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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast wants it's next contract fully guaranteed.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Around the NFL Podcast, presented by Into

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Speaker 1: It Quick Books, official sponsor of the NFL. I'm Greg

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Speaker 1: Rosenthal here in a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Chris Wesseling and for the first time ever, Omar, realise,

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Speaker 1: that's some intense music to be interfenceed to. Wow, this

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Speaker 1: is awesome. We just broke out that music just for you, Omar,

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Speaker 1: Like almost a thousand episodes in and that music. I

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Speaker 1: walked in with that infrance. It was made for this moment.

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Speaker 1: Omar Louise. Of course, Um a long time reporter at

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Speaker 1: Dan Hansas seat, and you know, potentially putting himself a

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Speaker 1: little bit at risk here. UM no, no, I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying Dan is putting himself. I read you are because

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Speaker 1: Dan is out sick today. Uh. He's got the little CE.

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Speaker 1: You know. Of course, the little Chris had the big

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Speaker 1: don't know that. We don't know what Dan hastive, what

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Speaker 1: are you? What are you guys? You guys texted him.

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Speaker 1: You haven't heard back yet. Right, there's a lot of missing,

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Speaker 1: my impression that the janitorial staff, that the NFL employees

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Speaker 1: got we've got a fun show. Um, we've got a

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Speaker 1: lot of news. We're gonna ask omar ruiz Um put

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Speaker 1: Or if I want to know what's inside Omar's Yeah, okay, um,

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Speaker 1: for it fourth and fifteen from their own twenty five

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Speaker 1: But that I mean anything the ultimate burn in the

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl though the bird. Oh look, were you covering

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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl? You're covering everything? And that will what

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Speaker 1: a surreal day. I mean, just to talk with Kobe

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Speaker 1: Bryant dying, you know, five minutes before you know that

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Speaker 1: all happened. What was that? Did you? What was the

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Speaker 1: They're like, it was, well, first you I looked at

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Speaker 1: my phone. You think it's not real? I have somebody's

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Speaker 1: at TMZ texted them. They said it was so as

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Speaker 1: everybody in the stands is discovering looking on their phones.

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Speaker 1: You see them distracted, not looking at the introductions anymore.

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Speaker 1: That all unfolds any you. I start talking to the

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Speaker 1: players and they all had heard and and in the

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Speaker 1: locker room. Before you know, they're describing just the error

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Speaker 1: and the energy being sucked out of them because they

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Speaker 1: were having their locker room speeches, let's go out and

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Speaker 1: do it, and then that word creeps in redd. At

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Speaker 1: the last minute, I think Pete Carroll gathered the NFC

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Speaker 1: team around and said, you know, let's go do it

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Speaker 1: for Kobe and and all that. And players were willing

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Speaker 1: to talk to me during the game on camera. We

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Speaker 1: couldn't air it because ESPN had the rights of the

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Speaker 1: game until until they were offline. But the fact that

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Speaker 1: they were so eager to talk and get their feelings out, uh,

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Speaker 1: during the game. The actual Pro Bowl, I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: spoke volumes to what how they felt about Cope and

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Speaker 1: their words did that as well. I want to know

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Speaker 1: how it affected their on field performance. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if the Pro Bowl is the perfect gauge of how

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Speaker 1: it affected their own performance versus you know, prior to

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Speaker 1: they got to try out that that rule because that

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Speaker 1: we haven't seen a rule change like that in football

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Speaker 1: that I can think of. That's that creative and just

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Speaker 1: changing the dynamics of how you think about possession in

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Speaker 1: a long long time, Like, why not try that out

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Speaker 1: for a year? West seems a little skeptical. No, I

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Speaker 1: love you like it. I love any rule changes that

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Speaker 1: do not involve replay review. Okay, well, so there are some.

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Speaker 1: There are some replay review um changes. One, you know,

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Speaker 1: one proposal was saying, uh, to include scoring plays and

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Speaker 1: turnovers that were negated by a penalty. Basically, just make

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Speaker 1: it more available for automatic replay reviews so that you

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Speaker 1: don't have to waste the challenge if like a touchdown

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Speaker 1: is taken away from penalty, I'd be fine with that,

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Speaker 1: or successful or unsuccessful time. We don't know for sure

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Speaker 1: if they're bringing back replay at all, and they um,

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Speaker 1: you know, the the Ravens and the Chargers both wanted

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Speaker 1: to add the booth umpire as an official eighth game

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Speaker 1: official and then maybe add technology Advisor and the there's

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Speaker 1: a lot going on here. Here's one that got on

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Speaker 1: my radar. Yes, I don't know if the Eagles are

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Speaker 1: just trying to, as they say, sort of punk the

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Speaker 1: rest of the league and all of us discussing this,

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Speaker 1: but the Eagles want to restore the preseason overtime period

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Speaker 1: to fifteen minutes. Well, and the regular season too, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: regular season. So I I just saw, okay, so that

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Speaker 1: it helps. I saw preseason and I thought, why on

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Speaker 1: that go into a fifth It is an interesting move

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Speaker 1: by the Eagles that we're into that we've done this

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Speaker 1: overtime for a while and now they're just saying let's

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Speaker 1: go back. Well, I agree with it. Regular season I

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Speaker 1: kind of get a little bit. I don't I like

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Speaker 1: the ten minute thing. I don't like the ten minute

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Speaker 1: you know, because I think you get the one possession.

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Speaker 1: If it takes six minutes, now you have the other possession,

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Speaker 1: that's it. But but you know, if if nobody scores

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Speaker 1: in that first possion, nobody scores in that second possession,

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Speaker 1: there's not really enough to get a third possession to

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Speaker 1: actually win the game. And then you have you know,

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Speaker 1: all these coaches asked, you know, are you trying to

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Speaker 1: win or you're not trying to win or you just

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Speaker 1: trying to play for the tiny You have other ones

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Speaker 1: where they have like five possessions, no one scores, and

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Speaker 1: it's like it seems like it's largely been non it's

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Speaker 1: worked out without a lot of country. Seventy minutes is

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Speaker 1: too that's too long to be playing football, you know,

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Speaker 1: says the guy on the sideline. Finally, Um, the Patriots

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Speaker 1: lead the way. I don't know if we have to

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Speaker 1: talk too much about this. With compensatory picks, they had

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Speaker 1: four of them, including they were the only team with

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Speaker 1: two third round picks in compensatory announcements. Trent Brown, I

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Speaker 1: believe was it was one of the ones they picked

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Speaker 1: up for The Ravens have traditionally kicked everyone's but in

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Speaker 1: compensatory picks because they figured out the formula along time ago,

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Speaker 1: and they have said it's like they guard that secret

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Speaker 1: like it's Coke's formula. But it factors in salary, playing time,

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Speaker 1: postseason honors, and whether the team has lost more free

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Speaker 1: agents than they've signed, right, Yeah, and mostly in terms

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Speaker 1: of like the the Ledger of who you signed, who

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Speaker 1: you don't. That kind of decides how many picks and

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Speaker 1: then yeah, how how well they played or how much

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Speaker 1: they did decides where the picks are. And it the

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Speaker 1: Patriots are like the Ravens are a team. I think

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Speaker 1: the Patriots have the second or third most you know

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Speaker 1: ever in the Ravens. And uh, the Patriots they wait

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Speaker 1: until the day after they're no longer included in the

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Speaker 1: formula and then they signed some some free agents. It's

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Speaker 1: uh because I always thought, oh, it just seems like

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Speaker 1: the Ravens constantly have like endless you know, high third

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Speaker 1: fourth Brown compics, which is you know, as a Browns fan,

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Speaker 1: utterly because you look at some of these compics. Dak

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Speaker 1: Prescott came through a compic, Mike Daniels, Kyle use Check,

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Speaker 1: guys like Aaron Jones, James Connert, Our, Guy Burgo, Jeremy

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Speaker 1: Bergman put together a top ten like players that were

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Speaker 1: pulled through compics, and there's a pretty amazing list. The

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Speaker 1: Ravens since two thousand eleven have had twenty since two

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Speaker 1: has eleven. The Packers I think we're next, was seventeen

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Speaker 1: New England ten. But then you look at teams like

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Speaker 1: the Bears and Jags, they've had one each since two

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Speaker 1: thousand eleven, which tells me you're not that's twenty players.

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Speaker 1: I I saw a different list that went back even further,

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Speaker 1: and I think the Ravens had fifty three in the

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Speaker 1: Saints were at the bottom with ten. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: forty players. They got an next dressing at they signed

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Speaker 1: mark Ingram and Earl Thomas and still got a third

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Speaker 1: in the fourth round of compensatory picks of that equation.

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Speaker 1: But that also speaking, it's for the Patriots they need

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Speaker 1: some young players. Those are two kind of late, very

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Speaker 1: late third round picks. Does that speak a lot to

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Speaker 1: developing in in drafting and letting the guys walk in

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Speaker 1: kind of the system. It's almost you have too much talent,

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Speaker 1: like you have to let guys go and you're and

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Speaker 1: they're good at good players, Yeah, they're good. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what what do you saying if you have what's the

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Speaker 1: cell for the Bears and the Jags that have one,

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Speaker 1: You've not done that, You're not done a good job.

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Speaker 1: You know, um, you know who has done a good job.

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Speaker 1: We're into Omar ask Omar second, you know, yeah, that's it.

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Speaker 1: For the news. I mean, he's been here since two

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Speaker 1: thousand twelve. Um, his bio. I don't know if this

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Speaker 1: and we know you probably wrote that yourself. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that thing is it's about four words. Well, they asked me, Well,

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Speaker 1: they asked me, like when I first got here, that

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Speaker 1: didn't go up until I've been here twelve. I had

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Speaker 1: the website for whatever. And maybe they had you know,

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Speaker 1: quick plans with me early on. But um, but if

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Speaker 1: bored in the main perfect time, I just you know,

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Speaker 1: started banging away at this bio and you know, a

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Speaker 1: couple of drafts later, there it is. You've hosted NHL

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Speaker 1: Tonight on NHL Network. You've been a play by play

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Speaker 1: announcer from for some Olympic sports, UH, including u c

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Speaker 1: the ranks covering a number of sports, UH, and now

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Speaker 1: you're here mostly as kind of a team reporter, traveling

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Speaker 1: the land, going all over the country, and and like

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Speaker 1: I said, I think the value that I bring is,

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Speaker 1: you know, they can kind of put me in anywhere

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Speaker 1: and you don't do a and so that's all been

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Speaker 1: easy and good, but now it comes. Now comes the

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Speaker 1: hard time. We have five minutes. Who knows if actually

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Speaker 1: he's actually having a clock. We have a rapid fire

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Speaker 1: the clock. And then questions are coming at you fast.

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Speaker 1: You gotta answer them fast. And who knows you this

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Speaker 1: might be supposed to be I'm looking for some depth here, okay, well,

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Speaker 1: depth and speed whatever. There's no rules on this podcast,

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Speaker 1: and we are going to start right now. People in

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Speaker 1: l A keep score more than any other city I've

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Speaker 1: ever been around, houses, cars, neighborhood, airtime, agents, social media.

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Speaker 1: Following my scorecard is happiness. That's the only thing on there,

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Speaker 1: and you rank very high on my score card. Your

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Speaker 1: children are some of the most delightful children I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: They're almost like many adults are. And I've noticed that

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Speaker 1: you and your wife don't speak to them like children.

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Speaker 1: You speak to them as if they're actual adults, and

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Speaker 1: you reason with them and you logic with them. Tell

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Speaker 1: me the secret to how great your children? Well, I

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Speaker 1: And so when we spoke to them, even when the

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Speaker 1: speak to them at the mall in a way that

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Speaker 1: they could listen to all of that in a way

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Speaker 1: that and and I removed any embarrassment that I would

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Speaker 1: they absorbed all of that a lot better and maybe

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Speaker 1: a lot faster than their peers were. You know, you

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Speaker 1: You don't want them to make a scene. Well, we

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Speaker 1: right there, Thanks, I've got one for you. Um like

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Speaker 1: this music. By the way, Ricky, you seem like a

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Speaker 1: high class act from what I'm hearing here. But what

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Speaker 1: percentage and I want a number here, what percentage of

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Speaker 1: NFL wags ak wives and girlfriends should trust their NFL

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Speaker 1: playing husbands. I want a number between zero and one.

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Speaker 1: Their number seems about right. Most of the guys in

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Speaker 1: the NFL are good dudes. I know that you're a

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Speaker 1: good So you're not gonna tell us who you say.

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Speaker 1: You know things. You know things, So tell us tell

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Speaker 1: us something you saw as a security guard at Candlestick Park.

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Speaker 1: My favorite memory is Joe montana retirement night. They're retiring

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Speaker 1: his jersey number sixteen. Huey Lewis is singing the national

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Speaker 1: I hit them. It's the Broncos, It's the forty niners.

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Speaker 1: They're both, you know, right around the top seeds in

640
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Speaker 1: the a f C and NFC respectively. The Broncos were

641
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: going to win the Super Bowl that year. And I'm

642
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Speaker 1: the guy that is escorting the cameras as Joe Montana

643
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: is walking onto the so I'm making sure that they

644
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: keep moving because they're walking backwards of course, as we're

645
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: going onto the field at Candlestick and making sure they

646
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: don't trip on themselves, they don't trip on the cables

647
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: and everything. And just to have that kind of bird's

648
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: eye view as Joe Montana walks on the field to

649
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: get his jersey retailed. It was also the game where

650
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: it was Brent Jones final game as a forty niner.

651
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: Their account got to get out of there Montana's get up.

652
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: And it was also the game that Jerry Rice returned.

653
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: If you remember at that season week one, Warren Sap

654
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: tackles him on that reverse and you know is his

655
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: a c L. It was his first game back. It

656
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: was Monday night football, so it was everything back when

657
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: al Michael's was a Monday night football and take the

658
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: career path he tuck. Yeah, I mean not necessarily that night,

659
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: but just being there on the sideline talking to different people, Um,

660
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 1: you know, I would you know, chat up you know,

661
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,399
Speaker 1: Jim Mora at the time when when younger Jim Moore

662
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: was on the forty nine staff and he was not

663
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 1: coaching that that particular year, and and you know, having

664
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Speaker 1: a discussion on you know, team building and all that,

665
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: you know, just random stuff like that. That was just

666
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 1: so cool, I thought, And you know, how cool would

667
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Speaker 1: it be to be on the sidelines and get paid

668
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 1: for it. So I kind of honed in, I like

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Speaker 1: choose your idiom for the English language, better phrase beyond

670
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Speaker 1: the pale or various stages of undress. Beyond the pale,

671
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 1: I would say on choosing that, Yeah, I mean, either

672
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,840
Speaker 1: it's not my wheelhouse, but for the sake of this

673
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: show and and keeping it moving out, maybe I'm the

674
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: only one who finds those phrases interests. I love them.

675
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,399
Speaker 1: Why did you? You know? The last time I saw

676
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: you in person, I believe was at around for something

677
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: in the morning at a waffle house. You uh, actually

678
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: you came with us and you ordered a very healthy,

679
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: balanced meal, and then suddenly you were gone. What happened

680
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: to you? You were you? That was a great chapter

681
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: the night you weren't teaching your daughters and life lessons

682
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: at four fifty? Where are you? I always say, I

683
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: have the advantage coming from the West Coast of going

684
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: to Indianapolis and and hanging with everybody and having these

685
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,840
Speaker 1: great conversations late into the night because our body is

686
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: three hours ahead. So anyway, I wanted to hang out

687
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 1: with Mark and Colleen and and and one of the

688
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: coaching friends that we had met, and Dan was there

689
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 1: as well. Um, and I was so hungry. You know,

690
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a Catholic. It was it was the

691
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: day after ash Wednesday, so I had fasted all day Wednesday,

692
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Speaker 1: and I was so looking forward to once the clock

693
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,839
Speaker 1: struck midnight, having that huge meal late night early Thursday morning.

694
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Speaker 1: So technically I was off the hook and now I

695
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: could eat whatever I want. Steak and shake was freaking closed.

696
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 1: So we had to drive out seemingly to Iowa to

697
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 1: go to walk I know, and we get there and

698
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 1: I just put the cook up against the clock. I said, hey,

699
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: I have a six fifteen flight in his four fifteen.

700
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: Here is my order. If it's ready, I'll eat it.

701
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 1: If it's not, I'm gone. It wasn't ready, I took

702
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: off left and I made my flight. That was the priority.

703
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,760
Speaker 1: That's the coach we were with, by the way, offered

704
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 1: some explosive information that cannot be shared on the show

705
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 1: after I left, Oh do you have do you have

706
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 1: any good insidery stuff you want to let out from Indianapolis.

707
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 1: I did have a good conversation with Fred Kitchens, and

708
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 1: you know after you know, he really hasn't gone public,

709
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: you know, with his side of the story since he

710
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: got fired. And I think the main takeaway from that

711
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 1: conversation was um he feeled he he felt he wasn't

712
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,320
Speaker 1: necessarily supported by ownership to implement a lot of the

713
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: discipline that he wanted instill. We we had we saw

714
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: glimpses of that when they had hard knocks. Remember, he

715
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,359
Speaker 1: was one of the vocal proponents of instilling a little

716
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: more discipine, trying to make that that team tougher. He

717
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: tried to do some things that he felt he was

718
00:36:57,680 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: overruled by by ownership. He thought that he had a

719
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: good conversation with Jimmy has them going into week seventeen

720
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: that he was gonna have a chance to build on

721
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,280
Speaker 1: on things that they had gotten done there in twenty nineteen,

722
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: As disappointing as it was, and the bottom line that

723
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: he took away from that was they've been there since

724
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: talking about ownership, and and they've had twenty one wins

725
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 1: and he had a big hand in thirteen of them.

726
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 1: So as disappointing as that year was, as as much

727
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: a lack of a support that he felt he had

728
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: in that situation, they won a lot of games, a

729
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: lot more than they had. I mean, he's now on

730
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 1: a tech sread with like fifteen other Browns coaches that

731
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 1: field just the same way that you know, I can

732
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Speaker 1: imagine best California beach for volleyball O. Well, Manhattan Beaches

733
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Speaker 1: is the your beach volleyball player Avid avidly. So that's

734
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Speaker 1: kind of my one hobby that I have carte blanche

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Speaker 1: to how's the beach bot? Not right now, it's more

736
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 1: of a dad bot, you know. But it's funny because

737
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: I work all offseason. Inevitably, I gained fifteen to twenty

738
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 1: pounds every season just being on the road, eating out

739
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: all the time, lack of exercise, especially as a year

740
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: wears on, because I get tired come week nine, week ten.

741
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: It's just kind of like we all do. But being

742
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: on the road. It's Thanksgiving, and then two weeks after

743
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: that it's my Birthday, and then it's Christmas, and then

744
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: it's New Year's and then it's the playoffs, super Bowl,

745
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, whatever, that whole drive. So again, all that

746
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 1: weight and then I work all off season to take

747
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: it off, and I do, and then it's cycle and

748
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: then and then you get back in his training camp

749
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: and then away we go. So I get into the

750
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: best shape of my life every year. So whenever you

751
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: guys have all those tropes and you guys have that

752
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: the fun discussion about like best shape of my life

753
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 1: that we hear from the players. I'm saying the same girl.

754
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 1: This podcast right now has something called hashtag bod quest,

755
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,839
Speaker 1: which um Dan was a large part of. He's been

756
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: felt at the moment, but he is looking to prove

757
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: his body as the rest of us. You're welcome to join.

758
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: Thank you, I will hashtag bod quest. So anything that

759
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: you do, hashtag it and wet you know, people come

760
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,759
Speaker 1: out of the woodwork and see where you're at. I'm

761
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: down for that. And that's it. You're off the side. Yeah,

762
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: I survived, great job. It was really not that. Not

763
00:38:58,080 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: that that was I did. I did want to find out,

764
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: you know, how you how you elbow out other people

765
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 1: for these these good assignments. I feel like of all

766
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: the the reporters, Omar is kind of the one who's

767
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: really just stabbing people in the back. You know. Maybe

768
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: it's the nice guy persona that I'm only can I

769
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Speaker 1: only can say that because you're one of the You're

770
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Speaker 1: the last person anyone ever I always wanted to be

771
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: on who wants to be a millionaire. I think it's

772
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: probably been auditioned and having that music, you know, and

773
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 1: and those questions I felt, you know, maybe as close

774
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 1: as I could get to read just minus the prize money. Yeah,

775
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:32,320
Speaker 1: you don't get anything. You can be on her on

776
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: the next segment though, I mean that's like your price there.

777
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: You can join us as we discussed. I feel like

778
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: we've discussed it all with free agency. We're waiting for

779
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: this clock to just turn on. And it's been an

780
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,839
Speaker 1: extra week this year in terms of the build up

781
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:49,439
Speaker 1: to free agency, plus everything has been on hold because

782
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 1: of the c b A. I think stuff like things

783
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: are gonna get crazy starting Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday are

784
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: going to be the busiest days of the off season.

785
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: We'll have podcast, we have a web show that will

786
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: be on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday next week too. We'll give

787
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: you info on that. But we've talked about almost everyone.

788
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: It feels like, but what are what are some people

789
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:19,320
Speaker 1: maybe we haven't just like underrated, overlooked, roo easy and

790
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:23,800
Speaker 1: type figures um entering free agency. It could be players,

791
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 1: it could be GMS, people that haven't gotten a lot

792
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: of attention that that could be factors. Well, I would

793
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 1: say well, from the GM standpoint, I want to see

794
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,840
Speaker 1: how Dave called Well navigates that salary cap you know,

795
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 1: hell that they seem to be in right now. Um,

796
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:42,879
Speaker 1: given the fact that he has autonomy once again, um

797
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:46,320
Speaker 1: with coach Coughlan gone and kind of everything that he

798
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 1: loomed in that organization hasn't gotten that well when he

799
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,240
Speaker 1: did have autonomy. Yeah, And that's right, and he's still around,

800
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: and I think that's the sort of point to it.

801
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: This is I'm sure his last chance to kind of

802
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 1: resurrect whatever hope he was down the road. I don't know.

803
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 1: I'm never sure he stuck around here. They've would, They've

804
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 1: had one season over six wins while he's been there,

805
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 1: and he's still there, still there, Yeah, So I mean

806
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: I think, you know, seeing how he navigates this, you know,

807
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: will be interesting. Jaguars are interested in general, like what

808
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: are they gonna do because they cannot rebuild. It's not

809
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: like the rebuilding, but they're gonna be very active. And

810
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,279
Speaker 1: then I think from a player's perspective, I want to see,

811
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 1: like Blake Martinez, Joe Schobert, how the middle linebackers do

812
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: this time around, because remember there I think there was

813
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 1: a couple of years where it seemed like the linebacker

814
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 1: position was getting devalued, and then C. J. Mosley comes

815
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: along last year and kind of resets the market, and

816
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: then Bobby Wagner surpasses that even well, they have a

817
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: trickle down fact. I don't think any of those guys

818
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 1: this year are as good as those guys. But how

819
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: does the market, um, you know, conform to the numbers

820
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 1: that were set last year? You know, are they beneficiaries

821
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: of that being in that maybe second tier? And Martinez

822
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: was second only to Bobby Wagner and tackles this year,

823
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: so I think he kind of emerged there in Green Bay.

824
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: And Schobert has been a playmaker, you know, for a number.

825
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,839
Speaker 1: It gave me pause. The Browns did not show any

826
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: interest in Reese in Showbert at what apparently his his request.

827
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's any middle linebacker out there

828
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 1: that's gonna get paid big money. I don't think those

829
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: two guys will. We we talked about Christian Kirksey, who's

830
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit more of an off ball guy.

831
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Speaker 1: We probably got Nick quiet Kowski. Quiet Kowski, we put uh,

832
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: we put Kirksey at the very bottom of our top

833
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: one of one. We did not put Rashad Jones on

834
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: our top one of one who was cut by the Dolphins,

835
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: thirty two year old buck safety. He's had a great

836
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,280
Speaker 1: career um, but he's not gonna make it. Jonathan Joseph

837
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 1: also learned to We learned today Hill hit free agency.

838
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of depth, but not a lot

839
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 1: of big names at middle linebacker. Who who's who do

840
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: you got for an underrated West We've been trained over

841
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: the last I think half decade or so to devalue

842
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: nose tackles in today's NFL, and I think Javon Hardgrave

843
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: and DJ Reader are gonna get paid. I think Hardgrave

844
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: is a guy, especially who came into the league as

845
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: a guy like the quintessential anchor guy. You're not moving

846
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: him over the last couple of years. He's developed into

847
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,320
Speaker 1: a pass rusher too. And Mike Tomlin will tell you

848
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,320
Speaker 1: do not think this guy is a one dimensional run stuffer.

849
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: He's getting after quarterbacks, and I think Hardgrave is a

850
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: guy who's gonna get a lot of interest. Reader Reader

851
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 1: to it seems like he might already be headed to

852
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: the Broncos. I don't know, like that was my that

853
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:20,800
Speaker 1: was my first thing. Hardgrave reader. I mean, we just

854
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 1: like this big uglies up tough up front. We're readers.

855
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: A guy too who who was a run stuffer and

856
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,800
Speaker 1: he's gotten better at pass rushing and he has J. J.

857
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: Watts endorsement as the best nose guard in the league.

858
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 1: Hard Grave was awesome last year. He you can put

859
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 1: him on a two man line or a three man line.

860
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: I will not forget his run in the playoffs when

861
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: they made the a f C Championship and and got

862
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: blown out against the Patriots. He was their best defensive lineman.

863
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:47,800
Speaker 1: Granted it's a small sample if at the end of

864
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: that season there were some injuries there. He also gave

865
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: the Patriots all sorts of problems in that game. Didn't matter.

866
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 1: You know, your nose tackle is only gonna do so

867
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 1: much when when there your secondary's letting people wide open.

868
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: But he on a on a pretty talented defense. Javon

869
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: Hargrave was a guy who was kind of standing out

870
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:06,800
Speaker 1: the most and then he really built on it. His

871
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 1: best season was a year ago. It's really an awesome

872
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: Those guys on your one oh one, they are right

873
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 1: around thirty. Hargrave is thirty and DJ Reader uh is

874
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: twenty eight. In hindsight, I wish I put Hardgrave even

875
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 1: even a little higher than that. I think west Adam higher.

876
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 1: I might have made that mistake, but I liked them both.

877
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: Uh Reader a little bit more of just like a

878
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: run stuffer, but he can do. He can rust the

879
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,800
Speaker 1: pastor too. There's a there's a million good defensive lineman.

880
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 1: It's like the only the only position where there's a

881
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: lot of good players. Well, you could say Robert Quinn

882
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 1: and Jason Pierre Paul qualified for this if we're talking

883
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: about what they did last year and the way they

884
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 1: looked compared to two or three years ago. They both

885
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: looked quicker, more explosive. Quinn was getting to the backfield

886
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: all the time and j JPP was getting multiple quarterback

887
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 1: hits every game. I throw in eforts and Griffin, if

888
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 1: he actually becomes a free ag. The Vikings seemed confident

889
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: that they'll be able to resign him. But he is

890
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 1: a free agent, and he's another guy. I don't know

891
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 1: what it is. I guess it's just all athletes age

892
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 1: better than they used to, but especially it seems like

893
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: some of the line lineman used to fall apart there

894
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: in terms of their bodies a little faster. But now

895
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,359
Speaker 1: you're seeing so a lot of left tackles playing until

896
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: they're late thirties, and you're seeing these pass rushers who

897
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: are thirty two, thirty three years old and like everysing

898
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: Griffin got it done last year, but we don't have

899
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: the league were like the guy in the middle of

900
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 1: the defensive line weighs three and eighty pounds and has

901
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: like five beer bellies. Let these guys right there like

902
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 1: they're treating their bones, working as like an accountant in

903
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: the off season, or like no actual Green Bay packer.

904
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 1: I'll give you one that I I want to see

905
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 1: it before I believe it. But you're talking. You mentioned

906
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 1: for the last decade or whatever, we've done X Y

907
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 1: and Z, I've completely looked beyond this front office year

908
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 1: after year in free agency because their mantra is essentially

909
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: go into deep slumber whenever players are available on the

910
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 1: open market. We'll do nothing but just build our own roster.

911
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. I think that the Bengals, you're here

912
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: whispers this time around with Duke Tobin. But to Mike

913
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 1: Brown has to sign off and all this and He's

914
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: been the issue. I think in terms of growing your

915
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 1: roster the way that of the rest of the league does.

916
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: If it's true that they're going to be active for

917
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: the first time and you're going to have Joe Burrow

918
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: at quarterback, the Bengals, to me, you know they've got capron.

919
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: They they are an interesting team going into next season.

920
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 1: But the first step is a front office that we

921
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 1: just assume we'll do nothing doing the opposite for once,

922
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: and that doesn't mean gost sign one left guard. They

923
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: have issues on their offensive line. They have to be

924
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 1: aggressive like some of these other teams. They have issues

925
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 1: in other places too, these linebackers. We mentioned that the

926
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: Bengals are a team that is desperately in need of linebackers.

927
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 1: They that would be fast. I would love to see.

928
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 1: I'd love to see a competitive Browns I mean a

929
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: Bengals team, not to mention the Browns so well. It

930
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 1: reminds me of an overlooked, underrated um story which came

931
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 1: up this week in my own household in terms of

932
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,320
Speaker 1: my children asking they were asking for the origins of

933
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: different team names. I don't know why it came up,

934
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 1: but I was like explaining some team name, why why

935
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,720
Speaker 1: they were named that? And then they started my walker

936
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 1: kept asking why are teams names certain things? And they

937
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: asked about the Browns and I tried to like, I

938
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:22,359
Speaker 1: tried to explain it to him, and I just thought,

939
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:26,239
Speaker 1: you know, it's a little over underrated that people just

940
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 1: don't talk about that the freaking Browns are named after

941
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:33,280
Speaker 1: the Bengals owner. I mean, like you, your whole life

942
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: is you're you're the owner of the Browns, and it's

943
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 1: the Bengals owner. I mean that just seems what you

944
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,720
Speaker 1: could argue that art ex Brown's owner, Art model created

945
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:44,759
Speaker 1: half of the n f C North because what he

946
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 1: did with Paul Brown created the Bengals and then what

947
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,399
Speaker 1: he did with the Ravens created the Ravens. So that's half.

948
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: But I there was another and I took out there

949
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: that the Browns name is not it married well with

950
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 1: Paul Brown, but that it was a fan contest where

951
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 1: some one essentially called them he was named after Joe

952
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: Louis the Brown Right. I looked into this. This is

953
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: what Paul Brown said for most of his life, but

954
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 1: then later in life he admitted multiple times I had

955
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: to look it up because I wanted to give up

956
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: my son the straight couple of Paul Brown biographies. They're

957
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: named after Paul Brown, right, he admitted later in like, yeah,

958
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: it's after Well. I think it's cool that Jim Brown,

959
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 1: arguably the greatest player in NFL history named Brown played

960
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 1: for if you're gonna have as though you're gonna have that,

961
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:34,400
Speaker 1: you're named after a guy who owns one of your rivals. Now,

962
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 1: in fairness, the Bengals have been you know, as cursed

963
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: or worse, so maybe something with that family. The state

964
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,919
Speaker 1: of Ohio needs to finally have a football team worth

965
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: the state of Ohio. I mean, you've got the Hall

966
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: of Fame there, we're not doing it justice. Um what

967
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:51,760
Speaker 1: else we got for underrated overlooked characters in free agency?

968
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: I was going to say the women of NFL network,

969
00:48:55,480 --> 00:49:00,320
Speaker 1: whoa oh, we have like some dynamic, exceptional women. You know,

970
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 1: familiar with Ricky of course and Colleen Wolf from this podcast,

971
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 1: But Jane Slater has broke more Cowboys stories than anybody

972
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:09,840
Speaker 1: else I've seen from this network who worked on the

973
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:13,799
Speaker 1: Cowboys beat before that. Stacy Dale's is phenomenal and one

974
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:17,360
Speaker 1: of the great college basketball players we've ever seen. Olympian

975
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 1: when I yes, when I talk about like what we

976
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 1: see at the talent summits, like I always I'm so

977
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: impressed by the women in this company that they they

978
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:27,359
Speaker 1: are go getters, They're confident, and they get things done. Hey,

979
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: every day is International Women's Day for West here. This

980
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: is great. Well. I worked with Jane at the Pro

981
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 1: Bowl and just to kind of see her work on

982
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: a daily basis and her connectivity with the Cowboys, it

983
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 1: was surreal experience how dialed in she is and and

984
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:43,000
Speaker 1: kind of what kind of juice she has there in Dallas.

985
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,879
Speaker 1: She really is the kind of queen of the crew.

986
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 1: Good crew Cowboys coverage, Jeff, So, I'm gonna go a

987
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:52,400
Speaker 1: couple of overlooked position groups quickly. Safety, a lot of safeties,

988
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 1: not just Justin Simmons, Von Bell, Anthony Harris, Devin mccordy,

989
00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 1: Ha Hacklington. Dix is pretty solid player, right, Nie McLeod,

990
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 1: Like you go up into Karl Joseph is out there

991
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:05,799
Speaker 1: if you need a safety. Uh, there's actually a decent

992
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 1: amount of ale. And then running back. It's not a

993
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: deep class of running back, but I just feel like

994
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,719
Speaker 1: no one even talks about running backs anymore, and to me,

995
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,919
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon would be a nice addition to a team

996
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,760
Speaker 1: at the right price, Like if the Bills added Melvin

997
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 1: Gordon to Devin Singletary, and that's a one to combo.

998
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:23,959
Speaker 1: Like I was trying to think, what are the Bills

999
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: gonna do, because I think they're gonna do something. I

1000
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:27,760
Speaker 1: think they're gonna want to add a running back. Kenyan

1001
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 1: Drake is out there too, and in his interesting the Texans,

1002
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: they're a team that are probably looking for a running back.

1003
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 1: But Gordon's a good play when he's rolling, especially if

1004
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 1: you have someone with him. I think he'd be a

1005
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: good I think last year also, probably to an over

1006
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,359
Speaker 1: extended degree, gives you a bad taste when it comes

1007
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 1: to Melvin Gordon was the hold out. He comes back

1008
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: and then the whole offense is not as effective with

1009
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: him in there, But you forget when he's good. He's

1010
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: been awesome. I would say with Kenyan Drake, Steve Kim

1011
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:55,920
Speaker 1: and the Cardinals too, because you're in year two of

1012
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury and they don't have a ton of cap room,

1013
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 1: but they have enough to make you get closer to

1014
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 1: completing the offensive roster that Kingsbury would want. I think

1015
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 1: at wide receiver. We mentioned this on our last show

1016
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 1: that there, you know, you're rolling out for white outsets

1017
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:13,280
Speaker 1: snap after snap, but you don't have four proven whiteouts,

1018
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: and you're gonna hit it in the draft, but you're

1019
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 1: also gonna hit it in free agencies. So I think

1020
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,399
Speaker 1: they're gonna be active because they can't float into next

1021
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,799
Speaker 1: September with an unfinished offense the way they did last time.

1022
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: And I think speaking to the Cardinals that they're one

1023
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 1: of those sneaky teams that there's buzz going about them

1024
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: as being a destination, you know, that people that players

1025
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: want to be at. And I think Tyler Murray's presidence

1026
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: obviously speaks volumes of that, and Cliff Kingsbury implementing the

1027
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:40,800
Speaker 1: system in year two and what potential take off that

1028
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:42,879
Speaker 1: could have these guys talk to each other, all these

1029
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,799
Speaker 1: players so that that matters. Maybe like that the heat

1030
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:49,360
Speaker 1: there could just help wipe out the coronavirus, you know

1031
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:51,399
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's just like it's so hot there

1032
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:54,319
Speaker 1: that that would be not a place. It's don't check

1033
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 1: don't check the science on this, Uh, anyone want to

1034
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 1: throw one else out? As we wrap this up here,

1035
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: we're good anyone you want to get out there. I

1036
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 1: feel I thought I thought Mark I was just like

1037
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:07,879
Speaker 1: I have others. But I think we've discussed some of these.

1038
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: I had the Bills and the Bucks as guys that

1039
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 1: you know, but we sound like the Bucks are no

1040
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:16,240
Speaker 1: longer underrated. They're becoming centerpiece potentially if this Brady stuff happened.

1041
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 1: I like the Seahawks. We talked a little bit about

1042
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson expressing himself that they need more superstars on

1043
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: that roster and and if they acquiesced about your go,

1044
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:27,840
Speaker 1: I go te that. I think that's been one of

1045
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: the storylines of the offseason. Got a lot of positive

1046
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:32,839
Speaker 1: feedback in Indianapolis, so I kept it and my wife

1047
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: loves this. It's kind of win win all the way around.

1048
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 1: You've not had to go to at any point and

1049
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 1: just looks natural on you. And then I've had on

1050
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 1: the facial air and it's just like, I feel like

1051
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: I've seen you with this. I've had it, wore to

1052
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 1: Indie last year, but I didn't go on TV with it,

1053
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 1: So essentially it lasts post super Bowl. We gone the

1054
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: family vacation. I shave it down once and I keep

1055
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:55,840
Speaker 1: it maybe for a few days, but this has lasted.

1056
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 1: Now the public is this is, this is two or

1057
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:00,600
Speaker 1: three shaves in. Now it's filled in quite nice. Wow,

1058
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 1: it looks great. And I keep saying when we hit

1059
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: free agency frenzy next week, it's going to be gone.

1060
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Speaker 1: But I think it gives you You're such a nice guy,

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Speaker 1: but it gives you a little Yeah, it gives you

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00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 1: a little bit of menace, which I don't think it

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00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 1: a little You know, you're not in You're not you're yeah,

1064
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:21,799
Speaker 1: you said you're you're not in peak beach volleyball shape.

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00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: So this this kind of makes this gives you a

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Speaker 1: little more menace. This is a Lakisha theory. Some men

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Speaker 1: need facial hair for seasoning in flavor. You're not one

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00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 1: of those men, but it works naturally. No, I've been

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Speaker 1: told that I need it for seasoning. What other mother, guys,

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00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: what other men does she need facial hair on? Just

1071
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: if she is going across the She was my first

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Speaker 1: and biggest supporter of of my beard when I had it,

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00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: so you know I did a you guys, um, you

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00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: guys have a lot in common. West is expecting his uh,

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00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 1: his first in may Omar just days away in terms

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00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 1: of expectation, uh, your third daughters away from his uh

1077
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: do date? Yeah, in terms of do date. Who knows,

1078
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:05,399
Speaker 1: might might land on the same day your your third child,

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Speaker 1: Mark and I still sitting on too. I don't think

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Speaker 1: we're moving off that. Yeah, there's not a huge push

1081
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:12,319
Speaker 1: in our household to expand the roster. All right, well,

1082
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:15,360
Speaker 1: I mean the factory had been closed in my household

1083
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: and then yeah, well that's I'm happy for you a

1084
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 1: third go keep going, all right, before this goes anymore

1085
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 1: off the rails Omar. If Dan was here, he would

1086
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:30,359
Speaker 1: say that you said it all, you did it all. Well, thanks,

1087
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 1: and it was a it was awesome to be here.

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00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 1: You know, I've been big fans you guys. You'll be back,

1089
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: and you know, I appreciate guys having me on. It

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00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 1: was fun. It was great having Omar. We will be

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00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 1: back on Friday, and who knows what we're gonna come

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00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 1: up with. We're running a Taser special maybe, yeah, yeah,

1093
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: the Taser special. Maybe some news happened. Ricky is getting

1094
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 1: the taser on Friday. We'll see if Dan's back. Don't

1095
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:56,960
Speaker 1: taste me, bro, I guess he's got the little see

1096
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 1: be careful. I'm not sure how little it is. We'll

1097
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 1: be careful out there everyone in terms of the Middle

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00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 1: Sea and uh everyone with the big C. We're thinking

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Speaker 1: of you. You know, fight on. We got all our

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Speaker 1: c's covered. Next week is going to be big. So

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Speaker 1: until then, thank you for listening to the Around the

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Speaker 1: NFL Podcast, presented by Intuit Quick Books, official sponsor of

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Speaker 1: the NFL. What a time, weird time in this world

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Speaker 1: right now, very weird for Mark Sessler, Chris Wesley, Nomarroui's

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Speaker 1: and Ricky Hollywood. See you Friday. The counticis