WEBVTT - Rule Changes and Mailbag 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:08.880 Be Around the NFL Podcast, quit the small talk, indeed, 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:11.680 quit it, don't need it, don't want it, and Welcome 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.680 to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. My 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.400 name is Dan Hands, come to you from a virtual 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:23.720 room filled with the heroes, Mark Sessler, Greg Rosenthal. We 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:30.640 are key minus seven days away from the NFL Draft. Greg, 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:33.159 you a little bit of a sneaky, humble brag right 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.640 before we started, mentioned that every year you like to 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:40.320 do a hardcore cram sesh, uh, just chewing up tape 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.520 like a true, true tape dog. I, on the other hand, 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.560 like to go the route of just see whoever's mock 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:51.080 drafts I respect, and then base my analysis on where 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:55.280 those guys put certain players, and then once the NFL starts, 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:57.440 then I can plug in in a real way. I 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:59.600 there's no way to fake it. I mean, but I 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.400 respect that you do with Greg, but it's it's kind 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.679 of like in school cramming for a chemistry final that 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:08.479 if you didn't pay attention all year, you're not really 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:10.160 going to be able to soak in the information in 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:14.040 a way that makes you successful. Yeah or n Yeah, 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:18.600 Because the difference between someone faking it and not is yeah, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.920 almost indistinguishable. Most of most of the people talking about 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.479 the draft are faking it, but it does. It gives you, 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.640 like a little bit of fire beneath your Joe Mixon tape, 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:29.800 for instance, I remember I watched him. I was like, Wow, 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.480 this Joe Mixing guy. Okay, he's got some problems, but 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.280 my god, could he run the ball. And so you've 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:36.600 got a little extra fire. But you could fake that 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.200 too if you really wanted to. Of all the examples, 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.479 Joe Mixon considering his pre draft buzz, you know what 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.200 I gotta say, I was right, be careful he's I 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.760 was right that he is a great running player running back. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.200 You mentioned about cramming for a test? Am I the 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.240 only one that like, Um, I've been having horrible dreams 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.200 for some reason, but like I still have dreams where 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.320 I am, you know, walking towards like a college math 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.120 class where I suddenly realized I have a final and 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.480 I've not been to even been to the class um 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.280 in three or four months, and like all fortunes are 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.760 about to get completely ripped away if I don't ace 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.560 this thing um and then the dream end. Mm hmm. 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.840 That's a common one, doesn't it feel good? Though I 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:24.440 everyone since it feel I'll have a dream like that, 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.359 or it will occur to me, Oh, isn't it nice 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.079 that we never have to study for a test ever 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.640 again or have that sort of stress. So you should 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.799 just like appreciate it. It's nice, and I'll and I'll say, 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.400 although it you know, you pay for it with a 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:43.040 lot of internal mental anguish in the moment when you 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.239 make a list of the sneaky best feelings in life. 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.400 Waking up from a nightmare and then realizing none of 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.160 that was happening, and then you go back to sleep, 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.040 that's right near the top of the way. It is special. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:57.680 I had one last night where I was in an 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.600 airport and there was all sorts of chaos. I couldn't 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.919 find my wallet and so I couldn't board the plane 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:04.520 with the rest of my family, and I was lying 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:06.680 on the floor with all these people being inspected by 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:08.840 the government. And then I woke up and I was like, 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.760 why wallets on the mantel in our house? This is amazing, 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:15.680 so much for a quit it with the small talk, 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.320 you know, Yeah, that's true. That's true. By the way. 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.880 The the inverse um of what I just explained is 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.160 when you're having like a lovely dream, like if you 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.640 if you remember, like you were dreaming about you were 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.000 dating your high school crush and your seventeen and then 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.840 you wake up and you're terribly alone and you have 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.760 acne and you know nobody likes you like that. There's 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.160 there's the flip side as well, but I like to 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.640 focus on the positives. This is the Around the NFL podcast. 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.480 I wasn't a sad and alone person in high school, 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:48.840 by the way. It wasn't one of those people. But 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.320 I didn't really figure out anything until college, and you 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.240 saved yourself at the end. I was a little worried 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.600 that you woke up from this dream where you wish 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.440 you were with your high school girlfriend. Then you woke 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:00.320 up and you realize, oh, I'm next to my wife 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:04.960 and my kids are I mean, those dreams exist to 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.360 past flames pop up for the first time in eleven years, 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.760 But it doesn't mean that I'm questioning anything. Mark has 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.680 these dreams all the time, and it's smart. If you're listening, 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.440 Happy Birthday. They're about freedom and no, you're right, it 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.839 is my wife's birthday tomorrow, so we don't need to 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:23.480 dig deeper into that topic necessarily. All right, today's show, 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:29.120 we're gonna catch up on some predraft news and uh none, 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:30.799 We're gonna do something we haven't done in a while, 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.640 which has hit the mail bag, and give the listeners 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:38.640 a chance to interface with us. The quote unquote heroes. 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:42.000 What a joke call ourselves heroes. The real heroes are 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.320 out there up on the lattice putting out fires in 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.800 the military. You ain't heroes. That's a great sweet to 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.520 get every once in a while. How about your relax 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.360 you know, how about you? You just have a little 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:59.279 bit of a sense of humor about life. Okay, here's 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.920 something I portable though, when when like Siciliano or any 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.120 really host like welcomes us as a group as heroes, 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.359 like I like it when we call ourselves that that works. 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.360 I mean the other side of that is Greg, You're 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:17.279 almost always uncomfortable. So no, that's just the brand is strong. 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:27.839 Let's do some news talk is cheap, motherfucker. Is it 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.280 random that DMX is our intro into the news, Yes, 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.400 it's random, But I wanted to touch on him real 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:38.240 quickly because in the pre show prep today, um, I 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:42.480 was thinking about the Steelers quarterback depth chart a little 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.560 teaser for the mail bag later, and for some reason 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.560 it made me. The thing that can't flash to my 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.520 mind was it's dark and hell is hot, um and 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.359 rest in peace, d MX. And I just want to say, 0:05:55.480 --> 0:06:00.200 like DMX was he's he falls under the category of 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.640 whether it's like a celebrity, a musician usually for me, 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.600 but sometimes an actor. Um, where they die and then 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.080 I'm like, oh, I really did like that person. I 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.360 wish I appreciated them more before they died. Because if 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:17.000 you were a person of a certain age and Greg, 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.760 you and I are very close in age, Mark, you're 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.760 in the ballpark. Um, it's a big ballpark. It's like 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:26.280 old Yankee Stadium when they put Monument Park in center field. 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:32.080 But like it, DMX filled a certain level of like 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.719 when you're a teen a late teen, high school college 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.800 and you have that aggression inside you and if if 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:43.200 you're our age, Um, it was either DMX or like 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:48.320 Limp Biscuit and together a tour that was that they 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.640 were like co headliners and and that's synergy. That makes sense. 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.479 But I was never about any of that aggro rap 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:59.039 rock stuff. I hated that stuff so much. But DMX 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.880 when he was going and the stuff that he was 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.960 talking about, I'd always connected with me. You know, he 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:08.920 crossed lines black white whatever. You understood the rage within 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.520 DMX because some of us and all of us have 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:15.360 it to a certain extent. He changed the game, you know, 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:17.880 Taylor Swift taking a page out of his notebook. I 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.400 don't remember anyone else dropping to number one albums in 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.240 the same year. That was like that kind of blew 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.600 people's mind that he came out out of nowhere. It 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:26.120 was like the number one album in the country, and 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.720 then like seven months later did it again. It's like that. 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.040 I feel like people do that all the time now. 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.760 I mean, you're acting like my equivalent was like Desi 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:36.600 ar Nett. So I don't know how to get into 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.880 this conversation, but I appreciate what you're saying. I would 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.840 say maybe like told the wets Rocket perhaps or I 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.000 could not stand that band. But but but in that 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.200 but at that time period had other bands that would 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.160 fit the bill to some degree. I was gonna ask 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.480 as a follow up, Greg because as everyone knows, Uh, 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.160 Greg likes rap Um. Sometimes you you act about you 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:01.080 talk about your two lane uh education as being in 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.640 this bubble where it's like all like dirty South and 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:07.200 you don't even know what Fountains of Wayne was, and 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.680 you were so just like steeped in that culture. DMX 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:12.440 made it down there, you're saying, because he was. He's 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.000 from Yonkers, which is on the other side of the 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:15.560 Tez Bridge where I grew up. He was huge in 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.440 the Northeast and I think the whole country, but didn't 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.200 make it down there that the bubble. He maybe not 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.120 as dominant, but he did. Yes, there was a bit 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.520 of a South South versus the New York type of 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:28.960 things that they didn't give him all the love that 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.280 he should have gotten. Interesting, all right, let's get into it. 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:39.560 Do some news. Let's start with rule changes made in 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.079 the NFL. They go into effect, uh, starting in the 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.240 seas and we kind of went over this um when 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.520 they a lot of them were proposed. But just so 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:55.240 everyone knows, um, there's been changes to a well relaxation 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.480 of rules for the numbers that certain players can wear 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.440 at certain positions. That's a big one. Everybody's pumped up 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:05.520 about that. Running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, defensive backs 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.240 and linebackers can all wear numbers in the single digits 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.319 now if they choose, um, the only person who's really 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.960 getting banked here. Offensive linemen are still locked into the 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:18.960 old days on this one. Um Tom Brady on social media, 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.079 and we never know if Tom Brady is actually running 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.800 his own social media or whatever. But he was all 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.840 fired up about it. Couldn't tell if he was being 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.040 a jokester or what mark. Do you have any takes 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.719 on more of fluidity in the numbers choosing game in 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.360 the NFL? Well, I would just um comment on Brady 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.920 real quick. Did he put out a second um diet 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.080 tribe where he said, why not let the lineman wear 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:44.480 whatever they want to? Why have numbers just have colored jerseys? 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.559 Why not wear the same numbers dot dot dot dum 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.840 at NFL at NFL p A and then above it 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:53.600 all in massive type font dumb again. So I don't 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.880 view that to be like some social media goon as drunk. Again, 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.240 I don't know. I'm not sure what's going on there. 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.800 He seems fired up, but I don't, you know, I'd 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.880 love to hear a player's perspective on why that would matter. 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.160 I mean, if you're if you're an offensive guy trying 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.920 to figure out who to block and call protections. I 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.520 don't see a huge change here other than the fact 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.920 that like for me m visually like if a linebacker 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:20.040 we're number two, I find that to be disorienting. Um. 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.200 But on the offensive side also, like I just wish 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.200 they would change the quarterbacks and allow it to be 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.000 more than one to nineteen. I guess that's anti traditional, 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:29.920 but I'd like to have a quarterback that's like nine. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.040 That to me that grosses me out, which acts like 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.600 a big thick like th h I c c big 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.520 bodied quarterback that needed like kind of needed to to 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.760 eights to kind of show how big he was. I 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:45.959 don't know, like if my if Zach Wilson came into 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.040 the league and he if he was number twenty six, 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:49.480 I'd be like, no, this guy is out of the 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.440 league and three one. He is very slight. He's not 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:56.560 double number in him. I mean Brady, how fired up 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.440 Brady is? Who It was an absurd explanation why Zach 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:03.400 Wilson only have a number in the single digits, But 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:08.319 go on, it's I mean Brady's worried about like recognizing 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.640 where pressure is coming from and whether they're linebackers, defensive lineman, 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.320 and all this stuff. It's like, okay, fine, buddy, Like 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:18.960 fans like it. Every rule that's been made since Tom 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:20.760 Brady's come in the league and for the you know, 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.679 ten years before that was to help the offense and quarterbacks. 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.000 So maybe this hurts just a tiny bit for people 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.040 like Brady who are next level um in terms of 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.000 identifying people. But one thing I want to point out 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.640 with this rule is it doesn't totally go into effect 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:40.440 this year. For players that want to wear these numbers 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.959 this year that had a different number last year, they 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:47.440 have to buy out the NFL's inventory of that number. 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.600 And that's like a lot of money. Especially I think 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.240 if it's like a big player where like a lot 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.080 of jerseys have been printed, if it's kind of a 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.040 no name, it might not make that big of a deal. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.040 But this is what happened when Oto Sinko want it 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.000 to change his number, and he made pretty good money 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:04.560 in his career, and he didn't want to do it 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.240 because it was too much money, so he had to 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.120 wait the year. So it might be one year from 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:14.680 now when you see the deluge of of changes. That's sneaky. Yeah, 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:19.480 another rule change approved a one year experiment and an 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.839 attempt to make it easier to recover onside kicks on 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.120 the receiving team on kickoffs will be limited to nine 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:29.240 players within twenty five yards of the ball, only three 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:33.600 of sixty seven on side kicks. Uh, we're recovering lass season, 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.200 which you know that means it's broken. And the Eagles 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.720 UM had been had proposed that teams be given an 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.200 option to gain fifteen yards on one offensive play from 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.199 their own twenty five as you remember, um to retain 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.200 possession after a score. That's not happening. But they're trying 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.719 to maybe even things out while not making the game 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:55.079 more dangerous. That's stupid. I want to add this fourth 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.800 and fifteen thing. Let's try moving up it. I hear 0:12:57.880 --> 0:12:59.800 that a lot. It's like, oh, they've made the once 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.840 i'd kick so boring, and it's like, I don't know, 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:04.720 is the once kicked that big of a deal that 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:06.640 we need to save it? How about we just mix 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.320 it up for a year and see. I bet people 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.600 would love the fourth and fifteen thing. I bet people 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.480 would go nuts for and they never they would never 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.640 be able to take it away. And I'd at least say, like, 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.400 if you're gonna you know, put us through preseason games, 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.760 employ all these rules in the preseason and almost like 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.160 urged teams to try it just to see what the 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.440 response is, how it looks, how it feels, And finally 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:32.800 they did make some replay modifications. UM owners rejected UM 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:37.359 more hardcore proposals for a full time sky judge UM. 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.680 The Ravens had called for a full time booth umpire, 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:45.559 but the owners instead decided to give existing replay officials, 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:47.599 who sit in the press box of each stadium, the 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.280 authority to consult with referees on certain quote specific objective 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.840 aspects of a play when clear and obvious video evidence 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.200 is present, according to the language of the rule. I 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:03.000 read somewhere that this was already happening informally, which is 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.640 a little weird and strange when you talk about competitive 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:09.280 balance and all that UM. But now it's something you 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.679 can do within the letter of the law, right. Don't 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.760 you remember last year there would be those really bad 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:19.160 calls that like Romo would talk about for twenty seconds 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.280 and then like everything would just kind of slow down, 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.760 and then it would be like, actually they are, you know, 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:25.960 throwing the flag, and that that was it, Like it 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:27.880 was you could tell it was sort of happening. I 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.600 like that because at anything that actually avoids the official 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:36.240 review process but like quickly changes obvious calls like this 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.080 is something that would make our friend Chris Wessling happy, 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.720 and that that makes sense to me. Like I don't 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.200 know why they don't just put them in their ear 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:44.800 the whole time and let them talk to it. What's 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:46.880 the big deal? But I think they're getting there, Like 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:51.600 sky Judge just found sounds very old testament to me. Um, 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.080 you know we I wouldn't I wouldn't mind someone with 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.000 the authority just to say, you got to look at 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.960 your humans. You've got this wrong. Um, I see something 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:03.120 you don't see. Let's correct this. But they mark save 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:07.440 it for the Theology podcast and other news material put 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.760 into that pot at this point. By the way, Eagles 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:15.600 head coach Nick Sirianni refuses to name Jalen Hurts as 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.800 the team's starter in week one. He says there will 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.640 be a quarterback competition. People are going nuts. Let's hear 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.360 it from Sirianni himself to name any starters at this 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.240 particular time. I just we've been working with these guys 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.800 for two days, right, We've been working with these guys 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:35.240 for two days. My biggest thing is competition. It's again 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.200 we've talked a little bit about my core values. It's 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.120 my second core value, it's his team's second core value. 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.960 Competition is a huge thing, um, and we're gonna have 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.880 competition at every position. What are people going to stop 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.640 getting so fired up about these type of quotes? Like 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:52.080 I I saw some talking can he'll go on name 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.720 because he's a little close to the family, if you will, 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.560 just like teeing off on Sirianni is being an absolute 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.840 fool for even going down this road. And it's like, 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:06.480 I get it, you're looking to fill a camera time 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.320 and and go viral and all that stuff, But like, 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.760 ultimately it's you that looks like a fool because this 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.200 is what head coaches say all the time. And there's 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.360 a very good chance Jalen Hurts is starting over Joe Flacco. 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.520 It's almost it's definitely happening, you would think, But he's 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.320 not gonna say that because head coaches don't like saying 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:27.360 that stuff. Come down. It's a reminder too. There are 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.040 some teams in facilities this week, so I guess football 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.360 is back. That's another time we can, we can start 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.880 saying football is back. The Patriots I think are in 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.840 their facilities somewhat. I um. I also do think though, 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.080 there's a chance the Eagles add someone to this competition. 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.040 Not that that's why he said this, but whether it's 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:49.200 a rookie or like a Teddy Bridgewater, if he becomes 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.520 cheap enough for something like it, just wouldn't it just 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.200 wouldn't surprise me. Just give it a break. Just someone 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.480 that I'm just saying, they might add someone you never 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:01.640 know in the draft and then go ahead. Mark always 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.320 just say this though, like I I'd find it a 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.119 bit tiresome that he's getting killed because it is coach speak. 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.520 But if you get to the end of this journey 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.639 um into August and we're treating the preseason as a 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.199 true competition between Joe Flacco and Jalen Hurts, I mean, 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.480 people in Philadelphia are gonna like crescendo their cars off 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.840 the interstate into total darkness. It's just unmarketable. So just 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.280 at some point, get real with it. This is your quarterback. 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.200 You traded Carson Wentz. Just a bit of sense along 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.800 I think about it, though, because he's a head coach 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.760 and coaches think a certain way, and he views it's 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.360 his first training camp. He wants it to be a competition, 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.520 and he's got this. He doesn't really know these guys. 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.280 I mean, and here's the other quote, that everyone's killing 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:43.720 Sirianni for hit it, Ricky. I think some of you 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:45.760 guys are wondering, like, what game? We didn't go air 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.320 shattering on these games? Right? I played a couple of 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.240 them at Rock paper scissors. Right. I was as easy 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.919 as that rock paper scissors. Let's see how competitive you are. 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.240 I'm competitive. I'm gonna be talking trash him. Did you 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.280 talk trash back to me? Right? That is in friends 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.960 to speaking with some draft prospects about just trying to 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.480 figure out their competitive fire or whatever. H He also 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.720 got killed for that. I will say this for Sirianni, 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:13.920 he's in a very tough spot. I think you have 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.560 to go back to maybe Jim Tomsula the last time 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.520 I felt like a coach took a job and already 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.200 had his back against the wall, where the fan base 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.680 was not feeling it, and the organization felt like it 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.040 was in flux, and nothing felt like it was set 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.879 up well for him. That's how I feel about Nick 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:31.879 Sirianni because it just seems like there's a target on 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:35.240 his back already. Well, I would, I know, I think 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:37.879 I appreciate that you are cutting against the grain to 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.960 kind of lift him up and you know, take some 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.919 of the heat that he's taking, you know, consistently away. 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:48.880 But there's just me uh, there's something about his sort 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:52.280 of overall presentation that leaves me, um, a little something 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.119 to be desired there. But but I'm willing. But you 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:56.320 you know what, let's just that's not his job entirely. 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.680 Let's see how it goes come game time. He's right, like, 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:04.120 there's nothing quite like talking during Rock paper Scissors. You're 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.840 just like, yeah, you know what's up. I just got 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:11.880 your I just got your your rock. Like it's like, yeah, 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.680 I just smashed your scissors. That's like layers on like 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.840 a tape, like two second tape to lay you know, 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.639 Rock paper Scissors is not the right if you If 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:24.000 you actually watch this, and I think this podcast will 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:25.919 also be up on YouTube, you could see the exact 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.480 moment where Greg deliberates whether to bail on his bit. 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.040 It was it was a nice little moment there. Um 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:33.320 I enjoined. I was always an odds and evens guy, 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:35.800 because I don't know rock paper scissors something with my brain. 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:37.879 It always confused me a little bit, as simple as 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:39.600 it is. So I was just no, let's do odds 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:41.680 and evens odds it even shoot, let's fly. They're not 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:47.080 drafting you like that just sits there, dumbfounded. You can't 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:51.280 handle this. Hit me up on Twitter if you found 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:54.800 rock paper scissors a little bit confusing. Uh. In other news, 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.840 the Steelers signed head coach Mike Tomlin. Actually, don't hit 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.200 me up on Twitter. I don't care. Steelers had coach 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.560 Mike Tomlin signs a three year extension with Pittsburgh forty 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:08.639 nine years old, signed now through Uh, the Steeler. I 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:12.399 love this that it's my favorite. Um kind of NFL 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.280 fun fact that the Steelers, if he stays through the 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:17.960 end of this deal, will have had three head coaches 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:22.760 and over fifty five years, how many head coaches have 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:24.720 there been for the Jets and Browns mark since we 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:29.720 started this podcast, hate, I don't know, like triple this amount. 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:33.159 So anyway, Tomlin is still there and uh, And I 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:35.760 guess you could say, oh, but what about the meltdown 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:38.720 and at the end of last season, and sure, Greg, 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:40.879 you can kind of get I know where Mark is 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:42.680 on the Steelers, so I want to hear from Greg 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:45.200 on this first Um, But do you think it's it's 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:47.960 smart for the Steelers to just stay in business with 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:49.760 Toma no matter what? Do you think this brings a 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:52.640 level of calm to an organization that maybe is still 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:54.119