Speaker 1: Chappie throwing caught Henry touchdown whoa order, were almost had
Speaker 1: the pack and the kick is going to be blocked
Speaker 1: Miles Kilbrow their special teams maven get s there need
Speaker 1: to going deep, going for an all and incomplete intending
Speaker 1: for Johnson.
Speaker 2: Blame Canada. You can a go ball on fourth and two.
Speaker 2: What an absurd ending, too, frankly an absurd game. The
Speaker 2: New England Patriots get the stop late and get the
Speaker 2: win whether they want it or not, beating the Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: Steelers at the field formerly known as Hines twenty one
Speaker 2: to eighteen, a win that both damages Pittsburgh's playoff hopes
Speaker 2: badly and damages the Patriots chance at the number one pick.
Speaker 2: So maybe it's one of those weird, funky situations where
Speaker 2: a game ends in both fan bases are annoy Dan
Speaker 2: Hans is here from my home mark, Sessler there from
Speaker 2: his home mark. Where to start a strange game? Let's
Speaker 2: start here? Though they hit the over by halftime, but
Speaker 2: we didn't get much after that.
Speaker 3: No, I mean we got I guess they hit the
Speaker 3: over because we got the best half of football. Offensively,
Speaker 3: the Patriots have produced Billy Zappy I don't like any
Speaker 3: of these quarterbacks, but Billy Zappy Arrow up on Mac Jones,
Speaker 3: and I just I'm looking at a Steelers team that,
Speaker 3: if anything, they'd been imperfect, but they've been resilient and
Speaker 3: they keep kind of eke out wins. But in a
Speaker 3: five day period, you've lost to the Arizona Cardinals, who
Speaker 3: were an apparition essentially in the National Football League, and
Speaker 3: tonight to a Patriots team that, despite allowing like ten
Speaker 3: points or less in three straight games, had lost. Tonight
Speaker 3: they win, and it's I just the Steelers to me
Speaker 3: are fading away. And a lot of it has to
Speaker 3: do with the fact that first former first round pick
Speaker 3: Mitchell Trubisky you known, amounts to sixty yards through the
Speaker 3: air in the first half. I mean, the offense that
Speaker 3: we thought two games ago in that clash with the
Speaker 3: Bengals had reawakened with four hundred plus yards two games
Speaker 3: in a row. Since we have evidence that that's not
Speaker 3: the case. And whether they're a playoff team or not
Speaker 3: in a really weird AFC, they are very flawed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't want to be that guy,
Speaker 2: but I was. I was less bullish about the Steelers
Speaker 2: coming off that four hundred yard game, just because we'd
Speaker 2: seen so much slock to that before that. And I never,
Speaker 2: I'm never totally on board with just putting everything on
Speaker 2: an offensive play caller, because there's usually a lot more
Speaker 2: going on, like bad quarterback play and bad blocking and
Speaker 2: an inability for the wide receivers to make a player
Speaker 2: show that they even care or want to be in
Speaker 2: the building. And Pittsburgh to you know, the twelve and
Speaker 2: five dream is over, obviously, Mark. And it's funny because
Speaker 2: a week ago we were talking about how and I
Speaker 2: don't really look like a twelve and five team, but
Speaker 2: the schedule sets up so well for them they might
Speaker 2: just get there. So to drop back to back games
Speaker 2: to two win teams over the course of four days,
Speaker 2: I guess it does this, Mark, because we've been talking
Speaker 2: about how the Steelers aren't really passing any of the
Speaker 2: smell tests throughout the season, and yet they kept winning. Well,
Speaker 2: now they've kind of been exposed, and with the schedule
Speaker 2: now tightening up, I think even though an NFL season
Speaker 2: isn't very long, even with the added game, just seventeen
Speaker 2: games each, it does have a way of filtering out
Speaker 2: the pretenders and the contenders by the end of December
Speaker 2: into January, and I think that's what's happened to the
Speaker 2: Steelers here. And on the Patriots side, yeah, you get
Speaker 2: you get three touchdowns from Bailly Zappi in the first half.
Speaker 2: You know, some curious play calling. I thought down the
Speaker 2: stretch in this game, including before that that for you
Speaker 2: know that fourth down failure by the Steelers that basically
Speaker 2: ended the game. You know, the Patriots just running the
Speaker 2: ball three times into the line, trying kind of to
Speaker 2: get a first down, but also trying to burn Pittsburgh timeouts.
Speaker 2: It's like, you're two and ten, like it, don't be
Speaker 2: so conservative, go and win the game. And then even
Speaker 2: when they're the next possession after when Pittsburgh failed on
Speaker 2: that go ball, they are inside the Pittsburgh forty yard
Speaker 2: line and it's fourth and inches and you send out
Speaker 2: the punter and it's like, just, oh my god, this
Speaker 2: is such a stupid game that we're watching and it
Speaker 2: just refused to die. So I'm glad it's over. And Mark,
Speaker 2: I'm sure Greg is upset about it and all the
Speaker 2: other Patriots fans because they now also have put themselves
Speaker 2: in the position where they might not get that top
Speaker 2: two pick. This could be a very costly win for them.
Speaker 3: Well, it's I think it was mentioned on our Thursday
Speaker 3: show that there's the world where if Belichick knows he's
Speaker 3: not going to be with the Patriots next year. We
Speaker 3: don't know if he knows that. We don't know what
Speaker 3: the situation is. But maybe you go Lovey Smith and
Speaker 3: you're not trying to like lose these games, and it's
Speaker 3: like leave the next coach without the number one overall pick.
Speaker 3: I mean this game though, you know, I think it's
Speaker 3: pretty much on the nose when we predicted all week
Speaker 3: long that this would be a bit of a disaster
Speaker 3: and it turns out to be. I think there just
Speaker 3: aren't really seven real playoff teams in the AFC, and
Speaker 3: like we very well might get the Steelers in the postseason,
Speaker 3: and they're a very incomplete team. And I would say
Speaker 3: the one on top of the loss, like I don't
Speaker 3: love like Alex high Smith, who you've got TJ. Watt,
Speaker 3: But Alex high Smith has probably even arguably been the
Speaker 3: more productive pass rusher leaves the game with neck injury.
Speaker 3: They're just problems with this team. They're very incomplete and
Speaker 3: to lose these two games the way they did, It's
Speaker 3: like these should have been the two opportunities to propel
Speaker 3: you and inflate your record beyond what you are and
Speaker 3: take you to that potential eleven to twelve win scenario.
Speaker 3: And it's like, they're not that team. They're not going
Speaker 3: to do that. This is a Steelers team that's going
Speaker 3: to win about ten games, nine games and float out
Speaker 3: of the playoffs if they even get there at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think they're going to go near the
Speaker 2: playoffs as a team going in the wrong direction. And
Speaker 2: I did think, you know, watching Mike Tomlin in this
Speaker 2: game that you know, he called them JV after the
Speaker 2: Cardinals game, and I wonder what he's thinking in this game.
Speaker 2: And you could just you know, the hind excuse me,
Speaker 2: the Akros Shore fans in that building just going nuts
Speaker 2: booing that offense out of the building in the first half,
Speaker 2: because I think there was this, like very quickly, because
Speaker 2: New England's offense was putting a point. Surprisingly, it became
Speaker 2: clear that oh whoa, this was supposed to be just
Speaker 2: like a three and a half hour celebration here in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: and we were gonna, you know, move right along to
Speaker 2: eight and five and be in great position going into
Speaker 2: the home stretch of the regular season. So it kind
Speaker 2: of turns into a nightmare. I should clarify because I
Speaker 2: just said that the Pats put themselves in a tougher
Speaker 2: situation for that draft pick. Even with the win. They
Speaker 2: still hold the number two overall pick as action rolls
Speaker 2: on in the NFL on Sunday at three and ten.
Speaker 2: But you know, so Carolina, which is actually the Bears' pick,
Speaker 2: they are in very good position the Bears now to
Speaker 2: get the number one overall pick for the second straight year.
Speaker 2: They're two games up on everybody else. But with that
Speaker 2: win for the Patriots, Patriots, does it moves them away
Speaker 2: from number one obviously further, But also all these other
Speaker 2: three and four win teams now are right in the
Speaker 2: mix for a top three pick. You got Arizona, Washington, Chicago,
Speaker 2: New York, New York, Tennessee, all with four wins right now,
Speaker 2: so that tightens up significantly. Anything else that jumped out
Speaker 2: to you in this game.
Speaker 3: I just don't remember a season where within like a
Speaker 3: one week period, you had the fans in New Orleans,
Speaker 3: who are some of the greatest fans around and loyal
Speaker 3: to the end. Same goes with Pittsburgh both raining down
Speaker 3: booze and cat calls and annoyances in their home stadium
Speaker 3: at their own team. I mean, that's the kind of
Speaker 3: year we're in a little bit. The other thing that
Speaker 3: comes to mind is whenever they show Cam Hayward, the
Speaker 3: monstrous defensive lineman for the Steelers. That dan when we
Speaker 3: did a broadcast boot camp with a number of NFL
Speaker 3: players and he was one of them, and you know,
Speaker 3: we did a little, uh, you know, ten minute how
Speaker 3: to do a podcast type class and like, you know,
Speaker 3: we're just us and like the class ended and you know,
Speaker 3: Darren Waller and a bunch of other people marched out
Speaker 3: of the room. But like Cam Hayward came over to
Speaker 3: us and he's about six foot six hundred, Like he's
Speaker 3: just giant, and like he's like, hey, god, so how
Speaker 3: do you do a podcast?
Speaker 2: Like how do you come up with your episodes? I
Speaker 2: was like, that'sard.
Speaker 3: But now he's doing like I just saw him on
Speaker 3: Good Morning Football the other day. He's doing Grady. He
Speaker 3: does all this stuff. But it was just like when
Speaker 3: it's weird to watch these players and be like these
Speaker 3: are like absolute athletic feats and giants gigantic men and
Speaker 3: like they were, And he came over to us and
Speaker 3: just had this little tiny question for us, and you
Speaker 3: and I just stood there like, well, we'll see what
Speaker 3: we can do, and here we are doing a show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was. He was a really really nice guy.
Speaker 2: I think I'm trying to think in my in our
Speaker 2: years working at NFL media, the biggest guy ever still
Speaker 2: for me was Chris Jenkins, the old Panthers and jetst tackle.
Speaker 2: When he walked into the old newsroom in Culver City.
Speaker 2: I remember just being a gas that a human could
Speaker 2: be that large, and also he was like super athletic,
Speaker 2: but I think I think he's number two on the
Speaker 2: list and also was super nice. You know, did the
Speaker 2: Thursday Night Football During the post game show, they're like saying,
Speaker 2: stay right here. We got Bailey Zappi coming up to
Speaker 2: the day as Mike, oh Billy. You have Tony Gonzalez
Speaker 2: saying they're trying to what's wrong with the Steelers. What
Speaker 2: happened to the Steelers? And Tony Gonzalez is saying the
Speaker 2: reason they didn't win this game is they don't have
Speaker 2: an alpha male on their team. Can we I mean, geez,
Speaker 2: can we come back to us? Tony? I mean, you
Speaker 2: played You're one of the greatest tight ends that ever lived.
Speaker 2: You played football for your whole life. They don't need
Speaker 2: an alpha now, they need a quarterback. And it's like
Speaker 2: they that is so much to do with their offensive
Speaker 2: struggles is that inability to have somebody And obviously Kenny
Speaker 2: Pickett is no great shakes, but Trubisky is just so inconsistent,
Speaker 2: and that's why it made it all the more puzzling.
Speaker 2: With the game and potentially season on the line there
Speaker 2: at fourth and two near midfield, to throw a go
Speaker 2: ball there is so strange to me, And I know
Speaker 2: part of the problem is and I think Mike Tomlin,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously has a lot of work to do
Speaker 2: to try to get this season straightened out now. And
Speaker 2: if it doesn't work out, how do we make the
Speaker 2: team better? The running game once again disappeared here. They
Speaker 2: averaged less than three yards to carry in twenty eight rushes.
Speaker 2: And I know that the one thing New England kind
Speaker 2: of has going for it is that the defense still
Speaker 2: plays with a sense of dignity and pride, and they
Speaker 2: they have not been pushovers. But man, that is not
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers football in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I mean, New England has led the league in you know,
Speaker 3: allowing the least amount of points over the past three weeks.
Speaker 3: It continued tonight. Their defense is legit, like Belichick is
Speaker 3: still coaching that up. But Pittsburgh has been running the
Speaker 3: ball consistently and that went away tonight and it's like, you,
Speaker 3: Mitch Trubisky's not going to get you out of that.
Speaker 3: George Pickens like vanished this evening. And I would so
Speaker 3: argue against the concept that they lack an alpha male
Speaker 3: on that team. I mean, what is TJ. Watt? What
Speaker 3: is Cam Hayward. They've got a bunch of them.
Speaker 2: They're just talking about on offense. Just to be fair,
Speaker 2: I think he was don at the offense. But even
Speaker 2: then that I think we're on the same page there.
Speaker 3: I mean, I just think that we don't. That's just
Speaker 3: not the case. You just you're look, you're you're dealing
Speaker 3: with average quarterback play. You're dealing with a quarterback that
Speaker 3: gets injured every couple of weeks. It's all over the league,
Speaker 3: Like we've got.
Speaker 2: Better an alpha male. I mean, that's what the NFL
Speaker 2: is just filled with. There's five hundred alpha males. These
Speaker 2: guys are highly aggressive, physical marvels. Uh, these these guys,
Speaker 2: that's not what they're they need, And you know I'm
Speaker 2: with you, But shout out to Zeke Elliott, who obviously
Speaker 2: stepped into a larger role here with Ramandra Stevenson out
Speaker 2: with the high ankle sprain. And he has one hundred
Speaker 2: and forty total yards in this game and a touchdown,
Speaker 2: so that that obviously helped the cause for New England
Speaker 2: in the first half. And his last run of note
Speaker 2: looked like it was a run for a first down
Speaker 2: in the last minute there to kill the rest of
Speaker 2: the clock. They challenged it and they ended up moving
Speaker 2: it behind and put it to third and short, and
Speaker 2: then of course they weren't able to make the first
Speaker 2: down and had the silly punt and all that. But
Speaker 2: I did like the shot, Mark, And this is a
Speaker 2: good way to end this, because you know, we both
Speaker 2: we love us some Belichick in different ways. Bill pumping
Speaker 2: his right arm first down, first down, first down on
Speaker 2: the sideline. So I don't know what's really going on
Speaker 2: in the old coach's mind right now. I know, he's
Speaker 2: probably very embarrassed about, you know, the state of New
Speaker 2: England Patriot football at this point. But don't say he
Speaker 2: doesn't want to win or he's checked out. Bill wanted
Speaker 2: that game badly, and I think to get a primetime
Speaker 2: win in Pittsburgh. It was kind of like a little
Speaker 2: taste of the old days, the Steelers who can never
Speaker 2: beat Belichick and Brady or hell Bledsoe back in the day.
Speaker 2: And once again with the Steelers desperately needing a win
Speaker 2: at Heinz Field or the artist formerly known as Hinesfield, again,
Speaker 2: the Patriots somehow stick it to him. So I think
Speaker 2: Bill it probably felt goot a little whiff of nostalgia.
Speaker 3: There, I'm with you. And he did it with He's
Speaker 3: got this fashion choice going on of late where you've
Speaker 3: got a winter bonnet on with a little ball on
Speaker 3: top kind of hanging sideways off his head. It kind
Speaker 3: of looks like a you know, a Christmas Eve drunk
Speaker 3: and a dive bar. But like, I think he's doing
Speaker 3: that on purpose too, But am I wrong? Like that
Speaker 3: look kind of throws me.
Speaker 2: I feel like he can He's like the he used
Speaker 2: to be a ski instructor along long time ago, in
Speaker 2: the eighties. This is in like a sleepy town in Vermont,
Speaker 2: a snow a snowtown, and now he's more in a
Speaker 2: managerial role, let's say. But he spends most of his
Speaker 2: time at the pub at the bottom of the ski slope,
Speaker 2: and that's where you could find mister Belichick these days,
Speaker 2: like one of those vibes, like he used to own
Speaker 2: this town, but now he's just a towny with the
Speaker 2: what did you call it? A bonnet with a ball
Speaker 2: on top.
Speaker 3: I think it's I think that I mean, we you know,
Speaker 3: we can further, but I think that's what you'd call
Speaker 3: that hat, like a winter bonnet with the little, you know,
Speaker 3: the bobble on top, and it's sort of hanging sideways.
Speaker 3: I don't know, strange choice. I wouldn't I wouldn't walk
Speaker 3: around town with that out of it. But that's you know,
Speaker 3: he's got a different, a different agenda than I do.
Speaker 2: You know what I'd like? I'd like to see Bill
Speaker 2: and LEVI your jacket probably have to size up a couple.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think he's not going to fit in
Speaker 3: my jacket.
Speaker 2: I think it's time for Bill to kind of have
Speaker 2: a reinvention. Wherever he lands next. I know we're talking
Speaker 2: about it with Wish and Steve was less bullish on
Speaker 2: the idea that a people want Bill Belichick in the
Speaker 2: modern times in football if he was kind of a
Speaker 2: free agent, if you will and be whether he is,
Speaker 2: you know that gung ho about getting that record. I
Speaker 2: think Bill would die for that record. I just I
Speaker 2: get that feeling that he is going to find a
Speaker 2: way to get that record and it's going to be
Speaker 2: one of the most important group of months in his
Speaker 2: life after this season's over and the end of the
Speaker 2: New England Patriots era, because I think it's this is
Speaker 2: his chance to kind of cement his legacy and he
Speaker 2: has a big decision to make. I still think he
Speaker 2: will have he'll have options, but we'll see.
Speaker 3: Someone's gonna want him. I mean, I'm with you, like
Speaker 3: that record if he achieves it. Look what had to
Speaker 3: happen for Bill Belichick to get there, how many eons
Speaker 3: it took. It may never be achieved again with the
Speaker 3: way that coaches are hired and fired so quickly now,
Speaker 3: so nab it and maybe no one else on earth
Speaker 3: can ever achieve it again.
Speaker 2: So I'm with you, all right, let's take a break,
Speaker 2: and when we get back a very special guest, we'll
Speaker 2: hit one very odd news item and then we will
Speaker 2: have a conversation with our very special guests. Stay right there, oh, Mark.
Speaker 2: We don't usually use this on Thursday night. It must
Speaker 2: be special. Welcome back. Our next guest needs no introduction.
Speaker 2: She's on the Mount Rushmore live around the NFL producers
Speaker 2: now doing the damn thing with the rams and beyond.
Speaker 2: Quite frankly. Some call her Erica Teposi. We know her
Speaker 2: as Ricky Hollywood. Hey, that's that's our girl.
Speaker 4: That is music, literally and figuratively to my ears.
Speaker 2: Ricky, Hey, this is so nice.
Speaker 5: This is so good to see you guys, to hear you.
Speaker 4: Guys. We got a cat call from Mark, we got
Speaker 4: a bonnet, We've got slope side from snow Snow Vermont,
Speaker 4: snowy t. I mean, this is just this is great.
Speaker 4: This is exactly what I what I needed.
Speaker 3: Ricky, did I just scribe Belichick's hat correctly? I don't
Speaker 3: know what the name of that.
Speaker 5: I would just call it like a beanie with like
Speaker 5: a palm on it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, big Funk chimed in in the comments palm beanie,
Speaker 2: which I've never heard of.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't necessarily call it that either, and
Speaker 4: calling Randy Big Funk that like, that's that's new to me.
Speaker 2: Now, it must be nerve wracking. I would think for
Speaker 2: Funk to have one of the legendary producers in the
Speaker 2: history of our show on right now, and people who
Speaker 2: know Erica and her history with ATM no Erica is
Speaker 2: a Patriots fan, born and raised in New England, and
Speaker 2: I was thinking and we ended up getting a w
Speaker 2: for the Patriots tonight, which was not expected. But the
Speaker 2: way kind of the conversation I wanted to kind of
Speaker 2: get into with you to start was what is it
Speaker 2: like as a millennial Patriots fan? Right? Like your what
Speaker 2: is your earliest Patriot memory? Let's start there, just to
Speaker 2: let people have a little context, and there's obviously millions
Speaker 2: like you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it really really is two thousand and one,
Speaker 4: two thousand, it was. It was the millennium, you know. No,
Speaker 4: I I had an amazing twenty years with Brady.
Speaker 2: So it's did you say the millennium or the will llennium?
Speaker 5: The millennium, right, that's a will millennium. What's that?
Speaker 2: See you're so young, you don't get the Will Smith joke.
Speaker 2: It was around the time It's all good wit.
Speaker 5: Wait wait, what was on that one? Was that like
Speaker 5: Welcome to Miami?
Speaker 2: No, I think that was on Big Willie Style. I
Speaker 2: think this one might have had Wild Wild West on it.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, I'm familiar with that one.
Speaker 3: I mean, she's so young, but Dan, you're so old,
Speaker 3: So it's I was gonna.
Speaker 2: Say, I qualify as a what they call geriatric millennials,
Speaker 2: A nineteen eighty baby Mark is your straight up baby boomer,
Speaker 2: so that you know we have we're kind of.
Speaker 5: No is Mark Boomer. I think he's X.
Speaker 3: Absolutely not. My parents are bom like that is.
Speaker 5: I think you're jen X.
Speaker 3: I think I'm like on the edge of that too,
Speaker 3: like you, I don't well know.
Speaker 2: I think you're a geriatric expert. I think they call
Speaker 2: you guys.
Speaker 3: That's what you say, Ricky.
Speaker 2: Anyway, what's it like? So somebody who's formative memories start
Speaker 2: with Tom Brady's first kind of beautiful run there in
Speaker 2: two thousand and one, and and for them to be
Speaker 2: in this situation where they are right now, you know,
Speaker 2: arguably the worst team in the league or certainly perhaps
Speaker 2: in the AFC has it been really strange? And I
Speaker 2: know you're busy with the rams obviously, so how close
Speaker 2: are your following I'm curious about that too, But what's
Speaker 2: it been like the last couple of years, but especially
Speaker 2: this year?
Speaker 4: This year has been horrible. Like I woke up the
Speaker 4: weekend of the bye week for the Patriots and I
Speaker 4: was like, oh, we probably lost this week too. I've
Speaker 4: been I watch every game that that I can most
Speaker 4: most of them. I watch pretty much everyone. Unfortunately, it's tough.
Speaker 4: You know, it's hard. It's also hard to have a
Speaker 4: public sort of rooting interest now for my job too,
Speaker 4: which is which has been sort of weird. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: been weird to maneuver that sort of aspect of things.
Speaker 4: But yeah, no, I'm I'm still watching and hurting. And
Speaker 4: like one of my you know, best friends from home
Speaker 4: texted me right when the game ended. We suck so much.
Speaker 4: We even suck at sucking when we need to suck. So, uh,
Speaker 4: that's what's going on in Pat's nation here.
Speaker 5: So yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Like, are you ready to move on from Bill Belichick? Erica?
Speaker 5: I I like feel for him.
Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of people, especially when Brady
Speaker 4: went and won the Super Bowl that it's like it
Speaker 4: was Brady all along, but like all of the other weapons,
Speaker 4: like like you said talk about in Alpha Male, like
Speaker 4: Bailey ZAPPI looks like he's should be in a third
Speaker 4: grade classroom. He's so little like I and Mac Jones,
Speaker 4: isn't it. But also just like the the issues that
Speaker 4: the team has been shooting themselves in the foot with
Speaker 4: on like special teams even and all of the penalties
Speaker 4: in the like, it's just it's such a disaster in
Speaker 4: every phase of this game right now that I'm like
Speaker 4: I almost feel bad for Belichrek and like would love
Speaker 4: for him to in a weird way like get another
Speaker 4: shot somewhere and.
Speaker 2: You know what, well somewhere else obviously that would be
Speaker 2: one way to do it. And I mean, listen, Vince
Speaker 2: Lombardi ended somewhere else, I believe with the Redskins, like
Speaker 2: no very rarely do you just end where your glory
Speaker 2: goes down. Part of me wants to say, I'm surprised
Speaker 2: when I hear and I know a lot of Patriots
Speaker 2: fans as well. I went to school up in Boston,
Speaker 2: and you know, everybody kind of wants Bill out and
Speaker 2: everybody wants to flush the whole thing. And I'm thinking myself, Oh,
Speaker 2: how could you be so kind of cold blooded all
Speaker 2: the glory that guy gave you. But I'm also a
Speaker 2: Yankees fan, and I remember them coming for Joe Tory
Speaker 2: the same way back in the day to get him
Speaker 2: out of town once the championships, championship started dry up
Speaker 2: a little bit like that winning like this need for
Speaker 2: more winning, and then when the losing starts, it's a
Speaker 2: really nasty thing. So it's kind of a tough and
Speaker 2: nobody really feels is gonna feel bad for Patriots. Patriots
Speaker 2: are their fans, but it really is a tough come
Speaker 2: down to be high that long and then suddenly be
Speaker 2: this low floor. Yeah yeah, you're taking it very well, Eric,
Speaker 2: And it does not surprise me. That's just the woman
Speaker 2: that you are.
Speaker 4: I feel I feel for players more than I ever have,
Speaker 4: like especially you know, the past two seasons, being so
Speaker 4: you know, involved with the Rams and seeing these guys
Speaker 4: every day and like what they actually like put themselves
Speaker 4: through win or lose every week.
Speaker 5: Like you know, you hear those sort of cliches like
Speaker 5: we just got to keep stucking building blocks and what.
Speaker 5: But like they do.
Speaker 4: They go back out and they keep showing up and
Speaker 4: they keep they're just killing themselves to like play and
Speaker 4: also put you know, stuff on tape for them for
Speaker 4: their careers and everything.
Speaker 5: So to hear like.
Speaker 4: These Steelers fans booing the team that first half, sitting
Speaker 4: on my couch like, oh my god, but they're trying
Speaker 4: so hard.
Speaker 2: You're too close now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm like, but they're they're working so hard, and
Speaker 4: I was yeah, and I was also like, screw the Pats,
Speaker 4: like come on, like you could get a franchise QB
Speaker 4: with that second overall pack.
Speaker 5: And then they're they're gonna blow that too.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, Funk said he has something for Belichick from
Speaker 2: the post game. Check it out. Check it out on YouTube. Everybody, Yeah,
Speaker 2: who did he just do that? He just had celebrated
Speaker 2: like a cool guy.
Speaker 5: He then drapped him up, but he looked really sad too.
Speaker 2: It's a good night. It's a good night for a
Speaker 2: bad year. Mark the floor is yours.
Speaker 3: Well, Ricky, I would ask you a question outside of
Speaker 3: you know, with your rams uh employment, you have told
Speaker 3: me some stories where you've been like in the coffee
Speaker 3: room and like there's a bunch of RAMS players coming,
Speaker 3: Like who's like the who is your favorite player to
Speaker 3: hang out? Like, who's like the guy that we would
Speaker 3: be like surprised maybe just like the coolest due to
Speaker 3: them all?
Speaker 2: And conversely, who sucks?
Speaker 5: Go ahead, yeah, like okay, so sucks.
Speaker 3: I have a top ten?
Speaker 4: No, no, no one really, no one, No one really sucks.
Speaker 4: They're like there's some that are way more down to
Speaker 4: clown than the others. I know, there's been so much
Speaker 4: talk about this RAMS rookie class, but they are so
Speaker 4: fun and they haven't like been beaten down by the
Speaker 4: world and like agents haven't got their claws in them
Speaker 4: yet and stuff too. So like all the hype about
Speaker 4: like Kobe Turner the conductor is like the sweetest guy
Speaker 4: on planet Earth's so funny, like wants to do everything,
Speaker 4: is like singing around the corners and you know, just
Speaker 4: like through the halls, and Puka is like the sweetest
Speaker 4: guy to ever step on planet Earth. And like it's
Speaker 4: so fun to see their innocence because they're just so
Speaker 4: excited to be here and they're not like beaten down yet.
Speaker 4: So I really like this rookie class is It's been
Speaker 4: so much fun.
Speaker 3: How much like it's McVay cool to you. How about that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we do like me and him and Belichick like
Speaker 4: in that video we wont buy and Okay, He's like.
Speaker 2: How often do you have like contact with him? Do you?
Speaker 2: Are you guys liking the commissary together? Like how does
Speaker 2: this work?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, our corporate office for the Rams we're moving
Speaker 4: to Woodland Hills at the end of this season, which
Speaker 4: is which will be you know, the whole new complex
Speaker 4: that they're building. But right now, the corporate office is
Speaker 4: separate from the facility, so my studio is at the facility.
Speaker 4: So some days when I'm at the practice facility, that's
Speaker 4: when I'll see the players or like Steve Avila, the
Speaker 4: the you know, the center not the center of the
Speaker 4: left guard that we drafted, like, came into the corporate
Speaker 4: office just to like bring us donuts last week because
Speaker 4: he was just like.
Speaker 5: Oh, well, well where are they? Like I want to
Speaker 5: like just they're just so nice, Like they're so nice.
Speaker 5: I can't say enough.
Speaker 2: I have a question for you, Erica, Yes, you know us,
Speaker 2: you know, like nobody else, nobody else in that building,
Speaker 2: you know. Funks starting to try to edge his way
Speaker 2: into the inner circle. He's doing a great job with it.
Speaker 2: But Erica was indep she was embedded. I want to
Speaker 2: ask you a question. Okay, that's allt like vaguely confrontational
Speaker 2: with the Randy Randy, you know, I love you.
Speaker 5: I'm like, wait, where's this going?
Speaker 2: I don't know, Erica? What if?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm so happy Greg's not here? Of course, Well
Speaker 4: I wouldn't. I'm like, why would you even.
Speaker 2: Have to ask that?
Speaker 5: Like this is my ideal show?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: Greg included what would the ATM guys be doing if
Speaker 2: they weren't NFL media employee slash podcasters?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I was thinking about this earlier today, and it's
Speaker 4: so funny because like any odd random job that I
Speaker 4: would come up with, like Mark has already done, you know,
Speaker 4: like the text message of him, like with a private investigator,
Speaker 4: you know, with the crazy stories that you have. Like
Speaker 4: I was like, it needs to be something eclectic, but
Speaker 4: also something why, Like I kind of see Mark as
Speaker 4: like a park ranger who like nine to five when
Speaker 4: he's done, like gets to just experience the wilderness in
Speaker 4: whichever way he chooses to do, so, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean, Like he's very much one of those park
Speaker 4: Rangers is like hey, kids, like you're drinking around a fire,
Speaker 4: like put it out if you'll get if you give
Speaker 4: me a beer, I'll let you.
Speaker 5: I'll let you keep it up, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I say like underage drinking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Like he would just be like, okay, cool,
Speaker 4: like you know, give give me that doobie kid, that's
Speaker 4: what that's what your age says.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't do certainly, I wouldn't stop like
Speaker 3: the campfire drink fest. I'd probably you know, find a
Speaker 3: way to like keep other rangers or various authority fings
Speaker 3: away from it, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And we get like weird ominous texts from Mark
Speaker 4: like I was on a horseback like searching Yellowstone where
Speaker 4: like a young maiden was locked under a boulder and
Speaker 4: I like helped, Like I.
Speaker 5: Just feel like that that would happen. You know, that's answer.
Speaker 2: You know, that's that's uh. You would be like the
Speaker 2: park ranger version of Amy Poehler's character and mean girls
Speaker 2: like hey, I'm the cool mom, drink around me just
Speaker 2: I'll go driving anywhere.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Dan, I was, I for some reason couldn't
Speaker 4: get you out of my head as like if you
Speaker 4: went the alternate route and was like sort of like
Speaker 4: a like a stockbroker in New York City, but not
Speaker 4: the one where as bad as you are at math,
Speaker 4: like the the personality higher where it's like, oh, Dan,
Speaker 4: like he can't add for but he closes every deal
Speaker 4: because he's like he's like, you're like the closer, like
Speaker 4: you would come and like Dan's like loosening his tie
Speaker 4: on Wall Street after the long day and they're like, hey,
Speaker 4: I don't know how he does it, but like you
Speaker 4: bring Danny in there and he closes the deal.
Speaker 2: Like it's like he's you know, he's mentally challenged, but
Speaker 2: he is charismatic as hell.
Speaker 5: Yeah he is. He can talk to anyone.
Speaker 4: We bring them in, we get their guard down low,
Speaker 4: and then he strikes like I don't know, I kind
Speaker 4: of I kind of see I kind of see that.
Speaker 2: I could say to For you, Ricky, I think I
Speaker 2: could see you as being one of those people that
Speaker 2: like one of those women that becomes a full time
Speaker 2: reality star and you end up it's like like you look,
Speaker 2: fifteen years later, you see somebody, You see a woman
Speaker 2: onto some show, and then fifteen years later she's on
Speaker 2: some other show and they're like, oh wow, and then
Speaker 2: you check like her Wikipedia and she's never stopped being
Speaker 2: on different reality shows. She's fairly well known in the medium.
Speaker 2: I see you as like a like a high level
Speaker 2: difference maker professional. Whenever like a reality program needs somebody
Speaker 2: that like kind of like the straw that stirs the drink,
Speaker 2: they dial up Ricky.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what if I take that as
Speaker 4: a compliment or a insult, but I think no, I
Speaker 4: think that's great.
Speaker 5: I think I do. I have all like the work
Speaker 5: done and everything too.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, a ton of work botox. Yeah, just kind
Speaker 2: of a mess, almost unrecognizable. I mean, in my defense
Speaker 2: your description of my other life, I'm like wearing a
Speaker 2: helmet full time.
Speaker 5: So I mean, so is Mark Greg.
Speaker 4: I think would literally be coaching tennis like at like
Speaker 4: a random po bunk town po dunk what's the word say.
Speaker 2: Po dunk.
Speaker 3: I could see that, like with Rickey, Like one thing,
Speaker 3: I had the chance to go on like one of
Speaker 3: these like two day cruises not too long ago, but
Speaker 3: like what happens is like the cruise in the football season,
Speaker 3: well no.
Speaker 2: Erica, Like Mark is going on cruises like all the time. Now,
Speaker 2: reg and I are always like he loves cruises so
Speaker 2: much and he goes he goes on cruises at odd
Speaker 2: times where the weather is bad where he's going. He
Speaker 2: like what he takes. He takes rickety old boats into
Speaker 2: like storms, and he enjoys it because he keeps doing it.
Speaker 3: Well, some of that is not accurate. I've been on
Speaker 3: I've been on two short ones, like like they are
Speaker 3: like three.
Speaker 4: You've been on two cruises, Yes, I went with some
Speaker 4: friend in the last how much how increment of time here?
Speaker 2: But if you're in.
Speaker 3: LA, they're very affordable, like actually you can find these
Speaker 3: deals where it's like they're super insanely affordable. But like,
Speaker 3: let me tell you something like on these ships, okay,
Speaker 3: they have like the cruise direct who you think they're
Speaker 3: just like there is to like shake hands, but they're
Speaker 3: like singers and dancers and they get up and do
Speaker 3: these shows in front of everyone. I was always like
Speaker 3: I could see Erica being like this, where like you're
Speaker 3: just on this cruise, no stop, and you like, no,
Speaker 3: I think you'd be great at it, like I do.
Speaker 3: I could see it incorporating many of your many aspects
Speaker 3: of your you know, versatile talent like.
Speaker 2: Eric, you didn't make it in show business, here's life
Speaker 2: on it old.
Speaker 4: Literally, Yeah, everyone that like can't make it as a
Speaker 4: comedian or a singer, they're like, yeah, but I got
Speaker 4: booked on Princess Cruises for the six month, like.
Speaker 3: Contra to see where you're coming from. But I found
Speaker 3: them to be the one that I encountered seemed to
Speaker 3: be a talented person.
Speaker 2: So and in fairness, yes, a lot of people that's
Speaker 2: where they get their start.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And if you're a listener right now and you work
Speaker 4: on a cruise ship, like, I think that's a great life,
Speaker 4: and I would love that.
Speaker 2: Wow, way to clean that one up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would over yourself.
Speaker 5: I would. But I just don't.
Speaker 4: I just don't understand how Mark's a going on multiple
Speaker 4: cruises And I just saw you out and we met
Speaker 4: up at a Star Wars bar Mark and I recently,
Speaker 4: and there was no talk of these cruise jaunts that
Speaker 4: you were going on. So it's like to talk about
Speaker 4: so a cruise underground circuit going on here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys are sitting in the spock booth. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's no time to talk about cruises.
Speaker 3: It's a strange place that we met. There's no doubt
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 2: Four seats in the spot booth.
Speaker 3: Please, that's not how it actually, I mean, I would
Speaker 3: say it was a much more U it was not nerdy.
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it was.
Speaker 4: What do you mean there was like they were like
Speaker 4: play It was the nerdiest place I've ever been.
Speaker 3: In my entire by the way. Like I got a
Speaker 3: text Fromerica being like, have you heard of this bar
Speaker 3: called Sko That's what it's called. She's like like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I've heard of it. It's like up the street. She's like,
Speaker 3: come meet me there. I didn't, and I didn't like
Speaker 3: lure you in from the wilderness to this place.
Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: Hey, Ricky, we gotta get going soon. But how about,
Speaker 2: like old times, we hit a news item before we
Speaker 2: yeah something we should we should do a little uh
Speaker 2: Musso and Frank get together. How about yes, absolutely, Testag
Speaker 2: kind of floated that, and I was saying, oh, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I love that. Yep, that news item. And this was
Speaker 2: a doozy.
Speaker 3: This is a jarring right turn for us at this point,
Speaker 3: by the way.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, that's fair to say. This broke about I
Speaker 2: want to say, right as we were wrapping up our
Speaker 2: Thursday preview, which you could check out right now, here
Speaker 2: is the headline out of ESPN. Bill's coach Sean McDermott,
Speaker 2: Colon apologized for nine to eleven remarks in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 2: and here's the backstory here, and this was reported. This
Speaker 2: is a big this is a big scoop on the
Speaker 2: Tyler Dunn has his own blog or website called go Long.
Speaker 2: And if you want to kind of support Tyler or
Speaker 2: learn more about this and do both, check out go Long.
Speaker 2: But McDermott back in twenty nineteen told players in a
Speaker 2: speech to come together and use the terrorists on nine
Speaker 2: to eleven and those that are not aware, multiple jetliners
Speaker 2: hijacked and it was a group of al Qaeda members,
Speaker 2: highly coordinated, pulling off one of the worst stays in
Speaker 2: the history of this country. Anyway, use the terrorists on
Speaker 2: nine to eleven as an example, asking players in the
Speaker 2: room questions about how the attacks were executed and referencing
Speaker 2: the hijackers getting on the same page. Multiple players who
Speaker 2: were with the team at the time confirmed the story
Speaker 2: to ESPN, while others who were there told the ESPN
Speaker 2: they did not recalled. Here's Sean McDermott. So when this
Speaker 2: story resurfaced thanks to Golong, which I'm sure McDermott is
Speaker 2: thrilled about Tyler's project, here go along. He had a
Speaker 2: unscheduled news conference on Thursday. It lasted about six minutes.
Speaker 2: Six minutes. Here is a little bit of his explanation
Speaker 2: about what went down in that meeting.
Speaker 6: Brought everybody together and said this was the goal, this
Speaker 6: is the intent, and I apologize if anyone whatsoever felt
Speaker 6: a certain type of way coming out of that meeting,
Speaker 6: right that, if anyone misinterpreted or didn't understand my message,
Speaker 6: I apologize didn't I didn't do a good enough job
Speaker 6: of communicating clearly the intent of my message. And that
Speaker 6: was about the importance of communication and that everyone needs
Speaker 6: to be on the same page, ironically enough, and so
Speaker 6: that that was important to me then and it still is.
Speaker 2: Now, okay, Erica. So and by the way, that is
Speaker 2: something that apology occurred that same day or into twenty
Speaker 2: nineteen because he knew it didn't land the way he
Speaker 2: wanted to lend. That is a crazy explanation even today,
Speaker 2: because he's still not apologizing or saying that was a
Speaker 2: that was a dumb idea to ever kind of in
Speaker 2: any way, lion Ey's what those psychos did, like what
Speaker 2: he what he said basically is like they didn't quite
Speaker 2: understand what I was trying to get across. This is
Speaker 2: a bizarre story featuring a Bill's head coach who's got
Speaker 2: his hands filled already with the six and sixteen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's also nine to eleven right now on the clock,
Speaker 4: which is really odd. That's true as we're recording that,
Speaker 4: So that felt weird for a second. Wanted to sign off, Yeah,
Speaker 4: good night, no that and just hearing that too, the
Speaker 4: sort of like, hey, sorry if anyone misinterpreted what I
Speaker 4: meant there. My I was kind of covering my mouth
Speaker 4: watching that presser and some of those clips from that today.
Speaker 5: It it was I don't really know.
Speaker 4: I mean, you have to address that, you have to apologize,
Speaker 4: but I don't really know how you can justify that
Speaker 4: or walk that back whatsoever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean absolutely on that front. And I think
Speaker 3: you know, he's stuck in a place where there's no
Speaker 3: real explanation that anyone's gonna sit well with what Tyler
Speaker 3: done has created in general, because there's a lot more
Speaker 3: to come with this report, and I think like having
Speaker 3: met him and he's I think he's been on our
Speaker 3: show once. He's an incredible reporter, and what he kind
Speaker 3: of unearthed about the Sean McDermott experience in Buffalo is news.
Speaker 3: It's incredible because I think that you've looked at this
Speaker 3: coach I have all along as like they're a steady team,
Speaker 3: they've been in a super Bowl window. If anything, he's
Speaker 3: been a positive the entire time. There have been not
Speaker 3: a lot of like Sean McDermott anecdotes that would shake
Speaker 3: you on it at all, if anything, has sort of
Speaker 3: been out of the way. But what he started to
Speaker 3: create with this report is like he is the problem.
Speaker 3: He spoke that I think it was twenty five different
Speaker 3: sources who went to town on what's happening with the Bills,
Speaker 3: and it kind of changes everything you think about what's
Speaker 3: happened and everything that's happening right now and what could
Speaker 3: happen if this season continues on its wayward trajectory. So
Speaker 3: you know, this just is putt of part and parcel
Speaker 3: of what else you reported. I mean, if you go,
Speaker 3: if you you know there is a paywall here, but
Speaker 3: I would say it is so worth reading. It's a
Speaker 3: pretty incredible, explosive NFL report. You don't get a lot
Speaker 3: of things like this these days.
Speaker 2: And I guess and obviously he made a mistake and
Speaker 2: he thought it was ancient history, came back and we
Speaker 2: all make mistakes. So I'm not going to bury murcdermott here.
Speaker 2: I will add just as someone who grew up in
Speaker 2: the New York area, I grew up about forty five
Speaker 2: minutes outside New York City, and there's a lot of
Speaker 2: you know, joking talk a lot in the NFL about
Speaker 2: well there's only one New York team, and you know,
Speaker 2: the Jets and Giants play in New Jersey, but the
Speaker 2: Bills are the New York team. Let me tell you something,
Speaker 2: if Sean McDermott said this stuff and he was the
Speaker 2: coach of the Giants or the Jets, he'd be out
Speaker 2: on his ass tomorrow. I think he would be done.
Speaker 2: That would be how big a story that would be.
Speaker 2: And if he wouldn't be done, it would have been
Speaker 2: a massive story. The fact that he's up in western
Speaker 2: New York, so it's a little bit different up there.
Speaker 2: And I hope, I hope he just moves forward because
Speaker 2: it's just it's an unfortunate situation and a bad idea
Speaker 2: that now is being amplified. So but pretty wild story
Speaker 2: to just kind of stumble.
Speaker 5: Upon everything this morning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like all the news that was dropping out and
Speaker 4: like just like the different college games and BOLG and
Speaker 4: then it's like, oh, also this nine to eleven headline.
Speaker 5: I was like, what is happening, Ricky?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what's happening in the news. Awesome, Thank you, Ricky.
Speaker 2: Let's get some plugs out there. Where can they see Erica?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Anything RAMS related on on social?
Speaker 4: And then I host Ricky's Ramjam, which is once a
Speaker 4: week show, and I think I also some of my
Speaker 4: Game Day stuff airs on KABC weekly as well too.
Speaker 4: If you're in the rams La area. If not, you
Speaker 4: know YouTube and social check that out. It's some fun stuff.
Speaker 2: Very nice, Mark, what do you got?
Speaker 3: I don't. I am not featured on any ram you know,
Speaker 3: centric content at this point, but I support the Rams.
Speaker 3: I appear on this show the same days that you
Speaker 3: appear on Yeah.
Speaker 2: Very nice. All right, Ricky, this was a a great
Speaker 2: little treat for us. We wanted and we told the listeners.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you're aware of this, Ricky, but
Speaker 2: we said, we know Thursday night football is not going
Speaker 2: to be a good one, but we're going to cook
Speaker 2: up something special to make sure you tune in. You're
Speaker 2: that special thing.
Speaker 5: That's so nice.
Speaker 4: I miss you guys, I miss I miss the fan base,
Speaker 4: I miss you know, working with you guys so closely.
Speaker 4: And I have checked in to listen to your guys
Speaker 4: rams recaps after the last three wins. So I have
Speaker 4: been been peeking in here and there.
Speaker 2: How about that JB. Long is feeling himself? I like it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think he said to you that, you know what
Speaker 2: I gotta I see Long at the barbershop Jags in
Speaker 2: Westchester here in LA all the time. Well not all
Speaker 2: the time, that'd be weird, but.
Speaker 5: You know, yeah, like how often you cut your hair?
Speaker 3: Yeah? How like how do you how would you ever
Speaker 3: see the same person at a barbershop more than once?
Speaker 3: By chance?
Speaker 2: Multiple times? Multiple times. I've seen good old JB. You
Speaker 2: guys are SYNCD up and he, uh, you know, we're
Speaker 2: on the same cycle. Yeah, he said to the crib
Speaker 2: in his call, which I was like, that's that's that's
Speaker 2: how you connect with the millennials. I like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel everyone's like, oh yeah, the the Ravens
Speaker 4: this coming weekend, everyone's you know, oh they're gonna get
Speaker 4: trounced and whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I got a sneaky kind of like feeling.
Speaker 2: I don't know, do you give us a prediction?
Speaker 5: Let's see.
Speaker 4: I I think that it's one of those teams where
Speaker 4: the Ravens are looking as just like a we can
Speaker 4: put the w column here, And I think sometimes those
Speaker 4: are the biggest games, you know, any given Sunday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so I.
Speaker 4: I kind of feel like I don't know, anything could happen.
Speaker 4: I would I would love to see a win this weekend.
Speaker 2: It would be amazing to get off the fence and
Speaker 2: make a pick.
Speaker 5: Okay, the Rams are gonna win this Sunday. Ann And
Speaker 5: where was Lamar today? You know, he just disappeared from practice. Hmmm,
Speaker 5: what's going on?
Speaker 2: You know? Maybe maybe he's heading over to do Ricky's
Speaker 2: ram jam.
Speaker 5: You know, you know he's on. I got, yeah, I
Speaker 5: gotta go. We're gonna record that, right.
Speaker 4: I've asked both of you to come on, and you're
Speaker 4: both too busy because you do what thirty shows a
Speaker 4: week now or something.
Speaker 2: No, you got me. You called me when I was
Speaker 2: on the East Coast, but I told you any other
Speaker 2: time I'm in Okay.
Speaker 3: I also want to appear like I you know, I
Speaker 3: do have a schedule that is complex, but I vow
Speaker 3: to appear.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like, are you're only gonna be on a cruise Erica.
Speaker 2: We couldn't even get Zestag at the ATN photo shoot
Speaker 2: organized by NFL Media yesterday. You couldn't even book him
Speaker 2: for that. For Wednesday morning, it was just Greg and
Speaker 2: I opposing in a room without the third guy. I
Speaker 2: don't know, some FOCACCTA story about a dentist visit and
Speaker 2: we're just.
Speaker 5: Like, no, it was not.
Speaker 3: It was absolutely died in the wool, accurate and factual.
Speaker 3: And you know you were out of it down with
Speaker 3: this crowd.
Speaker 5: So yeah, no, I get it. Mark, It's tough. It
Speaker 5: is tough. I think that's why.
Speaker 4: Park Ranger could be like a third half third, a third,
Speaker 4: the third.
Speaker 5: Third of your life, because you're out, You're on the
Speaker 5: third third of yourself.
Speaker 2: Mark, just a solitary life in the woods might be
Speaker 2: the best thing.
Speaker 3: At this point, she's basically just put me into the
Speaker 3: final third of my existence.
Speaker 5: So not Basically, I did say you were in the
Speaker 5: third third, you know.
Speaker 2: All right, everybody, and uh enjoy your weekend. Uh and
Speaker 2: remember the argument. Plus the Dreamatorium was open for business
Speaker 2: big time uh today. So the triple header on Thursday's complete,
Speaker 2: see on Sunday. Nuntil then, get the call, Bye Rick, Bye.
Speaker 3: M hm.
Speaker 4: Hm hm
Speaker 2: Hm