WEBVTT - Fearless Predictions for 2016 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:05.520 The Around the NFL podcast, Call the Fight, It's the 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:09.920 best podcast round. Welcome back to another edition of the 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.119 Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansus, and 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.960 I'm joined by a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:24.160 Chris Westling, and Colleen Wolf. What's up, people? Hey? Hey, 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:28.480 they like that? People. Yeah, that's better than female. Yeah 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.480 you're improving. Yeah, this is this is again a showing 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.600 good host listens to feedback. You were you were somewhat 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.440 offended by me calling you a girl. I mean I 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.600 would say that I was offended that you were calling 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.760 me a girl, but it was just in the delivery. 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:45.880 I think, Hey, female, So I mean I should maybe 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.760 return the favors. So what's up male? See I don't 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:52.120 like that. It's weird. Yeah call me boy. Uh. This 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.640 is the Monday edition of the Around the NFL Podcast, 0:00:55.680 --> 0:01:02.360 sponsored by no One, loved by many, feared by So. Yeah, 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:06.400 in this building the very dangerous podcast that we have here. 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:10.240 And Colleen is sitting in to my right. She's sitting 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:14.440 for the boss, Greg Rosenthal, who is away on some 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:16.880 family business. Maybe we'll get into that a little bit later. 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.560 We're just happy Connie Fox is here. We heard some 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:24.199 travel travel fiasco that had you in in St. Paul, 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.880 Minnesota just hours ago. It was just hours ago. Yeah, 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.320 I traveled from Philly and I almost had to stay 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.440 the night in St. Paul. But just sort of like 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.240 a p s A for everybody. If you buy a 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.520 round trip ticket, especially on Spirit airlines, it's probably your 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.640 first mistake. But if you don't take the trip out 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.600 on the round trip there, they will cancel your return. 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.320 Let's say, let's say this for the sports personalities complained 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:53.040 about I'm Not Complained podcast. She goes right down the 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:58.280 Burtbrier pathway. They're very in American Airline. What were you 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.840 gonna say? It was? I got nothing? Yeah, so I 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.280 here and then you did h Q, which was we've said, 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.880 but is in an absurd uh situation where they have 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:09.680 all the people on the show come in at like 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.280 midnight to tape the show that's running on East Coast time, 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.000 and that starts at six am, which is three am 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.760 on the Pacific coast, and yet you're here, powered through. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.000 I'm here, I'm ready to go. What a great person 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:25.360 you are. Thank you. Absolutely, it's gonna say, well pulled 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:29.600 back boy, Um, all right, good show today, like it 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:33.600 a pre show? Great B plus? You like it to 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.200 some degree? Is that a confident B plus? You gotta 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:42.840 read my inflection? Uh, nice show, nice show we have 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.160 I love this actually, and this one's got it from 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.600 the B to the B plus for me. Um, probably 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.679 because it was my idea but fearless prediction. I may 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:55.359 live to regret about the season. So we'll go around 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.920 the horn, and this is where you hang some onions. 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.919 All right, this is where not only but not you 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.120 don't want to be a funny guy like Johnny Chuckles. 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.480 It's not just about to make everybody laugh. This is 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:09.840 something you actually believe will happen, John Chuck. Yeah, and 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.440 if you make people laugh in the process, hey, good 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.360 job with the marth. But what you're really doing this 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.880 is a real opinion you have about the season that 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.679 I'm assuming if you're doing this right, not many people 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.960 have because after all, it is a fearless prediction you 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.359 may live to regret. That's the part that Johnny Chuckles 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.840 is not delivering. Yeah, check out this one. It's a 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:37.400 real belly acre. I'm glad he's not on this podcast. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:39.800 I don't know. For some reason, that's what I was 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.960 u um, that's what he sounds like to me. We 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.120 also have a bunch of news to get to. Of course, 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.200 again it's the slow period of the NFL calendar. But 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.960 when you are last show is Thursday, things happen and 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.200 we're gonna talk about it. Get you completely uh caught 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.720 up to date. And before we do that, we will 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.240 check behind the glass. There's the irishman. Dan. You got 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.840 me worried now with my travel arrangements for Wednesday. When 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:07.760 I go back east like that, I'm gonna have to be, 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.640 you know, stuck in some random place like St. Paul 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.200 for hours on end. Look at it, Look at the upside. 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.880 If it goes Haywire, you and Countie Fox can co 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:22.279 host the sports personalities complaining I'm not training. I never complained. 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:26.520 It's a lovely airport. We have a restaurant with kiosks 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:34.359 a Spirit Airlines. Yeah, and I Marks got the vapors 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.599 and we got don't know, it's perfectly nice in here. 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.080 Marks got the card waving in the face. I got 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.960 the vapors. Let's do some news. I'm saying here once 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.120 in fall my own horn, that I am the greatest 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:54.360 fighter of all times. Bar On Ah yes, the late 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.480 Muhammad Ali formerly Cassius Clay passed away. We'll get to 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.200 that a little bit, but let's start with some football 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:05.479 news and uh yeah, some bad news for the Denver 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:09.800 Broncos who um found out Mark's waving his face. I 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.159 can't even concentrate. Are you okay, Mark? I am. I 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.760 will stop doing that. No, no, don't stop. It's a 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.320 I don't want you to pass out. Are you really 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.280 distracted by this a little bit? Well? I'm not as 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:26.760 good as a host. I'm going what if I'll hold 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:28.360 up the paper like this? All right, Let's start with 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.080 Broncos cornerback at Keep to Leab, who was shot in 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:34.680 the leg on Sunday morning's Sunday morning in Dallas. The 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:38.680 team announced over the weekend, UH it was a gunshot 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.760 room that has not uh did not need surgery to repair, 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.120 but he was shot. Nonetheless, an NFL media insider Ian 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:50.280 Rapport reported setting sources close to Leab that is expected 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:54.000 to be released Monday from the hospital. Uh. The wound 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.400 is quote minor and only required stitches and medical clean up, 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:01.359 so no major surgery. Uh to leave his thirty years old, 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.839 he spent his high school years in the Dallas area. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.560 Um became a standout NFL corner and uh, you know, 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.320 this is not the type of story you ever want 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.640 to hear, especially when it's one of the most important 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.120 defensive players on your team, right was now, you don't 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:16.400 want to hear it. But I can't say it was 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.880 surprising considering the player involved. I mean, he's been in 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.800 and out of trouble ever since he entered the NFL. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.039 But good news for the bron because it sounds like 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.920 it was tis but a flesh wound. I mean, he 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.440 told the Dallas police that he was in quotes too 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:33.760 intoxicated to remember what happened when he was shot. Sounds 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.840 like it's the kind of thing we're gonna talk about here, 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.440 and we're probably gonna learn more and more about as 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.320 the hours creep alone. Yeah, and I mean, when is 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.680 a When is a gunshot wound really just minor? I mean, 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.679 I'm sure it's not major, but it's still a gunshot wound. 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.960 I mean, a notable event. But I guess, like whether 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.440 he was at a club or wherever he was, I mean, 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.280 I feel like this stuff happens. It's sad to say 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.279 anywhere all the time. So I mean, does it happen 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.679 to you in Santa Monica? Well, yeah, in Santa Monica 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.520 does not happen a lot or Spirit Airlines. But like, 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.920 I just feel like I don't I we don't really 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:12.640 know what happened. But I'm not going to be mad 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.200 at him for being at a club. The real tragedy here, 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.520 by the way, is for keep to Leive's wardrobe, because 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.280 it was just last week that he acknowledged that he 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.680 had spent three thousand, five hundred dollars in a new 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.440 suit that he was wearing for the trip to the 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.520 White House, UH to see Obama today Monday. Insteadies in 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:34.360 a hospital. So sorry about the soup, bro, Let's move 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:39.400 on on that somber note. Harrison Smith has signed a 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.640 big new deal with the Minnesota Vikings. It is worth 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:47.720 um Mondo money five years, fifty one point to five million, 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.080 with a ten million signing bonus up front and nearly 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:55.080 twenty nine million dollars in guarantees. Rap Sheet reports. The 0:07:55.080 --> 0:08:00.000 former first round pick um has been an All Pro twice. 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.040 Uh He's aren't two first team All Pro nods in 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:06.480 his first four seasons. Last year two interceptions, forty seven 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:10.240 tackles West. What makes Harrison Smith so special He can 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.600 do it all. Uh, He's one of the safeties who 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.480 can cover tackle well and he's really good on the 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.400 blitz too. So he's like to keep peace in Mike 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.240 Zimmer's defense. And I think if you say that Earl 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:23.520 Thomas is the best safety in the NFL, Harrison Smith's 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.440 in the discussion for the second best right there with 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.040 Malcolm Jenkins and Rashad Jones. Last season. Really, it's always 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.080 interesting to see when a new coach comes to a 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:35.280 team what players he inherited, are prioritized resigned, And he 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.400 fits the Zimmer profile, and I think, you know, Zimmer, 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.319 I really believe after this season. I'm not saying the 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:42.880 Vikings are a super Bowl team, but I see him 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:44.480 as a top five coach and I think that we'll 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.800 we'll think about him this way after this year. Plus, 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.520 he's in the NFC North, so he's going to be 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.320 facing quarterbacks that aren't afraid to sling the ball either. 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.640 And it makes me wonder, after this deal, what Tyrone 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.200 Matthews going to get, What Eric Barry is going to get. 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.400 I mean, those guys are gonna get paid massive amounts 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.760 good point. I think rap Sheet has reported that Tyrn 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:03.920 Matthew will probably become the highest paid safety in the 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:08.240 NFL even after the two major n surgeries. They they 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.400 see him as the more even like beyond Larry Fitzgerald, 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:13.880 his career is coming to an end. Is their franchise player. 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.480 And he's more than just a safety. He's a slot 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.680 corner and he's sometimes lines up at linebacker. He does everything. 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:23.400 Plus he's dependable too when he's not injured. Yeah, exactly. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.480 Harrison's also one of the best looking dudes in the NFL. 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.160 Him and Decker right at the top of my power rankings. 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.280 Have I said too much? I'd like to see this 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:37.560 full list. Decker a little overrated my opinion. Who it 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.400 comes down to taste. I just don't see him as 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.560 the most handsome player in the NFL. Coming from a 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.720 guy who has a crush on Doug Peterson, I don't. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:49.280 I actually am recalibrating that Coach's Hot Coaches list. Peterson's 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.840 looking like he's he's you know, it's a little too 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:53.920 many hours in the office, little a little more sun, 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.280 little more though he was out in the sun this 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.360 weekend where he's taking batting practice at the ballpark where 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.080 the Phillies playing, and uh yeah, the Eagles were all hitting, 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.240 and uh he was wearing flip flops, which I thought 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:09.319 was an odd choice. That Damage hates that Jack hates 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.880 men wearing flip flops. He doesn't think a man should 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:16.880 ever show his toes speak. Maybe we'll get him in 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.320 here this week and we'll talk to him about that, 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.480 and also win West's toaster, which we need to. You know, 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:24.800 we gotta figure out this toaster situation because I'm not 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:29.040 happy about a two one damashek win in a strange 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.040 round and win West's toaster over Chris, and now he's 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.840 just gonna hold this toaster forever, hold it as long 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.959 as we're waiting for sandwiches to be sent our way 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.600 by Shack for losing uh in our latest round of 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.959 Go get my Lunch Props. There's a lot of stuff 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:46.360 we gotta talk about. Check. Let's that's called pulling a Rosenthal, 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.360 trying to avoid the competition for many many months. Well, 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:53.120 Greg's soul quest was just to bury the segment. But 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.720 he can't do it. He can't do it. Let's move on. Hey, 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.839 Marshawn Lynch won't return to the NFL, don't listen to 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.440 any of his ex teammates, at least that's according to 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:06.080 Marshawn Lynch, who had this to say on sixty Minutes Sports, 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.880 which is apparently a thing. No, I'm done, I'm done, 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.680 Lynch said, I enjoyed plunting, my time playing. Now it's 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.719 time to watch my cousins do they thing. And then 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.160 he looked at the camera and said this, I'm retired. 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.480 Is that good enough? Which camera you want me to 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:27.160 look into? This with me? I'm doing I'm not playing 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:31.520 football anymore. Lynch is yet to formally fire file his 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:37.040 retirement papers, but he was adamant about his retirement. I 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.599 wonder why he's waiting to file those papers. Is it 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:45.520 just like sort of like probably boring? I mean what, 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.400 he announced his retirement in the middle of the Super Bowl, 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.760 throwing all sorts of viewers and reporters into total chaos. 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.199 So it's probably waiting until like humans land on Mars 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.560 or something to interrupt that event. What big event can 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.240 I interrupt with me saying I'm coming back to the NFL. 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.000 I hated that move. I don't know. I still I 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.319 don't like how he got praised for it, and then 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.360 a Rod did the same thing in the World Series 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.760 a few years back, and he was treated as one of, 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.720 you know, members of the Access of Powers or something. 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.280 It was because a Rod is a member of the 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:19.319 Access power. It's such a like, oh look at me, Like, 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.559 how about I get some attention now? Move? I don't 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.880 like any Colleen's calling him a glory boy. I'll translate it, 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.000 I am, but he's I mean, does this I know 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:29.959 we had this conversation a couple of weeks ago and 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:31.640 there was an idea. I think it was a split 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.600 in this room. Oh we'll see him again, even if 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.160 it's with a different team. Does hearing Marshall Lynch say 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.839 this West change your opinion at all? Because I think 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.640 you thought we might know? I was. I was listening 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:43.400 to that podcast a couple of days later because I 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.600 wasn't on that day, and I was throwing stuff at 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.840 my phone, like why are you guys taking this so 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.240 seriously that a couple of teammates think he might come back? 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:54.400 Of course he's done. He's done. Throwing pencils at your 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:56.720 phone to do whatever stuff in my phone? Like why 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.160 is it? Why is every nobody there is saying, of 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:03.680 course he's done, he's retired. Well, now you've said it, UH, 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.720 let's move on, Clay Matthews. You know, I was gonna 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:13.559 file this under a trope alert, but I'm not gonna 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:17.040 do it because this, to me, this story actually makes 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.959 sense to me. Clay Matthews had moved inside at linebacker 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.240 for what the last two seasons or the better part 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.559 of the last two seasons, filling a void on that 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:28.680 defensive Green Bay, but it wasn't necessarily his strongest position. 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:32.760 And now UH coach Mike McCarthy said that Mike that 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.360 Matthews has spent the quote majority of his snaps at 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:40.199 outside linebacker. Um in O T A S. And here's 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.320 the quote from Clay Matthews. As as I've continued to say, 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.520 I think outside linebacker is my natural, most natural position, 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.840 my most impactful position, and I think we'll see that 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.839 on a more consistent basis this season, he told the 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:58.160 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Mark, here's my question. If everyone knows 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.480 that he was a much more effective player in the outside, 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.720 why do we burn two years of his prime putting 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.640 them in the middle. It happens to players, I mean, 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.079 they had a total need but I couldn't agree more 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:09.959 that you want him back. This reminds me of the 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.959 way that Greg operates with his oyees. He puts them 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.280 in a position to succeed. So let's put Matthews back 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:22.160 where he's most position. It shouldn't be in. Yeah, exactly. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:26.240 During the defensive Player of the Year candidate at outside 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.520 linebacker early in his career, and I think he's seeing 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:30.920 a draft. Outside linebackers go in the first round. Inside 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.160 linebackers go in the second and third rounds because they're 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:36.120 not as valuable of a position. He's good at that position, 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.160 he's successful at it. They it would behoove them to 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.600 have him play that position, but for some reason they 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.240 just didn't have him do it. They kept putting him inside, 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.680 and that sort of baffles my mind a little bit 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:49.960 why they kept doing it, but I guess it happens 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.120 all the time. They're also a team that they've long 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.680 refused to sign free agents, and maybe that would have 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.840 been a time where you find that inside linebacker in 0:14:57.920 --> 0:14:59.920 free agency so that you don't have to move matth 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.120 Use over. But that's not how they operation. Imagine how 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.760 frustrated he's been playing that position, knowing that he's better 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:09.480 in the other position. I don't think we didn't miss that. Behoove, 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:16.080 nice drop. Thanks. Uh. Moving on j PP, who lost 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.160 parts of his right hand in a fireworks accident on 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.280 the fourth of July last summer. Uh, he has different 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.560 plans this July four. This is what he had to 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.880 say to reporters. A giants otis I won't even be 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.320 in the United States where I'm going, they don't celebrate 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.320 the fourth of July. Colleen, that's a good idea, isn't it. 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:38.000 Get the hell out of America? Lay low on Old. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.000 I haven't seen this story yet. That so that's amazing. 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.400 He's leaving the He's leaving the United States altogether to 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:49.000 avoid the July four completely good. I guess it's a 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:52.400 smart move. Get as far away from it as possible. 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.600 I mean, by the way, the issue isn't what country 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.640 he was in. I mean it might be harder to 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.120 procure fireworks. I think I saw somebody said Haiti. Maybe 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.920 he was going. Probably harder to get fireworks in Haiti's 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:06.920 where his parents are from. And I don't think Haitians 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.520 are celebrating an American Independence Day on July four, but 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:13.040 they might celebrate explosives. It's a weird thing. I mean 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.360 the fire fireworks that's saying anyway on July four, Like, 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.920 what's the feel like? They've been around for what years now? 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:21.720 Maybe we could move on to something else. I haven't. 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.200 I have an uncle who every time we would go 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.960 to uh, whether it was Fourth of July or some 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.359 type of place that had fireworks, he would get emotional 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.320 that he would start to get his eyes would water up, 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.000 they would well up with tears because I think it 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.360 probably had something to do with his old man who 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.880 had passed by that point. But I never asked, but 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.560 I always noticed that he got emotional. I love fireworks always, 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.480 but I was never the guy that was like, let's 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.000 go set them off behind the old high school. You 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.280 were observing them, Yeah, I was an observer. If you 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.880 see one firework display, you've seen them all, right. I 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.000 think we're together last July four It then you were like, 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.080 this is ridiculous. I don't know why we walked have 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.080 a way down here to watch fireworks. Sounds like we 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.720 had a party at my place and down as kids 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:08.200 don't like you sit on the front of a car 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.920 does mean something? My yeah, sure, In my coal town 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.080 where I grew up, Pearl River. Every Fourth of July 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:15.679 they had a fireworks and we could see it from 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.320 our porch. It was a great memory. I like fireworks, 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.760 pro fireworks. You think they might shy away from fireworks 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:22.240 with all that coal around, You know what the whole 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:26.119 place because I know the business. The coal is deep 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:30.439 within the earth core. Uh so, and the fireworks are 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:34.120 celebration of being above ground. Good analysis on the coaltown 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:42.200 for fireworks scenario coal residents. Finally, um yeah, now it's 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:51.160 time for some trop alerts. Triplet triplet Bucks lines backer 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.840 Lavante David says that the Tampa Bay defense can be 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:58.199 quote the best defense ever. Yeah, I'm gonna say it. 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.959 Put it on me. I'm gonna say it. NFL history, 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:06.840 Bucks history, anything. That's just the type of attitude we have. 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:11.400 And Kevin Patra, who we love our Chicago correspondent inserts 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:16.879 here insert obligatory offseason I roll. It's about right. Are 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:20.080 the Bucks gonna be top ten on defense? Let's aim 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.880 for being top best in NFL history, I mean best 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.320 in Bucks history would be amazing. If they were able 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.480 to do that. I remember that two thousand time ago. 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.600 Then two thousand fifteen, the Bucks defense ranked six in 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.760 the NFL, allowing an average of twenty six point one 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:40.880 one points per game UH tenth and yards allowed. So there, 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:43.880 I really like what they've got going on in offense. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.960 They've got a great nucleus. Now, it's very interesting. I 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.040 am far from sold on the defense. They what are 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.040 the impact players Lavonte David Jeral McCoy, and that's the list. 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:57.520 Feels kind of like a somewhat covert shot at Lovey Smith. 0:18:57.840 --> 0:18:59.600 We got him out of the building. The defense is 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:01.359 going to take a major step. I think that's a 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:11.719 fair shot. Triplet. I like her. Hugh Jackson has this 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:17.760 to say about cornerback Justin Gilbert. He's been sensational. He's 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:19.680 done everything we've asked him to do the way we've 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:21.760 asked him to do it. One of my favorite offseason 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:26.479 troupes Draft Bust, turning the corner in a desperation season 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:30.679 Mark Well. The one thing about Hugh Jackson is he 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:36.120 has been exceedingly across the board positive about every single 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.600 player on the roster, and there is no one with 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:43.080 Johnny Manziel not in Cleveland. Justin Gilbert is the absolute 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.040 number one point of suspicion. I won't believe a word 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.800 of it. Josh Gordon is up there too. Well, Gordon's 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:51.040 not literally on the field right now. But yes, you're right, 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.200 but we've seen Josh Gordon produce at a big time level. 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.679 Justin Gilbert played less slaps. It's less snaps last year 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.119 than the year before. And with him, it's not he 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:02.960 physically talented. His heat had teammates coming out of the 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.080 woodwork to say, this guy's head is not in the game. 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.320 So if he can turn that around, we'll see. But 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.440 that's a lot to take on. He seems almost universally 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:13.560 reviled by teammates and coaches in Cleveland over the last 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.000 two years. You're not wrong. I think I think some 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:18.200 teammates said it's a little bit different right now. But again, 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.480 it's June. You gotta we gotta see this in September. 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:24.280 Justin Gilbert rather have Dilbert in my secondary comic book, 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:29.480 joke nailed it. He seems Mobile nailed it. Dilbert. Uh 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:34.159 And finally, yes, sad news in the sports world broke 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:38.320 on Friday night. Muhammad Ali, the greatest he was known as, 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:43.840 died at age seventy four. Complications connected to Parkins's disease, 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:48.440 which he had battled for over thirty years. Uh, I 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:52.240 was a little too young. I missed Ali. His career 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:56.320 ended right when right after I was born, basically, but um, 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:58.760 he still is a guy that a huge figure and 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:01.000 it actually I was watching him. I watched a George 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:04.400 Foreman fight. Um, I think it was the thriller in Manila. 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:07.480 It was that the Foreman fight, So I think that 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:09.280 was the Frasier fight. That was the Frasier fight, but 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:11.720 the fight fight before that was the Foreman fight where 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:16.960 he recaptured the title at age thirty two. And um, 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:19.040 it made me jealous, and it made it reminded me 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:21.919 of being a kid watching Mike Tyson fights. How excited, 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:24.359 how exciting it was to be a boxing fan, and 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:26.760 how I kinda I wanted to talk to my dad 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:28.600 about it. How excited it must have been when Ali 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:30.879 was in his prime, because he was such a not 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:34.520 only one of the greatest boxers ever, maybe the greatest 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:37.320 boxer ever, but one of the great showman and personalities 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:39.480 and guy that that fought for things, the fought for 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:42.680 things that he believed and didn't care what the the 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:46.240