WEBVTT - Listen: Brian Baldinger (9/25) 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.320 Welcome back to another edition of the Official Jets podcast. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:07.440 Here in the play MGM studio. You can find us 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:11.440 on New York Jets dot com, YouTube, Apple podcast, Google Play, 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:16.160 and SoundCloud. Brian Baldinger in the house. Thank you very much, Baldi. Nice, 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.000 nice to be here. Nice to be here on guys 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.600 breakdowns right here. It's a movement, It's a worldwide movement. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:28.720 How can other people where the merch that? Baldi? Well, 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:30.560 I mean you can. You can get yourself. You can 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.560 get yourself, you know, T shirts and headbands and coffee 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.920 mugs right from Carsting Creation. Yeah. I mean there's some 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.880 people like they just they just want to decorate their desk. 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:42.800 I love the headband. Yeah, I'm with you. I like 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:45.639 the headbands too. All right, Baldi, So you go inside 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.240 the film, inside the game. I want to go inside 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:51.240 the breakdown. So can you take us through your routine 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.440 of how you watch the games and what plays you 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.360 choose to put out there? If I can get the 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.680 NFL films on Sunday night, I'll start Sunday night. But 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.240 if I if I'm traveling back from San Francisco or 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:03.480 l A or wherever, might not beat till money morning. 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.119 But I start Monday morning at abound six in the morning, 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.039 I just start going through games. Ethan, I just start 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.520 watching games. What jumps out in really to look at statistics. 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.160 I might know the final score, but I don't even 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:15.880 look at the stats. I just wanna see who played well, 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.399 white players work, why they didn't work, what impresses me 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.600 about a team or doesn't impress me about a team. 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:26.440 I'm just gonna get a feel by watching eleven guys 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.960 unite on one side of the ball, how they compete, 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.880 who's playing hard, who keeps showing up, and then kind 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.000 of going from there and that that's kind of how 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.600 I do it. And I'll start making some notes about 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:39.440 a particular team, what I like, what I don't like, 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:41.760 and uh And I'd literally try to go through as 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.200 many games I can all day Money and all day Tuesday. 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.600 I think what fans really appreciate air Greens is this 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:51.680 guy has so much enthusiasm and past game, you truly 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.559 enjoy getting into the film room. Because I don't even 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:58.840 know if everybody knows this that on Sundays you're typically 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.640 doing Nash doing national games every Sunday. I do college 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.920 games on Saturday, right so so Monday morning you start off, 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.720 how do you determine the order you're gonna go through? Like, 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.640 for instance, Kansas City played Baltimore last week, a lot 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:13.560 of people would say that was the marquee matchup. Maybe 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.240 you go there for well, I mean, so I fell 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.960 in love last year with Quentin Nelson, the left guard 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.760 from Minnapolis Colts. I thought he was the best player 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:28.240 in the NFL last year, so at any position, like 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.640 he was just that dominant and as a twenty two 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.480 year old rookie. But you know, and I got to 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.200 know him, you know, at the Pro Bowl this year, 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.080 and so like it started almost like that, like I 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.040 gotta wat I gotta watch the Colts. I gotta watch 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:41.919 I gotta watch the left guard because the game was 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.360 like pancaking players. So then you know, I was having 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.960 fun and it's entertainment, right, So I'm talking about man 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.240 all he wanted some flapjacks for breakfast on Monday morning. 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.200 I gotta watch Q to get my pancakes, you know. 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.359 And then people, the fans started kind of buying it. 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:58.919 So then like it became like this thing, I gotta 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.519 watch Q, you know. And then I live in Philadelphia, 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:03.400 what are the Eagles doing when you're losing? How they're 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:05.640 doing it? And so there is a little bit of 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:09.480 a pecking order, but it could be like there's certain 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:13.200 teams right now that I just am so like watching 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.320 Let's say, Patrick Mahomes, Like you have to watch it, 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:20.079 because are we watching like Willie Mays as a twenty 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.320 three year old kid. Are we watching the best player 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.120 in the league this early? You know, are we watching 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.079 who are we watching here? Like there's nobody else that 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.720 you there's no comps of what he's doing, and it's 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.799 every week, it doesn't matter what the teams do. So 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.680 then you go and you know, I did three years 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:37.560 of Patrick Mahomes at Texas Tech. I did a lot 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.960 of his games down there, so I kind of knew him, 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.240 and now to see him just flourish like this, it's 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.800 just so darn entertaining. When did you decide to take 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:50.400 this social media with hashtag all these breakdowns? Because five 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:57.320 years ago, I don't I don't know this phenomena was around. So, like, 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.400 you know, I've been announcing games at Fox for twelve 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.720 years on television. I started doing radio ten years ago, 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.360 so almost twenty five years as an analyst every Sunday, 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.320 and you know, I'm I'm up there in the booth. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.600 If you're doing TV, you have maybe twelve seconds to 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.880 describe a play, right, and typically it's either the quarterback 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:16.800 or the receiver or the defensive back. It's not a 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.760 whole lot. Maybe you can watch the offensive line on 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:23.000 a replay or something, but like, there's just so many 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.520 things going on, and so then you listen to the 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:30.040 analysis and or the reporters or read the papers the 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.440 next day, and I just felt like there was a 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:36.359 big missing chunk of what fans weren't getting. So I 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.719 just thought, so I'd be watching these games, you know, 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.400 five o'clock in the morning, getting ready for different shows 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.440 the NFL network, and I'm like, I'm not gonna be 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.640 able to show I don't know, Jamal Adams blowing up 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.640 this play. I'm not I'm not gonna be able to show, uh, 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.800 you know how Colletchio assembly pulled and led Levy in 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:55.600 bell through all, I'm not gonna be able to. So 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.960 I thought, people need to see a lot of players 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.200 that they never hear about on Sunday. Do you enjoy 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:05.440 the player's reaction to this? Because once it started getting 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:10.000 popular and taken off the guys. This new generation Greens, 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.920 the generation who live and die by social media. They 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.440 follow this stuff, they see all the retweets, and then 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.599 you have picked up so much respect from the younger 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.280 dudes in the NFL. I remember last year vividly, where 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.680 in Chicago you're calling the game, You're like, where's Jamala. 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:30.440 I gotta find Jamal because he would take a look 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.479 at the way you put it's unbelievable. So so I 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.839 I was told by a pretty prominent Fox director a 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.400 long time ago when I first started. He told me, look, 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.280 get to know the top ten players in every team, 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.119 because that's who you're gonna spend most of Sunday talking about. 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.760 And he was right. So I, you know, I always 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.120 went to trainee camps and you know, got to meet 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.600 players when you could. That was still limited by how 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.359 many players you could meet. But through social media and 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.120 through Twitter and some of the outlets that Baldy Breakdowns 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.440 are on, you can meet a lot of these players 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.039 that you've never met, Like I've never met Jamal Adams 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.600 until that day in Chicago. Now I feel like we're 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.120 best friends. He did film sessions with this issue. We 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:09.800 couldn't kick him out of the room. You don't want 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.400 to leave, but you do when you show players, especially 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:17.600 once that maybe like a Quentin Nelson, who aren't left 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.960 guards aren't on everybody's rollo dex as to who to watch. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.760 But if you can start making people watch the left 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.840 guard and why he's so good like you, you sort 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.160 of grow somebody's intelligence about the game and how they 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.920 watch a game and so. And the players appreciate it, 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.200 they really do. And if you look, if I say 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:39.080 something about Luke Kickley good or bad, within I'm telling 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.040 I'm telling you ten minutes, he's already watched it and 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.960 retweeted and common. I think a lot of people respect 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:50.839 somebody saying I know what I know, and I also 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.320 know what I don't know. I think there are a 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.960 lot of people who watched the game on Sundays and 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.280 say this guy should have done this, this guy should 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:03.560 have done that. You go into the lab and you 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:08.000 are a former player. You understand the schemes, you understand 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:12.520 the concepts, You understand how coordinators are trying to attack 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.840 and what is happening out there on the field in 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:21.200 great detail. So I think that resonates with every player 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:25.360 in the National Yeah, no, I mean, um, the game 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:29.200 is is moves really fast, and there's a lot of 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.280 movie parts. And if you're just watching a game on television, 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.360 the cart camera, the camera that typically shows a play, 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:40.560 usually just follows the quarterback. So if you're a safety 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.400 in the NFL, you only get talked about if you 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.160 get beat or you have a great hit. But the 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.480 majority of the time you're not even watched. Now that's 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.960 just the way the game is shot. But if you 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:53.720 you have to go back in the lab, I like 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:57.880 the lab and and really show angles. Why a free 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.800 safety like Earl Thomas, Why that guy covers so much ground? 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:04.280 Why like Earl Thomas doesn't save lives but he saves touchdowns. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.360 I mean, you know, like all the so like then 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.400 you just you know, we're in the entertainment business, right Eric, 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.760 So like you just you have to kind of define 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.320 fun ways to describe stuff over over So that just 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.720 comes naturally to me. That's fun. And when you put 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.720 stuff on Twitter, let's say, is it a one take 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:22.640 for you? Because some of the things you say you 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.920 have me rolling on the floor in tears, Like I 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.800 remember last year you're talking about Jamal Abram Adams. I 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.680 almost said, Abrams Jamal Adams striking like a cobra. Like 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.520 some people need a cup of coffee in the morning, 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:37.320 not this guy. Boom all this time, you haven't crack 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.520 it up. And just before you're talking about Quentin Nelson, 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.960 how you need your flapjacks and you pop on film. Yeah, 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.400 I mean the stuff just comes. I mean, you know, 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.800 some weeks, Quentin Nelson was a plumber, right, like he 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.320 had the plumber look, he was just fixing leaks wherever 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.080 the offensive line was leaky. He was just there a 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.199 plugg you know. And then some weeks he was the 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.240 trash man. He was just throwing defensive lineman into the 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.760 trash compactor. I mean, you know, like it's a different 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.360 way of describing kind of the same type stuff. But 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.800 I think players are entertained by it, like they like, 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.400 I've these players come up to me now they know, 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:14.079 like I I met Jenevan Clowney for the first time, um, 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.880 two weeks ago in Pittsburgh. He was he's with Seattle now, 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.480 and you know, and there was a time last year 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.440 where like legitimately for the first twelve or thirteen weeks 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.520 this season, he was an m v P candidate of 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.800 the League. Defensively, he was playing at that level and 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.080 I was just going like like this guy was just 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.080 ruining the party, like he was just a wedding crasher, 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.400 like like every play and so like I'm standing there 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.040 and you know, he's coaches working with him, he's new 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:41.839 to the team and all that. So he sees me 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.360 though I'm in a student. He goes, I know who 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.560 you are, Like he's Reknews. I'm waiting for him. I 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.040 go so I started laughing, and he goes, dude, he goes, 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:50.640 I know who you are. He goes, I know you 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.120 want to talk to me, and I will, But he goes, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.000 he goes your stuff like I watch all of I 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.360 watch all your videos. Man, I watch it. I'm like cool. 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.520 Je like that's cool. You're also close buddies with the 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:04.600 Jets GM Joe Doug. When did that a relationship originate? 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.439 And you both share a healthy respect for each other. 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.360 What can you tell the folks about Joe? Maybe they 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.360 don't know. Well, I mean, Joe you know, started off, 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.280 as you know, he played football Richmond. He got into 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.240 the you know, the business pretty quick after he graduated school, 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.520 and you know, Ozzy Knewsom was running the Ravens, they 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:28.200 moved their nine. I remember I was so fascinated by 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.280 their first draft in nineteen ninety six. They drafted Jonathan 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.520 Ogden and ray Lewis in the first round. Okay, May two. 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.360 Now nobody knew that they were gonna both be Hall 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.640 of Fame players, right, But I remember, like I was 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:44.640 just getting started nine, so remember so, but I mean, 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.720 but what happened was I went down to Baltimore just 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.120 to watch their mini camp, just to watch ray Lewis 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:52.960 and Jonathan Ogden, like who are so I just wanted 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:54.840 to get to know and then I did. I did 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.320 the Tony Sea goose A show in n and then 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:01.120 the Ravens hired me in like ninety eight, like to 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.280 do the pregame show out of the pregame preseason games 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.719 on TV. So I was like I always was kind 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.199 of a part of the organization. So I knew Brian 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.800 Billick and Ozzie and then you know, then you start 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.120 to meet some of the scouts. So Joe's down there, 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.520 and then my buddy Andy Wide went to work there, 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:21.000 and so like you're in Baltimore preseason, regular season game, 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.640 like they're your buddies, like you've known him since the beginning, 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.600 you know, And so I just had this relationship with him, 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.520 and you know, he's two thousand and twelve. They win 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.440 the Super Bowl and that's the it's the crowning jewel. 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.240 You know, this entire industry to be a part of that, 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.520 and you know, and see Joe how he worked up 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:42.199 from the lowest level scout all right into scouting director 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:46.120 to assist going to Chicago, assistant GM, coming to the Eagles, 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.080 becoming the general manager, like all those just to see 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.400 him climbed the steps and earn all of it, and 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.839 then he gets the chance here, you know, and so 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.600 you kind of know what he's about through all the 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:00.440 how he's been trained, all the different stops, and all 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.520 of the conversations that I've had with Joe over the 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.640 years about personnel, both pro and kids coming out of 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.600 college and just cross check. I mean, there was a time, 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.040 you know, when he was with the Eagles. I mean 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.080 I sat we sat in the backyard cooking steaks and 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.800 smoke the cigars and literally doing nothing but just talking ball. 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.360 Like not like he's got three kids and they're all 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:24.360 growing up and all that stuff. But we sat in 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:27.600 the backyard until late at night, turn the phones off 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.280 and just talking football, you know, like we have that 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:36.559 sort of you know, bond in respect both. When did 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:40.439 you get involved in the communication industry. We talked about 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.920 your career a little bit, but played collegionally a doo. 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.120 You were not a fel for a little bit. And 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.920 then when did you make the transition? So I was 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:52.480 in my twelfth year. I was in Philly, and I 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.320 had a former teammate of mine, this quarterback Tom Ramsey 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.560 said that Craig James, who was at ESPN at the time, 0:12:57.960 --> 0:12:59.719 pretty big guy in the college game day for him. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:03.839 He was starting a broadcast school for active players. So 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.079 I always go with the media. When I was good 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.720 with the media, like I loved like I never I 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:14.040 never win or lose, played well, played bad. I'll tell 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.160 you what I know. You know, I gotn't I wasn't 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.280 shy about it. I enjoyed talking to the media. Um, 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.560 and I had a Monday night show for a while, 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.640 you know, from different couples, different cities, whatever. But so 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.360 I went to this broadcast school and it was for 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.320 current players. So I was still active, trying to play 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.320 another year, and Mike Goldick was there and Merril Hodge 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.160 was there, and think it was you know, it was 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.320 all these guys that kind of we all started together 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:39.720 and we went to school and like the light just 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:41.160 went on. I didn't know how to really do it, 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.000 but I mean I started my radio show, I started 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.880 doing pregame shows in Philly, and then I but I 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:47.800 wanted to do games, and I got a chance in 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.280 with Fox to do games over in Europe NFL Europe. 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.560 Me and Kurt Menifee started over there, and uh, and 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.000 then they ended up. I did college football the first 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.160 year and second year of me and Kurt menife You 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.920 were the six crew at Fox. You know, we started 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.920 doing games and worked up to Joe Buck and Dick 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.120 Stockton and you know, Kenny Albert and all the guys 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.400 there for a dozen years. It was great. You know what, 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.120 I like a lot Baldy. I like, I don't know 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:14.719 why you decided to do this, but when it's a 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:20.240 Baldy breakdown off of football, because sometimes you're in somewhere 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.680 extravagant and warm weather and you still do the Baldy 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.400 breaks and I think it's hilarious. Yeah, well I do 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.560 it's it's all tongue in cheek, right, and so it's like, 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.400 you know, I mean I go to Costa Rica every year, 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.520 to go to Hawaii every year, so um, you know, 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.920 I'm a traveler. So I've been to sixty six countries, 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.160 you know, on sixty six sixty six countries. I was 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.520 in Poland the summer. So if you're you know, if 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.680 you're looking, you know, if you're in Costa Rica and 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.480 it's just a great surf day. People need to know 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.560 the surf day, that the surf conditions and just how 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.480 somebody's inside that barrel and coming out of it right here, 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.840 Like I mean, people to see that there's a pointed 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.840 stories to like yeah, you can't like you went to 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.280 Poland and you're taking it to social media and telling 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.160 people how impactful that is on you to see a 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.320 concentration Yeah, oh yeah. I mean when you go when 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.200 you see you know, all these what what happened and 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.680 you see the level of evil like it, you know, 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.120 people need to know just how evil it was and 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:18.120 why there is still a reaction to that whole era 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.560 of what happened there in you know, Germany and some 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.600 of the other countries that were involved. I mean, like 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.320 you go to Normandy and you see that those beachheads 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.920 there at Point do Hawk and stuff. I mean, people 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.840 need to know what what people sacrificed, you know, so 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.320 you know it's I don't get political about things, but 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.200 there's a history to certain things, and so, um, I 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.360 think all that stuff is interesting because quite frankly, anybody 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.040 could talk about cover too. Yeah, but like you know, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.440 can you talk about the Normandy invasion? Can you talk 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.760 about what happened in some of these concentration games? Can 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.200 you talk about the surf report in Costa Rica? At sunrise? 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.600 Do you have time to read? Yeah? All the time. Yeah, 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.400 I'm addicted. Yeah, I'm addicted to I have certain books 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:06.920 and certain authors that um, well, like you know, like um, 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:11.600 Vince Flynn. Vince Flynn has got this character named Mitch Rap. 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:15.520 So Mitch Rap, he's wrote in sixteen books and you 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.800 know he's a counter terror terrorist worker for the c 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.560 i A. And there's nothing that Mitch Rap can't do. 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.280 Like he's the greatest character in every book right now. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.480 And then Daniel Silvan's got a he he's a crime 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:32.520 novelist and he has a character named Gabriel Alan Okay 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:37.320 who works for UH Israeli's secret service, but he's also 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:42.080 a art restorer by trade. And this guy is the 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:46.880 most coveted yet most hunted person in the world, and 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.840 he escapes danger everywhere in the world, and he takes 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.640 you all of this. So I'm jumping on a plane 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.960 and Greens and I are walking up past is Baldy 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.880 watching film with the headphones? Or are you read a book? 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.640 I mean, I'm doing one or the other. Like I 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.840 I did a game in San Francisco, San Francisco, Pittsburgh 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.240 last week, and so I took the Red Eye back 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.560 to Philly. So I was in the San Francisco airport 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.159 and I got the NFL films to download or upload 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:16.840 all the one o'clock games for me. So I literally 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:21.280 watched five hours of film coming back to Philly. So 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.760 you land at five thirty in the morning, and I'm like, man, 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:25.400 I want to take a nap, But if I take 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.120 a nap, it's just gonna ruin what I got going 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.760 on here. So I just went I just took a 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.680 big pot of coffee and just went straight through the day. 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:38.960 That's amazing. Well, I mean, it depends on the day. 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:40.640 But like you know, if I get if I get 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:42.800 six or seven hours of sleep, I'm you know, two cups, 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.040 I'm fine. But if you if you go with no set, 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.000 like I can't sleep on a plane. So if you 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:52.000 watch five hours, I gotta think weekends, you're going back 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:53.680 and forth from l A to Philly all the time, 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.240 going back out there to do the Rams game this weekend, 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.640 and I'll go over to the NFL network after the game. 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.560 I'll start watching the one o'clock game teams, and then 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.120 I got a bunch of shows NFL Now and Total 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.600 Access to do the money at the NFL Network. But 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.520 those shows, I'm only good in those shows if I've 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.399 really prepped and know what I'm talking about. Like I 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:14.400 remember the first week of the season, green Bay beat 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.679 Chicago on Thursday night, So Friday, I'm doing Total Access 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:19.919 in l A. And I gotta get the Lubbock for 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:24.399 Texas Tech home opener the next day. But um, but 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.480 on that in that game, that the thing that stood 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:28.280 out about Green Bays. They played a dime defense the 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.840 whole day, so they had one linebacker, Blake Martinez, and 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.320 they basically challenged Chicago to run them out of that 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:36.880 dime defense, put another linebacker on the field, put another 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.719 defensive linement on the field, and Chicago didn't do it. 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.080 And I said, you know, Chicago, shame on them, Like 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.000 they should have pounded Green Bay that night and they didn't. 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.560 They try to play all this perimeter offense and all 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.840 these fancy plays and I'm like they played in a 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.200 Green Bay's hands. That's why they couldn't score a touchdown. 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.560 But like, if you could bring that and show that 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.080 the NFL networth the next day that hey, look, I 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:00.320 mean nobody really knows what he got. Time Defense says. 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.120 If you could teach the time defense and then why 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:06.119 they played it and why it benefited them, that's a 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:08.760 good part of what the story was. But you only 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:10.280 get that if you watch it. So I want to 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:12.399 go back to the books from me here, because you 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.280 like it seems to me like crime novels anything. I 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:17.520 got hooked on that. But I mean, I'm I'm a reader, 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:21.960 so so are you? Are you a movie person? If 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.280 I have time, I know, I know people that can 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:28.639 receive lines to every single dummer, Like I mean, I 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:30.919 just like I can't do that. But like, do you 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.719 enjoy movies similar to the books. But the books are 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:39.280 always better, like if you take a John Grisham like tales. Right. 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:42.000 So I've read almost all of John Grisham's books. But 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:46.439 if you take say, um, a Pelican Brief and you 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.400 you know, plug in and out like you can't. Those 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:53.000 books never transcribe to a movie because they move so 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:57.959 fast that the movie really can't show the speed. They can't. 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:00.280 You know The Firm, right, The Firm was the great, 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.119