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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL podcast, Call the Fight, It's the

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Speaker 1: best podcast round. Welcome back to another edition of the

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Speaker 1: Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansus, and

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Speaker 1: I'm joined by a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Chris Westling, and Colleen Wolf. What's up, people? Hey? Hey,

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Speaker 1: they like that? People. Yeah, that's better than female. Yeah

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Speaker 1: you're improving. Yeah, this is this is again a showing

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Speaker 1: good host listens to feedback. You were you were somewhat

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Speaker 1: I think, Hey, female, So I mean I should maybe

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Speaker 1: return the favors. So what's up male? See I don't

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Speaker 1: like that. It's weird. Yeah call me boy. Uh. This

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Speaker 1: is the Monday edition of the Around the NFL Podcast,

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Speaker 1: sponsored by no One, loved by many, feared by So. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: in this building the very dangerous podcast that we have here.

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Speaker 1: And Colleen is sitting in to my right. She's sitting

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Speaker 1: for the boss, Greg Rosenthal, who is away on some

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Speaker 1: family business. Maybe we'll get into that a little bit later.

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Speaker 1: We're just happy Connie Fox is here. We heard some

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Speaker 1: travel travel fiasco that had you in in St. Paul,

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Speaker 1: Let's say, let's say this for the sports personalities complained

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Speaker 1: about I'm Not Complained podcast. She goes right down the

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Speaker 1: Burtbrier pathway. They're very in American Airline. What were you

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Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm ready to go. What a great person

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Speaker 1: back boy, Um, all right, good show today, like it

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Speaker 1: a pre show? Great B plus? You like it to

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Speaker 1: read my inflection? Uh, nice show, nice show we have

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Speaker 1: I love this actually, and this one's got it from

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Speaker 1: the horn, and this is where you hang some onions.

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Speaker 1: don't want to be a funny guy like Johnny Chuckles.

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Speaker 1: It's not just about to make everybody laugh. This is

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Speaker 1: something you actually believe will happen, John Chuck. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: job with the marth. But what you're really doing this

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Speaker 1: check behind the glass. There's the irishman. Dan. You got

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Speaker 1: so charismatic and he was so controversial at the same time.

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Speaker 1: But it was like he demanded attention anywhere he was

426
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Speaker 1: and he was just everything he did was entertaining, whether

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Speaker 1: he was in the rank or whether he was just talking. Yeah.

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00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys did a good job calling on

429
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Speaker 1: HQ this morning where there was a lot of Ali

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Speaker 1: coverage on their n I FELL network this morning. But

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Speaker 1: one thing that was said was that along with Howard Cosell,

432
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,639
Speaker 1: the two of them and they had a fascinating relationship,

433
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 1: that they came into bloom along with television sports, and

434
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 1: that Ali has to be up there as if not

435
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,920
Speaker 1: the best, top two or three, most fascinating athlete to

436
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Speaker 1: listen to. He was a poet. I thought he was.

437
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,440
Speaker 1: He went so far beyond boxing. But boxing never would

438
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,160
Speaker 1: have you know, been what it was on any level

439
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 1: without Ali. I mean, we grew up watching Mike Tyson

440
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 1: umber getting together with tons of fathers and sons to

441
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Speaker 1: watch that Tyson fight that went nineties second, some guys

442
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 1: popping popcorn. It was over before he even came in

443
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,919
Speaker 1: the room, but we wouldn't have been there, even caring

444
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,680
Speaker 1: the fathers wouldn't have been there carrying if it weren't

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Speaker 1: for Ali and Howard Coastal. I mean, he was the

446
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Speaker 1: one of the first people in the media to actually

447
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Speaker 1: call Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali. And that was one of

448
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Speaker 1: the things that I think forced that their bond to

449
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,400
Speaker 1: other because he did not call him Cassius Clay, which

450
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 1: he didn't want. Also, one of the great things that

451
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 1: we were watching today and I saw some amazing articles

452
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 1: um when Lyle Alzado and him in Mile High Stadium

453
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,440
Speaker 1: and it was like in the middle of the summer,

454
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the day, and the fact that

455
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Speaker 1: he did that, Alzado did that, I mean, that would

456
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,240
Speaker 1: be such a crazy spectacle now if you had somebody

457
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Speaker 1: like J. J. Watt Um go in the ring against

458
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Speaker 1: Connor McGregor or something. I mean, it was so insane.

459
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Speaker 1: And he ended up putting his entire house as collateral

460
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Speaker 1: to cover promotional costs. I mean, the whole thing was

461
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:43,439
Speaker 1: such a show. Born in Louisville, southern city, several genera

462
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,919
Speaker 1: generations removed from slavery, and he ends up spending the

463
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Speaker 1: final thirty or forty years of his life hanging out

464
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Speaker 1: with kings, President's, celebrities of all type. He reached the

465
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Speaker 1: top of the world. To me, the thing that stands

466
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Speaker 1: out the most is and mind you, I have seen

467
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Speaker 1: what Parkinson's does to a person. Grandpa pass away from Parkinson's.

468
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: Most of the people out there now have a story

469
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,879
Speaker 1: of him post fighting career after he already had Parkinson's,

470
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Speaker 1: and for what he did for over thirty years. Mind

471
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Speaker 1: you still have that mentality of I want to make

472
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Speaker 1: your day even though my day is absolutely terrible. That's

473
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Speaker 1: the thing to me that shows that how strong he

474
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Speaker 1: really was. Well said Irishman. Yes, he did a lot

475
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Speaker 1: for park Parkinson's and the research and awareness. Muhammad Ali

476
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Speaker 1: dead at all, right, folks, Before we move on and

477
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Speaker 1: talk about our fearless predictions, Mark, you wanted to share

478
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Speaker 1: some things that you call this section. Mark Sessler has

479
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Speaker 1: concerns about the boss. Well, I have concerns not about

480
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Speaker 1: the boss, who has done an excellent job from wire

481
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Speaker 1: to wire here at NFL Media, but the when he's gone.

482
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 1: You know, I've been here since six thirty this morning,

483
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Speaker 1: just observing the behavior of people that report to Greg,

484
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a few details. You have a

485
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Speaker 1: full report on this, Yeah, because I mean, what what

486
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Speaker 1: a good Lloyd do other than to give Greg information

487
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 1: about what was happening while he was gone? And it starts,

488
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Speaker 1: I mean, look, Chris, very valuable asset here at NFL Media.

489
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Speaker 1: But today, however, I logged the time at twelve four pm,

490
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 1: I had to ask Chris Wesley to sit down in

491
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Speaker 1: his chair. Uh, he was getting up and this is

492
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,679
Speaker 1: just you know Greg's not around, and just get up

493
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 1: out of my chair and do whatever I want versus working.

494
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 1: And westleyn tells me that he's getting up to go

495
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: look for and quotes a post it note. And I

496
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,159
Speaker 1: think we can agree west that I explained to you

497
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,640
Speaker 1: that you're not allowed to simply get up and roam

498
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 1: around the building just because the cat is away hashtag

499
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Speaker 1: be a professional. Well this did happen, and I thought

500
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Speaker 1: I was a little taken aback by it. I was,

501
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: why are you looking for? Bothted, I'm doing book reviews

502
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,719
Speaker 1: this project that I've undertaken that is dragging on. It

503
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: need notes to mark some excerpts in the book. So

504
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: Mark was on me and at one point I went

505
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:04,400
Speaker 1: up to use the printer and down right now back down.

506
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: There was a pattern to your behavior. Now, Dan highly productive,

507
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: uh knows to the grindtown to grindstone type stuff. It

508
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: did concern me though, that UM director of Programming, Handsome

509
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: Hank with Greg gone, this is more about Henry than Dan,

510
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 1: who was just obedient. That you know, Henry just swooped

511
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: in and leaned very hard on one of Greg's employees

512
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: to do his own bidding. That that's concerning. I'm going

513
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: to pass that on to Greg when he gets back here.

514
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 1: There are power plays all over the place between Henry

515
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 1: using his influence and then you using your influence over

516
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,719
Speaker 1: West telling him to sit down. We are doing that.

517
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 1: That's that's for Greg. Yes, you're a loyal servant to

518
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: the Third thing because we all have this guy on

519
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 1: our radar, suspended softballer David Eally I. I couldn't really

520
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 1: track him very closely because he sits twenty feet away

521
00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: in a tediously loud portion of our newsroom, so it's

522
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: hard to hear everything that he's doing. But one of

523
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 1: his co workers shown a whole leg. Brassie. That's who

524
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: we know, Brassie. She wrote this an email to me

525
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: to film me on Eally's frankly devil make heir antics.

526
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: According to what she has to say in quotes she

527
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: said in Greg's absence, Eally has not stepped up to

528
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 1: the plate and has disappointed us in the following ways. One,

529
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,120
Speaker 1: Eally spent most of his morning talking about how many

530
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: bottles of rose he downed over the weekend. I'm brassy

531
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: Greg would never drink rose and brassies right uh two

532
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: to in final point, I also believe, according to Brassi,

533
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: I heard really referred to Greg as in quotes, that

534
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: guy who thinks he's my boss. Now she cannot confirm that,

535
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 1: but she believed she was. She wasn't in the conversation,

536
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: but that's what she overheard. I reached out to Eally

537
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: for comment as of the start of this podcast. Crickets

538
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: m hm, wow, well that's a good Uh that's Mark

539
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: Sassler and Trep reporter. What'sway habitual brown noser? No no, no, no, no. See.

540
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: I like how you can spend it that way. But

541
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: Greg's gonna come back. You know where am I'm in

542
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: the dark. What happened while I was gone? I'm gonna

543
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: give him this report besides, you had a glowing review. Well,

544
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: I knew this segment would go south if I had

545
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: criticized Dan so as opposed to it did. Well, that's fair.

546
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: Maybe on its own merits, it didn't take off the

547
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: chief apple polisher. Mark, when the when the real teacher

548
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: gets back, he's gonna report on the substitute teachers. You're

549
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: that guy, You're the t A. Well so I'm doing

550
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 1: when I'm I'm being a professional DNA. Alright, Mark Sessler

551
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 1: at it again, Mark, thank you for the report. Greg.

552
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: Hopefully you're listening to the show and you're getting all

553
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: this info. Who knows off Greg's gonna listen? Well, that's

554
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: where he would go on to the coals if he's

555
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: not even listening to the show. So let's not tell him.

556
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: Let's see what if he notices. All right, it's it's

557
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: time now to move on too. Yes, fearless prediction, I

558
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: may live to regret. And again I stress this with

559
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: with peace and love. You must hang on onions here.

560
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: You must put yourself out on a limb. If you don't,

561
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 1: what are we even here for? And I'm not looking

562
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: at you specifically direction all of us. I hope we

563
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: are all bringing our a game because it may it

564
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: may decide how the segment goes. Wow. So we're gonna

565
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 1: start out with Mark, who is fresh off is intrepid

566
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: reporting of the newsroom politics. He will now give us

567
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: a fearless prediction. He may live to regret. I believe

568
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: this good start, and I will be laughed at. The

569
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns talked about is the no brain or worst

570
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 1: sports will not finish in last place in the a

571
00:30:55,160 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: f C North. Wow, I leave it. I did not

572
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: two months ago. I do right now? Does this coincide

573
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: with your statement on the last podcast that since he

574
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: will take a dirt nap it feels like it does. Well,

575
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: let's I mean, let's look at the division. If the

576
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: Browns aren't finishing in last place, that means somebody else is.

577
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: And the Bengals, I guess our candidate. The Ravens were

578
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: terrible last year, but beat up and they have a

579
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: great coach and a great GM. The Steelers, I think

580
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: everyone probably the favorite to win the division. So you're

581
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: looking at either probably tell us if you're wrong, if

582
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: we're wrong, or I'm wrong, the Ravens or Bengals to

583
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: really slip up and the Browns to kind of move

584
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: up their ranks. Yes, the Steelers to me are a

585
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: Super Bowl contender. I don't do this often, but I

586
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: have to defend my home city here. This is this

587
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: is disrespectful, and every year we kind of crap on

588
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: the Bengals and don't give them the respect they deserve.

589
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: We don't predict they're going to make the playoffs. I

590
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: think they're as talented as any team in the league.

591
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 1: And I don't think the Browns have eat in a

592
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: one percent chance of The Bengals are not necessarily my

593
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: target here, but I think the Bengals have talent too.

594
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: I think weird things can happen. We saw what happened

595
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: to the Ravens last year. If the right players get injured,

596
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: the team can go very south. So I'm not saying

597
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: that looking at it today, it's logical. But the NFL

598
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: season is a weird beast. And again, this is a

599
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: fearless prediction. You may live to regret. I probably will,

600
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: but you are a factory up sadness. But I do like,

601
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: I do like he just rolled his eyes, and I

602
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: mean but I do like that. Again, it is showing

603
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 1: it is much better than this time. Last year where

604
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: you were so upset about Cleveland that you weren't even

605
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: gonna watch their games. You're in You're You're hopeful believe

606
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: Land is in town. I think they've got their act

607
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: together in terms of being on the same page with

608
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: each other. Good all right, that was a good one,

609
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: perfect example. Brown is not finishing in last place. They

610
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: have a roster devoid of talent, a terrible history. Uh

611
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: you know, suspect front off this leadership. However, this is

612
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: the year they move up Fearless West. You know, during

613
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: May and June, which is chief trope season in the NFL,

614
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: we all are guilty of, every fan, every analyst is

615
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 1: guilty of just taking the previous season and putting that

616
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: under a microscope and ignoring the year before, in the

617
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: year before that and all other data. Green Bay Packers

618
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: are going to break records this year on offense. That's

619
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: my fearless prediction. It was just last June and Mike

620
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: McCarthy was saying, or last offseason, Mark Mike McCarthy was saying,

621
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: this will be the best offense pro football has seen

622
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: if we can improve on one or two things. They

623
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: have the same personnel, except they've added people. They've added

624
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: Jared Cook, They've added some offensive lineman, They've added a

625
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: healthy Jordy Nelson, Randall Cops gonna be playing in a

626
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: slot and we'll be healthy. Eddie Lacey slimmed down. I

627
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 1: love everything about this offense this year. Does it spook

628
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: you at all? That? Listen? Jordy Nelson losing him for

629
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: the year was obviously a crushing blow, and Randall Copp

630
00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: was never right, and that Lacey had his problems. But

631
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers also wasn't quite himself last year because when

632
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 1: before defense is adjusted, the effect that James Jones is

633
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: incredibly slow and can't get open, and that Randall Cog

634
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: can't beat double teams. Before that happened, Aaron Rodgers September

635
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: was the best month I've ever seen any quarterback play.

636
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: I think everything that happened the rest of the year

637
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: was totally on his coaches and teammates and not on

638
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, and we saw him struggle as the

639
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: season went on, so I felt like it was just

640
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 1: more of a product of his receivers not being reliable

641
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,720
Speaker 1: and him just getting burned, and then him just getting

642
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,720
Speaker 1: sort of lucy. I don't want to say Lucy Goosey,

643
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: but you know he he was sort of kind of

644
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,800
Speaker 1: lost at some points in the pocket the best player

645
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 1: in the NFL, And right are we going to are

646
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: we going to talk about two and a half months

647
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: of play or the rest of his career? And in Wesley,

648
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: you know, if you want to go back and listen

649
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,800
Speaker 1: to a podcasts, he was. You were one of the

650
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: first to say that the Broncos Undermanning would have that

651
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,919
Speaker 1: one season where they broke records, and you talked about

652
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 1: the Patriots last year, which I think that could have

653
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: absolutely been the case again had you not lost Dean Lewis,

654
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 1: had some of the injuries not happened. So I mean,

655
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: the Packers are not just getting one or two. They're

656
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,240
Speaker 1: getting like the core of their offense back and especially

657
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 1: if Eddie Lacy is kind of a slim down, Oh

658
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: my god, they're McCarthy's back to calling the plays to

659
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: set the scoring record. Just to give some perspective here,

660
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: um in a season for a team, which I imagine

661
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: is that one of the records you're referring to the

662
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: record is held by the two thousand, thirteen Broncos six

663
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 1: six points to break that record. The Packers would have

664
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: to average average thirty eight points a game, So that

665
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,800
Speaker 1: is one of the tougher team records that are to break.

666
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: But I'm with you West, I feel like now everything

667
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 1: has to click. Lacy does have to Lacy again, Cob

668
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 1: has to be healthy, Jordy Nelson has to come back.

669
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: He's two years old coming off that a c L

670
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,080
Speaker 1: and then Rogers everything has to you know, coalesced. But

671
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: let's not forget what they were saying about Davante Adams

672
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: at this time last year. I know he had as

673
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: bad of a season as you could possibly have, but

674
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: Rogers was talking about, here's a guy who is no

675
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: doubt going to be a star as the swagger of

676
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: a number one receiver, and he took it as there's

677
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: no question this guy is gonna break out. It was

678
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,240
Speaker 1: kind of a Murphy's Law kind of year. Everything went poorly,

679
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: but I still believe in Davante and time Montgomery to Jeff, Jeff,

680
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:28,439
Speaker 1: get excited for Jeff Janice because he's crossing seven fifty

681
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: yards with seven touchdown. One quick question to you, because

682
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: for that to happen, they also have to have a

683
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: defense that's keeping opponents off the field. You can't have

684
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: long dry you just gotta shut people down. Defense that

685
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: gives up a lot of points. So you have to

686
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 1: get involved in shootouts. All right, that's another way to

687
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: look at it. Now, here's one thing I don't know.

688
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,320
Speaker 1: Was that a fearless prediction. I don't know if it

689
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: was fearless that the best offense in the NFL. Instead

690
00:36:55,719 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: I went for breaking records. Okay, that's yeah, alright, Well

691
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 1: how about this one. Meanwhile, on the throne of sleeves,

692
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: come in, I say we trust the Father Time. Listen

693
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: to it. Whoa nothing there? Father Time. Father Time, at

694
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: long last, calls his son Tom Brady, it's time to

695
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: come home. Tom. Well, he's not gonna die, Like, where

696
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: are you going with this? Tom Brady will live decades longer.

697
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:45,320
Speaker 1: I'm maybe into his nineties. If everything goes well. Maybe

698
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: with the way he treats his body, he will be

699
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: a hundred and thirty years old by the time he

700
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: breathes his last breath. I hope so. Okay, However, as

701
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: an elite talent in the NFL behind center, I know

702
00:37:58,160 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: people have been saying it for years. I think I

703
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: didn't want him. This is the year that he shows

704
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: signs of slippage. And let me tell you what's gonna happen.

705
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get into details, talk about living to regret.

706
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: He's gonna miss those four games, he ain't getting them back.

707
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: He will throw more interceptions this season than in his

708
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: and season combined. That is, I believe nine nine. No,

709
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 1: we'll get the number rights for you, guys. Uh No,

710
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: ninety through in fourteen, seven and fifteen, So sixteen is

711
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 1: gonna throw more than sixteen interceptions. He will post a

712
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 1: passer rating below ninety for the third time in the

713
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 1: last ten years. And buffoons across America, we'll be calling

714
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 1: for Jimmy Garoppolo by December, even though because they'll do

715
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: well what he's saying. I'm calling a truer people trying

716
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: to burry Tom Brady every offseason for the last three years.

717
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: Is no longer elite and Father times catching up to him.

718
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 1: This is a Trump pipe down West with your gutless

719
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: per actions. Mind's fearless. It's happening this year. And I've

720
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: said it before and people always say it, but guess

721
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: what now it happens thirty nine years old this year.

722
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: Tell me who has not been taken by father time

723
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: by age forty in this league. Look at Peyton Manning

724
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: Farve best year of his career. Brett Farve couldn't even

725
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:24,280
Speaker 1: walk by his forty birthday. That's time. It is time

726
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: for you to realize that he's not always gonna be

727
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: tom terrific. And that starts in and get ready of America.

728
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: All him. I mean that this has nothing to do

729
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 1: with the team. It's just him. I didn't say that.

730
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 1: I didn't say that. I think it could be a

731
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 1: number of factors. I do like his his support around him.

732
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: I don't love it necessarily, especially with Dion Lewis coming

733
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: back from a knee injury. Who knows what you're gonna

734
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 1: get from him. But I think that, uh, it's just

735
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: slip it. It won't be a fall off the cliff

736
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning season, but it will be a season in

737
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:01,280
Speaker 1: which he regresses. And it is kind of like Darrell

738
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: Reevers last season, how he was still very good, but

739
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: he was no longer viewed as the best. That will

740
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,720
Speaker 1: be Tom Brady's two thousand sixte I mean, when it happens,

741
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: it happens pretty quick to these guys, and it's it's

742
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 1: sad to it's just a pressing to watch. No. I mean,

743
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: I think that's the part of this is you're kind

744
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: of waiting for it as a Jets fan too. I

745
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: don't blame you, but the only my argument would be

746
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: this that Tom Brady one thing he'll be looked back

747
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 1: back upon as as changing the way quarterbacks take care

748
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: of their bodies, and we don't have to buy into it.

749
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: But the proof is what he's done on the field.

750
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:39,479
Speaker 1: He's shown literally no signs of regression. So it would

751
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: have to come out of nowhere. So it is a

752
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 1: bold prediction. Yeah, I think it would have to involve

753
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:47,800
Speaker 1: an injury, a serious injury or a nagging injury that

754
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,320
Speaker 1: which can happen because when you get older, body starts

755
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:53,439
Speaker 1: to break down. Far to West's point, far have had

756
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,399
Speaker 1: one of his best seasons in Minnesota at age forty,

757
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 1: but by age forty one he couldn't even throw the

758
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 1: ball anymore and ended the season on the side online.

759
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: So that guy wasn't even eating him a layin pinxil No.

760
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: But I mean, yeah, but like you know, far Of

761
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: is kind of the outlier. Everyone else ever has been

762
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 1: done by age thirty seven or thirty eight, and uh, well, okay,

763
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 1: I mean, do you want to go down the list

764
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: of all the stars that broke down? Do you want

765
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:21,720
Speaker 1: to name two guys that were decent at age forty?

766
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: I think, well, I think Tom Brady is the greatest

767
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 1: quarterback in history. So he's the outlier. I don't think

768
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: the normal rules apply to him. And also, how can

769
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: he be the outlier where he hasn't gotten to the

770
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,839
Speaker 1: age forty area yet? You gotta wait, who's played as

771
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 1: well as he had for who was an empty nine

772
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 1: for a couple of straight years. Also, Tom Brady and

773
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: all today's athletes have much better technology, nutrition, weightlifting routines

774
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: than any anybody had even ten years ago. Um, Warren

775
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: Moon's last big season came at age thirty nine, So

776
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,439
Speaker 1: and then he kind of fell off a cliff, So

777
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:59,879
Speaker 1: well check it out, check it out. So I'm gonna

778
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 1: phill in scientist team. Yeah, he's Moon was a nice player,

779
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,320
Speaker 1: but uh, borderline hall of Fame type guy? Did he

780
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,919
Speaker 1: make the Hall of Fame at age four one three

781
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 1: for twenty five touchdowns in an era when touchdowns was

782
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 1: rivaling for the league, lead the league in yards passing

783
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: yards per game, a wool will ever forget that ninete

784
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: Seahawks teams please, or moon you got hurrying my team

785
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 1: to the Fantasy football championship that year. Whatever, It just

786
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: shows you've been playing too long. Alright, Colleen, Oh, I

787
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 1: can't wait for this slight alright, So get ready to

788
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 1: be wild by this one. Colin Kaepernick will not only

789
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 1: be named the starter, but he's going to have a

790
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: career year, Kelly. Alright. So logic would say, oh, you

791
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 1: know they're in the NFC West and that's a tough division,

792
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,760
Speaker 1: and that defense really struggled. Now it's to be terrible

793
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: in an up tempo system. Oh you have a cocktail

794
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: of Tory Smith and Quentin Patton and Bruce Ellington. Does

795
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 1: not matter, because Chip Kelly and Colin Kaepernick are going

796
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 1: to be perfect for each other. Colin Kaepernick is what

797
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly has been looking for, and Chip Kelly is

798
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: what Colin Kaepernick is, and he is going to get

799
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: a career year out of him, just like he did

800
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: out of Nick Foles, out of Mark Sanchez, out of

801
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:32,280
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford. Happening. That's that is fearless. It is especially

802
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: since he last time we saw him it was like

803
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 1: a hundred and forty pounds and he has not been

804
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: cleared from act and Chip Kelly said that him and

805
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 1: Blaine Gabbert are similar players. Yeah, yeah, except Gabbert's more accurate. Yeah,

806
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I see your thought process, I see where

807
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: you're going with the colleen, and I like the onions

808
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: on display. Um, I wonder if this is would have

809
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 1: been better like two years ago, as it doesn't matter

810
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 1: logic is Kaepernick because he's too far gone physically and

811
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: mentally to put it back together on a bad Niners team.

812
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 1: I think you gotta It would be a huge upset

813
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: for this to happen, but it would be big onions.

814
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,839
Speaker 1: I was sitting in the parking lot thinking about this

815
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: on zero hours of sleep, and I'm confident in my prediction.

816
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,359
Speaker 1: You know what surprised me most about this is, as

817
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: I recall, you are not the biggest chip Kelly fan,

818
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not, so this is I'm really just

819
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: tie into your lack of sleep. Um, probably a lot.

820
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,919
Speaker 1: I did say Lucy Goosey earlier, and I've never used

821
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: that term before in my life, and I'm still thinking

822
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: about it right now. I don't know where it came from,

823
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 1: are you bringing Lucy Goosey back? I'm not. I'm not

824
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: trying to bring it back. I don't even want to

825
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: talk about it. I'm getting brought back to sam so

826
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: right now fanning down college. You know all right? I

827
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 1: think it's if it happened, it would be one of

828
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: the great stories, because if you want to, I can't

829
00:44:55,960 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: find a coach quarterback pairing. We're both sides are more

830
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: aligned by people right now. Chip Kelly's stock has never

831
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: been lower at the NFL level, and Colin Kaepernick, a

832
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 1: wonder boy a few seasons ago, is considered persona on

833
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: GROD at this point. And maybe sometimes that's how these

834
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,319
Speaker 1: let's lift each other out of this. I feel Colin

835
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: Kaepernick weigh the same right now. He is not a

836
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,439
Speaker 1: muscle bound well he is actually, but he's kind of

837
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: how would you ribe him, dan Ah? He is? Why

838
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 1: did I bring you down this? Trying to be nice?

839
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: He's got he's a little man's ll ask right now

840
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:33,800
Speaker 1: in the body. Yeah, he's a little Is it a

841
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 1: professional athlete who hasn't been able to lift weights? Apparently

842
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,760
Speaker 1: that's your that's the key thing holding up? Is he healthy?

843
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 1: Will he be we'll find out. Um. So, alright, so

844
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: we brought back the Dean Scream. Colleen says she's not

845
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: bringing back Lucy Goosey, despite her comment earlier to good Move.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, can we edit that out? Did I did?

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Speaker 1: I mention? I don't know if I brought this up

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Speaker 1: on an earlier podcast because I'm so excited about Dean Scream. Um,

849
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Speaker 1: I was thinking of bringing back you are the weakest

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Speaker 1: slank goodbye? Oh god, wow, to the next thing that

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Speaker 1: that is a that is a bad idea. You are

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Speaker 1: the weakest slank, goodbye. What do you think I'm not

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Speaker 1: officially announcing it that I'm bringing it back. I think

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Speaker 1: maybe think about it a little bit more work with

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Speaker 1: the things you're bringing back. Oh my god help. All right.

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00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: Good job, guys. Nice predictions, many of them fearless. We'll

857
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Speaker 1: see if you live to regret them. And that is

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Speaker 1: it for Monday's edition to be around the NFL podcast. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Connie Fox, get some sleep. I know Aaron Rodgers is

860
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 1: not he was not Lucy Goosey last year. Let's just like,

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Speaker 1: let me just throw that out there, because I know

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get about that on Twitter. I need to

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Speaker 1: go to bed. So take us through this now, is

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Speaker 1: it straight back to the Fox then? Right now? Yeah? Yeah?

865
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Speaker 1: How many hours? Like when will you work? Are you

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Speaker 1: doing HQ tomorrow? I am so. I usually I get

867
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Speaker 1: up for that around eleven, So yeah, I might just

868
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Speaker 1: like go home and go to bed now. I don't

869
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Speaker 1: know how you can. I could never just on command

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Speaker 1: fall asleep in the middle of the day. Oh, I

871
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Speaker 1: have like I have a whole system. I have like

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Speaker 1: this industrial fan going. I tie like a sock around

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Speaker 1: my head so like no light gets into my eyes.

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Speaker 1: If you if you get this video that we promised

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Speaker 1: to take out your Lucy Goosey reference. Okay, maybe I

876
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: don't know what's worse though, all right, So that's it.

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Speaker 1: We'll have a special guest uh in the studio next

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Speaker 1: time we're here, and also a little later in the

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Speaker 1: week we might have a member of the Arizona Cardinals

880
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: in studios. A lot of stuff coming up this week

881
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,279
Speaker 1: on the Around the NFL podcast. Greg will be back

882
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:53,280
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, so make sure you rejoined the Boss as well.

883
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:57,959
Speaker 1: Until then, stand ants signing up for a Quiet Star,

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Speaker 1: the Mailman, Fox to your Lawyer, you go and the

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Speaker 1: Irishman behind in the Glass Wednesday m and Now The

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Speaker 1: Story of America three, Chapter six Party. They crossed a

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Speaker 1: half melted train track into what remains of the old city.

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Speaker 1: Everywhere around them wasted storefronts, fractured through ways, vistas of

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00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: total collapse, no sign of human life. Over the hilltop,

890
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Speaker 1: the shrill cry of Vortex go interrupted their walk. Rhods

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00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 1: gripped her weapon and said to Wolf, keep going with

892
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Speaker 1: your list. Um cool ranch, Torito's funyans, quarter pounders, those

893
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Speaker 1: tubs of ice cream, the one with the chocolate vanilla strawberry.

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00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 1: What was it called? Wolf ast Neopolitan? Do the TV

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Speaker 1: one now Road said Family Ties, Boy meets World, I

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Speaker 1: Dream of Jennie Vultron shahs a sunset the Reunion hold

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Speaker 1: up Roads said. The Vortex goal was overhead, circling descending,

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Speaker 1: unaware of the duo as it landed on a patch

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Speaker 1: of cement in front of what used to be a

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Speaker 1: hybrid Exxon gas station slash car wash. Nobody had used

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Speaker 1: any form of petrol, since the concept of oil was

902
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 1: a child s myth. The vehicle was killed instantly as

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Speaker 1: the Ziconian laser arrow from Lindsay's form mega Soul destroyer

904
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Speaker 1: cross boat ripped through the bird's nerve center dinner, said Rhodes.

905
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Speaker 1: They built a fire inside the hushed remains of a

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Speaker 1: white brick structure that served twenty five years ago as

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Speaker 1: a two star y m c A. The now dead

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00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:00,359
Speaker 1: Vortex gull crackled over the fire. Wolf and Rhodes took

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00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 1: turns peeling streaks of tangerine colored meat off the bone.

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Speaker 1: I really miss beer, said Wolf. I miss waking up

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Speaker 1: on the couch after a house party, jugs of wine everywhere,

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Speaker 1: and al Pacino roaring on some distant television at three

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Speaker 1: fifteen am. I got a job for us, Rhodes said,

914
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Speaker 1: over the firelight. High risk, high reward. I'll listen, said Wolf.

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Speaker 1: Why will I listen? Because we're eating a bird that

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Speaker 1: tastes like Capri's son, meshed with checks mix. It's a

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Speaker 1: big job, said Rhodes. A sea bean one of their

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Speaker 1: heaviest ties, Zephyr nine, their chief nautical map maker, said Rhodes.

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Speaker 1: We have a soul destroyer crossbow, one m volt pistol,

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Speaker 1: and a knife that three decades ago struggle to cut

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Speaker 1: watermell and Wolf said suspiciously, Look, we can get out

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Speaker 1: of this gun for higher life. If we take down

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Speaker 1: tie Zephyr, rohod said, then let's hand tie Zephyr a

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Speaker 1: one way ticket back into the godless sea, said Wolf.

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Speaker 1: We rise at pre dawn, said Rhodes. We'll need to

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Speaker 1: kill and steal the entire way. We'll need to triple

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Speaker 1: our arsenal by the time we get to New Iowa.

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Speaker 1: My calendar is wide open, said Wolf. That night, they

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Speaker 1: slept beside the fire, capping another lost day in the

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Speaker 1: drifting bad lands of America. Three in the morning, they'd

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Speaker 1: move east. Yeah, this is now. Hey, hey, down at bay.

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Speaker 1: I'm strong, boy, Eagle said, boy. Place a light taking

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Speaker 1: a single shot of hide. You can the wrong should

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Speaker 1: I picked that one is given another. I just want

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Speaker 1: to laugh because you're trying to get hip stuck into

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Speaker 1: the car and take a part of my treasure. But

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Speaker 1: even at the dark, I never wanting. I'm very don't