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Speaker 1: From the Rams Studio connected by AT and T. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Between the Horns. I am Miles Simmons. I'm here

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Speaker 1: with Voice of the Rams. Jblong. It is April twentieth,

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Speaker 1: and we have an NFL schedule. Jb It's kind of

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Speaker 1: an exciting day, more exciting than I anticipated. This is

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Speaker 1: the first time that I've kind of gone through the

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Speaker 1: NFL schedule a lease while being affiliated with a team.

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Speaker 1: And look, this is a fan moment for us too

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Speaker 1: write in a lot of ways, but also because it

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Speaker 1: dictates our lives. I didn't that I've been having conversations like, okay,

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Speaker 1: so we can host Thanksgiving dinner based on being Saints

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving week. Yeah, this earlier spoiler alert, we haven't even

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Speaker 1: gotten to like half the schedule yet. Man, I assume

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Speaker 1: people have taken a look for themselves. I don't think

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Speaker 1: we're the primary source for breaking scheduling games, but I

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Speaker 1: know we will break it down, Yes, exactly, So let's

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Speaker 1: just get right to it. I mean, you already have

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Speaker 1: now spoiled. The fact that we will was a big one,

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Speaker 1: and I guess we can say, oh, look, let's go

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Speaker 1: to Christmas and tennis, right, like, we'll have Christmas Eve

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Speaker 1: in Tennessee. If you want to know my family's plans

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Speaker 1: for that week, it's all been mapped out. And the

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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve at home to finish out the season

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Speaker 1: with San Francisco. So let's start now at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the year, which is probably where people expect, and

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Speaker 1: that is Week one, Indianapolis Colts at home. The McVeigh

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Speaker 1: era begins at the coliseum. Two of the great pack

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Speaker 1: twelve quarterbacks of all time their college careers. And it's

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Speaker 1: a bit of a departure because the Rams had fallen

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Speaker 1: into a pattern of plane an NFC West opponent largely

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Speaker 1: in that week one, kind of getting the division schedule

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Speaker 1: started early. But I actually like the way that this

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Speaker 1: schedule sets up. I mean, there's no such thing as

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Speaker 1: a winnable game. I'm resisting the earth to describe anything

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Speaker 1: on the schedule as winnable or unwinnable. But to have

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Speaker 1: two home games to start compared to where the Rams

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Speaker 1: were after making the move to Los Angeles last year,

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Speaker 1: it really stands out, doesn't it definitely does it, does,

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Speaker 1: you know, especially because all the way that the season

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Speaker 1: was backloaded last year. You know, you had so many

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Speaker 1: trips in the beginning of the year. I mean going

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Speaker 1: and all these different things. And so being able to

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Speaker 1: start the year with two home games, first against Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: and then against Washington, I think that's going to be

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Speaker 1: nice to kind of get into a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a rhythm as the season gets going. How about this

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Speaker 1: for a contrast compared to twenty sixteen with all the

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Speaker 1: moving around from Saint Louis through training, Crean, the preseason,

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Speaker 1: and then the regular seas this summer, the Rams only

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Speaker 1: lead the state of California once in August and September

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Speaker 1: and has to go to Green Bay for a midweek

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Speaker 1: preseason game. Four. Other than that, it's all home. That

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Speaker 1: is really nice. I hadn't really thought about it that way. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all home and be in the state of California. Sure,

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Speaker 1: I mean going to Oakland for week three of the preseason,

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Speaker 1: no excuse me, a week two of the preseason. That

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Speaker 1: is really nice. And you know, last year you had

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Speaker 1: the preseason, so that also was too kind of that's

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Speaker 1: a two and a half hour ris go to Tampa Bay, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And like you said, I mean those you know, three

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Speaker 1: I mean the contrast now you get to stay in

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Speaker 1: really nice. And I also like the fact that it's

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Speaker 1: not so NFC West heavy. And here's why. The Rams,

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Speaker 1: as we've already documented on this podcast and on the website,

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Speaker 1: have players making position changes, have new coaches, new coordinators.

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Speaker 1: I think there's going to be a settling in period,

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Speaker 1: even if you have a really productive training camp in preseason.

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Speaker 1: I think it plays to the RAMS benefit to have

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Speaker 1: a little bit of space between the start of the

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Speaker 1: San Francisco and Arizona resolutely. So then that second game

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Speaker 1: is Verse Washington at home that's gonna be kind of

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Speaker 1: having Kirk Cousins as a protege. But again, here are

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Speaker 1: be nice to be one and going into it certainly

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Speaker 1: would be. I think this is gonna be fun because

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Speaker 1: of all the different connections that you've got between now

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Speaker 1: I mean not just with McVeigh, but you also have

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Speaker 1: he's going to be a guy that is really involved

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Speaker 1: then you also have you know, your cornerbacks coach there.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be a really big piece of this. So

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of now different connections between these two teams,

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Speaker 1: and you know you've got kind of a little brother

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Speaker 1: I just like those storylines in general, whether it's you know,

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Speaker 1: schedule how there are going to be some really nice

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Speaker 1: And so we'll keep kind of going through these weeks.

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Speaker 1: No necessarily need to hit every single game, but I

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Speaker 1: know Week three at San Francisco though, I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is Thursday night football. It's an early Thursday night football

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Speaker 1: new coaching staffs, and both of these teams with McVeigh

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Speaker 1: that's possibility, of course. But it looks like the primetime

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Speaker 1: it's early, and it's the only road trip of September. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And you know the interesting thing about the Rams in

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Speaker 1: I just happen to run an informal Twitter poll. I

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Speaker 1: two losses last year that have stuck in the craw

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Speaker 1: that early chance, even if it's Week three, but it'll

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Speaker 1: the season. I mean, obviously anytime you have a divisional matchup.

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Speaker 1: a divisional road matchup and you win on the road,

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Speaker 1: it's almost like stealing two because of the way the

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Speaker 1: the Week three Yeah. Absolutely, Okay, before we move to

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Speaker 1: Week four, I need to correct something because I called

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Speaker 1: Joe Berry Andrew Berry, and I don't know what that

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Speaker 1: was or why that happened. You just said, Anne, Joe Berry.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think it was a man. I should have

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Speaker 1: weird error, Like I don't really understand why I did

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Speaker 1: that anyway, Sorry, Joe. Week four at Dallas Cowboys. That's

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Speaker 1: going to be interesting because, and we were talking about

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Speaker 1: So this Cowboys matchup is going to be kind of

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Speaker 1: one of these interesting things. What do you show in

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Speaker 1: week one of the preseason? How is your team different

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Speaker 1: in Week four? Earlier than I thought? For sure, week

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Speaker 1: just to put some separation between the two. I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's any major logistical, schematic, strategical concern for either

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Speaker 1: I think it gives a sense of kind of more

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Speaker 1: when we gather in August and then see them the

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Speaker 1: will face the Philadelphia Eagles. That is golf wentz one. Yeah,

430
00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,040
Speaker 1: it's an appetizing storyline, to be certain, And if the

431
00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:58,560
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in and then in turn their teams are playing well,

432
00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,040
Speaker 1: I think it's got great flex pot. That's true in

433
00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:03,880
Speaker 1: terms of national interest, given where we were with these

434
00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,280
Speaker 1: candidates for the top overall draft pick a year ago,

435
00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:10,080
Speaker 1: and again even week fourteen of this coming season. Way

436
00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,320
Speaker 1: too early to draw any conclusions about who got it

437
00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:17,320
Speaker 1: right and which quarterback has a brighter future. But I

438
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,399
Speaker 1: think something that you pointed out in a previous podcast

439
00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,439
Speaker 1: is the way the Rams have constructed an offensive staff

440
00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:27,000
Speaker 1: and surrounded their second year quarterback with a lot of

441
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:31,640
Speaker 1: offensive mental firepower a lot like Philadelphia did. Yeah, that's

442
00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,280
Speaker 1: really true. And you know, you've got a head coach there,

443
00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,960
Speaker 1: and Doug Peterson, who obviously has a lot of experience

444
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:41,840
Speaker 1: dealing with quarterbacks, was I think quarterbacks coach in Philadelphia

445
00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:46,160
Speaker 1: before going with Andy Reid to Kansas City offensive coordinator

446
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 1: there and now obviously the head coach at Philadelphia, And

447
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,520
Speaker 1: you know, good trivia question. Also one of the Browns

448
00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,560
Speaker 1: quarterbacks since nineteen ninety nine on the back of that

449
00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,080
Speaker 1: infamous jersey that I really hate. I want even take

450
00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,600
Speaker 1: a guess what number he is and that he's somewhere

451
00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,000
Speaker 1: in there. But yeah, no, I think this is going

452
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,560
Speaker 1: to be one of these really good kind of marquee matchups.

453
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,000
Speaker 1: You know, it's at one twenty five, gonna be on

454
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 1: Fox has the potential to be that America's game of

455
00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 1: the week type deal, because especially if these two teams

456
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,199
Speaker 1: are playing well, and you know, I think both have

457
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,560
Speaker 1: the potential to be doing so that late in the season,

458
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,360
Speaker 1: that is a game that could have potential playoff implications too,

459
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,320
Speaker 1: you know, if you're playing for the wilder card. I'm

460
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:30,359
Speaker 1: excited to see Connor Barrowin go up against his former

461
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,480
Speaker 1: team kind of back in a three four system, and

462
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,159
Speaker 1: not that he's got anything to prove to anyone in Philadelphia.

463
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,640
Speaker 1: It seems like the way that situation with the Eagles

464
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:42,000
Speaker 1: ended was actually very amicable and mutually beneficial. But again,

465
00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,880
Speaker 1: it's one of those personal storylines within the team schedule

466
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 1: that I think is appealing in Pops in addition to

467
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:52,879
Speaker 1: Wentz first Golf. Absolutely, Okay, So Week fifteen at Seattle Series. Yeah,

468
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:54,919
Speaker 1: and so this is funny, Like this year is going

469
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 1: to make eight consecutive seasons that the Rams have played

470
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:02,119
Speaker 1: Seattle in the last games of the Seasoncember, beyond the

471
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,600
Speaker 1: last time they didn't play in December beyond September of

472
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. Yeah, isn't that weird? I Mean

473
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,119
Speaker 1: that's like, again, it's one of these games that is

474
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,640
Speaker 1: the same week as it was last year because it

475
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 1: was Week fifteen. Now granted that was Thursday night football,

476
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: and so this won't be a prime I wonder what

477
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,600
Speaker 1: the parallel for that would be, Like it's it's not

478
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,439
Speaker 1: in the in the North, Like it wouldn't be like

479
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 1: Green Bay or Detroit playing in Soldier Field because they're

480
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 1: all kind of used to those similar conditions. I think

481
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,880
Speaker 1: it's almost maybe if Miami had to play in Foxborough

482
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,479
Speaker 1: like seven eight, nine years in a row, and not

483
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 1: guaranteed poor weather conditions, but in conditions that you would

484
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,639
Speaker 1: figure favor the Seahawks or the Patriots, right, yeah, and

485
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 1: sooner or later this has to swing around, you would think.

486
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 1: I mean, it'd be nice to visit Seattle. I've been

487
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 1: there and every month of the year, but trust me,

488
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,639
Speaker 1: you want to be there in September over December ninety

489
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,199
Speaker 1: nine times out. I've actually never been there in December.

490
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,240
Speaker 1: I mean, the only time I've been to Seattle is

491
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 1: when we've gone on these road trips, you know, when

492
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,640
Speaker 1: the club was still in Saint Louis. This was one

493
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 1: of my favorite road trips because it would always come

494
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 1: kind of towards the end of the year. And obviously

495
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 1: Nordstrom is from Seattle, right, so like Nordstrom after Christmas sales, Yeah,

496
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,720
Speaker 1: that's pretty darn good. That's that's a good thing to do.

497
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: And it would be a two day trip too. So

498
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 1: now we're seventeenth, that's going to have to be last

499
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:25,359
Speaker 1: minute Christmas shopping. I'm not you don't get the same

500
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,920
Speaker 1: sales man say after Christmas. The good news is, no

501
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: matter what month of the season the Rams have played,

502
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,200
Speaker 1: you know some good games up there. Year it was

503
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:38,200
Speaker 1: not one of them. But again, the kind of back

504
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,200
Speaker 1: end of the schedule comes around now with the NFC West,

505
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,440
Speaker 1: because we didn't see the opponents that were used to

506
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: early in the schedule. Around two of the last three weeks,

507
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,679
Speaker 1: you've got a NFC West opponents to wrap it up.

508
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 1: But first at Tennessee and yare definitely some storylines between

509
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 1: those franchises, given what happened to get Jared Goff. Yeah absolutely.

510
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 1: I mean you have that trade up to number one

511
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 1: last year, and now Tennessee's got the number five overall

512
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 1: pick in the draft that comes from the Rams. And

513
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: I've said this before and I'll say it again. If

514
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 1: Jared Goff turns out to be a franchise quarterback like

515
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,479
Speaker 1: the Rams expect him to be, especially now that they

516
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 1: have surrounded him with this quality staff on offense, it

517
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 1: was absolutely worth it to give up whatever you gave

518
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 1: up to get him, because there are not even thirty

519
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,680
Speaker 1: two men in the entire world apparently who really are

520
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: good quarterbacks. Mariota might be one of them, though. And

521
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Speaker 1: if yes, if you could kind of couch Tennessee as

522
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 1: maybe just a year or two ahead in their evolution,

523
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,120
Speaker 1: their roster, evolution of the Rams, you could see if

524
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: you know, hey, they had Mariota, they had their guy,

525
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: and so they could pass on Wentz and Goff and

526
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 1: trade you know, some draft position. Maybe that same opportunity

527
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: would be available to the Rams here once they pinned

528
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,160
Speaker 1: down that Jared is their guy and he starts to emerge.

529
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 1: Hopefully not because you want to be winning enough games. Yeah,

530
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: you're not picking as high as Tennessee has been, but

531
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 1: nonetheless to spend Christmas Eve, I guess in Nashville will

532
00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: be pretty cool. Yeah, and then obviously there's gonna be

533
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 1: a Mike Jones Kevin Dyson replay mixed in there, No

534
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: question I'm gonna flashback too. It's the fourth time now

535
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 1: that these two teams are going to meet since that

536
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 1: victory in a Super Bowl thirty four for the Rams.

537
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 1: So obviously anytime these two teams get together, there's there's

538
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,360
Speaker 1: gonna be some mention of the Rams beating the Titans

539
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,360
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. And then the pre New Year

540
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: game against San Francisco second year in a row. Let's

541
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 1: just all hope that there's a totally different tenor to

542
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,640
Speaker 1: that game than there was gathering at the Coliseum last year,

543
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,640
Speaker 1: because that was kind of just playing out the thread

544
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: for both teams and it wasn't pretty, and certainly the

545
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 1: way that it ended with Kaepernick running the muck unfortunately

546
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: kind of epitomized the stretch run of the season last

547
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 1: year for the Rams. Let's hope that that game has

548
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,640
Speaker 1: a lot of really good implications for this yeah, because

549
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,159
Speaker 1: I mean, if it does, that's a game you know,

550
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,159
Speaker 1: with playoff. If it's a game with playoff implications and

551
00:26:56,240 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 1: it's Week seventeen, that's a game that could possibly be flexed. Right,

552
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,120
Speaker 1: All these games in Week seventeen are set up so

553
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: that if there's a potential to be flex then they

554
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,360
Speaker 1: can be flexed. So that's something to think about. As

555
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: I know about you, But I can almost hear the

556
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 1: audible scoffing from someone listening about the potential for Week

557
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 1: seventeen against San Francisco to have stakes and implications. I

558
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: can too, Yes, but I'm just kind of going back

559
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 1: to a thirty thousand foot view of this whole schedule.

560
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 1: This slate sets up infinitely better I think for the

561
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: Rams to manage their schedule, their roster, everything along the way. Then,

562
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: in hindsight, last year's did when we all thought last

563
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: year and a kind of feed girly, and this is

564
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: a team that's at least ready to contend for a

565
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 1: wildcard spot, maybe a division if things break their way.

566
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: Those expectations will not be there at UC Irvine this summer.

567
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: But on the flip side, you look down at what

568
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,719
Speaker 1: the Rams are going to have to tackle, you can

569
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: see how it might break their way. You can see

570
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,360
Speaker 1: how this gives them a chance to have favorable results

571
00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: to the extent that a scheduling maker does. Yeah, I mean,

572
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,880
Speaker 1: you don't have kind of the same situation you did

573
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: last year where the Rams were basically gone for all

574
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 1: of October and then half of November, and so you're

575
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 1: not really playing that many games at home until December.

576
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: And when that December came, everything the Wheels say, I

577
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: mean kind of just fallen off, right. I mean, I

578
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 1: don't think it's me saying anything too harsh to say that.

579
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: Last fall they played two true home games before a

580
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 1: week nine. Right. This fall they played two true home

581
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: games in weeks one and two. Right, Yeah, I mean

582
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: it's it's a stark stark contract, it is, I think,

583
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: and we talked about this before. Just getting that sort

584
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: of sensitive normalcy and getting into a rhythm. I think

585
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: that can really help a team, especially under a first

586
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: year head coach. Questions for you you're ready? Yes, I

587
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: don't want to hijack the Miles Simmons Between the Horns podcast,

588
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: but I've got two morning questions for you. Home game

589
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: you're most looking forward to, Okay, road game that you

590
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: would pay money out of your own pocket to travel

591
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: too to see. Okay, I'll go with the second one first,

592
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: because that one's really easy for me. I would definitely

593
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 1: go to New York, and I would go to my life,

594
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: mostly because I have a lot of friends there and

595
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: I have a lot of people there that I know,

596
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: and I think that would be good. Um or in Minnesota,

597
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: because I just I really liked that um I like

598
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: that stadium. I like being in that stadium a lot.

599
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: Um You've been to Dallas, you've seen Jerry World. I'm

600
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,479
Speaker 1: not so that actually is a good contender too. So

601
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: now I've literally answered this with a third of the

602
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 1: ramoms started with the second question because it was the

603
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: easy one. Yeah, yeah, probably, I've never even been to Dallas,

604
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: so that'll be fun. Um Man, that's a good question.

605
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: Home game. You know, I've never seen Andrew Luck in person.

606
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 1: It's probably kind of cheesy in like, I don't know,

607
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: too easy to say, the opening game, But I think

608
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a good game. I like kind of

609
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: the pomp and circumstance of the week one, the opening matchup,

610
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 1: and it'll be mcveigh's first game as a a head coach,

611
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: and you know you're going against a guy like Andrew Luck.

612
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: That'll I think that'll be a fun game just to

613
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: kind of be a part of. There isn't a home

614
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: game on the schedule that doesn't interest me, just because

615
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: of the team, the head coach, the personnel, the quarterback

616
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: that's coming into town. I mean, I think records will

617
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: spell out what they mean in terms of implications and

618
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: what's at stake, But every step along the way, every

619
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Speaker 1: game on this home schedule, I think there's a very

620
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: strong reason to watch. I agree, all right, So what

621
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: about your team that you would pay money out of

622
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: pocket to go? I love I love Nashville. I think

623
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 1: Tennessee's a really intriguing franchise. Marcus Mariotte is a personal favorite.

624
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 1: I think that'll be really cool if you just take

625
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: the division games off the table, because I love our

626
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,959
Speaker 1: fellow Division cities. Yeah, but I get to see them

627
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: all the time, so it's not his novel to me.

628
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: I would travel back to London. I had such a

629
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: great time at Twickenham last year. I just think it's

630
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: going to be phenomenal again this year. That's an expensive trips. Yeah,

631
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: I'm talking about out of pocket. J You got you

632
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: gotta have all these factors in consideration, most hours locked

633
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,239
Speaker 1: in a steal two to get there. Oh yeah, but

634
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: I think under the lights at Twickenham it'll be a

635
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: really good as game. It'll be a really good atmosphere.

636
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: I really do think that. Yeah, I think that's gonna

637
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: be a great week. It stands to I think meat

638
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: or exceed everything that we had last year with the Giants. Yeah,

639
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: really do. I agree. And the nice part will be

640
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: that you have two teams that are coming from the

641
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: same time zone. I mean, not that like everybody's always

642
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 1: got to play under the same conditions. And I don't

643
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: think it was an unfair per se advantage for New

644
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: York to do what they did. But New York gets

645
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: into London on Friday, rights have been there since Monday, right,

646
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: and you're not You're not going across as many time

647
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: zones if you're New York. I mean, that's a five

648
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: five and a half hour flight from New York to London.

649
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: That's basically like going from LA to New York yea,

650
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: or across the country the opposite way. And for US

651
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: Ryan that was an eight hour flight from Detroit and

652
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: then in eleven hour flight back. So at least you

653
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: kind of have that kind of deal. You know, with

654
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: Arizona coming, they're coming from the same time zone and

655
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: they're you know, having to adjust in more or less

656
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: the same way that the Rams are going to have to. Yeah,

657
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: you see what Arizona does in terms of managing that

658
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: week prior, and they're traveled too, And I'll just throw

659
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: another one. I wouldn't travel to see Week four preseason necessarily,

660
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: but Lambo is special. Lambo is very If we're going

661
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: to Lambeau, sign me up for a late summer as

662
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,959
Speaker 1: opposed to early winter. Also true any day, even though

663
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: you want to get the authentic experience. I've seen snow

664
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: on the ground in the frozen thunder. I've seen that

665
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: as a fan before. This time. I'll take the comforts

666
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: of late summer. Yeah, in the Midwest. We were there

667
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: in October twenty fifteen and it was first time I'd

668
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: ever been up to Lambou or anything like that. And

669
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: like it is really, I think one of the great

670
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: great stadiums in all of the NFL because it's basically

671
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,719
Speaker 1: professional football in its purest form, right. I mean, you

672
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: don't have necessarily all of the advertisements along the bottom bowl,

673
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: and you've still got luxury suitets, You've still got all

674
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: kinds of other stuff. But there's I've never been to

675
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: another professional stadium that is like Green Bay. And obviously,

676
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 1: I mean the fans own the team, right, there's there's

677
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: no other there's no other teams history and your yeah

678
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: and all those other things. We will not see Aaron Rodgers.

679
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty safe to say, yeah, one of it.

680
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: But the rest of the preseason schedule I think sets

681
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: up very interestingly in terms of the quarterbacks that the

682
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: new revamped, new scheme defense will be tested against, including

683
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: Derek Cardinals. Yeah, you know, Derek Carr I think is

684
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: one of the really really good young quarterbacks. I find

685
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 1: them so exciting to watch. And you know, obviously you

686
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: don't know who people are off the field, and I

687
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: hesitate to make any grand judgments, but I mean from

688
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: everything you always read, Derek Carr seems like a really

689
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: quality guy off the field as well. I mean, I

690
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: remember there was a story earlier in the off season

691
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: where he's like driving by in his truck and there's

692
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: somebody on the side of the road and he stops

693
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: because I don't remember what happens, dude's car broke down

694
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: or something, and he stops and he picks him up,

695
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: and he's like, hey, man, I can give you a

696
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,879
Speaker 1: lift in your gas station whatever, And so the dude

697
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: apparently that he picked up like realizes like wait a minute,

698
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: you're Derek Carr and he's like, yeah, I guess I am,

699
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 1: and so like you just eat. I don't know. He

700
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 1: just seems like a really humble guy. I admire that

701
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 1: about him. So just a plug single game tickets starting

702
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning. Yes, yeah, season ticket holders an exclusive window

703
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: and shortly they're after for the general public. So I mean, again,

704
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: I hope you'll join us for as many of these

705
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 1: at the Coliseum as you can. And if you're making

706
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 1: a road trip with us, so much the better because

707
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to be seen and to

708
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 1: see on this schedule. Absolutely, so that should be really

709
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 1: really good. And definitely make sure you visit the Rams

710
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: dot com or call a ticket office if you're interested

711
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: in tickets. So before we get out of here, though,

712
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: I mean, the off season program has started. You know,

713
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: the Rams are in phase one right now, strength and conditioning,

714
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: work on the fielding, you do have some classroom work

715
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 1: with the coaches. It's an interesting time because there's only

716
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: so much you can do as a coach, you know,

717
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:15,720
Speaker 1: when you're basically restricted from being out on the field

718
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: with players. But I think next week, when we get

719
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: to the vetter mini camp that's going to the voluntary

720
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: vetter of mini camp that's going to go from Tuesday

721
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 1: to Thursday. I think that's going to be really fun

722
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: because it's going to be our first chance to really

723
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: see what this team might kind of start looking like

724
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: in the fall. Well, especially because there's there's always something

725
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: at stake, but there's kind of a to do list

726
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: item in terms of figuring out what Tremaine Johnson's franchise

727
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: is going to be. With the franchise, I mean, it's

728
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,720
Speaker 1: been stated publicly that they wanted this window of time

729
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: to have him get to know the new staff and

730
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: vice versa and kind of get in the classroom together,

731
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 1: get on grass and see if this is gonna work

732
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: not just for twenty seventeen, but long term. So before

733
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 1: you get into draft night, I think you don't If

734
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: you don't have a final answer to that question, fine,

735
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: but I think you want to have a better idea

736
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: of what that answer is. Yeah, among all the other

737
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,399
Speaker 1: things that you're going to tackle in that week, absolutely,

738
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: I mean the other thing that I think they're really

739
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: going to have to figure out is the offensive line,

740
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: because even though you've brought in Andrew Whitworth, and kind

741
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: of stabilize that left tackle position probably for the next

742
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: two seasons, if not, maybe a third there, and you've

743
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: brought in John Sullivan to be your center, you still

744
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,280
Speaker 1: got a lot of question marks on the right side

745
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,720
Speaker 1: of the line. I mean, Roger Saffil pretty there entrenched

746
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: there at left guard. I think that's safe to say.

747
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: But you know, with Greg Robinson going over to right tackle,

748
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: with Rob Havenstein being kicked inside to right guard, there

749
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: are a lot of questions that I think they're going

750
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: to need to answer there. As we've said before, I

751
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: think you can project what the five are, their names

752
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: in their starting position, but I also think there's a

753
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: better than not chance perhaps that that changes definitely, and

754
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: maybe for good reason, maybe because you'd ask someone who competes,

755
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: or you find someone off the waiver wire who challenges,

756
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 1: hopefully not because of injury. But I know that by

757
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 1: necessity and for the sake of conversation, we need to project. Okay,

758
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: if this were the Rams opening day offensive line, would

759
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: it be improved, Would it give Jared Goff a better chance?

760
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: Might it open more holes for Todd Gurley? Yeah? I

761
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: think it might, But there's no guarantee that it's gonna

762
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: you know, when we open against Indianapolis that the five

763
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: that we think are going to be in those given

764
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 1: spots will be the starters. Let's face it, they haven't

765
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 1: even worked out in front of the position coach must

766
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: less their coordinator, much less their head coach. Yeah, and

767
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: that's that's what I People will always ask a question like, oh,

768
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 1: what do you what do you think about this? What

769
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 1: do you think about that? You know? And it's like, well,

770
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: right now, as we sit here on April twentieth, it's

771
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: one thing, but it could absolutely change between now and

772
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:50,359
Speaker 1: September the tenth, when you kick off against the Indianapolis Cold.

773
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: I think these weeks, yes it is. I think these

774
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 1: weeks are about giving yourself viable options, not finding final answers. Yes,

775
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: it's a really great through free agency, you through the

776
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: draft through like let's not forget it's not just next

777
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:07,280
Speaker 1: weekend right in the NFL Draft, it's signing undrafted free agency.

778
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: Look at how many of them have contributed to the

779
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 1: Rams franchise and then throughout the league. I mean, it's

780
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: it's an ongoing process to make sure that you're stacked

781
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: as deep as you can be at every position so

782
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 1: that you have healthy competition, and I'm going to be

783
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: just as enthused and entrenched and involved with who the

784
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 1: Rams end up selecting in the draft. But to me,

785
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,720
Speaker 1: based in terms of who's going to make the most

786
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: win loss impact on this twenty seventeen schedule that was

787
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: just revealed and that we talked about in my heart

788
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 1: of hearts, I feel like that's going to have far

789
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 1: more to do with the class of twenty sixteen and

790
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: how much they improve and with the steps they take

791
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 1: forward under this new staff than necessarily who joins us

792
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:48,919
Speaker 1: in the mid to late rounds of twenty seventeen. I hope,

793
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: I hope both classes contribute, But just based on you know,

794
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,919
Speaker 1: historical evidence, I think it's going to be more about

795
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,240
Speaker 1: the Pharaoh Coopers of the world than necessarily the receiver

796
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: that the Rams may or may not add this draft. No,

797
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,839
Speaker 1: I think you're absolutely right there, and it's not just

798
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: with you know, Pharrell Cooper. I mean, look throughout that

799
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: entire draft class. You've got to see some improvement. I mean,

800
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: starting with Jared Goff. That's why you went out and

801
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: hired the people you hired in the coaching staff. But

802
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 1: it goes from Goff and then yes, Farak Cooper, Tyler Higbee,

803
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: guys that you really want to see some more out of,

804
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 1: and those were the top three draft picks last year.

805
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: But then you've also got guys like to Mark Hemingway

806
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: and Mike Thomas as well, and you want to see

807
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 1: that year to year improvement. If they can make that

808
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 1: jump from year one to year two and be really

809
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 1: good contributors on this Rams offense, then I think you'd

810
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: feel a lot better than you do probably as we

811
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: sit here today on April twentieth about that twenty sixteen draft,

812
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: and the same thing for the free agent class too.

813
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,720
Speaker 1: I mean, by all means, if the Rams can find

814
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: an all pro rookie cornerback in whatever round that they

815
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: end up drafting him in, so much the better. But statistically,

816
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: is there a better chance that Cavan make an impact

817
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 1: or that Nkel Robie Coleman makes an impact this fall specifically? Yeah?

818
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, I think weeks like you're talking

819
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: about with getting the veterans in a are every bit

820
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 1: as important to creating incremental win gains as as picking

821
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: players off your draft. Absolutely. Okay, so let's talk a

822
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: little bit about the draft because I don't want to

823
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 1: talk too much about it because, to be honest, like, look,

824
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 1: the Rams are picking you promise me, you told me

825
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 1: who the Rams are gonna take at thirty seven, Y

826
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 1: going to be in the podcast Don't do this said

827
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: that you had on good information that the Rams are

828
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: going to trade up into day one and that they

829
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: were going to take ever get his name? Oh yeah,

830
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: me too. I don't know. I don't know what his

831
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 1: name was. I'm going to keep my mouth shut now now.

832
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:48,799
Speaker 1: I know I should never say anything to you in

833
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: the lunch room. I hope, I hope to Marco doesn't

834
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 1: interrupt you and derail you as much as I do

835
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: on this podcast. No, it's funny. No. The thing about

836
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: the draft this year, especially to me, is and I'm

837
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: one of these people who like all the lead up

838
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 1: to the draft, it's just it's just kind of almost

839
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 1: stresses me out to the point where I just I

840
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: gotta kind of tune out from it because it's all hypotheticals,

841
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,880
Speaker 1: and I'm not really one of these guys that loves hypotheticals.

842
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:17,359
Speaker 1: Like hypotheticals are fine in some instances, but like when

843
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: you're talking about mock drafts and it's mock draft, this,

844
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: a mock draft that, and oh my goodness, this person

845
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: like man, especially if the team you're covering is picking

846
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: at thirty seven, I like, what what use is a

847
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 1: mock draft for me? This year? It's it's not much

848
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: use so that but that's how I feel about it normally.

849
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: But I don't know. When you've got a team that

850
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: is picking at thirty seven, there is so much that

851
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 1: can happen. Yeah, Jesus Sirie, you calm yourself. Who does

852
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: she have at thirty seven to Los Angeles? I don't know,

853
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: but she wants to talk to me. It's weird. I

854
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: don't That doesn't usually happen. You stay calm there, you

855
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: little cell phone. Anyway, when you got a team that's

856
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: picking at thirty seven, there's so much that can happen

857
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 1: from picks one to thirty six. It's very hard to

858
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: kind of handicap what goes on at thirty seven. And

859
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: you know a lot of teams will go through their

860
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: own mock draft scenarios, right, So I'm sure that's happening

861
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: inside the RAMS building as well. You've got to kind

862
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 1: of try to figure out what teams might want to

863
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 1: pick in those round, in that early first round, and

864
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: then you know, think, Okay, there are going to be

865
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: the part these players that will probably be around when

866
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:32,280
Speaker 1: we pick at thirty seven, but there's gonna be something

867
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: that happens that people can't predict. Yeah, I'm with you.

868
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 1: I mean, in an ideal world, the only information that

869
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: would be out about team strategy and thought process for

870
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 1: the draft would be misinformation, right, people, right, Absolutely nothing

871
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: to be gained from letting public information about who you

872
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: like or why. If everyone's doing their homework, someone else

873
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,479
Speaker 1: probably likes them as much or more, and the chances

874
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: are that team may be drafting ahead of you. So

875
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,800
Speaker 1: you know, some of that filters out because teams have

876
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,240
Speaker 1: to meet face to face with potential prospects they're interested

877
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,879
Speaker 1: in to get a field, and so those people's friends

878
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: and family and agents and stuff obviously communicate with the

879
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: outside world. But it's such a fluid situation that look,

880
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: I my only draft consideration at this point is that

881
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 1: I sincerely hope that it is as deep at some

882
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: key positions as the experts have said that it is.

883
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, the Rams have enough needs right now that

884
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: I'm not too concerned with the best player available or

885
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 1: addressing needs dynamic because I think whoever the best player

886
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 1: available turns out to be will fill a need on

887
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 1: this roster. So look, this is why the people who

888
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: spend all year with their nose in this line of

889
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 1: work get paid to do what they do. And I'm

890
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: not going to pretend to know that I can do

891
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: their job any better or know something that they do not.

892
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,280
Speaker 1: And look, even when they've done all their homework, sometimes

893
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 1: it works out and sometimes it doesn't for reasons that

894
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: you cannot control our foreka. So again, I think, do

895
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 1: the best you can to give your coach and your

896
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: your roster the best chance to compete and improve and succeed.

897
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: And over the long haul, if good picks outweigh bad picks,

898
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,359
Speaker 1: you're gonna end up with more wins and losses. All right,

899
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: So before we get out of here than JB, what

900
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: are some of your weekend plans? Anything fun this weekend?

901
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: What am I doing? I'm I'm calling the cow spring

902
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: football game. Actually, so I'll be going up to Berkeley

903
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,839
Speaker 1: to visit with Jared Goff's alma mater, and then I'll

904
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 1: be back home for an open, enjoyable Sunday. My son

905
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,320
Speaker 1: is soon to be one year old, so we're planning

906
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: his one year birthday party. That's kind of what I've

907
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: got in store. How about you? Nice? So I'm going

908
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: I'm going back to Cleveland this weekend, going back to

909
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,840
Speaker 1: I Am. Yes, the Browns are not on the RAM schedule.

910
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,919
Speaker 1: They're not. It was a good tweet that you put

911
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: out there. Tell them about the I just kind of

912
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:51,880
Speaker 1: like it. Man. I think there's a lot to like

913
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: about this RAM schedule, and there are a lot of

914
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: replies like are the Browns on it? And no, no,

915
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 1: that was not ever a possibility. But I can understand

916
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:00,919
Speaker 1: the line of the Browns are going to be better

917
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: this year, by the way, I'll throw that out there.

918
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 1: I think they can be better than one in fifteen

919
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: Garrett or quarterback Garrett at number one, definitely, because you've

920
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:14,839
Speaker 1: got enough draft demo speaking as the Browns that you

921
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 1: could move up in theory and get somebody else, right,

922
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 1: you know. I just I feel like you have to

923
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 1: take Miles Garrett, who has a Hall of Fame worthy

924
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: first name, by the way, especially the way he spells it. Good. Yeah,

925
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,400
Speaker 1: great spelling. But I think you have to he's a

926
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: freak athlete. You know. I was seeing him at the combine.

927
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: He's like leap, He's doing the broad jump, and like

928
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 1: I was putting it on Snapchat and everybody in this

929
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: d line group is I don't know, getting around ten

930
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: feet like nine nine five or ninety six whatever, and

931
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: he comes up and he like goes eleven and I'm like,

932
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? I was like, holy blank, like

933
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I had to delete it off of Snapchat

934
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: because he made me use an explode becase he's that athletic. So,

935
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: speaking of freak athletes, as you were saying, Lebron invited

936
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,399
Speaker 1: you to be his guest court side for yeah playoffs series, right,

937
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: I know. Unfortunately they're going to be in Indianapolis this weekend.

938
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: So yeah. No. The reason I'm going back though is, um,

939
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 1: I'm speaking at my high school. So this is going

940
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,879
Speaker 1: to be fun. Yeah. So there's um this Alumni gives

941
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 1: Back day they're doing at my high school. And so

942
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,160
Speaker 1: I'm going to be doing a couple of classes on

943
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: sports journalism in the twenty first century. So and the

944
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: live stream will be available always. Nobody's going to see this,

945
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 1: I hope not maybe we'll take a picture or two.

946
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 1: I don't know if you are. If you have any

947
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 1: tips on what people what I should say to high

948
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: school students about sports journalism, I would appreciate it. I

949
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: just give him some insight into what we actually talk about,

950
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, hot dogs of sandwiches, if whether or

951
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: not and mustard should be on hot dogs of course, Yeah,

952
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: usual thing, Yeah, the very important stuff. But that's awesome

953
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: that you're going back there, and I'm sure that they're

954
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,840
Speaker 1: they're gonna they'll be a little bit awestruck to have

955
00:46:57,880 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 1: a member of the Los Angeles RAM speaking in front

956
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 1: of them. Well, I don't know if they should be awestruck,

957
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: and hopefully they'll listen. To make sure. Make sure you

958
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:07,879
Speaker 1: think it'd be best Plaine anecdote too, Like you want

959
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: to make sure you remind them that when you were

960
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,319
Speaker 1: in their seats, those are your glory years. This is

961
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 1: true writing about football there. You know, you were doing

962
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,399
Speaker 1: the football that was being written and that's actually very true.

963
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:20,479
Speaker 1: Feel free to write that down. I will write that down,

964
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,359
Speaker 1: thank you. JB. All right, so we gotta get ready

965
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 1: actually for a live show that probably by the time

966
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 1: you guys hear this, it will already have been on Facebook.

967
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 1: So if you want to check out what we're talking

968
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: about live on Facebook and periscope, definitely check that out

969
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:37,839
Speaker 1: on Facebook because we'll be talking with our reporter Danny

970
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 1: Clappinger of breaking down the RAMS schedule. You can ask

971
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: your questions there and have them answered as well. All right, so, JB,

972
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining me here on between

973
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:49,319
Speaker 1: the Horns. From my producer Josh, I'm Miles Simmons. Where

974
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 1: you maybe in football, We'll see you next time