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Speaker 1: M The Around the League Podcast is on Coughlin Time.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the League Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansis, and I am joined by

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Speaker 1: a room filled with heroes, Chris Westling, Mark Sessler, and

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Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal. What up boys, Hey Dan? Wow? A little

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Speaker 1: bit of a delay we talked about before the show.

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Speaker 1: It's a beat. He took several beats there before throwing

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Speaker 1: it out there. I'm a little off, my Mark. I'll

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Speaker 1: be all right, Well, what's wrong? Nothing, nothing, I'm good. Listen.

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Speaker 1: He's the mailman. He always delivers. I'm very excited today because,

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Speaker 1: you know, working for the Around the League crew is

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Speaker 1: very exciting and it's really fulfilling work and it's a

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Speaker 1: great job that a lot of people would kill for.

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Speaker 1: But one thing we don't typically get is real lunch breaks.

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Speaker 1: You know, Greg keeps us work and he's the boss.

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Speaker 1: He says, get your food, get back here. Not not

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Speaker 1: to say that today a metaphorical whip. Yeah, not today.

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Speaker 1: Today sandwiches were ordered by the Boss. And we're going

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Speaker 1: to have a sit down and we're gonna get Patra

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Speaker 1: on the phone from Chicago, Kevin Patrick coming at you,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk some a t L initiative business.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we're gonna well this is you know a

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Speaker 1: result of the go get My Lunch sandwich games. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna go go get your lunch. That last part was

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Speaker 1: supposed to be implied. Um. And uh, we're also going

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Speaker 1: to talk about an upcoming series, making the Leap, which

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Speaker 1: was a big hit last year, and we'll certainly be

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Speaker 1: talking about it on the podcast. So we're gonna decide

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Speaker 1: which players will be making the lead people are talking

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Speaker 1: about in that's our job. That's pretty good. No, that's good.

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Speaker 1: I I love this job. And I will say we

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Speaker 1: all took the order as we put them in and uh,

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Speaker 1: what West? What did you get as a sandwich? I

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Speaker 1: got the classic Italian sub that's a solid one. I

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Speaker 1: was gonna get the Chipotle chicken, we couldn't find it

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Speaker 1: on the menu, so I went with the Jamaican jerk sandwich.

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Speaker 1: And what did you got? Greg? The barbecue beef brisket.

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Speaker 1: I had that delicious. Um. Mark Cessler, noted vegetarian of

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Speaker 1: because it's an abomination. It's called custom veggie sandwich. These

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Speaker 1: are marks choices, sour dough, no cheese, romane, lettuce, tomato, cucumbers, avocado,

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Speaker 1: green olives, pickles, hallepeenos, salt, pepper, and dijon. Oh my goodness,

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Speaker 1: the email that Mark sent to me, which I should

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Speaker 1: have just forwarded, it had three stars in all caps,

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Speaker 1: no meat, no cheese, as if as if you don't

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Speaker 1: know that Mark doesn't eat meat, if the words custom

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Speaker 1: veggie sandwich doesn't imply, I know that our friend Tristan

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Speaker 1: in Australia will agree with me that if you don't

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Speaker 1: clarify these things, the baker whoever that putting this thing together,

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Speaker 1: and some sandwich shop just throws everything on there, you'd

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Speaker 1: have to be specific. I'm not sandwich get being vegetarian,

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Speaker 1: I also and I also get when Mark says he

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Speaker 1: sees it so overrated. I see that because this is

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Speaker 1: hard work to come up with something that you find delectable.

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Speaker 1: How about this? You continue to mow down life forms

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Speaker 1: in order to eat your lunch. And I won't, but

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Speaker 1: I'll take the heat if three of you if every

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Speaker 1: writing a small short story or something. I mean that

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Speaker 1: that's an assignment to come up with all of that Romain, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, avocados,

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Speaker 1: think you know what I'm saying. Alright, So anyway, Mark

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Speaker 1: Started to call you out on that, Mark, but already

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Speaker 1: be empty handed during this meeting. Well he doesn't live here,

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Speaker 1: so what what can we do? Style beef? Patrick's eating meat.

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Speaker 1: That man's been a fist fights as we know. He's

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Speaker 1: in the streets. All right, So big show today, guys,

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Speaker 1: The clock is ticking on the gold standard being a

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Speaker 1: moment the gold standards, that golden sir, what's not too much?

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Speaker 1: How you doing? How are you? I'm great? Any anything

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Speaker 1: bummed about Landed Ottovan obviously, Well let's move on alight.

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Speaker 1: Did you mean housekeeping their housekeeping household? I like to

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Speaker 1: believe that Mark. You have to unload the dishwasher less,

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Speaker 1: All right, and stops. Hey, let's do some news. Alright.

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Speaker 1: The big news that happened after our show on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: NFL media insider Ian Rappaport reported Wednesday on NFL Total

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Speaker 1: Access that the Cowboys at this point anyway, don't plan

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Speaker 1: on bringing an outside veterans to compete for Lee's middle

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Speaker 1: him and insist that, you know, if they play that guy,

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Speaker 1: they'll be just fine. Yeah, But the Boys coaches don't

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Speaker 1: what else is new? But they're gonna have to win

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Speaker 1: I you know, look at Dallas. That's a team that

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Speaker 1: Dan you set it downstairs. Despite their up and sound,

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Speaker 1: There's there's a listener who tweeted at US a month

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Speaker 1: moving forward With other cabal news, one player that can

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Speaker 1: He was asked this week if he believed he should

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Speaker 1: the division because of the system and because of the

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Speaker 1: offensive line and everything around, and Falls was a nice

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Speaker 1: part of that. But he's not He's not that good.

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Speaker 1: He's not at that level yet. I think in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: you start out and Falls isn't is high really highly

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Speaker 1: regarded at this stage of his career around the league

429
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Speaker 1: as Jay Cutler was at the similar stage. I think

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, what matters when you judge quarterbacks, whether

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Speaker 1: rightly or wrongly, what do you do when the games

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Speaker 1: on the line. And like you said, Fools really hasn't

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Speaker 1: had a chance to do that yet. They haven't needed

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Speaker 1: him when the game's on the line. So let's let's

435
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Speaker 1: hold off on anointing him. They could have used them

436
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Speaker 1: a little more in the second half of that loss

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Speaker 1: to the Eagles in the plastic he wasn't terrible. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: they did beat themselves on some level. Yeah, and he

439
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Speaker 1: wasn't terrible either. It was a typical Nick Foles game

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Speaker 1: where he's part of a larger machine. That's all I'm saying. Well,

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Speaker 1: but this, by the way, is not a career retrospective.

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Speaker 1: It's meant to be where they are coming off right

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Speaker 1: to be for this upcoming seat. Either way, I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: put him in that category. I would not say, can I.

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Speaker 1: I'll ask you, gentlemen, the question. There three quarterbacks that

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Speaker 1: and Matthew Stafford. If I were to hire you as

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Speaker 1: a head coach for a team, is let's say Kaepernick adis?

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Speaker 1: I feel like you guys would take Kaepernick above those

451
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Speaker 1: other three guys? Question? Okay, who Kaepernick doesn't belong in

452
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Speaker 1: that group? I agree? Who would be? Who would be

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Speaker 1: the fourth of these guys? I'll put it that way.

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Speaker 1: Who would be the last guy you'd want if I

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Speaker 1: gave you these as four options? By Far folls by Far.

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Speaker 1: I agree with Greg and because falls for me. It's

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Speaker 1: these in this, it's the system he is in. I

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Speaker 1: don't trust that if you put him into any system,

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Speaker 1: he thrives. I feel that Tony Romo Stafford Romo about

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Speaker 1: starting a team today, Well, I would never take a

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Speaker 1: thirty four year old quarterbacks. So I would laid it out,

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Speaker 1: I said, I just hired you as coach. Then Stafford, hmm, interested,

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Speaker 1: I would take Rome. I will be because well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't believe your as the top on a different

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Speaker 1: games to spin off off. If we're sting after the first,

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Speaker 1: they have a discussion show after the actual show with

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Speaker 1: Damna check and Silver And then if you're listening to

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Speaker 1: NFL network executives, maybe at one in the morning, throw

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Speaker 1: on hand Juice, Wes Sessler, the Around the League crew

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Speaker 1: and we do this whole other thing. And while that

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Speaker 1: the first after show is going on, we will be

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Speaker 1: at a local watering hole just talking about ideas for

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Speaker 1: the show. And then by the time we roll at

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Speaker 1: one am, we're flying. What did I do? Let's get

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Speaker 1: this started? Social media movement instant entertaining after after show

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Speaker 1: twenty work day anything else jump out at you at

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Speaker 1: the top one, Mr Rosenthal, No, dared Allan got a

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Speaker 1: little overrated. I didn't nothing else. Really, Cameron Wade is

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Speaker 1: an underrated player. I like that you mentioned that because

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Speaker 1: he is vastly underrated. Yeah, he should have been higher,

481
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Speaker 1: but that doesn't happened year after year with him. He's

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Speaker 1: not a name player, and he came from the Canadian

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Speaker 1: Football League. I think Canada he probably doesn't have as

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Speaker 1: much respect from other players. There's a general anti Canadian

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Speaker 1: sentiment in the NFL. If he was a number three

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Speaker 1: overall pick in the draft, don't you think he would

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Speaker 1: be more highly rated or on a team anyone cared about.

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Speaker 1: I don't feel that Jeff Ireland's fault that can Wake

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Speaker 1: isn't getting his own pub I don't feel like the

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Speaker 1: Around League podcast is a huge Canadian following. Do we

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Speaker 1: get a lot of heat from Canada? I have. I've

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Speaker 1: looked at the numbers. We have an incredible international audience.

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Speaker 1: It's almost hard to believe. Thank you all for listening.

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Speaker 1: A huge segment of our listenership is from overseas, and

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Speaker 1: Canada is a huge part of that. They are our

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Speaker 1: number two country behind Uh, really you have it broken

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Speaker 1: down that far? YEA Canada, Canada, Germany, Australia. I certainly

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Speaker 1: can you forward these numbers to us? This is your job.

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Speaker 1: I can let you know to the to the listener

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Speaker 1: how many we've got. It's exciting. I for a brief

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Speaker 1: time in my life dated a woman named Kirby that

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Speaker 1: lived in Toronto. Little part of that k r y

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Speaker 1: that sounds to me like it did not end well.

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Speaker 1: It did not, actually, but I don't like Canada. It's

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Speaker 1: like when you're away camp and you're like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I have a girlfriend. She lived in Canada. A lot

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Speaker 1: of hoops to jumps. I've tried that ruse before. It's

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Speaker 1: too absurd to make up in this case, but that's

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Speaker 1: a memoir Ties coming out in two thousand sixty four.

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Speaker 1: To make up. All you did was take an eight

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Speaker 1: center fielder's first name and throw a Canadian city out there.

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Speaker 1: You did it. You cracked it all right. So moving forward,

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Speaker 1: good top one hundred talk Greg Way to lead it

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Speaker 1: great West. You really enjoyed it. I can talk. Yes, Um,

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Speaker 1: let's dig in to the O t A s breaking

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Speaker 1: down some nuggets taken from both Uh, the around the

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Speaker 1: League NFL dot com back slash a t L. You

518
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Speaker 1: get all the news that we write about that really

519
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Speaker 1: formulates the bedrock of the Around the League podcast. We

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Speaker 1: had what we learned from Wednesday's O t s and Tuesdays.

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Speaker 1: So I figure I'll go around the room once, perhaps

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Speaker 1: even twice if time permits, and talk about things that

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Speaker 1: have jumped out to us. So why don't we start

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Speaker 1: mark you were uh you wrote up the Wednesday round

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Speaker 1: up something that jumped out to you on Wednesday? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think for me at the minute I hit work

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Speaker 1: at around eight am, Greg basically said, we've got Johnny

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Speaker 1: Manzel tied up in Cleveland, like you gotta jump right

529
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Speaker 1: on this, and a It started with Petton basically responding

530
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Speaker 1: to whatever it was people were perceiving happened in Vegas

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Speaker 1: to Johnny Manzel over the weekend. My takeaway was number one,

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Speaker 1: they don't care what he does off the field as

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Speaker 1: long as he basically doesn't get arrested. He already was

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Speaker 1: moved into second team snaps ahead of number three. None

535
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Speaker 1: of it means anything in me, but you know, with

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Speaker 1: Hoyer not cleared really for for full on eleven on

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Speaker 1: on eleven contact. He took number one and in the

538
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Speaker 1: takeaway from me had nothing to do with this loss

539
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Speaker 1: Vegas business. It was a couple of the writers on

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Speaker 1: the scene who watched every snap said, this offense by

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan is being engineered entirely for a mobile quarterback.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot being borrowed from what he did with

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Speaker 1: r G three, and it's not being engineered for someone

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Speaker 1: other than Manzelle. This is his job to lose, so

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Speaker 1: it's not being engineered for a immobile quarterback with a

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Speaker 1: giant knee brais I think coming off surgery, you're saying

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Speaker 1: with a giant knee braks, he will be and m

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Speaker 1: O Book Well, I know in your mind we're dealing

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Speaker 1: with two thousand and third team Brian Hoyer, but that

550
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Speaker 1: guy's is not walking through the door. We're dealing with

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Speaker 1: the A C L. Brian Hoyer. Well, yes, correct, West.

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Speaker 1: The point is it's not being engineered for Brian Hoyer.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, but it shows because we all

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Speaker 1: it's not the point. I just think that Cleveland, no

555
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: matter what they've said, they took this guy to play.

556
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Speaker 1: Listen to the optimism in your voice when you talk

557
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: about this team. I got excited Mark it would be

558
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: wrong for I think having him sit until week eight

559
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Speaker 1: or something. Would he's not gonna go. Well, here's what

560
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Speaker 1: I thought. I agree. I thought yesterday was a nice

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Speaker 1: sign for the Browns organization that after a week or

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Speaker 1: so of the strange comments about holding Johnny Manziel down,

563
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: finally after this Vegas thing, what really the good thing

564
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: came out of it was the coach coming out and

565
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Speaker 1: Mike pett and be like, I don't care. He even

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Speaker 1: checked with me. He said it was fine. It's fine

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Speaker 1: for him to go to Vegas. He he told me

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Speaker 1: he was studying. He gave him the benefit of the doubt,

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Speaker 1: and he told the media so. And then Manzell because

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, he's jf and and he's a

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Speaker 1: fun guy. You know, when the media was trying to

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Speaker 1: give him some heat about it, He's like, listen, I'll

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Speaker 1: do what I want to do. It's my life. I

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Speaker 1: do my work and then I do I do my play.

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Speaker 1: And I could separate those two things. Everything made sense.

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Speaker 1: And I like that it wasn't turned into a bigger

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Speaker 1: thing by the Browns. I agree, I didn't we see

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Speaker 1: like it seems like a shift in philosophy on how

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Speaker 1: they're gonna handle Johnny Football. See Vegas is the greatest

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Speaker 1: thing in the world. I think they were the They

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Speaker 1: were like the guy that got away too hot girlfriend

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Speaker 1: and had no idea how to handle that out of

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Speaker 1: the gate because they've never had one, and they're starting

584
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Speaker 1: to get their moxie, their understanding what they're dealing with

585
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: for now, let's see where we are next podcast. I

586
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: also like the biggest the biggest winner of the Vegas

587
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Speaker 1: trip for Johnny Football was DJ Pauli D of Jersey

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Speaker 1: Shore Fame back on the radar, back on the grid,

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Speaker 1: you know the situation. Probably saw that and was like,

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Speaker 1: has no idea what I d I didn't know that

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Speaker 1: he had intertwined. I didn't need the mixture is one

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Speaker 1: of the shots. There's an instagram out there with the

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Speaker 1: two of those. DJ is listening to this right now.

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Speaker 1: He's like, Yo, I make three point three million a

595
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Speaker 1: year DJ Vegas, so I know he's doing okay in

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Speaker 1: his life. But back on the grid. I didn't realize

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Speaker 1: until I moved to l A that DJ's are basically

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Speaker 1: like athletes and movie stars in this area. In the

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Speaker 1: l A Vegas area. It's amazing. They have billboards and

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Speaker 1: they get paid millions of dollars for spinning a record.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, do they have a DJ and

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Speaker 1: hucka poose? It sounds like no, No, they have a playlist,

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Speaker 1: a very good playlist. DJ. Come on, I think I'm

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Speaker 1: hanging out of place with a DJ h West. What

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Speaker 1: is your give me a takeaway from me the Tuesday

606
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Speaker 1: or Wednesday? Uh? My takeaway is I wish Bruce arians

607
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Speaker 1: was still not a liar. After he drafted Logan Thomas,

608
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Speaker 1: he admitted I lie pretty good because he said, you know,

609
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to draft a quarterback. We've got Carson Palmer. Well,

610
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Speaker 1: now he's talking about Andre Ellington, a scat back who

611
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: has gained ten pounds and maybe he's got a little

612
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,239
Speaker 1: more dirt ability than last year when they decided they

613
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Speaker 1: had to play the discarded husk of Richard Mendenhall over

614
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Speaker 1: Andre Ellington because he's not he's not he doesn't have

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00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 1: the body, finn Hips slightly build. Now he's gonna get

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Speaker 1: twenty five to thirty touches the game, which would break

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Speaker 1: all NFL records. He's gonna get five hundred touches on

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Speaker 1: this season. Well, the coaches always throughout these numbers, though,

619
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Speaker 1: and they're not doing the math of thirty touches a

620
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Speaker 1: game equals four. I don't think that necessarily means he's lying.

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Speaker 1: I think he is looking at Ellington as a guy

622
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Speaker 1: who's going to touch the ball a lot more this

623
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Speaker 1: year and as the centerpieces. I believe that West, Halloween,

624
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Speaker 1: you just referred to a living being as a discarded husk.

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00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,360
Speaker 1: I watched some Ellington or really some Carson Palmer. Ellington

626
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 1: always just pops off the screen, and when you watch

627
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Speaker 1: Andrea Ellington, I think, why is this guy not getting

628
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: the ball more? And there is not much separation between

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Speaker 1: a Lashawn McCoy type of player in Andrea Ellington that

630
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Speaker 1: I think he has the potential to be a top

631
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Speaker 1: five or six running back in the league, That he

632
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: is that good when you watch his movement skills and everything.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he's not thirty a game, but it wouldn't surprise

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Speaker 1: me to see Andre Ellington rack up yards and go

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Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl. But isn't West annoyed because you

636
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:35,919
Speaker 1: followed fantasy football for a decade plus and these kind

637
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 1: of nonsensical promises happen every year at this time. That's

638
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 1: part of why I'm annoyed. I'm also annoyed because the

639
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: Cardinals themselves said he's thin hipped and slightly built. So

640
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,439
Speaker 1: would you give Jarryus Norwood three carries? No, he's gonna

641
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: get injured if they decided last year. If they decided

642
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 1: last year, he's not built right to handle a work

643
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: workload or to be your between the tackles back. I

644
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: don't think ten pounds is really going to change that.

645
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: Guys develop into that. Lashawn McCoy is certainly tougher than

646
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: when he started in the league. It happens with guys.

647
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: Some guys don't like. I don't think Leon Washington was

648
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: ever going to be that guy, but he's a guy

649
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: who was similar to Andre Ellington style wise. Greg Your

650
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 1: takeaway that Bill O'Brien, the Texans coach, came right out

651
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: on day one of O t a s and made

652
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: it clear it's not Ryan Fitzpatrick's job, that this is

653
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: an open quarterback competition. We're we're just assuming Fitzpatrick is

654
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: the favorite. It probably is the favorite, but no one.

655
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:41,240
Speaker 1: No one can love Ryan Fitzpatrick, and I think O'Brien

656
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 1: and the Texans are in that group. They didn't want

657
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 1: him to be the true number one for a guy

658
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 1: that quarterback guru Bill O'Brien still waiting to see it happen. Sorry,

659
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 1: he's one of many guys through the building that made

660
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: Tom Brady look good. I I haven't. There's not a

661
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 1: long pedigree and developed Matt mcgloyin. That's fair Mattlin, big

662
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 1: home run. This is exactly the opposite of what I

663
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: thought when they hired him. Where they'd be with the

664
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 1: quarterback situation, which is essentially a bathtub full of backups.

665
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: There's not one guy here that you can sell to

666
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: your fan base and say, get excited. There's a guy

667
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: to really develop here. Maybe Keenum, I guess, but I

668
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: think the team already kind of wrote the guy off

669
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: last year. Why would they all be in a bathtub?

670
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: I saw bathtub full of backups. They are opening for

671
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:38,800
Speaker 1: the violent family. Get excited, Texas. Yeah, j Yates, Case Keenum.

672
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien to say this, we already knew Case Keenum

673
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: was in this quarterback race with Ryan Fitzpatrick. If it

674
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: was all just a genius play by the Texans after

675
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: getting the next Lawrence Taylor in this year's draft, saying,

676
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 1: you know what, screw the quarterback position. It will cause

677
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: us to go on the tank again. That's fine. Another

678
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: three and thirteen, bang, they take the top quarterback and

679
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: next year's draft, and now all of a sudden they

680
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: have two massive, dynamic number one picks back to back.

681
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: Here we go, Dallas is picking number one. That's what

682
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:18,359
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. What Dallas takes. They're gonna pass pass

683
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: on Manzel in two thousand fourteen and then take a

684
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,439
Speaker 1: quarterback first overall in two if Romo gets hurt again

685
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 1: and we didn't have to come in, you guys are

686
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 1: talking like you know something we don't. It's something up fired.

687
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: The last two coaches attached to Brandon Weed and lost

688
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 1: their jobs. Brenda Weeden is not taking a meaningful snap

689
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys this year. It's just not gonna happen.

690
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think he's gonna be the backup quarterback.

691
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: Do you really think Ryan Mallett, somebody that's not in

692
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:51,760
Speaker 1: the picture right now would be my prediction? Case Keenum

693
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Speaker 1: t j Y to the quarterback. They're still getting the

694
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Speaker 1: number one draft pick. Um. I am a little nervous

695
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: about my my hometown Jet team. A little bit of

696
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 1: a potential distraction going on there now with the quarterback situation.

697
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: I think we've all kind of seen it coming. And

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00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: on Wednesday there was there was some heat. There was

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00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: some legit heat. Rex Ryan was asked about Michael Vick's

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Speaker 1: comments from a week earlier about you know he Vick

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Speaker 1: said this is not an open competition. He's competing, and

702
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,240
Speaker 1: then Rex came out. They asked him immediately, of course

703
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Speaker 1: is it an open competition, to which Rex applied, Um,

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00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: you know, of course it is, and sure is something

705
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: along loose lines. Minutes later and you follow this on Twitter.

706
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,439
Speaker 1: Now the all the Beat guys go from Rex's press

707
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 1: conference to the Jets locker room and asked Michael Vick, uh, so,

708
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: you know, is this an open competition? And Vick's response

709
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: was nah, it's not an open competition. So there's still

710
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Speaker 1: I My feeling on this is that Vick needs to

711
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 1: pipe down. I said this earlier this week on the

712
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,359
Speaker 1: podcast and stop talking so much. But this is kind

713
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: of what you invited in when you signed a uh,

714
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: you know, high profile player to compete against your incumbent,

715
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: and the Jets seem like they might have a bit

716
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: of turbulence coming to Foreign Park this summer. Gold Standard,

717
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: cue up some circus music back in town. Start. They

718
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 1: can't even foresee the ridiculous stories that will be coming

719
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: out of the Jets this year. Was West said yesterday,

720
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:26,439
Speaker 1: my spiky sense is tingling. Something's just a miss here.

721
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 1: It's just it's not right. It's it's a little ugly. Well,

722
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: the other weird thing about it is that enriched to

723
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,720
Speaker 1: Meni of ESPN New York, uh commented a VIC sounded

724
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: brainwashed when when they came and spoke of him, initially

725
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 1: repeating talking pointing like someone had gotten to him. But

726
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 1: then despite that, he also then dropped the comment again

727
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Speaker 1: that he still didn't believe it was an open competition.

728
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Speaker 1: I think the only thing that could really backfire on

729
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: the Jets here is a VIC continually talks through the

730
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,919
Speaker 1: summer and makes these type of comments, and I guess

731
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 1: they can't put a muzzle on the guy. Maybe a

732
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 1: poor choice of words regarding Michael. I don't blame it,

733
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Speaker 1: but yeah, I I think they're they're in a tough

734
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 1: spot if he's gonna want to talk, and as a

735
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: veteran with a lot of past success. They can't necessarily

736
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 1: control the guy. It's gonna put them in a very

737
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: bad spot that maybe they didn't foresee. Nobody has reported

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00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: exactly what Vic was promised when he signed, but I

739
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: know before he signed there was a report from one

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00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:23,760
Speaker 1: of the local papers that said Vic will be offered

741
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,759
Speaker 1: the chance to compete for the starting job, and Ian

742
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 1: Rappaport said a couple of weeks before Vick signed, he's

743
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,879
Speaker 1: he's willing to wait months to sign with a team

744
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: if he doesn't get a chance to compete for the

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00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: starting job. So he signs a couple of weeks later

746
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: with the Jets. Why would he sign there if he

747
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: wasn't promised a chance to compete. This is on Itzick,

748
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you why. Because to two summers ago

749
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:50,280
Speaker 1: you had Sanchez and Tebow battling depress that was a nightmare.

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00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: So its it takes over and takes Gino Smith and

751
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: has him dealing with Sanchez last summer, which was uncomfortable.

752
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: He had a chance to put Gino alone in this

753
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: job and not add this dimension. And you're shaking your

754
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: head day yeah, because we all agreed that was the

755
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 1: right move two months ago. And now it's agreed if

756
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,879
Speaker 1: if Vic has a chance to win the job, because

757
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: I think Vic is the better quarterback. If he's if

758
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 1: he's suddenly being told now, no, you're not, you're gonna

759
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 1: sit back and be a good teammate. You're until he

760
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 1: until he faced plan, that's poor man. And I don't

761
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:26,240
Speaker 1: think that's what he's been told. That's just an assumption

762
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: that people are making. I think it's an o t

763
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: a story. I don't think it matters. And they needed

764
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:33,800
Speaker 1: to bring in Vic because they couldn't just rely on Gino.

765
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 1: And if this is the worst that happens, that there's

766
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,399
Speaker 1: some stuff in the media and a little back and forth,

767
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: maybe there is something that this is a story that

768
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: will go on all year because it will. It's gonna

769
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 1: be a drama. I don't think it affects them winning

770
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:48,320
Speaker 1: or losing, but I do think it's going to be

771
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 1: a daily drama. It's not good for Rex Ryan to

772
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: have to comment on this every press conference. It's just

773
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,320
Speaker 1: it's the last thing they need. But you know what,

774
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: that's part of the gig in New York too. Like

775
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:00,879
Speaker 1: if it wasn't this, it would be something else. Jet

776
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 1: Rex Ryan has been answering things for four or five

777
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 1: years now, and this is going to be the thing

778
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: that he deals with this year. But anything other than

779
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: the quarterback situation is a lot less problematic. Rex Ryan

780
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: doesn't want to have to deal with the quarterback situation,

781
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: and here he is again, Well, until they have a

782
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: true franchise quarterback, last year was relatively quiet. They had

783
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 1: no other options. You know, you're talking in general. Yeah,

784
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 1: the media didn't go to wild Sanchez training camp, but

785
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: Sanchez has taken out of the equation. That's the only reason.

786
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: It was the healthiest that team has been with the

787
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: press for a long time, and they invited it all

788
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: back in with this by signing a Though it wasn't

789
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: a bad Schael if he was right, if their intention

790
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 1: was to say we're gonna go with Geno in year two,

791
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 1: the way the Bills did, for instance, with e. J.

792
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: Manuel for better or worse, there's no drama on Buffalo,

793
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:57,800
Speaker 1: but there is in New York because they brought a

794
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: guy that everyone assumes is a more electric, more trustworthy

795
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 1: player under center then their second year quarterback, and wasn't

796
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:08,880
Speaker 1: given a backup contract, was given a mid level you

797
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,360
Speaker 1: can compete to start contract. They signed him as a

798
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,919
Speaker 1: security blanket. They really did. And that's naive if you're

799
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 1: the Jets and you can disagree, but I mean you can.

800
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: This circus can't. It's usually naive. And I don't believe

801
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: for a second that Michael Vick was told he's going

802
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 1: to be the backup when he signed, and has he

803
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 1: been told now he is the backup. I believe he's

804
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 1: been told this is Geno Smith's job to lose. But

805
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 1: does anybody know this? No, I believe that that's what

806
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: his statements are telling you. Why would he say it's

807
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 1: not an open competition. It's such a weird compartment. We

808
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:43,720
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on behind the scenes. But everything,

809
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: I think, everything we can infer is Michael Vick was

810
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: told at first you're gonna have a chance to compete

811
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: to start, and has been told since then you have

812
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 1: a chance to compete to start. But Gino is going

813
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: to be the guy unless he messes up. And that's

814
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: still the case, right, But there's a very subtle but

815
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 1: important distinction. Well, we'll see how it plays out. I

816
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: I've always thought that Gino will be the starter, and

817
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: then the first sign of trouble. They're going to bring

818
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:08,879
Speaker 1: in Vic and that's still how I see it playing out.

819
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 1: And if that's how it plays out, then I think

820
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: it was the right signing. They have to just deal

821
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: the stuff if Vick is going to talk though, in

822
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 1: my opinion, alright, gentlemen, that is it a lot of

823
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: little Jets heat man. Sorry to leave on that competitive

824
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,399
Speaker 1: talk about the Jets, but we're gonna we'll be back

825
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 1: when when's the next shot? Yeah, we will be back.

826
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 1: Competition Open competition are three week three shows a week

827
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:39,839
Speaker 1: back next week Monday, Wednesday, Friday and gold Standard. Before

828
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: we go, we need to talk about when West's toaster. Yes,

829
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: we do have you what what's this? Any updates? I'm

830
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:51,839
Speaker 1: still refurbishing the elimination chamber, so the updates are there.

831
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:54,919
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of spikes coming in, some weird

832
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: deliveries to NFL media. I believe you had to refurbish, right, Yeah, yeah,

833
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: you know it didn't do the job last time. I

834
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: gotta keep turning up the heat. Alright, good, So how

835
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: do people get in touch with you? Well, you can

836
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: either contact me at that damn yank on Twitter or

837
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: the Around the League page at at NFL, underscore at

838
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: l but mostly at that. Damn yank just give me

839
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:20,440
Speaker 1: some keep us out of it, you know, come on, yeah, yeah, no,

840
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 1: Just let me know that you want to be a

841
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 1: part of it. You've got to actually be based in

842
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: the United States or Canada. I guess we can do.

843
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 1: North America's gonna be able to call in, So that's

844
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: sort of the problem there. Thank you all of our

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Speaker 1: esteemed international listeners, and again, send those money tags hashtag

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Speaker 1: our work for us. All right, that's it until Monday.

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Speaker 1: This is Dan hands is signing up for the Mailman,

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Speaker 1: the Sizzler and the Boss and the gold standard behind

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