Speaker 1: Be around with the NFL Podcast has stronger backs than
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods. Welcome to another edition I'll be around the
Speaker 1: NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansis coming to you
Speaker 1: from a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Colleen Wolf,
Speaker 1: and Gregg Rosval. What is up? Men and women? Hey? Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up? Not bad? Yeah? I got nervous there. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what is it here? Do I step in? I've been
Speaker 1: here in a while. You're in his seat. You need
Speaker 1: to fulfill all of his roles. Stick. You nailed it,
Speaker 1: I mean right out of the gate. You know. That's
Speaker 1: what I was hoping for. You need some big words,
Speaker 1: big words, some folks wisdom. I'm on it. Start get
Speaker 1: fired up at some point, start yelling about something. Okay,
Speaker 1: I can definitely do that at some point. Actually, you
Speaker 1: know what, some good life lessons. How long have we
Speaker 1: all known each other? Now? Six seven years? Something about that? Yeah, girl, friends,
Speaker 1: I've seen you annoyed. I've seen you angry, but I've
Speaker 1: never heard you raise your voice. Yeah, but like but
Speaker 1: legitimately like angry, like yelling is very rich here. Now,
Speaker 1: if I had Gonzo next to me right now, and
Speaker 1: I said, Gonzo is that's something that happens, and he said,
Speaker 1: here was an American sports writer, was married NFL media
Speaker 1: broadcaster Colle Wolf John, who was a pisces, resides in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles with his wife and two dogs. Uh is
Speaker 1: it possible that John was, Oh, yeah, that's something that
Speaker 1: happens quite a bit. It takes a lot for me
Speaker 1: to get to that level. But once once I get
Speaker 1: to that level, it's it's rough. I've learned though, I've
Speaker 1: learned to kind of like de escalate things because I
Speaker 1: don't like to get that. When's the last time he
Speaker 1: witnessed you in that state? I don't know, it's been
Speaker 1: a while. I mean I usually I usually yell about
Speaker 1: work and stuff like that. So I get home and
Speaker 1: that's when everybody, that's when the real night comes out.
Speaker 1: You don't seem like there's not a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: I get really angry about. Do you think John is
Speaker 1: afraid of? You know what? That's the weirdest question ever. Hey,
Speaker 1: how about that little uh, Erica, the little game you
Speaker 1: did with us for Instagram where you asked us a
Speaker 1: bunch of questions and then Colleen said she would rather
Speaker 1: be famous than rich yep, And then I and then
Speaker 1: I immediately said, no, I want to take that back.
Speaker 1: I want to change my answer. I didn't think it through.
Speaker 1: I would rather be rich that but that just shows
Speaker 1: you're like gut feeling like that was Jo. But I
Speaker 1: got nervous when you were asking me these questions. I'm
Speaker 1: not a good test tape. This is gonna be on
Speaker 1: the Instagram around the NFL handle. Yes, the TS Valentine's
Speaker 1: Day I already hated. I already want to sabotage somehow
Speaker 1: to leave my clip. Dan's clip is you know, as
Speaker 1: close to a horror movie ever gonna so just enjoy that.
Speaker 1: It was a little bit off putting even I have
Speaker 1: to say that, Uh, Colleen, great to have you here.
Speaker 1: I started watching All or Nothing the New Eagles season.
Speaker 1: So far a little underwhelmed two and a half episodes in,
Speaker 1: but you have popped up a couple of times. Really well, yeah,
Speaker 1: and like the Thursday night football dais and whatnot. But
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for like a Connie somewhere on the scene. Uh,
Speaker 1: maybe a flashback to the Super Bowl parade and there's
Speaker 1: some Cardi b rapping going on. None of that yet, Okay,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it yet. Either do you get royalties
Speaker 1: for I mean because I would say why is why?
Speaker 1: No cutaways to our show. We discussed the Eagles for
Speaker 1: probably twenty five hours this season. No cutaways, nothing we
Speaker 1: haven't got all or nothing more like nothing. I know
Speaker 1: Mike Garfolo was angry too, because I don't think he
Speaker 1: made an appearance in it. So covered the whole in
Speaker 1: the big spot and speaking of Connie Fox being with us,
Speaker 1: um really on a whim. I decided last night to
Speaker 1: launch a new contest. It's the Connie Fox Theme Song
Speaker 1: Sweep State, where I'm calling upon all of you listeners
Speaker 1: out there to submit a thirty seconds or less theme
Speaker 1: song jingle for Colleen and you know have you? This
Speaker 1: is a yeah, this is a real thing. I have
Speaker 1: set it up at Gmail, the A t N Podcast Gmail,
Speaker 1: send in your submissions and if um, if you if
Speaker 1: you're selected as the winner, all right, what do they get?
Speaker 1: There's plenty of stuff that you could win. Picture yourself
Speaker 1: on an island with the breeze with the one and
Speaker 1: only Colleen Wolf. I'm getting a vacation out of this,
Speaker 1: seeing you my ties. Then of the context. Yes, and
Speaker 1: we'll put it on the Instagram we'll play it live
Speaker 1: and all five listeners of the A t N Podcast
Speaker 1: will hear it. The A t N Podcast at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. Connie Fox theme song sweep steaks, Wow us,
Speaker 1: you'd be creative again again. Brevity is important here. Can
Speaker 1: we put a limit on maybe thirty seconds or less?
Speaker 1: I already said that that very qualification. Thirty seconds or
Speaker 1: less intro and uh the winner. I'm sure it will
Speaker 1: become a staple of the show. Oh so you will
Speaker 1: become a part of the history of this show, and
Speaker 1: the history is indeed very rich. And Colleen will serve
Speaker 1: you drinks on an island. What made you think of this?
Speaker 1: I don't know. It just it just popped in my
Speaker 1: head when it was paying for the people to get
Speaker 1: to the island. All that stuff is a little fire festy.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if any of that's happening, but one
Speaker 1: thing I could tell you is definitely happening Catalina Island.
Speaker 1: Maybe is that you will be a part of the
Speaker 1: show and you'll get a shout out and maybe some
Speaker 1: maybe we could wrestle up some merch with a shadowy
Speaker 1: leak figure and Colleen and you the listener, and the
Speaker 1: composer will be tied together forever? Did you think about
Speaker 1: this when you guys ran into me in the airport
Speaker 1: in Miami? Was that was it? That morning you were
Speaker 1: stumbling around Indianapolis Airport you had missed your flight. Um,
Speaker 1: you lost and disappointed to see me. Frankly, I still
Speaker 1: had my makeup on from the day before when I
Speaker 1: was doing the show, and you were just sort of
Speaker 1: like walking aim Leslie until you found Rob Ryan to
Speaker 1: have a have a drink. It was it was like
Speaker 1: I hadn't missed your flight at that point, the successful
Speaker 1: professional broadcaster version of the Walk of Shame. But you're
Speaker 1: in your show makeup, uh, and just wandering around a
Speaker 1: strange airport because you couldn't get to your initial flight.
Speaker 1: How many times I told you they got to get
Speaker 1: to that was the first. That was the first flight
Speaker 1: I missed all year. And then I passed out on
Speaker 1: some like rappers shoulder on the plane on the way
Speaker 1: to some rapperami. Yeah, I mean who was the rapper coming?
Speaker 1: I don't know. He was talking about how he had
Speaker 1: to go to the studio. He was a very large
Speaker 1: person and I he was wearing a soft jacket and
Speaker 1: I was in a bad place. I down Kyleeen sleeping
Speaker 1: on Rick Ross and she doesn't even know anyway. Connie
Speaker 1: Fox theme song Sweepsteaks The A t N Podcast at gmail.
Speaker 1: Send your submissions in there and we are off. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. Today's show. Valentine's Day is tomorrow. What
Speaker 1: a joke? I mean? Can we please with the Valentine's Day?
Speaker 1: We're all grown ups here handled it last night. That's
Speaker 1: the way to go. We went out for Valentine's Day
Speaker 1: last night to avoid the l a madness, the snarl
Speaker 1: smart and have a family coming into so there was
Speaker 1: no way I could have checked that box. We don't
Speaker 1: even do the holiday. I don't even think we celebrate it.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's a little said, maybe neonnect kids do like
Speaker 1: go to the movies. You do nothing. I find it
Speaker 1: do nothing. Everyone says they want no, no, don't please,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. But if you literally do nothing,
Speaker 1: I sometimes send some psychic reverb to that. Just to
Speaker 1: literally do nothing at all on Valentine's Day for your
Speaker 1: significant other, nothing will be done for me. I'm saying
Speaker 1: the other she doesn't care, and I don't care, all right,
Speaker 1: and we're not going anywhere. Let's face it, I mean
Speaker 1: we're locked in. We're in a long term deal with
Speaker 1: no outs. Maybe check out Parasite. That seems like a
Speaker 1: good Valentine's anyway. With Valentine's Day upon us NFL couples
Speaker 1: who need a divorce ouch dark long term, long term commitment.
Speaker 1: And before we do that, let's do some news. I'm
Speaker 1: Lakisha Westland and this is the beautiful, intelligent funny working
Speaker 1: in the sports today. Colleen what plays and gentlemen, Thank
Speaker 1: you everybody. Okay, I'll take it just torturing me when
Speaker 1: I come on turned into Do you like when Colleen
Speaker 1: Eric goes into the Newsy voice? Thank you everybody? Okay?
Speaker 1: Is that the one didn't you in Lakisha taping episode
Speaker 1: where it was decided to the lost episode of Too
Speaker 1: Hot for Public Consumption? Yeah, it was a little too much,
Speaker 1: a little too loose. Yeah, we had to nix that.
Speaker 1: We've done that on the throwback episodes of Disappeared Market
Speaker 1: Too Many. Yeah. I don't actually blame myself for that
Speaker 1: lost episode. I know that was not definitely more on
Speaker 1: you guys have a lost episode. The throwback podcast is
Speaker 1: multiple lost episodes because the conceit of the show is
Speaker 1: to listen to us. It can drink and sometimes that
Speaker 1: has devastating effects. Brodcast this was cold play or no,
Speaker 1: this was Counting Crows. It was August and everything after
Speaker 1: by the count of Crows. I did immense uh notes
Speaker 1: and homework, did all this preparation and couldn't have been
Speaker 1: proud of the episode. It will never be heard by
Speaker 1: a human. I mean we start seeing all so that
Speaker 1: probably lost. I mean back and classic and and shout
Speaker 1: out to Lakisha fans out there. No it songs, she's talking?
Speaker 1: Oh that one? God? Is that how you pronounce her name? Um?
Speaker 1: Shout out? Wait the but I don't only know the
Speaker 1: girl part. I forgot about the guy part that I
Speaker 1: don't know where we talking about the same? Yeah? Are
Speaker 1: we talking? You'll cut this one out on that one?
Speaker 1: That's a woman singing? Is it? And then the other
Speaker 1: guy comes in like growling. Anyway, here we go, Oh,
Speaker 1: Lakisha show on cork checked it, check it out on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Great show and that that episode with Colleen has a
Speaker 1: assload of yous. So good job. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: into it. The NFL has reinstated Miles Garrett after an
Speaker 1: indefinite suspension. Of course, the Brown's defensive end is back.
Speaker 1: This came shortly after Garrett met with Commissioner Roger Goodell.
Speaker 1: He had been indefinitely suspended by the NFL since Week
Speaker 1: ten for the incident against the Steelers on Thursday Night
Speaker 1: Football where he clocked Pittsburgh quarterback Mason Rudolph in the
Speaker 1: head with a helmet, obviously devastating uh set back for
Speaker 1: the Brown season. They lost arguably their best player, and
Speaker 1: Garrett's reputation was upended. And Mark, now he's back, and
Speaker 1: you assume he'll be smart here and you'll never have
Speaker 1: to hear about anything like this again. But it does.
Speaker 1: It is another sordid chapter in Brown's history when you
Speaker 1: look back everything about Garrett, who who had blown up
Speaker 1: into a superstar and then it just all went away
Speaker 1: and now he can move on. You were there calling
Speaker 1: it that game when it happened, and it just evolved
Speaker 1: into utter chaos, and there were no end to the
Speaker 1: hot takes coming out of that game, as there should
Speaker 1: have been. I my one take away, I never thought
Speaker 1: that he would be suspended going into next season. I
Speaker 1: think that there was This was a clean end of
Speaker 1: the year suspension, then you break it and you give
Speaker 1: a new chance. But if I had to pick one
Speaker 1: player on the Browns that this would not have happened to,
Speaker 1: it would have been Myles Garrett. I know that even
Speaker 1: earlier in the year, on that Monday night game against
Speaker 1: the Jets, he had some moves that delved into I
Speaker 1: think ultra violence. He was I think he was pushed,
Speaker 1: right he has, But I but that this, this this
Speaker 1: event is just something I not I would never have
Speaker 1: Miles here at Also weeks before was in Cleveland at
Speaker 1: a dog park where a so called Brown's fan came
Speaker 1: up and just punched him through the window of his car.
Speaker 1: Myles Garrett did nothing, no retaliation, and he's never been
Speaker 1: someone that you would peg. Is like the violent, dirty player.
Speaker 1: And that's what always threw me about this. And I
Speaker 1: think the brown season went off an absolute cliff from
Speaker 1: that point on if it was already heading in that direction.
Speaker 1: But you were there, I don't know. I took it
Speaker 1: to be one of those chaotic scenes of the of
Speaker 1: the last ten years. It was for sure. I mean
Speaker 1: for us, we were on the field, we were just
Speaker 1: about to start bringing out the entire set for the
Speaker 1: TNF post game, and we were going over different storylines
Speaker 1: of things we wanted to talk about, and that was
Speaker 1: one game where I had taken notes of the entire
Speaker 1: game and I was like so proud of like how
Speaker 1: organized I was, and I was like, Oh, I can
Speaker 1: go in any direction right now. And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, we just everything broke out into complete chaos.
Speaker 1: And it was on the other side of the field
Speaker 1: from where we were standing, and they weren't replaying it
Speaker 1: at all in the stadium, so we had no idea
Speaker 1: what was going on, and all we could hear were
Speaker 1: Joe Buck and Troy Aikman like, oh wow, look at that.
Speaker 1: We were like, what, look at what's happening right now?
Speaker 1: It was complete and utter chaos, And like you said,
Speaker 1: when you think about Myles Garrett, it just seemed so
Speaker 1: out of character from the narrative that we had all
Speaker 1: all kind of heard about him before, how he was
Speaker 1: super thoughtful and he's in the poetry and he's super
Speaker 1: I don't know, introspective, and then to kind of have
Speaker 1: him have that melt down. I just feel like what
Speaker 1: he's done to his own reputation is a punishment of itself. That.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think any punishment levied upon him
Speaker 1: would be greater than what he's done to his own reputation.
Speaker 1: I think this was done well. I think the NFL
Speaker 1: handled this well. I remember they when it happened, the
Speaker 1: pearl clutching afterwards, people saying you should be charged of
Speaker 1: the crime and thrown into jail, and it was all
Speaker 1: like a little bit over the top. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, the six game suspension, a reputation
Speaker 1: that is essentially ruined, that he has to you know,
Speaker 1: work to get back, and the fine missing the game
Speaker 1: action it costs him over a million bucks, So don't
Speaker 1: do it again. And the lucky thing is he didn't,
Speaker 1: you know, nime for him and Mason very easily that
Speaker 1: that was another potential outcome if the swing had just
Speaker 1: been a little different or random, where it would have
Speaker 1: been way more serious. Doesn't like thinking about nights like
Speaker 1: that where you were working, Colleen and in the season
Speaker 1: and it was crazy almost like now that we're a
Speaker 1: week and a half in the off season, it almost
Speaker 1: seems like it makes me shutter to like think about
Speaker 1: how just like like it's like you know, s h
Speaker 1: U D D E r like just like thinking about
Speaker 1: the madness of this season. It just feels so like
Speaker 1: I've let go of that. Uh and now it just
Speaker 1: feels it almost seems like a nightmare. I don't want
Speaker 1: to think of it. Not a nightmare, but like revealing
Speaker 1: things right now. No, I've been can't like think back
Speaker 1: to the seat. You have to sort of trick yourself
Speaker 1: into not thinking about I've been trying to like d
Speaker 1: program myself for the past I don't know, week two
Speaker 1: weeks since after super Bowl. It feels like the those
Speaker 1: first couple of days afterwards, I felt like I should
Speaker 1: be doing all sorts of stuff, but there was nothing
Speaker 1: to do. One thing that helped us from the you know,
Speaker 1: the madness of the super Bowl was observing of the
Speaker 1: game behind um soundproof class win knows where. I have
Speaker 1: no audible memory of the super Bowl at all. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't understand what room we were in.
Speaker 1: It made no sense to me, and I need to
Speaker 1: go back and watch it on television for even one
Speaker 1: second of memory. Well you have you could do that,
Speaker 1: not feeling compelled to. I haven't done it yet. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's move on. The Bengals are willing to work with
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton on a trade with Cincinnati holding the number
Speaker 1: one pick in April's draft. By the way, night one
Speaker 1: of the draft, APay, whoa in Vegas? I don't know.
Speaker 1: We haven't been invited to Vegas that or invited to
Speaker 1: the draft UH in several years. I don't know. If
Speaker 1: it happens there, there's talk about it. Um there's I
Speaker 1: think a battle between shadowy league figures and UH, the
Speaker 1: one that's in charge of the podcast department, I think
Speaker 1: is pushing for us to go, and there's some shadowy pushback.
Speaker 1: At least someone's battling for us. So let's let's make
Speaker 1: that happen. I think it's still close to you are
Speaker 1: You're so hyper connected, Connie that if this happens, I
Speaker 1: would I would be counting on you. And we need
Speaker 1: uh Mark's wife Simone, who shares the same birthday birth
Speaker 1: year as me, also to be in town. You have
Speaker 1: to set up the club in the bottle service. I
Speaker 1: got you, I got you, I got connections. Now this
Speaker 1: is great anyway the draft is as just shaking your head,
Speaker 1: Why do you find it would be almost hypocritical to
Speaker 1: have like a club birthday party like Calvin Harris. I
Speaker 1: don't think no. I I was the one that was like,
Speaker 1: we should go to Vegas for your birthday even if
Speaker 1: we're not working the draft, like it's I think we should,
Speaker 1: totally should. I was shaking my head at the fact
Speaker 1: that you think Colleen's gonna like hook it up because
Speaker 1: as soon as the party time comes around, she stops
Speaker 1: answering and then instagram stories herself on the I'm still upset.
Speaker 1: I mean, just take just take the hour, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a yacht. There was a yacht. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was involved. I had never been on a yacht. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at least you haven't filed this complaint on all social
Speaker 1: media platforms and now on microphone. Yeah it's I've seen
Speaker 1: this multiple times. Yeah. Yeah. I was also a dinner
Speaker 1: that was set up for months advance. You know, it's
Speaker 1: try to improve yourself, put yourself in a better situation
Speaker 1: for next time. Follow the advice you weren't asking for. Uh,
Speaker 1: Bengals are gonna take Joe Burrow number one. I don't
Speaker 1: know anything about you know, how these draft boards are
Speaker 1: are heading, but that one feels like it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: And that means Andy Dalton is out of a starting job.
Speaker 1: He already lost his job once during the season last year.
Speaker 1: But here is uh the information we have here um
Speaker 1: rap sheet reported on NFL now. One thing that is
Speaker 1: very clear is how highly the Bengals organization thinks of
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton off the field, on the field, in the
Speaker 1: locker room, how he handled last year and everything. My
Speaker 1: understanding is, according to someone briefed of the team's plans,
Speaker 1: they're gonna work with Andy Dalton to facilitate a trade
Speaker 1: att of Cincinnati when the time him is right. Greg
Speaker 1: we talked about it on our most recent show, that
Speaker 1: the Bears jump out as a team that would maybe
Speaker 1: make sense or Dalton. He seems like a guy with
Speaker 1: his track record, his age, what he flashed um when
Speaker 1: given a chance down the stretch, that he has a
Speaker 1: chance to compete for a starting job or deserves that,
Speaker 1: right right, I don't think he deserves I don't think
Speaker 1: there's enough opportunities and I don't think he's anyone's first
Speaker 1: choice and there's not that many open spots that yeah,
Speaker 1: let's talk about that. Where could he go to to
Speaker 1: to be the only way that that he could be traded?
Speaker 1: Because I don't think he's gonna be very many you know, teams.
Speaker 1: First choice is a place where he would be willing,
Speaker 1: like Ryan Tannehill, to take a big take a pay cut,
Speaker 1: and that way pick the place he's going and get
Speaker 1: it out of the way early. Now, Chicago, I think
Speaker 1: that re established his value. Yeah, and Chicago I think
Speaker 1: could work for that if he kind of looked like
Speaker 1: Tannehill at Chicago and said that's a place where I
Speaker 1: could have some success if I get the job eventually,
Speaker 1: and that the trabisky could blow up, that that could
Speaker 1: make sense. But unless he's willing to take I think
Speaker 1: he's making thirteen or fourteen million. Now, I don't think
Speaker 1: anyone's gonna be like raising their hands to trade for
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton like to kick off this offseason. But I
Speaker 1: guess like the seventh dominant, I we didn't need to
Speaker 1: see where all these other you know, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about them endlessly between now and March whatever. Where where
Speaker 1: Brady goes and you know the rest of these clowns,
Speaker 1: and you know, Dalton fits into the team that doesn't
Speaker 1: get any of these people. And it could be the Chargers,
Speaker 1: it could be it could be the I mean, like,
Speaker 1: if a team like the Raiders, you know Jake, Jake
Speaker 1: Gruden loved Um, you know, Bucks makes some sense. It
Speaker 1: could be Jacksonville if they if they get rid of
Speaker 1: Nick Foles. You know, Jake Gruden's there, Jon Gruden's in Vegas.
Speaker 1: I think he could have options. But it gets tricky
Speaker 1: when it comes to a trade because the Tannehill thing
Speaker 1: was basically a dump. They got nothing for him, and
Speaker 1: he chose to take a pretty big pay cut. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if Dalton's gonna want to do that.
Speaker 1: I'm just writing down teams that could be destinations, Chicago, Chargers, Jacksonville, Carolina, Tampa, Oakland,
Speaker 1: New England if Brady, if Brady one else where. I like,
Speaker 1: he's been linked to New England through people kind of
Speaker 1: just speculating. I checked it on that because I was like,
Speaker 1: people hit me up and apparently and no one's reported anything.
Speaker 1: I think Peter King threw it out as I would
Speaker 1: guess Andy Dalton would be one of the last people
Speaker 1: that the Patriots would ever want. I feel like they
Speaker 1: are gonna want, you know, like a rookie or just stay.
Speaker 1: What's the point of colts to Perhaps that could work
Speaker 1: like that. There's all sorts of headlines that are like, well,
Speaker 1: the Bengals aren't gonna put Andy Dalton in a bad spot,
Speaker 1: like he's going to have a say and where he goes.
Speaker 1: But it's like, I mean, no, no disrespect, but like
Speaker 1: I mean any I feel like anywhere is a better
Speaker 1: spot for him right now. He does kind of control
Speaker 1: because of the contract though, like assuming he could just
Speaker 1: say no, I'm not going to renegotiate to go to
Speaker 1: Jacksonville if he didn't want to go there for some reason,
Speaker 1: and then it wouldn't happen. He is due seventeen million
Speaker 1: dollars this season, so yeah, that's not happening unless he changes.
Speaker 1: In other veteran quarterback news, a report from w d
Speaker 1: i v TV in Detroit red flag uh came out
Speaker 1: this week that Matthew Stafford was on the block in Detroit,
Speaker 1: And they came out about like a day after our
Speaker 1: last show where we raised it as just a fantasy. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the Lions obviously, uh, you know, they try to
Speaker 1: get in front of this because general manager Bob Quinn
Speaker 1: wrote in a text message to Dave Burkett of the
Speaker 1: Detroit Free Press that the report is quote Falls. I
Speaker 1: said it that way because the text had two exclamation points,
Speaker 1: and that's the only way to read that, Like, how
Speaker 1: would here two exclamation points? One is a lot too.
Speaker 1: I would read that as a broadcaster. One false. I
Speaker 1: can't top that. That was false. It helps the look
Speaker 1: at it, Falls, Ricky. Sorry, the board so long, I
Speaker 1: gotta walk to the other end of it. I would say,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Falls, that's it. That's the winner. Someone's been
Speaker 1: going newer improv classes. Okay, can I I'm gonna sorry
Speaker 1: this is you're still upset about this is the best
Speaker 1: people make decisions. Shut up this up. You're so annoying. Okay, listen.
Speaker 1: Connie pulled the best prank of ever on me. She
Speaker 1: and I were texting back and forth, we're going to
Speaker 1: take the same improv class, and then I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: here I go. I'm gonna pay the five dollars, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna sign up, I'm gonna sign up, blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: and then went radio silent and now I'm in this
Speaker 1: improv class and she didn't sign up for it. You
Speaker 1: were going to take anyway? Also, and what's terrible relationship?
Speaker 1: I told her that you and I it's been four
Speaker 1: years since I took one oh one. I had to
Speaker 1: get special clear, and I was like, are you sure
Speaker 1: I should do? This is the day? This is the yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: boah ball going back and forth, and then I'm like,
Speaker 1: here I go. And I literally sent four text like
Speaker 1: I'm I'm literally putting my credit card in. Here I go.
Speaker 1: And I was signing on to make a sandwich. Your
Speaker 1: guy's friendship feels like a mine field, like I don't
Speaker 1: see any you know, But that's how that's how I
Speaker 1: show love, keeping people at a distance banking promises. Uh,
Speaker 1: but just so it's known and uh. Mike Florio p
Speaker 1: FT pointed this out in a post today. The reporter
Speaker 1: from w d I V and Detroit is Bernie Smile
Speaker 1: of Its real name, and uh, the Lines don't know
Speaker 1: Smile of Its. Bob Quinn and Matt Patricia don't know
Speaker 1: Smile of Its. He's not a regular team, press conferences
Speaker 1: or locker room availability. He also didn't see comment from
Speaker 1: the Lines before publishing the story, which isn't to say
Speaker 1: that this is not don't know but you know, big Bernie.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe not that this is a story to take seriously,
Speaker 1: but um, the Lions say, no, we're not looking to
Speaker 1: move on from Stafford. He's the top ten quarterback. So
Speaker 1: was this a Russian bought? Is what you're getting at.
Speaker 1: I don't know they're coming, you know, after the reports
Speaker 1: so hard that you tend to believe them, but they
Speaker 1: also sort of have to because they can't get caught
Speaker 1: in a spot where you know, Stafford is upset. You know,
Speaker 1: his wife already commented on it and what you know
Speaker 1: what it was upset about it, so you have to
Speaker 1: you know, put this rumor to bed. In Our reporters
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport and Mike Gara follow also said very strongly,
Speaker 1: this is not going to happen, which you would tend
Speaker 1: to believe because just because of the cap implications, they
Speaker 1: would have a thirty two million dollars on their cap
Speaker 1: of dead money and actually their cap would go up,
Speaker 1: you know, they would have ten million dollars less in
Speaker 1: cap space just to get rid of him this year,
Speaker 1: and I don't think there's any way around that, so
Speaker 1: that I like the idea. Like to me, it made
Speaker 1: some sense that if you, if you fell in love
Speaker 1: with Tah, you would do this, But financially, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe it wouldn't make sense. Well, so I automatically I
Speaker 1: did a sandwich wager with these guys in the last
Speaker 1: show when we were doing a quarterback carousel not a wheel,
Speaker 1: and suggested that Stafford could wind up with the Chargers.
Speaker 1: That is before I actually did the requisite homework homework
Speaker 1: of looking at that capit, which I've automatically lost that wager.
Speaker 1: But I would ask this question, if the capit were
Speaker 1: much more manageable, would you buy that they would move
Speaker 1: on from Stafford, Because a lot of Lions fans are
Speaker 1: saying no, they're all it's like there's so much pressure
Speaker 1: on Patricia that they have to keep them the shirt.
Speaker 1: It's like, wait a minute, you can buy yourself tons
Speaker 1: of time as a new coach if you go get
Speaker 1: to uh or fill in the blank rookie and he shines.
Speaker 1: I just think you're in a situation the number three
Speaker 1: pick where there might be two really great quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: this draft that you can't expect to be in more
Speaker 1: than once every other decade, and that of that you
Speaker 1: would have to can it or drafting to a I
Speaker 1: mean that it would be it'd be crazy not too
Speaker 1: and yeah, you could trade that spot. But like, why
Speaker 1: would you not consider that? And you could came both
Speaker 1: next year maybe if he really wanted to get crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, wasn't he having a He was having a
Speaker 1: really good season before he got hurt. With Darryl Bevil
Speaker 1: there it waits, So Dan, you think it's crazy just
Speaker 1: because Matthews you're you're gonna get three more years. And
Speaker 1: I think it's really really hard to find a true
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. And the lines did that with Stafford and
Speaker 1: all their their lack of success over the last decade.
Speaker 1: I don't put that on him. I put it on
Speaker 1: and to properly team build around him. And now what
Speaker 1: you have to me is a golden opportunity. You have
Speaker 1: a quarterback who is playing was playing very well before
Speaker 1: he got hurt, and that was the first time he's
Speaker 1: been hurt in eight years. Uh, And you have a
Speaker 1: chance to continue to progress on offense and then use
Speaker 1: that number three pick as a potential huge leverage point
Speaker 1: for one of these teams that do desperately need a quarterback,
Speaker 1: and you could rebuild your defense on the fly with
Speaker 1: a massive draft or two, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're in business and there's a strong argument for that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's all that's kind of logical, But I
Speaker 1: would say there also is another world where if you
Speaker 1: fall in love with two to such a degree that
Speaker 1: you feel he's one of these and a lot of
Speaker 1: people do a new wave quarterback, quarterback of the future,
Speaker 1: NFL of the future, and you are married to him
Speaker 1: as an organization that you do you want to be
Speaker 1: the team that's stuck with the veteran and two years now,
Speaker 1: like the Lions, they were finally up at number three,
Speaker 1: they weren't seven and nine or eight and eight, stuck
Speaker 1: at pick fourt do you think he's the next Mahomes
Speaker 1: or Deshaun Watson, even like John Lynch kind of gets
Speaker 1: out of it, like he drafted Solomon Thomas over a
Speaker 1: quarterback in that in that draft, and like you only
Speaker 1: have so many chances with guys that high. And maybe
Speaker 1: this is all, you know, nonsense because to Uh isn't
Speaker 1: gonna be that guy or whatever. But you you at
Speaker 1: least have to kind of examine, let's get Bernie Smile
Speaker 1: of Bits in the studio on Monday if possible, actually Tuesday.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's gonna be possible. I'm sure
Speaker 1: he is very big. See Berty Smile of its breaking news.
Speaker 1: It's such a good name. More quarterback talk. David Tepper,
Speaker 1: the owner of the Panthers, still mum on the subject
Speaker 1: of Cam Newton and his future. He said after a
Speaker 1: charity event that nothing has been decided on the former
Speaker 1: m v P at all hinges on his health. Here's
Speaker 1: a quote via The Athletic. I've said again and again
Speaker 1: and again about this. It's a question of how healthy
Speaker 1: he is, foot and otherwise, and that's still number the
Speaker 1: number one overwhelming thing. To see how healthy he is
Speaker 1: and how we can figure out when he's healthy or not.
Speaker 1: Everything comes from that. There was a report maybe a
Speaker 1: week or so ago that the the Panthers wanted to
Speaker 1: at least get a look of at Newton before they
Speaker 1: made any decisions. So this all seems like at this point,
Speaker 1: how much more speculating needs to be done on this topic.
Speaker 1: Uh that they do. I believe they're sincere that they
Speaker 1: want to see how he's throwing the ball, how he's
Speaker 1: moving before deciding whether they want to turn the page
Speaker 1: on the franchise. Could be all smoke and just they're
Speaker 1: already ready to move on, but I'm kind of just
Speaker 1: gonna take him with the word and not personally stress
Speaker 1: out about this anymore. I mean, I feel like it's
Speaker 1: not that I was, but if yeah, you're losing sleep
Speaker 1: over it right now. If they're going to move on
Speaker 1: though from him, like, this is the perfect time to
Speaker 1: do it. This is the perfect time for them to
Speaker 1: hit the reset button with a new head coach with him,
Speaker 1: with Cam Newton dealing with all of the things that
Speaker 1: he dealt with last year. I mean, this, there isn't
Speaker 1: a better opportunity for them to move on and look
Speaker 1: okay doing it. I I saw this quote and I
Speaker 1: just thought, he gone. I read totally into it, Like
Speaker 1: I to me, they're they're far along in their decision
Speaker 1: and talk, you know, talking about it, and the owner
Speaker 1: is not making any commitment to Cam Newton and Ian
Speaker 1: and Mike. I've you know, I've kind of noticed the
Speaker 1: tone and there talk on TV or they think he's gone.
Speaker 1: I was, like, he's gone. I think he's probably gone.
Speaker 1: It might get complicated because if he is hurt, but
Speaker 1: he they're they're a month after this new regime has
Speaker 1: taken over, and the owners like kinda say that maybe
Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, I'm with you because he's
Speaker 1: in the world of franchise quarterback and if this were
Speaker 1: another franchise quarterback in another organization healing, and this is
Speaker 1: someone that you wanted to keep for the next four
Speaker 1: or five years, there'd be no there'd be no kind
Speaker 1: of mixed message. It's just very lukewarm. And I think
Speaker 1: that's lukewarm is probably negative if you're that player, and
Speaker 1: it probably makes it easier to for them to see
Speaker 1: that other organizations are moving on from their franchise quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: So they're in a spot to where, like all these
Speaker 1: other teams, they it's not like they're gonna just I
Speaker 1: don't know if they'd cut him. So they have to
Speaker 1: see what they could get for him, and there might
Speaker 1: be a price where in what a lack of options
Speaker 1: out there where they just say, okay, well we'll give
Speaker 1: it another year, but that but that they're open to
Speaker 1: getting ready. I understand the clean aspect of the narrative
Speaker 1: and the idea of I'm the new owner, now my
Speaker 1: head coach, now i want my new quarterback. I just
Speaker 1: would be a little careful about writing off Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: And just because it's time for change in our organization
Speaker 1: that means start over at quarterback too. Would I be
Speaker 1: surprised at all if Cam Newton got his health back
Speaker 1: and was an impact player for another few years in
Speaker 1: the league, I wouldn't be. I just think this is
Speaker 1: maybe a dangerous move. Now they know more about like Stafford,
Speaker 1: he was playing very well before his injury, like when
Speaker 1: he's been on the field the last couple of years
Speaker 1: he's played. They more than they know more than we do.
Speaker 1: I would assume the Panthers about the long term health
Speaker 1: in the shoulder and the and the prognosis and the foot,
Speaker 1: which I imagine is something he'll be able to get
Speaker 1: back from. But I don't know. This one feels like
Speaker 1: a danger move to to get back into the QB
Speaker 1: Derby and just hope you could find another guy because
Speaker 1: it sometimes, as Mark you and I know all too well,
Speaker 1: it could take decades. You could be wandering the desert.
Speaker 1: I don't care how good your draft pick is or
Speaker 1: how much you fall in love with somebody. A lot
Speaker 1: of these things don't work out. You have a guy
Speaker 1: that's won an m v P, that has shown it,
Speaker 1: and he's not that old. I know he's been beat up,
Speaker 1: but just well. Also, if age for change sake is
Speaker 1: little on my right, A new new owner, new coaching staff.
Speaker 1: But if you rip Cam Newton out of the Panther's
Speaker 1: locker room, what are you telling the rest of your
Speaker 1: roster if you don't have a clear answer to replace them.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the kind of move that can divide
Speaker 1: a locker room. In April, meanwhile, on the throne of Sleeves,
Speaker 1: Nick Cassario and the Patriots agreed to a contract extension.
Speaker 1: Remember this is the same Cassario has been there for
Speaker 1: a while. The Texans wanted to uh to grab him
Speaker 1: and pull him away from the organization that's stalled out.
Speaker 1: There was some drama there, but Cassario now will remain
Speaker 1: with the Pats and Greg in a time of transition
Speaker 1: for this organization. You got Nicky c in the building
Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future. Problem solved, I mean whenever they
Speaker 1: keep or don't keep people at all. Seems like you
Speaker 1: have no idea what any of these people, what their
Speaker 1: value is to the Patriots other than Bill Belichick, especially
Speaker 1: in the front office, Like I wouldn't be worried if
Speaker 1: he was on. So now go get scar Neck. You
Speaker 1: back this, Colleen. You said before the show, there are
Speaker 1: certain things of this show you're not prepared to talk about.
Speaker 1: This one. I mean, he oversees the pro and college
Speaker 1: scouting department. He's in the booth talking to Josh McDaniels.
Speaker 1: They were college So I mean, this is not one
Speaker 1: of the ones I was unprepared to talk about. Now
Speaker 1: one's gonna now finally, Jamis Winston undergoes lazic eye surgery.
Speaker 1: The man who became the founding member of the thirty
Speaker 1: thirty club. That's thirty touchdowns, thirty interceptions, the man who
Speaker 1: I believe led the league in passing yardage over yards
Speaker 1: but a true turnover machine. And now he's undergone eye surgery,
Speaker 1: which is a brilliant move, pr move as he attempts
Speaker 1: to get a new contract and and talk. I assume
Speaker 1: he wants the Bucks to stay in business with him,
Speaker 1: potentially in the long term capacity of everything broke well
Speaker 1: for him. But a little reminder, and now that we
Speaker 1: hear this procedure was done, of what Bruce arians said
Speaker 1: at his end of season press conference on janu Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's nearsighted. I mean he can't read the scoreboard, but
Speaker 1: he can see the guys in front of him, so
Speaker 1: he's fine. Seems problematic. I just like the whole matter
Speaker 1: of fact nature in which Arians said it almost like
Speaker 1: he put that out there on purpose because he was
Speaker 1: so pissed at Winston at the end of the season
Speaker 1: that he decided to share that infro sling a little arrow.
Speaker 1: I find it remarkable because there probably isn't a subset
Speaker 1: of human beings in America that are taking better care
Speaker 1: of health wise than NFL players. And either the team
Speaker 1: has done so little due diligence that they didn't discover
Speaker 1: this was an issue for Winston until at the end
Speaker 1: of this season, or I mean, what, why not have
Speaker 1: this procedure done a before the draft or in college.
Speaker 1: If not when Arians got there and found that out
Speaker 1: with the guy that he and he was going to
Speaker 1: flip the switch on. Isn't he wearing contacts? No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know. He said he's near sighted, that he
Speaker 1: I'm nearsighted. I can't see a site he had to
Speaker 1: block away when he had A publicist released his statement
Speaker 1: that said, like he you didn't want to count out
Speaker 1: any options that could possibly help him, that a like
Speaker 1: presenting that he's being courageous and he's doing everything he can.
Speaker 1: Is a pro bro. Yeah, Like I think I site
Speaker 1: my matter a little bit for a quarterback and thought,
Speaker 1: you're not a hero for doing it five years into
Speaker 1: your career. What is what is going on here? I'll
Speaker 1: be Dan and I'll say, like, who is that woman
Speaker 1: at the end of the driveway. It's like, no, that's
Speaker 1: David Eally. It's like if you go back, I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't see anything if you go back and look
Speaker 1: at you know, his interception. Sometimes he's catching Luke Keikley
Speaker 1: in full stride like he he maybe thought that was
Speaker 1: Cameron Brad, like he just he has no idea what's
Speaker 1: going on out there. Handled I see it as a
Speaker 1: nice little pr gambit what I think it is, because
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, if you had lingering doubts, if that's
Speaker 1: some thing that behind the scenes you've heard about, well
Speaker 1: guess what, it's not an issue anymore. Remove one more obstacle.
Speaker 1: If the Bucks are and Jason light and and Bruce
Speaker 1: arians are hung up on bringing me back, we got
Speaker 1: to get that Lasic money. Though, you've gotta be signed
Speaker 1: up by LASI to be a sponsor it's a great
Speaker 1: it's a great potential storyline though, for if he starts
Speaker 1: out seven touches, like if he's like the m v
Speaker 1: P of the league. Next year he starts out on
Speaker 1: fire and it's just like, oh, yeah, I guess I
Speaker 1: was just blind the whole time, and then proved he
Speaker 1: was the guy lace Stock would go through the roof
Speaker 1: because everyone would talk about it would be the it
Speaker 1: would be the major subplot around him. It would be
Speaker 1: like every time he had a big game, laser Mariota
Speaker 1: would just Mariota would just get lasic surgery. Everybody shot
Speaker 1: lace perfect. Anybody guys are like Luke falk Is gonna
Speaker 1: get perfect, he has perfect vision, will get lasi. Anyway,
Speaker 1: people are just smashing glasses. You cannot get lasi, Connie,
Speaker 1: because because you a big part of your look now
Speaker 1: is the glasses, like you've you've incorporated that into your image,
Speaker 1: and it would be really, oh is that true? I don't. Well,
Speaker 1: so you can get glasses that are not you know,
Speaker 1: non prescription, but that's an old Hollywood trick McNeill. And
Speaker 1: then the other eyes a stigmatism, So it's a real problem.
Speaker 1: You're a mess, I know. She's a freak. All right,
Speaker 1: that's what's happening in the news. All right, before we
Speaker 1: get to uh NFL couples who need a divorce, reminder,
Speaker 1: everybody that a week from tuesday, I believe it is,
Speaker 1: we will be at st Elmo Steakhouse. I have a
Speaker 1: reservation for twelve. Mark, you're gonna be there week from tuesday.
Speaker 1: It's two weeks. I don't know, my god, it's so close.
Speaker 1: And uh and and and we're gonna have a nice
Speaker 1: time together. And Greg, as Connor points out, because you've
Speaker 1: hit out at st Elmo's about the quality of not
Speaker 1: you guys think this sensitivity to this issue from the
Speaker 1: two of you reveals more about you than it every
Speaker 1: one of those alright, go ahead, more avalue. No, it's
Speaker 1: and this is the it doesn't. It doesn't work as
Speaker 1: well the catchphrase over a mic, but just picture of
Speaker 1: the image. It's not about the meat. It's about the meat.
Speaker 1: That's what I try to talk Brank. No one, No
Speaker 1: one disagrees. M E A T M E Oh, I
Speaker 1: get it. I mean it's well done. And you Mark,
Speaker 1: a guy who hates food, hates meat products. Not true.
Speaker 1: Mean you go there and you have a nice time, right,
Speaker 1: It's I don't understand this. It's so obvious that there's
Speaker 1: this like st Almos backlash now where it's like it's
Speaker 1: not really as great as everyone says. It's like, it's
Speaker 1: fun just to go there. Why what is it? Nectur?
Speaker 1: It is a total and it's the new take. It's
Speaker 1: like st Almos actually isn't that great. Yeah. I had
Speaker 1: a piece of a steak stuck in my chest a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago when I went with you guys,
Speaker 1: but I never told you I had the bathroom and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just like sitting and different issue. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I don't I don't get stake there anymore. Is that
Speaker 1: the is that the foods issue? Or maybe you're that's yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly Valentine's Day tomorrow about that? Who needs a divorce?
Speaker 1: Get us going? Mark? I came up with these because
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of lights very prepared. I
Speaker 1: feel like this is this is right in your wheelhouse.
Speaker 1: To say some of these are tough because you have
Speaker 1: to spin negative and I don't wish to do that
Speaker 1: to this person. But I want to talk to you
Speaker 1: about the record of this team dating back to when
Speaker 1: this person took on their current role in consecutive years
Speaker 1: two and fourteen, six and ten, nine and seven, the
Speaker 1: high water mark five and eleven, five and eleven seven
Speaker 1: and mine. You have immense questions at quarterback. We've just
Speaker 1: covered this. You have a roster that seems to never
Speaker 1: sort of play up to the talented pieces you think
Speaker 1: you've acquired in the offseason. The team is up until
Speaker 1: now because they are changing their uniforms apparently had one
Speaker 1: of the ugliest uniforms to look at. The general managers
Speaker 1: part of that. Jason Light to me has outlasted so
Speaker 1: many disasters in Tampa Bay and a record that I
Speaker 1: find tough to just sort of back him. I met him.
Speaker 1: I think he's a good guy. It's not I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to flame the dude at all, but like at
Speaker 1: some point, general managers don't last this long when you
Speaker 1: look at these records, and I wonder if you know
Speaker 1: they have to take a hard look in the mirror
Speaker 1: and not just sort of coddle and be overly cozy
Speaker 1: to their own front office. Need to make a change.
Speaker 1: Nothing is growing in Tampa Bay. The team is developed
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the general manager that you
Speaker 1: move on to their like you cannot float for a
Speaker 1: This is since for more than half a decade with
Speaker 1: no identity, a quarterback is our team is more than
Speaker 1: its quarterback. But I will I'll say that in this case,
Speaker 1: when you do draft a quarterback number one, it does
Speaker 1: complicate a conversation like this, because especially one like Winston
Speaker 1: who has been so famously up and down that your
Speaker 1: team has kind of held hostage for a long period
Speaker 1: of time. I mean he drafted him, so yes, so
Speaker 1: he he gets the blame or the credit or whatever
Speaker 1: the hell we want about allowed the bad coaches he's hired,
Speaker 1: the terrible defenses they put together, I think that is
Speaker 1: all fair and I but I just think in in
Speaker 1: the case of the Bucks, the wins that has hole
Speaker 1: held the entire franchise hostage in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they would have it would have
Speaker 1: changed anything, if if if he would have done a
Speaker 1: little bit better with the I thought the arians highre
Speaker 1: was solid like the three before that, right, And also
Speaker 1: I mean we we a and I'll just say the
Speaker 1: defense a year ago or yeah, going into last season,
Speaker 1: or maybe it was the year before that, everyone said
Speaker 1: this is a great defense said here last year they
Speaker 1: were two nineteen, and they said that about them two
Speaker 1: years ago too, and they just it didn't coming up.
Speaker 1: Now it's listen, has it been all bad? No, it's
Speaker 1: not been all bad. But it's just that I don't
Speaker 1: like and this is this happens in Chicago right now
Speaker 1: in other places to where the general manager drafted someone
Speaker 1: very high at quarterback, and there seems to be a
Speaker 1: lack of self analysis and willingness to say, give me
Speaker 1: the l on this one. We're going to get a
Speaker 1: new quarterback. We're four years into this, not six years
Speaker 1: into Jamis Winston. Please. I was even thinking, like O. J.
Speaker 1: Howard in the Bucks too. I mean there, I feel
Speaker 1: like there's many many divorces that they could do within
Speaker 1: the larger divorce, right, I thought you were going to Winston,
Speaker 1: which you know, well that's obvious to me, but it does.
Speaker 1: But I going into the off season, I think everyone
Speaker 1: expected Jamis Winston to be back with the Bucks, including
Speaker 1: you know, our main reporter, Ian Rappaport. But if maybe
Speaker 1: it's just because of the vacuum of news out there
Speaker 1: these days, but it sure's seems like the conventional wisdom
Speaker 1: is now moving towards maybe they aren't going to bring
Speaker 1: back Winston. Maybe they will, maybe Jason Light will actually
Speaker 1: look at this soberly and and make a move that
Speaker 1: Winston might be pretty upset about some of the things
Speaker 1: that Arian said, you know, at the end of the season,
Speaker 1: where he said so much of it is outright terrible,
Speaker 1: and you got to look behind what's behind door number
Speaker 1: two and maybe they're they're a little tired of each other.
Speaker 1: To your point, Mark, if this is his window right now,
Speaker 1: if Light wants to say I can get out from
Speaker 1: under this guy and get one last shot to get
Speaker 1: this thing right before they decide that enough time has
Speaker 1: passed and they can't. It's not gonna work with me
Speaker 1: and them. Uh, this would be his window or is
Speaker 1: he gonna go down with the Winston ship. It's a
Speaker 1: big decision to make Connie okay. Well, a lot of
Speaker 1: times I go to bed in a bad mood when
Speaker 1: a game ends in a tie, screaming fit in the
Speaker 1: in the apartment, the whole thing, right, I think it's
Speaker 1: time to divorce the tie game in the NFL. I mean,
Speaker 1: there is very cheated that I've devoted my time and
Speaker 1: my energy and for what I mean, like, what are
Speaker 1: we doing here? It's I feel like we have to
Speaker 1: sort of stop pretending that this is okay. I mean,
Speaker 1: you look around the other major sports. Baseball doesn't do
Speaker 1: this to us, Basketball doesn't even hockey, even hockey doesn't
Speaker 1: sport in the world does it quite a lot. I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about soccer, all right, that's that
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. Listen. It feels like a slap
Speaker 1: in the face when a game ends in a tie.
Speaker 1: I just like, it leaves me very unsettled. It feels
Speaker 1: like the entire game was just a waste of everybody's time.
Speaker 1: So I would like I would like for the ties
Speaker 1: to be done with. What um just overtimes just just
Speaker 1: keep sending it into multiple It just keeps going into
Speaker 1: so not a college overtime type thing. You're just saying,
Speaker 1: keep running the overtime period. There's a scenario where they're
Speaker 1: out there for seven hours straight, three straight. Yeah, baseball
Speaker 1: does that, and they play six times a week. You
Speaker 1: gotta have a smart roster, right, you gotta build for
Speaker 1: this is a little different. I'm with you a percent too,
Speaker 1: because when I look at it's like week nine or ten,
Speaker 1: and you're trying to figure out teams because there's Bye
Speaker 1: weeks all over the place. And then you've got, like
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this Arizona Detroit how to tie earlier
Speaker 1: in the and it just jacks up the visual I
Speaker 1: like the idea of you gotta finish, you gotta finish
Speaker 1: the you know, we say finished the suit around here.
Speaker 1: You gotta finish the divorce, and that's what you gotta
Speaker 1: come up with a new overtime, which maybe it's somewhat
Speaker 1: like college. Maybe after ten minutes there's a tie. You
Speaker 1: have a kicking competition. I don't care what about defects.
Speaker 1: Tackles have a kicking either way. You can't have them
Speaker 1: just playing forever. I understand that part of it. The
Speaker 1: only saving grace is when Rosie is doing his playoff
Speaker 1: like permentations, I feel like, yes, yes, who else would
Speaker 1: be Rosie? No one? But just for the list, Okay,
Speaker 1: when you're doing your playoffs scenarios, I feel the ties
Speaker 1: actually make it more interesting. So that's the only that's
Speaker 1: the only time. I actually I've spoke on this on
Speaker 1: this podcast many times. I hate the way the standings
Speaker 1: look when there's a tie eight seven and one. Hoakeum,
Speaker 1: I hate all that garbage, but I will point out
Speaker 1: that since two thousand twelve there have been eight ties total.
Speaker 1: So we get like, it's not one a year, uh,
Speaker 1: sometimes none, Maybe there's two one year on a really
Speaker 1: freaky occurrence. In two thousand sixteen, we had two. In
Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen we had to. Last year we had one.
Speaker 1: You see it as a novelty, it's it's It's not
Speaker 1: the end of the world. I mean, I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: people playing until they dropped out of exhaustion, like Colleen's
Speaker 1: laying it's Survivor. Okay, all right, um, let me throw
Speaker 1: this out here. Hey, David Johnson and the Cardinals. No
Speaker 1: when to say when? What? No one to say? What
Speaker 1: was once a beautiful you see a marriage story got
Speaker 1: shut out at the Oscars. Yeah, nice job, got the awards.
Speaker 1: You're talking Darren as Sons in this podcast three years
Speaker 1: we essentially invented the dirt. It launched as we spoke
Speaker 1: about it. I mean, she she's she got the Best
Speaker 1: Supporting Actress Award. Well learned. But the film, which chronicles
Speaker 1: the end of a marriage between what's his name Adam
Speaker 1: Driver Joe Hansen. That marriage started beautifully in their sparks
Speaker 1: and electricity, and it seemed they were perfect for each other.
Speaker 1: That's David Johnson the Cardinals, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: as time went on, it became apparent that this was
Speaker 1: not a long term thing. I feel like David Johnson
Speaker 1: is one of the best by low candidates out there
Speaker 1: right now if he hits the trade market, and I
Speaker 1: know his salary isn't by low, but uh, it could
Speaker 1: be if you could work out something with the Cardinals
Speaker 1: about how the money gets distributed. But what we do
Speaker 1: know is that Jnson and Arizona are on the outs.
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake arrived there in a trade last October and
Speaker 1: I met immediately kind of made his presence felt. And
Speaker 1: I know he's a free agent and there's things to
Speaker 1: work out there, but you would think that the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: if they really do like Drake, will get that deal done.
Speaker 1: And I just imagine that there's a team out there
Speaker 1: that looks at David Johnson, how he came into the league,
Speaker 1: the fact that in the injury that costs him the
Speaker 1: year was a risk injury, not a lower body injury.
Speaker 1: And then last year he was banged up, but it
Speaker 1: felt like he kind of got pushed to the sidelines,
Speaker 1: borderline unfairly and moved out of that offense. If it
Speaker 1: maybe again there's more to it than than people on
Speaker 1: the outside. No, but if I'm a team looking for
Speaker 1: a running back and maybe someone that can make an
Speaker 1: impact and be a comeback of the player, comeback player
Speaker 1: of the year type David Johnson, fresh start, but let's
Speaker 1: end that marriage because it's no longer working. I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I mean, it makes sense, but the financials, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: are rough because if you want to cut him, you
Speaker 1: can't find a trade candidate, which is very possible because
Speaker 1: I think teams would think the Cardinals want to dump
Speaker 1: him at some point. You know you're not gonna You're
Speaker 1: not gonna sell high in a trade. It's a sixteen
Speaker 1: million dollar capit and it's self from a self scouting angle,
Speaker 1: it's interesting to me that Cliff Kingsbury went and traded
Speaker 1: for Drake to begin with, and you had David Johnson.
Speaker 1: There's that There's that macho NFL stuff. Though again then
Speaker 1: I sometimes think about like Cliff Kingsbury liked Kenyan Drake
Speaker 1: and he worked with the front office and they brought
Speaker 1: that's my guy. Kenyan Drake's my guy, and David Johnson
Speaker 1: was somebody else's guy. So he's not gonna be my guy.
Speaker 1: So get him out of here because I want to
Speaker 1: build a team around how I want. There's also he
Speaker 1: hasn't crossed four yards per carry since he just hasn't
Speaker 1: been the same player. I mean, yeah, the the ego
Speaker 1: thing is one thing. He's had, you know, three hundred
Speaker 1: plus carry's since he's been back. He's not he's not
Speaker 1: helping them. He's like, you haven't looked good, ta don't lie.
Speaker 1: I mean he had the whole season before, uh, you
Speaker 1: know with Steve Wilks and that was a tough offense,
Speaker 1: but Johnathan didn't look good. You had you touched them off,
Speaker 1: but you touched them all three hundred times and you
Speaker 1: didn't make any big plays. I mean, anyone watching him
Speaker 1: the last two years does not think he's an asset.
Speaker 1: He was behind Chase Edmonds, uh and Kenyan Drake and
Speaker 1: it's a tough situation. I don't blame them for that contract.
Speaker 1: He was so good before it you would have never guessed.
Speaker 1: And maybe he can turn it around and maybe Bruce
Speaker 1: arians is the guy to do it, but it's Jason Like.
Speaker 1: It might be the single worst contract in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's do twelve million dollars this year and
Speaker 1: it's guaranteed. And he was like the number four running
Speaker 1: back on his own team, and and yes, they could
Speaker 1: have given him more looks, but he looked bad. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just want to see. He didn't look good. He
Speaker 1: was not healthy, but he was at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the year and he played the whole year before and
Speaker 1: he didn't look good. I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe he's shot, and that certainly happened sometimes.
Speaker 1: But he's uh, he's gonna be young aged the eighth season.
Speaker 1: He's still got he should have some guests in the tank.
Speaker 1: I would just would be a guy you take a
Speaker 1: look now that again not at his current salary, but
Speaker 1: maybe if he could work out a deal where Arizona
Speaker 1: eats some of the money to get him off the books. Well,
Speaker 1: and that's if you trade him. That does happen, So
Speaker 1: it would be Partners would be happy to pay all
Speaker 1: of his money because they're gonna pay it anyways. It's
Speaker 1: kind of a sunk cost they've already anyone would even
Speaker 1: give up a sixth round pick for a seventh round
Speaker 1: pick move they would happily pay almost all of his
Speaker 1: salary because they're gonna cut him anyways. There's no way.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine there's any way they would contract there
Speaker 1: was I read I read on this there's a provision
Speaker 1: of his contract. It was somewhat unusual. It's already fully guaranteed.
Speaker 1: So it's not even like one of those things like
Speaker 1: after the third day after the league year. It's two
Speaker 1: ten point two millions, So he's he could end up
Speaker 1: there again as a backup, just because the way that
Speaker 1: I think he would rather just cut him and pay
Speaker 1: him to go away than bring him back. It just
Speaker 1: feels like he fell completely out of favor. So like
Speaker 1: maybe even a spot like um Atlanta where they're they're
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, not bringing or getting rid of
Speaker 1: Duponta Freeman. I mean, it was so fun to watch.
Speaker 1: It's kind of mystifying it is. Really. That's part of
Speaker 1: the reason I bring it up to is like, is
Speaker 1: that is that just what it is? I remember drafted
Speaker 1: him first in their fantasy league that year, to drafted
Speaker 1: him top five in their Fantasy League last year. It's
Speaker 1: got to be the steepest running back free fall in
Speaker 1: the past decade. No, I would say Girl is not
Speaker 1: entirely there yet. I mean, I want but but you'll
Speaker 1: talk about worse running back contract. Girly is contending with
Speaker 1: the David Johnson. I got one. I got one coming
Speaker 1: up for you guys. Okay, Greg, You're I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: um I'm gonna make Stefon Diggs happy. Well, at least
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna make him happy. You can never
Speaker 1: really tell with Stefund Diggs, which is one of the
Speaker 1: you know, the reasons I enjoy him as a presence,
Speaker 1: uh in the NFL is his tweets are mystifying and
Speaker 1: you always think it's like about the Vikings when he's
Speaker 1: making it. Yesterday he tweeted everything that was done in
Speaker 1: the dark is about to come to a few a
Speaker 1: few days ago. Um, I mean there's a lot of this.
Speaker 1: Uh there was a few days ago. There was business
Speaker 1: is business with his hands up in the air. Um,
Speaker 1: he really, you retweet, you don't get what you deserve,
Speaker 1: you get what you negotiate. It's just he's always sending
Speaker 1: and this is you know, this is showing how old
Speaker 1: I am. And it's like, yeah, this is the thing
Speaker 1: you do. He's sending out the messages. It's fun. It's
Speaker 1: and and even Mike Szibbers got involved. He's sent little
Speaker 1: shots about Stefan Diggs over the years, going back three
Speaker 1: or four years, like little little things where he's not
Speaker 1: with the program. These two they just seem like they
Speaker 1: needed avorce. It's a bad idea, I think from the
Speaker 1: Viking side, because he's so talented, you should try to
Speaker 1: make it work. But it just feels like you can
Speaker 1: get a lot for Stefon dig It feels well when
Speaker 1: we did I don't know if you guys know this,
Speaker 1: but do Thursday night football. Oh yeah, but I'll take
Speaker 1: over anything. Shut up. I would rather be rich um
Speaker 1: if the When the Vikings beat the Redskins last year,
Speaker 1: we had Kirk Cousins and Digs on the set together,
Speaker 1: and I will never forget how weird it was. Like
Speaker 1: their energy together was so like cold and icy. Even boys,
Speaker 1: you guys are trying to be like, hey, we turned
Speaker 1: back around. You guys had a great game, and they
Speaker 1: were just kind of like yeah, it was so it
Speaker 1: was just like awkward as hell. Does Kirk Cousins get
Speaker 1: any of the blame for that awkward relationship or is
Speaker 1: it all on Yeah, no, for sure, But I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know where it stems from. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the deal is. He signed a five year, seventy
Speaker 1: two million dollar extension July thirty one, two thousand eighteen,
Speaker 1: so he's under contract through three nice contract. If you
Speaker 1: were trading for him, uh, I would say, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a I think he's a great number two guy, like
Speaker 1: a great second banana, which makes me think he's in
Speaker 1: a really good spot where he is and the grass
Speaker 1: is always greener thing. But he also is the type
Speaker 1: of guy I think that could potentially fit in with
Speaker 1: any number of offenses if he got set up with
Speaker 1: the right spot and continue to produce. He's not happy,
Speaker 1: he's not happy. I think I would take him over
Speaker 1: theland if I had to choose to be. He's a
Speaker 1: top twenty receiver. I'm with you. He's not like a J.
Speaker 1: Green in his prime or Calvin Johnson. He's gonna take man.
Speaker 1: Is he talented and like an unbelievable route runner and
Speaker 1: just you know, like, I think you're right. He could
Speaker 1: fit on any any team. I'd go get him Patriots, Uh,
Speaker 1: Mark one more time around stuff Marks. Now you've got
Speaker 1: like a bunch of paper. You could you could do
Speaker 1: a speed round you want to do? You want to
Speaker 1: go to speedy? Can go speedy? I will, I will
Speaker 1: speed two and then give you a third, so you'll
Speaker 1: speed three, or it will be two speedies and the
Speaker 1: number one. I think that the Detroit Lions and the
Speaker 1: number three pick should be divorced because because the Stafford
Speaker 1: trade is not happening, this is one way to build
Speaker 1: your team, and they've not been able to just like
Speaker 1: the Buck's form and identity other than blandness for so long.
Speaker 1: It's your chance to They've given this relationship along along run. Yes,
Speaker 1: well that's what Patriots and James devil and give me
Speaker 1: a break, um Falcons and match shop yahn uh let's
Speaker 1: see how this charge yes you to me anymore? Now
Speaker 1: Here's this is the one that I feel passionate about
Speaker 1: is the NFL. And this was removed from written copy
Speaker 1: I wrote today because it was too hot of your dangers,
Speaker 1: although it's spoken about on our our network endlessly. NFL
Speaker 1: and the NFL's interest in any concept of a seventeen
Speaker 1: week season if we don't like the like ties getting
Speaker 1: in there and jacking up that ridiculous and like I
Speaker 1: don't want to, I don't want some records here eight
Speaker 1: and eight. I love eight and eight because it tells
Speaker 1: me you are mediocre and your record is mediocre, and
Speaker 1: you can walk into any bar room in the country
Speaker 1: and no, no one can argue the fact that you're mediocre.
Speaker 1: Suddenly you're eight and nine or nine and eight, and
Speaker 1: there is no I cannot come up with one good
Speaker 1: reason for a seventeen weeks season where they're talking about
Speaker 1: giving star players a second bye week so we can
Speaker 1: sort of start slowly morph into the NBA regular season,
Speaker 1: which is utterly meaningles they're not going to do that.
Speaker 1: The stars thing. I think they got rid of what.
Speaker 1: I just don't see any reason I don't need to
Speaker 1: get football teams would give be given a second bye week.
Speaker 1: So just from like nuts and bolts our lives perspective, frankly,
Speaker 1: that's that's all. The second that the week would be
Speaker 1: two weeks longer, the season would be two weeks longer
Speaker 1: because it would be one more game and one more
Speaker 1: bye week. Whenever we not be a good thing for you.
Speaker 1: I don't think I mean for me either, because I'm
Speaker 1: you know, math is not my would be like where
Speaker 1: you're going with this same Give me the money, that's good.
Speaker 1: I've got a lot, but you guys don't want to
Speaker 1: take any of your Jaguars and Leonard four Nette tedious,
Speaker 1: spin tedious. That's a good yeah, Redskins and Trent Williams.
Speaker 1: He's got he's under lock and key for one more year.
Speaker 1: Trade him now and get something because he's not going
Speaker 1: to stick around the year after. I don't care if
Speaker 1: Ron River is there or not. I'm done. That was good.
Speaker 1: That was good. It was a nice one at the end.
Speaker 1: There it's a little castile. He came out there. Oh
Speaker 1: yet all our march. Sure. The most important person in
Speaker 1: your organization is your quarterback, and the second most important
Speaker 1: person in your organization is your backup quarterback. And I
Speaker 1: don't forget about that left tackle. He's protecting your quarterback.
Speaker 1: I don't have a cast So do you have another divorce?
Speaker 1: I do? Okay, Okay, So here's the issue. If your
Speaker 1: significant other is draining your bank account and is never
Speaker 1: there for you, don't project it's time to serve them.
Speaker 1: The papers goes out. It's a time to say goodbye
Speaker 1: to the highest paid running back in San Francisco, Jerick McKinnon.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's down, really, guys being operated on as speak.
Speaker 1: Probably it's financial. It is sad. I mean, I feel
Speaker 1: like he's basically been getting alimony because he's just been
Speaker 1: getting paid and it hasn't worked out for when Belichick cuts,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, Belichick's cutthroat. He understands how to build
Speaker 1: a roster. Now we're like the Niners do and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: poor Jeric McKinnon. Listen, they just have a lot of
Speaker 1: running backs that they are trying to support right now.
Speaker 1: Celebrating celebrating a man who tours a c and then
Speaker 1: tours Achilles and back to back. I'm not celebrating. It's
Speaker 1: just that it's like if another team's like, oh, the Patriots,
Speaker 1: they're just ahead of the curve. Um anyway I would
Speaker 1: like to. I feel like that one got brushed off,
Speaker 1: so Redskins and Josh Norman. That feels like it's maybe
Speaker 1: the Vikings. Okay about this one, Vikings and Xavier Roads, Okay, alright, No,
Speaker 1: I think it just makes sense. They're all happening. I
Speaker 1: think those they're all happening. I wrote I wrote a
Speaker 1: piece this week guys who could get cut. I'm interested
Speaker 1: in the Vikings in general, whether they might blow up
Speaker 1: that whole thing, because Rhodes is one. But then there's
Speaker 1: Lynn Vaal Joseph. There's talk that Everson Griffin would get caught,
Speaker 1: which was shocking to me because he played amazing last year.
Speaker 1: There's another couple of guys who have big numbers, and
Speaker 1: they've had all those guys forever and it and they
Speaker 1: they're one of the only teams that has real cap issues.
Speaker 1: And just like they are, they ready to just blow
Speaker 1: it up because they've been doing it the same way.
Speaker 1: SYNCD up pretty well for me. Three year dear deal
Speaker 1: for Kirk Cousins. You get three years at this to
Speaker 1: figure out Mike Zimmer and if they don't, next year
Speaker 1: blow up the whole damn thing. Interesting because I am
Speaker 1: curious if they'll try to sign Cousins to a new
Speaker 1: contract like in the summer. Hold on that, yeah, and
Speaker 1: they might. They might. I'm curious to see because this
Speaker 1: would be when you would do it. You would not
Speaker 1: wait till to get free agency next year. If he
Speaker 1: really believed in him, it's just gonna be a whole
Speaker 1: thing again. Get ready for Kirk times happening. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do a little twist on this. I want a couple
Speaker 1: to stay together for the kids, the kids being us,
Speaker 1: the football audience. Jim Nanson, Tony Romo. That's to stay together.
Speaker 1: There's a movie that my parents, Deb and Keith loved.
Speaker 1: The I don't think they love that feel like a
Speaker 1: Keith movie to me. No, I don't like it, Danny,
Speaker 1: I don't understand he he should have gotten with us sooner. Um. No,
Speaker 1: There's a there's a movie that came out in two
Speaker 1: thousand starring Nick Cage and tay Leone called The Family Man.
Speaker 1: Does anybody know that one? Okay, Keith and Deb love
Speaker 1: this movie. They watch it every year during the holidays.
Speaker 1: And the hook of the movie is is that Cage
Speaker 1: and Leone or college sweethearts? And then movie opens with
Speaker 1: Cage having a decision to make. Is he going to
Speaker 1: stay in New York with Kate Tea and live happily
Speaker 1: ever afterre or take this twelve month internship at Barclays
Speaker 1: in London. Internship. It's a twelve months post unpaid internship. Yes,
Speaker 1: to get his foot in the door and really launch
Speaker 1: his finance career. He gets on the plane. Cut to
Speaker 1: twelve years later, he's a hugely successful UM investment dude. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's a bachelor living in Manhattan and Leone she's settled
Speaker 1: down with somebody else. And then it becomes one of
Speaker 1: those things where a angel comes in the form of um.
Speaker 1: Who's that actor. He's the guy that you know, He's
Speaker 1: the guy from Ocean's eleven, the bomb expert, African American
Speaker 1: gentleman Don Chee, Thank you, Don Cheetle is an angel
Speaker 1: and he says, what if you lived your life differently?
Speaker 1: And then he wakes up and he's living the suburban
Speaker 1: dad life with Leonie and then he he learns to
Speaker 1: love that one. Anyway, nice movie, nice job, Nice job
Speaker 1: by Nikki Cage in a big spot with that type
Speaker 1: of movie after all the action pictures. Anyway, if if
Speaker 1: Romo took the money and went to ESPN his has
Speaker 1: been reported out there, that would be him getting on
Speaker 1: the plane and going to taking the Barclays thing, and
Speaker 1: he might end up being richer than he could ever imagined.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure ESPN will bend over backwards to find
Speaker 1: roles for him to to make their money. Uh but
Speaker 1: Jim nances Teleoni in the situation and will either of
Speaker 1: them be happier in the long term. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think you stay where your heart is and that's
Speaker 1: the best buddies working CBS, working the biggest A f
Speaker 1: C games for the next fifteen twenty years, and ignore
Speaker 1: the siren call of more money because that's what your
Speaker 1: agent tells you you need to do, and that's what
Speaker 1: this is about. And just follow the money. Stay with CBS.
Speaker 1: They're gonna pay you very wells as well, and then
Speaker 1: just do it that life. They're already getting paid well.
Speaker 1: So at that point, why don't you just stay with
Speaker 1: the person that's going to make you happy. There you go.
Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna stay. Get Nicholas Cage back
Speaker 1: together with Lisa Marie Presley back in the day. I
Speaker 1: think that's that was the one. I think that ship
Speaker 1: sails as well. Anyway, wouldn't that be a bummer though
Speaker 1: we we speculated about it, But if Romo really left
Speaker 1: and he was doing Monday night games, it would bother
Speaker 1: me unless unless, like you know, someone wanted to rest
Speaker 1: both of them away from CBS and keep the n D.
Speaker 1: But what I like about the guy can't go together.
Speaker 1: It's like you're not messing with the beard in the
Speaker 1: in the beak eagle together to keep those two together.
Speaker 1: Keeping together blows it out. Oh wow, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure. I mean, we were asked to prepare to
Speaker 1: so I, um know, I know, I've got a I've
Speaker 1: got a few different options. We've talked so much quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: How about the Los Angeles Rams. Don't spend a season
Speaker 1: trying to explain why the Todd Gurley contract actually made
Speaker 1: so much sense and that why yeah, why, um, oh
Speaker 1: we're not using him that much or this or that
Speaker 1: or oh he's actually just as good as he was before.
Speaker 1: Just you can't see it clearly, even though he's got
Speaker 1: half the production is before he's really helping us out.
Speaker 1: And just like they're always on the defense of the
Speaker 1: whole Todd Gurley thing just feels like it's a lot
Speaker 1: of high maintenance, a lot of drama. They're meeting with
Speaker 1: him before free agency, which sounds ominous. If if I
Speaker 1: was Todd Gurley and wanted to stay with the Rams,
Speaker 1: I just feel like, just take this cell. It was
Speaker 1: it was a bad idea, I guess to do this, uh,
Speaker 1: to do this contract, and I don't think you could
Speaker 1: get much for him in a trade, but I do
Speaker 1: think you gets something. I don't think he's at the
Speaker 1: point with David Johnson where you just the contract is
Speaker 1: problematic and you'd have to give up money for it.
Speaker 1: But it just feels like, let's move forward. I think
Speaker 1: they're running game could be pretty dynamic, and there's just
Speaker 1: a lot of baggage with Todd Gurley that I think
Speaker 1: would be fine to move on. I find a curate
Speaker 1: the idea of another front office saying we now want
Speaker 1: to spend that pr message for the next two or
Speaker 1: three years for him, hopefully in another place. He would
Speaker 1: just be like another player. He has this thing here
Speaker 1: where it was like Todd Gurley is our m v
Speaker 1: P Candida and he's the identity of the RAM and
Speaker 1: we're giving him this contact sucked into the whole story
Speaker 1: around it, and yeah, he's guaranteed thirteen million dollars. So
Speaker 1: like Stafford, it doesn't really make any financial sense. You
Speaker 1: would have to be willing to take on that a
Speaker 1: lot of that money just to get rid of him,
Speaker 1: But I think sometimes a fresh start, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: people say and divorces, you know it costs that much
Speaker 1: money because because it's worth it, because you're happier on
Speaker 1: the other side, I feel like, what would happen to
Speaker 1: Jared Golf in this situation? I mean, what would happen
Speaker 1: to him? I was going to say that when we
Speaker 1: have this conversation next year, somebody might bring up Jared
Speaker 1: goff Is the next it's got to go. I think
Speaker 1: that's very possible, very possible. We'll see. I think that's different.
Speaker 1: They'd be fine without time. Can I just throw out
Speaker 1: one more I think the Steelers and Big Ben should
Speaker 1: stay together. I don't think it'd be a terrible idea
Speaker 1: for the Pittsburgh go and get a gumar, get you know,
Speaker 1: somebody on the side of side they tried to do
Speaker 1: and they keep getting the wrong kumar. Or or how
Speaker 1: about you bring like you know, you've got your Saturday
Speaker 1: night girl, Your Friday nights are with the wives. Saturday
Speaker 1: nights is with the girlfriends, not me. But yeah, you're
Speaker 1: not advocating that as a personal approach to Saturday plus
Speaker 1: like you you have this one a strange Uncle Levan
Speaker 1: Bell with the Jets that isn't really working there, bring
Speaker 1: him back into the fold. You have this other wacky
Speaker 1: cousin who's down there in Florida making a lot of
Speaker 1: news writing Instagram posts about how he's sorry to Big Ben,
Speaker 1: bringing Antonio Brown back like bringing the whole gang back together,
Speaker 1: dysfunctional family. Uh. I just want to point out one
Speaker 1: last like nugget about that he's gonna be thirty eight
Speaker 1: next month. We just saw, you know, Eli was going
Speaker 1: into the tank and then he bottomed out this year.
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers obviously went into decline. It is a bit
Speaker 1: of a big assumption to now believe that Big Ben
Speaker 1: maybe not the biggest fitness nut in general to start with,
Speaker 1: coming off a whole missed year with a pretty horrific
Speaker 1: elbow injury in his age thirty eight season, he'll be fine.
Speaker 1: There's a chance he's gonna stay. And then one of
Speaker 1: the Steelers do that's why you go get a Saturday
Speaker 1: night Well, so they like they tried, They drafted guys
Speaker 1: in the first four rounds over and over, and if
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph didn't emerge as a bottom like four quarterback
Speaker 1: in the league, maybe they wouldn't spin this these words
Speaker 1: with big bats. I'm saying, I'd take Andy Dalton to
Speaker 1: the COPA. That's set the table up right in front
Speaker 1: of Frankie Valley and Fulton. Does not sound like a
Speaker 1: fun Saturday night girl. Saturday night girls a thing I've
Speaker 1: never I've never heard of. I've not heard of such.
Speaker 1: I've never heard of the phrase I've never like, I
Speaker 1: would guess the majority of our offense, I mean our audience.
Speaker 1: I've never heard the phrase. I've never heard the phraser this.
Speaker 1: That is a direct lift from Goodfellas that they all
Speaker 1: the guys, all the wise guys, Fridays with the wives,
Speaker 1: Saturdays with their girls. Now I understand that stuff. I
Speaker 1: gotta have a lot of money coming in. I like.
Speaker 1: I think those guys did that. They were very fluid.
Speaker 1: Mike's coming on this show because you know, if you
Speaker 1: if you're on NFL network, you can't even throw in
Speaker 1: just little lines like Ben, you know, maybe not one
Speaker 1: of the big fitness guys in the league. He can't
Speaker 1: even say that on NFL network. That's like most inductionable
Speaker 1: things we've said. Maybe maybe Big Ben is Rocky in
Speaker 1: the shack in Russia. Right now, nobody knows, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna come back in August looking unbelievable, but yeah, that
Speaker 1: would be such. What's more likely he comes back looking
Speaker 1: unbelievable in August. He definitely seemed like he does though. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: he knew, he knew he was he he was out
Speaker 1: for the year, and he was like, he was like,
Speaker 1: He's like, this is a unique time in my career.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna embrace this. I have a giant starter Parker
Speaker 1: that I could hide underneath, and a big old beard.
Speaker 1: That sounds it does I think reporters can lose the
Speaker 1: occasional I R season, but that sounds like my off season. Connie,
Speaker 1: you've done it again? Is that brassy voice again? Flappinger
Speaker 1: came out there. Yep, you've done it all. You've said
Speaker 1: it all. Thanks. What's next in the off season of Connie?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go see a movie. I think I've been
Speaker 1: watching more movies and uh, what you plugging in on news?
Speaker 1: What's happening other than football? It's great. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen Little Women. Maybe that's it? Really so good.
Speaker 1: I watched Parasite last night, checked that Wild Wild movie. Good.
Speaker 1: I wasn't prepared for what the movie was subtitles. Do
Speaker 1: you don't have an issue with that? No, that was fine.
Speaker 1: I mean it was a lot. There were a lot
Speaker 1: of twists and turns, and I didn't necessarily like the
Speaker 1: way I felt after the movie, but I I can't
Speaker 1: stop thinking about it. Yeah, Joker, which caught a lot
Speaker 1: of heat. That had that effect on me. I was
Speaker 1: a little bit upset by Joker, Like I walked out
Speaker 1: of the theater. Yeah, I'm with you, but it was
Speaker 1: and then it was painted at something else. I never
Speaker 1: saw it. I would say parasite in the theater was
Speaker 1: as like impactful, uh, and experience as as one I've
Speaker 1: had in a movie theater in years. And you walked out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you skipped Hustlers, which I saw, which was that
Speaker 1: left me shaking. I texted Mark when I was watching
Speaker 1: Hustlers on the on the flight back one week, just
Speaker 1: how much I loved it. I thought, I've heard great.
Speaker 1: I was a little worried though, on the plane. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a challenging plane movie. I don't know what they
Speaker 1: included or what they decided not to include. It wouldn't Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've got people two rows back looking at That's what
Speaker 1: I'm say. I wasn't worried about that so much as
Speaker 1: like the seven year old kid like two seats now,
Speaker 1: you always have children on your mind in a good way.
Speaker 1: You care about children one of your qualities. And I'll
Speaker 1: throw it out since I brought up earlier The Family
Speaker 1: Man two thousand, Nick Cage ta Leoni, m hmm, what's
Speaker 1: his name? Yeah, spect here, put some respect and maybe
Speaker 1: don't watch it now do do the Keith and Dead move?
Speaker 1: Wait till the holidays. You curled up with the Man
Speaker 1: and the dogs. Then a little leg dog. That's great.
Speaker 1: Check out the family. Put that on the calendar for
Speaker 1: next year. I mean that was real Leone's final film
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, that was anything since Takedown
Speaker 1: in a big spot. He was like she vanished. Nick
Speaker 1: Cage just having some big hits, I mean some. He
Speaker 1: was in a good run. There had an adaptation around there.
Speaker 1: Matt Stick Men was a little underrated. Bringing out the
Speaker 1: Dead was good. I mean he gone in sixty seconds.
Speaker 1: He was doing like three a year was RELIONI had
Speaker 1: a pretty awful divorce with the dude from kind of
Speaker 1: side track. Forgot about that all right, that was a divorce. See,
Speaker 1: I'm on her side. It was a fair question. I've
Speaker 1: not I don't feel like she's you know, dazzling Hollywood.
Speaker 1: It's speaking of infidelity. That to Coveny was a cad.
Speaker 1: He had a Saturday night lady. What was it? He
Speaker 1: had many ladies every day of the week. Alright, So
Speaker 1: we'll be back on Tuesday. It's President's Day and I
Speaker 1: know that um West is away for the weekend. I'm
Speaker 1: going up to the mountain that you were just at Mark.
Speaker 1: You're getting loose, I know Greg's going nuts. Were on
Speaker 1: a solo tip party in Santa Monica. Yeah, we've got
Speaker 1: a big date Saturday night. But no, I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: getting too crazy. So we'll be back Tuesday. And Gregg
Speaker 1: pointing out that he doesn't have a Saturday were you know,
Speaker 1: he's going out with his wife. And I never heard
Speaker 1: of the term. I'm a one woman man. The vows
Speaker 1: I'm shining. I'm looking out for the listeners. If Colleen
Speaker 1: and I don't know what a Saturday who does? But Dan,
Speaker 1: I'd like to know how you know so much about this.
Speaker 1: Gregg looking out for the listener for the first time
Speaker 1: in roughly seven years. Greg's on his burner right now.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, all right, Ricky, but I love you. Just
Speaker 1: want you to know that, Ricky. Are we cool? Are
Speaker 1: we are we good? Yeah? That's how we Let's see
Speaker 1: if that divorce is happening. Yeah, no, we're We're all right.
Speaker 1: We're working through it. Yeah, I'm I got a support
Speaker 1: group of an improv class that you're not in, So
Speaker 1: gonna take the accelerated want to catch off. There's a
Speaker 1: saying Colleen called kidding on the square when someone is
Speaker 1: joking around but they actually they mean it. I think
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say this, and the time is not
Speaker 1: great because now we're gonna end the show and then
Speaker 1: you guys are gonna be face to face. But I
Speaker 1: think maybe it might be a time to maybe do
Speaker 1: a show of friendship, like maybe a spa day together,
Speaker 1: something to show that you are you, you value Erica,
Speaker 1: that you love spending time with ericaus who wouldn't, And
Speaker 1: that will kind of clear the decks of any lingering
Speaker 1: animosity about some recent events that have occurred. Erica. We
Speaker 1: could go get a facial Yeah, I'd love to. Alright,
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