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Guys, 10 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: you are absolutely gonna love this episode. And if you 11 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: do leave a comment, subscribe. Do the things that you 12 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: do that help shows survived. Hey, we gotta go, We 13 00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: gotta go. Let go, So Tim, It's Raiders week, everybody. 14 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: We are trying to find a win amidst a couple 15 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: of losses and joining me to talk all things purple, 16 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, the great Andrew Zimmern. And Andrew, why 17 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: don't you tell us if you have ever found yourself 18 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: as a naked man in a room with a naked 19 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson. 20 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 2: Wow, we're just diving right into the deep end of 21 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 2: the pool, aren't we. 22 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: That's what we call a get the show started question. 23 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean obviously the answer is yes. Who 24 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 2: hasn't been I guess at the sort of at the 25 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:51,919 Speaker 2: height of AP's vikiness when he was a dominant force 26 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 2: in the NFL annually and historically, target Field opened, and 27 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, in its great wisdom, whenever a new 28 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 2: stadium opens, likes to have the celebrity All Star Softball 29 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 2: game take place there, and they like to pepper the 30 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 2: team or teams in this case, with a variety of 31 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 2: local celebrities. Right, So they always make sure they have 32 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 2: an athlete from every pro team, and then they have 33 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 2: a couple of other folks. I was the couple of 34 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 2: other folks we had, you know, we had a wild player. 35 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,959 Speaker 2: We had someone from the Lens and Adrian Peterson was playing. 36 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 2: And you spend when you're when you make this commitment, 37 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,239 Speaker 2: it's like a four or five day commitment. You get 38 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 2: you know, batting practice tips and fielding tips from Hall 39 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 2: of famers, You go do make a wish stuff, you 40 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 2: do children's cancer funds. I mean, it really is for 41 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 2: a sports geek like me, I'm with forty you know, 42 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 2: Hall of Famer Ledgend and a smattering of other celebrities 43 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 2: who love to play baseball, and we're just hanging out 44 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,959 Speaker 2: and doing stuff for four or five days. Game day arrives, 45 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 2: we get to the stadium much earlier than I thought 46 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 2: we would, and we're directed to the locker room where 47 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 2: everyone is served. The locker rooms at that time for 48 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 2: the Twins, and we were the AL team, so we 49 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 2: were in the Twins locker room, not the visitors locker room. 50 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:30,399 Speaker 2: We are in sort of like pods of two. It's 51 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 2: sort of like half clover leafs, right, so there's some privacy, 52 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 2: but you're essentially sharing a locker room with somebody. And 53 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 2: I was sharing a locker or an area with Adrian 54 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 2: Peterson and we both took out all the uniform stuff. 55 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 2: And do you put the hose on before the pants? 56 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 2: The pants on before the hose? That I mean you 57 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 2: have a pro UNI And I don't know what part 58 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 2: of the kit goes on first. I know underwear starts, 59 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 2: but the first but the first thing you have to 60 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 2: do is take off everything that you have. 61 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: Now classic getting undressed. 62 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, classic. So if we remember one thing about Adrian 63 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 2: Peterson was like lowest body fat counts in the history 64 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 2: of body fat counts. The guy was six foot three 65 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:25,840 Speaker 2: of sculpted majesty, and I am not. So we take 66 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 2: off our clothes and everyone is looking at him. I 67 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 2: mean everyone is looking at it. It was just like 68 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 2: this was. Let me just say, in every aspect you 69 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 2: could possibly imagine, he was legendary. And I'm just sitting 70 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 2: there expanding next to him, naked, just I'm frozen. And 71 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,359 Speaker 2: from across the room is one of our coaches, Raleigh Fingers, 72 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 2: and he's sitting underneath the sign that says no smoking, 73 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 2: with a heater dangling out of his mouth with about 74 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 2: an inch of ash on it. While he's sitting there 75 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 2: Buck naked too, just on a little stool. Right, and 76 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 2: he's sitting next to Jack Morris, right, the legendary Hall 77 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:18,280 Speaker 2: of Fame Pitcher World Series winner Minnesota God and in 78 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 2: a loud enough voice so that every single person can 79 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 2: hear in the locker room, figures nudges Morris and points 80 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 2: at me and says, look at zimmern look at Zimmer, 81 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 2: And everybody turns and looks at me, and I'm like, 82 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 2: oh my god, nothing could be worse. He goes, that's 83 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 2: a baseball player's body. That's a ballplayer's body. It was 84 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 2: Adrian Pearson just thought it was the funniest thing in 85 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 2: the whole world. So we were immediately cemented as being 86 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 2: pretty chummy. We get upstairs to where we're actually going 87 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 2: to warm up on the field before the game, and 88 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 2: he pulled down. If you remember your Viking's history, for 89 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 2: as long as he was a Viking, they kept saying, 90 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:05,479 Speaker 2: if you could just throw the ball to him in 91 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 2: the flat, in a little bit of space, give him 92 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 2: some you know, eight nine steps to get up to speed, 93 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,040 Speaker 2: he would average fifteen yards to carry. I mean, if 94 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 2: he could catch the ball in the flat, this guy 95 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 2: could be the greatest football player of all time. But 96 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 2: it was drop after. I mean, he had a horrific 97 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 2: catch game, and I always thought it was some sort 98 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 2: of like football thing. Bad luck, the yips, it got 99 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 2: in his head. He pulls me aside, along with another 100 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 2: player on the team and says, hey, can the three 101 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 2: of us warm up? And it was weird because everyone 102 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 2: was paring off. No one was in freeze. You're just 103 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 2: warming up, you're throwing the ball, you just getting your 104 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 2: arm loose. You're playing catch, and I sit there and 105 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,159 Speaker 2: I look at him and he says, stay with me, 106 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 2: and I'm like okay, And the other fellow twenty five 107 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 2: thirty away would throw me the ball. I would catch it, 108 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 2: and Adrian would say give me the ball, and I 109 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 2: would hand it to him and he'd throw it back. 110 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 2: Then they'd throw it to me again. I would throw 111 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 2: it back and he and I would alternate. He never 112 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 2: caught the ball, and I realized it wasn't that he 113 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 2: couldn't catch the football or had some kind of yips 114 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 2: associated with it. He literally couldn't catch. He could run 115 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 2: and he could run over everyone. He just couldn't catch. 116 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 2: It was one of the greatest days of my life. 117 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 2: My mother in law at the time after the game 118 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 2: hugged him, and Adrian's people came up to me and said, 119 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 2: you have to tell her to let go. She wouldn't 120 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 2: let go. She was like five feet tall. She wouldn't 121 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 2: let go. 122 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: I know the part that I should focus on as 123 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: a Viking fan, as the ap thing, because I've gotten 124 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: to shake his hand and that thing. It got so 125 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: cliche to hear every Troy Aikman and knock off Troy Aikman. Go, 126 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: when you shake this guy's hand, it feels like he's 127 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: a call our crusher. But it's true. I've never Yeah, 128 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 1: I was like, are you shaking my elbow right now? 129 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: What is? How? Are you this strong of a human man? 130 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I still have a broken finger from 131 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 2: hanging out with him for a day. He I mean, 132 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 2: but I think it's why, And I think it's a 133 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 2: fascinating part of sports fastening, part of of of media 134 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 2: and our modern age that is moving along at a 135 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 2: at a lightning pace in every single discipline anywhere you 136 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 2: look at in life, nothing is slowing down. Everything is 137 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 2: speeding up, and we we end up lionizing and making 138 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 2: judgments about people. And you know, on the field, this 139 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 2: guy was devastating. And you know again, I mean he 140 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 2: will he's he's in the record books, he's going he's 141 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 2: one of the all time greats. But oh my god, 142 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:02,320 Speaker 2: what a devastating kind of in that, you know. I 143 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 2: mean he was a couple of pounds less, but he 144 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 2: was a little bit taller and a little faster. I 145 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 2: think in that Eddie George Mold where he just he 146 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 2: could run over everybody and was just so talented once 147 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 2: he had the ball tucked away and was running. 148 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: He's the Jim Brown of Eddie George's is what he is. 149 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 2: That's exactly right, That's exactly right, Jim Brown. Jim Brown 150 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 2: was someone who I got friendly with on the you know, 151 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 2: social justice and advocacy front. And I got a chance 152 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 2: to hang out with Jim Brown a couple of times. 153 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 2: And he was here in the Twin Cities being interviewed 154 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 2: at the Walker It is about fifteen seventeen years ago, 155 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 2: and I got a chance to spend the day and 156 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 2: dinner with him. And Jim Brown was one of those 157 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 2: people like when he talked, he didn't have to raise 158 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,440 Speaker 2: his voice. He would just talk and everyone within about 159 00:09:55,440 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 2: a half mile just fell silent. That man was some else. 160 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 2: And for any young football fans listening, I won't even 161 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 2: go into it. Just look up his stats by year 162 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 2: and how relevant he was. I think he's one of 163 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,079 Speaker 2: those guys that if he was playing today, would be 164 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 2: a perennial All Pro and record setting no matter what 165 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 2: he was, he was just too talented an athlete. 166 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, he was generationless. The thing I will say about 167 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: Ap though, is, you know, on the football side of 168 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 1: things is. I think there's an extremely strong argument to 169 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: make for if you are picking any running back from 170 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: their prime from any moment in the history of this game, 171 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: I think he's the top. I like, we so quickly, 172 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 1: the NFL evolved so quickly into this. You know, let's 173 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,679 Speaker 1: see seventeen different types of motions running backs. Don't like. 174 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: We went from the running back world to this new 175 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: world very quickly. And I think lost in that was 176 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 1: that season that Viking fans remember but where down the 177 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 1: stretch Christian Ponder was the quarterback AP runs for two 178 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: thousand yards. But all that's written down somewhere and you 179 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,560 Speaker 1: can look at it. But what we remember was like, hey, 180 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: the Colts are putting sixteen people in the box. They're 181 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 1: they're putting their linebacker coach out there in the box. 182 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 1: And we still it was like here you go, AP, 183 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: and he was executing on a level that you were like, well, 184 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: you would have to be playing eleven on five for 185 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: somebody to get this many yards game after game. 186 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think what's interesting, And you know, I don't 187 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 2: want to get too wonky, but I'm I'm a pretty 188 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,959 Speaker 2: keen observer of the sport. I mean, we can talk 189 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 2: about Jim Brown, who was you know generations, you know, 190 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:49,679 Speaker 2: a generation a half minimum before APU. Walter Payton I 191 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 2: think had retired by the time ap even started, you know, 192 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 2: running in the league. Eric Dickerson the same. But when 193 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 2: you look at Adrian Peterson's era, I pick I take 194 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 2: him before Tomlinson. I pick him before Marshall Falk, who 195 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 2: I think was running at the time. I hate to 196 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:16,319 Speaker 2: say it, I think he had more explosiveness than Emmett Smith. 197 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,199 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Emmitt Smith has a lot of records because 198 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 2: of the durability. But if it's a if we're going, 199 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 2: you know, school yard pick and we're at running back, 200 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 2: I'm hard pressed to not pick Adyard Peterson, And off 201 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 2: the top of my head, I can't pick someone that 202 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 2: I would take instead of him in his. 203 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:36,319 Speaker 1: Proct that's a great way. 204 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 2: Don't just don't throw him the ball or stand next 205 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 2: to him naked. It's the most emasculating feeling I've ever had. 206 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 1: Man. Back when I was failing at acting heavily, I 207 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 1: would have this feeling every great once in a while 208 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: where you'd get an audition and you knew you were 209 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 1: in trouble because somewhere in the description it would say handsome, 210 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: and you would go in and you would sit in 211 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: this room with eighteen other better versions of yourself. You're like, 212 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, there's lots of abs sigh, and there's 213 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 1: two inches taller sigh. It was so I can I 214 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: think you had in that situation, though, there's a disconnect 215 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: where you go, well, I'm never gonna be I mean, 216 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:27,079 Speaker 1: I'm not an NFL running back. There's there's enough at 217 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: least that you can convince yourself like, yes, I'm not 218 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 1: supposed to look like this man, but. 219 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 2: That's that's correct, that's correct. And yet yet a half 220 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 2: hour later, up on the field, I realize I have 221 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 2: some athletic superiority over him. That was the craziest thing 222 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 2: inside of my head to figure out why is this 223 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 2: so surreal? And I realized it's because I'm standing next 224 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 2: to him naked and just looking up at him and 225 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 2: just thinking, oh my god, this is this is the 226 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 2: most insane sculpted human being I've ever seen in my life. 227 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 2: And then a half hour later, dressed, he's whispering to me, 228 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 2: hatch the ball for me. I mean, I like, I 229 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 2: believe this is crazy. This is great. By the way, 230 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 2: By the way, I'm sixty two now. Target field is 231 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 2: how old? Ten years old? Nine years old? 232 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: At least? Yeah, eleven. 233 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 2: I mean it's somewhere, there's a while ago, but I'm 234 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 2: still fifty, isn't He was the starting running back on 235 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 2: our foot on NFL football team. I mean, you would 236 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 2: think in every single way he would have some athletic 237 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 2: dominance over me. And I realized my catching game is 238 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 2: better than Adrian Peterson's. By the way, well, I don't 239 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 2: want a humble brag. 240 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: No do it, let it, let it rip. 241 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 2: But I'm but I'm going to our tane piece of 242 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 2: sports trivia. The only I think it's two days in 243 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 2: America where there's no professional sports being play is Baseball 244 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 2: All Star Game weekend. There is nothing else on there 245 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 2: in the Big Four. I mean there's some you know, 246 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 2: I'm sure there's some obscure Bowl game being played somewhere, 247 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 2: but there is no there is no Big four sport 248 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 2: being played. So ESPN, I don't know. I think they 249 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 2: just do Top ten now, But back then they did 250 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 2: the web Gem. It was sponsored by some insurance company 251 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 2: or whatever, and it was always the defensive baseball play 252 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 2: of the day, and I was the ESPN Web Gem 253 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 2: of the Day, which was pretty pretty crazy. Ozzy Wizard 254 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 2: of Oz was on first base for the NL. I'm 255 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 2: playing second base. Dowkins lines one straight up the middle, 256 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 2: sort of to the shortstop side. It goes off Jack 257 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 2: Morris's foot he was pitching for US, and ricochetes towards 258 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 2: second base. So I'm leaning right and I dove left. 259 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 2: In my head, I'm parallel to the ground three feet 260 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 2: above it. The picture shows that there's like an inch 261 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 2: of space between me and the ground. I had some 262 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 2: I basically fell over, but at one point I was 263 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 2: horizontal and parallel to the ground and I grabbed the 264 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 2: ball and I flipped it back to Paris the Wild Captain, 265 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 2: who is playing shortstop. He stomps on the bag and 266 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 2: throws out a shocked Dawkins. At first, Ozzy Smith keeps 267 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 2: running through the bag right but knows he's well out, 268 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 2: and he makes the turn because there were no outs 269 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 2: to head back to his bench, and in the middle 270 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 2: there's still two outs. The game is on. The other 271 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 2: batter is walking from the batter from the on deck 272 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 2: circle into the batter's box, and I ran after Ozzy 273 00:16:57,760 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 2: Smith and everyone is looking at me like what are 274 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 2: you doing? And by the way, I should tell you, 275 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 2: target field is full. There's fifty thousand people watching this 276 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 2: game because right because all the All Stars are there 277 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 2: watching us. And then right after I think was the 278 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 2: home run derby that night, so and there's fireworks. It's 279 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 2: a big baseball day. So the place is full and 280 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 2: everyone is looking like what is this crazy done of 281 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,680 Speaker 2: a doing? And I go running. I'm like Ozzie because 282 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 2: I was such a big fan of his, and he's 283 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 2: looking at me like he's looking at me like what 284 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 2: are you doing. I think he actually may have said that, 285 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 2: like you're about to selena him, that's right, And he 286 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 2: or Nancy Kerrigan or whatever her name was, and he 287 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 2: turns like what are you doing? And I said, when 288 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 2: you ran by, I thought you whispered good play, And 289 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:46,879 Speaker 2: I need to know was that like good play, you 290 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,879 Speaker 2: were being nice or was it actually a good play? 291 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 2: Like I needed to know from him. I needed to 292 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 2: be beatified and to be be made holy by the 293 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 2: Wizard of Oz. And he looked at me like I'm nuts. 294 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 2: He says, no, that was a great play. Go back 295 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 2: in the game, and I ran back I'm like, Okay, 296 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 2: Ozzy thinks I made a good play. Literally, the greatest 297 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 2: sports moment of my life as a player was that play. 298 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:15,679 Speaker 1: You have to sink into those you have to. 299 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 2: You have to are you kidding me? Once in a lifetime, 300 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 2: when am I ever going to do that again? 301 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 1: You can have Ozzy Smith compliment you and then just 302 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: walk away from that. That's not how That's not how 303 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: you exist in your world. That's sure. If you're Cal 304 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,919 Speaker 1: Ripken junior, you'd be like, thanks, Oz, But if you're 305 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 1: not a pro baseball player, let's go let's go suck 306 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:37,360 Speaker 1: that up a little bit. 307 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 2: I've had to. I also had to know polite. Was 308 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 2: he being polite or was it? Or was it legit? 309 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 2: Another really great moment for me. I mean, I know 310 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 2: we're supposed to be talking football, but it was such 311 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 2: a great, great moment. I'm someone one of the PR people. 312 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:54,159 Speaker 2: I mean, there's hundreds of them there that day to 313 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 2: manage all the different talent and interviews and all that. 314 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 2: And someone comes out and says, Dwight Gooden wants to 315 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:05,160 Speaker 2: talk to you, and I'm like, oh, okay, great, And 316 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 2: you know I was born and raised in New York, 317 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 2: I watched him pitch his legendary rookie year. I saw 318 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:14,919 Speaker 2: the World Series games, you know, so I knew his 319 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 2: professional life. And go out and he's there with his 320 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:22,160 Speaker 2: wife and his kids, and he's like, hey, we're huge fans. 321 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 2: Can I get a picture of you with my wife 322 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,679 Speaker 2: and kids? We've seen every show you've ever done, and 323 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 2: I'm just like sure, And then he turns to me afterwards, 324 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:35,359 Speaker 2: he goes, so great to meet you, and I'm like, Dwight, 325 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 2: we've met before, and he looks at me sort of strange, like, 326 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 2: oh when, And I'm like, we were roommates for like 327 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 2: three days as Smithers back when he was in treatment 328 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,160 Speaker 2: in New York and I was in treatment in New York. 329 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 2: Neither one of us stayed sober afterwards, but we met 330 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 2: at Smithers and I was just I thought it was 331 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,679 Speaker 2: so And obviously I remembered who he was and he 332 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,880 Speaker 2: forgot who I was, and he's he's very sober now 333 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 2: and as a foundation does a lot of work helping 334 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 2: people get healthy and well. And obviously I'm thirty two 335 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,679 Speaker 2: years sober and very public about it and do the 336 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 2: same sorts of things. And we just had such a 337 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 2: laugh about that because it was so typical of two 338 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,120 Speaker 2: people who don't say sober. But he yeah, he had 339 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:26,919 Speaker 2: no idea who I was there then, and I was 340 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,959 Speaker 2: like we roomed together like three nights we crossed. You know, 341 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,680 Speaker 2: there's like five people in a room there like we were. 342 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 2: There's a great moment of my not recovery was rooming 343 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 2: with him for thirty seconds at Smithers. 344 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:40,399 Speaker 1: We'll move on. We're going to talk Raiders. We're going 345 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: to talk this team. 346 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 2: Yep. 347 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 1: But there are there are two things that I can't 348 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 1: let go. One the reason why comedians need to be 349 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 1: allowed to be on, Like you needed a Louis Anderson 350 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 1: in that game or something Roley Fingers line about that's 351 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:58,640 Speaker 1: a baseball player's body. That is a funny, funny, funny line. 352 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 2: Oh my god, the room just lost it. I mean, 353 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:06,679 Speaker 2: Raleigh Figures is one of the funniest human beings and 354 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 2: obviously one of the you know, greatest baseball players, you know, 355 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 2: full stop of all time. But what an incredible man. 356 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,120 Speaker 1: It would, but you to have a guy in there 357 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,399 Speaker 1: like a like a Louis rest his soul, or like 358 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 1: a just another great comic who could have just taken 359 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 1: that premise. The first thing I'm gonna say is like, hey, everybody, look, 360 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson has a weird white mole. Like there the 361 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 1: amount of lines that would probably I can't even do 362 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: on this show that I have. I am it's becoming 363 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:42,160 Speaker 1: a roast in that locker room immediately immediately. 364 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,159 Speaker 2: I mean, everyone was so afraid because you have all 365 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,399 Speaker 2: these big personalities, and I mean, first of all, the 366 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,880 Speaker 2: Hall of Famers, You've got the celebrity celebrities that are 367 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 2: flown in from LA and New York to participate, You've 368 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 2: got the local folks. It was I think everyone was. 369 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 2: It was great icebreaker and if it if it weren't there, 370 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 2: but for a few inches and a pitch or two, 371 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 2: we would have won that game and probably credited Raleigh's 372 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 2: tremendous coaching. But yeah, we blew it. 373 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 1: You make a good point about the personalities in the room, 374 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 1: because I find it goes one of two ways, Because 375 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 1: it it is impossible to reach the height of your 376 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:25,919 Speaker 1: profession without a level of belief in yourself and a 377 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,120 Speaker 1: level of ego that both had. Like I think ego's 378 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 1: got this horrible, you know, connotation to it in our society. 379 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: But I think there's there's definite pros to it. There's 380 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:40,679 Speaker 1: definite like you need this almost sadistic belief in yourself 381 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: to rise above hundreds of millions of other people in 382 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:49,200 Speaker 1: a job where everybody wishes they could do it well. 383 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,120 Speaker 2: It's the same way in t same way in TV 384 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 2: and cooking right now. I mean like it's it's crazy. 385 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 2: And if you don't think or have the kind of 386 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 2: the minute you get nervous and don't think think that 387 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 2: you can cook that dish perfectly, or don't think in 388 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 2: the in the age of competition, whether whether it's on 389 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 2: television literally with competition TV shows, or competing for a 390 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,719 Speaker 2: job that five thousand people want and are a thousand 391 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,879 Speaker 2: are probably qualified for, or just being a line cook 392 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 2: in the kitchen where it's like I need to be 393 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 2: I need to be a sous chef in a year, 394 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 2: and there's ten other people who want that job as 395 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 2: much as me. I've got an outwork, out, hustle, outperform, 396 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 2: find my place, and to be confident in how you 397 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 2: behave in those situations and not being a total piece 398 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 2: of junk. Uh And and by that I mean if 399 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 2: you're too self centered your behavior will turn off other people. 400 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 2: And you could be the most talented, but you're you're 401 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 2: not getting chosen. I've never been the most talented person 402 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 2: in any room that I've walked into professionally. In my world, however, 403 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,719 Speaker 2: I have had enough of the other skills where I 404 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 2: have been the chosen person. And after you've been the 405 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 2: chosen person a while, then the healthy part of the 406 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:18,159 Speaker 2: ego comes in. You have to have some humility about 407 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 2: what you do. You have to understand the role that 408 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 2: luck plays. You have to understand that there's more than 409 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 2: just skill being evaluated here, and there's some things that 410 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 2: no one can understand. Sports is very quantifiable, I mean, 411 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,879 Speaker 2: the numbers don't lie. You may have a string of 412 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 2: bad luck and not make it from the miners to 413 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,440 Speaker 2: the majors, or from college to the pros and football 414 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 2: in my world the metrics are a little bit different. 415 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 2: But the key to it all is to have the 416 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 2: self confidence that makes you raise your hand and say 417 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 2: I can do that. I mean if you can't, if 418 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 2: you don't have that belief in yourself, that healthy piece 419 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 2: of self confidence, you're going to struggle. You're going to struggle, 420 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 2: which is why as a parent you're trying to teach 421 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 2: your kids as they get older. It's okay to lose, 422 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,479 Speaker 2: it's okay not to be the best. But you got 423 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 2: to believe in yourself and you got to keep trying 424 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,439 Speaker 2: and keep putting yourself up for things and keep raising 425 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 2: your hand, because otherwise it's not going to work well. 426 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,439 Speaker 1: And I find those two when people rise to that 427 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 1: occasion and you've been like celebrity softball games, you know 428 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:27,479 Speaker 1: you do wonderful charity work, wonderful community work. So you 429 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 1: find yourself in the presence of a lot of these 430 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 1: people a lot and through some of the things I've done, 431 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,919 Speaker 1: I have as well on a different scale. But I 432 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,640 Speaker 1: find the interesting thing about that ego is there's two 433 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 1: versions of it that's right once you get there. There's 434 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 1: the one that really and I don't even mean like 435 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 1: one guy's a dick and one guy's awesome. I mean 436 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: like it's the sense of humor about oneself. And I 437 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 1: think a lot of those big egos. If you are 438 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 1: funny and you can riff and you can run and 439 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,439 Speaker 1: you can attack, a lot of them, go god, that 440 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: was funny. All of us big like impressive people in 441 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 1: this when Roley Fingers said that in a room full 442 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: of impressive people like to cut each other. There's a 443 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 1: different sort of humor in that. 444 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 2: Yeah. 445 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 1: And then the other side of it is the ones 446 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 1: who like I did an event for the Super Bowl 447 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:18,160 Speaker 1: for Adidas and I was interviewing I might have told 448 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 1: this to people on the show before, but they we 449 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 1: were interviewing players for ESPN, and my job was to 450 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 1: try to pitch them business ideas, to try to get 451 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,919 Speaker 1: them to I was basically doing one man sized shark 452 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 1: tank and like Xavier Rhoades and Alvin Kamara were so 453 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,439 Speaker 1: funny and they got it. And I sat down and 454 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 1: I'm sure this dude has the best I'm I'm sure 455 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 1: he's great. But I pitched Dak Prescott, who was wearing 456 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: a hat that said dac on it. I pitched Dak 457 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: Prescott's Panini Prescott which was which was a sandwich bed. 458 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,240 Speaker 1: It was probably my only good, only good idea of 459 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: the day. 460 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 2: That's a really good one. 461 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,880 Speaker 1: Thank you. He looked at me like somebody like We're like, hey, 462 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: are we a dictatorship yet? Can we put this guy down? 463 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: Why is he here? How can we get rid of 464 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,919 Speaker 1: this man? So it's always funny navigating some guys who 465 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 1: are like, oh my god, that's funny, and other guy's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, 466 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 1: I'm the king. 467 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,159 Speaker 2: Did you remind him of the George Foreman grill? That 468 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 2: George Foreman? I mean, it's hundreds and hundreds of billions 469 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:25,639 Speaker 2: of dollars. 470 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: It was literally the lean in and he's a sleep 471 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: number guy. I was like, let's take the Foreman success. 472 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:36,159 Speaker 1: You're brand building in the sleep world, and let's make something. 473 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,159 Speaker 1: And it was funny to no one. 474 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 2: I'll tell you you said a very important word in there, 475 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 2: and that is the word fun. I think if you 476 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 2: don't have fun in life by saying yes, something's going 477 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 2: to wind up being missing. And I'll give you a 478 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 2: really short, big example. You know, I'm at a point 479 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 2: in my career with you know, restaurants and a war 480 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:06,399 Speaker 2: and shows and my work away from TV and stuff, 481 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 2: that it's not necessary for me to say yes to everything. 482 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:16,160 Speaker 2: And I said yes to a couple of cooking competitions recently. 483 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:20,400 Speaker 2: A few of them are going to air. One big 484 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 2: one is going to air in the next week or so. 485 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,119 Speaker 2: And people looked at me and said, why are you 486 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,919 Speaker 2: doing that you know, what if what if one of 487 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:34,639 Speaker 2: these young chefs who's been on Top Chef at Every 488 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 2: Other Guy Fiery Show and does nothing but cooking competitions 489 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 2: like they're in cooking competition shape. You know, you've got 490 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 2: a half an hour to make three dishes? Why are 491 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 2: you doing that? And I said, because it's fun. Because 492 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 2: I want to see at age sixty two, if I 493 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:56,720 Speaker 2: still have it. Number one, Number two, I'm actually confident 494 00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 2: enough that I can compete against anyone, anytime, any place. 495 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 2: Bring it on still and I have I feel that way. 496 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 2: And three, probably most importantly, it's just a blast. Why 497 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 2: wouldn't you want to do it? You got nothing to lose. 498 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 2: So what if some young chef who's really talented, uh, 499 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,959 Speaker 2: you know, in the eyes of three judges, celebrity judges 500 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 2: that most of them don't know food at all, pick 501 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 2: that person by a point or two. Who cares? Who cares? 502 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 2: I think people get too wrapped up in what other 503 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 2: people are gonna think, and in the age of cancelation 504 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 2: and being dragged and put on blast and all those 505 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 2: other things that we do to focus many people, by 506 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 2: the way, deservedly, but we have this idea that anytime 507 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,719 Speaker 2: somebody stumbles, we all have to go, oh, look at that, 508 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 2: look at that, look at that. They're a stumbler. I 509 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 2: think I don't think that's that's how to be. If 510 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 2: I think you have to say yes to things, you 511 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 2: have to ignore the people, you know, throwing banana peels 512 00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 2: from the cheap seats, and you got to have fun. 513 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 2: It's great recipe for life. 514 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. I always I'm not a big 515 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,600 Speaker 1: boxing guy, so you know, for you know, for of 516 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 1: all people to make this reference. But I don't want 517 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,000 Speaker 1: to be Floyd Mayweather. 518 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:13,600 Speaker 2: That's right. 519 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:15,960 Speaker 1: I'm happy to be. I'm happy to be, you know, 520 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 1: a different guy who loses a bunch of fights. You know, Floyd. 521 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 1: The big thing with him is what, right, never fought anybody, 522 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 1: never fought anybody in there. Sure he won all these fights, 523 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 1: never fought anybody in his prime. 524 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 2: That's right. 525 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: He'll tell you he's the greatest though. 526 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 2: That's right. 527 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 1: Uh, Well, let's talk. Let's talk a little vikings here 528 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 1: we Yesterday, Josh Dobbs gets named starter. Yep, coming out 529 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: of the by I've probably been leading the charge on 530 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:45,120 Speaker 1: the the Dobbs thing here on this show. Annoyingly in 531 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:46,760 Speaker 1: my personal life. People are like, if this is a 532 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 1: Dobbs call, I'm hanging up. I want to I want 533 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: I want to discuss where we're going to dinner. Uh, 534 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:57,120 Speaker 1: And so I'm really I think all the conversation around 535 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 1: I'd be curious about your take on quarterbacks. I so often. 536 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 1: You know, we were just doing it. We were discussing 537 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 1: Peterson and all the greats, but we forget that the 538 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 1: NFL is a math equation. You know, it's they have 539 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 1: perfected the salary cap. And you know, my expectations for 540 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 1: quarterbacks around the league is heavily tied to what they 541 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,080 Speaker 1: make versus what they output. So like a guy can 542 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 1: make forty and be worth more than that, he can 543 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 1: make two million and be worth less than that, or 544 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 1: he could be brought thirty yeah, or he could be 545 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 1: Well that's that's my thing. You see a lot of 546 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 1: these teams that succeed succeed with guys who are on 547 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 1: rookie quarter rookie deals or early career deals that are 548 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 1: far better than those deals. So all that Kirk versus 549 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 1: Dobbs a side thing. I just think it's exciting to 550 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 1: have a guy who brings an elopment to the game 551 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: that we haven't seen in a while, and I think 552 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 1: it's exciting to not not really know. Maybe it goes 553 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 1: down and flames the rest of the year, But also 554 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 1: I don't think so maybe it gets crazy. Maybe we're 555 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: a weird team that you're like, how the hell are 556 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 1: they in the NFC Championship game right now? 557 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny that you say that, because I literally 558 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 2: was thinking to myself as a fan what everyone is 559 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 2: thinking these days, which is with the schedule ahead of 560 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 2: us and with the with the math on the playoffs, 561 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 2: we could find ourselves. We could find ourselves in the playoffs, 562 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:28,960 Speaker 2: and what are the expectations? And I think with no 563 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 2: expectations on the shoulders of this team, mark my words, 564 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 2: if we get in as a as a wild card team, 565 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 2: I think we have a chance of winning a game. 566 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 2: And here's why. I think we saw an unfiltered Dobbs 567 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 2: with a pair down playbook, just playing school yard ball, 568 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,920 Speaker 2: come out and be successful the moment he joined our team, 569 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 2: and and he won his first two games. Then he 570 00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 2: gets into the play and he's got it. He's now 571 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:04,400 Speaker 2: thinking about seven hundred things instead of two hundred, and 572 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,760 Speaker 2: he throws a lot of picks. All right, the guy 573 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 2: can run it. You can watch him even in his failures. 574 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 2: He's not scanning one way. He's not doing the justin 575 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 2: fields thing where he'll look one way and throw it, 576 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 2: and he can be successful against a week defense or 577 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 2: throwing your reception. Josh Dobbs checks down and looks at 578 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,840 Speaker 2: every single one of his options. Has he thrown some 579 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,400 Speaker 2: bad balls? Yes he has. Do I think the bye 580 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,960 Speaker 2: week really, really really is going to have been helpful 581 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:39,080 Speaker 2: to him one thousand percent. I think we're going to 582 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,120 Speaker 2: see a different Josh Doobbs. I think they've had time 583 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 2: to put in the right kind of plays for him 584 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 2: in our scheme we now and I don't think you 585 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 2: can underestimate the return of Jefferson. I don't care what 586 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,000 Speaker 2: anybody says, but if you as if you have Osborne, 587 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:58,560 Speaker 2: Addison and Jefferson, you have to be the Raiders. Even 588 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,640 Speaker 2: though they have one of the top ten secondaries in 589 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 2: the league and by the numbers are holding quarterbacks, you 590 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,239 Speaker 2: know to I think ninety something average QBR. I mean 591 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 2: their defense is playing well. I think we have a 592 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:15,840 Speaker 2: good scheme against them this weekend. I trust our coaching 593 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,800 Speaker 2: staff to have put in the right kind of the 594 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,200 Speaker 2: right kind of plays. The naysayers are going to be surprised. 595 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 2: I think we win this game, and then I think 596 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:29,239 Speaker 2: things get very, very interesting. And look what Flores has 597 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:32,439 Speaker 2: done with the defense. That defense of ours has kept 598 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,400 Speaker 2: us in. Yes, we had a couple of big blowouts, 599 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:39,480 Speaker 2: but we we are so much better on defense. And 600 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,719 Speaker 2: I think this kid mantell Us, Oh my gosh, what 601 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,359 Speaker 2: a secret weapon. Well it's not a secret anymore, but 602 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 2: can do so many things. I really look and look 603 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 2: the Vegas offense. I don't believe in them. I believe 604 00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,439 Speaker 2: in our defense more than their offense. And I think 605 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,680 Speaker 2: Dobbs doesn't throw oh fifteen picks this game, and I 606 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:03,800 Speaker 2: think we win this game. 607 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 1: You said what I think is the most intriguing thing, 608 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 1: and I haven't heard anybody else hit on it, And 609 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,239 Speaker 1: it's where my brain's been consistently. Everybody looks at that 610 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,360 Speaker 1: last game against the Chicago Bears and they go, what 611 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:20,200 Speaker 1: a disaster, what a And inarguable it was a disaster. 612 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,040 Speaker 1: But I think if you look back at the first 613 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:27,280 Speaker 1: time we played with Kirk, the minus the five hundred 614 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:31,080 Speaker 1: live interception balls, right, let's call them the panic balls 615 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,880 Speaker 1: that are happening right the uh oh throw it in 616 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:39,440 Speaker 1: the air. The statistics were about Dobbs was twenty one 617 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,120 Speaker 1: for thirty one for one to eighty one, Kirk was 618 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,720 Speaker 1: twenty two for thirty two for one eighty five something 619 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,560 Speaker 1: like that. That that is just clearly not a great 620 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 1: matchup for us, especially without Justin Jefferson. And I think 621 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,480 Speaker 1: where everybody is pointing at the quarterback, going you need 622 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,680 Speaker 1: to protect the ball. You can't make a couple of 623 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,000 Speaker 1: these mistakes, and all that's true, true, I think what 624 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:05,640 Speaker 1: the head coach is doing is going quietly, is going no, no, no, no, no, 625 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:10,440 Speaker 1: I need to put you in a position. O'Connell is 626 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:14,200 Speaker 1: such a good self scouter that I think when you 627 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,480 Speaker 1: there was one play in that game where he dropped back, 628 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,200 Speaker 1: he fell onto the right hash and he tried to 629 00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,560 Speaker 1: throw back and get it in between a high low 630 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:26,400 Speaker 1: concept to Addison and it was picked off. And I 631 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,360 Speaker 1: think that is a throw that somebody with Kirk Cousin's 632 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:34,160 Speaker 1: arm talent layers that ball in there. And so I 633 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,920 Speaker 1: don't know that this staff and this team is going 634 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:42,000 Speaker 1: to spend the rest of the year pretending that Josh 635 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:46,799 Speaker 1: Dobbs can achieve Kirk Cousin's arm talent. I expect them 636 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,759 Speaker 1: to come out and I expect us to see more rollouts. 637 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,800 Speaker 1: I expect now that Nick Mullins is healthy and is 638 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,239 Speaker 1: an actual option, I expect them to be willing to 639 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,560 Speaker 1: call some runs. I mean, this guy's the second best 640 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,680 Speaker 1: running quarterback in the league, only to the greatest running 641 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:07,240 Speaker 1: quarterback in NFL history. I think it was all possome. 642 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,520 Speaker 1: I don't think they were ever even considering starting anybody 643 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,799 Speaker 1: but Dobbs. I think you're exactly right. I think the 644 00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,200 Speaker 1: coaches approach this week is going to have people go, 645 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:18,239 Speaker 1: oh shit, and. 646 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,399 Speaker 2: You said something very important. I think the coaches knew 647 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,680 Speaker 2: all along their starting Dobbs. I think they want to 648 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,880 Speaker 2: get his competitive blood. This is a smart man, a 649 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:33,080 Speaker 2: great competitor, a lifelong multi sport athlete before he just 650 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,719 Speaker 2: went football. I think Josh Dobbs is going to have 651 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,880 Speaker 2: a great game, and I think the reason is, you 652 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,880 Speaker 2: hit the nail on the head. Their game plan is 653 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,399 Speaker 2: going to be to spread that ball around so that 654 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:49,120 Speaker 2: that Las Vegas defense does not know who's getting the 655 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,560 Speaker 2: ball when and where and whether it's a runner or pass. 656 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:56,399 Speaker 2: And they've had time to actually put that game plan in, 657 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,600 Speaker 2: and I think that's the difference maker this weekend. 658 00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,280 Speaker 1: You see it so often with these young NFL coaches 659 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,719 Speaker 1: because it's such a different breed of coach that we've 660 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:07,239 Speaker 1: seen come in after McVeigh and Shanahan really put their 661 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,200 Speaker 1: stamp on the league. We just saw it in Cincinnati, 662 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,479 Speaker 1: in the Cincinnati Jacksonville game on Monday, Joe Burrow goes down. 663 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,960 Speaker 1: They start Jake Browning against the Steelers. It's a disaster 664 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,840 Speaker 1: because they're trying to do some Burrow esque things. And 665 00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,440 Speaker 1: if you listen to their staff this week, they put 666 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,440 Speaker 1: in more RPO with second level looks. They put in 667 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,520 Speaker 1: more boots and more play actions, and Jake Browning, a 668 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,440 Speaker 1: guy that you most people listening didn't even know was 669 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:36,440 Speaker 1: a human man, goes out and puts up eighty percent 670 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:40,239 Speaker 1: on like three hundred some absurd stat line. And the 671 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,520 Speaker 1: key there, and the reason why I think that's important 672 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,719 Speaker 1: is because t Higgins came back. That's right, and so 673 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,799 Speaker 1: now he's hand and Chase brown came back. So it's 674 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:53,000 Speaker 1: a very similar like now we have our weapons, let's 675 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,320 Speaker 1: let this guy do what he does within the weapons. 676 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:57,279 Speaker 2: Let me go, let me go back to saying you 677 00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,719 Speaker 2: said earlier about design run plays for Dobbs. In that 678 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:06,560 Speaker 2: Cincinnati game, Browning had two runs for very good yardage 679 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:10,400 Speaker 2: at important parts of the game. Burrow is not that 680 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:14,880 Speaker 2: kind of scrambler right now, and it was just enough. 681 00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:18,600 Speaker 2: I mean, announcers say it all the time. You get 682 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:22,560 Speaker 2: in two run plays and the defense questions whether or 683 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:26,800 Speaker 2: not that next play ten minutes later on another series 684 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,600 Speaker 2: is going to be a run. I have a lot 685 00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,680 Speaker 2: of faith in our coaching staff on both sides of 686 00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:34,960 Speaker 2: the ball. I like Connell. I like the group he's 687 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,239 Speaker 2: put together. I think they're going to design a really 688 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:41,600 Speaker 2: good game plan to take advantage of the weaknesses that 689 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,360 Speaker 2: the Raiders have. And I think they're going to bite 690 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,120 Speaker 2: on a lot of stuff or we're gonna take advantage 691 00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:45,319 Speaker 2: of it. 692 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,200 Speaker 1: And I think the funny thing about football is, you know, 693 00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:50,960 Speaker 1: they say it's a game of inches, and they say 694 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,560 Speaker 1: it's a game of moments, And you can never dismiss 695 00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:59,040 Speaker 1: anything because that happens in every game everywhere. You can 696 00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,440 Speaker 1: never use it as an excuse. But I do think, 697 00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,959 Speaker 1: like if you go back to that Bears game, it's 698 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,759 Speaker 1: such especially when you're not at full strength you don't 699 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:11,080 Speaker 1: have justin Jefferson. You're playing with your backup quarterback. There 700 00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:15,320 Speaker 1: are moments in which, like that opening pass to Addison, 701 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,120 Speaker 1: which is impossible to get a good replay for the 702 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,960 Speaker 1: coaches to challenge it. But we all now know that 703 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:24,480 Speaker 1: was a caught ball yep, right then. And as bad 704 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,400 Speaker 1: as Dobbs was on some things, you know, it's a 705 00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:29,200 Speaker 1: team sport. That play where Addison didn't get his head, 706 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,040 Speaker 1: which he said that, O'Connell said that, and it doinks 707 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,560 Speaker 1: off and it's a pick he catches that he's probably 708 00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,440 Speaker 1: still running, He's probably he's probably in Canada on his 709 00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,600 Speaker 1: bye week, still running. And so then what does that 710 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,160 Speaker 1: week look like? And so I think all that adds 711 00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:47,160 Speaker 1: up to let's see what it looks like this Sunday, 712 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:51,520 Speaker 1: and then let's go from there. And I want to see, 713 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,440 Speaker 1: after we moved on from Zimmer, this is what we 714 00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:57,880 Speaker 1: got this guy for. We wanted a guy who goes, 715 00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,160 Speaker 1: what are my pieces? I might fail, our team might 716 00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,920 Speaker 1: struggle in a game that we shouldn't have, But now 717 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,399 Speaker 1: how am I gonna not do that the next week? 718 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,239 Speaker 1: And I think you're right. I think that's who we 719 00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,640 Speaker 1: have in the building these days. 720 00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:14,920 Speaker 2: I think, and ironically Game of Inches is what they 721 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,239 Speaker 2: called My whole day spent in the locker room with 722 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:23,080 Speaker 2: Adrian Peterson Andrew. 723 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,440 Speaker 1: I have this problem where I need shows to have 724 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:30,160 Speaker 1: the perfect end, and I have a couple of questions 725 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,680 Speaker 1: I need to ask you. But I've never wanted to 726 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:37,520 Speaker 1: just cut to theme music better than after that moment? 727 00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:39,920 Speaker 1: What is the jay? What's the point? Why are we 728 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:44,040 Speaker 1: still doing this show? That was too funny? We're gonna 729 00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,759 Speaker 1: do the one. Everybody hates this, but I do. We 730 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,080 Speaker 1: got to do a prediction. Tell me what you think 731 00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:50,799 Speaker 1: it's Tell me what you think it's gonna look like. 732 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,239 Speaker 1: Tell me what you think the score is gonna be. 733 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:56,959 Speaker 2: I think we win this game twenty eight twenty one, 734 00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:01,000 Speaker 2: and I think it's not going to be that close. 735 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,920 Speaker 2: I think Vegas gets a touchdown in garbage chime. I 736 00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:08,520 Speaker 2: think we're safely ahead and we hang on thanks to 737 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,160 Speaker 2: our defense to win because I think Vegas makes the 738 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,160 Speaker 2: adjustments at halftime. I think we go up at the half, 739 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:18,800 Speaker 2: they make adjustments, we're safely ahead, we win, they score 740 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,439 Speaker 2: more points than us in the second half. I think 741 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,399 Speaker 2: that's how it's gonna go we hang on to win. 742 00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:27,160 Speaker 1: Looks a little bit like that Saints game. Yes, I'm 743 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,799 Speaker 1: gonna go. I think defense is gonna be important too. 744 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:39,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. Raiders fourteen, Vikings one hundred and thirty eight. Okay, Andrew, 745 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:42,799 Speaker 1: you're King of Kings man. We really really appreciate the 746 00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:47,480 Speaker 1: time and thank you for doing it. Thanks again to 747 00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:50,319 Speaker 1: Andrew Zimmern for joining us on the show tonight, and 748 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:54,960 Speaker 1: thank you to our sponsor, Continental Diamond. Be sure to like, subscribe, 749 00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,960 Speaker 1: and download the podcast anywhere you listen to your favorite shows. 750 00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:04,200 Speaker 1: We will see you all again next week. Join Pa 751 00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:08,040 Speaker 1: at the Las Vegas Boulevard Buffalo Wild Wings in sunny 752 00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,960 Speaker 1: Las Vegas for Friday football feasts presented by COR's Light. 753 00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,279 Speaker 1: Enjoy food and drink specials and a chance to win 754 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,600 Speaker 1: Viking tickets and more. Visit Vikings dot com slash b 755 00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,000 Speaker 1: at WW for full schedule and details.