WEBVTT - NFL Draft Predictions & Lamar Jackson Talk 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:08.040 The Around the NFL Podcast is running out of money. Changs. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:11.920 Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.400 My name is Dan Hansas, and I am in room 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:18.560 that just filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:23.400 Greg Rosenthal. What's up, boys, Hey Dan? Not just hey Dan. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:29.680 I'm on Happy birthday, Dan Hansas? Yes, oh yeah, thank you? 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.680 Why does it rotate? My wife calls me wolf man, 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:43.400 I rey lord, and there will be blood. Damn you 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.000 all the hand. This is who I am. Doesn't read work. 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:52.040 Somebody's salty. Keep an eye on the brown They're special. 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:55.920 On a second, I have another phone call this one, 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:10.680 this one in this one. Happy birthday. This is Brett. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:18.160 Happy birthday, buddy. Very well done. Here we go. Wow, Lindsay, 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.280 you put that together in a very limited amount of 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.720 time today. That's a professional. Did you guys record vox 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:28.480 there as well? Or is that just take a little bit, 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:30.560 a little bit at her prompting. We did a little bit. 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.200 It was big of Mr Beach to call it. It 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.760 was it was you haven't been hit with a season 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.759 desist from Brett beat It's coming. He sent it by 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:42.960 snail mail, so it'll be here soon. I don't think 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:47.640 I didn't have to google how to send a voice memo. Well, 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.840 thank you very much, Lindsay, and oh getting tweets today? 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.800 Are you taking today off? No? No, that's how there 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.480 are no days off. Here we are in draft week, 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:01.400 so I gotta grund me and Belichick. Maybe we're more 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:05.520 like than I'd like to admit, because it's grind time. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:10.280 The draft is less than four days away. Now shut up, 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:14.680 Bill and uh we have so we have, you know, 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.400 just get here, please get here. You know I've already 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.000 said multiple times in the past two weeks they should 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.480 move the draft up. Today when I was sitting it 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:26.560 in our little cubicles, those doomed cubicles. Greg, that really, 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:28.680 especially on your birthday for whatever reason, and you're starting 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.640 to get older, you start to wonder what you're really doing. 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.440 And I'm sitting in this cubicle almost trapped. You might 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.400 as well put bars around it. His way, I felt 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:42.320 time actually stopped, and I was looking at to see 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:47.359 if anybody else noticed. For about ninety two straight. Time stopped. 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:49.560 And that's what it really feels like with the draft. 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.800 It's got to get here. It's on Thursday, but come on, clock. 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.440 The best time for the draft is always a week 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.760 before the current date. Put it in the rear view 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:05.600 mirror always. Yeah, absolutely, and we are so excited to 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.400 bring back one of our favorite games. At the end 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:12.839 of today's show, go get my lunch, your total degenerate 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:18.400 the draft edition, so big, big, big way to West. 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.120 You put pressure on yourself for the free agency didn't 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:25.080 work out, even more pressure here, you would say, correct, 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.000 I don't know if I want to approach this as 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.400 a competitive person or not. I don't know if I've 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:33.200 given up on that or not. Yeah. Yeah, I think 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.600 you could look at it as a total lack of pressure, 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:39.240 since there's no repercussions to winning or losing or sandwiches ever. 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.520 Get well, that's not necessarily true though. It's just a 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.560 matter of the people that are losing got to cough 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:45.960 up some sandwich. Well, that's you're pointing it at me, 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.560 because when I look at the way that they've you know, 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:50.680 put the tally together on and go get my lunch 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.560 dot Org. Nick Fortier, A nice job there. I Oh, 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.640 every single person sandwiches and not a single person owes 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.440 me anything. It's been we'll go through before we get 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.280 into uh. This year's props for the draft will look 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.280 quickly back at last year's draft, and I just have 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.240 to say I was flabbergasted by a couple of your 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.400 props last year. Mark. There's a reason why you tend 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.400 to owe more than your own right each and this 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.760 last year's draft was a perfect distillation of that. We'll 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:19.599 get to that in a little bit. When we're dedicating 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:23.719 only three props each time, don't use one or two 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.880 uh in each show on the end of the Earth 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.000 or the end of you know, the event that work. 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:31.840 The thing is, here's the way I look at it. 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.719 No one really remembers almost anything anyone wagered at all. 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.960 If I got an apocalyptic scenario correct, it's getting picked 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.159 up by CNN, It's getting picked up all around the 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:47.039 place by multiple media outlets, and that's all. It's all. 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.320 But no one would remember because the world would be ending. 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.200 But you would have of the world would have the 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.800 top headline would have happened. It's it would be a sidebar. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.280 You would have NFL NFL scribe predicted this bang. It's 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.960 gonna be a whole documentary, like a legend. In my mind, 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.760 thank you, right just before you and everyone you love, 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.840 you know, ceased to exist. You'll have the knowledge that 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.680 so many listeners of all our show, their last thought 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:12.840 will be like, well, I guess Mark was right. He 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.600 called it well, Greg, Greg can cling to the fact 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.760 that he picks like a second you know, a second 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.800 tier Packers running back getting the fourth amount of guaranteed 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.360 money in free agency. Well, that's that's a legacy. Um 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.200 sit on that. Maybe you'll get like a Gil brand 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:33.240 Um shadow account runner tweet. I like that. I mean 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.359 that's big. That is before the fireball hits the earth. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.919 Who knew all along that this was happening. I'd be 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.560 that would rapid at that point, curtain's baby. We also 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.200 have a special guest we're gonna get on the show 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.400 to talk about another draft prospect, uh, and then some news. 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:53.280 In fact, let's get to the news, uh, miss Faulton, 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.760 because the top of the news regards Mark's favorite team, 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.760 who's picking first in the draft. You know those videos 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:03.360 thats got little little uh left the center. Let's say 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.520 I'm not I'm not a fan of Tho, but he's 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:13.080 the best wide receiver in the league. All right, we 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:18.920 start with the Cleveland Browns UH and Monday Morning Quarterback 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:26.400 founder um sled Dog icon of the NFL sportswriting business, 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:31.200 Peter King wrote in his latest Monday Morning Quarterback Colm 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.919 that a source he quote trusts who was very quote 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:38.320 well connected and quote very often right, said that the 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.599 Browns won't take Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen at number one. 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:46.960 Uh and that is in contrast with the steady drumbeat 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.360 Mark Sessler that the Browns would or we're in love 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.359 with Josh Allen and his upside. We don't have to 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.480 dig back in because we just did it last week 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.000 on the show about all the reasons why you might 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.440 not want to take Josh Allen at number one. But 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.040 what i'd I got to this report, and even King 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.400 acknowledges you're kind of a slave to your sources this 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.080 time of year. It doesn't mean you're right, but it 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.960 seems that's starting now to swing back to Sam Donald 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.480 now as we get to the final days before the draft, 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.920 and I, frankly I wouldn't be surprised if there's a 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.880 leak in the next eight hours that Donald is the man. 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:21.280 Do you agree? Yeah? I do agree, and I can't help. 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.160 But remember when the Rams were all but guaranteed to 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.440 take Jared Goff, and it sure felt like the league 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.840 got in the ear of the Rams and said, please 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.320 bring this to the eleventh hour. Don't sell this down 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.640 the river with four or five days to go. I 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:39.000 don't think that John Dorsey's out there telling anyone, anyone 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.000 that knows Peter King or anyone else at this point 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.200 what he's gonna do. But I think the building, I 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.600 think my guests would be inside the building that there's 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.720 been healthy debate over two quarterbacks. And I don't think 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.280 that it is Josh Allen. I think it was probably 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:55.280 coming down to Donald and Baker Mayfield, and right now, 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.360 Donald's the guy that the combine. When when the combine began, 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.679 everyone said it is Arnold, hands down. Then everything happened 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.240 and we're back there. Like you said, I just think that, 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.640 barring a surprise, they're gonna go with what seems to 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.280 them like the safer picking Donald. I don't think it's 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.880 the guy that I want, but it's the guy they want. Well. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.840 Chris Ballard was UH in Kansas City, what's your favorite 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.880 type of frog? With UH? With John Dorsey, and he 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.680 said on on Good Morning Football last week that Dorsey 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.200 wouldn't tell him who he was taking. He wouldn't tell 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.880 anyone in the room that you could get a guess 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.200 or a feel, but he would listen to everyone, and 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.040 I I was, you know, assuming he's basically talking about 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.000 the Patrick Mahomes that he that even a guy who's 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:41.800 working with him didn't know what he was gonna do. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:43.959 So that's why it's it's tough to really know from 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:48.400 the outside, but it makes sense. Definitely makes sense. Did 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.800 you Mark, did you say you don't want them to 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:52.920 take Donald the number one? Who do you want them 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:55.600 to take? I I couldn't have been wrong on almost 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.360 every quarterback they picked all along, so this means nothing. 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:02.120 But I just sort of want Rosen or Baker Mayfield. 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.520 I don't know why. I just it's something about So 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.240 I actually feel like I don't have Sessler's about Brown's 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.439 draft picks anymore, because again I've been wrong a million times, 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.120 But you and all everybody else there's been a lot 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:17.719 of Brown's draft picks make a massive flood of unaccountable 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.640 scouts inside that organization that have failed over and over 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.720 and over, so please get it right. Well, they have 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.680 been fired repeatedly. True, But they're making a lot of money. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:27.880 After the fact, it's actually the same scouts. They get 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:29.959 fired and rehired. No one's notice. It's just the same. 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:36.120 That explains so much. UH. In other news, oh, another topic. 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:37.520 We don't need to spend a ton of time, but 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:41.600 we'll check in on UH. Willie Snead officially to become 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.800 a member of the Ravens. Rap Sheet reported the Saints 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:47.160 will not match Baltimore's offer that was made to need Uh. 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.160 He signed that on Friday, two years up to ten 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.280 point four million, seven million bass Uh. The Saints had 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.240 five days to match that and they decided not to, 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:01.320 so Snead joins the Ravens. Better fit West. I love 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.400 the fit and it's interesting to me the outside of 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:08.520 the flyer on r G three. Essentially the only moves 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.200 the Ravens have done so far this offseason have been 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.280 to the wide receiver corps, and they've overhauled the entire 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.800 wide receiver corps. John Brown was was a very interesting 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:22.040 flyer on a speedy guy. Michael Crabtree, Willie Snead to me, 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:26.000 this is a major, major upgrade over Jeremy Macklin, Mike 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.000 Wallace and Brashad Perriman or Chris Chris Moore, whoever they 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:30.920 had on the field past year. Bad news for Dez 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.960 too when we touched on that. But the Ravens take 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.840 take the Ravens off the list. We heard the report 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.920 that the Giants aren't interested. He's not going to the Eagles, 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.800 the Redskins apparently not interested. This could take a while 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.640 for Dez. Feels like the hard Boss Slash Flacco era 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:52.360 somewhat depends on continuing on making this These receivers work, 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:54.920 Sneed Crabtree Brown In that passing year, I think they 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.360 didn't want to go into the draft having to feel 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.320 the pressure to draft a wide receiver in the first 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.240 There aren't a lot. I could see one or two 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.240 wide receivers tops going in the first round potentially, and 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.439 I think they maybe want to use that pick if 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.960 someone felt to them, like Lamar Jackson on a quarterback. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.960 And I just want to say, I think they've improved 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.360 there a wide receiver group, but John Brown, Michael Crabtree, 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.440 uh Snead. None of these guys can't miss to be 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.599 productive players next year. It still feels very much a 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.960 crap shoot whether the Ravens are gonna be moving the ball. 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.440 But the one thing we do know that Justin Tucker 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.400 is going to kick out of the ball and it's 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.760 going to go right between those uprights. I would say 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.560 that insistently. I would say one thing about that wide 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.280 receiver corps. Though they complement each other really well, It's 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:38.679 not like they went out and tried to find three 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.439 number ones. Yeah, they found Sneet in the slot. Crab 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:45.120 Trees your red zone guy, and Job Brown's your deep threat. Uh. Meanwhile, 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.440 on the throne of Sleeves, Rob Gronkowski was at Gillette Stadium. 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:52.080 Good news, Patriots fans. Here's the bad news. It was 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:56.400 on behalf of the Monster Energy Supercross team. Uh. Gronk 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:00.560 was at a dirt dirt bike galla. I didn't know 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:02.120 that was the thing that existed, but you learn a 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.360 lot at least still when you followed Gronk in the 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.000 off season. Uh. There was also a press conference at 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.840 this dirt bike gala. I keep on stopping myself from 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:14.000 saying dirt bag gala. But I guess in my youth 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:16.760 the kids that not a lot of kids had dirt bikes, 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.400 but it was very popular in the eighties and movies 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.840 and stuff like Oh, he's got a dirt bike. Usually 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.120 you were a dirt bag or a rougher set of 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.760 child would would be roaming around on the dirt bike, 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.520 probably getting into fisticuffs. Anyway, Grock was asked about his 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:35.040 status for the two thousand eighteen season during this Monster 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.240 Energy Supercross press conference. Here's what he had to say. 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.960 I've been riding dirt bike. I've been trained really hard, 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:44.679 and I can roam rome really good. I can ride 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.880 that bike like no other and my speed is up 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:53.160 to them. Are you stating retirement from her football? These friends? 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:58.160 How my races still go today? Uh? And of note, 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.280 the top headline on page reads dot com on Sunday, 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:06.040 Red gront press or a quote bad look and that 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.280 was taken from a commentary from w e I, a 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.600 local sports talk station in Boston. Guys, is Gronk trying 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.679 to get himself traded right now? Greg isn't a big deal. 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.480 The craft the crafts must be excited because he was 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.600 trying to get people into the stadium for the motocross 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:24.000 event that day at Gillette that they're making money off of. 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:27.280 So it's all it's all one way to shade that. 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.360 It's all part of the game, all right, kissing Cousin's 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:36.040 your thoughts of the reactions I saw after this basically 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:39.760 took it as grunk giving Belichick the middle fildes Yes, 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:41.840 well the second answer where they were like, are you 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.520 going to report to workouts? And he basically was just 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.440 sort of a hard no. It's like there would have 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.800 maybe been a different way to kind of tone shift 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:54.000 that answer to say, hey, you're but not not really 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.760 a gifted improv actor. I don't know. I mean, you 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.360 listen to Gronk in any transcript. I'm not making fun 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.240 of the guy. He's right successful and extremely wealthy, seems 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.440 to have a nice family support system, and you know, 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.640 stumb well in his life not usually any sentence. Really, 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.120 they don't come out too well. You know, he's not 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.920 going to be able to give you an artfully crafted 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.280 non answer answer, do you plan on attending the optional 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:22.920 workouts that are upcoming? No? Why skills to work dismissive? 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.560 I think he I think Actulette stadium. Uh, it is 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:28.840 a troll job of the Patriots, And I'm wondering if 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.840 he really is really trying to get traded and then 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.360 getting the new contract with wherever he gets traded, and 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.920 then it makes me wonder how feasible that remains, especially 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.800 with the Draft a couple of days ago away. He's 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:43.720 just he's trying to annoy them. It certainly seems like 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.160 there was a report though, that they're fully expecting that 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.520 he's not retiring, that they don't even think that's an 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.840 option at this point, which seems germane. But to your point, 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.160 you know, on a scale of like shocking things Bill 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.920 Belichick has done as a general manager, how high up 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.160 with trading Rob Gronkowski on draft to be at this point, 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.200 he's done more shocking things than that. I don't think 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:06.840 would be up there, but it would be up there, 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.640 but it wouldn't be that crazy. I I just think 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.800 it's not gonna happen, primarily because I don't think they're 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.680 gonna They wouldn't be able to get a great, great 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.720 offer for him. And that's the only reason why. What 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.840 would be Now they think about what would be a 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.520 bigger stunner from Belichick in all time trading the greatest 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:26.440 tight end in the history of football, Randy Moment back 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.880 to the Vikings, And would that be bigger than Gronk? 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.240 I think it was. I remember being that was the 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.400 most shocking trade. I remember it was after the season 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:39.800 had started. Richard Seymour, Seymour, I mean not shocked. Malloy 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.560 was shocking, but when came out of nowhere, and it 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.120 was shocking in the moment. It was none of these 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.840 would be bigger than Gronk though, really bigger story, but 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.320 bigger surprise just because at this point you're right and 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.560 why it plays to everything we know about Belichick that 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.200 he would trade him he doesn't for the right for 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.200 the right value. I mean, how does Belichick like an 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.320 offseason where all these players, all of her it's no 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.720 one likes Belichick. They're tired of Belichick, they're over his 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.960 m O. They're tired of dealing with this guy. And 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.960 like you've got Gronk mouthing off, you've got Brady playing 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.760 this sort of you know, tete a tete business where 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.280 who knows if he's showing up to there's a little workout, 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.560 Bud Kilmer, When is he start void vibe here? Maybe 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:24.320 there's some inmates are about to overthrow. In life, when 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:25.960 do you act like the cock of the walk? When 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.520 do you start swinging it around because you don't care 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.960 You've got nothing to lose when you're at Grons level 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:35.200 in life. Gronk has options now, he has post career options. 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:36.960 And I don't think it's about forcing a trade or 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:38.920 hoping for a trade. Yeah. I think it's Hey, I 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:40.800 can go to wrestling, or I can go to the movies. 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.320 I don't need football anymore. I mean he has he's 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:47.840 got great business acumen investing in the horse named after him. 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:52.360 Just days before the horse pulls out of that. Yeah. Uh. 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:57.720 Finally in the news, the NFL announced that a parrot 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:02.400 will deliver the bucks is third day draft picks from 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.760 a pirate ship, I should say the pirate ship that's 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.840 located Raymond James Stadium. Mark, if you can give me 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.880 a brief commentary, Remember when uh your boy Costas would 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:14.760 get up on his big climb up on top of 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:19.680 his big boy uh soapbox and his dissertations at halftime 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.639 of Sunday Night Football. Can you, because I feel some 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.560 of the it's get this third round. Let's have a 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.640 talking animal, you know, let's have a guy jumping off 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.480 an airplane. These are still young men that are achieving 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:36.719 their draft dreams, and we're turning this over to force uh, television, 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.000 I'll set you up there and hopefully you'll run with that. 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.719 I may have more to say on this story our 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.240 go get my Lunch segment, but what I would say, 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:52.119 what like at his highlighted, what annoys me highly is 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.840 that for us who covered the game, that that by 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.720 the time you get into mid Saturday, you are ready 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.480 to hang yourself from the ceiling of the newsroom because 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:05.440 the draft couldn't be any less headline worthy or name 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.200 worthy or anything. And you need to get that podcast 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.640 done and get home to other human beings you call 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:14.320 your family, and what they've done with this third day, 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:16.600 And I'm sure anyone inside the building listening to this 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:20.080 will not be pleased with my takeaway. No one's listening 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.720 is that they have said, let's take day three and 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:27.720 extend it by multiple hours because of the non cannery, 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:31.360 because we need to have last year A Baboon announced 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.760 an Indianapolis Cults draft pick. As if that helps anyone 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:38.960 who or if it's exceedingly entertaining to watch the raft, Well, Greg, 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:40.600 I understand that you're going to stick up for it 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:42.800 because it's NFL network, But I would say that in 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:46.720 terms of actual programming, it is an insulting watch for 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.159 anyone that comes there to actually watch football content. And 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:54.080 now it's listen. You've got our two announcing a pick. 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.359 You have Chewbac announcing to pick. I don't need that. 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:59.159 I don't need any of this script, but I like 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.200 it. It It feels like the apropriate. I don't need any 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.760 of this in order you. I'm with you. I'm with you. 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:08.239 None of us need any of it, but I'm I 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:10.000 do find it funny that people are like, oh, the 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:13.439 sanctity of the not the sanctity it is. It is. 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:17.000 Do not tack ninety minutes onto a day that is 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:23.080 already excessive. Are being made anyways? Is longer. It is 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.960 longer because they don't think is made. They stopped down. 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:28.400 They've got to go to camera eight out in some 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:30.879 rand continue to make the picks of they continue to 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:34.359 make it. They used to mention most of the picks. 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.919 Most people don't even get their names mentioned. They just said, oh, 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:38.679 let's catch up. By the time you get to the end, 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:41.320 they would wheel it along on a ticker tape on 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:44.960 the bottom. Greg, you mentioned sanctity and that's not something. 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:48.400 Get caught up. I saw your son Walker this weekend, 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:53.879 beautiful young boy. Imagine ten twelve years from now, fifteen 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:59.560 years from now, he's drafted fourth round, and you're sitting me, 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:04.240 getting the whole families together, and they have a hammerhead 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:08.400 shark typing out morse code of your son's name rather 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:12.880 than some like proud representative. Uh you know, let's say 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.879 you know, Wes Welker making the announcement for the Patriots. 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:17.919 You have a hammer head shark and they put a 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:20.200 little hammer on the top of his head and then 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.960 have him tap out morse code. How about w A. L. 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:28.200 How about the thousands of third day draft picks over 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:31.440 the last thirty years that haven't had any announcement. That's 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:33.919 the vast majority of them, and no one's cared at 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.080 all about You didn't answer the question, I would be 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:37.600 fine with It would be kind of funny. At least 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:39.919 you'd get a little pop. You know, most most of 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.280 those guys don't. They literally don't get announced. But that's 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.520 it's just a ticker thing at the botto, which, which 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.280 by the way, got us home at five PM. Here's 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:50.800 what I learned a long time ago about TV networks. 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:54.280 When your shows are no longer targeting me, as the audience. 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:57.760 I feel no guilt about leaving your ship, Like, why 0:20:57.760 --> 0:20:59.600 would I have to watch a show when the target 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:02.639 audience twelve year olds and one let, one fair and 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:06.280 one last point. Who's the most important single individual in 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:14.040 NFL Network's draft coverage? Mystery relevant Charlie Yuke, Mike MAYOCKT 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:18.359 Mike Mayock. That guy nearly walked off the set and 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:22.800 discussed and it wasn't manufactured with the talking baboon last year. 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:25.080 Now they're going to have parents and who knows what 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:27.880 else just to get a reaction out of Mayak. Let's 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:33.000 not completely It's didn't say that is a world war? 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:36.440 You know, that is what guaranteed that it was coming back. 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:38.960 Our reaction is what guaranteed it's coming back. Someone actually 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:42.560 cared about the fifth round of the draft for check 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:46.400 your network boxes here. Definitely it is a powder keg 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:50.000 agree with me. I'm just saying that the second that 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:52.520 Mayock have that reaction, that guaranteed it was coming back 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:54.760 because they just wanted to annoy him again. And now 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:57.320