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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast The Big Bad Blogger. Boys.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast,

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Speaker 1: presented by Truest. My name is Dan hans As. I

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Speaker 1: come to you from a room building heroes, Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Greg Roseal and Patrick claybo What is up? Boys? Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl Week? Super Bowl weeks? This is the week where

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Speaker 1: we take what we normally do and we just try harder.

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Speaker 1: You thought we were trying hard before. Now we're trying harder,

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Speaker 1: all right. And and on the on the subject of

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Speaker 1: trying harder, Um, we all wish West was with us

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Speaker 1: right now, and we've talked about this over the course

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Speaker 1: of the season. He brings in the hay Dan off

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Speaker 1: the top. Until West is back, somebody else has to

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Speaker 1: step up. This is a leadership move. And Patrick, you're

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Speaker 1: a frequent guest, but I don't expect you to be

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Speaker 1: that guy. It's got to come from gregor Markel. Wait,

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Speaker 1: hold on, usually me. But when we have a guest,

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Speaker 1: I kind of let's see if they want to jump

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Speaker 1: in it is. It feels, it feels odd, it feels

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Speaker 1: difficult to do as as the guest at this point.

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Speaker 1: And so I was just as you said, I was

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Speaker 1: going to leave. Is not a guest though at this point,

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Speaker 1: Claibron is not a guest. He's you know, he's an

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Speaker 1: honorary hero. But be expected. He can't be expected. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I just know that if you're one of these people

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Speaker 1: on NFL dot com who logged onto like a gigantic

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Speaker 1: motherboard computer in your house to watch this, you're thinking

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Speaker 1: this show is off to a roaring, roaring start here.

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Speaker 1: I do. I do think about that sometimes because I

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Speaker 1: don't know how many podcasts you guys listen to. But

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Speaker 1: I do find myself fast forwarding, like the first three

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Speaker 1: or four minutes of a lot of podcasts where they're

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Speaker 1: just kind of like screwing around before they really get

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Speaker 1: to it. And I do wonder, you know, I would

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Speaker 1: think I would like our first three or four minutes,

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Speaker 1: But I do wonder how many people are like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: maybe not these, but how many people are like that,

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Speaker 1: like me, just asked for it until they get to

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Speaker 1: the real stuff. I don't know. I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: always listened to every second of a podcast. I even

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Speaker 1: listened to the ads. I actually slow down the playback

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Speaker 1: on the ads so I could really soak in we

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Speaker 1: don't do ads for for some reason on our show

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Speaker 1: with the NFL, but for most people that that's a

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Speaker 1: part a component of doing a podcast. Anyway, Mark, I

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Speaker 1: looked to you. I've worked with you for over a decade.

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Speaker 1: Now I would like you to step into that boid

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Speaker 1: until West returns. I'm just now we're just gonna ask

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Speaker 1: for it. You don't have to help me, but I will.

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Speaker 1: I will. But it's a it's a sharp right turn

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Speaker 1: from the semi tradition we had established over the past

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Speaker 1: couple of months. And I thought, you know, Greggy's he's

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Speaker 1: been a management figure before. He understands um adult responsibility.

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Speaker 1: And today he just went totally silent. So it's like

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Speaker 1: quick now now it's Mark's issue to deal with. Well,

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Speaker 1: not thankful for that, alright. So we are a well

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Speaker 1: oiled machine, obviously as we hit Super Bowl weekend. Yes, this,

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Speaker 1: this is it. There's a big game coming up on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: against Tom Brady. Incredible stuff and um, you know, on

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Speaker 1: that subject, and we got a great show coming up,

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Speaker 1: very excited, a special guests, a guest that you know

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Speaker 1: what it's a It's one of those moments. It's when like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're we're doing something right because we've got Jeene Decker

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Speaker 1: hoof coming up later on the show, the voice of

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Speaker 1: the Bucks. But before we get the Gene, before we

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Speaker 1: get to the news including one of the biggest quarterback

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Speaker 1: trades in the history of our league, let's share some

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Speaker 1: opening Super Bowl thoughts get us going, Yeah, this was

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Speaker 1: the same show a year ago, um that we were

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Speaker 1: on a boat. Um, there's a controversial show. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if we're gonna have as much excitement in this

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Speaker 1: show as much controversy, especially when when my opening thought,

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Speaker 1: it's just about Patrick Mahomes and this feels like the

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Speaker 1: most obvious hill to be on. Um. But I just

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Speaker 1: But I'm just not assuming it's always gonna happen, Like

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Speaker 1: amazing game with him at his peaks. I'm looking forward.

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Speaker 1: I do find it like slightly shade throwing that Greg

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Speaker 1: I don't know how Tom Brady would respond to that,

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Speaker 1: but the way you phrase that, Mark makes it sound

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Speaker 1: You dream about winning a super Bowl when you're a child,

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Speaker 1: started that. Mark watched two hours of the NFL's opening

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Speaker 1: I mean number one, I thought that we were all

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Speaker 1: and I would say, alright, So Greg watched part of it,

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Speaker 1: and so you know, it sounds like a lot together.

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Speaker 1: And I know Golf, Um, you know, he's spoken with

431
00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,320
Speaker 1: Michael Silver and he's obviously got to be hurt by this.

432
00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,520
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of people who are saying, no,

433
00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,760
Speaker 1: the Lions really wanted Golf, like they really view him

434
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:47,720
Speaker 1: as a as a big part of it. That's fine.

435
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:52,560
Speaker 1: The entire NFL evaluated Stafford and Golf that was involved

436
00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,919
Speaker 1: in this trade basically like the Rams. Did you know

437
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 1: that like that? No one wanted Golf. That's why you

438
00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:01,560
Speaker 1: had to pay that much to get rid of him,

439
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 1: and the Rams didn't want to get stuck having him

440
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,719
Speaker 1: when he had forty five million dollars guarantee the next

441
00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 1: two years. And a lot of people wanted Stafford partly

442
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 1: because of the contract because he's not doing much money

443
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:12,840
Speaker 1: at all over the next two years and reportedly doesn't

444
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 1: want more money, so he's just gonna stay on that contract.

445
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,440
Speaker 1: So that that was part of it. And uh, everyone's

446
00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 1: critical of the Rams for trading away the picks. I'm

447
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,600
Speaker 1: somewhere in the middle, but just recognizing that they've done

448
00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,199
Speaker 1: this now for five years and they've been one of

449
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,439
Speaker 1: the best five or six teams in the NFL. So

450
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 1: we we always say like we want teams to think differently.

451
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,359
Speaker 1: They think differently. They have not cared about first round

452
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,199
Speaker 1: picks and it's worked. You can't really argue with the

453
00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,720
Speaker 1: fact that they've been, you know, a top team with

454
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,840
Speaker 1: this approach and this gives him a chance to compete

455
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,400
Speaker 1: next year. I'm with you because you know, I've had

456
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 1: my issues with the Rams um since they moved to

457
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,680
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, but this, Uh, this changed that because I

458
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,800
Speaker 1: I like less sneed and Sean McVeigh a being on

459
00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 1: the same page and rolling the dice and being gamblers

460
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,439
Speaker 1: to get what they want had The mistake would have

461
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:05,320
Speaker 1: been to go through another season with this semi divorce

462
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: with Jared goff Um happening while they have John Wolford

463
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 1: and others on the roster. It was too It was

464
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,719
Speaker 1: becoming too big of a talking point. Let's need though.

465
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 1: I will say this because his name is on this thing,

466
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: and there will be people tracking this for a while

467
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 1: depending on how Stafford does. They gave up a first,

468
00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 1: a second, and a third to go up and get

469
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 1: Golf in the draft. They've given up a third and

470
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 1: the first and the first to get rid of him.

471
00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,400
Speaker 1: I mean, by all take away the Super Bowl year.

472
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 1: By all accounts, that's a costly that's a player that

473
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 1: cost a lot of draft capital and mistakes. Um. But

474
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 1: the same time, from a football watching side of it,

475
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,680
Speaker 1: and this is just me, two of the most annoying

476
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:47,000
Speaker 1: quarterback situations in the league have been fixed. Um. Golf

477
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 1: in l A was driving me crazy. Matthew Stafford in

478
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 1: Detroit felt like the same thing forty five years in

479
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 1: a row. I love shaking it up. I have Jared

480
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: Goff to me fits the Detroit Lions perfectly. Go enjoy

481
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,159
Speaker 1: yourself for as a bridge quarterback, you're in the right city.

482
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 1: But that Stafford and the Rams makes them intriguing. There's

483
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 1: so much pressure on this team. This is a super

484
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 1: Bowl or bus team. If this goes south, it's gonna

485
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,399
Speaker 1: be very interesting in Los Angeles next season. I do

486
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,320
Speaker 1: think I think you get half of what you want

487
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 1: because I don't think Jared Goff in Detroit is gonna

488
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 1: necessarily been be a fun even if he's a bridge.

489
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes. And and well, it takes

490
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 1: them out of l A. I mean, but yeah, it

491
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 1: takes it takes them out of l A. And I

492
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:31,120
Speaker 1: also I'm not giving out any lollipops um to less

493
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 1: Need because less Need was behind and Shaw McVeigh was

494
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 1: a huge voice in that organization and ownership. Of course,

495
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 1: we're behind giving Jared Goff a huge contract extension. And

496
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:45,119
Speaker 1: in September two thousand nineteen, that was not very long ago,

497
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 1: even if it if it feels like a long ago.

498
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 1: So this trade was paying for the sins of that contract.

499
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,440
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people were missing that when

500
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,360
Speaker 1: when it went down, it's like, oh, you're giving up

501
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 1: all those draft picks in addition to god, while they

502
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 1: had to it was the Gossweiler trade from a few

503
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 1: years back on steroids and who knows. This does feel

504
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:08,399
Speaker 1: like a great experiment for the Rams. Also feels to

505
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 1: me desperate ultimately that that they're gonna do this and

506
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,880
Speaker 1: get Stafford and be like, now we'll win a super Bowl,

507
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 1: will you you? I hope you take the next step

508
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,120
Speaker 1: because we patrick you mentioned you never know what first

509
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 1: round picks, but many of titles are built on teams

510
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 1: that used the draft wisely, especially their first round picks. Uh.

511
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: And they drafted Jared got first overall in two thousand

512
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,879
Speaker 1: and sixteen, as we've noted, no first round pick in

513
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:40,399
Speaker 1: two and now twenty three. Matthew Stafford better stay healthy, uh,

514
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,920
Speaker 1: or this is gonna get This is gonna turn into

515
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 1: a trade that potentially gets everybody fired, maybe even on

516
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 1: both sides. Well, you mentioned the draft um in terms

517
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 1: of getting the picks. They used their pick on Jared

518
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: golf right, and that didn't work out. So you get

519
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 1: it here and didn't work out or did it not

520
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,119
Speaker 1: work out because he had some big seasons stuck to

521
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. What's I feel like acting like he

522
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 1: was Mark Sanchez or Something's not quite fair either. No,

523
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,640
Speaker 1: I don't think, but they that that's what they did

524
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: on the way out, and maybe perhaps they could have

525
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,719
Speaker 1: uh saved the pick in terms of making the trade

526
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,879
Speaker 1: if they were a little more. Hey, yeah, we signed

527
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: Jared for a reason. We like Jared. Jared's our quarterback.

528
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,679
Speaker 1: But that's that's how the Rams didn't feel that way.

529
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: Bottom Is Greg said other people in the league didn't

530
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 1: feel that way about them. So maybe unless needs eyes,

531
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 1: you prefer to have a known quantity than another shot

532
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:34,159
Speaker 1: at another quarterback, right, I mean Stafford's young, though, I

533
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,639
Speaker 1: mean we don't know how good Stafford's gonna be with McVeigh.

534
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 1: Would be interesting. I would love to know what Anthony Lynn,

535
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,160
Speaker 1: who was the who was coaching Justin Herbert a couple

536
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 1: of months ago, went to Detroit to coach Matthew Stafford

537
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 1: and now is coaching Jared Goff, what does Anthony Lynn

538
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,439
Speaker 1: think about these turn of events. It feels like a

539
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 1: step down in terms of your quarterbacks to work with.

540
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 1: In my book, he didn't get any credit for Justin Herbert,

541
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 1: so why is he going to get any credit? You well, yeah,

542
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,719
Speaker 1: I think Detroit. Detroit taking on golf is is crazy,

543
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: isn't it. I mean it's a It's a really fascinating

544
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 1: move for them to take on golf as as part

545
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: of it. That they wanted him, that's fascinating. There's the

546
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: money involved is interesting, But I guess a team that

547
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: is rebuilding is not going to be high in, you know,

548
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: going nuts to the free agent market, so I guess

549
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: they felt they could take it, take it on it all.

550
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: Also is interesting a team that is so focused on

551
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,639
Speaker 1: blowing up the machine. In addition to having golf in

552
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: that contract, they only got in two thousand twenty one,

553
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 1: just the third round pick out of it, so the

554
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 1: true like marquee draft picks don't come until next year.

555
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 1: I guess if I'm a Lions fan, UM, I don't know.

556
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,360
Speaker 1: I guess I feel okay about the trade. You got.

557
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: You got the draft assets out of it, and golf

558
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 1: is not anyone's the idea of an exciting quarterback. But

559
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: certainly you could do worse as a bridge guy. Um

560
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: I would give. I would give the Lines the edge

561
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,640
Speaker 1: on the trade, but I also see how it could

562
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: potentially backfire. If Goff continues to regress, everyone's gonna look

563
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 1: pretty bad. I think in that building, you're Alliance fan,

564
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: though you've spent your entire fandom of a certain age

565
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 1: watching you know, Megatron play a long career in Detroit

566
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: and nothing came of it. Barry Sanders long career in Detroit,

567
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 1: retired earlier than he needed to, nothing came from it.

568
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford another another piece like that. So Jared Goff

569
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: is a bridge. I love what Brad Holmes did to

570
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: get the draft picks. I think he learned a lot

571
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: from less sneed and got a lot of value from

572
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: less sneed and they honestly, I know this won't happen.

573
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 1: But if you look at the hole Deshaun Watson thing

574
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: Detroit is, I'm not I don't think this whatever, this

575
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: would be the case. But you've got the draft picks

576
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: to make a play for anything else in the league,

577
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: to move up to go for to Shaun Watson, to

578
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: get the quarterback you want in the draft. I mean,

579
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: I think Golf was I do agree with the brock

580
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 1: ouspars Oswilder side of this to some degree, except that

581
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: it might be a little bit more elongated, where you

582
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 1: get golf for a year, but this is not their

583
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: final destination under center, right, they think golf is most

584
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: likely gonna struggle. I mean I I think he's set

585
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: up to totally fail. And Dan Campbell is talking about

586
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to evaluate this team for

587
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: a couple of years, like that's the long game, and

588
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: this is like, I don't think that works in the NFL.

589
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: Like we've seen teams with multiple draft picks, and you

590
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: know that if you have a great coach and a

591
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: great front office that can put together a huge team,

592
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: like that's great. But it's not like the Dolphins are

593
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,479
Speaker 1: are hitting on all these drafts. They've had a ton

594
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 1: of draft picks. Some are working, some aren't. But you

595
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 1: have to have like a great organization and build that up.

596
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: And that's just whether Dan Campbell and Brad Holmes ultimately

597
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 1: have the goods. Golf is set up for failure. And

598
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: and then and the last thing I just wanted to

599
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: say on like the golf, the golf contract was such

600
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: a mistake. And I've seen a lot of people say like, well,

601
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 1: you know, the Rams shouldn't escape being blamed. Well, no,

602
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: of course, they're admitting that they made him a huge

603
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 1: mistake of like they made a man some mistake and

604
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: giving Girley that contract and goth that contract, and they're

605
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: doing the Patriots like thing, which is like, we're just

606
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 1: gonna get out of it, but like this trade is

607
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: admitting that we made a horrible mistake with that contract

608
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 1: and this is the best way that we think we

609
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: can get out of it and still compete next year,

610
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: and they probably will. They have to really prepare for

611
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: their defense to regress. I think that's part of it too.

612
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: They're not expecting to be a dominant number one defense.

613
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: The offense is gonna have to be like a lot better.

614
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: It's amazing how quickly things changed with the Rams and

615
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: their quarterback. Gentlemen, let's continue talking quarterbacks. Um. There was

616
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: an old book series, Choose your Own Adventure. This was

617
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: kind of like an eighties and nineties kids um theme

618
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: book where Mark, I know you were a big FANOM

619
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: I used to read them all the time. They actually

620
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: do they basically you you read the book that and

621
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: then you have a fork in the road and you

622
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: actually get to choose where the story goes by now

623
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 1: you know, navigating to the page that tells you to go.

624
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: They have it now with my kids. I watch it

625
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 1: on like Netflix shows and stuff. They have these similar

626
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: interactive type shows where you could choose to go one

627
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: way or another, which is, you know, a sign of

628
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: the times. We are going to do our own choose

629
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: your own adventure QB style Mark. Uh, We're gonna kind

630
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 1: of go around, uh take turns, but you get us going.

631
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: Like as we try to figure out what happens, we

632
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: know Matt Stafford's in l A. He's not going anywhere.

633
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: Golf is in Detroit, He's unlikely to move. What's what's

634
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: next in our adventure of of quarterbacks in this very

635
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: interesting offseason. Well, it's my portion of the adventure, so

636
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: I can started as I wish. Um, I think an

637
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: adventure should be you know, it can have some contrast

638
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: and some issues, but it should be pleasant in the end.

639
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: And um, I'm thinking what makes me enjoy football? It's

640
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: this show doing this show, And so what would make

641
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: this show more intriguing? How about this the Shaun Watson

642
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: and I had to think about this real herd because

643
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 1: I think this is the next this is the next

644
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: big piece to fall. It can happen two months after

645
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: free agency. It's happening. At some point the Texans say no,

646
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: I don't believe anything. The tech and say, so, here's

647
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: the thing. Deshaun Watson, not to the Niners, not to

648
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: some other team. He's going to the New York Football Jets.

649
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: All right, the Jets for so long? There we go.

650
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: They I don't think this fit a month ago. Well,

651
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: it's funny because we talked about this when these started up.

652
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: These reports started to bubble up, and I thought the

653
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: Jets with no coach, um and questions and ownership in

654
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: a roster that needs help, I just don't see it.

655
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: You can't wish casting to New York. But Robert Sala

656
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,959
Speaker 1: changes everything. Their draft capital makes them an ideal trade partner.

657
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: And I and I, you know, we don't need to

658
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: go through the trade terms for all these things. But

659
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: I would say that you've gotta move um three first,

660
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: and I think maybe one other little additional pick you

661
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: get de Shaun Watson, maybe they throw in like a

662
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: nice seven seventh rounder is just a little tiny order

663
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,479
Speaker 1: for you down the road the Jets, and maybe an

664
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: autographed headshot of Jack Easterby. And there we go. The

665
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson goes to New York and bang, the adventure

666
00:32:56,520 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: is off and running in Flora Park. Might love it.

667
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: Um very interesting. We talked about, well, we've talked about

668
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: this a lot now because ever since the report down

669
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: in Florida's Surface that the Jets were the preferred destination

670
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: of Deshaun Watson Rich to me, any of ESPN dot

671
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 1: com since said that that's not necessarily the case. So

672
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: I don't know where where all this stands, but that

673
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because this has huge your own adventure and

674
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: in this reality, he has been moved to the New

675
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: York Jets, changing everything. As I said, that would change everything,

676
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: and it would be all because of the great Robert

677
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: sale that had happened. Let me go next. Okay, so

678
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: now the Domino's fall, the Jets have Deshaun Watson. The

679
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: first thing they're gonna do. Um, Let's yeah, let's say

680
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: maybe it cost them three first round picks. Maybe that's

681
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: what the cost was. Now they have Sam Donald on

682
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: the roster. The first thing that Joe Douglas is gonna

683
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: do is to recoup some lost draft assets. He moves uh,

684
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: Sam Donald to the San Francisco forty Niners, Kyle Shanahan

685
00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: quietly was looking for a fresh start at her back,

686
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: so he sends a second round pick back to the

687
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: Jets for Sam Donald, and now the forty Niners have

688
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 1: um a situation because Jimmy Garoppolo got a nice contract

689
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 1: a couple of years back, but he's been banged up

690
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: and hurt a lot. I know he got to the

691
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: Super Bowl last year, but apparently, like Sean McVeigh with

692
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: the Rams, quietly unhappy with Garoppolo and thinks he can

693
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: get the most out of Sam Donald, who would be

694
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: potentially a great fit in that West Coast offense. So uh,

695
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: Patrick Claiban, Uh, they now have two starting quarterbacks in

696
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:39,760
Speaker 1: that building. What happens next, well, the the starting quarterback

697
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: if they if they believe in the acquisition of Sam Donald,

698
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: which of course happened, because these are the adventures that

699
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 1: we have selected today, then that takes away my landing

700
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: spot for Matt Ryan to be reunited with Kyle Shanahan

701
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:54,800
Speaker 1: the remainder of this contract with the Atlanta Falcons, So

702
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan needing a home, the Falcons looking for a

703
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: new start with Justin fields U one of the two

704
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: quarterbacks from the outer Atlanta area in this draft along

705
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 1: with Trumps. He is selected there and Matt Ryan is

706
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 1: traded to the Chicago Bears, where we see how Matt

707
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 1: Mage's offense will operate, uh in the future in the

708
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 1: post Trubisky world where they have been looking for consistency,

709
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: They've been looking for somebody who could perform. They tried

710
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 1: to do that in Nick Foles, it did not work,

711
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: and Matt Ryan era united with Julio Jones. Perhaps Julio

712
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: could be on the move as well the new era

713
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. But I would say Matt Ryan Chicago bound

714
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: after we've seen a couple of these quarters in this

715
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: adventure again that we have chosen that could potentially have

716
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 1: been Bears at one time. Finally, Matt Ryan in Chicago.

717
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:46,320
Speaker 1: W A, okay, let me just where you get to, Greg,

718
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 1: Let me just reset things here. Watson to the Jets,

719
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 1: Donald to the Niners, Matt Ryan to the Bear. The

720
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: now we have two quarterbacks in San Francisco and an

721
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: opening in Atlanta with a lot of draft capital. Greg, Yeah,

722
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: I think, um, this would be a tough you know, uh,

723
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Speaker 1: test of the Kyle Shanahan John Lynch to trust in

724
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: San Francisco because, um, you know there's some thought they

725
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: might want Kirk Cousins, their old buddy. You know, they

726
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: don't get Matt Ryan, they do get Sam Donald, and

727
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: then there's no point of having Jimmy G. So you

728
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 1: just call up Bill Belichick, who, uh, who never really

729
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: lost his love for Jimmy G. And you know, Bill

730
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: loves the deal. He just loves how it looks that

731
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,359
Speaker 1: he traded Jimmy G for a second round pick, and uh,

732
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: he sends you know, he gets a third round pick

733
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: to get him back. He sends a third round pick

734
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: to get him back. They would be h third round.

735
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: I mean, no one's given up that much for these guys.

736
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think Garoppolo on this contract. Maybe

737
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 1: a second or third round. Maybe it's that second round.

738
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: Either way, he returns to New England and um, they

739
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: have some faith that he fits well in their system,

740
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 1: did not in Kyle Shanahan's. But I think they'll evaluate

741
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,399
Speaker 1: him based on what they know about him, and they

742
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: loved him, and I think I think that is the quarterback.

743
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 1: If the Bill Belichick gets his choice of choosing all

744
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: his adventures this offseason, that's just my suspicion is that's

745
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: his number one choice is getting Jimmy g back for

746
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: a relatively affordable price, and that's how they move forward. Greg.

747
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: You know, I have to say, Um, you know, I

748
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 1: enjoyed the report that surface that Matthew Stafford said I

749
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 1: will literally go to any team but the Patriots. And

750
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: I know in the way that that that hurt you

751
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 1: because you you're thinking of yourself. Man, things have changed

752
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: the New England. It might not be a place people

753
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: want to play anymore. Well, I think it's like a

754
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 1: lot of Patriots stories. You've thought about it a lot

755
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: more than I have. Um, but yeah, this is what

756
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: happens when you bring matt Patricia back. I mean, who

757
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: needs Matt Patricia that, that's for sure. I mean I

758
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: did not look for you know that the treasure would

759
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: be nowhere near that quarterback room, right, But that's that

760
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: was part of Matthew Stafford. Yeah, if you if you're

761
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford, you want to stay away from him. I

762
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: don't think that was It does sound like there was

763
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 1: a lot of teams in on Stafford. We didn't get

764
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: into that. There was about six or seven teams. You know,

765
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: if We're to trust Albert Brier's reporting, and why wouldn't I? Um,

766
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,240
Speaker 1: it's really interesting who went hard after him? The Patriots

767
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 1: were pretty were very not in the ballpark. Um of

768
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: the Panthers or the Rams who went super hard they

769
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: were they were, they were, they were trying to get

770
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: into the cheat right, they weren't even close, so it

771
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: wouldn't have mattered. Um do do we want to keep going? Here? Mark?

772
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 1: Do you have I do? I think? Yeah? When when

773
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: de Shaun Watson went to the Jets, if I had

774
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: to guess who would be the most annoyed person out there,

775
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: I would go Carol and a Panther's owner David Tepper.

776
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 1: I think he um uh, they're gonna make a hard

777
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 1: push for that. I think they wanted a quarterback that

778
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 1: they can basically go right into the skies with. I mean,

779
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 1: we saw the Teddy Bridgewater signing. I don't think it's

780
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,399
Speaker 1: about let's draft someone. So here's what I've cooked up here.

781
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: Tell me what you think the Dallas Cowboys um or

782
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: have a have a Dak Prescott situation? Okay, And Dak

783
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: Prescott in the shadows right now is annoyed? Okay? Like, hey,

784
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 1: you signed everyone else on your offense two long term

785
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: deals while leaving Dak Prescott out there. He gets hurt.

786
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones sends a bunch of nice things about, hey,

787
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring him back. We're gonna sign him. He's

788
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:40,720
Speaker 1: our quarterback forever. Huh. In this offseason, something stunning will occur.

789
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 1: All right, this is what I predict will happen. That

790
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers, they will number one, wiggle their way

791
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: up in the draft from number eight to number three.

792
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 1: The Dolphins picked, they will use some draft capital, and

793
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: everyone's thinking, oh, they're gonna go after their guy at

794
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 1: number three, whether that's justin Fields, whether that's you know,

795
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: it could be anyone whoever. They like. It's going to

796
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: be a quarterback though, but instead Zack Wilson. Instead, they

797
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: basically ship that pick, along with other draft picks to

798
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: the Cowboys for Dak Prescott. They solved that situation for

799
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, who are in a bad like it's like

800
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:20,400
Speaker 1: a Deshaun Watson super Lights scenario. There's not it's not

801
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: quite as nefarious. But Dak Dak Prescott, who has been

802
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: franchised by the Cowboys, goes and signs a new deal

803
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 1: with Carolina for five years. They've got their quarterback forever.

804
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 1: And the Dallas Cowboys used that number three pick. And

805
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: we can get into the draft stuff later, but I

806
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: would peg them as taking Justin Fields at number three,

807
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 1: with the New York Jets out of the mix for

808
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: a quarterback at number two. M all right, love that

809
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: very interesting. Let's let's stay in the NFC East. Then

810
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:53,320
Speaker 1: the Philadelva Eagles. You know, there's a love affair obviously

811
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Speaker 1: with Howie Roseman and management and Carson Wentz. We're so

812
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: we're told, and they they chose Wentz over Doug Peterson

813
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: on some level. Well, that's all smoke screen. They gotta

814
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: trade wins. They gotta get him out of there. They're

815
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: trying to keep his value up. UM. I know is

816
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 1: cost prohibitive with some of the certain things with the cap,

817
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 1: but they'll figure out a way and and get the

818
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: fresh start and move forward with Jalen Hurts and Nick

819
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,959
Speaker 1: Sirianni is the head coach. So they send Carson Wentz

820
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: to the Indianapolis Colts, a cults team that just had

821
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 1: a one year experiment with Philip Rivers. And I read

822
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 1: a report this week that the cults are not looking

823
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:34,760
Speaker 1: to bring in some rookie to groom. No, they believe

824
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: they have a Super Bowl window that's open right now.

825
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: They want a veteran quarterback and follow the follow the

826
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: dots here. Of course, Frank Reich, the offensive coordinator of

827
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl champion Eagles, is the head coach of

828
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: the cult. If Frank Wright can't fix fix Carson Wentz,

829
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: nobody can. So he gets that fresh start, and Indie

830
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 1: and the Eagles also desperately get the fresh start they

831
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: need and get that toxic business. Not necess really wins.

832
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: Someone's saying he's toxic, but the entire situation is toxic.

833
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 1: With a new head coach and these two quarterbacks get

834
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 1: rid of that problem, and um, you gotta maybe a

835
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 1: first round pick out of it. M M. First round man,

836
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: I with that contract, it'll be tough, but it wouldn't

837
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 1: shock me. It really wouldn't. I think people. One thing

838
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: people missed on the Nick Sirianni presser after they were

839
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: done kind of making fun of him, you know, being

840
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: a little nervous, was man and they were noncommittal about

841
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. I have not bought this narrative that they're

842
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 1: only hiring the head coach to rehabilitate Carson Wentz, the

843
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: fact that they're putting him in Jalen Hurts on the

844
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: same footing that they hired a QB coach with a

845
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: history with Jalen Hurts. I think if they can get

846
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,800
Speaker 1: the right offer, and that just might be any offer

847
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 1: for Carson Wentz, I think they might move on for him.

848
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 1: So I don't think that's a crazy one at all.

849
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,879
Speaker 1: It feels like, if anything, they've done whatever they can

850
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,399
Speaker 1: to pump up or you know, not allow his trade

851
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 1: value to sink even further. If it's clear you're moving on,

852
00:42:58,239 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 1: you get him for nothing. But if it's like, this

853
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 1: is our dude. We've got his life size poster and

854
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 1: Howie Roseman's office. Everyone loves them. Oh, we wouldn't think

855
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 1: of trading them. But you blew us away with an offer,

856
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:12,799
Speaker 1: well there you go. Um alright, claybron you are up.

857
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 1: The Denver Bronco fans are like, please talk about us.

858
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 1: We don't believe in Drew Lock anymore. Please give us

859
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: something new. And that's the problem, damn, Because I think

860
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,240
Speaker 1: they do believe in Drew Lock, and so they stick

861
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: with Drew Lock. Going into another of all of this

862
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: chaos is going on. Everybody's moving around. The Denver Broncos

863
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: are are sticking and they are true to Drew Lock.

864
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,359
Speaker 1: They are locked onto him, if you will. But all

865
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 1: the turmoil going on in the South. The Dallas Cowboys,

866
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: as Mark said, have have their eyes on a quarterback,

867
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 1: but they also need they need a bridge. They need

868
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: a bridge to get to Justin Fields. They would like

869
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: to wait, uh in this circumstances adventure that we are chosen,

870
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: that we have lived in. And it just so turns

871
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 1: out that there's another quarterback that's been maligned in this

872
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 1: very trade situation with the Carolina Panthers, and that is

873
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:05,879
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater finding another team, another team in another year,

874
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:10,800
Speaker 1: in another oddly enough for him bridge situation. Teddy Bridgewater

875
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 1: back in the South, in the Dallas Cowboys, in a

876
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 1: loaded offense with so much talent around him, trying to

877
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: fend off the rookie at Justin Fields. It's it's going

878
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: to be something for them to talk about in the

879
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 1: in the metropolitan area down there, there is a there

880
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 1: is a irony too Teddy Bridgewater's career becoming the ultimate

881
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: bridge quarterback. I love that the bridge over the water.

882
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 1: Here's my my one thing on that. Don't they already

883
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: have like one of the top bridge quarterbacks in the league,

884
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. I know he's entering free, he knows the

885
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: he knows the offense. He did something that Bridgewater is

886
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: a big upgrade on Andy Dalton. I don't know. I don't. Well,

887
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 1: he's gonna start for the Broncos, so you know, get

888
00:44:54,719 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: excited Denver. Now I've never really do that. Who knows, right, Yeah,

889
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: there might be a market. There might be a market

890
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: for Andy Dalton services. But I'm gonna throw in one

891
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 1: last one while we're talking bridge quarterback. One of my

892
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 1: one of my favorite um little subplots, just following Saints

893
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: Twitter talk about you know things change fast. They change

894
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: fast in New England after Brady died, I mean after

895
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: Brady left. Yeah, I'm saying career much. Yes, it's everything

896
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 1: makes more sense now everything makes up there. Let's like

897
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: bye bye after that. After that, all one the way

898
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 1: the new trend like people people are worried that they're

899
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 1: gonna lose Jamis Winston. They're like, I don't know, there

900
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 1: might be competition for Jamis Winston. And I say, no,

901
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 1: I say you live on Jamis Free signs with Saints

902
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: and put Tayson Hill on the bench and Javis witson. Hey,

903
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,760
Speaker 1: that's what that's what. Um, that's what Tom Brady Sr.

904
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 1: Said right, that these careers they always they never end well,

905
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 1: I mean, or there are like it's like, oh Brady,

906
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 1: you can split his his career into three parts and

907
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: he's a Hall of Famer. It's like maybe there are

908
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: just like the real Tom Brady who his human body

909
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: ran out like in two thousand and seven, and we've got,

910
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:14,280
Speaker 1: you know, multiple sort of synthetic robe half robot versions

911
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: of Tom Brady being opened up and released every four

912
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: or five years. Greggy, you did Noble Worker soldiering on

913
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 1: there after that incredible revelation about like what goes on

914
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: in your mind? Uh? Can you say it again though,

915
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 1: because I wasn't able to process and the but he's

916
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,919
Speaker 1: he's on the Mass, he's on the the Mass turn,

917
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: he's under the Mass curtain pike with those mes and

918
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: Peter McNally, the deflate gig guy. You know you said

919
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:44,400
Speaker 1: something about Jameis Winston. Oh yeah, he's kind of return

920
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 1: to New Orleans. They're they they're a little worried that

921
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 1: they might lose them. But I say, now, I want

922
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 1: to see Jamis Winston in this scenario and that he

923
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 1: ends up being there their qby That's all I need.

924
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: And um, I will put a cap on it by

925
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: saying that the Bronco will give Drew Lock the same

926
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: four year, one and thirty four million dollar extension with

927
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: a ten million guaranteed that the Rams gave to Jared Goffins.

928
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,760
Speaker 1: That's perfect, So you don't have any issues that's gonna happen.

929
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,879
Speaker 1: One little, one little note that the listeners should pay

930
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 1: attention to. While we were doing this segment, tom Pellicero

931
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: reported that the Falcons intend to trade Matt Ryan during

932
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 1: the season or year leading up to it. So I'm

933
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 1: just telling you that, you know, you maybe just can

934
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: take a nap during the entire off season. We might

935
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 1: have mapped out everything that will occur. It was the

936
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: It was the total opposite. Before we move on that,

937
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: the report from Tommy p was the Falcons do not

938
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 1: intend to trade Matt Ryan. Was attempting to spend it. Patrick,

939
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 1: this is when we say goodbye to you. You are

940
00:47:57,440 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 1: a busy man. You have to be on the network

941
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 1: and be Now you have to put on your you know,

942
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: Tom Brokaw hat, and you have to be the face

943
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:08,919
Speaker 1: of the news operation. We thank you, though for your opinions, uh,

944
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:13,800
Speaker 1: your levity, and your general disposition which is always pleasant.

945
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:17,360
Speaker 1: Oh thanks us all the same to you, and I

946
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 1: look forward to a fine Super Bowl week of watching

947
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 1: y'all's coverage as very good. All right. Coming up next,

948
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 1: we have Jean decker hoffstop goes towards the ends of

949
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 1: the clock ball top stop Tampa Bay by Kevin want

950
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: a way to start in the football game, but Green

951
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: Bay wis consciously gets the block on the right side.

952
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: Tell another block color by Freaker one, top stop Tampa

953
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,879
Speaker 1: Bay tot stop sucking there for that refuse to go down.

954
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: Scotty Beller only but takes the cuts to stop tamp

955
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: my page. Scotty Scooter Bellar and Brady puts it right

956
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 1: on the spot. God when running to the Threak's got

957
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,399
Speaker 1: the first round box. We're gonna win this football game,

958
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 1: bocks win. Tampa Bay is heading to the Super Bowl.

959
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I can't even begin to tell you

960
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:07,439
Speaker 1: how excited we are to have this man on the show.

961
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 1: Right now, Every Sunday Night, the flagship program when we

962
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: play the highlights. He was the unquestioned play by play

963
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: m v P of the season. You know exactly what

964
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. It's Jean Ducker off wf US. Welcome

965
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: to the Around the NFL Podcast. Seriously, June, we're pumped

966
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 1: up right now. Yeah, be pumped up about this. You

967
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: have bitch hole types Canon City. We can't fire the

968
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: cannons of Super Bowl. I wish we could those calls

969
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 1: a week ago. The cannon powder wouldn't fire in twenty

970
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 1: eight degree weather. No, we didn't have Jean so um.

971
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:52,360
Speaker 1: We're good friends of Matt money Smith, who is the

972
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:55,360
Speaker 1: voice of the Chargers. You mentioned, you mentioned Mitch holtis

973
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: um over with the Chiefs. It feels like a fraternity

974
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: with the ani O guys. Are their rivalries? Are there

975
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: some played by play guys that don't get along or

976
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: you all buddy buddy? Are their meetups and non pandemic

977
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: times take us inside the world. Well, I know this

978
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: that during the pandemic we have remote broadcast, so I

979
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 1: haven't had a chance to visit with some of my

980
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: colleagues that broadcast. But Mitch. I first met Mitch would

981
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 1: he broadcast Kansas State football and basketball, and UH, a

982
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 1: coach by the name of Lan Krueger had been at

983
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 1: Kansas State and had taken the job at Florida And

984
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 1: I was working television at the time Channel six of

985
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 1: CBS affiliate in Tallahassee, and so I called and Mitch was.

986
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: I did an interview with Mitch via the phone, talking

987
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:38,439
Speaker 1: about you know, Lan Krueger and what kind of code

988
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: it mentioned that time. I never thought Long would leave

989
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,240
Speaker 1: Kanda State, but he did so then. Uh, probably about

990
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:48,759
Speaker 1: five six years after that conversation, Mitch became the voice

991
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:50,840
Speaker 1: of the Kansas City Chiefs and he's been doing a

992
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 1: great job ever since. And he's he's uh. I he

993
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:54,839
Speaker 1: did a Super Bowl last year. He's got a chance

994
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 1: to do back to back Super Bowls and uh, I

995
00:50:57,440 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 1: go eighteen years in between Super Bowls. I don't know

996
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: if I'll be a on another region years. Jean's been

997
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 1: doing it boys, UH and listeners out there since nine

998
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 1: nine for the Bucks. And he also double dips with

999
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: Florida State, where he's the voice of s s F

1000
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 1: s U. So Jean is a is a legend down there.

1001
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:20,440
Speaker 1: And oh yeah, I learned all this on Gene Deckerhoff

1002
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,359
Speaker 1: dot com. People should check out this website. It's hot.

1003
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 1: I mean, poor Jeane, they got him work in Florida

1004
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: State BC Eagles Tuesday night. Feels like that's gonna be

1005
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: a letdown. I Uh, I am curious, Jean, like, because

1006
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:35,919
Speaker 1: you you know Tampa more than anyone. Like, I don't

1007
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,360
Speaker 1: think people are from the outside knows what the Tampa

1008
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:41,359
Speaker 1: sports scene is like, Like what would another Bucks championship

1009
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 1: look like? Because you guys are kind of the the

1010
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: city of champions right now, or at least making the championship.

1011
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:47,880
Speaker 1: This is this is three in the last year that

1012
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:51,720
Speaker 1: you've made the finals. Yeah, the uh Tampa Bay Lightning,

1013
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 1: you know, won the championship in the National Hockey League.

1014
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 1: The Stanley Cup was held high over Champa Bay. And uh,

1015
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, them from Bay Rays came oh

1016
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 1: so close, oh so close to winning a World Series.

1017
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 1: So they finished second, I guess to the Dodgers. And

1018
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: and here we are, the Tampa Bay Buccaneer football team.

1019
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 1: We're playing for the Super Bowl Championship and trying to

1020
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:15,960
Speaker 1: add one more Lombartie Trophy. I heard Mark Castor on

1021
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 1: NFL Super Bowl Channel on Sirius Adell that radio last night,

1022
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 1: and she was talking about, you know, this is the

1023
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 1: city of champions. This is title Town, Tampa, Florida, and uh,

1024
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 1: it's you know, the Toronto Raptors are playing out of

1025
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 1: Tampa because of the COVID pandemic in Canada, and she

1026
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: said they're gonna try to learn them down to Tampa

1027
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 1: after the pandemic is over. Right, Hey, title town sounds appropriate.

1028
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,279
Speaker 1: We just played a title town Green Bay, just north

1029
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 1: of the Florida border where I lived in Tallahassee, which

1030
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: is about twenty eight miles to the Georgia border. But

1031
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:49,760
Speaker 1: Baldosta is known as Winnersville, USA for their high school

1032
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: football program over there. So yeah, a lot of titles

1033
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 1: being thrown around. That's salt in the wound, Jeane two

1034
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: Packers fans that are listening to our national broadcast, what

1035
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 1: they about eighteen championships? How many more do they need?

1036
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 1: You know that, Sir, I think you just reading about

1037
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 1: some of the stuff you've done. We mentioned Florida State.

1038
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 1: You had a show with Bobby Bowden, who I grew up.

1039
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: You know, that's sort of the earliest inroads I had

1040
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 1: with college football. And that you worked with Burt Reynolds

1041
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 1: of all people, and now you're announcing games with Tom Brady. Um,

1042
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 1: do you still love football as much as you did

1043
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:24,840
Speaker 1: when you started? All this is is it still is

1044
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 1: a much of a joy to you to to cover it.

1045
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:29,719
Speaker 1: You know, my wife keeps selby, you worked too hard.

1046
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: You worked too hard. I'm always in my office, which

1047
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:33,879
Speaker 1: is in my home and so and she's retired. She's

1048
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:35,879
Speaker 1: been retired ten years. As you worked too hard? Why

1049
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:37,879
Speaker 1: are you work all the time? Can't you spend time

1050
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 1: with me? And I said, you know, honey, if I

1051
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 1: was hammer and nails or growing rivets, I followed retired

1052
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 1: ten years ago. But I'm doing something but I really

1053
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:50,240
Speaker 1: love to do, and that is broadcast sports events, particularly football.

1054
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 1: And uh oh, by the way, I'm a basketball jones.

1055
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:55,399
Speaker 1: I played basketball. I never played football, but uh yeah,

1056
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 1: I enjoyed broadcasting sports events and I hope to keep

1057
00:53:58,160 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: doing it for a while. The Lord will tell me

1058
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 1: when I have to stop. And he hasn't told me yet,

1059
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: you know, Jean, I mean Mark mentioned it. I have

1060
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:10,400
Speaker 1: to ask, and unfortunately he passed away in two thousand

1061
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:13,959
Speaker 1: and eighteen. But Burt Reynolds one of the all time legends. Um.

1062
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,279
Speaker 1: He used to appear on the Bobby Bouton Show with

1063
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:19,280
Speaker 1: you as the host. And do you have any birds stories?

1064
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 1: You ever hang out socially with Reynolds. I've not a

1065
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 1: lot of bird stories. Rest in peace, Buddy. Buddy Reynolds

1066
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: eighty two. And uh his his college teammate it at

1067
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:33,959
Speaker 1: Florida State University back in the fifties, was a fellow

1068
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:36,800
Speaker 1: by the name of Vick Premsy and they were best friends,

1069
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 1: state friends. After Burt went off to starring movies whatever

1070
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:44,680
Speaker 1: they like, stayed and Vic and I broadcast Florida State

1071
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 1: football and and then when the USFL came into being,

1072
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:52,399
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay bandits the franchise and Tampa was part

1073
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: part owner was Burt Reynolds, and uh, Vic and I

1074
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 1: did their games because of the relationship Vic head with

1075
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: Burt and uh, we're broadcasting at game in Phoenix, Arizona.

1076
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:06,239
Speaker 1: Had just taken the job to produce Coach Bowden's TV

1077
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 1: show and also act as talent and continue to play

1078
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:12,359
Speaker 1: by play announcing, and uh he would always come up

1079
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: and do a halftime interview. And we're in Arizona. Never

1080
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 1: forget uh Sun Double Stadium and Temples where the Arizona

1081
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 1: franchise played, and Uh, Burt comes up to the booth

1082
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: and everybody in that stadium they weren't watching the halftime show.

1083
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:29,239
Speaker 1: They were waiving the Burt Reynolds in the body and

1084
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: he was. When I got back to Tallahassee, I dropped

1085
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: a note in the mess of thanks you know so

1086
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 1: much for coming on a halftime I was always great

1087
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 1: seeing you. And I've got an idea about Bobby Bowden's

1088
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 1: television show that I'm now producing, and UH, would would

1089
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 1: you be interested in doing a few things for Bobby?

1090
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 1: And he said a letter back. I wished I had

1091
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 1: that letter today, I don't. I don't know what happened

1092
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 1: to it, but he said, anything Bobby needs you just

1093
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: let me know. And I came up with great moments

1094
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:58,399
Speaker 1: in Florida State football and wrote the scripts and did

1095
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: the research, and UH we recorded in Jupiter, Florida, were

1096
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 1: recorded in Beverly Hills. UH three or four times. We

1097
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 1: had a place in bell Air. We recorded there once

1098
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 1: just in the l A area, and UH one time

1099
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,840
Speaker 1: we did it in Atlanta on a location when he

1100
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: was doing a cop and a half we did in Tampa.

1101
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 1: He was doing another movie in UH in the Miami area,

1102
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:23,360
Speaker 1: and we went down there and met all the stars

1103
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 1: that were in the movie and everything. But it was

1104
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:28,800
Speaker 1: a great relationship. He did that for twenty six consecutive years.

1105
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:32,400
Speaker 1: Now you end up he was If he was getting

1106
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:38,360
Speaker 1: sad fees, we'd have been paying a fortune. Wow. The

1107
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 1: Cop and a half reference that I remember that it

1108
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: was a cop, yes, and a young precocious kid as

1109
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 1: his partner in crime. About I don't ever start in

1110
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 1: a movie with a youngster because they steal the seeds? True?

1111
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:59,279
Speaker 1: Do you? Uh? Do you have a favorite call from

1112
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:02,120
Speaker 1: this year's even like you know, either a favorite cause

1113
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: it's a favorite moment from these bucks, or like a

1114
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:08,319
Speaker 1: moment you realize, wow, this team actually might be as

1115
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:10,799
Speaker 1: good as as we thought, as we hoped going into

1116
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:13,760
Speaker 1: the year, or they might even be better. In thirty

1117
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 1: two years of traveling from Tallahessee to Tampa, it's a

1118
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 1: four and a half hour drive, and my wife and

1119
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: I make it uh every Sunday for home games obviously

1120
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 1: this year, but back on November the fifte the one

1121
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 1: and only time I've had an accident driving too a

1122
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay buceteers, and I ran over a mud buddle

1123
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 1: to drop off about a foot and a half and

1124
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:33,880
Speaker 1: I'm dragon metal for the next seventy seven miles to

1125
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 1: Raymond J Stadium, and I'm glad I got there. They

1126
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: didn't sparkle on the turnpike, didn't explode the vehicle, but

1127
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 1: we got to the stadium and uh I got there

1128
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: and was fortunate to broadcast the only ninety eight yard

1129
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:49,920
Speaker 1: touchdown run in the history of bucketeers. Fringe Brady hard

1130
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:52,760
Speaker 1: count hands the ball up Rocho pops at free crossed

1131
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 1: the fat hands on the fifty twenty Brojoe to the

1132
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 1: thirty rochoe to the forty bro tone to the fifty

1133
00:57:57,320 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 1: brochoe to the forty brochoe to the thirty high seven

1134
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,080
Speaker 1: of the twenty and it'll be a ninety eight yard

1135
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:05,320
Speaker 1: touchdown run by Ronald Jones. List I could touchdown Tampa

1136
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 1: Bay run Road Road Joe, Rod Alert Rojo to the

1137
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 1: twenty rojoe touchdown, Tamba Bay, ninety eight yard touchdown, but

1138
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 1: we broadcast from where we broadcast from Tamba But that

1139
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:21,400
Speaker 1: has to be the highlight. Now, Almost every one of

1140
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 1: the touchdowns in the postseason this year have been really

1141
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 1: really outstanding plays by outstanding players. But you know it's

1142
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 1: not just the touchdowns. I know, the highlights package that

1143
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 1: you had was was touchdown Tampa Bay touchdown tabby Bucks

1144
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 1: are going to the super Bowl. But there were two

1145
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,919
Speaker 1: or three third down players in the New Orleans game

1146
00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: and also in the Green Bay game where the players converted.

1147
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 1: You had guys answered that we had a rookie by

1148
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 1: Tyler Concert. I ain't goodness. Two games in the row.

1149
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:50,960
Speaker 1: He's made huge third down catches from Tom Brady and

1150
00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 1: the scooty Scooter Miller. It's Tom. Tom gave him the nick.

1151
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 1: There was Scottie Miller, but he calls Scooter. But he

1152
00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 1: made a big play at every going. These are guys

1153
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 1: you don't hear about a lot, but they have been very,

1154
00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:04,919
Speaker 1: very instrumental in the buccaneer is advancing the Super Bowl

1155
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:08,600
Speaker 1: fifty five. Do you ever just sort of walk around

1156
00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 1: your house and maybe you know, the wife is taking

1157
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: out a can of peace, she's opening it and putting

1158
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 1: it in a ball. I mean, do you get floored

1159
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 1: into that kind of chatter around the householder you keep

1160
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 1: the announcer stuff to the booth. Not too good, not

1161
00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 1: too good play by play of the household chores. But

1162
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:26,520
Speaker 1: I do find my stuff. I have to convest I

1163
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 1: talked to myself. I said, gee, you're talking to yourself.

1164
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 1: Come on, well, you know that's what I get paid

1165
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 1: to do. Is But no, I don't do play by

1166
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:36,640
Speaker 1: my life. But basically you're talking to the guy that

1167
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 1: carries out the trash, does the dishes, doesn't No hand

1168
00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: does a little bit of that, but no, no play

1169
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 1: by play at home. That's when there's a there's a

1170
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 1: story out there right now, kind of a scary story

1171
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 1: in fact, that because of the pandemic and um the

1172
00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:53,160
Speaker 1: far fewer flights that pilots are falling out of practice

1173
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:56,440
Speaker 1: because they're not getting enough air hours. That will never

1174
00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 1: happen with Gene uh and his play by play. Call

1175
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 1: one last question, because now you're a busy man, Gene.

1176
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:06,080
Speaker 1: November twenty nine, the Bucks fall to the Chiefs, second

1177
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:09,760
Speaker 1: consecutive four loss. They entered there by at seven and five.

1178
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 1: They obviously haven't lost since background Thanksgiving time, which I'm

1179
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:16,240
Speaker 1: sure you were in the house and handling the bird

1180
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:18,400
Speaker 1: and doing all this stuff because you're a man. Did

1181
01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 1: you still see this as a possible outcome as a

1182
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:26,480
Speaker 1: super Bowl team. The Bucks, well, you know this pandemic season.

1183
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 1: We have a large family, have six grandchildren and have

1184
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:31,320
Speaker 1: three sons with their wives. But this was the first

1185
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and the first Christmas that we have not gotten

1186
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:38,240
Speaker 1: together as a family, social distancing, no big crowds, and

1187
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 1: so you had that as a downer. And then you

1188
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 1: drive to Tampa in Kansas City lays one of those

1189
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 1: twenty seven twenty four things on you. And and that

1190
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:48,880
Speaker 1: first quarter I was about ready to wait wave the

1191
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:52,520
Speaker 1: white flag. Tyreek Hill had two hundred and three, it

1192
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 1: scored two touchdowns and the first quarter was still going on.

1193
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:58,560
Speaker 1: So it was it was a down event, family out

1194
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 1: event for the announcer. And uh, but then you know

1195
01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:04,240
Speaker 1: that you mentioned the following week it was the bye week.

1196
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 1: For the latest bye week that I can It's got

1197
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:09,200
Speaker 1: to be the latest bye week the Bucks I've ever had.

1198
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 1: And I don't know what happened during that bye week

1199
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 1: if it's uh, you know, the NFL is a grind on,

1200
01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: not so much on announcers, but on the players themselves

1201
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:19,880
Speaker 1: and the coaches, and I think getting away from football

1202
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:22,280
Speaker 1: for a couple of days, maybe getting fresh legs for

1203
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 1: a couple of days before getting back into the grind.

1204
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:27,440
Speaker 1: It's certainly benefit of the Bucceteers. As you mentioned, we

1205
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 1: have not lost since then, seven straight wins going for

1206
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:33,640
Speaker 1: our eighth row. And you know, if you go into

1207
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:36,440
Speaker 1: the Bucketeer media guide, you can't find seven wins in

1208
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:38,720
Speaker 1: a row anywhere. Go all the way back to seventy six,

1209
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:41,000
Speaker 1: we got six in a row, ones under totally dungee,

1210
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:44,840
Speaker 1: but counting post season, we won the month of December

1211
01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:47,800
Speaker 1: undefeated and December for the first time in franchise history.

1212
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 1: We only played three games, but I'll take it. But

1213
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:56,840
Speaker 1: uh happened during that by that has made this a

1214
01:01:56,920 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 1: more complete football team, and we felt we we beat

1215
01:01:59,880 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 1: the Minesota out of the bine. We went to Atlanta

1216
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 1: and fell behind seventeen to nothing. Now take the bye week, okay,

1217
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: refreshed to get out of the grind, go on the

1218
01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:10,440
Speaker 1: road to a rival team in the NFC South, to

1219
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:13,400
Speaker 1: get behind seven teen to nothing, and then come back

1220
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 1: and win that football game. The comblination of those two

1221
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 1: I think has elevated the Bucketeer is the most confident

1222
01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:22,040
Speaker 1: I've seen the Bucks played, and most complimentary office defense

1223
01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 1: special teams. Since I've been broadcasting Tampa Bay bucket football,

1224
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:27,960
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's it's a thing of beauty. When

1225
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:30,880
Speaker 1: a team gets hot and the team gets confident. I mean,

1226
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:32,880
Speaker 1: there's no better thing in the world. And to play

1227
01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:35,680
Speaker 1: that game or broadcast that game and sound Tampa Bay,

1228
01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:40,680
Speaker 1: I'd like to say that about five times awesome. It's

1229
01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:43,000
Speaker 1: a very exciting gene and and best of luck, of

1230
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:45,160
Speaker 1: course in the game. It's not your first super Bowl,

1231
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 1: as you noted, but I'm sure there's butterflies and excitement

1232
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 1: building up to it, and we wish you well. When

1233
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 1: one let one final factoried about Jeane Jane decker Off

1234
01:02:53,920 --> 01:02:56,440
Speaker 1: that people need to know why this man's a legend.

1235
01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:59,920
Speaker 1: He was inducted into the Florida Sports Hall of Fame

1236
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 1: in two thousand. That was twenty one years ago, and

1237
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 1: then then it's still on top of his game. I'm

1238
01:03:06,560 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: gonna have to dust that little I'm gonna have to

1239
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:10,000
Speaker 1: dust that little plaque off. It's over here in my

1240
01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:11,919
Speaker 1: office and now I'm gonna have to justice it's twenty

1241
01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 1: one years old. I about to dust that. It's always

1242
01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:22,360
Speaker 1: great talking bucket your football it's uh, it's been, you know,

1243
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:24,360
Speaker 1: a big part of my life for thirty two years

1244
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:28,720
Speaker 1: and hopefully a little while longer. And I called one

1245
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:32,160
Speaker 1: super Bowl and here's here's what broadcasters should never do. Fellas.

1246
01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:34,760
Speaker 1: It's late in the third quarter, we're wearing out the

1247
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:37,880
Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders. We finally went for twenty one, but we've

1248
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 1: got like a thirty one to three lead, and DWIGHTE.

1249
01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:43,680
Speaker 1: Smith picks off a pass from Rich Gannon, runs it

1250
01:03:43,840 --> 01:03:46,400
Speaker 1: right down the gut of the field and scores a ton.

1251
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 1: And while he's running to the end zone, I said,

1252
01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 1: Smith's got the interception. He's gonna score a touchdown. The

1253
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:53,640
Speaker 1: Bucks are gonna win the Super Bowl. And it's only

1254
01:03:53,720 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 1: the third quarter. It's gin and then through three touchdown actually,

1255
01:04:01,080 --> 01:04:03,240
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, that barge that's I'm not eleven.

1256
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:05,480
Speaker 1: I'm saying, why how could you say such a thing?

1257
01:04:05,880 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 1: And then Dwight pick off another another in the Bucks

1258
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:12,920
Speaker 1: one sound before you get but don't ever say Box

1259
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 1: are gonna one of the simple. I will say that

1260
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:22,240
Speaker 1: there again, another Gene learns from his past to be

1261
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:25,120
Speaker 1: great in his future. Gene, thank you very much, and

1262
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:29,480
Speaker 1: uh again, good luck can't wait for the game. Were

1263
01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:34,000
Speaker 1: a mask of social distances? All right, thank you, that's

1264
01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:39,120
Speaker 1: a touchdown, Tampa Bay. Gene Decker half what performance and

1265
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:41,040
Speaker 1: we can't we can't lose when it comes to the

1266
01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:46,640
Speaker 1: Sunday Night flagship program the next time, um, the end

1267
01:04:46,720 --> 01:04:49,080
Speaker 1: of this season, you will hear us either come into

1268
01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:52,200
Speaker 1: the game and the show with Mitch Holtis or Geane

1269
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:56,160
Speaker 1: decker Off. Either way you can't lose, or maybe your

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Speaker 1: impersonation of Mitch Holtis their Geene decker Off which is

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Speaker 1: which have been spot on, especially on the cake. Yes here,

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Speaker 1: here is our week to come before we say goodbye,

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Speaker 1: um for Tuesday Tomorrow, Wednesday, we have a very special

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Speaker 1: Q and A with fans of the Around the NFL podcast. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: if you're not in on the guest list, you can't

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Speaker 1: get in. But if you are, we can't wait to

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Speaker 1: see you and to talk to you and to have

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Speaker 1: a grand old time on Wednesday. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: we're calling it, the a t n Fan Hero Summit.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a little late in the game

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Speaker 1: to brand it, but that's what we'll call it. Thursday

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Speaker 1: is gonna be our official preview of super Bowl fifty five.

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Speaker 1: We have a bunch of great guests lined up uh

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Speaker 1: for that show, so we're gonna blow that out and

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Speaker 1: make our official predictions for the Big Game. And then

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Speaker 1: yes Sunday night, UM, we will be back the final

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Speaker 1: show of the season season super Bowl Recap and can't

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Speaker 1: wait for it. And also Sky Sports. We're doing a

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Speaker 1: bunch of stuff with sky this week. So it's all

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Speaker 1: looking good. And what did we learn here uh today?

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady dead? Maybe to one man, tom Brady is dead.

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Speaker 1: To everyone else, still alive. I've been from this whole season.

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Speaker 1: I was on the bandwagon, I put, I picked. I

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Speaker 1: don't know yourself a little bit there? Who is you

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Speaker 1: know who I was? I was? What did we used

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Speaker 1: to call it when we were on an island here?

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Speaker 1: I'll pick with the bucks the last two weeks, I

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Speaker 1: give me up. You just said the guy was dead,

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Speaker 1: so I don't know. Kind of undercut some of her

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Speaker 1: UM rooting interested in the season. Matt Ryan will not

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Speaker 1: be traded that we also have out there. Thank you

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Speaker 1: to everyone uh for watching, and just dand Hanson signing

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Speaker 1: off for a quiet storm. The Old Boss, Patrick clay Ban,

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Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood and the whole gang until Thursday,