Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast The Big Bad Blogger. Boys.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast,
Speaker 1: presented by Truest. My name is Dan hans As. I
Speaker 1: come to you from a room building heroes, Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: Greg Roseal and Patrick claybo What is up? Boys? Super
Speaker 1: Bowl Week? Super Bowl weeks? This is the week where
Speaker 1: we take what we normally do and we just try harder.
Speaker 1: You thought we were trying hard before. Now we're trying harder,
Speaker 1: all right. And and on the on the subject of
Speaker 1: trying harder, Um, we all wish West was with us
Speaker 1: right now, and we've talked about this over the course
Speaker 1: of the season. He brings in the hay Dan off
Speaker 1: the top. Until West is back, somebody else has to
Speaker 1: step up. This is a leadership move. And Patrick, you're
Speaker 1: a frequent guest, but I don't expect you to be
Speaker 1: that guy. It's got to come from gregor Markel. Wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, usually me. But when we have a guest,
Speaker 1: I kind of let's see if they want to jump
Speaker 1: in it is. It feels, it feels odd, it feels
Speaker 1: difficult to do as as the guest at this point.
Speaker 1: And so I was just as you said, I was
Speaker 1: going to leave. Is not a guest though at this point,
Speaker 1: Claibron is not a guest. He's you know, he's an
Speaker 1: honorary hero. But be expected. He can't be expected. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just know that if you're one of these people
Speaker 1: on NFL dot com who logged onto like a gigantic
Speaker 1: motherboard computer in your house to watch this, you're thinking
Speaker 1: this show is off to a roaring, roaring start here.
Speaker 1: I do. I do think about that sometimes because I
Speaker 1: don't know how many podcasts you guys listen to. But
Speaker 1: I do find myself fast forwarding, like the first three
Speaker 1: or four minutes of a lot of podcasts where they're
Speaker 1: just kind of like screwing around before they really get
Speaker 1: to it. And I do wonder, you know, I would
Speaker 1: think I would like our first three or four minutes,
Speaker 1: But I do wonder how many people are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe not these, but how many people are like that,
Speaker 1: like me, just asked for it until they get to
Speaker 1: the real stuff. I don't know. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: always listened to every second of a podcast. I even
Speaker 1: listened to the ads. I actually slow down the playback
Speaker 1: on the ads so I could really soak in we
Speaker 1: don't do ads for for some reason on our show
Speaker 1: with the NFL, but for most people that that's a
Speaker 1: part a component of doing a podcast. Anyway, Mark, I
Speaker 1: looked to you. I've worked with you for over a decade.
Speaker 1: Now I would like you to step into that boid
Speaker 1: until West returns. I'm just now we're just gonna ask
Speaker 1: for it. You don't have to help me, but I will.
Speaker 1: I will. But it's a it's a sharp right turn
Speaker 1: from the semi tradition we had established over the past
Speaker 1: couple of months. And I thought, you know, Greggy's he's
Speaker 1: been a management figure before. He understands um adult responsibility.
Speaker 1: And today he just went totally silent. So it's like
Speaker 1: quick now now it's Mark's issue to deal with. Well,
Speaker 1: not thankful for that, alright. So we are a well
Speaker 1: oiled machine, obviously as we hit Super Bowl weekend. Yes, this,
Speaker 1: this is it. There's a big game coming up on Sunday,
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: against Tom Brady. Incredible stuff and um, you know, on
Speaker 1: that subject, and we got a great show coming up,
Speaker 1: very excited, a special guests, a guest that you know
Speaker 1: what it's a It's one of those moments. It's when like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're we're doing something right because we've got Jeene Decker
Speaker 1: hoof coming up later on the show, the voice of
Speaker 1: the Bucks. But before we get the Gene, before we
Speaker 1: get to the news including one of the biggest quarterback
Speaker 1: trades in the history of our league, let's share some
Speaker 1: opening Super Bowl thoughts get us going, Yeah, this was
Speaker 1: the same show a year ago, um that we were
Speaker 1: on a boat. Um, there's a controversial show. I don't
Speaker 1: know if we're gonna have as much excitement in this
Speaker 1: show as much controversy, especially when when my opening thought,
Speaker 1: it's just about Patrick Mahomes and this feels like the
Speaker 1: most obvious hill to be on. Um. But I just
Speaker 1: want to like appreciate this moment with Mahomes now in
Speaker 1: his second Super Bowl, uh, in his third season, because
Speaker 1: we we kind of assume, Okay, this is just what
Speaker 1: it's gonna be from now on. We don't know that.
Speaker 1: I mean you, we kind of thought that with Brett
Speaker 1: Farve when he won three straight m vps, he'd be
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl a lot. We thought with Dan Marino,
Speaker 1: you know, not that I was around back then, but
Speaker 1: maybe the only quarterback um that has started his career
Speaker 1: as fast as Patrick Mahomes uh when he got to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl in his second season, Like, Okay, this guy,
Speaker 1: I'll be back in Like we don't know, but this
Speaker 1: is the greatest player I've ever seen. It's the player
Speaker 1: just in terms of pure talent that's given me like
Speaker 1: the most joy of just like I can't believe I
Speaker 1: get to watch this guy play football. Of course, getting
Speaker 1: to see him do it against Brady is like amazing,
Speaker 1: But I'm just not assuming it's always gonna happen, Like
Speaker 1: this is his third season and it's the third time
Speaker 1: he's gotten into a monster game, the second Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: but against this awesome Todd Bowls defense where it's boom
Speaker 1: er bus. Like I'm just gonna like enjoy the mahomes
Speaker 1: of it all, soak it in. That's what I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to. There. You, in fairness, there is a lot
Speaker 1: of assumption on your part with that particular player you
Speaker 1: said about two years ago he's the greatest quarterback of
Speaker 1: all time, So I would think you're already spinning forward
Speaker 1: to another player I've seen. But sometimes it's not all
Speaker 1: about the quarterback. Things things can happen, and who knows
Speaker 1: what could happen uh in his future, But we got
Speaker 1: him right now. We got him right now in an
Speaker 1: amazing game with him at his peaks. I'm looking forward.
Speaker 1: I do find it like slightly shade throwing that Greg
Speaker 1: just went on like a four minute speech about Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes when the quarterback he's playing, Tom Brady from his
Speaker 1: team essentially made his young adulthood into adulthood a football paradise.
Speaker 1: I don't know how Tom Brady would respond to that,
Speaker 1: but the way you phrase that, Mark makes it sound
Speaker 1: like Tom Brady is Greg's dad. Well, I do think
Speaker 1: about Brady and his third Super Bowl and kind of
Speaker 1: what the difference were then. It is crazy to think about,
Speaker 1: Like no one thought Tom Brady was one of the
Speaker 1: five best Super Bowl, one of the best quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the league entering two thousand four in that playoff run,
Speaker 1: which is where I think Brady started to go to
Speaker 1: another level. Was that playoffs and then basically every spot onward.
Speaker 1: But like no one even thought he was a top
Speaker 1: five quarterback back then, like in the in the entire NFL,
Speaker 1: like at the time, not just accomplishments but like that
Speaker 1: year and now to think where Mahomes is in his
Speaker 1: fourth seed, and it's just crazy. Yeah, Mahomes hit the
Speaker 1: ground running, is the best quarterback in football in the
Speaker 1: second year. If you really listen, we're not gonna we're
Speaker 1: not gonna have issues with Andy Reid. Everything's played out
Speaker 1: pretty well. But he kept Alex Smith as the quarterback
Speaker 1: for the entirety of mahomes rookie year. You you got
Speaker 1: a feeling he probably would have pulled to Justin Herbert
Speaker 1: if he got that opportunity in year one, But I guess, uh,
Speaker 1: we'll never really know. Um alright, mark your opening thoughts
Speaker 1: of super Bowl week or letting Okay, well fitting that
Speaker 1: I follow Greg and and it's no surprise that we're
Speaker 1: kind of on the same wave length here and and
Speaker 1: my thoughts kind of the same as it always is
Speaker 1: coming into super Bowl Week. And it's wonderful, right that
Speaker 1: we get to invest so much energy and intensity into
Speaker 1: this game and the winner deserves all the praise. Right.
Speaker 1: You dream about winning a super Bowl when you're a child,
Speaker 1: you dream about playing in a super Bowl. But once
Speaker 1: it's over, especially if it's close like last year, we
Speaker 1: need to remember that the winners aren't like selected by
Speaker 1: destiny or you know, picked by some deity itself. We
Speaker 1: played the game and we remember the game for a reason.
Speaker 1: And I know after the fact that you can look
Speaker 1: at a team like the Forts from two thousand and
Speaker 1: nineteen and saying, oh, you know, they had holes, X, Y,
Speaker 1: and Z, and they didn't do this, and they didn't,
Speaker 1: but they were still a really good team and they
Speaker 1: deserve to be remembered as a good team. And I
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna be that much of a problem
Speaker 1: now that we have a Super Bowl winning quarterback with
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl m v P, and we have, of
Speaker 1: course the greatest Super Bowl winning quarterback of all time
Speaker 1: on the other side. But my thing is, if you
Speaker 1: take all those things away, Patrick Mahomes is still Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: and Tom Brady is still Tom Brady, and Bruce are
Speaker 1: and a last week that he needs a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: win to validate his career, and it's just such a
Speaker 1: to me. It's a defeated way of looking at sports.
Speaker 1: And I think sometimes we look at the tease teams
Speaker 1: that have won a conference championship. They've accomplished so much,
Speaker 1: and they remembered as losers, and the guys who wind
Speaker 1: up on the other side of the scoreboard get to
Speaker 1: have chicken banquets for the rest of their lives and
Speaker 1: talk about all these memories they shared with their teammates,
Speaker 1: and the other guys don't get to do that. And
Speaker 1: I just think that that's an unfair level of importance
Speaker 1: that we place on winning this game, even though it's great.
Speaker 1: Well the loser, the loser gets the chicken banquet, the
Speaker 1: winner gets a steak banquets going forward. But you know,
Speaker 1: there's a there's an old thing I think. Uh Francessa
Speaker 1: back in the old days used to say, you know,
Speaker 1: it's much worse to get to the super Bowl lose
Speaker 1: it than to just lose in the conference title game,
Speaker 1: which I don't know it I think because you you
Speaker 1: have to stick with that being on that stage. I
Speaker 1: think that's one thing clay Bon like, Um, it's so amplified.
Speaker 1: This is the center of like American culture around this game.
Speaker 1: Uh so the steaks are so high to lose that game, um,
Speaker 1: and conversely to win it just changes your life. Because
Speaker 1: football in this country and the Super Bowl is such
Speaker 1: a big thing. It's not just like any other game well,
Speaker 1: and it is what arians has coached. You know, he
Speaker 1: he does have a super Bowl as an assistant, I believe,
Speaker 1: but you know you believe him too. This is this
Speaker 1: is what you want and and it it's unfortunate, but
Speaker 1: it's one of the great things about sports too, is
Speaker 1: that there's no ambiguity listening to players and coaches talk
Speaker 1: about it that I've lost like one super Bowl, like
Speaker 1: you believe them, that that that never leaves them, and
Speaker 1: that that is that's unfortunate, but it like it. It
Speaker 1: is part of the deal. That this why he's been
Speaker 1: coaching all this time. It's is to win a game
Speaker 1: like this. Mark, I want to tee you up by
Speaker 1: letting the audience know what we learned right before we
Speaker 1: started that. Mark watched two hours of the NFL's opening
Speaker 1: night press conferences on Monday, two hour coverage. He was
Speaker 1: plugged in. So no one is going to have a
Speaker 1: better insight on this week than Mr Sessler. Mark, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean number one, I thought that we were all
Speaker 1: doing that. I you know, signals crossed. Um, I guess
Speaker 1: I took the bullet on that front, but I quite
Speaker 1: and I would say, alright, So Greg watched part of it,
Speaker 1: but I I right. I mean it's just like passing
Speaker 1: by and locked one in Greg's house. So I And
Speaker 1: here's the thing, like, this whole season, um, I think
Speaker 1: has brought forth some really good things. I don't think
Speaker 1: less we get, the less access for reporters is a nightmare.
Speaker 1: And there are a lot of things about Media Night.
Speaker 1: If you've ever been there, and we've we've been there
Speaker 1: to ten in a row, it's an absolute circus. You
Speaker 1: can't hear yourself think. But there are quiet conversations with
Speaker 1: players and and co especially the coaches that I always
Speaker 1: thought were great, a great set up for the week
Speaker 1: and for me, I know that you can go find
Speaker 1: some of that stuff, but that's what I missed. But
Speaker 1: what I liked was the compact nature of how they
Speaker 1: did it in two hours and party was like, this
Speaker 1: was so much um, this was so far more painless
Speaker 1: than the ones that we've been to. And I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to complain about them. And just I wonder if
Speaker 1: they would ever think about tweaking in general some of
Speaker 1: the media approach to the NFL season, Uh, And it
Speaker 1: would for me media Night, it would start right there.
Speaker 1: But I will say one of the things I love
Speaker 1: the coaching matchup of Andy Reid Bruce First Bruce arians
Speaker 1: and they spoke last night, and I love what they
Speaker 1: had to say and just be able to concentrate on
Speaker 1: the two of them. I remember when West and I
Speaker 1: once went to cover the Harbord Brothers right the press
Speaker 1: conference for that, and it was like we were watching
Speaker 1: like two inaugurations at the same time. It was so overdone,
Speaker 1: you know, West and I were thinking, what are we
Speaker 1: possibly supposed to write about this event? It's so overblown.
Speaker 1: I just like taking some of this and putting it
Speaker 1: a little bit, a little bit more perspective. It's it's
Speaker 1: a game. It's a few days from now. These people
Speaker 1: can speak and we do the game. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I need to have, you know, Lady Gaga like
Speaker 1: shouting from the rooftops while I'm trying to hear eight
Speaker 1: other people talk. Anyways, um listen, I I you are
Speaker 1: more of the minimalist by nature in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: I love that the Super Bowl is big and gaudy
Speaker 1: and overblown. That's one of the things I love about
Speaker 1: the entire operations. So I disagree even the media night,
Speaker 1: I'm not I actually haven't been to the last couple.
Speaker 1: I kind of got out of that assignment. But when
Speaker 1: I first when I first started covering it, though I
Speaker 1: thought it was like a thrill, I felt like I
Speaker 1: was in the middle of everything. Uh and I do
Speaker 1: you mentioned that, Like, it's not so much the guys
Speaker 1: on the risers at media night, um that matter, because
Speaker 1: that's when it gets stinky and the body odors, and
Speaker 1: it's really compact. In a pandemic world, you wonder if
Speaker 1: that's something that needs to exist, But it is those
Speaker 1: finding the defensive coordinator sitting off on his own on
Speaker 1: the bottom level of the arena and you can get
Speaker 1: up to him and get ten minutes with them on
Speaker 1: your own, Like all that stuff that that melts away.
Speaker 1: If you turn this into a big zoom call every year,
Speaker 1: well that would be my bigger point. Like I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to like take a shot at the event. I
Speaker 1: think they could tone it down, but the reporting opportunities
Speaker 1: are pretty special at that kind of an event. One
Speaker 1: one less little thing and then I will shut up
Speaker 1: if I blinding lights we get at the weekend sings
Speaker 1: it and he's gonna be singing it this Sunday. They
Speaker 1: played it for I'm not kidding, I think thirty five
Speaker 1: minutes during that that presentation. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: strategy is. If I'm the weekend, I don't play that
Speaker 1: song during the Super Bowl just to throw everyone for
Speaker 1: a massive loop, because it's like I've heard the song
Speaker 1: four hundred and sixty times now I really like it.
Speaker 1: But I mean it's like Hotel California. I've heard the song,
Speaker 1: I really liked it, and now I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: need to hear it for the next three years. Now
Speaker 1: I'm doing well exactly. My takeaway from this is Mark
Speaker 1: will Will would enjoy I think Opening Night in any year,
Speaker 1: even if it was pretty pandemic post pandemic, if you
Speaker 1: were just watching it home on your TV. I think
Speaker 1: I was gonna say it almost sounds like Mark's all
Speaker 1: set with going to Super Bowls going forward. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's in player right now. No, I like
Speaker 1: a nice, quiet hotel room. I mean I can that's
Speaker 1: I'm missing that right now. We've got kids running up
Speaker 1: and down the hallway. Okay, so uh, things I didn't
Speaker 1: see coming in the last ten months, other than the
Speaker 1: global pandemic and everything that's come with that, UM and
Speaker 1: at certain political events that have unfolded in Ah, it's
Speaker 1: been a weird ten months, let's put it that way.
Speaker 1: One thing I haven't seen coming. I have a whole
Speaker 1: new appreciation of Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. I never
Speaker 1: thought that would happen, never in a million years as
Speaker 1: a Jets fan tortured by the Patriots. UM. But I
Speaker 1: find myself rooting for him uh this season, especially during
Speaker 1: this playoff run. To me, he's the biggest story of
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl by far, and I think it's truly incredible.
Speaker 1: You could play for one team for twenty years and
Speaker 1: have all the success he had in New England. UM
Speaker 1: leave in free agency, do the Joe Montana to the
Speaker 1: Chiefs move. And if he did that, then he went
Speaker 1: to the Chiefs, and he went to the Bucks and
Speaker 1: they went nine and seven, and he played pretty good
Speaker 1: football and they maybe won a playoff game, and that
Speaker 1: would have been a really big story about him winning
Speaker 1: a playoff game and then getting he got dispatched in
Speaker 1: the divisional playoffs or even the conference title game. That
Speaker 1: to me would have felt like a success at this
Speaker 1: stage for a forty three year old quarterback and that
Speaker 1: would have been an acceptable outcome. But instead he plays
Speaker 1: at a level this season that has approximated his peak,
Speaker 1: and he takes this new team to the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: And I just think, and you guys, I know, are
Speaker 1: all on the same page out this. I think that
Speaker 1: this is a remarkable sports story. Uh. And I think
Speaker 1: it's building potentially to a storybook finish. Uh. Maybe not,
Speaker 1: and maybe none of these things, but the way the
Speaker 1: story is being painted, that won't have an outcome on
Speaker 1: the how the game has played. But imagine if Tom
Speaker 1: Brady does win another Super Bowl, how incredible that would be.
Speaker 1: It kind of goes to Claibon's point to about remembering
Speaker 1: the winners. And in the comparison of Montana going to
Speaker 1: to the Chiefs is different in terms of age um,
Speaker 1: but they went I think seventeen and eight. I just
Speaker 1: checked quickly when Montana started games. They went to an
Speaker 1: a f C championship game. And yet I think in
Speaker 1: the history books you think like like he led the
Speaker 1: league in like interception percentage and played really well in
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. It does go to show like sort of
Speaker 1: what you remember. And I think the fact that they
Speaker 1: won this last game and so much of it is
Speaker 1: the offensive line and the defense and everything else, and
Speaker 1: Brady playing extremely well. It's like history. You do end
Speaker 1: up remembering the guys who get to this game, and
Speaker 1: especially you're right, Dan, if they won this game. Man,
Speaker 1: I just wanted like a lot of points. Just give
Speaker 1: me the points in the thirties, back and forth, just
Speaker 1: like the a f C Championship when it was Patriots
Speaker 1: Chiefs and last guy with the ball wins. That's the game.
Speaker 1: I On the subject of Tom Brady and his continuing
Speaker 1: greatness at age forty three, once upon a time he
Speaker 1: said forty five was the goal. He was ask during
Speaker 1: media day if now he could under he could see
Speaker 1: a scenario where he plays beyond his forty birthday. Here's
Speaker 1: what Brady had to say. Yeah, definitely. Again, it's a
Speaker 1: physical sport, and just the perspective I have on that is,
Speaker 1: you know, you never know kind of when, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: that moment is um just because it's a contact sport
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of training that goes into it.
Speaker 1: And again it has to be a hundred percent commitment
Speaker 1: from myself to keep doing it. It's just a mark.
Speaker 1: You're right around that age. So I'm a little older.
Speaker 1: It increases my um total respect for him. And I
Speaker 1: like what you said about Tom Brady, and we're on
Speaker 1: the same party line there, and I have to wonder
Speaker 1: in general. I mean, Greg, I I get your fascination
Speaker 1: with Mahomes, and I think I get the nation's fascination
Speaker 1: with Mahomes and it shouldn't be taken for granted or
Speaker 1: normalized what he and the Chiefs are doing. But if
Speaker 1: you're in your forties, how are you not rooting for
Speaker 1: Tom Brady to pull this thing off? I just find
Speaker 1: him to be This is one of the most remarkable
Speaker 1: sports stories of any sport around UM. This is when
Speaker 1: the body breaks down for masked chunks of the population.
Speaker 1: We saw what happened with Brett Farve in year two
Speaker 1: with the Vikings. It was tough on the eyes. Um
Speaker 1: Brady at forty five, could he played at forty six
Speaker 1: or forty seven. He's the one athlete where I would
Speaker 1: say I will not doubt this guy until he literally
Speaker 1: like locks himself in a storage cabinet away from the
Speaker 1: NFL because it's like he's gonna keep playing, and he
Speaker 1: goes to Tampa Bay and Bruce Arians it's not hyperbole.
Speaker 1: The belief he instilled in his teammates and everyone around
Speaker 1: him triggered this. That's a huge part of this. You
Speaker 1: don't just plug in any quarterback who's good. This is
Speaker 1: a Tom Brady effect in Tampa Bay. It's just as
Speaker 1: powerful as his play itself. I almost feel uncomfortable because
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for both teams. It's it's like no fun
Speaker 1: to root for both teams. Men. A major trade went down,
Speaker 1: uh in the NFL in the last couple of days.
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions send Matthew Stafford to the Los Angeles Rams
Speaker 1: in exchange for Jared goth and multiple draft picks. The
Speaker 1: Lions will receive a third round pick in a first
Speaker 1: round pick in two and a first round pick in Tree.
Speaker 1: It is the first exchange Patrick Clayboy on a former
Speaker 1: number one overall picks ever since then of the common
Speaker 1: draft era. It all becomes official, uh, when the new
Speaker 1: league year clicks in on March. When you heard the news, Patrick,
Speaker 1: it was your first takeaway on the deal. My first
Speaker 1: takeaway when I heard the news is, oh God, I
Speaker 1: have to go turn the camera on and do work.
Speaker 1: As that called Montgomery was actually working on Saturday night.
Speaker 1: We eventually came in on Sunday to do a special
Speaker 1: edition of NFL Now, but that's that's all kimono open stuff.
Speaker 1: But my thought was, oh my gosh, they did it.
Speaker 1: Less Need was we were running sound of less Need
Speaker 1: all week last week where he's alluding to this beautiful
Speaker 1: mystery of what happens with Jared Goff. And we knew
Speaker 1: through John Wolford starting in the playoff game and potentially
Speaker 1: starting in a second playoff game if he was healthy,
Speaker 1: that the relationship between McVeigh and golf the football player, uh,
Speaker 1: seemed like it was coming to an end. And so
Speaker 1: they did it. They went and got a quarterback who
Speaker 1: could perhaps do those things that Jared Goff hasn't done.
Speaker 1: We'll say, uh, and we don't know what it's ultimately
Speaker 1: gonna gonna look like, but they did it. They're trying,
Speaker 1: and that's really the dichotomy of the discussion is win
Speaker 1: now or a crew picks to try to win later.
Speaker 1: And as a football fan, I'm always gonna side with
Speaker 1: the teams that want to win now because these hypothetical picks,
Speaker 1: I don't know who these nineteen year olds are or
Speaker 1: these eighteen year olds that are gonna play in. But
Speaker 1: I know who Matt Stafford is, and I'm excited to
Speaker 1: watch him play in so far next year. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: am too. It's just such an interesting trade for so
Speaker 1: many reasons that they thought Stafford was that much better
Speaker 1: and and and I tend to agree that that they
Speaker 1: had to do something they couldn't They couldn't continue along
Speaker 1: this path with Golf, And so the trade terms are
Speaker 1: so outrageous that you know you're you're taking it back.
Speaker 1: At first, I look at it like Stafford and especially
Speaker 1: if you look at all the other offers around the
Speaker 1: league was maybe worth a first and a third, and
Speaker 1: then getting rid of Golf's contract was worth a first,
Speaker 1: and so you know, it sounds like a lot together.
Speaker 1: And I know Golf, Um, you know, he's spoken with
Speaker 1: Michael Silver and he's obviously got to be hurt by this.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of people who are saying, no,
Speaker 1: the Lions really wanted Golf, like they really view him
Speaker 1: as a as a big part of it. That's fine.
Speaker 1: The entire NFL evaluated Stafford and Golf that was involved
Speaker 1: in this trade basically like the Rams. Did you know
Speaker 1: that like that? No one wanted Golf. That's why you
Speaker 1: had to pay that much to get rid of him,
Speaker 1: and the Rams didn't want to get stuck having him
Speaker 1: when he had forty five million dollars guarantee the next
Speaker 1: two years. And a lot of people wanted Stafford partly
Speaker 1: because of the contract because he's not doing much money
Speaker 1: at all over the next two years and reportedly doesn't
Speaker 1: want more money, so he's just gonna stay on that contract.
Speaker 1: So that that was part of it. And uh, everyone's
Speaker 1: critical of the Rams for trading away the picks. I'm
Speaker 1: somewhere in the middle, but just recognizing that they've done
Speaker 1: this now for five years and they've been one of
Speaker 1: the best five or six teams in the NFL. So
Speaker 1: we we always say like we want teams to think differently.
Speaker 1: They think differently. They have not cared about first round
Speaker 1: picks and it's worked. You can't really argue with the
Speaker 1: fact that they've been, you know, a top team with
Speaker 1: this approach and this gives him a chance to compete
Speaker 1: next year. I'm with you because you know, I've had
Speaker 1: my issues with the Rams um since they moved to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, but this, Uh, this changed that because I
Speaker 1: I like less sneed and Sean McVeigh a being on
Speaker 1: the same page and rolling the dice and being gamblers
Speaker 1: to get what they want had The mistake would have
Speaker 1: been to go through another season with this semi divorce
Speaker 1: with Jared goff Um happening while they have John Wolford
Speaker 1: and others on the roster. It was too It was
Speaker 1: becoming too big of a talking point. Let's need though.
Speaker 1: I will say this because his name is on this thing,
Speaker 1: and there will be people tracking this for a while
Speaker 1: depending on how Stafford does. They gave up a first,
Speaker 1: a second, and a third to go up and get
Speaker 1: Golf in the draft. They've given up a third and
Speaker 1: the first and the first to get rid of him.
Speaker 1: I mean, by all take away the Super Bowl year.
Speaker 1: By all accounts, that's a costly that's a player that
Speaker 1: cost a lot of draft capital and mistakes. Um. But
Speaker 1: the same time, from a football watching side of it,
Speaker 1: and this is just me, two of the most annoying
Speaker 1: quarterback situations in the league have been fixed. Um. Golf
Speaker 1: in l A was driving me crazy. Matthew Stafford in
Speaker 1: Detroit felt like the same thing forty five years in
Speaker 1: a row. I love shaking it up. I have Jared
Speaker 1: Goff to me fits the Detroit Lions perfectly. Go enjoy
Speaker 1: yourself for as a bridge quarterback, you're in the right city.
Speaker 1: But that Stafford and the Rams makes them intriguing. There's
Speaker 1: so much pressure on this team. This is a super
Speaker 1: Bowl or bus team. If this goes south, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be very interesting in Los Angeles next season. I do
Speaker 1: think I think you get half of what you want
Speaker 1: because I don't think Jared Goff in Detroit is gonna
Speaker 1: necessarily been be a fun even if he's a bridge.
Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes. And and well, it takes
Speaker 1: them out of l A. I mean, but yeah, it
Speaker 1: takes it takes them out of l A. And I
Speaker 1: also I'm not giving out any lollipops um to less
Speaker 1: Need because less Need was behind and Shaw McVeigh was
Speaker 1: a huge voice in that organization and ownership. Of course,
Speaker 1: we're behind giving Jared Goff a huge contract extension. And
Speaker 1: in September two thousand nineteen, that was not very long ago,
Speaker 1: even if it if it feels like a long ago.
Speaker 1: So this trade was paying for the sins of that contract.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people were missing that when
Speaker 1: when it went down, it's like, oh, you're giving up
Speaker 1: all those draft picks in addition to god, while they
Speaker 1: had to it was the Gossweiler trade from a few
Speaker 1: years back on steroids and who knows. This does feel
Speaker 1: like a great experiment for the Rams. Also feels to
Speaker 1: me desperate ultimately that that they're gonna do this and
Speaker 1: get Stafford and be like, now we'll win a super Bowl,
Speaker 1: will you you? I hope you take the next step
Speaker 1: because we patrick you mentioned you never know what first
Speaker 1: round picks, but many of titles are built on teams
Speaker 1: that used the draft wisely, especially their first round picks. Uh.
Speaker 1: And they drafted Jared got first overall in two thousand
Speaker 1: and sixteen, as we've noted, no first round pick in
Speaker 1: two and now twenty three. Matthew Stafford better stay healthy, uh,
Speaker 1: or this is gonna get This is gonna turn into
Speaker 1: a trade that potentially gets everybody fired, maybe even on
Speaker 1: both sides. Well, you mentioned the draft um in terms
Speaker 1: of getting the picks. They used their pick on Jared
Speaker 1: golf right, and that didn't work out. So you get
Speaker 1: it here and didn't work out or did it not
Speaker 1: work out because he had some big seasons stuck to
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. What's I feel like acting like he
Speaker 1: was Mark Sanchez or Something's not quite fair either. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think, but they that that's what they did
Speaker 1: on the way out, and maybe perhaps they could have
Speaker 1: uh saved the pick in terms of making the trade
Speaker 1: if they were a little more. Hey, yeah, we signed
Speaker 1: Jared for a reason. We like Jared. Jared's our quarterback.
Speaker 1: But that's that's how the Rams didn't feel that way.
Speaker 1: Bottom Is Greg said other people in the league didn't
Speaker 1: feel that way about them. So maybe unless needs eyes,
Speaker 1: you prefer to have a known quantity than another shot
Speaker 1: at another quarterback, right, I mean Stafford's young, though, I
Speaker 1: mean we don't know how good Stafford's gonna be with McVeigh.
Speaker 1: Would be interesting. I would love to know what Anthony Lynn,
Speaker 1: who was the who was coaching Justin Herbert a couple
Speaker 1: of months ago, went to Detroit to coach Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: and now is coaching Jared Goff, what does Anthony Lynn
Speaker 1: think about these turn of events. It feels like a
Speaker 1: step down in terms of your quarterbacks to work with.
Speaker 1: In my book, he didn't get any credit for Justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: so why is he going to get any credit? You well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Detroit. Detroit taking on golf is is crazy,
Speaker 1: isn't it. I mean it's a It's a really fascinating
Speaker 1: move for them to take on golf as as part
Speaker 1: of it. That they wanted him, that's fascinating. There's the
Speaker 1: money involved is interesting, But I guess a team that
Speaker 1: is rebuilding is not going to be high in, you know,
Speaker 1: going nuts to the free agent market, so I guess
Speaker 1: they felt they could take it, take it on it all.
Speaker 1: Also is interesting a team that is so focused on
Speaker 1: blowing up the machine. In addition to having golf in
Speaker 1: that contract, they only got in two thousand twenty one,
Speaker 1: just the third round pick out of it, so the
Speaker 1: true like marquee draft picks don't come until next year.
Speaker 1: I guess if I'm a Lions fan, UM, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess I feel okay about the trade. You got.
Speaker 1: You got the draft assets out of it, and golf
Speaker 1: is not anyone's the idea of an exciting quarterback. But
Speaker 1: certainly you could do worse as a bridge guy. Um
Speaker 1: I would give. I would give the Lines the edge
Speaker 1: on the trade, but I also see how it could
Speaker 1: potentially backfire. If Goff continues to regress, everyone's gonna look
Speaker 1: pretty bad. I think in that building, you're Alliance fan,
Speaker 1: though you've spent your entire fandom of a certain age
Speaker 1: watching you know, Megatron play a long career in Detroit
Speaker 1: and nothing came of it. Barry Sanders long career in Detroit,
Speaker 1: retired earlier than he needed to, nothing came from it.
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford another another piece like that. So Jared Goff
Speaker 1: is a bridge. I love what Brad Holmes did to
Speaker 1: get the draft picks. I think he learned a lot
Speaker 1: from less sneed and got a lot of value from
Speaker 1: less sneed and they honestly, I know this won't happen.
Speaker 1: But if you look at the hole Deshaun Watson thing
Speaker 1: Detroit is, I'm not I don't think this whatever, this
Speaker 1: would be the case. But you've got the draft picks
Speaker 1: to make a play for anything else in the league,
Speaker 1: to move up to go for to Shaun Watson, to
Speaker 1: get the quarterback you want in the draft. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think Golf was I do agree with the brock
Speaker 1: ouspars Oswilder side of this to some degree, except that
Speaker 1: it might be a little bit more elongated, where you
Speaker 1: get golf for a year, but this is not their
Speaker 1: final destination under center, right, they think golf is most
Speaker 1: likely gonna struggle. I mean I I think he's set
Speaker 1: up to totally fail. And Dan Campbell is talking about
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to evaluate this team for
Speaker 1: a couple of years, like that's the long game, and
Speaker 1: this is like, I don't think that works in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Like we've seen teams with multiple draft picks, and you
Speaker 1: know that if you have a great coach and a
Speaker 1: great front office that can put together a huge team,
Speaker 1: like that's great. But it's not like the Dolphins are
Speaker 1: are hitting on all these drafts. They've had a ton
Speaker 1: of draft picks. Some are working, some aren't. But you
Speaker 1: have to have like a great organization and build that up.
Speaker 1: And that's just whether Dan Campbell and Brad Holmes ultimately
Speaker 1: have the goods. Golf is set up for failure. And
Speaker 1: and then and the last thing I just wanted to
Speaker 1: say on like the golf, the golf contract was such
Speaker 1: a mistake. And I've seen a lot of people say like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, the Rams shouldn't escape being blamed. Well, no,
Speaker 1: of course, they're admitting that they made him a huge
Speaker 1: mistake of like they made a man some mistake and
Speaker 1: giving Girley that contract and goth that contract, and they're
Speaker 1: doing the Patriots like thing, which is like, we're just
Speaker 1: gonna get out of it, but like this trade is
Speaker 1: admitting that we made a horrible mistake with that contract
Speaker 1: and this is the best way that we think we
Speaker 1: can get out of it and still compete next year,
Speaker 1: and they probably will. They have to really prepare for
Speaker 1: their defense to regress. I think that's part of it too.
Speaker 1: They're not expecting to be a dominant number one defense.
Speaker 1: The offense is gonna have to be like a lot better.
Speaker 1: It's amazing how quickly things changed with the Rams and
Speaker 1: their quarterback. Gentlemen, let's continue talking quarterbacks. Um. There was
Speaker 1: an old book series, Choose your Own Adventure. This was
Speaker 1: kind of like an eighties and nineties kids um theme
Speaker 1: book where Mark, I know you were a big FANOM
Speaker 1: I used to read them all the time. They actually
Speaker 1: do they basically you you read the book that and
Speaker 1: then you have a fork in the road and you
Speaker 1: actually get to choose where the story goes by now
Speaker 1: you know, navigating to the page that tells you to go.
Speaker 1: They have it now with my kids. I watch it
Speaker 1: on like Netflix shows and stuff. They have these similar
Speaker 1: interactive type shows where you could choose to go one
Speaker 1: way or another, which is, you know, a sign of
Speaker 1: the times. We are going to do our own choose
Speaker 1: your own adventure QB style Mark. Uh, We're gonna kind
Speaker 1: of go around, uh take turns, but you get us going.
Speaker 1: Like as we try to figure out what happens, we
Speaker 1: know Matt Stafford's in l A. He's not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: Golf is in Detroit, He's unlikely to move. What's what's
Speaker 1: next in our adventure of of quarterbacks in this very
Speaker 1: interesting offseason. Well, it's my portion of the adventure, so
Speaker 1: I can started as I wish. Um, I think an
Speaker 1: adventure should be you know, it can have some contrast
Speaker 1: and some issues, but it should be pleasant in the end.
Speaker 1: And um, I'm thinking what makes me enjoy football? It's
Speaker 1: this show doing this show, And so what would make
Speaker 1: this show more intriguing? How about this the Shaun Watson
Speaker 1: and I had to think about this real herd because
Speaker 1: I think this is the next this is the next
Speaker 1: big piece to fall. It can happen two months after
Speaker 1: free agency. It's happening. At some point the Texans say no,
Speaker 1: I don't believe anything. The tech and say, so, here's
Speaker 1: the thing. Deshaun Watson, not to the Niners, not to
Speaker 1: some other team. He's going to the New York Football Jets.
Speaker 1: All right, the Jets for so long? There we go.
Speaker 1: They I don't think this fit a month ago. Well,
Speaker 1: it's funny because we talked about this when these started up.
Speaker 1: These reports started to bubble up, and I thought the
Speaker 1: Jets with no coach, um and questions and ownership in
Speaker 1: a roster that needs help, I just don't see it.
Speaker 1: You can't wish casting to New York. But Robert Sala
Speaker 1: changes everything. Their draft capital makes them an ideal trade partner.
Speaker 1: And I and I, you know, we don't need to
Speaker 1: go through the trade terms for all these things. But
Speaker 1: I would say that you've gotta move um three first,
Speaker 1: and I think maybe one other little additional pick you
Speaker 1: get de Shaun Watson, maybe they throw in like a
Speaker 1: nice seven seventh rounder is just a little tiny order
Speaker 1: for you down the road the Jets, and maybe an
Speaker 1: autographed headshot of Jack Easterby. And there we go. The
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson goes to New York and bang, the adventure
Speaker 1: is off and running in Flora Park. Might love it.
Speaker 1: Um very interesting. We talked about, well, we've talked about
Speaker 1: this a lot now because ever since the report down
Speaker 1: in Florida's Surface that the Jets were the preferred destination
Speaker 1: of Deshaun Watson Rich to me, any of ESPN dot
Speaker 1: com since said that that's not necessarily the case. So
Speaker 1: I don't know where where all this stands, but that
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because this has huge your own adventure and
Speaker 1: in this reality, he has been moved to the New
Speaker 1: York Jets, changing everything. As I said, that would change everything,
Speaker 1: and it would be all because of the great Robert
Speaker 1: sale that had happened. Let me go next. Okay, so
Speaker 1: now the Domino's fall, the Jets have Deshaun Watson. The
Speaker 1: first thing they're gonna do. Um, Let's yeah, let's say
Speaker 1: maybe it cost them three first round picks. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: what the cost was. Now they have Sam Donald on
Speaker 1: the roster. The first thing that Joe Douglas is gonna
Speaker 1: do is to recoup some lost draft assets. He moves uh,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald to the San Francisco forty Niners, Kyle Shanahan
Speaker 1: quietly was looking for a fresh start at her back,
Speaker 1: so he sends a second round pick back to the
Speaker 1: Jets for Sam Donald, and now the forty Niners have
Speaker 1: um a situation because Jimmy Garoppolo got a nice contract
Speaker 1: a couple of years back, but he's been banged up
Speaker 1: and hurt a lot. I know he got to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl last year, but apparently, like Sean McVeigh with
Speaker 1: the Rams, quietly unhappy with Garoppolo and thinks he can
Speaker 1: get the most out of Sam Donald, who would be
Speaker 1: potentially a great fit in that West Coast offense. So uh,
Speaker 1: Patrick Claiban, Uh, they now have two starting quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: that building. What happens next, well, the the starting quarterback
Speaker 1: if they if they believe in the acquisition of Sam Donald,
Speaker 1: which of course happened, because these are the adventures that
Speaker 1: we have selected today, then that takes away my landing
Speaker 1: spot for Matt Ryan to be reunited with Kyle Shanahan
Speaker 1: the remainder of this contract with the Atlanta Falcons, So
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan needing a home, the Falcons looking for a
Speaker 1: new start with Justin fields U one of the two
Speaker 1: quarterbacks from the outer Atlanta area in this draft along
Speaker 1: with Trumps. He is selected there and Matt Ryan is
Speaker 1: traded to the Chicago Bears, where we see how Matt
Speaker 1: Mage's offense will operate, uh in the future in the
Speaker 1: post Trubisky world where they have been looking for consistency,
Speaker 1: They've been looking for somebody who could perform. They tried
Speaker 1: to do that in Nick Foles, it did not work,
Speaker 1: and Matt Ryan era united with Julio Jones. Perhaps Julio
Speaker 1: could be on the move as well the new era
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. But I would say Matt Ryan Chicago bound
Speaker 1: after we've seen a couple of these quarters in this
Speaker 1: adventure again that we have chosen that could potentially have
Speaker 1: been Bears at one time. Finally, Matt Ryan in Chicago.
Speaker 1: W A, okay, let me just where you get to, Greg,
Speaker 1: Let me just reset things here. Watson to the Jets,
Speaker 1: Donald to the Niners, Matt Ryan to the Bear. The
Speaker 1: now we have two quarterbacks in San Francisco and an
Speaker 1: opening in Atlanta with a lot of draft capital. Greg, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, um, this would be a tough you know, uh,
Speaker 1: test of the Kyle Shanahan John Lynch to trust in
Speaker 1: San Francisco because, um, you know there's some thought they
Speaker 1: might want Kirk Cousins, their old buddy. You know, they
Speaker 1: don't get Matt Ryan, they do get Sam Donald, and
Speaker 1: then there's no point of having Jimmy G. So you
Speaker 1: just call up Bill Belichick, who, uh, who never really
Speaker 1: lost his love for Jimmy G. And you know, Bill
Speaker 1: loves the deal. He just loves how it looks that
Speaker 1: he traded Jimmy G for a second round pick, and uh,
Speaker 1: he sends you know, he gets a third round pick
Speaker 1: to get him back. He sends a third round pick
Speaker 1: to get him back. They would be h third round.
Speaker 1: I mean, no one's given up that much for these guys.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think Garoppolo on this contract. Maybe
Speaker 1: a second or third round. Maybe it's that second round.
Speaker 1: Either way, he returns to New England and um, they
Speaker 1: have some faith that he fits well in their system,
Speaker 1: did not in Kyle Shanahan's. But I think they'll evaluate
Speaker 1: him based on what they know about him, and they
Speaker 1: loved him, and I think I think that is the quarterback.
Speaker 1: If the Bill Belichick gets his choice of choosing all
Speaker 1: his adventures this offseason, that's just my suspicion is that's
Speaker 1: his number one choice is getting Jimmy g back for
Speaker 1: a relatively affordable price, and that's how they move forward. Greg.
Speaker 1: You know, I have to say, Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: enjoyed the report that surface that Matthew Stafford said I
Speaker 1: will literally go to any team but the Patriots. And
Speaker 1: I know in the way that that that hurt you
Speaker 1: because you you're thinking of yourself. Man, things have changed
Speaker 1: the New England. It might not be a place people
Speaker 1: want to play anymore. Well, I think it's like a
Speaker 1: lot of Patriots stories. You've thought about it a lot
Speaker 1: more than I have. Um, but yeah, this is what
Speaker 1: happens when you bring matt Patricia back. I mean, who
Speaker 1: needs Matt Patricia that, that's for sure. I mean I
Speaker 1: did not look for you know that the treasure would
Speaker 1: be nowhere near that quarterback room, right, But that's that
Speaker 1: was part of Matthew Stafford. Yeah, if you if you're
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford, you want to stay away from him. I
Speaker 1: don't think that was It does sound like there was
Speaker 1: a lot of teams in on Stafford. We didn't get
Speaker 1: into that. There was about six or seven teams. You know,
Speaker 1: if We're to trust Albert Brier's reporting, and why wouldn't I? Um,
Speaker 1: it's really interesting who went hard after him? The Patriots
Speaker 1: were pretty were very not in the ballpark. Um of
Speaker 1: the Panthers or the Rams who went super hard they
Speaker 1: were they were, they were, they were trying to get
Speaker 1: into the cheat right, they weren't even close, so it
Speaker 1: wouldn't have mattered. Um do do we want to keep going? Here? Mark?
Speaker 1: Do you have I do? I think? Yeah? When when
Speaker 1: de Shaun Watson went to the Jets, if I had
Speaker 1: to guess who would be the most annoyed person out there,
Speaker 1: I would go Carol and a Panther's owner David Tepper.
Speaker 1: I think he um uh, they're gonna make a hard
Speaker 1: push for that. I think they wanted a quarterback that
Speaker 1: they can basically go right into the skies with. I mean,
Speaker 1: we saw the Teddy Bridgewater signing. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: about let's draft someone. So here's what I've cooked up here.
Speaker 1: Tell me what you think the Dallas Cowboys um or
Speaker 1: have a have a Dak Prescott situation? Okay, And Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott in the shadows right now is annoyed? Okay? Like, hey,
Speaker 1: you signed everyone else on your offense two long term
Speaker 1: deals while leaving Dak Prescott out there. He gets hurt.
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones sends a bunch of nice things about, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring him back. We're gonna sign him. He's
Speaker 1: our quarterback forever. Huh. In this offseason, something stunning will occur.
Speaker 1: All right, this is what I predict will happen. That
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers, they will number one, wiggle their way
Speaker 1: up in the draft from number eight to number three.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins picked, they will use some draft capital, and
Speaker 1: everyone's thinking, oh, they're gonna go after their guy at
Speaker 1: number three, whether that's justin Fields, whether that's you know,
Speaker 1: it could be anyone whoever. They like. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a quarterback though, but instead Zack Wilson. Instead, they
Speaker 1: basically ship that pick, along with other draft picks to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys for Dak Prescott. They solved that situation for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, who are in a bad like it's like
Speaker 1: a Deshaun Watson super Lights scenario. There's not it's not
Speaker 1: quite as nefarious. But Dak Dak Prescott, who has been
Speaker 1: franchised by the Cowboys, goes and signs a new deal
Speaker 1: with Carolina for five years. They've got their quarterback forever.
Speaker 1: And the Dallas Cowboys used that number three pick. And
Speaker 1: we can get into the draft stuff later, but I
Speaker 1: would peg them as taking Justin Fields at number three,
Speaker 1: with the New York Jets out of the mix for
Speaker 1: a quarterback at number two. M all right, love that
Speaker 1: very interesting. Let's let's stay in the NFC East. Then
Speaker 1: the Philadelva Eagles. You know, there's a love affair obviously
Speaker 1: with Howie Roseman and management and Carson Wentz. We're so
Speaker 1: we're told, and they they chose Wentz over Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: on some level. Well, that's all smoke screen. They gotta
Speaker 1: trade wins. They gotta get him out of there. They're
Speaker 1: trying to keep his value up. UM. I know is
Speaker 1: cost prohibitive with some of the certain things with the cap,
Speaker 1: but they'll figure out a way and and get the
Speaker 1: fresh start and move forward with Jalen Hurts and Nick
Speaker 1: Sirianni is the head coach. So they send Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: to the Indianapolis Colts, a cults team that just had
Speaker 1: a one year experiment with Philip Rivers. And I read
Speaker 1: a report this week that the cults are not looking
Speaker 1: to bring in some rookie to groom. No, they believe
Speaker 1: they have a Super Bowl window that's open right now.
Speaker 1: They want a veteran quarterback and follow the follow the
Speaker 1: dots here. Of course, Frank Reich, the offensive coordinator of
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl champion Eagles, is the head coach of
Speaker 1: the cult. If Frank Wright can't fix fix Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: nobody can. So he gets that fresh start, and Indie
Speaker 1: and the Eagles also desperately get the fresh start they
Speaker 1: need and get that toxic business. Not necess really wins.
Speaker 1: Someone's saying he's toxic, but the entire situation is toxic.
Speaker 1: With a new head coach and these two quarterbacks get
Speaker 1: rid of that problem, and um, you gotta maybe a
Speaker 1: first round pick out of it. M M. First round man,
Speaker 1: I with that contract, it'll be tough, but it wouldn't
Speaker 1: shock me. It really wouldn't. I think people. One thing
Speaker 1: people missed on the Nick Sirianni presser after they were
Speaker 1: done kind of making fun of him, you know, being
Speaker 1: a little nervous, was man and they were noncommittal about
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. I have not bought this narrative that they're
Speaker 1: only hiring the head coach to rehabilitate Carson Wentz, the
Speaker 1: fact that they're putting him in Jalen Hurts on the
Speaker 1: same footing that they hired a QB coach with a
Speaker 1: history with Jalen Hurts. I think if they can get
Speaker 1: the right offer, and that just might be any offer
Speaker 1: for Carson Wentz, I think they might move on for him.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that's a crazy one at all.
Speaker 1: It feels like, if anything, they've done whatever they can
Speaker 1: to pump up or you know, not allow his trade
Speaker 1: value to sink even further. If it's clear you're moving on,
Speaker 1: you get him for nothing. But if it's like, this
Speaker 1: is our dude. We've got his life size poster and
Speaker 1: Howie Roseman's office. Everyone loves them. Oh, we wouldn't think
Speaker 1: of trading them. But you blew us away with an offer,
Speaker 1: well there you go. Um alright, claybron you are up.
Speaker 1: The Denver Bronco fans are like, please talk about us.
Speaker 1: We don't believe in Drew Lock anymore. Please give us
Speaker 1: something new. And that's the problem, damn, Because I think
Speaker 1: they do believe in Drew Lock, and so they stick
Speaker 1: with Drew Lock. Going into another of all of this
Speaker 1: chaos is going on. Everybody's moving around. The Denver Broncos
Speaker 1: are are sticking and they are true to Drew Lock.
Speaker 1: They are locked onto him, if you will. But all
Speaker 1: the turmoil going on in the South. The Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: as Mark said, have have their eyes on a quarterback,
Speaker 1: but they also need they need a bridge. They need
Speaker 1: a bridge to get to Justin Fields. They would like
Speaker 1: to wait, uh in this circumstances adventure that we are chosen,
Speaker 1: that we have lived in. And it just so turns
Speaker 1: out that there's another quarterback that's been maligned in this
Speaker 1: very trade situation with the Carolina Panthers, and that is
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater finding another team, another team in another year,
Speaker 1: in another oddly enough for him bridge situation. Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: back in the South, in the Dallas Cowboys, in a
Speaker 1: loaded offense with so much talent around him, trying to
Speaker 1: fend off the rookie at Justin Fields. It's it's going
Speaker 1: to be something for them to talk about in the
Speaker 1: in the metropolitan area down there, there is a there
Speaker 1: is a irony too Teddy Bridgewater's career becoming the ultimate
Speaker 1: bridge quarterback. I love that the bridge over the water.
Speaker 1: Here's my my one thing on that. Don't they already
Speaker 1: have like one of the top bridge quarterbacks in the league,
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. I know he's entering free, he knows the
Speaker 1: he knows the offense. He did something that Bridgewater is
Speaker 1: a big upgrade on Andy Dalton. I don't know. I don't. Well,
Speaker 1: he's gonna start for the Broncos, so you know, get
Speaker 1: excited Denver. Now I've never really do that. Who knows, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there might be a market. There might be a market
Speaker 1: for Andy Dalton services. But I'm gonna throw in one
Speaker 1: last one while we're talking bridge quarterback. One of my
Speaker 1: one of my favorite um little subplots, just following Saints
Speaker 1: Twitter talk about you know things change fast. They change
Speaker 1: fast in New England after Brady died, I mean after
Speaker 1: Brady left. Yeah, I'm saying career much. Yes, it's everything
Speaker 1: makes more sense now everything makes up there. Let's like
Speaker 1: bye bye after that. After that, all one the way
Speaker 1: the new trend like people people are worried that they're
Speaker 1: gonna lose Jamis Winston. They're like, I don't know, there
Speaker 1: might be competition for Jamis Winston. And I say, no,
Speaker 1: I say you live on Jamis Free signs with Saints
Speaker 1: and put Tayson Hill on the bench and Javis witson. Hey,
Speaker 1: that's what that's what. Um, that's what Tom Brady Sr.
Speaker 1: Said right, that these careers they always they never end well,
Speaker 1: I mean, or there are like it's like, oh Brady,
Speaker 1: you can split his his career into three parts and
Speaker 1: he's a Hall of Famer. It's like maybe there are
Speaker 1: just like the real Tom Brady who his human body
Speaker 1: ran out like in two thousand and seven, and we've got,
Speaker 1: you know, multiple sort of synthetic robe half robot versions
Speaker 1: of Tom Brady being opened up and released every four
Speaker 1: or five years. Greggy, you did Noble Worker soldiering on
Speaker 1: there after that incredible revelation about like what goes on
Speaker 1: in your mind? Uh? Can you say it again though,
Speaker 1: because I wasn't able to process and the but he's
Speaker 1: he's on the Mass, he's on the the Mass turn,
Speaker 1: he's under the Mass curtain pike with those mes and
Speaker 1: Peter McNally, the deflate gig guy. You know you said
Speaker 1: something about Jameis Winston. Oh yeah, he's kind of return
Speaker 1: to New Orleans. They're they they're a little worried that
Speaker 1: they might lose them. But I say, now, I want
Speaker 1: to see Jamis Winston in this scenario and that he
Speaker 1: ends up being there their qby That's all I need.
Speaker 1: And um, I will put a cap on it by
Speaker 1: saying that the Bronco will give Drew Lock the same
Speaker 1: four year, one and thirty four million dollar extension with
Speaker 1: a ten million guaranteed that the Rams gave to Jared Goffins.
Speaker 1: That's perfect, So you don't have any issues that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: One little, one little note that the listeners should pay
Speaker 1: attention to. While we were doing this segment, tom Pellicero
Speaker 1: reported that the Falcons intend to trade Matt Ryan during
Speaker 1: the season or year leading up to it. So I'm
Speaker 1: just telling you that, you know, you maybe just can
Speaker 1: take a nap during the entire off season. We might
Speaker 1: have mapped out everything that will occur. It was the
Speaker 1: It was the total opposite. Before we move on that,
Speaker 1: the report from Tommy p was the Falcons do not
Speaker 1: intend to trade Matt Ryan. Was attempting to spend it. Patrick,
Speaker 1: this is when we say goodbye to you. You are
Speaker 1: a busy man. You have to be on the network
Speaker 1: and be Now you have to put on your you know,
Speaker 1: Tom Brokaw hat, and you have to be the face
Speaker 1: of the news operation. We thank you, though for your opinions, uh,
Speaker 1: your levity, and your general disposition which is always pleasant.
Speaker 1: Oh thanks us all the same to you, and I
Speaker 1: look forward to a fine Super Bowl week of watching
Speaker 1: y'all's coverage as very good. All right. Coming up next,
Speaker 1: we have Jean decker hoffstop goes towards the ends of
Speaker 1: the clock ball top stop Tampa Bay by Kevin want
Speaker 1: a way to start in the football game, but Green
Speaker 1: Bay wis consciously gets the block on the right side.
Speaker 1: Tell another block color by Freaker one, top stop Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay tot stop sucking there for that refuse to go down.
Speaker 1: Scotty Beller only but takes the cuts to stop tamp
Speaker 1: my page. Scotty Scooter Bellar and Brady puts it right
Speaker 1: on the spot. God when running to the Threak's got
Speaker 1: the first round box. We're gonna win this football game,
Speaker 1: bocks win. Tampa Bay is heading to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I can't even begin to tell you
Speaker 1: how excited we are to have this man on the show.
Speaker 1: Right now, Every Sunday Night, the flagship program when we
Speaker 1: play the highlights. He was the unquestioned play by play
Speaker 1: m v P of the season. You know exactly what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. It's Jean Ducker off wf US. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Around the NFL Podcast. Seriously, June, we're pumped
Speaker 1: up right now. Yeah, be pumped up about this. You
Speaker 1: have bitch hole types Canon City. We can't fire the
Speaker 1: cannons of Super Bowl. I wish we could those calls
Speaker 1: a week ago. The cannon powder wouldn't fire in twenty
Speaker 1: eight degree weather. No, we didn't have Jean so um.
Speaker 1: We're good friends of Matt money Smith, who is the
Speaker 1: voice of the Chargers. You mentioned, you mentioned Mitch holtis
Speaker 1: um over with the Chiefs. It feels like a fraternity
Speaker 1: with the ani O guys. Are their rivalries? Are there
Speaker 1: some played by play guys that don't get along or
Speaker 1: you all buddy buddy? Are their meetups and non pandemic
Speaker 1: times take us inside the world. Well, I know this
Speaker 1: that during the pandemic we have remote broadcast, so I
Speaker 1: haven't had a chance to visit with some of my
Speaker 1: colleagues that broadcast. But Mitch. I first met Mitch would
Speaker 1: he broadcast Kansas State football and basketball, and UH, a
Speaker 1: coach by the name of Lan Krueger had been at
Speaker 1: Kansas State and had taken the job at Florida And
Speaker 1: I was working television at the time Channel six of
Speaker 1: CBS affiliate in Tallahassee, and so I called and Mitch was.
Speaker 1: I did an interview with Mitch via the phone, talking
Speaker 1: about you know, Lan Krueger and what kind of code
Speaker 1: it mentioned that time. I never thought Long would leave
Speaker 1: Kanda State, but he did so then. Uh, probably about
Speaker 1: five six years after that conversation, Mitch became the voice
Speaker 1: of the Kansas City Chiefs and he's been doing a
Speaker 1: great job ever since. And he's he's uh. I he
Speaker 1: did a Super Bowl last year. He's got a chance
Speaker 1: to do back to back Super Bowls and uh, I
Speaker 1: go eighteen years in between Super Bowls. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'll be a on another region years. Jean's been
Speaker 1: doing it boys, UH and listeners out there since nine
Speaker 1: nine for the Bucks. And he also double dips with
Speaker 1: Florida State, where he's the voice of s s F
Speaker 1: s U. So Jean is a is a legend down there.
Speaker 1: And oh yeah, I learned all this on Gene Deckerhoff
Speaker 1: dot com. People should check out this website. It's hot.
Speaker 1: I mean, poor Jeane, they got him work in Florida
Speaker 1: State BC Eagles Tuesday night. Feels like that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a letdown. I Uh, I am curious, Jean, like, because
Speaker 1: you you know Tampa more than anyone. Like, I don't
Speaker 1: think people are from the outside knows what the Tampa
Speaker 1: sports scene is like, Like what would another Bucks championship
Speaker 1: look like? Because you guys are kind of the the
Speaker 1: city of champions right now, or at least making the championship.
Speaker 1: This is this is three in the last year that
Speaker 1: you've made the finals. Yeah, the uh Tampa Bay Lightning,
Speaker 1: you know, won the championship in the National Hockey League.
Speaker 1: The Stanley Cup was held high over Champa Bay. And uh,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, them from Bay Rays came oh
Speaker 1: so close, oh so close to winning a World Series.
Speaker 1: So they finished second, I guess to the Dodgers. And
Speaker 1: and here we are, the Tampa Bay Buccaneer football team.
Speaker 1: We're playing for the Super Bowl Championship and trying to
Speaker 1: add one more Lombartie Trophy. I heard Mark Castor on
Speaker 1: NFL Super Bowl Channel on Sirius Adell that radio last night,
Speaker 1: and she was talking about, you know, this is the
Speaker 1: city of champions. This is title Town, Tampa, Florida, and uh,
Speaker 1: it's you know, the Toronto Raptors are playing out of
Speaker 1: Tampa because of the COVID pandemic in Canada, and she
Speaker 1: said they're gonna try to learn them down to Tampa
Speaker 1: after the pandemic is over. Right, Hey, title town sounds appropriate.
Speaker 1: We just played a title town Green Bay, just north
Speaker 1: of the Florida border where I lived in Tallahassee, which
Speaker 1: is about twenty eight miles to the Georgia border. But
Speaker 1: Baldosta is known as Winnersville, USA for their high school
Speaker 1: football program over there. So yeah, a lot of titles
Speaker 1: being thrown around. That's salt in the wound, Jeane two
Speaker 1: Packers fans that are listening to our national broadcast, what
Speaker 1: they about eighteen championships? How many more do they need?
Speaker 1: You know that, Sir, I think you just reading about
Speaker 1: some of the stuff you've done. We mentioned Florida State.
Speaker 1: You had a show with Bobby Bowden, who I grew up.
Speaker 1: You know, that's sort of the earliest inroads I had
Speaker 1: with college football. And that you worked with Burt Reynolds
Speaker 1: of all people, and now you're announcing games with Tom Brady. Um,
Speaker 1: do you still love football as much as you did
Speaker 1: when you started? All this is is it still is
Speaker 1: a much of a joy to you to to cover it.
Speaker 1: You know, my wife keeps selby, you worked too hard.
Speaker 1: You worked too hard. I'm always in my office, which
Speaker 1: is in my home and so and she's retired. She's
Speaker 1: been retired ten years. As you worked too hard? Why
Speaker 1: are you work all the time? Can't you spend time
Speaker 1: with me? And I said, you know, honey, if I
Speaker 1: was hammer and nails or growing rivets, I followed retired
Speaker 1: ten years ago. But I'm doing something but I really
Speaker 1: love to do, and that is broadcast sports events, particularly football.
Speaker 1: And uh oh, by the way, I'm a basketball jones.
Speaker 1: I played basketball. I never played football, but uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I enjoyed broadcasting sports events and I hope to keep
Speaker 1: doing it for a while. The Lord will tell me
Speaker 1: when I have to stop. And he hasn't told me yet,
Speaker 1: you know, Jean, I mean Mark mentioned it. I have
Speaker 1: to ask, and unfortunately he passed away in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eighteen. But Burt Reynolds one of the all time legends. Um.
Speaker 1: He used to appear on the Bobby Bouton Show with
Speaker 1: you as the host. And do you have any birds stories?
Speaker 1: You ever hang out socially with Reynolds. I've not a
Speaker 1: lot of bird stories. Rest in peace, Buddy. Buddy Reynolds
Speaker 1: eighty two. And uh his his college teammate it at
Speaker 1: Florida State University back in the fifties, was a fellow
Speaker 1: by the name of Vick Premsy and they were best friends,
Speaker 1: state friends. After Burt went off to starring movies whatever
Speaker 1: they like, stayed and Vic and I broadcast Florida State
Speaker 1: football and and then when the USFL came into being,
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay bandits the franchise and Tampa was part
Speaker 1: part owner was Burt Reynolds, and uh, Vic and I
Speaker 1: did their games because of the relationship Vic head with
Speaker 1: Burt and uh, we're broadcasting at game in Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 1: Had just taken the job to produce Coach Bowden's TV
Speaker 1: show and also act as talent and continue to play
Speaker 1: by play announcing, and uh he would always come up
Speaker 1: and do a halftime interview. And we're in Arizona. Never
Speaker 1: forget uh Sun Double Stadium and Temples where the Arizona
Speaker 1: franchise played, and Uh, Burt comes up to the booth
Speaker 1: and everybody in that stadium they weren't watching the halftime show.
Speaker 1: They were waiving the Burt Reynolds in the body and
Speaker 1: he was. When I got back to Tallahassee, I dropped
Speaker 1: a note in the mess of thanks you know so
Speaker 1: much for coming on a halftime I was always great
Speaker 1: seeing you. And I've got an idea about Bobby Bowden's
Speaker 1: television show that I'm now producing, and UH, would would
Speaker 1: you be interested in doing a few things for Bobby?
Speaker 1: And he said a letter back. I wished I had
Speaker 1: that letter today, I don't. I don't know what happened
Speaker 1: to it, but he said, anything Bobby needs you just
Speaker 1: let me know. And I came up with great moments
Speaker 1: in Florida State football and wrote the scripts and did
Speaker 1: the research, and UH we recorded in Jupiter, Florida, were
Speaker 1: recorded in Beverly Hills. UH three or four times. We
Speaker 1: had a place in bell Air. We recorded there once
Speaker 1: just in the l A area, and UH one time
Speaker 1: we did it in Atlanta on a location when he
Speaker 1: was doing a cop and a half we did in Tampa.
Speaker 1: He was doing another movie in UH in the Miami area,
Speaker 1: and we went down there and met all the stars
Speaker 1: that were in the movie and everything. But it was
Speaker 1: a great relationship. He did that for twenty six consecutive years.
Speaker 1: Now you end up he was If he was getting
Speaker 1: sad fees, we'd have been paying a fortune. Wow. The
Speaker 1: Cop and a half reference that I remember that it
Speaker 1: was a cop, yes, and a young precocious kid as
Speaker 1: his partner in crime. About I don't ever start in
Speaker 1: a movie with a youngster because they steal the seeds? True?
Speaker 1: Do you? Uh? Do you have a favorite call from
Speaker 1: this year's even like you know, either a favorite cause
Speaker 1: it's a favorite moment from these bucks, or like a
Speaker 1: moment you realize, wow, this team actually might be as
Speaker 1: good as as we thought, as we hoped going into
Speaker 1: the year, or they might even be better. In thirty
Speaker 1: two years of traveling from Tallahessee to Tampa, it's a
Speaker 1: four and a half hour drive, and my wife and
Speaker 1: I make it uh every Sunday for home games obviously
Speaker 1: this year, but back on November the fifte the one
Speaker 1: and only time I've had an accident driving too a
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay buceteers, and I ran over a mud buddle
Speaker 1: to drop off about a foot and a half and
Speaker 1: I'm dragon metal for the next seventy seven miles to
Speaker 1: Raymond J Stadium, and I'm glad I got there. They
Speaker 1: didn't sparkle on the turnpike, didn't explode the vehicle, but
Speaker 1: we got to the stadium and uh I got there
Speaker 1: and was fortunate to broadcast the only ninety eight yard
Speaker 1: touchdown run in the history of bucketeers. Fringe Brady hard
Speaker 1: count hands the ball up Rocho pops at free crossed
Speaker 1: the fat hands on the fifty twenty Brojoe to the
Speaker 1: thirty rochoe to the forty bro tone to the fifty
Speaker 1: brochoe to the forty brochoe to the thirty high seven
Speaker 1: of the twenty and it'll be a ninety eight yard
Speaker 1: touchdown run by Ronald Jones. List I could touchdown Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay run Road Road Joe, Rod Alert Rojo to the
Speaker 1: twenty rojoe touchdown, Tamba Bay, ninety eight yard touchdown, but
Speaker 1: we broadcast from where we broadcast from Tamba But that
Speaker 1: has to be the highlight. Now, Almost every one of
Speaker 1: the touchdowns in the postseason this year have been really
Speaker 1: really outstanding plays by outstanding players. But you know it's
Speaker 1: not just the touchdowns. I know, the highlights package that
Speaker 1: you had was was touchdown Tampa Bay touchdown tabby Bucks
Speaker 1: are going to the super Bowl. But there were two
Speaker 1: or three third down players in the New Orleans game
Speaker 1: and also in the Green Bay game where the players converted.
Speaker 1: You had guys answered that we had a rookie by
Speaker 1: Tyler Concert. I ain't goodness. Two games in the row.
Speaker 1: He's made huge third down catches from Tom Brady and
Speaker 1: the scooty Scooter Miller. It's Tom. Tom gave him the nick.
Speaker 1: There was Scottie Miller, but he calls Scooter. But he
Speaker 1: made a big play at every going. These are guys
Speaker 1: you don't hear about a lot, but they have been very,
Speaker 1: very instrumental in the buccaneer is advancing the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: fifty five. Do you ever just sort of walk around
Speaker 1: your house and maybe you know, the wife is taking
Speaker 1: out a can of peace, she's opening it and putting
Speaker 1: it in a ball. I mean, do you get floored
Speaker 1: into that kind of chatter around the householder you keep
Speaker 1: the announcer stuff to the booth. Not too good, not
Speaker 1: too good play by play of the household chores. But
Speaker 1: I do find my stuff. I have to convest I
Speaker 1: talked to myself. I said, gee, you're talking to yourself.
Speaker 1: Come on, well, you know that's what I get paid
Speaker 1: to do. Is But no, I don't do play by
Speaker 1: my life. But basically you're talking to the guy that
Speaker 1: carries out the trash, does the dishes, doesn't No hand
Speaker 1: does a little bit of that, but no, no play
Speaker 1: by play at home. That's when there's a there's a
Speaker 1: story out there right now, kind of a scary story
Speaker 1: in fact, that because of the pandemic and um the
Speaker 1: far fewer flights that pilots are falling out of practice
Speaker 1: because they're not getting enough air hours. That will never
Speaker 1: happen with Gene uh and his play by play. Call
Speaker 1: one last question, because now you're a busy man, Gene.
Speaker 1: November twenty nine, the Bucks fall to the Chiefs, second
Speaker 1: consecutive four loss. They entered there by at seven and five.
Speaker 1: They obviously haven't lost since background Thanksgiving time, which I'm
Speaker 1: sure you were in the house and handling the bird
Speaker 1: and doing all this stuff because you're a man. Did
Speaker 1: you still see this as a possible outcome as a
Speaker 1: super Bowl team. The Bucks, well, you know this pandemic season.
Speaker 1: We have a large family, have six grandchildren and have
Speaker 1: three sons with their wives. But this was the first
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and the first Christmas that we have not gotten
Speaker 1: together as a family, social distancing, no big crowds, and
Speaker 1: so you had that as a downer. And then you
Speaker 1: drive to Tampa in Kansas City lays one of those
Speaker 1: twenty seven twenty four things on you. And and that
Speaker 1: first quarter I was about ready to wait wave the
Speaker 1: white flag. Tyreek Hill had two hundred and three, it
Speaker 1: scored two touchdowns and the first quarter was still going on.
Speaker 1: So it was it was a down event, family out
Speaker 1: event for the announcer. And uh, but then you know
Speaker 1: that you mentioned the following week it was the bye week.
Speaker 1: For the latest bye week that I can It's got
Speaker 1: to be the latest bye week the Bucks I've ever had.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what happened during that bye week
Speaker 1: if it's uh, you know, the NFL is a grind on,
Speaker 1: not so much on announcers, but on the players themselves
Speaker 1: and the coaches, and I think getting away from football
Speaker 1: for a couple of days, maybe getting fresh legs for
Speaker 1: a couple of days before getting back into the grind.
Speaker 1: It's certainly benefit of the Bucceteers. As you mentioned, we
Speaker 1: have not lost since then, seven straight wins going for
Speaker 1: our eighth row. And you know, if you go into
Speaker 1: the Bucketeer media guide, you can't find seven wins in
Speaker 1: a row anywhere. Go all the way back to seventy six,
Speaker 1: we got six in a row, ones under totally dungee,
Speaker 1: but counting post season, we won the month of December
Speaker 1: undefeated and December for the first time in franchise history.
Speaker 1: We only played three games, but I'll take it. But
Speaker 1: uh happened during that by that has made this a
Speaker 1: more complete football team, and we felt we we beat
Speaker 1: the Minesota out of the bine. We went to Atlanta
Speaker 1: and fell behind seventeen to nothing. Now take the bye week, okay,
Speaker 1: refreshed to get out of the grind, go on the
Speaker 1: road to a rival team in the NFC South, to
Speaker 1: get behind seven teen to nothing, and then come back
Speaker 1: and win that football game. The comblination of those two
Speaker 1: I think has elevated the Bucketeer is the most confident
Speaker 1: I've seen the Bucks played, and most complimentary office defense
Speaker 1: special teams. Since I've been broadcasting Tampa Bay bucket football,
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's it's a thing of beauty. When
Speaker 1: a team gets hot and the team gets confident. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no better thing in the world. And to play
Speaker 1: that game or broadcast that game and sound Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: I'd like to say that about five times awesome. It's
Speaker 1: a very exciting gene and and best of luck, of
Speaker 1: course in the game. It's not your first super Bowl,
Speaker 1: as you noted, but I'm sure there's butterflies and excitement
Speaker 1: building up to it, and we wish you well. When
Speaker 1: one let one final factoried about Jeane Jane decker Off
Speaker 1: that people need to know why this man's a legend.
Speaker 1: He was inducted into the Florida Sports Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: in two thousand. That was twenty one years ago, and
Speaker 1: then then it's still on top of his game. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to dust that little I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: dust that little plaque off. It's over here in my
Speaker 1: office and now I'm gonna have to justice it's twenty
Speaker 1: one years old. I about to dust that. It's always
Speaker 1: great talking bucket your football it's uh, it's been, you know,
Speaker 1: a big part of my life for thirty two years
Speaker 1: and hopefully a little while longer. And I called one
Speaker 1: super Bowl and here's here's what broadcasters should never do. Fellas.
Speaker 1: It's late in the third quarter, we're wearing out the
Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders. We finally went for twenty one, but we've
Speaker 1: got like a thirty one to three lead, and DWIGHTE.
Speaker 1: Smith picks off a pass from Rich Gannon, runs it
Speaker 1: right down the gut of the field and scores a ton.
Speaker 1: And while he's running to the end zone, I said,
Speaker 1: Smith's got the interception. He's gonna score a touchdown. The
Speaker 1: Bucks are gonna win the Super Bowl. And it's only
Speaker 1: the third quarter. It's gin and then through three touchdown actually,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, that barge that's I'm not eleven.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, why how could you say such a thing?
Speaker 1: And then Dwight pick off another another in the Bucks
Speaker 1: one sound before you get but don't ever say Box
Speaker 1: are gonna one of the simple. I will say that
Speaker 1: there again, another Gene learns from his past to be
Speaker 1: great in his future. Gene, thank you very much, and
Speaker 1: uh again, good luck can't wait for the game. Were
Speaker 1: a mask of social distances? All right, thank you, that's
Speaker 1: a touchdown, Tampa Bay. Gene Decker half what performance and
Speaker 1: we can't we can't lose when it comes to the
Speaker 1: Sunday Night flagship program the next time, um, the end
Speaker 1: of this season, you will hear us either come into
Speaker 1: the game and the show with Mitch Holtis or Geane
Speaker 1: decker Off. Either way you can't lose, or maybe your
Speaker 1: impersonation of Mitch Holtis their Geene decker Off which is
Speaker 1: which have been spot on, especially on the cake. Yes here,
Speaker 1: here is our week to come before we say goodbye,
Speaker 1: um for Tuesday Tomorrow, Wednesday, we have a very special
Speaker 1: Q and A with fans of the Around the NFL podcast. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: if you're not in on the guest list, you can't
Speaker 1: get in. But if you are, we can't wait to
Speaker 1: see you and to talk to you and to have
Speaker 1: a grand old time on Wednesday. I don't know what
Speaker 1: we're calling it, the a t n Fan Hero Summit.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a little late in the game
Speaker 1: to brand it, but that's what we'll call it. Thursday
Speaker 1: is gonna be our official preview of super Bowl fifty five.
Speaker 1: We have a bunch of great guests lined up uh
Speaker 1: for that show, so we're gonna blow that out and
Speaker 1: make our official predictions for the Big Game. And then
Speaker 1: yes Sunday night, UM, we will be back the final
Speaker 1: show of the season season super Bowl Recap and can't
Speaker 1: wait for it. And also Sky Sports. We're doing a
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff with sky this week. So it's all
Speaker 1: looking good. And what did we learn here uh today?
Speaker 1: Tom Brady dead? Maybe to one man, tom Brady is dead.
Speaker 1: To everyone else, still alive. I've been from this whole season.
Speaker 1: I was on the bandwagon, I put, I picked. I
Speaker 1: don't know yourself a little bit there? Who is you
Speaker 1: know who I was? I was? What did we used
Speaker 1: to call it when we were on an island here?
Speaker 1: I'll pick with the bucks the last two weeks, I
Speaker 1: give me up. You just said the guy was dead,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. Kind of undercut some of her
Speaker 1: UM rooting interested in the season. Matt Ryan will not
Speaker 1: be traded that we also have out there. Thank you
Speaker 1: to everyone uh for watching, and just dand Hanson signing
Speaker 1: off for a quiet storm. The Old Boss, Patrick clay Ban,
Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood and the whole gang until Thursday,