WEBVTT - The Season with Peter Schrager: Greg Olsen 0:00:07.266 --> 0:00:09.706 The Season with Peter Schrager is a production of the 0:00:09.786 --> 0:00:26.546 NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. We're he football is finally 0:00:26.626 --> 0:00:30.266 here and this is the opening week episode of the 0:00:30.346 --> 0:00:33.786 season with Peter Schrager. Aaron wan Kaufman joins me here 0:00:33.786 --> 0:00:36.346 in New York City. We're recording this on Tuesday. Kickoff 0:00:36.426 --> 0:00:40.306 is on Thursday. I'm excited, Aaron. Are you ready? Have 0:00:40.386 --> 0:00:44.186 you fully gotten over the summer and shifted and turned 0:00:44.186 --> 0:00:47.306 that page to first day of school? Football's here mode. 0:00:48.146 --> 0:00:51.026 I'm not ready. I don't know how I'm gonna feel 0:00:51.146 --> 0:00:55.346 comes Sunday, when it's suddenly hours and hours and hours of. 0:00:55.266 --> 0:00:56.546 Fun sneaks up on you. Right. 0:00:56.626 --> 0:01:00.306 Yeah, Yeah, it's nice to have Thursday to start, which 0:01:00.346 --> 0:01:03.386 is one game and like really get into it. But yeah, 0:01:03.426 --> 0:01:08.826 that's Sunday, back to back game games. Yeah, I'm so excited, 0:01:08.866 --> 0:01:09.986 and I'm also not ready. 0:01:10.226 --> 0:01:13.106 So I've work a daily show. And when I complain 0:01:13.186 --> 0:01:16.426 about being on in June and May, it's because there's 0:01:16.466 --> 0:01:20.186 nothing to talk about. It's like random player, you know, 0:01:20.346 --> 0:01:25.186 tweeted this do three hours on it. Football season starts. 0:01:25.626 --> 0:01:27.786 I'm looking at a schedule with sixteen games. We could 0:01:27.786 --> 0:01:30.066 talk football. I don't need to talk about Marquette King's 0:01:30.066 --> 0:01:32.546 tweets anymore, or I don't need to talk about what 0:01:32.746 --> 0:01:35.706 Chandler Jones posted on Instagram in the middle of June 0:01:35.746 --> 0:01:38.346 while he was on a boat in Hawaii, like we 0:01:38.426 --> 0:01:40.666 are here, and I love it, and I feel like 0:01:40.746 --> 0:01:42.706 I almost have too much information in my head. I 0:01:42.746 --> 0:01:44.986 have to like dummy it down a little bit and 0:01:45.026 --> 0:01:47.306 sift through it and be like, Okay, now that we're here, 0:01:47.386 --> 0:01:52.586 let's make rational football predictions and football thoughts and kind 0:01:52.586 --> 0:01:54.786 of be satient with this thing. I know I've been 0:01:54.826 --> 0:01:58.306 hyping Jumior Gibbs and the Lions for three months. Am 0:01:58.346 --> 0:02:00.866 I really putting Jamior Gibbs in the same breath as 0:02:00.906 --> 0:02:03.226 Emmett Smith and Jim Brown? Maybe I could just take 0:02:03.266 --> 0:02:05.586 a step back, but it's my excitement, and I know 0:02:05.666 --> 0:02:08.146 I love what I do because we're here and like, 0:02:08.186 --> 0:02:10.306 I'm giddy. I feel like this is our gift, this 0:02:10.426 --> 0:02:13.266 is the gift, and now find me in week thirteen, 0:02:13.386 --> 0:02:17.506 after twelve weeks of travel and flight delays and eating 0:02:17.546 --> 0:02:20.666 the same Delta meal, maybe I feel differently. But coming 0:02:20.706 --> 0:02:23.906 off summer as sad as I am to see the 0:02:23.946 --> 0:02:26.986 summer done like it is a beautiful gift to see 0:02:27.306 --> 0:02:31.426 Thursday night NBC on the schedule and it not be preseason, 0:02:31.586 --> 0:02:35.306 and it not be some terrible game show or reality show, 0:02:35.306 --> 0:02:40.426 and it be actual NFL football. That's Thursday Night, Lions Chiefs. 0:02:41.626 --> 0:02:43.866 If you want a comprehensive preview, you can watch Good 0:02:43.906 --> 0:02:46.706 Morning Football in the morning, and then Sunday we have 0:02:46.746 --> 0:02:50.786 a slate of games from the football Gods. I cannot wait, 0:02:50.946 --> 0:02:54.506 and I think it's an awesome one on Fox at 0:02:54.546 --> 0:02:59.386 four point thirty on America's Game of the Week, Bears 0:02:59.426 --> 0:03:03.066 hosting Packers. Kyle Brant, my co host on Good Morning Football. 0:03:03.106 --> 0:03:05.266 So this might be the most important Bears game in 0:03:05.346 --> 0:03:08.306 twenty years, and they've played in multiple playoff games since then. 0:03:08.386 --> 0:03:11.666 Just that this feels like the NFC North is finally 0:03:11.986 --> 0:03:14.746 open for business. Now. I know that the Vikings won 0:03:14.746 --> 0:03:16.666 it last year and the Packers didn't even make the playoffs. 0:03:16.706 --> 0:03:21.226 But with Aaron Rodgers out of Green Bay, Chicago sees 0:03:21.226 --> 0:03:23.146 a light here, a little light at the end of 0:03:23.146 --> 0:03:25.426 the tunnel that wait, maybe the next ten years, this 0:03:25.466 --> 0:03:31.346 could be our division. And Aaron Rodgers, who figuratively andler 0:03:31.466 --> 0:03:35.586 realistically owns the Bears is no longer there anymore, so 0:03:36.106 --> 0:03:38.786 Packers Bears. I think it's the game of the week 0:03:38.826 --> 0:03:41.146 on Sunday. I know Brady's being honored and they're playing 0:03:41.186 --> 0:03:43.706 the Eagles, and we can split hairs over which game 0:03:43.746 --> 0:03:46.266 is a better game. I'm personally most excited for this 0:03:46.426 --> 0:03:49.746 Bears versus Packers game and to see Fields versus Love 0:03:49.786 --> 0:03:53.386 and Jordan Love the mystery Man, and because that's the game, 0:03:53.426 --> 0:03:55.906 I'm so excited for him. Because we're a big time 0:03:55.986 --> 0:04:00.826 podcast and because I've got the best relationships in the world, 0:04:01.106 --> 0:04:03.506 I was able to call up Greg Olsen, who's calling 0:04:03.626 --> 0:04:07.026 the game on Sunday for Fox fresh off his first 0:04:07.026 --> 0:04:09.306 Super Bowl. This will be the first time he's calling 0:04:09.346 --> 0:04:13.026 an actual non preseason football game since, and we've got 0:04:13.106 --> 0:04:17.946 him on the podcast. Let's welcome in our guest, a 0:04:17.986 --> 0:04:21.946 great friend of mine and the lead NFL announcer for 0:04:22.066 --> 0:04:25.146 Fox Sports. It's coming off a year in which not 0:04:25.266 --> 0:04:27.866 only called an NFC championship game, but then called an 0:04:27.866 --> 0:04:32.026 amazing Super Bowl. One of the best dudes as a 0:04:32.066 --> 0:04:33.626 player and now one of the best dudes in the 0:04:33.626 --> 0:04:36.386 media game, mister Greg Olsen. Welcome to the season with 0:04:36.426 --> 0:04:37.146 Peter Scheger. 0:04:37.586 --> 0:04:39.346 What's up, buddy. It's good to be on man. I 0:04:39.346 --> 0:04:41.386 feel like I've been waiting for my call to be 0:04:41.426 --> 0:04:42.706 on the show. It finally came. 0:04:43.626 --> 0:04:46.346 This is it. You got the call. You also got 0:04:46.346 --> 0:04:49.266 the call to call a Super Bowl last year. I 0:04:49.266 --> 0:04:51.626 think we were all blown away by your performance when 0:04:51.626 --> 0:04:53.306 you were a current player and you would jump in 0:04:53.586 --> 0:04:55.066 like I was a three man booth. Whether it was 0:04:55.066 --> 0:04:57.866 was Charles Davis, it was burkhard at the time, whoever 0:04:57.866 --> 0:05:00.226 it was. And then you get the full time assignment 0:05:00.826 --> 0:05:03.026 a couple of years back, and Aikman's the number one guy. 0:05:03.066 --> 0:05:06.946 Aikman leaves for Monday night football and you send to 0:05:06.946 --> 0:05:09.426 the number one chair in a Super Bowl year, and Greg, 0:05:09.546 --> 0:05:10.906 I don't think you need to hear from me, but 0:05:10.946 --> 0:05:12.746 you hit it out of the park. You were awesome. 0:05:13.986 --> 0:05:17.426 Your experience calling a Super Bowl in year number one 0:05:17.426 --> 0:05:18.786 as the lead Fox announcer. 0:05:19.986 --> 0:05:21.946 You know, it was hard. It was kind of hard 0:05:21.986 --> 0:05:24.946 to imagine everything playing out the way it did, you know. 0:05:25.026 --> 0:05:26.946 And you know, as you said, when I signed on, 0:05:27.066 --> 0:05:29.666 and you know, following the twenty twenty season, I retired 0:05:29.746 --> 0:05:32.346 and signed on in twenty one, you know, joined Kevin 0:05:32.386 --> 0:05:35.426 on the second crew and was really excited for that. Right, 0:05:35.466 --> 0:05:36.826 I thought, all right, you know, do this for a 0:05:36.826 --> 0:05:39.026 while and we'll see where it goes. Never in my 0:05:39.106 --> 0:05:42.946 wildest imagination did I think that next offseason, leading into 0:05:42.986 --> 0:05:46.386 last season, that the musical chairs that was sports media 0:05:46.506 --> 0:05:49.546 and especially with the top broadcast teams across all the 0:05:49.586 --> 0:05:53.106 different networks would change so quickly and the opportunity and 0:05:53.146 --> 0:05:55.306 the seat opened. And you know, I was fortunate that 0:05:55.786 --> 0:05:58.386 after just one year of really calling games, Burkhart and 0:05:58.426 --> 0:06:00.706 I found well not one year for Burkhart, one year 0:06:00.746 --> 0:06:02.906 for me, a long time for Burkhart, that the two 0:06:02.946 --> 0:06:07.786 of us found ourselves together again, albeit on a different crew, 0:06:07.786 --> 0:06:09.466 and just so happened to be a Super Bowl year. 0:06:09.506 --> 0:06:11.466 So it was. It was quite the ride. It was 0:06:11.506 --> 0:06:14.706 quite the experience, and you know, and one that I'm 0:06:14.746 --> 0:06:17.906 thankful for and excited to do it again this year. 0:06:18.386 --> 0:06:19.786 Did you treat it like any other game? 0:06:19.906 --> 0:06:19.986 Like? 0:06:19.986 --> 0:06:21.626 I know, it's easy to say I approach it one 0:06:21.626 --> 0:06:23.626 week at a time, but god, there's two weeks to 0:06:23.626 --> 0:06:26.666 prepare and it's the Super Bowl and it goes from 0:06:27.226 --> 0:06:30.466 twenty million, which is no small potatoes, to like hundreds 0:06:30.466 --> 0:06:32.906 of millions watching. Did you go into it like I've 0:06:32.946 --> 0:06:35.626 got to have a catchphrase, or I'm gonna I'm gonna 0:06:35.626 --> 0:06:37.306 have the call of a lifetime where they're going to 0:06:37.346 --> 0:06:39.506 play this back on NFL films for thirty years, or 0:06:39.546 --> 0:06:41.666 do you just try to hone in and think, Okay, 0:06:41.666 --> 0:06:44.386 it's Week six, Tampa Bay taking Atlanta, and let's just 0:06:44.426 --> 0:06:44.986 treat it like that. 0:06:45.306 --> 0:06:47.706 Yeah, you know, I got some really good advice from 0:06:47.746 --> 0:06:49.626 from a lot of people who had been kind of 0:06:49.666 --> 0:06:51.826 in it, you know, just you know, who had called 0:06:51.826 --> 0:06:54.546 super Bowls, especially just on our team, right with with 0:06:54.706 --> 0:06:57.186 Zee and Russo and Aaron and Tom and just and 0:06:57.186 --> 0:06:59.706 obviously first one for me and Kevin. So you know, 0:06:59.826 --> 0:07:01.146 just being on a team that had a lot of 0:07:01.186 --> 0:07:03.306 people that had called super Bowls and knew at the moment, 0:07:03.386 --> 0:07:06.386 felt like it was very similar to my you know, 0:07:06.706 --> 0:07:09.186 when I was a player and the weeks leading up 0:07:09.226 --> 0:07:11.826 to the Super Bowl felt like months and then the 0:07:11.906 --> 0:07:15.186 game felt like minutes. It really was exactly once the 0:07:15.226 --> 0:07:17.506 game started, right, We had two weeks of prep after 0:07:17.546 --> 0:07:21.186 the NFC Championship game, which was an interesting game then, 0:07:21.426 --> 0:07:22.986 you know, in its own right, and everything that went 0:07:23.026 --> 0:07:25.586 down with Purdy and there was no quarterback and it 0:07:25.626 --> 0:07:27.466 was a weird game. Then we kind of had this 0:07:27.626 --> 0:07:30.306 lull for the first week where you know, nothing really 0:07:30.306 --> 0:07:32.266 going on, and then we get to Arizona. Then we 0:07:32.306 --> 0:07:34.066 get to Arizona, we have super Bowl weeks. So it 0:07:34.106 --> 0:07:36.746 was very much as a player, where you know you're 0:07:36.786 --> 0:07:39.586 reading everything, you want to make sure you have your storylines, 0:07:39.626 --> 0:07:42.946 you're diving into the weeds, and then once the game started, 0:07:43.946 --> 0:07:46.386 just like as a player, it was over in a blur, right, 0:07:46.506 --> 0:07:49.906 the hours and hours of my board and these detailed notes. 0:07:50.426 --> 0:07:51.706 I think I went a quarter and a half and 0:07:51.746 --> 0:07:54.306 didn't even look down, right, like, you just get captured 0:07:54.346 --> 0:07:56.746 into the moment of the game, the energy of the game. 0:07:57.186 --> 0:07:59.306 All of your prep kind of plays out as the 0:07:59.346 --> 0:08:02.466 game unfolds on the screen. And we were very fortunate 0:08:02.506 --> 0:08:04.666 that the game was incredible, right. It came right down 0:08:04.746 --> 0:08:07.346 to the wire, came right down to the last possession, 0:08:07.346 --> 0:08:09.506 which is what all of us kind of cheer for. 0:08:09.626 --> 0:08:12.346 So the game cooperated, which makes it a lot easier 0:08:12.426 --> 0:08:15.666 for the broadcast team because there's so much exciting things 0:08:15.706 --> 0:08:18.786 to talk about in so many different personalities and storyline. 0:08:18.826 --> 0:08:20.826 So we got lucky with the teams, We got lucky 0:08:20.826 --> 0:08:24.586 with the game, and the game it felt like we 0:08:24.626 --> 0:08:27.426 started then Rihanna saying and then it was over, like 0:08:27.546 --> 0:08:29.626 that's really that was literally what happened. 0:08:29.626 --> 0:08:31.426 That's the memory and like the Rihanna thing, like so 0:08:31.506 --> 0:08:33.346 I'm just thinking, you know, I was on the studio 0:08:33.386 --> 0:08:36.826 show that morning, all afternoon into the night. Then we 0:08:36.866 --> 0:08:38.306 get to kick back and kind of just watch the 0:08:38.386 --> 0:08:40.026 game and a green room you guys are calling it. 0:08:40.786 --> 0:08:43.666 Rihanna goes on and Caris and I are like, all right, 0:08:43.786 --> 0:08:45.706 we're gonna go and try to watch it on the field. 0:08:45.706 --> 0:08:48.466 We walk on out into the tunnel where with Sean Payton. 0:08:49.146 --> 0:08:51.386 Sean Payton stays out there, no one bothers him. They 0:08:51.386 --> 0:08:53.026 tell me and Chrissa, you guys have to go back. 0:08:53.386 --> 0:08:55.186 No one's allowed on the field, and like Sean Payton, 0:08:55.186 --> 0:08:57.066 they weren't gonna mess with So we go back and 0:08:57.066 --> 0:09:00.146 we watched Rihanna from the green room, which is like, 0:09:00.546 --> 0:09:03.066 did you watch Rihanna? Are you studying depth charts at me? 0:09:03.106 --> 0:09:04.586 And like is my home's coming out in the second half? 0:09:04.626 --> 0:09:07.226 Are you able to like enjoy the super Bowl? It? 0:09:07.306 --> 0:09:11.186 So I love Rihanna right, like I discussing songs. She's 0:09:11.226 --> 0:09:13.546 got so many good songs, so but it's really funny. 0:09:13.586 --> 0:09:16.546 So you and you said it. The Mahomes thing kind 0:09:16.546 --> 0:09:18.826 of changed my halftime plan. Like I was like, I 0:09:18.826 --> 0:09:21.626 can't wait till halftime. They always serve us food, you know, 0:09:21.626 --> 0:09:25.586 they bring up chicken fingers or whatever, and I'm like, 0:09:25.626 --> 0:09:27.146 I'm gonna make a play of food. I'm gonna go 0:09:27.186 --> 0:09:29.346 take I'm gonna go to the bathroom, I'm gonna come back, 0:09:29.386 --> 0:09:32.786 and I'm gonna watch Rihanna and enjoy it. Whatever. Well, 0:09:32.826 --> 0:09:36.906 Mahomes gets rolled up like right before halftime, right, so 0:09:36.986 --> 0:09:41.146 I'm like, holy shit, Like what what are we going 0:09:41.186 --> 0:09:46.306 to talk about if Mahomes can't play? Aside from Mahomes 0:09:46.346 --> 0:09:48.426 not playing, but like what are the other storylines? Like 0:09:48.466 --> 0:09:50.106 where do we go? We got to start talking about 0:09:50.146 --> 0:09:52.786 other people so I'll never forget it. I'm sitting like 0:09:52.906 --> 0:09:55.586 at on the little like there's like a little desk 0:09:55.666 --> 0:09:57.786 in our booth and I'm sitting there and I have 0:09:57.906 --> 0:10:01.066 my notebook which has like all my storylines and thoughts 0:10:01.106 --> 0:10:04.066 that I've kind of put together over the weeks, and 0:10:04.106 --> 0:10:06.826 I remember being like, you know, I don't like this song, 0:10:06.906 --> 0:10:11.186 and then I'm like then like it, and like I 0:10:11.226 --> 0:10:12.946 take a break, and I'm like, I love this song. 0:10:13.266 --> 0:10:15.506 I gotta listen. Okay, I'm sorry, I gotta listen. 0:10:15.666 --> 0:10:17.546 I was going in and out like based on what 0:10:17.706 --> 0:10:20.106 song she was singing, but now from the press box, 0:10:20.146 --> 0:10:23.226 like from our from our booth. When she got lifted 0:10:23.226 --> 0:10:27.266 onto those like convey like platforms, she was like, I 0:10:27.586 --> 0:10:30.386 level with us, so from where we are vantage points, 0:10:30.466 --> 0:10:35.386 She's like, ie level performing on the little platform. I'm 0:10:35.426 --> 0:10:37.586 like going through my my chart and my thing, like 0:10:37.586 --> 0:10:39.066 all right, what do we want? How are we going 0:10:39.106 --> 0:10:41.066 to pick up the second half of Mahomes does come 0:10:41.066 --> 0:10:43.586 out if he doesn't come out, but you know, all 0:10:43.626 --> 0:10:46.066 this stuff, And then like in between, I'm like, oh 0:10:46.106 --> 0:10:47.866 my god, I love this song and I'm like, yeah, 0:10:47.986 --> 0:10:48.666 shared in this. 0:10:48.906 --> 0:10:51.306 Well, she's eye level. You don't want to be rude 0:10:51.306 --> 0:10:55.386 and not look at you can't be looking at notes 0:10:55.386 --> 0:10:56.786 about uh chat. 0:10:57.266 --> 0:10:59.106 I don't want to insult re Rea. And she's got 0:10:59.146 --> 0:11:01.666 a baby on board, which was a big announcement, and 0:11:01.706 --> 0:11:04.586 so I wanted to be respectful of the halftime performer. 0:11:04.666 --> 0:11:06.546 But then at the same time, I'm like, the whole 0:11:06.586 --> 0:11:09.026 world is expecting us to talk about this second half 0:11:09.026 --> 0:11:11.306 for the next two hours and the best player in 0:11:11.346 --> 0:11:13.866 the world may or may not be part of it. Unfortunately, 0:11:14.266 --> 0:11:15.586 he came out and he was fine, and it was 0:11:15.626 --> 0:11:18.386 an unbelievable game. But like halftime was such a mix 0:11:18.426 --> 0:11:21.266 of like, man, I really want to watch this performance, 0:11:22.106 --> 0:11:23.866 but I got to make sure I get my shit 0:11:23.946 --> 0:11:25.786 right because if I'm not ready for the second half, 0:11:25.986 --> 0:11:27.626 one hundred million people are gonna let me know. 0:11:27.746 --> 0:11:31.546 You know, the last big play was the flag. I'm 0:11:31.546 --> 0:11:33.626 gonna I'm gonna toss to the sound right now so 0:11:33.626 --> 0:11:36.426 we could hear your call prior to the past, holding 0:11:36.826 --> 0:11:42.826 number twenty four pirod Pinnerley automatic first und. 0:11:42.786 --> 0:11:46.186 Yeah, that's worst case scenario. You'll see James Bradburry. They're 0:11:46.186 --> 0:11:49.506 gonna say he grabs him. He's got his left hand 0:11:49.506 --> 0:11:51.946 on his back. I don't know, I'm Mike listen. I 0:11:51.986 --> 0:11:55.226 think on this stage, I think you'll let him play. 0:11:55.226 --> 0:11:56.666 Obviously Mahomes thought he saw it. 0:11:56.706 --> 0:11:57.226 I think. 0:11:58.706 --> 0:12:00.586 I don't know. I think you'll let him play. Finish 0:12:00.706 --> 0:12:02.706 this thing out. I don't love that call. 0:12:02.866 --> 0:12:04.546 I mean, I think you got to see the whole thing. 0:12:04.586 --> 0:12:07.066 It seemed to me at the initial break time you 0:12:07.186 --> 0:12:09.466 were you were on it like there's a flag. Do 0:12:09.506 --> 0:12:12.466 we want that flag thrown there? Now? Were you thinking 0:12:12.466 --> 0:12:15.226 about going hard on that and saying, let's crush the 0:12:15.266 --> 0:12:17.226 refs here? Why are you throwing that flag? Or did 0:12:17.226 --> 0:12:19.106 you feel like just that was your natural reaction. 0:12:19.666 --> 0:12:21.386 No, A lot of people are like Man Olson's been 0:12:21.386 --> 0:12:24.666 waiting for that moment. I love officiating, like I would 0:12:24.746 --> 0:12:28.306 joke with Mike Pereira like and Blandino like. I liked officials. 0:12:28.346 --> 0:12:29.946 I was not one of those guys that had a 0:12:29.946 --> 0:12:32.266 lot of issues with refs. And you know, I'm sure 0:12:32.266 --> 0:12:34.346 I had my moments where I argued a PI ball 0:12:34.506 --> 0:12:36.426 or a whole you know whatever, But I was never 0:12:36.546 --> 0:12:38.826 like an anti ref. I've been on record. I think 0:12:38.826 --> 0:12:41.466 their job is extremely hard. I think if the average 0:12:41.506 --> 0:12:44.466 person went out there, they'd be like they were caught 0:12:44.466 --> 0:12:47.186 in like an interstate traffic jam. They went things are 0:12:47.186 --> 0:12:49.786 happening so fast, and I don't think anyone could process 0:12:49.826 --> 0:12:52.586 it as quickly as those guys do. My point in 0:12:52.626 --> 0:12:55.546 the game, and there was no like, that's just what 0:12:55.626 --> 0:12:58.386 I felt in the moment. I think unless you were 0:12:58.426 --> 0:13:02.786 a Chiefs fan, every the one hundred and fifteen million 0:13:02.786 --> 0:13:06.706 people watching that game would have loved to see. And 0:13:06.746 --> 0:13:08.586 all we are in the booth is fans. Right. I 0:13:08.586 --> 0:13:11.746 don't get he wins. I want a great game. I 0:13:11.786 --> 0:13:13.746 want a game with some action. I want a game 0:13:13.746 --> 0:13:16.826 that unfolds that allows us to really give a lot 0:13:16.826 --> 0:13:18.986 of fun insight to the fan. Right, that's what we 0:13:19.066 --> 0:13:21.586 all hope for, as you know, you know, people that 0:13:21.666 --> 0:13:25.226 cover this sport, how much how great would it have 0:13:25.266 --> 0:13:28.506 been if that ball gets put in Jalen hurts his 0:13:28.586 --> 0:13:32.666 hands and the MVP runner up has one more possession 0:13:32.706 --> 0:13:35.906 to beat the MVP and go down there and see 0:13:35.906 --> 0:13:38.466 where the game unfolds. It was back and forth, Kansas 0:13:38.506 --> 0:13:39.786 City comes back from behind. 0:13:40.386 --> 0:13:42.226 They let's see how. 0:13:42.106 --> 0:13:45.026 It unfolds, and then it just like was a big 0:13:45.146 --> 0:13:48.626 wet right, Like I know, they run the clock out, 0:13:48.786 --> 0:13:51.306 they slide before the goal line, they run the clock down, 0:13:51.386 --> 0:13:52.866 take a time out, walk off. 0:13:54.546 --> 0:13:57.586 It is so anti climactic, and that flag probably was 0:13:57.586 --> 0:14:00.226 the right call, but going back on it, you could 0:14:00.226 --> 0:14:02.626 make the argument not to throw that flag in that spot, 0:14:02.786 --> 0:14:04.786 and who knows if that's one of the all time 0:14:04.826 --> 0:14:05.746 greatest finishes of all. 0:14:05.866 --> 0:14:07.986 Here we are, and here we are, we're saying we 0:14:08.026 --> 0:14:11.146 could get the first overtime game in NFL history, right, 0:14:11.186 --> 0:14:13.146 we got to make sure, like in between breaks as 0:14:13.146 --> 0:14:14.866 we were getting there in the fourth quarter and we're like, 0:14:14.906 --> 0:14:17.506 you know it's you know, within three, it's within a 0:14:17.546 --> 0:14:20.706 one score that a tie is real, Right, We're thinking, 0:14:20.746 --> 0:14:22.226 all right, we got to make sure, like if this 0:14:22.266 --> 0:14:25.586 does go to overtime, everybody is clear on the new rule, right, 0:14:25.666 --> 0:14:28.426 Like everyone gets a possession. This is playoff. 0:14:28.506 --> 0:14:30.346 Like, yeah, we're just we're having. 0:14:30.186 --> 0:14:32.466 Those conversations during the break to make sure if we 0:14:32.506 --> 0:14:35.066 do go to overtime, all right, who's gonna set the rules? 0:14:35.066 --> 0:14:35.866 How are we gonna bring it? 0:14:35.906 --> 0:14:38.866 Because you're talking and because the Patriots and Falcons did 0:14:38.866 --> 0:14:40.466 go to overtime. But this is the new rules. Where 0:14:40.546 --> 0:14:42.386 new rule, that's what I mean with the kickoff, Yeah, yeah, 0:14:42.386 --> 0:14:44.586 with the kickoff changes and like you get one possession 0:14:44.586 --> 0:14:46.946 and then and it's not regular season rules, it's specific 0:14:46.986 --> 0:14:48.866 for the playoffs. And we hadn't seen one all playoffs, 0:14:48.986 --> 0:14:49.546 that's right. 0:14:49.426 --> 0:14:51.586 So we had never seen it since they implemented the 0:14:51.586 --> 0:14:53.426 new rule. It obviously was the big deal after the 0:14:53.426 --> 0:14:56.986 Bills Chiefs game when Mahomes and and Josh Allen had 0:14:56.986 --> 0:14:59.986 that epic back and forth and then you know, you 0:15:00.026 --> 0:15:01.626 know that both of them don't get a chance in 0:15:01.666 --> 0:15:04.066 the overtime to possess the ball, So they changed the rule, 0:15:04.306 --> 0:15:06.146 and we're like, could you imagine if it the first 0:15:06.146 --> 0:15:09.266 time it ever unfolds is in the Super Bowl? We 0:15:09.266 --> 0:15:13.026 were damn close. We were damn close. So I think 0:15:13.066 --> 0:15:15.386 we all had that moment like, man, we're really there, 0:15:15.386 --> 0:15:17.746 all right, even if they kicked this field goal. Now 0:15:18.826 --> 0:15:20.666 Jalen Hurts has a chance to go down and he 0:15:20.706 --> 0:15:24.586 can answer or potentially win whatever. And then obviously became 0:15:24.666 --> 0:15:27.306 kind of anti climactic. Bucker just lines up for a 0:15:27.866 --> 0:15:30.746 kind of a routine chip shot. Albeit it's the Super 0:15:30.746 --> 0:15:32.986 Bowl and the rest is history. 0:15:33.746 --> 0:15:37.066 We go back to the hotel afterwards after the postgame 0:15:37.066 --> 0:15:39.426 show wraps up their show. I'm doing my stuff on 0:15:39.466 --> 0:15:42.946 the field. You got the studio guys breaking down the game. 0:15:43.866 --> 0:15:46.866 You and Burt Cart take a ride back from the 0:15:46.906 --> 0:15:48.666 stadium to the hotel, and I'm going to put you 0:15:48.706 --> 0:15:52.346 in my perspective. My shoes, I get back, go change 0:15:52.426 --> 0:15:55.226 and there is a small little after party at the 0:15:55.266 --> 0:15:58.186 hotel and they're like, anyone who worked on this today, 0:15:58.466 --> 0:16:01.426 whether you're behind the scenes, you're on camera, you're in 0:16:01.506 --> 0:16:03.346 the booth. You're in the studio show Why don't you 0:16:03.346 --> 0:16:05.866 come and let's have a few drinks. Fox is gonna 0:16:05.866 --> 0:16:08.226 put the bill, and let's just appreciate the season and 0:16:08.266 --> 0:16:10.866 this amazing super Bowl that we've had. We all go there. 0:16:11.626 --> 0:16:13.226 You and I talked for about five minutes and then 0:16:13.226 --> 0:16:15.666 you say, Okay, I gotta go. Where you going? I'm like, 0:16:15.706 --> 0:16:18.426 this is everything you've worked for, your entire season and 0:16:18.506 --> 0:16:21.306 maybe your entire professional life, thinking about the super Bowl 0:16:21.346 --> 0:16:24.346 calling it. And you put on a cowboy hat, which 0:16:24.346 --> 0:16:25.586 I don't know why you were wearing, but you put 0:16:25.586 --> 0:16:27.546 on a cowboy hat or straw hat of some sort, 0:16:28.226 --> 0:16:31.146 and you stroll out and I see a roller bag 0:16:31.346 --> 0:16:35.106 suitcase with you. It was about ten o'clock Arizona time. 0:16:35.666 --> 0:16:38.026 Greg Olsen, Can you take it from here and tell 0:16:38.106 --> 0:16:40.506 us how you spent the night you called your first 0:16:40.506 --> 0:16:41.266 ever super Bowl? 0:16:41.586 --> 0:16:44.866 Yeah, so this is a really I think this is 0:16:44.906 --> 0:16:47.506 a story that everyone, not just you, enjoys the most 0:16:47.506 --> 0:16:50.066 and kind of is a perfect ending to what was 0:16:50.066 --> 0:16:53.586 a crazy year. So originally we were out of town 0:16:53.626 --> 0:16:55.186 the week before. My wife and I went on a 0:16:55.186 --> 0:16:57.306 little trip, so we were away from the kids, and 0:16:57.346 --> 0:16:59.146 then I went out the whole week in the Super Bowl, 0:16:59.186 --> 0:17:01.466 so I hadn't seen my kids. I saw my kids 0:17:01.466 --> 0:17:05.146 for like one day in ten twelve days. I was like, 0:17:05.186 --> 0:17:08.106 you know what, it's a long week. After the super Bowl. 0:17:08.226 --> 0:17:12.066 They opened up all these random flights from from Arizona 0:17:12.146 --> 0:17:16.666 to Charlotte, where I live, and there was like a 0:17:16.706 --> 0:17:20.866 two am or a one am local time flight that 0:17:21.026 --> 0:17:24.266 was like a mini red eye, like a you know whatever, 0:17:24.506 --> 0:17:26.266 back to Charlotte. I was like, I'm taking it. I'll 0:17:26.266 --> 0:17:29.226 get back from the hotel, I'll change, i'll shower, I'm 0:17:29.266 --> 0:17:31.986 getting out of here. And no, my original flight was 0:17:32.026 --> 0:17:35.506 like eleven thirty local times. My original flight was eleven 0:17:35.586 --> 0:17:37.586 thirty local times. So I wasn't even going to come back. 0:17:37.586 --> 0:17:39.466 I was going to go straight to the airport and 0:17:39.466 --> 0:17:40.066 get at it. 0:17:40.026 --> 0:17:41.906 From the game you're gonna call the Super Bowl, then 0:17:41.946 --> 0:17:42.906 go to the airport. 0:17:42.986 --> 0:17:45.226 I was like beating the crowd. A couple of years ago, 0:17:45.506 --> 0:17:49.586 I was working the Minnesota Super Bowl. I forget who played, 0:17:49.586 --> 0:17:51.306 maybe like Philly New England. 0:17:51.106 --> 0:17:52.946 Made New England. Yeah, yeah, and. 0:17:53.066 --> 0:17:55.746 I took I made the mistake of flying out Monday morning, 0:17:56.266 --> 0:17:59.666 and it was an absolute cluster. There was it was, 0:17:59.946 --> 0:18:01.946 so I'm like, I'm not doing that again. So I 0:18:02.066 --> 0:18:05.706 arrived and our boss, you know, our crew boss, our producer, 0:18:06.146 --> 0:18:09.026 Richie Z's like, hey, man, I gotta talk to you. 0:18:09.106 --> 0:18:11.346 He's like, you can't not come back to the hotel. 0:18:11.466 --> 0:18:14.946 I'm like, Wow, We're gonna be together all week. I'll 0:18:14.986 --> 0:18:18.346 have a dinner and drink with every single person all week. 0:18:18.586 --> 0:18:20.226 I'm like, after the game, man, I want to get 0:18:20.226 --> 0:18:22.946 out of here. He's like, you can't. I was like, 0:18:23.426 --> 0:18:24.946 all right, fine, So he told. 0:18:24.746 --> 0:18:26.066 Me, why do you think Why do you think that 0:18:26.146 --> 0:18:27.906 was because out of respect to the bosses, or like 0:18:27.946 --> 0:18:29.666 cause he knew you're gonna want I take a moment 0:18:29.706 --> 0:18:30.746 to just take competive. 0:18:30.786 --> 0:18:34.346 You're probably both, probably both. I get so long story short, 0:18:34.426 --> 0:18:36.626 I get talked into staying. I'm like, you know what, 0:18:36.666 --> 0:18:39.866 all right, I'm gonna come back. So the morning of 0:18:39.906 --> 0:18:42.186 the game, I go on and I'm like, all right, 0:18:42.186 --> 0:18:44.066 I gotta find like a perfect medium. I don't want 0:18:44.066 --> 0:18:46.266 to stay a whole nother day and take a red 0:18:46.306 --> 0:18:49.346 eye Monday night. Then I have like twenty four hours here. 0:18:50.066 --> 0:18:52.266 There's got to be so long story short. I quickly 0:18:52.346 --> 0:18:54.986 book a flight at breakfast morning of the super Bowl 0:18:55.266 --> 0:18:59.946 that leaves at like one thirty local time. So no, 0:18:59.946 --> 0:19:01.866 I'm like, I'm gonna come back to the hotel. I'll 0:19:01.866 --> 0:19:05.226 see everyone have a drink. We had about five hundred bourbons. 0:19:05.786 --> 0:19:08.026 They made the big I guess mistake of saying everything 0:19:08.106 --> 0:19:10.986 on the is on these. I might be the only 0:19:10.986 --> 0:19:14.346 guy in history to ever make an old Fashioned with 0:19:14.826 --> 0:19:19.506 Pappy Van Winkle. It was great, and so I'm glad 0:19:19.546 --> 0:19:22.706 I came back. But the story just gets worse all 0:19:22.906 --> 0:19:26.986 the entire time. So not only was first class sold 0:19:27.026 --> 0:19:31.146 out by coach flight, not only did I have to 0:19:31.146 --> 0:19:33.746 take a coach flight, I had to connect in all. 0:19:35.386 --> 0:19:37.506 You called the super Bowl two hours earlier. 0:19:38.026 --> 0:19:40.106 So I got done calling the super Bowl. I had 0:19:40.106 --> 0:19:42.626 three Pappy Van Winkles with the guys back at the bar, 0:19:43.386 --> 0:19:46.586 drew on my hat, T shirt, shorts, roller back. I'm like, 0:19:46.626 --> 0:19:48.706 I'm out of here. I say goodbye to everyone. I 0:19:48.786 --> 0:19:50.426 go to the airport, but it won't let me check 0:19:50.466 --> 0:19:53.626 in for my second leg. So I thought that was weird, 0:19:53.626 --> 0:19:55.626 Like it only let me go from Arizona to Austin, 0:19:55.706 --> 0:19:58.506 but then the six am Austin flight to Charlotte, it 0:19:58.506 --> 0:20:00.866 wouldn't let me get my boarding pass. So I go 0:20:00.906 --> 0:20:02.986 to the ticketing agent and I'm like, hey, won't let 0:20:02.986 --> 0:20:04.546 me check in? Can you give me my boarding pass? 0:20:04.546 --> 0:20:07.466 She goes, well, mister Rolson, your second leg from Austin 0:20:07.546 --> 0:20:11.946 doesn't leave till tuesday. And I was like, I said no, 0:20:12.586 --> 0:20:15.666 I said I can't. She's like, I can rebook you. 0:20:16.146 --> 0:20:19.306 But I was supposed to be first class from Austin 0:20:19.586 --> 0:20:25.266 to Charlotte. Now, not only my coach. I'm coach from 0:20:25.266 --> 0:20:28.706 Austin to Charlotte now because I booked a flight for 0:20:28.746 --> 0:20:31.226 twenty four hours from when I was actually getting into 0:20:32.306 --> 0:20:34.626 So I literally get on the plane, I put my 0:20:34.746 --> 0:20:37.746 hat down, and I'm like, oh my god, what am 0:20:37.786 --> 0:20:41.506 I doing? I fly from Arizona to Austin. Get up, 0:20:42.026 --> 0:20:45.346 get off the plane, have like an hour, you know, 0:20:45.466 --> 0:20:49.106 layover back on. I'm like in row twenty one C. 0:20:49.346 --> 0:20:51.906 I'm like fighting hold the super Bowl last night. 0:20:51.866 --> 0:20:54.066 And everyone's walking by and they're like, hey, nice job 0:20:54.106 --> 0:20:57.546 on the super Bowl. Let's flying home, coach. You know, 0:20:57.586 --> 0:21:01.066 everyone else is out on private jets and I'm sitting 0:21:01.066 --> 0:21:04.186 on a private I want to say it was like Southwest. 0:21:04.226 --> 0:21:05.946 I think it was. Dude. I didn't want her to 0:21:05.946 --> 0:21:08.426 call out the airlines and whatever. But like, if I'm 0:21:08.466 --> 0:21:10.866 not mistaken, the story that you told me was like 0:21:11.066 --> 0:21:13.346 You're like, I'm on Southwest and I'm not in boarding group. A. 0:21:13.666 --> 0:21:17.906 Yeah, it was like it was. It was the worst 0:21:18.266 --> 0:21:20.226 knowing that I was going to call that game. I 0:21:20.306 --> 0:21:24.186 couldn't have done a worst job planning my departure if 0:21:24.226 --> 0:21:27.466 I tried to. So my I would say I have 0:21:27.546 --> 0:21:30.026 the most unique No one has. I'll just say this, 0:21:30.186 --> 0:21:32.386 No one has flown home from calling a super Bowl 0:21:32.426 --> 0:21:35.106 like me since like nineteen sixty five exactly. 0:21:35.146 --> 0:21:38.386 And that was on like a greyhound bus. Yeah. So 0:21:38.466 --> 0:21:41.666 to sum it up from my perspective, you're drinking Pappy 0:21:41.706 --> 0:21:43.626 van Winkle at the bar on top of the universe, 0:21:43.746 --> 0:21:45.986 hundred millions of people a lot. But there is nothing 0:21:46.026 --> 0:21:48.026 more humbling and more blue collar than you just get 0:21:48.026 --> 0:21:50.026 in your lunch pail, on your cowboy hat and you're 0:21:50.026 --> 0:21:52.746 getting on that board boarding group. See whatever. It was 0:21:53.066 --> 0:21:56.026 connecting in Austin waiting and then flying home. But you 0:21:56.026 --> 0:21:58.146 know what you saw your kids in the morning. 0:21:58.106 --> 0:22:01.746 Saw them they got off the school. I took like 0:22:01.786 --> 0:22:04.586 a six hour nap. I didn't participate in the in 0:22:04.666 --> 0:22:07.186 society for like forty eight hours, I rushed home to 0:22:07.226 --> 0:22:11.146 do nothing. But nonetheless it was, uh what was a great, 0:22:11.426 --> 0:22:16.266 busy but awesome week ended in very appropriate fashion. 0:22:16.506 --> 0:22:19.306 It's so fitting. It's it's the it's the walk we 0:22:19.306 --> 0:22:21.866 we walk, my friend, it's it. We are grinders, That's 0:22:21.906 --> 0:22:25.466 what we are. I wouldn't have flown coach in a million. No, 0:22:25.506 --> 0:22:30.306 I'm kidding. I actually, to be honest, if you know 0:22:30.346 --> 0:22:33.666 how often I'm flying, I would have like completely just 0:22:33.706 --> 0:22:35.666 obsessed over that flight and probably not even known any 0:22:35.666 --> 0:22:38.906 of the players is a plan on time? Am I 0:22:38.906 --> 0:22:40.706 getting upgraded? Like that's all I would have cared about 0:22:40.746 --> 0:22:42.266 during the game. That's why you're a better pro than me. 0:22:42.346 --> 0:22:45.146 Here's like a running joke, like even with our crew 0:22:45.226 --> 0:22:48.266 or like my wife. My wife's like, what hotel you at? 0:22:48.266 --> 0:22:51.986 I'm like, I have no idea whereinery is. I was like, 0:22:52.466 --> 0:22:54.346 I don't know. I'm like, I land, I get in 0:22:54.346 --> 0:22:56.306 the car, and wherever the car drops me off, that's 0:22:56.346 --> 0:22:59.146 my hotel. She's like, where are you eating dinner? I'm like, 0:22:59.626 --> 0:23:04.386 I don't know anything. What time we head into the 0:23:04.386 --> 0:23:06.826 game tomorrow. He's like, we're going to meet down upstairs 0:23:06.866 --> 0:23:08.306 at eleven. Yeah, done. 0:23:08.746 --> 0:23:11.066 He's dial he's got the restaurant, he's got the gluten 0:23:11.106 --> 0:23:12.266 free options, He's got it. 0:23:13.066 --> 0:23:15.226 I don't I always say I don't. I don't water. 0:23:15.466 --> 0:23:17.466 I don't bog myself down with the details. 0:23:17.826 --> 0:23:21.786 Yeah, big pole, big picture. Uh one more on that one, 0:23:21.826 --> 0:23:24.586 like before the game, because I think I always say this, 0:23:25.306 --> 0:23:27.826 I have the honor every three or four years whenever 0:23:27.906 --> 0:23:29.506 Fox is the Super Bowl. We get a credential and 0:23:29.506 --> 0:23:31.106 we're able to be on the field before the game, 0:23:31.386 --> 0:23:33.786 and I like taking a nice long lap and just 0:23:33.826 --> 0:23:35.426 soaking it in and being like, this is a once 0:23:35.466 --> 0:23:37.666 in a lifetime experience that I get to experience, and 0:23:37.666 --> 0:23:39.426 I'm not going to take it for granted. Did you 0:23:39.466 --> 0:23:41.186 get that moment at the Super Bowl? Able? I know 0:23:41.226 --> 0:23:43.186 he said Rihanna was performing, Like did you get a 0:23:43.266 --> 0:23:44.586 chance to enjoy the experience? 0:23:44.746 --> 0:23:47.746 Well, I actually have another amazing story that's gonna it's amazing. 0:23:47.746 --> 0:23:49.546 Like when I keep telling these stories, people are like, 0:23:49.586 --> 0:23:51.626 it's amazing this guy can like hold down a job 0:23:52.146 --> 0:23:56.226 because he's a disaster. So me and Burkhart all week 0:23:56.346 --> 0:23:58.186 we have we know that we have a hit with 0:23:58.266 --> 0:24:03.906 the pregame guys at whatever time, so we go down, 0:24:03.946 --> 0:24:05.906 so they bring us downstairs. We go up to the booth, 0:24:05.946 --> 0:24:07.266 we get set up and they're like, hey, we're going 0:24:07.306 --> 0:24:09.746 to bring you downstairs. I don't know whatever the time 0:24:09.866 --> 0:24:12.426 is locally, And they bring us to the green room, 0:24:12.506 --> 0:24:14.346 like where all you guys are down for the studio 0:24:14.546 --> 0:24:15.746 and the beating. 0:24:15.386 --> 0:24:17.426 Like CAVR and yeah it was pretty nice. 0:24:18.066 --> 0:24:21.826 I'm eating chicken fingers and and uh, stuffing my face 0:24:21.866 --> 0:24:24.026 with Jersey Mike sandwiches. You guys are reading like file. 0:24:25.226 --> 0:24:28.066 Me and Burkhart get escorted down by by our by 0:24:28.066 --> 0:24:32.066 our by our guide and we're sitting in the green 0:24:32.146 --> 0:24:37.306 room watching that pregame show and we finally after like 0:24:37.946 --> 0:24:40.346 a hectic morning, we're just like kicking back. They do 0:24:40.426 --> 0:24:43.266 our makeup and we're just sitting there. All of a sudden, 0:24:43.706 --> 0:24:46.986 Burkhart's phone starts blowing up and it's Russo Rich Russo, 0:24:47.066 --> 0:24:50.066 our director. He's like, where are you guys. You're about 0:24:50.106 --> 0:24:54.186 to miss your hit and we're like holy, So we 0:24:54.306 --> 0:24:56.546 grab our jackets. We run out of the green room. 0:24:56.666 --> 0:24:59.426 We get to the entrance to the tunnel. The players 0:24:59.466 --> 0:25:02.226 are taking the field like in pre pregame. They don't 0:25:02.306 --> 0:25:04.986 let us pass security. Yeah, so We're like no, no, 0:25:04.986 --> 0:25:06.346 Guys like we were. 0:25:06.186 --> 0:25:08.266 Call the game, We're like, we don't care. 0:25:08.266 --> 0:25:11.386 On the pregame show in like three minutes, they're like, 0:25:11.986 --> 0:25:14.666 I'm sorry, the tunnel's closed until the players get back 0:25:14.666 --> 0:25:17.066 to the locker room. We're like no, no, no. So 0:25:17.106 --> 0:25:19.746 we're like asking. We're like those people like trying to 0:25:19.786 --> 0:25:24.946 talk their way into the bar. Yeah, yeah, that Johnny. 0:25:25.026 --> 0:25:26.426 You know, I got him. He told me I have 0:25:26.426 --> 0:25:29.586 a table. So we now get out to the field 0:25:29.626 --> 0:25:31.986 and there's no leisurely. We don't get the Peter Schrager 0:25:32.146 --> 0:25:36.426 leisurely walk around. We take off in a full on sprint, 0:25:36.666 --> 0:25:40.946 but we don't know which corner of the stadium. Long 0:25:40.946 --> 0:25:43.186 story short, we make it to wherever the hit is. 0:25:43.866 --> 0:25:46.586 They come meet us, They give us our IFBs. We're 0:25:46.626 --> 0:25:49.666 putting them in our ear. I plug it into my 0:25:49.866 --> 0:25:53.426 pack as I'm walking to my spot, and it's like 0:25:53.906 --> 0:25:56.786 and now down to Kevin, Burkhart and Gregg. We walk 0:25:56.946 --> 0:26:01.066 into the shot as the second it gets tossed to 0:26:01.146 --> 0:26:04.466 us from Kurt. I forget and I don't even know 0:26:04.506 --> 0:26:05.146 what we said. 0:26:06.826 --> 0:26:08.146 You're there though, you made we. 0:26:09.226 --> 0:26:11.626 So we we we go off of our hit. We 0:26:11.666 --> 0:26:13.706 look at each other. We're like, well, that was a 0:26:13.906 --> 0:26:17.866 horrible way to start calling you because we almost missed 0:26:17.866 --> 0:26:21.386 our pregame hit. So no, my pregame was not as 0:26:21.666 --> 0:26:22.586 leisurely and as. 0:26:23.106 --> 0:26:26.066 I'm like, I'm like, I'm like smelling the grass. 0:26:27.346 --> 0:26:29.586 I'm in a full sweat. I can't even see straight. 0:26:30.266 --> 0:26:31.946 I'm like, I'm like, oh my god, I just ruined 0:26:31.986 --> 0:26:33.586 the super Bowl because I almost missed my hit. 0:26:34.106 --> 0:26:36.186 Go I share my pregame story. I've got so many, 0:26:36.226 --> 0:26:37.226 and I feel like I did to get a chance 0:26:37.226 --> 0:26:38.946 to tell us on the podcast. You'll appreciate this. So 0:26:38.946 --> 0:26:43.866 I'm walking around with Peyton, Woodson and Vic. Now we're 0:26:43.906 --> 0:26:47.026 the we're the secondary pregame show. Obviously we're not how 0:26:47.106 --> 0:26:49.226 we tarry all those guys. Those guys are working. We 0:26:49.386 --> 0:26:51.426 are done for the day. We have about an hour 0:26:51.506 --> 0:26:52.986 until the post game, so we have a chance to 0:26:53.106 --> 0:26:55.386 just walk around. And now, Sean Payton's likely a Hall 0:26:55.386 --> 0:26:57.746 of Fame coach when he hangs it up, Charles Woodson 0:26:57.786 --> 0:27:00.106 one of the greatest football players to ever grace a field, 0:27:00.106 --> 0:27:03.346 and Michael Vick a cultural icon, and me. So we're 0:27:03.346 --> 0:27:08.426 walking around and there he is jay Z. Jay Z 0:27:08.586 --> 0:27:10.626 is staring us right in the eye, and I'm like, 0:27:10.706 --> 0:27:12.786 how is this gonna go down? First thing he does, 0:27:12.946 --> 0:27:16.146 he grabs Charles Woodson, brings him in for a giant hug, 0:27:16.586 --> 0:27:21.146 Then Michael Vick giant hug, then Sean Peyton giant hug. 0:27:21.586 --> 0:27:23.986 Then he locks eyes with me and he gives me 0:27:24.026 --> 0:27:26.346 a hug, and I'm like, okay, I'm in. Then he goes, 0:27:26.466 --> 0:27:30.746 let's get a picture, all right, I'm in. Jay Z 0:27:30.906 --> 0:27:33.546 then positions his body in a way where he can 0:27:33.586 --> 0:27:37.266 grab three different folks with his arms, and I knew 0:27:37.266 --> 0:27:40.866 my place. I quietly drifted out of this photo, and 0:27:40.906 --> 0:27:45.226 the photo is taken of jay Z, Woodson, Vic and Peyton, 0:27:45.706 --> 0:27:49.146 and I am like, so sheepishly just slinking out of 0:27:49.146 --> 0:27:51.186 the photo, but like also know that there could be 0:27:51.186 --> 0:27:53.866 some cultural relevance. Should I get in this photo? Should 0:27:53.906 --> 0:27:56.066 I slide backing? And I'm like, do I fly bacon? 0:27:56.546 --> 0:27:59.666 I sat out the photo and I did not make 0:27:59.706 --> 0:28:02.186 the photo, and sure enough the photo goes viral. Now 0:28:02.186 --> 0:28:05.426 a minute later, this is where I get my redemption. 0:28:05.746 --> 0:28:11.266 A minute Gordon Ramsey walks by Gordon Ramsey. I don't 0:28:11.266 --> 0:28:14.106 know if he knows football. He might think I'm Joe Montana. 0:28:14.346 --> 0:28:16.306 But he sees on with Fox and he sees me 0:28:16.346 --> 0:28:18.826 with all these other guys, and he sees Sean Payton 0:28:19.226 --> 0:28:22.666 and Gordon Ramsey comes over and Gordon Ramsey's like producers, like, 0:28:22.666 --> 0:28:24.586 why don't you three getting a photo? And it's me, 0:28:24.746 --> 0:28:27.746 Peyton and Ramsey And sure enough, Gordon Ramsey from his 0:28:27.826 --> 0:28:30.746 Instagram fee with one hundred million people is like Fox 0:28:30.866 --> 0:28:34.786 NFL Super Bowl crew and it's me, him and Sean Payton. So, 0:28:34.906 --> 0:28:36.426 Jay Z, I didn't want to be in your photo. 0:28:36.466 --> 0:28:38.226 I got in the Gordon Ramsey photo. Let's go. 0:28:38.626 --> 0:28:38.786 Oh. 0:28:38.866 --> 0:28:40.706 I can picture when you're telling that story, is that 0:28:40.906 --> 0:28:44.826 he'll skit where he pumps down off the podium and 0:28:44.826 --> 0:28:47.346 he's like giving everybody hugs, but then he like shapes 0:28:47.386 --> 0:28:51.026 the random white guy's hands like that was you, that. 0:28:51.106 --> 0:28:53.306 Was me one hundred percent, and I knew my place. 0:28:53.666 --> 0:28:54.666 I knew my place. 0:28:54.706 --> 0:28:56.546 The only thing that would have made that story worse 0:28:56.666 --> 0:28:58.626 is if he handed you his phone, who was like a. 0:28:58.826 --> 0:29:01.386 Seriously, can you take it. I've had that happen plenty. 0:29:02.026 --> 0:29:03.906 I've had that. Trust me great, I've had that happen 0:29:04.866 --> 0:29:07.266 all right. Now we turn the pig and it's like 0:29:07.306 --> 0:29:09.946 the come down from the Super Bowl and there's nothing 0:29:09.946 --> 0:29:12.426 more humbling than your first game back being assigned Saints 0:29:12.426 --> 0:29:13.986 Texans preseason? How'd that go? 0:29:15.746 --> 0:29:19.666 You know what? Prep for it was a little challenging, 0:29:20.626 --> 0:29:23.346 especially when we talked to Dennis Allen and he told 0:29:23.386 --> 0:29:27.226 us that literally not one was played. The Texans at 0:29:27.266 --> 0:29:29.066 least did us the favor and played like the first 0:29:29.106 --> 0:29:31.426 two drives with most of their starters. So at least 0:29:31.466 --> 0:29:34.746 got we got like a good quarter and change out 0:29:34.786 --> 0:29:38.626 of c. J. Stroud and the stations. 0:29:37.626 --> 0:29:40.066 Got your Nico Collins for the year. He checked it off. 0:29:40.106 --> 0:29:42.706 Good. Yeah, the Saints did us no favors. They did 0:29:42.746 --> 0:29:47.426 not play a single starter a minute, a play a second. 0:29:47.466 --> 0:29:48.626 They didn't even put a uniform on. 0:29:48.706 --> 0:29:50.266 But how to feel get it back in the booth though? 0:29:50.386 --> 0:29:53.266 It was good? You know what? I actually, as much 0:29:53.306 --> 0:29:56.226 as you're like a preseason game, it's actually really good. 0:29:56.506 --> 0:29:56.906 It's great. 0:29:57.106 --> 0:29:59.866 Just get one out of the way, grind on fifty 0:29:59.946 --> 0:30:03.266 five different wide receivers and forty different linemen and just 0:30:03.306 --> 0:30:05.306 put the prep in and just get yourself back in 0:30:05.346 --> 0:30:07.306 the in the floor, like all right, this is what 0:30:07.346 --> 0:30:08.946 a normal week's going to feel like for me. For 0:30:08.986 --> 0:30:11.586 the next five months. You better wrap your head around it, 0:30:11.626 --> 0:30:13.986 you know. But it was fun. It's always good to 0:30:13.986 --> 0:30:15.906 be around the crew that I always liked going to 0:30:15.906 --> 0:30:17.786 New Orleans. I got a good energy. It didn't feel 0:30:17.826 --> 0:30:20.586 like a preseason game, so it was a nice warm up. 0:30:20.626 --> 0:30:22.906 It was a good kind of rehearsal to get the 0:30:22.946 --> 0:30:25.306 bugs out, and we got a good one for Week 0:30:25.346 --> 0:30:26.346 one with Bears Packers. 0:30:26.626 --> 0:30:29.106 You sure do, which is to me the most intriguing 0:30:29.106 --> 0:30:31.706 matchup in the entire NFL slate. There's bigger names elsewhere, 0:30:31.746 --> 0:30:33.426 but like, I don't know what to make of the Bears, 0:30:33.506 --> 0:30:35.386 and I did not know what to make of the Packers. 0:30:44.546 --> 0:30:46.906 As we turned the page towards this weekend, have you 0:30:46.946 --> 0:30:49.226 dug in on your prep for that game and really 0:30:49.306 --> 0:30:51.986 what are your immediate takeaways on Justin Fields and Jordan Love. 0:30:52.466 --> 0:30:54.906 Yeah, I've been. I started diving in over the weekend 0:30:55.026 --> 0:30:56.706 and just kind of reading some of the clips and 0:30:57.386 --> 0:30:59.106 you know, knowing we had them, you know, for the 0:30:59.146 --> 0:31:02.306 first game, you know, just following in preseason, following guys, 0:31:02.346 --> 0:31:04.146 you know, some of the beat writers on Twitter and 0:31:04.186 --> 0:31:06.386 who are the surprise guys at training camp and all that. 0:31:06.466 --> 0:31:08.146 But now that the rosters are set and you can 0:31:08.186 --> 0:31:12.506 really dive in. I'm with you, I think there's a 0:31:12.506 --> 0:31:15.186 lot of unknown. I think it's hard to really prepare 0:31:15.226 --> 0:31:17.346 for Jordan Love firstly, you know, first off with the 0:31:17.386 --> 0:31:20.666 Packers because you know, we've seen him spot play, We've 0:31:20.706 --> 0:31:24.026 seen him come in at times for Rogers in various situations, 0:31:24.066 --> 0:31:27.466 but we've never really seen him operate. An offense tailor 0:31:27.506 --> 0:31:30.226 made for him, a system tailor made, you know, for 0:31:30.306 --> 0:31:32.666 his strengths, and Matt Lafleur and him work closely at 0:31:32.666 --> 0:31:36.066 weekend week out. So I'm with everyone else, everyone like, 0:31:36.066 --> 0:31:37.466 how are they going to be? I'm like, I don't 0:31:37.506 --> 0:31:40.546 know how anybody can really make an assessment of Jordan 0:31:40.626 --> 0:31:45.146 Love fairly go to our bad until we see him play, 0:31:45.266 --> 0:31:48.906 until we see him operate behind center. And then compounding that, 0:31:49.706 --> 0:31:51.906 they're the youngest team in the league, right. I was 0:31:51.946 --> 0:31:53.906 just spending some time with both the Bears and the 0:31:53.946 --> 0:31:56.266 Packers roster, and you know, they got some vets at 0:31:56.306 --> 0:31:58.266 the offensive line and on defense, they got a lot 0:31:58.306 --> 0:32:00.106 of vets returning, a lot of names that we're all 0:32:00.146 --> 0:32:04.546 familiar with, Kenny Clark and you know, Rashan Gary hopefully 0:32:04.586 --> 0:32:06.986 coming back healthy. From his ACL but like on offense, 0:32:07.506 --> 0:32:10.706 it's Bachtiari and some offensive Elton Tenkins, Well. 0:32:10.666 --> 0:32:12.666 It's not offensive linemen. Yeah, and then. 0:32:12.586 --> 0:32:17.306 It's like rookie rookie, rookie second year Christian Watson, second 0:32:17.386 --> 0:32:20.386 year Romeo Dobbs. You know, they got the vet running backs, 0:32:20.386 --> 0:32:22.706 but it's kind of a funny team, like they either 0:32:22.746 --> 0:32:25.946 got veteran guys at offensive line and running back and 0:32:25.986 --> 0:32:28.026 then everyone else is first and second year at all 0:32:28.026 --> 0:32:29.786 the rest of the offensive skills. So I think there's 0:32:29.826 --> 0:32:32.986 a lot of interesting storylines for the Packers and then 0:32:33.066 --> 0:32:37.546 the Bears. Their roster looks more like an NFL roster 0:32:37.626 --> 0:32:39.306 now at least on paper than it did. And I 0:32:39.306 --> 0:32:42.586 think with Dj Moore on offense and you know, investing 0:32:42.586 --> 0:32:45.266 in a top ten pick at tackle and Nate Davis 0:32:45.266 --> 0:32:48.266 they invested him in free agency, like they got some dudes. 0:32:48.586 --> 0:32:50.666 They got some guys now on offense to hopefully help 0:32:50.826 --> 0:32:53.906 justin out a little bit. And I think they're going 0:32:53.946 --> 0:32:56.026 to be better. And again how much better, I don't know, 0:32:56.066 --> 0:32:58.306 but obviously all eyes are on the two young quarterbacks 0:32:58.346 --> 0:33:00.306 and that makes it for a fun week. One. 0:33:00.826 --> 0:33:02.786 I said it on the show today on Good Morning 0:33:02.786 --> 0:33:05.386 football that it feels like a case study almost of 0:33:05.466 --> 0:33:08.706 nature versus their Like Justin Fields was just thrown out 0:33:08.706 --> 0:33:11.306 into the fire and two years was just under siege, 0:33:11.306 --> 0:33:13.146 and it's like, all right, you've got two years under 0:33:13.186 --> 0:33:16.666 your belt. It's year three. You've seen the as dark 0:33:16.706 --> 0:33:18.426 as it can get. You've been there, you know, ten 0:33:18.466 --> 0:33:20.986 straight losses last year, you've done. On the other end, 0:33:21.066 --> 0:33:23.066 Jordan Love's been sitting on the bench and watching and 0:33:23.106 --> 0:33:26.786 having this really nurtured and I wouldn't say coddled, but 0:33:26.906 --> 0:33:30.226 like that is the dream situation that you get three 0:33:30.306 --> 0:33:32.906 years to learn an offense and three years to grow. 0:33:33.066 --> 0:33:35.226 And then he's almost been in a lab for three 0:33:35.306 --> 0:33:38.106 years and it's like, okay, it's one situation which is 0:33:38.146 --> 0:33:39.906 a philosophy of throwing the guy out there, and the 0:33:39.906 --> 0:33:41.706 other philosophy is let's let him learn. And this is 0:33:41.746 --> 0:33:44.306 most extreme sense. I'm curious to see who comes out 0:33:44.306 --> 0:33:45.466 and who's got jitters to start. 0:33:46.186 --> 0:33:48.466 Yeah. I think it's such an interesting topic because it's 0:33:48.506 --> 0:33:51.426 really what everyone talks about, right, you know, mahomes Oh, 0:33:51.426 --> 0:33:54.666 he Mahomes sat. So if Mahome sat, everybody should sit 0:33:54.746 --> 0:33:58.306 the rookie year. And I'm I'm a big believer that 0:33:58.546 --> 0:34:00.946 if you're gonna be good, you're gonna be good, and 0:34:00.946 --> 0:34:04.586 if you're gonna be s, you're gonna be I personally 0:34:04.666 --> 0:34:08.666 think we use these like anecdotal examples based on whatever 0:34:08.746 --> 0:34:11.746 you think to like support one way or another. I 0:34:11.746 --> 0:34:14.706 think Patrick Mahomes was going to be Patrick Mahomes whether 0:34:14.746 --> 0:34:16.986 Andy Reid played him week one of his rookie year 0:34:17.186 --> 0:34:19.586 year or he sat behind Alex Smith and then eventually 0:34:19.666 --> 0:34:23.666 took over. I think how Justin Fields ends up his career, 0:34:23.706 --> 0:34:25.946 whether he went through the fires of playing as a 0:34:25.986 --> 0:34:28.346 young kid. You know, he didn't technically start game one, 0:34:28.386 --> 0:34:31.066 he took over for Andy Dalton. You could say in 0:34:31.226 --> 0:34:32.946 Essen started as a rookie because it only took a 0:34:32.946 --> 0:34:36.546 couple of weeks. His career, in my mind, is going 0:34:36.626 --> 0:34:38.906 to be the same. It's all about the structure. Who's 0:34:38.906 --> 0:34:41.026 the coach, what do they surround him with, Whether they 0:34:41.106 --> 0:34:44.066 surround you with a good system and good supporting players 0:34:44.386 --> 0:34:47.186 day one as a rookie or in Jordan Love's case, 0:34:47.386 --> 0:34:50.186 year four, I think your career is going to be 0:34:50.306 --> 0:34:52.586 what your career is going to be, regardless of when 0:34:52.666 --> 0:34:53.626 the journey starts. 0:34:53.666 --> 0:34:54.506 I just interesting. 0:34:54.626 --> 0:34:57.066 I think we see so many examples. Cam Newton played 0:34:57.146 --> 0:34:57.786 Day one, that. 0:34:57.866 --> 0:34:59.906 Was on your team. I was gonna mention him, and 0:34:59.946 --> 0:35:01.506 that was with Ron in his first season. 0:35:01.746 --> 0:35:03.826 Right. So do I think Cam Newton's career would have 0:35:03.826 --> 0:35:06.306 been better or worse if he waited till year three? 0:35:06.586 --> 0:35:09.026 I don't. I think his career was as was the 0:35:09.066 --> 0:35:11.346 great career that it was. He was going to have 0:35:11.386 --> 0:35:13.986 a great career whether he started game one, Game six, 0:35:14.106 --> 0:35:17.346 or year two. Same with Mahomes his career. He was 0:35:17.386 --> 0:35:18.946 still going to be the same player as long as 0:35:18.986 --> 0:35:21.826 Andy Reid was his coach and the system, and he's 0:35:21.866 --> 0:35:24.546 the player that he is. I just believe in all 0:35:24.586 --> 0:35:27.106 my heart, like we make too much about this guy 0:35:27.226 --> 0:35:30.586 was only good because he sat, This guy was only 0:35:30.666 --> 0:35:34.146 good because he played Game one. I really don't think 0:35:34.546 --> 0:35:36.666 a lot of that is as important as everyone makes 0:35:36.666 --> 0:35:37.226 it out to be. 0:35:37.786 --> 0:35:40.226 In your research. Can you give me one nugget on 0:35:40.306 --> 0:35:42.226 Jordan Love that you have found that I don't, because, 0:35:42.266 --> 0:35:44.826 like we did a test in our show where it's like, 0:35:44.866 --> 0:35:47.386 if I show you a silhouette of these young quarterbacks scoring, 0:35:47.466 --> 0:35:49.626 can you identify it? And we went zero for four 0:35:49.706 --> 0:35:52.746 on Jordan Love's throwing motion. He played one game against 0:35:52.746 --> 0:35:55.186 the Chiefs with his mom and dad, and we're sitting 0:35:55.226 --> 0:35:57.546 in the ninetieth row at Arrowhead. I remember that and 0:35:58.466 --> 0:36:00.826 Jordan Love looked terrible that game and looked ill equipped, 0:36:00.826 --> 0:36:02.946 And then we've heard great things this summer, Like, is 0:36:02.986 --> 0:36:05.106 there one thing you've learned in doing your weeks of 0:36:05.146 --> 0:36:06.786 research leading up to this game that you could share 0:36:06.786 --> 0:36:07.106 with us? 0:36:07.906 --> 0:36:10.066 You know what, I think, I'm like everybody else. You 0:36:10.106 --> 0:36:13.986 know every everything you read, and whether it's fair or unfair, 0:36:14.026 --> 0:36:16.506 it's just the nature of the beast. Everything you read 0:36:16.826 --> 0:36:21.106 is him at this stage versus Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers 0:36:21.146 --> 0:36:24.466 first year starting when he took over for Farv. Okay, 0:36:24.466 --> 0:36:27.066 what does that mean for Jordan Love taking over for 0:36:27.186 --> 0:36:29.546 Rogers and kind of passing that torch? So like he's 0:36:29.586 --> 0:36:33.346 going to operate right now in that world. Whether it's right, 0:36:33.386 --> 0:36:35.186 wrong or in different it doesn't matter. That is the 0:36:35.186 --> 0:36:37.546 reality when you follow a guy like Rogers, just like 0:36:37.586 --> 0:36:39.906 it was for Rogers when he followed far If you're 0:36:39.946 --> 0:36:42.666 not going to escape that, I think the thing that 0:36:42.786 --> 0:36:46.266 I'm most curious about is, like I know, and I 0:36:46.266 --> 0:36:49.226 know Matt Leafloor kind of or the GM kind of 0:36:49.266 --> 0:36:52.106 like this, you know, downplayed this idea. I think for 0:36:52.146 --> 0:36:55.626 the first time, Matt Leafloor's offense now in Green Bay 0:36:55.666 --> 0:36:56.786 is going to be Matt flofense. 0:36:57.066 --> 0:36:59.306 Mark Murphy's the president of the team, and he speaks. 0:36:59.346 --> 0:37:01.386 I always listen because it comes from the top, and 0:37:01.426 --> 0:37:03.986 he said, we're gonna see what Matt's offense looks like 0:37:04.026 --> 0:37:05.386 for the first time, and that was taken as a 0:37:05.386 --> 0:37:07.746 slight of Aaron Rodgers like it run Laflor's offense. Now 0:37:07.786 --> 0:37:10.746 it Rogers gets in there, it opens up a world 0:37:10.746 --> 0:37:12.706 of possibilities you can do. This is the offense that 0:37:12.706 --> 0:37:15.066 Matt Lafleoor was planned to run, where the quarterback is 0:37:15.106 --> 0:37:16.666 just gonna operate it and not audible out and do 0:37:16.746 --> 0:37:17.186 his own thing. 0:37:17.306 --> 0:37:19.386 Right, It's gonna be more. It's gonna be more reminiscent 0:37:19.426 --> 0:37:23.066 of Shanahan's forty nine, Ers mcveigh's, you know, even though 0:37:23.106 --> 0:37:25.266 when Stafford got there, they kind of evolved into a 0:37:25.266 --> 0:37:27.546 little bit of a different iteration of that offense. But 0:37:27.826 --> 0:37:30.546 you know, maybe the Jared Goff version of the Rams 0:37:30.586 --> 0:37:32.866 offense where it was really the system and operate within it. 0:37:33.266 --> 0:37:35.186 I think we're gonna see that really for the first 0:37:35.226 --> 0:37:37.506 time since Lafloor's come in, and and that's not a 0:37:37.626 --> 0:37:39.506 knock on anyone. I just think that's the nature of 0:37:39.506 --> 0:37:40.986 when you don't have a Hall of Fame quarterback and 0:37:41.026 --> 0:37:43.826 you have a young kid. Okay, now we hired Matt 0:37:43.866 --> 0:37:46.546 Lafloor because of his offensive creativity in his mind and 0:37:46.586 --> 0:37:49.506 his system. Okay, now we're gonna it's gonna be more 0:37:49.506 --> 0:37:51.146 on the forefront because he doesn't have a Hall of 0:37:51.146 --> 0:37:53.066 Fame quarterback who had done it at a high level, 0:37:53.306 --> 0:37:55.546 you know, for over a decade before he came in. 0:37:55.586 --> 0:37:58.146 It would it makes sense for Aaron Rodgers to do 0:37:58.226 --> 0:38:00.626 things he's comfortable with. You don't just come in and 0:38:00.706 --> 0:38:03.266 revolutionize a player like that and make them and make 0:38:03.346 --> 0:38:06.226 them change his game. So I think that's gonna be interesting. 0:38:06.226 --> 0:38:09.586 But I think everything we all know is a very 0:38:09.626 --> 0:38:12.106 small sample size, which I never try to judge anyone 0:38:12.106 --> 0:38:14.426 by their best game or their worst game. So when 0:38:14.466 --> 0:38:16.386 a guy like Jordan Love, you really don't have anything 0:38:16.386 --> 0:38:19.346 in between. And I really take everything that comes out 0:38:19.346 --> 0:38:21.826 of training camp with a grain of salt, because every 0:38:21.866 --> 0:38:23.986 single player in training camp has the best training camp 0:38:23.986 --> 0:38:24.586 they've ever had. 0:38:24.706 --> 0:38:25.506 They look amazing. 0:38:25.706 --> 0:38:30.266 Yeah, I'm really not really making any big predictions as 0:38:30.266 --> 0:38:34.386 far as Jordan Love goes, because he's wildly talented. He's athletic, 0:38:34.426 --> 0:38:37.306 he's big, he's strong, he's got all the measurables. The 0:38:37.386 --> 0:38:39.226 kid deserves the right to go out there and play 0:38:39.226 --> 0:38:43.986 before anyone passes judgment good or bad on him. 0:38:44.706 --> 0:38:46.306 This is the game of the week for Fox, which 0:38:46.306 --> 0:38:47.826 is a big title for two teams that I don't 0:38:47.826 --> 0:38:49.986 think many people have going to the playoffs. Honestly, the 0:38:50.066 --> 0:38:52.546 Vikings were the defending division champions, the Lions of the 0:38:52.546 --> 0:38:54.866 hot team of the NFC North Bears could have a 0:38:54.946 --> 0:38:57.706 jump and the Packers obviously could keep it going and 0:38:57.746 --> 0:39:00.746 be great. But to put that crown on this game 0:39:00.826 --> 0:39:03.426 says a lot about the fan bases and the traditions, 0:39:03.906 --> 0:39:05.506 and it says a lot about you guys going up 0:39:05.546 --> 0:39:08.386 there and doing it. Now, one more sports broadcasting question, 0:39:08.506 --> 0:39:10.066 and I know you said you don't know the itinerary, 0:39:10.066 --> 0:39:12.506 but like, take us through the days leading up to it. 0:39:12.546 --> 0:39:14.266 If you're a listener and you know you're going to 0:39:14.346 --> 0:39:17.786 see Greg and obviously Kevin Burkhard on the call, when 0:39:17.826 --> 0:39:20.266 do you guys get in, what are the meetings? And 0:39:20.306 --> 0:39:21.906 now in a post COVID world. Are we back to 0:39:21.946 --> 0:39:24.306 production meetings? It is still on zoom. What can you 0:39:24.346 --> 0:39:27.386 share with us as far as from your chair, what 0:39:27.466 --> 0:39:28.466 your next two days are. 0:39:29.226 --> 0:39:31.746 Yeah, So on a typical week, this week week one, 0:39:31.826 --> 0:39:34.106 we start a little bit earlier, just because you know 0:39:34.146 --> 0:39:36.906 the anticipation of opening week. But on a normal week 0:39:36.946 --> 0:39:39.986 where you have a game on the previous Sunday, Monday, 0:39:39.986 --> 0:39:42.346 I don't really do a lot. I kind of take 0:39:42.386 --> 0:39:44.346 it as a personal day, catch up on some things 0:39:44.346 --> 0:39:46.226 at home, do stuff with the kids and my wife. 0:39:46.306 --> 0:39:49.826 And Tuesday I'll really dive in. So Tuesday I start 0:39:49.866 --> 0:39:52.466 with the team I know the least. So if I'm 0:39:52.466 --> 0:39:54.986 calling a game with an AFC you know team, or 0:39:55.026 --> 0:39:56.866 you know a team we just don't see very often, 0:39:57.146 --> 0:39:59.026 I'll start with them on Tuesday, Like what do they 0:39:59.026 --> 0:40:01.466 look like, who do they have on the team, what 0:40:01.586 --> 0:40:03.906 numbers do they wear, what do the jerseys look like like? 0:40:04.026 --> 0:40:06.586 Just familiarize yourself with something that might not just be 0:40:06.706 --> 0:40:08.746 top of mind. Like maybe if I'm calling a Cowboys 0:40:08.786 --> 0:40:10.466 game or a Philly game, which we see a lot, 0:40:10.506 --> 0:40:14.146 we kind of know those teams pretty well, you know. 0:40:14.186 --> 0:40:17.386 And then Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday is really just familiarizing yourself 0:40:17.386 --> 0:40:21.946 with the players, the schemes, the storylines, you know, reading 0:40:21.946 --> 0:40:24.586 all the clips coming out. They send us all sorts 0:40:24.626 --> 0:40:28.386 of information and stats and you know, analytics and some 0:40:28.466 --> 0:40:31.106 really interesting things that you can build some context into 0:40:31.266 --> 0:40:34.866 game plan and personnel adjustments and you know, tendencies of 0:40:34.906 --> 0:40:38.266 each team. And really that's where for me, I build 0:40:38.266 --> 0:40:40.986 a lot of my storylines that I want to talk 0:40:40.986 --> 0:40:43.266 about for the game. Like a great example is Philadelphia 0:40:43.306 --> 0:40:45.066 last year. Towards the end of the year. We obviously 0:40:45.066 --> 0:40:47.826 had them a lot throughout the playoffs and through the 0:40:47.826 --> 0:40:50.746 regular season. They became one of the big stories of 0:40:50.746 --> 0:40:53.066 the year. So we're calling them a lot and everyone's 0:40:53.146 --> 0:40:56.226 just fascinated with fourth down, right, Everyone's fascinated with fourth down. 0:40:56.506 --> 0:40:58.906 But all this information that we get aside from just 0:40:58.906 --> 0:41:01.386 watching us, so yes, they go on fourth down, everyone 0:41:01.426 --> 0:41:02.426 in the world knows that. 0:41:02.706 --> 0:41:04.786 Like that, that's not what can we add? What can 0:41:04.826 --> 0:41:07.106 I act that. 0:41:06.986 --> 0:41:09.986 The Fox researchers and the team they send really really 0:41:10.066 --> 0:41:13.186 good data that dives into all the tendencies and the 0:41:13.186 --> 0:41:15.066 percentages and all that. Not that any of that would 0:41:15.106 --> 0:41:18.466 make the roster, would make the broadcast, but through our 0:41:18.506 --> 0:41:21.066 prep of the week and my conversations with Kevin. Some 0:41:21.186 --> 0:41:25.586 of our best conversations come from those midweek great calls, right, 0:41:25.626 --> 0:41:27.666 and I'll call Kevin and be like, keV, how can 0:41:27.706 --> 0:41:30.106 we in the middle of the game, everyone's talking about 0:41:30.106 --> 0:41:32.826 them going for fourth down? How do we talk about 0:41:32.906 --> 0:41:35.946 fourth down? On second down? How do we talk about 0:41:35.986 --> 0:41:38.186 fourth down? On third down? Saying, hey, keV, it's third 0:41:38.186 --> 0:41:41.226 and four balls at the forty two yard line. We 0:41:41.306 --> 0:41:44.506 will know whether Nick Sirianni's going for it on fourth 0:41:44.546 --> 0:41:46.786 down based on what call they have here. And Kevin 0:41:46.826 --> 0:41:48.906 will do He's like the master at like setting all 0:41:48.946 --> 0:41:51.586 that up. And he leads me right into him and say, Kevin, 0:41:51.666 --> 0:41:53.466 if they turn around and hand this ball to Miles 0:41:53.506 --> 0:41:56.866 Sanders and then we know, you know they're going for 0:41:56.946 --> 0:41:58.986 it on fourth down, because if not, they would attempt 0:41:59.026 --> 0:42:02.666 to pass. So to answer your question, like our midweek 0:42:02.666 --> 0:42:05.346 conversations as a crew and emails, and Kevin and I 0:42:05.466 --> 0:42:08.266 spend a lot of time just talking things through. Sometimes 0:42:08.266 --> 0:42:10.386 the things we talk through don't ever make air because 0:42:10.586 --> 0:42:12.946 it sounded great on Tuesday, and come Saturday, it just 0:42:12.946 --> 0:42:16.106 didn't make any sense really. But like that's one example 0:42:16.186 --> 0:42:19.906 like those cool conversations, those moments that align on game 0:42:19.986 --> 0:42:23.226 day that just really work in the broadcast, really just 0:42:23.306 --> 0:42:26.266 come from a week of throwing things against the wall, 0:42:26.546 --> 0:42:29.946 reading between the lines, the context, the articles, and trying 0:42:29.946 --> 0:42:33.106 to say, like, how can we take this conversation maybe 0:42:33.186 --> 0:42:36.546 deeper to the viewer than just give them the surface 0:42:36.626 --> 0:42:40.506 level context. They go for fourth down three times more 0:42:40.546 --> 0:42:43.586 than the other team if no one gives about. 0:42:42.866 --> 0:42:45.826 The stack stats. You can't. There's only so many stats 0:42:45.826 --> 0:42:46.866 the human brain can take. 0:42:46.986 --> 0:42:49.866 Yeah, So like so like that's a big part of 0:42:49.906 --> 0:42:52.626 our process. We go in on Saturdays. We do all 0:42:52.626 --> 0:42:54.946 of our calls with the team via Zoom. That's worked 0:42:54.946 --> 0:42:57.546 for Kevin and I since because we were The season 0:42:57.586 --> 0:42:59.946 Kevin and I first started working together was postponed. We 0:42:59.986 --> 0:43:02.786 weren't allowed in the building, and it worked for us. 0:43:02.826 --> 0:43:04.866 We felt like we got more people because we got 0:43:04.906 --> 0:43:08.026 them on Zoom's. We felt like they were very open. 0:43:08.186 --> 0:43:10.226 It worked for travel, it worked for our schedule, so 0:43:10.266 --> 0:43:14.066 we've kept it. It's worked great for our team. And 0:43:14.106 --> 0:43:15.906 we go to a group dinner on Saturday night, we 0:43:15.946 --> 0:43:17.946 have a production meeting, we get together, we kind of 0:43:18.066 --> 0:43:20.866 put all the final touches on the broadcast plan, and 0:43:20.906 --> 0:43:24.186 then Sunday morning we get up and let the game unfold. 0:43:24.586 --> 0:43:27.146 All right, These are the inside the weeds questions. The 0:43:27.186 --> 0:43:29.026 group dinner. Is that out at a restaurant or are 0:43:29.026 --> 0:43:30.986 we eating in the hotel banquet room? 0:43:31.266 --> 0:43:34.946 Now, we try at all costs to get Now, we 0:43:35.026 --> 0:43:37.706 might eat in the hotel restaurant if it's a nice restaurant. 0:43:38.066 --> 0:43:40.226 We're trying to get out of the We'll do our 0:43:40.266 --> 0:43:43.826 production meeting first, handle business, go through graphics, go through 0:43:44.186 --> 0:43:46.466 any of the highlights, the bumps, the in and out 0:43:46.506 --> 0:43:49.466 of the stuff, storylines, talk through the game. Once we 0:43:49.506 --> 0:43:52.026 feel we're in a good place, we make it a 0:43:52.066 --> 0:43:55.306 point as a crew. Everybody, we make it a point 0:43:55.346 --> 0:43:57.986 as a crew, and overall sometimes twelve fourteen people deep, 0:43:58.706 --> 0:44:02.786 and it's really I think it's the highlight of the week. 0:44:02.906 --> 0:44:05.346 I think everyone looks forward to it. I think there's 0:44:05.386 --> 0:44:08.706 great banter. I think is great camaraderie. I think people 0:44:08.826 --> 0:44:11.106 like book their travel to make sure they're done with 0:44:11.186 --> 0:44:13.546 their work and done at the trucks or whatever they're doing, 0:44:13.586 --> 0:44:16.826 to like make dinner. And I just believe in that 0:44:16.946 --> 0:44:18.466 Kevin and I have really tried to make that a 0:44:18.546 --> 0:44:21.586 point with Aaron and Tom and everyone's bought in and 0:44:23.146 --> 0:44:25.706 Aaron usually kind of spearheads where we go. A lot 0:44:25.706 --> 0:44:27.746 of times, she has great contacts. She knows a lot 0:44:27.786 --> 0:44:31.186 of good restaurants around around the around you know, around 0:44:31.186 --> 0:44:33.306 the country and whatnot. Or everyone kind of chips in 0:44:33.346 --> 0:44:36.266 where they where they have a insight and it's a 0:44:36.306 --> 0:44:38.066 highlight of the week. We love it. It's a good 0:44:38.106 --> 0:44:40.426 way to kind of start off the weekend. And then 0:44:40.426 --> 0:44:42.506 we know Sunday morning, we wake up, we get ready 0:44:42.506 --> 0:44:45.106 to roll, we go to the stadium and game time. 0:44:45.746 --> 0:44:47.906 I'm gonna make a pitch right now to to be 0:44:48.586 --> 0:44:54.506 or Fox Sports one or NFL Plus. We love Anthony Bourdain, right, 0:44:54.586 --> 0:44:58.546 We love his journeys, his travels. We love football. I 0:44:58.546 --> 0:45:00.866 would love a show where it's not about the games. 0:45:01.066 --> 0:45:03.066 We just go on with these crews to their Friday night, 0:45:03.106 --> 0:45:05.386 Saturday night dinners and we spend a different night with 0:45:05.426 --> 0:45:07.266 a crew each week. Is that not a great content? 0:45:07.306 --> 0:45:09.306 I feel like that's something I would love to watch. 0:45:09.586 --> 0:45:12.146 I think people would love to see. Our dinners are 0:45:13.186 --> 0:45:16.306 a lot of times are hysterical and we get great 0:45:16.346 --> 0:45:19.226 stories and just I think it's great. We try to 0:45:19.266 --> 0:45:22.026 go somewhere different. We try to go to good places 0:45:22.066 --> 0:45:25.466 and try new things. And I'll be honest, it's really 0:45:25.826 --> 0:45:28.426 a highlight of the week. I think it's something that 0:45:28.466 --> 0:45:31.106 everyone really looks forward to, and I think it's a 0:45:31.106 --> 0:45:32.226 great idea. I'd be happy. 0:45:32.226 --> 0:45:34.866 I think honestly, it's like last for years, I would 0:45:34.866 --> 0:45:37.666 come in for Fox on the Sunday pregame show and 0:45:37.706 --> 0:45:39.666 I would just eat at the hotel and maybe I'd 0:45:39.666 --> 0:45:42.586 get a drink with Woodson. Last year, Sean Payton' spearheaded 0:45:42.586 --> 0:45:44.506 and he's like, let's go out on Saturday nights. Let's 0:45:44.506 --> 0:45:46.986 go out, not too late, Let's go out. And that's 0:45:47.026 --> 0:45:49.626 where the camaraderie forms. That's where the chemistry boy and 0:45:49.626 --> 0:45:51.026 it really I think it led to a better product 0:45:51.066 --> 0:45:51.386 on air. 0:45:52.106 --> 0:45:54.346 Oh, I definitely think. And we have some of our 0:45:54.426 --> 0:45:57.026 best I mean, we cover a lot of topics at 0:45:57.066 --> 0:45:59.586 these dinners, right, but I would say some of our 0:45:59.626 --> 0:46:02.426 best ideas that have made air and made the broadcast 0:46:02.506 --> 0:46:08.426 come from just impromptu debate, impromptu arguments, conversations, whatever you 0:46:08.426 --> 0:46:11.546 want to call it. Over a crab leg, over a stake, 0:46:11.706 --> 0:46:15.906 over a you know, over a bourbon, just you just 0:46:16.026 --> 0:46:18.506 once everyone feels comfortable that they can be a part 0:46:18.546 --> 0:46:20.546 of the conversation. And this is not just three or 0:46:20.586 --> 0:46:22.306 four of us that run the show and everyone else 0:46:22.306 --> 0:46:25.186 shut up like this is a collaborative event, right, This 0:46:25.226 --> 0:46:28.106 is a collaborative crew. We are open to all in 0:46:28.146 --> 0:46:31.786 any suggestions. And some of our best conversations that Kevin 0:46:31.826 --> 0:46:33.946 and I have gotten on air, or stories that that 0:46:34.026 --> 0:46:36.746 Aaron and Tom have shared on a sideline hit have 0:46:36.906 --> 0:46:39.946 come from just an organic conversation at a dinner or 0:46:40.306 --> 0:46:43.266 casually in a social environment where it's like, guys, that 0:46:43.306 --> 0:46:46.466 would be great conversation to have tomorrow, you know, in 0:46:46.546 --> 0:46:48.466 the second half, if the game's at a whack or 0:46:48.706 --> 0:46:51.986 you know, whatever it is. And sure enough, sometimes you know, 0:46:52.026 --> 0:46:54.786 not always, but sometimes it lines up and that dinner 0:46:54.826 --> 0:46:57.706 conversation makes its way on air with maybe a few 0:46:57.746 --> 0:47:00.826 more PG PG related language. 0:47:01.066 --> 0:47:03.266 Yeah, all right, this is awesome. We're gonna do a 0:47:03.346 --> 0:47:05.466 quick exercise right now. I like always having fun with 0:47:05.506 --> 0:47:06.906 a guest and do like a game of some sort. 0:47:06.946 --> 0:47:09.986 And as as we're previewing the entire season as a whole, 0:47:10.066 --> 0:47:12.746 and knowing that you've got a full fox late ahead 0:47:12.746 --> 0:47:15.146 of you at the a game, I thought it would 0:47:15.186 --> 0:47:17.346 be fun to do an exercise with you where we're 0:47:17.386 --> 0:47:21.986 picking three different breakout teams each Now, breakout could mean 0:47:22.106 --> 0:47:26.026 anything but a team that shows great improvement from last year, 0:47:26.066 --> 0:47:28.226 and it might not as not necessarily be a playoff 0:47:28.266 --> 0:47:31.106 or non playoff team. But every year we know that 0:47:31.146 --> 0:47:33.226 there are teams that go from the bottom to the top, 0:47:33.266 --> 0:47:35.786 and there are teams they're so puch parody. We're into 0:47:35.786 --> 0:47:38.066 a little draft. You're gonna go first, give me your 0:47:38.066 --> 0:47:41.386 first breakout team out of all the thirty two that 0:47:41.466 --> 0:47:43.026 you think is going to make the leap this year. 0:47:44.906 --> 0:47:47.226 I think a team that comes to mind right off 0:47:47.266 --> 0:47:50.866 the bat that I think was was worse. Their record 0:47:50.946 --> 0:47:53.226 was worse than maybe how they were, so they probably 0:47:53.226 --> 0:47:55.386 have the most built in equity as far as the 0:47:55.466 --> 0:47:57.906 upside would be a team like New Orleans. 0:47:58.266 --> 0:47:58.986 Okay, go on. 0:47:59.666 --> 0:48:03.266 I think the Saints obviously adding Derek Carr makes a 0:48:03.306 --> 0:48:05.666 big difference, but I think they were better than the 0:48:05.746 --> 0:48:08.746 record was last year. Their offense was horrible, but I 0:48:08.906 --> 0:48:11.506 you know Michael Thomas, the injuries to him, if he's 0:48:11.546 --> 0:48:13.866 back anything, like you know you mentioned. We were with 0:48:13.906 --> 0:48:15.866 them two weeks ago for the preseason game, and they're 0:48:15.946 --> 0:48:18.266 raving about what he looks like. So let's hope that's 0:48:18.306 --> 0:48:20.346 true and that's the case they get him back. I 0:48:20.346 --> 0:48:21.906 know Kamara is going to miss a couple of games. 0:48:22.346 --> 0:48:25.066 They say he looks good, he'll be back. They should be, 0:48:25.786 --> 0:48:29.706 even if they're just marginally improved on offense. Their defense 0:48:29.786 --> 0:48:32.626 last year down the stretch, the last ten twelve games, 0:48:32.786 --> 0:48:34.506 I remember, it was one of the best defenses in 0:48:34.506 --> 0:48:36.586 the league. They were giving up sixteen points a game 0:48:36.626 --> 0:48:41.906 and losing. So, like, I think between just coming resorting 0:48:41.946 --> 0:48:44.106 back to the mean of just media, even if they're 0:48:44.146 --> 0:48:47.746 just okay on offense, that's an improvement if the defense 0:48:47.866 --> 0:48:51.506 just holds, serve and stays top ten, not asking them 0:48:51.546 --> 0:48:53.906 to make a huge leap, just be what they have been. 0:48:54.626 --> 0:48:56.346 And then in fact they're in the division is going 0:48:56.386 --> 0:48:59.066 through a little bit of a rebuild. There's new quarterbacks everywhere. 0:48:59.106 --> 0:49:02.226 Carolina's got a rookie, you know, Atlanta still figuring out 0:49:02.226 --> 0:49:04.266 what they want to do, Desmond ridd or whatnot. And 0:49:04.306 --> 0:49:07.866 then Tampa obviously with Baker, you know, replaced Brady. Their 0:49:07.906 --> 0:49:09.986 schedule is very easy. I don't think they play it. 0:49:10.026 --> 0:49:12.186 I think they play like one playoff team. In the 0:49:12.186 --> 0:49:15.986 first you seven eight games. Like, I just think all 0:49:16.026 --> 0:49:18.466 the ingredients are there that they could be a team 0:49:18.506 --> 0:49:20.386 that we'd looked that says oh Man. Not only did 0:49:20.426 --> 0:49:22.426 they win the South, but you know they're the three 0:49:22.506 --> 0:49:24.226 seed or they're the four. I don't think that would 0:49:24.226 --> 0:49:26.066 be completely out of the picture. 0:49:26.506 --> 0:49:28.666 Okay, Saints are off the board. I love that pick. 0:49:28.666 --> 0:49:30.426 I picked them to win the division today on Good 0:49:30.426 --> 0:49:33.106 Morning Football. I think that their defense is very good, 0:49:33.226 --> 0:49:35.346 and they have an upgraded quarterback. They should be able 0:49:35.346 --> 0:49:37.426 to handle that. I'm going to go with a team 0:49:37.466 --> 0:49:39.186 that's gotten so much hype and so much buzz, and 0:49:39.226 --> 0:49:41.306 I've I don't know if it's just considered in my backyard. 0:49:41.346 --> 0:49:42.666 And then I but I think the Jets are gonna 0:49:42.666 --> 0:49:44.386 be really good this year. Like I look at their 0:49:44.386 --> 0:49:46.946 defense last year, they're the number four defense in the league. 0:49:47.186 --> 0:49:49.306 They added talent on defense, they got a first round 0:49:49.306 --> 0:49:52.506 pick in McDonald. I love Tony Adams, their undrafted safety 0:49:52.506 --> 0:49:54.466 who's been having an outstanding training camp. And then you 0:49:54.466 --> 0:49:57.506 add Aaron Freakin Rodgers. Like, I'm a believer and I 0:49:57.546 --> 0:49:59.906 know a lot of people are waiting to pop a 0:49:59.946 --> 0:50:02.346 pin into this balloon and just see it go whoo 0:50:02.626 --> 0:50:05.066 and come down. I don't know, and I wouldn't be 0:50:05.106 --> 0:50:08.266 shocked if we wake up Tuesday morning and they put 0:50:08.266 --> 0:50:10.226 a licking on the Buffalo Bills. Am I crazy and 0:50:10.346 --> 0:50:11.666 saying that I'm in on the Jets? Man? 0:50:12.346 --> 0:50:14.546 Yeah, it's hard not to write. I think the Jets 0:50:14.546 --> 0:50:17.226 are the no brainer. I think the I think all 0:50:17.266 --> 0:50:19.746 your points are so spun on. I think the lazy 0:50:20.026 --> 0:50:22.666 national thing is, oh, do you get Rogers, You're automatically good. 0:50:22.986 --> 0:50:26.946 I don't think people realized how good they were last year. 0:50:27.186 --> 0:50:29.066 They went through some injuries, they lost Breeze Hall, the 0:50:29.146 --> 0:50:31.746 running back. I mean, we called that game when no 0:50:31.786 --> 0:50:34.186 one gave them a shot, and albeit the Packers weren't 0:50:34.546 --> 0:50:36.626 maybe the Packers, but they went into Lambo, and w 0:50:36.746 --> 0:50:40.026 went into Lambo and didn't just beat them, they beat 0:50:40.066 --> 0:50:42.466 them soundly. We walked out of We walked out of 0:50:42.506 --> 0:50:44.426 Lambo that day and we were like, I don't know 0:50:44.466 --> 0:50:46.306 what the Jets are going to accomplish this year. But 0:50:46.346 --> 0:50:51.506 they're young, they're athletic, they're they're aggressive, they're talented, and 0:50:51.586 --> 0:50:54.186 they're pretty damn and Robert sala is a damn good coach. 0:50:54.226 --> 0:50:56.746 So I think I'm with you. I think you know, 0:50:56.866 --> 0:50:59.306 the addition to Rodgers is the obvious choice, but I 0:50:59.346 --> 0:51:05.546 think aside from him, it's a good team. Aside from Rogers. 0:51:05.146 --> 0:51:08.906 I've got the Jets winning that the all right, Greg, 0:51:09.066 --> 0:51:10.466 your second team, what do you got? 0:51:11.346 --> 0:51:14.306 So I'm glad you gave me the caveat of like 0:51:14.386 --> 0:51:17.066 it could still be a playoff team because I think 0:51:17.066 --> 0:51:19.146 a playoff team that if the average fan, Like, I 0:51:19.146 --> 0:51:22.546 don't even know if people realized. Last year Jacksonville got 0:51:22.586 --> 0:51:25.626 so hot at the end upset Dallas. We called that game. 0:51:25.666 --> 0:51:27.386 They went on a walk off pick six and over. 0:51:27.506 --> 0:51:29.786 I think it was overtime, Yeah, it was. Yea, it 0:51:29.786 --> 0:51:32.626 was overtime, walk off pick six and overtime. But like 0:51:32.666 --> 0:51:34.426 they were kind of under the radar the year before, 0:51:34.466 --> 0:51:37.186 they were a disaster. Doug Peterson comes in, people were 0:51:37.186 --> 0:51:40.626 expecting a little bit of improvement. Trevor Lawrence, you could say, 0:51:40.666 --> 0:51:43.626 has his breakout year, really kind of establishes himself with 0:51:43.666 --> 0:51:46.586 that AFC young group of quarterbacks, and then they go 0:51:46.626 --> 0:51:49.786 on to win a playoff game. I know they won 0:51:49.866 --> 0:51:52.746 a playoff game last year. I think this year again 0:51:52.866 --> 0:51:59.146 very similar to the Saints division record, good young quarterback stability. 0:52:00.066 --> 0:52:01.906 I don't think there was any I think we could 0:52:01.986 --> 0:52:05.266 look up in December when the playoff seedings are getting 0:52:05.306 --> 0:52:07.746 set and we could say, yeah, they win, they win 0:52:07.786 --> 0:52:10.506 their division, the division's kind of down, they win their division, 0:52:11.146 --> 0:52:12.986 and they could be fighting for a buye right, they 0:52:13.026 --> 0:52:13.386 could be. 0:52:14.066 --> 0:52:16.586 Absolutely they have the fifth easiest schedule in the NFL. 0:52:16.626 --> 0:52:16.946 I saw. 0:52:17.226 --> 0:52:21.466 So I think again that the prospects of your season 0:52:22.826 --> 0:52:24.946 is not always just okay, how good are you as 0:52:24.986 --> 0:52:27.146 a team. I think there's gonna be some really really 0:52:27.226 --> 0:52:30.666 good teams who go eight and nine, who go nine 0:52:30.706 --> 0:52:31.986 and eight just because. 0:52:31.706 --> 0:52:34.586 They play a brutal schedule. 0:52:35.026 --> 0:52:37.946 They're at a conference teams or brutal they they got 0:52:37.986 --> 0:52:40.626 to cross their division the ground. Maybe they won the 0:52:40.626 --> 0:52:43.986 division last year, so they play every division winner in conference. Like, 0:52:44.186 --> 0:52:47.626 there's so many factors to success year over year that 0:52:48.506 --> 0:52:52.066 you could not get any better and the next year 0:52:52.506 --> 0:52:56.106 be a three game be three games better win win 0:52:56.186 --> 0:53:00.146 loss record, just because your scheduled, just because your division sucked, 0:53:00.266 --> 0:53:02.626 just because a couple of things went your way. There's 0:53:03.026 --> 0:53:05.386 so I think, and you don't apologize. I think that's 0:53:05.426 --> 0:53:07.706 the nature of the NFL. So I think Jacksonville has 0:53:07.746 --> 0:53:11.346 a shot as crazy as it sounds. The other guys 0:53:11.346 --> 0:53:13.066 all beat up on each other, and they're sitting there 0:53:13.106 --> 0:53:14.506 at the end of the year fighting for a top 0:53:14.546 --> 0:53:15.666 spot in playoffs. 0:53:16.026 --> 0:53:19.106 My number two team of the Detroit Lions. I'm a believer. Again, 0:53:19.306 --> 0:53:21.306 Maybe I do this show too often on the mornings 0:53:21.346 --> 0:53:23.346 that we did it since May and June and July 0:53:23.426 --> 0:53:24.986 that eventually you're just like, all right, we've been hyping 0:53:24.986 --> 0:53:26.986 this team so much that I can't go against it. 0:53:27.586 --> 0:53:30.146 I think their offensive coordinator is really good, this Ben Johnson. 0:53:30.666 --> 0:53:32.746 Did you guys call any Lions games last year to 0:53:32.786 --> 0:53:33.466 get a chance to. 0:53:33.866 --> 0:53:37.506 We called Lions when they beat the Packers in Detroit? 0:53:38.146 --> 0:53:40.066 Okay, yeah, because there was Big eighteen that was on 0:53:40.106 --> 0:53:42.426 Sunday night. So yeah, yeah. This kid is thirty seven 0:53:42.506 --> 0:53:44.146 years old, not a household name, but I could tell 0:53:44.146 --> 0:53:46.866 you he took his name out of the head coaching carousel, 0:53:46.866 --> 0:53:48.506 and so I'm coming back to Detroit early on in 0:53:48.546 --> 0:53:49.986 the process. I think he would have been a head 0:53:50.026 --> 0:53:52.626 coach at one of these teams that hired new head coaches. 0:53:52.666 --> 0:53:55.386 He was that hot a name. I think Week eighteen 0:53:55.546 --> 0:53:57.506 was like his coup de gras with Colin Hook and 0:53:57.586 --> 0:54:00.266 ladders and crazy stuff in the fourth quarter. I think 0:54:00.306 --> 0:54:02.386 he's awesome, and I think their defense has gotten a 0:54:02.426 --> 0:54:05.266 lot better with Campbell and Branch And they go in 0:54:05.306 --> 0:54:08.346 and signed Chauncey Ardner Johnson like, I've got the Lions 0:54:08.386 --> 0:54:09.906 winning the NFC North. I think they're going to be 0:54:09.906 --> 0:54:10.706 hosting a playoff game. 0:54:11.026 --> 0:54:13.306 Yeah, I don't. I think you're spot on. I'm excited. 0:54:13.346 --> 0:54:15.306 I mean two days from, you know, two days from 0:54:15.346 --> 0:54:17.946 as we sit here recording this pod, the whole world 0:54:18.066 --> 0:54:20.706 is going to see and they have and Dan Campbell 0:54:20.746 --> 0:54:22.626 has not shied away from it. He's like, give us 0:54:22.666 --> 0:54:24.906 the spotlight. He's like, for the first time, and I 0:54:24.946 --> 0:54:27.306 thought I thought I heard I forget where I heard 0:54:27.386 --> 0:54:29.186 him say it, but I thought it was so cool. 0:54:29.226 --> 0:54:31.986 He's like people were asking him, is it is it 0:54:32.026 --> 0:54:35.066 hard to have expectations? Is it hard to shoulder like 0:54:35.266 --> 0:54:36.906 for the first time in a long time, And he's like, 0:54:37.346 --> 0:54:39.506 hell no, He's like, you know how hard I've worked 0:54:39.786 --> 0:54:42.666 for us to have expectations. Like when you go into 0:54:42.666 --> 0:54:45.186 a season with no expectations, that means you've been a failure. 0:54:45.546 --> 0:54:47.986 He's like, we're not only accepting it, He's like, we're 0:54:48.066 --> 0:54:51.586 leaning into it. We we are so thrilled that finally 0:54:52.186 --> 0:54:54.626 people expect us to do something. Why would we shy 0:54:54.706 --> 0:54:57.506 away and under and downplay it. He's like, so, I 0:54:57.546 --> 0:54:59.306 mean they got their shot. They got the World champce 0:55:00.706 --> 0:55:04.586 Thursdays night off the season, and they got their shot. 0:55:05.106 --> 0:55:07.306 All right, your third team, you've already done the Saints 0:55:07.306 --> 0:55:08.706 and the Jaguars. Do you think it's going to take 0:55:08.746 --> 0:55:09.986 a leap in twenty twenty three? 0:55:10.626 --> 0:55:13.746 You know, again, another playoff team, but maybe a team 0:55:13.786 --> 0:55:15.946 that no one last year, even though they were a 0:55:15.986 --> 0:55:18.026 playoff team, very similar to the Giants, right, Like, I 0:55:18.026 --> 0:55:20.706 think when the Giants made the playoffs last year, people 0:55:20.786 --> 0:55:24.026 were like, great story, Brian Dable, great job first year. 0:55:25.426 --> 0:55:27.586 You know, Daniel Jones had a great season, ended up 0:55:27.586 --> 0:55:29.466 getting a contract off of it. But I don't know 0:55:29.466 --> 0:55:31.186 if anyone was like, man, they're going to make a 0:55:31.186 --> 0:55:33.346 deep run. I don't know if they were at that point. 0:55:33.386 --> 0:55:35.226 I think Seattle was kind of in the same boat 0:55:35.306 --> 0:55:35.706 last year. 0:55:36.466 --> 0:55:38.346 I'm in on the Seahawks too, talk about it. 0:55:38.626 --> 0:55:41.146 So even though they did squeak in and they made 0:55:41.186 --> 0:55:42.826 the playoffs and whatnot, I don't know if anyone ever 0:55:42.906 --> 0:55:45.666 considered first year with Gino. How they're going to replace. 0:55:46.706 --> 0:55:50.986 I think they have gotten young. I think they've gotten talented. 0:55:51.066 --> 0:55:53.066 I think they've hit on a lot of these draft picks. 0:55:53.106 --> 0:55:56.386 I think I know it's m Smith and Jigba is 0:55:56.426 --> 0:55:58.746 gonna be He's gonna miss some time with that. What 0:55:58.906 --> 0:56:01.706 did he hurt? He hurt something? Yeah, Anyway, I think 0:56:01.746 --> 0:56:03.866 they hit on the running back. I think they're young. 0:56:03.986 --> 0:56:07.546 I think they're talented. I think Gino has far exceeded 0:56:07.546 --> 0:56:10.626 everyone's expectations, at least nationally. I think internally there they 0:56:10.626 --> 0:56:14.306 always thought he was pretty good. I think they got 0:56:14.306 --> 0:56:16.586 a shot again. It's gonna be them in the forty 0:56:16.666 --> 0:56:18.506 nine ers. We'll see what happens with the Rams. Can 0:56:18.506 --> 0:56:20.746 they get back a little bit from last year's down year? 0:56:20.746 --> 0:56:23.626 And I think Arizona has a has a long uphill 0:56:23.626 --> 0:56:25.906 battle right now to be relevant again. So I think 0:56:25.946 --> 0:56:28.746 schedule wise, they're okay in the division. And I think 0:56:28.826 --> 0:56:30.946 when we I think they're a team that has a 0:56:31.026 --> 0:56:32.026 chance to make some noise. 0:56:32.866 --> 0:56:34.586 My last team that I think is gonna make a leap, 0:56:34.626 --> 0:56:38.786 and it's on just Bravado and Gusto and leadership alone. 0:56:39.466 --> 0:56:42.986 I'm going to Broncos. I know they play a brutal schedule. 0:56:43.026 --> 0:56:45.226 I know the AFC West is not getting any easier, 0:56:45.266 --> 0:56:48.546 but like I'm a Hackett guy. As far as ex's 0:56:48.586 --> 0:56:50.826 and osgo, clearly it didn't work. And now you put 0:56:50.826 --> 0:56:53.866 Sean Payton, which is such a cult personality, and again 0:56:53.906 --> 0:56:56.026 I'm biased. I watched the man for a year as 0:56:56.066 --> 0:56:58.106 my colleague on a show, and I saw how he operates. 0:56:58.586 --> 0:57:02.226 He's a genius, beautiful mind and when it comes to football, 0:57:02.266 --> 0:57:04.466 and he's one of these guys that doesn't stop. He's 0:57:04.466 --> 0:57:06.666 also a late guy. He's not into the office at 0:57:06.666 --> 0:57:09.306 six am. He's in the office till two am, and 0:57:09.346 --> 0:57:11.506 that's where his mind is festering and he's coming up 0:57:11.506 --> 0:57:14.426 with creative ideas. I just think, on Sean Payton alone, 0:57:14.466 --> 0:57:16.626 this Broncos team is not going to be any worse. 0:57:16.626 --> 0:57:18.386 They're going to be at least two to three games better, 0:57:18.546 --> 0:57:20.306 and I think they might be fighting for a playoff spot. 0:57:20.426 --> 0:57:23.226 Yeah, I agree. I think we saw the worst of 0:57:23.306 --> 0:57:25.506 Russ last year. I think he has too much pride 0:57:26.986 --> 0:57:29.426 to allow it to happen again. I think that team 0:57:29.466 --> 0:57:31.666 again was better than their record, and they had a 0:57:31.786 --> 0:57:35.186 you know, between injuries and poor play and dysfunction, whatever 0:57:35.186 --> 0:57:38.906 you want to call it. I think again, like certain teams, 0:57:39.226 --> 0:57:42.266 there's like an equity built in that last year, if 0:57:42.306 --> 0:57:44.026 like a couple of things, there are a two or 0:57:44.026 --> 0:57:45.946 three win better team than they were the year before. 0:57:45.986 --> 0:57:47.826 So like you almost carry that over with you and 0:57:48.506 --> 0:57:50.306 you know, and then it also works on the other way, right, 0:57:50.346 --> 0:57:53.026 Like I think a lot of people are saying, Minnesota, 0:57:53.066 --> 0:57:56.426 you go eleven and zero in one score games. How 0:57:56.506 --> 0:57:58.906 realistic is that? Although I thought Kevin O'Connell did a 0:57:58.906 --> 0:58:01.146 great job. You know, we called their playoff game against 0:58:01.146 --> 0:58:04.426 the Giants. They were a great story. But equity could 0:58:04.426 --> 0:58:06.946 work both ways, right. I think some teams have upside 0:58:06.946 --> 0:58:08.866 equity built in, and I think some people have a 0:58:08.866 --> 0:58:13.146 little built in depreciation that can we expect every bounce 0:58:13.186 --> 0:58:15.626 to go your way again? I don't know, I don't know. 0:58:15.626 --> 0:58:18.586 I think that's what makes every year so exciting. 0:58:18.946 --> 0:58:22.346 So excited to see you on Sunday again. I will reiterate, 0:58:22.466 --> 0:58:26.546 this is a great idea that we have come up with. 0:58:26.706 --> 0:58:32.266 This is Anthony Bourdaine meets John Madden meets Guy Fieri 0:58:32.626 --> 0:58:35.546 meets Gordon Ramsey. It is going to be I think 0:58:35.386 --> 0:58:38.186 we pitch it to like Bill Richards and Joel Santos 0:58:38.306 --> 0:58:41.506 and skip their amazing like cinematographer, and we say just 0:58:41.506 --> 0:58:44.306 pick a random crew and you follow them and you 0:58:44.386 --> 0:58:46.346 just eavesdrop on their dinner and we throw that up 0:58:46.386 --> 0:58:48.986 on two b or FS one or Fox Sports dot com. Greg, 0:58:48.986 --> 0:58:50.546 are you in it? Executive produce this thing? 0:58:50.666 --> 0:58:52.746 Make it work? Executive producer, Peter Schreger. 0:58:53.186 --> 0:58:56.706 That's it. I'll take it at that. To list the jobs, yes, 0:58:56.826 --> 0:59:00.146 we will take it. Greg. Good luck on Sunday. Thank 0:59:00.146 --> 0:59:01.946 you so much. Really quick before we leave, can you 0:59:01.986 --> 0:59:03.866 talk about the amazing work you guys are doing in 0:59:03.986 --> 0:59:07.026 Charlotte and how the foundation's going and all the latest there. 0:59:07.346 --> 0:59:10.386 I appreciate it. It's going great. We you know, we 0:59:10.666 --> 0:59:14.426 are very passionate. Actually just spoke at the World the 0:59:14.466 --> 0:59:18.186 Congress of Pediatric Cardiology, which is like a world summit. 0:59:18.226 --> 0:59:21.266 It was in Washington, d C. Last week, so I 0:59:21.306 --> 0:59:24.186 was actually out there. So it's something that we live with, 0:59:24.266 --> 0:59:26.506 something that we live and breathe and with our son 0:59:26.586 --> 0:59:29.546 TJ and what he's been through. But we take a 0:59:29.546 --> 0:59:31.746 lot of pride in our foundation. It's called the Hardy Shard. 0:59:31.826 --> 0:59:35.786 We we launched a pretty extensive program here in Charlotte, 0:59:35.786 --> 0:59:39.346 both in patient outpatient, new new heart center that we 0:59:39.346 --> 0:59:42.146 were able to help build and whatnot. So we actually 0:59:42.186 --> 0:59:46.946 just branched to our second location down in Charleston at 0:59:47.026 --> 0:59:50.026 MUSC Children's Hospice, so were able to expand to a 0:59:50.066 --> 0:59:52.906 second so we get a little more regional kind of footprints. 0:59:52.906 --> 0:59:54.786 So it's something that we love. It's something that we're 0:59:54.866 --> 0:59:58.226 very passionate about. And you know, our goal is to 0:59:58.386 --> 0:59:59.946 try to make the path of a lot of people 0:59:59.946 --> 1:00:02.746 that find themselves where we were ten years ago, have 1:00:02.786 --> 1:00:04.786 a little bit of an easier path than our son did. 1:00:04.826 --> 1:00:07.626 And if we do that, did mission accomplished. But it's 1:00:07.666 --> 1:00:09.666 something that we love doing and we take a lot 1:00:09.666 --> 1:00:11.546 of pride and I appreciate you let me talk about it. 1:00:11.946 --> 1:00:14.146 What a blessing, dude. Thank you, Good luck on Sunday. 1:00:14.146 --> 1:00:16.026 I'll be rooting you on all season. And of course 1:00:16.106 --> 1:00:18.186 the listeners here have gotten to know a different side 1:00:18.186 --> 1:00:20.026 of you that I think they'll enjoy, and you and 1:00:20.146 --> 1:00:21.986 Kevin are going to kick ass and send the best 1:00:22.026 --> 1:00:25.146 to Bruce and Zions and Aaron and Tom of course. 1:00:25.226 --> 1:00:26.906 Hi Will buddy, it's always good chat with you man. 1:00:26.946 --> 1:00:37.106 Thanks that was awesome. 1:00:37.146 --> 1:00:39.986 Greg Olsen the week of NFL kickoff, and he's probably 1:00:39.986 --> 1:00:41.826 got so many things on his plate, gave us an hour. 1:00:42.466 --> 1:00:45.106 We so appreciate it. Again, Greg and Kevin Burkhart two 1:00:45.146 --> 1:00:47.266 the best guys you'll ever meet. I say that about 1:00:47.266 --> 1:00:48.866 all my guests, I really mean it this time. I 1:00:48.946 --> 1:00:51.586 usually am saying that with just my hopes of them 1:00:51.626 --> 1:00:55.466 coming back on the pod in the future. This week, 1:00:55.986 --> 1:00:58.226 for the monologue, we just kicked it off, but for 1:00:58.346 --> 1:01:00.706 the post interview, I really wanted to give a quick 1:01:01.306 --> 1:01:05.106 little essay of sorts and bring in a different guest 1:01:05.146 --> 1:01:07.066 on the microphone. You guys have heard me reference the 1:01:07.146 --> 1:01:11.266 name Jason English. He works for iHeartMedia and he helped 1:01:11.306 --> 1:01:14.786 put together this podcast and has been such an important 1:01:14.786 --> 1:01:17.066 piece of the success of the season with Peter Scheger. 1:01:17.106 --> 1:01:19.826 But he's also become a friend. And you know, I 1:01:19.906 --> 1:01:21.746 was really shookn up, and I was a little surprised 1:01:21.746 --> 1:01:23.586 by how shaken up I was by the passing of 1:01:23.666 --> 1:01:27.066 Jimmy Buffett this weekend. And I am not a parrothead. 1:01:27.226 --> 1:01:30.266 I did not go to the shows. I you know, 1:01:30.426 --> 1:01:33.026 don't live and breathe all the lyrics. But I love 1:01:33.106 --> 1:01:37.866 what Jimmy Buffett stood for Jimmy Buffett, obviously the musician. 1:01:38.146 --> 1:01:40.986 It was a diehard NFL fan as well, And as 1:01:40.986 --> 1:01:44.306 the story goes, he was performing as a native of Mississippi. 1:01:44.306 --> 1:01:46.146 He was performing in New Orleans in the late sixties, 1:01:46.146 --> 1:01:48.706 and it was the same time the Saints were starting 1:01:48.706 --> 1:01:50.826 off as an expansion NFL team, and it was as 1:01:50.826 --> 1:01:53.386 casual as he was a performer in the local bars 1:01:53.426 --> 1:01:55.386 in the French Quarter and the players would come in 1:01:55.746 --> 1:01:58.426 to drink and have dinners, and he drew up friendships 1:01:58.426 --> 1:02:01.306 with these guys, and sure enough, the first ever Saints 1:02:01.386 --> 1:02:04.466 game in nineteen sixty seven at tu Lane Stadium, Jimmy 1:02:04.466 --> 1:02:06.346 Buffett was there. He was there, and he's been a 1:02:06.626 --> 1:02:11.386 ever since. And he passed away on late Friday night 1:02:11.506 --> 1:02:14.066 of cancer that he was battling and had not announced publicly, 1:02:14.106 --> 1:02:17.386 but close friends apparently knew. And I was really shaken 1:02:17.466 --> 1:02:20.026 up by it because here's just always been a fixture 1:02:20.066 --> 1:02:23.626 in my life, and Jimmy Buffett brings positivity and brings joy. 1:02:23.746 --> 1:02:26.506 And you know, you sit out at the pool, you 1:02:26.546 --> 1:02:29.946 could put on a few different sets of playlists, and 1:02:29.986 --> 1:02:32.106 I think the Jimmy Buffett playlist is one of those 1:02:32.146 --> 1:02:34.946 that's probably played at fifty percent of every pool's backyards 1:02:34.986 --> 1:02:37.186 and barbecues that you can find in summer. And I 1:02:37.226 --> 1:02:39.626 thought it was almost fitting that Jimmy Buffett waited till 1:02:39.626 --> 1:02:42.586 after the summer to finally say farewell. It was like, 1:02:42.626 --> 1:02:44.266 all right, I'm gonna get you all one last summer 1:02:44.266 --> 1:02:46.986 and then on Labor Day weekend, that's where we're going 1:02:47.026 --> 1:02:50.706 to ride off into the sky. I spoke to Sean 1:02:50.746 --> 1:02:53.426 Payton this weekend because he and Buffett had a really 1:02:53.626 --> 1:02:57.666 close relationship and we were exchanging texts about it. Peyton 1:02:58.346 --> 1:03:00.906 had shot had Jimmy Buffett in the locker room after 1:03:00.946 --> 1:03:03.186 they won the NFC Championship. Came over the Vikings and 1:03:03.226 --> 1:03:05.186 Brett Farv in two thousand and nine, one of the 1:03:05.186 --> 1:03:08.026 most epic NFC Championship games ever, and there was Jimmy 1:03:08.066 --> 1:03:10.426 Buffett amongst all the players, celebrating as if he was 1:03:10.506 --> 1:03:12.546 part of the team, and Peyton said there was no 1:03:12.626 --> 1:03:15.306 way he wasn't having Jimmy in there. And Buffett's story, 1:03:15.386 --> 1:03:17.906 as the legend goes, is that he got there the 1:03:17.986 --> 1:03:21.146 day before from a private flight from Bora Bora. But 1:03:21.266 --> 1:03:23.346 on the way from that private flight, they had to 1:03:23.386 --> 1:03:26.146 stop because the tire blew out on that private plane. 1:03:26.186 --> 1:03:28.186 And if that's not the most Jimmy Buffett story ever, 1:03:28.226 --> 1:03:31.306 I don't know what is. Ten years later, the Saints 1:03:31.386 --> 1:03:35.226 go back to the NFC Championship game. They're hosting the 1:03:35.346 --> 1:03:38.306 La Rams and Sean Payton flew in you know who, 1:03:38.386 --> 1:03:41.146 Jimmy Buffett to sing the national anthem. Over the last 1:03:41.146 --> 1:03:44.386 several days, we have seen tweets from JJ Watt, who 1:03:44.426 --> 1:03:47.426 apparently has seen Buffett multiple times in concert, and it's 1:03:47.426 --> 1:03:49.746 one of them. Greg Bentzel, who is the pr chief 1:03:49.786 --> 1:03:51.666 for a long time for the Saints, had a really 1:03:51.706 --> 1:03:54.066 strong connection with him and then one that blew me away. 1:03:54.066 --> 1:03:56.666 And if he wasn't calling the game on Thursday night, 1:03:56.706 --> 1:03:57.826 I think I was going to bring him on and 1:03:57.866 --> 1:04:00.146 just talk about his connection to Jimmy Buffet. Chris Collinsworth 1:04:00.226 --> 1:04:03.266 had a flurry of tweets and as a University of 1:04:03.266 --> 1:04:07.746 Florida graduate, I think he Andmmy Buffett had a forty 1:04:07.826 --> 1:04:11.466 or fifty year friendship where you know, he had multiple 1:04:11.546 --> 1:04:16.426 multiple tweets morning the passing of Jimmy Buffett. I mentioned 1:04:16.466 --> 1:04:18.626 the philosophy and the approach to life like don't get 1:04:18.626 --> 1:04:21.186 it straight, don't get it twisted. Jimmy Buffett was a businessman. 1:04:21.226 --> 1:04:23.386 This guy's a billionaire, and no one branded himself better 1:04:23.386 --> 1:04:26.506 than Jimmy Buffett in this laid back, cool Caribbean vibe 1:04:26.706 --> 1:04:29.986 with Margarita Phlle. But that Key West thing, I think 1:04:30.026 --> 1:04:33.306 he lived and breathed that he had multiple homes. He 1:04:33.346 --> 1:04:35.946 was living out in California for a long time. Obviously 1:04:36.026 --> 1:04:38.626 has the New Orleans, He's got the Key West. He 1:04:38.986 --> 1:04:40.866 had a place in North Haven, New York, which is 1:04:40.906 --> 1:04:42.746 on the eastern tip of Long Island, where he would 1:04:42.746 --> 1:04:45.466 spend his summers and spent COVID And I think the 1:04:45.946 --> 1:04:48.786 message that you get from Jimmy Buffett is like, enjoy 1:04:48.826 --> 1:04:51.226 every single day, and yes there's work to be done, 1:04:51.266 --> 1:04:54.426 but when you're not working, enjoy it, relish in it, 1:04:55.266 --> 1:04:57.586 relish it and really savor it. And gosh, as we 1:04:57.626 --> 1:05:00.106 start the NFL season and what we have going, I 1:05:00.146 --> 1:05:02.306 just thought it'd be cool to bring Jimmy Buffett up 1:05:02.346 --> 1:05:03.706 and kind of give him a little bit of an 1:05:03.746 --> 1:05:07.026 obituary on the season with Peter Schrager. And as we're 1:05:07.026 --> 1:05:10.586 talking about it, Jason English is here, and Jason's been 1:05:10.626 --> 1:05:12.906 a great friend for the last year, and you mentioned 1:05:12.986 --> 1:05:16.186 Jason that you yourself were like prey taking aback and 1:05:16.386 --> 1:05:18.626 obviously had a connection to Buffett as well. 1:05:18.986 --> 1:05:21.706 Yeah, there are some of these celebrity deaths that just 1:05:21.826 --> 1:05:25.226 hit a little different. I'd say Tim Russert was one 1:05:25.466 --> 1:05:29.466 many years ago. Anthony Bourdain, who you mentioned earlier, Jimmy 1:05:29.506 --> 1:05:32.386 Buffett was the same. It just feels like the world's 1:05:32.386 --> 1:05:35.906 a little a little less fun without him in it. 1:05:36.066 --> 1:05:39.546 My parents were big Jimmy Buffett fans. We'd go down 1:05:39.626 --> 1:05:43.546 to Sarasota, Florida. We wouldn't listen to Jimmy Buffett at 1:05:43.546 --> 1:05:46.466 any other time of the year, but during those trips 1:05:46.986 --> 1:05:49.786 we'd have the Floridays. These were with These were tapes 1:05:49.826 --> 1:05:52.226 when I when I was a kid, Floridays off to 1:05:52.266 --> 1:05:56.266 see the Lizard. We of course had the greatest hits, the. 1:05:55.626 --> 1:05:56.666 Songs that you know by heart. 1:05:56.746 --> 1:05:59.546 Yeah, yeah, the Yellow Yellow Album. I got to see 1:05:59.586 --> 1:06:04.146 Jimmy Buffett a couple times. I'm glad I ticked that off. 1:06:05.026 --> 1:06:07.506 When my father passed away. We actually used the Jimmy 1:06:07.546 --> 1:06:11.306 Buffett quote in the in the you know the little 1:06:11.346 --> 1:06:15.426 card with the obituary, a quote from he went to Paris, 1:06:16.106 --> 1:06:19.226 which was some of his magic, some of it tragic. 1:06:19.386 --> 1:06:20.426 But I had a. 1:06:20.346 --> 1:06:24.426 Good life all the way, which you know, Jimmy Buffett 1:06:24.426 --> 1:06:28.106 definitely lived a full life, great life. These tributes coming in. 1:06:28.226 --> 1:06:32.266 Paul McCartney. The Colin jo Just book has a Jimmy 1:06:32.306 --> 1:06:35.066 Buffett story in it, so you figure those will just 1:06:35.146 --> 1:06:38.986 keep pouring out. And Jimmy Buffett, the legend will never die, 1:06:39.226 --> 1:06:42.466 the music will never die, and memories I have of 1:06:42.826 --> 1:06:45.786 listening to him with my father certainly never die. 1:06:45.906 --> 1:06:47.986 Oh dude, that was beautiful. Thank you for sharing that. 1:06:49.106 --> 1:06:51.386 You mentioned, Paul McCartney. I thought Cheryl Crow had a 1:06:51.426 --> 1:06:55.106 really amazing thing. And then on CBS Sunday morning, one 1:06:55.146 --> 1:06:57.506 of the commentators was close with him, and you know, 1:06:57.586 --> 1:07:00.146 he was telling a story about Buffett's last days and 1:07:00.186 --> 1:07:03.306 those who knew him knew he's going through. But the 1:07:03.386 --> 1:07:08.586 name of his most recent single, I believe, is something 1:07:08.626 --> 1:07:11.906 about taking a gummy right. Did you read this from McCartney. 1:07:11.546 --> 1:07:14.746 And the story goes is that he was having a 1:07:14.786 --> 1:07:17.986 small private dinner in the Hamptons and invited was Paul 1:07:17.986 --> 1:07:22.146 and Linda McCartney and they're there and she trips and 1:07:22.426 --> 1:07:24.746 like stumbles and she says, oh, I think the Gummy's 1:07:24.826 --> 1:07:27.586 kicking in. And he says, that's the name of a song. 1:07:27.866 --> 1:07:29.946 And Paul mccartny's on the other side of the table 1:07:30.026 --> 1:07:31.666 saying what, Like, what do you mean that's the name 1:07:31.706 --> 1:07:33.346 of a song. He's like, that's the name of a song. 1:07:33.426 --> 1:07:36.626 So before he passed, Jimmy Buffett, I believe, wrote and 1:07:36.946 --> 1:07:41.066 performed a song saying that's the gummy kicking in, and 1:07:41.106 --> 1:07:43.466 you know that's that says a lot about where his 1:07:43.506 --> 1:07:46.186 inspiration for lyrics comes. But all the readings that I've 1:07:46.226 --> 1:07:48.066 done and all the stuff that I've done this deep time, 1:07:48.106 --> 1:07:50.746 and I better believe. On Sunday I was blasting, you know, 1:07:50.826 --> 1:07:55.786 everything from Finn's It's the Cheeseburger in Paradise to Monday 1:07:55.826 --> 1:08:00.666 Morning Again. My father was more, you know, Steely Dan 1:08:00.786 --> 1:08:03.946 in the House and the Doobie Brothers and Spencer Davis 1:08:03.946 --> 1:08:06.786 Group and some of that classic rock and not so 1:08:06.906 --> 1:08:11.306 much the Margaritaville and the Jimmy Buffett style. But I 1:08:11.306 --> 1:08:14.546 have grown to appreciate the Buffet approach to life and 1:08:14.666 --> 1:08:18.146 hopefully hopefully can keep that going where when you're off 1:08:18.146 --> 1:08:20.026 the clock, it's okay to be off the clock. You 1:08:20.066 --> 1:08:21.946 don't have to live online. You can just have fun 1:08:21.986 --> 1:08:24.906 and enjoy. And I think that's a beautiful message at 1:08:25.346 --> 1:08:27.226 you said your father brought that to you and that 1:08:27.626 --> 1:08:30.026 you gave that quote at his funeral. That's beautiful. 1:08:31.066 --> 1:08:35.266 Thank you for having me on it. Du A ten 1:08:35.306 --> 1:08:38.946 second shout out to the Duke football team. We have 1:08:39.026 --> 1:08:44.146 my Riley Leonard Heisman trophy stock looking good after night. 1:08:44.226 --> 1:08:46.266 Off off camera. You and I are off Mike. You 1:08:46.266 --> 1:08:48.146 and I have talked about Riley Leonard way too much. 1:08:48.146 --> 1:08:50.546 What is your connection to Riley Leonard the Duke quarterback? 1:08:50.946 --> 1:08:56.946 I get the Phil Steele season preview every July, and 1:08:57.026 --> 1:09:02.066 I'm as a Duke fans often not don't ever see Duke. 1:09:02.226 --> 1:09:04.586 You see coach k and you see Carlos Boozer and 1:09:04.626 --> 1:09:06.546 Trech and Langdon. You don't see these guys. 1:09:06.586 --> 1:09:11.226 And I'm looking at the quarterback projections and it's Caleb Williams, 1:09:11.346 --> 1:09:16.146 it's the Drake may from unc NNIX in Washington, but 1:09:16.226 --> 1:09:17.706 it's Riley Leonard number three. 1:09:17.906 --> 1:09:20.426 So I did not realize what we had going into 1:09:20.506 --> 1:09:20.986 this season. 1:09:21.066 --> 1:09:24.946 So I'm jumping on the bandwagon and uh, good good 1:09:24.946 --> 1:09:25.746 win last night. 1:09:26.426 --> 1:09:29.666 Great win. Against Clemson. Although I want to mention for 1:09:29.706 --> 1:09:33.346 our listeners Arizona thirty eight to three of the Northern 1:09:33.346 --> 1:09:37.466 Arizona and they are the official team of the season 1:09:37.546 --> 1:09:40.426 picture Matt Rule was also they lost, so they're done. 1:09:40.506 --> 1:09:42.906 It's like survival. Like Matt Rule, you can go kick 1:09:42.986 --> 1:09:44.706 Rocks at this point. I know you came on our show, 1:09:44.706 --> 1:09:46.466 but you can't lose to Minnesota in the first week 1:09:46.506 --> 1:09:48.946 after you come on the season. So Jed Fish and 1:09:48.986 --> 1:09:52.986 the Arizona Wildcats and you're Duke Blue Devils and Aaron, 1:09:53.146 --> 1:09:56.226 I don't even know what Aaron's what do you Carlton 1:09:56.306 --> 1:09:59.226 College in college? There we go the Knights no nights 1:09:59.506 --> 1:10:03.466 nights there as well. Okay, season starting here we go. 1:10:03.466 --> 1:10:05.666 We're gonna have one more podcast I think before they 1:10:05.706 --> 1:10:08.426 kick off. Might want to post this on Tuesday, and 1:10:08.466 --> 1:10:10.386 that one might go up Thursday with just my predictions. 1:10:10.386 --> 1:10:12.266 But I'm not even sure we want to cut this one. 1:10:12.266 --> 1:10:13.546 Sure we might want this one to live as the 1:10:13.586 --> 1:10:15.186 top of your feed for the entire weekend. It was 1:10:15.226 --> 1:10:18.146 that good. We'll figure it out on behalf of Jason, Aaron, 1:10:18.466 --> 1:10:20.986 all the folks in La Greg Olsen awesome as always, 1:10:21.066 --> 1:10:24.426 and put on some Jimmy Buffett folks. The summer's over, 1:10:24.586 --> 1:10:30.426 but it doesn't mean you can't keep listening to his message. 1:10:37.466 --> 1:10:40.146 The Season with Peter Schrager is a production of the 1:10:40.306 --> 1:10:44.266 NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 1:10:44.346 --> 1:10:48.266 visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 1:10:48.306 --> 1:10:49.226 your podcasts.