Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. Youa football maybe? Indeed, welcome
Speaker 1: to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. My
Speaker 1: name is Dan Hanson's coming to you from a virtual
Speaker 1: room filled with heroes. Mark Sessler, Greg Rosenthal, Ricky Hollywood.
Speaker 1: What's up, boys and girl? Hey? Did you guys know
Speaker 1: that the NFL season is starting next week? I can't
Speaker 1: believe it. That's like I was saying it a week ago.
Speaker 1: I was the one making the cliche. But now I've
Speaker 1: just heard so many times. I'm sick of hearing that
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. Greg. I can't
Speaker 1: wait till I open up my timeline on Sunday and
Speaker 1: Scott Hansen's like, one week from today, we're watching football.
Speaker 1: I mean, the the irony is I am, we are.
Speaker 1: I am truly excited. I think we are. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be uh, it's gonna be fun. But I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: sick of hearing the same things on this little ramp up,
Speaker 1: like let's just get there, let's just get to Thursday night.
Speaker 1: I sent you the one you know last night there's
Speaker 1: and this is like a billion dudes doing this, like oh,
Speaker 1: because you know, college football was like it's going to
Speaker 1: be the last Thursday without football until like December. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm that just makes me feel anxiety,
Speaker 1: to be honest, like, I don't need that calendar update
Speaker 1: at this point. I'm glad it's all back, but like,
Speaker 1: don't tell me about I don't know. Just also, I
Speaker 1: don't need presumptive tweets about what's going to happen in
Speaker 1: the future in the year, Like, here's exactly what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen on every week for the next four months. Let's
Speaker 1: just leave it open and we'll play it by not
Speaker 1: get cocky here. Let's do the and Greg if you
Speaker 1: already know, and who am I kidding? You definitely already know.
Speaker 1: Let me know. But let's let's do the old cousin
Speaker 1: sal Bill Simmons thng um, hey, guys, let's the spread
Speaker 1: for Texans k C. I don't know at all. I promise,
Speaker 1: all right, what do you? What do you? Mark? And
Speaker 1: and Greg and then Ricky guess the spread. I'd say
Speaker 1: Chiefs by seven. I'll go eight and a half Chiefs
Speaker 1: minus seven chief market half. Ricky I thought, I thought
Speaker 1: I thought he had the answer right minus eleven. I
Speaker 1: think if my math is correct. Probably isn't. No, I
Speaker 1: guess it's a tie anyway. It's chiefs nine and a
Speaker 1: half lay in the wood, So who wins the closest
Speaker 1: somebody else figure that out? Yeah, I was one away.
Speaker 1: I mean that's that. This is This is uh, this
Speaker 1: is easy to add up. It's a lot of respects.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of respect I do wonder and I
Speaker 1: don't want to get too deep into the desert um,
Speaker 1: but the whole home field advantage thing is interesting. Are
Speaker 1: they going to really factor is? You do have the
Speaker 1: home field advantage still, there's been a lot of numbers
Speaker 1: and a lot of a lot of reality lately. The
Speaker 1: home field advantage is pretty overrated to begin with that
Speaker 1: the last two or three years at least, um the
Speaker 1: desert has been building in a lot of home field
Speaker 1: advantage when really home teams aren't aren't doing that much
Speaker 1: better than than road team. Arrowhead might be a little different,
Speaker 1: but Arrowhead in itself is very different than normal Arrowhead.
Speaker 1: I don't know what like a smattering of nineteen thousand,
Speaker 1: you know, families clustered in fours and fives does for
Speaker 1: a home field advantage. It's gonna be weird. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be weird. It's gonna be a bizarre. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: people in there the building, right, sixteen thousand people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna do the trophy ceremony. That'll be cool. Um,
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be al and Chris I am
Speaker 1: fired up. My kids home, we'll be watching like that's cool.
Speaker 1: But the sixteen thousand of it all, I don't know
Speaker 1: what that's gonna feel like because they will be somewhat loud,
Speaker 1: you would think. I mean, that's still a lot of people,
Speaker 1: even though they're spread out, but it's just gonna look strange.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're having the fake pumped in
Speaker 1: crowd noise too, So they are I thought I read that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we were talking about right. I think it's I think
Speaker 1: that home That airline hum that Steve Weish told us
Speaker 1: about it so far is across the board and it
Speaker 1: turns on before kickoff and turns off after the final.
Speaker 1: What was the final? I was we were talking about
Speaker 1: before we started today, how I've been disappointed in what
Speaker 1: feels a little bit hollow the baseball season with all
Speaker 1: the all the COVID related drawbacks, this season, and one
Speaker 1: of the ones that really stinks is like, if you're
Speaker 1: a Washington Nationals fan, I know that organization hasn't been
Speaker 1: around forever. They used to be the Expos, but that
Speaker 1: was a fan base that for years they were a
Speaker 1: bottom feeder. And then they go in this unlikely World
Speaker 1: Series championship run and then there's no celebration with fifty
Speaker 1: screaming fans in d C to hoist the flag and
Speaker 1: give the rings. So at least the Chiefs get a
Speaker 1: taste of that, even though it's not the same as
Speaker 1: eighty thousand screaming fans at Arrowhead. That's a weird year.
Speaker 1: And I checked the standings a little while ago. The
Speaker 1: Washington team stinks, so they can't even enjoy that. You
Speaker 1: you could call the Nationals the Nationals, still, it's our
Speaker 1: Washington team that we can't call by the nickname anymore.
Speaker 1: One little nugget from the Chiefs getting the rings the
Speaker 1: other day, where Patrick Mahomes, you know, we've been up
Speaker 1: in those suites during the combine in Indianapolis, and there
Speaker 1: was a nice suite up in the kans in Kansas
Speaker 1: City that was like decorated from head to toe with
Speaker 1: or Nate Um probably like fourteen thousand dollars worth of
Speaker 1: flowers where he proposed to his uh you know fiance
Speaker 1: now now fiance girlfriend turned to fiance And like, I mean,
Speaker 1: just another example of Patrick Mahomes doing things just a
Speaker 1: little bit better than basically another any other man that
Speaker 1: I could point to at this point. Yeah, I liked
Speaker 1: how I did it one day on a on a
Speaker 1: beach on the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, over the suite
Speaker 1: with you by yourself or did you like have a
Speaker 1: friend hiding as like a photographer. Yeah, oh I had no.
Speaker 1: It was just me and my future wife. I did
Speaker 1: the beach that night, and she she was so gen
Speaker 1: manly surprised. She thought I was joking, which is where
Speaker 1: like a lifetime of sarcasm comes back to bite you.
Speaker 1: She genuinely thought for for a little while. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not giving Mahomes any credit over me for that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I will I'm happy How I did it? Mark,
Speaker 1: How did you do it? Actually it was Simone lived
Speaker 1: up in Santa Monica and it was to the beach.
Speaker 1: We didn't do the beach. It was just like I
Speaker 1: decided that night, Auta. I was like I'm doing it
Speaker 1: this tonight. And we I went up to see her,
Speaker 1: and like we took a walk and I just did
Speaker 1: it on the street corner up from like the her
Speaker 1: apartment where we had hung out for months and months.
Speaker 1: So now we recreated it so someone could take a photo.
Speaker 1: What did you say that pregnant? Mark? Now what I'm
Speaker 1: off to Vegas? No, inaccurate, It's likely a little Truely,
Speaker 1: you guys have I know Simone, If you're listening, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry she's she was a staunch listener, but is rocked
Speaker 1: um her listening status uh to the core. Alright, well,
Speaker 1: we'll get her back, hopefully once the games begin and
Speaker 1: her niners are thriving, hopefully. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: the news. It's a rundown Friday. You are the weakest thing.
Speaker 1: Do you know that that show is coming back to NBC?
Speaker 1: It is it now? I mean Mark, I mean Dan's
Speaker 1: been wanting to bring it back for years. I try
Speaker 1: to bring back that um pop culture bit about five
Speaker 1: years ago. It didn't take. But maybe NBC has something
Speaker 1: cooking that I didn't know about it. Ricky, do you
Speaker 1: have any more on this that you could share at
Speaker 1: this time? Not at this time. No, but I did
Speaker 1: see on Twitter that Jane Lynch is hosting the new one,
Speaker 1: so that should be cool. They're not bringing the British Uh,
Speaker 1: the stern British woman back. Yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: I'm excited to watch it and I think that everybody
Speaker 1: should watch it because it's gonna be fun, funny and fun. Hey, Erica,
Speaker 1: you missed the show on Monday. Huh yeah, boy Uh,
Speaker 1: I was just busy. Really. I think we're laying some
Speaker 1: bread crumbs here, folks follow along. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: into the news. Subred is gonna have so many theories
Speaker 1: about that one. Let's get into its starting with Leonard
Speaker 1: four Nett, who cut loose by the Jaguars. The former
Speaker 1: first round pick picked up by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 1: signed to a one year, two million dollar contract. You
Speaker 1: can get up to three and a half million if
Speaker 1: he hits some incentives rushing yards and playing time. It
Speaker 1: creates a very crowded backfield situation in Tampa, Um including
Speaker 1: Leshawn Leshawn McCoy's there and Mike Garfolo reported that he's
Speaker 1: still going to be in the mix. Potentially. Ronald Jones
Speaker 1: is there. Greg, what'd you think about this signing? Do
Speaker 1: you think four net could potentially be a fit in Tampa.
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised, and I think all the fantasy heads
Speaker 1: who were tauting Ronald Jones hardcore all preseason deserve what
Speaker 1: they got. They should have seen it coming that that
Speaker 1: rosters well because it became like a trendy thing and
Speaker 1: saying I like Ronald Jones as a runner too. But
Speaker 1: if you had to make a list of the teams
Speaker 1: that were most likely to add a veteran at the
Speaker 1: end of August to mess up your fantasy ring, it
Speaker 1: was the Bucks. They sort of telegraphed it, And I
Speaker 1: think four Nets fine. I kind of think he makes
Speaker 1: sense for them as another back because I don't love
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones Lashawn McCoy backfield, um, but if he was
Speaker 1: a third or fourth round pick, we wouldn't even be
Speaker 1: having him, you know, talking about him on the show,
Speaker 1: because he's just a fine power back that can split
Speaker 1: up the work, and you just worry a little bit
Speaker 1: about is he gonna be happy splitting up the work?
Speaker 1: Is les Sean McCoy gonna be happy being third it
Speaker 1: on the depth? Jar? You know arians already said Ronald
Speaker 1: Jones is our guy, Like is Ronald Jones is gonna
Speaker 1: be happy if he's not the guy in week three
Speaker 1: or four. It's it's a lot to deal with. I
Speaker 1: wonder if it's like it's either Tom Brady has uh,
Speaker 1: you know, significant influence in Tampa and he's building a
Speaker 1: backfield that's not that different in a way from New
Speaker 1: England's where you've got a bunch of guys and you
Speaker 1: kind of don't know who's gonna do what from week
Speaker 1: to week. Or I just think more likely they're not
Speaker 1: that happy with any of these players, and it's like
Speaker 1: they're gonna keep looking for answers and they'll probably have,
Speaker 1: you know, different roles. I mean they already cut they
Speaker 1: drafted Raymond Calais, who Bruce arians was crowing about, you
Speaker 1: know when they took him, he got he got released.
Speaker 1: I mean they got rid of dry Wally, if I'm
Speaker 1: saying that right, who was a really core special teams
Speaker 1: player for them. So I think for Net has a role,
Speaker 1: but I think it's probably closer to like a goal
Speaker 1: line type role or like a late game hammer. You
Speaker 1: make me think Mark though about one of the benefits
Speaker 1: of Tom Brady is now that now that we kind
Speaker 1: of talk about, is is for Nett and mcquoie really
Speaker 1: going to act up with Tom Brady as the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I do think there is something to the to the
Speaker 1: leadership and to the effect Brady has in terms of like, look,
Speaker 1: this is our one year to go win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: We don't want to mess it up for Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Let's just be good team team players. I think, right
Speaker 1: la Garrett Blunt goes to Pittsburgh and you know, within
Speaker 1: two months he's he's riding around with Levan Bell smoking
Speaker 1: weed in a car. He's back in New England, he
Speaker 1: doesn't he doesn't speak again, and Russia's for like two
Speaker 1: hundred yards in the playoffs. So I think that effect
Speaker 1: is real. Yeah, he was listening everything we hear and
Speaker 1: there was a report after his cut that he was
Speaker 1: a knucklehead there and we saw it with some of
Speaker 1: the antics on the sideline. I think Tom Coughlin was
Speaker 1: all fired up after a playoff game, was it, or
Speaker 1: at the end of a game once about some of
Speaker 1: his behavior. That stuff's not gonna fly with Brady. I
Speaker 1: totally agree that if for Net has the ability to
Speaker 1: make a difference, and West kind of scared me off
Speaker 1: that corner a little bit with his analysis earlier this
Speaker 1: week that he's kind of just a numbers compiler and
Speaker 1: a bit of a plotter as opposed to a dynamic player. Um,
Speaker 1: maybe that's just gonna be the case. But I think
Speaker 1: it's a perfect spot for him. Ultimately, let's move on.
Speaker 1: The Patriots make an announcement that I don't think surprises anyone,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, now it's official, and that's interesting.
Speaker 1: Cam Newton is the successor to Tom Brady, is the
Speaker 1: starting quarterback of the New England Patriots. Cam who signed
Speaker 1: a deal this summer well after free agency, coming off
Speaker 1: the foot injury that ruined his two thousand nineteen season,
Speaker 1: a couple of shoulder surgeries. But he look good in camp.
Speaker 1: We hear, well, we heard a lot of different things
Speaker 1: in camp, but we heard that he was also a
Speaker 1: good leader, named a team captain Mark Mark Sessler. Uh,
Speaker 1: and he is now going to be the Week one QB.
Speaker 1: I know you're feeling bullish on Cam when he signed.
Speaker 1: You still feel that way as we approach Week one. Uh,
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit less because I you know, as
Speaker 1: you meant and the camp reports were really mixed out
Speaker 1: of the gate. But that doesn't surprise me that much.
Speaker 1: I guess my I'm more interested just to see what
Speaker 1: this offense will look like. That's gonna be one of
Speaker 1: the first games I'll go check out in week one.
Speaker 1: What what is it? I mean, you have a completely
Speaker 1: different type of player. They died the idea that these
Speaker 1: names starter. I mean, wasn't this race over like weeks
Speaker 1: ago when Jared Stidham was, you know, whipping interceptions all
Speaker 1: over the place and dealing with an injury. I mean,
Speaker 1: and also like I think that these races, I just
Speaker 1: look at them as who is this player and who
Speaker 1: is that? And why did they bring Cam Newton in?
Speaker 1: The idea that Cam Newton was going to be on
Speaker 1: the sideline in week one with cameras panning to him
Speaker 1: every two minutes. I didn't really buy it. Now, maybe
Speaker 1: they maybe it was fair to start, had to make
Speaker 1: it make sure he was healthy, but you're right, once
Speaker 1: he was, it was really one week and then they
Speaker 1: started giving him starter reps because they they're trying to
Speaker 1: get ready, you know, for the season. Belichick actually didn't
Speaker 1: announce it publicly when they asked him about it. Friday,
Speaker 1: he still wouldn't say who the starters, but he told
Speaker 1: the team who the starter was, so obviously people from
Speaker 1: the team, and that all got out, like they made
Speaker 1: the announcement. Cam's our guy, this is who were so
Speaker 1: funny behind. I mean, he's like, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: think there's a week inside up Foxborough places. Whatever. You
Speaker 1: can't keep that, You can't keep that a secret. Plus
Speaker 1: the reporters kind of let it be known even though
Speaker 1: they're not really supposed to that. The last few weeks, Um, look,
Speaker 1: they've been practicing some option football, Like the the offensive
Speaker 1: line has been answering questions about, Okay, what's it like
Speaker 1: to be blocking for for offense, it's gonna have all
Speaker 1: these r p O s and options and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Like it's a totally different idea than when Tom Brady
Speaker 1: was there. So obviously that leads you to believe they're
Speaker 1: they're changing the offense significantly. I love as a as
Speaker 1: a Patriots fan, the fact that his teammates named him
Speaker 1: the captain. Uh, it doesn't surprise me at all. I
Speaker 1: listened to this Spotify um podcast the Ringer made called
Speaker 1: the Cam Chronicles. It was really well done, and one
Speaker 1: of my takeaways from it was just the fourth of
Speaker 1: his personality, um, just as a leader and as a
Speaker 1: a dude that other football players love to get behind.
Speaker 1: I mean, we know he's a big personality in front
Speaker 1: of the mic, but also behind the scenes in terms
Speaker 1: of you know, the heart, the work that he does,
Speaker 1: and just kind of the galvanizing way he's going to
Speaker 1: get that locker room behind him didn't take him long. Basically,
Speaker 1: all those dudes just want to play with Cam. Whether
Speaker 1: it works or not, I don't know, but it's fun
Speaker 1: to imagine as a Patriots fan, he's almost like the
Speaker 1: perfect replacement for Brady because he's not Brady Ask. He's
Speaker 1: completely different type of player, which means you're not comparing
Speaker 1: the same offense, but also like he's got that thing
Speaker 1: about him, that aura, where like all these younger players
Speaker 1: would to your point, just find it amazing to be
Speaker 1: in the same offense with Cam Newton. Now, if it
Speaker 1: has to work, Ricky, you've been bracing this yet or
Speaker 1: what I mean? I know you're still hung up on
Speaker 1: the one bad press conference quote, you know, but coming No, No,
Speaker 1: it's good. I'm I'm excited. It'll be good. It'll be
Speaker 1: very interesting. Like you said, I mean, our our offense
Speaker 1: is it's not that talented exactly, so pass catchers. I
Speaker 1: think ultimately he feels to me still is he's a
Speaker 1: bridge quarterback. But that's not a bad thing when you're
Speaker 1: the bridge is coming from the greatest quarterback ever. And
Speaker 1: then if Cam, whether he works out or he bombs,
Speaker 1: then maybe the young guy comes in and he's not
Speaker 1: getting compared directly to Brady, he's getting compared to the
Speaker 1: guy that replaced Brady. Remember the whole thing. You don't
Speaker 1: want to be the guy who replaces the guy. You
Speaker 1: want to be the guy who replaces the guy who
Speaker 1: replaced the guy. Yeah, that's that's Whoever the next Patriots
Speaker 1: quarterback is speaking the Patriots and their weapons. Uh, most
Speaker 1: a new has been released, your boy. I think Tom
Speaker 1: Curran Greg called him plotting during training camp and fell
Speaker 1: behind on the depth chart coming off that ankle surgery.
Speaker 1: But in terms of Bill part Bill Belichick's personnel record,
Speaker 1: which is generally sterling, this one was a mega bomb.
Speaker 1: They gave up a second round to make a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl run at the trade deadline last October, and it
Speaker 1: gets the new and now he doesn't even make it
Speaker 1: to people started lost a fact that it was about
Speaker 1: pushing to go far last year for a team that
Speaker 1: you know had a chance at to buy up until
Speaker 1: week seventeen. It was one of the worst personnel moves
Speaker 1: of the Belichick air. He's had plenty. I mean they
Speaker 1: all have had plenty. Of course, like you're hoping to
Speaker 1: do like five percent better. He gives up on his
Speaker 1: mistakes quicker. But man, he he's made some big ones
Speaker 1: and this is this is up there. I thought they
Speaker 1: thought they'd get two years out of the New so
Speaker 1: that you know it wasn't just last year. So to
Speaker 1: give up a second round pick, which they've blown a
Speaker 1: million times, taken terrible defensive backs anyways, like Force and
Speaker 1: New is a disaster. It really. It reminds me a
Speaker 1: little bit of the Ocho Sinko signing in trade, which
Speaker 1: which I always hammer cost them a super Bowl, And um,
Speaker 1: I don't think this was that costly, but it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty close. It goes agawn, it goes again. Tonio Bone
Speaker 1: was a bust. But to me, there's something, Yeah, they
Speaker 1: didn't they don't have it. They don't have any depth.
Speaker 1: That's what's going on to keep trying to He's trying
Speaker 1: to patch it with veterans and it's becoming expensive. What
Speaker 1: about the whole pink pony thing though, Mark, He's you know,
Speaker 1: pink pony is supposed to be Mark's great theory. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: these these Patriots operatives go to other places and take advantage,
Speaker 1: you know, and then feed the pages. Well, how about
Speaker 1: former Patriots front office uh staffer Thomas Dimitroff, Uh, just
Speaker 1: you know, crushing Belichick sending them some used goods for
Speaker 1: a second round pick. He's not getting invited to the
Speaker 1: Nantucket cookouts anymore, Dimitroff Belichick. Dimitroff has survived so many
Speaker 1: ups and downs in Atlanta that there may be a
Speaker 1: whole different thing going on there in terms of you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what what kind of colored pony, you'd
Speaker 1: be a red pony down there. There's weird stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't kill this Belichick on this one
Speaker 1: for this one move because I want because i'd want
Speaker 1: someone that actively is going for it when you're in
Speaker 1: position to get a buy, had it worked, had you
Speaker 1: gotten a healthy version of us knew that was Atlanta
Speaker 1: it would have help. They were stiffing around Emmanuel Sanders
Speaker 1: though too. When you do think about, you know, the
Speaker 1: road not not taken there. Yeah, Greg, I just want
Speaker 1: to know what you were talking about a little like
Speaker 1: a minute ago. You said, Antonio Bone. Who's that Antonio Bone? Them?
Speaker 1: You know Bone? He's actually he's an actor in a
Speaker 1: film that Greg watches sometimes a bit of a ultimately
Speaker 1: a bit of a bit of a h A look
Speaker 1: at me move? I thought, by Belichick, you know, I know,
Speaker 1: but D like, wait, what's the look at me moved?
Speaker 1: Trading for him? I don't even get the joke. It's
Speaker 1: like here, yeah, here I my depth chart at wide
Speaker 1: receivers thirty four year old Julian Edelman and the Harry
Speaker 1: kid who was kind of shaky as hell last year
Speaker 1: as a rookie and most of new come me off
Speaker 1: ankle surgery. But here's the thing, Well, you asked me,
Speaker 1: you asked me to talk. You gotta let me talk.
Speaker 1: You know the fact that maybe he wasn't moving so
Speaker 1: great in training camp and a shortened pandemic training camp. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's get rid of him because I want to prove
Speaker 1: to everyone that I eat my mistakes. And I keep
Speaker 1: moving that because I'm a tank and there's no reverse
Speaker 1: gears in this tank. All right, he was your coach
Speaker 1: for about three hours and those were two. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: think he's worried about the pr I mean once you
Speaker 1: got once, you got a stiff, you get rid of him.
Speaker 1: You don't keep you don't sign him. You know, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I hope some new signs with somebody will sign with
Speaker 1: the Jets, like the Marius Thomas and Braxton Barrios, Like,
Speaker 1: just keep keep getting keep getting out, keep hitting out
Speaker 1: at me. It's not my fault that it was a
Speaker 1: terrible trade. I mean you're hitting out at multiple people
Speaker 1: didn't like, let's beat him hitting out at No. One.
Speaker 1: That's football analysis, Jack No, no, al Right, next time
Speaker 1: an Alvin Camara is back on the field with the Saints.
Speaker 1: There's been some contract drama there that's kind of tiresome
Speaker 1: to me. So if you guys want to talk about
Speaker 1: their deal, which is either happening or not happening, but
Speaker 1: he's gonna be on the Saints this year. Someone that
Speaker 1: did get paid is Joe Mixing, who signed a four year,
Speaker 1: forty eight million dollar extension through four with the Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Bengals a quick trip into the Bengal Sanctuary here Uh,
Speaker 1: Mixing returned to return to the field himself. Remember you
Speaker 1: had those my you had those migraine headaches, which quickly
Speaker 1: disappeared after he got paid. So Mixing gets paid, Kamari
Speaker 1: gets waiting to get paid. Both are playing with their
Speaker 1: teams right now. Yeah, Mixing deal coincided with, you know,
Speaker 1: the Kimara news going from you know, interesting to kind
Speaker 1: of nuclear. I heard some whispers about some things that
Speaker 1: happened behind the scenes, maybe between Kimara and you know,
Speaker 1: his coaching staff. There there is things, but he's back
Speaker 1: on the he's back on the field. Whispers there's drama,
Speaker 1: that there's some drap, that there was drama, and then
Speaker 1: he was gone for four or five days. Malcolm Jenkins,
Speaker 1: by the way, has been gone from Saints practice too
Speaker 1: for two weeks. No one is explaining that. I'm a
Speaker 1: little curious about what's happening there to The Saints have
Speaker 1: kept some good secrets, but I think Camara gets paid.
Speaker 1: The Mixing deal just made it harder, and so did
Speaker 1: the Christian McCaffrey deal. It's amazing. I think how far
Speaker 1: Mixing came though. I mean he was kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: a guy that the Bengals took a lot of grief
Speaker 1: for signing, and no one's given them grief now for
Speaker 1: giving him like a four year contract. I mean his
Speaker 1: domestic violence history is kind of barely even mentioned at
Speaker 1: this point, and now they're willing to pay him for
Speaker 1: four or five years. Yeah. I mean it's and that
Speaker 1: was a Marvin Lewis you know, draft pick, and the
Speaker 1: new regime came in and seemed to not veer away.
Speaker 1: I mean, mixing from an on field perspective fits the
Speaker 1: offense really well, and it kind of shows you Cincinnati
Speaker 1: like really slow to do things like this in the past.
Speaker 1: Um and you're kind of building key players around like
Speaker 1: I couldn't see them moving on. But then you suddenly
Speaker 1: get that quarterback in there and they're like, let's kind
Speaker 1: of be chiefs ESK and surround Joe Burrow with as
Speaker 1: much talent as we can long term. I Mean the
Speaker 1: Sames thing for me is like it's have you I
Speaker 1: can't remember a team that was like, you know, basically
Speaker 1: super Bowl or bus for one more season. I mean
Speaker 1: it's you'd imagine Breeze will not be there next year.
Speaker 1: Everything is going away. You're gonna really like float into
Speaker 1: a thorny NFC South without Alvin Kamara. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you don't get that done, what are you doing? They're
Speaker 1: chasing Jadeveon Clowney for the same reasons you know. In
Speaker 1: other running back news, Adrian Peterson has done with the
Speaker 1: Washington football team in a move that's kind of a surprise.
Speaker 1: They part ways with the uh great running back, now
Speaker 1: thirty five years old, saves the team two and a
Speaker 1: half million dollars against the cap, opens up playing time
Speaker 1: for dudes like Antonio Gibson and Bryce Love and listen
Speaker 1: all day, Greg out on the street on the eve
Speaker 1: of Week one? Is this the end? Do you think
Speaker 1: he catches on somewhere? And where do you think Washington's
Speaker 1: field goes from here? I think he'll get a job
Speaker 1: at some point this year, maybe not before week one,
Speaker 1: when the when your contract for the whole season is guaranteed.
Speaker 1: But because he could still run really well last year,
Speaker 1: he doesn't really make sense though on Washington like a
Speaker 1: rebuilding team. He's a He's a bit of a progress stopper.
Speaker 1: Sanu was a progress that when you have talent like
Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers and Gunner Elschowski. You can't absolute out there
Speaker 1: bob stopping that progress. So Peterson really can run well
Speaker 1: or he did, laughter, he really did, like he was.
Speaker 1: He was absolutely a better player than Leonard Fournette was
Speaker 1: a year ago. I mean, I don't even think it's
Speaker 1: a question. I think if you just look at like
Speaker 1: Scott Turner there North Turner's son, the o c that
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson despite like they were reporters from the Athletic
Speaker 1: like five or six days ago, saying that Peterson was
Speaker 1: an absolute lock and that they thought Bryce Love was
Speaker 1: the one who would be booted out of off the roster,
Speaker 1: but he didn't really fit Scott Turner's offense, you know.
Speaker 1: And I should know. I once ran into Scott Turner
Speaker 1: at the airport and I said to him, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: because after they had been with the Browns, they said,
Speaker 1: I'm really sorry about what happened in Cleveland. I thought
Speaker 1: you did a great job. Now I don't know if
Speaker 1: he did a great job. But he looked at me
Speaker 1: like h and just like I'm just trying to get
Speaker 1: on this plane, get out of my face right now.
Speaker 1: And it was like one of those like it was
Speaker 1: like seven twelve in the morning, and I thought I
Speaker 1: probably shouldn't have, uh, you know, gone forward with that interaction,
Speaker 1: but just trying to make you know, of such repute,
Speaker 1: maybe he would feel differently, but maybe just like I
Speaker 1: would put some respect on your name. You know. I
Speaker 1: think I said I was from you know, NFL media
Speaker 1: that which I was much more from NFL dot com
Speaker 1: back then, but I realized that has literally zero credence
Speaker 1: with anyone. So you just used the umbrella NFL media
Speaker 1: term and like they can imagine that maybe you're just
Speaker 1: an accountant or work in HR at that point. So
Speaker 1: you know, it was not a successful conversation. I've always
Speaker 1: appreciated how aggressive you are in airports when you spot
Speaker 1: people that you know, you like, you're a guy that
Speaker 1: will and we just happen with Sam Donald the spring.
Speaker 1: You will always go up to the person and talk
Speaker 1: to them, which is something I would never do. I
Speaker 1: don't even think I would have done it with Donald.
Speaker 1: I and I don't say that as like because I
Speaker 1: don't want to invade their space. It's just I would
Speaker 1: feel uncomfortable doing it, but cessly don't care. Well Henry
Speaker 1: once and always kills me about this because he I
Speaker 1: believe it. He ran into me, like sitting next to
Speaker 1: Greg Roman, um, and I was just like, my, I
Speaker 1: guess my thing is like you've you got one chance
Speaker 1: to do it, Um, do it. And I got that
Speaker 1: photo from the bad getting to Sam Donald photo because
Speaker 1: it looked like I was, you know, Dan should have
Speaker 1: been Dan. And I told him, I said, like, you know,
Speaker 1: Dan and Dan's dad on our podcast really love the Jets.
Speaker 1: And that was another kind of thousand yards stare. So
Speaker 1: I love that. I mean, that's what you know. How
Speaker 1: do you just pop in the question out of nowhere
Speaker 1: after you knocked up Simone? It was like, that's it's
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing to be that, you know, im Pulse.
Speaker 1: I don't think you have the facts in order there,
Speaker 1: but um, all those things did happen, just not in
Speaker 1: that order. The best, the best Sessler version of this
Speaker 1: wasn't at an airport. It was at a highly boozy
Speaker 1: league event where Mike mccagnen, the then Jets general manager
Speaker 1: who was on the verge of drafting Sam Donald, was
Speaker 1: belly up at the bar and Cessler rumbled over there
Speaker 1: and I see them talking and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: like Mark turns with a big smile and just like
Speaker 1: waves me over here. Done, and then we had really
Speaker 1: nice conversation with Big Mac for ten minutes. I think.
Speaker 1: Actually the most heightened experience, and you were there too,
Speaker 1: was Mark Davis, where I attempted to corner Mark Davis
Speaker 1: for four or five minutes, and he was in a
Speaker 1: white track suit in like a bowl haircut and you know,
Speaker 1: two piece in the pot, not a tract suit. The
Speaker 1: best thing about Mark Davis is he's always in the
Speaker 1: same outfit at any league event. It's white jeans, not sweatpants.
Speaker 1: It's white jeans, maybe zubaz uh. And then it's usually
Speaker 1: a white long, long sleeved T shirt, usually Raiders apparel. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then yes, the haircut, which is some is pretty
Speaker 1: much iconic at this point, like people thought Al Davis
Speaker 1: is iconic, I think at this point. And then if
Speaker 1: you read some of the profiles unmarked, does he still
Speaker 1: have the bubbletop van? Remember that I'm not aware of
Speaker 1: what's happening with the bubbletop fan at the moment. A right,
Speaker 1: Google that Google that? Um? All right? In other news?
Speaker 1: What else is going on? Oh Josh? Gordon is back
Speaker 1: with the Seattle Seahawks. They have some depth issues there
Speaker 1: behind their great one two punch of Locket and Metcalf,
Speaker 1: so they bring Gordon back in the mix. And the
Speaker 1: one it hang up here is that Josh Gordon is
Speaker 1: still suspended. He's been suspended six times overall since, including
Speaker 1: five times for drug related defenses. He's currently banned for
Speaker 1: both p E d S and uh, you know, substance abuse.
Speaker 1: But that apparently seems to be coming to a potential
Speaker 1: end because he's on the Seattle roster and we'll see
Speaker 1: where he is. It's years old. M hmm. It's interesting.
Speaker 1: They brought in Paul Richardson, who had some decent moments
Speaker 1: in Seattle for about a week, and they don't have
Speaker 1: a third receiver. Philip door Set, the former Patriot, was
Speaker 1: supposed to be that guy. He's been hurt. They have
Speaker 1: a bunch of injuries. I think if Gordon is the
Speaker 1: third receiver behind two really talented receivers, it could work out.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've had this Gordon conversation a million time,
Speaker 1: but this as a football player. I also don't think
Speaker 1: you can count on him to be a star now either.
Speaker 1: But as a role player. Then then I think that
Speaker 1: makes sense because I think his play has declined a
Speaker 1: little bit each time he's come back. And let's just
Speaker 1: be honest here, you can't count on him period right now.
Speaker 1: That that's times, But but what what what what happened
Speaker 1: was like when he was in the middle of his
Speaker 1: five or six year high this he would come back
Speaker 1: in a preseason and look absolutely dominant and then fatal,
Speaker 1: you know, then then he'd be gone two weeks later.
Speaker 1: I think that that dominance is not guaranteed on any level,
Speaker 1: but it's telling that with you know, it's this weekend
Speaker 1: that you're gonna have about sixties seventy eight wide receivers
Speaker 1: set free that they're gonna go with. Josh Gordon is
Speaker 1: their pick that I mean, they there's there is something
Speaker 1: so tantalizing about him if he's on the field. I mean,
Speaker 1: in the Seahawks like to bring back Richardson. Not a
Speaker 1: lot of teams bring back guys that they parted ways with.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks are a little different on that front. I
Speaker 1: just wonder, you know, let's use Dez Bryant as another
Speaker 1: veteran ride receiver desperately trying to get back in the league.
Speaker 1: Is this version of Josh Gordon a better value for
Speaker 1: the Seahawks than somebody like it does Bryant Antonio Brown,
Speaker 1: I'll throw his name out there because he's forgotten now,
Speaker 1: But you can't get Brown for till week nine or ten.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. So it's like I think that, you
Speaker 1: know my answer, yes, could imagine that because when we've
Speaker 1: seen Gordon, I think he he can still play, And
Speaker 1: when we saw Daz Last I don't think he could
Speaker 1: he could still play at that you know what, I
Speaker 1: don't Obviously I'm not speaking from any inside knowledge on this,
Speaker 1: But doesn't Antonio Brown with the Pete Carroll Seahawks vibe
Speaker 1: of them bringing guys that they feel they can rehab
Speaker 1: and then adding him to a push for a team
Speaker 1: that kind of needs a third banana? There, wouldn't that
Speaker 1: potentially be a great fit for the Seahawks. I can
Speaker 1: see it. There's probably like a five, maybe four or
Speaker 1: five teams that I would He makes sense as a
Speaker 1: player for a lot of teams. But no, But the
Speaker 1: overall experience, like maybe that happens, you know, five weeks
Speaker 1: from now or something, and someone pulls the trigger the
Speaker 1: Raiders are down to wide receiver Tyrolle. Williams placed on
Speaker 1: injured reserve this week with a torn labram. Uh it
Speaker 1: is that's a tough injury and uh he's gonna undergo surgery. Uh,
Speaker 1: so he cannot return this season. He got a lot
Speaker 1: of money from Mike Mayock and and John Gruden last year,
Speaker 1: but it has not worked out. He's twenty he's almost
Speaker 1: twenty nine. This could be the end of his run,
Speaker 1: uh in Vegas before it begins. Really, yeah, this was
Speaker 1: a big loss. I mean, they paid him a ton
Speaker 1: of money. And to be you know clear, when you
Speaker 1: put on injured reserve this week, it's for the season,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, Dan, and if if you want to,
Speaker 1: you know, keep your guys through the fifty three man
Speaker 1: roster cut, which the deadline is Saturday afternoon. I think
Speaker 1: if he's on the roster by Monday, then you can
Speaker 1: start putting players on injured reserve. And the rules are
Speaker 1: totally different this year. You have an unlimited amount of
Speaker 1: i R boomerangs, and I think you can do it
Speaker 1: for like three weeks because of COVID. So it's the
Speaker 1: i R rules are totally different this year. If you're
Speaker 1: putting a guy on now you're saying, you know, he's
Speaker 1: not gonna be of use to us, but there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a ton of players on Monday and Tuesday, UM
Speaker 1: that just have these sort of short term injuries. Maybe
Speaker 1: an Alston Jeffrey is a good example where okay, maybe
Speaker 1: we hope you're back in week four or five, but
Speaker 1: now we can put you on I Are. We don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about using up our boomerangs like some
Speaker 1: teams are gonna end up putting three, four or five
Speaker 1: players on I ARE a lot of boomerangs, a lot
Speaker 1: of boomerangs. All right, let's spend through a couple of things, uh,
Speaker 1: real quick before we head off on a reminder, we
Speaker 1: have our NFL Network program coming up. We're taping it
Speaker 1: today at Arizon Fridays Online and then on NFL Network
Speaker 1: in the morning. Dwayne Haskins and Tarad Tarad Taylor. You know,
Speaker 1: Mark and I did a Chargers thing with our buddy
Speaker 1: Chris Harry the other day yesterday in fact, and uh,
Speaker 1: I noticed after doing an in depth conversation about uh,
Speaker 1: the quarterback for the Chargers, that I was calling him Tyrod.
Speaker 1: But as I think that was corrected a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. It's Tarad right, bad job by me, but
Speaker 1: as coaches don't even say it. I mean, Anthony lenn
Speaker 1: says Tyrod. So it's it's one of those things that's
Speaker 1: he's putting people on the top. Now you know people
Speaker 1: are gonna have the population is gonna think Tyrode, So
Speaker 1: you're gonna be dealing with that. Check out. On Twitter,
Speaker 1: Mark and I both retweeted Chris's tweet we run that
Speaker 1: Chargers live show. It was fun. Uh the Cowboys release
Speaker 1: ha ha, Clinton dicks the former Packers safety and uh listen.
Speaker 1: James later keeps telling all you guys, it's not happening.
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas is not going to the Cowboys. Just believe her.
Speaker 1: She knows what she's talking about. This will come back
Speaker 1: to bite become Monday's show. She seems to be very confident.
Speaker 1: She seems very confident that Earl Thomas is not on
Speaker 1: the way. We shall see. And finally another safety news,
Speaker 1: the Browns make a move after Grant Delpit toward his achilles.
Speaker 1: They needed to add somebody else to that room, so
Speaker 1: enter Ronnie Harrison in a trade. Your thoughts on that one, Mark, Sessler.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, the the interesting player kind of
Speaker 1: Joe Woods, their defensive coordinator, wanted to use delp It
Speaker 1: kind of all over the place. Harrison, Um who comes
Speaker 1: cheap too million and over two million over two years,
Speaker 1: played free safety about forty percent of the time, up
Speaker 1: in the box thirty one percent of the time, so
Speaker 1: he can do a lot um Nick Saban loved him
Speaker 1: at Alabama. Well, TVD will see. But the takeaway from
Speaker 1: me is that, Um, you look at the front office
Speaker 1: and they are not um the type that's gonna go
Speaker 1: out and jump after Earl Thomas. They're not gonna go
Speaker 1: jump after like an ex overly priced veteran. I had
Speaker 1: some people around the team say, like, watch, they're gonna
Speaker 1: go someone that fits exactly le Brown's model. And I
Speaker 1: know there's been a billion Browns models, but I really
Speaker 1: think this is the best. And Andrew Barry is more
Speaker 1: the more promising that GM than I've seen in years
Speaker 1: and years there, and he's stuck to what they want
Speaker 1: to do. JAG's really putting it taking it down of
Speaker 1: the screws here. I mean not the Harrison was a star.
Speaker 1: He just the guy who played a lot for them.
Speaker 1: Last year. He's a young player, but man, they're they're
Speaker 1: getting rid of They do not have many players, especially
Speaker 1: on defensive, have been there for a while, and I
Speaker 1: am kind of amazed how little interest Earl Thomas is getting.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's asking for financially. I suspect
Speaker 1: that's that's a big part of it. But it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see if, like Clinton Dix, who's been solid,
Speaker 1: he never can find a team that believes in him,
Speaker 1: which is a red flag. But like it'd be interesting
Speaker 1: to see if he gets a job before Thomas. No
Speaker 1: one wants Earl Thomas. That's my take. It feels like
Speaker 1: girl Thomas has some stink on him. You know, well
Speaker 1: you got teams hugged up against the cap and you
Speaker 1: could see him asking for more money coming off a
Speaker 1: disastrous exit from Baltimore that people are comfortable with. What
Speaker 1: don't we be hearing that there was some type of
Speaker 1: conversations happening. Then he's pretty silent. People aren't into it.
Speaker 1: I mean that's the thing is like when the Cowboys
Speaker 1: public or you were saying, well we're looking at it,
Speaker 1: Well not really. I mean, you made you had your
Speaker 1: meetings and once it's five three or four or five
Speaker 1: days out of him being cut. They they decided they're
Speaker 1: not into him, and all these other teams have decided
Speaker 1: they're not that into him. Maybe that changes after week
Speaker 1: one when the contract surr guaranteed or his price comes down.
Speaker 1: But it's pretty crazy for like a possible future Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer who played well last year. It's not like
Speaker 1: he played poorly. He played played well. All right, that's
Speaker 1: what's happening in the news. A couple of program notes.
Speaker 1: Next week begins our you know shift into regular season. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna have a show that goes up on
Speaker 1: Labor Day Monday, and yes, get excited because it will
Speaker 1: be our Go Get My Lunch Spectacular, hopefully with Chris
Speaker 1: Westling as well joining us, where we make our predictions
Speaker 1: for the season. UH. Thursday will be our preview UH
Speaker 1: podcast where we break down all the week one games.
Speaker 1: Thursday night, we will have a mini pod up for
Speaker 1: you that breaks down Texans chiefs. Can't wait for that.
Speaker 1: And then Sunday night, of course, the flagship program, Oh
Speaker 1: I'm skipping something, our NFL Network program UM will be
Speaker 1: taken in part from our Thursday audio preview, So if
Speaker 1: you want to see our mugs on television talking about
Speaker 1: what we talked about on the Thursday show that will
Speaker 1: air Saturday mornings on NFL Network and then on Sunday
Speaker 1: night the Flagship program where we break down every game
Speaker 1: UH from the week that was, this one being week
Speaker 1: one not bad, and then there's other stuff. There's more
Speaker 1: The old suser has the Power Rankings and the Power
Speaker 1: Ranking Show with Matt Money Smith Greg You're back with
Speaker 1: UH game debut your Friday evenings eight pm on NFL Network,
Speaker 1: And and Ricky's helping out on that show too. She's
Speaker 1: gonna do some more voiceover UH stuff where she kind
Speaker 1: of sets up different segments and stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: it's all happening. Plus we have a stream keeping eye
Speaker 1: out on our Twitter accounts. We're gonna try to do
Speaker 1: some sort of stream on Wednesday, just setting up the opener.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be a podcast, but just like a
Speaker 1: little extra and UH in exchange for leave us a
Speaker 1: comment and leave us some reviews. We need some more.
Speaker 1: I saw people responded last time. I appreciated it. I
Speaker 1: love you all, and Mark, I didn't forget about you
Speaker 1: and I didn't forget that you were wearing an awesome
Speaker 1: pink collared shirt and today you're wearing the exact same
Speaker 1: collar shirt, only it's blue. I noticed these things, so
Speaker 1: you know, I have This is the first time I
Speaker 1: bought shirts in like probably four years. And so what
Speaker 1: I do is I went into a store, I found
Speaker 1: one version of a shirt I like, and just bought
Speaker 1: three colored versions of it. And I was out in
Speaker 1: eight minutes. And that's how you do it. What's well done?
Speaker 1: Do you? What do you got cooking this season? You've
Speaker 1: got a weekly column, right, weekly column? Um, Eric and
Speaker 1: I have a little fantasy thing that might hit the
Speaker 1: scene a little bit later today or soon, and TVD
Speaker 1: on some other stuff. What is that? You'll say? That's
Speaker 1: called the plug? Little little like twitter cup gake out
Speaker 1: there for you to eat. Take a little bite out
Speaker 1: of it, do it? That's not uh, I don't know
Speaker 1: if if you know, this households about to combust. So
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we'll see where we are three
Speaker 1: weeks from now. I'm not feeling ultra confident about the
Speaker 1: smoothness of the whole journey here. And one more thing,
Speaker 1: boys and girls, this has nothing to do with us
Speaker 1: but it has something to do with one of our
Speaker 1: very favorite people at NFL Media, the great Steve Wish,
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna let him explain it to listeners that
Speaker 1: might not know about his new venture. Steve, Welcome to
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL podcast. I like you on every
Speaker 1: week and not getting paid for it. I love it.
Speaker 1: What's up in the podcast game? Now, guys? The podcast game?
Speaker 1: I gotta tell us a little bit about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jim Trotter and I are gonna be having a podcast
Speaker 1: debuting September eighth, the Huddle and Flow Podcast that name. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you like that A little little sample part of it,
Speaker 1: you know, to to Howard Alums on the podcast stampling
Speaker 1: from the movie where Howard Alums, Anthony Anderson and to
Speaker 1: Roggi p Henson are two of the key stars the
Speaker 1: Hustle and Flow, there's a nice little connecting of the
Speaker 1: dots right there. But yeah, I mean, so, Jim and I,
Speaker 1: you know, we we've we've had more more than forty
Speaker 1: years of covering the NFL. Uh. You know, as I
Speaker 1: said to Howard Alums, you've got a lot of experience. Um,
Speaker 1: it's not often you get two guys from the same school,
Speaker 1: but also two guys in the same historically black university.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna be coming at this with a kind of,
Speaker 1: hopefully a unique perspective on covering the NFL with the
Speaker 1: pop culture and social issues going on around it. And guys,
Speaker 1: our debut September eight. Who've got Ron Rivera, the head
Speaker 1: coach of the Washington football team on there, and we've
Speaker 1: recorded it, and all I can say is, I have
Speaker 1: the headline writers ready because there's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: in here, um that nobody's heard before. It goes back
Speaker 1: to our relationship with Ron and his and his trust
Speaker 1: and candor in us. But this is to nice little
Speaker 1: dive and it's one of the things that are going there.
Speaker 1: Even used to call up the news desk. You know
Speaker 1: how this thing works. He should give him a copy.
Speaker 1: Help out the NFL media, nfl dot com, and help
Speaker 1: out yourself. They'll have some headlines ready for once that
Speaker 1: thing hits up. To think about the game, Now that
Speaker 1: you're getting into the pad, you're competing with us, you
Speaker 1: gotta think a couple of steps ahead here. Why Greg,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. You're in my contrials, baby,
Speaker 1: because it's already been done. There already been done, Steve.
Speaker 1: I'll try to, you know, build report versus just blowing
Speaker 1: the whole thing up here. Uh. You know they talk
Speaker 1: about you guys or people they would say reporters with
Speaker 1: deep rollodex is when is the last time you actually
Speaker 1: on a desk or had a rolodex. I just feel like, um,
Speaker 1: you probably shifted your deep list of contacts to online
Speaker 1: at this point. Great report builder here? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm you know what here? Here's what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: Did you guys are big in a pop culture? I'm
Speaker 1: kaiser so say brother? Al right here, all right here,
Speaker 1: no need for the rolodex. Can't leave any evidence laying
Speaker 1: around for chat commentary to finally catch up towing get
Speaker 1: it's all right here. I hope that means you're not
Speaker 1: Kevin Spacey too, and you're just sticking to the character portrait. Okay.
Speaker 1: I mean whe is peaking right now. Wie's guns on
Speaker 1: the artwork, having a moment podcast. He's having a moment.
Speaker 1: It's like, I think what it is. It's his second peak.
Speaker 1: He he had the climb, he had the climb to
Speaker 1: the summit of the industry. But you've got a lot
Speaker 1: of kids in the house. You're dealing with them now,
Speaker 1: the kids, and I know the quarantines changed that up
Speaker 1: a little bit here and there, but the kids are
Speaker 1: mostly taking care of themselves. They're into college. It opens
Speaker 1: up the time. And now Wie is just peeking again.
Speaker 1: We gotta wait until our kids go to college for
Speaker 1: that second peak, Mark and Dan for the first one.
Speaker 1: I wonder where the dip is. Well, we're just hanging
Speaker 1: out at the top of the mountain for now, but
Speaker 1: now you're going up another mountain. But I have to
Speaker 1: say this, man, you guys, the you know, the lane
Speaker 1: you guys carved out and showing you know, me and
Speaker 1: so many others on how to really articulate this podcast
Speaker 1: game to really kind of cultivate an audience and build
Speaker 1: an audience. It's amazing what you guys have done. You know,
Speaker 1: I love you guys. You're just great human beings. But again,
Speaker 1: what you've done in the in the sports, in the
Speaker 1: NFL podcast world and kind of bringing your own personalities
Speaker 1: and your pop culture references and everything into it. We
Speaker 1: just hope that you know, after a couple of years,
Speaker 1: if you get that much time, because you know, typically
Speaker 1: black people only get one shot before they're fired. If
Speaker 1: you get that much time to build, you know, something
Speaker 1: to what you know you guys have crafted. You know,
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope, you know, to really live up
Speaker 1: to the expectations you guys have said. Well, I came
Speaker 1: away from art, thank you. I came here from our
Speaker 1: NFL summit thinking that maybe you alone feel that way
Speaker 1: about our show. But uh, that's for another time. So yeah,
Speaker 1: how about how about that. Let's let's open the world
Speaker 1: to the great franchise that we're building here. Uh, build
Speaker 1: some homes. Steve Wise, you know that we love you
Speaker 1: and this podcast huddle and flow. Absolutely, we'll get the
Speaker 1: a t N podcast seal of a approval and we
Speaker 1: look forward to hearing that rivera interview and maybe even
Speaker 1: ripping some sound bites out of it and talking about
Speaker 1: it on this show, and of course having you back
Speaker 1: on against Steve and maybe Jim down the road as well.
Speaker 1: Best of luck in the podcast game. Thanks. So, I
Speaker 1: can't wait to have you guys on. It would be
Speaker 1: a spectacular show that sounds break All right, that's it
Speaker 1: for the Friday show. Let's sign off. I asked Ricky
Speaker 1: just to type in Hustle and Flow in the NFL
Speaker 1: Media Library and see what song came up. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna play out with that as a little not to
Speaker 1: Steve's new show. Maybe it could be his theme song.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's his call with Jim obviously. But
Speaker 1: let's sign off now. This is Dan Hanson signed off
Speaker 1: with the Great Steve Weisch, the old Boss. M hmm.
Speaker 1: This is Hustle and Flow. This isn't the movie. That's
Speaker 1: just our libraries version. The thumbs down from Steve, uh,
Speaker 1: the Quiet Storm and Ricky Hollywood until Monday. This is
Speaker 1: bad Time STA stay and turn back. Stays, stays the way,
Speaker 1: The Total Battle BA