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Speaker 1: The Season with Peter Schrager is a production of the

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Speaker 1: NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. We're he football is finally

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Speaker 1: here and this is the opening week episode of the

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Speaker 1: season with Peter Schrager. Aaron wan Kaufman joins me here

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Speaker 1: in New York City. We're recording this on Tuesday. Kickoff

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Speaker 1: is on Thursday. I'm excited, Aaron. Are you ready? Have

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Speaker 1: that page to first day of school? Football's here mode.

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Speaker 2: I'm not ready. I don't know how I'm gonna feel

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Speaker 2: comes Sunday, when it's suddenly hours and hours and hours of.

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Speaker 1: Fun sneaks up on you. Right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's nice to have Thursday to start, which

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Speaker 1: So I've work a daily show. And when I complain

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Speaker 1: about being on in June and May, it's because there's

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Speaker 1: nothing to talk about. It's like random player, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at a schedule with sixteen games. We could

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Speaker 1: talk football. I don't need to talk about Marquette King's

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Speaker 1: Chandler Jones posted on Instagram in the middle of June

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Speaker 1: while he was on a boat in Hawaii, like we

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Speaker 1: let's make rational football predictions and football thoughts and kind

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Speaker 1: of be satient with this thing. I know I've been

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Speaker 1: hyping Jumior Gibbs and the Lions for three months. Am

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Speaker 1: a step back, but it's my excitement, and I know

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Speaker 1: I'm giddy. I feel like this is our gift, this

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Speaker 1: after twelve weeks of travel and flight delays and eating

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Speaker 1: Thursday night NBC on the schedule and it not be preseason,

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Speaker 1: and it not be some terrible game show or reality show,

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Speaker 1: and it be actual NFL football. That's Thursday Night, Lions Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: If you want a comprehensive preview, you can watch Good

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Speaker 1: Morning Football in the morning, and then Sunday we have

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Speaker 1: a slate of games from the football Gods. I cannot wait,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's an awesome one on Fox at

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Speaker 1: four point thirty on America's Game of the Week, Bears

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Speaker 1: hosting Packers. Kyle Brant, my co host on Good Morning Football.

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Speaker 1: So this might be the most important Bears game in

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Speaker 1: Just that this feels like the NFC North is finally

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Speaker 1: But with Aaron Rodgers out of Green Bay, Chicago sees

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited for him. Because we're a big time

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Speaker 1: I was able to call up Greg Olsen, who's calling

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports. It's coming off a year in which not

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Speaker 1: amazing Super Bowl. One of the best dudes as a

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Speaker 1: media game, mister Greg Olsen. Welcome to the season with

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Speaker 3: What's up, buddy. It's good to be on man. I

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Speaker 1: This is it. You got the call. You also got

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Speaker 3: You know, it was hard. It was kind of hard

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Speaker 1: It is so anti climactic, and that flag probably was

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Speaker 3: in for my second leg. So I thought that was weird,

428
00:19:53,626 --> 00:19:55,626
Speaker 3: Like it only let me go from Arizona to Austin,

429
00:19:55,706 --> 00:19:58,506
Speaker 3: but then the six am Austin flight to Charlotte, it

430
00:19:58,506 --> 00:20:00,866
Speaker 3: wouldn't let me get my boarding pass. So I go

431
00:20:00,906 --> 00:20:02,986
Speaker 3: to the ticketing agent and I'm like, hey, won't let

432
00:20:02,986 --> 00:20:04,546
Speaker 3: me check in? Can you give me my boarding pass?

433
00:20:04,546 --> 00:20:07,466
Speaker 3: She goes, well, mister Rolson, your second leg from Austin

434
00:20:07,546 --> 00:20:11,946
Speaker 3: doesn't leave till tuesday. And I was like, I said no,

435
00:20:12,586 --> 00:20:15,666
Speaker 3: I said I can't. She's like, I can rebook you.

436
00:20:16,146 --> 00:20:19,306
Speaker 3: But I was supposed to be first class from Austin

437
00:20:19,586 --> 00:20:25,266
Speaker 3: to Charlotte. Now, not only my coach. I'm coach from

438
00:20:25,266 --> 00:20:28,706
Speaker 3: Austin to Charlotte now because I booked a flight for

439
00:20:28,746 --> 00:20:31,226
Speaker 3: twenty four hours from when I was actually getting into

440
00:20:32,306 --> 00:20:34,626
Speaker 3: So I literally get on the plane, I put my

441
00:20:34,746 --> 00:20:37,746
Speaker 3: hat down, and I'm like, oh my god, what am

442
00:20:37,786 --> 00:20:41,506
Speaker 3: I doing? I fly from Arizona to Austin. Get up,

443
00:20:42,026 --> 00:20:45,346
Speaker 3: get off the plane, have like an hour, you know,

444
00:20:45,466 --> 00:20:49,106
Speaker 3: layover back on. I'm like in row twenty one C.

445
00:20:49,346 --> 00:20:51,906
Speaker 1: I'm like fighting hold the super Bowl last night.

446
00:20:51,866 --> 00:20:54,066
Speaker 3: And everyone's walking by and they're like, hey, nice job

447
00:20:54,106 --> 00:20:57,546
Speaker 3: on the super Bowl. Let's flying home, coach. You know,

448
00:20:57,586 --> 00:21:01,066
Speaker 3: everyone else is out on private jets and I'm sitting

449
00:21:01,066 --> 00:21:04,186
Speaker 3: on a private I want to say it was like Southwest.

450
00:21:04,226 --> 00:21:05,946
Speaker 1: I think it was. Dude. I didn't want her to

451
00:21:05,946 --> 00:21:08,426
Speaker 1: call out the airlines and whatever. But like, if I'm

452
00:21:08,466 --> 00:21:10,866
Speaker 1: not mistaken, the story that you told me was like

453
00:21:11,066 --> 00:21:13,346
Speaker 1: You're like, I'm on Southwest and I'm not in boarding group. A.

454
00:21:13,666 --> 00:21:17,906
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like it was. It was the worst

455
00:21:18,266 --> 00:21:20,226
Speaker 3: knowing that I was going to call that game. I

456
00:21:20,306 --> 00:21:24,186
Speaker 3: couldn't have done a worst job planning my departure if

457
00:21:24,226 --> 00:21:27,466
Speaker 3: I tried to. So my I would say I have

458
00:21:27,546 --> 00:21:30,026
Speaker 3: the most unique No one has. I'll just say this,

459
00:21:30,186 --> 00:21:32,386
Speaker 3: No one has flown home from calling a super Bowl

460
00:21:32,426 --> 00:21:35,106
Speaker 3: like me since like nineteen sixty five exactly.

461
00:21:35,146 --> 00:21:38,386
Speaker 1: And that was on like a greyhound bus. Yeah. So

462
00:21:38,466 --> 00:21:41,666
Speaker 1: to sum it up from my perspective, you're drinking Pappy

463
00:21:41,706 --> 00:21:43,626
Speaker 1: van Winkle at the bar on top of the universe,

464
00:21:43,746 --> 00:21:45,986
Speaker 1: hundred millions of people a lot. But there is nothing

465
00:21:46,026 --> 00:21:48,026
Speaker 1: more humbling and more blue collar than you just get

466
00:21:48,026 --> 00:21:50,026
Speaker 1: in your lunch pail, on your cowboy hat and you're

467
00:21:50,026 --> 00:21:52,746
Speaker 1: getting on that board boarding group. See whatever. It was

468
00:21:53,066 --> 00:21:56,026
Speaker 1: connecting in Austin waiting and then flying home. But you

469
00:21:56,026 --> 00:21:58,146
Speaker 1: know what you saw your kids in the morning.

470
00:21:58,106 --> 00:22:01,746
Speaker 3: Saw them they got off the school. I took like

471
00:22:01,786 --> 00:22:04,586
Speaker 3: a six hour nap. I didn't participate in the in

472
00:22:04,666 --> 00:22:07,186
Speaker 3: society for like forty eight hours, I rushed home to

473
00:22:07,226 --> 00:22:11,146
Speaker 3: do nothing. But nonetheless it was, uh what was a great,

474
00:22:11,426 --> 00:22:16,266
Speaker 3: busy but awesome week ended in very appropriate fashion.

475
00:22:16,506 --> 00:22:19,306
Speaker 1: It's so fitting. It's it's the it's the walk we

476
00:22:19,306 --> 00:22:21,866
Speaker 1: we walk, my friend, it's it. We are grinders, That's

477
00:22:21,906 --> 00:22:25,466
Speaker 1: what we are. I wouldn't have flown coach in a million. No,

478
00:22:25,506 --> 00:22:30,306
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I actually, to be honest, if you know

479
00:22:30,346 --> 00:22:33,666
Speaker 1: how often I'm flying, I would have like completely just

480
00:22:33,706 --> 00:22:35,666
Speaker 1: obsessed over that flight and probably not even known any

481
00:22:35,666 --> 00:22:38,906
Speaker 1: of the players is a plan on time? Am I

482
00:22:38,906 --> 00:22:40,706
Speaker 1: getting upgraded? Like that's all I would have cared about

483
00:22:40,746 --> 00:22:42,266
Speaker 1: during the game. That's why you're a better pro than me.

484
00:22:42,346 --> 00:22:45,146
Speaker 3: Here's like a running joke, like even with our crew

485
00:22:45,226 --> 00:22:48,266
Speaker 3: or like my wife. My wife's like, what hotel you at?

486
00:22:48,266 --> 00:22:51,986
Speaker 3: I'm like, I have no idea whereinery is. I was like,

487
00:22:52,466 --> 00:22:54,346
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm like, I land, I get in

488
00:22:54,346 --> 00:22:56,306
Speaker 3: the car, and wherever the car drops me off, that's

489
00:22:56,346 --> 00:22:59,146
Speaker 3: my hotel. She's like, where are you eating dinner? I'm like,

490
00:22:59,626 --> 00:23:04,386
Speaker 3: I don't know anything. What time we head into the

491
00:23:04,386 --> 00:23:06,826
Speaker 3: game tomorrow. He's like, we're going to meet down upstairs

492
00:23:06,866 --> 00:23:08,306
Speaker 3: at eleven. Yeah, done.

493
00:23:08,746 --> 00:23:11,066
Speaker 1: He's dial he's got the restaurant, he's got the gluten

494
00:23:11,106 --> 00:23:12,266
Speaker 1: free options, He's got it.

495
00:23:13,066 --> 00:23:15,226
Speaker 3: I don't I always say I don't. I don't water.

496
00:23:15,466 --> 00:23:17,466
Speaker 3: I don't bog myself down with the details.

497
00:23:17,826 --> 00:23:21,786
Speaker 1: Yeah, big pole, big picture. Uh one more on that one,

498
00:23:21,826 --> 00:23:24,586
Speaker 1: like before the game, because I think I always say this,

499
00:23:25,306 --> 00:23:27,826
Speaker 1: I have the honor every three or four years whenever

500
00:23:27,906 --> 00:23:29,506
Speaker 1: Fox is the Super Bowl. We get a credential and

501
00:23:29,506 --> 00:23:31,106
Speaker 1: we're able to be on the field before the game,

502
00:23:31,386 --> 00:23:33,786
Speaker 1: and I like taking a nice long lap and just

503
00:23:33,826 --> 00:23:35,426
Speaker 1: soaking it in and being like, this is a once

504
00:23:35,466 --> 00:23:37,666
Speaker 1: in a lifetime experience that I get to experience, and

505
00:23:37,666 --> 00:23:39,426
Speaker 1: I'm not going to take it for granted. Did you

506
00:23:39,466 --> 00:23:41,186
Speaker 1: get that moment at the Super Bowl? Able? I know

507
00:23:41,226 --> 00:23:43,186
Speaker 1: he said Rihanna was performing, Like did you get a

508
00:23:43,266 --> 00:23:44,586
Speaker 1: chance to enjoy the experience?

509
00:23:44,746 --> 00:23:47,746
Speaker 3: Well, I actually have another amazing story that's gonna it's amazing.

510
00:23:47,746 --> 00:23:49,546
Speaker 3: Like when I keep telling these stories, people are like,

511
00:23:49,586 --> 00:23:51,626
Speaker 3: it's amazing this guy can like hold down a job

512
00:23:52,146 --> 00:23:56,226
Speaker 3: because he's a disaster. So me and Burkhart all week

513
00:23:56,346 --> 00:23:58,186
Speaker 3: we have we know that we have a hit with

514
00:23:58,266 --> 00:24:03,906
Speaker 3: the pregame guys at whatever time, so we go down,

515
00:24:03,946 --> 00:24:05,906
Speaker 3: so they bring us downstairs. We go up to the booth,

516
00:24:05,946 --> 00:24:07,266
Speaker 3: we get set up and they're like, hey, we're going

517
00:24:07,306 --> 00:24:09,746
Speaker 3: to bring you downstairs. I don't know whatever the time

518
00:24:09,866 --> 00:24:12,426
Speaker 3: is locally, And they bring us to the green room,

519
00:24:12,506 --> 00:24:14,346
Speaker 3: like where all you guys are down for the studio

520
00:24:14,546 --> 00:24:15,746
Speaker 3: and the beating.

521
00:24:15,386 --> 00:24:17,426
Speaker 1: Like CAVR and yeah it was pretty nice.

522
00:24:18,066 --> 00:24:21,826
Speaker 3: I'm eating chicken fingers and and uh, stuffing my face

523
00:24:21,866 --> 00:24:24,026
Speaker 3: with Jersey Mike sandwiches. You guys are reading like file.

524
00:24:25,226 --> 00:24:28,066
Speaker 3: Me and Burkhart get escorted down by by our by

525
00:24:28,066 --> 00:24:32,066
Speaker 3: our by our guide and we're sitting in the green

526
00:24:32,146 --> 00:24:37,306
Speaker 3: room watching that pregame show and we finally after like

527
00:24:37,946 --> 00:24:40,346
Speaker 3: a hectic morning, we're just like kicking back. They do

528
00:24:40,426 --> 00:24:43,266
Speaker 3: our makeup and we're just sitting there. All of a sudden,

529
00:24:43,706 --> 00:24:46,986
Speaker 3: Burkhart's phone starts blowing up and it's Russo Rich Russo,

530
00:24:47,066 --> 00:24:50,066
Speaker 3: our director. He's like, where are you guys. You're about

531
00:24:50,106 --> 00:24:54,186
Speaker 3: to miss your hit and we're like holy, So we

532
00:24:54,306 --> 00:24:56,546
Speaker 3: grab our jackets. We run out of the green room.

533
00:24:56,666 --> 00:24:59,426
Speaker 3: We get to the entrance to the tunnel. The players

534
00:24:59,466 --> 00:25:02,226
Speaker 3: are taking the field like in pre pregame. They don't

535
00:25:02,306 --> 00:25:04,986
Speaker 3: let us pass security. Yeah, so We're like no, no,

536
00:25:04,986 --> 00:25:06,346
Speaker 3: Guys like we were.

537
00:25:06,186 --> 00:25:08,266
Speaker 1: Call the game, We're like, we don't care.

538
00:25:08,266 --> 00:25:11,386
Speaker 3: On the pregame show in like three minutes, they're like,

539
00:25:11,986 --> 00:25:14,666
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, the tunnel's closed until the players get back

540
00:25:14,666 --> 00:25:17,066
Speaker 3: to the locker room. We're like no, no, no. So

541
00:25:17,106 --> 00:25:19,746
Speaker 3: we're like asking. We're like those people like trying to

542
00:25:19,786 --> 00:25:24,946
Speaker 3: talk their way into the bar. Yeah, yeah, that Johnny.

543
00:25:25,026 --> 00:25:26,426
Speaker 3: You know, I got him. He told me I have

544
00:25:26,426 --> 00:25:29,586
Speaker 3: a table. So we now get out to the field

545
00:25:29,626 --> 00:25:31,986
Speaker 3: and there's no leisurely. We don't get the Peter Schrager

546
00:25:32,146 --> 00:25:36,426
Speaker 3: leisurely walk around. We take off in a full on sprint,

547
00:25:36,666 --> 00:25:40,946
Speaker 3: but we don't know which corner of the stadium. Long

548
00:25:40,946 --> 00:25:43,186
Speaker 3: story short, we make it to wherever the hit is.

549
00:25:43,866 --> 00:25:46,586
Speaker 3: They come meet us, They give us our IFBs. We're

550
00:25:46,626 --> 00:25:49,666
Speaker 3: putting them in our ear. I plug it into my

551
00:25:49,866 --> 00:25:53,426
Speaker 3: pack as I'm walking to my spot, and it's like

552
00:25:53,906 --> 00:25:56,786
Speaker 3: and now down to Kevin, Burkhart and Gregg. We walk

553
00:25:56,946 --> 00:26:01,066
Speaker 3: into the shot as the second it gets tossed to

554
00:26:01,146 --> 00:26:04,466
Speaker 3: us from Kurt. I forget and I don't even know

555
00:26:04,506 --> 00:26:05,146
Speaker 3: what we said.

556
00:26:06,826 --> 00:26:08,146
Speaker 1: You're there though, you made we.

557
00:26:09,226 --> 00:26:11,626
Speaker 3: So we we we go off of our hit. We

558
00:26:11,666 --> 00:26:13,706
Speaker 3: look at each other. We're like, well, that was a

559
00:26:13,906 --> 00:26:17,866
Speaker 3: horrible way to start calling you because we almost missed

560
00:26:17,866 --> 00:26:21,386
Speaker 3: our pregame hit. So no, my pregame was not as

561
00:26:21,666 --> 00:26:22,586
Speaker 3: leisurely and as.

562
00:26:23,106 --> 00:26:26,066
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like, I'm like smelling the grass.

563
00:26:27,346 --> 00:26:29,586
Speaker 3: I'm in a full sweat. I can't even see straight.

564
00:26:30,266 --> 00:26:31,946
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm like, oh my god, I just ruined

565
00:26:31,986 --> 00:26:33,586
Speaker 3: the super Bowl because I almost missed my hit.

566
00:26:34,106 --> 00:26:36,186
Speaker 1: Go I share my pregame story. I've got so many,

567
00:26:36,226 --> 00:26:37,226
Speaker 1: and I feel like I did to get a chance

568
00:26:37,226 --> 00:26:38,946
Speaker 1: to tell us on the podcast. You'll appreciate this. So

569
00:26:38,946 --> 00:26:43,866
Speaker 1: I'm walking around with Peyton, Woodson and Vic. Now we're

570
00:26:43,906 --> 00:26:47,026
Speaker 1: the we're the secondary pregame show. Obviously we're not how

571
00:26:47,106 --> 00:26:49,226
Speaker 1: we tarry all those guys. Those guys are working. We

572
00:26:49,386 --> 00:26:51,426
Speaker 1: are done for the day. We have about an hour

573
00:26:51,506 --> 00:26:52,986
Speaker 1: until the post game, so we have a chance to

574
00:26:53,106 --> 00:26:55,386
Speaker 1: just walk around. And now, Sean Payton's likely a Hall

575
00:26:55,386 --> 00:26:57,746
Speaker 1: of Fame coach when he hangs it up, Charles Woodson

576
00:26:57,786 --> 00:27:00,106
Speaker 1: one of the greatest football players to ever grace a field,

577
00:27:00,106 --> 00:27:03,346
Speaker 1: and Michael Vick a cultural icon, and me. So we're

578
00:27:03,346 --> 00:27:08,426
Speaker 1: walking around and there he is jay Z. Jay Z

579
00:27:08,586 --> 00:27:10,626
Speaker 1: is staring us right in the eye, and I'm like,

580
00:27:10,706 --> 00:27:12,786
Speaker 1: how is this gonna go down? First thing he does,

581
00:27:12,946 --> 00:27:16,146
Speaker 1: he grabs Charles Woodson, brings him in for a giant hug,

582
00:27:16,586 --> 00:27:21,146
Speaker 1: Then Michael Vick giant hug, then Sean Peyton giant hug.

583
00:27:21,586 --> 00:27:23,986
Speaker 1: Then he locks eyes with me and he gives me

584
00:27:24,026 --> 00:27:26,346
Speaker 1: a hug, and I'm like, okay, I'm in. Then he goes,

585
00:27:26,466 --> 00:27:30,746
Speaker 1: let's get a picture, all right, I'm in. Jay Z

586
00:27:30,906 --> 00:27:33,546
Speaker 1: then positions his body in a way where he can

587
00:27:33,586 --> 00:27:37,266
Speaker 1: grab three different folks with his arms, and I knew

588
00:27:37,266 --> 00:27:40,866
Speaker 1: my place. I quietly drifted out of this photo, and

589
00:27:40,906 --> 00:27:45,226
Speaker 1: the photo is taken of jay Z, Woodson, Vic and Peyton,

590
00:27:45,706 --> 00:27:49,146
Speaker 1: and I am like, so sheepishly just slinking out of

591
00:27:49,146 --> 00:27:51,186
Speaker 1: the photo, but like also know that there could be

592
00:27:51,186 --> 00:27:53,866
Speaker 1: some cultural relevance. Should I get in this photo? Should

593
00:27:53,906 --> 00:27:56,066
Speaker 1: I slide backing? And I'm like, do I fly bacon?

594
00:27:56,546 --> 00:27:59,666
Speaker 1: I sat out the photo and I did not make

595
00:27:59,706 --> 00:28:02,186
Speaker 1: the photo, and sure enough the photo goes viral. Now

596
00:28:02,186 --> 00:28:05,426
Speaker 1: a minute later, this is where I get my redemption.

597
00:28:05,746 --> 00:28:11,266
Speaker 1: A minute Gordon Ramsey walks by Gordon Ramsey. I don't

598
00:28:11,266 --> 00:28:14,106
Speaker 1: know if he knows football. He might think I'm Joe Montana.

599
00:28:14,346 --> 00:28:16,306
Speaker 1: But he sees on with Fox and he sees me

600
00:28:16,346 --> 00:28:18,826
Speaker 1: with all these other guys, and he sees Sean Payton

601
00:28:19,226 --> 00:28:22,666
Speaker 1: and Gordon Ramsey comes over and Gordon Ramsey's like producers, like,

602
00:28:22,666 --> 00:28:24,586
Speaker 1: why don't you three getting a photo? And it's me,

603
00:28:24,746 --> 00:28:27,746
Speaker 1: Peyton and Ramsey And sure enough, Gordon Ramsey from his

604
00:28:27,826 --> 00:28:30,746
Speaker 1: Instagram fee with one hundred million people is like Fox

605
00:28:30,866 --> 00:28:34,786
Speaker 1: NFL Super Bowl crew and it's me, him and Sean Payton. So,

606
00:28:34,906 --> 00:28:36,426
Speaker 1: Jay Z, I didn't want to be in your photo.

607
00:28:36,466 --> 00:28:38,226
Speaker 1: I got in the Gordon Ramsey photo. Let's go.

608
00:28:38,626 --> 00:28:38,786
Speaker 2: Oh.

609
00:28:38,866 --> 00:28:40,706
Speaker 3: I can picture when you're telling that story, is that

610
00:28:40,906 --> 00:28:44,826
Speaker 3: he'll skit where he pumps down off the podium and

611
00:28:44,826 --> 00:28:47,346
Speaker 3: he's like giving everybody hugs, but then he like shapes

612
00:28:47,386 --> 00:28:51,026
Speaker 3: the random white guy's hands like that was you, that.

613
00:28:51,106 --> 00:28:53,306
Speaker 1: Was me one hundred percent, and I knew my place.

614
00:28:53,666 --> 00:28:54,666
Speaker 1: I knew my place.

615
00:28:54,706 --> 00:28:56,546
Speaker 3: The only thing that would have made that story worse

616
00:28:56,666 --> 00:28:58,626
Speaker 3: is if he handed you his phone, who was like a.

617
00:28:58,826 --> 00:29:01,386
Speaker 1: Seriously, can you take it. I've had that happen plenty.

618
00:29:02,026 --> 00:29:03,906
Speaker 1: I've had that. Trust me great, I've had that happen

619
00:29:04,866 --> 00:29:07,266
Speaker 1: all right. Now we turn the pig and it's like

620
00:29:07,306 --> 00:29:09,946
Speaker 1: the come down from the Super Bowl and there's nothing

621
00:29:09,946 --> 00:29:12,426
Speaker 1: more humbling than your first game back being assigned Saints

622
00:29:12,426 --> 00:29:13,986
Speaker 1: Texans preseason? How'd that go?

623
00:29:15,746 --> 00:29:19,666
Speaker 3: You know what? Prep for it was a little challenging,

624
00:29:20,626 --> 00:29:23,346
Speaker 3: especially when we talked to Dennis Allen and he told

625
00:29:23,386 --> 00:29:27,226
Speaker 3: us that literally not one was played. The Texans at

626
00:29:27,266 --> 00:29:29,066
Speaker 3: least did us the favor and played like the first

627
00:29:29,106 --> 00:29:31,426
Speaker 3: two drives with most of their starters. So at least

628
00:29:31,466 --> 00:29:34,746
Speaker 3: got we got like a good quarter and change out

629
00:29:34,786 --> 00:29:38,626
Speaker 3: of c. J. Stroud and the stations.

630
00:29:37,626 --> 00:29:40,066
Speaker 1: Got your Nico Collins for the year. He checked it off.

631
00:29:40,106 --> 00:29:42,706
Speaker 3: Good. Yeah, the Saints did us no favors. They did

632
00:29:42,746 --> 00:29:47,426
Speaker 3: not play a single starter a minute, a play a second.

633
00:29:47,466 --> 00:29:48,626
Speaker 3: They didn't even put a uniform on.

634
00:29:48,706 --> 00:29:50,266
Speaker 1: But how to feel get it back in the booth though?

635
00:29:50,386 --> 00:29:53,266
Speaker 3: It was good? You know what? I actually, as much

636
00:29:53,306 --> 00:29:56,226
Speaker 3: as you're like a preseason game, it's actually really good.

637
00:29:56,506 --> 00:29:56,906
Speaker 1: It's great.

638
00:29:57,106 --> 00:29:59,866
Speaker 3: Just get one out of the way, grind on fifty

639
00:29:59,946 --> 00:30:03,266
Speaker 3: five different wide receivers and forty different linemen and just

640
00:30:03,306 --> 00:30:05,306
Speaker 3: put the prep in and just get yourself back in

641
00:30:05,346 --> 00:30:07,306
Speaker 3: the in the floor, like all right, this is what

642
00:30:07,346 --> 00:30:08,946
Speaker 3: a normal week's going to feel like for me. For

643
00:30:08,986 --> 00:30:11,586
Speaker 3: the next five months. You better wrap your head around it,

644
00:30:11,626 --> 00:30:13,986
Speaker 3: you know. But it was fun. It's always good to

645
00:30:13,986 --> 00:30:15,906
Speaker 3: be around the crew that I always liked going to

646
00:30:15,906 --> 00:30:17,786
Speaker 3: New Orleans. I got a good energy. It didn't feel

647
00:30:17,826 --> 00:30:20,586
Speaker 3: like a preseason game, so it was a nice warm up.

648
00:30:20,626 --> 00:30:22,906
Speaker 3: It was a good kind of rehearsal to get the

649
00:30:22,946 --> 00:30:25,306
Speaker 3: bugs out, and we got a good one for Week

650
00:30:25,346 --> 00:30:26,346
Speaker 3: one with Bears Packers.

651
00:30:26,626 --> 00:30:29,106
Speaker 1: You sure do, which is to me the most intriguing

652
00:30:29,106 --> 00:30:31,706
Speaker 1: matchup in the entire NFL slate. There's bigger names elsewhere,

653
00:30:31,746 --> 00:30:33,426
Speaker 1: but like, I don't know what to make of the Bears,

654
00:30:33,506 --> 00:30:35,386
Speaker 1: and I did not know what to make of the Packers.

655
00:30:44,546 --> 00:30:46,906
Speaker 1: As we turned the page towards this weekend, have you

656
00:30:46,946 --> 00:30:49,226
Speaker 1: dug in on your prep for that game and really

657
00:30:49,306 --> 00:30:51,986
Speaker 1: what are your immediate takeaways on Justin Fields and Jordan Love.

658
00:30:52,466 --> 00:30:54,906
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been. I started diving in over the weekend

659
00:30:55,026 --> 00:30:56,706
Speaker 3: and just kind of reading some of the clips and

660
00:30:57,386 --> 00:30:59,106
Speaker 3: you know, knowing we had them, you know, for the

661
00:30:59,146 --> 00:31:02,306
Speaker 3: first game, you know, just following in preseason, following guys,

662
00:31:02,346 --> 00:31:04,146
Speaker 3: you know, some of the beat writers on Twitter and

663
00:31:04,186 --> 00:31:06,386
Speaker 3: who are the surprise guys at training camp and all that.

664
00:31:06,466 --> 00:31:08,146
Speaker 3: But now that the rosters are set and you can

665
00:31:08,186 --> 00:31:12,506
Speaker 3: really dive in. I'm with you, I think there's a

666
00:31:12,506 --> 00:31:15,186
Speaker 3: lot of unknown. I think it's hard to really prepare

667
00:31:15,226 --> 00:31:17,346
Speaker 3: for Jordan Love firstly, you know, first off with the

668
00:31:17,386 --> 00:31:20,666
Speaker 3: Packers because you know, we've seen him spot play, We've

669
00:31:20,706 --> 00:31:24,026
Speaker 3: seen him come in at times for Rogers in various situations,

670
00:31:24,066 --> 00:31:27,466
Speaker 3: but we've never really seen him operate. An offense tailor

671
00:31:27,506 --> 00:31:30,226
Speaker 3: made for him, a system tailor made, you know, for

672
00:31:30,306 --> 00:31:32,666
Speaker 3: his strengths, and Matt Lafleur and him work closely at

673
00:31:32,666 --> 00:31:36,066
Speaker 3: weekend week out. So I'm with everyone else, everyone like,

674
00:31:36,066 --> 00:31:37,466
Speaker 3: how are they going to be? I'm like, I don't

675
00:31:37,506 --> 00:31:40,546
Speaker 3: know how anybody can really make an assessment of Jordan

676
00:31:40,626 --> 00:31:45,146
Speaker 3: Love fairly go to our bad until we see him play,

677
00:31:45,266 --> 00:31:48,906
Speaker 3: until we see him operate behind center. And then compounding that,

678
00:31:49,706 --> 00:31:51,906
Speaker 3: they're the youngest team in the league, right. I was

679
00:31:51,946 --> 00:31:53,906
Speaker 3: just spending some time with both the Bears and the

680
00:31:53,946 --> 00:31:56,266
Speaker 3: Packers roster, and you know, they got some vets at

681
00:31:56,306 --> 00:31:58,266
Speaker 3: the offensive line and on defense, they got a lot

682
00:31:58,306 --> 00:32:00,106
Speaker 3: of vets returning, a lot of names that we're all

683
00:32:00,146 --> 00:32:04,546
Speaker 3: familiar with, Kenny Clark and you know, Rashan Gary hopefully

684
00:32:04,586 --> 00:32:06,986
Speaker 3: coming back healthy. From his ACL but like on offense,

685
00:32:07,506 --> 00:32:10,706
Speaker 3: it's Bachtiari and some offensive Elton Tenkins, Well.

686
00:32:10,666 --> 00:32:12,666
Speaker 1: It's not offensive linemen. Yeah, and then.

687
00:32:12,586 --> 00:32:17,306
Speaker 3: It's like rookie rookie, rookie second year Christian Watson, second

688
00:32:17,386 --> 00:32:20,386
Speaker 3: year Romeo Dobbs. You know, they got the vet running backs,

689
00:32:20,386 --> 00:32:22,706
Speaker 3: but it's kind of a funny team, like they either

690
00:32:22,746 --> 00:32:25,946
Speaker 3: got veteran guys at offensive line and running back and

691
00:32:25,986 --> 00:32:28,026
Speaker 3: then everyone else is first and second year at all

692
00:32:28,026 --> 00:32:29,786
Speaker 3: the rest of the offensive skills. So I think there's

693
00:32:29,826 --> 00:32:32,986
Speaker 3: a lot of interesting storylines for the Packers and then

694
00:32:33,066 --> 00:32:37,546
Speaker 3: the Bears. Their roster looks more like an NFL roster

695
00:32:37,626 --> 00:32:39,306
Speaker 3: now at least on paper than it did. And I

696
00:32:39,306 --> 00:32:42,586
Speaker 3: think with Dj Moore on offense and you know, investing

697
00:32:42,586 --> 00:32:45,266
Speaker 3: in a top ten pick at tackle and Nate Davis

698
00:32:45,266 --> 00:32:48,266
Speaker 3: they invested him in free agency, like they got some dudes.

699
00:32:48,586 --> 00:32:50,666
Speaker 3: They got some guys now on offense to hopefully help

700
00:32:50,826 --> 00:32:53,906
Speaker 3: justin out a little bit. And I think they're going

701
00:32:53,946 --> 00:32:56,026
Speaker 3: to be better. And again how much better, I don't know,

702
00:32:56,066 --> 00:32:58,306
Speaker 3: but obviously all eyes are on the two young quarterbacks

703
00:32:58,346 --> 00:33:00,306
Speaker 3: and that makes it for a fun week. One.

704
00:33:00,826 --> 00:33:02,786
Speaker 1: I said it on the show today on Good Morning

705
00:33:02,786 --> 00:33:05,386
Speaker 1: football that it feels like a case study almost of

706
00:33:05,466 --> 00:33:08,706
Speaker 1: nature versus their Like Justin Fields was just thrown out

707
00:33:08,706 --> 00:33:11,306
Speaker 1: into the fire and two years was just under siege,

708
00:33:11,306 --> 00:33:13,146
Speaker 1: and it's like, all right, you've got two years under

709
00:33:13,186 --> 00:33:16,666
Speaker 1: your belt. It's year three. You've seen the as dark

710
00:33:16,706 --> 00:33:18,426
Speaker 1: as it can get. You've been there, you know, ten

711
00:33:18,466 --> 00:33:20,986
Speaker 1: straight losses last year, you've done. On the other end,

712
00:33:21,066 --> 00:33:23,066
Speaker 1: Jordan Love's been sitting on the bench and watching and

713
00:33:23,106 --> 00:33:26,786
Speaker 1: having this really nurtured and I wouldn't say coddled, but

714
00:33:26,906 --> 00:33:30,226
Speaker 1: like that is the dream situation that you get three

715
00:33:30,306 --> 00:33:32,906
Speaker 1: years to learn an offense and three years to grow.

716
00:33:33,066 --> 00:33:35,226
Speaker 1: And then he's almost been in a lab for three

717
00:33:35,306 --> 00:33:38,106
Speaker 1: years and it's like, okay, it's one situation which is

718
00:33:38,146 --> 00:33:39,906
Speaker 1: a philosophy of throwing the guy out there, and the

719
00:33:39,906 --> 00:33:41,706
Speaker 1: other philosophy is let's let him learn. And this is

720
00:33:41,746 --> 00:33:44,306
Speaker 1: most extreme sense. I'm curious to see who comes out

721
00:33:44,306 --> 00:33:45,466
Speaker 1: and who's got jitters to start.

722
00:33:46,186 --> 00:33:48,466
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think it's such an interesting topic because it's

723
00:33:48,506 --> 00:33:51,426
Speaker 3: really what everyone talks about, right, you know, mahomes Oh,

724
00:33:51,426 --> 00:33:54,666
Speaker 3: he Mahomes sat. So if Mahome sat, everybody should sit

725
00:33:54,746 --> 00:33:58,306
Speaker 3: the rookie year. And I'm I'm a big believer that

726
00:33:58,546 --> 00:34:00,946
Speaker 3: if you're gonna be good, you're gonna be good, and

727
00:34:00,946 --> 00:34:04,586
Speaker 3: if you're gonna be s, you're gonna be I personally

728
00:34:04,666 --> 00:34:08,666
Speaker 3: think we use these like anecdotal examples based on whatever

729
00:34:08,746 --> 00:34:11,746
Speaker 3: you think to like support one way or another. I

730
00:34:11,746 --> 00:34:14,706
Speaker 3: think Patrick Mahomes was going to be Patrick Mahomes whether

731
00:34:14,746 --> 00:34:16,986
Speaker 3: Andy Reid played him week one of his rookie year

732
00:34:17,186 --> 00:34:19,586
Speaker 3: year or he sat behind Alex Smith and then eventually

733
00:34:19,666 --> 00:34:23,666
Speaker 3: took over. I think how Justin Fields ends up his career,

734
00:34:23,706 --> 00:34:25,946
Speaker 3: whether he went through the fires of playing as a

735
00:34:25,986 --> 00:34:28,346
Speaker 3: young kid. You know, he didn't technically start game one,

736
00:34:28,386 --> 00:34:31,066
Speaker 3: he took over for Andy Dalton. You could say in

737
00:34:31,226 --> 00:34:32,946
Speaker 3: Essen started as a rookie because it only took a

738
00:34:32,946 --> 00:34:36,546
Speaker 3: couple of weeks. His career, in my mind, is going

739
00:34:36,626 --> 00:34:38,906
Speaker 3: to be the same. It's all about the structure. Who's

740
00:34:38,906 --> 00:34:41,026
Speaker 3: the coach, what do they surround him with, Whether they

741
00:34:41,106 --> 00:34:44,066
Speaker 3: surround you with a good system and good supporting players

742
00:34:44,386 --> 00:34:47,186
Speaker 3: day one as a rookie or in Jordan Love's case,

743
00:34:47,386 --> 00:34:50,186
Speaker 3: year four, I think your career is going to be

744
00:34:50,306 --> 00:34:52,586
Speaker 3: what your career is going to be, regardless of when

745
00:34:52,666 --> 00:34:53,626
Speaker 3: the journey starts.

746
00:34:53,666 --> 00:34:54,506
Speaker 1: I just interesting.

747
00:34:54,626 --> 00:34:57,066
Speaker 3: I think we see so many examples. Cam Newton played

748
00:34:57,146 --> 00:34:57,786
Speaker 3: Day one, that.

749
00:34:57,866 --> 00:34:59,906
Speaker 1: Was on your team. I was gonna mention him, and

750
00:34:59,946 --> 00:35:01,506
Speaker 1: that was with Ron in his first season.

751
00:35:01,746 --> 00:35:03,826
Speaker 3: Right. So do I think Cam Newton's career would have

752
00:35:03,826 --> 00:35:06,306
Speaker 3: been better or worse if he waited till year three?

753
00:35:06,586 --> 00:35:09,026
Speaker 3: I don't. I think his career was as was the

754
00:35:09,066 --> 00:35:11,346
Speaker 3: great career that it was. He was going to have

755
00:35:11,386 --> 00:35:13,986
Speaker 3: a great career whether he started game one, Game six,

756
00:35:14,106 --> 00:35:17,346
Speaker 3: or year two. Same with Mahomes his career. He was

757
00:35:17,386 --> 00:35:18,946
Speaker 3: still going to be the same player as long as

758
00:35:18,986 --> 00:35:21,826
Speaker 3: Andy Reid was his coach and the system, and he's

759
00:35:21,866 --> 00:35:24,546
Speaker 3: the player that he is. I just believe in all

760
00:35:24,586 --> 00:35:27,106
Speaker 3: my heart, like we make too much about this guy

761
00:35:27,226 --> 00:35:30,586
Speaker 3: was only good because he sat, This guy was only

762
00:35:30,666 --> 00:35:34,146
Speaker 3: good because he played Game one. I really don't think

763
00:35:34,546 --> 00:35:36,666
Speaker 3: a lot of that is as important as everyone makes

764
00:35:36,666 --> 00:35:37,226
Speaker 3: it out to be.

765
00:35:37,786 --> 00:35:40,226
Speaker 1: In your research. Can you give me one nugget on

766
00:35:40,306 --> 00:35:42,226
Speaker 1: Jordan Love that you have found that I don't, because,

767
00:35:42,266 --> 00:35:44,826
Speaker 1: like we did a test in our show where it's like,

768
00:35:44,866 --> 00:35:47,386
Speaker 1: if I show you a silhouette of these young quarterbacks scoring,

769
00:35:47,466 --> 00:35:49,626
Speaker 1: can you identify it? And we went zero for four

770
00:35:49,706 --> 00:35:52,746
Speaker 1: on Jordan Love's throwing motion. He played one game against

771
00:35:52,746 --> 00:35:55,186
Speaker 1: the Chiefs with his mom and dad, and we're sitting

772
00:35:55,226 --> 00:35:57,546
Speaker 1: in the ninetieth row at Arrowhead. I remember that and

773
00:35:58,466 --> 00:36:00,826
Speaker 1: Jordan Love looked terrible that game and looked ill equipped,

774
00:36:00,826 --> 00:36:02,946
Speaker 1: And then we've heard great things this summer, Like, is

775
00:36:02,986 --> 00:36:05,106
Speaker 1: there one thing you've learned in doing your weeks of

776
00:36:05,146 --> 00:36:06,786
Speaker 1: research leading up to this game that you could share

777
00:36:06,786 --> 00:36:07,106
Speaker 1: with us?

778
00:36:07,906 --> 00:36:10,066
Speaker 3: You know what, I think, I'm like everybody else. You

779
00:36:10,106 --> 00:36:13,986
Speaker 3: know every everything you read, and whether it's fair or unfair,

780
00:36:14,026 --> 00:36:16,506
Speaker 3: it's just the nature of the beast. Everything you read

781
00:36:16,826 --> 00:36:21,106
Speaker 3: is him at this stage versus Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers

782
00:36:21,146 --> 00:36:24,466
Speaker 3: first year starting when he took over for Farv. Okay,

783
00:36:24,466 --> 00:36:27,066
Speaker 3: what does that mean for Jordan Love taking over for

784
00:36:27,186 --> 00:36:29,546
Speaker 3: Rogers and kind of passing that torch? So like he's

785
00:36:29,586 --> 00:36:33,346
Speaker 3: going to operate right now in that world. Whether it's right,

786
00:36:33,386 --> 00:36:35,186
Speaker 3: wrong or in different it doesn't matter. That is the

787
00:36:35,186 --> 00:36:37,546
Speaker 3: reality when you follow a guy like Rogers, just like

788
00:36:37,586 --> 00:36:39,906
Speaker 3: it was for Rogers when he followed far If you're

789
00:36:39,946 --> 00:36:42,666
Speaker 3: not going to escape that, I think the thing that

790
00:36:42,786 --> 00:36:46,266
Speaker 3: I'm most curious about is, like I know, and I

791
00:36:46,266 --> 00:36:49,226
Speaker 3: know Matt Leafloor kind of or the GM kind of

792
00:36:49,266 --> 00:36:52,106
Speaker 3: like this, you know, downplayed this idea. I think for

793
00:36:52,146 --> 00:36:55,626
Speaker 3: the first time, Matt Leafloor's offense now in Green Bay

794
00:36:55,666 --> 00:36:56,786
Speaker 3: is going to be Matt flofense.

795
00:36:57,066 --> 00:36:59,306
Speaker 1: Mark Murphy's the president of the team, and he speaks.

796
00:36:59,346 --> 00:37:01,386
Speaker 1: I always listen because it comes from the top, and

797
00:37:01,426 --> 00:37:03,986
Speaker 1: he said, we're gonna see what Matt's offense looks like

798
00:37:04,026 --> 00:37:05,386
Speaker 1: for the first time, and that was taken as a

799
00:37:05,386 --> 00:37:07,746
Speaker 1: slight of Aaron Rodgers like it run Laflor's offense. Now

800
00:37:07,786 --> 00:37:10,746
Speaker 1: it Rogers gets in there, it opens up a world

801
00:37:10,746 --> 00:37:12,706
Speaker 1: of possibilities you can do. This is the offense that

802
00:37:12,706 --> 00:37:15,066
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleoor was planned to run, where the quarterback is

803
00:37:15,106 --> 00:37:16,666
Speaker 1: just gonna operate it and not audible out and do

804
00:37:16,746 --> 00:37:17,186
Speaker 1: his own thing.

805
00:37:17,306 --> 00:37:19,386
Speaker 3: Right, It's gonna be more. It's gonna be more reminiscent

806
00:37:19,426 --> 00:37:23,066
Speaker 3: of Shanahan's forty nine, Ers mcveigh's, you know, even though

807
00:37:23,106 --> 00:37:25,266
Speaker 3: when Stafford got there, they kind of evolved into a

808
00:37:25,266 --> 00:37:27,546
Speaker 3: little bit of a different iteration of that offense. But

809
00:37:27,826 --> 00:37:30,546
Speaker 3: you know, maybe the Jared Goff version of the Rams

810
00:37:30,586 --> 00:37:32,866
Speaker 3: offense where it was really the system and operate within it.

811
00:37:33,266 --> 00:37:35,186
Speaker 3: I think we're gonna see that really for the first

812
00:37:35,226 --> 00:37:37,506
Speaker 3: time since Lafloor's come in, and and that's not a

813
00:37:37,626 --> 00:37:39,506
Speaker 3: knock on anyone. I just think that's the nature of

814
00:37:39,506 --> 00:37:40,986
Speaker 3: when you don't have a Hall of Fame quarterback and

815
00:37:41,026 --> 00:37:43,826
Speaker 3: you have a young kid. Okay, now we hired Matt

816
00:37:43,866 --> 00:37:46,546
Speaker 3: Lafloor because of his offensive creativity in his mind and

817
00:37:46,586 --> 00:37:49,506
Speaker 3: his system. Okay, now we're gonna it's gonna be more

818
00:37:49,506 --> 00:37:51,146
Speaker 3: on the forefront because he doesn't have a Hall of

819
00:37:51,146 --> 00:37:53,066
Speaker 3: Fame quarterback who had done it at a high level,

820
00:37:53,306 --> 00:37:55,546
Speaker 3: you know, for over a decade before he came in.

821
00:37:55,586 --> 00:37:58,146
Speaker 3: It would it makes sense for Aaron Rodgers to do

822
00:37:58,226 --> 00:38:00,626
Speaker 3: things he's comfortable with. You don't just come in and

823
00:38:00,706 --> 00:38:03,266
Speaker 3: revolutionize a player like that and make them and make

824
00:38:03,346 --> 00:38:06,226
Speaker 3: them change his game. So I think that's gonna be interesting.

825
00:38:06,226 --> 00:38:09,586
Speaker 3: But I think everything we all know is a very

826
00:38:09,626 --> 00:38:12,106
Speaker 3: small sample size, which I never try to judge anyone

827
00:38:12,106 --> 00:38:14,426
Speaker 3: by their best game or their worst game. So when

828
00:38:14,466 --> 00:38:16,386
Speaker 3: a guy like Jordan Love, you really don't have anything

829
00:38:16,386 --> 00:38:19,346
Speaker 3: in between. And I really take everything that comes out

830
00:38:19,346 --> 00:38:21,826
Speaker 3: of training camp with a grain of salt, because every

831
00:38:21,866 --> 00:38:23,986
Speaker 3: single player in training camp has the best training camp

832
00:38:23,986 --> 00:38:24,586
Speaker 3: they've ever had.

833
00:38:24,706 --> 00:38:25,506
Speaker 1: They look amazing.

834
00:38:25,706 --> 00:38:30,266
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm really not really making any big predictions as

835
00:38:30,266 --> 00:38:34,386
Speaker 3: far as Jordan Love goes, because he's wildly talented. He's athletic,

836
00:38:34,426 --> 00:38:37,306
Speaker 3: he's big, he's strong, he's got all the measurables. The

837
00:38:37,386 --> 00:38:39,226
Speaker 3: kid deserves the right to go out there and play

838
00:38:39,226 --> 00:38:43,986
Speaker 3: before anyone passes judgment good or bad on him.

839
00:38:44,706 --> 00:38:46,306
Speaker 1: This is the game of the week for Fox, which

840
00:38:46,306 --> 00:38:47,826
Speaker 1: is a big title for two teams that I don't

841
00:38:47,826 --> 00:38:49,986
Speaker 1: think many people have going to the playoffs. Honestly, the

842
00:38:50,066 --> 00:38:52,546
Speaker 1: Vikings were the defending division champions, the Lions of the

843
00:38:52,546 --> 00:38:54,866
Speaker 1: hot team of the NFC North Bears could have a

844
00:38:54,946 --> 00:38:57,706
Speaker 1: jump and the Packers obviously could keep it going and

845
00:38:57,746 --> 00:39:00,746
Speaker 1: be great. But to put that crown on this game

846
00:39:00,826 --> 00:39:03,426
Speaker 1: says a lot about the fan bases and the traditions,

847
00:39:03,906 --> 00:39:05,506
Speaker 1: and it says a lot about you guys going up

848
00:39:05,546 --> 00:39:08,386
Speaker 1: there and doing it. Now, one more sports broadcasting question,

849
00:39:08,506 --> 00:39:10,066
Speaker 1: and I know you said you don't know the itinerary,

850
00:39:10,066 --> 00:39:12,506
Speaker 1: but like, take us through the days leading up to it.

851
00:39:12,546 --> 00:39:14,266
Speaker 1: If you're a listener and you know you're going to

852
00:39:14,346 --> 00:39:17,786
Speaker 1: see Greg and obviously Kevin Burkhard on the call, when

853
00:39:17,826 --> 00:39:20,266
Speaker 1: do you guys get in, what are the meetings? And

854
00:39:20,306 --> 00:39:21,906
Speaker 1: now in a post COVID world. Are we back to

855
00:39:21,946 --> 00:39:24,306
Speaker 1: production meetings? It is still on zoom. What can you

856
00:39:24,346 --> 00:39:27,386
Speaker 1: share with us as far as from your chair, what

857
00:39:27,466 --> 00:39:28,466
Speaker 1: your next two days are.

858
00:39:29,226 --> 00:39:31,746
Speaker 3: Yeah, So on a typical week, this week week one,

859
00:39:31,826 --> 00:39:34,106
Speaker 3: we start a little bit earlier, just because you know

860
00:39:34,146 --> 00:39:36,906
Speaker 3: the anticipation of opening week. But on a normal week

861
00:39:36,946 --> 00:39:39,986
Speaker 3: where you have a game on the previous Sunday, Monday,

862
00:39:39,986 --> 00:39:42,346
Speaker 3: I don't really do a lot. I kind of take

863
00:39:42,386 --> 00:39:44,346
Speaker 3: it as a personal day, catch up on some things

864
00:39:44,346 --> 00:39:46,226
Speaker 3: at home, do stuff with the kids and my wife.

865
00:39:46,306 --> 00:39:49,826
Speaker 3: And Tuesday I'll really dive in. So Tuesday I start

866
00:39:49,866 --> 00:39:52,466
Speaker 3: with the team I know the least. So if I'm

867
00:39:52,466 --> 00:39:54,986
Speaker 3: calling a game with an AFC you know team, or

868
00:39:55,026 --> 00:39:56,866
Speaker 3: you know a team we just don't see very often,

869
00:39:57,146 --> 00:39:59,026
Speaker 3: I'll start with them on Tuesday, Like what do they

870
00:39:59,026 --> 00:40:01,466
Speaker 3: look like, who do they have on the team, what

871
00:40:01,586 --> 00:40:03,906
Speaker 3: numbers do they wear, what do the jerseys look like like?

872
00:40:04,026 --> 00:40:06,586
Speaker 3: Just familiarize yourself with something that might not just be

873
00:40:06,706 --> 00:40:08,746
Speaker 3: top of mind. Like maybe if I'm calling a Cowboys

874
00:40:08,786 --> 00:40:10,466
Speaker 3: game or a Philly game, which we see a lot,

875
00:40:10,506 --> 00:40:14,146
Speaker 3: we kind of know those teams pretty well, you know.

876
00:40:14,186 --> 00:40:17,386
Speaker 3: And then Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday is really just familiarizing yourself

877
00:40:17,386 --> 00:40:21,946
Speaker 3: with the players, the schemes, the storylines, you know, reading

878
00:40:21,946 --> 00:40:24,586
Speaker 3: all the clips coming out. They send us all sorts

879
00:40:24,626 --> 00:40:28,386
Speaker 3: of information and stats and you know, analytics and some

880
00:40:28,466 --> 00:40:31,106
Speaker 3: really interesting things that you can build some context into

881
00:40:31,266 --> 00:40:34,866
Speaker 3: game plan and personnel adjustments and you know, tendencies of

882
00:40:34,906 --> 00:40:38,266
Speaker 3: each team. And really that's where for me, I build

883
00:40:38,266 --> 00:40:40,986
Speaker 3: a lot of my storylines that I want to talk

884
00:40:40,986 --> 00:40:43,266
Speaker 3: about for the game. Like a great example is Philadelphia

885
00:40:43,306 --> 00:40:45,066
Speaker 3: last year. Towards the end of the year. We obviously

886
00:40:45,066 --> 00:40:47,826
Speaker 3: had them a lot throughout the playoffs and through the

887
00:40:47,826 --> 00:40:50,746
Speaker 3: regular season. They became one of the big stories of

888
00:40:50,746 --> 00:40:53,066
Speaker 3: the year. So we're calling them a lot and everyone's

889
00:40:53,146 --> 00:40:56,226
Speaker 3: just fascinated with fourth down, right, Everyone's fascinated with fourth down.

890
00:40:56,506 --> 00:40:58,906
Speaker 3: But all this information that we get aside from just

891
00:40:58,906 --> 00:41:01,386
Speaker 3: watching us, so yes, they go on fourth down, everyone

892
00:41:01,426 --> 00:41:02,426
Speaker 3: in the world knows that.

893
00:41:02,706 --> 00:41:04,786
Speaker 1: Like that, that's not what can we add? What can

894
00:41:04,826 --> 00:41:07,106
Speaker 1: I act that.

895
00:41:06,986 --> 00:41:09,986
Speaker 3: The Fox researchers and the team they send really really

896
00:41:10,066 --> 00:41:13,186
Speaker 3: good data that dives into all the tendencies and the

897
00:41:13,186 --> 00:41:15,066
Speaker 3: percentages and all that. Not that any of that would

898
00:41:15,106 --> 00:41:18,466
Speaker 3: make the roster, would make the broadcast, but through our

899
00:41:18,506 --> 00:41:21,066
Speaker 3: prep of the week and my conversations with Kevin. Some

900
00:41:21,186 --> 00:41:25,586
Speaker 3: of our best conversations come from those midweek great calls, right,

901
00:41:25,626 --> 00:41:27,666
Speaker 3: and I'll call Kevin and be like, keV, how can

902
00:41:27,706 --> 00:41:30,106
Speaker 3: we in the middle of the game, everyone's talking about

903
00:41:30,106 --> 00:41:32,826
Speaker 3: them going for fourth down? How do we talk about

904
00:41:32,906 --> 00:41:35,946
Speaker 3: fourth down? On second down? How do we talk about

905
00:41:35,986 --> 00:41:38,186
Speaker 3: fourth down? On third down? Saying, hey, keV, it's third

906
00:41:38,186 --> 00:41:41,226
Speaker 3: and four balls at the forty two yard line. We

907
00:41:41,306 --> 00:41:44,506
Speaker 3: will know whether Nick Sirianni's going for it on fourth

908
00:41:44,546 --> 00:41:46,786
Speaker 3: down based on what call they have here. And Kevin

909
00:41:46,826 --> 00:41:48,906
Speaker 3: will do He's like the master at like setting all

910
00:41:48,946 --> 00:41:51,586
Speaker 3: that up. And he leads me right into him and say, Kevin,

911
00:41:51,666 --> 00:41:53,466
Speaker 3: if they turn around and hand this ball to Miles

912
00:41:53,506 --> 00:41:56,866
Speaker 3: Sanders and then we know, you know they're going for

913
00:41:56,946 --> 00:41:58,986
Speaker 3: it on fourth down, because if not, they would attempt

914
00:41:59,026 --> 00:42:02,666
Speaker 3: to pass. So to answer your question, like our midweek

915
00:42:02,666 --> 00:42:05,346
Speaker 3: conversations as a crew and emails, and Kevin and I

916
00:42:05,466 --> 00:42:08,266
Speaker 3: spend a lot of time just talking things through. Sometimes

917
00:42:08,266 --> 00:42:10,386
Speaker 3: the things we talk through don't ever make air because

918
00:42:10,586 --> 00:42:12,946
Speaker 3: it sounded great on Tuesday, and come Saturday, it just

919
00:42:12,946 --> 00:42:16,106
Speaker 3: didn't make any sense really. But like that's one example

920
00:42:16,186 --> 00:42:19,906
Speaker 3: like those cool conversations, those moments that align on game

921
00:42:19,986 --> 00:42:23,226
Speaker 3: day that just really work in the broadcast, really just

922
00:42:23,306 --> 00:42:26,266
Speaker 3: come from a week of throwing things against the wall,

923
00:42:26,546 --> 00:42:29,946
Speaker 3: reading between the lines, the context, the articles, and trying

924
00:42:29,946 --> 00:42:33,106
Speaker 3: to say, like, how can we take this conversation maybe

925
00:42:33,186 --> 00:42:36,546
Speaker 3: deeper to the viewer than just give them the surface

926
00:42:36,626 --> 00:42:40,506
Speaker 3: level context. They go for fourth down three times more

927
00:42:40,546 --> 00:42:43,586
Speaker 3: than the other team if no one gives about.

928
00:42:42,866 --> 00:42:45,826
Speaker 1: The stack stats. You can't. There's only so many stats

929
00:42:45,826 --> 00:42:46,866
Speaker 1: the human brain can take.

930
00:42:46,986 --> 00:42:49,866
Speaker 3: Yeah, So like so like that's a big part of

931
00:42:49,906 --> 00:42:52,626
Speaker 3: our process. We go in on Saturdays. We do all

932
00:42:52,626 --> 00:42:54,946
Speaker 3: of our calls with the team via Zoom. That's worked

933
00:42:54,946 --> 00:42:57,546
Speaker 3: for Kevin and I since because we were The season

934
00:42:57,586 --> 00:42:59,946
Speaker 3: Kevin and I first started working together was postponed. We

935
00:42:59,986 --> 00:43:02,786
Speaker 3: weren't allowed in the building, and it worked for us.

936
00:43:02,826 --> 00:43:04,866
Speaker 3: We felt like we got more people because we got

937
00:43:04,906 --> 00:43:08,026
Speaker 3: them on Zoom's. We felt like they were very open.

938
00:43:08,186 --> 00:43:10,226
Speaker 3: It worked for travel, it worked for our schedule, so

939
00:43:10,266 --> 00:43:14,066
Speaker 3: we've kept it. It's worked great for our team. And

940
00:43:14,106 --> 00:43:15,906
Speaker 3: we go to a group dinner on Saturday night, we

941
00:43:15,946 --> 00:43:17,946
Speaker 3: have a production meeting, we get together, we kind of

942
00:43:18,066 --> 00:43:20,866
Speaker 3: put all the final touches on the broadcast plan, and

943
00:43:20,906 --> 00:43:24,186
Speaker 3: then Sunday morning we get up and let the game unfold.

944
00:43:24,586 --> 00:43:27,146
Speaker 1: All right, These are the inside the weeds questions. The

945
00:43:27,186 --> 00:43:29,026
Speaker 1: group dinner. Is that out at a restaurant or are

946
00:43:29,026 --> 00:43:30,986
Speaker 1: we eating in the hotel banquet room?

947
00:43:31,266 --> 00:43:34,946
Speaker 3: Now, we try at all costs to get Now, we

948
00:43:35,026 --> 00:43:37,706
Speaker 3: might eat in the hotel restaurant if it's a nice restaurant.

949
00:43:38,066 --> 00:43:40,226
Speaker 3: We're trying to get out of the We'll do our

950
00:43:40,266 --> 00:43:43,826
Speaker 3: production meeting first, handle business, go through graphics, go through

951
00:43:44,186 --> 00:43:46,466
Speaker 3: any of the highlights, the bumps, the in and out

952
00:43:46,506 --> 00:43:49,466
Speaker 3: of the stuff, storylines, talk through the game. Once we

953
00:43:49,506 --> 00:43:52,026
Speaker 3: feel we're in a good place, we make it a

954
00:43:52,066 --> 00:43:55,306
Speaker 3: point as a crew. Everybody, we make it a point

955
00:43:55,346 --> 00:43:57,986
Speaker 3: as a crew, and overall sometimes twelve fourteen people deep,

956
00:43:58,706 --> 00:44:02,786
Speaker 3: and it's really I think it's the highlight of the week.

957
00:44:02,906 --> 00:44:05,346
Speaker 3: I think everyone looks forward to it. I think there's

958
00:44:05,386 --> 00:44:08,706
Speaker 3: great banter. I think is great camaraderie. I think people

959
00:44:08,826 --> 00:44:11,106
Speaker 3: like book their travel to make sure they're done with

960
00:44:11,186 --> 00:44:13,546
Speaker 3: their work and done at the trucks or whatever they're doing,

961
00:44:13,586 --> 00:44:16,826
Speaker 3: to like make dinner. And I just believe in that

962
00:44:16,946 --> 00:44:18,466
Speaker 3: Kevin and I have really tried to make that a

963
00:44:18,546 --> 00:44:21,586
Speaker 3: point with Aaron and Tom and everyone's bought in and

964
00:44:23,146 --> 00:44:25,706
Speaker 3: Aaron usually kind of spearheads where we go. A lot

965
00:44:25,706 --> 00:44:27,746
Speaker 3: of times, she has great contacts. She knows a lot

966
00:44:27,786 --> 00:44:31,186
Speaker 3: of good restaurants around around the around you know, around

967
00:44:31,186 --> 00:44:33,306
Speaker 3: the country and whatnot. Or everyone kind of chips in

968
00:44:33,346 --> 00:44:36,266
Speaker 3: where they where they have a insight and it's a

969
00:44:36,306 --> 00:44:38,066
Speaker 3: highlight of the week. We love it. It's a good

970
00:44:38,106 --> 00:44:40,426
Speaker 3: way to kind of start off the weekend. And then

971
00:44:40,426 --> 00:44:42,506
Speaker 3: we know Sunday morning, we wake up, we get ready

972
00:44:42,506 --> 00:44:45,106
Speaker 3: to roll, we go to the stadium and game time.

973
00:44:45,746 --> 00:44:47,906
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a pitch right now to to be

974
00:44:48,586 --> 00:44:54,506
Speaker 1: or Fox Sports one or NFL Plus. We love Anthony Bourdain, right,

975
00:44:54,586 --> 00:44:58,546
Speaker 1: We love his journeys, his travels. We love football. I

976
00:44:58,546 --> 00:45:00,866
Speaker 1: would love a show where it's not about the games.

977
00:45:01,066 --> 00:45:03,066
Speaker 1: We just go on with these crews to their Friday night,

978
00:45:03,106 --> 00:45:05,386
Speaker 1: Saturday night dinners and we spend a different night with

979
00:45:05,426 --> 00:45:07,266
Speaker 1: a crew each week. Is that not a great content?

980
00:45:07,306 --> 00:45:09,306
Speaker 1: I feel like that's something I would love to watch.

981
00:45:09,586 --> 00:45:12,146
Speaker 3: I think people would love to see. Our dinners are

982
00:45:13,186 --> 00:45:16,306
Speaker 3: a lot of times are hysterical and we get great

983
00:45:16,346 --> 00:45:19,226
Speaker 3: stories and just I think it's great. We try to

984
00:45:19,266 --> 00:45:22,026
Speaker 3: go somewhere different. We try to go to good places

985
00:45:22,066 --> 00:45:25,466
Speaker 3: and try new things. And I'll be honest, it's really

986
00:45:25,826 --> 00:45:28,426
Speaker 3: a highlight of the week. I think it's something that

987
00:45:28,466 --> 00:45:31,106
Speaker 3: everyone really looks forward to, and I think it's a

988
00:45:31,106 --> 00:45:32,226
Speaker 3: great idea. I'd be happy.

989
00:45:32,226 --> 00:45:34,866
Speaker 1: I think honestly, it's like last for years, I would

990
00:45:34,866 --> 00:45:37,666
Speaker 1: come in for Fox on the Sunday pregame show and

991
00:45:37,706 --> 00:45:39,666
Speaker 1: I would just eat at the hotel and maybe I'd

992
00:45:39,666 --> 00:45:42,586
Speaker 1: get a drink with Woodson. Last year, Sean Payton' spearheaded

993
00:45:42,586 --> 00:45:44,506
Speaker 1: and he's like, let's go out on Saturday nights. Let's

994
00:45:44,506 --> 00:45:46,986
Speaker 1: go out, not too late, Let's go out. And that's

995
00:45:47,026 --> 00:45:49,626
Speaker 1: where the camaraderie forms. That's where the chemistry boy and

996
00:45:49,626 --> 00:45:51,026
Speaker 1: it really I think it led to a better product

997
00:45:51,066 --> 00:45:51,386
Speaker 1: on air.

998
00:45:52,106 --> 00:45:54,346
Speaker 3: Oh, I definitely think. And we have some of our

999
00:45:54,426 --> 00:45:57,026
Speaker 3: best I mean, we cover a lot of topics at

1000
00:45:57,066 --> 00:45:59,586
Speaker 3: these dinners, right, but I would say some of our

1001
00:45:59,626 --> 00:46:02,426
Speaker 3: best ideas that have made air and made the broadcast

1002
00:46:02,506 --> 00:46:08,426
Speaker 3: come from just impromptu debate, impromptu arguments, conversations, whatever you

1003
00:46:08,426 --> 00:46:11,546
Speaker 3: want to call it. Over a crab leg, over a stake,

1004
00:46:11,706 --> 00:46:15,906
Speaker 3: over a you know, over a bourbon, just you just

1005
00:46:16,026 --> 00:46:18,506
Speaker 3: once everyone feels comfortable that they can be a part

1006
00:46:18,546 --> 00:46:20,546
Speaker 3: of the conversation. And this is not just three or

1007
00:46:20,586 --> 00:46:22,306
Speaker 3: four of us that run the show and everyone else

1008
00:46:22,306 --> 00:46:25,186
Speaker 3: shut up like this is a collaborative event, right, This

1009
00:46:25,226 --> 00:46:28,106
Speaker 3: is a collaborative crew. We are open to all in

1010
00:46:28,146 --> 00:46:31,786
Speaker 3: any suggestions. And some of our best conversations that Kevin

1011
00:46:31,826 --> 00:46:33,946
Speaker 3: and I have gotten on air, or stories that that

1012
00:46:34,026 --> 00:46:36,746
Speaker 3: Aaron and Tom have shared on a sideline hit have

1013
00:46:36,906 --> 00:46:39,946
Speaker 3: come from just an organic conversation at a dinner or

1014
00:46:40,306 --> 00:46:43,266
Speaker 3: casually in a social environment where it's like, guys, that

1015
00:46:43,306 --> 00:46:46,466
Speaker 3: would be great conversation to have tomorrow, you know, in

1016
00:46:46,546 --> 00:46:48,466
Speaker 3: the second half, if the game's at a whack or

1017
00:46:48,706 --> 00:46:51,986
Speaker 3: you know, whatever it is. And sure enough, sometimes you know,

1018
00:46:52,026 --> 00:46:54,786
Speaker 3: not always, but sometimes it lines up and that dinner

1019
00:46:54,826 --> 00:46:57,706
Speaker 3: conversation makes its way on air with maybe a few

1020
00:46:57,746 --> 00:47:00,826
Speaker 3: more PG PG related language.

1021
00:47:01,066 --> 00:47:03,266
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, this is awesome. We're gonna do a

1022
00:47:03,346 --> 00:47:05,466
Speaker 1: quick exercise right now. I like always having fun with

1023
00:47:05,506 --> 00:47:06,906
Speaker 1: a guest and do like a game of some sort.

1024
00:47:06,946 --> 00:47:09,986
Speaker 1: And as as we're previewing the entire season as a whole,

1025
00:47:10,066 --> 00:47:12,746
Speaker 1: and knowing that you've got a full fox late ahead

1026
00:47:12,746 --> 00:47:15,146
Speaker 1: of you at the a game, I thought it would

1027
00:47:15,186 --> 00:47:17,346
Speaker 1: be fun to do an exercise with you where we're

1028
00:47:17,386 --> 00:47:21,986
Speaker 1: picking three different breakout teams each Now, breakout could mean

1029
00:47:22,106 --> 00:47:26,026
Speaker 1: anything but a team that shows great improvement from last year,

1030
00:47:26,066 --> 00:47:28,226
Speaker 1: and it might not as not necessarily be a playoff

1031
00:47:28,266 --> 00:47:31,106
Speaker 1: or non playoff team. But every year we know that

1032
00:47:31,146 --> 00:47:33,226
Speaker 1: there are teams that go from the bottom to the top,

1033
00:47:33,266 --> 00:47:35,786
Speaker 1: and there are teams they're so puch parody. We're into

1034
00:47:35,786 --> 00:47:38,066
Speaker 1: a little draft. You're gonna go first, give me your

1035
00:47:38,066 --> 00:47:41,386
Speaker 1: first breakout team out of all the thirty two that

1036
00:47:41,466 --> 00:47:43,026
Speaker 1: you think is going to make the leap this year.

1037
00:47:44,906 --> 00:47:47,226
Speaker 3: I think a team that comes to mind right off

1038
00:47:47,266 --> 00:47:50,866
Speaker 3: the bat that I think was was worse. Their record

1039
00:47:50,946 --> 00:47:53,226
Speaker 3: was worse than maybe how they were, so they probably

1040
00:47:53,226 --> 00:47:55,386
Speaker 3: have the most built in equity as far as the

1041
00:47:55,466 --> 00:47:57,906
Speaker 3: upside would be a team like New Orleans.

1042
00:47:58,266 --> 00:47:58,986
Speaker 1: Okay, go on.

1043
00:47:59,666 --> 00:48:03,266
Speaker 3: I think the Saints obviously adding Derek Carr makes a

1044
00:48:03,306 --> 00:48:05,666
Speaker 3: big difference, but I think they were better than the

1045
00:48:05,746 --> 00:48:08,746
Speaker 3: record was last year. Their offense was horrible, but I

1046
00:48:08,906 --> 00:48:11,506
Speaker 3: you know Michael Thomas, the injuries to him, if he's

1047
00:48:11,546 --> 00:48:13,866
Speaker 3: back anything, like you know you mentioned. We were with

1048
00:48:13,906 --> 00:48:15,866
Speaker 3: them two weeks ago for the preseason game, and they're

1049
00:48:15,946 --> 00:48:18,266
Speaker 3: raving about what he looks like. So let's hope that's

1050
00:48:18,306 --> 00:48:20,346
Speaker 3: true and that's the case they get him back. I

1051
00:48:20,346 --> 00:48:21,906
Speaker 3: know Kamara is going to miss a couple of games.

1052
00:48:22,346 --> 00:48:25,066
Speaker 3: They say he looks good, he'll be back. They should be,

1053
00:48:25,786 --> 00:48:29,706
Speaker 3: even if they're just marginally improved on offense. Their defense

1054
00:48:29,786 --> 00:48:32,626
Speaker 3: last year down the stretch, the last ten twelve games,

1055
00:48:32,786 --> 00:48:34,506
Speaker 3: I remember, it was one of the best defenses in

1056
00:48:34,506 --> 00:48:36,586
Speaker 3: the league. They were giving up sixteen points a game

1057
00:48:36,626 --> 00:48:41,906
Speaker 3: and losing. So, like, I think between just coming resorting

1058
00:48:41,946 --> 00:48:44,106
Speaker 3: back to the mean of just media, even if they're

1059
00:48:44,146 --> 00:48:47,746
Speaker 3: just okay on offense, that's an improvement if the defense

1060
00:48:47,866 --> 00:48:51,506
Speaker 3: just holds, serve and stays top ten, not asking them

1061
00:48:51,546 --> 00:48:53,906
Speaker 3: to make a huge leap, just be what they have been.

1062
00:48:54,626 --> 00:48:56,346
Speaker 3: And then in fact they're in the division is going

1063
00:48:56,386 --> 00:48:59,066
Speaker 3: through a little bit of a rebuild. There's new quarterbacks everywhere.

1064
00:48:59,106 --> 00:49:02,226
Speaker 3: Carolina's got a rookie, you know, Atlanta still figuring out

1065
00:49:02,226 --> 00:49:04,266
Speaker 3: what they want to do, Desmond ridd or whatnot. And

1066
00:49:04,306 --> 00:49:07,866
Speaker 3: then Tampa obviously with Baker, you know, replaced Brady. Their

1067
00:49:07,906 --> 00:49:09,986
Speaker 3: schedule is very easy. I don't think they play it.

1068
00:49:10,026 --> 00:49:12,186
Speaker 3: I think they play like one playoff team. In the

1069
00:49:12,186 --> 00:49:15,986
Speaker 3: first you seven eight games. Like, I just think all

1070
00:49:16,026 --> 00:49:18,466
Speaker 3: the ingredients are there that they could be a team

1071
00:49:18,506 --> 00:49:20,386
Speaker 3: that we'd looked that says oh Man. Not only did

1072
00:49:20,426 --> 00:49:22,426
Speaker 3: they win the South, but you know they're the three

1073
00:49:22,506 --> 00:49:24,226
Speaker 3: seed or they're the four. I don't think that would

1074
00:49:24,226 --> 00:49:26,066
Speaker 3: be completely out of the picture.

1075
00:49:26,506 --> 00:49:28,666
Speaker 1: Okay, Saints are off the board. I love that pick.

1076
00:49:28,666 --> 00:49:30,426
Speaker 1: I picked them to win the division today on Good

1077
00:49:30,426 --> 00:49:33,106
Speaker 1: Morning Football. I think that their defense is very good,

1078
00:49:33,226 --> 00:49:35,346
Speaker 1: and they have an upgraded quarterback. They should be able

1079
00:49:35,346 --> 00:49:37,426
Speaker 1: to handle that. I'm going to go with a team

1080
00:49:37,466 --> 00:49:39,186
Speaker 1: that's gotten so much hype and so much buzz, and

1081
00:49:39,226 --> 00:49:41,306
Speaker 1: I've I don't know if it's just considered in my backyard.

1082
00:49:41,346 --> 00:49:42,666
Speaker 1: And then I but I think the Jets are gonna

1083
00:49:42,666 --> 00:49:44,386
Speaker 1: be really good this year. Like I look at their

1084
00:49:44,386 --> 00:49:46,946
Speaker 1: defense last year, they're the number four defense in the league.

1085
00:49:47,186 --> 00:49:49,306
Speaker 1: They added talent on defense, they got a first round

1086
00:49:49,306 --> 00:49:52,506
Speaker 1: pick in McDonald. I love Tony Adams, their undrafted safety

1087
00:49:52,506 --> 00:49:54,466
Speaker 1: who's been having an outstanding training camp. And then you

1088
00:49:54,466 --> 00:49:57,506
Speaker 1: add Aaron Freakin Rodgers. Like, I'm a believer and I

1089
00:49:57,546 --> 00:49:59,906
Speaker 1: know a lot of people are waiting to pop a

1090
00:49:59,946 --> 00:50:02,346
Speaker 1: pin into this balloon and just see it go whoo

1091
00:50:02,626 --> 00:50:05,066
Speaker 1: and come down. I don't know, and I wouldn't be

1092
00:50:05,106 --> 00:50:08,266
Speaker 1: shocked if we wake up Tuesday morning and they put

1093
00:50:08,266 --> 00:50:10,226
Speaker 1: a licking on the Buffalo Bills. Am I crazy and

1094
00:50:10,346 --> 00:50:11,666
Speaker 1: saying that I'm in on the Jets? Man?

1095
00:50:12,346 --> 00:50:14,546
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard not to write. I think the Jets

1096
00:50:14,546 --> 00:50:17,226
Speaker 3: are the no brainer. I think the I think all

1097
00:50:17,266 --> 00:50:19,746
Speaker 3: your points are so spun on. I think the lazy

1098
00:50:20,026 --> 00:50:22,666
Speaker 3: national thing is, oh, do you get Rogers, You're automatically good.

1099
00:50:22,986 --> 00:50:26,946
Speaker 3: I don't think people realized how good they were last year.

1100
00:50:27,186 --> 00:50:29,066
Speaker 3: They went through some injuries, they lost Breeze Hall, the

1101
00:50:29,146 --> 00:50:31,746
Speaker 3: running back. I mean, we called that game when no

1102
00:50:31,786 --> 00:50:34,186
Speaker 3: one gave them a shot, and albeit the Packers weren't

1103
00:50:34,546 --> 00:50:36,626
Speaker 3: maybe the Packers, but they went into Lambo, and w

1104
00:50:36,746 --> 00:50:40,026
Speaker 3: went into Lambo and didn't just beat them, they beat

1105
00:50:40,066 --> 00:50:42,466
Speaker 3: them soundly. We walked out of We walked out of

1106
00:50:42,506 --> 00:50:44,426
Speaker 3: Lambo that day and we were like, I don't know

1107
00:50:44,466 --> 00:50:46,306
Speaker 3: what the Jets are going to accomplish this year. But

1108
00:50:46,346 --> 00:50:51,506
Speaker 3: they're young, they're athletic, they're they're aggressive, they're talented, and

1109
00:50:51,586 --> 00:50:54,186
Speaker 3: they're pretty damn and Robert sala is a damn good coach.

1110
00:50:54,226 --> 00:50:56,746
Speaker 3: So I think I'm with you. I think you know,

1111
00:50:56,866 --> 00:50:59,306
Speaker 3: the addition to Rodgers is the obvious choice, but I

1112
00:50:59,346 --> 00:51:05,546
Speaker 3: think aside from him, it's a good team. Aside from Rogers.

1113
00:51:05,146 --> 00:51:08,906
Speaker 1: I've got the Jets winning that the all right, Greg,

1114
00:51:09,066 --> 00:51:10,466
Speaker 1: your second team, what do you got?

1115
00:51:11,346 --> 00:51:14,306
Speaker 3: So I'm glad you gave me the caveat of like

1116
00:51:14,386 --> 00:51:17,066
Speaker 3: it could still be a playoff team because I think

1117
00:51:17,066 --> 00:51:19,146
Speaker 3: a playoff team that if the average fan, Like, I

1118
00:51:19,146 --> 00:51:22,546
Speaker 3: don't even know if people realized. Last year Jacksonville got

1119
00:51:22,586 --> 00:51:25,626
Speaker 3: so hot at the end upset Dallas. We called that game.

1120
00:51:25,666 --> 00:51:27,386
Speaker 3: They went on a walk off pick six and over.

1121
00:51:27,506 --> 00:51:29,786
Speaker 3: I think it was overtime, Yeah, it was. Yea, it

1122
00:51:29,786 --> 00:51:32,626
Speaker 3: was overtime, walk off pick six and overtime. But like

1123
00:51:32,666 --> 00:51:34,426
Speaker 3: they were kind of under the radar the year before,

1124
00:51:34,466 --> 00:51:37,186
Speaker 3: they were a disaster. Doug Peterson comes in, people were

1125
00:51:37,186 --> 00:51:40,626
Speaker 3: expecting a little bit of improvement. Trevor Lawrence, you could say,

1126
00:51:40,666 --> 00:51:43,626
Speaker 3: has his breakout year, really kind of establishes himself with

1127
00:51:43,666 --> 00:51:46,586
Speaker 3: that AFC young group of quarterbacks, and then they go

1128
00:51:46,626 --> 00:51:49,786
Speaker 3: on to win a playoff game. I know they won

1129
00:51:49,866 --> 00:51:52,746
Speaker 3: a playoff game last year. I think this year again

1130
00:51:52,866 --> 00:51:59,146
Speaker 3: very similar to the Saints division record, good young quarterback stability.

1131
00:52:00,066 --> 00:52:01,906
Speaker 3: I don't think there was any I think we could

1132
00:52:01,986 --> 00:52:05,266
Speaker 3: look up in December when the playoff seedings are getting

1133
00:52:05,306 --> 00:52:07,746
Speaker 3: set and we could say, yeah, they win, they win

1134
00:52:07,786 --> 00:52:10,506
Speaker 3: their division, the division's kind of down, they win their division,

1135
00:52:11,146 --> 00:52:12,986
Speaker 3: and they could be fighting for a buye right, they

1136
00:52:13,026 --> 00:52:13,386
Speaker 3: could be.

1137
00:52:14,066 --> 00:52:16,586
Speaker 1: Absolutely they have the fifth easiest schedule in the NFL.

1138
00:52:16,626 --> 00:52:16,946
Speaker 1: I saw.

1139
00:52:17,226 --> 00:52:21,466
Speaker 3: So I think again that the prospects of your season

1140
00:52:22,826 --> 00:52:24,946
Speaker 3: is not always just okay, how good are you as

1141
00:52:24,986 --> 00:52:27,146
Speaker 3: a team. I think there's gonna be some really really

1142
00:52:27,226 --> 00:52:30,666
Speaker 3: good teams who go eight and nine, who go nine

1143
00:52:30,706 --> 00:52:31,986
Speaker 3: and eight just because.

1144
00:52:31,706 --> 00:52:34,586
Speaker 1: They play a brutal schedule.

1145
00:52:35,026 --> 00:52:37,946
Speaker 3: They're at a conference teams or brutal they they got

1146
00:52:37,986 --> 00:52:40,626
Speaker 3: to cross their division the ground. Maybe they won the

1147
00:52:40,626 --> 00:52:43,986
Speaker 3: division last year, so they play every division winner in conference. Like,

1148
00:52:44,186 --> 00:52:47,626
Speaker 3: there's so many factors to success year over year that

1149
00:52:48,506 --> 00:52:52,066
Speaker 3: you could not get any better and the next year

1150
00:52:52,506 --> 00:52:56,106
Speaker 3: be a three game be three games better win win

1151
00:52:56,186 --> 00:53:00,146
Speaker 3: loss record, just because your scheduled, just because your division sucked,

1152
00:53:00,266 --> 00:53:02,626
Speaker 3: just because a couple of things went your way. There's

1153
00:53:03,026 --> 00:53:05,386
Speaker 3: so I think, and you don't apologize. I think that's

1154
00:53:05,426 --> 00:53:07,706
Speaker 3: the nature of the NFL. So I think Jacksonville has

1155
00:53:07,746 --> 00:53:11,346
Speaker 3: a shot as crazy as it sounds. The other guys

1156
00:53:11,346 --> 00:53:13,066
Speaker 3: all beat up on each other, and they're sitting there

1157
00:53:13,106 --> 00:53:14,506
Speaker 3: at the end of the year fighting for a top

1158
00:53:14,546 --> 00:53:15,666
Speaker 3: spot in playoffs.

1159
00:53:16,026 --> 00:53:19,106
Speaker 1: My number two team of the Detroit Lions. I'm a believer. Again,

1160
00:53:19,306 --> 00:53:21,306
Speaker 1: Maybe I do this show too often on the mornings

1161
00:53:21,346 --> 00:53:23,346
Speaker 1: that we did it since May and June and July

1162
00:53:23,426 --> 00:53:24,986
Speaker 1: that eventually you're just like, all right, we've been hyping

1163
00:53:24,986 --> 00:53:26,986
Speaker 1: this team so much that I can't go against it.

1164
00:53:27,586 --> 00:53:30,146
Speaker 1: I think their offensive coordinator is really good, this Ben Johnson.

1165
00:53:30,666 --> 00:53:32,746
Speaker 1: Did you guys call any Lions games last year to

1166
00:53:32,786 --> 00:53:33,466
Speaker 1: get a chance to.

1167
00:53:33,866 --> 00:53:37,506
Speaker 3: We called Lions when they beat the Packers in Detroit?

1168
00:53:38,146 --> 00:53:40,066
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, because there was Big eighteen that was on

1169
00:53:40,106 --> 00:53:42,426
Speaker 1: Sunday night. So yeah, yeah. This kid is thirty seven

1170
00:53:42,506 --> 00:53:44,146
Speaker 1: years old, not a household name, but I could tell

1171
00:53:44,146 --> 00:53:46,866
Speaker 1: you he took his name out of the head coaching carousel,

1172
00:53:46,866 --> 00:53:48,506
Speaker 1: and so I'm coming back to Detroit early on in

1173
00:53:48,546 --> 00:53:49,986
Speaker 1: the process. I think he would have been a head

1174
00:53:50,026 --> 00:53:52,626
Speaker 1: coach at one of these teams that hired new head coaches.

1175
00:53:52,666 --> 00:53:55,386
Speaker 1: He was that hot a name. I think Week eighteen

1176
00:53:55,546 --> 00:53:57,506
Speaker 1: was like his coup de gras with Colin Hook and

1177
00:53:57,586 --> 00:54:00,266
Speaker 1: ladders and crazy stuff in the fourth quarter. I think

1178
00:54:00,306 --> 00:54:02,386
Speaker 1: he's awesome, and I think their defense has gotten a

1179
00:54:02,426 --> 00:54:05,266
Speaker 1: lot better with Campbell and Branch And they go in

1180
00:54:05,306 --> 00:54:08,346
Speaker 1: and signed Chauncey Ardner Johnson like, I've got the Lions

1181
00:54:08,386 --> 00:54:09,906
Speaker 1: winning the NFC North. I think they're going to be

1182
00:54:09,906 --> 00:54:10,706
Speaker 1: hosting a playoff game.

1183
00:54:11,026 --> 00:54:13,306
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. I think you're spot on. I'm excited.

1184
00:54:13,346 --> 00:54:15,306
Speaker 3: I mean two days from, you know, two days from

1185
00:54:15,346 --> 00:54:17,946
Speaker 3: as we sit here recording this pod, the whole world

1186
00:54:18,066 --> 00:54:20,706
Speaker 3: is going to see and they have and Dan Campbell

1187
00:54:20,746 --> 00:54:22,626
Speaker 3: has not shied away from it. He's like, give us

1188
00:54:22,666 --> 00:54:24,906
Speaker 3: the spotlight. He's like, for the first time, and I

1189
00:54:24,946 --> 00:54:27,306
Speaker 3: thought I thought I heard I forget where I heard

1190
00:54:27,386 --> 00:54:29,186
Speaker 3: him say it, but I thought it was so cool.

1191
00:54:29,226 --> 00:54:31,986
Speaker 3: He's like people were asking him, is it is it

1192
00:54:32,026 --> 00:54:35,066
Speaker 3: hard to have expectations? Is it hard to shoulder like

1193
00:54:35,266 --> 00:54:36,906
Speaker 3: for the first time in a long time, And he's like,

1194
00:54:37,346 --> 00:54:39,506
Speaker 3: hell no, He's like, you know how hard I've worked

1195
00:54:39,786 --> 00:54:42,666
Speaker 3: for us to have expectations. Like when you go into

1196
00:54:42,666 --> 00:54:45,186
Speaker 3: a season with no expectations, that means you've been a failure.

1197
00:54:45,546 --> 00:54:47,986
Speaker 3: He's like, we're not only accepting it, He's like, we're

1198
00:54:48,066 --> 00:54:51,586
Speaker 3: leaning into it. We we are so thrilled that finally

1199
00:54:52,186 --> 00:54:54,626
Speaker 3: people expect us to do something. Why would we shy

1200
00:54:54,706 --> 00:54:57,506
Speaker 3: away and under and downplay it. He's like, so, I

1201
00:54:57,546 --> 00:54:59,306
Speaker 3: mean they got their shot. They got the World champce

1202
00:55:00,706 --> 00:55:04,586
Speaker 3: Thursdays night off the season, and they got their shot.

1203
00:55:05,106 --> 00:55:07,306
Speaker 1: All right, your third team, you've already done the Saints

1204
00:55:07,306 --> 00:55:08,706
Speaker 1: and the Jaguars. Do you think it's going to take

1205
00:55:08,746 --> 00:55:09,986
Speaker 1: a leap in twenty twenty three?

1206
00:55:10,626 --> 00:55:13,746
Speaker 3: You know, again, another playoff team, but maybe a team

1207
00:55:13,786 --> 00:55:15,946
Speaker 3: that no one last year, even though they were a

1208
00:55:15,986 --> 00:55:18,026
Speaker 3: playoff team, very similar to the Giants, right, Like, I

1209
00:55:18,026 --> 00:55:20,706
Speaker 3: think when the Giants made the playoffs last year, people

1210
00:55:20,786 --> 00:55:24,026
Speaker 3: were like, great story, Brian Dable, great job first year.

1211
00:55:25,426 --> 00:55:27,586
Speaker 3: You know, Daniel Jones had a great season, ended up

1212
00:55:27,586 --> 00:55:29,466
Speaker 3: getting a contract off of it. But I don't know

1213
00:55:29,466 --> 00:55:31,186
Speaker 3: if anyone was like, man, they're going to make a

1214
00:55:31,186 --> 00:55:33,346
Speaker 3: deep run. I don't know if they were at that point.

1215
00:55:33,386 --> 00:55:35,226
Speaker 3: I think Seattle was kind of in the same boat

1216
00:55:35,306 --> 00:55:35,706
Speaker 3: last year.

1217
00:55:36,466 --> 00:55:38,346
Speaker 1: I'm in on the Seahawks too, talk about it.

1218
00:55:38,626 --> 00:55:41,146
Speaker 3: So even though they did squeak in and they made

1219
00:55:41,186 --> 00:55:42,826
Speaker 3: the playoffs and whatnot, I don't know if anyone ever

1220
00:55:42,906 --> 00:55:45,666
Speaker 3: considered first year with Gino. How they're going to replace.

1221
00:55:46,706 --> 00:55:50,986
Speaker 3: I think they have gotten young. I think they've gotten talented.

1222
00:55:51,066 --> 00:55:53,066
Speaker 3: I think they've hit on a lot of these draft picks.

1223
00:55:53,106 --> 00:55:56,386
Speaker 3: I think I know it's m Smith and Jigba is

1224
00:55:56,426 --> 00:55:58,746
Speaker 3: gonna be He's gonna miss some time with that. What

1225
00:55:58,906 --> 00:56:01,706
Speaker 3: did he hurt? He hurt something? Yeah, Anyway, I think

1226
00:56:01,746 --> 00:56:03,866
Speaker 3: they hit on the running back. I think they're young.

1227
00:56:03,986 --> 00:56:07,546
Speaker 3: I think they're talented. I think Gino has far exceeded

1228
00:56:07,546 --> 00:56:10,626
Speaker 3: everyone's expectations, at least nationally. I think internally there they

1229
00:56:10,626 --> 00:56:14,306
Speaker 3: always thought he was pretty good. I think they got

1230
00:56:14,306 --> 00:56:16,586
Speaker 3: a shot again. It's gonna be them in the forty

1231
00:56:16,666 --> 00:56:18,506
Speaker 3: nine ers. We'll see what happens with the Rams. Can

1232
00:56:18,506 --> 00:56:20,746
Speaker 3: they get back a little bit from last year's down year?

1233
00:56:20,746 --> 00:56:23,626
Speaker 3: And I think Arizona has a has a long uphill

1234
00:56:23,626 --> 00:56:25,906
Speaker 3: battle right now to be relevant again. So I think

1235
00:56:25,946 --> 00:56:28,746
Speaker 3: schedule wise, they're okay in the division. And I think

1236
00:56:28,826 --> 00:56:30,946
Speaker 3: when we I think they're a team that has a

1237
00:56:31,026 --> 00:56:32,026
Speaker 3: chance to make some noise.

1238
00:56:32,866 --> 00:56:34,586
Speaker 1: My last team that I think is gonna make a leap,

1239
00:56:34,626 --> 00:56:38,786
Speaker 1: and it's on just Bravado and Gusto and leadership alone.

1240
00:56:39,466 --> 00:56:42,986
Speaker 1: I'm going to Broncos. I know they play a brutal schedule.

1241
00:56:43,026 --> 00:56:45,226
Speaker 1: I know the AFC West is not getting any easier,

1242
00:56:45,266 --> 00:56:48,546
Speaker 1: but like I'm a Hackett guy. As far as ex's

1243
00:56:48,586 --> 00:56:50,826
Speaker 1: and osgo, clearly it didn't work. And now you put

1244
00:56:50,826 --> 00:56:53,866
Speaker 1: Sean Payton, which is such a cult personality, and again

1245
00:56:53,906 --> 00:56:56,026
Speaker 1: I'm biased. I watched the man for a year as

1246
00:56:56,066 --> 00:56:58,106
Speaker 1: my colleague on a show, and I saw how he operates.

1247
00:56:58,586 --> 00:57:02,226
Speaker 1: He's a genius, beautiful mind and when it comes to football,

1248
00:57:02,266 --> 00:57:04,466
Speaker 1: and he's one of these guys that doesn't stop. He's

1249
00:57:04,466 --> 00:57:06,666
Speaker 1: also a late guy. He's not into the office at

1250
00:57:06,666 --> 00:57:09,306
Speaker 1: six am. He's in the office till two am, and

1251
00:57:09,346 --> 00:57:11,506
Speaker 1: that's where his mind is festering and he's coming up

1252
00:57:11,506 --> 00:57:14,426
Speaker 1: with creative ideas. I just think, on Sean Payton alone,

1253
00:57:14,466 --> 00:57:16,626
Speaker 1: this Broncos team is not going to be any worse.

1254
00:57:16,626 --> 00:57:18,386
Speaker 1: They're going to be at least two to three games better,

1255
00:57:18,546 --> 00:57:20,306
Speaker 1: and I think they might be fighting for a playoff spot.

1256
00:57:20,426 --> 00:57:23,226
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. I think we saw the worst of

1257
00:57:23,306 --> 00:57:25,506
Speaker 3: Russ last year. I think he has too much pride

1258
00:57:26,986 --> 00:57:29,426
Speaker 3: to allow it to happen again. I think that team

1259
00:57:29,466 --> 00:57:31,666
Speaker 3: again was better than their record, and they had a

1260
00:57:31,786 --> 00:57:35,186
Speaker 3: you know, between injuries and poor play and dysfunction, whatever

1261
00:57:35,186 --> 00:57:38,906
Speaker 3: you want to call it. I think again, like certain teams,

1262
00:57:39,226 --> 00:57:42,266
Speaker 3: there's like an equity built in that last year, if

1263
00:57:42,306 --> 00:57:44,026
Speaker 3: like a couple of things, there are a two or

1264
00:57:44,026 --> 00:57:45,946
Speaker 3: three win better team than they were the year before.

1265
00:57:45,986 --> 00:57:47,826
Speaker 3: So like you almost carry that over with you and

1266
00:57:48,506 --> 00:57:50,306
Speaker 3: you know, and then it also works on the other way, right,

1267
00:57:50,346 --> 00:57:53,026
Speaker 3: Like I think a lot of people are saying, Minnesota,

1268
00:57:53,066 --> 00:57:56,426
Speaker 3: you go eleven and zero in one score games. How

1269
00:57:56,506 --> 00:57:58,906
Speaker 3: realistic is that? Although I thought Kevin O'Connell did a

1270
00:57:58,906 --> 00:58:01,146
Speaker 3: great job. You know, we called their playoff game against

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00:58:01,146 --> 00:58:04,426
Speaker 3: the Giants. They were a great story. But equity could

1272
00:58:04,426 --> 00:58:06,946
Speaker 3: work both ways, right. I think some teams have upside

1273
00:58:06,946 --> 00:58:08,866
Speaker 3: equity built in, and I think some people have a

1274
00:58:08,866 --> 00:58:13,146
Speaker 3: little built in depreciation that can we expect every bounce

1275
00:58:13,186 --> 00:58:15,626
Speaker 3: to go your way again? I don't know, I don't know.

1276
00:58:15,626 --> 00:58:18,586
Speaker 3: I think that's what makes every year so exciting.

1277
00:58:18,946 --> 00:58:22,346
Speaker 1: So excited to see you on Sunday again. I will reiterate,

1278
00:58:22,466 --> 00:58:26,546
Speaker 1: this is a great idea that we have come up with.

1279
00:58:26,706 --> 00:58:32,266
Speaker 1: This is Anthony Bourdaine meets John Madden meets Guy Fieri

1280
00:58:32,626 --> 00:58:35,546
Speaker 1: meets Gordon Ramsey. It is going to be I think

1281
00:58:35,386 --> 00:58:38,186
Speaker 1: we pitch it to like Bill Richards and Joel Santos

1282
00:58:38,306 --> 00:58:41,506
Speaker 1: and skip their amazing like cinematographer, and we say just

1283
00:58:41,506 --> 00:58:44,306
Speaker 1: pick a random crew and you follow them and you

1284
00:58:44,386 --> 00:58:46,346
Speaker 1: just eavesdrop on their dinner and we throw that up

1285
00:58:46,386 --> 00:58:48,986
Speaker 1: on two b or FS one or Fox Sports dot com. Greg,

1286
00:58:48,986 --> 00:58:50,546
Speaker 1: are you in it? Executive produce this thing?

1287
00:58:50,666 --> 00:58:52,746
Speaker 3: Make it work? Executive producer, Peter Schreger.

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00:58:53,186 --> 00:58:56,706
Speaker 1: That's it. I'll take it at that. To list the jobs, yes,

1289
00:58:56,826 --> 00:59:00,146
Speaker 1: we will take it. Greg. Good luck on Sunday. Thank

1290
00:59:00,146 --> 00:59:01,946
Speaker 1: you so much. Really quick before we leave, can you

1291
00:59:01,986 --> 00:59:03,866
Speaker 1: talk about the amazing work you guys are doing in

1292
00:59:03,986 --> 00:59:07,026
Speaker 1: Charlotte and how the foundation's going and all the latest there.

1293
00:59:07,346 --> 00:59:10,386
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. It's going great. We you know, we

1294
00:59:10,666 --> 00:59:14,426
Speaker 3: are very passionate. Actually just spoke at the World the

1295
00:59:14,466 --> 00:59:18,186
Speaker 3: Congress of Pediatric Cardiology, which is like a world summit.

1296
00:59:18,226 --> 00:59:21,266
Speaker 3: It was in Washington, d C. Last week, so I

1297
00:59:21,306 --> 00:59:24,186
Speaker 3: was actually out there. So it's something that we live with,

1298
00:59:24,266 --> 00:59:26,506
Speaker 3: something that we live and breathe and with our son

1299
00:59:26,586 --> 00:59:29,546
Speaker 3: TJ and what he's been through. But we take a

1300
00:59:29,546 --> 00:59:31,746
Speaker 3: lot of pride in our foundation. It's called the Hardy Shard.

1301
00:59:31,826 --> 00:59:35,786
Speaker 3: We we launched a pretty extensive program here in Charlotte,

1302
00:59:35,786 --> 00:59:39,346
Speaker 3: both in patient outpatient, new new heart center that we

1303
00:59:39,346 --> 00:59:42,146
Speaker 3: were able to help build and whatnot. So we actually

1304
00:59:42,186 --> 00:59:46,946
Speaker 3: just branched to our second location down in Charleston at

1305
00:59:47,026 --> 00:59:50,026
Speaker 3: MUSC Children's Hospice, so were able to expand to a

1306
00:59:50,066 --> 00:59:52,906
Speaker 3: second so we get a little more regional kind of footprints.

1307
00:59:52,906 --> 00:59:54,786
Speaker 3: So it's something that we love. It's something that we're

1308
00:59:54,866 --> 00:59:58,226
Speaker 3: very passionate about. And you know, our goal is to

1309
00:59:58,386 --> 00:59:59,946
Speaker 3: try to make the path of a lot of people

1310
00:59:59,946 --> 01:00:02,746
Speaker 3: that find themselves where we were ten years ago, have

1311
01:00:02,786 --> 01:00:04,786
Speaker 3: a little bit of an easier path than our son did.

1312
01:00:04,826 --> 01:00:07,626
Speaker 3: And if we do that, did mission accomplished. But it's

1313
01:00:07,666 --> 01:00:09,666
Speaker 3: something that we love doing and we take a lot

1314
01:00:09,666 --> 01:00:11,546
Speaker 3: of pride and I appreciate you let me talk about it.

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Speaker 1: What a blessing, dude. Thank you, Good luck on Sunday.

1316
01:00:14,146 --> 01:00:16,026
Speaker 1: I'll be rooting you on all season. And of course

1317
01:00:16,106 --> 01:00:18,186
Speaker 1: the listeners here have gotten to know a different side

1318
01:00:18,186 --> 01:00:20,026
Speaker 1: of you that I think they'll enjoy, and you and

1319
01:00:20,146 --> 01:00:21,986
Speaker 1: Kevin are going to kick ass and send the best

1320
01:00:22,026 --> 01:00:25,146
Speaker 1: to Bruce and Zions and Aaron and Tom of course.

1321
01:00:25,226 --> 01:00:26,906
Speaker 3: Hi Will buddy, it's always good chat with you man.

1322
01:00:26,946 --> 01:00:37,106
Speaker 4: Thanks that was awesome.

1323
01:00:37,146 --> 01:00:39,986
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen the week of NFL kickoff, and he's probably

1324
01:00:39,986 --> 01:00:41,826
Speaker 1: got so many things on his plate, gave us an hour.

1325
01:00:42,466 --> 01:00:45,106
Speaker 1: We so appreciate it. Again, Greg and Kevin Burkhart two

1326
01:00:45,146 --> 01:00:47,266
Speaker 1: the best guys you'll ever meet. I say that about

1327
01:00:47,266 --> 01:00:48,866
Speaker 1: all my guests, I really mean it this time. I

1328
01:00:48,946 --> 01:00:51,586
Speaker 1: usually am saying that with just my hopes of them

1329
01:00:51,626 --> 01:00:55,466
Speaker 1: coming back on the pod in the future. This week,

1330
01:00:55,986 --> 01:00:58,226
Speaker 1: for the monologue, we just kicked it off, but for

1331
01:00:58,346 --> 01:01:00,706
Speaker 1: the post interview, I really wanted to give a quick

1332
01:01:01,306 --> 01:01:05,106
Speaker 1: little essay of sorts and bring in a different guest

1333
01:01:05,146 --> 01:01:07,066
Speaker 1: on the microphone. You guys have heard me reference the

1334
01:01:07,146 --> 01:01:11,266
Speaker 1: name Jason English. He works for iHeartMedia and he helped

1335
01:01:11,306 --> 01:01:14,786
Speaker 1: put together this podcast and has been such an important

1336
01:01:14,786 --> 01:01:17,066
Speaker 1: piece of the success of the season with Peter Scheger.

1337
01:01:17,106 --> 01:01:19,826
Speaker 1: But he's also become a friend. And you know, I

1338
01:01:19,906 --> 01:01:21,746
Speaker 1: was really shookn up, and I was a little surprised

1339
01:01:21,746 --> 01:01:23,586
Speaker 1: by how shaken up I was by the passing of

1340
01:01:23,666 --> 01:01:27,066
Speaker 1: Jimmy Buffett this weekend. And I am not a parrothead.

1341
01:01:27,226 --> 01:01:30,266
Speaker 1: I did not go to the shows. I you know,

1342
01:01:30,426 --> 01:01:33,026
Speaker 1: don't live and breathe all the lyrics. But I love

1343
01:01:33,106 --> 01:01:37,866
Speaker 1: what Jimmy Buffett stood for Jimmy Buffett, obviously the musician.

1344
01:01:38,146 --> 01:01:40,986
Speaker 1: It was a diehard NFL fan as well, And as

1345
01:01:40,986 --> 01:01:44,306
Speaker 1: the story goes, he was performing as a native of Mississippi.

1346
01:01:44,306 --> 01:01:46,146
Speaker 1: He was performing in New Orleans in the late sixties,

1347
01:01:46,146 --> 01:01:48,706
Speaker 1: and it was the same time the Saints were starting

1348
01:01:48,706 --> 01:01:50,826
Speaker 1: off as an expansion NFL team, and it was as

1349
01:01:50,826 --> 01:01:53,386
Speaker 1: casual as he was a performer in the local bars

1350
01:01:53,426 --> 01:01:55,386
Speaker 1: in the French Quarter and the players would come in

1351
01:01:55,746 --> 01:01:58,426
Speaker 1: to drink and have dinners, and he drew up friendships

1352
01:01:58,426 --> 01:02:01,306
Speaker 1: with these guys, and sure enough, the first ever Saints

1353
01:02:01,386 --> 01:02:04,466
Speaker 1: game in nineteen sixty seven at tu Lane Stadium, Jimmy

1354
01:02:04,466 --> 01:02:06,346
Speaker 1: Buffett was there. He was there, and he's been a

1355
01:02:06,626 --> 01:02:11,386
Speaker 1: ever since. And he passed away on late Friday night

1356
01:02:11,506 --> 01:02:14,066
Speaker 1: of cancer that he was battling and had not announced publicly,

1357
01:02:14,106 --> 01:02:17,386
Speaker 1: but close friends apparently knew. And I was really shaken

1358
01:02:17,466 --> 01:02:20,026
Speaker 1: up by it because here's just always been a fixture

1359
01:02:20,066 --> 01:02:23,626
Speaker 1: in my life, and Jimmy Buffett brings positivity and brings joy.

1360
01:02:23,746 --> 01:02:26,506
Speaker 1: And you know, you sit out at the pool, you

1361
01:02:26,546 --> 01:02:29,946
Speaker 1: could put on a few different sets of playlists, and

1362
01:02:29,986 --> 01:02:32,106
Speaker 1: I think the Jimmy Buffett playlist is one of those

1363
01:02:32,146 --> 01:02:34,946
Speaker 1: that's probably played at fifty percent of every pool's backyards

1364
01:02:34,986 --> 01:02:37,186
Speaker 1: and barbecues that you can find in summer. And I

1365
01:02:37,226 --> 01:02:39,626
Speaker 1: thought it was almost fitting that Jimmy Buffett waited till

1366
01:02:39,626 --> 01:02:42,586
Speaker 1: after the summer to finally say farewell. It was like,

1367
01:02:42,626 --> 01:02:44,266
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna get you all one last summer

1368
01:02:44,266 --> 01:02:46,986
Speaker 1: and then on Labor Day weekend, that's where we're going

1369
01:02:47,026 --> 01:02:50,706
Speaker 1: to ride off into the sky. I spoke to Sean

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01:02:50,746 --> 01:02:53,426
Speaker 1: Payton this weekend because he and Buffett had a really

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01:02:53,626 --> 01:02:57,666
Speaker 1: close relationship and we were exchanging texts about it. Peyton

1372
01:02:58,346 --> 01:03:00,906
Speaker 1: had shot had Jimmy Buffett in the locker room after

1373
01:03:00,946 --> 01:03:03,186
Speaker 1: they won the NFC Championship. Came over the Vikings and

1374
01:03:03,226 --> 01:03:05,186
Speaker 1: Brett Farv in two thousand and nine, one of the

1375
01:03:05,186 --> 01:03:08,026
Speaker 1: most epic NFC Championship games ever, and there was Jimmy

1376
01:03:08,066 --> 01:03:10,426
Speaker 1: Buffett amongst all the players, celebrating as if he was

1377
01:03:10,506 --> 01:03:12,546
Speaker 1: part of the team, and Peyton said there was no

1378
01:03:12,626 --> 01:03:15,306
Speaker 1: way he wasn't having Jimmy in there. And Buffett's story,

1379
01:03:15,386 --> 01:03:17,906
Speaker 1: as the legend goes, is that he got there the

1380
01:03:17,986 --> 01:03:21,146
Speaker 1: day before from a private flight from Bora Bora. But

1381
01:03:21,266 --> 01:03:23,346
Speaker 1: on the way from that private flight, they had to

1382
01:03:23,386 --> 01:03:26,146
Speaker 1: stop because the tire blew out on that private plane.

1383
01:03:26,186 --> 01:03:28,186
Speaker 1: And if that's not the most Jimmy Buffett story ever,

1384
01:03:28,226 --> 01:03:31,306
Speaker 1: I don't know what is. Ten years later, the Saints

1385
01:03:31,386 --> 01:03:35,226
Speaker 1: go back to the NFC Championship game. They're hosting the

1386
01:03:35,346 --> 01:03:38,306
Speaker 1: La Rams and Sean Payton flew in you know who,

1387
01:03:38,386 --> 01:03:41,146
Speaker 1: Jimmy Buffett to sing the national anthem. Over the last

1388
01:03:41,146 --> 01:03:44,386
Speaker 1: several days, we have seen tweets from JJ Watt, who

1389
01:03:44,426 --> 01:03:47,426
Speaker 1: apparently has seen Buffett multiple times in concert, and it's

1390
01:03:47,426 --> 01:03:49,746
Speaker 1: one of them. Greg Bentzel, who is the pr chief

1391
01:03:49,786 --> 01:03:51,666
Speaker 1: for a long time for the Saints, had a really

1392
01:03:51,706 --> 01:03:54,066
Speaker 1: strong connection with him and then one that blew me away.

1393
01:03:54,066 --> 01:03:56,666
Speaker 1: And if he wasn't calling the game on Thursday night,

1394
01:03:56,706 --> 01:03:57,826
Speaker 1: I think I was going to bring him on and

1395
01:03:57,866 --> 01:04:00,146
Speaker 1: just talk about his connection to Jimmy Buffet. Chris Collinsworth

1396
01:04:00,226 --> 01:04:03,266
Speaker 1: had a flurry of tweets and as a University of

1397
01:04:03,266 --> 01:04:07,746
Speaker 1: Florida graduate, I think he Andmmy Buffett had a forty

1398
01:04:07,826 --> 01:04:11,466
Speaker 1: or fifty year friendship where you know, he had multiple

1399
01:04:11,546 --> 01:04:16,426
Speaker 1: multiple tweets morning the passing of Jimmy Buffett. I mentioned

1400
01:04:16,466 --> 01:04:18,626
Speaker 1: the philosophy and the approach to life like don't get

1401
01:04:18,626 --> 01:04:21,186
Speaker 1: it straight, don't get it twisted. Jimmy Buffett was a businessman.

1402
01:04:21,226 --> 01:04:23,386
Speaker 1: This guy's a billionaire, and no one branded himself better

1403
01:04:23,386 --> 01:04:26,506
Speaker 1: than Jimmy Buffett in this laid back, cool Caribbean vibe

1404
01:04:26,706 --> 01:04:29,986
Speaker 1: with Margarita Phlle. But that Key West thing, I think

1405
01:04:30,026 --> 01:04:33,306
Speaker 1: he lived and breathed that he had multiple homes. He

1406
01:04:33,346 --> 01:04:35,946
Speaker 1: was living out in California for a long time. Obviously

1407
01:04:36,026 --> 01:04:38,626
Speaker 1: has the New Orleans, He's got the Key West. He

1408
01:04:38,986 --> 01:04:40,866
Speaker 1: had a place in North Haven, New York, which is

1409
01:04:40,906 --> 01:04:42,746
Speaker 1: on the eastern tip of Long Island, where he would

1410
01:04:42,746 --> 01:04:45,466
Speaker 1: spend his summers and spent COVID And I think the

1411
01:04:45,946 --> 01:04:48,786
Speaker 1: message that you get from Jimmy Buffett is like, enjoy

1412
01:04:48,826 --> 01:04:51,226
Speaker 1: every single day, and yes there's work to be done,

1413
01:04:51,266 --> 01:04:54,426
Speaker 1: but when you're not working, enjoy it, relish in it,

1414
01:04:55,266 --> 01:04:57,586
Speaker 1: relish it and really savor it. And gosh, as we

1415
01:04:57,626 --> 01:05:00,106
Speaker 1: start the NFL season and what we have going, I

1416
01:05:00,146 --> 01:05:02,306
Speaker 1: just thought it'd be cool to bring Jimmy Buffett up

1417
01:05:02,346 --> 01:05:03,706
Speaker 1: and kind of give him a little bit of an

1418
01:05:03,746 --> 01:05:07,026
Speaker 1: obituary on the season with Peter Schrager. And as we're

1419
01:05:07,026 --> 01:05:10,586
Speaker 1: talking about it, Jason English is here, and Jason's been

1420
01:05:10,626 --> 01:05:12,906
Speaker 1: a great friend for the last year, and you mentioned

1421
01:05:12,986 --> 01:05:16,186
Speaker 1: Jason that you yourself were like prey taking aback and

1422
01:05:16,386 --> 01:05:18,626
Speaker 1: obviously had a connection to Buffett as well.

1423
01:05:18,986 --> 01:05:21,706
Speaker 5: Yeah, there are some of these celebrity deaths that just

1424
01:05:21,826 --> 01:05:25,226
Speaker 5: hit a little different. I'd say Tim Russert was one

1425
01:05:25,466 --> 01:05:29,466
Speaker 5: many years ago. Anthony Bourdain, who you mentioned earlier, Jimmy

1426
01:05:29,506 --> 01:05:32,386
Speaker 5: Buffett was the same. It just feels like the world's

1427
01:05:32,386 --> 01:05:35,906
Speaker 5: a little a little less fun without him in it.

1428
01:05:36,066 --> 01:05:39,546
Speaker 5: My parents were big Jimmy Buffett fans. We'd go down

1429
01:05:39,626 --> 01:05:43,546
Speaker 5: to Sarasota, Florida. We wouldn't listen to Jimmy Buffett at

1430
01:05:43,546 --> 01:05:46,466
Speaker 5: any other time of the year, but during those trips

1431
01:05:46,986 --> 01:05:49,786
Speaker 5: we'd have the Floridays. These were with These were tapes

1432
01:05:49,826 --> 01:05:52,226
Speaker 5: when I when I was a kid, Floridays off to

1433
01:05:52,266 --> 01:05:56,266
Speaker 5: see the Lizard. We of course had the greatest hits, the.

1434
01:05:55,626 --> 01:05:56,666
Speaker 1: Songs that you know by heart.

1435
01:05:56,746 --> 01:05:59,546
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, the Yellow Yellow Album. I got to see

1436
01:05:59,586 --> 01:06:04,146
Speaker 5: Jimmy Buffett a couple times. I'm glad I ticked that off.

1437
01:06:05,026 --> 01:06:07,506
Speaker 5: When my father passed away. We actually used the Jimmy

1438
01:06:07,546 --> 01:06:11,306
Speaker 5: Buffett quote in the in the you know the little

1439
01:06:11,346 --> 01:06:15,426
Speaker 5: card with the obituary, a quote from he went to Paris,

1440
01:06:16,106 --> 01:06:19,226
Speaker 5: which was some of his magic, some of it tragic.

1441
01:06:19,386 --> 01:06:20,426
Speaker 1: But I had a.

1442
01:06:20,346 --> 01:06:24,426
Speaker 5: Good life all the way, which you know, Jimmy Buffett

1443
01:06:24,426 --> 01:06:28,106
Speaker 5: definitely lived a full life, great life. These tributes coming in.

1444
01:06:28,226 --> 01:06:32,266
Speaker 5: Paul McCartney. The Colin jo Just book has a Jimmy

1445
01:06:32,306 --> 01:06:35,066
Speaker 5: Buffett story in it, so you figure those will just

1446
01:06:35,146 --> 01:06:38,986
Speaker 5: keep pouring out. And Jimmy Buffett, the legend will never die,

1447
01:06:39,226 --> 01:06:42,466
Speaker 5: the music will never die, and memories I have of

1448
01:06:42,826 --> 01:06:45,786
Speaker 5: listening to him with my father certainly never die.

1449
01:06:45,906 --> 01:06:47,986
Speaker 1: Oh dude, that was beautiful. Thank you for sharing that.

1450
01:06:49,106 --> 01:06:51,386
Speaker 1: You mentioned, Paul McCartney. I thought Cheryl Crow had a

1451
01:06:51,426 --> 01:06:55,106
Speaker 1: really amazing thing. And then on CBS Sunday morning, one

1452
01:06:55,146 --> 01:06:57,506
Speaker 1: of the commentators was close with him, and you know,

1453
01:06:57,586 --> 01:07:00,146
Speaker 1: he was telling a story about Buffett's last days and

1454
01:07:00,186 --> 01:07:03,306
Speaker 1: those who knew him knew he's going through. But the

1455
01:07:03,386 --> 01:07:08,586
Speaker 1: name of his most recent single, I believe, is something

1456
01:07:08,626 --> 01:07:11,906
Speaker 1: about taking a gummy right. Did you read this from McCartney.

1457
01:07:11,546 --> 01:07:14,746
Speaker 1: And the story goes is that he was having a

1458
01:07:14,786 --> 01:07:17,986
Speaker 1: small private dinner in the Hamptons and invited was Paul

1459
01:07:17,986 --> 01:07:22,146
Speaker 1: and Linda McCartney and they're there and she trips and

1460
01:07:22,426 --> 01:07:24,746
Speaker 1: like stumbles and she says, oh, I think the Gummy's

1461
01:07:24,826 --> 01:07:27,586
Speaker 1: kicking in. And he says, that's the name of a song.

1462
01:07:27,866 --> 01:07:29,946
Speaker 1: And Paul mccartny's on the other side of the table

1463
01:07:30,026 --> 01:07:31,666
Speaker 1: saying what, Like, what do you mean that's the name

1464
01:07:31,706 --> 01:07:33,346
Speaker 1: of a song. He's like, that's the name of a song.

1465
01:07:33,426 --> 01:07:36,626
Speaker 1: So before he passed, Jimmy Buffett, I believe, wrote and

1466
01:07:36,946 --> 01:07:41,066
Speaker 1: performed a song saying that's the gummy kicking in, and

1467
01:07:41,106 --> 01:07:43,466
Speaker 1: you know that's that says a lot about where his

1468
01:07:43,506 --> 01:07:46,186
Speaker 1: inspiration for lyrics comes. But all the readings that I've

1469
01:07:46,226 --> 01:07:48,066
Speaker 1: done and all the stuff that I've done this deep time,

1470
01:07:48,106 --> 01:07:50,746
Speaker 1: and I better believe. On Sunday I was blasting, you know,

1471
01:07:50,826 --> 01:07:55,786
Speaker 1: everything from Finn's It's the Cheeseburger in Paradise to Monday

1472
01:07:55,826 --> 01:08:00,666
Speaker 1: Morning Again. My father was more, you know, Steely Dan

1473
01:08:00,786 --> 01:08:03,946
Speaker 1: in the House and the Doobie Brothers and Spencer Davis

1474
01:08:03,946 --> 01:08:06,786
Speaker 1: Group and some of that classic rock and not so

1475
01:08:06,906 --> 01:08:11,306
Speaker 1: much the Margaritaville and the Jimmy Buffett style. But I

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Speaker 1: have grown to appreciate the Buffet approach to life and

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Speaker 1: hopefully hopefully can keep that going where when you're off

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Speaker 1: the clock, it's okay to be off the clock. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to live online. You can just have fun

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Speaker 1: and enjoy. And I think that's a beautiful message at

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Speaker 1: you said your father brought that to you and that

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Speaker 1: you gave that quote at his funeral. That's beautiful.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for having me on it. Du A ten

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Speaker 5: second shout out to the Duke football team. We have

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Speaker 5: my Riley Leonard Heisman trophy stock looking good after night.

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Speaker 1: Off off camera. You and I are off Mike. You

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Speaker 1: and I have talked about Riley Leonard way too much.

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Speaker 1: What is your connection to Riley Leonard the Duke quarterback?

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Speaker 5: I get the Phil Steele season preview every July, and

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Speaker 5: I'm as a Duke fans often not don't ever see Duke.

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Speaker 1: You see coach k and you see Carlos Boozer and

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Speaker 1: Trech and Langdon. You don't see these guys.

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Speaker 5: And I'm looking at the quarterback projections and it's Caleb Williams,

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Speaker 5: it's the Drake may from unc NNIX in Washington, but

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Speaker 5: it's Riley Leonard number three.

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Speaker 1: So I did not realize what we had going into

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Speaker 1: this season.

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Speaker 5: So I'm jumping on the bandwagon and uh, good good

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Speaker 5: win last night.

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Speaker 1: Great win. Against Clemson. Although I want to mention for

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Speaker 1: our listeners Arizona thirty eight to three of the Northern

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Speaker 1: Arizona and they are the official team of the season

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Speaker 1: picture Matt Rule was also they lost, so they're done.

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Speaker 1: It's like survival. Like Matt Rule, you can go kick

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Speaker 1: Rocks at this point. I know you came on our show,

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Speaker 1: but you can't lose to Minnesota in the first week

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Speaker 1: after you come on the season. So Jed Fish and

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Wildcats and you're Duke Blue Devils and Aaron,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what Aaron's what do you Carlton

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Speaker 1: College in college? There we go the Knights no nights

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Speaker 1: nights there as well. Okay, season starting here we go.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have one more podcast I think before they

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Speaker 1: kick off. Might want to post this on Tuesday, and

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Speaker 1: that one might go up Thursday with just my predictions.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not even sure we want to cut this one.

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Speaker 1: Sure we might want this one to live as the

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Speaker 1: top of your feed for the entire weekend. It was

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Speaker 1: that good. We'll figure it out on behalf of Jason, Aaron,

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Speaker 1: all the folks in La Greg Olsen awesome as always,

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Speaker 1: and put on some Jimmy Buffett folks. The summer's over,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean you can't keep listening to his message.

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Speaker 1: The Season with Peter Schrager is a production of the

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Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get

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Speaker 1: your podcasts.