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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. It's hump day. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast presented

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Speaker 1: by New Era. My name is Dan Hanss and I

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Speaker 1: am joined in the room filled with heroes Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Chris Westling, and Greg Rosetal. What is up, boys, Hey Dan?

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Speaker 1: Hump day YOLO. Little concern that Dan is progressing through

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Speaker 1: hump day by drinking Lacroix UM whatever that stuff is,

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Speaker 1: the soda that you're drinking, It's just not a drink. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't match. It does not match well with the

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Speaker 1: Dan hands Is persona that I well, maybe it's time

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Speaker 1: for everyone should evolve. We've known each other for many years.

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Speaker 1: Mr is evolution. And if you think I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: be drinking a big old bottle of you Who for

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Speaker 1: the rest of my life diet coke, I'm not asking

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Speaker 1: for you Who. It was not a request for you

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Speaker 1: to UM to back cycle into you Who. But the

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Speaker 1: I it do not fit you. I think it works

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Speaker 1: perfectly with with a guy this concerned about his hair

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Speaker 1: and just loving hair products. It's like writing on the brand.

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Speaker 1: I have Lacroix backstory, Lacroix, which if you're not aware

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Speaker 1: is a flavored soda water A little a little trendy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's very popular, at least in southern California. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if it's a national thing, but we have

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Speaker 1: to today's our video show, and you could check it out, uh,

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Speaker 1: starting on Thursday at I don't know, nine am Eastern eastern,

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Speaker 1: nine am Pacific on Thursday. Uh, you can check it out.

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Speaker 1: But we we do like fancy boys. We go, we

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Speaker 1: get makeup um for the video show, and uh Daddy

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Speaker 1: likes to pop down the hallway after the makeup and

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Speaker 1: go into the little talent area holding room where Daddy

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Speaker 1: gets free stuff. Um. Sometimes I get a lollipop. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes I open the fridge and they have bottled

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Speaker 1: water and gatorade and now for the first time ever,

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Speaker 1: it's fully stocked with Lacroix. So today is a success

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Speaker 1: and at a high level. Not buying a word of

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Speaker 1: of it at all, but I will allow you to

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Speaker 1: that's your story. You can live with that story, especially

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Speaker 1: calling yourself Daddy in a room full of matt We're

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Speaker 1: not your yellow Uh. Big show today A trade involving

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Speaker 1: my beloved New York Football Jets. Also Aaron Rodgers doing

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Speaker 1: some business with the Packers. Long awaited on that front.

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Speaker 1: And then, of course, oh my goodness, it's that time. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Every year it's a tradition, we um pick a team

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Speaker 1: of around the NFL. And coming up later today the

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Speaker 1: vitally important part of the first step of the process,

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Speaker 1: nominations for a team of around the NFL who will

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Speaker 1: succeed the Los Angeles Rams. Uh in as the team

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Speaker 1: that we all support as the podcast, we adopt them

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Speaker 1: as a podcast we all nominate. Couldn't be back to

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Speaker 1: back ran this action. We don't know, Greg Well, I

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Speaker 1: I like that idea, but I already know that that's

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Speaker 1: a non starter, so that will never be brought up.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, if no one wants the Rams again,

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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna be rooting for like five teams, so

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Speaker 1: you go, And uh, one bit of housekeeping before we

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Speaker 1: get to the news. Uh. As you may be aware,

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Speaker 1: the show. We are heading to London, UH for ten

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Speaker 1: days starting on Saturday. Can you believe it? UH? And

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Speaker 1: one of the events were doing a bunch of stuff

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Speaker 1: over there. We're all excited UH to do it. But

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Speaker 1: one of the events that personally I'm the most excited

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Speaker 1: for is doing a live show from London. And we

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Speaker 1: now have information information Erica tam Posey the loose cannon

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Speaker 1: behind the glass. It will be held at what is

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Speaker 1: the name of this place, The Curtain Club, The Curtain

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Speaker 1: Club in short UH, in shortage, that's UH on Curtain

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Speaker 1: Road on Tuesday. The show begins at seven o'clock. Keep

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Speaker 1: an eye out from our respective Twitter handles. UH today

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Speaker 1: Wednesday will send out a link to get tickets. Limited tickets.

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Speaker 1: This is not gonna be This isn't Wembley Stadium. There's

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Speaker 1: a live show with the heroes, A special live show.

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Speaker 1: That's what we do around here. So UH, next Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: hey guys, where are you gonna be at this hour

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Speaker 1: forget I would go over to my friend's house up

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Speaker 1: was not so alright, So Mark returns to his homeland.

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Speaker 1: That is the the subplot that should not be overlooked.

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Speaker 1: Here Mark returns home. Let's do some news horlack like

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Speaker 1: I had letters here just from everybody out there, and

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Speaker 1: pay r E l a X an original Chris Westling composition.

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Speaker 1: Can you believe it? Great? Great musician list. People don't

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Speaker 1: know that about electronic house musician. Just pop some molly

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Speaker 1: doing things in the studio you guys don't even know about,

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Speaker 1: like the Beatles and nineteen sixty eight, just fearless like

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Speaker 1: Steve Ioki and um. All right, we'll get Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: in a second. But let's start with a big trade

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Speaker 1: that went down about an hour before we came upstairs.

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Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater a New York jet for a brief time

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Speaker 1: about you know, five months or so. But in that time,

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Speaker 1: UH and the Jets pulled the trigger on a trade

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Speaker 1: the best case scenario for all of your plans. You

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Speaker 1: well could be a one and done situation. It's just complicated.

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Speaker 1: of business, kept him there the whole time. There is

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Speaker 1: like Geno Atkins has not missed a game since Dunlop,

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Speaker 1: been there every single game. And Dunlap was one of

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Speaker 1: It's like the dude is so into his diet. He

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Speaker 1: And if you missed Fridays show, Mark banned the phrase

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Speaker 1: best life and now you're using it. I actually did

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Speaker 1: not just say it. A second game you said something

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Speaker 1: I allowed Erica to use it in an Instagram post

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Speaker 1: Pank You, Erica, did you clear it with Mark? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I was like, hey, do you mind if I I

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Speaker 1: was like, it's cool in this situation. It feels organic.

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Speaker 1: Here a monster Mark, how about Dunlop and Atkins both

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Speaker 1: and they draft a J. Green in Dalton, and they've

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Speaker 1: gotten better as they've Atkins was pretty great right away,

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Speaker 1: although take him at Dunlap has gotten better and better

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Speaker 1: as his careers go on. So you gotta give a

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Speaker 1: little credit of the coaches too. Uh. In the Eagles

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Speaker 1: nest Is, ESPN's Adam Schefter reports that Alshon Jeffrey, their

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Speaker 1: two games of the season as it recovers from offseason

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Speaker 1: shoulder surgery. He's expected to be activated off the team's

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Speaker 1: publist this weekend. Uh. And that's notable because if they

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Speaker 1: kept him on the publist, that would mean he would

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Speaker 1: this is a situation obviously that he'll return before then,

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Speaker 1: maybe as soon as Week three. And just like with

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Speaker 1: the Carson Wentz situation west Uh, the Eagles, in defending

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Speaker 1: their championship, are smart to play the long game with

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Speaker 1: one of their most important players. Sure they are. If

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Speaker 1: you're an opponent, you hit the lottery if you play

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Speaker 1: the Eagles in September because nobody knows if Carson Wentz

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Speaker 1: is gonna be ready, Nobody knows if Nick Foles is

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Speaker 1: gonna play well. Alshon Jeffrey won't be out there. They've

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Speaker 1: got a lot of guys coming back from injuries. They've

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Speaker 1: got Nigel, Nigel Bradam their best linebackers suspended week one,

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Speaker 1: Jordan Hicks another linebacker coming back from achilles. This is it.

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Speaker 1: This is a banged up team right now, so you

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Speaker 1: want to get them earlier. Algil Art, Nelson Agilar hasn't

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Speaker 1: practiced much. Mike Wallace, who I think is an upgrade,

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Speaker 1: hasn't really done anything in the in the preseason. So

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Speaker 1: you're looking at like maybe Shelton Gibson is is a

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Speaker 1: big factor. Uh week one, you know you're Dallas Godder

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Speaker 1: the backup tight end. They're losing their missing Timmy Joern

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Speaker 1: again for about half the year, so you're right, they've

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Speaker 1: Goddard and zach Ertz are going to be used in

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Speaker 1: two tight end sets probably very um, you know, a lot.

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Speaker 1: And they have the Falcons obviously in the kickoff, then

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Speaker 1: I think the Bucks might be a little bit better

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Speaker 1: it's just that that's not the worst schedule for them

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Speaker 1: to try to get through this, but they've got to

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Speaker 1: get over their own issues. I liked speaking at Kendricks.

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Speaker 1: One of his scouting reports was of tight end zach

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Speaker 1: ertz Uh. He said, you know, six, the best receiver

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Speaker 1: on the team, but he's not somebody that loves the

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Speaker 1: blocking side of being a tight end. And I like this.

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Speaker 1: I like different like football parlance. I enjoy that Uh.

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Speaker 1: the modern lexicon a few months after the fact, he

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Speaker 1: Packers trade oh trade alert involving a quarterback. Another one

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Speaker 1: nice way to book end the news Packers trading quarterback

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Speaker 1: Brett Hunley to the Seahawks. Tom Pellicero reports our own

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Speaker 1: Tom Pallisero. Uh. The conversation from rap Sheet. A two thousand,

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixth round draft pick. Hunley, who flopped in his

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Speaker 1: audition last year to be Aaron Rodgers backup, now gets

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Speaker 1: a chance to back up Russell Wilson and Mark Sessler.

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Speaker 1: The man who flopped in his audition to be the

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Speaker 1: Browns franchise quarterback last year, Deshaun Kaiser, has himself steady

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Speaker 1: work as Aaron Rodgers new backup. I mean, I guess

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Speaker 1: you could say the writing was on the wall when

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Speaker 1: they traded for Kaiser, But okay, um, I just for me,

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Speaker 1: I I don't know how I'd like to see behind

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Speaker 1: phund closed doors what they fell forward the Shaun Kaiser

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Speaker 1: because one thing about him last year was a turnover machine.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot to like that. He's an absolute turnover machine.

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Speaker 1: How is that a huge upgrade over over Hunley to

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Speaker 1: Huntley was also? I think that I think that neither

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Speaker 1: the answer. That's what I'd say. Kaiser got banged last year.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, okay, but I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: suddenly like view him as the one of the steadier

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Speaker 1: backups in the league. I'm not. I just haven't seen that.

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Speaker 1: We haven't seen that. I just thought I'm saying maybe

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Speaker 1: we shouldn't write them off because last year was a

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Speaker 1: sinkhole in Cleveland, you know what I mean? Project watch

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Speaker 1: out for Alex Magoo in Seattle, by the way, try

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Speaker 1: keeping him down. He's a deep I think he's got

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Speaker 1: to make the team now. Well, if he doesn't, then

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Speaker 1: my comment will go by the wayside. There's some buzz

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Speaker 1: circling back to Hard Knocks Mark that um Devin could Juice,

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Speaker 1: for a roster spot. Your take on that, well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Seth Develove has been so involved in um sort of

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Speaker 1: We were like magic crystals and stones. So there's a

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00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: views himself as something of a free agent, if you

638
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: will us, Yeah, an agnostic, a free agent, a searcher,

639
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: and and uh, a man that carries stones and crystals. No,

640
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: I don't get into conduced stones and crystals. That's a little.

641
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: That's a lot of um. So let's let's go over

642
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: before we get into the nomination process. Uh. And remember

643
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: we each nominated team, and for a team to be

644
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: the team around the NFL, it has to be unanimous.

645
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 1: All four of us must agree that that is the team. UM.

646
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: Two thousand seventeen, The Los Angeles Rams, we got on board.

647
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: There were some positive buzz around the Rams entering the season,

648
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: but I think we still kind of got in there

649
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: on the ground floor before they had their final eleven

650
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 1: and no one knew what they would be when we

651
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: picked them as team of at That was good. The

652
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: year before was Vikings, the Minnesota Vikings, which that I

653
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,240
Speaker 1: would say was on my part of very forward thinking

654
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: um exercise seeing what they would become. But just like

655
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 1: choosing the only season where Mike Zimmer didn't overachieve or

656
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 1: didn't make the players basically the one bad Mike Zimmer,

657
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: that is another way to put it. And what I

658
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: like is that that was a unanimous smoke, but by

659
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: the end of the season, apparently only I voted for

660
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: that way. The show play was self inflicted subplots ever

661
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: in the history of this program, was the Vikings that

662
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: you started off five and oh uh, and then they

663
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:03,280
Speaker 1: proceeded to lose a number of heartbreaking games, losing three points,

664
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 1: two points, one point, and marketting more and more uncomfortable

665
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 1: and self conscious about being the man that nominated the

666
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: Vikings inane well about like oh my god, people are

667
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: you like turned totally against them, by the time they

668
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: were five and three. They embarrassed me. They embarrassed me.

669
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: But just simultaneously Dan was acting like retroactively that he

670
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: had voted for the Raiders and like nominated the Raiders,

671
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: a very entertaining Raiders team that went twelve and four,

672
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: another team that was kind of under the radar. I

673
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: always thought that was the team. So I was the

674
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: only year they over Yes, I was a little salty

675
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 1: that the Raiders didn't get picked, so maybe the Vikings

676
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: failing was more validation it was. It was a tense

677
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 1: environment where I think we even had to have a

678
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: couple of conversations as a group outside of the podcast

679
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 1: to discuss the year before. Speaking of tense, I believe

680
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: that was the year two thousand fifteen of the then

681
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 1: San Diego Chargers. Now that was the Cardinals, al right,

682
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: Cardinals was the first year. Correct, Panthers first, we couldn't

683
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:11,879
Speaker 1: figured the Panthers. Panthers was the first year, then the Chargers,

684
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: and then the Cardinals, Vikings Rams, that's the order, So

685
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 1: this is that's close enough, This must be the sixth year.

686
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:23,240
Speaker 1: Who based off that? Um, so we're gonna each nominate

687
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: a team and then we will make the announcement. Uh,

688
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: make it official next week from London, maybe even at

689
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: our live show. That could be fun. But unless we

690
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 1: can't all agree, yeah, well we'll figure it out. It

691
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,319
Speaker 1: will get decided one way or the other. So why

692
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: don't we get into it again? The floor, uh is

693
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: we each get the floor to really make a cell.

694
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: And this is your chance. So the more research you did,

695
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,919
Speaker 1: the more thought you put into it, you'll probably get

696
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 1: what you put in. So Mark Sesler, why don't you

697
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: get us going with your two thousand eight teen nomination

698
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: for the team around the NFL West talked about searching

699
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 1: and growing and changing throughout this process, and I long,

700
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: for long a time, many years said that I simply

701
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 1: would not even root for much less often not even

702
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: watch a team that plays in a dome for for

703
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: aesthetic reasons. Drove me nuts. Just felt like I like

704
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 1: the elements, like the snow. I don't even unless the

705
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: entire podcast you've been talking about. Yes, so so, but

706
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: I but I need to change on some things in

707
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: life and this is this is one of them. And

708
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: the team that I'm nominating, number one, plays in the dome,

709
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: number two. It is a It is a city that

710
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 1: if I had a chance to just vanish for maybe

711
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: three or four decades, just ghost the all of civilization

712
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 1: of society. It is not there's in a city I

713
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: might pick. It is high on my radar. I had

714
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 1: one of the best weeks ever there before one of

715
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,399
Speaker 1: our Super bowls. Dan and I hung out late into

716
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:59,879
Speaker 1: the night, listening to incredible music, drinking incredible and by

717
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: an incredible drinks out of small plastic cups from from

718
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: place to place, up and down the street. This is

719
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: a city you can find that. This is a city

720
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 1: where Greg Rosenthal and his youth in his heyday and

721
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: or maybe I should say his salad days for appropriate

722
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: hung out with comedian Anthony Jeselnick doing a host of

723
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: mind expanding drugs, among other things, Listen to a bunch

724
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,800
Speaker 1: of hot wrap, listen to hot rap, became a became

725
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: a rap fan of many sorts, got jailed. I think

726
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: we know what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the

727
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints. Because here's the thing. The Saints were

728
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: also a team on my radar for years and years

729
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 1: for consistently churning out milk toasts eight and eight campaigns

730
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 1: where you just couldn't figure like the GM being the

731
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 1: GM of the football team and the basketball did not

732
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: at all, did not at all, but last year. It's

733
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: but last year the results were different. I feel that

734
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: Sean Payton has somewhat proven again how incredibly creative he

735
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: can be as a coach. You've got Drew Brees and look,

736
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: it's probably not the final season, but this, this team

737
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 1: right now in an incredibly stocked NFC is going to

738
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: be in a big matchup almost every single week. And

739
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,320
Speaker 1: this Teddy Bridgewater trade helped a lot in my decision

740
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: making because they're not the team in my NFL dot

741
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: Com picks that went out today who I picked to

742
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl, so that doesn't really matter to me.

743
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: But I love that they went out and got a

744
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: capable back of if anything happens to breeze, you have

745
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater in there. You have one of the most

746
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 1: fascinating back fields in all of football with Alvin Kamara

747
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 1: and Mark with a k Ingram when he comes back

748
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 1: from this little pe D band. You've got talent all

749
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 1: over the place on both sides of the ball. I

750
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: think they're the most fascinating division in all of football

751
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,919
Speaker 1: and this is my team. I never thought I would

752
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: nominate the New Orleans Saints as team of a t L,

753
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 1: but I looked at the schedule and from wire to

754
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: wire they have incredible matchups, and I think even if

755
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 1: they don't even win the division, if they got in

756
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: as a wild card, they're the kind of team that

757
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: could get hot with that coach and that quarterback and

758
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,800
Speaker 1: get back to the super Bowl. It's almost a decade

759
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: to go. They did it the first time. How about

760
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: you closed this whole thing with another wait way to

761
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,760
Speaker 1: get out ahead of the curve on those plucky, upstart

762
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: Saints that are super Bowl. Well, we continue to pick.

763
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: I guarantee you, lot of guarantee you it will not

764
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 1: be the last super Bowl type team in this nomination process,

765
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: especially from the little gigglers over here. You guys are unbelievable.

766
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,439
Speaker 1: To do that. That is unbelievable. Staff, I know what's

767
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: coming up. I know what's coming up. I'm responding to

768
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: Chris Wesleyan's doesn't burn, nice burn. This guy picked the

769
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 1: pant This guys, always Cardinals were a super Bowl team.

770
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: New Panthems were a super Bowl team. Come on, let

771
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: us all remember, of course, that this is really the

772
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: team of West right. See, I will not pick up

773
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: up an underdog type two. Will never never. Three years later,

774
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: you still have not thanked me for trying to save

775
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 1: you from the Chargers. Boring asked team that we're just

776
00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: that we know that underdog teams that Mike go seven

777
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: and nine or eight and eight would be fun the

778
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 1: entire way will never win this contest. So I went

779
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 1: with one that is a mixture of boys. Take a

780
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: deep breath. Okay, we will Okay, you guys can keep going. Okay,

781
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,839
Speaker 1: thank you, I appreciate I like it just for the

782
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: storyline of the Saints playing the Super Bowl in Atlanta.

783
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: And then to make it even a little more exciting,

784
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: let's make Teddy Bridgewater the starting quarterback. I don't know

785
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:36,439
Speaker 1: what happens to in the meantime, and flying I would

786
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,319
Speaker 1: be the biggest like poke in the eye of the

787
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:43,280
Speaker 1: city of Atlanta. Ever, it would at least be intriguing.

788
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 1: I'm not believe me. It's all right. Let's move on, Mark,

789
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: don't get upset. You have to stay strong. No, I

790
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: what I see it is I'm standing up for my selection.

791
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,959
Speaker 1: I liked it. Yeah, I'm standing up for it now,

792
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: Chris Wesson, when I said my team s t LS.

793
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 1: West is a man. He's a man of his principles.

794
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: He's a man who in a lot of ways, Uh

795
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: is the face of this exercise because he's a guy

796
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: that doesn't have a team, a guy that loves to

797
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 1: eat tape. This guy he likes the smoke. Is that

798
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: what it is? The term that doesn't make sense. He's

799
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: he eats tape for dinner, Andy ben Wah, you're not

800
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: eating tape like Wes. Drink yours maybe anyway? Um anyway,

801
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: So Wes a man that is very strong as his opinions.

802
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: If if you, if you need a reminder when you

803
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 1: see him in London, tell him that Lebron James is

804
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: better than Michael Jordan's and see what happens. You'll be

805
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: laughed in. He's a passionate man that it's gonna be

806
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 1: very hard to swing his vote away from whoever he's

807
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 1: about to nominate. And what typically happens the charge of

808
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 1: season notwithstanding, as West Uh pounds a table for a team,

809
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: he wears us down and we just end up going

810
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 1: with whatever West. So this is Vegas heavy favorite, absolutely inaccurate.

811
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,919
Speaker 1: You went with the Chargers over my dead body one year.

812
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: Last year, I wasn't even on the show when you

813
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,399
Speaker 1: guys picked the Rams. Were you happy with our pick

814
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 1: last year? Well, yeah, I picked him to go to

815
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,879
Speaker 1: the playoffs and one sandwich is off. I think we picked.

816
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 1: A part of it was if I had if I recall,

817
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 1: we kept that in mind the first the first year,

818
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: it was like a natural evolution to the Panthers for

819
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:32,399
Speaker 1: the most part. Yes, yes, and they're not all gonna

820
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:34,879
Speaker 1: be winners. Sometimes we back through. I don't. I thought

821
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: the Charges team is a fascinating team, as I recall,

822
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: but that's the past us. Well, another one of your

823
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: inaccurate statements. I'm not married to this team. I'm about

824
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 1: about to propose. I don't feel that great about him.

825
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: It's early in the process. There's no team that's really

826
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:51,919
Speaker 1: got me, like, I don't have a fever for anyone yet.

827
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: But this team has a little something for everyone but Mark. Okay,

828
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: but we were told downstairs in our met mean that, hey,

829
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,880
Speaker 1: if you like a team, you know, just try to

830
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:06,439
Speaker 1: go for it. And this is a team that Mark

831
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:14,399
Speaker 1: has tried to disband. Uh uh, Dan, it is your

832
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: probably the best special teams player in the league, and

833
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: your fantasy kicker Justin Tucker. It's the team that Greg

834
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 1: believes will win the an f C North over the Steelers.

835
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,280
Speaker 1: It is a team that has a lot of new faces,

836
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: a lot of exciting rookies that will be fun to watch,

837
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: a whole new wide receiver corps that could help salvage

838
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco. Speaking of Joe, Flacco, looks to me like,

839
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: I'm much more fun guy to watch this year. He

840
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: looks streamlined to me, He's moving well, much more fun

841
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: quarterback to watching in the past couple of years until

842
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,800
Speaker 1: this Flacco part of this, and then if Flacco doesn't

843
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:47,919
Speaker 1: work out, Lamar Jackson could be one of the most

844
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,320
Speaker 1: fun players in the NFL to watch and a defense

845
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 1: that's their every year. To me, the Ravens are kind

846
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: of exciting. I haven't said, kind of like the Joe

847
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: Flacco redemption arc. I know he's not anybody's favorite player, uh,

848
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: but I feel like he was kind of dead and buried.

849
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 1: I remember Steve Smith completely put him six ft underground

850
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 1: minutes after Lamar Jackson was drafted thirty two overall. He

851
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:14,920
Speaker 1: Smith did it on live TV TV. I think he

852
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: said Joe Flacco was going bye bye something very disrespectful

853
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 1: of a Super Bowl m v P. Let's let's be honest.

854
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: Who is Even before the A C L TA are

855
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:25,880
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, he was great in that

856
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,439
Speaker 1: Patriot playoff game where they very nearly I've never seen

857
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: Patriots fans more scared of a player than they were

858
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco. A few years Flacco and that guy throws

859
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 1: a deep ball was briefly connected to a Johnny Unitis

860
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 1: film project, and I always like that just never got

861
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: off the ground. I guess that the funding or maybe

862
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 1: something happened, But yeah, I I like that. I like,

863
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,279
Speaker 1: I don't like the Ravens, but the Ravens team is

864
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:50,320
Speaker 1: something that I think we're all on board with except

865
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 1: for Mark, and I understand why you're not. Mark, Well,

866
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 1: I think you make good points number one and I

867
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 1: and I try to get over some of the Ravens

868
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,080
Speaker 1: stuff on some level, but I would probably need to

869
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: erase like of what's inside of me to like suddenly

870
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: be sitting around pumping my fist for Ravens victories on

871
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: Sundays that said, like, yeah, there's been a couple I

872
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 1: think I was in like post Vikings hangover scenario last year.

873
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: But here's the thing I mean I think you make

874
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: I think the Ravens are much more intriguing this season

875
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: and this time around than they have been for me

876
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: in a long time. I mean that you basically went

877
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: out of your way to pick a team that Cleveland

878
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 1: moved to Baltimore to become the Ravens, and Torture might not.

879
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, but it's like, but terms, in terms

880
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 1: of scenarios, this is about as impossible of of a

881
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 1: candidate as you can bring up for a unanimous vote.

882
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 1: But I'm willing to let it just just state and

883
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 1: see how as this the other team, well, one of

884
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:51,720
Speaker 1: the other teams I was really thinking about was the Bengals.

885
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 1: Would they have had a better chance with you than

886
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 1: the much much much better? I respect the Bengals, and

887
00:47:56,520 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 1: you do. Bengals did not steal the Cleveland Brown out

888
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,760
Speaker 1: of Cleveland. I don't feel too. I would go along

889
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:06,320
Speaker 1: with most teams, and the Ravens are into more interesting

890
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 1: to me than usual. But I in my heart they

891
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: kind of are on the short list of teams that

892
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 1: I will never like watching them play against another team.

893
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:17,399
Speaker 1: I'm never rooting for the Bank. Does anyone find them

894
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: you know, I just I don't know why. Maybe it's

895
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: the Patriots fan in me. I just I don't know. Ven.

896
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:26,879
Speaker 1: Does anyone find them like especially likable historically? Well, when

897
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: Ray Lewis is there, I I never liked him, I

898
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: can tell you that. But um and Terrell SUGS is

899
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 1: a hard guy to root for. Likable historically, Yeah, I

900
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 1: think I feel like they've been one of the most

901
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 1: well run franchises in the NFL since they've been in existence.

902
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:40,359
Speaker 1: I think it's yeah, and it's I I guess, like

903
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:41,959
Speaker 1: you know, if you were a Bengals fan, you probably

904
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 1: wouldn't feel that way about them, But like, it's a

905
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 1: it's a little different when you know there there is

906
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 1: still a human fan side of it. And this is

907
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: a tall order. Um, all right, let's move on to

908
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 1: the other side of the table. And for the first

909
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:59,439
Speaker 1: time ever that I can recall, because we we come

910
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 1: to these decisions on the nominees independently. Uh, it turns

911
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 1: out that Greg and I both are going to nominate

912
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:09,839
Speaker 1: the same team. I'll get it going and Greg's gonna

913
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 1: come in be the little Craig kimberl close it down

914
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: rep for you there. Um, I'll be the Louis Savarino here,

915
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 1: So let's let's get to it. Um. The Atlanta Falcons

916
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: making a funny like we had always said we're not

917
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 1: gonna go for the front runners and the obvious Super

918
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:36,880
Speaker 1: Bowl contenders, and now we've like three out of four people.

919
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 1: It's to be what you got to go for, that

920
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: plucky up store organization, the Baltimore Ravens, there is something

921
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: they've been in the playoffs and what four years we

922
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:49,319
Speaker 1: nominate the teams that that are fun to watch, that

923
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 1: to me, have have fun narratives attached to them, good

924
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: stories to tell, and I think the Falcons it's a

925
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: great story of a team looking to get over the hump,

926
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 1: a team loaded with town and UH in a league

927
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:04,000
Speaker 1: where the window never stays open for long and you

928
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: don't know how much longer this core group, especially on

929
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball, will be playing together

930
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: at this level. And each of the past two years

931
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 1: they were knocked out of the playoffs and devastating fashion,

932
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:20,760
Speaker 1: UH by the eventual Super Bowl champion. And I think

933
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:25,879
Speaker 1: last year we were at the Coliseum when they took

934
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 1: out the Rams in the wild card playoffs, and they

935
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,359
Speaker 1: looked as good as anybody in the league at that point. Uh.

936
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: They go into Philadelphia and they get into a rock

937
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: throwing match with the Eagles and they break down. Uh.

938
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: They have four shots from inside ten yards to win

939
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: the game and they cannot get it done. That hurt.

940
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 1: That doesn't even come close to what happened. Uh at

941
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl the year before, when, of course they

942
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 1: had the infamous meltdown against the Patriots. And Uh, the

943
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 1: Falcons And I'm gonna throw it to Greg and just

944
00:50:55,239 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: add this, the Falcons this year are coming back looking

945
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:02,400
Speaker 1: to get over the hump on the year where the

946
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: super Bowl is being played in their building in Atlanta,

947
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 1: and I it reminds me of Super Bowl fifty one.

948
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 1: The night before all of us as a group, we

949
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,760
Speaker 1: uh Keith Hansas was in town, all of our friends

950
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 1: that that we had brought to the super Bowl. We

951
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:21,879
Speaker 1: made the ill fated decision to go from one bar

952
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: to go find what we were told was a really

953
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 1: good barbecue place in Houston. That was an absurd journey

954
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,280
Speaker 1: I'll never forget. And we went on a long journey

955
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 1: by foot because you couldn't travel anywhere by uber or

956
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 1: cab because the downtown was basically in lockdown the night

957
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: before the Super Bowl, and we made this long journey

958
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: and the place had run out of meat, so it

959
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:45,279
Speaker 1: was closed almost boarded up, as I recall, Uh, And

960
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:47,439
Speaker 1: we were kind of on the on the shady side

961
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: of town, I remember, and then we were like, okay,

962
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:53,240
Speaker 1: what's going on here? Right about a hundred yards away

963
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 1: was the Falcons team. Uh, the Falcons Fans hotel. They

964
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: had taken over like a dumpy holiday inn. They it

965
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: was a party going on in front of that hotel,

966
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 1: and it to me, and especially with the Patriots on

967
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: the other side, was like, oh, this is so fun.

968
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: This is like the dream is a Jets fan of

969
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:12,360
Speaker 1: going to the Super Bowl and your team being in it.

970
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:14,720
Speaker 1: These people having the times at times of their lives.

971
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking about what what would happen to this

972
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: team got over the hump and they wanted in their hometown.

973
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 1: That place would be an amazing party and we'd be

974
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 1: at the party. So I want to see the Falcons

975
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 1: get over the hump, Greg, I want to see excellent rewarded.

976
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: That's why I'm just I'm picking them today. And and

977
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:35,439
Speaker 1: maybe I'll throw out you know, you mentioned the Bengals before,

978
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:37,439
Speaker 1: and maybe that's a conversation we could have because I'd

979
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:39,880
Speaker 1: be in on the Bengals too. But I want to

980
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 1: see instead of an upstart, a team that's done it

981
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 1: all the right way, that kind of makes decisions the

982
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: right way, that's built the team the right way, that

983
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 1: I enjoy watching play football, that has a great storyline

984
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:53,800
Speaker 1: in terms of it would be incredible for this fan base,

985
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: and really Atlanta sports fans in general have had a

986
00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 1: lot of pain over the last twenty years. They could

987
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: enjoy a moment in the sun. And they've been building

988
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:05,360
Speaker 1: to this moment, and Dan Quinn has been building this defense.

989
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 1: I think this defense is a lot of fun to watch.

990
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter which side of the ball is

991
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 1: on the field, I enjoy watching this team play and

992
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 1: they've been building to something. And NFL can be so

993
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:18,399
Speaker 1: random that there's something in me that just feels like

994
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: the Falcons deserve to have that moment that this group

995
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be together forever, like Dan said, and

996
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: this is the year that I'm kind of hoping it

997
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 1: all comes together, that Grady, Jared and Dion Jones and

998
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan and Calvin really in this whole group just

999
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 1: plays great and it's fun to watch and we're along

1000
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: for the ride. And we do it all the way

1001
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 1: to Atlanta, which is gonna be a party for a week,

1002
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 1: except for the day that we go to Tybee, which

1003
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 1: will be of an even bigger party. Do it for

1004
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:53,839
Speaker 1: the Tybee people. Nicely done, was Greg? So why they

1005
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 1: called me kimbro I mean, this is this was a

1006
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:58,240
Speaker 1: great preseason we all had, and I think we should,

1007
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 1: you know, acknowledge our mulligan and and do it all over.

1008
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 1: This reminded me. Come on, this reminds me of like

1009
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: that Broncos team that got whacked in the Super Bowl

1010
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:11,839
Speaker 1: and returned two years later to win. It's already it's

1011
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: a totally different situation that the right on the doorstep

1012
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:19,840
Speaker 1: that they could taste their first they never won before.

1013
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:22,719
Speaker 1: This is an organizations. I'm very pro Falcons. I'm not

1014
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:25,760
Speaker 1: just saying they're different than the Bronx. It still takes

1015
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 1: resilience though, for this a lot of the same people

1016
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: two years later to get back to that game at

1017
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 1: all and then find a way to win it. And

1018
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,320
Speaker 1: I thought that was that was something that changed everything

1019
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,759
Speaker 1: I thought about that Broncos team and that era of

1020
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:40,800
Speaker 1: that Broncos team. This Falcons team is as well coached

1021
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 1: as as there is in the league and the front office.

1022
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 1: We've been talking about them for months, and Matthew Zick

1023
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 1: is one of our producers, knows firsthand that there were

1024
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 1: there was a lot of support for the Falcons, but

1025
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: there is also a show to do. And I will

1026
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 1: say one thing that you can say, these are all

1027
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 1: front running Super Bowl teams and they are certainly in

1028
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:01,439
Speaker 1: that conversation in the NFC has about eight of those

1029
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 1: they have they have about eight of those teams. And

1030
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 1: the thing is, when you pick a team from the

1031
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 1: NFC South, you got to get out of that division first.

1032
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 1: Whether it's the Saints or the Falcons or the Panthers,

1033
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:14,359
Speaker 1: that's a really tough shore to begin with. So it's

1034
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:16,920
Speaker 1: no cake walk. We're not picking the Packers of the

1035
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 1: last six years that just rolled through the North. Well,

1036
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 1: I'm I'm open to just picking any team, whether they're

1037
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:26,400
Speaker 1: bad or good or whatever, if it's a team that

1038
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:28,880
Speaker 1: you enjoy watching, like you mentioned the Bengals. To me,

1039
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:32,600
Speaker 1: that's a out of left field interesting choice just because

1040
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:36,280
Speaker 1: they're so random, and I would like think I would

1041
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:39,319
Speaker 1: think about the Bengals, but it sounds like right now

1042
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:41,359
Speaker 1: we don't have a team that's just like jumping off

1043
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 1: like I'm in on the here's the reality. I'm in

1044
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:45,359
Speaker 1: on the Rams and the Chargers. I just know that

1045
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 1: you guys aren't gonna go with them like I like

1046
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 1: the Bengals. I'm still all in on the Chargers. I'd

1047
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 1: love to see Philip Rivers do it. I just kind

1048
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 1: of feel like, you got no one's gonna go back

1049
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 1: to that. Well, this is a higher quality version of

1050
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: the Bengals. But this is a team where we've all

1051
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 1: agreed that their quarterback is the absolute middle of the league,

1052
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: and the Andy Dalton, and that the coach is the

1053
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 1: absolute middle of the league. And is that what we're

1054
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 1: that it's too cute. I have to all of a

1055
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:11,279
Speaker 1: sudden say we're gonna get behind the Bangles and a

1056
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:14,839
Speaker 1: little disingenuous that we've been burying them that decade. Why

1057
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 1: But I like change, I change who I like depending

1058
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 1: on the year, to the point of the exercises to

1059
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:24,799
Speaker 1: get in on a team before other people don't think, well,

1060
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: I think we all for each of us, the exercise

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Speaker 1: means something a little bit different. That's been part of

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Speaker 1: the It wasn't till this year that people are like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we should go for the powerhouse teams. There used to

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Speaker 1: be a little shape. The Cardinals team. That Cardinals team

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Speaker 1: that went to the NC was fantastic. Yeah, but we

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Speaker 1: got them before. They were good. Actually they were eight

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Speaker 1: and one with Carson Palmer the year before we picked them.

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Speaker 1: And what were they total? Right? But yeah, gotta love this. Say,

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Speaker 1: a lot of juice, a lot of heat. Ercho, do

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Speaker 1: you feel that coming through the glass. Yeah, it's crazy

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Speaker 1: out here, how bubble right? Definitely? Um So, anyway, there

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Speaker 1: there's the nominees. There there are four teams that will

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Speaker 1: not are three teams that will not be the around

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons. Alright, we have any applause for we're

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Speaker 1: gonna okay, never mind, all right, the Atlanta Falcons are.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go through with this. Far as the Cincinnati Bengals,

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Speaker 1: they're out there to right now, they're out there. Oh

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. The Baltimore Ravens and the New Orleans Saints.

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Speaker 1: Those are the three nominees. Now does that mean it's

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Speaker 1: definitely the team eight ten. Maybe not, but that's who

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Speaker 1: we've not nominated today. We'd love to hear from you

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Speaker 1: on Twitter and on the subreddit. UH. And again a

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Speaker 1: reminder around the NFL goes to London next week and

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Speaker 1: we will have a live show on Tuesday, UH night

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Speaker 1: from the Curtain Club in Shoreditch, London. UH. Check out

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Speaker 1: the round the NFL handle on Twitter or any of

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Speaker 1: our handles um quite frankly to get uh information on

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Speaker 1: how to get tickets. And tickets are extremely limited, so

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Speaker 1: be sharp. I hope you're listening to this podcast earlier

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Speaker 1: rather than later, because I'm sure whoever gets this stuff first,

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Speaker 1: we'll get the tickets first. Right. That's it. That's it.

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Speaker 1: That's the end of the show. Wait, can I hear

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Speaker 1: can we close out with the Packer song instead? Kind

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Speaker 1: of until the locks? All right? Dan has a signing

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Speaker 1: after that for a quiet storm, the Mailman, the old Boss,

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Speaker 1: the loose cannon behind the glass, still Friday letters here

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Speaker 1: just for everybody out there in packer Land today, R

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Speaker 1: E l A. Thanks, We're laugh