33:06.840 --> 0:33:09.360 a big part of that, Olivia, is as you're talking about, 0:33:09.440 --> 0:33:13.040 it's it's not just my underdog story. It's the underdog 0:33:13.120 --> 0:33:15.800 story of Brenda. It's the underdog story of our son, Zach, 0:33:15.840 --> 0:33:18.600 who was injured when he was four months old. And 0:33:18.680 --> 0:33:21.080 so that, to me, is the beauty of this film, 0:33:21.240 --> 0:33:23.840 is that the backdrop of this film is going to 0:33:23.960 --> 0:33:26.920 be a football or a sports movie. The heart of 0:33:27.000 --> 0:33:30.240 this film is the underdog story of all three of 0:33:30.400 --> 0:33:34.440 us and our individual stories, and then how together we 0:33:34.600 --> 0:33:37.760 accomplished what we accomplished. And so that's some means. What's 0:33:37.800 --> 0:33:39.560 gonna be so cool is you you might go on 0:33:39.640 --> 0:33:42.280 a football fan, or or you might go because you 0:33:42.400 --> 0:33:44.160 know your husband or your wife as a football fan 0:33:44.200 --> 0:33:46.320 and they want to take you. I think everybody's going 0:33:46.360 --> 0:33:48.200 to be impacted, whether you're a mom or a dad, 0:33:48.360 --> 0:33:51.240 or husband or wife, uh, you know, brother or sister, 0:33:51.640 --> 0:33:53.960 whether you're a dream or you're a football fan. It 0:33:54.120 --> 0:33:58.160 has all these different layers to it that are so cool. 0:33:58.360 --> 0:34:00.560 I mean again, we could go on on that. You know, 0:34:00.640 --> 0:34:02.200 the idea of making a movie in the middle of 0:34:02.200 --> 0:34:04.360 the pandemic. We were one of the first studios that 0:34:04.440 --> 0:34:06.760 that put together that in the middle of with all 0:34:06.840 --> 0:34:09.319 the testing and everything, and to get a movie made 0:34:09.360 --> 0:34:11.879 the way that we did. The guy, the the young 0:34:11.920 --> 0:34:14.719 man that actually plays my son's act his name is 0:34:14.760 --> 0:34:18.400 Hayden is actually got an incredible story too. He was adopted. 0:34:18.480 --> 0:34:20.759 He was left on the side of the streets and 0:34:20.880 --> 0:34:24.640 adopted by his mom and dad, and he is, from 0:34:24.680 --> 0:34:28.960 what we understand, the first young blind actor that's played 0:34:29.000 --> 0:34:32.319 a significant role in a movie. And so there are 0:34:32.440 --> 0:34:37.640 so many awesome underdog stories in this movie that, as 0:34:37.719 --> 0:34:40.560 you say, most people probably won't know that they'll go 0:34:40.680 --> 0:34:43.760 into it going Okay, let's see Kurt Kirk's football story, 0:34:43.880 --> 0:34:46.520 and and that of course plays out. But to have 0:34:46.640 --> 0:34:49.800 these underlying themes throughout is what I really think is 0:34:49.880 --> 0:34:53.160 going to impact people and connect with them. And in 0:34:53.239 --> 0:34:55.480 the middle of the pandemic, when there's a lot of 0:34:55.520 --> 0:34:58.640 people that need some encouragement and some help and find themselves, 0:34:59.040 --> 0:35:01.040 I'll say in their read you store moment where they're 0:35:01.040 --> 0:35:02.680 wondering how I got here and how do I get 0:35:02.719 --> 0:35:04.920 out of here? And what does the future happen? Store, 0:35:05.239 --> 0:35:07.800 I just think it's really really perfect timing and the 0:35:07.920 --> 0:35:10.399 story has done right that I just I can't wait 0:35:10.480 --> 0:35:12.680 for it to come out on Christmas and and for 0:35:12.960 --> 0:35:15.560 for families to go together, and I believe everybody will 0:35:15.560 --> 0:35:17.960 be impacted. You got me really excited to see this 0:35:18.120 --> 0:35:21.879 movie right now. I got a question. The trailer is unbelievable. 0:35:22.040 --> 0:35:25.000 It's online, people can watch. There's a scene when you're 0:35:25.000 --> 0:35:29.319 in the see behind the scenes it see you see 0:35:29.360 --> 0:35:31.440 the trailer that will be coming out. The trailer is 0:35:31.920 --> 0:35:34.399 really really good. So we've got we've got more story. 0:35:34.400 --> 0:35:37.359 We got more coming out. But but thank you for that. Yeah, 0:35:37.440 --> 0:35:41.160 it's amazing. There's a scene that they show where you 0:35:41.400 --> 0:35:45.480 throw a bag of bread like in the aisle. Did 0:35:45.560 --> 0:35:47.960 that ever happen? Did that? And also when you look 0:35:48.000 --> 0:35:50.360 at the wheaties box? Did you dream about when you 0:35:50.400 --> 0:35:52.279 looked at the wheaties box? Like one day I'm gonna 0:35:52.320 --> 0:35:55.640 be on this. Okay, So first, yeah, we threw things 0:35:55.719 --> 0:35:58.759 at the at the story, and you know it with 0:35:58.920 --> 0:36:00.759 different things. I don't know, would throw in a loaf 0:36:00.800 --> 0:36:03.799 of bled, but sometimes you know, like in those grocery stores, 0:36:03.840 --> 0:36:05.759 they would have the end aisles where they would have 0:36:06.239 --> 0:36:08.439 different balls, like nerve balls and stuff. So we would 0:36:08.440 --> 0:36:10.799 throw those all the time. But probably that the thing 0:36:10.880 --> 0:36:12.880 that we did the most was, you know, each of 0:36:13.000 --> 0:36:15.279 us at night, we got our own eisle and so 0:36:15.520 --> 0:36:18.480 we would have to stop our So what we would 0:36:18.520 --> 0:36:20.800 do is is we would unlet's just say I was 0:36:20.880 --> 0:36:22.840 in the candy aisle. So I remember doing this with 0:36:22.960 --> 0:36:25.279 M and M's a lot. Is I cracked open a 0:36:25.320 --> 0:36:27.799 bag of M and M's and I would look to see, 0:36:28.120 --> 0:36:32.080 you know, where the other stockers were in their aisles 0:36:32.600 --> 0:36:35.160 and I would I would just throw them across the 0:36:35.280 --> 0:36:37.200 store and try to hit them with the the M 0:36:37.239 --> 0:36:39.239 and m's all night long. And so we would do 0:36:39.400 --> 0:36:41.239 things like that. But we were you know, kind of 0:36:41.320 --> 0:36:44.359 throwing and tossing and uh, some of those different things. 0:36:44.400 --> 0:36:46.359 And of course, every once in a while we would 0:36:46.400 --> 0:36:48.640 pick up something because everybody knew, like, you know, my 0:36:48.760 --> 0:36:50.960 dream was to play football, and that I played at 0:36:50.960 --> 0:36:54.239 you and I we would have with a game of catch, 0:36:54.280 --> 0:36:56.920 a little game of football amongst the aisle. But it 0:36:57.080 --> 0:36:59.720 was yeah, it was always fun. So that did definitely 0:36:59.800 --> 0:37:04.040 have it. And then Wheaties Box, Yes, that happened too. 0:37:04.160 --> 0:37:07.520 I mean, I think growing up, when you're you know, 0:37:07.560 --> 0:37:10.200 when you dream of of being an athlete, a professional athlete, 0:37:10.520 --> 0:37:12.560 that's one of your dreams. I always say that you 0:37:12.680 --> 0:37:15.200 kind of had a few checklists of eve Okay, I 0:37:15.360 --> 0:37:18.080 know I've made it. Win. You know, when you find 0:37:18.120 --> 0:37:21.239 yourself on Sports Center, you're like, okay, I've made it, 0:37:21.640 --> 0:37:24.160 or when you find yourself on the cover of Sports Illustory, 0:37:24.239 --> 0:37:27.640 you go, okay, that's another box you check to be on, 0:37:27.719 --> 0:37:30.360 a cereal box. And of course the cereal box was Wheatie's. 0:37:30.719 --> 0:37:33.319 When you were growing up was another one of those 0:37:33.440 --> 0:37:36.440 that that I wanted to check. And so yes, I remember, 0:37:36.760 --> 0:37:38.759 you know, stocking the shelves, and I actually shared the 0:37:38.840 --> 0:37:42.520 story in my Hall of Fame speech about how you know, 0:37:42.960 --> 0:37:45.000 one day when I was stocking shelves, I pulled out 0:37:45.040 --> 0:37:47.719 the box that had Dan Marino on it, and you know, 0:37:48.040 --> 0:37:50.160 and remember looking at it going cash, you know, one 0:37:50.239 --> 0:37:52.480 day I want I want to be on the cover 0:37:52.560 --> 0:37:54.560 of this box. And I shared the story at the 0:37:54.600 --> 0:37:57.800 Hall of Fame that five years later. So at that 0:37:57.880 --> 0:38:00.040 point in time, Dan Marino was the only quarterback in 0:38:00.040 --> 0:38:02.920 the NFL history that had thrown forty touchdown passes in 0:38:02.960 --> 0:38:06.359 a season. So after sharing that story five years later, 0:38:06.920 --> 0:38:09.680 my first season, I threw forty touchdown passes. So I 0:38:09.800 --> 0:38:12.560 became just a second player in NFL history to a 0:38:12.640 --> 0:38:15.759 film forty touchdown passes in the season and reflect back 0:38:15.840 --> 0:38:18.520 to you know, so seeing that Wheatie's box with Dan 0:38:18.600 --> 0:38:21.040 Arena going one day, I want to be this guy. 0:38:21.160 --> 0:38:25.239 And five, five long short years later, I became the 0:38:25.280 --> 0:38:27.680 second player in NFL history to do that. So I 0:38:27.760 --> 0:38:29.759 shod that in my Hall of Fame speaks Dan Marino, 0:38:29.800 --> 0:38:31.879 I've never heard that, but it's kind of a fun 0:38:31.960 --> 0:38:34.600 way that you know that you look back and you go, man, 0:38:34.680 --> 0:38:37.520 it's crazy how we get motivated sometimes, and you know, 0:38:37.640 --> 0:38:40.680 moments that really kind of shape our perspective in our 0:38:40.760 --> 0:38:45.160 mindset moving forward. It's amazing. I'm a big Giants fan, Kurt, 0:38:45.520 --> 0:38:48.880 and uh, you know, you go over the Giants, you 0:38:48.960 --> 0:38:52.080 win four or five straight. I can't remember. Then there 0:38:52.160 --> 0:38:55.279 was a few mishaffs. What was it? First of all, 0:38:55.280 --> 0:38:57.200 I think you probably could have won a super Bowl 0:38:57.239 --> 0:38:59.600 at the Giants, But that's another thing. What was it 0:39:00.880 --> 0:39:04.040 with your story coming into the Giants and then being 0:39:04.120 --> 0:39:08.760 the mentor for a highly touted recruit like Eli Manning? 0:39:09.280 --> 0:39:12.080 What was that like? Well, I mean, let's go back 0:39:12.120 --> 0:39:15.320 to the rams first, because I think so much of 0:39:15.400 --> 0:39:19.680 our lives, who we become is shaped by our experiences. 0:39:20.480 --> 0:39:23.359 And so as much as I'd like to sit here 0:39:23.400 --> 0:39:26.600 and say, well, without a doubt, no matter what happened 0:39:26.600 --> 0:39:30.040 in life and whatever successes or failures I had, and 0:39:30.120 --> 0:39:32.319 I found myself in a backup role, I would handle 0:39:32.360 --> 0:39:34.439 it with class, and I would do all the right things, 0:39:34.719 --> 0:39:37.800 and I would mentor the young guy. But bottom Linders, 0:39:37.800 --> 0:39:39.359 I don't know what I would have done But when 0:39:39.400 --> 0:39:42.000 I was in St. Louis, that's exactly what happened to 0:39:42.040 --> 0:39:45.000 Trent bring Is. He was a guy that just got 0:39:45.120 --> 0:39:48.480 his contract, he had waited his turn, he suffered this injury, 0:39:48.920 --> 0:39:51.319 and now this young guy takes over, and this young 0:39:51.400 --> 0:39:54.720 guy starts to have success without a doubt. Just human nature. 0:39:54.760 --> 0:39:57.919 There's gonna be some animosity there, like, seriously, that's my gig. 0:39:58.040 --> 0:40:00.479 You're like, I'm supposed to be doing that, and he's 0:40:00.480 --> 0:40:04.880 doing that. But Trick did nothing but treat me with class, 0:40:05.440 --> 0:40:08.279 answer every one of my questions, helped me as much 0:40:08.320 --> 0:40:12.080 as he possibly could to be successful. You know, again, 0:40:12.239 --> 0:40:14.319 human nature, I'm sure was in there, but he never 0:40:14.480 --> 0:40:18.200 let that affect the way that he handled this situation 0:40:18.320 --> 0:40:20.920 in mentoring me. And so I say all of that 0:40:21.080 --> 0:40:24.640 to go. I got to experience that firsthand. And so 0:40:24.920 --> 0:40:27.879 when you experience that firsthand and you realize what someone 0:40:27.960 --> 0:40:30.919 else is meant to your career, there's really only one 0:40:31.000 --> 0:40:34.520 way to mentor someone else, and that's to do it 0:40:34.600 --> 0:40:36.880 with class and to help them. And you know, the 0:40:37.000 --> 0:40:39.000 thing that you have to realize and that I realized 0:40:39.040 --> 0:40:42.440 in the process is that too often in sports that 0:40:42.960 --> 0:40:45.440 when we lose our job to someone else, we blame 0:40:45.560 --> 0:40:49.359 the person that took our job. Like, shoot, every time 0:40:49.400 --> 0:40:50.920 I stepped on the field, I was trying to take 0:40:50.960 --> 0:40:53.520 somebody's job. I mean I was talking to be the 0:40:53.600 --> 0:40:56.560 best guy on the field and wind that job. And 0:40:56.680 --> 0:40:59.440 so when somebody else takes your job or beat you out, 0:40:59.520 --> 0:41:03.000 or even just is given that opportunity, it's not their fault. 0:41:03.360 --> 0:41:05.399 I mean, like, you know, you would take it too, 0:41:05.760 --> 0:41:09.800 So to hold that animosity against that player just doesn't 0:41:09.840 --> 0:41:12.919 make sense to me. And so, you know, through going 0:41:12.960 --> 0:41:15.960 through what I did with Trent and experience it myself, 0:41:16.320 --> 0:41:18.279 it was really just being able to take a step 0:41:18.320 --> 0:41:20.840 back and go, what would you want somebody else to 0:41:20.920 --> 0:41:23.000 do if you want the job? You know, if they 0:41:23.080 --> 0:41:25.960 gave you the job, you would wouldn't want them to 0:41:25.960 --> 0:41:28.560 hold that against you because we're all, you know, trying 0:41:28.600 --> 0:41:31.759 to compete for the same thing. And so that perspective 0:41:31.800 --> 0:41:34.360 helped me as well to go in my job. You know, 0:41:34.480 --> 0:41:36.600 when I signed on the dotted line to be a Giant, 0:41:37.160 --> 0:41:39.040 there was no fine print that said you just have 0:41:39.160 --> 0:41:41.200 to be a good teammate if you're starting, you know, 0:41:41.280 --> 0:41:42.839 you just have to do the right thing. If you're 0:41:42.840 --> 0:41:45.239 starting no, I signed them the dotted line to say, 0:41:45.239 --> 0:41:47.400 I'm gonna be a New York Giant until I'm not anymore, 0:41:47.920 --> 0:41:49.799 and my want is to be the best New York 0:41:49.840 --> 0:41:52.160 Giant to do the best that I can for this team. 0:41:52.560 --> 0:41:56.120 Whether I'm starting, whether I'm a backup, didn't really matter. 0:41:56.320 --> 0:41:58.759 And so that really became my approach because I had 0:41:58.800 --> 0:42:01.680 to do it with Mark Bolder in St. Louis, I 0:42:01.960 --> 0:42:04.240 do it with you guy in New York, and ultimately 0:42:04.239 --> 0:42:06.239 I would have to do it with Nat Lineage in 0:42:06.320 --> 0:42:09.759 Arizona as well. So, uh, I was very seasoned at 0:42:09.840 --> 0:42:13.240 doing it, but that was really my approach. But you know, again, 0:42:13.320 --> 0:42:15.600 I like to think that I would have done that anyways. 0:42:15.960 --> 0:42:18.160 But I had a great example in Trent Green that 0:42:18.239 --> 0:42:21.000 really showed me the way and showed me what you're 0:42:21.040 --> 0:42:23.279 supposed to do when you're in that role. And I 0:42:23.400 --> 0:42:25.000 carried that with me through the rest of my career. 0:42:25.840 --> 0:42:27.839 You know, Kirk, I mentioned earlier that you call Monday 0:42:27.920 --> 0:42:30.359 night football games with my dad, who has just such 0:42:30.719 --> 0:42:32.880 reverence for you as a person. He also loves you 0:42:32.960 --> 0:42:35.120 as a friend. But he told me a story last night. 0:42:35.160 --> 0:42:36.640 We're having dinner and I was telling him I was 0:42:36.680 --> 0:42:38.719 talking to you today and he said, as you guys 0:42:38.760 --> 0:42:41.360 get ready for your Monday night games and maybe you 0:42:41.440 --> 0:42:43.800 meet you know, Sunday night or you're having your zooms, 0:42:44.200 --> 0:42:48.440 he says that you are just a complete student of quarterbacks. 0:42:48.600 --> 0:42:51.200 And he said he doesn't think you miss any pass 0:42:51.840 --> 0:42:54.560 that has happened over the weekend. So as you approach 0:42:54.600 --> 0:42:57.960 your Monday game, you've seen just about every play from 0:42:58.000 --> 0:43:01.160 every quarterback. Is that true? And why do you focus 0:43:01.360 --> 0:43:06.239 so much? Probably not by Monday. So, but I've seen 0:43:06.280 --> 0:43:08.319 anything up to that point. So I watched every single 0:43:08.400 --> 0:43:11.799 game every week. That is my prep. And so again 0:43:12.160 --> 0:43:14.240 there's no way I can get them all from Sunday 0:43:14.280 --> 0:43:16.320 to Monday, but I've watched all the ones from the 0:43:16.360 --> 0:43:20.759 week before that lead into that next weekend. Well, I mean, 0:43:21.360 --> 0:43:23.200 the way I look at things is is that I 0:43:23.239 --> 0:43:26.200 always feel like, how am I going to be different 0:43:26.520 --> 0:43:28.440 at anything that I do? You know, whether I was 0:43:28.480 --> 0:43:31.560 playing the game, whether it's as a father or a husband, 0:43:31.960 --> 0:43:34.560 that's always gonna set you apart as being different? And 0:43:34.680 --> 0:43:36.600 how can you be different at what you do? And 0:43:37.120 --> 0:43:39.719 so when you're playing, there's certain things that that I 0:43:39.800 --> 0:43:42.160 couldn't do. There's certain skills that I didn't have. But 0:43:42.280 --> 0:43:44.320 I always told myself, well, if I'm gonna be great, 0:43:44.719 --> 0:43:47.480 there's got to be something about me that's different. And 0:43:47.960 --> 0:43:51.160 I took that same approach when I got into commentating 0:43:51.239 --> 0:43:53.480 the game as well. Is that I want to be 0:43:53.560 --> 0:43:55.560 like everybody else. I don't want to just say what 0:43:55.719 --> 0:43:57.600 everybody else can say. Like I can show up on 0:43:57.680 --> 0:44:00.440 my Sunday morning show room NFL Network and I can 0:44:00.480 --> 0:44:02.960 answer all the questions like everybody else does all the week, 0:44:03.000 --> 0:44:04.520 and I could say the same things and I can 0:44:04.600 --> 0:44:07.120 get through the show and I'd be fine. I don't 0:44:07.160 --> 0:44:09.360 want to be that guy. I want to be someone 0:44:09.520 --> 0:44:12.080 that knows what's going on, that studies the game, that 0:44:12.160 --> 0:44:15.400 can bring something different than everybody else doesn't see. You know, 0:44:15.440 --> 0:44:18.240 everybody else doesn't watch the games, and so it gives 0:44:18.320 --> 0:44:21.360 me a true sense of what I'm seeing, how somebody 0:44:21.520 --> 0:44:24.120 is playing, what a team likes to do, how they 0:44:24.200 --> 0:44:28.279 might approach playing against another team. And so that to 0:44:28.440 --> 0:44:31.040 me is how I separate myself. Is that I watch 0:44:31.239 --> 0:44:33.400 each and every game and I take notes. You know, 0:44:33.480 --> 0:44:36.000 there's even the newer and ful of NFL quarterbacks that 0:44:36.040 --> 0:44:38.719 I'll take notes and send them notes every single week 0:44:38.880 --> 0:44:41.360 on on the film that I watched, and so to me, 0:44:42.280 --> 0:44:45.799 any I love the game, I'm passionate about the xs 0:44:45.840 --> 0:44:48.600 and owns of the game. It's to be my favorite part. 0:44:48.760 --> 0:44:50.839 I mean, I love to compete, but xs and os 0:44:50.920 --> 0:44:52.920 and and thinking the game and what works and what 0:44:53.040 --> 0:44:55.800 doesn't work is something that I've always been passionate about. 0:44:55.880 --> 0:44:58.640 So that's one of the reasons. The other reason is 0:44:58.680 --> 0:45:02.799 I just like to know where everything is, and it's 0:45:02.880 --> 0:45:05.560 my prep for the week. It's my prep for Monday 0:45:05.640 --> 0:45:09.040 night to know, man, whoever the rigors are playing, that 0:45:09.120 --> 0:45:11.440 I've watched every snap that Derek Carr has taken all 0:45:11.520 --> 0:45:13.920 year long. I'm not just listening to what somebody else 0:45:13.960 --> 0:45:16.680 says or somebody that's close to the leaders. I've watched 0:45:16.719 --> 0:45:19.000 every snap, so I know, uh and I know how 0:45:19.080 --> 0:45:21.200 I know the game. I know what I'm seeing, I 0:45:21.280 --> 0:45:23.520 know what a quarterback should do and shouldn't do, and 0:45:23.640 --> 0:45:26.360 so it gives me a true assessment when somebody might 0:45:26.400 --> 0:45:29.520 say Derek Carr is playing awful, and I'm going no, not. 0:45:30.080 --> 0:45:33.080 They might not be winning, you know, the completion percenters 0:45:33.160 --> 0:45:35.759 might not be there, whatever, But I understand and I 0:45:35.800 --> 0:45:38.160 can think back to everything that's happened and said. Only 0:45:38.239 --> 0:45:40.880 it helps me when I'm calling a game because I 0:45:40.960 --> 0:45:43.719 can reference all these different plays and things that have 0:45:43.840 --> 0:45:46.800 happened and how teams are playing in general. Um, but 0:45:46.920 --> 0:45:49.000 being it helps me that to work through, you know, 0:45:49.040 --> 0:45:51.799 I mean, because most people are reading an article that's 0:45:51.800 --> 0:45:55.440 written by somebody or watching you know, the court unquote 0:45:55.480 --> 0:45:58.080 experts talk all week long, and all they're gonna do 0:45:58.360 --> 0:46:01.480 is regurgitate what they've heard all year all week. And 0:46:02.120 --> 0:46:04.680 there's nothing I need more than when I've watched till 0:46:05.200 --> 0:46:07.439 and somebody says something and I know it's not true, 0:46:08.120 --> 0:46:09.920 and then somebody else a little later in the week 0:46:10.000 --> 0:46:13.239 says the same thing, and then just like, how do 0:46:13.440 --> 0:46:16.160 three people decide that the case when I know it's 0:46:16.200 --> 0:46:19.279 not the case, and it's only because they've listened to 0:46:19.360 --> 0:46:22.040 somebody else so that becomes their opinion. I don't ever 0:46:22.120 --> 0:46:23.920 want to be that guy. I want to have my 0:46:24.000 --> 0:46:26.200 own opinions. I want to know why I have those opinions. 0:46:26.239 --> 0:46:28.080 I want to be educated on it so that I 0:46:28.160 --> 0:46:31.320 can be the best public commentator. I can be the 0:46:31.400 --> 0:46:34.719 best studio guy that's out there. And so it's really 0:46:34.760 --> 0:46:37.200 really important to me to to work at it and 0:46:37.280 --> 0:46:39.319 to make sure that I'm different at it. And that's why, 0:46:39.920 --> 0:46:41.640 you know, I've kind of developed that over the years. 0:46:41.680 --> 0:46:43.719 And I don't really need a whole lot else. If 0:46:43.760 --> 0:46:46.239 I can watch every game and watch it the way 0:46:46.320 --> 0:46:48.759 that I want to, I don't really need about prep 0:46:48.800 --> 0:46:50.520 for anything else. I know what's going on and I 0:46:50.560 --> 0:46:53.320 can answer any question you throw out me. Kurt, you 0:46:53.400 --> 0:46:56.440 mentioned your Monday night football schedule beginning with Baltimore at 0:46:56.520 --> 0:47:00.439 Las Vegas. Two very different quarterback stories there. Let's start 0:47:00.480 --> 0:47:02.959 with Derek Carr, who has more or less said he's 0:47:03.000 --> 0:47:05.800 going down with the ship. He is so loyal to 0:47:05.920 --> 0:47:08.439 the Raiders and last year he's coming off career high 0:47:08.520 --> 0:47:11.960 pass a rating, pass yard's total QBR. What do you 0:47:12.000 --> 0:47:15.239 see in Derek Carr? What's his ceiling this season? All right? 0:47:15.440 --> 0:47:17.120 If this is where all the films that he comes 0:47:17.160 --> 0:47:21.319 into play, yep, here it is, We'll say, is that? Uh, 0:47:21.560 --> 0:47:23.800 then I'm a big Derrek Car fan. I think Derek 0:47:23.840 --> 0:47:26.040 Carr he doesn't get the respect that he deserves. He 0:47:26.080 --> 0:47:29.440 does a lot of really really good things on the field, 0:47:29.960 --> 0:47:32.480 But at the same time, I'm not a believer that 0:47:32.719 --> 0:47:36.920 stats and q we are, and completion percentage tells the 0:47:37.000 --> 0:47:40.800 whole story. And so what Derek Carr to me is, 0:47:41.200 --> 0:47:43.440 I think it's all about being aggressive with the football. 0:47:43.880 --> 0:47:45.480 Is that I believe he's a guy that can make 0:47:45.520 --> 0:47:48.200 every throw and has the ability and has had games 0:47:48.640 --> 0:47:51.840 the Chiefs games uh last year, I think great examples 0:47:52.400 --> 0:47:55.560 when he throws cost into the women says I'm going 0:47:55.719 --> 0:47:57.879 to win this game for us, or I'm gonna lose 0:47:57.960 --> 0:48:00.840 this game for us. I'm gonna go down winging. I 0:48:00.920 --> 0:48:03.120 believe he can play as well as anybody in the league. 0:48:03.560 --> 0:48:05.680 I just think there's times where he gets really really 0:48:05.719 --> 0:48:09.600 conservative with the football and he's looking more for a 0:48:09.719 --> 0:48:13.520 completion than he's looking to make the game deciding play 0:48:14.040 --> 0:48:16.239 in a moment. And we have quarterbacks like that, Like, 0:48:16.680 --> 0:48:18.080 I don't want to be the one that loses it 0:48:18.160 --> 0:48:20.040 for so I'm going to manage the game and I'm 0:48:20.080 --> 0:48:23.680 gonna do my part. But the quarterback position you just 0:48:24.000 --> 0:48:27.080 can't win at the highest level. To me, just managing 0:48:27.120 --> 0:48:29.359 a game now, yes, if all the parts are right, 0:48:29.440 --> 0:48:32.320 great defense, good run game, Yes, we've seen it before. 0:48:32.400 --> 0:48:34.960 But bottom line is, for the most part, that doesn't happen. 0:48:35.440 --> 0:48:37.920 So I tell my young quarterbacks all the time. You 0:48:38.040 --> 0:48:40.040 gotta be willing to be the reason. If you're gonna 0:48:40.080 --> 0:48:41.960 play quarterback in the NFL, you gotta be willing to 0:48:42.000 --> 0:48:43.320 be the reason. You gotta be willing to be the 0:48:43.360 --> 0:48:45.880 reason that you win, and you gotta take those chances 0:48:45.880 --> 0:48:47.520 and you gotta believe that you can do it. You 0:48:47.600 --> 0:48:49.480 also got to be the reason and be willing to 0:48:49.520 --> 0:48:51.800 be the reason that you lose. Sometimes you're gonna go 0:48:51.840 --> 0:48:55.000 down swinging, Sometimes you're gonna throw five interceptions. Sometimes you're 0:48:55.000 --> 0:48:57.520 gonna make a bad decision. But I always believe that 0:48:57.600 --> 0:48:59.480 if you were aggressive and you attacked and you had 0:48:59.520 --> 0:49:03.440 the ability, that you're gonna make more game changing plays 0:49:03.480 --> 0:49:06.000 than you were gonna make game changing mistakes for the 0:49:06.080 --> 0:49:08.160 most part. And that's what I want to see from 0:49:08.200 --> 0:49:11.120 Derek Carr. All the ability in the world. Doesn't a 0:49:11.160 --> 0:49:12.960 lot of good things. I think he sees the field 0:49:13.000 --> 0:49:15.880 really really well, but too often, to me, he plays 0:49:15.920 --> 0:49:19.680 tentative football instead of playing aggressive. He plays aggressive. I 0:49:19.760 --> 0:49:22.000 think he has a chance to take this team to 0:49:22.120 --> 0:49:25.000 a place they haven't been in a while, but it's 0:49:25.040 --> 0:49:28.320 ultimately gonna come down to him. Um, And that to 0:49:28.480 --> 0:49:31.239 me is you know, and I know Derek, and so 0:49:31.360 --> 0:49:33.600 I'm always, you know, trying to encourage him that when 0:49:33.680 --> 0:49:35.120 when I see that on the film, and every once 0:49:35.160 --> 0:49:36.560 in a while just shoot him with text like hey, 0:49:37.040 --> 0:49:39.040 be more dessive, or when he does play like that, 0:49:39.160 --> 0:49:41.680 I'm like, that's what I'm talking about. You play like 0:49:41.800 --> 0:49:44.080 that every week and you'll give your team a shot 0:49:44.200 --> 0:49:46.080 every single week. But that, to me is the one 0:49:46.160 --> 0:49:48.719 thing that I'm looking forward with Derek this year. Very nice. 0:49:49.040 --> 0:49:50.520 I was going to ask you that because you did 0:49:50.600 --> 0:49:52.920 say you reach out to quarterback sometimes, so it's good 0:49:52.960 --> 0:49:55.560 to know Derek Carr is in your contact list. What 0:49:55.640 --> 0:49:59.080 about Lamar Jackson? How special is the talent that we 0:49:59.160 --> 0:50:02.040 see year after year from Lamari Jackson? I mean, it's 0:50:02.360 --> 0:50:05.480 you know, it's rare error. I mean, what what he does, 0:50:06.120 --> 0:50:09.239 we haven't seen very many. We won't ever see very 0:50:09.320 --> 0:50:11.600 many that are like him. You know, what he can 0:50:11.640 --> 0:50:14.120 do physically, you know, the Michael Vicks, maybe a Randall 0:50:14.160 --> 0:50:16.759 Cunningham type guy. But there's just there's just not many 0:50:16.960 --> 0:50:19.840 that that we see that transcend our game. Because we 0:50:19.960 --> 0:50:21.799 know we've we've got the best athletes in the world 0:50:21.840 --> 0:50:24.200 playing on those fields every single week, and then when 0:50:24.239 --> 0:50:26.480 we are the best athlete of the best athletes in 0:50:26.520 --> 0:50:29.800 the world. I mean, it's just it's ridiculous, you know. 0:50:29.880 --> 0:50:32.280 But but the bottom line, you know, again with Lamar 0:50:32.480 --> 0:50:35.000 is I say to myself, he's an incredible athlete, and 0:50:35.120 --> 0:50:37.279 he will have a great career, and he will put 0:50:37.360 --> 0:50:38.880 up a lot of great numbers, and he'll give us 0:50:38.880 --> 0:50:41.880 a lot of highlight plays. But the bottom line, you know, 0:50:41.960 --> 0:50:44.600 with a guy like Lamar is that he's got to 0:50:44.680 --> 0:50:48.880 become a complete quarterback. Is that. I believe what they 0:50:49.000 --> 0:50:51.920 do offensively is built for the regular season. It is 0:50:52.000 --> 0:50:54.440 built to win games in the regular season. It is 0:50:54.480 --> 0:50:57.600 built to beat all the teams they're supposed to be. 0:50:58.080 --> 0:51:00.239 The difference is when you get to the playoffs, you've 0:51:00.239 --> 0:51:01.840 got to beat teams that you're not supposed to be. 0:51:02.280 --> 0:51:04.120 You've gotta beat teams that are good on both sides 0:51:04.120 --> 0:51:05.640 of the wall. You gotta beat teams that are gonna 0:51:05.680 --> 0:51:08.680 force you because they're good enough to do to play 0:51:08.760 --> 0:51:12.040 away from your strengths. And that to me is where 0:51:12.239 --> 0:51:15.000 Lamar hasn't got up to speed yet to be able 0:51:15.040 --> 0:51:17.720 to win games away from the strength. He will always 0:51:17.760 --> 0:51:20.879 win games with his strength. What he does you give 0:51:20.920 --> 0:51:24.680 them opportunities. He will be special, but he's got to 0:51:24.719 --> 0:51:27.560 be complete. And for all of us it's different. You know, 0:51:27.600 --> 0:51:30.000 those certain things we do well and then there's things 0:51:30.080 --> 0:51:32.640 we don't do as well, and good teams are gonna 0:51:32.640 --> 0:51:34.480 take away what we do well and force us to 0:51:34.560 --> 0:51:37.320 win games the other way. And that's the question with 0:51:37.440 --> 0:51:40.880 Lamar's can he do that? Every time it's come playoff 0:51:40.960 --> 0:51:43.680 time and he's had to win games with his right arm, 0:51:44.239 --> 0:51:46.719 he hasn't been able to do that. That doesn't mean 0:51:46.800 --> 0:51:49.440 he can't throw the football, doesn't mean he can't pass it. 0:51:49.960 --> 0:51:53.400 It's just championship passing is different than just being a 0:51:53.480 --> 0:51:55.880 good passer. Being able to carry a team with your 0:51:56.000 --> 0:51:59.280 right out arm is different from just putting up good stats, 0:51:59.640 --> 0:52:02.400 and that's what he needs to show us. And you know, 0:52:02.480 --> 0:52:04.440 I think what we know is that maybe for Lamare, 0:52:04.880 --> 0:52:06.520 he's not gonna have to throw the football like me 0:52:06.719 --> 0:52:09.239 or Tom Brady, but he's gonna have to throw it 0:52:09.360 --> 0:52:12.360 more consistently better than he has to couple with that 0:52:12.600 --> 0:52:15.120 rare ability that he has to run the football, and 0:52:15.360 --> 0:52:19.040 that's what will make them a championship type team. We 0:52:19.160 --> 0:52:21.359 just haven't seen that yet. We haven't seen him carry 0:52:21.440 --> 0:52:24.160 this team with his right arm, and until he does that, 0:52:24.280 --> 0:52:26.560 especially when you look at the landscape of things, because 0:52:26.600 --> 0:52:28.200 that's the other thing that you have to look at 0:52:28.320 --> 0:52:31.800 is unfortunately for him, the Chiefs have Patrick Mahomes for 0:52:31.880 --> 0:52:35.840 a decade, and so there's no get around that unless 0:52:35.920 --> 0:52:38.120 for some reason Patrick's not out there on the field. 0:52:38.400 --> 0:52:40.719 So you're gonna have to take down Patrick Mahomes in 0:52:40.719 --> 0:52:43.960 the Chiefs if you're going to win a championship, and 0:52:44.040 --> 0:52:46.399 you've got to show me you can play consistently enough 0:52:46.880 --> 0:52:49.440 to do that. And so that's how you always have 0:52:49.560 --> 0:52:51.839 to look at the NFL now, is that every year 0:52:51.880 --> 0:52:53.480 you look at, Okay, who are the three or four 0:52:53.560 --> 0:52:56.520 teams that have a chance because they have a quarterback, 0:52:57.360 --> 0:52:59.799 and then which other teams need to take that next 0:53:00.000 --> 0:53:02.160 out to show that they can compete with that team. 0:53:02.680 --> 0:53:04.360 And I'm still waiting for that in the a f C. 0:53:04.520 --> 0:53:06.240 You know, I'm looking to say, Okay, into the Bills. 0:53:06.920 --> 0:53:10.000 They'll shows in Cogress. But again they went up against 0:53:10.000 --> 0:53:12.759 Patrick Mahomes and they didn't jail up very well, so 0:53:12.880 --> 0:53:15.200 they're still a gap there. So I want to see 0:53:15.239 --> 0:53:17.920 if these teams can close the gap and Lamar and 0:53:17.960 --> 0:53:20.920 the Baltimore Ravens is one of those teams. The success 0:53:20.960 --> 0:53:23.480 of a quarterback is not just what he can do, 0:53:23.719 --> 0:53:26.480 right though, it's it's it's what you have around you. 0:53:26.640 --> 0:53:28.359 Right you were you were lucky to have such great 0:53:28.440 --> 0:53:30.480 rod receivers when that year you want to you at 0:53:30.520 --> 0:53:34.360 Marshall Fox and the on line. Of course, how important 0:53:34.520 --> 0:53:36.920 is the tight end? Which did you ever really have 0:53:37.040 --> 0:53:38.640 a great tight end? What do they call it? The 0:53:38.719 --> 0:53:42.960 quarterback's safety blanket? Yeah, not never really had one of those. 0:53:43.040 --> 0:53:44.759 But I'm not going to complain because I played with 0:53:44.920 --> 0:53:47.520 like a dozen Hall of Fame receivers, so I'm being 0:53:47.880 --> 0:53:50.520 in that regard. But right I never played with one 0:53:50.560 --> 0:53:53.600 of those great tight ends. And you know, Marshall I 0:53:53.680 --> 0:53:55.880 would be I would. I would like him to because 0:53:55.920 --> 0:53:58.320 to me, running mats and tight ends with the biggest 0:53:58.400 --> 0:54:01.880 mismatching football you those guys play. Now, what they're capable 0:54:01.920 --> 0:54:05.000 of doing, the flexibility to go inside and play against 0:54:05.080 --> 0:54:08.480 linebackers and safeties as opposed to the the other great 0:54:08.520 --> 0:54:10.719 athletes that are out there at the cornerback position. The 0:54:10.800 --> 0:54:13.840 other thing is in this matching football and so that 0:54:14.040 --> 0:54:16.480 to me, those those guys are difference makers. It's like, 0:54:16.640 --> 0:54:18.880 like I said, I had Marshall Falk, so I got 0:54:19.000 --> 0:54:21.000 that advantage with Marshall was I would get him on 0:54:21.080 --> 0:54:23.879 linebackers and safeties, and it was you know, it wasn't fair. 0:54:24.239 --> 0:54:26.240 But now guys, you know, like the diner and Wallers 0:54:26.280 --> 0:54:29.120 and the Travis Kelsey's and the George Kittles, you just 0:54:29.640 --> 0:54:31.759 I don't know how you cover them, especially if you're 0:54:31.760 --> 0:54:33.640 playing on a team that that runs and play action. 0:54:34.000 --> 0:54:37.120 So now you're a linebacker that has to you know, 0:54:37.200 --> 0:54:40.680 seeing your keys and Red run and then all said, oh, shoot, 0:54:40.760 --> 0:54:43.160 there's a four or four guy that's playing tire in 0:54:43.239 --> 0:54:45.560 and that just ran buy me. Um, you know. I mean, 0:54:45.600 --> 0:54:49.920 it's just it's unfair. And so having those guys are 0:54:50.080 --> 0:54:52.960 ridiculous and what they're capable of doing. And so yeah, 0:54:53.000 --> 0:54:57.520 that is a huge, huge benefit for a quarterback. I mean, heny, no, no, 0:54:57.719 --> 0:55:00.200 you don't have to throw it as far with those guys, right, 0:55:00.239 --> 0:55:02.160 You're not having to get your big plays by throwing 0:55:02.200 --> 0:55:04.560 it way down the field. So it's it's shorter, it's 0:55:04.600 --> 0:55:07.520 easier completions for a quarterback. But it just gives you, 0:55:07.600 --> 0:55:11.200 it's such a distinct advantage with those great athletes because 0:55:11.239 --> 0:55:14.040 of play action or because of who they're matched up 0:55:14.080 --> 0:55:16.640 against it. And you know in this NFL, you look 0:55:16.680 --> 0:55:19.239 at those guys and safety have one of those. It 0:55:19.400 --> 0:55:21.680 gives you a chance to do some unique and different 0:55:21.800 --> 0:55:25.080 things that you don't get just having a great wide receiver, 0:55:25.160 --> 0:55:27.799 as great as that is. Five ends and running backs 0:55:27.880 --> 0:55:31.160 that are really really good in the past game are 0:55:31.320 --> 0:55:34.200 huge for quarterbacks. Kurt, I wish we had time to 0:55:34.280 --> 0:55:37.040 run down each week one meeting and you could go 0:55:37.160 --> 0:55:40.360 over both quarterbacks in those games, but we don't have 0:55:40.480 --> 0:55:42.680 the time. You know, last week the Patriots way of 0:55:42.760 --> 0:55:45.320 Cam Newton. So we know Mac Jones, the rookie quarterback 0:55:45.480 --> 0:55:48.840 is going to start against Miami Week one. Go ahead 0:55:48.840 --> 0:55:50.919 and give us something to look for with Mac Jones. 0:55:50.920 --> 0:55:53.680 Because I know you were surprised by that. I was 0:55:53.719 --> 0:55:56.400 a little bit surprised, and I was more surprised a 0:55:56.680 --> 0:55:59.160 because you know, I didn't think Bill Belichick would go 0:55:59.760 --> 0:56:02.440 with a rookie because he's had so much great success 0:56:02.480 --> 0:56:05.200 against rookie quarterbacks. But I just saw to myself, now 0:56:05.400 --> 0:56:07.680 he can't do it like he knows. You know that 0:56:07.800 --> 0:56:09.719 there's there's so many issues that you have to work 0:56:09.760 --> 0:56:11.960 through the young guy that they'll at least set him 0:56:11.960 --> 0:56:13.719 for a while. And then the second thing is I 0:56:13.800 --> 0:56:16.400 just thought, based on the way that they were built, 0:56:16.520 --> 0:56:19.439 Cam Newton running the football, I felt like this team, 0:56:19.480 --> 0:56:22.160 if they can establish the line of scrimmage, would be 0:56:22.239 --> 0:56:24.759 a really really good team again, even in one year 0:56:24.840 --> 0:56:28.640 after missing the playoffs. So that surprised me from a 0:56:28.680 --> 0:56:32.279 couple of different standpoints. But with that being said, you know, 0:56:32.960 --> 0:56:35.200 breakdown all the quarterbacks and have been breaking them down. 0:56:35.239 --> 0:56:37.879 I got a platform called QB Confidential on YouTube where 0:56:37.880 --> 0:56:40.560 I do about a film study based on what I 0:56:40.640 --> 0:56:42.920 do and breaking it down. So I just recently writte 0:56:42.960 --> 0:56:46.040 down all these the five top quarterbacks because of what 0:56:46.160 --> 0:56:49.120 I saw in preseason. So what I was doing is 0:56:49.160 --> 0:56:51.400 I welcomed down out of college. And the big thing 0:56:51.480 --> 0:56:54.760 that I'm always looking for is what translates from college surprose. 0:56:55.280 --> 0:56:57.800 You know, can these guys what they did well in college, 0:56:58.120 --> 0:57:00.160 can they also do that well in the NFL out. 0:57:00.520 --> 0:57:02.799 So when it comes to Mac Jones, what you saw 0:57:02.840 --> 0:57:05.279 in college was a guy that processed information really well, 0:57:05.880 --> 0:57:07.959 new where he was looking at that, you know, looking 0:57:08.000 --> 0:57:10.440 at the defense, and how to make those decisions and 0:57:10.480 --> 0:57:13.800 he got the ball out on time and accurately. Okay, 0:57:13.880 --> 0:57:17.360 fast forward the preseason with the Patriots. All those exact 0:57:17.480 --> 0:57:21.320 things have shown up in the NFL. Knows where he's looking, 0:57:21.640 --> 0:57:24.280 knows when you get the ball out, makes good decisions 0:57:24.360 --> 0:57:26.280 with the football. If he's got to check it down, 0:57:26.360 --> 0:57:29.560 he's willing to check it down, shows good accuracy. All 0:57:29.600 --> 0:57:32.480 the boats things is what I've seen from Mac Jones, 0:57:32.800 --> 0:57:35.760 and so I'm excited to see him starting for the 0:57:35.840 --> 0:57:38.360 Patriots and what they can be this year because I 0:57:38.400 --> 0:57:40.439 do believe they have a really, really good football team. 0:57:40.880 --> 0:57:43.160 But that's the thing that always excites me is that 0:57:43.240 --> 0:57:45.520 we get all life up about these college quarterbacks because 0:57:45.560 --> 0:57:48.240 of what they do in college. Kim that translate. I've 0:57:48.240 --> 0:57:50.880 seen a number of guys where it doesn't translate to 0:57:51.040 --> 0:57:53.919 the NFL. What I've seen in preseason with Mac Jones 0:57:53.960 --> 0:57:56.240 is it does translate. I think you're gonna see a 0:57:56.280 --> 0:57:58.280 guy that plays the game very much like Tom Brady. 0:57:58.680 --> 0:58:01.040 You know, somebody that the Patriot to are very comfortable with. 0:58:01.440 --> 0:58:04.160 Josh M. Daniels is very comfortable with. So that would 0:58:04.200 --> 0:58:06.560 be very much their style this year, I believe, and 0:58:06.640 --> 0:58:09.080 I think they were with whom with Mac Jones, will 0:58:09.160 --> 0:58:11.440 may be a great team. I'm not sure. We want 0:58:11.480 --> 0:58:14.800 to see if if that physical talent can transcend things. 0:58:14.960 --> 0:58:17.720 Because all these you guys can throw, That's that's not 0:58:17.920 --> 0:58:20.760 the question. The question is can you transcend the game 0:58:21.240 --> 0:58:25.120 with some ability? You know? What is that ability? Leadership? 0:58:25.600 --> 0:58:27.440 Is it? You know, the ability to be accurate? Is 0:58:27.440 --> 0:58:30.400 the ability to make plays off platform? That's gonna be 0:58:30.440 --> 0:58:32.680 the question with Matt Jones is what does he bring 0:58:32.880 --> 0:58:36.000 that's that's different or special to allow him to be 0:58:36.080 --> 0:58:38.720 a championship quarterback. And that's what I'm waiting to see. 0:58:38.800 --> 0:58:40.680 But I really really liked what I saw in the preseason. 0:58:41.160 --> 0:58:43.760 Everyone's excited to see the movie, and I know the 0:58:43.840 --> 0:58:48.880 movie is gonna inspire everybody. Is there any advice you 0:58:49.040 --> 0:58:51.720 can give that's not in the movie? Two people who 0:58:51.800 --> 0:58:54.640 are undrafted, two players who are undrafted, or people who 0:58:54.680 --> 0:58:57.840 are in the underdog position, Like, what would you tell them? 0:58:57.920 --> 0:59:00.200 What advice would you give them to an under aft 0:59:00.240 --> 0:59:02.640 to player? Yeah, I mean I think there's a couple 0:59:02.640 --> 0:59:04.960 of things. Is you know, the first thing is is 0:59:05.120 --> 0:59:08.680 don't let anybody else tell you what you are. I 0:59:08.800 --> 0:59:11.600 think that's you know, the the easy narrative when you 0:59:11.680 --> 0:59:13.760 work in a grocery store, or you get cut, or 0:59:13.840 --> 0:59:16.560 you play one year in college, it's easy for people 0:59:16.640 --> 0:59:19.680 to just look at that and say, oh, this guy 0:59:19.840 --> 0:59:23.360 can't because he didn't in college, or because he found 0:59:23.440 --> 0:59:26.720 himself here there. And so that's the first thing, because 0:59:27.120 --> 0:59:29.400 you're always going to have that narrative about you when 0:59:29.400 --> 0:59:31.560 you don't get drafted, when you're free agent, after you've 0:59:31.560 --> 0:59:34.240 been cut by one team, So don't rather let anybody 0:59:34.280 --> 0:59:37.080 else dictate who you are. And then the second thing 0:59:37.200 --> 0:59:39.440 is something that we talk about in our household all 0:59:39.480 --> 0:59:42.800 the time, is never let your circumstances define you. Because 0:59:43.280 --> 0:59:44.840 you know, a get him a Hall of Fame speech, 0:59:44.920 --> 0:59:46.720 I you know, I mentioned that, you know, sometimes you 0:59:46.760 --> 0:59:48.480 gotta do what you gotta do while you're waiting to 0:59:48.560 --> 0:59:51.240 do what you're going to do. And I think many 0:59:51.360 --> 0:59:55.040 of us have had their grocery store moment, right Many 0:59:55.080 --> 0:59:58.200 of us find ourselves in that place where we're just going, 0:59:58.400 --> 1:00:01.040 my gosh, how in the world I get here? And 1:00:01.120 --> 1:00:02.520 then I don't know how did I get here? But 1:00:02.760 --> 1:00:04.560 what's the path for me to get from a grocery 1:00:04.560 --> 1:00:06.919 store to the super Bowl? Like, how does that work? 1:00:07.520 --> 1:00:09.000 You know, you don't really know what it is, and 1:00:09.080 --> 1:00:12.800 so it's easy for us to allow those circumstances to 1:00:12.840 --> 1:00:15.480 start definding us and going, oh my gosh, I'm gonna 1:00:15.480 --> 1:00:17.840 grocers doing Oh my gosh, world was mean I I'm 1:00:17.880 --> 1:00:19.560 not gonna be able to do this. There's no path, 1:00:20.080 --> 1:00:21.560 And so that would be the second thing is just 1:00:21.640 --> 1:00:24.520 don't let your circumstances dictate you know who you are 1:00:24.640 --> 1:00:29.240 and define who you are, because most people find themselves 1:00:29.320 --> 1:00:33.320 there before they they get to wherever they're going, before 1:00:33.400 --> 1:00:35.160 they you know, they accomplish their dream. I think you 1:00:35.200 --> 1:00:37.720 can find a million people that you know, we would 1:00:37.760 --> 1:00:40.480 call great people or accomplished great things in life, that 1:00:40.640 --> 1:00:44.080 have those moments. That's what normal life usually is, is 1:00:44.160 --> 1:00:46.560 we find ourselves there and we've got to find that 1:00:46.720 --> 1:00:48.120 way through it. And the only way to do that 1:00:48.280 --> 1:00:51.400 is to not allow that circumstance to define who we 1:00:51.520 --> 1:00:54.520 are and what we're going to be. Well, if that 1:00:54.680 --> 1:00:56.680 doesn't have you pumped up your honest, I don't know 1:00:56.840 --> 1:01:00.320 what will I. That is such good content for our audience. Kurt, 1:01:00.400 --> 1:01:05.320 Thanks so much. Thank you, Kurt, you got us ready 1:01:05.520 --> 1:01:08.040 for week one. Everyone make sure you check out QB 1:01:08.160 --> 1:01:11.200 Confidential on YouTube. You can find Kurt Warner on NFL 1:01:11.280 --> 1:01:14.240 Network in Westwood one all season long. Kurt, this was 1:01:14.280 --> 1:01:16.360 a real treat. Thanks are you mad? Thanks for having 1:01:16.400 --> 1:01:40.280 me on good stuff. Now we bring in a betting expert, 1:01:40.360 --> 1:01:43.200 Peter Andrew with bet MGM, and we have so much 1:01:43.240 --> 1:01:45.720 to get to and I want to start with college football. Peter. 1:01:46.080 --> 1:01:48.120 You know, I'm a Georgia girl and I was just 1:01:48.400 --> 1:01:51.720 drooling in that big win over number three Clemson, holding 1:01:51.800 --> 1:01:54.440 them to just a field goal. How much did you 1:01:54.600 --> 1:01:58.280 g a stock rise after that win? Oh my gosh. 1:01:58.480 --> 1:02:01.440 I mean, their defense looked so impressive. I don't even 1:02:01.520 --> 1:02:04.040 think their offense clicked like it could. They were obviously 1:02:04.040 --> 1:02:07.160 playing a pretty decent clems and defense. Just off the cuff. 1:02:07.240 --> 1:02:09.280 They were plus eight hundred to win the national championship. 1:02:09.320 --> 1:02:12.480 They moved to plus spots, but that defense is no joke. 1:02:12.640 --> 1:02:14.400 If you can do that to a team like Clemson, 1:02:14.480 --> 1:02:17.080 which is a clearly a top five offensive team. They're 1:02:17.160 --> 1:02:20.680 probably working some kinks out, new quarterback, somewhat of a 1:02:20.960 --> 1:02:24.800 new roster shaping up, but really really impressive. I love 1:02:24.880 --> 1:02:27.600 Georgia even a plus four. I think they have a 1:02:27.600 --> 1:02:30.520 pretty decent shot of being there in national championship. Now, 1:02:30.600 --> 1:02:34.080 what's your plus minus on how that makes Olivia feel? 1:02:34.720 --> 1:02:37.960 Oh my gosh, I mean, this is maybe the best 1:02:38.000 --> 1:02:39.520 thing that could happen her all week. I'm sure she 1:02:39.600 --> 1:02:42.000 had some fun stuff going on, but seeing that Georgia 1:02:42.080 --> 1:02:45.040 defensive line, it depends how you want to look at, 1:02:45.080 --> 1:02:47.400 but I'm thinking minus ten thousand. That's the happiest that 1:02:47.680 --> 1:02:49.920 she's been in a while, seeing that team. That's what 1:02:50.040 --> 1:02:53.560 I had. That's what I had besides Sam getting signed 1:02:53.600 --> 1:02:56.280 to the Toronto Raptors. And it was awkward because we 1:02:56.360 --> 1:02:59.280 watched both games together and my team put down that 1:02:59.400 --> 1:03:02.360 defensive juggernaut of a beating What did we learn about 1:03:02.440 --> 1:03:04.600 Notre Dame? That was one of my favorite games to 1:03:04.640 --> 1:03:08.200 watch this weekend. Beating FSU on the road on Sunday 1:03:08.680 --> 1:03:10.720 that was insane. And I've had Notre Dame as a 1:03:10.720 --> 1:03:13.800 sneaky playoff contender. What did we learn about them? You know, 1:03:13.920 --> 1:03:16.280 it's it's funny. First off, they went from forty to 1:03:16.360 --> 1:03:18.600 one before the game and now they're fifty to one. 1:03:19.200 --> 1:03:22.360 So oddsmakers clearly didn't love their performance, especially as they 1:03:22.400 --> 1:03:24.280 got down the stretch. Look for a while, like they 1:03:24.320 --> 1:03:27.040 were going to cover that seven, and the obviously went 1:03:27.080 --> 1:03:29.040 in and over time, it was a shaky start. But 1:03:29.120 --> 1:03:30.920 I take a lot of stock into what FSCU did 1:03:31.120 --> 1:03:34.080 was the Bobby Bowden tribute night. The f SCU team 1:03:34.120 --> 1:03:36.920 was playing with a purpose. Sometimes it is just beyond 1:03:37.040 --> 1:03:39.600 football and it's playing for a former coach and a 1:03:39.720 --> 1:03:42.840 legend like Bowden was. So so fsc you had a 1:03:42.880 --> 1:03:45.280 feeling was it gonna come out firing. I'd be more 1:03:45.320 --> 1:03:47.960 interested to see how Notre Dame looks for their second 1:03:48.040 --> 1:03:51.200 game and see how they come out after a pretty 1:03:51.360 --> 1:03:54.880 questionable second half and probably not their best performance. I 1:03:54.920 --> 1:03:56.520 don't know if I'm gonna go and say they should 1:03:56.520 --> 1:04:00.040 all be executed, like one specific coach said, but but 1:04:00.120 --> 1:04:02.080 I'd be interested to see how they react as they 1:04:02.120 --> 1:04:04.800 get into Week two and we bring beyond Hey, it's 1:04:05.040 --> 1:04:08.640 NFL Week one. It's the most heavily bet NFL season 1:04:08.920 --> 1:04:12.480 ever kicks off Thursday. I read that it's projected for 1:04:12.640 --> 1:04:15.360 thirty six percent more adults to bet on the NFL 1:04:15.480 --> 1:04:18.640 this season compared to last season. That's amazing and that 1:04:18.760 --> 1:04:21.120 also keeps us implored. Johnny, but we're gonna have a 1:04:21.160 --> 1:04:24.760 little game going on amongst us throughout the season. It's 1:04:24.800 --> 1:04:27.400 gonna be a lot of fun. We're calling it punishment Picks, 1:04:27.800 --> 1:04:30.160 and every week Pete is going to pick three games 1:04:30.520 --> 1:04:33.160 and Janie and I are going head to head and 1:04:33.240 --> 1:04:35.040 at the end of the season we'll kind of pick 1:04:35.120 --> 1:04:37.080 a punishment for the other. We're going to try to 1:04:37.160 --> 1:04:39.600 not make it sound so scary there, but it's gonna 1:04:39.640 --> 1:04:41.720 be a lot of fun. So this week, Pete, I 1:04:41.800 --> 1:04:43.800 know you've picked three games for us. We do not 1:04:43.960 --> 1:04:46.800 know what they are. Go ahead and start off Week 1:04:46.880 --> 1:04:54.640 one of punishment picks. Punishment. Yeah, so I'm excited for 1:04:54.760 --> 1:04:56.560 this one. Hopefully I get to say and what the 1:04:56.760 --> 1:04:58.320 punishment is going to be at the end of the season. 1:04:59.200 --> 1:05:01.680 I want to make sure I'm vested in This first 1:05:01.760 --> 1:05:04.640 game I think is a big one Steelers Bills. I 1:05:04.760 --> 1:05:07.439 think you have a obviously a healthier Steelers team, firs, 1:05:07.480 --> 1:05:09.960 a Bills team that thinks it's a Super Bowl or 1:05:10.000 --> 1:05:12.800 bus kind of year. Bills are minus six point five 1:05:12.840 --> 1:05:17.360 in that game. Okay, honest, you go first. Okay, I 1:05:17.520 --> 1:05:22.160 am gonna take I'm old school. I'm going with Big Ben. 1:05:22.440 --> 1:05:25.160 I'm going with the iPhone two point Oh, I know 1:05:25.400 --> 1:05:28.400 Josh is the iPhone eleven or whatever, But I'm going 1:05:28.480 --> 1:05:32.360 with the iPhone two point oh and I'm taking steel Town, Baby, 1:05:32.440 --> 1:05:37.880 I'm taking them plus minus. What should I do? Eater? 1:05:38.360 --> 1:05:41.320 Plus six point five is the move? I'm going plus 1:05:41.400 --> 1:05:46.800 six point five, Olivia my nemesis while I'm laying the points. 1:05:46.960 --> 1:05:49.480 Bills have won the last two meetings with the Steelers. 1:05:49.960 --> 1:05:53.320 Linebacker T J. Watt is questionable. He's a three time 1:05:53.360 --> 1:05:55.480 pro bowler. I think if he's not playing Week one, 1:05:55.800 --> 1:05:58.120 they have no chance. And the Steelers also have four 1:05:58.200 --> 1:06:01.720 offensive rookie starters. I am taking the Bills, baby, all right, 1:06:01.760 --> 1:06:03.480 there's gonna be a clear winner on that first one 1:06:03.920 --> 1:06:06.960 second game. In honor of d M. Jim Arizona officially 1:06:07.000 --> 1:06:10.680 going live Cardinals Verst Titans. Titans are minus three, so 1:06:10.760 --> 1:06:12.960 they're three point favorite. There. What do you guys got 1:06:14.320 --> 1:06:17.680 is that me? First? I'm taking Yeah, age before beauty 1:06:17.800 --> 1:06:25.479 age before I am taken. Derrick Henry. He is gonna 1:06:25.680 --> 1:06:28.320 pound them. He's gonna ground and pound them. It's gonna 1:06:28.440 --> 1:06:32.440 look like a Dagistani UFC fight. I'm taking the Titans. 1:06:32.560 --> 1:06:34.680 And then you call it for me, you call it 1:06:34.720 --> 1:06:38.560 for me. Numbers guy minus three, minus three, winning by 1:06:38.600 --> 1:06:40.440 more than a field goal, winning by more than a 1:06:40.520 --> 1:06:43.320 field goal. I'm taking the Tennessee Titans and my boy 1:06:43.400 --> 1:06:46.840 Derrick Henry See. I agree. I think rock is home 1:06:46.920 --> 1:06:49.840 crowd in Nashville. I'm taking the Titans as well. Julio 1:06:50.000 --> 1:06:54.080 Jones should be an impressive edition. I like Tennessee. All 1:06:54.120 --> 1:06:57.800 three of us on the same page. There last one, Olivia, 1:06:57.880 --> 1:07:01.480 this will hit close to home. Packers minus four against 1:07:01.560 --> 1:07:04.480 the second best quarterback in the league, Jamis Winston in 1:07:04.520 --> 1:07:07.840 the New Orleans. Why are you so high on Jamis? 1:07:09.200 --> 1:07:10.880 I don't know. I just that one meme that comes 1:07:10.920 --> 1:07:13.040 by with him with that math book surface pro I 1:07:13.160 --> 1:07:14.920 just laugh at it all the time. So I want 1:07:14.960 --> 1:07:16.760 to give him the law he deserves. I like his 1:07:16.880 --> 1:07:21.320 crab leg memes personally. That was my favorite, Olivia. I'm 1:07:21.320 --> 1:07:24.720 gonna let you go first. This is your degree, this 1:07:24.880 --> 1:07:28.480 is your There's no way you can bet against your 1:07:28.840 --> 1:07:32.240 family here. Now, well, you're right, there's no way I 1:07:32.280 --> 1:07:35.200 can go against him. But this is betting smarts. This 1:07:35.360 --> 1:07:38.840 isn't betting with my heart. James in Jacksonville. There's no 1:07:39.000 --> 1:07:42.280 big home crowd for New Orleans. There's no Michael Thomas 1:07:42.400 --> 1:07:45.920 for week one. He was unsure on his status. So 1:07:46.000 --> 1:07:48.640 I like the Packers and I'm betting with my brain 1:07:48.760 --> 1:07:51.880 at Janice minus four. Let's do it. You're a cold, 1:07:52.160 --> 1:07:54.280 cold hearted woman. I can't believe you get that to 1:07:54.320 --> 1:08:01.240 your grandpapas wow, I for in honor of her grandfather. 1:08:01.880 --> 1:08:05.880 I am definitely I'm going for the Packers, okay, and 1:08:06.280 --> 1:08:08.440 I'm gonna go. You give me a number and I'm 1:08:08.440 --> 1:08:10.880 gonna double it, Peter, go ahead. So what we can 1:08:10.920 --> 1:08:13.560 do on bet MGM is not only can you just 1:08:13.640 --> 1:08:15.960 take the normal spread, you can take an alternate line 1:08:16.000 --> 1:08:17.840 and you obviously get a little bit more. Get thoughts. 1:08:18.320 --> 1:08:21.080 So maybe minus seven for the Packers for for your 1:08:21.080 --> 1:08:23.519 honest and they cover and you want a little extra money. 1:08:23.520 --> 1:08:26.479 How's that sound? Yeah, let's do that minus seven. And 1:08:26.640 --> 1:08:28.360 I just want to make a note that I'm betting 1:08:28.520 --> 1:08:35.200 with Olivia's heart here not you found it. Okay, Well 1:08:35.240 --> 1:08:38.200 that was a great first stab at punishment picks your honest. 1:08:38.240 --> 1:08:40.519 I'm really glad that we disagreed on one. So we 1:08:40.640 --> 1:08:42.920 have a clear cut winner for a week one. We 1:08:42.960 --> 1:08:45.200 will announce it next week. I'm looking forward to that. 1:08:45.600 --> 1:08:49.120 I will be watching these with a little extra close eye. 1:08:49.240 --> 1:08:51.639 Now knowing that I've got some skin in the game, 1:08:52.360 --> 1:08:55.000 and Peter, let's start looking at some of the other games. 1:08:55.200 --> 1:08:58.040 Is there a lock that maybe we haven't mentioned yet? 1:08:58.680 --> 1:09:00.800 There is a lock. I'm a bit of a homer 1:09:00.880 --> 1:09:05.200 saying this, But first quick note for all bed MGM customers. 1:09:05.400 --> 1:09:08.320 So this week we're giving every single person, new and 1:09:08.400 --> 1:09:11.120 existing a completely free to spit on the NFL. So 1:09:12.000 --> 1:09:15.080 ten dollars for Thursday Night football and then ten dollars 1:09:15.160 --> 1:09:17.959 for any game on Sunday. It's given that to everyone. 1:09:18.520 --> 1:09:21.320 And then the cherry. On top of everything, we're launching 1:09:21.360 --> 1:09:23.120 our brand new free to play game called King of 1:09:23.160 --> 1:09:26.920 the Weekend. Fifty dollars weekly is up for grabs. We're 1:09:26.920 --> 1:09:28.720 gonna give you a set of five games if you 1:09:28.880 --> 1:09:32.439 pick the highest scoring teams in order, fifty in your pocket. 1:09:32.560 --> 1:09:35.439 That easy, completely free to play. It's gonna be amazing. 1:09:35.520 --> 1:09:37.639 We're really excited. This is like Christmas for us here. 1:09:38.120 --> 1:09:41.439 But with that said, Lock of the Week forty nine 1:09:41.600 --> 1:09:43.360 is mighty seven and a half. I actually think that 1:09:43.479 --> 1:09:45.640 number changes closer to Sunday, so get it in now. 1:09:46.200 --> 1:09:51.080 They're playing a a an interesting Detroit Lions team Jared Goff, 1:09:51.280 --> 1:09:53.760 no more Matt Stafford. Obviously with that trade, I just 1:09:53.840 --> 1:09:56.040 don't think they're gonna be any good this year. I 1:09:56.160 --> 1:09:59.240 think Niners end up winning that game by maybe two touchdowns. 1:09:59.560 --> 1:10:01.360 I can se going up to nine or two points. 1:10:01.439 --> 1:10:05.080 As as money starts trickling in Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Um, 1:10:05.080 --> 1:10:06.600 so lock that in as soon as you hear this, 1:10:06.680 --> 1:10:08.680 because I think that's gonna be a blow. Now, well, 1:10:08.760 --> 1:10:10.840 that is a great lock for week one. Peter. Thank you. 1:10:11.120 --> 1:10:13.040 We look forward to talking to you next week and 1:10:13.160 --> 1:10:15.280 here in the next three slate of games for us 1:10:15.320 --> 1:10:17.360 to bed on and everyone, just make sure you keep 1:10:17.400 --> 1:10:19.280 tweeting at me and honest as you see some of 1:10:19.360 --> 1:10:22.040 these games playing out, because this is going to get 1:10:22.280 --> 1:10:25.920 very competitive. Peter, thanks for playing along. Thanks you guys. 1:10:31.479 --> 1:10:34.120 What an amazing interview with Kurt Warner. I'm so excited 1:10:34.200 --> 1:10:36.920 to see the movie. That's all the time we have folks, 1:10:37.040 --> 1:10:39.599 so obviously want to say thank you to Kurt Warner 1:10:39.800 --> 1:10:42.680 for coming on the show today. And remember Thursday, we 1:10:42.840 --> 1:10:48.080 will be in Vegas with former running back Steven Jackson. 1:10:48.280 --> 1:10:50.640 Can't wait for that, and we will be playing the 1:10:50.760 --> 1:10:54.240 interview back next week, so thank you and we'll see 1:10:54.240 --> 1:10:54.639 you super