Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandina, a production of
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Speaker 1: I'm Dean Blandino. We are back, and we are back
Speaker 1: in person social distance, of course. Travis is wearing his mask.
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Speaker 1: bit better than the zoom. It does sound amazing. You
Speaker 1: guys look or ain't both rock and beards? Yes, I
Speaker 1: put my hair for the occasion, and and brought in
Speaker 1: fresh flowers to see that. You got some nice gerber
Speaker 1: daisies here, and we got and we've got Week one
Speaker 1: of NFL football to talk about. And uh, what a
Speaker 1: week it was, wrapping up with two games Monday night
Speaker 1: and uh and my Titans winning a close one. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that a little later. Um, what did you
Speaker 1: guys from a from a fans perspective? What what were
Speaker 1: your takeaways from from Week one? NFL did it. Did
Speaker 1: it feel different than a regular week one? It did,
Speaker 1: because it kind of just snuck up on us without
Speaker 1: the preseason, with without having a couple of weeks of
Speaker 1: college football, or at least two weeks in front of
Speaker 1: the first NFL game, that that kind of just kind
Speaker 1: of stuck up on us. But as far as football win,
Speaker 1: it was. It was amazing to see football being played
Speaker 1: on Sundays again. I loved it. I thought Tom Brady
Speaker 1: was less than so taking a shot at Brady l right,
Speaker 1: I know. I just I wanted to see that game.
Speaker 1: I wanted to see him. Travis is going in on Brady,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to see I just wanted to see
Speaker 1: more on him. I think I think Bruce arians wanted
Speaker 1: to see more too. Nice every Boast game and on Monday,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, Yeah, saying he needs to play better.
Speaker 1: He was surprised he didn't play better. He said, well,
Speaker 1: b he's going to call you out. That's not That's
Speaker 1: not nothing new, I I thought. I actually was pleasantly
Speaker 1: surprised at the production and it wasn't as politically driven
Speaker 1: as I thought it was going to be. It seemed
Speaker 1: pretty normal with the exception of some of the masks
Speaker 1: that I thought it was done pretty well. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think for me the takeaway and we'll get into the
Speaker 1: officiating part of it, I have no fans didn't really,
Speaker 1: it didn't. It wasn't a big impact, like like the
Speaker 1: the artificial noise and the background noise I didn't have.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like, oh no, this feels so much different
Speaker 1: without the fans, without all the bells and whistles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And to me it didn't. It didn't feel any different either.
Speaker 1: It's like we we pay a little closer attention than
Speaker 1: if you're you're at home watching a baseball game like
Speaker 1: we had been doing for the last few months, and
Speaker 1: you're kind of always on your phone or looking at
Speaker 1: your computer doing something while the game's on, and if
Speaker 1: you're not paying attention to it just seems like a
Speaker 1: normal game with like the artificial fan noise. I think
Speaker 1: the question is if you were asleep, you were in
Speaker 1: a coma since and you woke up and it was
Speaker 1: football Sunday, would you have noticed the chief different? I
Speaker 1: think I think I think some of the when you
Speaker 1: looked and it was an empty stadium, I think that
Speaker 1: that definitely would I feel like they didn't. They did
Speaker 1: a pretty good job of not really showing the stance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think sometimes it's hard if you're showing a certain angle,
Speaker 1: if you're showing a certain replay, you're gonna get that
Speaker 1: background with the the empty stadium. But they it's not
Speaker 1: like they were highlighting obviously empty stadiums. And that was
Speaker 1: a directive. I know from a Fox Sports perspective, we
Speaker 1: we weren't going to come out and say, keep beating
Speaker 1: you over the head. Well, there's no fans. There's no fans,
Speaker 1: so it's it's about football. And I think from from
Speaker 1: a social justice standpoint, honestly, I think look after the anthems, UM,
Speaker 1: then it was pretty like it was interspersed and there
Speaker 1: were things that were obviously talked about, uh, commercials and things,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't um. You know, there's a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of people out there to say, oh, I'm not watching
Speaker 1: the NFL blah blah blah blah blah, and then don't
Speaker 1: watch the NFL. Right, and you know what was what
Speaker 1: was the overnight travis for Saints Bucks, which is was
Speaker 1: the highest in four years per week, one per week,
Speaker 1: one um, and you made a comment about that over
Speaker 1: text that like we look, week one, we always knew
Speaker 1: Week one was gonna be was gonna be huge capital
Speaker 1: you and because it's week one after a pandemic when
Speaker 1: we didn't think we were gonna have football for from
Speaker 1: for a minute there what the true test is going
Speaker 1: to because remember two thousands sixteen, you had you had,
Speaker 1: you had Colin Kaepernick, the whole kneeling thing, you had
Speaker 1: the election, and ratings were down right. This year we
Speaker 1: have certainly the Kaepernick thing um is still part of
Speaker 1: the conversation social justice the election. Are people going to
Speaker 1: you know, are people going to turn away from the
Speaker 1: NFL um in October November remains to be seen. There
Speaker 1: certainly are people that are very vocal, Like we talked about,
Speaker 1: there's this vocal minority that says, I don't go to
Speaker 1: watch football for for political statements things like that. But
Speaker 1: I think the the majority of NFL fans are gonna
Speaker 1: watch and but it will be I'm I'm very intrigued
Speaker 1: about what the ratings are going to be in in
Speaker 1: October November. For sure from an officiating standpoint, and we'll
Speaker 1: get into the cause of the week. But here's here's
Speaker 1: basically what happened in week one. When you look at
Speaker 1: the foul numbers and everybody says, okay, let him play great,
Speaker 1: not a lot of fouls, let them play you know,
Speaker 1: the game flows better, and and I think that's there's
Speaker 1: something to be said for that. But when you look
Speaker 1: at week one and we average twelve and a half
Speaker 1: penalties per game um in week one, compare that to
Speaker 1: nineteen point three per game in two thousand nineteen, and
Speaker 1: Travis is really just distracting me tremendously right now. We're
Speaker 1: back in person. Now I gotta see everything he does.
Speaker 1: He's closing windows. So I'm gonna I'm gonna start over.
Speaker 1: But okay, penalties down twelve and a half per game
Speaker 1: in week one compared to nineteen point three last year.
Speaker 1: Nineteen point three is is a high number. Offensive was crazy.
Speaker 1: So but when you look at the average, the average
Speaker 1: has been right around sixteen per game, and when you're
Speaker 1: talking about twelve and a half, that is a significant drop.
Speaker 1: It's only one week, it's a small sample size, but
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage in fractions of those twelve and a
Speaker 1: half pousd per game thirty two percent, we're line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage and frash, which is your false start, you're off sides,
Speaker 1: the formation stuff that you can't ignore. Thirty two percent
Speaker 1: is is where the number normally is, you know, somewhere
Speaker 1: between thirty two percent historically. So if that number is
Speaker 1: the same, that means on the major fouls like holding,
Speaker 1: past interference, unnecessary roughness, those fouls were not called nowhere
Speaker 1: near the same rate. And I think that's twofold. I
Speaker 1: think the game officials were given the directive clear and obvious,
Speaker 1: don't make a lot of don't don't. Don't call a
Speaker 1: lot of fouls we didn't have preseason. But what concerns
Speaker 1: me the most is offensive holding. When you look at
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen week one, we had eighty two offensive
Speaker 1: holes in two thousand eighteen sixty four and two thousand
Speaker 1: seventeen fifty eight in two thousand, sixteen fifty five. How
Speaker 1: many holding calls do you think we had in week one?
Speaker 1: After I just rattled off those numbers forty about eighteen
Speaker 1: eighteen twelve on offensive lineman. So when you're talking about
Speaker 1: you think offensive lineman got that better in in in
Speaker 1: the off season, Well they had all that time, YEA
Speaker 1: in a zoom. Off season, they got better at hand
Speaker 1: placement and feet and everything else. So what concerns me
Speaker 1: about that? And it is one week, but when you
Speaker 1: start talking about eighteen offensive holds, twelve on offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: sixteen on on scrimmage plays, um, what that means is
Speaker 1: every team in the league is now going to have
Speaker 1: meetings with their offensive line and they say we're gonna
Speaker 1: hold the ship out of the defense, and that will
Speaker 1: the close line play will become an absolute war that
Speaker 1: will break down, Defenders will get will get frustrated. Then
Speaker 1: you get the risk of of of altercations other things.
Speaker 1: So that is a number to just watch out for.
Speaker 1: I remember in the a F and the Alliance of
Speaker 1: American Football, we wanted to promote offense, so we said
Speaker 1: we weren't gonna call holding unless it was obvious. The takedowns,
Speaker 1: the bear hugs. By week three we said, no, we
Speaker 1: gotta call this is getting ridiculous. Defenders are getting tackled.
Speaker 1: We have to call um these holes because it leads
Speaker 1: to other things. And that's my my biggest takeaway from
Speaker 1: week one in terms of the officiating is you can't
Speaker 1: when when historic numbers are fouls per game sixteen and
Speaker 1: you you dropped to twelve and a half. If we
Speaker 1: stayed twelve and a half, I guarantee teams around the
Speaker 1: league are going to to start to send in questions
Speaker 1: about no calls. And I lived this in ten when
Speaker 1: I took over UM in officiating. The fouls were down
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, and the committee got together
Speaker 1: and said, hey, we're this game is getting out of control.
Speaker 1: We need to rein this back in. So we just
Speaker 1: I would be mindful of that. Other other numbers, points
Speaker 1: per game UM up forty nine. That's a very healthy
Speaker 1: number UM. The plays per game really good. A hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty eight plays per game. That's great. Margin of
Speaker 1: victory was less than ten oh, that's the spread UM
Speaker 1: nine point five. Great, Passing yards per game was down
Speaker 1: compared to last year. Passing yards per game, rushing yards
Speaker 1: way up. UM two and thirty eight per game compared
Speaker 1: to two hundred sixteen replay. Remember we took away past
Speaker 1: an afferance, so replay was down twenty reviews compared to
Speaker 1: twenty seven last year. And overall game time was right
Speaker 1: around three three oh four forty five UM, which is
Speaker 1: down from last year. In the NFL, likes that number.
Speaker 1: They want the game to be a little bit shorter. Um.
Speaker 1: So that's from a general perspective, from from a from
Speaker 1: a specific call perspective. The call of the week was
Speaker 1: was was Travis's Cowboys right? And and this was the
Speaker 1: Sunday night game. You guys texted me immediately, this is
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup third and ten, um, Cowboys down by three.
Speaker 1: Dac throws a deep pass that would have was caught
Speaker 1: by Gallup would have put the Cowboys in field goal range,
Speaker 1: potential hop oportunity to take the lead. And and we
Speaker 1: had two flags on the play from the deep wing
Speaker 1: official and the back judge offensive past inferience push off.
Speaker 1: What did you guys think of the call? As soon
Speaker 1: as I saw it, I thought it was pasting inferenced
Speaker 1: by the by rule, like he extended the arm and
Speaker 1: gained a step on on Ramsey. And so I got
Speaker 1: text instantly from like five different people that you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's a Cowboys fan, friends or or people who
Speaker 1: hate the Cowboys, which they're usually the ones that chime
Speaker 1: in more. But they were all saying, oh, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: got hose. I was like, well, actually I thought the
Speaker 1: call was was the right call. I don't like it
Speaker 1: because I'm a Cowboys fan, but I thought it was
Speaker 1: the right call. I thought it was a right call
Speaker 1: to and I'm a Rams fan, so I liked it.
Speaker 1: You liked it double double double, like double, like you
Speaker 1: liked your own text, you liked your own life, which
Speaker 1: is illegal. Look, I get it. It's it's obviously a
Speaker 1: big call. Um, it's a critical juncture of the game.
Speaker 1: It's the Cowboys on Sunday night, right, so so it's
Speaker 1: gonna have that added element. Cowboy fan have been known,
Speaker 1: they are very gracious in defeat, and they definitely do
Speaker 1: not bring up ship from the past ever. What what
Speaker 1: I didn't like about it is Collinsworth and al Michaels
Speaker 1: are usually against the Cowboys always when they're calling things.
Speaker 1: But they're like, oh, that was a bad call, that
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been. But I think if it wouldn't have
Speaker 1: gotten called, they would have been even worse, saying oh,
Speaker 1: I can't believe they missed that call. I think it
Speaker 1: would work, and I think people just react to what
Speaker 1: they say on the air. There's no question if if
Speaker 1: Collinsworth and and Michael's and even Terry McAuley who's the
Speaker 1: rules analyst. If they had come out and said they
Speaker 1: agreed with the call, I think that's going to influence
Speaker 1: people without question. That's the power that that the broadcasters
Speaker 1: have um and we understand that. But if we look
Speaker 1: at it, let's let's break it down. Gallop and Ramsey
Speaker 1: are running, They're running stride for stride, and people are saying, well,
Speaker 1: Ramsey hooked Gallop's arm right and and and so Gallop
Speaker 1: couldn't get his arm free. If you watch the play,
Speaker 1: a Gallop was perfectly fine where his hand was. Gallop
Speaker 1: was always the receivers taught at that list if you
Speaker 1: can if you can create a little bit of space,
Speaker 1: you want to do it legally. But if you can
Speaker 1: create a little bit of space, there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: that hand fighting. Ramsey has has his arm inside of
Speaker 1: Gallop's arm, but Gallop it's not like Gallup is trying
Speaker 1: to pull his arm free. He's perfectly content with his
Speaker 1: arm in hand there. And then at the last second
Speaker 1: you can see it's It's interesting because it's not with
Speaker 1: the palm of the hand, it's almost the back of
Speaker 1: the hand that he pushes into Ramsey's body. And he
Speaker 1: clearly creates space. Ramsey embellishes without question, but he definitely
Speaker 1: feels the contact. It takes a step away from him,
Speaker 1: it creates separation. And uh, you know, and I thought
Speaker 1: it was a foul. It was. It wasn't much different.
Speaker 1: You remember the Super Bowl kiddo got called for for
Speaker 1: near the end of the first half for an offensive
Speaker 1: past inference and the and the Niners were and would
Speaker 1: have put the Niners in field board range. Um that
Speaker 1: was somewhat similar. And uh and again Pool report, Tony Crenny,
Speaker 1: the referee, did talk to Edward or after the game.
Speaker 1: What was what was his his comment? What was his
Speaker 1: statement said, I can tell you it was clear and
Speaker 1: obvious on the field of the hand into the opposing player,
Speaker 1: a full arm extension that created separation. In all situations
Speaker 1: that would be called. We're not going to allow that
Speaker 1: at any time of the game. So and that now
Speaker 1: Tony Creny is the referee, it's not his call he's
Speaker 1: getting he's getting information from the covering officials, which would
Speaker 1: have been the the side judge, field judge or the
Speaker 1: back and and the back judge. And uh, and so
Speaker 1: they felt it was clear and obvious. Remember that language
Speaker 1: clear and obvious, because that's what the officials are being
Speaker 1: taught right now, to to call clear and obvious foul.
Speaker 1: So if they don't feel it's clear and obvious, they're
Speaker 1: not going to call it. They obviously felt it was
Speaker 1: it raised to that level, and uh, and obviously all
Speaker 1: the fallout and everybody's up in arms about because again,
Speaker 1: just like and I hate to bring it up, but
Speaker 1: just like the Deaz play, because we reverse the des play,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys didn't win the Super Bowl. It's that simple.
Speaker 1: Do you think this is going to be a Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: So if the Cowboys, if the Cowboys the playoffs by
Speaker 1: a game, this call will be We ask a question,
Speaker 1: do you think, because Ramsey is now the highest paid
Speaker 1: cornerback in the league, do you think he gets any
Speaker 1: preferential treatment whatsoever? Absolutely not. The officials have no. They
Speaker 1: did for the officials. He's not come on in that moment.
Speaker 1: In that moment, the officials running full speed trying to
Speaker 1: get in position watching is it past inference? Is it
Speaker 1: on the offense? Is it on the defense? Is it
Speaker 1: a catch? The last thing they're thinking about is Ramsey's
Speaker 1: hundred and whatever million dollar deal. No, I understand that.
Speaker 1: But when you think about that, Okay, if he's supposed
Speaker 1: to be allegedly the best cornerback in the league, he's
Speaker 1: making the most money. So do you think the best
Speaker 1: cornerback in league gets a little bit more? Now? Now,
Speaker 1: it's like, that's the whole argument about Tom Brady gets
Speaker 1: gets to you know, gets the calls, and and the rookie,
Speaker 1: you know, Josh Allen isn't gonna get isn't gonna get
Speaker 1: the call. That's not the case. The officials are evaluated.
Speaker 1: There is no profession on the planet um that is
Speaker 1: that is scrutinized more than than professional officials. I don't
Speaker 1: think there is one. From a from an internal perspective
Speaker 1: and obviously from external from media, from coaches, players, fans,
Speaker 1: it is. It is an unbelievable evaluation process that they
Speaker 1: go through, and and for them to think that they
Speaker 1: can get away with giving Jalen Ramsey the benefit of
Speaker 1: the doubt when they're gonna get great and that great
Speaker 1: is going to impact their postseason assignment and whether they
Speaker 1: get kept on at the league. No way. I think
Speaker 1: the only job that's hated more for doing your job
Speaker 1: is the parking meter who writes the parking tickets because
Speaker 1: the rest do their job, they make the calls. People
Speaker 1: hate them when they go against their team. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: people ticket, Like just stop eight thousand people watching you,
Speaker 1: Like you could just skip skip the car, Like skip
Speaker 1: the blue range they've got, They've got to skip the
Speaker 1: red teslat Yeah, can you just move on skip them?
Speaker 1: You're not supposed to be giving electric vehicles tickets anyway.
Speaker 1: We're saving the planet one car at a time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And and it's a good back in person. We're talking
Speaker 1: about the Tesla. Then you compared you compared to A J. Green? Right?
Speaker 1: A J. Green had another big O p I call
Speaker 1: at the end of that game that took back what
Speaker 1: most likely would have been the game when he touched
Speaker 1: down the Chargers and Bengals game went down to the wire.
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is first real two minute um exposure in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and UH drives him down a parent touchdown
Speaker 1: called back on a on an offensive past appearance. And
Speaker 1: I think this one was more obvious, but I think
Speaker 1: from a just a setup it was different. We're Gallop
Speaker 1: and Ramsey are both running down field in the same direction.
Speaker 1: This one Green, he's the defender, is facing him Green
Speaker 1: is facing trying to turn back for the ball, and
Speaker 1: he clearly pushes off create space and comes back and
Speaker 1: uh and makes the makes the catch, and that was
Speaker 1: called back. And I thought that was a good call too.
Speaker 1: And these are offensive past inferences. Is an interesting call
Speaker 1: because it may not look like a lot, but it
Speaker 1: has a significant impact when you're running full speed. Um,
Speaker 1: it doesn't take much to kind of knock you off
Speaker 1: balance or to create that little space, that little separation
Speaker 1: when you're talking about the best athletes in the world.
Speaker 1: And uh, and so just that that one half step
Speaker 1: it took away from Jalen Ramsey is going to make
Speaker 1: a whole lot of difference. Um. But look, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: were the benefit of of up until that O p
Speaker 1: I the BA. The Cowboys were the benefit of of
Speaker 1: the biggest call or non call in the game up
Speaker 1: until that point with Aldon Smith, who had a great game. UM,
Speaker 1: great story, come back, you know, after being out of
Speaker 1: the league, trained with our our our colleague and buddy
Speaker 1: Jay Glazer at Unbreakable Jim, You're welcome. Jay named up
Speaker 1: and um the you know hit to the head of
Speaker 1: golf on an interception that led to three point a
Speaker 1: field goal for the Cowboys that was missed, and I
Speaker 1: thought that was one that uh, you know would have
Speaker 1: been the story of the game at the Cowboys come
Speaker 1: back to win. That that certainly was a big, big deal. Um.
Speaker 1: The other play that got people riled up is the
Speaker 1: Jamie Collins ejection. And then this was stupid. It was
Speaker 1: just dumb Detroit head of rough my people, they're my people,
Speaker 1: they are Detroit is my people. And and did they
Speaker 1: call you about this one? They want to get you
Speaker 1: on the show? Yeah, the Lines podcast guys, UM did
Speaker 1: contact me and I want to reach out to my people,
Speaker 1: my my my Verners people. UM in Detroit Motown had
Speaker 1: a rough day when Mitchell Trobiskie is basically Brett Farve
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, you have a big lead, You're
Speaker 1: going in for the victory, and then Robiskie turns into
Speaker 1: you know, Bart Star in the fourth quarter. And then
Speaker 1: you get the the Jamie Collins ejection earlier, where it's
Speaker 1: obvious that Collins is not contacting the official in a
Speaker 1: malicious way, but he was like he was trying to
Speaker 1: show that that it was the running back. UM was
Speaker 1: that Andrews was was was lowering his head and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, dropping his helmet and he was trying to
Speaker 1: show that to the referee and he ended up making
Speaker 1: contact with the referee. It just didn't look great like
Speaker 1: it didn't. It looked like, I don't know, it looked
Speaker 1: like if you were trying to draw an offensive foul
Speaker 1: in basketball and trying to flop a little bit. It
Speaker 1: looked a little like that. But the bottom line is,
Speaker 1: and the players know this, you can't contact the game official.
Speaker 1: And I don't think the referee in that situation had
Speaker 1: any option other than to eject him. As as as
Speaker 1: bad as if it may have looked, I think Jamie
Speaker 1: Collins just has to be a little bit smarter and
Speaker 1: and we're in twenty twenties for social distancing should be
Speaker 1: first and foremost. Don't drop your head that close to
Speaker 1: the referee where you could potentially make contact. So I
Speaker 1: was okay with the ejection, although social media was not happy.
Speaker 1: But it looked like he caught the guy, like the referee,
Speaker 1: off off guard because he was kind of looking off
Speaker 1: to his left and then he put his head down.
Speaker 1: I don't think he would have expected that a player
Speaker 1: is gonna be coming at him with his head, so
Speaker 1: then he kind of at the last second season out
Speaker 1: of the corner's eye and kind of flinch his back
Speaker 1: a little bit. So it looks a little bit worse
Speaker 1: than it probably was. Had he been engaging and actually
Speaker 1: listening to what Jamie Collins was telling him, not that
Speaker 1: it would have made a difference. He probably would have
Speaker 1: been able to move himself. And maybe there's no contract.
Speaker 1: I think it did make that. I think it did
Speaker 1: catch him by surprise because you could just see the
Speaker 1: way he reacted because he didn't. I think if had
Speaker 1: he had and he been, you know, cognizant of what
Speaker 1: was coming, I think I think it would have been
Speaker 1: a much different result. But it was just alliance. How
Speaker 1: do you blow that lead? Oh God, they've they've made
Speaker 1: a habit of it. Well, how about the guy dropping
Speaker 1: the past in the end zone for the game winner?
Speaker 1: Since to be I like, I don't even remember when
Speaker 1: they weren't doing this, since the Calvin Johnson call, right
Speaker 1: like ever since then, it's like I kind of been
Speaker 1: watching a little closer, and he just seemed to find
Speaker 1: ways to lose games in the world, that's possible. The
Speaker 1: Lions joke this guy being around officials, especially when I
Speaker 1: first started, and I was around old officials and they
Speaker 1: would tell these corny jokes. And the Lions joke was that,
Speaker 1: you know, they had this season ticket the year they
Speaker 1: went oh in sixteen, and it was like week twelve
Speaker 1: in the season ticket holder was like, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to the game. So he just left the
Speaker 1: two tickets on the windshield of his car with a note, Hey,
Speaker 1: anybody wants to go to the game, And when he
Speaker 1: came back, there were six tickets than by thank you.
Speaker 1: Because but on that note, let's let's take a break.
Speaker 1: We come back. Well, we'll talk a little college football,
Speaker 1: We'll talk survivor pool and uh in a little baseball
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Speaker 1: We have a survivor pool in the studio with all
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Speaker 1: especially you, Nelson. Nelson never sells. Good luck Nelson. How
Speaker 1: did your pick through this week? Nelson? Indianapolis great pick.
Speaker 1: So now, speaking in Indianapolis, there's two pools survivor pools.
Speaker 1: There's the studio pool and then Joe has a separate pool,
Speaker 1: but they're both managed on the same website. So I
Speaker 1: had to put in my pick for the studio pool.
Speaker 1: And I logged into the website to put in my
Speaker 1: pick for the studio pool, and I put in the
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Speaker 1: the kind of the firesale, the Colts, you know, with
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, blah blah blah. That was gonna be the pick, right,
Speaker 1: So what happens to Colts lose? I think I'm out
Speaker 1: of the studio pool. We think that a lot less.
Speaker 1: I put the pick in for the other pool, Joe's
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Speaker 1: the studio pool, and I picked the Titans on Monday night.
Speaker 1: Who Stephen Guskowski wanted to single hand, single footedly keep
Speaker 1: me out of the pool after week one, but thankfully
Speaker 1: he made that kick at the end, so I live
Speaker 1: another day in the pool. That was the intent though
Speaker 1: that what do you think You can't officiate intent? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't officiate intent. And my intent was
Speaker 1: to pick the colts in the studio pool. But I
Speaker 1: picked the colts in the other pool. So I'm out
Speaker 1: of the other pool, but I'm still in this. I
Speaker 1: love it because the other pools five times the price
Speaker 1: of the studio pool. But you're so excited that you're
Speaker 1: still in our pool at the studio because because yeah,
Speaker 1: the end backstory. There's been a little bit of controversies
Speaker 1: because once I lose, I basically basically try to buy
Speaker 1: other people's picks. And Nelson, who I referenced earlier, is like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's some reason, he's the moral compass, and
Speaker 1: he won't he can't be bought to the point where
Speaker 1: his name is now Nelson never sells Now he's out,
Speaker 1: so good luck now. But everybody everybody has a price. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've got a price, call me. Everybody has a price.
Speaker 1: So when I do go out, I will buy. I
Speaker 1: will buy somebody's back, so that if you never go out,
Speaker 1: you could win. That's great. If I win, then that's great. Um.
Speaker 1: So that's that's the pool college football. You know, it
Speaker 1: was interesting because it was our first week in the
Speaker 1: studio for college football. But it's just college football just
Speaker 1: feels weird right now, Like it feels weird because it's
Speaker 1: just like normally we'd have everybody would be playing. They
Speaker 1: would have SEC and and and Big ten and Pac
Speaker 1: twelve and A C C and everybody. But now it's
Speaker 1: like kind of like piecemeal where we had we had
Speaker 1: Big twelve playing some A C C and a lot
Speaker 1: of just my favorite conference with you all know sun Belt,
Speaker 1: which we talked about months ago that this was gonna
Speaker 1: be the sun Belt coming out party, was gonna be
Speaker 1: the sun Belt on My party. And what happened three
Speaker 1: and oh against the Big twelve concluding with our coastal
Speaker 1: Carolina Shante Clears, Okay, what is this, Shante clear It's
Speaker 1: a proud rooster. It's a fierce Roosters rooster. Travis a
Speaker 1: fierce rooster. And they went into Kansas and in front
Speaker 1: of that big crowd and they put the put the
Speaker 1: smack down. Which is crazy because there were so many
Speaker 1: people at the k State game. There were so many students.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. It seemed like there are also a
Speaker 1: lot of people. I thought there was a lot of
Speaker 1: people at the Chiefs game. Yeah, they had seventeen thousand.
Speaker 1: And it's so, But Kansas City Chiefs are in Missouri,
Speaker 1: so that's that, and Kansas is in Kansas, so two
Speaker 1: different states. But k State is also in Kansas Manhattan,
Speaker 1: Kansas Manhattan, and so I don't understand why case they
Speaker 1: can have fans and Kansas can't, Like, I don't get that.
Speaker 1: What seems like it's nobody get anything right now, an
Speaker 1: say you can do stuff, and then then maybe the
Speaker 1: school can chime in and say we're not going to
Speaker 1: have people. I guess. So there's just there's no rules
Speaker 1: that are justly across the board on this. So that's
Speaker 1: where that's where we stand. With speaking of you know,
Speaker 1: this week, I think we could have some some clarity
Speaker 1: on the Big Ten. I mean the Big Ten met
Speaker 1: on Sunday, UM. I think they were meeting again during
Speaker 1: the week to UH to talk about a return to play,
Speaker 1: which could take place UH as early as October. And
Speaker 1: and then I read another article that the PAC twelve
Speaker 1: is thinking about coming back. So imagine a Pact twelve,
Speaker 1: Big Ten coming back playing a conference only schedule finishing
Speaker 1: with the championship game and then having the Pack twelve
Speaker 1: Big Ten champions playing the Rose Bowl. That would be
Speaker 1: pretty cool. So are they not going to be in
Speaker 1: the playoffs that? I don't know. I don't know how
Speaker 1: that works, Like, I don't know if if if they would,
Speaker 1: I would imagine they would have to start soon. I
Speaker 1: don't think you could start playing in in late October
Speaker 1: and be eligible for the CFP if you're gonna play
Speaker 1: on time. But who knows. I think we're just making
Speaker 1: making it up. Right now. Everything is day to day,
Speaker 1: every everywhere you go, it's just making stuff up. You're
Speaker 1: not allowed to get COVID if you're sitting down unless
Speaker 1: there's seven people with you, then you can get it.
Speaker 1: Then you can get it. If you have six, you're good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you know, I agree, it's both. Speaking of that masks,
Speaker 1: NFL sent out a memo to the coaches after Sunday
Speaker 1: to all clubs that there will be discipline if you
Speaker 1: do not wear your masks. Obviously, UM kind of pointed
Speaker 1: more at the head coaches because those are the coaches
Speaker 1: that are going to be on camera more. But it
Speaker 1: was interesting to see the variation who who are your
Speaker 1: who are your favorite masked characters of the weekend? I
Speaker 1: know obviously Andy reads, Andy got We love Andy in in.
Speaker 1: It was amazing that, you know, he had the shield
Speaker 1: and it just felt like he was like the defrost
Speaker 1: buttons not working, like give or not when you're in
Speaker 1: the car and it's like the defrost button just won't
Speaker 1: work and you just wait till it gets cold. And
Speaker 1: he's wearing and so and so. That was hilarious. There
Speaker 1: were a couple of I think Sunday Night Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: wore at the entire game. Like McCarthy didn't take it off.
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh has been even on even on Hard knock.
Speaker 1: Sean is not a big mask guy. Like he's he's
Speaker 1: out there. You know it's it's because he's good looking.
Speaker 1: You don't want to for personal experience. You don't want
Speaker 1: to put a mask on when you're when you're a
Speaker 1: handsome dude. It ruins everything. It does. You can't the
Speaker 1: mask certainly does. It does kind of give you, you know,
Speaker 1: less of a chance to to kind of peacock Um
Speaker 1: the Steeler's offensive coordinator. Um, who was that Randy Fitchner?
Speaker 1: He was amazing Monday night. He had the full like
Speaker 1: he looked. He was like a babushka. He had like
Speaker 1: my my, my old Italian like great aunts and grandmother
Speaker 1: and every like when they would wear like didn't car
Speaker 1: didn't cam Newton wear that same thing in a postgame
Speaker 1: press conference. But I was like my grandma used to
Speaker 1: wear My nona used to wear the kerchief like around
Speaker 1: like completely covered up. He like all you saw was
Speaker 1: like the slits of his eyes, which was which I
Speaker 1: thought was hilarious. What's interesting about the mask though, is
Speaker 1: remember now these play callers, they don't have to put
Speaker 1: the call sheet over their mouth to cover to cover
Speaker 1: their their lips, so they're not getting read. My brother,
Speaker 1: my brother always used to get frustrated because he didn't
Speaker 1: know and it was it was what's his face? Macadoo
Speaker 1: Ben macadoo when he was with the Giants, and he
Speaker 1: always used to yell. He be like, why is McAdoo
Speaker 1: with his f and kids menu? That's all he's doing.
Speaker 1: He's not coaching. He's just looking at his kids menu
Speaker 1: because they're laminated and he has in front of his face. Um,
Speaker 1: but now you don't need to do that because you
Speaker 1: have in the mask. I think it was McAdoo, who
Speaker 1: out of habit was covering his face and he had
Speaker 1: his mask ondo still coaching someone. Which game were we on,
Speaker 1: or maybe it was I'm thinking it was Shermer. I
Speaker 1: remember one of the games that we were on on
Speaker 1: Sunday in the studio. The it was either offensive, offensive
Speaker 1: or defensive coordinator. He had the mask on, but he
Speaker 1: just had it. People like that whole time, Like they
Speaker 1: they're walking out and about and they've got the mask
Speaker 1: around their neck, like, don't even don't even pretend, don't pretend.
Speaker 1: Just go just that I'm not wearing the mask. Don't
Speaker 1: worry about your neck. Like it's not COVID doesn't it
Speaker 1: doesn't go through Radham's apple, like stop like putting on.
Speaker 1: McAdoo is the quarterbacks coach with the Jaguars. But I
Speaker 1: was thinking he really, yeah, I was thinking of I
Speaker 1: was thinking of Pat Shermer. He had the mask on
Speaker 1: and he was still covering his face. He's still just
Speaker 1: the muscle memory he's just used to um So Baseball
Speaker 1: made an announcement bull format Travis, where are we gonna
Speaker 1: where are we gonna be watching postseason baseball? But Al
Speaker 1: is going to be playing in San Diego in l A.
Speaker 1: Which is cool, and then yeah, cool because we can
Speaker 1: go because we can't go, but at least, at least
Speaker 1: when my twins are playing, I'll be I'll be closer
Speaker 1: to them when there he goes into the Eggies, you know,
Speaker 1: it'll be proximity loss. And you know what's speaking of there,
Speaker 1: I have a bone to pick with you. I feel
Speaker 1: like we could have You could have pulled some strings
Speaker 1: that got us into that Rounds game. Yeah, Joe, Like,
Speaker 1: so I had a friend post something on Instagram. He
Speaker 1: was there at the game. I'm like, this guy's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, he was laying out watching the game. No,
Speaker 1: he had to be there in a working capacity. They're
Speaker 1: not just letting Joe Schmo like hang out and yeah,
Speaker 1: I know what I wanna say. So, like two hours
Speaker 1: before kickoff, he's like, Hey, why can't we just go
Speaker 1: over to the new stadium because there's no because it's
Speaker 1: the pandemic and they're not gonna let us in. You
Speaker 1: gotta throw around your weight a little bit more. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you get the credential, Like I get all the emails
Speaker 1: from the teams, the credentials go out. It's like a
Speaker 1: complete you only that you can only let in so
Speaker 1: many people, Like you don't think they're gonna let this
Speaker 1: guy in. Don't let him in, but not the bodyguard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna continue, Travis World. So then
Speaker 1: the the NL is gonna play in Houston, so your
Speaker 1: Dodgers could go working on getting back to the series
Speaker 1: and win those games in Houston, and then then the
Speaker 1: other than the other games for the NL will be
Speaker 1: in Arlington at the New Globe Life and that's where
Speaker 1: the World Series will be and for the first time
Speaker 1: since all the games, the entire World Series will be
Speaker 1: in one one look so interesting. And obviously the team
Speaker 1: with the better record will have the home field, which
Speaker 1: they'll bell bat last. But other than that, it's like
Speaker 1: it's like a neutral site game, Like it's like the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, right, you go into a stage and no
Speaker 1: fans though, So yeah, I think, um, Baseball I think
Speaker 1: has after that initial scare when we thought like the
Speaker 1: world was to see the sky was falling with the Marlins,
Speaker 1: I think baseball has pretty much figured it out. Knock
Speaker 1: on wood. Um with with COVID football, I haven't heard anything, right,
Speaker 1: we've played a full week. We were traveling about Kansas
Speaker 1: City and these guys are getting tested every day. So
Speaker 1: knock on wood. People are doing the right thing. And
Speaker 1: uh and we're gonna, you know, we're gonna see another
Speaker 1: week of football at least, and we'll be we'll be
Speaker 1: in the studio for we got big new kickoff Saturday. Baby.
Speaker 1: You said, Houston O U, S T O N and Baylor.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been a Waco? No, I haven't. I've
Speaker 1: been a Waco. I was at I was at the
Speaker 1: game Baylor versus Texas when R G three Texas A
Speaker 1: and M Baylor Texas A and M r G three
Speaker 1: through like five touchdowns and it was like his coming
Speaker 1: out party. You have the weirdest flexes and you also
Speaker 1: have the most Like your memory is amazing, and we'll
Speaker 1: give you that. I remember because the game into the
Speaker 1: game was insane and it was like sixty two and
Speaker 1: I missed my flight and I had to spend the
Speaker 1: night at the the Houston Airport Marriott. How was it?
Speaker 1: It was fine, It was fine. Mariots are fine. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, let's go to break, we come back. Um,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about my birthday and how I almost
Speaker 1: spend my birthday in jail. Next on good calls. M
Speaker 1: all right, we're back on good calls. And um, it
Speaker 1: was it was call it kiss met and call it luck,
Speaker 1: call it whatever you want to call it. But my
Speaker 1: birthday happened to fall on opening Sunday of the NFL.
Speaker 1: Uh season. Serendipity, serendipity. It was very serendipitous. Um, and
Speaker 1: so I've got a lot of birthday wishes. It's funny
Speaker 1: because Twitter, it was, was a place full of love
Speaker 1: and wonder on Sunday for a little bit there when
Speaker 1: people found out it was my birthday because Kevin Burkhard
Speaker 1: mentioned it on the air and uh, and people were
Speaker 1: there was some love and then and then Sunday night
Speaker 1: the OPI against Dallas, and then there was a lot
Speaker 1: of heat and uh but how many year and refs
Speaker 1: cost us? This always my refs. Then I got blamed
Speaker 1: some guys, some guy, not all, not all, some guy
Speaker 1: blame me, called me an all around douche bag for
Speaker 1: the Calvin Johnson play in two thousand ten. Well, news flash,
Speaker 1: I wasn't with the NFL. I was actually at a
Speaker 1: bar with Joe's brother during that game. It was my
Speaker 1: first it was my first football season outside the NFL.
Speaker 1: I left and I was living out here in California,
Speaker 1: and it was my first experience with breakfast. NFL Like
Speaker 1: the game starting at ten am, and we went and
Speaker 1: had like breakfast, you know, buffet, and we're watching and
Speaker 1: Jared's Jars a Lions fan. Yeah, Jared's Allions fans were
Speaker 1: watching that game in the bar and everybody's looking at me, like,
Speaker 1: what's the call? What's the call? And I was like,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna like you like you said, it's gonna
Speaker 1: hit the fans, Gonna hit the fans those days. And
Speaker 1: I mean, that's actually one thing about working in the
Speaker 1: Cube I really do miss is those those bottomless mimosa
Speaker 1: brunch mornings at the pier. Fifteen years in California, I've
Speaker 1: never had one of those, but how much fun even
Speaker 1: last year, and I think we can you know, obviously
Speaker 1: it's it's the pandemic, so hopefully we'll be able to
Speaker 1: experience this in future years. But last year, and we
Speaker 1: had a couple of saturdays off, going down and watch
Speaker 1: the college football was so much fun. And then we
Speaker 1: watched the CFP because we don't have those games. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we watched the two CFP semifinal games out and it
Speaker 1: was a blast. We had such a good time. It
Speaker 1: was funny. But every call the whole bar was giving
Speaker 1: in and IM PROMPTU rouse review in the bar. Hilarious.
Speaker 1: But my birthday almost started off. UM. Maybe I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have went to jail, but maybe it would have been
Speaker 1: it would have been interesting. I went to UM right
Speaker 1: aid before the studio and I went to pick up
Speaker 1: penut Eminem's for everybody, thank you, welcome, and I went
Speaker 1: to pick up UM magic tape. I grabbed some peanut
Speaker 1: Eminem's and magic tape Scotch tape, and for some reason,
Speaker 1: I wasn't even thinking about it, but I was carrying
Speaker 1: the Eminem's. I grabbed the tape and put the tape
Speaker 1: in my back pocket. Go to the counter, go to
Speaker 1: the checkout, give the girl the Eminem's and she's checking
Speaker 1: me out. I'm going where the hell's scotch tape? Like
Speaker 1: where is it looking? And I'm like, oh, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and this and I pulled it out of my pocket
Speaker 1: in her hand. She's like looking at me like what,
Speaker 1: like what are you doing? So and Joe just you know, Joe,
Speaker 1: being the the career shoplifter that he is, said that
Speaker 1: if I had walked out, that wouldn't have beat right,
Speaker 1: that the Scotch tape wouldn't have been don't think they
Speaker 1: have a sensor on the They don't have a sensor
Speaker 1: on the Scotch tape, so I can so there could
Speaker 1: have been surveillance watching you exactly. So that would have
Speaker 1: been Ian Blendino. Why this mug shot like you'd have
Speaker 1: the mug shot would be all over right, the Scotch
Speaker 1: tape mug shot. We would have scotch taped that mug
Speaker 1: shot up in we could use the actual I would
Speaker 1: have asked, can I keep that evidence for you know,
Speaker 1: once we're done with the trial of the century. But
Speaker 1: that was on my birthday. Started problem was exactly, but
Speaker 1: it actually started the night before. We were in the
Speaker 1: studio Saturday night, and I got a really thoughtful and
Speaker 1: amazing birthday gift from you guys. It was a cameo
Speaker 1: from my guy Weston Bouche, who is my who's my
Speaker 1: man consultant? Um and who else? Grooming tips and other things.
Speaker 1: And I got a call about we've talked about his Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I got a cameo from Weston, and then Weston
Speaker 1: hit me up on Instagram and followed me. Um, I
Speaker 1: did accept the follow up requests, and I'll probably shoot
Speaker 1: him a d M and thank him for the cameo,
Speaker 1: and um, you know I have M Have you have you?
Speaker 1: Because he when I sent the cameo request, I told
Speaker 1: him and we've talked about you on the podcast, so
Speaker 1: he sent me. Um, he sent me like, hey, I'd
Speaker 1: love to listen, you know, send me the episode. So
Speaker 1: I sent him the episode yesterday. Actually, oh nice. Maybe
Speaker 1: we can get him to come on. And I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine that at some point in time, we
Speaker 1: don't like grab a beer with the dude because I'm
Speaker 1: gonna shoot you. I'll send him a d M and
Speaker 1: uh like, hey, thanks for the cameo. You know, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. If you ever, you know, if you're a
Speaker 1: near Cineamonica, let's go get a drink or South Bay
Speaker 1: and we'll definitely hang out. You should give him some
Speaker 1: pointers on his cameo. So here's what we Western does,
Speaker 1: which is amazing. He's a he's been a he's a model,
Speaker 1: and he's been in the modeling industry, and he does
Speaker 1: you know a lot of grooming tips and and and
Speaker 1: skincare and just workout tips and in all these things.
Speaker 1: And what I would like to do is I'd like
Speaker 1: to start my own cameo consulting business because because I'm like,
Speaker 1: I take my cameos very seriously as as you guys know.
Speaker 1: And if anybody checks me out on cameo, um, I
Speaker 1: just finished my busy season like an accountant during tax time.
Speaker 1: I just finished my busy season, which is fantasy draft.
Speaker 1: And now that's over. We're in. Now we're into like
Speaker 1: I'll get a steady flow. But but August and September
Speaker 1: crushing it early September. And uh, but I put a
Speaker 1: lot into my cameos. You're gonna get, You're gonna get you.
Speaker 1: I feel like you should probably nominate me for cameo
Speaker 1: because I was recognized in New Orleans at one time
Speaker 1: as the as Joe with a tesla. Oh yeah, you charge,
Speaker 1: and you could you could just do cameos about your
Speaker 1: first altant client. I can work with you on how
Speaker 1: to how to do cameos. Um, but it's cameos are
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I love doing them, So hit
Speaker 1: me up, you will, Like I said, it goes to
Speaker 1: charity UM school lunch ferry dot com giving kids that
Speaker 1: can't afford school lunches UM access to obviously school lunches
Speaker 1: and uh yeah me up you you won't. You won't
Speaker 1: regret it, trust me. Um So talk speaking of flexes, Joe,
Speaker 1: what's what's happening with the peloton? Where? What's Joe? Got
Speaker 1: a peloton? Do you want to used one? Secondhand? I
Speaker 1: bought it used because there was like a six week
Speaker 1: but it wasn't. It wasn't it was like one of
Speaker 1: those like like it was it was. It was pretty
Speaker 1: much brand new. It's like the car you get. It
Speaker 1: was like the car they use on the lot. For
Speaker 1: a friend, a friend of mine, he ordered it um
Speaker 1: uh peloton and then it was like a six week wait.
Speaker 1: So he went and found one on Craigsist. So he
Speaker 1: bought it second hand, and then when his came in
Speaker 1: six weeks later, it's like, you want to buy mine
Speaker 1: from me? You don't have a guy to get a pelotons?
Speaker 1: My wife. I actually do have a guy, but like
Speaker 1: you can't get it, you can't get him rushed. I
Speaker 1: actually got in touch with the CEO of Peloton and
Speaker 1: was like, look, I need this now, and he's like,
Speaker 1: there's nothing of the fulfillment in Pelton. Think about the workouts.
Speaker 1: I like, I don't know how a lot of people
Speaker 1: just aren't going to go back to Jim. It's like
Speaker 1: they're doing all the home workouts. I know I've been
Speaker 1: working out from home and um, but yeah, the Pelotons,
Speaker 1: it's a good workout. Yeah. So I don't know what
Speaker 1: this flex is all about. The flex is Joe. He
Speaker 1: said his his PR, which for those of you that
Speaker 1: don't know, the PR is your personal record. So what
Speaker 1: was your personal record? Joe? I don't. I don't the number.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember. It's like it's measured in like
Speaker 1: output er. I just don't always say that. And then
Speaker 1: and then's why I was just like, I wanted to
Speaker 1: engage with you. What's your what's your national ranking? Now?
Speaker 1: He's always always a national ranking presenting, of which I
Speaker 1: don't think you are. If there's twenty thousand, that ten
Speaker 1: percent or you're still it's close, You're you're no lance Man,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. I mean here, I'm two thousand people.
Speaker 1: That's that's It's okay. Top ten percent sounds a lot
Speaker 1: better than two thousand. I'm ranked two thousand. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Ten percentile. I never knew what
Speaker 1: whenever they would say, like when I go and they say, oh,
Speaker 1: you're your height is in the percentile? Is it? Is it?
Speaker 1: The lower the number, the taller you are. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: if you're in the third, if you're in the third percentile,
Speaker 1: only three, you're only three percent. There's only three percent
Speaker 1: that are taller than correct. That's what it means. That's
Speaker 1: how it works, because I thought it when I'm measuring
Speaker 1: my kids now I see, like my son's one pounds
Speaker 1: of six months, he was in the ninetent. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's opposite when you're I don't know. Yeah, now
Speaker 1: that I think about, I'm not sure. If you're in percentile,
Speaker 1: does that mean you're like percent think you're the one
Speaker 1: percent in that in that the way that the doctors
Speaker 1: say when you have a baby. I know for a fact,
Speaker 1: I can tell you right now that the fifti percentile,
Speaker 1: you're right in the middle. I know that. And how
Speaker 1: tall is that for a guy? Is it what? I believe?
Speaker 1: It's five eight one sixty five is like the average
Speaker 1: man one sixty five seems whoa I just I just
Speaker 1: did average five for man, it's just five six and
Speaker 1: females five to five six seems six seems it's because
Speaker 1: you live in southern California where everyone's a giant. Well,
Speaker 1: and all of us are are six one? What are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Five? If you're six one, then we're
Speaker 1: both six to fine, we both have these nice average
Speaker 1: Wait it is and he's always saying I'm the I'm
Speaker 1: the complete average dude, And he's right, it's tiny. One
Speaker 1: sixty five. I would have thought like least one eight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're six one and you five or one? Says
Speaker 1: how much does the average American man waste? Says twenty
Speaker 1: years old, hundred nineties seven pounds. What that's not right?
Speaker 1: It probably not right then if well, maybe, okay, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think I looked up American. I think
Speaker 1: I just looked at average. Well European, no question has
Speaker 1: gotta be is gonna be smaller? Wait? Wait, everything is small.
Speaker 1: I can't even go shopping out now. If you go
Speaker 1: like the European cut, I think it's it's definitely a
Speaker 1: slimmer slim so American men. It's it's five nine, so
Speaker 1: that must have been global. So that yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it's five s five is like the average dude. No,
Speaker 1: it can't be. It's got to be at least one sevent.
Speaker 1: Can you do your job? I'm trying. I just I'm
Speaker 1: not very good at typing. Nothing's changed in a year.
Speaker 1: How upset did he get Sunday? The reason for me
Speaker 1: to be here's the thing, Pereira. Mike Prayer is in
Speaker 1: the studio with us now on Sunday, and Mike normally
Speaker 1: travels with with our a crew Joe Brock I didn't
Speaker 1: put Terry Andrews and and that whole crew. So they're
Speaker 1: trying to set up this point to point conversation, trying
Speaker 1: to make this like so they can see Mike, so
Speaker 1: Troy and Joe if they're talking about something officiating related,
Speaker 1: rather than have Mike in their ear because normally they're
Speaker 1: in the booth together they can do hand signals. So
Speaker 1: they're trying to shoot this camera on Mike and communicate
Speaker 1: with Mike, and it just wasn't happening. It was not
Speaker 1: happening on Sunday, and Travis was getting so worked up,
Speaker 1: like frustrated, and I certainly was not helping because I
Speaker 1: was lucky because all I called you was a jerk
Speaker 1: and the timely like during halftime, and Travis coul because
Speaker 1: you were making it so much worse and didn't see
Speaker 1: how we took it out of me get the shot
Speaker 1: back fire because you didn't realize like spitting seats in
Speaker 1: your I don't care what the situation is. I will
Speaker 1: never pass up an opportunity to bust shops, like literally,
Speaker 1: like I'm the guy that like the world could be ending,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be like, Travis, dude, that's like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? And this is what was happening? Like
Speaker 1: it was so like the president of Fox Sports came
Speaker 1: in to like check on what was happening, and Travis
Speaker 1: was so worked up trying to make sure it was
Speaker 1: gonna work. And I'm sitting there going, oh, well, you
Speaker 1: know not, don't mind us over here. We're just you know,
Speaker 1: we're chopped liver over here. It was, it was, it
Speaker 1: was fantastic, and then he just he ripped into me
Speaker 1: week you find the weekly the shot, so then every
Speaker 1: time you went on, I would back I don't know
Speaker 1: if you noticed this or not trap. I would back
Speaker 1: back into the other room. I was like going to
Speaker 1: fall down the steps. Actually just created a funny performance.
Speaker 1: It was perfect. It was perfect. Um. All right, let's
Speaker 1: let's do a brain of Blandino. Wait, I want to
Speaker 1: talk about what I want to talk about the pick point? Yes,
Speaker 1: so let's talk about castle point. So we we started
Speaker 1: the contest, me versus the genius kids from New Jersey.
Speaker 1: What school? What do you remember the school they went to?
Speaker 1: They're going to UM, They're at some tech school. Like
Speaker 1: smart kids. They have algorithms, they have ways to pick games.
Speaker 1: And I'm just, you know, an idiot who doesn't even
Speaker 1: really watch all that much football except for when I'm
Speaker 1: with Dean because he makes me um. And we are
Speaker 1: going to pick different games against one another. So this
Speaker 1: week I had and it is against the spread, so
Speaker 1: I had the Rams plus two and a half. I
Speaker 1: won that one at the Saints thanks to the OPI
Speaker 1: I call thank your reths. I appreciate that. I had
Speaker 1: the Saints, uh, and I had Miami plus six and
Speaker 1: a half. So I lost. Miami won the Saints one.
Speaker 1: The Rams. They had Buffalo minus six and a half
Speaker 1: Philly minus five and a half. See how minus two
Speaker 1: and a half, So they won Buffalo and three week
Speaker 1: So we're gonna put in we'll we'll put in you guys.
Speaker 1: You'll go up against the analytics guys and we'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll keep a record. So you're both too in one
Speaker 1: right now against the spread, and we'll and we'll go
Speaker 1: from that. Now. They've been doing a bunch of really
Speaker 1: cool things. UM. They just release their Fantasy football died UM.
Speaker 1: That's something that they've in terms of fantasy football. Trust me,
Speaker 1: these guys are looking at everything. I think for next
Speaker 1: year for season, that's going to be the go to
Speaker 1: UM for fantasy football. They pick and they compare themselves
Speaker 1: when they look at the way they their rankings. UM.
Speaker 1: If you go on on check them out on Instagram
Speaker 1: and on Twitter, Castle Point Analytics UM. Compared to ESPN's experts,
Speaker 1: they far and away beating ESPN's experts and fantasy football.
Speaker 1: They also have an index to help UM. You know
Speaker 1: sport gamers with UFC and they are with twelve four
Speaker 1: four teams. In the last three they were eleven eleven
Speaker 1: with two three big upsets like they I was pretty
Speaker 1: impressed with that. They did a great job so check
Speaker 1: them out on Instagram and Twitter, and uh yeah, this
Speaker 1: is so we'll keep a running tab see how Joe works,
Speaker 1: because that's the whole idea, Right, there's the old Joe's
Speaker 1: the old baseball scout that you know, you know, he's
Speaker 1: the guy that they I have a feeling about this kid.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling about this kid. I don't care
Speaker 1: what is his his ops is and and I don't
Speaker 1: care what you know, the war and everything else. I
Speaker 1: got a feeling about this kid. And these castle Point Analytics,
Speaker 1: those are the the Ivy League tech guys that come
Speaker 1: in and got these these crazy algorithms and all this
Speaker 1: fancy tech and and we're gonna see the old grizzled
Speaker 1: scout versus the new school analytics and see who comes
Speaker 1: out on top about their season total. They predicted for
Speaker 1: the books. They predicted six winds for the box yesterday,
Speaker 1: and oh man, they might be onto something. Well, I
Speaker 1: like my shots so far. I'm we're I'm right there
Speaker 1: with the smart kids. Vegas has the Bucks at nine
Speaker 1: and a half winds, And after watching that yesterday, I
Speaker 1: don't know the castle Point un man. Yeah, let's do it,
Speaker 1: all right, Let's go Brandon Blondino there are many ways
Speaker 1: to skin a cat? Okay, right, So that's a saying, right,
Speaker 1: you're not you're supposed to use that anymore. I think
Speaker 1: Peter has put a put a stop to that. But
Speaker 1: that's that was has always been a saying there are
Speaker 1: there are many ways to skin a cat? How did
Speaker 1: that start? Like was a guy skinning a cat? And
Speaker 1: then another guy came by was like, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's another way to do that? Like what like
Speaker 1: who came up with that? But are there really more
Speaker 1: than one way? That's my thing? Like apparently there is
Speaker 1: and somebody and it was, But this is the anything
Speaker 1: that doesn't become a saying if it's not widespread, Like
Speaker 1: that's not like one dude in Arkansas skinning a cat
Speaker 1: and and somebody's saying, you know, there's another way that
Speaker 1: this is. There was a lot of cats being skinned
Speaker 1: at some point, and I feel like a lot of
Speaker 1: these sayings like killing two birds with one stone, like
Speaker 1: between skinning cats and throwing rocks at two birds, Like
Speaker 1: how are you? Like how like who? What? What kind
Speaker 1: of animal cruelty is happening when these sayings were made,
Speaker 1: Like I I just don't. I don't understand. I am fascinated,
Speaker 1: fascinated by how sayings come into like normal lexicon. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think the killing two birds and one stone at
Speaker 1: least makes sense. But when I really think about it,
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's more really more than one
Speaker 1: way to skinny cat. Not that I don't skin the cat,
Speaker 1: but there's one one way to do something. I understand that.
Speaker 1: But when why were you using skinning cats as the example? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Why when? Why wouldn't we use like deer or things
Speaker 1: that actual? Why would we? Why would we? Why would
Speaker 1: we talk about cruelty? And I wouldn't we just say
Speaker 1: there's more than one way of changing the oil on
Speaker 1: your there's more like you know, you know what I'm gonna,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, but there's nothing you know, you're wanting to
Speaker 1: change attire? Like, can we can we come up with
Speaker 1: a different way to say there's more than one way
Speaker 1: to do things? Are you? Is this the placification of America?
Speaker 1: We can't talk about anything. I just don't like skinning
Speaker 1: a cat is really appropriate. It's just the same if
Speaker 1: it was skinning the dollar, people would be going crazy,
Speaker 1: Like you can't talk about dollars people that you know,
Speaker 1: that's interesting because there is an animal hierarchy and and
Speaker 1: there's no question. I feel like we're getting a second
Speaker 1: brand of there's an animal hierarchy, without question, and dogs
Speaker 1: are completely at the top of it, without questions. Dogs
Speaker 1: are number one. Dogs are far and away number one
Speaker 1: without question. You cannot do anything to a dog, people
Speaker 1: will lose their ship. Cats are not on the same
Speaker 1: level as dogs. They're just not. They're just not. Forget
Speaker 1: about pigs who are supposed to be smarter. Octopus, octopus
Speaker 1: are like the smartest animal dolphins. Octopus is like have
Speaker 1: you ever seen an octopus? If you're an octopus in
Speaker 1: the wild, the ship that that that thing can do
Speaker 1: changes colors and the way they can like change their
Speaker 1: size and shape. And what are we doing? And what
Speaker 1: we're doing is where every menu, every restaurant, it's octopus
Speaker 1: with its with and and then he gives a ship
Speaker 1: throw up, throw up a Pekinese on on a menu
Speaker 1: and people will lose it. So I'll have the duction
Speaker 1: right exactly anyway, you know. And that's not that you
Speaker 1: went on a tangent or anything. And that note this
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