Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast isn't sure if it will
Speaker 1: be attending O t s this year. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. My name
Speaker 1: is Dan Handers and I'm joined by room filled with heroes,
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Connor or Man, and Greg Rosenthal. What's up? Boys?
Speaker 1: Nobody knows what to say. I know I didn't want to.
Speaker 1: You can't step on that iconic, That's true, So what's up? Connor?
Speaker 1: Welcome to l A. You got in just today and
Speaker 1: you're gonna sit in the studio for two shows. Are
Speaker 1: very excited about that. And yeah, you are sitting in
Speaker 1: the chair of Chris Wessling, who, of course, Uh, if
Speaker 1: you heard Thursday show or perhaps if you're plugged in
Speaker 1: on social media, Uh, Chris made his big announcement about
Speaker 1: his health issue. Uh, and he is, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Tybee Island still uh enjoying himself with the paramore and
Speaker 1: maybe we'll try to track him down a little bit later.
Speaker 1: But we want to a real, a real heavy thank
Speaker 1: you to the entire audience. Everyone that reached out to
Speaker 1: West on social media, reached out to us on behalf
Speaker 1: of the people that were blocked that reached out uh
Speaker 1: to us saying even though we're blocked by West, we
Speaker 1: want to send him well wishes. And of course the subreddit, uh,
Speaker 1: which we just we love. Uh, the around the NFL
Speaker 1: subreddit where there was a go fund me started to
Speaker 1: cover West's bar tab and so much was put towards
Speaker 1: that go fund me. A it made Sydney jealous. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna be honest with you. Um, you would you
Speaker 1: would think that she would, that she would feel good
Speaker 1: for all the support West got in you know, a
Speaker 1: tough time. But now it's kind of like she was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: that's more money than my money. She is a she
Speaker 1: is a washing raging materialism at this point in her life,
Speaker 1: and there's no reversal like a character assassination. I don't
Speaker 1: know about it. A little on your corner though, at
Speaker 1: least acknowledge that, like West, a little bit on your
Speaker 1: corner with the sure maybe he can be new money now.
Speaker 1: But no, that you guys so so nice uh to
Speaker 1: West that they had to shut down the go fund
Speaker 1: me at a certain point, but obviously, um, a really
Speaker 1: nice gesture from everybody. Yeah, I don't want to speak
Speaker 1: for West, and maybe we'll get a hold of West
Speaker 1: later on in the show. A long time listeners will
Speaker 1: remember we've called hucka booze before. He's been there. Sometimes
Speaker 1: sometimes he is not. But it just as obviously we're
Speaker 1: a family here with the podcast, and it's Uh, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I was checking on it. I couldn't, you
Speaker 1: can't couldn't help check on it throughout the weekend. And
Speaker 1: it really is awesome to think about all the listeners
Speaker 1: and all the support he's getting. And I'm sure he
Speaker 1: really appreciates and we all do as a group because
Speaker 1: we are because we are a group, and and it's
Speaker 1: cool to see at a time like and just to
Speaker 1: be clear, I don't know about you. I received upwards
Speaker 1: of a thousand tweets from blocked people, from people that
Speaker 1: he has blocked, But he has a lot. He has
Speaker 1: a lot, many many, many, many tweets, and almost all
Speaker 1: of them positive. So and not to make the internet
Speaker 1: that's a big deal. That is the almost universally positive.
Speaker 1: You have to mention a little update before we move
Speaker 1: on to a big show. I mean West not only
Speaker 1: Uh drops that drops the news on the show. Later
Speaker 1: that night, we have our softball game and he hits
Speaker 1: for the cycle kind of a legendary, legendary big another
Speaker 1: another big win for the Shield and west Um had
Speaker 1: a big day out of the leadoff hole. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't know when we're gonna have west
Speaker 1: back here. We don't when he'll be back with the
Speaker 1: softball team, but obviously he's uh, you know, on our
Speaker 1: minds as we move forward. And now Connor uh cuts
Speaker 1: in almost a suspiciously the way, very modest by the skip.
Speaker 1: The Skip has been mashing this year like it's jose
Speaker 1: Canseco's that's that's Dan And it's the first game that
Speaker 1: I that I watched this season. It is essentially the
Speaker 1: the opponent that rolled in there. You just you tatt
Speaker 1: you tattered them up. They were they were left in bits.
Speaker 1: And Greg is not Greg should also Knowledgy and not
Speaker 1: that he should about himself, but he was showed incredible
Speaker 1: speed and he's kind of like a Julian Edelin character
Speaker 1: out there. He's he does a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1: We told Greg uh or I told Greg because he
Speaker 1: needed to get some cleats, because he was debating whether
Speaker 1: he was gonna wear sneakers to play third base, which
Speaker 1: felt like a terrible idea. He went to the local
Speaker 1: sporting goods story. What does he show up with gleaming
Speaker 1: white cleats A huge like Joe Namath esque statement, Connor,
Speaker 1: and then he backed it up with a very very
Speaker 1: strong game on both sides of the ball. He reminds
Speaker 1: me of sort of a like that b J Surhoff,
Speaker 1: sort of versatile guy. You know, So I think this.
Speaker 1: I think it all fits. You're a little b J
Speaker 1: like that. So yes, Connor now slides into West's chair
Speaker 1: for the time being. The next two shows were excited,
Speaker 1: uh to have you a board cutter and get and
Speaker 1: get that mine thinking, I though it's always cranking, we
Speaker 1: might have to do alive or you kidding me? On Wednesday?
Speaker 1: I love it. I mean the last one got such
Speaker 1: good feedback. Uh, our boy was just ripping on the guitar.
Speaker 1: That was I'll have to reach you have to reach
Speaker 1: out to Congo too and see if we can get this.
Speaker 1: I could feel that in New Jersey. You know, it
Speaker 1: would be a contingent on you being annoyed by something
Speaker 1: new since that last that's that won't be hard. Um,
Speaker 1: today's show is a breakdown of all things NFL related,
Speaker 1: and so would say, hey, it's you know, May fift.
Speaker 1: What possibly could there be to talk about? And the the
Speaker 1: answer is not a lot. So we'll see you. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening. Coming now today we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about Greg has been cranking away while everyone else is
Speaker 1: just kicking their feet up. Greg has been wailing away,
Speaker 1: really pounding on this projected series of projected starter series.
Speaker 1: Division has really hammering like a jack rabbit on this
Speaker 1: uh projected starter series. You went all the way through
Speaker 1: the a f C. You're moving your way through the
Speaker 1: NFC now, so you've studied these teams closely, Greg, So
Speaker 1: this felt like a good time. Some things that have
Speaker 1: jumped out to you that maybe you weren't aware of
Speaker 1: before this exercise begins. Some takeaways, see what you guys think,
Speaker 1: big fancy takeaways. Even oh I like that? And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: And we will also try to track down West if possible,
Speaker 1: and then we'll do some news and to do that,
Speaker 1: we'll go behind the glass. The first lady to run
Speaker 1: the NFL podcast probably not actually jealous, probably legitimately happy
Speaker 1: for West to get that support. Like the rest of us.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go out on a limb. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: actually got a little emotional reading through the reddit this weekend,
Speaker 1: because it's it's amazing, honestly, Like, who has better listeners
Speaker 1: than us? No one, that's true? True, who's got it
Speaker 1: better than us? Remember that that was a thing? Nobody? Wow,
Speaker 1: we're speaking of the subreddit. We are a hundred and
Speaker 1: nineteen subscribers away from five thousand. Wow, let's do it?
Speaker 1: Do we have any music to build this up the
Speaker 1: five at Once they hit the five thousand mark, that
Speaker 1: is when and we will at ram to pick someone
Speaker 1: on that subreddit and something amazing will happen to their life.
Speaker 1: We haven't figured it out yet or even talked about
Speaker 1: it privately. We'll start to go fund me for them
Speaker 1: and they will suddenly be individually wealthy, extremely wealthy. I
Speaker 1: let's do some news. There's no such things as curses.
Speaker 1: It's a total myth. Okay, it's Tom Brady continuing his
Speaker 1: on slaught of culture after being um name the Madden
Speaker 1: cover boy. And maybe Tom just take a break, go
Speaker 1: spend some time with your kids and stop shooting viral
Speaker 1: videos because you've got a big season coming up. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to tell you how to be a father
Speaker 1: or how to be a husband, but let's just break
Speaker 1: it down a little bit before training camp. That's all
Speaker 1: I mean. If any sounds like you are telling us that, yeah,
Speaker 1: he would consider you a close ally, so he would
Speaker 1: be listening. Uh, let's start with the Buffalo Bills, where
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor. After what seemed it seemed like it was
Speaker 1: curtains for Tyrod and Buffalo, he ended up coming back
Speaker 1: to the team. The rest of the regime changed. And
Speaker 1: that doesn't guarantee though, that Tyrod Taylor will be the
Speaker 1: Bill starting quarterback because new GM Brandon Bean. What does
Speaker 1: that rank? By the way, Connor and your general manager
Speaker 1: name power rankings, it just feels made up. It's like
Speaker 1: your generic executive and Madden like if you don't pick
Speaker 1: a name, it's just assigned to you and the bean
Speaker 1: counter man. Anyway, he told w g R Radio five
Speaker 1: fifty on Monday that there will be a open competition
Speaker 1: at every position, including quarterback. If we walk out through today,
Speaker 1: I would say Tyrod's probably started. But we haven't even
Speaker 1: gone through. O t A. S Um. You know, we
Speaker 1: got the young guy Peterman. I thought he did some
Speaker 1: nice things this weekend at the mini camp. Um. You
Speaker 1: know have card L Jones has a you know, a
Speaker 1: huge arm and challenge. I don't know anything about him personally.
Speaker 1: T J Yates, you know, has done some starting his career.
Speaker 1: So there are some guys on this roster. I guess
Speaker 1: Greg he's being honest there, Yeah, he is being honest.
Speaker 1: There are some guys on this roster. I don't know
Speaker 1: anything about card L Jones personally. Maybe it's time to
Speaker 1: find out he's your backup quarterback, Brandon bean I, I
Speaker 1: don't like this disrespect for Tyrod Taylor. I mean, give
Speaker 1: me a break. I understand open competition and all that,
Speaker 1: but there are different rules when it comes to quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: And he's been paid fifteen million dollars a year and
Speaker 1: there's no one else on the roster, so it just
Speaker 1: seems like a continuation of the genuine general disrespect for
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor. It seems unnecessary, and there really isn't a
Speaker 1: number two guy in there that you think is going
Speaker 1: to come in in the next couple of months and
Speaker 1: steal snaps away from Tyrod Taylor. What makes you wonder
Speaker 1: a little bit? Connor, what does it hurt just to
Speaker 1: say Tyrod's our guy? He's He's done it with this team.
Speaker 1: And we're happy to have him and he's our guy
Speaker 1: this season. Why can't why does everything have to be
Speaker 1: an open competition? Well, I feel it when you become
Speaker 1: a GM, you have to decide whether you're gonna be
Speaker 1: the he's our guy guy or we're gonna compete guy.
Speaker 1: And you can't. You can't pick one of those, like
Speaker 1: John's competition competition and that's because they didn't have a quarterback, right,
Speaker 1: But you just have to go down that road. You know,
Speaker 1: in his opening press conference it was turned the bottom
Speaker 1: of the roster competition. So from now on, you have
Speaker 1: to be the competition guy at every position. I guess
Speaker 1: I would like to follow up if I'm there, it's like,
Speaker 1: is Lashawn McCoy competing then with Jonathan Williams, So that's
Speaker 1: open between those two and let's see what see. Well,
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's what the corner of this guy's
Speaker 1: backed himself into. So, yes, you gotta imagine the Tyrod
Speaker 1: Taylor if he's seen these comments, he had to heard
Speaker 1: the comments, just a massive like teena f a thirty
Speaker 1: rock eye roll for the ages because like, am I
Speaker 1: going to go through this again? Like this is my life? Now?
Speaker 1: This is what every regime comes in and doubts me,
Speaker 1: and I'm in Western New York, how did this happens?
Speaker 1: A bit much? He's also made like a Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: and he's been like a moderately productive starter. If if
Speaker 1: nothing else, it does it's a reminder that this is
Speaker 1: very much a one year deal and they are going
Speaker 1: into this not feeling like they're committed to him after
Speaker 1: this year. Moving on, Eddie Lacy is the running a
Speaker 1: running back for the Seattle Seahawks. He signed that incentive
Speaker 1: late in contract with the Seahawks after a few free
Speaker 1: agent visits back in March, and today was a deadline
Speaker 1: or what today was his first way in for what
Speaker 1: is called a weight clause incentive. He had to hit
Speaker 1: the scales at two fifty five pounds or less to
Speaker 1: make fifty five k, which is, you know, nothing to
Speaker 1: sneeze at. And uh, Eddie got her done to fifty
Speaker 1: three he came in, so he makes fifty five dollars.
Speaker 1: And in case you forgot, uh Bob again of the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Journal Center, I believe we recently retired Bob. He
Speaker 1: did distinguished career. Uh. He reported back in March at
Speaker 1: Lacey Wade in a two sixty seven for one of
Speaker 1: his free agent team visit. It's so if he was
Speaker 1: around that, he's lost about a dozen pounds to make
Speaker 1: this weight. And by the way, the Packers listed Lacy
Speaker 1: at two thirty four pounds last season, which come on,
Speaker 1: come on, it's a bit much. Isn't anything working with
Speaker 1: um your girl Autumn CALABRISI both Mark and Connor big fans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean if you think west cousins, this guy right here,
Speaker 1: we both do the beach body and it does work, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: isn't that What isn't that what any Lacey is doing
Speaker 1: or something similar? It is? It is that exactly, And
Speaker 1: his agent sent it out very proud of you know,
Speaker 1: his client, that that they got the weight, and I
Speaker 1: was kind of thinking about on the line, that's pretty cut.
Speaker 1: It pretty close. Also the couple of pounds there is
Speaker 1: weight the best like indicator here, Like wouldn't you want
Speaker 1: to do like body fat? Like you can starve yourself
Speaker 1: and hit a weight goal, but then you're not going
Speaker 1: to be a very effective running back. Something tells me,
Speaker 1: ye Lacey had a terrible weekend. Just yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I issued him is like I think in the off season.
Speaker 1: You can do one of these programs and absolutely lose
Speaker 1: that weight. It seems the minute he gets dumped into
Speaker 1: the team complex, the week to week procedures, the way
Speaker 1: that that thing operates, that's where he fell off the
Speaker 1: rails last year. Well this got me thinking, actually, this
Speaker 1: is a true story, this is not a bit. I
Speaker 1: went to uh, the Santa Monica Public Library and farmers
Speaker 1: Market thing they got going on on Saturday and Autumn Calabrisa.
Speaker 1: Your girl had a public event there that day where
Speaker 1: she was going to do a public workout with you.
Speaker 1: Did not text me I I. I took a picture
Speaker 1: of it, but it was canceled. So maybe she was
Speaker 1: called over to Lacey to do some last minute I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just said cancer is not There was
Speaker 1: a sign up with her with her very fetching picture,
Speaker 1: but then right across it it said canceled. I took.
Speaker 1: I took a picture of it. Well, Connor's in town
Speaker 1: for a couple of days. But it's like the Beach
Speaker 1: Body headquarters about five minutes from this building. So let's
Speaker 1: let's get over the Body. We'll storm it. Greg. You
Speaker 1: need to be letting us know when that kind of
Speaker 1: thing has happened. Next way, that's a bad job, Greg.
Speaker 1: That's like the big list Autumn col brass fan here
Speaker 1: and you're not even dropping well. Part of it was
Speaker 1: like one of my friends I think is maybe kind
Speaker 1: of vaguely into this. It's like a picture. I just
Speaker 1: forgot to send it over. I appreciate that I got
Speaker 1: a little kids running all around. That's a little bit.
Speaker 1: Put it this way. Let's say you saw all right,
Speaker 1: let's say I saw Ellis Burks at the grove you're
Speaker 1: in l A and the Ellis Brooks, the former Red
Speaker 1: Sox off fielder that you idolize. I named my daughter after, yes,
Speaker 1: And we were online together Barnes and Noble, and he
Speaker 1: was a really nice guy, said hey, you're Alice Brooks,
Speaker 1: right uh. And then we had like a nice civil
Speaker 1: conversation and I didn't like take a selfie or a
Speaker 1: shoot you attacks. And it came up like a week
Speaker 1: later in the middle of a podcast. When when did
Speaker 1: you be like kind of like dude, like why didn't
Speaker 1: you like she wasn't there. It was canceled. That's that's
Speaker 1: the It's a different level of what could have been
Speaker 1: happening there, right, And he wasn't there. And meanwhile I
Speaker 1: got my son running through the strawberry stands and like
Speaker 1: the tangerines one way, and my daughter's going off to
Speaker 1: the library. You know, a lot of action. I had
Speaker 1: the worst Mother's Day yesterday. I don't know about this
Speaker 1: Mother's Day holiday. I gotta be I love my mom,
Speaker 1: but if my kids are always gonna be right there,
Speaker 1: I don't know about this mother ok Okay, okay, Uh,
Speaker 1: if my children are gonna behave that way on Mother's Day,
Speaker 1: let's just let's just wipe the whole thing. Because no
Speaker 1: one was happy, and including the lovely Emily. We try
Speaker 1: to go out to a nice breakfast and uh, my
Speaker 1: six year old is the is satan? Yeah? Six months old?
Speaker 1: What did I say? It feels like six years and uh,
Speaker 1: sweet Jack two and a half years old. He's starting
Speaker 1: to think take bad habits from his little brother, which
Speaker 1: is not how it's supposed to work. They're young. Once
Speaker 1: they're old enough to understand what the day is, you'll
Speaker 1: you'll like it better. Come back to us. We hear that, Dan,
Speaker 1: I mean I in our house, Mother's Day simply means
Speaker 1: and and I would in Father's Day in reverse I'm
Speaker 1: the father of these children all year long. She's the
Speaker 1: mother of these children all year long. You don't need
Speaker 1: more of them on that day because they're generally, you know,
Speaker 1: they're needy, excessively needy. You just locked the you you
Speaker 1: take you say to the wife, go in the room,
Speaker 1: sleep late. I'm going to take the kids out of
Speaker 1: your hair. Not let's go try to engage and have
Speaker 1: a civil child. I drive my wife off at the mall.
Speaker 1: Mother's Day, press the be an adult, be a woman.
Speaker 1: You know what, we're relatively new or newer than than
Speaker 1: you are. Both of you guys, you have older kids
Speaker 1: than I do. So we thought that stupidly thought that
Speaker 1: Mother's Day would be a nice time to spend time
Speaker 1: together as a unit, whereas in the reality was it
Speaker 1: is the recipe for an outright disaster of a morning.
Speaker 1: It's apocalyptic and then it just starts rolling. You ready
Speaker 1: for kids yet I'm never having kids ever. I do
Speaker 1: love my children, though, I want to make sure that's
Speaker 1: that's well. That is very evident to the listeners of
Speaker 1: the show today, they tested my patience. Harrison's first come
Speaker 1: back to us of his life, hopefully the last you
Speaker 1: imagine him listening to this, like when it's gonna be
Speaker 1: like a you know, I would definitely play this for him,
Speaker 1: just let him know what he was like. Anyway, Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs first round pick Patrick Mahomes tough situation. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was robbed along with three others on Friday night
Speaker 1: in Tyler, Texas. UH. The Smith County Sheriff's office confirmed
Speaker 1: NFL media UH. Mahomes and three friends termed home after
Speaker 1: attending a baseball games. They pulled up in the driveway
Speaker 1: another car blocked him in geez a robber. When Patrick
Speaker 1: wrote robber, we still using robber in the lux icon
Speaker 1: of society. Crook Burglar's stastardly duo, I'm gonna read it
Speaker 1: like old time, you know all rob I got out
Speaker 1: of his vehicle saying I proshed my homes on the
Speaker 1: other those this is very serious called the kappas Hey scram. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the the robber got out of the vehicle and acted
Speaker 1: as if he had a gun in his waistband and
Speaker 1: and the robber then demanded the victims goods. They complied
Speaker 1: and the good news. The good news is that Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes and his boys are okay, but that that sounds unpleasant.
Speaker 1: Who's robbing like a six four? Like all all these
Speaker 1: athletes that are getting held up, Who's deciding that that's
Speaker 1: the guy I'm gonna follow, Especially that we don't have
Speaker 1: proof that the gun was in the band. Let's say
Speaker 1: the gun wasn't in the band. You are really rolling
Speaker 1: the dice there. If you're trying to bluff your way
Speaker 1: towards like an uber athlete looking dude just saying they're
Speaker 1: shorter DOUGHI er people like me. You could just you know,
Speaker 1: and I'll just give you the wallet, you know. Uh.
Speaker 1: In San Diego Chargers News, this is becoming a regular
Speaker 1: part of this podcast because Greg was moving away from
Speaker 1: the Patriots now and towards his hometown, Los Angeles Chargers.
Speaker 1: It's not that's where I live in my hometown. The
Speaker 1: Charges released veteran guard Orlando Franklin on Monday of the
Speaker 1: team announced. UM and ESPN at first reported that this
Speaker 1: is the same Orlando Franklin that signed it five year,
Speaker 1: thirty six point five million dollar contract just two years ago. Uh.
Speaker 1: It costs l A two point eight million against the cap, uh,
Speaker 1: leaving almost five billion and dead money. Greg, this one
Speaker 1: didn't work from the start, it didn't. There was a
Speaker 1: huge bus. Tom Talasco, their general manager, is now on
Speaker 1: the third iteration really of trying to rebuild this offensive line.
Speaker 1: He brought in another X Bronco, Russell Okung, will be
Speaker 1: their left tackle. They drafted two guards. But I thought
Speaker 1: it was worth mentioning because he was such a free
Speaker 1: agent bust and because this is the one thing that's
Speaker 1: gonna ruin all of our Chargers love that I have,
Speaker 1: is this is him getting this offensive line right. He's
Speaker 1: shown that he hasn't been able to do it in
Speaker 1: the past, and they've got They're gonna have two rookies.
Speaker 1: O Kung's coming over as a free agent. Like maybe
Speaker 1: it works, maybe it doesn't, but that's kind of what
Speaker 1: that stands in the way of this Chargers team being
Speaker 1: as good as we think they could be. Russell good
Speaker 1: by the way, I don't know, it seems okay, I
Speaker 1: know he's he was a first round pick and then
Speaker 1: keep denverd and keep him around and now he's on
Speaker 1: his third team in five years or whatever, Thank you pay?
Speaker 1: Did you kind of come up with the answer to that?
Speaker 1: To some degree, he's a patch. There's not enough, not
Speaker 1: enough of these. I mean they got rid of King Dunlap,
Speaker 1: they got rid of Franklin, who was like having Twitter
Speaker 1: wars with his own teammates. Tough. Yeah, yeah, it's been
Speaker 1: a tough offseason to patch your offensive line. Uh. In
Speaker 1: other news, um mark you pay attention to this, especially
Speaker 1: Antonio Crimardi. Ah, he got his wife pregnant again again.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have his fourteen kid and third after third
Speaker 1: post sector after the v I thought that was somewhat
Speaker 1: of a permanent procedure. That doesn't work all the time.
Speaker 1: If you're doing a winners and losers of this new
Speaker 1: obviously winner, you know, the four teenth kid, biggest winner there, loser,
Speaker 1: the guy who gave the vasect of me bad for
Speaker 1: his business. He's not as a guy who doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Not exactly a lock it up operation. I mean it's well,
Speaker 1: you were complaining about having two children on Father's Day.
Speaker 1: Try going out to a restaurant with fourteen children. You'd
Speaker 1: have to rent the background. There's no other I mean four,
Speaker 1: I mean four teen. Now we're talking like Dead Blues
Speaker 1: legends about children. It's yeah, I mean Philip Rivers at eight,
Speaker 1: it feels like he's you know, underwhelming here, So should
Speaker 1: we start to go fund me for Antonio Carmard Because
Speaker 1: I'm telling you he hasn't been out of he's out
Speaker 1: of football now and between you know, the kids and
Speaker 1: the mamas and everything, this is this is not a
Speaker 1: good situation for we considering him out of football now
Speaker 1: he's done. I guess he doesn't have a team right now.
Speaker 1: Did he play last year? He played? Guys made a
Speaker 1: lot of money. Crazy, that's right. He was gone halfway
Speaker 1: through last season. You're right, it's he's gone. At worry
Speaker 1: about him? Like, oh, how how conscientious he is because
Speaker 1: he drives a Prius And it's like, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's a choice right now, Like that's kind of I mean,
Speaker 1: you covered him. Really have to downgrade the vehicle selection
Speaker 1: at this point. Yeah, the money's going elsewhere you Yeah,
Speaker 1: you did cover Antonio Grimardi crow show. Yeah, what's your
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on him? One on one? Nice guy?
Speaker 1: Like super nice guyot. I mean obviously obviously this female
Speaker 1: thinks he's nice. She continues to to entertain the I
Speaker 1: have more children, a larger family. How nice? I think
Speaker 1: he got a bad rap because of the can't remember
Speaker 1: them all thing from hard knocks and then never really recovered. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he did, by the way, remember them all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's right. People kind of misremember that as if he
Speaker 1: couldn't remember the kids. It just took him a second
Speaker 1: because at that point I think he was naming ten
Speaker 1: children he had like already said and which ones he hadn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a bad job by Oh, I
Speaker 1: had a I had a vasectomy conversation with some building
Speaker 1: a friend of mine, just you know, you gotta look
Speaker 1: at your options, what you hit this phase of life.
Speaker 1: And he told me some sobering details about the process
Speaker 1: as well. So between that, I'll tell you about off
Speaker 1: Off Mike. It's a bit of a more intimate procedure
Speaker 1: than I was under the impression I would never in
Speaker 1: a thousand years undergo that procedure. Put it this way.
Speaker 1: You can go you can get put under, or you
Speaker 1: can get a local anesthesia. And if you go here's
Speaker 1: the thing, If you go local, it's local. It's very intimate.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you off Off Mike, you're there
Speaker 1: isn't a huge desire to know, but you can tell me.
Speaker 1: But between this, between that and the crow news, you know,
Speaker 1: it's making me rethink some things. Finally, let's time to
Speaker 1: do some trop alearts. Triplet triplet, triplet, triplet connor. I
Speaker 1: feel like you have to write so many of these
Speaker 1: uh pieces on around the NFL. Here's one. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you wrote this one. Let's see no. Our
Speaker 1: friend Max Meyer on the desk wrote this, when Doug
Speaker 1: Morone on Blake Bortles, he's improved, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: And uh, there is a belief in the building that
Speaker 1: Blake Bordles throwing motion, much derided throwing motion, is better.
Speaker 1: We're buying it. Do you think anyone would would really
Speaker 1: freak out if we wouldn't allow reporters to talk to
Speaker 1: coaches and players for like four months out of the summer.
Speaker 1: Just take some time off because this is forced. It's ridiculous,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't want to send Doug bron doesn't want
Speaker 1: to say this either, you know, he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: look stupid. And three months when he's still corking from
Speaker 1: like his back knee to throw passes, the only other
Speaker 1: possible answer is he's not improved. I don't really know
Speaker 1: where he's at of not studying his mechanics right now,
Speaker 1: and there's no reason to believe he'll still be on
Speaker 1: the team three years from now. I mean you can't.
Speaker 1: You have to almost slide into the trope comment or
Speaker 1: create because the alternative is what happened last year where
Speaker 1: they said like he didn't really work on it, like
Speaker 1: and then no, we can't, we can't let them alone.
Speaker 1: This is the company we work for, Connor twenty four
Speaker 1: hours every year and this is what's keeping our podcast
Speaker 1: going three times a week in England. Right. They don't
Speaker 1: even interview the soccer players. They just they write their impressions.
Speaker 1: I write my impressions. I'll tell you what I think
Speaker 1: that sounds. I don't need to talk to him. There
Speaker 1: you go, sound the horn again, please, said Triple Triplet
Speaker 1: Jared goff Is quote exceeding expectations in uh Shaun mcveigh's offense,
Speaker 1: same situation, right, same exact and we knew and we
Speaker 1: and we mentioned this exact comment the year and and
Speaker 1: at the end of the season as soon as they
Speaker 1: hired Shaan mcvade that there's going to be all this
Speaker 1: unnecessary buzz around this team and a quarterback that frankly,
Speaker 1: until you show it to us in preseason and regular
Speaker 1: season games. Don't care. I mean, maybe it as an
Speaker 1: Alex Smith thing. Alex Smith was the worst quarterback anyone
Speaker 1: can remember as a number one overall pick, and then
Speaker 1: was like, okay his second year, maybe it does that.
Speaker 1: And finally, Trot Trot. Jets quarterback Christian Hackenburg says, quote,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, I think there's a different level of confidence. Connor,
Speaker 1: you're buying this one. He's referring to himself. I believe
Speaker 1: he has a different level of confidence. He was so
Speaker 1: good that the team didn't want to reveal his his
Speaker 1: tools towards the end of that miserable season last year. Uh,
Speaker 1: and listen, every time a coach tries to rebuild your
Speaker 1: throwing motion from scratch, it goes extraordinarily well, so this
Speaker 1: is gonna be fine. Yeah, a different level of confidence.
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Speaker 1: Do you want to try calling west Let's do it.
Speaker 1: So let's give west Chris Westling if you are not
Speaker 1: aware before, he's been around, been around the block of
Speaker 1: time or two in his years on this earth. Born
Speaker 1: on the west side of Cincinnati, matriculated at some point
Speaker 1: to an island off the coast of Georgia, Tybee Island,
Speaker 1: where he lived for multiple years writing fantasy That's. Eventually
Speaker 1: started working with Greg while living on the island, and
Speaker 1: then moved to California. Occasionally he goes back to Tybee Island,
Speaker 1: and when he goes back to Tybee Island, uh Mark,
Speaker 1: he only goes. There's one place that he absolutely has
Speaker 1: to hit up every time. Where is it hucka Poots,
Speaker 1: which is by his account, I mean, one of the
Speaker 1: greatest bars on the planet. We've been looking at the
Speaker 1: photos of it looks tight. What's also the location of
Speaker 1: the two thousand and nineteen Around the NFL Live podcast
Speaker 1: spectacle Hilaire, which will be taped on the weekend proceeding
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, And it will happen. It will either
Speaker 1: be as I've said before, we're either going to do
Speaker 1: a show there or the Around the NFL podcast will
Speaker 1: end that weekend. That's the stakes that we're talking about.
Speaker 1: We are finally holding the shadowy lead figures feet to
Speaker 1: the fire. A little A little fun fact before we
Speaker 1: get on the line, Huck a Poo's is actually called
Speaker 1: Huck Poo's Bites and Booze. Interesting, So let's let's go.
Speaker 1: Maybe west is there. It's right around happy happy hour.
Speaker 1: You would think he's there, but he's also very busy man,
Speaker 1: a lot going on in his life. Let's see busy
Speaker 1: or it's not busy at all. It's happy hour. Hi,
Speaker 1: is Chris Westling available to chat? Chris west Sling? Is
Speaker 1: he at the bar right now? At Bites? And she's
Speaker 1: actually not here right now. We'll be up here a
Speaker 1: little bit later on. He's um around the corner at
Speaker 1: a friend's house. Okay, thank you very much for that information.
Speaker 1: She seemed nice and now I wanted to talk to
Speaker 1: her for a little while. Uh, I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask us she knew where he was.
Speaker 1: That that kind of says it all that she yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not there, but she knows exactly where he is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we could have kept around, but she sounded very busy,
Speaker 1: but it does. It says a lot that she knows,
Speaker 1: not only that West is coming later, she can pinpoint
Speaker 1: where he is on the island. Well, we we've you know,
Speaker 1: we've texted with the West and you can see it
Speaker 1: on you know. He tweeted out a picture of him
Speaker 1: enjoying the high seas as a appeared to be a
Speaker 1: captain of a boat. So he definitely looks like he's
Speaker 1: having a good time on Tybee. All right, let's move on. Now.
Speaker 1: I wish we had caught him, but we could try again.
Speaker 1: What is he coming back? He'll be back. He's flying
Speaker 1: back on ta okay, So that was our last chance
Speaker 1: to catch him and Tybee. That's that's an unfortunate thing,
Speaker 1: but sounds like he's having fun. Let's move forward and
Speaker 1: talk about Greg's big fancy takeaways. This is how fancy
Speaker 1: these takeaways are Greg is on the regular We're doing
Speaker 1: these network hits uh fairly regularly. If you want to
Speaker 1: check DVR up to the minute live, we do about
Speaker 1: three minute hits almost every day right now, right around
Speaker 1: right around four Eastern time zone. But before that, Greg
Speaker 1: now is going on the network a double dip situation,
Speaker 1: but only he's wearing a suit and tie cow tow
Speaker 1: to the man. Uh. And you are talking about this series.
Speaker 1: That's how it's caught fire. And I'll even say a
Speaker 1: competing website to me anyway, is now ripping off the
Speaker 1: idea and using it on their own programming. Let's be fair,
Speaker 1: A certain giant nestled in the foothills between Boston and
Speaker 1: Manhattan is all of a sudden taking your idea and
Speaker 1: running with it a little bit. Well, I didn't exactly,
Speaker 1: you know, discover the theory of relativity here projecting starting lineups,
Speaker 1: But yes, we did notice the ESPN was writing their
Speaker 1: hole projected starters uh series this week. So I'm glad
Speaker 1: we was trying to get them in vague. Now you're
Speaker 1: getting Now you're taking them on head on. The wars
Speaker 1: on now between Target Bristol. Yeah, it's on. They've seen
Speaker 1: we've been doing this the last few years, and they
Speaker 1: were they wanted to jump on alright, So anyway, Greg's
Speaker 1: uh done great work with this. I could vouch for this.
Speaker 1: I've read this content and uh and you have taken
Speaker 1: a close look at these teams to figure out and
Speaker 1: write with some level of authority. Uh, what have been
Speaker 1: some big takeaways, big fancy takeaways from the teams that
Speaker 1: you've gone through all the a f C, a little
Speaker 1: bit of the NFC. Let's start with one. All right,
Speaker 1: let's let's start with one of the NFC teams. It
Speaker 1: struck me looking at the Philadelphia Eagles, and you guys
Speaker 1: can tell me what you think. When I looked at
Speaker 1: their starting lineup, it looked about as unfinished as anyone
Speaker 1: in the league. Like, you know, at this point, you're
Speaker 1: past the draft. You figure you kind of have an
Speaker 1: idea of what's going on. But you look at the Eagles.
Speaker 1: First of all, Wendell swap Smallwood was my best guest
Speaker 1: for a running back. They have three running backs who
Speaker 1: are all these kind of small, smaller types, not necessarily
Speaker 1: between the tackles. Sure seems like they need another running back.
Speaker 1: Then you read the papers which you know, I tried
Speaker 1: to do some research trying to figure out where all
Speaker 1: these players fit. People think Jason Kelsey could still get traded,
Speaker 1: that Michael Kendricks maybe could still get traded, although there
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like a ton of interest. There's even been
Speaker 1: some talk about Jordan Matthews Um possibly getting traded. And
Speaker 1: you add that all up. You take Howie Roseman, who
Speaker 1: loves to trade, who's always very active. They need a
Speaker 1: running back, and it just seems like a team where
Speaker 1: this starting lineup is not the finished one, that they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to make some moves and to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on them in the coming months. I was surprised
Speaker 1: that they weren't one of the teams in the first
Speaker 1: round that when after someone like Joe Mixon or lockdown
Speaker 1: one of these higher rated running backs, because it would
Speaker 1: have solved an immediate need at a place where these
Speaker 1: players were considered correctly slotted. And they come out of
Speaker 1: that without without someone and you got a second year quarterback.
Speaker 1: You need to have a productive ground game. I like
Speaker 1: what they did in free agency by adding all Sean
Speaker 1: Jeffrey and Tory Smith. That did a lot. But I
Speaker 1: agree with you. I think that there's it's a it's
Speaker 1: an offense still in the making. It's an odd roster
Speaker 1: construction for a team that is still kind of rebuilding
Speaker 1: a little bit though, like a lot of big one
Speaker 1: year deals like al Sean Jeffrey. I mean, you're big, really.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you went defense with the first first
Speaker 1: round pick, but Chris Long is a player that you
Speaker 1: don't really bring in if you're less than a few
Speaker 1: plays away. So it just doesn't feel complete to me.
Speaker 1: It makes that definitely. I agree with you on that.
Speaker 1: But it kind of makes sense too because despite how
Speaker 1: great the Cowboys were, at least in my opinion, I
Speaker 1: feel like the NFC East is wide open, so you
Speaker 1: could kind of get away with that thing where you're
Speaker 1: building on the I a little bit, uh, where they're
Speaker 1: they're looking toward the future but still think they can contend.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think a lot of this, of course
Speaker 1: goes back to Carson Wentz and how he progresses this year.
Speaker 1: But they're there are no rush, they're not in win
Speaker 1: now motor. I think it's okay for a roster be
Speaker 1: under construction when you have a second year quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a it's a bad thing. They
Speaker 1: just seem like they have some moves to make, like
Speaker 1: they're deep. They're one of the only teams you could
Speaker 1: come up with a whole second starting offensive line. Like
Speaker 1: they have all these backups who have started games mostly
Speaker 1: for them, so there could be trades there. It's like
Speaker 1: they've got Chris Long and maybe Vinny Curry coming off
Speaker 1: the bench. It's just playing well. So Jason Kelsey, you're right.
Speaker 1: It seems like in Rhoda World two, Around the Around
Speaker 1: the Around. On Twitter, you see his name pop up.
Speaker 1: The Saints were considered a landing spot potentially as trade
Speaker 1: bait because they don't know exactly will it be with
Speaker 1: Max Unger. It sounds like you'd wait on Max Sunger,
Speaker 1: But what what about swinging a trade for one of
Speaker 1: their running backs at some point? Right, Like they're just
Speaker 1: a team. I think in training camp maybe they're gonna
Speaker 1: be looking for running back, They're going to be looking
Speaker 1: for certain different pieces, and I think, like as injuries
Speaker 1: happen in campus that they could be all right, what
Speaker 1: else we got Greg? All right? Uh? Like going through
Speaker 1: Greg put in the work and now we're just mining
Speaker 1: him or pumping him for information. I love this. Uh
Speaker 1: do you love alright? Uh, let's stay in the NFC East.
Speaker 1: Is this? I guess I'll ask a question, but I'll
Speaker 1: give my answer. I think this is the best supporting
Speaker 1: cast Eli Manning has ever had. I mean just kind
Speaker 1: of looking at all the names in a row, and
Speaker 1: I know the offensive line is not great, but to
Speaker 1: have Marshall, Beckham and I didn't maybe you didn't need
Speaker 1: to do this exercise to do this, Evan Ingram Sterling
Speaker 1: Shepherd like has he ever had a better group of
Speaker 1: receivers to go with. There's a lot to like about
Speaker 1: this Giants team. This is a great wide receiver group,
Speaker 1: assuming and we've talked about this, We've talked about everything
Speaker 1: at this point, Uh, get towards mid May. But uh,
Speaker 1: there is a question whether, at least as a Jet
Speaker 1: fan watching Brandon Marshall, if he lost a step or two,
Speaker 1: and wide receivers can fall off very quickly in this league,
Speaker 1: as we've seen, so it could be a little bit
Speaker 1: looks better on paper than it is in reality. But
Speaker 1: then then you look at Sterling Shepherd and he could
Speaker 1: be a guy that to make the making the lead
Speaker 1: candidate if if we resurrect that series. Connor, you got
Speaker 1: you got the boots on the ground in Jersey or
Speaker 1: people excited about the Giants. I think they are, but
Speaker 1: it's like you said, this isn't on paper scenario right now?
Speaker 1: So and who you My big question is who are
Speaker 1: you taking off the field? Like everyone says, oh, we've
Speaker 1: got this this guy right And so you're you're operating
Speaker 1: an offense that only runs one formation, I mean, run
Speaker 1: the same like eleven personnel every time you're on the field.
Speaker 1: And so where are you fitting in this rookie tight
Speaker 1: end who's not a great blocker in a position where
Speaker 1: he needs to be and who who who's sacrificing is
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd losing opportunity? He's just so you can stick
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall on the field? Is this the is Ingram
Speaker 1: the first time in a while, maybe since Shocky, where
Speaker 1: Eli had a guy that was a real marquee in
Speaker 1: terms of pedigree guy because he's his career. Eli is sneaky,
Speaker 1: had a lot of productive tight ends. Bennett had a
Speaker 1: sneaky good year that you don't remember anymore. But he's
Speaker 1: always been able to get production out of the position.
Speaker 1: And Alison he put in the guy that's a potential,
Speaker 1: a real talent, that could be something big. The one
Speaker 1: thing is I look at them their offensive line and
Speaker 1: look at Dallas the bet one of the best offensive lines,
Speaker 1: if not the best, in the entire league, and arguably
Speaker 1: arguably the best running back in his Zukiele Elliott. And
Speaker 1: you go to New York, you've got his shaky offensive line,
Speaker 1: I would say, and the running back death running running
Speaker 1: back depth is really really kind of a mess in
Speaker 1: my opinion, and it cost them games last year. It
Speaker 1: costs them drives and points. It's weird they didn't get
Speaker 1: anyone else. And they're another team that could pick up
Speaker 1: a running back they've been associated with. Like they're good.
Speaker 1: Positions are unbelievable. They're as good a run defense on
Speaker 1: paper as any team in the NFL. They're about as
Speaker 1: good a secondary on paper as any team in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And then the receivers, and then you're right with their
Speaker 1: bad positions, like the line and the running backs are
Speaker 1: are really bad. And one more point about the offensive line,
Speaker 1: and you you hit on this last week, Greg and
Speaker 1: I thought it was a good thing to bring up,
Speaker 1: especially this time of year. Everyone's like, Oh, their offensive
Speaker 1: line sucks. It's like it's a It's not an easy
Speaker 1: position to to really know, and people act like they do.
Speaker 1: It's also a position that could sneaky get it could
Speaker 1: be decent during the year, same thing that happened in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: even though it doesn't have Marque guys and some question marks.
Speaker 1: They could do a little you know, spit and uh,
Speaker 1: what is it? Sticks? Spit? Is that the expression? I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess you could do that. Yeah, getic what is
Speaker 1: the spit gonna do with this? Well, you gotta hold okay,
Speaker 1: you gotta have some type of base, and then you're
Speaker 1: building a fort essentially with a spit and other things.
Speaker 1: Spit serving as the closer to the smoking mirror scenario here,
Speaker 1: but it's here's the thing. It wasn't a good line
Speaker 1: last year, and what have they done? Nobody knows the
Speaker 1: spit thing. Never heard of that. I don't, to be honest,
Speaker 1: I know, I think one of if one of your
Speaker 1: two words were closer to the real Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you're I It sounds vaguely familiar, but you're you're so
Speaker 1: far away, that's what it is. Maybe something in spittle
Speaker 1: potentially all right, I'm gonna don't look at my computer
Speaker 1: while I try to figure this out, Greg, but you
Speaker 1: can move on. I like that me looking at your
Speaker 1: computer is now a new running bit. It's always I've
Speaker 1: been getting I've been getting tweets about it. It's always happened,
Speaker 1: but now only now my starting to be like no more.
Speaker 1: Well nearly. Greg also nearly knocked a full cup of
Speaker 1: water onto Dan's computer and excitement today. When I just regulate,
Speaker 1: sometimes my arms are flying around. And yes, you're right,
Speaker 1: that was dangerous as funny, but also funny because Greg
Speaker 1: is on strike two and a half within this company
Speaker 1: for ruining multiple things with liquid sports, spilling on his
Speaker 1: own laptop, and you almost took mine out. That's it's true.
Speaker 1: It's been like three years. I was told three or
Speaker 1: four years ago that if you ruin another computer by
Speaker 1: spilling something on it, you are paying for that computer.
Speaker 1: And you know what that worked. I have not ruined anything.
Speaker 1: They scared you straight. I'm gonna go over to the
Speaker 1: a f C. South in the Indianapolis Colts and looking
Speaker 1: at their defense. And we've talked about this a decent
Speaker 1: amount this season, but the number really stuck out to
Speaker 1: me that if you look at what Chris Ballard did
Speaker 1: on their defense, it is possible that only two and
Speaker 1: this is on the low end, but it's at least
Speaker 1: possible only two starters from the Colts defense will be
Speaker 1: back this year and starting for this team. That is
Speaker 1: how much they have turned over that defense. I think
Speaker 1: that's always been the problem. Like everyone focused on fixated
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, and rightfully so, but you have
Speaker 1: a defensive head coach and he had absolutely zero talent
Speaker 1: to work with for the last two or three years.
Speaker 1: Art Jones might have been your best defensive player. Last year,
Speaker 1: it was guys to Quell Jackson who was you know,
Speaker 1: there was no question it was he was not going
Speaker 1: to be there for much longer in a in a secondary,
Speaker 1: there was just a patchwork injury prone secondary. Like on
Speaker 1: one level, that makes like we like these moves on
Speaker 1: the other nine new starters at the same time, and
Speaker 1: it's the number, to be fair, is probably gonna be
Speaker 1: like seven or eight new starters. It's just you could
Speaker 1: you could see a way that it was only two.
Speaker 1: And those two for me were Vante Davis and Clayton Gathers.
Speaker 1: Their safety were sure things, but that's a lot to ask.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a lot to ask. Your entire linebacker
Speaker 1: crew and most of your in most of the defensive
Speaker 1: line is totally different. It's like in in scrabble, which
Speaker 1: I've not played in about a decade, but you dump
Speaker 1: all your letters except for Q and then you just
Speaker 1: you you start over. In this case, I think that
Speaker 1: Chris Ballard has actually made this team a much more
Speaker 1: interesting team on defense. It has to a type of frog.
Speaker 1: I know he's on your guys radar or sonars. This
Speaker 1: as a listener was a point out about the sound
Speaker 1: that we have. But uh, yeah, he's done a good job. Yeah,
Speaker 1: radar would indicate that that I have there's something I
Speaker 1: have an issue with him, or just you know, it's
Speaker 1: how it feels. But tracking it a little bit. It's
Speaker 1: a tracking scenario. I guess I'll give I'll give our
Speaker 1: boy that, We'll give him the fact that he's been
Speaker 1: very proactive here. Yeah, whether or not these guys, well,
Speaker 1: you lived under the era of the glacier where it's
Speaker 1: like you are allowed to make a transaction three months
Speaker 1: of past. You're allowed to do something. YEA. If I'm
Speaker 1: a cults fan who is annoyed and sick and tired
Speaker 1: of watching my defense get shredded. Uh, I like a
Speaker 1: guy coming in in cleaning house. I'll take that. Dump
Speaker 1: it out. Dump it out, is right? Mark dumps something
Speaker 1: else out on us, all right? About the fact that
Speaker 1: the best skill position player on the Baltimore Ravens is
Speaker 1: Mike Wallace, That this is a team that we're thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: this is a playoff contending team, and the best skill
Speaker 1: possession player I would say that Joe Flacco has the
Speaker 1: most dependable guy is Mike Wallace. Wait are we are
Speaker 1: we jumping into the Ravens nest? I guess we're jumping again.
Speaker 1: All right, let's jump in into the Ravens. Go ahead.
Speaker 1: I mean, we talked about this a little bit when
Speaker 1: we went around the a f C, but just looking
Speaker 1: at it all on paper, really, it's stuck out to
Speaker 1: me that their third receiver right now is either Chris
Speaker 1: Moore or the guy who made two catches in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, Chris Matthews. Like, they don't have a third receiver.
Speaker 1: Mike Wallace is their number one receiver, Terrence West is
Speaker 1: their top running back, and as Evan Silva Rotor World
Speaker 1: put it, like they have a lot of tight ends
Speaker 1: Dennis Pitta and Crockett, Gilmore and Max with these guys,
Speaker 1: like none of them are above average starters that are
Speaker 1: helping their team. Like this looks like a mess. Matches
Speaker 1: in the super Bowl yards, it's a big game. He
Speaker 1: had the two long three long catches. You're right, it's
Speaker 1: the same issues that they've had on offense, I think
Speaker 1: for about two seasons where you don't have the type
Speaker 1: of players that can break a team's back, and they've
Speaker 1: they've been really clear about their goals. They want to
Speaker 1: build an offensive line to rival Dallas. It's easy to
Speaker 1: say that, but they actually invested to draft picks in
Speaker 1: that and all on defense, they do have one of
Speaker 1: the potentially better defenses in the entire league. But you're
Speaker 1: you're gonna win games nineteen to seventeen. Okay, that that's
Speaker 1: fair that the defense could be could be good. But
Speaker 1: even that, when I looked at like here's some guys
Speaker 1: starting Chris Wormley a rookie, Bronson Kufassi might be starting
Speaker 1: at defenseman, those are totally new, totally new guys like
Speaker 1: that guy in Perfect Strangers, Like who is their best
Speaker 1: pass rusher? I guess it's throughout sucks. But after that,
Speaker 1: who is it? I mean, they're counting on some young guys.
Speaker 1: Albert mccloughand played a lot for them last year. Like
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't because I don't quite see it.
Speaker 1: They just on the team. They developed their defensive players quickly,
Speaker 1: and they developed them. Well, that's something they do. They
Speaker 1: seem to do year after year. In boldfusy, Sydney tells me,
Speaker 1: how about that? Just what's upset? Kufus gotta gotta be
Speaker 1: if Sidney's plugged in on the details of a uh
Speaker 1: do you know how to pronounced Kamalaya Korea? As well?
Speaker 1: Who is also potentially starting for the Ravens. No, not
Speaker 1: plugged in there, You guys forget again all this like
Speaker 1: crapping on here in the Ravens nest of all people,
Speaker 1: of all places. They're not being respectful. You forgot about
Speaker 1: one man. Justin freaking Tucker, You're gonna win at least
Speaker 1: five games, ten wins, whether we like it or not.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that maybe it's time for Baltimore to
Speaker 1: go through seventeen years of tough times. That's what I think,
Speaker 1: because it fits in over the weekend, I decided a
Speaker 1: birdie just kind of came in my head and I decided, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you know you kind of circle the teams
Speaker 1: you're gonna pick to make the playoffs, or you think
Speaker 1: about these things at least at least I do. Like
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals are going to the playoffs in two
Speaker 1: thousand and seventeen, They're coming back. They're kind of off
Speaker 1: the radar this year they're back, and the Ravens are
Speaker 1: a big disappointment. Is this what you decided when you
Speaker 1: were staring at the beach bodies set up without texting
Speaker 1: Mark O'Connor about something that would have been very important
Speaker 1: to them. Tough trip tough trips in the Ravens nest.
Speaker 1: Let's let's climb out. You got anything else? Correct? All right?
Speaker 1: Let's do do we want to do one more? Oh?
Speaker 1: You tell me? Is it is it worth doing two more?
Speaker 1: You tell me? All right? But the Miami Dolphins best
Speaker 1: offense since the Dan Marino era that they've had, Stunt Page.
Speaker 1: This is a statement, Well that is exactly what what
Speaker 1: are they up against? What would be if if the
Speaker 1: Marino offense is number one? What is currently number two?
Speaker 1: Here they had to run the wildcat because that might
Speaker 1: be that that was in Chad the year with Chad Pennington.
Speaker 1: Some of the Jay Feeler years were actually a little
Speaker 1: better than people remember. So, yes, it's not a high bar,
Speaker 1: but that's a good looking it's a good looking group.
Speaker 1: But it almost is like the type of thing where
Speaker 1: it's a sounds interesting thing to say, but then it
Speaker 1: doesn't really mean anything. Well, they were fifth, they were
Speaker 1: fifth in points, They were fifth in points Parker back
Speaker 1: in and you add Julius Thomas to that, really fifth
Speaker 1: in points in two thousand two with who is their quarterback?
Speaker 1: We look at this here feeds, I'm looking it up,
Speaker 1: good running game. Yeah, they were the eighth overall. They
Speaker 1: were sorry, eighth in points, one in yards, which in
Speaker 1: the eighth and points you had feedlers your quarterback. This
Speaker 1: went to the playoffs. Those they went to eleven and
Speaker 1: five back back. But but you looked at those Dolphins teams,
Speaker 1: I think one of them lost to the Ravens in
Speaker 1: the playoffs that you knew they were like the current Chiefs.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go about a game in you're gonna get bumped.
Speaker 1: We don't really believe in you you're You're right, though, Greg,
Speaker 1: this could be the best Dolphins offense should be exciting
Speaker 1: in one Miami Dolphins. I mean what about when they
Speaker 1: they Chad Pennington. Chad Pennington led them to a division,
Speaker 1: got some stars, I don't. I mean it could be
Speaker 1: great still Parker, Julius Thomas, Tannehill getting better. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: think this giant. I if I was a Dolphins fan,
Speaker 1: I would be excited. You've got some stars on defense.
Speaker 1: You got these guys alright when the division's wide open?
Speaker 1: One last one? Do we do? We trust John Elway
Speaker 1: in terms of fixing their I feel like their whole team.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of teams like that totally depends on
Speaker 1: their offensive line. And doing this it made me realize
Speaker 1: how much that offensive line has turned over. Only one
Speaker 1: starter is gonna be back in the exact same position.
Speaker 1: You got Garrett Bowls, who's gonna be there left tackle.
Speaker 1: You got Ronald Leary who got this huge contract even
Speaker 1: though he was kind of a forgotten guy in Dallas.
Speaker 1: It's a lot. It's a lot to ask, like he
Speaker 1: hasn't done it before, always kind of and missed. When
Speaker 1: he's got four guys in different spots, three totally new
Speaker 1: players on the team, and to me, if if they're
Speaker 1: not good, like that's the worst roster in the division overall.
Speaker 1: I this is I miss West obviously, um and I
Speaker 1: miss him especially now because it is the part of
Speaker 1: the show where I'd go against him about John Elway
Speaker 1: because he is a darling of the league and a
Speaker 1: darling in this room. But they did win the super
Speaker 1: Bowl two years ago, and we did an NFL Network
Speaker 1: hit last week where we were all in agreement that
Speaker 1: we thought they were gonna go last place. And you're
Speaker 1: just saying now that the roster's got all sorts of problems.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe maybe I always had a rough year
Speaker 1: or two. Now, is that fair to say that if
Speaker 1: they're all of a sudden now in a tough position
Speaker 1: in this division when you look at where the competition
Speaker 1: sacks up. You were also building to that Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I mean that was a veteran Leaden team and you
Speaker 1: have to that's kind of have to accept like that
Speaker 1: tapering down process. At least at least you did get
Speaker 1: that Super Bowl. Didn't have a line, Yeah, didn't have
Speaker 1: a line really then either that's the thing. Maybe it'll
Speaker 1: be good on paper it looks better. I mean, you
Speaker 1: have a restaurant pick. You paid Leary a lot of money,
Speaker 1: like menta. Lick Watson is their right tackle. He's a
Speaker 1: guy who was kind of a bit of a bust
Speaker 1: in Oakland. So it's just a lot. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: down year. They were nine and seven last year, and
Speaker 1: it feels like a disappointing year. They're just a higher
Speaker 1: class franchise than the bottom third of the league. We're
Speaker 1: an off year. You go too and fourteen, everyone gets fired.
Speaker 1: You start over. I mean, I think the bigger question
Speaker 1: is vance Joseph. That's a that's a high pressure job.
Speaker 1: I think Denver, you've got suddenly you're walking into your
Speaker 1: first training camp with a quarterback battle where you don't
Speaker 1: it's not you don't know what either these quarterbacks really
Speaker 1: can beat. Trevor Simon. I think we all like more
Speaker 1: than some people do. But there's a lot of questions there,
Speaker 1: and that offensive line undid this team last season, And
Speaker 1: you're right, there's no reason to think, just like we
Speaker 1: looked at with the Giants, that there's a lot of
Speaker 1: reasons to think it's improved. Like they like, they're losing
Speaker 1: maybe a first ballot. If there's a was a coordinator
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, Wade Phillips is like the first guy,
Speaker 1: and they're replacing him with Joe Woods. I mean maybe
Speaker 1: Joe Woods. Fine, I don't know anything about Joe Woods. Well, Mark,
Speaker 1: you are are our man, our knowledge man on coordinators.
Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about Joe Wood. I mean,
Speaker 1: starting with this person, his personal life, very strong personal life,
Speaker 1: got a good character as far as my investigations have
Speaker 1: looked into at this point, still very early in my
Speaker 1: in my Mr. Woods file building. So let's get back
Speaker 1: to me in a brief bit. I don't have a
Speaker 1: lot to offer you. Born in North vander Grifft, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: You go Pensylvan You knew that, right, Well, that's sort
Speaker 1: of the obvious kind of like you know any football fans,
Speaker 1: that's the hits, you know, the they you know what
Speaker 1: they've done a really good job with Denver and Elway
Speaker 1: as well, is at this point squelching any type of
Speaker 1: um issues with the first round quarterback. What's going on
Speaker 1: with this guy? It hasn't been a huge story yet,
Speaker 1: but I wonder if a guy they took in the
Speaker 1: first round, Paxton Lynch last year, Like, what does Simeon
Speaker 1: have to do to actually hold him off? And and
Speaker 1: will we see does Simeon have to play really well
Speaker 1: to stay in the lineup or has he even play
Speaker 1: if he plays as a league average starter? Is that
Speaker 1: not enough to keep them from justifying the pick. I
Speaker 1: don't think. I think they said when they drafted packs
Speaker 1: and Lynch that they were comfortable sitting him for at
Speaker 1: least two years. Um, and you know, best laid plans
Speaker 1: always blow up. But I do think that they like
Speaker 1: Trevor Simmeon a lot more than and the rest of
Speaker 1: the general public. And I don't think they'd be um,
Speaker 1: you know, embarrassed at all if they have to start
Speaker 1: him for the next two or three years. I think
Speaker 1: he's I think he's preferred definitely to uh with the
Speaker 1: receivers and everybody else in the room too, like whether
Speaker 1: you like ol Way or not, like he's they don't
Speaker 1: panic at the quarterback position. They really just haven't seemed
Speaker 1: to do that, and Lynch just one of the few.
Speaker 1: It's so trophy to say a quarterback is gonna be
Speaker 1: a red shirt quarterback and then he's playing by the
Speaker 1: end of September on a trash Sheep team. But I
Speaker 1: don't think that there's doesn't feel like there's pressure to
Speaker 1: put Lynch in like he did play a litt off.
Speaker 1: It was injury, was injury related, But yeah, and he
Speaker 1: I really went back and forth, who would like who
Speaker 1: would you guys have put? I mean, this is obviously
Speaker 1: just total guesswork. I'm not pretending that I know. I
Speaker 1: just guess Simeon because but I thought, to your point, Dan,
Speaker 1: if Lynch is even in the ballpark, he's gonna start
Speaker 1: like Simeon has to be much better than him Chad
Speaker 1: Kelly week one. And if the season does yet, that's right,
Speaker 1: that's one of the great predictions in the history of
Speaker 1: the show. If the season does go sideways, and let's
Speaker 1: face it, there in a loaded division, they'll probably turn
Speaker 1: the reins over as well, if they're four and seven
Speaker 1: or something. And even if Simeon is playing well and
Speaker 1: it's not his fault, gotta gotta play the kid, probably,
Speaker 1: all right, Greg, nice work NFL dot Com slash projected starters,
Speaker 1: nice vanity or gets right to the point. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna give you. Mark. You had that potential issue with
Speaker 1: the apostrophe, Uh for your Mother's Day feature. Well, I
Speaker 1: think the metrics would suggest, as far as I know
Speaker 1: that that it would cause problems for people. Everyone just
Speaker 1: hammering the keyboard. There should be an apostrophe here. That's
Speaker 1: one of those tis that most people don't know the
Speaker 1: answer to the begin with. People should check it out.
Speaker 1: Who cares that Mother's Day passed? Uh? You know, I
Speaker 1: didn't read it until late last night, and it was
Speaker 1: one I haven't talked to Mark since it was a
Speaker 1: wonderful piece. People should read it, but it was still
Speaker 1: Mother's Day when you read it. True not on the
Speaker 1: East coast. Maybe we had to get the NFL's Twitter
Speaker 1: account to you know, know that it existed yesterday afternoon
Speaker 1: to tweet it out so brighting uphill Battle. This is
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do because I missed Mother's Day. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bookmarkt and then next May I'm gonna devour it.
Speaker 1: There you go, a click as a click. I'd say
Speaker 1: give it to Harrison, let him read it. It'll calm
Speaker 1: him right down. For you can't wait, Connor, that's your
Speaker 1: kids day, Harris Harrison, Harry, I just you know, I do.
Speaker 1: I found out about the other one recently. I didn't
Speaker 1: know there was a second one running around. Harrison's the
Speaker 1: second right. That's okay, that's not a big deal. There's
Speaker 1: a lot going on in the world. I'm sure you've
Speaker 1: got a lot going on in the Haunted Mansion, politics
Speaker 1: and stuff, you know, stuff. But I'll get there. What
Speaker 1: was promoted more Harrison Hansas or my mother's day piece?
Speaker 1: When you say that on NFL dot com, it was
Speaker 1: probably better. I mean, you're getting on me for not
Speaker 1: updating you on Autumn Calabrisi's whereabouts. Yeah, maybe Dan needs
Speaker 1: to do a better job letting Connor know about all
Speaker 1: the children. He's saying, Antonio Carimardi text me and just
Speaker 1: keep had a child a second one, actually, do you
Speaker 1: wanted the real truth of the matter. And it's funny
Speaker 1: because they came up, Uh came up earlier. His name
Speaker 1: came up the day my son was born, Harrison, which
Speaker 1: was in November. Um. I texted Connor and I said,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna believe this. I just realized after the
Speaker 1: fact that the name of my two sons are the
Speaker 1: same names as Mike Princesses two sons, Jak and Harrison.
Speaker 1: In fact, Connor is the only person that I texted
Speaker 1: with on the day of my son's birth, and yet
Speaker 1: he doesn't have any memory. So I want to talk
Speaker 1: about Macnevico. Oh how caught up in your own stuff
Speaker 1: are you? That wasn't even processed. Now, I'm I'm fully
Speaker 1: prepared to admit that I'm a garbage human being. Uh well,
Speaker 1: you'll fit right in here, Connor and the fact couple
Speaker 1: of shows. Wait, I'm supposed. I'm supposed to believe that
Speaker 1: you didn't intentionally name your children the same as Mike
Speaker 1: Francess is one of your idols. I'm telling you, it's
Speaker 1: kind of amazing I didn't. I don't know, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know how it could have happened, but that's the truth. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, Connor, was great having you today. Come back Wednesday,
Speaker 1: but you gotta come back with fire. We're talking or
Speaker 1: you kidding me? Fire. I'm gonna get into a bar
Speaker 1: fight at the Whaler and then I'll be ready to
Speaker 1: go look forward to it. Let's get Kagano Sydney. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's let's reach out to Corgango to Yeah, okay, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be fun, all right? Uh In until then, this
Speaker 1: is Dan Hansons signing off for acquired storm. Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? The old boss a new money behind the glass.
Speaker 1: So was that