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Speaker 1: Be Around with the NFL Podcast. The NFL machine doesn't stop. No,

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Speaker 1: it does not. Welcome to another edition of the Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hans. I come

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Speaker 1: to you from a virtual room filled with some heroes.

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Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal's here. He's always here, though. You know who

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Speaker 1: hasn't been here. But who's now back? You know who

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Speaker 1: it is. He's the quiet stall Mark Sessler hat Boddy,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, thank you. Um, I don't just trying

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Speaker 1: to think like you know what happened to me. I

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Speaker 1: don't think I've ever been away from the pod that long.

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Speaker 1: When the pod was going on, um it was what

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Speaker 1: two weeks, I honestly felt like I didn't work anywhere. Um,

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Speaker 1: I thought I didn't have a job. I feel like

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Speaker 1: I didn't have a job at all to some degree.

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Speaker 1: Very strange. Your dream, isn't that your dream that disappearing

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Speaker 1: in theory? I always thought it would be, Um, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't my dream to go through like two trips to

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Speaker 1: the hospital, but um, yeah, it was a bit of

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Speaker 1: a bit of an odd couple a couple of days there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing good that comes out of a hospital stay

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Speaker 1: like that, I imagine and all the all the stuff

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Speaker 1: that you had to deal with. But I know from

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Speaker 1: my mentions and elsewhere, it must be nice to hear

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Speaker 1: how many people were concerned for you, and how many

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Speaker 1: people have missed you, and how many people said, you know,

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Speaker 1: the show is not the same without him, which is

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Speaker 1: very true. UM, so that was nice, I'm sure, right.

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Speaker 1: One little silver lining, Yeah, I don't recall hearing from anyone,

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Speaker 1: to be honest, but no, no, that we I do

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Speaker 1: think that whenever we've gone through stuff on our show,

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Speaker 1: we have different a different group of of listeners, a

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Speaker 1: different brand of loyalty. UM, and I think they're more

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Speaker 1: they're more friends than they are anonymous to us. And

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Speaker 1: so you're right. I mean, in my Instagram mentions and Twitter, UM,

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Speaker 1: thank you to everyone that reached out. I've written back

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Speaker 1: to literally nobody yet, UM, but I but I planned

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Speaker 1: to because you know, I think, like with other stuff

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Speaker 1: that we've gone through, is a group like UM, it's

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Speaker 1: been proven over and over that like these guys are

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Speaker 1: a plus and so UM, I appreciate the people that

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Speaker 1: reached out for sure. Well, the listeners can't see right now,

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Speaker 1: but Mark's looking good, not you sort of almost looked

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Speaker 1: like you were on a little tropical vacation. The buttons

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Speaker 1: are unbuttoned, the beards looking good. You look a little tan. Um,

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Speaker 1: so you know hospital stays? Did you write? I guess

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Speaker 1: I don't think I know my messages here, but I

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Speaker 1: did like the show starting with like that's Mark Sessler.

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Speaker 1: We should do that Mark too. I think I don't

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Speaker 1: think I looked quite as fresh um inside the hospital.

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Speaker 1: But you know, it was a bit of a chore,

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Speaker 1: um removing myself from all of Erica's Hawaii pictures, because

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Speaker 1: that was sort of the second part you mentioned tropical vacation. Greg,

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Speaker 1: That's Erica tam Posey, who's looking tan and rested after

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Speaker 1: her little sojourn. Erica, it's really nice to have you back.

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Speaker 1: I will say that Justin gravergekay, uh, he just did

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Speaker 1: unbelievable work. Uh in your absolutely yeah. I mean he's

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Speaker 1: to Justin and Erica. Welcome back. Thank you. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure. Um, you know, Justin Justin did a great

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Speaker 1: have him full time. I'm happy to step away. I

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Speaker 1: have a lot of other stuff going on that I

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Speaker 1: would be you know, I would love to take a

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Speaker 1: step back if you do. You are you mad at me? Honestly,

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Speaker 1: because it sounds like you were a little mad before

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Speaker 1: and things of that nature about your absurd vacation. You're

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Speaker 1: the house, Justin. I'm taking you out for the second.

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Speaker 1: We have been locked in the house for two years.

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Speaker 1: I've lost two people very close to me who would

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Speaker 1: have told me, well no, but I'm serious. I'm not

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Speaker 1: talking about you. I'm talking about in general. Before the

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Speaker 1: some friend time and vacation, which we all desperately need.

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Speaker 1: And yes, it's like, oh I missed the cut down days.

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Speaker 1: my life I have. You have to live short, Hey, Ricky,

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to let you know that Justin he's

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean that I want him to be our producer now,

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Speaker 1: but I just want you to know that if that

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Speaker 1: people were even saying that Justin should be a fourth

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Speaker 1: I saw that flight flying around, which I think that

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Speaker 1: would be. That was Justin's mom who sent that tweet.

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Speaker 1: But you know, you know what, No, Justin is is awesome.

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Speaker 1: Um and you know, as his boss, I'll take that

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Speaker 1: an awesome move. No, he's amazing, he's boss. That feels

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Speaker 1: what a great mentor he was to me, And then

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Speaker 1: there's there's other other types of someone tweeted at me.

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Speaker 1: It was like, is Erica gonna get Cam Newton? Like

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton getting cut from your favorite team, which is

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Speaker 1: that if you were reading the reddit board or you're

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Speaker 1: mentioned during your Hawaii Gypt that's on you. Yeah. No,

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Speaker 1: But it's good to see you guys and especially Mark

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Speaker 1: and and be all together. And I'm really um, you know,

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Speaker 1: and feeling refreshed and really really kind of looking forward

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Speaker 1: I think it's well deserved. Erica, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: all the flak is, um. And then and this is

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Speaker 1: well you did say it, I mean, was that not

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Speaker 1: So this is very nice. And yes, this is once

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Speaker 1: again trying times um around NFL media. We lost our

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Speaker 1: granted that that much, uh is for damn sure? Coming

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Speaker 1: up on today's show, Oh it's sandwich props. Go get

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Speaker 1: my lunch, you disaster. Is this the ninth annual sandwich Props?

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Speaker 1: I don't even know that. I guess you could check

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Speaker 1: on the website. But this is our ninth season together,

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Speaker 1: four Tier, who has been running Go get my Lunch

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Speaker 1: uh justin fourtiyear could have been in like, you know,

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Speaker 1: the season begins Tuesday, the defending Super Bowl champion Tampa

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Speaker 1: Hopefully not for Greg. Anyway, Thursday Night football Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: he could have gone to, and you know, the Bucks

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Speaker 1: All right, it is time now, it's a tradition. On

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Speaker 1: the podcast, everybody could do their basic as predictions. We

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Speaker 1: do it too, but with a twist, go get my

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Speaker 1: sandwich your monster. Oh yeah, Mark missed the basic asked

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Speaker 1: predictions last week, so he's not gonna have to be

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Speaker 1: tied down to anything. That's very narin Mark, a free

498
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Speaker 1: wild horse, a bucking Bronco, just rumbling through open planes.

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Speaker 1: Well now I've filed them with NFL dot com though,

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Speaker 1: So that's true. Marco got cute like me, Like we're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: let's pick a different team to win the super Bowl

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Speaker 1: than what everyone else is picking, and then like five

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Speaker 1: five basic grows, I'll pick the forty Niners. It's like

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Speaker 1: they're practically the most popular team. Did you happen to

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Speaker 1: catch that show when I've the Browns for the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and Greg and claybon did not? No, I didn't. I

507
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Speaker 1: did not hear about that. Well, that's it's very loyal

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Speaker 1: of you. Well where are they in your power rankings?

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Speaker 1: I believe number eight. Well that's a playoff team, and

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Speaker 1: so you so Claybonn and Greg believe that they don't

511
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Speaker 1: even reach the post. They don't play January football of

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Speaker 1: any relevance. Yeah, I've never I've never had a take

513
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Speaker 1: I believe in less than this one. But sometimes you

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Speaker 1: want to like throw more teams into the playoffs that

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Speaker 1: aren't gonna get there. So I wanted to get the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins in. I want to get the Broncos in. And

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Speaker 1: it's like only one, only one team from the North

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Speaker 1: made it. I don't believe this at all. Come one

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Speaker 1: off de fence like West West New. The one thing

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Speaker 1: to really annoy me in the world was when he

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Speaker 1: would say I didn't even believe in a take that

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Speaker 1: I said, And unfortunately this take, this one is like

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Speaker 1: the brown is not making the playoffs is not a take.

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Speaker 1: I don't really believe in that. I think they're like

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Speaker 1: eight or ninth. But it's like just something will happen.

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Speaker 1: I want to get I want to get those Broncos.

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Speaker 1: I want to sprinkle some other teams. And ridiculous concerning Greg,

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Speaker 1: I gotta have a code, man, Well I did. I

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Speaker 1: didn't change the pick. I almost changed the online. And

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Speaker 1: that was that was what Mark used to do. He

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Speaker 1: would like make one pick online and another on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Remember that we like made fun of him for not

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Speaker 1: having the Browns in the playoffs a year ago, and

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Speaker 1: then he had them winning the Super Bowl. He like

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Speaker 1: totally multiple outlets, multiple predictions. What is your Super Bowl prediction,

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Speaker 1: by the way mark, because we shared ours, I picked

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Speaker 1: the win because you have the same Yeah, I picked

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Speaker 1: the Niners to win over another team. I don't remember

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Speaker 1: even remember who the f C team was. I don't

540
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Speaker 1: think it was that she was not the Chiefs. Was

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Speaker 1: it the f C team that hails from Cleveland? No?

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Speaker 1: I did. Cleveland gets knocked out in the playoffs? In

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Speaker 1: my in my rock solid predictions. All right, check those

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Speaker 1: out if you can find them on NFL dot com.

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Speaker 1: Let's get into it again. These are the rules of

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Speaker 1: the sandwich game. Sandwiches on the line, You make your prediction.

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Speaker 1: The other two bozos get the opportunity to either agree

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Speaker 1: with said prediction or say no, no, no, no no.

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Speaker 1: I challenge the I go the opposite direction of your

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Speaker 1: prediction with a sandwich on the line, And it's all

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Speaker 1: tracked at Go get my Lunch dot org. The sandwiches

552
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Speaker 1: aren't aren't changing hands as much. But guess what, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's been a pandemic, and you know it's so hard

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Speaker 1: to see each other right now that and it will

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Speaker 1: be corrected in due time. But no, uh, that's what's

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Speaker 1: on the line here. As we go, Let's go around

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Speaker 1: the horn three times with the final uh prop you

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Speaker 1: lay out it's not a bet, uh your onion hanger

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Speaker 1: and that's when you really say, I know I'll probably

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Speaker 1: lose this, but I wanna I wanna put it out there.

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Speaker 1: I want to show you that I have some some

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Speaker 1: onions and sometimes you gotta hang them onions. You try

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Speaker 1: these onions, you'll like them. The rules. Let's get it going.

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Speaker 1: I will start things off and uh, Greg Mark, I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you were here for this show at

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Speaker 1: the oh you weren't. So. At the end of the preseason,

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Speaker 1: I noted the absurd breakdown of the win loss records. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the standings of the preseason, where the NFC had maybe

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Speaker 1: like five wins in the entire preseason. It's filled with

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Speaker 1: interconference games, obviously, and the a f C was like

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Speaker 1: mostly undefeated across the board. UM, and I questioned whether

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Speaker 1: does that actually hold some water. I know there's they're

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Speaker 1: not real games or anything. But at the same time,

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Speaker 1: when you look at the state of the NFL. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, you mentioned power rankings, which premiered with

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Speaker 1: me and Matt money Smith UH Tuesday at three pm

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Speaker 1: Eastern on NFL Network. Check it out every week. When

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Speaker 1: you look at the top half of the power rankings,

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Speaker 1: it's very A f C heavy because the A f

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Speaker 1: C is a much stronger conference. Right now, with that set,

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Speaker 1: I hit up l A researchers here at NFL Network.

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Speaker 1: We have a great research team, and I said, hey,

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Speaker 1: what is the inter conference I think it's inter interconference

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Speaker 1: record A f C versus NFC. What is the A

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Speaker 1: f c's winning percentage over the past five seasons? The

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Speaker 1: a f CS one fifty six, one sixty two and

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Speaker 1: two versus the NFC. That's a four winning percentage. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so history tells us, And as Chris Wesling once said,

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Speaker 1: history is instructive. As history tells us, don't get sucked

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Speaker 1: in here. If anything, believe in the NFC. I believe

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Speaker 1: the a f C will better that percentage by fifty points.

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Speaker 1: The a f C will pay post a five forty

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Speaker 1: one winning percentage and interconference battles against the NFC in

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Speaker 1: who's coming with me, who's going against me? Five one?

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like a it's a pretty small sample size,

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Speaker 1: so you probably you know, you only have to be

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Speaker 1: a handful of games over right, furn do one in

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Speaker 1: the last five years. Well that's the same. They were

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Speaker 1: just six under over five years. That's less than one

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Speaker 1: game a year. So it's basically fifty fifty or about why.

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Speaker 1: But I wonder what it was last year? You know,

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Speaker 1: isn't that a little more instructive. I want to root

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Speaker 1: for the a f C. I don't like this stupid thing.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, it needs it needs one on the

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Speaker 1: nose or just at it. Well one, I'll take you

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Speaker 1: on that. It's a very obscure, it's a very strange.

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Speaker 1: Probably teams Greg and still go against me on this.

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Speaker 1: I kind of do believe in the a f C

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Speaker 1: this year. I'm not going to take you on it.

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Speaker 1: You know, everybody, if you're a real veteran this game,

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Speaker 1: you know it's a win when someone's gonna take you

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Speaker 1: because you usually lose. Uh. And that's one sandwich, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm mean it's I'm glad you brought that up. We

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Speaker 1: are exactly tied Dan with a fifty two point one percentage.

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Speaker 1: We have almost the exact same record. One I'm one

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Speaker 1: four and one six seven. You have one less winning

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Speaker 1: and one less lost. Mark. You're gonna have to go

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Speaker 1: undefeated for the next seventeen years to get even even

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Speaker 1: even though you're like out of the gate. But I

620
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Speaker 1: think I've thrown some things out there that you know,

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Speaker 1: you're swinging for the fences. Um, with a low percentage

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Speaker 1: of success. All right, Mark, why don't you go next?

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Speaker 1: So I got so, I got one mark on that

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Speaker 1: on the line. All right. I don't know how to

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Speaker 1: top that the obscurity of of what you just came

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Speaker 1: up with, but um, I'm gonna go with this. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield will throw more touchdowns than Aaron Rodgers. Oh,

628
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Speaker 1: okay on that. That's good. Okay, So let's take a

629
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Speaker 1: look at something here, because there's going to be some

630
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Speaker 1: regression I think for Aaron Roger in terms of touchdowns thrown,

631
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Speaker 1: because all those advanced analytics tell you that things kind

632
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Speaker 1: of all worked beautifully to get him to where he was.

633
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Speaker 1: What was he forty six touchdowns or something last year?

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look here. Touchdowns that's that outrageous, not

635
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Speaker 1: like top five all times. It's like you see Aaron

636
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Speaker 1: Rodgers like he's got to get some weapons around him.

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00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: A touchdowns are the two years fire he had twenty

638
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: six the year before that, in the year before that

639
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: success fire the GM, I've only thrown forty eight touchdowns

640
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: this year Baker through twenty six, so that's a twenty

641
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: two touchdown gap. That's a big gap to make up for.

642
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: I will take you up on that, but I like

643
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: where your head's at because I think that Brown's offense

644
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: is going to be good. I think touchdowns are a

645
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: little more random than some other stats. So even if

646
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: Rodgers outplayed Baker, Baker could have more touchdowns. It's not

647
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,959
Speaker 1: too crazy. But as marks want to do, it's an

648
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: onion hanger right off the top. I mean, he doesn't

649
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: wait for the third one. I like that. Well, Baker,

650
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 1: let's see, he's this is his age twenty six season,

651
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: so obviously there's still room for growth. But after watching

652
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: him for three years, I feel like I generally got

653
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: a vibe of who he is and what his ceiling is,

654
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: and that is of a the right side of the

655
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: Dalton scale, but not too far. Like he's kind of

656
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,959
Speaker 1: I think like a Kirk Cousins type guy. Now, Kirk

657
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: Cousins can throw thirty six thirty seven touchdowns in a

658
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 1: good season, so I'm gonna put Baker's like ceiling this

659
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: year at about thirty five. Rogers will throw about thirty five,

660
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: So it's a it's a good one. I'll take you

661
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: up on it just for fun. But I bet they

662
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: do finish within two or three of each other. I

663
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: think that's how it's because I do think Baker will

664
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,799
Speaker 1: play well in that offense, and I think Rogers will

665
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: just kind of come back to the pack a little

666
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 1: bit after last year's brilliance. I think realistically you'd you'd

667
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: probably maybe need Rogers to miss a few games um

668
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,439
Speaker 1: for it to happen. But I think one thing about

669
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, if you take out the season, which you

670
00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: know that is part of his career, and he did

671
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 1: not play well in twenty nineteen, but the environment around him,

672
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: if you just looked at if you, let's say his

673
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: career had been twenty I think people would look at

674
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 1: him so differently and they forget how chaotic was I

675
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 1: don't think it's impossible that he has a breakout type

676
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: campaign with the parts that are around him, he was

677
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: having it. He doesn't need to play any better than

678
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: he did from Week twelve on last year for them

679
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: to win a super Bowl. He really doesn't. They could

680
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: have won the last year the way he was playing.

681
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,800
Speaker 1: He he was playing great. He just has to sustain

682
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: that over the course of the season. There's not a

683
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: lot of reasons, like on paper that they wouldn't that

684
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: they have a top six seven roster. It's just it's

685
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,399
Speaker 1: a lot of any like concern for me is there

686
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 1: is the division, it's the conference, and it's the bad

687
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 1: Brown's mojo. Just he's a little streaky too. I think

688
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: that's the other thing about the Baker experience. Uh, there's

689
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 1: going to be he's gonna be fourteenth. I'm doing the

690
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: QB Index once again. He is fourteen. That's exactly where

691
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 1: he should be on the QB Index. Going, you're back

692
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: with the QB Index. I'm back and herating from the

693
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: great late Chris Wesling. Okay, who inherited it from you? What?

694
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,320
Speaker 1: What a history to the QB Index? Okay? Uh so

695
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 1: we both take you up on that mark. I like

696
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: when you get the Brownies involved, Greg, You're up, all right,

697
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 1: let's just go simple to start. It's one I we

698
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: already talked about last week. The Broncos are going to

699
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. You know, Dan. Dan wanted me to

700
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 1: put sandwiches on the line that I would stand behind

701
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: some tweet that they're in the divisional round, and I

702
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: was like, that's one step too far. You don't get

703
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: to fifty two point one percentage historically, and go get

704
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: my lunch putting them in the division round. Let's just

705
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,720
Speaker 1: have it. Let's just put this team that's been terrible

706
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 1: the last two years into the playoffs. That's good enough,

707
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: give me a break. But you're doing it again. I mean,

708
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 1: this one's not as egregious, but you're saying something in

709
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: one format and then when it's time to actually put

710
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: up the money, put your money where. I think they're

711
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 1: making the playoffs is realistic. Uh, then like winning a game,

712
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 1: possibly as a road team because you don't, it's gonna

713
00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: be tough to win the a f C West. That's

714
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: another I think winning the playoffs is realistic. I think

715
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater is gonna play well. I think the defense

716
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: and everyone else will be even better, and I think

717
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: they can get They can scrape out eleven wins. It's

718
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: gonna be tough to make the playoffs in the a

719
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: f C. Might it might take eleven and six I'd

720
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 1: almost think Vic Fangio could be out of there if

721
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 1: they if they don't make the playoffs, because they've got

722
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,720
Speaker 1: the roster to do it. Um it really just centers

723
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 1: around Teddy. I'll take you on it, but I I'll

724
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: I say this, I think they're a playoff team too,

725
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: but I'll do it just for sports. But then you're

726
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 1: counting them. It's like the Chargers and the Paths and

727
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 1: the Steelers and Browns and Dolphins, like all these teams, Raiders,

728
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,919
Speaker 1: they all think they're there, can make it. I'm looking

729
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: for this tweet from Greg, but Greg is a surprisingly

730
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: robust tweeter. Um oh, I found it. August. I will

731
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,760
Speaker 1: remember who jumped off the bandwagon when Teddy is starting

732
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: a divisional round game in January. That's so strong, Greg,

733
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: that's a strong us. It's gotten with the touch of Murphy.

734
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a it's a it's a time when

735
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 1: why can't that be your say? Which prop? I don't

736
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 1: understand why you're making it. I'm disappined. Why can't I

737
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: be six inches taller? It's like, this is the life.

738
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 1: You're doubt Dan, so you're gonna have to make it.

739
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: What I abstain on this just because I have a

740
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: fundamental disagreement with about how you carry yourself in this game.

741
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: Right now. I don't know this teddy bandwagon business any either.

742
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:32,280
Speaker 1: All right, up next, one of these teams will post

743
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: a double digit lost season. Now remember seventeen games. I

744
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,359
Speaker 1: don't wanna I'm not trying to rip anybody off here.

745
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: So you have an extra week essentially to lose that

746
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: tenth game. Pittsburgh, Chicago, No Orleans, Indianapolis all playoff teams

747
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: a year ago. Wait, none of them are are just

748
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 1: one of them? One of them will lose ten games?

749
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 1: Plus Who wouldn't take you on this if if you

750
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: at this prop in Vegas, this is minus three fifty.

751
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 1: This is like, of course, the odds are extremely strong

752
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: that one of them would lose at least ten games,

753
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: extremely strong. This is extremely strong. Yes, because first of all,

754
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: that that's like the Bears over under on on its own. Um.

755
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:21,800
Speaker 1: The other you know, Pittsburgh has looked at as like

756
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: a five hundred team. I think that's a little low

757
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: for them. Um. And then you're the New Orleans is

758
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,800
Speaker 1: a volatile team, certainly, and they're around a five hundred team. Projected.

759
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: It's like, so I have three to the smallest, this

760
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 1: onion is still underground. It's not. These are three teams

761
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,720
Speaker 1: with double digit wins a year ago and a Chicago

762
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,280
Speaker 1: team that, yes, when eight and eight made the playoffs,

763
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: but has this exciting young talent waiting in the wings.

764
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: I don't hardly said one of these teams if you

765
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: said three of these teams, sure to. I struggled to

766
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:55,320
Speaker 1: take this one because I think the Saints definitely to to.

767
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: I'll too. I'll take you one sat start team in

768
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: total change, Steelers Chicago, New Orleans, Indy. Okay, because it's

769
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: like the Bears. It's like I'm penciling them in for twelve.

770
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: So that just felt like I don't think they're gonna

771
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: be good. I mean, they could be better. But if

772
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: I had to guess, then I'm not really high on

773
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: the Colts, and you just gotta get one of those

774
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 1: other two teams, right, It's it's more reasonable. See how

775
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: I'm not rigid, Greg, See how like you know, I'm

776
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: just you nimble? Mine? I mean mine is still I

777
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: was picking like an underdog. The Broncos making the playoffs

778
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 1: is very much an underdog pick. You know you were

779
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: picking Chuck. You deserve to be shamed. I think the

780
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: cults are gonna be bad too. I'm not even gonna

781
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 1: take it bad. I don't know about bad, but I mean, also,

782
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,959
Speaker 1: you can go seven and ten. That's like an average team.

783
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: So so you're still not taking it. I'm still not

784
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: taking this really goes against my Uh Wow, by the way,

785
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 1: seven and ten is an awful sounding record, and so

786
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: it's like five and twelve. I'm not I'm not into this.

787
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,359
Speaker 1: I'm with you, I don't. I feel like we're we're

788
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: pounding the drum on this for months, but it's gonna

789
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: take a while. The fact that there's no eight and

790
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 1: eight teams anymore, you happen to choose two of the

791
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: teams I feel like I'm most down on in the

792
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: NFL relative to average, which is the Colts and the Bears.

793
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:18,839
Speaker 1: And so then it's like, wow, and one of those

794
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: other teams could could potentially mess up too. Alright, Mark,

795
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: You're up all right? Um during the course of the season.

796
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: It's not unusual for the coaches to be fired Um

797
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: during the season. In fact, it's happened. It seems to

798
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: be more and more as teams get a start on

799
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 1: finding their next coach, but something unusual will happen. Um

800
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 1: this year. It's not a firing. This happens very rarely,

801
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 1: and I had to think back to um Butch Davis,

802
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: I think it's the last coach I remember that did this. Well,

803
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say that I'm worried about what's coming next. No, no, no,

804
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: this is it's pretty it's pretty clear cut that a

805
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:54,439
Speaker 1: coach will resign during the season. Now I now out

806
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 1: this is out. That's the bet, that's the prop. So

807
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 1: but I I just say that, Um. What I would

808
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 1: add to it, not as a stipulation, Nick Fortier, Um

809
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,800
Speaker 1: of of the prop is that, uh, I think it

810
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:08,800
Speaker 1: will be scandalous. I think it will be something that

811
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 1: um causes immense waves through the NFL and becomes a

812
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: trenchant um story that does not go away. But it

813
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: will require the coach to resign. That pops into my head.

814
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: Two teams and they're both connected by the same thing,

815
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 1: which is a very toxic situation in our league. Right now.

816
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:32,800
Speaker 1: It's Deshaun Watson. Yeah, could David Culley resigned because of

817
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: some ridiculous things going on behind the scenes. And him

818
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 1: realizing what am I doing here? Why am I being

819
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: set up to fail? What is happening? How about Brian

820
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: Flora's Miami What if they get off to a bad

821
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: start and management pushes Deshaun Watson into the building and

822
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 1: he says, wait a second, I love this kid too.

823
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 1: This is not fair and I'm not on board with

824
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 1: this guy coming in here. Just random, obviously conjecture, but

825
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 1: it just flew into my mind when you said that.

826
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: So I will not take you up. I will take

827
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: you up on it, I will say, because I don't

828
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 1: think it will happen. But the Deshaun Watson situation and

829
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,280
Speaker 1: how volcanic that is sitting out there makes me wonder

830
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: if that could lead to something crazy happening. Yeah, this

831
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 1: is a massive onion hanger. When was the last resignings?

832
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: I don't know the answer. Petrina resigned. Petrino would be

833
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: more recent than Butch David. But David Petrino just like

834
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: left a note in everyone's locker. That was That was

835
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: one of the more amazing moments is that after he

836
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 1: got the road rash face when he was with his

837
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: mistress on a motorcycle or that was before that, that

838
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: was that was later. Um, yeah, I'm definitely gonna take

839
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:37,919
Speaker 1: you up on this, and I'm happy that it wasn't

840
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: too dark. For some reason, I my mind immediately went

841
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 1: to Gary Kubiak collapsing at halftime during the and I

842
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 1: just thought you were gonna say, like he can like

843
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: a coach can't continue the game, or he's like, you know, camp,

844
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, But night Gary kuba took a

845
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: stroke on Sunday Night Football. That was scary. Um. Interesting, Mark.

846
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,320
Speaker 1: And by the way, since we're on the topic of coaches,

847
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 1: you've been out for the last few shows, and I

848
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: wanted to talk to you about this. Remember last month

849
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: when we were like racking our brains trying to figure

850
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: out who the one and done head coaches were And

851
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: the most recent guy was Freddie Kitchens And so I

852
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: got about four tweets. So can you just just because

853
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: we're all in, we're all in a good place, we're

854
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 1: happy to be back together a new season. Did you

855
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: knew you knew Freddie Kitchens was on that list, but

856
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: you just didn't want to surface it in that conversation. No, No,

857
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: I'm old, and I completely forgot that the scenario and

858
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,959
Speaker 1: that you were trying to protect like your mental health

859
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 1: or something, or just like protect the bad the bad

860
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: name of the Browns being mentioned, and so you purposefully

861
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 1: this was his theory. Do you think that I care

862
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 1: that much? I mean, it's like, you know, it was

863
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: evident that we did left as a group. We completely

864
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 1: just spotched that that conversation. That wasn't a great one. Okay,

865
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,320
Speaker 1: good guess though. We had Freddie on the show, always

866
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 1: a nice guy, and Nick Shook said it as well,

867
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 1: one of the best guys you could ever hope to

868
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: have be belly up at the bar with at at

869
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: the Road hotel ahead of a Sunday game. Maybe you

870
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: should have been back in the hotel room prepping for

871
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: said Sunday game, but he was drinking with Nick, and

872
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: maybe that's why Nick doesn't work there anymore. Well, there's

873
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: a lot, there's a lot happening there. Many layers speaking

874
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 1: of onions, were peeling back the layer of that onion.

875
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:27,240
Speaker 1: How did Nick Shook get from the Browns back to NFL?

876
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:31,400
Speaker 1: All right, Greg, your second? I mean I feel like

877
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: all my all my selections are intended for you both

878
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: to take them. Mark's got the biggest onions minor medium

879
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 1: Dan's are the smallest onions so far. I'm still upset

880
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: that I print two in a row that feel like, uh,

881
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: this one's a little convoluted. But I'm gonna say that

882
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin, the Washington Football Teams receiver that I implored

883
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: people to take in their fantasy drafts, will finish with

884
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:05,280
Speaker 1: a higher ranking in receiving yards then the Rams seed

885
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:10,240
Speaker 1: in the NFC this season. So the Rams will finish

886
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:14,359
Speaker 1: in ex place in the NFC. You know last year

887
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 1: they would have been what fifth or something fifth or

888
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: sixth um you know when they when they won their

889
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:21,279
Speaker 1: division and they had to buy, they were like the

890
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 1: two seed Terry McLaurin will finish in the NFL's receiving rankings.

891
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:28,919
Speaker 1: Is basically counting on him to be a top five

892
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,919
Speaker 1: receiver this year at a higher seed or a higher

893
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: number than the Rams playoff seeds. Well wait till you

894
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 1: see my next one. I decided to get as convoluted

895
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 1: as possible. I'm like mixing like different you know this way,

896
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 1: I'm like getting almost two predictions in one sort. So

897
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: if you have if you're a division winner, that puts

898
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,720
Speaker 1: you in the top four seeds. You're a top four seeds.

899
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: Seven teams make the playoffs. It's pretty simple. And and

900
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:58,320
Speaker 1: they do number everyone's seed one through uh fourteen, so

901
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: just in case they didn't or sick steen, just in

902
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 1: case they didn't make the playoffs, they would have like

903
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:05,760
Speaker 1: a ranking or a seed. I mean, you're the Niners

904
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: winning the Super Bowl, right, so I'm putting them down

905
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 1: at like five or six and McLaren hasn't ranked you

906
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: know that nearly the high yet. But I'm are we

907
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,359
Speaker 1: talking catches or yardage because he was receiving yards. Okay,

908
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 1: he was thirteen last year in yard Okay, he was

909
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 1: thirteenth in yards. I'm I'm projecting him, you know, to

910
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: finish higher than the Rams seeds to stay healthy too.

911
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 1: They do rank them one through sixteen. You get, you

912
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: get a ranking in the NFC, whatever their NFC ranking

913
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 1: is it. Because I think it's important to have integrity

914
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 1: and have it lined up with your predictions. I have

915
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: the Rams making it to the Super Bowl. Um and

916
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: although I don't break it down where they finished, I

917
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 1: saw them as a division winner. And I'll just say

918
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: let's say there, let's say they were the number two seeds,

919
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,800
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go with that. So McLaren needs to

920
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,879
Speaker 1: finish first, then he needs to finish to finish your head.

921
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: So yes, I will take you on it. Um. And

922
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 1: I think McClaren would be a top ten receiver. He

923
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 1: could be number seven or eight and be a superstar

924
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 1: this year. So it doesn't define failure if he can't

925
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: out gain the Rams seed. And anyway, I'll take you

926
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 1: on it. I I like where you're going with this. Um,

927
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 1: I will take you too. I actually a sandwich prop

928
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: that I'm not using was that the Rams would miss

929
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:23,360
Speaker 1: the playoffs but the Chargers would make it. Uh, sending

930
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 1: you know a lot of l A based journos into

931
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 1: a tizzy. Um, but I you know, I know that,

932
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: you know. I I'm trying to repair my relationship with

933
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: the Rams, considering that we're moving into their house like

934
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: in mirror days. UM. So it's not a Rams thing,

935
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 1: except that I do believe in McLaurin and I think

936
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 1: that you're onto something. I can root for the Ram.

937
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 1: I mean, my daughter is a Rams fan. You know,

938
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,399
Speaker 1: if five seeds find or if even a four seed

939
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 1: and McLaren comes in first, either way, I'm fine. I

940
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 1: think it's good. Mark, like, you want to be more

941
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: a Cato Kalin type. Um, you want to be a

942
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: nice house guest. You want to be non offensive. You

943
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: keep to yourself. Maybe here a thump in the night,

944
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 1: don't check it out, Like, just just do what you

945
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 1: gotta do, stay in the guesthouse. And and hopefully a

946
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:08,240
Speaker 1: similar career path is him if I am lucky enough. Alright,

947
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: last round, now here comes show you a little bit

948
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: of all grown huge onions. Okay, my boy, Zack Wilson

949
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 1: is the offensive rookie of the year. You guys can

950
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 1: take the field, how Zach Greg That's fine, I'll take it.

951
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:26,399
Speaker 1: That's good. That's a nice onion hanger in the field.

952
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: Just because there's a lot of there's a lot of

953
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: good options this year. I can't remember. I guess it

954
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 1: makes sense there's so many offensive players taking at the

955
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: top of his draft. This quarterback class looks amazing. I

956
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 1: can't remember there being This makes excitement over ten to

957
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: fifteen rookies. So absolutely, I'll take you, and that I

958
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 1: love it. I'll take you to UM. I don't know

959
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 1: if he's in the best roster scenario for that to happen.

960
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:53,360
Speaker 1: For the for the numbers to be there. But I

961
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: think you've got you found your quarterback. Um. From what

962
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: we've seen so far, Rookie of the Year would be

963
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 1: the biggest Jets story and two decades, right. I mean

964
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford won offensive Rookie of the Year. I think

965
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: just because like he successfully walked from the bus to

966
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 1: the field every game without following, Like that was the

967
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 1: level of rookie quarterback play back then he was. He

968
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,879
Speaker 1: was not good. He was like quarterback in the league.

969
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson is gonna have to be good to win

970
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:21,839
Speaker 1: this award because there's just too many other good, good

971
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 1: options at a receiver and and quarterback. The one thing though,

972
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: like let's say that trade Lance for some reason is

973
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: splitting snaps with Jimmy g Till the middle of the year,

974
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: Justin Fields continues to be um put through the ringer

975
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:36,279
Speaker 1: in an absurd scenario in Chicago, and they don't play

976
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:39,479
Speaker 1: and they continue any Dalton that gives Wilson a jump,

977
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 1: I mean they have literally no other quarterback. Yes, and

978
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: mac Jones. Mac Jones has a chance. I wonder where

979
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: um Zack Wilson ranks. And like the the predictions that

980
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 1: are out there right now. Trevor Lawrence is first, tied

981
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:58,320
Speaker 1: with Mac Jones, surprisingly Field, second, Lance and Zach Wilson next.

982
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 1: I think there there's a lot of bad thanking there on,

983
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 1: like your team needs to win games, which which makes

984
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: sense that you know who I think Tony Romo picked

985
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 1: Za Zach Wilson. Let's listen to what Tony had to

986
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 1: say about the Jets rookie. It's rare for me to

987
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 1: say someone has the ability to get in the stratosphere

988
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:17,319
Speaker 1: of the mahomes, but I think this kid actually has

989
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:20,840
Speaker 1: that ability. So when you have a quarterback like that,

990
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: I think there's no telling how good you can be.

991
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:25,719
Speaker 1: He can make up for a lot of weaknesses, a

992
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: lot of areas for a football team. I think Zach

993
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:30,239
Speaker 1: Wilson is going to be in the discussion as one

994
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 1: of the top three or five quarterbacks very quickly, you know,

995
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: within the next couple of years. I think you're gonna

996
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:38,880
Speaker 1: see him rise. And just I think he's unbelievable. His

997
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 1: ceiling is so high my own now, Romo, like Sam

998
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: Donald too, that should be stated, but that just I mean,

999
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 1: if that doesn't get you pumped up as a Jets

1000
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,919
Speaker 1: Van I don't know what will. I think you should

1001
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 1: have that like tattooed on your back, that entire statement

1002
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:57,359
Speaker 1: from Romo. If if, if I will Zach Wilson wins

1003
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: an m v P or a super Bowl in the

1004
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,240
Speaker 1: next three years, I will do that, the whole statement.

1005
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 1: You'll have Tex Well, I hope we can all my back.

1006
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 1: I'll affleck it what size font though, I mean it

1007
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: can't be we need to notice the nineties one? Is

1008
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: it the comics sans you can't. I mean it's gonna

1009
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:17,760
Speaker 1: have to be small because uh, there's a lot of words. Alright,

1010
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,959
Speaker 1: three years, so that's the twenty three season. I'm looking

1011
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 1: forward to tracking this one as the Jets like marched

1012
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: through the playoffs and Dan starts like having mixed feelings

1013
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:30,839
Speaker 1: about it, and if they three over the next three years,

1014
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: I'll get it done in all different parts of my body. Oh,

1015
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for this back front, buttocks, buttocks. This is

1016
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:40,799
Speaker 1: what it tells you. I'm to become a Jets fan.

1017
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,400
Speaker 1: But I'm finally here. It's a big treat for Emily,

1018
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 1: your wife. She's gonna have It's there's gonna be a

1019
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:49,439
Speaker 1: lot to discover, alright, let's let's keep rolling here, Mark

1020
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:52,840
Speaker 1: yours all right, UM, I feel very strongly about this.

1021
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,879
Speaker 1: I'm not taking it. I will take you will take

1022
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 1: your on in hangers like Okay, I think you're gonna

1023
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 1: want to UM but I and I want to say

1024
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 1: that I this is not UM a gag. This is

1025
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 1: something I feel very um dug in about that there

1026
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: will be a major we will look back and we

1027
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: will and I you can try to not you can.

1028
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 1: You can try to spin it and say that you

1029
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 1: don't agree that it was UM. What I'm about to

1030
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:17,360
Speaker 1: say that it is a top It is the number

1031
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:20,320
Speaker 1: two news story in the NFL m outside of the

1032
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: coach resigning. That it is so it will least be

1033
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 1: one or two biggest story in the NFL. UM will

1034
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:29,799
Speaker 1: involve something to do with an NFL cheerleader. There will

1035
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: be a story involving an NFL cheerleader that will be

1036
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 1: considered a UM sort of an earth shattering type breaking

1037
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:42,320
Speaker 1: news scenario in the eventually got to an uncomfortable place. Greg.

1038
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: It just took one more question. No, I don't think

1039
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 1: it's it doesn't see you're that's where your mind goes.

1040
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 1: I mean, she could be involved in a bank robbery.

1041
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: I don't know, it could be any sort of thing

1042
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:53,479
Speaker 1: she could steal comfortable for the people in the bank.

1043
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: You know, well that would be. That would be, But

1044
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 1: it doesn't suggest for the cheerleader. Basically, you're saying it's

1045
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: uh situation. It's just like all there would be no

1046
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: question that the cheerleader is a pivotal um centerpiece, a

1047
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:13,240
Speaker 1: core centerpiece of the story. I don't. I'm not pattying alright,

1048
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:15,320
Speaker 1: like I know, but then if I say, like j

1049
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:18,320
Speaker 1: Howard Mary as a cheerleader, that doesn't qualify you. Just

1050
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to help you out. You said this

1051
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: would be one of the two biggest stories of the year,

1052
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 1: which I don't even know how you would rank that,

1053
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,279
Speaker 1: Like we should, we should try to make it like,

1054
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:31,880
Speaker 1: you know, this is a seismic story including a cheerleader happen.

1055
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:36,879
Speaker 1: How Like that's a huge story, Like are we talking

1056
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 1: like that level news story? I'm saying it will be

1057
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:42,240
Speaker 1: because I've already talked about the resignation of the coach

1058
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 1: um sending you know, shockwaves through the league, So I

1059
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 1: can't I don't know if it's going to top that.

1060
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:49,799
Speaker 1: When you look when you do your like a year

1061
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:53,839
Speaker 1: in review, This cheerleader story will be a devastating one

1062
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:56,240
Speaker 1: of the biggest stories of the year. You know, involves

1063
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:59,919
Speaker 1: a cheerleader. Yes, let's keep it right there. Doesn't sound

1064
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: good whatever it is, it just doesn't sound good for

1065
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:04,800
Speaker 1: the cheerleader. It's not a player. It's not a player

1066
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 1: marrying a cheerleader. That that that's not a huge story.

1067
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 1: There's no news value to that. And you you can

1068
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:13,400
Speaker 1: think it's bad. But maybe it would be something like

1069
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:15,759
Speaker 1: the cheerleader goes to space or something. Sure, it could

1070
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: be transfer. I don't know. That to me feels like

1071
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 1: blaise news to something big story. I guess it's big.

1072
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: I don't know, like the cheerleader of the Dolphins blasted

1073
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 1: off with SpaceX or something that would be like that

1074
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 1: would get a lot of play in the national news cycle.

1075
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the biggest story, second biggest

1076
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:31,800
Speaker 1: story of the year. But well, I think we've removed

1077
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 1: second biggest story because it's too hard for us to

1078
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:36,319
Speaker 1: and you'll you'll just claim that it's not so we're

1079
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 1: taking that out of it. All right, Greg, We we

1080
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 1: got you and then we got our annual Ricky props.

1081
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 1: So Greg, okay, yeah, um, here we go. I don't

1082
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 1: know if the onion is any bigger than the first two,

1083
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: but it is more convoluted even. All right, three teams

1084
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:57,839
Speaker 1: from the a f C East, we'll have more victories

1085
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 1: than the amount of consecutive pictures. But you stopped me now,

1086
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:08,319
Speaker 1: all right, Three teams from the a f C East

1087
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 1: will have more wins this season than the amount of

1088
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:17,560
Speaker 1: consecutive pictures. Mark Sessler once posted on instagram of Leonardo

1089
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 1: DiCaprio and Kate Winslet you are not allowed to go

1090
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:23,440
Speaker 1: look at the instagram and see how many. Mark probably

1091
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: knows you could help to check. Yes, you know, I

1092
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: went to check and Mark probably knows. Um. But that day,

1093
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 1: that was an infamous day. It was many days. It

1094
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,359
Speaker 1: was more than one day, a couple of weeks, for sure,

1095
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 1: many consecutive pictures. Three teams from the a f C

1096
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:47,360
Speaker 1: s will have more victories than than that number. So

1097
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 1: I know what the numbers. You know what the number is.

1098
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:51,680
Speaker 1: You could help out Dan if you really want. You know,

1099
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 1: I thought the mystery was kind of part of the fund.

1100
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 1: But you know, you can do whatever the number is.

1101
00:56:56,000 --> 00:57:00,400
Speaker 1: Nine It was it was a solid three three three Instagram.

1102
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:03,800
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have I shouldn't have allowed that. Now the pats,

1103
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,479
Speaker 1: the pats of the Dolphins will bust out and under

1104
00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 1: um and um, and they were underachieved. So I do

1105
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 1: not think three teams will do it. So I'll take

1106
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 1: you up on it. But that was an amazing I

1107
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 1: should but I thought, I don't know it. I guess

1108
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 1: in my mind. In my mind, I thought it was

1109
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 1: possibly fifteen, and someone would think that too, that it

1110
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:31,080
Speaker 1: was just like an impossible number at the top. Because

1111
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 1: I was guessing we're going into it. I thought it,

1112
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: that's gotta be double digits. It turned out to be nine. Well,

1113
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 1: I was going to continue on with it. Um, what happened,

1114
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 1: I'll tell you real quick, was that my wife went

1115
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: on a like one of these girls trips with her

1116
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: friends and they were sort of saying, why is your

1117
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: husband posting endless Leonardo DiCaprio Kate Winslet's photos. So I

1118
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:52,680
Speaker 1: I gotta talking to were like, it's a little too weird,

1119
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 1: please stop doing that. And so then the air kind

1120
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 1: of got let out. Um nine wins. I got a

1121
00:57:57,360 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 1: question about it at one point, just someone was like,

1122
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 1: what's up marks, Like, is it for Simone? Is it Eddie?

1123
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:06,000
Speaker 1: Worse than when you like pick post pictures of your

1124
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: girlfriend from you know, Lake Happiness or whatever. I am

1125
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 1: not nor because I'm not doing that. That's not something

1126
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:22,520
Speaker 1: that I'm doing. So Lake Happiness alright, okay, okay, um, alright,

1127
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 1: I will sit there. I will take you on it,

1128
00:58:24,760 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 1: just because I do everything. Alright, good, alright, Ricky, you

1129
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 1: had one, I do Okay. So we know that there's

1130
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:34,880
Speaker 1: been a little bit of trouble and paradise with Michael

1131
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 1: Thomas and now he's on the pup list untill that

1132
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 1: puts them after their by right. So Marcus Callaway totally

1133
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:47,040
Speaker 1: exploded in the preseason. So what I am predicting is

1134
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 1: that not only is he going to be the wide

1135
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 1: receiver one, especially with Jamis Winston for the Saints, but

1136
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: he is going to make it questionable to the point

1137
00:58:57,640 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 1: where Michael Thomas, even when he's back, is going to be, Um,

1138
00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:06,040
Speaker 1: you know, I guess lose the starting spot. He'll be

1139
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 1: a number two, not the number one. How do we

1140
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 1: know he's not even yeah, maybe he doesn't even play.

1141
00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 1: I think that Marcus Callaway is going I got it, Ricky,

1142
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: what if we say when whenever Michael Thomas returns from

1143
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 1: that point onward, whoever has more targets between the two guys. Yes,

1144
00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 1: helping you out because your first two things you threw

1145
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 1: out there. We could have been mean and been like, yeah,

1146
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 1: there's no chance he's getting benched. Yeah, but why but

1147
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 1: what if he don't like he's there's been trouble in

1148
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:42,720
Speaker 1: Paradise with him there without Drew Brees to like, it

1149
00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:46,920
Speaker 1: could happen like Michael targets Thomas. Okay, I could buy

1150
00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:50,400
Speaker 1: a trade. I thought that's where you were going. Well

1151
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 1: maybe I'm just but if he's there, if he's there,

1152
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:55,800
Speaker 1: he's not, I'll take Michael Thomas. I'll take you up

1153
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 1: on it. But it's not it's not crazy because Callaway

1154
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: will out target Thomas if he's traded before Halloween also,

1155
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 1: so yeah, these things are but we we to clear,

1156
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 1: you know, to make it clear for Nick out target

1157
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 1: him from the moment that Thomas returned. I'll take you

1158
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 1: up on it. I love it because I think that

1159
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: you're onto something that you know, even if Sean Payton

1160
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:20,640
Speaker 1: says that you know he's he's sort of back in

1161
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 1: a good place with Michael Thomas. This has been going

1162
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 1: on for over a year. This isn't the guy that

1163
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:27,120
Speaker 1: they thought he was a while back. I mean, I

1164
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:30,160
Speaker 1: do think he's uber talented. So if he's healthy and

1165
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 1: they need him, I don't think you're gonna win this.

1166
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:35,240
Speaker 1: But um, I think it's possible that he's traded. All right,

1167
01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:37,440
Speaker 1: he gets traded White. So if he gets traded, you

1168
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 1: win or did it just the time? I think definitely

1169
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:43,560
Speaker 1: want Marcus Calloway. So Thomas could also come back and

1170
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 1: not be healthy because he hasn't been healthy since this

1171
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,560
Speaker 1: time last year. All right, that's good. There, you go,

1172
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:50,840
Speaker 1: close up the books, Nick Fortier, go get my lunch

1173
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 1: dot org. Uh please uh check him out, give them

1174
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:56,360
Speaker 1: a give him a follow on Twitter too, and go

1175
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:59,560
Speaker 1: get my lunch on Twitter. And we will, of course,

1176
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:02,480
Speaker 1: as we all do, we'll cycle back and take a

1177
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:04,960
Speaker 1: look circle back, I should say, and take a look

1178
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 1: at these props come the end of the regular season. Okay,

1179
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 1: without further ado, let's welcome in. Whoa, there he is

1180
01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:15,360
Speaker 1: the legend. He's doing the thing. By the way, this

1181
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:17,080
Speaker 1: is the thing the kids are doing. And check is

1182
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 1: to where it's Vicker mustache, the beard comes in. You

1183
01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 1: see Aaron Rodgers is doing it as well. But this

1184
01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:25,040
Speaker 1: is a look and check has it? What's up? Dave?

1185
01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:28,400
Speaker 1: Damnae check? Look at what's the poop? Fellas? Can you

1186
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:31,760
Speaker 1: hear me? Okay? My connection here and lake happiness is

1187
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:37,040
Speaker 1: coming through. I you know what, I'm sure you guys

1188
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:40,160
Speaker 1: have first rate equipment. We can hear Rosenthal up there

1189
01:01:40,200 --> 01:01:42,600
Speaker 1: on mouthpious. So that's fine. You guys are getting what

1190
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:45,880
Speaker 1: what what? What? What pious is going on? I don't

1191
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:48,680
Speaker 1: know you're easy thrown or whever the hell you the

1192
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:52,200
Speaker 1: hell else you guys talk about. You guys are still

1193
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:55,560
Speaker 1: doing the show. Good for you. I'm happy that. I'm

1194
01:01:55,560 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 1: happy to see that that you guys continue to press on.

1195
01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 1: Um I I would love in on some of these, uh,

1196
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:04,760
Speaker 1: some of these wagers. Like, for instance, you know that

1197
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:07,920
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Chargers are in fact going to win

1198
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:11,640
Speaker 1: the a f C West. Well we'll let you if

1199
01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:15,040
Speaker 1: that want if you want that to be your schrop? Yeah, okay,

1200
01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:17,000
Speaker 1: well I'll take you up on that. Can we can

1201
01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:19,640
Speaker 1: we throw Damna chick in charges win the division? That

1202
01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:23,120
Speaker 1: sounds like three delicious promancy brothers. I'll take you too,

1203
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:26,880
Speaker 1: but I think you're right. So the Chargers finished with

1204
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:30,959
Speaker 1: a better record than the Chiefs win the division. Whoa

1205
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:36,160
Speaker 1: d I like it. It's not that wild. I mean,

1206
01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:39,960
Speaker 1: it's the Is the Chargers defense markedly better than the Chiefs? Yes?

1207
01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:44,640
Speaker 1: Is the Chargers offense markedly worse than the Chiefs? No ergo,

1208
01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:49,600
Speaker 1: I'll take Staley's company. Um. Dan's not used to onions

1209
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:54,560
Speaker 1: this big. He's been tending this little tiny onion. Greg oh,

1210
01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:56,680
Speaker 1: I did when I had a stand on principle with

1211
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:59,840
Speaker 1: some of your nonsense earlier. I feel a little bit,

1212
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:02,440
Speaker 1: I really do feel a little bit bad for hands

1213
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:05,560
Speaker 1: is in this one here because you know Rosenthal, Okay,

1214
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:09,360
Speaker 1: one year blip Tom Brady dumped him in Belichick and

1215
01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 1: everybody else. But I suspect Belichick will rise back up here.

1216
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 1: Um and and you know Cessler, you know, let me

1217
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:20,200
Speaker 1: be the first. And if I'm not, I want to

1218
01:03:20,280 --> 01:03:23,560
Speaker 1: get in on it. Now you've already done this actually

1219
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 1: on this show. Well, I want to do it again

1220
01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:28,960
Speaker 1: because because I'm a man of the highest integrity and

1221
01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: I'm a class act. That's what I uh, you know,

1222
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:33,360
Speaker 1: that's how I view myself, and I think we all

1223
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 1: agree on that, and I want to say, listen, Cleveland Browns,

1224
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:43,240
Speaker 1: everybody agrees universally brilliant front office. You know, head coach

1225
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:45,720
Speaker 1: comes in. What's he do first? Your coach of the year,

1226
01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:48,960
Speaker 1: best roster in the a f C, maybe all of

1227
01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:52,360
Speaker 1: pro football, one to punch at running back, best in

1228
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:56,800
Speaker 1: the biz, fancy pass catchers one handed or otherwise, and

1229
01:03:56,960 --> 01:04:00,320
Speaker 1: best news of all the first overall pick just a

1230
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:03,600
Speaker 1: few years ago at not just the sports, but all

1231
01:04:03,680 --> 01:04:08,760
Speaker 1: of sports, most important position bank. What will possibly go wrong?

1232
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:13,080
Speaker 1: I want to say, congratulations, Browns fans go wild. This

1233
01:04:13,280 --> 01:04:17,080
Speaker 1: is your year now. This is another attempt at psych warfare,

1234
01:04:17,160 --> 01:04:20,040
Speaker 1: psychological warfare, which you know, it's been a long off

1235
01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:23,120
Speaker 1: season for you, Um, you're used to talk about thrown

1236
01:04:23,160 --> 01:04:25,760
Speaker 1: a vis It's just been one division title after the

1237
01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:28,960
Speaker 1: next for the Steelers, big benage Er quarterback. You're now

1238
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:31,440
Speaker 1: being chased and dogged by questions of when he's going

1239
01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 1: to fall off a shelf. Um, if the team is,

1240
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 1: you know, psychologically ready to pick up the ball again.

1241
01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:39,320
Speaker 1: After getting smushed by Cleveland in January, which you know,

1242
01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:42,560
Speaker 1: I know, Dave, that was that quietly that injured you,

1243
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 1: that that it lifted me. It was a humiliating defeat.

1244
01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:51,280
Speaker 1: Nothing quietly. Yeah, we heard about it the darkest loss

1245
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 1: in Steelers history and that's not which is just another

1246
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:58,480
Speaker 1: way to throw shade at the Browns. We I see

1247
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,040
Speaker 1: what you're doing, David, and I appreciate. No, I think

1248
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:03,680
Speaker 1: I think in hindsight, I think the pain will will

1249
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:06,640
Speaker 1: go away when I realized that that was just uh

1250
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:11,080
Speaker 1: that you know, that heralded the rise of the Cleveland

1251
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 1: Browns and you know we were there first, real big

1252
01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:16,840
Speaker 1: victim as they took over all approgram Can you can

1253
01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 1: you guys take this to the minus three podcast. Okay,

1254
01:05:21,080 --> 01:05:23,400
Speaker 1: we need to talk about it's exciting story. It's an

1255
01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:27,160
Speaker 1: exciting time for everybody accounting for Taste minus three pod

1256
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:30,520
Speaker 1: the Extra Points pot. Dave's a thunder. Get caught up

1257
01:05:30,560 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 1: on that back back catalog with your buddy feeny Um, haven't, Davon,

1258
01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:42,320
Speaker 1: Because yes, we lost Tara deaker Um this weekend to cancer,

1259
01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:46,680
Speaker 1: which is just outrageous, uh and tragic. We lost We

1260
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:50,320
Speaker 1: lost West the day before the Super Bowl in February.

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01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:53,439
Speaker 1: We lose deaker right on the eve of the start

1262
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:55,840
Speaker 1: of the season. Two of the best people that any

1263
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:58,400
Speaker 1: of us knew, and I just want to say, like

1264
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:01,680
Speaker 1: haven't Checked on the show? Is important is Deaker's introduction

1265
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:04,120
Speaker 1: to our audience and Check's audience was really through the

1266
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 1: pie off more than anything else. And I think it

1267
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:08,880
Speaker 1: was so cool that she was so passionate and such

1268
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:13,080
Speaker 1: a great fun woman, that she had that spotlight that

1269
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:15,920
Speaker 1: Dave you allowed her that opportunity and she made some

1270
01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:17,880
Speaker 1: great pies and we're all gonna miss her a lot.

1271
01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:21,200
Speaker 1: And we just wanted to um, just talk about Deaker

1272
01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:22,600
Speaker 1: and how much we're gonna miss her in and what

1273
01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:24,560
Speaker 1: what did you mean to you Check and your time

1274
01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:28,800
Speaker 1: at NFL media and beyond yeah, I I you know,

1275
01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:34,960
Speaker 1: heartbreaking beyond you know, our ability to sort of especially

1276
01:06:35,080 --> 01:06:39,960
Speaker 1: you mentioned West there and I texted Deeker, I think

1277
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:42,920
Speaker 1: right around a year or so ago, just checking in

1278
01:06:43,040 --> 01:06:45,480
Speaker 1: with her, knowing that you know, she was going through

1279
01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:50,520
Speaker 1: her health stuff, and I caught her um or. In fact,

1280
01:06:50,600 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 1: she called me back and she was on the way

1281
01:06:54,320 --> 01:06:58,200
Speaker 1: to pick up West for his chemo treatment. And that

1282
01:06:58,680 --> 01:07:02,120
Speaker 1: is who she was doing the tough stuff, the heavy

1283
01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:05,240
Speaker 1: lifting of friendship, and she did it to everybody, you know,

1284
01:07:05,360 --> 01:07:07,560
Speaker 1: that was that she did it for everybody And as

1285
01:07:07,680 --> 01:07:11,640
Speaker 1: I just keep saying, that's how she made everybody feel

1286
01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:17,040
Speaker 1: like a million bucks. And yet she still had a

1287
01:07:17,160 --> 01:07:20,480
Speaker 1: deep enough well that if any of our kids came around,

1288
01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:25,240
Speaker 1: then we were yesterday's news and they were the focus.

1289
01:07:25,520 --> 01:07:29,919
Speaker 1: And from the moment she met them, for the rest

1290
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:32,360
Speaker 1: of the time you would ever interact with Deeker if

1291
01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:34,520
Speaker 1: it was every day, every week, or if you didn't

1292
01:07:34,560 --> 01:07:37,520
Speaker 1: talk to her for for three months, it was always

1293
01:07:37,640 --> 01:07:40,480
Speaker 1: first and by their nicknames. Where I was concerned by

1294
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:43,560
Speaker 1: my little and you know I have somewhere between three

1295
01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:46,840
Speaker 1: and seventeen children, whatever it is, she knew all their nicknames,

1296
01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:50,080
Speaker 1: always asked questions, you know, And that was her way

1297
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:53,560
Speaker 1: with everybody who she dealt with. And I was talking

1298
01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:57,960
Speaker 1: to our our mutual pal and producer over there, Drew Christiansen.

1299
01:07:58,680 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 1: He had the bad status u UM and a close

1300
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:05,680
Speaker 1: friend of course, as we all were with with deeker Um.

1301
01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:08,760
Speaker 1: And he said, you know to something I that was

1302
01:08:08,840 --> 01:08:12,720
Speaker 1: poignant that it it always felt as though she never

1303
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:17,120
Speaker 1: it was her in any circumstance. She devoted herself to

1304
01:08:17,280 --> 01:08:20,479
Speaker 1: not being the center of attention, and yet she was

1305
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:23,840
Speaker 1: always the center of attention. And that was no small feat.

1306
01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:27,360
Speaker 1: That's no small feed in any workspace, in any gaggle

1307
01:08:27,439 --> 01:08:31,560
Speaker 1: of friends or otherwise. But think about the big personalities

1308
01:08:32,120 --> 01:08:34,840
Speaker 1: that you know that we've worked with over the years,

1309
01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:38,519
Speaker 1: pro football players and Greg Rosenthal and people like that,

1310
01:08:38,760 --> 01:08:42,240
Speaker 1: you know, and and and um a kid. But you know,

1311
01:08:42,360 --> 01:08:46,920
Speaker 1: she she was that way with every single person the

1312
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:51,680
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, whatever football guy or or um you know,

1313
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:56,479
Speaker 1: somebody who was one of the security guards. She was

1314
01:08:56,600 --> 01:09:01,080
Speaker 1: that way with everybody. And I feel like, you know,

1315
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:06,200
Speaker 1: I feel like in the movie As Good as It Gets,

1316
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 1: Nicholson gives that great speech to Helen Hunt about Helen

1317
01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:13,080
Speaker 1: Hunt and her greatness. And I was worried. I don't

1318
01:09:13,160 --> 01:09:17,400
Speaker 1: love taking to social media too, you know, to to

1319
01:09:18,200 --> 01:09:22,120
Speaker 1: lament something like this happening. It feels it doesn't feel

1320
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:25,360
Speaker 1: quite right to me. It didn't feel quite right to me.

1321
01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:28,439
Speaker 1: But it occurred to me that she made everybody feel

1322
01:09:28,560 --> 01:09:30,800
Speaker 1: so good that I want the world to know this

1323
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:34,120
Speaker 1: was this was a great soul, a special soul. And

1324
01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:37,720
Speaker 1: the speech Nicholson gives is if you'll remember that he

1325
01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:40,880
Speaker 1: goes to see her and she's a waitress in the

1326
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:43,160
Speaker 1: movie and and he and he tells her I feel

1327
01:09:43,240 --> 01:09:47,240
Speaker 1: special because I see it with with you, Helen Hunt.

1328
01:09:47,439 --> 01:09:50,840
Speaker 1: And I felt like in talking to Drew Christians in

1329
01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:53,880
Speaker 1: a little bit and to other people, UM, you know,

1330
01:09:54,200 --> 01:09:58,960
Speaker 1: I feel special because I know Deeker. Uh no her period,

1331
01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 1: but no her greatness, um, and we're all lucky to

1332
01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:06,280
Speaker 1: have known her. But now I've come to realize and

1333
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:09,439
Speaker 1: I've seen the posts and it's the same recurring themes.

1334
01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:11,960
Speaker 1: It's about that she was a light, and she was

1335
01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:17,320
Speaker 1: a d light and she was um so kind to everybody. Um.

1336
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:19,760
Speaker 1: And now I realized that I don't have to have

1337
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:23,360
Speaker 1: that concern. At least everybody got it. Everybody got it,

1338
01:10:23,680 --> 01:10:26,160
Speaker 1: you know that we so we were all lucky, and

1339
01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 1: I think we all get that we were lucky to

1340
01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:30,679
Speaker 1: know her. I feel bad for the people who didn't

1341
01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:34,840
Speaker 1: know her, but I feel that I feel like, boy,

1342
01:10:35,040 --> 01:10:38,479
Speaker 1: her time was well spent because there's not anybody who

1343
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:41,160
Speaker 1: knew her, and she knew a ton of people. And

1344
01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:45,160
Speaker 1: everybody seems that seems to have landed on the same

1345
01:10:45,280 --> 01:10:49,080
Speaker 1: stuff she was. You know, I we can wax poetic

1346
01:10:49,160 --> 01:10:52,600
Speaker 1: about it and otherwise it plain and simply she was

1347
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:55,439
Speaker 1: the best? That was it? What what more can you say?

1348
01:10:55,680 --> 01:11:00,519
Speaker 1: We should all be like that? She um She was

1349
01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:03,680
Speaker 1: like a like if you think of the NFL is

1350
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:05,680
Speaker 1: like a like a locker room, and I don't think

1351
01:11:05,680 --> 01:11:09,120
Speaker 1: of the NFL network is like being amazing in terms

1352
01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:13,000
Speaker 1: of team camaraderie, she was like the ultimate glue glue person,

1353
01:11:13,320 --> 01:11:18,120
Speaker 1: Like she had a meaningful relationship, like you were talking

1354
01:11:18,200 --> 01:11:23,720
Speaker 1: about with everyone at the company, from like the part

1355
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:26,719
Speaker 1: time people who are cycling in and out for seven

1356
01:11:26,840 --> 01:11:31,400
Speaker 1: months that she would make like them feel great to

1357
01:11:31,640 --> 01:11:34,720
Speaker 1: the highest executives at the company, to the to the

1358
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 1: biggest name talent you know at the company. Everyone almost

1359
01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:41,519
Speaker 1: had a relationship because she didn't give you an option

1360
01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:43,640
Speaker 1: to or not and if and if you didn't like

1361
01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:46,280
Speaker 1: something was wrong with you, like if you couldn't go

1362
01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:49,240
Speaker 1: along with it because you're right, like in a in

1363
01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:51,879
Speaker 1: a place of like big personality, she was still the loudest,

1364
01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:54,200
Speaker 1: Like she was the most she was the most bombastic

1365
01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:58,640
Speaker 1: um and and there's just something about her that like

1366
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:00,680
Speaker 1: you couldn't but earn a ucks and that you just

1367
01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:04,200
Speaker 1: you love you loved every every minute of it. I

1368
01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:06,760
Speaker 1: was I'm I totally agree with you, Dave about like

1369
01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:09,360
Speaker 1: the how do you feel about posting everything? But it

1370
01:12:09,439 --> 01:12:11,400
Speaker 1: did feel good to hear all the stories of everyone

1371
01:12:11,439 --> 01:12:14,800
Speaker 1: else's kids and realize like, oh wow, everyone had those experiences.

1372
01:12:14,880 --> 01:12:17,080
Speaker 1: She would invite you know, me and my kids over

1373
01:12:17,240 --> 01:12:19,560
Speaker 1: to this place she house sat and she had a

1374
01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:22,400
Speaker 1: pool at and she'd you know, have desserts ready for

1375
01:12:22,479 --> 01:12:24,639
Speaker 1: them and have things to play and and it would

1376
01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:27,080
Speaker 1: be like a beautiful afternoon that she just wanted to

1377
01:12:27,160 --> 01:12:28,920
Speaker 1: like set up for the kids. And this is during

1378
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:32,120
Speaker 1: the pandemic and during her um fighting cancer, and she

1379
01:12:32,479 --> 01:12:36,479
Speaker 1: she was just such a good friend, um to to everyone.

1380
01:12:36,760 --> 01:12:39,439
Speaker 1: It really it's it's been a brutal it's been a

1381
01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:44,640
Speaker 1: tough weekend where like depressed, angry, um mad um, but

1382
01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:48,240
Speaker 1: also like hearing hearing this stuff. She she was one

1383
01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:51,240
Speaker 1: of a kind. Yeah, I think we've lost like two

1384
01:12:51,800 --> 01:12:55,240
Speaker 1: incredible lights over the over during this offseason and it's

1385
01:12:55,280 --> 01:12:59,080
Speaker 1: been this this Um. The timing of this was very

1386
01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:01,920
Speaker 1: rapid towards the into It completely threw me off and

1387
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:05,640
Speaker 1: it kind of just reminded me of um, you know,

1388
01:13:05,760 --> 01:13:07,720
Speaker 1: maybe I could have texted her one more time, called

1389
01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:09,720
Speaker 1: her one more time, But I also look back on

1390
01:13:09,800 --> 01:13:12,160
Speaker 1: her and I like what you guys said, because um,

1391
01:13:12,439 --> 01:13:14,360
Speaker 1: I think we did have in a way all very

1392
01:13:14,439 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 1: similar relationships with her because she had a special talent

1393
01:13:17,439 --> 01:13:20,080
Speaker 1: of making you feel when she'd be hanging out with

1394
01:13:20,160 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 1: you like you were the best friend she had. And

1395
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:24,880
Speaker 1: it was genuine too, because she would just pour herself

1396
01:13:24,960 --> 01:13:27,360
Speaker 1: out and pay attention to you and listen like, um.

1397
01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:29,960
Speaker 1: I remember one Thanksgiving when I was working in the

1398
01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:31,960
Speaker 1: news room and there's like, you know, two people in there,

1399
01:13:32,439 --> 01:13:35,240
Speaker 1: and she um brought over this huge plate of food

1400
01:13:35,320 --> 01:13:39,280
Speaker 1: from like the real talent um spread of food, not

1401
01:13:39,400 --> 01:13:40,680
Speaker 1: the kind of thing they threw in the in the

1402
01:13:40,800 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 1: lunch room. I mean it was like little things I

1403
01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:46,560
Speaker 1: do that for us on Thursday night, very early on

1404
01:13:46,720 --> 01:13:50,519
Speaker 1: to any she would like, she would sneak us over

1405
01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:52,840
Speaker 1: so we could get better food on Thursday nights because

1406
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:59,000
Speaker 1: she didn't think it was fair about the drink. The drink, right.

1407
01:13:59,080 --> 01:14:01,439
Speaker 1: That dates back to when you know, we just started

1408
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:03,800
Speaker 1: here as a group and you know, there was no

1409
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:06,800
Speaker 1: one person more important than the other. And you know,

1410
01:14:06,880 --> 01:14:08,760
Speaker 1: one special memory of how I have of her is

1411
01:14:08,840 --> 01:14:11,120
Speaker 1: that she called me up one day and she's like, dude,

1412
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:13,040
Speaker 1: you know was when Once upon a Time in Hollywood

1413
01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:15,880
Speaker 1: came out. She's like, I have tickets one ticket, Um,

1414
01:14:16,040 --> 01:14:19,000
Speaker 1: guest ticket to like the media premiere, and it was

1415
01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 1: on this like seventy millimeter perfect screen and it was

1416
01:14:21,600 --> 01:14:23,760
Speaker 1: like all journalists and she brought me to it and

1417
01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:26,599
Speaker 1: we drove, you know, up into the depths of Hollywood,

1418
01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:28,559
Speaker 1: and and the thing I remember is not so much

1419
01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:31,280
Speaker 1: the movie but the drive up. Um, she was just

1420
01:14:31,479 --> 01:14:34,679
Speaker 1: unveiling things about her life previous to the NFL. She's

1421
01:14:35,120 --> 01:14:38,560
Speaker 1: friends with like Nev Campbell, she knows like tons of celebrities.

1422
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:41,440
Speaker 1: She was in that industry. She hung out with Quentin Tarantino,

1423
01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:43,640
Speaker 1: and she dropped that behind me as we were driving up.

1424
01:14:43,760 --> 01:14:46,439
Speaker 1: She just was a person, a multifaceted person that you

1425
01:14:46,520 --> 01:14:49,080
Speaker 1: talk about how she was able to get along and

1426
01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:51,320
Speaker 1: show her heart and be loved by so many different

1427
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:53,439
Speaker 1: types of people at the NFL. I think that's just

1428
01:14:53,560 --> 01:14:56,120
Speaker 1: who she was with everyone in her life. And I'm

1429
01:14:56,200 --> 01:14:59,320
Speaker 1: still figuring out how to even respond to this. Um,

1430
01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:02,280
Speaker 1: she's a really special person. And I'm with you, Dave

1431
01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:04,800
Speaker 1: that I feel lucky to have been her friend. And

1432
01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:08,080
Speaker 1: she made me feel like a real friend. Well, I mean,

1433
01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:11,920
Speaker 1: she was prison loyal, you know what, you know what

1434
01:15:12,040 --> 01:15:15,640
Speaker 1: I mean, Like and for a vain guy like me,

1435
01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:19,280
Speaker 1: it was. It was striking to realize, like, oh, you're

1436
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:21,439
Speaker 1: that way with everybody. I feel a little let down.

1437
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:23,840
Speaker 1: I thought I was special. Oh no you're not. You

1438
01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:27,160
Speaker 1: do that with everybody. And if I if I take

1439
01:15:27,200 --> 01:15:29,640
Speaker 1: a step in the wrong direction about another one of

1440
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:32,400
Speaker 1: the people who you're that loyal with, you'll let me

1441
01:15:32,520 --> 01:15:34,960
Speaker 1: know about it. And she was like even like that

1442
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:37,120
Speaker 1: with everyone. But Henry had it like a little he

1443
01:15:37,240 --> 01:15:39,240
Speaker 1: was like a little a little bit more. I do

1444
01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 1: agree with that. I do agree with Handsome Hank and

1445
01:15:42,360 --> 01:15:46,840
Speaker 1: their special relationship. But it engendered but her loyalty engendered that.

1446
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:50,040
Speaker 1: I mean, people would and it would play is half

1447
01:15:50,120 --> 01:15:54,320
Speaker 1: funny with the aforementioned pie Offfs. She would go around

1448
01:15:54,720 --> 01:15:58,880
Speaker 1: and she would you know, she did gorilla sales. She

1449
01:15:59,040 --> 01:16:02,599
Speaker 1: went around to everybody taste this pot. She would prepare

1450
01:16:02,640 --> 01:16:05,920
Speaker 1: for months on end trying to unseat the mighty hands

1451
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:08,439
Speaker 1: Us Corps and it's strangle hold on the pie off

1452
01:16:09,240 --> 01:16:12,479
Speaker 1: Um and she would solicit the opinions of everybody. And

1453
01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:17,840
Speaker 1: when she lost, Willie McGuinness and Ike Taylor and I

1454
01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:20,360
Speaker 1: don't know who else came and I was like, are

1455
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:23,479
Speaker 1: you kidding? No, they weren't kidding. They were angry. How

1456
01:16:23,560 --> 01:16:25,920
Speaker 1: there you not give her the pie off? They gave

1457
01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:29,479
Speaker 1: me a wedge. I remember that. You don't have to

1458
01:16:29,680 --> 01:16:31,840
Speaker 1: you don't have to embarrass me. But okay, that's what happened.

1459
01:16:32,080 --> 01:16:35,640
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, they that's that's kind of what she did.

1460
01:16:35,720 --> 01:16:38,040
Speaker 1: But the other thing, and when you mentioned handsome, I

1461
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:41,880
Speaker 1: feel required to point out because and we had the

1462
01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:47,040
Speaker 1: same conversation sadly too recently about West. It's you're inclined

1463
01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:50,320
Speaker 1: in situations like this to to uh, you know, sand

1464
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:54,439
Speaker 1: off any rough edges and just you know, uh put

1465
01:16:54,520 --> 01:16:58,040
Speaker 1: the put the halo on her and and and West

1466
01:16:58,120 --> 01:17:01,680
Speaker 1: and obviously stand out human beings and everything. But you know,

1467
01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:05,920
Speaker 1: let's be very clear. She was five foot nothing, um

1468
01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:10,320
Speaker 1: brassy broad who gave it as as well as she

1469
01:17:10,439 --> 01:17:13,599
Speaker 1: took it. And there was nothing better than than going

1470
01:17:13,680 --> 01:17:16,600
Speaker 1: too far with her and get Dave, come on, you

1471
01:17:16,720 --> 01:17:18,760
Speaker 1: can't do that. You can't you can't do that. In

1472
01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:22,679
Speaker 1: the in the text exchanges with her and handsome Hank

1473
01:17:22,760 --> 01:17:25,640
Speaker 1: and how body and all that stuff, it was, she

1474
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:29,240
Speaker 1: was above or at least as important as anything else

1475
01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:32,440
Speaker 1: I might point out about her. She was goddamn hysterical.

1476
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:37,560
Speaker 1: I always think about like you know she's she's a

1477
01:17:37,680 --> 01:17:40,160
Speaker 1: Korean girl who was adopted and grew up in like

1478
01:17:40,320 --> 01:17:44,800
Speaker 1: this white family in the Midwest, where you know, she

1479
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:48,200
Speaker 1: is as strongly political as as anyone I knew. Like

1480
01:17:48,280 --> 01:17:50,719
Speaker 1: she would send you like little like flyers of giving

1481
01:17:50,760 --> 01:17:52,360
Speaker 1: you advice of how to vote and stuff. And I

1482
01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:55,720
Speaker 1: always think of like she was herself in that situation

1483
01:17:56,000 --> 01:17:58,240
Speaker 1: where you know her family and she loved her family

1484
01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:02,320
Speaker 1: so much, you know, like much different political stripes and stuff,

1485
01:18:02,360 --> 01:18:04,640
Speaker 1: and like she almost that It's just to me, like

1486
01:18:04,720 --> 01:18:07,880
Speaker 1: the sign of this unbreakable spirit that she she grew

1487
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:10,080
Speaker 1: up standing out like her. She stood out in her

1488
01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:12,360
Speaker 1: in her own house and never changed her if anything

1489
01:18:12,439 --> 01:18:15,559
Speaker 1: had just like made her stronger. She was so like herself.

1490
01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:17,479
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's nothing more you can you can

1491
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:20,439
Speaker 1: ask for a person. We would always are like laugh,

1492
01:18:20,640 --> 01:18:23,719
Speaker 1: argue about golf and how she loved tweeting about golf

1493
01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:26,439
Speaker 1: and watching golf. And I would always say, what's more

1494
01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:29,080
Speaker 1: boring than golf? And she'd roll her eyes and say

1495
01:18:29,120 --> 01:18:31,800
Speaker 1: what And I would say watching it on TV? And

1496
01:18:32,360 --> 01:18:34,000
Speaker 1: you know, I would just say that over and over again.

1497
01:18:34,120 --> 01:18:37,680
Speaker 1: One time. Pretty recently, actually, she's always been trying to

1498
01:18:37,720 --> 01:18:40,240
Speaker 1: get me into a golf podcast. And I was like, okay, well,

1499
01:18:40,280 --> 01:18:43,160
Speaker 1: what's more boring than watching golf on TV is listening

1500
01:18:43,200 --> 01:18:45,880
Speaker 1: to a podcast about it. But one day, it was

1501
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:48,439
Speaker 1: pretty recently, she was like, she's like, Erica, you need

1502
01:18:48,560 --> 01:18:50,880
Speaker 1: to listen to this minute mark or whatever. And it

1503
01:18:51,040 --> 01:18:54,800
Speaker 1: was this golf podcast about the host or maybe he

1504
01:18:54,920 --> 01:18:59,360
Speaker 1: was a golfer or something. Yeah, in the shower, you know,

1505
01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:05,360
Speaker 1: celebrating a win and Hyper extended his knee doing some

1506
01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:09,240
Speaker 1: act in the shower alone, and she was like, if

1507
01:19:09,320 --> 01:19:12,840
Speaker 1: you're gonna listen, like she was so laughed, like laughing,

1508
01:19:12,880 --> 01:19:14,800
Speaker 1: and she had to call me after I listened to

1509
01:19:14,880 --> 01:19:16,760
Speaker 1: it to be like I knew this clip would get

1510
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:19,920
Speaker 1: you into this golf podcast. And it's just like the

1511
01:19:20,439 --> 01:19:23,439
Speaker 1: conversations that I've had with her over you know, she's

1512
01:19:23,479 --> 01:19:27,160
Speaker 1: been such a staple in my career with my choices,

1513
01:19:27,439 --> 01:19:29,639
Speaker 1: and she would be that person that you could really

1514
01:19:29,720 --> 01:19:33,640
Speaker 1: go to for honest advice. And you know, Dave, you

1515
01:19:33,800 --> 01:19:37,160
Speaker 1: and I and Emma were texting this weekend about it,

1516
01:19:37,400 --> 01:19:40,120
Speaker 1: and Emma got to see Deeker like you a lot

1517
01:19:40,200 --> 01:19:43,000
Speaker 1: of you did at Dad's summit, and Emma was like,

1518
01:19:43,479 --> 01:19:46,880
Speaker 1: you know, Deaker hugged me for literally sixty seconds, like

1519
01:19:47,280 --> 01:19:49,479
Speaker 1: people started taking pictures of it because it was just

1520
01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:55,280
Speaker 1: such a long hug. And it's I just can't find

1521
01:19:55,439 --> 01:20:00,479
Speaker 1: the words to to say to even memorialize her, because

1522
01:20:00,560 --> 01:20:05,280
Speaker 1: she is just such a a love and we're all

1523
01:20:05,520 --> 01:20:09,240
Speaker 1: so so worse off for not having her around. She's

1524
01:20:09,240 --> 01:20:11,760
Speaker 1: gonna be missed and I and I'll just I'll just

1525
01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:14,080
Speaker 1: wrap it up this way in check thanks for coming on,

1526
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:18,280
Speaker 1: because she loved you. And and when I think about Deaker,

1527
01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:21,360
Speaker 1: and I think about, uh, the NFL, like you're right

1528
01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:25,120
Speaker 1: there too. Um, just you know, we're learning the hard

1529
01:20:25,160 --> 01:20:27,439
Speaker 1: way about you know, the passage of time and things

1530
01:20:27,520 --> 01:20:31,200
Speaker 1: that things changes, time goes along, and I it's not

1531
01:20:31,320 --> 01:20:33,920
Speaker 1: so long ago that I remember being at the Shield

1532
01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:37,800
Speaker 1: and having our Thursday nights softball games and we'd play

1533
01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:40,519
Speaker 1: the game and usually we'd win, and then afterwards there

1534
01:20:40,680 --> 01:20:43,759
Speaker 1: we'd all be sitting on the grass together drinking some beers.

1535
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:46,920
Speaker 1: And I'm picturing West there with Lakisha and their newfound love,

1536
01:20:46,960 --> 01:20:48,840
Speaker 1: and I'm picturing Deaker there because she came to all

1537
01:20:48,840 --> 01:20:51,640
Speaker 1: the games just to watch it and socialize and just

1538
01:20:51,760 --> 01:20:54,160
Speaker 1: knowing that that stuff is gone and it's not coming

1539
01:20:54,200 --> 01:20:56,880
Speaker 1: back and that and that sucks, but um, it's just

1540
01:20:57,080 --> 01:20:59,479
Speaker 1: it's great that we have these people in our life.

1541
01:21:00,040 --> 01:21:03,360
Speaker 1: So Deaker, we love you, and I don't think we

1542
01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:06,280
Speaker 1: need to say anything really else or sign out music

1543
01:21:06,400 --> 01:21:09,479
Speaker 1: or anything. Just um, we're thinking about your, Deaker, and

1544
01:21:09,520 --> 01:21:14,160
Speaker 1: you'll you'll be missed forever. We'll be back on Thursday.

1545
01:21:14,680 --> 01:21:17,080
Speaker 1: And then every single thought that you have and how

1546
01:21:17,200 --> 01:21:20,240
Speaker 1: you say what you mean, and how you almost always

1547
01:21:20,439 --> 01:21:28,360
Speaker 1: mean something that's all about being straight and good. I

1548
01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:31,639
Speaker 1: think most people miss that about you. And I watched

1549
01:21:31,680 --> 01:21:34,759
Speaker 1: them wondering how they can watch you bring their food

1550
01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:37,360
Speaker 1: and clear their tables and never get that they just

1551
01:21:37,600 --> 01:21:41,640
Speaker 1: met the greatest woman alive. And the fact that I

1552
01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:49,240
Speaker 1: get it makes me feel good about me a