Speaker 1: The Around the NFL podcast, Call the Fight, It's the
Speaker 1: best podcast round. Welcome back to another edition of the
Speaker 1: Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansus, and
Speaker 1: I'm joined by a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: Chris Westling, and Colleen Wolf. What's up, people? Hey? Hey,
Speaker 1: they like that? People. Yeah, that's better than female. Yeah
Speaker 1: you're improving. Yeah, this is this is again a showing
Speaker 1: good host listens to feedback. You were you were somewhat
Speaker 1: offended by me calling you a girl. I mean I
Speaker 1: would say that I was offended that you were calling
Speaker 1: me a girl, but it was just in the delivery.
Speaker 1: I think, Hey, female, So I mean I should maybe
Speaker 1: return the favors. So what's up male? See I don't
Speaker 1: like that. It's weird. Yeah call me boy. Uh. This
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Speaker 1: in this building the very dangerous podcast that we have here.
Speaker 1: And Colleen is sitting in to my right. She's sitting
Speaker 1: for the boss, Greg Rosenthal, who is away on some
Speaker 1: family business. Maybe we'll get into that a little bit later.
Speaker 1: We're just happy Connie Fox is here. We heard some
Speaker 1: travel travel fiasco that had you in in St. Paul,
Speaker 1: Minnesota just hours ago. It was just hours ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I traveled from Philly and I almost had to stay
Speaker 1: the night in St. Paul. But just sort of like
Speaker 1: a p s A for everybody. If you buy a
Speaker 1: round trip ticket, especially on Spirit airlines, it's probably your
Speaker 1: first mistake. But if you don't take the trip out
Speaker 1: on the round trip there, they will cancel your return.
Speaker 1: Let's say, let's say this for the sports personalities complained
Speaker 1: about I'm Not Complained podcast. She goes right down the
Speaker 1: Burtbrier pathway. They're very in American Airline. What were you
Speaker 1: gonna say? It was? I got nothing? Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: here and then you did h Q, which was we've said,
Speaker 1: but is in an absurd uh situation where they have
Speaker 1: all the people on the show come in at like
Speaker 1: midnight to tape the show that's running on East Coast time,
Speaker 1: and that starts at six am, which is three am
Speaker 1: on the Pacific coast, and yet you're here, powered through.
Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm ready to go. What a great person
Speaker 1: you are. Thank you. Absolutely, it's gonna say, well pulled
Speaker 1: back boy, Um, all right, good show today, like it
Speaker 1: a pre show? Great B plus? You like it to
Speaker 1: some degree? Is that a confident B plus? You gotta
Speaker 1: read my inflection? Uh, nice show, nice show we have
Speaker 1: I love this actually, and this one's got it from
Speaker 1: the B to the B plus for me. Um, probably
Speaker 1: because it was my idea but fearless prediction. I may
Speaker 1: live to regret about the season. So we'll go around
Speaker 1: the horn, and this is where you hang some onions.
Speaker 1: All right, this is where not only but not you
Speaker 1: don't want to be a funny guy like Johnny Chuckles.
Speaker 1: It's not just about to make everybody laugh. This is
Speaker 1: something you actually believe will happen, John Chuck. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: if you make people laugh in the process, hey, good
Speaker 1: job with the marth. But what you're really doing this
Speaker 1: is a real opinion you have about the season that
Speaker 1: I'm assuming if you're doing this right, not many people
Speaker 1: have because after all, it is a fearless prediction you
Speaker 1: may live to regret. That's the part that Johnny Chuckles
Speaker 1: is not delivering. Yeah, check out this one. It's a
Speaker 1: real belly acre. I'm glad he's not on this podcast.
Speaker 1: I don't know. For some reason, that's what I was
Speaker 1: u um, that's what he sounds like to me. We
Speaker 1: also have a bunch of news to get to. Of course,
Speaker 1: again it's the slow period of the NFL calendar. But
Speaker 1: when you are last show is Thursday, things happen and
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about it. Get you completely uh caught
Speaker 1: up to date. And before we do that, we will
Speaker 1: check behind the glass. There's the irishman. Dan. You got
Speaker 1: me worried now with my travel arrangements for Wednesday. When
Speaker 1: I go back east like that, I'm gonna have to be,
Speaker 1: you know, stuck in some random place like St. Paul
Speaker 1: for hours on end. Look at it, Look at the upside.
Speaker 1: If it goes Haywire, you and Countie Fox can co
Speaker 1: host the sports personalities complaining I'm not training. I never complained.
Speaker 1: It's a lovely airport. We have a restaurant with kiosks
Speaker 1: a Spirit Airlines. Yeah, and I Marks got the vapors
Speaker 1: and we got don't know, it's perfectly nice in here.
Speaker 1: Marks got the card waving in the face. I got
Speaker 1: the vapors. Let's do some news. I'm saying here once
Speaker 1: in fall my own horn, that I am the greatest
Speaker 1: fighter of all times. Bar On Ah yes, the late
Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali formerly Cassius Clay passed away. We'll get to
Speaker 1: that a little bit, but let's start with some football
Speaker 1: news and uh yeah, some bad news for the Denver
Speaker 1: Broncos who um found out Mark's waving his face. I
Speaker 1: can't even concentrate. Are you okay, Mark? I am. I
Speaker 1: will stop doing that. No, no, don't stop. It's a
Speaker 1: I don't want you to pass out. Are you really
Speaker 1: distracted by this a little bit? Well? I'm not as
Speaker 1: good as a host. I'm going what if I'll hold
Speaker 1: up the paper like this? All right, Let's start with
Speaker 1: Broncos cornerback at Keep to Leab, who was shot in
Speaker 1: the leg on Sunday morning's Sunday morning in Dallas. The
Speaker 1: team announced over the weekend, UH it was a gunshot
Speaker 1: room that has not uh did not need surgery to repair,
Speaker 1: but he was shot. Nonetheless, an NFL media insider Ian
Speaker 1: Rapport reported setting sources close to Leab that is expected
Speaker 1: to be released Monday from the hospital. Uh. The wound
Speaker 1: is quote minor and only required stitches and medical clean up,
Speaker 1: so no major surgery. Uh to leave his thirty years old,
Speaker 1: he spent his high school years in the Dallas area.
Speaker 1: Um became a standout NFL corner and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: this is not the type of story you ever want
Speaker 1: to hear, especially when it's one of the most important
Speaker 1: defensive players on your team, right was now, you don't
Speaker 1: want to hear it. But I can't say it was
Speaker 1: surprising considering the player involved. I mean, he's been in
Speaker 1: and out of trouble ever since he entered the NFL.
Speaker 1: But good news for the bron because it sounds like
Speaker 1: it was tis but a flesh wound. I mean, he
Speaker 1: told the Dallas police that he was in quotes too
Speaker 1: intoxicated to remember what happened when he was shot. Sounds
Speaker 1: like it's the kind of thing we're gonna talk about here,
Speaker 1: and we're probably gonna learn more and more about as
Speaker 1: the hours creep alone. Yeah, and I mean, when is
Speaker 1: a When is a gunshot wound really just minor? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's not major, but it's still a gunshot wound.
Speaker 1: I mean, a notable event. But I guess, like whether
Speaker 1: he was at a club or wherever he was, I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like this stuff happens. It's sad to say
Speaker 1: anywhere all the time. So I mean, does it happen
Speaker 1: to you in Santa Monica? Well, yeah, in Santa Monica
Speaker 1: does not happen a lot or Spirit Airlines. But like,
Speaker 1: I just feel like I don't I we don't really
Speaker 1: know what happened. But I'm not going to be mad
Speaker 1: at him for being at a club. The real tragedy here,
Speaker 1: by the way, is for keep to Leive's wardrobe, because
Speaker 1: it was just last week that he acknowledged that he
Speaker 1: had spent three thousand, five hundred dollars in a new
Speaker 1: suit that he was wearing for the trip to the
Speaker 1: White House, UH to see Obama today Monday. Insteadies in
Speaker 1: a hospital. So sorry about the soup, bro, Let's move
Speaker 1: on on that somber note. Harrison Smith has signed a
Speaker 1: big new deal with the Minnesota Vikings. It is worth
Speaker 1: um Mondo money five years, fifty one point to five million,
Speaker 1: with a ten million signing bonus up front and nearly
Speaker 1: twenty nine million dollars in guarantees. Rap Sheet reports. The
Speaker 1: former first round pick um has been an All Pro twice.
Speaker 1: Uh He's aren't two first team All Pro nods in
Speaker 1: his first four seasons. Last year two interceptions, forty seven
Speaker 1: tackles West. What makes Harrison Smith so special He can
Speaker 1: do it all. Uh, He's one of the safeties who
Speaker 1: can cover tackle well and he's really good on the
Speaker 1: blitz too. So he's like to keep peace in Mike
Speaker 1: Zimmer's defense. And I think if you say that Earl
Speaker 1: Thomas is the best safety in the NFL, Harrison Smith's
Speaker 1: in the discussion for the second best right there with
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins and Rashad Jones. Last season. Really, it's always
Speaker 1: interesting to see when a new coach comes to a
Speaker 1: team what players he inherited, are prioritized resigned, And he
Speaker 1: fits the Zimmer profile, and I think, you know, Zimmer,
Speaker 1: I really believe after this season. I'm not saying the
Speaker 1: Vikings are a super Bowl team, but I see him
Speaker 1: as a top five coach and I think that we'll
Speaker 1: we'll think about him this way after this year. Plus,
Speaker 1: he's in the NFC North, so he's going to be
Speaker 1: facing quarterbacks that aren't afraid to sling the ball either.
Speaker 1: And it makes me wonder, after this deal, what Tyrone
Speaker 1: Matthews going to get, What Eric Barry is going to get.
Speaker 1: I mean, those guys are gonna get paid massive amounts
Speaker 1: good point. I think rap Sheet has reported that Tyrn
Speaker 1: Matthew will probably become the highest paid safety in the
Speaker 1: NFL even after the two major n surgeries. They they
Speaker 1: see him as the more even like beyond Larry Fitzgerald,
Speaker 1: his career is coming to an end. Is their franchise player.
Speaker 1: And he's more than just a safety. He's a slot
Speaker 1: corner and he's sometimes lines up at linebacker. He does everything.
Speaker 1: Plus he's dependable too when he's not injured. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Harrison's also one of the best looking dudes in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Him and Decker right at the top of my power rankings.
Speaker 1: Have I said too much? I'd like to see this
Speaker 1: full list. Decker a little overrated my opinion. Who it
Speaker 1: comes down to taste. I just don't see him as
Speaker 1: the most handsome player in the NFL. Coming from a
Speaker 1: guy who has a crush on Doug Peterson, I don't.
Speaker 1: I actually am recalibrating that Coach's Hot Coaches list. Peterson's
Speaker 1: looking like he's he's you know, it's a little too
Speaker 1: many hours in the office, little a little more sun,
Speaker 1: little more though he was out in the sun this
Speaker 1: weekend where he's taking batting practice at the ballpark where
Speaker 1: the Phillies playing, and uh yeah, the Eagles were all hitting,
Speaker 1: and uh he was wearing flip flops, which I thought
Speaker 1: was an odd choice. That Damage hates that Jack hates
Speaker 1: men wearing flip flops. He doesn't think a man should
Speaker 1: ever show his toes speak. Maybe we'll get him in
Speaker 1: here this week and we'll talk to him about that,
Speaker 1: and also win West's toaster, which we need to. You know,
Speaker 1: we gotta figure out this toaster situation because I'm not
Speaker 1: happy about a two one damashek win in a strange
Speaker 1: round and win West's toaster over Chris, and now he's
Speaker 1: just gonna hold this toaster forever, hold it as long
Speaker 1: as we're waiting for sandwiches to be sent our way
Speaker 1: by Shack for losing uh in our latest round of
Speaker 1: Go get my Lunch Props. There's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: we gotta talk about. Check. Let's that's called pulling a Rosenthal,
Speaker 1: trying to avoid the competition for many many months. Well,
Speaker 1: Greg's soul quest was just to bury the segment. But
Speaker 1: he can't do it. He can't do it. Let's move on. Hey,
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch won't return to the NFL, don't listen to
Speaker 1: any of his ex teammates, at least that's according to
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch, who had this to say on sixty Minutes Sports,
Speaker 1: which is apparently a thing. No, I'm done, I'm done,
Speaker 1: Lynch said, I enjoyed plunting, my time playing. Now it's
Speaker 1: time to watch my cousins do they thing. And then
Speaker 1: he looked at the camera and said this, I'm retired.
Speaker 1: Is that good enough? Which camera you want me to
Speaker 1: look into? This with me? I'm doing I'm not playing
Speaker 1: football anymore. Lynch is yet to formally fire file his
Speaker 1: retirement papers, but he was adamant about his retirement. I
Speaker 1: wonder why he's waiting to file those papers. Is it
Speaker 1: just like sort of like probably boring? I mean what,
Speaker 1: he announced his retirement in the middle of the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: throwing all sorts of viewers and reporters into total chaos.
Speaker 1: So it's probably waiting until like humans land on Mars
Speaker 1: or something to interrupt that event. What big event can
Speaker 1: I interrupt with me saying I'm coming back to the NFL.
Speaker 1: I hated that move. I don't know. I still I
Speaker 1: don't like how he got praised for it, and then
Speaker 1: a Rod did the same thing in the World Series
Speaker 1: a few years back, and he was treated as one of,
Speaker 1: you know, members of the Access of Powers or something.
Speaker 1: It was because a Rod is a member of the
Speaker 1: Access power. It's such a like, oh look at me, Like,
Speaker 1: how about I get some attention now? Move? I don't
Speaker 1: like any Colleen's calling him a glory boy. I'll translate it,
Speaker 1: I am, but he's I mean, does this I know
Speaker 1: we had this conversation a couple of weeks ago and
Speaker 1: there was an idea. I think it was a split
Speaker 1: in this room. Oh we'll see him again, even if
Speaker 1: it's with a different team. Does hearing Marshall Lynch say
Speaker 1: this West change your opinion at all? Because I think
Speaker 1: you thought we might know? I was. I was listening
Speaker 1: to that podcast a couple of days later because I
Speaker 1: wasn't on that day, and I was throwing stuff at
Speaker 1: my phone, like why are you guys taking this so
Speaker 1: seriously that a couple of teammates think he might come back?
Speaker 1: Of course he's done. He's done. Throwing pencils at your
Speaker 1: phone to do whatever stuff in my phone? Like why
Speaker 1: is it? Why is every nobody there is saying, of
Speaker 1: course he's done, he's retired. Well, now you've said it, UH,
Speaker 1: let's move on, Clay Matthews. You know, I was gonna
Speaker 1: file this under a trope alert, but I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: do it because this, to me, this story actually makes
Speaker 1: sense to me. Clay Matthews had moved inside at linebacker
Speaker 1: for what the last two seasons or the better part
Speaker 1: of the last two seasons, filling a void on that
Speaker 1: defensive Green Bay, but it wasn't necessarily his strongest position.
Speaker 1: And now UH coach Mike McCarthy said that Mike that
Speaker 1: Matthews has spent the quote majority of his snaps at
Speaker 1: outside linebacker. Um in O T A S. And here's
Speaker 1: the quote from Clay Matthews. As as I've continued to say,
Speaker 1: I think outside linebacker is my natural, most natural position,
Speaker 1: my most impactful position, and I think we'll see that
Speaker 1: on a more consistent basis this season, he told the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Mark, here's my question. If everyone knows
Speaker 1: that he was a much more effective player in the outside,
Speaker 1: why do we burn two years of his prime putting
Speaker 1: them in the middle. It happens to players, I mean,
Speaker 1: they had a total need but I couldn't agree more
Speaker 1: that you want him back. This reminds me of the
Speaker 1: way that Greg operates with his oyees. He puts them
Speaker 1: in a position to succeed. So let's put Matthews back
Speaker 1: where he's most position. It shouldn't be in. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: During the defensive Player of the Year candidate at outside
Speaker 1: linebacker early in his career, and I think he's seeing
Speaker 1: a draft. Outside linebackers go in the first round. Inside
Speaker 1: linebackers go in the second and third rounds because they're
Speaker 1: not as valuable of a position. He's good at that position,
Speaker 1: he's successful at it. They it would behoove them to
Speaker 1: have him play that position, but for some reason they
Speaker 1: just didn't have him do it. They kept putting him inside,
Speaker 1: and that sort of baffles my mind a little bit
Speaker 1: why they kept doing it, but I guess it happens
Speaker 1: all the time. They're also a team that they've long
Speaker 1: refused to sign free agents, and maybe that would have
Speaker 1: been a time where you find that inside linebacker in
Speaker 1: free agency so that you don't have to move matth
Speaker 1: Use over. But that's not how they operation. Imagine how
Speaker 1: frustrated he's been playing that position, knowing that he's better
Speaker 1: in the other position. I don't think we didn't miss that. Behoove,
Speaker 1: nice drop. Thanks. Uh. Moving on j PP, who lost
Speaker 1: parts of his right hand in a fireworks accident on
Speaker 1: the fourth of July last summer. Uh, he has different
Speaker 1: plans this July four. This is what he had to
Speaker 1: say to reporters. A giants otis I won't even be
Speaker 1: in the United States where I'm going, they don't celebrate
Speaker 1: the fourth of July. Colleen, that's a good idea, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Get the hell out of America? Lay low on Old.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen this story yet. That so that's amazing.
Speaker 1: He's leaving the He's leaving the United States altogether to
Speaker 1: avoid the July four completely good. I guess it's a
Speaker 1: smart move. Get as far away from it as possible.
Speaker 1: I mean, by the way, the issue isn't what country
Speaker 1: he was in. I mean it might be harder to
Speaker 1: procure fireworks. I think I saw somebody said Haiti. Maybe
Speaker 1: he was going. Probably harder to get fireworks in Haiti's
Speaker 1: where his parents are from. And I don't think Haitians
Speaker 1: are celebrating an American Independence Day on July four, but
Speaker 1: they might celebrate explosives. It's a weird thing. I mean
Speaker 1: the fire fireworks that's saying anyway on July four, Like,
Speaker 1: what's the feel like? They've been around for what years now?
Speaker 1: Maybe we could move on to something else. I haven't.
Speaker 1: I have an uncle who every time we would go
Speaker 1: to uh, whether it was Fourth of July or some
Speaker 1: type of place that had fireworks, he would get emotional
Speaker 1: that he would start to get his eyes would water up,
Speaker 1: they would well up with tears because I think it
Speaker 1: probably had something to do with his old man who
Speaker 1: had passed by that point. But I never asked, but
Speaker 1: I always noticed that he got emotional. I love fireworks always,
Speaker 1: but I was never the guy that was like, let's
Speaker 1: go set them off behind the old high school. You
Speaker 1: were observing them, Yeah, I was an observer. If you
Speaker 1: see one firework display, you've seen them all, right. I
Speaker 1: think we're together last July four It then you were like,
Speaker 1: this is ridiculous. I don't know why we walked have
Speaker 1: a way down here to watch fireworks. Sounds like we
Speaker 1: had a party at my place and down as kids
Speaker 1: don't like you sit on the front of a car
Speaker 1: does mean something? My yeah, sure, In my coal town
Speaker 1: where I grew up, Pearl River. Every Fourth of July
Speaker 1: they had a fireworks and we could see it from
Speaker 1: our porch. It was a great memory. I like fireworks,
Speaker 1: pro fireworks. You think they might shy away from fireworks
Speaker 1: with all that coal around, You know what the whole
Speaker 1: place because I know the business. The coal is deep
Speaker 1: within the earth core. Uh so, and the fireworks are
Speaker 1: celebration of being above ground. Good analysis on the coaltown
Speaker 1: for fireworks scenario coal residents. Finally, um yeah, now it's
Speaker 1: time for some trop alerts. Triplet triplet Bucks lines backer
Speaker 1: Lavante David says that the Tampa Bay defense can be
Speaker 1: quote the best defense ever. Yeah, I'm gonna say it.
Speaker 1: Put it on me. I'm gonna say it. NFL history,
Speaker 1: Bucks history, anything. That's just the type of attitude we have.
Speaker 1: And Kevin Patra, who we love our Chicago correspondent inserts
Speaker 1: here insert obligatory offseason I roll. It's about right. Are
Speaker 1: the Bucks gonna be top ten on defense? Let's aim
Speaker 1: for being top best in NFL history, I mean best
Speaker 1: in Bucks history would be amazing. If they were able
Speaker 1: to do that. I remember that two thousand time ago.
Speaker 1: Then two thousand fifteen, the Bucks defense ranked six in
Speaker 1: the NFL, allowing an average of twenty six point one
Speaker 1: one points per game UH tenth and yards allowed. So there,
Speaker 1: I really like what they've got going on in offense.
Speaker 1: They've got a great nucleus. Now, it's very interesting. I
Speaker 1: am far from sold on the defense. They what are
Speaker 1: the impact players Lavonte David Jeral McCoy, and that's the list.
Speaker 1: Feels kind of like a somewhat covert shot at Lovey Smith.
Speaker 1: We got him out of the building. The defense is
Speaker 1: going to take a major step. I think that's a
Speaker 1: fair shot. Triplet. I like her. Hugh Jackson has this
Speaker 1: to say about cornerback Justin Gilbert. He's been sensational. He's
Speaker 1: done everything we've asked him to do the way we've
Speaker 1: asked him to do it. One of my favorite offseason
Speaker 1: troupes Draft Bust, turning the corner in a desperation season
Speaker 1: Mark Well. The one thing about Hugh Jackson is he
Speaker 1: has been exceedingly across the board positive about every single
Speaker 1: player on the roster, and there is no one with
Speaker 1: Johnny Manziel not in Cleveland. Justin Gilbert is the absolute
Speaker 1: number one point of suspicion. I won't believe a word
Speaker 1: of it. Josh Gordon is up there too. Well, Gordon's
Speaker 1: not literally on the field right now. But yes, you're right,
Speaker 1: but we've seen Josh Gordon produce at a big time level.
Speaker 1: Justin Gilbert played less slaps. It's less snaps last year
Speaker 1: than the year before. And with him, it's not he
Speaker 1: physically talented. His heat had teammates coming out of the
Speaker 1: woodwork to say, this guy's head is not in the game.
Speaker 1: So if he can turn that around, we'll see. But
Speaker 1: that's a lot to take on. He seems almost universally
Speaker 1: reviled by teammates and coaches in Cleveland over the last
Speaker 1: two years. You're not wrong. I think I think some
Speaker 1: teammates said it's a little bit different right now. But again,
Speaker 1: it's June. You gotta we gotta see this in September.
Speaker 1: Justin Gilbert rather have Dilbert in my secondary comic book,
Speaker 1: joke nailed it. He seems Mobile nailed it. Dilbert. Uh
Speaker 1: And finally, yes, sad news in the sports world broke
Speaker 1: on Friday night. Muhammad Ali, the greatest he was known as,
Speaker 1: died at age seventy four. Complications connected to Parkins's disease,
Speaker 1: which he had battled for over thirty years. Uh, I
Speaker 1: was a little too young. I missed Ali. His career
Speaker 1: ended right when right after I was born, basically, but um,
Speaker 1: he still is a guy that a huge figure and
Speaker 1: it actually I was watching him. I watched a George
Speaker 1: Foreman fight. Um, I think it was the thriller in Manila.
Speaker 1: It was that the Foreman fight, So I think that
Speaker 1: was the Frasier fight. That was the Frasier fight, but
Speaker 1: the fight fight before that was the Foreman fight where
Speaker 1: he recaptured the title at age thirty two. And um,
Speaker 1: it made me jealous, and it made it reminded me
Speaker 1: of being a kid watching Mike Tyson fights. How excited,
Speaker 1: how exciting it was to be a boxing fan, and
Speaker 1: how I kinda I wanted to talk to my dad
Speaker 1: about it. How excited it must have been when Ali
Speaker 1: was in his prime, because he was such a not
Speaker 1: only one of the greatest boxers ever, maybe the greatest
Speaker 1: boxer ever, but one of the great showman and personalities
Speaker 1: and guy that that fought for things, the fought for
Speaker 1: things that he believed and didn't care what the the
Speaker 1: mainstream and what the establishment thought he was a titan
Speaker 1: in American history in the twentieth century. Was name me
Speaker 1: or find me a more impactful quote by an athlete
Speaker 1: than no viet cong ever called me. It's the greatest
Speaker 1: quote by an athlete in America. I think it's the
Speaker 1: most impactful, most revolutionary quote. He was willing to give
Speaker 1: up three years of his prime and jail time to
Speaker 1: sit out the Vietnam War, which was dividing the country.
Speaker 1: And he was the most admired athlete by African Americans
Speaker 1: in the country, probably in the world. He at one
Speaker 1: time in his career he might have been the most
Speaker 1: popular human being on the planet. Also a controversial guy.
Speaker 1: He was vilified for those same views by a large
Speaker 1: segment of society, and he wasn't afraid to kind of
Speaker 1: draw that line and say this is who I am.
Speaker 1: Get on this side of the other side, which he
Speaker 1: had to give him credit for. Well, go ahead, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say. He basically invented swagger for an athlete too.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's him trash talking swagger and you can
Speaker 1: call him and he was good at it. So many
Speaker 1: people are. He was absolutely polarizing. But I think when
Speaker 1: you look back, he stands on the right side of history.
Speaker 1: He became this amazing symbol of defiance. And he was
Speaker 1: so charismatic and he was so controversial at the same time.
Speaker 1: But it was like he demanded attention anywhere he was
Speaker 1: and he was just everything he did was entertaining, whether
Speaker 1: he was in the rank or whether he was just talking. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys did a good job calling on
Speaker 1: HQ this morning where there was a lot of Ali
Speaker 1: coverage on their n I FELL network this morning. But
Speaker 1: one thing that was said was that along with Howard Cosell,
Speaker 1: the two of them and they had a fascinating relationship,
Speaker 1: that they came into bloom along with television sports, and
Speaker 1: that Ali has to be up there as if not
Speaker 1: the best, top two or three, most fascinating athlete to
Speaker 1: listen to. He was a poet. I thought he was.
Speaker 1: He went so far beyond boxing. But boxing never would
Speaker 1: have you know, been what it was on any level
Speaker 1: without Ali. I mean, we grew up watching Mike Tyson
Speaker 1: umber getting together with tons of fathers and sons to
Speaker 1: watch that Tyson fight that went nineties second, some guys
Speaker 1: popping popcorn. It was over before he even came in
Speaker 1: the room, but we wouldn't have been there, even caring
Speaker 1: the fathers wouldn't have been there carrying if it weren't
Speaker 1: for Ali and Howard Coastal. I mean, he was the
Speaker 1: one of the first people in the media to actually
Speaker 1: call Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali. And that was one of
Speaker 1: the things that I think forced that their bond to
Speaker 1: other because he did not call him Cassius Clay, which
Speaker 1: he didn't want. Also, one of the great things that
Speaker 1: we were watching today and I saw some amazing articles
Speaker 1: um when Lyle Alzado and him in Mile High Stadium
Speaker 1: and it was like in the middle of the summer,
Speaker 1: in the middle of the day, and the fact that
Speaker 1: he did that, Alzado did that, I mean, that would
Speaker 1: be such a crazy spectacle now if you had somebody
Speaker 1: like J. J. Watt Um go in the ring against
Speaker 1: Connor McGregor or something. I mean, it was so insane.
Speaker 1: And he ended up putting his entire house as collateral
Speaker 1: to cover promotional costs. I mean, the whole thing was
Speaker 1: such a show. Born in Louisville, southern city, several genera
Speaker 1: generations removed from slavery, and he ends up spending the
Speaker 1: final thirty or forty years of his life hanging out
Speaker 1: with kings, President's, celebrities of all type. He reached the
Speaker 1: top of the world. To me, the thing that stands
Speaker 1: out the most is and mind you, I have seen
Speaker 1: what Parkinson's does to a person. Grandpa pass away from Parkinson's.
Speaker 1: Most of the people out there now have a story
Speaker 1: of him post fighting career after he already had Parkinson's,
Speaker 1: and for what he did for over thirty years. Mind
Speaker 1: you still have that mentality of I want to make
Speaker 1: your day even though my day is absolutely terrible. That's
Speaker 1: the thing to me that shows that how strong he
Speaker 1: really was. Well said Irishman. Yes, he did a lot
Speaker 1: for park Parkinson's and the research and awareness. Muhammad Ali
Speaker 1: dead at all, right, folks, Before we move on and
Speaker 1: talk about our fearless predictions, Mark, you wanted to share
Speaker 1: some things that you call this section. Mark Sessler has
Speaker 1: concerns about the boss. Well, I have concerns not about
Speaker 1: the boss, who has done an excellent job from wire
Speaker 1: to wire here at NFL Media, but the when he's gone.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been here since six thirty this morning,
Speaker 1: just observing the behavior of people that report to Greg,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a few details. You have a
Speaker 1: full report on this, Yeah, because I mean, what what
Speaker 1: a good Lloyd do other than to give Greg information
Speaker 1: about what was happening while he was gone? And it starts,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, Chris, very valuable asset here at NFL Media.
Speaker 1: But today, however, I logged the time at twelve four pm,
Speaker 1: I had to ask Chris Wesley to sit down in
Speaker 1: his chair. Uh, he was getting up and this is
Speaker 1: just you know Greg's not around, and just get up
Speaker 1: out of my chair and do whatever I want versus working.
Speaker 1: And westleyn tells me that he's getting up to go
Speaker 1: look for and quotes a post it note. And I
Speaker 1: think we can agree west that I explained to you
Speaker 1: that you're not allowed to simply get up and roam
Speaker 1: around the building just because the cat is away hashtag
Speaker 1: be a professional. Well this did happen, and I thought
Speaker 1: I was a little taken aback by it. I was,
Speaker 1: why are you looking for? Bothted, I'm doing book reviews
Speaker 1: this project that I've undertaken that is dragging on. It
Speaker 1: need notes to mark some excerpts in the book. So
Speaker 1: Mark was on me and at one point I went
Speaker 1: up to use the printer and down right now back down.
Speaker 1: There was a pattern to your behavior. Now, Dan highly productive,
Speaker 1: uh knows to the grindtown to grindstone type stuff. It
Speaker 1: did concern me though, that UM director of Programming, Handsome
Speaker 1: Hank with Greg gone, this is more about Henry than Dan,
Speaker 1: who was just obedient. That you know, Henry just swooped
Speaker 1: in and leaned very hard on one of Greg's employees
Speaker 1: to do his own bidding. That that's concerning. I'm going
Speaker 1: to pass that on to Greg when he gets back here.
Speaker 1: There are power plays all over the place between Henry
Speaker 1: using his influence and then you using your influence over
Speaker 1: West telling him to sit down. We are doing that.
Speaker 1: That's that's for Greg. Yes, you're a loyal servant to
Speaker 1: the Third thing because we all have this guy on
Speaker 1: our radar, suspended softballer David Eally I. I couldn't really
Speaker 1: track him very closely because he sits twenty feet away
Speaker 1: in a tediously loud portion of our newsroom, so it's
Speaker 1: hard to hear everything that he's doing. But one of
Speaker 1: his co workers shown a whole leg. Brassie. That's who
Speaker 1: we know, Brassie. She wrote this an email to me
Speaker 1: to film me on Eally's frankly devil make heir antics.
Speaker 1: According to what she has to say in quotes she
Speaker 1: said in Greg's absence, Eally has not stepped up to
Speaker 1: the plate and has disappointed us in the following ways. One,
Speaker 1: Eally spent most of his morning talking about how many
Speaker 1: bottles of rose he downed over the weekend. I'm brassy
Speaker 1: Greg would never drink rose and brassies right uh two
Speaker 1: to in final point, I also believe, according to Brassi,
Speaker 1: I heard really referred to Greg as in quotes, that
Speaker 1: guy who thinks he's my boss. Now she cannot confirm that,
Speaker 1: but she believed she was. She wasn't in the conversation,
Speaker 1: but that's what she overheard. I reached out to Eally
Speaker 1: for comment as of the start of this podcast. Crickets
Speaker 1: m hm, wow, well that's a good Uh that's Mark
Speaker 1: Sassler and Trep reporter. What'sway habitual brown noser? No no, no, no, no. See.
Speaker 1: I like how you can spend it that way. But
Speaker 1: Greg's gonna come back. You know where am I'm in
Speaker 1: the dark. What happened while I was gone? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give him this report besides, you had a glowing review. Well,
Speaker 1: I knew this segment would go south if I had
Speaker 1: criticized Dan so as opposed to it did. Well, that's fair.
Speaker 1: Maybe on its own merits, it didn't take off the
Speaker 1: chief apple polisher. Mark, when the when the real teacher
Speaker 1: gets back, he's gonna report on the substitute teachers. You're
Speaker 1: that guy, You're the t A. Well so I'm doing
Speaker 1: when I'm I'm being a professional DNA. Alright, Mark Sessler
Speaker 1: at it again, Mark, thank you for the report. Greg.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you're listening to the show and you're getting all
Speaker 1: this info. Who knows off Greg's gonna listen? Well, that's
Speaker 1: where he would go on to the coals if he's
Speaker 1: not even listening to the show. So let's not tell him.
Speaker 1: Let's see what if he notices. All right, it's it's
Speaker 1: time now to move on too. Yes, fearless prediction, I
Speaker 1: may live to regret. And again I stress this with
Speaker 1: with peace and love. You must hang on onions here.
Speaker 1: You must put yourself out on a limb. If you don't,
Speaker 1: what are we even here for? And I'm not looking
Speaker 1: at you specifically direction all of us. I hope we
Speaker 1: are all bringing our a game because it may it
Speaker 1: may decide how the segment goes. Wow. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: start out with Mark, who is fresh off is intrepid
Speaker 1: reporting of the newsroom politics. He will now give us
Speaker 1: a fearless prediction. He may live to regret. I believe
Speaker 1: this good start, and I will be laughed at. The
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns talked about is the no brain or worst
Speaker 1: sports will not finish in last place in the a
Speaker 1: f C North. Wow, I leave it. I did not
Speaker 1: two months ago. I do right now? Does this coincide
Speaker 1: with your statement on the last podcast that since he
Speaker 1: will take a dirt nap it feels like it does. Well,
Speaker 1: let's I mean, let's look at the division. If the
Speaker 1: Browns aren't finishing in last place, that means somebody else is.
Speaker 1: And the Bengals, I guess our candidate. The Ravens were
Speaker 1: terrible last year, but beat up and they have a
Speaker 1: great coach and a great GM. The Steelers, I think
Speaker 1: everyone probably the favorite to win the division. So you're
Speaker 1: looking at either probably tell us if you're wrong, if
Speaker 1: we're wrong, or I'm wrong, the Ravens or Bengals to
Speaker 1: really slip up and the Browns to kind of move
Speaker 1: up their ranks. Yes, the Steelers to me are a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl contender. I don't do this often, but I
Speaker 1: have to defend my home city here. This is this
Speaker 1: is disrespectful, and every year we kind of crap on
Speaker 1: the Bengals and don't give them the respect they deserve.
Speaker 1: We don't predict they're going to make the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: think they're as talented as any team in the league.
Speaker 1: And I don't think the Browns have eat in a
Speaker 1: one percent chance of The Bengals are not necessarily my
Speaker 1: target here, but I think the Bengals have talent too.
Speaker 1: I think weird things can happen. We saw what happened
Speaker 1: to the Ravens last year. If the right players get injured,
Speaker 1: the team can go very south. So I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that looking at it today, it's logical. But the NFL
Speaker 1: season is a weird beast. And again, this is a
Speaker 1: fearless prediction. You may live to regret. I probably will,
Speaker 1: but you are a factory up sadness. But I do like,
Speaker 1: I do like he just rolled his eyes, and I
Speaker 1: mean but I do like that. Again, it is showing
Speaker 1: it is much better than this time. Last year where
Speaker 1: you were so upset about Cleveland that you weren't even
Speaker 1: gonna watch their games. You're in You're You're hopeful believe
Speaker 1: Land is in town. I think they've got their act
Speaker 1: together in terms of being on the same page with
Speaker 1: each other. Good all right, that was a good one,
Speaker 1: perfect example. Brown is not finishing in last place. They
Speaker 1: have a roster devoid of talent, a terrible history. Uh
Speaker 1: you know, suspect front off this leadership. However, this is
Speaker 1: the year they move up Fearless West. You know, during
Speaker 1: May and June, which is chief trope season in the NFL,
Speaker 1: we all are guilty of, every fan, every analyst is
Speaker 1: guilty of just taking the previous season and putting that
Speaker 1: under a microscope and ignoring the year before, in the
Speaker 1: year before that and all other data. Green Bay Packers
Speaker 1: are going to break records this year on offense. That's
Speaker 1: my fearless prediction. It was just last June and Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy was saying, or last offseason, Mark Mike McCarthy was saying,
Speaker 1: this will be the best offense pro football has seen
Speaker 1: if we can improve on one or two things. They
Speaker 1: have the same personnel, except they've added people. They've added
Speaker 1: Jared Cook, They've added some offensive lineman, They've added a
Speaker 1: healthy Jordy Nelson, Randall Cops gonna be playing in a
Speaker 1: slot and we'll be healthy. Eddie Lacey slimmed down. I
Speaker 1: love everything about this offense this year. Does it spook
Speaker 1: you at all? That? Listen? Jordy Nelson losing him for
Speaker 1: the year was obviously a crushing blow, and Randall Copp
Speaker 1: was never right, and that Lacey had his problems. But
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers also wasn't quite himself last year because when
Speaker 1: before defense is adjusted, the effect that James Jones is
Speaker 1: incredibly slow and can't get open, and that Randall Cog
Speaker 1: can't beat double teams. Before that happened, Aaron Rodgers September
Speaker 1: was the best month I've ever seen any quarterback play.
Speaker 1: I think everything that happened the rest of the year
Speaker 1: was totally on his coaches and teammates and not on
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, and we saw him struggle as the
Speaker 1: season went on, so I felt like it was just
Speaker 1: more of a product of his receivers not being reliable
Speaker 1: and him just getting burned, and then him just getting
Speaker 1: sort of lucy. I don't want to say Lucy Goosey,
Speaker 1: but you know he he was sort of kind of
Speaker 1: lost at some points in the pocket the best player
Speaker 1: in the NFL, And right are we going to are
Speaker 1: we going to talk about two and a half months
Speaker 1: of play or the rest of his career? And in Wesley,
Speaker 1: you know, if you want to go back and listen
Speaker 1: to a podcasts, he was. You were one of the
Speaker 1: first to say that the Broncos Undermanning would have that
Speaker 1: one season where they broke records, and you talked about
Speaker 1: the Patriots last year, which I think that could have
Speaker 1: absolutely been the case again had you not lost Dean Lewis,
Speaker 1: had some of the injuries not happened. So I mean,
Speaker 1: the Packers are not just getting one or two. They're
Speaker 1: getting like the core of their offense back and especially
Speaker 1: if Eddie Lacy is kind of a slim down, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, they're McCarthy's back to calling the plays to
Speaker 1: set the scoring record. Just to give some perspective here,
Speaker 1: um in a season for a team, which I imagine
Speaker 1: is that one of the records you're referring to the
Speaker 1: record is held by the two thousand, thirteen Broncos six
Speaker 1: six points to break that record. The Packers would have
Speaker 1: to average average thirty eight points a game, So that
Speaker 1: is one of the tougher team records that are to break.
Speaker 1: But I'm with you West, I feel like now everything
Speaker 1: has to click. Lacy does have to Lacy again, Cob
Speaker 1: has to be healthy, Jordy Nelson has to come back.
Speaker 1: He's two years old coming off that a c L
Speaker 1: and then Rogers everything has to you know, coalesced. But
Speaker 1: let's not forget what they were saying about Davante Adams
Speaker 1: at this time last year. I know he had as
Speaker 1: bad of a season as you could possibly have, but
Speaker 1: Rogers was talking about, here's a guy who is no
Speaker 1: doubt going to be a star as the swagger of
Speaker 1: a number one receiver, and he took it as there's
Speaker 1: no question this guy is gonna break out. It was
Speaker 1: kind of a Murphy's Law kind of year. Everything went poorly,
Speaker 1: but I still believe in Davante and time Montgomery to Jeff, Jeff,
Speaker 1: get excited for Jeff Janice because he's crossing seven fifty
Speaker 1: yards with seven touchdown. One quick question to you, because
Speaker 1: for that to happen, they also have to have a
Speaker 1: defense that's keeping opponents off the field. You can't have
Speaker 1: long dry you just gotta shut people down. Defense that
Speaker 1: gives up a lot of points. So you have to
Speaker 1: get involved in shootouts. All right, that's another way to
Speaker 1: look at it. Now, here's one thing I don't know.
Speaker 1: Was that a fearless prediction. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was fearless that the best offense in the NFL. Instead
Speaker 1: I went for breaking records. Okay, that's yeah, alright, Well
Speaker 1: how about this one. Meanwhile, on the throne of sleeves,
Speaker 1: come in, I say we trust the Father Time. Listen
Speaker 1: to it. Whoa nothing there? Father Time. Father Time, at
Speaker 1: long last, calls his son Tom Brady, it's time to
Speaker 1: come home. Tom. Well, he's not gonna die, Like, where
Speaker 1: are you going with this? Tom Brady will live decades longer.
Speaker 1: I'm maybe into his nineties. If everything goes well. Maybe
Speaker 1: with the way he treats his body, he will be
Speaker 1: a hundred and thirty years old by the time he
Speaker 1: breathes his last breath. I hope so. Okay, However, as
Speaker 1: an elite talent in the NFL behind center, I know
Speaker 1: people have been saying it for years. I think I
Speaker 1: didn't want him. This is the year that he shows
Speaker 1: signs of slippage. And let me tell you what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get into details, talk about living to regret.
Speaker 1: He's gonna miss those four games, he ain't getting them back.
Speaker 1: He will throw more interceptions this season than in his
Speaker 1: and season combined. That is, I believe nine nine. No,
Speaker 1: we'll get the number rights for you, guys. Uh No,
Speaker 1: ninety through in fourteen, seven and fifteen, So sixteen is
Speaker 1: gonna throw more than sixteen interceptions. He will post a
Speaker 1: passer rating below ninety for the third time in the
Speaker 1: last ten years. And buffoons across America, we'll be calling
Speaker 1: for Jimmy Garoppolo by December, even though because they'll do
Speaker 1: well what he's saying. I'm calling a truer people trying
Speaker 1: to burry Tom Brady every offseason for the last three years.
Speaker 1: Is no longer elite and Father times catching up to him.
Speaker 1: This is a Trump pipe down West with your gutless
Speaker 1: per actions. Mind's fearless. It's happening this year. And I've
Speaker 1: said it before and people always say it, but guess
Speaker 1: what now it happens thirty nine years old this year.
Speaker 1: Tell me who has not been taken by father time
Speaker 1: by age forty in this league. Look at Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: Farve best year of his career. Brett Farve couldn't even
Speaker 1: walk by his forty birthday. That's time. It is time
Speaker 1: for you to realize that he's not always gonna be
Speaker 1: tom terrific. And that starts in and get ready of America.
Speaker 1: All him. I mean that this has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with the team. It's just him. I didn't say that.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that. I think it could be a
Speaker 1: number of factors. I do like his his support around him.
Speaker 1: I don't love it necessarily, especially with Dion Lewis coming
Speaker 1: back from a knee injury. Who knows what you're gonna
Speaker 1: get from him. But I think that, uh, it's just
Speaker 1: slip it. It won't be a fall off the cliff
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning season, but it will be a season in
Speaker 1: which he regresses. And it is kind of like Darrell
Speaker 1: Reevers last season, how he was still very good, but
Speaker 1: he was no longer viewed as the best. That will
Speaker 1: be Tom Brady's two thousand sixte I mean, when it happens,
Speaker 1: it happens pretty quick to these guys, and it's it's
Speaker 1: sad to it's just a pressing to watch. No. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that's the part of this is you're kind
Speaker 1: of waiting for it as a Jets fan too. I
Speaker 1: don't blame you, but the only my argument would be
Speaker 1: this that Tom Brady one thing he'll be looked back
Speaker 1: back upon as as changing the way quarterbacks take care
Speaker 1: of their bodies, and we don't have to buy into it.
Speaker 1: But the proof is what he's done on the field.
Speaker 1: He's shown literally no signs of regression. So it would
Speaker 1: have to come out of nowhere. So it is a
Speaker 1: bold prediction. Yeah, I think it would have to involve
Speaker 1: an injury, a serious injury or a nagging injury that
Speaker 1: which can happen because when you get older, body starts
Speaker 1: to break down. Far to West's point, far have had
Speaker 1: one of his best seasons in Minnesota at age forty,
Speaker 1: but by age forty one he couldn't even throw the
Speaker 1: ball anymore and ended the season on the side online.
Speaker 1: So that guy wasn't even eating him a layin pinxil No.
Speaker 1: But I mean, yeah, but like you know, far Of
Speaker 1: is kind of the outlier. Everyone else ever has been
Speaker 1: done by age thirty seven or thirty eight, and uh, well, okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, do you want to go down the list
Speaker 1: of all the stars that broke down? Do you want
Speaker 1: to name two guys that were decent at age forty?
Speaker 1: I think, well, I think Tom Brady is the greatest
Speaker 1: quarterback in history. So he's the outlier. I don't think
Speaker 1: the normal rules apply to him. And also, how can
Speaker 1: he be the outlier where he hasn't gotten to the
Speaker 1: age forty area yet? You gotta wait, who's played as
Speaker 1: well as he had for who was an empty nine
Speaker 1: for a couple of straight years. Also, Tom Brady and
Speaker 1: all today's athletes have much better technology, nutrition, weightlifting routines
Speaker 1: than any anybody had even ten years ago. Um, Warren
Speaker 1: Moon's last big season came at age thirty nine, So
Speaker 1: and then he kind of fell off a cliff, So
Speaker 1: well check it out, check it out. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: phill in scientist team. Yeah, he's Moon was a nice player,
Speaker 1: but uh, borderline hall of Fame type guy? Did he
Speaker 1: make the Hall of Fame at age four one three
Speaker 1: for twenty five touchdowns in an era when touchdowns was
Speaker 1: rivaling for the league, lead the league in yards passing
Speaker 1: yards per game, a wool will ever forget that ninete
Speaker 1: Seahawks teams please, or moon you got hurrying my team
Speaker 1: to the Fantasy football championship that year. Whatever, It just
Speaker 1: shows you've been playing too long. Alright, Colleen, Oh, I
Speaker 1: can't wait for this slight alright, So get ready to
Speaker 1: be wild by this one. Colin Kaepernick will not only
Speaker 1: be named the starter, but he's going to have a
Speaker 1: career year, Kelly. Alright. So logic would say, oh, you
Speaker 1: know they're in the NFC West and that's a tough division,
Speaker 1: and that defense really struggled. Now it's to be terrible
Speaker 1: in an up tempo system. Oh you have a cocktail
Speaker 1: of Tory Smith and Quentin Patton and Bruce Ellington. Does
Speaker 1: not matter, because Chip Kelly and Colin Kaepernick are going
Speaker 1: to be perfect for each other. Colin Kaepernick is what
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly has been looking for, and Chip Kelly is
Speaker 1: what Colin Kaepernick is, and he is going to get
Speaker 1: a career year out of him, just like he did
Speaker 1: out of Nick Foles, out of Mark Sanchez, out of
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford. Happening. That's that is fearless. It is especially
Speaker 1: since he last time we saw him it was like
Speaker 1: a hundred and forty pounds and he has not been
Speaker 1: cleared from act and Chip Kelly said that him and
Speaker 1: Blaine Gabbert are similar players. Yeah, yeah, except Gabbert's more accurate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I see your thought process, I see where
Speaker 1: you're going with the colleen, and I like the onions
Speaker 1: on display. Um, I wonder if this is would have
Speaker 1: been better like two years ago, as it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: logic is Kaepernick because he's too far gone physically and
Speaker 1: mentally to put it back together on a bad Niners team.
Speaker 1: I think you gotta It would be a huge upset
Speaker 1: for this to happen, but it would be big onions.
Speaker 1: I was sitting in the parking lot thinking about this
Speaker 1: on zero hours of sleep, and I'm confident in my prediction.
Speaker 1: You know what surprised me most about this is, as
Speaker 1: I recall, you are not the biggest chip Kelly fan,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not, so this is I'm really just
Speaker 1: tie into your lack of sleep. Um, probably a lot.
Speaker 1: I did say Lucy Goosey earlier, and I've never used
Speaker 1: that term before in my life, and I'm still thinking
Speaker 1: about it right now. I don't know where it came from,
Speaker 1: are you bringing Lucy Goosey back? I'm not. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to bring it back. I don't even want to
Speaker 1: talk about it. I'm getting brought back to sam so
Speaker 1: right now fanning down college. You know all right? I
Speaker 1: think it's if it happened, it would be one of
Speaker 1: the great stories, because if you want to, I can't
Speaker 1: find a coach quarterback pairing. We're both sides are more
Speaker 1: aligned by people right now. Chip Kelly's stock has never
Speaker 1: been lower at the NFL level, and Colin Kaepernick, a
Speaker 1: wonder boy a few seasons ago, is considered persona on
Speaker 1: GROD at this point. And maybe sometimes that's how these
Speaker 1: let's lift each other out of this. I feel Colin
Speaker 1: Kaepernick weigh the same right now. He is not a
Speaker 1: muscle bound well he is actually, but he's kind of
Speaker 1: how would you ribe him, dan Ah? He is? Why
Speaker 1: did I bring you down this? Trying to be nice?
Speaker 1: He's got he's a little man's ll ask right now
Speaker 1: in the body. Yeah, he's a little Is it a
Speaker 1: professional athlete who hasn't been able to lift weights? Apparently
Speaker 1: that's your that's the key thing holding up? Is he healthy?
Speaker 1: Will he be we'll find out. Um. So, alright, so
Speaker 1: we brought back the Dean Scream. Colleen says she's not
Speaker 1: bringing back Lucy Goosey, despite her comment earlier to good Move.
Speaker 1: I don't know, can we edit that out? Did I did?
Speaker 1: I mention? I don't know if I brought this up
Speaker 1: on an earlier podcast because I'm so excited about Dean Scream. Um,
Speaker 1: I was thinking of bringing back you are the weakest
Speaker 1: slank goodbye? Oh god, wow, to the next thing that
Speaker 1: that is a that is a bad idea. You are
Speaker 1: the weakest slank, goodbye. What do you think I'm not
Speaker 1: officially announcing it that I'm bringing it back. I think
Speaker 1: maybe think about it a little bit more work with
Speaker 1: the things you're bringing back. Oh my god help. All right.
Speaker 1: Good job, guys. Nice predictions, many of them fearless. We'll
Speaker 1: see if you live to regret them. And that is
Speaker 1: it for Monday's edition to be around the NFL podcast. Uh,
Speaker 1: Connie Fox, get some sleep. I know Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 1: not he was not Lucy Goosey last year. Let's just like,
Speaker 1: let me just throw that out there, because I know
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get about that on Twitter. I need to
Speaker 1: go to bed. So take us through this now, is
Speaker 1: it straight back to the Fox then? Right now? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How many hours? Like when will you work? Are you
Speaker 1: doing HQ tomorrow? I am so. I usually I get
Speaker 1: up for that around eleven, So yeah, I might just
Speaker 1: like go home and go to bed now. I don't
Speaker 1: know how you can. I could never just on command
Speaker 1: fall asleep in the middle of the day. Oh, I
Speaker 1: have like I have a whole system. I have like
Speaker 1: this industrial fan going. I tie like a sock around
Speaker 1: my head so like no light gets into my eyes.
Speaker 1: If you if you get this video that we promised
Speaker 1: to take out your Lucy Goosey reference. Okay, maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know what's worse though, all right, So that's it.
Speaker 1: We'll have a special guest uh in the studio next
Speaker 1: time we're here, and also a little later in the
Speaker 1: week we might have a member of the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: in studios. A lot of stuff coming up this week
Speaker 1: on the Around the NFL podcast. Greg will be back
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, so make sure you rejoined the Boss as well.
Speaker 1: Until then, stand ants signing up for a Quiet Star,
Speaker 1: the Mailman, Fox to your Lawyer, you go and the
Speaker 1: Irishman behind in the Glass Wednesday m and Now The
Speaker 1: Story of America three, Chapter six Party. They crossed a
Speaker 1: half melted train track into what remains of the old city.
Speaker 1: Everywhere around them wasted storefronts, fractured through ways, vistas of
Speaker 1: total collapse, no sign of human life. Over the hilltop,
Speaker 1: the shrill cry of Vortex go interrupted their walk. Rhods
Speaker 1: gripped her weapon and said to Wolf, keep going with
Speaker 1: your list. Um cool ranch, Torito's funyans, quarter pounders, those
Speaker 1: tubs of ice cream, the one with the chocolate vanilla strawberry.
Speaker 1: What was it called? Wolf ast Neopolitan? Do the TV
Speaker 1: one now Road said Family Ties, Boy meets World, I
Speaker 1: Dream of Jennie Vultron shahs a sunset the Reunion hold
Speaker 1: up Roads said. The Vortex goal was overhead, circling descending,
Speaker 1: unaware of the duo as it landed on a patch
Speaker 1: of cement in front of what used to be a
Speaker 1: hybrid Exxon gas station slash car wash. Nobody had used
Speaker 1: any form of petrol, since the concept of oil was
Speaker 1: a child s myth. The vehicle was killed instantly as
Speaker 1: the Ziconian laser arrow from Lindsay's form mega Soul destroyer
Speaker 1: cross boat ripped through the bird's nerve center dinner, said Rhodes.
Speaker 1: They built a fire inside the hushed remains of a
Speaker 1: white brick structure that served twenty five years ago as
Speaker 1: a two star y m c A. The now dead
Speaker 1: Vortex gull crackled over the fire. Wolf and Rhodes took
Speaker 1: turns peeling streaks of tangerine colored meat off the bone.
Speaker 1: I really miss beer, said Wolf. I miss waking up
Speaker 1: on the couch after a house party, jugs of wine everywhere,
Speaker 1: and al Pacino roaring on some distant television at three
Speaker 1: fifteen am. I got a job for us, Rhodes said,
Speaker 1: over the firelight. High risk, high reward. I'll listen, said Wolf.
Speaker 1: Why will I listen? Because we're eating a bird that
Speaker 1: tastes like Capri's son, meshed with checks mix. It's a
Speaker 1: big job, said Rhodes. A sea bean one of their
Speaker 1: heaviest ties, Zephyr nine, their chief nautical map maker, said Rhodes.
Speaker 1: We have a soul destroyer crossbow, one m volt pistol,
Speaker 1: and a knife that three decades ago struggle to cut
Speaker 1: watermell and Wolf said suspiciously, Look, we can get out
Speaker 1: of this gun for higher life. If we take down
Speaker 1: tie Zephyr, rohod said, then let's hand tie Zephyr a
Speaker 1: one way ticket back into the godless sea, said Wolf.
Speaker 1: We rise at pre dawn, said Rhodes. We'll need to
Speaker 1: kill and steal the entire way. We'll need to triple
Speaker 1: our arsenal by the time we get to New Iowa.
Speaker 1: My calendar is wide open, said Wolf. That night, they
Speaker 1: slept beside the fire, capping another lost day in the
Speaker 1: drifting bad lands of America. Three in the morning, they'd
Speaker 1: move east. Yeah, this is now. Hey, hey, down at bay.
Speaker 1: I'm strong, boy, Eagle said, boy. Place a light taking
Speaker 1: a single shot of hide. You can the wrong should
Speaker 1: I picked that one is given another. I just want
Speaker 1: to laugh because you're trying to get hip stuck into
Speaker 1: the car and take a part of my treasure. But
Speaker 1: even at the dark, I never wanting. I'm very don't