1 00:00:07,266 --> 00:00:09,626 Speaker 1: The Season with Peter Schreeger is a production of the 2 00:00:09,786 --> 00:00:25,066 Speaker 1: NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. What's off, everybody, Welcome to 3 00:00:25,106 --> 00:00:28,186 Speaker 1: the Season with Peter Schreger. I'm Peter Schreger, your host. 4 00:00:28,266 --> 00:00:33,666 Speaker 1: It is a hot and steamy Thursday. As we record this. 5 00:00:33,786 --> 00:00:36,906 Speaker 1: It is August first, and I have no idea where 6 00:00:36,946 --> 00:00:39,146 Speaker 1: I am. I have no idea what time it is. 7 00:00:40,066 --> 00:00:42,586 Speaker 1: I am freaking exhausted, and I want to give you 8 00:00:42,666 --> 00:00:45,426 Speaker 1: a recap of what's been going down the last few weeks, 9 00:00:46,106 --> 00:00:49,666 Speaker 1: which includes football, includes a lot of travel, it includes 10 00:00:50,666 --> 00:00:52,906 Speaker 1: getting up to speed with the NFL. I welcome in 11 00:00:53,626 --> 00:00:57,306 Speaker 1: my beautiful producer slash co host on this sucker, mister 12 00:00:57,426 --> 00:01:00,626 Speaker 1: Aaron Wong Kaufman, who is beaming in from what looks 13 00:01:00,626 --> 00:01:02,706 Speaker 1: to be a cabin in the woods Ted Kazinski style. 14 00:01:02,746 --> 00:01:03,546 Speaker 1: What's going on, dude. 15 00:01:03,586 --> 00:01:05,746 Speaker 2: I don't know about take Azinsky style, but yes, I 16 00:01:05,786 --> 00:01:08,186 Speaker 2: am with you from the woods of Maine. I'm in 17 00:01:08,266 --> 00:01:08,706 Speaker 2: a barn. 18 00:01:09,626 --> 00:01:12,986 Speaker 1: Barn it's badass. Take your time in Maine. I'm hitting 19 00:01:12,986 --> 00:01:16,506 Speaker 1: the ground running. I was away for quite a bit. 20 00:01:16,586 --> 00:01:18,826 Speaker 1: We didn't do two weeks of these podcasts, and we 21 00:01:18,826 --> 00:01:22,226 Speaker 1: were like, let's just hold off until we're back on 22 00:01:22,306 --> 00:01:24,386 Speaker 1: Good Morning Football, and then we'll get going. Let me 23 00:01:24,466 --> 00:01:28,746 Speaker 1: explain what my last twenty four hours had been, and 24 00:01:28,746 --> 00:01:30,546 Speaker 1: then we're gonna go backwards and I'll give you some nuggets, 25 00:01:30,546 --> 00:01:32,466 Speaker 1: some stories, and we can talk a little NFL. But 26 00:01:32,546 --> 00:01:36,066 Speaker 1: Aaron I was up at two forty five in the 27 00:01:36,106 --> 00:01:42,426 Speaker 1: morning in a hotel room in Manhattan Beach yesterday. Manhattan Beach, 28 00:01:42,506 --> 00:01:46,746 Speaker 1: not being the beaches of Manhattan, New York, Manhattan Beach, California. 29 00:01:46,866 --> 00:01:48,706 Speaker 1: Woke up at two forty five in the morning, which 30 00:01:48,786 --> 00:01:51,866 Speaker 1: is the alarm clock time for what I'll be getting 31 00:01:51,906 --> 00:01:54,266 Speaker 1: up when I do Good Morning Football out in LA. 32 00:01:54,586 --> 00:01:54,706 Speaker 2: Uh. 33 00:01:54,906 --> 00:01:57,306 Speaker 1: If you've not read the news or seen Good Morning 34 00:01:57,306 --> 00:02:01,266 Speaker 1: Football is back and I am in a bi coastal 35 00:02:01,786 --> 00:02:06,466 Speaker 1: slash hybrid New York LA schedule. I did not I 36 00:02:06,466 --> 00:02:08,826 Speaker 1: want to move my family out there. I still wanted 37 00:02:08,866 --> 00:02:10,906 Speaker 1: to do the show, so we came to an agreement 38 00:02:10,906 --> 00:02:14,746 Speaker 1: where many episodes I'll be doing from LA, living in 39 00:02:14,786 --> 00:02:17,586 Speaker 1: a hotel, waking up at two forty five in the morning, 40 00:02:17,866 --> 00:02:22,026 Speaker 1: doing four hours of television that starts at five am Pacific, 41 00:02:22,066 --> 00:02:25,186 Speaker 1: but also eight am Eastern Time, and doing that from 42 00:02:25,506 --> 00:02:31,306 Speaker 1: the awesome LA Sofi Stadium NFL Network Studios, which is 43 00:02:32,106 --> 00:02:34,346 Speaker 1: maybe the coolest studio I've ever been in, but is 44 00:02:34,386 --> 00:02:37,226 Speaker 1: also on the West Coast when it's dark out, so 45 00:02:37,226 --> 00:02:40,226 Speaker 1: I've got to get used to that body clock. Then 46 00:02:40,266 --> 00:02:44,026 Speaker 1: I got done with the show, race to the airport, 47 00:02:44,386 --> 00:02:48,706 Speaker 1: flew home, got in and around ten ten point fifteen Eastern, 48 00:02:49,146 --> 00:02:51,066 Speaker 1: and then was up at five point thirty in the 49 00:02:51,066 --> 00:02:54,346 Speaker 1: morning New York time to prepare for a show, which 50 00:02:54,346 --> 00:02:58,546 Speaker 1: we are doing from a studio in downtown Manhattan. I 51 00:02:58,546 --> 00:03:02,426 Speaker 1: would say more Spring Street, so I guess like the village, 52 00:03:02,426 --> 00:03:04,546 Speaker 1: but all the way on the west side, which is 53 00:03:04,586 --> 00:03:08,306 Speaker 1: if you watched Thursday's Good Morning Football, you saw I 54 00:03:08,386 --> 00:03:10,946 Speaker 1: was in a box. That's how I'm gonna be doing 55 00:03:10,986 --> 00:03:14,226 Speaker 1: the episodes from New York. So getting used to the schedule. 56 00:03:14,466 --> 00:03:17,266 Speaker 1: But as we were doing this podcast, which is midday Thursday, 57 00:03:17,306 --> 00:03:21,386 Speaker 1: before the Hall of Fame game, before we get what's 58 00:03:21,426 --> 00:03:24,346 Speaker 1: going on in the Olympics on Thursday, with Simone Biles 59 00:03:24,346 --> 00:03:28,386 Speaker 1: about to take the beam this this is a man 60 00:03:28,466 --> 00:03:31,306 Speaker 1: who is on fumes and it is August first, and 61 00:03:31,386 --> 00:03:35,626 Speaker 1: we're gonna have to figure out the balance of traveling, sleeping, 62 00:03:36,026 --> 00:03:39,986 Speaker 1: resting because Aaron I do the weekly LA and it's 63 00:03:40,026 --> 00:03:43,266 Speaker 1: like I stay on East Coast time. But I'm telling you, dude, 64 00:03:43,306 --> 00:03:46,466 Speaker 1: it was so nice out there. The weather was insane 65 00:03:46,506 --> 00:03:49,786 Speaker 1: that like at six o'clock on the West Coast, which 66 00:03:49,786 --> 00:03:52,066 Speaker 1: would be nine o'clock in the East coaches, what a 67 00:03:52,106 --> 00:03:54,786 Speaker 1: prudent Peter Schugger should be getting in bed under the covers, 68 00:03:54,866 --> 00:03:57,906 Speaker 1: like it wasn't happening. I wanted to be outside. I 69 00:03:57,986 --> 00:04:00,466 Speaker 1: was staying in Manhattan Beach. I wanted to see the water, 70 00:04:00,586 --> 00:04:03,106 Speaker 1: and like I didn't go to bed until you know, 71 00:04:03,266 --> 00:04:05,786 Speaker 1: ten o'clock Pacific, which is like one o'clock am. So 72 00:04:05,786 --> 00:04:09,106 Speaker 1: I've got to get that down. But Aaron, as I 73 00:04:09,186 --> 00:04:11,666 Speaker 1: tell you this right now, we're on day four of 74 00:04:11,706 --> 00:04:14,186 Speaker 1: Good Morning Football from the cross country flights. I'm having 75 00:04:14,186 --> 00:04:16,666 Speaker 1: a blast. The show has been awesome. I'm gonna have 76 00:04:16,746 --> 00:04:19,826 Speaker 1: to get adjusted on these travel days because as I'm 77 00:04:19,866 --> 00:04:22,946 Speaker 1: spitting fire right now, I feel like I have been 78 00:04:23,026 --> 00:04:25,106 Speaker 1: talking for four days straight and there's been very little 79 00:04:25,146 --> 00:04:30,466 Speaker 1: sleeping going on. Have you done cross country cross international travel? Like, 80 00:04:30,746 --> 00:04:32,906 Speaker 1: because I might need a little guidance, And Taylor Swift 81 00:04:32,906 --> 00:04:35,906 Speaker 1: says like power through the jet lag, like I'm figuring 82 00:04:35,906 --> 00:04:37,386 Speaker 1: it out, dude, But like, I've got to get a 83 00:04:37,386 --> 00:04:38,026 Speaker 1: hold of this thing. 84 00:04:38,786 --> 00:04:41,466 Speaker 2: I mean, I think the more you do it, you know, 85 00:04:41,626 --> 00:04:44,706 Speaker 2: then your your evenings will start to feel more like 86 00:04:44,746 --> 00:04:48,386 Speaker 2: a regular evening hopefully, and at some point. You know. 87 00:04:48,506 --> 00:04:50,746 Speaker 2: The great thing about California, I think, is there not 88 00:04:50,946 --> 00:04:53,346 Speaker 2: much going on, So you know, after a couple of weeks, 89 00:04:53,346 --> 00:04:54,986 Speaker 2: you'll have nothing to do out there, You'll go to 90 00:04:55,026 --> 00:04:56,386 Speaker 2: bed early. It'll be easy. 91 00:04:57,866 --> 00:04:59,266 Speaker 1: We go back a couple of weeks. Can I kick 92 00:04:59,306 --> 00:05:01,026 Speaker 1: you through some of my travel journeys and we only 93 00:05:01,066 --> 00:05:03,386 Speaker 1: do this. This is not self centered. I do this 94 00:05:03,466 --> 00:05:07,106 Speaker 1: because my Travis Kelcey Kansas City Weekend cast got more 95 00:05:07,146 --> 00:05:11,466 Speaker 1: listens than anything that we did in interviewing Coordinator X 96 00:05:11,546 --> 00:05:14,986 Speaker 1: or Special Teams Coach B over the last few weeks. 97 00:05:15,026 --> 00:05:18,386 Speaker 1: Although those are some of my favorites. But let's start 98 00:05:18,906 --> 00:05:23,546 Speaker 1: July seventeenth and eighteenth, So let's go back two weeks. 99 00:05:23,666 --> 00:05:27,386 Speaker 1: I get on a plane on a Wednesday, and I 100 00:05:27,426 --> 00:05:31,546 Speaker 1: travel out to La to the glorious Terranea Resort which 101 00:05:31,626 --> 00:05:34,906 Speaker 1: is in Palace ver Days, California, and it's on the 102 00:05:34,946 --> 00:05:37,946 Speaker 1: cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean and it's one of my 103 00:05:37,986 --> 00:05:40,026 Speaker 1: favorite hotels and I get the honor to be there 104 00:05:40,346 --> 00:05:43,546 Speaker 1: for two days every year. And that's with Fox Sports, 105 00:05:44,306 --> 00:05:47,066 Speaker 1: my weekend employers and my longtime employers who I've written 106 00:05:47,066 --> 00:05:50,186 Speaker 1: for Fox Sports dot com and appeared on Fox Sports 107 00:05:50,226 --> 00:05:53,026 Speaker 1: one since two thousand and seven, So you go back 108 00:05:53,026 --> 00:05:55,946 Speaker 1: all those years. I am now entering I think year 109 00:05:56,066 --> 00:06:00,346 Speaker 1: seventeen with Fox and every year they invite anybody on 110 00:06:00,466 --> 00:06:03,466 Speaker 1: air who works on their NFL coverage to this terran 111 00:06:03,506 --> 00:06:06,386 Speaker 1: Air resort, which is beautiful and it's an off site 112 00:06:06,626 --> 00:06:10,106 Speaker 1: get away, and we're told no social media, which I respect, 113 00:06:10,586 --> 00:06:14,866 Speaker 1: no selpies, and nothing recorded from what goes on inside 114 00:06:14,946 --> 00:06:17,546 Speaker 1: the room. But now that we're a couple of weeks removed, 115 00:06:17,546 --> 00:06:19,786 Speaker 1: I think I can give the highlights of that weekend 116 00:06:19,826 --> 00:06:23,026 Speaker 1: and I can share that I arrived and you get 117 00:06:23,066 --> 00:06:25,586 Speaker 1: settled in your hotel room, and I immediately I'm like, 118 00:06:25,586 --> 00:06:27,626 Speaker 1: I'm going to walk these grounds a little bit, and 119 00:06:27,666 --> 00:06:29,346 Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, I'm on East Coast time. 120 00:06:29,386 --> 00:06:30,946 Speaker 1: I've been working out a little bit. I'm going to 121 00:06:30,986 --> 00:06:32,226 Speaker 1: go to the gym. I go to the gym and 122 00:06:32,266 --> 00:06:34,226 Speaker 1: the first person I see is Michael Strahan in a 123 00:06:34,266 --> 00:06:37,666 Speaker 1: full lather, and I pulled stray aside, and it's like 124 00:06:37,746 --> 00:06:39,506 Speaker 1: the last thing he wants to do is with me. 125 00:06:39,626 --> 00:06:42,386 Speaker 1: But guess what you see, Schrager and Straighthan. You're seeing 126 00:06:42,426 --> 00:06:44,506 Speaker 1: two morning show hosts. We're going to talk about life, 127 00:06:44,666 --> 00:06:47,066 Speaker 1: but we're also going to talk about the incredible recovery 128 00:06:47,066 --> 00:06:49,786 Speaker 1: that is his daughter is making from what was a 129 00:06:50,706 --> 00:06:53,626 Speaker 1: very grave diagnosis earlier in the year. And I just 130 00:06:53,666 --> 00:06:55,266 Speaker 1: gave stray a hugg the first time I seen him 131 00:06:55,306 --> 00:06:58,266 Speaker 1: since the news came out that she's in recovery mode 132 00:06:58,346 --> 00:07:00,386 Speaker 1: right now. So it was cool to see him and 133 00:07:00,786 --> 00:07:03,546 Speaker 1: we talked a little bit, and I love Strahan, and 134 00:07:03,586 --> 00:07:06,026 Speaker 1: I think this is a key thing for any of 135 00:07:06,106 --> 00:07:08,586 Speaker 1: us in my side of the camera or any of 136 00:07:08,706 --> 00:07:11,306 Speaker 1: us behind the cameras. Like, I don't think Strayhan is 137 00:07:11,346 --> 00:07:13,666 Speaker 1: a single person in this world who has a negative 138 00:07:13,666 --> 00:07:15,346 Speaker 1: thing to say about him, and that might be the 139 00:07:15,426 --> 00:07:17,386 Speaker 1: goal for everybody. And I can tell you this, the 140 00:07:17,426 --> 00:07:20,066 Speaker 1: reason that Strahan is such a stud is, Yes, he's 141 00:07:20,066 --> 00:07:22,426 Speaker 1: great on air, and he's awesome on Good Morning America, 142 00:07:22,506 --> 00:07:25,906 Speaker 1: and he's fantastic on the Fox Sundays, But like, Strahan's 143 00:07:25,906 --> 00:07:28,786 Speaker 1: also great to everybody in the hair and makeup department. 144 00:07:28,906 --> 00:07:32,266 Speaker 1: Straight Han's also great to everybody that he deals with 145 00:07:32,386 --> 00:07:35,146 Speaker 1: who like books the travel straight Han's also great to 146 00:07:35,226 --> 00:07:37,466 Speaker 1: everyone at the top of the ORG chart to the 147 00:07:37,506 --> 00:07:38,986 Speaker 1: bottom of the ORG chart, and I think that's just 148 00:07:38,986 --> 00:07:41,186 Speaker 1: how he is. And I had a really cool opportunity 149 00:07:41,506 --> 00:07:45,346 Speaker 1: to be with Strahan in June. The Giants were celebrating 150 00:07:45,386 --> 00:07:48,066 Speaker 1: celebrating their one hundredth years a franchise, and I was 151 00:07:48,106 --> 00:07:51,466 Speaker 1: really honored and blessed to be asked to be a 152 00:07:51,466 --> 00:07:53,386 Speaker 1: part of the group that was going to mc the event. 153 00:07:53,506 --> 00:07:55,666 Speaker 1: So it was Bob Poppa, who's the voice of the Giants, 154 00:07:56,466 --> 00:07:58,666 Speaker 1: it was Sean O'Hara, who does a lot of the 155 00:07:58,706 --> 00:08:00,666 Speaker 1: in house stuff for the Giants and is a Giants legend, 156 00:08:00,706 --> 00:08:03,106 Speaker 1: and it was me and a lot of that was 157 00:08:03,146 --> 00:08:05,506 Speaker 1: on stage, and I got to interview day Bowl and 158 00:08:05,586 --> 00:08:07,546 Speaker 1: Joe Shane, which is it's in my wheelhouse. And I 159 00:08:07,546 --> 00:08:11,826 Speaker 1: got to speak to Pete Gogolak, who is the eighty 160 00:08:11,906 --> 00:08:14,266 Speaker 1: year old former kicker of the Giants. He spent nine 161 00:08:14,306 --> 00:08:17,306 Speaker 1: years at New York in the sixties and seventies. And 162 00:08:17,306 --> 00:08:19,386 Speaker 1: then I got a lot of time on set on 163 00:08:19,946 --> 00:08:23,666 Speaker 1: the stage there at the massive Square Garden Theater, interviewing 164 00:08:24,506 --> 00:08:27,426 Speaker 1: Keavon Thibodeau and Bobby Ocareki, who are two of their 165 00:08:27,426 --> 00:08:29,906 Speaker 1: defensive leaders. That's all cool. That's what you probably saw 166 00:08:29,986 --> 00:08:31,626 Speaker 1: if you ever saw it on YouTube or you're watched 167 00:08:31,626 --> 00:08:35,186 Speaker 1: any of the stuff online. The best part that was backstage, 168 00:08:35,506 --> 00:08:39,186 Speaker 1: and I got to witness some of the coolest interactions 169 00:08:39,226 --> 00:08:44,026 Speaker 1: between Lawrence Taylor and Michael Strahan, Strahan and Keevon Thibodeau, 170 00:08:44,346 --> 00:08:47,506 Speaker 1: Tiki Barber talking with you know, the current guys, and 171 00:08:47,506 --> 00:08:49,266 Speaker 1: then you of course you go back to the Legends 172 00:08:49,306 --> 00:08:52,386 Speaker 1: and it's Harry Carson and it's Carl Banks and everybody's backstage. 173 00:08:52,786 --> 00:08:55,226 Speaker 1: But I also liked watching how these guys interacted with 174 00:08:55,266 --> 00:08:56,946 Speaker 1: the fans because there was a lot of fan interaction 175 00:08:57,026 --> 00:08:59,706 Speaker 1: and of course Strahan, who doesn't need to do any 176 00:08:59,706 --> 00:09:02,026 Speaker 1: of this stuff, doesn't need the money and certainly doesn't 177 00:09:02,026 --> 00:09:04,586 Speaker 1: need the fame. It's taking selfies with every single person 178 00:09:04,666 --> 00:09:07,386 Speaker 1: out there. So Strahan and I were recap and all that. 179 00:09:07,506 --> 00:09:11,146 Speaker 1: But the big attraction at this Fox event was going 180 00:09:11,226 --> 00:09:14,186 Speaker 1: to be the unveiling of Tom Brady and how that 181 00:09:14,266 --> 00:09:17,386 Speaker 1: was going to go down straight. Hen and Brady obviously 182 00:09:17,386 --> 00:09:19,706 Speaker 1: have a great relationship going back to years and years 183 00:09:19,706 --> 00:09:22,986 Speaker 1: in the NFL, but also production projects that they've done together. 184 00:09:23,546 --> 00:09:26,746 Speaker 1: And I've seen straight Han interview Brady on Fox but 185 00:09:26,826 --> 00:09:28,786 Speaker 1: also for Good Morning America. I remember there was an 186 00:09:28,826 --> 00:09:34,226 Speaker 1: Eagles Patriots joint practice going on back when like Mark 187 00:09:34,306 --> 00:09:36,546 Speaker 1: Sanchez and Tim Tebow were on the Eagle. So you 188 00:09:36,586 --> 00:09:38,986 Speaker 1: do the math. And straight Hen came down and I 189 00:09:39,066 --> 00:09:42,066 Speaker 1: was down there for Fox Sports one long before Good 190 00:09:42,066 --> 00:09:44,706 Speaker 1: Morning Football. Straight Han came down all the way to 191 00:09:44,746 --> 00:09:46,506 Speaker 1: Philly and he did like a seven minute sit down 192 00:09:46,506 --> 00:09:48,586 Speaker 1: with Brady and I was like, I was like, all right, 193 00:09:48,626 --> 00:09:50,266 Speaker 1: these guys, these guys are boys. I think they do 194 00:09:50,306 --> 00:09:55,426 Speaker 1: a lot of work together with a Chopro's production company, 195 00:09:55,426 --> 00:09:57,826 Speaker 1: the two of them. I think it's called Revolution of Sport. 196 00:09:58,786 --> 00:10:00,466 Speaker 1: They have done a lot of stuff together. So I'm like, 197 00:10:00,506 --> 00:10:02,466 Speaker 1: these guys know each other. So I asked straight Han 198 00:10:02,546 --> 00:10:05,746 Speaker 1: that Saturday. That Wednesday, when I first got there, I'm like, 199 00:10:05,986 --> 00:10:07,546 Speaker 1: do you think he's going to be good? And he 200 00:10:07,626 --> 00:10:09,586 Speaker 1: looked at me and he's like, has Brady ever not 201 00:10:09,666 --> 00:10:11,866 Speaker 1: been good? Of Like, you're right, you're right, you're right. 202 00:10:11,906 --> 00:10:13,186 Speaker 1: But I didn't know if he was going to be 203 00:10:13,186 --> 00:10:17,826 Speaker 1: good at broadcasting. So Wednesday night there's this open cocktails 204 00:10:17,866 --> 00:10:23,266 Speaker 1: type deal. And again no social media, no posting, no tweeting. 205 00:10:23,306 --> 00:10:25,066 Speaker 1: I respect the hell out of it. That's the Fox way. 206 00:10:25,106 --> 00:10:27,146 Speaker 1: It's like, we don't need everyone else. This is what 207 00:10:27,186 --> 00:10:30,466 Speaker 1: we do. So I get in the little table and 208 00:10:30,546 --> 00:10:33,706 Speaker 1: I talk to Edelman and I talked to Gronk, and 209 00:10:33,746 --> 00:10:35,586 Speaker 1: then I'm off on the corner and I'm talking to 210 00:10:35,626 --> 00:10:37,666 Speaker 1: a guy named Jeff Miller. If you don't know Jeff Miller, 211 00:10:37,706 --> 00:10:41,026 Speaker 1: I think he's the man. He's also like the voice 212 00:10:41,066 --> 00:10:43,426 Speaker 1: of like health and safety for the NFL. He works 213 00:10:43,426 --> 00:10:45,626 Speaker 1: at the league office. He's been there for about eight 214 00:10:45,746 --> 00:10:48,466 Speaker 1: nine years, maybe longer than that. And Jeff comes on 215 00:10:48,506 --> 00:10:50,306 Speaker 1: Good Morning Football the time when there's a new rule 216 00:10:50,346 --> 00:10:51,786 Speaker 1: and he wants to talk about it or there's a 217 00:10:51,786 --> 00:10:54,906 Speaker 1: new helmet being introduced or something around the league's help 218 00:10:54,946 --> 00:10:56,826 Speaker 1: and safety. And a lot of times you would think 219 00:10:56,866 --> 00:10:59,546 Speaker 1: a segment like that is like ough, here's a league 220 00:10:59,586 --> 00:11:02,426 Speaker 1: employee coming on to the league network to talk about 221 00:11:02,466 --> 00:11:05,146 Speaker 1: new helmets, and it's like, you know, can you can 222 00:11:05,186 --> 00:11:07,426 Speaker 1: you write the message? And then Jeff comes on and 223 00:11:07,426 --> 00:11:10,866 Speaker 1: he's like normal and he's rational, and he's cool and 224 00:11:10,906 --> 00:11:14,706 Speaker 1: it's comfortable and the conversation's always really good. So I'm 225 00:11:14,706 --> 00:11:16,946 Speaker 1: just talking to Jeff because I'm fascinated about this new 226 00:11:17,466 --> 00:11:19,626 Speaker 1: you know, kickoff rule. And I was like, I spoke 227 00:11:19,666 --> 00:11:23,106 Speaker 1: to Bubba Ventrone on my podcast, who's a defensive coach, 228 00:11:23,186 --> 00:11:25,466 Speaker 1: you know, he's a special teams coordinator or the Browns, 229 00:11:25,466 --> 00:11:27,586 Speaker 1: and he said it's gonna and Jeff and I were 230 00:11:27,626 --> 00:11:29,306 Speaker 1: talking about it, and what Jeff was saying was like, 231 00:11:29,826 --> 00:11:32,746 Speaker 1: you know, beyond the health and safety of the kickoff rule, 232 00:11:32,826 --> 00:11:36,466 Speaker 1: like only twenty two percent of the kickoffs last year 233 00:11:36,866 --> 00:11:39,386 Speaker 1: were even returned, and in the Super Bowl there were 234 00:11:39,426 --> 00:11:42,826 Speaker 1: thirteen kickoffs, all of them went for touchback. So he's like, 235 00:11:43,306 --> 00:11:47,186 Speaker 1: based on like the XFL we saw forty five percent 236 00:11:47,386 --> 00:11:50,346 Speaker 1: of kicks returned, or the UFL, whatever the league was 237 00:11:50,386 --> 00:11:52,226 Speaker 1: where they saw this thing. And he's like, at that, 238 00:11:52,386 --> 00:11:53,866 Speaker 1: at the very least, if you don't want to think 239 00:11:53,906 --> 00:11:55,426 Speaker 1: it's a help and safety thing, you think it's ruining 240 00:11:55,466 --> 00:11:57,266 Speaker 1: the game. We're gonna get kickoffs again, and in a 241 00:11:57,346 --> 00:11:59,346 Speaker 1: year where Devin Hester is being honored to go to 242 00:11:59,346 --> 00:12:01,306 Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, like, it's cool that was a 243 00:12:01,306 --> 00:12:03,746 Speaker 1: new kickoff rule that maybe we'll get kickoffs. So we're 244 00:12:03,826 --> 00:12:05,706 Speaker 1: knee deep in this thing, and then I feel this 245 00:12:05,826 --> 00:12:11,106 Speaker 1: presence like coming over. I'm like, holy, that's Tom Brady. 246 00:12:11,146 --> 00:12:13,186 Speaker 1: And Tom Brady isn't coming over because he's walking back. 247 00:12:13,266 --> 00:12:15,426 Speaker 1: Tom Brady's coming over to say hello to me. I'm like, 248 00:12:15,426 --> 00:12:18,466 Speaker 1: all right, So I get up shake Brady's hand, like 249 00:12:18,466 --> 00:12:20,066 Speaker 1: I give him his rest bag or whatever. And then 250 00:12:20,146 --> 00:12:21,666 Speaker 1: Jeff is there and I'm like, this is Jeff Miller 251 00:12:21,706 --> 00:12:25,106 Speaker 1: from the league, and Brady just like starts and he's like, 252 00:12:25,146 --> 00:12:27,746 Speaker 1: can you explain the hip hop the hip drop tackle, 253 00:12:27,786 --> 00:12:30,466 Speaker 1: and like how you're going to enforce that and why 254 00:12:30,506 --> 00:12:33,426 Speaker 1: we're enforcing that, And all of a sudden we were 255 00:12:33,426 --> 00:12:38,706 Speaker 1: in a twenty five minute conversation myself, the league's office 256 00:12:38,746 --> 00:12:41,946 Speaker 1: representative who discusses health and safety and who is going 257 00:12:41,986 --> 00:12:43,626 Speaker 1: to speak the next day at the Fox seminar to 258 00:12:43,746 --> 00:12:45,826 Speaker 1: explain some of the new rules and some of the 259 00:12:45,866 --> 00:12:48,386 Speaker 1: statistics behind it, and why we're changing the hip drop 260 00:12:48,386 --> 00:12:50,546 Speaker 1: tackle and how the hip drop tackle has led to 261 00:12:50,586 --> 00:12:54,066 Speaker 1: a twenty or twenty times increase over the last couple 262 00:12:54,066 --> 00:12:59,066 Speaker 1: of years of injury because of it, and Tom Brady, 263 00:12:59,146 --> 00:13:02,346 Speaker 1: who's the goat, who had thoughts and I said it 264 00:13:02,386 --> 00:13:04,466 Speaker 1: on Good Morning football, and I'll say it anywhere, like 265 00:13:05,306 --> 00:13:07,626 Speaker 1: based on this conversation that we were having, just three 266 00:13:07,626 --> 00:13:11,906 Speaker 1: of us, Like Brady's speaking his mind, and whereas the league, 267 00:13:12,026 --> 00:13:15,826 Speaker 1: you know, is often accused of like muzzling people or like, 268 00:13:16,266 --> 00:13:18,666 Speaker 1: I don't know if this is going to be unfiltered 269 00:13:18,706 --> 00:13:21,786 Speaker 1: and completely, like Brady has thoughts on the rules. Brady 270 00:13:21,826 --> 00:13:24,306 Speaker 1: has thoughts on some of the ways that the quarterbacks 271 00:13:24,306 --> 00:13:26,306 Speaker 1: are protected in this era and doesn't think they were 272 00:13:26,306 --> 00:13:29,466 Speaker 1: protecting maybe in his early years. And Brady has thoughts, 273 00:13:30,306 --> 00:13:32,506 Speaker 1: So I was blown away twenty five minutes like this 274 00:13:32,586 --> 00:13:36,466 Speaker 1: guy has takes. The next night, Brady's up there on 275 00:13:36,506 --> 00:13:39,506 Speaker 1: a panel and he's talking with straight hand, and Brady's 276 00:13:39,866 --> 00:13:43,146 Speaker 1: like amazing talking and straight Hand's asking, and Brady's like 277 00:13:43,226 --> 00:13:46,146 Speaker 1: unfiltered talking about some of the ways that like his 278 00:13:46,186 --> 00:13:48,826 Speaker 1: team played in the toughness and how Belichick prepared them 279 00:13:48,826 --> 00:13:51,506 Speaker 1: and toughness was the key, and how in this day 280 00:13:51,546 --> 00:13:54,506 Speaker 1: and age, like he's not sure necessarily toughness his first 281 00:13:54,546 --> 00:13:56,506 Speaker 1: and foremost for these days one of these teams, maybe 282 00:13:56,506 --> 00:13:58,106 Speaker 1: it's finesse, and like I want to go back to 283 00:13:58,146 --> 00:14:02,946 Speaker 1: those days. So long story short, Aaron Brady, first of all, 284 00:14:04,066 --> 00:14:07,186 Speaker 1: dedicated to this, like has been put in the hours. 285 00:14:07,186 --> 00:14:09,466 Speaker 1: What's the Malcolm Gladwell thing, ten thousand hours? He ain't 286 00:14:09,466 --> 00:14:12,306 Speaker 1: there yet, it might take a while, but he is committed. 287 00:14:12,386 --> 00:14:15,626 Speaker 1: This is not Tom Brady flying in doing games, flying out. 288 00:14:15,626 --> 00:14:17,746 Speaker 1: Like Brady has been putting in the work. And I've 289 00:14:17,746 --> 00:14:20,186 Speaker 1: spoken to Kevin Burkhart, spoken to Aaron Andrews, I spoke 290 00:14:20,186 --> 00:14:22,986 Speaker 1: to Tom Rinaldi, I spoke to rich russo Ch Richie Science. 291 00:14:22,986 --> 00:14:24,306 Speaker 1: He's the guys who are going to work with them 292 00:14:24,306 --> 00:14:26,906 Speaker 1: every week. Brady's putting the work in. So what's that mean? 293 00:14:27,986 --> 00:14:31,786 Speaker 1: I and Burkhart have done a ton of games together, 294 00:14:31,906 --> 00:14:34,546 Speaker 1: practice games, and they've come into the studio to do 295 00:14:34,586 --> 00:14:36,506 Speaker 1: it together. They've done it from a room where the 296 00:14:36,506 --> 00:14:38,346 Speaker 1: two of them are doing it, and like they're watching games. 297 00:14:38,346 --> 00:14:40,386 Speaker 1: And what I love, what I've been told is that 298 00:14:40,426 --> 00:14:41,946 Speaker 1: it's not like they had a chance to prep these 299 00:14:41,986 --> 00:14:45,506 Speaker 1: games beforehand, so they're watching games blindly. Yes, they've been 300 00:14:45,506 --> 00:14:46,946 Speaker 1: games that have already been played, and they might have 301 00:14:46,986 --> 00:14:50,346 Speaker 1: been broadcasted already, but like, all right, pretend like it's 302 00:14:50,426 --> 00:14:55,626 Speaker 1: fresh go and it's Brady and Burkhart. So we're about 303 00:14:55,906 --> 00:14:59,026 Speaker 1: a month away from the regular season opener, which is 304 00:14:59,066 --> 00:15:05,506 Speaker 1: gonna be Brown's versus Cowboys. But I believe we're gonna 305 00:15:05,506 --> 00:15:08,586 Speaker 1: see Brady on the CA with Burkehart in a preseason 306 00:15:08,586 --> 00:15:11,786 Speaker 1: game in a couple of weeks. And I think, and 307 00:15:11,826 --> 00:15:13,706 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to set the bar too high, and 308 00:15:13,706 --> 00:15:16,506 Speaker 1: this isn't like you know, he needs to hear this 309 00:15:16,586 --> 00:15:18,226 Speaker 1: or that Fox needs to hear this. I think he's 310 00:15:18,266 --> 00:15:20,746 Speaker 1: gonna be really good. And I think that when he talks, 311 00:15:20,746 --> 00:15:23,986 Speaker 1: people want to listen. And for all the praise and 312 00:15:24,026 --> 00:15:26,266 Speaker 1: awards and love that we have for Greg Olsen, greg 313 00:15:26,306 --> 00:15:28,386 Speaker 1: Olsen's still in the Fox family. He's gonna be doing 314 00:15:28,386 --> 00:15:30,986 Speaker 1: games with Joe Davis, and if you're watching the NFC 315 00:15:31,426 --> 00:15:33,186 Speaker 1: the second best game of the week, it's gonna be 316 00:15:33,226 --> 00:15:35,106 Speaker 1: Greg Olsen on it. Like you're still make get your 317 00:15:35,146 --> 00:15:37,266 Speaker 1: Greg Olsen, who we love hearing this podcast, and it's 318 00:15:37,266 --> 00:15:39,466 Speaker 1: gonna be awesome at whatever he does. But I think 319 00:15:39,506 --> 00:15:41,666 Speaker 1: Brady's gonna be different. And I think Brady's gonna be 320 00:15:41,666 --> 00:15:52,106 Speaker 1: good too. As we're less than you know, six weeks away. 321 00:15:53,186 --> 00:15:55,346 Speaker 1: When I tell you all that, like, what's your thoughts 322 00:15:55,346 --> 00:15:57,386 Speaker 1: on Brady the broadcast? They're going in as just a 323 00:15:57,426 --> 00:15:59,386 Speaker 1: fan who has no insight going into this thing. 324 00:16:00,666 --> 00:16:04,746 Speaker 2: I guess like kind of like straight hand said, would 325 00:16:04,826 --> 00:16:07,506 Speaker 2: I expect any less from Brady? I I do love 326 00:16:07,546 --> 00:16:10,506 Speaker 2: the idea that he took this opportunity of like here's 327 00:16:10,546 --> 00:16:14,026 Speaker 2: this opening cocktail hour, no one's taking photos, be yourself, 328 00:16:14,026 --> 00:16:16,186 Speaker 2: you can get as sloppy as you want. And Brady 329 00:16:16,226 --> 00:16:18,786 Speaker 2: walks in is like, sit down, give me twenty five 330 00:16:18,786 --> 00:16:20,626 Speaker 2: minutes for going through this role, Like I don't know 331 00:16:20,746 --> 00:16:23,066 Speaker 2: enough about this. I want to hear your thoughts and 332 00:16:23,106 --> 00:16:25,626 Speaker 2: like tell me so that I can talk about this 333 00:16:25,666 --> 00:16:27,946 Speaker 2: tomorrow night, or I can talk about this three months 334 00:16:27,946 --> 00:16:32,346 Speaker 2: down the line. I love that. I mean, I you know, 335 00:16:32,466 --> 00:16:35,066 Speaker 2: I also love Olsen. He's been great on this show. 336 00:16:35,106 --> 00:16:37,546 Speaker 2: It's been great watching him on games, and it'll be 337 00:16:37,586 --> 00:16:41,146 Speaker 2: great that now there are two games with great announcers 338 00:16:41,186 --> 00:16:43,706 Speaker 2: going like you know, the more the merrier. I think 339 00:16:43,706 --> 00:16:48,586 Speaker 2: it's awesome. And I also, you know, it'll be so 340 00:16:48,706 --> 00:16:51,906 Speaker 2: cool to have Brady talking about teams he's played, players 341 00:16:51,906 --> 00:16:54,866 Speaker 2: he's played against, Like I can't wait for him to call, 342 00:16:54,946 --> 00:16:57,106 Speaker 2: you know, Mike Evans touchdown, like. 343 00:16:59,946 --> 00:17:04,586 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they're getting that number one game, but week seven, 344 00:17:05,426 --> 00:17:08,546 Speaker 1: it's nine ers cheap on Fox and Brady's on the call. 345 00:17:08,586 --> 00:17:11,586 Speaker 1: I mean, that's pretty badass, you know, that's really cool. 346 00:17:12,826 --> 00:17:15,626 Speaker 1: So that was the Brady part of it. At this thing, 347 00:17:16,066 --> 00:17:18,626 Speaker 1: I had a long conversation with Alex Rodriguez. He was 348 00:17:18,666 --> 00:17:26,386 Speaker 1: invited because he's boxed great also in attendance where of 349 00:17:26,426 --> 00:17:30,666 Speaker 1: course all the different NFL guys and Gronk and I 350 00:17:30,826 --> 00:17:34,746 Speaker 1: have a really interesting relationship going on right now. It 351 00:17:34,826 --> 00:17:38,506 Speaker 1: is expanding beyond our football work, where we text all 352 00:17:38,626 --> 00:17:43,826 Speaker 1: day about life, about New York. And Gronk embarrassed me Aaron, 353 00:17:44,026 --> 00:17:46,226 Speaker 1: and he did so in a way that I'm gonna 354 00:17:46,466 --> 00:17:49,346 Speaker 1: hear about this for a bit and I want to 355 00:17:49,386 --> 00:17:52,586 Speaker 1: put my foot down and correct it on my podcast. 356 00:17:52,706 --> 00:17:56,186 Speaker 1: So I texted Gronk after the White Party, I said, 357 00:17:56,186 --> 00:17:58,226 Speaker 1: give me all the gossip, give me all the juice. 358 00:17:58,266 --> 00:17:59,786 Speaker 1: I see you in all these pictures, like what do 359 00:17:59,826 --> 00:18:07,866 Speaker 1: you got harmless? He thought that was the thirstiest, most 360 00:18:07,946 --> 00:18:10,586 Speaker 1: pathetic thing in the world. And then he wrote back 361 00:18:10,626 --> 00:18:12,786 Speaker 1: to me, He's like, really, question Mark. I'm like, yes, 362 00:18:12,826 --> 00:18:16,466 Speaker 1: He goes, what type of quote unquote gossip are you 363 00:18:16,546 --> 00:18:18,866 Speaker 1: looking for? And I'm like, I don't know, give me anything, 364 00:18:18,906 --> 00:18:23,546 Speaker 1: Like who is there? What celebrities. He goes, really what celebrities. 365 00:18:25,346 --> 00:18:28,466 Speaker 1: So then we get to this thing and the table 366 00:18:28,786 --> 00:18:31,346 Speaker 1: is as decorated a table with football accolades as you 367 00:18:31,346 --> 00:18:35,386 Speaker 1: could imagine we're talking about, just like imagine a round table. 368 00:18:35,706 --> 00:18:43,906 Speaker 1: And it's Tom Brady, Michael Strahan, Howie Long, Julian Edelman, 369 00:18:44,986 --> 00:18:50,986 Speaker 1: Michael Vick, Arles Woodson was at the table. Yes, Mark 370 00:18:51,146 --> 00:18:54,306 Speaker 1: Sanchez is at the table, and Greg Olsen is at 371 00:18:54,306 --> 00:18:57,466 Speaker 1: the table. And there was one more luminary that I'm like, oh, oh, 372 00:18:57,546 --> 00:19:00,506 Speaker 1: Jonathan Vilma, who's like badass of all badasses. They're all 373 00:19:00,546 --> 00:19:02,626 Speaker 1: at this table and we're all just like off the 374 00:19:02,666 --> 00:19:06,106 Speaker 1: buffet line, hanging out on a giant like resort, you know, 375 00:19:06,186 --> 00:19:09,866 Speaker 1: table well, and Gronk comes over and in front of 376 00:19:09,906 --> 00:19:15,346 Speaker 1: all of them is like trigger, has anyone wanted anything 377 00:19:15,426 --> 00:19:19,186 Speaker 1: more than you want that invite to Michael Rubens White Party? 378 00:19:19,226 --> 00:19:22,186 Speaker 1: And I'm like, stop it, stop it right now now. 379 00:19:22,426 --> 00:19:27,466 Speaker 1: Three members at that table straight hand, Brady Gronk, We're 380 00:19:27,506 --> 00:19:30,586 Speaker 1: at the party. Edelman chimes in and says, I've been 381 00:19:30,586 --> 00:19:33,306 Speaker 1: invited three times. I've never had the opportunity to go. 382 00:19:33,866 --> 00:19:37,346 Speaker 1: Vic says he's been invited. Whinson says he's been invited, 383 00:19:37,626 --> 00:19:40,106 Speaker 1: and now Gronk is like, oh, it would be Sregger 384 00:19:40,146 --> 00:19:42,146 Speaker 1: would retire, and like it would be his dream. All 385 00:19:42,146 --> 00:19:43,786 Speaker 1: he wants to talk about is the White Party. And 386 00:19:43,826 --> 00:19:46,546 Speaker 1: I'm like, this obsession with the White Party, it is 387 00:19:46,586 --> 00:19:49,426 Speaker 1: not true. I don't want to be at the White Party. 388 00:19:49,426 --> 00:19:52,026 Speaker 1: I've said it on my podcast. I've said I promise 389 00:19:52,066 --> 00:19:55,226 Speaker 1: you I am not begging to go. The question is 390 00:19:55,706 --> 00:19:58,026 Speaker 1: would I go if I was invited? So I'm denial 391 00:19:58,106 --> 00:20:01,386 Speaker 1: on it, and then you know, Straighthand just pops in 392 00:20:01,426 --> 00:20:04,186 Speaker 1: and is like if I got you an invite, would 393 00:20:04,186 --> 00:20:07,106 Speaker 1: you go? And I was like no, and then they're 394 00:20:07,146 --> 00:20:09,346 Speaker 1: all like yeah, and I was like, I probably would go. 395 00:20:09,706 --> 00:20:11,586 Speaker 1: I think I would go, Aaron, would you go? 396 00:20:12,546 --> 00:20:18,466 Speaker 2: I think if you if someone invites you to a party, uh, 397 00:20:18,986 --> 00:20:21,746 Speaker 2: you know, like if the host invites you and it's 398 00:20:21,866 --> 00:20:24,426 Speaker 2: a normal thing, you can say no. But if a 399 00:20:24,586 --> 00:20:27,746 Speaker 2: legend invites you to come with them, I kind of 400 00:20:27,786 --> 00:20:28,386 Speaker 2: thank you, got it? 401 00:20:28,626 --> 00:20:30,626 Speaker 1: Like if Straighthn's like Sreggar, you're my plus one? 402 00:20:30,866 --> 00:20:33,386 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah that you don't want to disappoint straight hand, 403 00:20:33,666 --> 00:20:34,746 Speaker 2: you know, yeah. 404 00:20:34,626 --> 00:20:37,826 Speaker 1: Or like Gronk like leaves his his sports illustrated swimsuit 405 00:20:37,866 --> 00:20:41,266 Speaker 1: girlfriend Camille Costeck behind and says, shregar, you're my plus one? 406 00:20:41,866 --> 00:20:43,746 Speaker 1: Then I and and then do I get to pose 407 00:20:43,786 --> 00:20:46,626 Speaker 1: in the photos with Drake and and with a little 408 00:20:46,826 --> 00:20:49,946 Speaker 1: with and with who else? Kevin Hart and all the 409 00:20:50,026 --> 00:20:51,866 Speaker 1: NFL like look as a post with c J. Stroud 410 00:20:51,866 --> 00:20:52,346 Speaker 1: and Joe Burrow. 411 00:20:52,546 --> 00:20:53,986 Speaker 2: You can hang out with Hard and he gets so 412 00:20:54,106 --> 00:20:56,666 Speaker 2: you know, and then you can text Gronk all the 413 00:20:56,706 --> 00:21:00,026 Speaker 2: gossip afterwards, although he'll be there too, but he'll be there. 414 00:21:01,266 --> 00:21:04,026 Speaker 1: The rest of the evening was great. Roger Goodell was there, 415 00:21:04,826 --> 00:21:07,946 Speaker 1: had a really good conversation with him. But my MVP 416 00:21:08,266 --> 00:21:12,106 Speaker 1: of the weekend, my MVP of the weekend, the guy 417 00:21:12,146 --> 00:21:14,026 Speaker 1: who I had the most fun with and who I 418 00:21:14,226 --> 00:21:16,346 Speaker 1: see myself being lifelong friends with and I think we'll 419 00:21:16,346 --> 00:21:18,346 Speaker 1: have him on the podcast soon once the college football 420 00:21:18,386 --> 00:21:26,106 Speaker 1: season starts is Cooper Manning. Cooper Manning was hilarious, awesome 421 00:21:26,106 --> 00:21:28,146 Speaker 1: to talk ball with. And it is one of these 422 00:21:28,146 --> 00:21:30,986 Speaker 1: guys that's like in a way Forrest Gump, like you 423 00:21:30,986 --> 00:21:33,466 Speaker 1: could take a conversation anywhere and he has a touch 424 00:21:33,506 --> 00:21:39,026 Speaker 1: point for it. A he's the oldest Manning brother. He's 425 00:21:39,026 --> 00:21:41,266 Speaker 1: older than Peyton any Lie and has all of that 426 00:21:41,346 --> 00:21:44,946 Speaker 1: insight be his son Arch is the number one high 427 00:21:44,946 --> 00:21:47,186 Speaker 1: school recruit in the country and is going into another 428 00:21:47,266 --> 00:21:49,946 Speaker 1: year at Texas where he'll be a quarterback and hopefully 429 00:21:49,986 --> 00:21:52,586 Speaker 1: we'll see the field, or hopefully not if that's not 430 00:21:52,626 --> 00:21:54,546 Speaker 1: what they're looking for and they want quinn Ewers to 431 00:21:54,626 --> 00:21:56,986 Speaker 1: go the whole way, and next year it'll be the guy. 432 00:21:57,906 --> 00:22:02,146 Speaker 1: But also a very very very funny human being, like 433 00:22:02,426 --> 00:22:04,906 Speaker 1: accomplishing his own right from the business sense, was in 434 00:22:04,986 --> 00:22:08,306 Speaker 1: insurance for years, might still be, but also is one 435 00:22:08,346 --> 00:22:10,746 Speaker 1: of the key members of people who puts together the 436 00:22:12,266 --> 00:22:15,866 Speaker 1: graduate hotels which are now popping up on campuses everywhere, 437 00:22:15,906 --> 00:22:20,306 Speaker 1: basically an upscale hotel at like major college campus. So 438 00:22:20,386 --> 00:22:23,946 Speaker 1: for years you would travel to Ole Miss and it's 439 00:22:24,066 --> 00:22:26,266 Speaker 1: either get have to rent a house or you stay 440 00:22:26,266 --> 00:22:28,586 Speaker 1: in a courtyard by Marriott or like a holiday inn. 441 00:22:29,186 --> 00:22:31,666 Speaker 1: And Cooper and his investor's thoughts was like, why don't 442 00:22:31,666 --> 00:22:34,826 Speaker 1: we put up a nice hotel that families who want 443 00:22:34,866 --> 00:22:37,746 Speaker 1: to put stay in a nicer hotel, Like it's nothing crazy, 444 00:22:37,786 --> 00:22:40,546 Speaker 1: but it's a different version than the hotels that have 445 00:22:40,586 --> 00:22:42,506 Speaker 1: always been available. So there's a least an option to do, 446 00:22:42,586 --> 00:22:45,386 Speaker 1: so they've thirty seven of them right now. Hilton is 447 00:22:45,386 --> 00:22:48,546 Speaker 1: buying in on it like a massive find it Anyway, 448 00:22:48,706 --> 00:22:53,146 Speaker 1: I say all this because Cooper and I got put 449 00:22:53,186 --> 00:22:55,546 Speaker 1: together and we were just cracking each other up. I 450 00:22:55,546 --> 00:22:58,986 Speaker 1: think he's amazing, and I have so much insight on 451 00:22:59,706 --> 00:23:03,426 Speaker 1: a his son and the Texas stuff, but also what's 452 00:23:03,466 --> 00:23:07,826 Speaker 1: going on in the overall Manning world old from Cooper Manning. 453 00:23:07,826 --> 00:23:11,386 Speaker 1: One thing I did not realize is that like Eli 454 00:23:12,026 --> 00:23:15,626 Speaker 1: still lives in Jersey, Peyton lives in Denver, Cooper lives 455 00:23:15,626 --> 00:23:18,306 Speaker 1: in New Orleans, and these three guys are still in 456 00:23:18,346 --> 00:23:20,666 Speaker 1: like a text chain and talk every single day. I 457 00:23:20,666 --> 00:23:22,386 Speaker 1: feel like they need a reality show. If we haven't 458 00:23:22,386 --> 00:23:25,386 Speaker 1: had enough Manning brothers yet, I feel like Cooper needs 459 00:23:25,386 --> 00:23:27,706 Speaker 1: to be thrown in it because he is the eldest brother, 460 00:23:28,066 --> 00:23:31,626 Speaker 1: the funniest of the three, and in my eye, it's 461 00:23:31,706 --> 00:23:34,066 Speaker 1: like maybe the most interesting because we haven't gotten the 462 00:23:34,106 --> 00:23:36,426 Speaker 1: most out of Cooper Manning and he has this incredible 463 00:23:36,466 --> 00:23:39,866 Speaker 1: decorated life as always being like the other Manning brother, 464 00:23:39,946 --> 00:23:42,506 Speaker 1: but like in his own right is absolutely incredible. Do 465 00:23:42,546 --> 00:23:44,346 Speaker 1: you have a feel for Cooper Manning yet? I feel like. 466 00:23:44,306 --> 00:23:47,586 Speaker 2: Only there's I forget what commercials they were, but the 467 00:23:47,626 --> 00:23:50,746 Speaker 2: Mannings were doing a set of commercials for a casino 468 00:23:50,866 --> 00:23:53,026 Speaker 2: or a betting app or something, and Cooper was in 469 00:23:53,066 --> 00:23:56,466 Speaker 2: them and was the funniest part of it as far like, 470 00:23:57,146 --> 00:24:01,106 Speaker 2: he played it up very very well. And despite like 471 00:24:01,426 --> 00:24:05,026 Speaker 2: having these two star studded brothers, Cooper was like he 472 00:24:05,106 --> 00:24:07,666 Speaker 2: was he was the best joke in the and that 473 00:24:07,786 --> 00:24:09,986 Speaker 2: that sounds like he's a joke. He was providing the 474 00:24:10,026 --> 00:24:13,146 Speaker 2: most hilarious moment in the pot in the in the commercial, 475 00:24:13,186 --> 00:24:13,826 Speaker 2: for sure. 476 00:24:14,106 --> 00:24:16,626 Speaker 1: It's tremendous. And he's great. And I'll tell you he 477 00:24:16,706 --> 00:24:19,586 Speaker 1: does these weekly things for Fox NFL Kickoff, So you'll 478 00:24:19,586 --> 00:24:24,306 Speaker 1: see Cooper Manning on Fox NFL Kickoff. And they're little bits, 479 00:24:24,546 --> 00:24:26,146 Speaker 1: but I'll put them up against any of the stuff 480 00:24:26,146 --> 00:24:29,186 Speaker 1: that like we used to do with uh Calliendo or 481 00:24:29,186 --> 00:24:30,946 Speaker 1: Wriggle or what you see with Marshall, and I'm like, 482 00:24:30,986 --> 00:24:33,906 Speaker 1: they're good. So Cooper Manning and I we're having a 483 00:24:33,906 --> 00:24:38,626 Speaker 1: great time. We also we're part of a crazy travel 484 00:24:38,666 --> 00:24:42,706 Speaker 1: situation because that Friday, what's it called cyber World or 485 00:24:42,706 --> 00:24:43,986 Speaker 1: cyber strike or whatever. 486 00:24:44,146 --> 00:24:46,226 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, what what was that thing? 487 00:24:46,346 --> 00:24:52,746 Speaker 1: Yeah? Strike World? I don't know. So the we get 488 00:24:52,786 --> 00:24:55,906 Speaker 1: on a plane, Cooper Manning and eyes. We're both flying 489 00:24:55,946 --> 00:24:57,986 Speaker 1: back to New York. He's got business to take care of. 490 00:24:58,106 --> 00:25:00,026 Speaker 1: I'm going back to New York to my family. And 491 00:25:00,066 --> 00:25:01,906 Speaker 1: we get on the plane and we get all messled 492 00:25:01,946 --> 00:25:05,426 Speaker 1: in and we're taking a red Eye and it's Thursday 493 00:25:05,506 --> 00:25:08,506 Speaker 1: night or whatever it is, and the pilot comes on 494 00:25:08,826 --> 00:25:12,506 Speaker 1: and is like, folks, we're gonna be delayed a little 495 00:25:12,546 --> 00:25:15,666 Speaker 1: bit here, we're actually going to dplane. I'm like, oh, 496 00:25:15,706 --> 00:25:18,706 Speaker 1: that's not good. That's not good. You get off of 497 00:25:18,746 --> 00:25:21,106 Speaker 1: red Eye and you look and you didn't even get 498 00:25:21,106 --> 00:25:24,266 Speaker 1: off the runway, and you look at the Lax gate 499 00:25:24,706 --> 00:25:27,306 Speaker 1: and you see people starting to lay out their sweatshirts 500 00:25:27,466 --> 00:25:30,746 Speaker 1: as pillows because you might get rescheduled, you might not. 501 00:25:31,546 --> 00:25:35,546 Speaker 1: Cooper and I, fortunately enough, we're like, let's let's just 502 00:25:35,546 --> 00:25:37,386 Speaker 1: get out of here. We went back to the hotel. 503 00:25:37,426 --> 00:25:39,946 Speaker 1: We got on a different flight the next day, not 504 00:25:40,186 --> 00:25:42,786 Speaker 1: on the airline that was affected, and we escaped. And 505 00:25:42,786 --> 00:25:44,786 Speaker 1: I feel like he and I it was like escape 506 00:25:44,786 --> 00:25:48,266 Speaker 1: from La Cooper Manning and I always in coordination, taking 507 00:25:48,386 --> 00:25:52,146 Speaker 1: ubers at like two in the morning from Lax back 508 00:25:52,186 --> 00:25:54,906 Speaker 1: to Palas Verdes and another uber at like five am 509 00:25:54,986 --> 00:25:57,746 Speaker 1: from talis So Cooper Manning and I are forever length. 510 00:26:06,586 --> 00:26:08,586 Speaker 1: One of the key things that came out of that 511 00:26:08,626 --> 00:26:13,666 Speaker 1: whole Fox you know we call it a seminar, is 512 00:26:13,706 --> 00:26:17,506 Speaker 1: that the rules are changing and I you're gonna this 513 00:26:17,586 --> 00:26:19,426 Speaker 1: is gonna be dated because I think Thursday night at 514 00:26:19,426 --> 00:26:21,026 Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame game, you're gonna see the dynamic 515 00:26:21,066 --> 00:26:23,626 Speaker 1: kickoff rule. And I tried getting ahead of this with 516 00:26:23,666 --> 00:26:25,426 Speaker 1: having Bubba Vitron a couple of weeks ago, and if 517 00:26:25,466 --> 00:26:27,546 Speaker 1: you're listening to this podcast, go find that he explains 518 00:26:27,546 --> 00:26:31,266 Speaker 1: it all like it is going to be wild. The 519 00:26:31,346 --> 00:26:34,266 Speaker 1: response is and I think teams are gonna handle differently. 520 00:26:34,266 --> 00:26:35,466 Speaker 1: Some times are just gonna boot it out of the 521 00:26:36,026 --> 00:26:38,506 Speaker 1: end zone and say, you know what, touchback. I know 522 00:26:38,546 --> 00:26:40,186 Speaker 1: it's the thirty, but like we're gonna do a touchback 523 00:26:40,226 --> 00:26:41,906 Speaker 1: because I don't know how to defend this thing. Other 524 00:26:41,906 --> 00:26:45,546 Speaker 1: teams are gonna get super creative with it. I'm fascinating 525 00:26:45,586 --> 00:26:47,386 Speaker 1: to see the reaction. I think it will. It'll be 526 00:26:47,586 --> 00:26:49,546 Speaker 1: nuts tonight as they do the Hall of Fame game 527 00:26:49,546 --> 00:26:52,266 Speaker 1: because it's really different and I can go through all 528 00:26:52,266 --> 00:26:54,186 Speaker 1: the rules, but you'll fall asleep. But like just when 529 00:26:54,186 --> 00:26:56,906 Speaker 1: you visualize it in your head, know that there's not 530 00:26:56,986 --> 00:27:00,066 Speaker 1: a ton of footage of this thing. So teams have 531 00:27:00,146 --> 00:27:03,506 Speaker 1: been trying everything in practice, and special teams coaches have 532 00:27:03,586 --> 00:27:06,426 Speaker 1: been going, you know, hog wild. I talk to one 533 00:27:06,586 --> 00:27:08,346 Speaker 1: this week who's like, I've been up all night and 534 00:27:08,346 --> 00:27:11,066 Speaker 1: I've got about eight hundred ways to attack this kickoff. 535 00:27:11,986 --> 00:27:15,866 Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin said in a feature that we ran on 536 00:27:15,906 --> 00:27:20,106 Speaker 1: Good Morning Football that he contacted the guys at Madden 537 00:27:21,266 --> 00:27:26,946 Speaker 1: Electronic Arts and asked them to simulate a few different 538 00:27:26,946 --> 00:27:31,386 Speaker 1: schematics that he might have with the dynamic kicking rule, 539 00:27:31,426 --> 00:27:33,906 Speaker 1: and they came back with all this footage of like 540 00:27:33,986 --> 00:27:37,106 Speaker 1: Madden simulations of it. So I say all that, I 541 00:27:37,146 --> 00:27:39,706 Speaker 1: just think the kickoff rolls be crazy. And Walda Anderson, 542 00:27:39,746 --> 00:27:43,346 Speaker 1: who's kind of like the old Mike Pereira, Dean Blendino, 543 00:27:43,426 --> 00:27:45,706 Speaker 1: Al river On now doing that for the NFL. He 544 00:27:45,746 --> 00:27:47,626 Speaker 1: sit up there and answered a million questions at the 545 00:27:47,626 --> 00:27:49,946 Speaker 1: Fox thing from all the announcers, because the announcers with 546 00:27:50,066 --> 00:27:52,106 Speaker 1: an open Q and A are like, all right, can this happen? 547 00:27:52,186 --> 00:27:54,106 Speaker 1: Like are we gonna see this happen? It's just possible, 548 00:27:54,146 --> 00:27:56,786 Speaker 1: And he had all the answers. But like if guys 549 00:27:56,786 --> 00:27:59,066 Speaker 1: who call the games had a million questions, just wait 550 00:27:59,106 --> 00:27:59,746 Speaker 1: for the fans. 551 00:28:00,306 --> 00:28:00,426 Speaker 2: Uh. 552 00:28:00,786 --> 00:28:02,666 Speaker 1: That is going to be something to keep an eye on. 553 00:28:02,706 --> 00:28:06,786 Speaker 1: All right, So we fast forward. It's you know, a 554 00:28:06,826 --> 00:28:11,106 Speaker 1: couple days I have off say, all right, Football's coming back. 555 00:28:11,826 --> 00:28:15,426 Speaker 1: Good Morning Football's returning. Now I've never formally announced this. 556 00:28:15,466 --> 00:28:17,666 Speaker 1: I don't like doing formal announcements, but I am back 557 00:28:17,666 --> 00:28:19,306 Speaker 1: with Good Morning Football. And that was up in the 558 00:28:19,346 --> 00:28:20,826 Speaker 1: air for a bit whether or how we're going to 559 00:28:20,866 --> 00:28:22,786 Speaker 1: make this work. I said from the very beginning, I 560 00:28:22,826 --> 00:28:24,546 Speaker 1: don't plan on moving my family, but I want to 561 00:28:24,586 --> 00:28:26,146 Speaker 1: be a part of Good Morning Football. So we came 562 00:28:26,186 --> 00:28:30,066 Speaker 1: to an agreement the NFL Network and I that I 563 00:28:30,146 --> 00:28:33,106 Speaker 1: am going to do a bunch of shows in LA, 564 00:28:33,866 --> 00:28:37,146 Speaker 1: many of them being Mondays because I'm out there already 565 00:28:37,626 --> 00:28:40,546 Speaker 1: for Fox, and then I'm gonna do a bunch of 566 00:28:40,586 --> 00:28:43,066 Speaker 1: shows in New York. And the New York ones are 567 00:28:43,066 --> 00:28:45,146 Speaker 1: going to be from a studio, not from my house, 568 00:28:45,226 --> 00:28:47,826 Speaker 1: not from my basement, not from my garage, not from 569 00:28:47,826 --> 00:28:49,986 Speaker 1: a bed. And we're going to see how this works. 570 00:28:50,026 --> 00:28:52,346 Speaker 1: But Good Morning Football is a little different now, so 571 00:28:52,386 --> 00:28:54,466 Speaker 1: it starts instead of at seven am, It starts at 572 00:28:54,546 --> 00:28:58,066 Speaker 1: eight am Eastern. It's two hours on NFL Network. Then 573 00:28:58,066 --> 00:29:00,266 Speaker 1: it's going to reair on NFL Network. But then we 574 00:29:00,306 --> 00:29:02,786 Speaker 1: have this whole other thing going on, which I'm trying 575 00:29:02,786 --> 00:29:07,666 Speaker 1: to get used to, no break in between a fresh 576 00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:10,706 Speaker 1: two hours air and of a whole other show called 577 00:29:10,746 --> 00:29:16,786 Speaker 1: GMFB Overtime, which airs on Roku, not the NFL network, Roku, 578 00:29:17,026 --> 00:29:19,186 Speaker 1: which I'm getting the hang of because I don't. I 579 00:29:19,186 --> 00:29:21,586 Speaker 1: didn't know Roku before this deal happened, And now I'm 580 00:29:21,586 --> 00:29:23,706 Speaker 1: realizing I'm gonna be on the faces of Broku, which 581 00:29:23,746 --> 00:29:27,026 Speaker 1: is neat. But then starting with Week one of the 582 00:29:27,106 --> 00:29:32,706 Speaker 1: NFL season, it's gonna be on syndication in Fox local 583 00:29:32,786 --> 00:29:37,226 Speaker 1: markets across the country. This second two hours called GMFB Overtime. 584 00:29:37,346 --> 00:29:40,306 Speaker 1: All right, so we do two hours for NFL Network. 585 00:29:40,346 --> 00:29:43,466 Speaker 1: That's your usual meat and potatoes football show in house, 586 00:29:43,506 --> 00:29:45,386 Speaker 1: everyone knows it. Then the next two hours are going 587 00:29:45,466 --> 00:29:49,386 Speaker 1: to be a little looser, a little more I don't know, 588 00:29:49,506 --> 00:29:54,666 Speaker 1: what can I say, slice of life pop culture more, 589 00:29:56,546 --> 00:29:59,306 Speaker 1: let's say, less talking about the backup tight ends on 590 00:29:59,346 --> 00:30:03,026 Speaker 1: the Saints, and more talking about Joe Burrow's haircut, if 591 00:30:03,026 --> 00:30:05,786 Speaker 1: that makes sense, and our reactions to that, and that's 592 00:30:05,786 --> 00:30:10,426 Speaker 1: gonna air on like one hundred and nineteen different local markets. 593 00:30:10,426 --> 00:30:15,666 Speaker 1: Apparently that are any Fox marks like Fox Topeka, Fox Albuquerque, 594 00:30:15,946 --> 00:30:18,146 Speaker 1: all throughout the day in those local markets, and that 595 00:30:18,186 --> 00:30:20,546 Speaker 1: either airs for one hour or two hours, spending what 596 00:30:20,586 --> 00:30:23,586 Speaker 1: they want and you're saying, well, who's gonna watch that? 597 00:30:23,866 --> 00:30:27,946 Speaker 1: Apparently everyone bought this thing, and also apparently. 598 00:30:28,906 --> 00:30:32,546 Speaker 3: Football wins like football sales, like people would rather watch 599 00:30:32,706 --> 00:30:35,026 Speaker 3: highlights of football, people talking about football and have the 600 00:30:35,106 --> 00:30:37,666 Speaker 3: NFL in the middle of the day than maybe a 601 00:30:37,746 --> 00:30:41,746 Speaker 3: daytime talk show or a court drama or. 602 00:30:41,586 --> 00:30:45,266 Speaker 1: One of those judge shows. So I don't know, we'll see, 603 00:30:45,346 --> 00:30:47,226 Speaker 1: but that was what it was. So my deal is 604 00:30:47,266 --> 00:30:50,986 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be back and forth. It's gonna be interesting 605 00:30:51,026 --> 00:30:52,586 Speaker 1: to see how I hold up with it, but I 606 00:30:52,586 --> 00:30:55,746 Speaker 1: think I'm gonna be all right. And it's four hours, 607 00:30:55,786 --> 00:30:58,866 Speaker 1: not three, but you'll probably only see it for two 608 00:30:59,466 --> 00:31:02,186 Speaker 1: unless you're gonna watch two hours NFL Network and then 609 00:31:02,306 --> 00:31:05,626 Speaker 1: jump over to the ROKU or the syndication. So that's 610 00:31:05,666 --> 00:31:08,906 Speaker 1: my public service announcement. Oh and McCarty's no longer with us. 611 00:31:09,306 --> 00:31:12,506 Speaker 1: McCarty his contract was up and he was like, I'm 612 00:31:12,506 --> 00:31:15,346 Speaker 1: not moving my family out to LA for a show 613 00:31:15,386 --> 00:31:17,706 Speaker 1: that is at those hours. It just doesn't gel with 614 00:31:17,706 --> 00:31:19,666 Speaker 1: what we have. He's got everything out in New Jersey 615 00:31:19,746 --> 00:31:22,066 Speaker 1: and he's set and he's got other opportunities. So I 616 00:31:22,186 --> 00:31:24,466 Speaker 1: love Jason mccordy. I'm gonna him on the podcast because 617 00:31:24,506 --> 00:31:27,066 Speaker 1: that's my dog. He was incredible filling in for Nate. 618 00:31:27,106 --> 00:31:29,706 Speaker 1: But just as Jason filled in for Nate, we have 619 00:31:29,746 --> 00:31:34,426 Speaker 1: a new host, and it's Akbar who comes from American 620 00:31:34,506 --> 00:31:37,666 Speaker 1: Ninja Warrior and was with the NFL Network beforehand. And 621 00:31:37,706 --> 00:31:40,266 Speaker 1: then Jamie Erdall did make the move, so she's out there. 622 00:31:40,586 --> 00:31:42,946 Speaker 1: She's with her three kids and her husband. They're living 623 00:31:42,946 --> 00:31:45,786 Speaker 1: out in Manhattan Beach, so seems like it's kind of stable. 624 00:31:45,906 --> 00:31:49,226 Speaker 1: We're four episodes in. It's going really well. I'm really 625 00:31:49,546 --> 00:31:51,826 Speaker 1: pretty happy with how it all worked out. We'll see 626 00:31:51,826 --> 00:31:54,506 Speaker 1: where it goes all right, But now we had to 627 00:31:54,506 --> 00:31:58,146 Speaker 1: actually launch the show, so I, like Walter Jones, who 628 00:31:58,266 --> 00:32:00,266 Speaker 1: used to play for the Seattle Seahawks, said you'll see 629 00:32:00,306 --> 00:32:01,666 Speaker 1: me day one, Like, I don't need to be out 630 00:32:01,706 --> 00:32:04,026 Speaker 1: there for a week of rehearsals. Kyle went out there 631 00:32:04,026 --> 00:32:06,986 Speaker 1: for rehearsals. I didn't. I'm a cantankeris. I'm like, no, 632 00:32:07,066 --> 00:32:08,786 Speaker 1: I'll be in New York rehearsals and I'll get there 633 00:32:08,866 --> 00:32:12,906 Speaker 1: day one, which I did. But Sunday I arrived and 634 00:32:12,946 --> 00:32:16,426 Speaker 1: I'm like, do I go to sleep at five o'clock? 635 00:32:16,706 --> 00:32:18,906 Speaker 1: Do I go to sleep at six o'clock? Let's try 636 00:32:18,986 --> 00:32:22,266 Speaker 1: seven o'clock Sunday night. Well, I'm sitting there in my 637 00:32:22,346 --> 00:32:25,346 Speaker 1: hotel room and I'm staring at the ceiling, and I've 638 00:32:25,346 --> 00:32:26,986 Speaker 1: got all the nerves for the first day of school, 639 00:32:27,266 --> 00:32:29,026 Speaker 1: and I just stared at the ceiling till ten o'clock, 640 00:32:29,066 --> 00:32:30,786 Speaker 1: went to bed at one am Eastern, and woke up 641 00:32:30,826 --> 00:32:33,706 Speaker 1: at two forty five am for the show. We go, 642 00:32:33,986 --> 00:32:36,746 Speaker 1: We do the show. The show is tremendous, it's awesome. 643 00:32:36,906 --> 00:32:42,466 Speaker 1: I'm absolutely exhausted. Afterwards, we do a commercial shoot afterwards 644 00:32:42,506 --> 00:32:45,586 Speaker 1: Aaron where I don't even remember it. I don't even 645 00:32:45,666 --> 00:32:47,186 Speaker 1: remember it. It was like it felt like it was 646 00:32:47,186 --> 00:32:49,786 Speaker 1: just a blur, like we're all like posing and smiling 647 00:32:49,866 --> 00:32:51,746 Speaker 1: and fake laughing and doing all that stuff and that's 648 00:32:51,746 --> 00:32:53,506 Speaker 1: going to air on a commercial. And it was great. 649 00:32:53,906 --> 00:32:56,026 Speaker 1: But like, I'm so fried, So I go back to 650 00:32:56,066 --> 00:32:58,346 Speaker 1: the hotel room like I'm gonna work out I put 651 00:32:58,426 --> 00:33:01,986 Speaker 1: on my shorts, my T shirt, my gym sneakers, and 652 00:33:02,026 --> 00:33:07,946 Speaker 1: I fall asleep in my sneakers on the hotel bed 653 00:33:08,146 --> 00:33:10,546 Speaker 1: with like my legs dangling off. I crash for like 654 00:33:10,586 --> 00:33:12,346 Speaker 1: a forty five minute nap. But I wake up. I'm like, 655 00:33:12,346 --> 00:33:14,826 Speaker 1: where am I? What time is it? It's right out, 656 00:33:15,386 --> 00:33:18,626 Speaker 1: but I'm now like getting a second wind. And that's 657 00:33:18,626 --> 00:33:22,586 Speaker 1: when Andrew Whitworth texts me and says, you're in town. 658 00:33:23,426 --> 00:33:27,866 Speaker 1: You want to grab dinner? That's all I ever need? Yes, 659 00:33:27,986 --> 00:33:31,866 Speaker 1: I do. Where do you want to go? Whitworth says, 660 00:33:32,266 --> 00:33:35,306 Speaker 1: I'll pick you up. I'm like, what a gentleman. He's like, 661 00:33:35,466 --> 00:33:39,106 Speaker 1: where are you? I'm like Manhattan Beach. He says, that's 662 00:33:39,146 --> 00:33:46,546 Speaker 1: nowhere near where I am. I'm like, so, Whitworth, to 663 00:33:46,586 --> 00:33:49,826 Speaker 1: his credit, says, all right, I'm gonna change my day around. 664 00:33:50,066 --> 00:33:52,266 Speaker 1: He had two kids at camp, so he's like solo wall. 665 00:33:52,346 --> 00:33:55,186 Speaker 1: So he's like, I'm gonna go drop by rams camp 666 00:33:55,706 --> 00:33:57,746 Speaker 1: and then I'll come scoop you up afterwards and I'll 667 00:33:57,746 --> 00:34:00,466 Speaker 1: take you to one of my favorite spots. Like great 668 00:34:02,266 --> 00:34:05,586 Speaker 1: car pulls up. Andrew Whitworth in the car, opens up 669 00:34:05,626 --> 00:34:09,426 Speaker 1: the door. He is wearing shorts and a T shirt. 670 00:34:09,706 --> 00:34:13,386 Speaker 1: I'm wearing like a nice shirt, like a button down 671 00:34:13,586 --> 00:34:15,106 Speaker 1: and jeans because I don't know where we're going. And 672 00:34:15,146 --> 00:34:18,786 Speaker 1: he's like, have you been to the Soho House in Malibu? 673 00:34:19,586 --> 00:34:22,626 Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I put it into my phone out 674 00:34:22,626 --> 00:34:27,186 Speaker 1: of curiosity. Hour away. Great, just what I need to 675 00:34:27,226 --> 00:34:28,666 Speaker 1: know that I'm gonna have to be coming back an 676 00:34:28,786 --> 00:34:31,546 Speaker 1: hour from somewhere as I have to be up tomorrow 677 00:34:31,586 --> 00:34:34,546 Speaker 1: at two forty five am. We start driving out there 678 00:34:34,626 --> 00:34:36,866 Speaker 1: no traffic. He and I are chat and it's great. 679 00:34:36,866 --> 00:34:38,986 Speaker 1: I love this guy. We go to the Soho House 680 00:34:38,986 --> 00:34:41,746 Speaker 1: in Malibu. We meet up with his friend Tony, who 681 00:34:41,786 --> 00:34:44,386 Speaker 1: I've become friendly with over the years through Andrew. And 682 00:34:44,466 --> 00:34:47,346 Speaker 1: Tony knows McVeigh and mcveay his friends with him, and 683 00:34:47,386 --> 00:34:50,826 Speaker 1: Tony was at the McVeigh wedding, so we haven't Aaron. 684 00:34:50,906 --> 00:34:53,906 Speaker 1: This sounds really like social media, like elitists and all 685 00:34:53,946 --> 00:35:01,106 Speaker 1: this thing. Apparently this Hope, this no Noo Soho House 686 00:35:01,346 --> 00:35:04,786 Speaker 1: Malibu is like the most exclusive club in the world. 687 00:35:05,226 --> 00:35:07,346 Speaker 1: So you heard of the sow Whole House, which is 688 00:35:07,386 --> 00:35:09,746 Speaker 1: like an exclusive members only club which you have to 689 00:35:09,826 --> 00:35:12,506 Speaker 1: interview for and you can't even walk foot step foot 690 00:35:12,546 --> 00:35:14,546 Speaker 1: in unless you're a member. And they have that in 691 00:35:14,626 --> 00:35:18,666 Speaker 1: cities across the world, and it's like in Barcelona, and 692 00:35:18,706 --> 00:35:20,946 Speaker 1: it's in Miami, and there's multiple ones in New York, 693 00:35:20,986 --> 00:35:23,506 Speaker 1: and it's like it's this private members club, Like what 694 00:35:23,626 --> 00:35:25,826 Speaker 1: goes on? You have no idea. You're not allowed to 695 00:35:25,826 --> 00:35:29,026 Speaker 1: have cell phones in there either. Well you can get 696 00:35:29,026 --> 00:35:31,346 Speaker 1: into that, but that doesn't grant you access to this 697 00:35:31,466 --> 00:35:34,026 Speaker 1: Malible one. This Malibu one is like you have to 698 00:35:34,026 --> 00:35:35,906 Speaker 1: be a member of the Solo House, but then you 699 00:35:35,946 --> 00:35:38,506 Speaker 1: need to interview separately to be a part of the 700 00:35:38,546 --> 00:35:42,266 Speaker 1: Malibu One. So I don't know any of this. We 701 00:35:42,386 --> 00:35:45,026 Speaker 1: show up and I don't think I'm allowed to say 702 00:35:45,026 --> 00:35:48,226 Speaker 1: the celebrity, but every single table had a famous actor 703 00:35:48,186 --> 00:35:51,426 Speaker 1: or actress at it. And it just overlooks the Pacific Ocean. 704 00:35:51,786 --> 00:35:54,786 Speaker 1: And to like five hundred yards to your left is 705 00:35:54,866 --> 00:35:59,306 Speaker 1: the Nobu in Malibu, which is apparently like the hottest 706 00:35:59,346 --> 00:36:02,626 Speaker 1: restaurant in the world. And I was looking my nose, 707 00:36:02,706 --> 00:36:05,426 Speaker 1: like my nose was like looking down on the Nobu 708 00:36:05,546 --> 00:36:07,866 Speaker 1: because anyone off the street can walk in there, but 709 00:36:08,026 --> 00:36:10,626 Speaker 1: only we can walk in this thing. I say, all 710 00:36:10,626 --> 00:36:13,746 Speaker 1: this Whitworth is in there with like a T shirt 711 00:36:13,786 --> 00:36:16,106 Speaker 1: and shorts and is the most comfortable guy in the building. 712 00:36:16,146 --> 00:36:18,386 Speaker 1: He's six foot eighty, walks in. He's the man. He 713 00:36:18,426 --> 00:36:21,866 Speaker 1: knows everybody, And I'm like, what the hell is going 714 00:36:21,906 --> 00:36:24,106 Speaker 1: on right here? A minute ago, I was in my shoes, 715 00:36:24,186 --> 00:36:28,746 Speaker 1: asleep on a courtyard Marriott bed, looking at the stars 716 00:36:28,946 --> 00:36:31,906 Speaker 1: in the ceiling. Not only what time it was. I 717 00:36:31,946 --> 00:36:35,026 Speaker 1: didn't drink alcohol, just drank iced tea, but like an 718 00:36:35,066 --> 00:36:38,426 Speaker 1: hour into this amazing meal, I'm fading. So it's one 719 00:36:38,426 --> 00:36:40,306 Speaker 1: of those aeron where it's like, do you raise your 720 00:36:40,306 --> 00:36:43,466 Speaker 1: hand and leave or do you wait to see who's next? 721 00:36:43,546 --> 00:36:47,186 Speaker 1: Because Matt Damon or Clooney or Sidney Sweeney is gonna 722 00:36:47,186 --> 00:36:50,146 Speaker 1: walk into this restaurant next. And though I can't talk 723 00:36:50,186 --> 00:36:52,626 Speaker 1: to them, take a photo of them, or interact with them, 724 00:36:52,746 --> 00:36:54,866 Speaker 1: or even share that they were there, I'd like to 725 00:36:54,866 --> 00:36:56,506 Speaker 1: get my eyes on them and at least say I 726 00:36:56,586 --> 00:37:02,066 Speaker 1: saw them. I did the responsible thing exactly at seven 727 00:37:02,666 --> 00:37:06,226 Speaker 1: fifty nine pm, which was ten fifty nine pm on 728 00:37:06,226 --> 00:37:10,866 Speaker 1: the E. I've been up NonStop wire to wire. I 729 00:37:10,946 --> 00:37:12,426 Speaker 1: just called an uber and I said, if I get 730 00:37:12,466 --> 00:37:15,466 Speaker 1: an uber, it's gonna show up, and I'm gonna go 731 00:37:16,346 --> 00:37:18,666 Speaker 1: get the uber. I get in this uber, I say 732 00:37:18,706 --> 00:37:21,146 Speaker 1: goodbye to like the party of the century at this 733 00:37:21,306 --> 00:37:24,306 Speaker 1: Soho house, which again I don't even know if I'll 734 00:37:24,346 --> 00:37:26,146 Speaker 1: ever be able to set foot in again, because me 735 00:37:26,226 --> 00:37:27,946 Speaker 1: to not only know a member, but this member has 736 00:37:27,946 --> 00:37:30,866 Speaker 1: to also pass the test to be in the Malibu one. 737 00:37:30,946 --> 00:37:32,986 Speaker 1: I get in the uber, Aaron, I'm not kidding. The 738 00:37:33,026 --> 00:37:35,866 Speaker 1: uber said forty five minutes. I slept for forty four 739 00:37:35,906 --> 00:37:39,826 Speaker 1: minutes of those just was fast asleep. Get to the hotel, 740 00:37:40,746 --> 00:37:44,306 Speaker 1: go to the room. Alarm starts, boom two forty five 741 00:37:44,506 --> 00:37:47,386 Speaker 1: up to another show of Good Morning Football. And that's 742 00:37:47,386 --> 00:37:50,026 Speaker 1: when McVeigh texts me and is like, I see you're 743 00:37:50,066 --> 00:37:54,866 Speaker 1: in town. Why don't you come to rams practice again? 744 00:37:55,026 --> 00:37:56,746 Speaker 1: It's what do they say when you walk in a restaurant, 745 00:37:56,786 --> 00:37:58,906 Speaker 1: you order everything, your stomach is, your eyes are bigger 746 00:37:58,946 --> 00:38:02,666 Speaker 1: than your Yeah, this is me in La Dude. I'm like, yeah, 747 00:38:02,826 --> 00:38:05,386 Speaker 1: no doubt. When he's like, we don't start till four 748 00:38:05,546 --> 00:38:08,426 Speaker 1: forty so you have all day, I'm like, yeah, no, great, 749 00:38:08,946 --> 00:38:13,266 Speaker 1: sure enough. Midway through the day, I'm fading. I meet 750 00:38:13,306 --> 00:38:16,506 Speaker 1: a friend for lunch, okay, and I go to a 751 00:38:16,546 --> 00:38:20,226 Speaker 1: place called the Strand House in Manhattan Beach, which again 752 00:38:20,786 --> 00:38:25,066 Speaker 1: sick on the water, insane views great, but I'm fading early. 753 00:38:26,066 --> 00:38:27,906 Speaker 1: I haven't worked out once in these three days. I 754 00:38:27,946 --> 00:38:30,426 Speaker 1: plan on working out all three days. I haven't slept 755 00:38:30,466 --> 00:38:32,426 Speaker 1: at all. I planned on staying on these coast hours. 756 00:38:32,426 --> 00:38:33,786 Speaker 1: I didn't do that at all. Through that out the 757 00:38:33,786 --> 00:38:36,506 Speaker 1: window and then I planned. I'm like, if I'm going 758 00:38:36,546 --> 00:38:38,186 Speaker 1: to eat, I want to eat good. Well. We had 759 00:38:38,306 --> 00:38:42,786 Speaker 1: pizza and nachos and savice at this thing, and then 760 00:38:42,786 --> 00:38:46,306 Speaker 1: the night before I had some Maybe it is terrible, 761 00:38:46,466 --> 00:38:49,586 Speaker 1: just just just just just crushing my body, terrible stuff. 762 00:38:49,946 --> 00:38:54,266 Speaker 1: No Podell, I wanted to play Podell. No putdel. We 763 00:38:54,306 --> 00:38:58,346 Speaker 1: finished lunch. I get back. I'm like fading hard. I 764 00:38:58,426 --> 00:39:02,186 Speaker 1: go to Starbucks. I get a giant iced coffee, the Trent, 765 00:39:02,306 --> 00:39:04,466 Speaker 1: the size. I suck it down. I call an uber 766 00:39:04,866 --> 00:39:07,626 Speaker 1: and we're off to Loyola Marrymount University, home of Bo 767 00:39:07,786 --> 00:39:10,746 Speaker 1: Kimball and Hank Gathers many years ago. Rams have camp. 768 00:39:10,826 --> 00:39:12,906 Speaker 1: I get out the door of the Uber. I have 769 00:39:12,986 --> 00:39:15,266 Speaker 1: no idea where I'm walking. This guy with a RAMS 770 00:39:15,346 --> 00:39:17,146 Speaker 1: lanyard is there, and I'm like, dude, you know where 771 00:39:17,186 --> 00:39:20,346 Speaker 1: to go for practice? And he's like, sregger, good morning football. 772 00:39:20,386 --> 00:39:23,866 Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, celebrity famous, show me the way and 773 00:39:23,906 --> 00:39:26,026 Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, it's over there, So like just you 774 00:39:26,066 --> 00:39:27,986 Speaker 1: take a right, like whatever you gotta walk about to me, 775 00:39:28,026 --> 00:39:30,346 Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, no, that's not the guy. Find another guy, 776 00:39:30,906 --> 00:39:34,986 Speaker 1: another guy whose name I'm gonna shout out, Patrick Esposito, 777 00:39:35,066 --> 00:39:37,146 Speaker 1: who works in the marketing group, and he's like, I 778 00:39:37,186 --> 00:39:39,746 Speaker 1: got you. Patrick takes me on this long walk all 779 00:39:39,786 --> 00:39:42,626 Speaker 1: the way to the field, get to the field, and 780 00:39:42,706 --> 00:39:45,066 Speaker 1: Aaron I was like a kid in a candy store. 781 00:39:45,346 --> 00:39:49,146 Speaker 1: The coolest day. The Rams treated me amazing. But the 782 00:39:49,186 --> 00:39:50,786 Speaker 1: fact of the matter is, even if you're a fan 783 00:39:50,866 --> 00:39:54,626 Speaker 1: going to Rams camp, it's at this like smaller, quainter 784 00:39:55,066 --> 00:39:57,506 Speaker 1: like setup where you have to like get there. But 785 00:39:57,506 --> 00:40:00,546 Speaker 1: once you get to Loyola Marymount, they built this field 786 00:40:00,586 --> 00:40:04,386 Speaker 1: off the soccer field from what the what the soccer 787 00:40:04,386 --> 00:40:05,946 Speaker 1: teams is. They made a football field out of it, 788 00:40:05,986 --> 00:40:08,706 Speaker 1: and like the fans are right up there, right up 789 00:40:08,746 --> 00:40:11,466 Speaker 1: on it, and it's like it's not an eighty thousand 790 00:40:11,506 --> 00:40:14,186 Speaker 1: fan extravaganza. It's like I don't even want to give 791 00:40:14,186 --> 00:40:15,706 Speaker 1: a number, but I would say it's closer to like 792 00:40:15,746 --> 00:40:19,306 Speaker 1: five thousand to ten thousand fans there, and it's every 793 00:40:19,346 --> 00:40:21,986 Speaker 1: seat's a good one. The players are right there. I'm 794 00:40:22,026 --> 00:40:25,506 Speaker 1: watching Stafford sign of autographs. I'm watching Nakua sign autographs. 795 00:40:25,746 --> 00:40:29,386 Speaker 1: I get there, the first person I see is my guy, 796 00:40:29,626 --> 00:40:31,666 Speaker 1: Les Sneid, the GM who we had in the podcast. 797 00:40:31,706 --> 00:40:33,226 Speaker 1: He and I are talking for thirty minutes. We go 798 00:40:33,266 --> 00:40:36,106 Speaker 1: down the entire roster. We talk about everything we get. 799 00:40:36,226 --> 00:40:39,266 Speaker 1: I get my info from the rams and Less is 800 00:40:39,266 --> 00:40:42,066 Speaker 1: honest and brutally honest about all of it. I get 801 00:40:42,106 --> 00:40:44,026 Speaker 1: his thoughts on hard knocks about you know how it 802 00:40:44,066 --> 00:40:45,866 Speaker 1: went with Joe Shane, what his thoughts are. He didn't 803 00:40:45,866 --> 00:40:47,546 Speaker 1: watch it, he said, but he's like, if I were 804 00:40:47,586 --> 00:40:49,466 Speaker 1: to do it, and this is interesting, like I would 805 00:40:49,466 --> 00:40:50,986 Speaker 1: go all in also, and I think Joe was the 806 00:40:50,986 --> 00:40:52,386 Speaker 1: same way. Like if we're going to have the camera, 807 00:40:52,426 --> 00:40:53,826 Speaker 1: it's like, I'm not going to hide away and try 808 00:40:53,866 --> 00:40:56,306 Speaker 1: to not be myself. I'm gonna be my authentic self. 809 00:40:56,826 --> 00:40:58,946 Speaker 1: But this is when it gets cool. McVeigh comes up 810 00:40:58,986 --> 00:41:00,266 Speaker 1: and I'm like, all right, he's got practice to go. 811 00:41:00,426 --> 00:41:02,386 Speaker 1: They start. Mcvay's talking to me and practice is about 812 00:41:02,386 --> 00:41:03,906 Speaker 1: to start, and I'm like, no, you go do your job. 813 00:41:04,146 --> 00:41:06,386 Speaker 1: But he's asking me about how how Melon Betty you're doing. 814 00:41:06,506 --> 00:41:08,026 Speaker 1: I'm asking him now he's doing he was in the 815 00:41:08,026 --> 00:41:10,466 Speaker 1: French riviera for ten days. He's telling me about that. 816 00:41:11,226 --> 00:41:14,186 Speaker 1: But Sean, I got it. I gotta tell you, Like, 817 00:41:14,546 --> 00:41:18,266 Speaker 1: I think people are gonna like this sounds. So he's jacked, 818 00:41:18,666 --> 00:41:21,866 Speaker 1: like he spent the off season just like getting any 819 00:41:22,066 --> 00:41:24,826 Speaker 1: ridiculous shape and not losing weight. I'm talking putting on 820 00:41:24,986 --> 00:41:28,626 Speaker 1: muscle where he's absolutely like he looks like he's Dan 821 00:41:28,706 --> 00:41:31,786 Speaker 1: Campbell now, like he's completely jacked. So I think that's 822 00:41:31,826 --> 00:41:34,946 Speaker 1: gonna be something. Jimmy Garoppolo's on the team. I forgot that. 823 00:41:35,066 --> 00:41:37,986 Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo comes running over, talk to him. Cooper Cup 824 00:41:38,106 --> 00:41:39,906 Speaker 1: is like the man. He comes over and talks to me. 825 00:41:40,026 --> 00:41:41,946 Speaker 1: Nakua and I speak. I spoke to Jared Verst, a 826 00:41:42,106 --> 00:41:45,266 Speaker 1: rookie who I'm really excited about. But then after practice, 827 00:41:45,306 --> 00:41:47,586 Speaker 1: after they had a really good practice, Stafford comes over 828 00:41:47,706 --> 00:41:50,226 Speaker 1: and like Stafford had time for me, Like I'm not 829 00:41:50,266 --> 00:41:52,986 Speaker 1: with a camera, I'm not with a recording device, like 830 00:41:53,026 --> 00:41:54,346 Speaker 1: he could have been like, oh what's up, dude. 831 00:41:54,346 --> 00:41:54,466 Speaker 2: Hey. 832 00:41:55,106 --> 00:41:58,386 Speaker 1: We talked for like fifteen minutes and he looks like 833 00:41:58,426 --> 00:42:00,546 Speaker 1: he's in really good shape. But here's the thing. He 834 00:42:00,546 --> 00:42:05,266 Speaker 1: looks like slim and trim and like mobile. I'm excited 835 00:42:05,306 --> 00:42:07,906 Speaker 1: for Stafford because what they did this offseason the Rams, 836 00:42:07,946 --> 00:42:10,626 Speaker 1: and this was by design. They signed Jonah Jackson, who's 837 00:42:10,626 --> 00:42:13,146 Speaker 1: gonna be out for a little bit. They signed Dots 838 00:42:13,146 --> 00:42:15,906 Speaker 1: in the Big Boy, and then they also drafted guys 839 00:42:15,906 --> 00:42:19,466 Speaker 1: on the offensive line, so like they're really big upfront 840 00:42:19,786 --> 00:42:22,906 Speaker 1: to protect Matthew Stafford, and I think they're really excited 841 00:42:22,946 --> 00:42:25,106 Speaker 1: about the run game. And now you get a healthy 842 00:42:25,146 --> 00:42:29,706 Speaker 1: Cooper Cup, a healthy Houka Nakua, and then like that 843 00:42:29,746 --> 00:42:32,066 Speaker 1: third wide receiver spot could be anyone from to two 844 00:42:32,106 --> 00:42:35,506 Speaker 1: at well to DeMarcus Robinson to this rookie Jordan Whittington, 845 00:42:36,066 --> 00:42:41,146 Speaker 1: who they're super excited about. Like this sounds me being hyperbolic, 846 00:42:41,186 --> 00:42:42,346 Speaker 1: and it's one of those where like you go to 847 00:42:42,386 --> 00:42:44,586 Speaker 1: one camp, you come out and you have a million takes, 848 00:42:44,626 --> 00:42:47,586 Speaker 1: like and I'll the Rams offense it's gonna be awesome 849 00:42:47,586 --> 00:42:50,626 Speaker 1: this year. Can the defense stop anym That's going to 850 00:42:50,666 --> 00:42:52,386 Speaker 1: be the key. But like my early pick for a 851 00:42:52,386 --> 00:42:54,146 Speaker 1: team that might score the most points in the league, 852 00:42:54,186 --> 00:42:58,266 Speaker 1: like mcvay's got to dialed in Stafford and Nicola really clicked. 853 00:42:58,426 --> 00:43:00,586 Speaker 1: Cup is healthy. They've got the run game. I love this, 854 00:43:00,666 --> 00:43:03,666 Speaker 1: kyn Williams, like, I think the Rams might have the 855 00:43:03,746 --> 00:43:06,226 Speaker 1: number one offense in the entire league this year. And 856 00:43:06,466 --> 00:43:08,906 Speaker 1: it's not just because I was a participant at practice 857 00:43:08,946 --> 00:43:11,306 Speaker 1: and got to meet the guys and talk to the coach. 858 00:43:11,586 --> 00:43:14,226 Speaker 1: I watched it. It's humming and it's August first, so 859 00:43:15,946 --> 00:43:18,266 Speaker 1: I'm super excited about the Rams. We went back to 860 00:43:18,306 --> 00:43:22,026 Speaker 1: the hotel afterwards. I had like I think, I got like, 861 00:43:22,626 --> 00:43:26,226 Speaker 1: you know, what's the right there. There's a little I 862 00:43:26,266 --> 00:43:28,026 Speaker 1: wish I knew the fast food place. I got like 863 00:43:28,066 --> 00:43:29,866 Speaker 1: fast food. I got like a grilled chicken sandwich. It 864 00:43:29,946 --> 00:43:34,106 Speaker 1: was delicious. I went to bed, woke up the next day, 865 00:43:34,186 --> 00:43:36,306 Speaker 1: and that brings us to here where I did the 866 00:43:36,306 --> 00:43:38,546 Speaker 1: show at two forty five am, wake up, took a flight, 867 00:43:38,666 --> 00:43:40,226 Speaker 1: came back, did the show this morning, and then we're 868 00:43:40,266 --> 00:43:42,986 Speaker 1: here Thursday, and I just was rambling on for forty 869 00:43:43,026 --> 00:43:46,306 Speaker 1: five minutes. But like those are like the whereabouts of 870 00:43:46,306 --> 00:43:49,226 Speaker 1: Peter Schreger. Why this podcast is what it is and 871 00:43:49,226 --> 00:43:52,146 Speaker 1: it's the season with Peter Schregar. But my Rams takeaways, 872 00:43:52,826 --> 00:43:58,066 Speaker 1: Nakula Cup healthy, Stafford looking in great shape. The offense 873 00:43:58,146 --> 00:44:01,706 Speaker 1: is going to be fire this year. If the defense 874 00:44:01,706 --> 00:44:04,786 Speaker 1: can stop anyone, they're going to be fine. And like 875 00:44:04,986 --> 00:44:07,066 Speaker 1: no one's talking about the Rams. Was about the Niners 876 00:44:07,106 --> 00:44:10,426 Speaker 1: and the Lions. But like the Rams, I don't know. 877 00:44:10,546 --> 00:44:12,946 Speaker 1: They were a surprise team last year. They bring everybody 878 00:44:13,066 --> 00:44:16,426 Speaker 1: basically back except for Aaron Donald, and I think the 879 00:44:16,466 --> 00:44:25,866 Speaker 1: offense is going to be haunted. I had a couple 880 00:44:26,026 --> 00:44:29,306 Speaker 1: other thoughts if I can give them, just to wrap 881 00:44:29,386 --> 00:44:31,626 Speaker 1: up the podcast. If you want three rapid fire thoughts, 882 00:44:31,666 --> 00:44:32,466 Speaker 1: you want to hear them. 883 00:44:32,666 --> 00:44:33,386 Speaker 2: Boom, let's go. 884 00:44:34,226 --> 00:44:38,746 Speaker 1: First off, Giants Hard Knocks. I did the podcast with them, 885 00:44:38,826 --> 00:44:40,666 Speaker 1: with those guys the NFL asked if I wanted to 886 00:44:40,706 --> 00:44:43,266 Speaker 1: do a podcast just like recap, like I thought it 887 00:44:43,306 --> 00:44:46,146 Speaker 1: was awesome. Did you watch the Giants five episodes of 888 00:44:46,186 --> 00:44:48,106 Speaker 1: Giants Hard Knocks off season? Yeah? 889 00:44:48,266 --> 00:44:54,106 Speaker 2: Loved it, loved it. Probably my favorite off season content 890 00:44:55,346 --> 00:44:56,986 Speaker 2: maybe ever, Like. 891 00:44:56,986 --> 00:45:01,026 Speaker 1: Honestly, I do my favorite Hard Knocks season. Yes, hunperbolic 892 00:45:01,106 --> 00:45:03,946 Speaker 1: because NFL Films takes such pride, and HUA takes such 893 00:45:03,946 --> 00:45:07,346 Speaker 1: pride and then we're like going in. I thought for 894 00:45:07,466 --> 00:45:10,506 Speaker 1: sure this was gonna be just roses and rainbows and 895 00:45:10,546 --> 00:45:12,506 Speaker 1: there'll be no conflict and we're not gonna learn anything. 896 00:45:12,546 --> 00:45:14,426 Speaker 1: It's just gonna be Look how great the Giants are, 897 00:45:14,506 --> 00:45:17,346 Speaker 1: and look how smart this draft pick was right out 898 00:45:17,346 --> 00:45:19,906 Speaker 1: of the gates. We have contentious stuff with Sakuan, which 899 00:45:19,946 --> 00:45:22,026 Speaker 1: I loved, and I think that's gonna be film that 900 00:45:22,066 --> 00:45:24,266 Speaker 1: we go back on for the entire season if he 901 00:45:24,306 --> 00:45:27,466 Speaker 1: blows up and is awesome. In Philly, they go through 902 00:45:27,506 --> 00:45:29,706 Speaker 1: their free agent process and it's like Robert Hunt is 903 00:45:29,706 --> 00:45:31,346 Speaker 1: one of our top free agents, and like we're really 904 00:45:31,386 --> 00:45:33,466 Speaker 1: targeting Robert Hunt and Christian Wilkins is one of our 905 00:45:33,506 --> 00:45:35,786 Speaker 1: top free agents, and like they didn't get those guys. 906 00:45:36,146 --> 00:45:37,826 Speaker 1: They went for him and did not get them. I 907 00:45:37,906 --> 00:45:40,666 Speaker 1: love that they actually showed it. And then they had 908 00:45:40,706 --> 00:45:43,226 Speaker 1: the three wide receivers in at the same time, and 909 00:45:43,346 --> 00:45:46,426 Speaker 1: it's like, we're gonna say on camera that like might 910 00:45:46,506 --> 00:45:49,986 Speaker 1: grow them wide receivers carded like Neighbors above Harrison, which 911 00:45:50,026 --> 00:45:51,986 Speaker 1: I don't know anybody else who had that, and then 912 00:45:52,266 --> 00:45:54,586 Speaker 1: you know, Shannon Dable pretty much back them up like 913 00:45:54,626 --> 00:45:57,346 Speaker 1: Neighbors before Harrison. That didn't end up being a Neighbor's 914 00:45:57,386 --> 00:45:59,626 Speaker 1: pick over Harrison. But if Harrison was still on the 915 00:45:59,626 --> 00:46:01,026 Speaker 1: board and Neighbors still the board, it looks like they 916 00:46:01,106 --> 00:46:03,546 Speaker 1: still were taking Neighbors. And the last part about it, 917 00:46:04,506 --> 00:46:06,786 Speaker 1: for all the talk we had of JJ mccarr going 918 00:46:06,826 --> 00:46:08,306 Speaker 1: to the Giants, and I had them there going in 919 00:46:08,346 --> 00:46:10,226 Speaker 1: my mock draft, the first mock draft I had changed 920 00:46:10,226 --> 00:46:12,746 Speaker 1: and I had mended in relative for all that talk, 921 00:46:14,266 --> 00:46:16,506 Speaker 1: he was never really a part of the equation. It 922 00:46:16,626 --> 00:46:19,626 Speaker 1: was they would trade up for Jaden Daniels, they would 923 00:46:19,626 --> 00:46:21,826 Speaker 1: trade up for Drake May. No one wanted to trade down, 924 00:46:22,586 --> 00:46:25,946 Speaker 1: or they would take Neighbors or Harrison and or brock Bowers, 925 00:46:25,946 --> 00:46:28,106 Speaker 1: which seemed to be a possibility if it came that way, 926 00:46:28,826 --> 00:46:29,546 Speaker 1: or a doone's day. 927 00:46:29,586 --> 00:46:32,346 Speaker 2: So but that was close. That was my favorite part 928 00:46:32,346 --> 00:46:34,786 Speaker 2: where they were like, if one, two three goes this day, 929 00:46:35,106 --> 00:46:38,386 Speaker 2: we will go these choices, and if Neighbors is gone, 930 00:46:38,706 --> 00:46:42,786 Speaker 2: we will consider trading down to take Rome or Bowers. 931 00:46:43,106 --> 00:46:46,386 Speaker 2: But like I loved hearing them break down those first 932 00:46:46,466 --> 00:46:48,986 Speaker 2: ten picks because we all in the audience and the 933 00:46:49,026 --> 00:46:51,706 Speaker 2: media had gone through that ourselves of what's going to 934 00:46:51,746 --> 00:46:54,666 Speaker 2: happen one through ten, nobody goes and so it was 935 00:46:54,946 --> 00:46:58,466 Speaker 2: so enlightening to watch that. That was one of my 936 00:46:58,666 --> 00:47:00,186 Speaker 2: one of the highlights of the show for sure. 937 00:47:00,386 --> 00:47:02,866 Speaker 1: And Aaron, what was cruel about it is we know 938 00:47:02,946 --> 00:47:05,626 Speaker 1: the result, Like we know they end up with neighbors, 939 00:47:06,106 --> 00:47:09,026 Speaker 1: but I would think going in like I don't really 940 00:47:09,066 --> 00:47:11,466 Speaker 1: care that much about like you know how they got there, 941 00:47:11,546 --> 00:47:14,226 Speaker 1: Yes they were, but along the way, you're like still 942 00:47:14,226 --> 00:47:16,346 Speaker 1: in your head, like whoo they might trade up for 943 00:47:16,386 --> 00:47:18,346 Speaker 1: Drake May Like you still are like in your head 944 00:47:18,346 --> 00:47:20,386 Speaker 1: like this might happen. So I thought it was great. 945 00:47:20,466 --> 00:47:23,226 Speaker 1: And they're going flipping the script and they're going right 946 00:47:23,266 --> 00:47:25,706 Speaker 1: to the Bears. And from what I'm told, there's someone 947 00:47:25,746 --> 00:47:28,586 Speaker 1: with Jonathan Owens right now as he's watching someone Biles 948 00:47:28,586 --> 00:47:30,266 Speaker 1: in Paris, and we've got the Hall of Fame game 949 00:47:30,306 --> 00:47:33,146 Speaker 1: and we got Caleb like I'm excited for hard knocks. 950 00:47:33,346 --> 00:47:35,626 Speaker 1: All right, move that to the side. That's one thing. 951 00:47:36,306 --> 00:47:40,426 Speaker 1: Second thing, all right, the second part of it. In 952 00:47:40,506 --> 00:47:47,066 Speaker 1: New York Giants are obviously a topic Jets, Jets Mania, Jets. 953 00:47:47,106 --> 00:47:51,106 Speaker 1: I will be at Jets camp on Monday, and I 954 00:47:51,106 --> 00:47:55,146 Speaker 1: will be at Giants camp on Tuesday, So we'll record 955 00:47:55,146 --> 00:47:58,906 Speaker 1: a pod maybe Wednesday or Tuesday afternoon, and I think 956 00:47:58,946 --> 00:48:02,826 Speaker 1: we'll recap my two days with those guys. My last 957 00:48:02,826 --> 00:48:04,786 Speaker 1: thing that I wanted to bring up, my last point 958 00:48:04,866 --> 00:48:07,226 Speaker 1: before we wrap for this week as we can all 959 00:48:07,306 --> 00:48:11,026 Speaker 1: of my personal travels out of the way. Is this 960 00:48:11,186 --> 00:48:16,026 Speaker 1: ongoing thing about the Cowboys and their fans not showing 961 00:48:16,106 --> 00:48:19,186 Speaker 1: up to ox nerd California. Now this is a small 962 00:48:19,186 --> 00:48:21,226 Speaker 1: sports media thing, but I saw McAfee talking about it 963 00:48:21,226 --> 00:48:24,866 Speaker 1: with Lombardi, I saw Jane Slater way and so the 964 00:48:24,906 --> 00:48:28,946 Speaker 1: Cowboys have always practiced out in Oxnard, California for training camp, 965 00:48:29,066 --> 00:48:32,186 Speaker 1: and this year attendance numbers have been sparse, and a 966 00:48:32,186 --> 00:48:35,066 Speaker 1: lot of the initial reaction is that it's, you know, 967 00:48:35,146 --> 00:48:37,666 Speaker 1: people are over the Cowboys. They lost to Green Bay. 968 00:48:38,186 --> 00:48:41,786 Speaker 1: They don't have Dak resign, they don't have CD Lamb resigned, 969 00:48:41,786 --> 00:48:44,266 Speaker 1: they don't have Micah Parsons resign, and like people are 970 00:48:44,306 --> 00:48:46,386 Speaker 1: over it, and Cowboys fans are like, unless you sign 971 00:48:46,426 --> 00:48:49,186 Speaker 1: those guys, We're not going to go and spend all 972 00:48:49,226 --> 00:48:51,146 Speaker 1: this money to go travel out to training camp. That's 973 00:48:51,146 --> 00:48:53,866 Speaker 1: been the media take, and I respect it, and a 974 00:48:53,906 --> 00:48:56,146 Speaker 1: lot of that might be true. I'm just gonna give 975 00:48:56,146 --> 00:48:59,106 Speaker 1: you an alternative take on this, and it might be 976 00:48:59,306 --> 00:49:02,626 Speaker 1: a little bit more Pro League or pro you know 977 00:49:02,706 --> 00:49:05,506 Speaker 1: the other teams, and maybe I'm just drinking that California 978 00:49:05,826 --> 00:49:10,626 Speaker 1: swee sweet California water. The Rams had a really, really 979 00:49:10,626 --> 00:49:13,106 Speaker 1: good season last year. They have a really good team. 980 00:49:13,706 --> 00:49:16,186 Speaker 1: They have gone to the playoffs in five the last 981 00:49:16,226 --> 00:49:21,746 Speaker 1: six years. Their fan experience at training camp was freaking 982 00:49:21,906 --> 00:49:25,866 Speaker 1: awesome when I went, and it's in Manhattan Beach, not Oxnard. 983 00:49:26,186 --> 00:49:28,346 Speaker 1: If you're in Los Angeles and you need a football 984 00:49:28,346 --> 00:49:30,826 Speaker 1: fix and you're not one of these Cowboys crazies, like 985 00:49:31,386 --> 00:49:33,826 Speaker 1: I think you might want to just support the home team, 986 00:49:34,306 --> 00:49:37,226 Speaker 1: like yes back in the day, going to Oxtar to 987 00:49:37,266 --> 00:49:39,906 Speaker 1: the thing because there wasn't football in LA, and there 988 00:49:39,986 --> 00:49:42,026 Speaker 1: wasn't a good team in LA, and it was like, 989 00:49:42,386 --> 00:49:45,106 Speaker 1: here's our one glimpse of NFL football. It's the Cowboys 990 00:49:45,106 --> 00:49:47,746 Speaker 1: out in Oxnar, which has been an hour away from LA, 991 00:49:47,826 --> 00:49:49,466 Speaker 1: and it's like, I'm gonna go and sit in one 992 00:49:49,506 --> 00:49:51,626 Speaker 1: hundred degree heat because I want to see Terrell Owens 993 00:49:51,706 --> 00:49:53,586 Speaker 1: or I want to see Tony Romo and it's like 994 00:49:53,626 --> 00:49:57,466 Speaker 1: my one opportunity to see football this year. Not only 995 00:49:57,506 --> 00:50:00,426 Speaker 1: are the Rams a relevant team, You've got Harbaugh and 996 00:50:00,506 --> 00:50:04,506 Speaker 1: the Chargers now who are having practices right there in 997 00:50:04,546 --> 00:50:07,266 Speaker 1: like Manhattan Beach at the Bolt, which their new facility, 998 00:50:07,306 --> 00:50:10,226 Speaker 1: which is supposed to be insane. My colleige Kyle Brandt went. 999 00:50:10,906 --> 00:50:14,986 Speaker 1: And then the Saints are also in La there at 1000 00:50:15,226 --> 00:50:18,066 Speaker 1: you see Irvine, I believe, and they're practicing at where 1001 00:50:18,066 --> 00:50:19,666 Speaker 1: the Rams used to do their training camp. So you 1002 00:50:19,706 --> 00:50:23,746 Speaker 1: have three other options than the Cowboys. And yeah, maybe 1003 00:50:23,906 --> 00:50:25,946 Speaker 1: the lusters off the Cowboys a little bit, but they're 1004 00:50:25,986 --> 00:50:28,666 Speaker 1: still going to be a favorite in the NFC East. 1005 00:50:28,706 --> 00:50:30,746 Speaker 1: They're still gonna be a Super Bowl pick for a 1006 00:50:30,786 --> 00:50:32,746 Speaker 1: lot of teams, a lot of people in the media. 1007 00:50:33,066 --> 00:50:34,706 Speaker 1: But like it used to be the only show in 1008 00:50:34,746 --> 00:50:37,626 Speaker 1: town out in LA. My argument is that maybe the 1009 00:50:37,666 --> 00:50:40,266 Speaker 1: numbers are down because A it's not as convenient as 1010 00:50:40,266 --> 00:50:43,346 Speaker 1: these other places. B. The Rams and Chargers are like 1011 00:50:43,386 --> 00:50:46,026 Speaker 1: really relevant teams. And see the Saints are there too, 1012 00:50:46,746 --> 00:50:49,706 Speaker 1: so I can't get as worked up about the Cowboys 1013 00:50:49,826 --> 00:50:53,106 Speaker 1: not having the attendance numbers they used to. Is the 1014 00:50:53,186 --> 00:50:55,426 Speaker 1: luster off the Star, I don't know. We'll see in 1015 00:50:55,466 --> 00:50:57,186 Speaker 1: the regular season. I'm pretty sure they're gonna be the 1016 00:50:57,186 --> 00:50:59,506 Speaker 1: hottest team and the team that we're talking about the most. 1017 00:51:00,746 --> 00:51:03,946 Speaker 2: All right, So later the season, We're gonna do an 1018 00:51:03,946 --> 00:51:09,146 Speaker 2: episode live from Soho House mal with Cooper Manning and uh, 1019 00:51:09,426 --> 00:51:12,346 Speaker 2: we'll debate whether or not cowboys are are still in 1020 00:51:12,426 --> 00:51:12,826 Speaker 2: it or not. 1021 00:51:13,466 --> 00:51:16,866 Speaker 1: Quick note, as I'm at that Soho House Malibu, which 1022 00:51:16,986 --> 00:51:19,706 Speaker 1: I don't know geography of LA. It's far from everything, 1023 00:51:19,786 --> 00:51:21,746 Speaker 1: but it's up the Pacific Coast Highway also known as 1024 00:51:21,746 --> 00:51:28,186 Speaker 1: the p H. There was a giant cowboys bus parked 1025 00:51:28,186 --> 00:51:32,066 Speaker 1: in front of Nobu in Malibu, and that's where Stephen 1026 00:51:32,106 --> 00:51:34,146 Speaker 1: and Jerry Jones are having dinner. And that's where the 1027 00:51:34,226 --> 00:51:36,466 Speaker 1: cowboys brass. That's how they travel. They drive in a 1028 00:51:36,506 --> 00:51:38,586 Speaker 1: huge bus and they just parked it in front of Nobu, 1029 00:51:38,626 --> 00:51:41,826 Speaker 1: which is like the hottest restaurant. So the cowboys were there. 1030 00:51:41,826 --> 00:51:42,946 Speaker 1: Don't worry. 1031 00:51:44,626 --> 00:51:47,586 Speaker 2: How did you get in? So as long as someone you're. 1032 00:51:47,426 --> 00:51:47,826 Speaker 1: With is. 1033 00:51:51,186 --> 00:51:56,186 Speaker 2: Yeah, we we just got to get you a membership 1034 00:51:56,226 --> 00:51:58,586 Speaker 2: and then I can come in with you. That's absolutely 1035 00:51:58,986 --> 00:52:01,666 Speaker 2: That's something LA like. I'm going to be there a lot. 1036 00:52:01,706 --> 00:52:03,346 Speaker 2: Do I go for it all? Do I try to 1037 00:52:03,346 --> 00:52:05,026 Speaker 2: be a member of a golf club? Do I try 1038 00:52:05,066 --> 00:52:06,266 Speaker 2: to be a member of Soho House? 1039 00:52:06,586 --> 00:52:09,386 Speaker 1: I start hanging around at all these fancy restaurants, So 1040 00:52:09,426 --> 00:52:11,026 Speaker 1: I have to have lunch. Do you want to do 1041 00:52:11,186 --> 00:52:13,066 Speaker 1: lunch at the Ivy? Do I say, that's still the place, 1042 00:52:13,186 --> 00:52:15,546 Speaker 1: the Ivy, that was the place forever. But like I 1043 00:52:15,546 --> 00:52:16,986 Speaker 1: don't know, do I go all in and lean in 1044 00:52:16,986 --> 00:52:19,186 Speaker 1: on the la or do I roll with like you know, 1045 00:52:19,346 --> 00:52:22,626 Speaker 1: the collect the marryout points and be smart and be 1046 00:52:22,706 --> 00:52:24,626 Speaker 1: frugal and just get in and get out. What would 1047 00:52:24,666 --> 00:52:26,386 Speaker 1: you say? What's more entertaining for the podcast? 1048 00:52:26,666 --> 00:52:28,386 Speaker 2: Does Soho House have a padel court? 1049 00:52:28,826 --> 00:52:31,146 Speaker 1: No, but they should, Like the lack of padel in 1050 00:52:31,346 --> 00:52:34,106 Speaker 1: La is actually criminal. There's one in Silver Lake, which 1051 00:52:34,186 --> 00:52:35,946 Speaker 1: is probably where you would live because it's the hipster 1052 00:52:36,026 --> 00:52:38,626 Speaker 1: part of of California and it's more like Mark Marin Roles, 1053 00:52:39,986 --> 00:52:43,066 Speaker 1: But there's no padel in like La Proper, which is 1054 00:52:43,106 --> 00:52:44,826 Speaker 1: like just ridiculous. One atrocity. 1055 00:52:47,186 --> 00:52:49,866 Speaker 2: Maybe you get in like you're the business partner to 1056 00:52:49,946 --> 00:52:53,946 Speaker 2: start padel at Soho House. You start bringing it up there. 1057 00:52:54,266 --> 00:52:56,586 Speaker 2: I know places in San Diego, like I said with 1058 00:52:56,586 --> 00:52:59,706 Speaker 2: my friend Chris, but yeah, I haven't played it in 1059 00:52:59,866 --> 00:53:01,866 Speaker 2: La at all. You might be this might be the 1060 00:53:01,946 --> 00:53:04,186 Speaker 2: side gig. You know, you have plenty of time for us. 1061 00:53:04,346 --> 00:53:05,866 Speaker 1: We're gonna play in Brooklyn. I wonder if we can 1062 00:53:05,906 --> 00:53:09,226 Speaker 1: do pod from Padel House in Brooklyn. We bring the 1063 00:53:09,266 --> 00:53:11,386 Speaker 1: equipment and just have like the snacking of the ball 1064 00:53:11,386 --> 00:53:12,786 Speaker 1: against the wall in the background, and I was. 1065 00:53:12,826 --> 00:53:15,706 Speaker 2: Just like, I played tennis with my mom this morning. 1066 00:53:15,986 --> 00:53:16,586 Speaker 2: How do you do that? 1067 00:53:16,706 --> 00:53:16,906 Speaker 1: Oh? 1068 00:53:16,906 --> 00:53:17,746 Speaker 2: I got my ass kicks? 1069 00:53:17,786 --> 00:53:19,426 Speaker 1: Yeah? Is good? So good? 1070 00:53:19,466 --> 00:53:20,266 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah. 1071 00:53:20,426 --> 00:53:21,946 Speaker 1: When you say you're your ass kick, we're talking like 1072 00:53:21,986 --> 00:53:23,586 Speaker 1: six two, six to one. Like what are we talking? 1073 00:53:23,906 --> 00:53:26,706 Speaker 2: She just ram me all over the court. 1074 00:53:27,066 --> 00:53:27,266 Speaker 1: Yeah. 1075 00:53:27,506 --> 00:53:30,506 Speaker 2: She was like yeah. She's like, uh, you got to 1076 00:53:30,546 --> 00:53:32,346 Speaker 2: be a little more consistent and you'll get better. 1077 00:53:32,426 --> 00:53:33,866 Speaker 1: And I was like, thank thanks for the tip. I 1078 00:53:33,906 --> 00:53:37,946 Speaker 1: don't get to play every day at work. All right, 1079 00:53:37,986 --> 00:53:39,986 Speaker 1: that's the pod tonight. There's gonna be a Hall of 1080 00:53:39,986 --> 00:53:42,306 Speaker 1: Fame game. You're going to react. I think there's football 1081 00:53:42,346 --> 00:53:44,706 Speaker 1: over the weekend. There might not be. There's practices for sure, 1082 00:53:45,066 --> 00:53:47,706 Speaker 1: and then next week we'll have recaps from Jets and Giants. 1083 00:53:47,706 --> 00:53:49,426 Speaker 1: If you're not in New York, you could just skip 1084 00:53:49,466 --> 00:53:51,506 Speaker 1: that podcast. That's probably what the topic is going to 1085 00:53:51,546 --> 00:53:55,506 Speaker 1: be for Aaron wand Kaufman, for all the folks in LA, 1086 00:53:55,866 --> 00:53:59,146 Speaker 1: for all the folks in New York, for the ioheart team, 1087 00:53:59,546 --> 00:54:02,546 Speaker 1: for for everybody involved. Thank you for listening, and I'll 1088 00:54:02,586 --> 00:54:05,346 Speaker 1: have more fun, fabulous stories from my travels and the 1089 00:54:05,386 --> 00:54:15,066 Speaker 1: months that come. 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