1 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast always gets there. Man. Welcome 2 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 1: back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. 3 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansas. I'm joined in a room 4 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: that's filled with heroes. Mark Sassler, Chris Westling, and Greg Rose. 5 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:24,600 Speaker 1: It doll, what is up? Boys? He d Hello, it's 6 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: fun day. Everybody have a nice Mother's Day. Mark, you 7 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 1: did not? What does that mean? He texted with me. 8 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: First of all, back the truck up. It's not it's 9 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: I think I think that you know it's Mother's Day 10 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: and Father's Day have now boiled down to and tell 11 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. Um. In some sort of modern 12 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,520 Speaker 1: day scenarios, for like if you have young kids, where 13 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: when you sort of ask what is it you would 14 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: like for Mother's Day, the underlying request is for all 15 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 1: of you to get out of the house, which we 16 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: were not able to accomplish to a satisfactory degree yesterday. 17 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: I thought, so I think I could have done a 18 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: better job. Let me put it right there. My wife 19 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: was on a business trip that coincide with our anniversary 20 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:13,759 Speaker 1: Saturday and Mother's Day yesterday, So I actually handsome hank 21 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: of Dave Damn Sick Football Program fame and I his 22 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: wife also out of time town. His wife also named Emily. Uh. 23 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: We got together, took four boys and a girl to 24 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: local area park, then went and got a little bite 25 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: to eat out a beer, nice little and then everything 26 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: around that was pure hell. I am this is the 27 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 1: I've never that was the worst weekend of my life. 28 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: But now now it's in the clear. That's taing. If 29 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: you look at like the Instagram feed, like there's a 30 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: photo of us um at Barney's sixty six down in 31 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: Santa Monica, Culton eating like a giant piece of bacon, 32 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: it looks like we're having this amazing time. But it 33 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: was a nice hour and a half clumped into what 34 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: was a day where the two children could not have 35 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: understood what Mother's Day stood for any less, where was 36 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: the moment? So you're saying social media sometimes pazza rosier 37 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: picture than sometimes it does. No, she was she was 38 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: not feeling too well also, So there were a lot 39 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: of factors that I think we need to redo. I mean, 40 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: it wasn't I saw that West went down to San 41 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: Diego this weekend and it looked like quite luxurious and 42 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 1: quite RESTful. I think we might have gotten to Sunday 43 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,959 Speaker 1: night in different places. This semi debauch only has a 44 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 1: couple of these left. Let's be honest. Yeah, I'm still 45 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: in my like cancers in the rear view mirror liberation 46 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: zone here, but looking the paramore is only going to 47 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: be cool with that for so much longer. Let's be honest. 48 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: Others day turned into something totally different from Mr Wesley. 49 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: Let's oh no, there's after Tybee is the reckoning? Whoa, 50 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: that's like my my, my recess is over. It's back 51 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: to that's when takes off your pants and puts them 52 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 1: on her body. This is all totally unrelated to the paramore. 53 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: Sometimes you check yourself in the mirror and know that 54 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: our reckoning has to come, you know about this time 55 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: self reckoning? No, it's more of a self. It's something 56 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:01,359 Speaker 1: I decide did over the past couple of weeks as 57 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 1: I was slowly regressing to what I was before cancer. Interesting, Yeah, 58 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: West West, I feel like is that's kind of your move. 59 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: Every once in a while, you sort of check yourself, 60 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: you reevaluate, and then you change some things. Yeah, because 61 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 1: I am I have a long history of making bad decisions. 62 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: So when you pile, when you stack up bad decisions. 63 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: There's a reckoning that comes from that. You have to 64 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: look in the mirror and then step back and they 65 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: have to be a new person. Another example would be 66 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 1: your o'dull summer of two thousand nine. I don't know 67 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 1: if that's the correct here, but there was no aduls. 68 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: It was actually a different It was something non alcoholics room. 69 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: For those that aren't aware, it was like a Buckley's. 70 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 1: I think it was called like a fancy non alcoholic beer. Yeah, right, 71 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: that might have been like two thousand eleven, two thousand eleven. Yeah, 72 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: the o'dual's summer of eleven. That wasn't It was no fun, 73 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: I'll tell you that. All right, Welcome to the Around 74 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast, Monday edition. Big show coming up. Uh, 75 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about a famous player retiring, a famous 76 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: coach passing away, and other news, uh, including a famous 77 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: tight end who's in his final year of his twenties. Then, Greg, 78 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: you've been working on your projected starter series. You do 79 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: it every year. Uh, so we said, Greg, it's time 80 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 1: for you to out with it. Let's get some provocative 81 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: hot takes from you connected to your projected starter series. Uh. 82 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:28,600 Speaker 1: And then a little a special guest at the end. 83 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: The end of the show, that's all say special guests 84 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: we haven't heard from in a while, and it's time 85 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: to touch base. But before and I'm back on the show, 86 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: Tony Romo's back to tell us an amusing anecdote about 87 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: his uncle that sure surely was not canned or read 88 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: off a script. Uh, that's a that's some deep cuts 89 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 1: from long time listeners might understand it. But let's do 90 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: some news. Lindsay, I got married and I moved to Nashville. 91 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: J is a different emails and love letters. I don't 92 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: know you, DECI And that's Kristen Cavalary Cutler, who has 93 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: a new reality show I Believe on e And of 94 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: course the voice there was Jay Cutler, who Mark could 95 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: not look anymore slumpy at that fine eatery where he 96 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 1: says that line about his wife. The author field Jay Cutler, 97 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: I am a tremendous fan of and he yes, he's 98 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:24,040 Speaker 1: sitting with it looks like they were on some sort 99 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: of a double date. And he's wearing a just a 100 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,839 Speaker 1: giant winter hat and like basically brow it out clothing, 101 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: just sort of sitting slumped away from Kristen cavalery. And 102 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: when she tries to complain about I used to write 103 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: all these little love emails, he was like, no, no, no, 104 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: you go to bed at PM. That was the end 105 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: of love. That was kind of a cutting line. That 106 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 1: was cutting, but it is I think. I think every 107 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: married couple can say, on either side, you used to 108 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 1: do this and now you don't. Here's why. And it's 109 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 1: like everyone has cameras in a good team. That made 110 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 1: me want to watch the show. I might. I'll watch 111 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: the parts for him exactly fast forward, because the dynamic 112 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,279 Speaker 1: even in that little clip was amazing. He sort of 113 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: obviously did not care about her friends or what was 114 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: going on, and then she she pops in and he 115 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: immediately as a bigger right back. This is a man 116 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 1: wearing the pants in the relationship. Yeah, it's clear that 117 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,799 Speaker 1: that had been a conversation that's had many times before, 118 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:16,919 Speaker 1: and he doesn't care about airing the dirty laundry. I 119 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: mean the I check out the tweet and we'll send 120 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 1: it out from around the NFL or one of our accounts. 121 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 1: He's leaning back, he's in like a sweatsuit. He's either 122 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 1: just belched or farted, and they're at this like fine 123 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 1: restaurant where everyone is dressed up. Christen Cavalery. Fashion is 124 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: the thing they're all wearing like ten thousand dollar outfits 125 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 1: and ear rings and jewelry. And this guy just feels 126 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: like he rolled off airplane, uh where he had like 127 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 1: a red eye flight. It's awesome, all right. So what's 128 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 1: the name of that show mark that we're gonna be watching. 129 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: I think it's like keeping up with because it's not 130 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 1: keeping up I don't know the Adventures of Jay and 131 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: keeping up with the name of her jewelry store? Wow? Uh, 132 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: we will start with what is the name of it is? 133 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: It is uncommon, James, very Cavalry. I have stepped foot 134 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 1: in it. You want the paramore out they had. They 135 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 1: had multiple meetings calls to come up with Very Cavalary 136 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: Like that was like a multi weeek process to get 137 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: to that. The Paramore West you said in our I 138 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: am client, you went on like a scavenger hunt to 139 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: find Jay Cutler's wife's um home improvement store whatever. We 140 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: went to Nashville, And if I didn't know any but 141 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: are the entire purpose of going to Nashville was to 142 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: go to like Cavalary's Jewelry shop. She's all over the show. 143 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: She's basically told West, we were going to be watching 144 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: this in our shared locations in West has said no, 145 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: the paramore dragging West to jewelry shops. Connect the dots. 146 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: We start with some sad news in the NFL. Former 147 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 1: Rams and Seahawks coach Chuck Knox has died at the 148 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: age of eighty six. The Seahawks confirmed this on Sunday. 149 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: One of the winners winning his coaches in NFL history 150 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: ground Chuck was twice named NFL Coach of the Year 151 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: with the Seahawks and eighty three and eighty four. He 152 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: coached Seattle from eight three to ninety one, UH winning 153 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: records and six of those nine seasons. UH reached the 154 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: a f C Championship Game in his first year with 155 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: the team twelve wins the following season. UH So, obviously, 156 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: in a time mark when the Seahawks weren't the Seahawks 157 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 1: that we know today that had that glory run with 158 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: Pete Carroll and the Legion of Boom, Knox was. Knox 159 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: was kind of a towering figure of the pre UH 160 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: legion of Boom era. Yeah, I mean, it's easy to 161 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 1: forget that this was an expansion team that had not 162 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: had much success at all, and I think the Chuck's nut, 163 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: Chuck Knox. We talk all the time teams that didn't 164 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: have an identity. Chuck Knox was one of the first 165 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: coaches in Seattle to come in and provide that for them. 166 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,199 Speaker 1: They had a fair amount of stars during his run. Cortez, Kennedy, 167 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: Kenny Easily, Well, I know that's a big West guy, 168 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: Steve Largent back in the day, Dave Craig, the up 169 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: and down quarterback. But I think when you that I 170 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: came into football around and whenever you find football or 171 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: a sport that you love and you really dive into 172 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: it as a younger person, especially, you become uh imbued 173 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 1: and like enamored with all the current coaches and the 174 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 1: current stars, and they're kind of unforgettable for you. And 175 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 1: Dave Craig was one of those guys. The old a 176 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: f C West, back before they moved to the NFC, 177 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,359 Speaker 1: was a wild division and they were a starring contributor 178 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: to the old an f C West. Kurt Warner was 179 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: on that team. I think of the Rams really when 180 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: I think of Chuck Knox, and I know, like he's 181 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: more known for his Seahawks career now, but his first 182 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 1: five seasons of his career, he won the NFC West. 183 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 1: With the Rams, he went to three straight conference title games, 184 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: lost all three. And it's because he never had a quarterback. 185 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: I mean, the the the record in Los Angeles when 186 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: he came in there is outrageous. I mean he the 187 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: worst record he had in his first four seasons was 188 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 1: ten and four. Just doing the math here, I think 189 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 1: fifty four and seventeen. I mean that is unbelievably dominant. 190 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:56,199 Speaker 1: Had the number one defense a few of those years, 191 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: had the number one offense the first one of those years. 192 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: Uh but kind of like an Andy Reid in Philadelphia, 193 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 1: maybe totally different style, didn't win and didn't get to this. 194 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: I would say he was the nineteen seventies version of 195 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 1: Marty Schottenheimer, where he was two run heavy, two defense heavy, 196 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,599 Speaker 1: and if you read like Lawrence McCutcheon, who was his 197 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 1: running back with the Rams, had criticisms that he didn't 198 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:19,599 Speaker 1: have a balanced offense, and then teams knew how to 199 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: stop them in the playoffs every year. What's wild? He 200 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 1: got fired after that run fifty four and seventeen, and 201 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: and then he got let go, which is which is rough. 202 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 1: But yeah, you mentioned Seattle. That was the first time 203 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: they had even never made the playoffs. I forgot. He 204 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 1: came back to the Rams in the mid nineties and 205 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 1: coached him. Chuck Knox passes away at the age of 206 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: eighties six. Moving on, D'Angelo Hall is ending his NFL 207 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:46,439 Speaker 1: career after fourteen seasons. The long time Redskins cornerback is retiring, 208 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 1: he told reporters on Monday. Uh, he is thinking about 209 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: his next step, maybe TV, maybe moving into a front 210 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 1: office position if he can get one. Uh. He was 211 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:58,719 Speaker 1: a first round pick of the Falcons way back in 212 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 1: two thousand and four. Spent nine and a half seasons 213 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: though with the Redskins, where he became a staple of 214 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: that secondary and Greg he was a guy that I 215 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:08,599 Speaker 1: feel like D'Angel Hall has been in the league for 216 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: twenty five years. It wasn't quite that long, but he 217 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: put together a really long and strong NFL career. Yeah, 218 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: he was kind of a sensation when he first came 219 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: in in two thousand and four, just because of his 220 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: mouth really I mean partly cutting, I mean not in 221 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: a bad way. He was provoca provocateur. I mean he 222 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: had a big mouth. He came in, he got a 223 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: lot of hype around him. He was a little up 224 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: and down in Atlanta. I always thought of him when 225 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 1: we were at road World as a guy who like 226 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: maxed out his money. So like, I think that maybe 227 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: that's not important to us, but I'm sure other players 228 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: kind of think about that, and they look at the 229 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: kind of career he had, not a guy who was 230 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: making a ton of Pro Bowls. He made a ton 231 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,559 Speaker 1: of money from the Falcons in that old, you know, 232 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:54,439 Speaker 1: rookie contract, and then and then of course from the 233 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: Redskins too. It was a weird trade to Oakland and 234 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:01,959 Speaker 1: then it then it he was cut after the season. 235 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 1: He's he has said though, because he he's he kind 236 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: of views himself. They weren't for the injuries over the 237 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 1: last couple of years. He views himself, he said, as 238 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: a gold jacket Hall of Fame player. And now we 239 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: may not agree, but he said, I'm gonna get there 240 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 1: one way or other, whether it's through coaching or three 241 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:20,079 Speaker 1: through being an executive. I'm gonna find my way. To 242 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 1: Canna thought, Wow, that's you don't that's kind of a 243 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: fiery exit interview. Yeah, I don't like his chances of 244 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: wearing a gold I think bowl, well, I think I 245 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,079 Speaker 1: think he. I think he agrees that it's going to 246 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: have to come to another route. I mean the longevity. 247 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 1: How many players would take the longevity? I mean and 248 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: and he But he was a guy, and I think 249 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 1: this is important thing about his time in Washington. He 250 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:44,960 Speaker 1: was a guy who's known as kind of a heady player, 251 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:47,119 Speaker 1: kind of the guy that other guys in the secondary 252 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 1: looked to as a leader, as a very smart player. 253 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 1: And so may who knows, maybe we've seen him around 254 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 1: later in early in his career. He's known for his 255 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 1: speed and taking a lot of gambles and tying back 256 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: to our news drop up today. In two thousand ten, 257 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 1: he had a game or he intercepted Jay Cutler four 258 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: times in a single game. That's an NFL record, tied 259 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: for an NFL record, So that's pretty cool. He owns 260 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 1: away from him made three al Right, Moving on Blake Bortles. Listen, 261 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,559 Speaker 1: say what you will about the man, but he is 262 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: a guy that will not stand for petty thievery. Uh. 263 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:25,320 Speaker 1: Here's a headline from the l A Times h Blake 264 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 1: Bortles helps detained teen accused of trying to steal his 265 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: truck Comma wallet at Jaguars party. Great headline. It all 266 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 1: happened at a party at teammate Brandon Linder's Jacksonville Beach home. 267 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: A young man by the name of Joseph Horton, eighteen 268 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: years old, opened the door to Boardles truck West. I 269 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: know you're truck guy, so I'll tell you the model 270 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: and make it's a Ford f one fifty, very popular. 271 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 1: I had a Dodge Ram all right, the most popular 272 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: truck in the world. It certainly in this country. Pretty 273 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 1: are you tracking one tracking the rankings? Well? I read 274 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 1: the I read this article. How for it's given up 275 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: on on you know cars? In part of it is 276 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: just because their truck is by far the best selling truck. 277 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 1: Do think vehicle that's pretty good? And is this the 278 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: Is this the Picktureuck pickup Truck podcast. I didn't think 279 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 1: we'd be hosting this, but we did it anyway. Bortles 280 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: new Ford f one fifty parked in Lender's driveway and uh, 281 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: the young man Joseph Horton, a teen, rummage through the 282 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 1: truck took Bortles wallet and by the way, I was 283 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: about to get on Bordals for leaving his wallet in 284 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 1: his truck. I do that all the time. Oh, the 285 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: old zeuser is always leaving his wallet on his front 286 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: seat and all stupid. What's what's in your car right now? 287 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: My key to my car and my car downstairs? I 288 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: I I asked the gentleman in this studio, do you 289 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: think it's a problem that the key to my car 290 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: is just sitting in my car right now? No one 291 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: seemed nervous, so I'm not either. Well, you're at yeah, 292 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: you're at work. They're security. And what I did notice Sully, 293 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: who was with us pre taping a video before we 294 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: did this podcast. After he heard that, he didn't kind 295 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 1: of make a quick exit. So it's joy riding like 296 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 1: in Ferris Bueller's day off. Anyway, this kid belongs behind bars. Well, 297 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: Joey Hordon, first of all, don't take stuff that's not yours. 298 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: That's number one too. This kid's weird. Not only is 299 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: he going through the truck, he couldn't move the truck 300 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 1: so he actually went to the party. Eighteen kid just 301 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 1: walks in the guy's house. The Jaguars. I admire Stones 302 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: a little bit. When Winder asked Joey who he was. 303 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 1: Horton replied joe and walked upstairs. According to the police report, 304 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 1: Linder then realized the young man didn't belong in the house, 305 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: called police, and then lendered Bortles and Jaguars guard Chris 306 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: Reid um, I guess we made a citizen's arrest, if 307 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: you will, On Horton, Joey h until police are did 308 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: this is the part of the story I would like 309 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 1: to see in the flesh, because it sounds, oh, it's 310 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: nice that Bortles did this, but suddenly you're Joey Horton, 311 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: j teen and being held in a driveway by three 312 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: large NFL players. I just would like to see how 313 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: that went down. I wonder if maybe Joey started to 314 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: crack a sweat at that point his prank had had 315 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 1: hit the bricks. I don't know if it was a prank, 316 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: maybe a crime would be more technically. Best case scenario. 317 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 1: He's got a little DiCaprio in him from Catch Me 318 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 1: if you can. Worst case scenario, he's just a psycho 319 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: killer exactly in training, right, He's got you know what 320 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 1: it is when you try to steal somebody's pick up. 321 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: It's the fact that he went into the party. That's 322 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 1: really Lindsay, let's get let's trying to get Joey Horton 323 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 1: on the show. Can you reach out to the necessary 324 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 1: bumping Connor Ore for Joey Horton. Um, that's a spoiler 325 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 1: alert right there, right there for later in the show. 326 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: You guys never heard that. Apologies you never heard it. 327 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: Moving on, John Elway, Oh yeah, John Elway. Once for John. 328 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: This one's for John. This one's for John. This song, 329 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 1: John el sees excellence, He knows excellence. And he says 330 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:07,159 Speaker 1: the Bolts, the Chargers the team to beat in the 331 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 1: a f C West. Oh my goodness, that sounds similar 332 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: to some like literally everyone in the studio. So I'll 333 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: let you guys. I'll give you guys your mandatory nineties 334 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: seconds to get all excited about the Chargers hit it. Well, 335 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: every other team in the division has football questions. The 336 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:25,440 Speaker 1: only question surrounding the Chargers are related to the occult. 337 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: Are they haunted? Like? Really? What? That's all anybody can 338 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:30,719 Speaker 1: come up with? Why for why the Chargers won't win 339 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 1: the division? Well, they have still got still got about 340 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: sixty seven seconds. Elway, He's you know, clearly a great 341 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:41,399 Speaker 1: evaluator of talent. As he said, I've been trying to 342 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,959 Speaker 1: pare down what are my hot takes. Here's a Charger's 343 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:46,439 Speaker 1: hot take for you. They got the deepest cornerback group 344 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: in the NFL right now and the best rush. So 345 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,879 Speaker 1: that's what I think John Elways sees. You get Jason Verrett, 346 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 1: Jason Verrett back to a group that was already great 347 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: last year. It's as deep as any secondary. They don't 348 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,040 Speaker 1: have an avert weakness. I think we get that at 349 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 1: this point. If you listen to the show. They have 350 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 1: a quarterback that can't get a team over the humps 351 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: save his life. Well, according to they're the one team 352 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: with a settled quarterback. I found it interesting that after 353 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:10,959 Speaker 1: going down and chasing case Keenum that he did not 354 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 1: mention his own team is being settled. The quarterback we love, 355 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 1: we love to kill Eli Manning for being washed up, 356 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 1: but that guy's got two rings once. What's Philip Rivers 357 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: done in his career? I mean, the difference between the 358 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 1: two of them is one of them is a good 359 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: football player and one is two rings. Right, But that 360 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: was ten years ago. What what's that got to do 361 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:31,359 Speaker 1: with mex But this This just feels like psychological warfare 362 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 1: to me from Lay, I think he's just this is 363 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 1: a perfect no. Well that's too I mean, of course 364 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 1: it he morphs into an Eli Manning scenario. But it's like, 365 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 1: this is just Lway dropping little nuggets in the middle 366 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 1: of in the middle of May. If anything, it's a 367 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: it's a slight towards the Chiefs, you know who. I 368 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 1: know they lost their quarterback in awe and but you 369 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: know I have been empty portion of their defense, not 370 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 1: a great portion of it. They only lost guys other 371 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 1: than Peters that they wanted to get rid of. So 372 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,680 Speaker 1: who did they bring in? That's so great? And it's 373 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:03,679 Speaker 1: gonna read now, I mean, they have one of their 374 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,400 Speaker 1: worst defense in the league, don't they. We'll see, all right, 375 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: see we have to have hit ninety twos by now 376 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 1: that's it. Okay, well you hit it. It was ten, 377 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 1: but I wanted you guys to enjoy it. The Supreme 378 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: Court big news and potentially troubling for our podcast because 379 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 1: of Greg's past issues and struggles with addiction. The Supreme 380 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:31,200 Speaker 1: Court has struck down a law against sports gambling. Uh. 381 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:34,160 Speaker 1: The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a federal law 382 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: that bars gambling on football, basketball, baseball, and other sports 383 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 1: in most states, giving states to go ahead to legalize 384 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: betting on sports. Greg, you are are betting insider, so 385 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 1: we will throw ridiculous the Supreme Court and you could 386 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,440 Speaker 1: give a little more context, Greg to this rule to 387 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 1: strike down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, which 388 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,440 Speaker 1: I know has been a thorn in your side. Grego 389 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:02,640 Speaker 1: law Bard state authorized sports gambling some exceptions. People are 390 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 1: that are against this, including union leaders UH are really 391 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 1: fired up about this and say it's a major concern 392 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:14,639 Speaker 1: for the league's and the future of the sports. Why Greg, 393 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,400 Speaker 1: why are people so upset? I I don't sense that. 394 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:21,360 Speaker 1: I don't think there are that many people that upset. 395 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,239 Speaker 1: I think this is a popular decision which is just 396 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: legalizing UH an industry which is already making I think 397 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,680 Speaker 1: some sort of estimated it's like a fifty billion dollar 398 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 1: industry under the table on some level, and it's just 399 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: making it legal. I find it really interesting just how 400 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: quickly the winds changed. Two thousand fifteen, Roger Goodell UH 401 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: was very public in terms of how against he was 402 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 1: UH changing some of the laws. That was the same year, 403 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: I believe they stopped our friend Michael Fabriano from being 404 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: part of this like fantasy convention that was in Vegas, 405 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 1: just because it was like in Vegas. Now we have 406 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,640 Speaker 1: a team moving to Vegas. The law which is now 407 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 1: it's giving the states for for people, especially outside of 408 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 1: the US. It's allowing the states to basically choose whether 409 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: they want to legalize sports gambling or not. New Jersey 410 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: is gonna do it quickly. There's a bunch a few 411 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 1: other states that will do it quickly, and it's expected 412 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,320 Speaker 1: that probably the majority of states will do it. You know, 413 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,200 Speaker 1: at some point in the next five years. It takes 414 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 1: it takes time, but just how quickly it changed from 415 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,680 Speaker 1: three years ago to now there's gonna be a team there. 416 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 1: It's essentially gonna be legal in a lot of states. 417 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, Robert Kraft and Jerry Jones 418 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:45,639 Speaker 1: are investors in daily fantasy sports companies, which isn't you 419 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 1: know there's a difference between that and straight up sports gambling. 420 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 1: But now it's kind of all gonna be in the 421 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:54,159 Speaker 1: same box and it's gonna be a huge industry. It 422 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: reminds me a little bit of the state by state. 423 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:58,720 Speaker 1: Um I guess groundswell at one point in terms of 424 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 1: legalizing marijuana, and from another angle too. If you're going 425 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: if you if marijuana is in your uh you know, 426 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,239 Speaker 1: world to do, if it's an interest of yours, you 427 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 1: were doing it before and after it was legalized. And 428 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: if you want to gamble, you were gambling before and 429 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: after it's legalized in your particular state. I mean they 430 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: talk about the prop bets alone that occurred at the 431 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 1: last Super Bowl. Thousands of billions of dollars passed back 432 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,400 Speaker 1: and forth on bets like what color will the liquid 433 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: be that has poured on the game winning coach? The 434 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: answer was lime green, yellow, And I mean tons of 435 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 1: cash are going on and these are bets be well that, 436 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: but where does the problem begin around We don't. We 437 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 1: can't understand. I just think I think the growth, the 438 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,199 Speaker 1: growth angle for it is big because it talked they 439 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: talked about internationally. You can people that aren't watching football 440 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 1: normally because if you're in England at what time it starts, 441 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: if you are into gambling, that could change a lot. 442 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 1: It can open new doors. So I think the league 443 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 1: is going to ultimately smile on it because it means 444 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: major cash. They can say what they want about the 445 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,439 Speaker 1: integrity and all that stuff, but that that door has 446 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,919 Speaker 1: already been blown wide open. Football is being bet on 447 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,680 Speaker 1: NonStop if you want to do it already. It's amazing 448 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: to watch over the past three decades the country's attitude 449 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: change on gambling and marijuana, the two among other things, 450 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 1: but just to watch. I think we've all just decided 451 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:21,879 Speaker 1: that among the things we need to be scared of 452 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,880 Speaker 1: in life, those two don't rank very high. And it's 453 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 1: just been amazing to watch. It's gonna change. There's a 454 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,639 Speaker 1: lot to unpack with it, just in how it's gonna 455 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 1: you know, how how much do they embrace it, Like 456 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,679 Speaker 1: is it gonna be in the stadiums, like in the 457 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 1: Premier League where you can do in game kind of 458 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: betting and you just have like you're you're doing, Hey, well, 459 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 1: who's gonna win, Who's gonna have the next you know, 460 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: corner kick or whatever, and it's just like on an 461 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 1: app on your phone or the team is gonna get 462 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: that involved they the league. I think find it hard 463 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,160 Speaker 1: to believe that it will become like that. I would 464 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: just say this, whether whatever the timeframe is down the road, 465 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: the same way that we quarter by quarter tweet and 466 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,959 Speaker 1: tout fantasy stars when that first all that's that's just commonplace. 467 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: None of that was happening fifteen twenty years ago at all. 468 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,360 Speaker 1: It seems so alien the idea that like someone can 469 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: win that a million, two million, three and a million 470 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,400 Speaker 1: dollars switches hands because so and so scored the team 471 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,719 Speaker 1: X scored a touchdown drive in under two minutes, and 472 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,919 Speaker 1: people were betting at the start of the kickoff at 473 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:24,639 Speaker 1: each one of those things. If there's still a kickoff, 474 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 1: like that's going to become just as big of a 475 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,360 Speaker 1: deal as fantasy. The confusion in the league's I think 476 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 1: are have already started to ask, you know, Congress for 477 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 1: is that if it's not legal in every state, then 478 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 1: how did they come up with kind of a uniform 479 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,919 Speaker 1: policy of how the league is handling it. But but 480 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,200 Speaker 1: either way, it's going to change, like advertising is gonna 481 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 1: change a lot. But everything's cool with you. Nothing's changed 482 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 1: for me. I work for the NFL. You are not allowed, 483 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,719 Speaker 1: uh to bet on football, And it's true, not too 484 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 1: well before I worked at the NFL. I just signed 485 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 1: my compliance papers and absolutely it is a no go. Finally, 486 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,640 Speaker 1: in the news Rob Gronkowski, the Patriots ted end, turns 487 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,199 Speaker 1: twenty nine years old today, so the final year of 488 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 1: grons twenties. You can't say that Gronk didn't make the 489 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,359 Speaker 1: most of his twenties. Let's be honest. A couple of 490 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 1: stats for you UH stat heads out there, most receiving 491 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,640 Speaker 1: touchdowns by age twenty nine, Gronk third on the all 492 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 1: time list. Who's ahead of him, boys Randy Moss and 493 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:28,880 Speaker 1: Jerry Rice Corrackt correct and UH one thing to keep 494 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 1: in mind as he approaches age thirty, Gronk has appeared 495 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:35,639 Speaker 1: UH in just two sixteen game seasons in his whole career. 496 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,159 Speaker 1: So he's had health problems it happens every year, but 497 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: when he's on the field, he remains dominant. We'll see 498 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: if he can stay on the field as he starts 499 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: to get a little bit older, or if he's going 500 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 1: to choose to stay on the field, because we know 501 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,399 Speaker 1: he already fled to retirement once earlier. This officer. You 502 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: look at Tony Gonzalez, he had eight seasons starting with 503 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,160 Speaker 1: his age thirty season from beyond age twenty nine and 504 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 1: essentially dominant through all of them in terms of number 505 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 1: of catches all he was used in the offense. If 506 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: Gronk wants to keep being called the best tight end 507 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 1: of all time, he can't just hang it up in 508 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 1: two years. I don't think that would be my guest. 509 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 1: I know, I think he even cares. I don't know. 510 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:11,640 Speaker 1: I don't know if he cares or not. But it's 511 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,239 Speaker 1: just like there there is there's history of longevity at 512 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: that position. All right, go ahead, you sure. I went 513 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,360 Speaker 1: to say that for the better part of a decade, 514 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,439 Speaker 1: he's been one of the top ten players in the NFL. 515 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,920 Speaker 1: That is amazing for a tight end. If he never 516 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 1: played another game, he's in the Hall of thing. Yes, 517 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,680 Speaker 1: he's that level. Yeah of talent. And if you can 518 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 1: do that before he turned thirty, you've had a special career. 519 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: All right. That's what's happening in the news. All right. So, 520 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 1: as we've mentioned, and if you go to NFL dot com, 521 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,719 Speaker 1: you're aware Greg has been cranking out content NFL dot 522 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,919 Speaker 1: Com slash projected Starters. You go through Greg, let the 523 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 1: listeners are. You're going through each team and basically projecting 524 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 1: what the Week one lineup is going to be the 525 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 1: All twenty two if you will, that's it. Basically choosing 526 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:03,119 Speaker 1: who's gonna get the most snaps uh from each team's lineup. 527 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: So you know, in today's NFL sometimes it's only two 528 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,439 Speaker 1: defensive lineman or two linebackers. It's you know, there's a 529 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 1: lot of a lot of guys in the secondary on 530 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 1: the field. But basically just picking up your starting lineup's 531 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 1: not too complicated and then some little notes, some some 532 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 1: little thoughts. The people like it, I don't know, do 533 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: you like crazy about it? I like I like it. 534 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,480 Speaker 1: I like it as an exercise. It's almost it's a 535 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:29,359 Speaker 1: selfish exercise. I like it as just a way to 536 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: kind of study up on all the teams and then 537 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 1: you get a better picture. And it's all just kind 538 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: of sits in your nog and going into the seat. 539 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,919 Speaker 1: I mean, other people are there's entertainment being brought to 540 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,400 Speaker 1: it to others and in knowledge, so it's not totally 541 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 1: selfish that it is. Hopefully it's a win win. It's 542 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,640 Speaker 1: also the middle of May, so there's not a lot 543 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 1: of news to talk about, and so this is you know, 544 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,439 Speaker 1: this way, I can like look at it and start thinking, wow, 545 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,719 Speaker 1: that raiders secondary looks there, right, So it obviously serves 546 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: a purpose for you personally, but the content itself, it 547 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,160 Speaker 1: does serve a purpose for the audience and the people 548 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,639 Speaker 1: that want to learn more about their teams and the 549 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,919 Speaker 1: other football heads like it. Yeah, Like, I think it 550 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: takes on a level of dorky nous to really want 551 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,119 Speaker 1: to dive deep into this in May. But there's a 552 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: lot of people like that, especially on you know that 553 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: read NFL dot com in May. So some would say 554 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 1: it's a it's a niche type of column, but if 555 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:24,200 Speaker 1: you do live in that niche, you love it. Every year, 556 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: it's like the baseball fans reading Bill James. There you go. 557 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,200 Speaker 1: I mean, the topening tagline says it all. Greg Rosenthal 558 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: will project post draft starting lineups for all thirty two 559 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 1: teams dash dash called an m dash by the one 560 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:43,239 Speaker 1: internally because that's his idea of fun. Oh there you go. 561 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 1: I like that. That's an important because it's myself. Just 562 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 1: be aware. This is a little nerdy. But if you're 563 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 1: into this, you're into it. You are into it. So 564 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: I feel like what we have is a perfect marriage here. 565 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: We have content that not only getting Greg smarter and 566 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 1: making him more knowledgeable, it's making the eat er more 567 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 1: knowledgeable and smarter about the game. I feel, do we 568 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: have like time to fill or something? This is like, 569 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 1: I mean, we're checking every possible box. Silly, I know, 570 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: like suddenly has like two hours to spin on one story. 571 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 1: And all right, and so that said, so now you 572 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 1: understand what the segment, what what that? What that story 573 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 1: and these stories are all about. But what makes a 574 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 1: provocative hot take? Now you're taking You're gonna take something 575 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 1: but at its base is a niche type of article, 576 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: but you're gonna you're gonna pull out of it a 577 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 1: real provocative hot take that even you know, the guys 578 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 1: that don't exist in the lab and I don't know 579 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 1: what that's like, not to be in a lab anymore. 580 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 1: But the guys that are up in the kitchen, they're interested. 581 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 1: So Greg's gonna give us five and then I guess 582 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 1: we will decide, we, being Mark West and myself, whether 583 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: it is a true hot take. Some of these, some 584 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 1: of these are more just yeah observations than uh than necessarily. 585 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 1: I'll try, I'll try to pick the hottest takes possible. 586 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 1: How about this one? Marvin Lewis is not an idiot. Well, 587 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 1: Marvin Lewis is an idiot. If nothing, if nothing else, 588 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: just one little factory they had looking at this, uh 589 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 1: these projected starters, was that the Bengals only have two 590 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: players projected to start that are from another organization, and 591 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 1: one of those is Preston Brown, who might not even 592 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: you know, be on the field more than of the time. 593 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 1: And it just got me thinking, like, the Bengals head 594 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: coaching job is just different than every other head coaching job. 595 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 1: You're asked to do things in terms of drafting and 596 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 1: developing and just hey, we're gonna draft you guys your players, 597 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 1: and then we're just gonna keep the players and those 598 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: are basically the players you're gonna you're gonna play with. 599 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: And and there's a lot of reasons why the Bengals 600 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 1: job is not like like others, but it just made me. 601 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 1: It reminded me that Marvin Lewis is not in how 602 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 1: about that this was what what's the Around the Horn 603 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 1: show on ESPN Around the Horn. I wouldn't have given 604 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 1: him any any points, really because it was a tepid 605 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 1: take at first, but the point about him being asked 606 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,959 Speaker 1: to do this organization is not like any organization. He 607 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 1: really does have to do the scouting. His coaching staff 608 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: has to do a lot of stuff that people other 609 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 1: people scouting departments do. I'm conflicted about Marvin Lewis. I mean, 610 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 1: Mark's right, sometimes he's an idiot. Well that you're dropped 611 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 1: from three. That drop is not like Evergreen, despite it 612 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,080 Speaker 1: being played NonStop. Some people actually think that that's me 613 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,200 Speaker 1: saying it live on the show. I got asked that question. 614 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 1: It is not. It is a It is an old take. 615 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: We we just like point at Mark in a certain 616 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: I'll give the Bengals credit because when they did go 617 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 1: out and get one player out from outside the organization, 618 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: it's somewhat self corrected the Andrew Whitworth departure from a 619 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 1: year ago. When you go out and get Corty Glenn 620 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 1: at a position where that offensive line was their undoing 621 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 1: last year. So that was a smart thing. But you're 622 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,760 Speaker 1: but I would say, even into two or three seasons 623 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 1: in a row, we would point to the Bengals and say, 624 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,160 Speaker 1: no other team in the a f C has the 625 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 1: level of talent that the Bengals do, but they simply 626 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 1: don't get it done when the games happen. So positive 627 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 1: to Marvin Lewis for overseeing that, but then the game's 628 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 1: happen and where is Marvin Lewis, Who's going to give 629 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: you that hot January where suddenly the Bengals live up 630 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: to their talent. Marvin Lewis too, and this isn't the 631 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 1: most talented Bengals team that we've seen, but there's potential. 632 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,080 Speaker 1: There is I think the ceiling for this team if 633 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 1: things go right. And including that Corty Glenn trade, you 634 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 1: know they only have two guys that I projected as 635 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,480 Speaker 1: started from other organizations. Well, Glenn is one of the 636 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 1: most important guys on the whole team, and they made 637 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 1: that was a nice trade. I think they didn't give 638 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 1: up much to do that. But ultimately, but if they 639 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 1: could have resigned Andrew Witworth, I'll say one thing, like 640 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 1: a year later, you give up a lot to get 641 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 1: Corty Glenn in terms of you could have just resigned 642 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 1: your own guy who played at a high level for 643 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 1: the Rams last year and probably helped, like one of 644 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 1: the guys to turn that offense around. So please, So 645 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 1: your final take on Marvin Lewis, Well, Marvin Lewis is 646 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 1: an idiot that can change. You just keep saying it's well, 647 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 1: Marvin Lewis is an idiot, all right, all right, we 648 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 1: get by the way sixteenth season. That is crazy. That's 649 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: why it's a job like no other. It is. Well, 650 00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 1: there's a lot of reasons, but that one above all else, 651 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: that you can stay in the NFL, never go to 652 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 1: a super Bowl, never really playoff run, never win a 653 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 1: playoff game, period and enter your sixteenth season. There are 654 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 1: thirty one other organizations where that would not fly. Another, 655 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:13,640 Speaker 1: you're not an idiot if you can pull that off 656 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 1: the spot. There's They had also reminded me doing this 657 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 1: projected starters thing that you know, Vinny Ray Vincent Ray 658 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 1: is projected start for Vonta's perfect while he you know, 659 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: fulfills this suspension. And I was thinking, it's really he 660 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:32,400 Speaker 1: is the only designated suspension filler in the entire league. 661 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,520 Speaker 1: Every year I do this projected starters, He's starting in 662 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 1: week one for Vonta's perfect to suspend it. It's not like, yeah, 663 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,520 Speaker 1: we keep him around just to just be good for 664 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 1: like two to four weeks every year and you'll you'll 665 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,120 Speaker 1: keep getting paychecks. All right? That was I think that's 666 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,880 Speaker 1: pretty good hot take though, because good start of a 667 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 1: lot of what I didn't know these are going to 668 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 1: be created on a level of ten. What what's the 669 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 1: heat on that one? He saved at the end, I'll 670 00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: give it a good solid seven and a half. Seven 671 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 1: and a half. Uhn, we get some fire. Okay, there 672 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:13,080 Speaker 1: we go, next provocative take, hopefully hot. All right, well, 673 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,759 Speaker 1: this one I'm gonna combine. I'm gonna combine too, just 674 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:19,440 Speaker 1: to make it even even hotter. The flame, the flame. 675 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:25,880 Speaker 1: Just looking at the rosters, here we go. The Buffalo 676 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 1: Bills have the worst offensive roster in the league, and 677 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:33,320 Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts have the worst defensive roster in the league. Okay, 678 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,239 Speaker 1: combining him too. Would you like me to score that, right? 679 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 1: I mean, if that'll give me a break. Everybody knows 680 00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 1: the Bills have the worst offensive You could be right, 681 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:46,359 Speaker 1: but also provided you're right, there's thirty one other teams, though, 682 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:51,120 Speaker 1: the Cults, especially teams are I feel like it's the 683 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 1: third year in a row where you look at the 684 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,960 Speaker 1: Colts defense and you're like, who's the guy you'd put 685 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 1: on the ticket or the game program from the defense? 686 00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,759 Speaker 1: Name a cornerback for the Indianapolis Cult. It's an ever 687 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:05,000 Speaker 1: churning list of no names. So I cannot Pierre to 688 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:07,719 Speaker 1: see here is like their best cornercast that's not a 689 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,840 Speaker 1: real name. He is not their best quarterback, and they 690 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,719 Speaker 1: they will believe that Quincy Wilson who they think? Right, 691 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,000 Speaker 1: I was saying who they who actually is their best quarterback, 692 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,560 Speaker 1: not the guy they benched his entire rookie season. Um. 693 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,120 Speaker 1: So what you're saying, though, even though it's not necessarily provided, 694 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,160 Speaker 1: means I think that's provocative because there's a whole field 695 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,239 Speaker 1: out there of other decay. I get that, but that's 696 00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,839 Speaker 1: all you said. But like when you went through this exercise, 697 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,520 Speaker 1: those of you were like, whoa this really? This really 698 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,120 Speaker 1: is a bad situation for both teams. Maybe Chris Ballard 699 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 1: sees something in his building, something what's your favorite type 700 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,719 Speaker 1: of frog that we don't totally get yet. You know, 701 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,759 Speaker 1: he's got a new defensive coordinator, a totally new system there. 702 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,880 Speaker 1: You know, not many people could name their defensive coordinator 703 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,800 Speaker 1: Matt ever, Plus I don't even know how to pronounce 704 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,080 Speaker 1: Luster has been with Dallas for the last few years. 705 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,600 Speaker 1: Luster is not a nickname you want us to football 706 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:58,799 Speaker 1: coach decordinator. He's already got a nickname on this Tom 707 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,239 Speaker 1: Brady is cost mid field. What they're going to do 708 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,040 Speaker 1: about it. It's like sweating profusely, like trying to get 709 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:08,000 Speaker 1: into hint the exits, but like the nickname takes on 710 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,799 Speaker 1: a new meanings the opposing quarter. I think they've got 711 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,840 Speaker 1: a better I think there's some things their offensive lines better. 712 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,120 Speaker 1: You know, there's some things on offense to be excited about. Defense, 713 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,160 Speaker 1: it's like who not only is just who's your best player? 714 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,239 Speaker 1: Like who could possibly make a Pro Bowl? Let's say 715 00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,680 Speaker 1: out of the Colts, what do you think of the Cooker? Yeah, 716 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,879 Speaker 1: Lee Cooker, Yeah if your best very high on him 717 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,560 Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, but he's coming off in a c 718 00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,359 Speaker 1: L And that's your one guy who has potentially made 719 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,400 Speaker 1: a good point about the Cults offense. Where it was 720 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,080 Speaker 1: Andrew Luck came into the league and had, you know, 721 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,800 Speaker 1: as Peyton Manning did before him, a wealth of wide 722 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,279 Speaker 1: receiver and receiving talent in general around him. And now 723 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,880 Speaker 1: it's the line, which we've killed for half a decade. 724 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:49,759 Speaker 1: Is improved in the wide receiver talent not so much. 725 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,320 Speaker 1: And and I guess the Bills. The thing that struck 726 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,319 Speaker 1: me about them is just most teams it's like they 727 00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,200 Speaker 1: either that you don't have like an offensive line that 728 00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,759 Speaker 1: looks terrible on paper and a skill position group that 729 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,240 Speaker 1: kind of looks bad on paper. But the Bills have both. 730 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,680 Speaker 1: I mean they got Lashawn McCoy intend kind of question marks. 731 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,240 Speaker 1: They could have the worst offensive line, worst wide receiver corps, 732 00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 1: and worst quarterback room in the NFL. I was down 733 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,759 Speaker 1: in the lab over the weekend, Uh, watching some film 734 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 1: of DJ White, not on Saturday, you weren't. I think 735 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,120 Speaker 1: you could do some I think he did some work 736 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,879 Speaker 1: in the slot J White. I mean, if we're gonna 737 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:24,880 Speaker 1: kill it's a White what I don't have him on 738 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 1: an actual DJ To be fair to like Dolphins fans 739 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,400 Speaker 1: their offense, I would take in two seconds over anything 740 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,839 Speaker 1: that's happening in Buffalo right now. It's completely much more 741 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:40,279 Speaker 1: solid in that own division. Absolutely, look DJ White right there, 742 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,799 Speaker 1: he's gonna work make his way right up there. Oh 743 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,759 Speaker 1: he's a fourth string weeks I had lined what else 744 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:49,560 Speaker 1: he got? Greg, Well, you gotta keep this move. We've 745 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,960 Speaker 1: got a special guest coming up soon. Okay, Well this 746 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:55,120 Speaker 1: isn't really Uh. If I like Colleen Wolf, I don't 747 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,000 Speaker 1: think I understood you know the function of this second 748 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:08,759 Speaker 1: Colleen gets tragged in. That's it's just like whatever. Uh 749 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,960 Speaker 1: uh the Giants. I don't know if you guys, you 750 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:16,080 Speaker 1: haven't dived into fantasy strategy dance quite as much, um 751 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,040 Speaker 1: you know, through the years theories and stuff, But it 752 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,200 Speaker 1: used to be a popular fantasy strategy stars and Scrubs 753 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,640 Speaker 1: that was ever heard, especially like an auction drafts. You know, 754 00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:28,640 Speaker 1: Stars and scrubs. You spend a lot of money on 755 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,760 Speaker 1: the Stars, spend your spend your less on the scrubs. 756 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,520 Speaker 1: That's the only way to play a right exactly. That's 757 00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,920 Speaker 1: that's the thought the Giants. The Giants are the Stars 758 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:48,280 Speaker 1: and Scrubs team of the NFL. Because you look at 759 00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:55,480 Speaker 1: I love her the dusk colleague, You're done. Stars and Scrubs. 760 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,480 Speaker 1: Very nice? You got you know, you got Genorris Jenkins, 761 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:02,560 Speaker 1: you got Snacks Harrison, you, Olivier Vernon and who else 762 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,080 Speaker 1: am I forgetting? On their defense that that could be 763 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,880 Speaker 1: great Land and Collins. I mean, those are some stars, 764 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,520 Speaker 1: but then you kind of look at the other spots 765 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,080 Speaker 1: and you really don't know. Then you look at their offense. 766 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,360 Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a better combination of a 767 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,239 Speaker 1: running back two young receivers and tight end in the 768 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:22,240 Speaker 1: league in terms of young fun talent than see Quon Barkley, 769 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,480 Speaker 1: Odell Beckham, Sterling Shepherd and Evan Ingram. You love yourself 770 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,520 Speaker 1: some Ingram to do. I love and I love Shepherd 771 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,640 Speaker 1: and so the four of them. But then you look 772 00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,520 Speaker 1: at the rest of the the offense and it's like, huh, 773 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,759 Speaker 1: like people are people are penciling and Cody Latimer, They're like, oh, 774 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,480 Speaker 1: that's their slot receiver. They sign him, Like what the Broncos. 775 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,400 Speaker 1: He couldn't get on the field for the Broncos for 776 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,239 Speaker 1: four years. They don't have anyone. I like it. This 777 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,600 Speaker 1: is a great take, Dan, Who are Chad Wheeler and 778 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:51,640 Speaker 1: Patrick a mom a they are giants offensive lineman. Actually 779 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 1: nice That's who's starting on the right side of their line. 780 00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:58,920 Speaker 1: And everyone says this is really improved, nicely done. They 781 00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:04,040 Speaker 1: have a bad line sto question mark and soldiers got 782 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,040 Speaker 1: to be healthy and play like Nates. Nobody mentions the 783 00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,320 Speaker 1: other three guys. It's just Nates Souter and Will Hernandez 784 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,120 Speaker 1: every time. Yeah, and it could be Eric Flowers who 785 00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,080 Speaker 1: did return to the team. They tried to trade him. 786 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,520 Speaker 1: I didn't project him as a starter just because I don't. 787 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,200 Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see what happens like if he sticks 788 00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:18,799 Speaker 1: with the team. The one thing with offensive lines and 789 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,400 Speaker 1: even defenses. To be fair with indianapos, sometimes the coaching change, 790 00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,680 Speaker 1: they're tough to predict, you know what I'm saying. All Right, 791 00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:27,560 Speaker 1: that's good, Greg, you got your dignity back there. Now 792 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,560 Speaker 1: we're gonna close strong. How about one more? You got 793 00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,520 Speaker 1: one more? You don't even have to add a home run. 794 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:35,120 Speaker 1: You already hit a home run, so you're kind of 795 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:37,560 Speaker 1: playing with round will double right here? All right, I 796 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:41,520 Speaker 1: can chop up the middle. The Jacksonville Jaguars are one 797 00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:45,560 Speaker 1: of the most stable franchises in the NFL. You know, 798 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,319 Speaker 1: you don't really think of them that way, but when 799 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,400 Speaker 1: you look at all the players returning, how how little 800 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,800 Speaker 1: turnover they have on in terms of their starting lineup, 801 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:57,200 Speaker 1: they basically don't have any position battles almost except for 802 00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,719 Speaker 1: maybe the receiver position. It's a stable even with the 803 00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,759 Speaker 1: Joe Horton incident over the week. I don't know if 804 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:06,879 Speaker 1: it looks like last year's roster basically, yeah, and yet 805 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:08,640 Speaker 1: I feel like a team the team. A lot of 806 00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:10,520 Speaker 1: people are diging as well. Listen like this is a 807 00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,320 Speaker 1: nice season at all, but just not gonna happen again. 808 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,240 Speaker 1: I mean, why are we looking at them as someone 809 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:18,840 Speaker 1: that can't get back to the a f C champions. 810 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:23,279 Speaker 1: Everybody the quarterback, right, and that's why the grade isn't eight, 811 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:26,680 Speaker 1: because it's an it's an original concept, but I gotta 812 00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:28,640 Speaker 1: take two points off for the same reason I take 813 00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,600 Speaker 1: points off for the Jaguars organization ten to eight or 814 00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,239 Speaker 1: from eight to six. No, it isn't a It would 815 00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,440 Speaker 1: have been a ten for the originality of the concept. 816 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,239 Speaker 1: But you gotta dock points because Greg has the same 817 00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,440 Speaker 1: flaw as the Jaguars. He doesn't believe the quarterback counts 818 00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:47,239 Speaker 1: in the stable factor and it's like it's important at 819 00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:50,160 Speaker 1: every position. Just he said it. Just it was consistent, 820 00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:53,480 Speaker 1: and I think it is the most unstable quarterback in 821 00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,200 Speaker 1: the league. You're saying but in terms of roster churn 822 00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,560 Speaker 1: over though, right, But if you're if you're franchise quarterback 823 00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:03,359 Speaker 1: is un stable, your entire organization is. I agree with that, 824 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,640 Speaker 1: but I think that more answers my question about why 825 00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:09,160 Speaker 1: we're downgrading them. Greg's conceit was that they have not 826 00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:12,080 Speaker 1: had turnover and they've had no turnover at quarterback. All right, Tony, 827 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,719 Speaker 1: reality just gave I'll be the reality around here. And 828 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,719 Speaker 1: stable has several meanings. We're using all of them, all right. 829 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,520 Speaker 1: They just gave West two points. Remember remember when we 830 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,480 Speaker 1: used to have the stable the West's West had his stable, 831 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,359 Speaker 1: stable of boys, table of boys. That's what it was. 832 00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:29,839 Speaker 1: That was like the mark Ingram year. I think, well, 833 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:34,800 Speaker 1: my goodness, how time has flown. Greg, you've done it again. 834 00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:38,480 Speaker 1: You wrote an incredible um banger, a series of bangers. 835 00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:40,839 Speaker 1: So check it out, especially if you're a football nerd. 836 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,319 Speaker 1: But now that you're in, I'm sure your curiosity must 837 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,280 Speaker 1: be peaked a little bit. You' say, wait a second, 838 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,600 Speaker 1: I am I want to consider myself a football nerd. 839 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,040 Speaker 1: But I really enjoyed that segment, and I feel like 840 00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,160 Speaker 1: Greg knows what he's talking about. Let me dive in. 841 00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,120 Speaker 1: We just got a whole new demographic that could be 842 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:57,920 Speaker 1: coming to your content. Yeah, come at me, Come with me, 843 00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:02,359 Speaker 1: Come come at become with me, either or as long 844 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:06,160 Speaker 1: as you move the needle into the singularity. All right, now, 845 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,560 Speaker 1: you may have already heard a little slip of the 846 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:11,399 Speaker 1: tongue from the sizzler, but that's not a big deal. 847 00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:12,919 Speaker 1: I meane, if it was a big deal, we would 848 00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:15,000 Speaker 1: have cut it out of the show. But we said, 849 00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,719 Speaker 1: what the hell, let's leave it in the show. I 850 00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:20,640 Speaker 1: thought it was appropriate. I'm like, I thought what I 851 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,840 Speaker 1: did was appropriate. It was a tea. Yeah, it was 852 00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:25,440 Speaker 1: a little hint. It was a little hint. You know. 853 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:27,640 Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I don't want people to feel like 854 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:29,399 Speaker 1: when they find out, oh, there's a big surprise, then 855 00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:33,640 Speaker 1: the surprise is revealed, being like m hmm, a little underwhelmed. 856 00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,560 Speaker 1: This way, I prevent anyone feeling that way about our guests. 857 00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:38,359 Speaker 1: And then they said that I knew this was coming, 858 00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,560 Speaker 1: and I couldn't be happier. Although it's hard to imagine 859 00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,920 Speaker 1: anyone feeling that right, And I don't know how people 860 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:44,959 Speaker 1: your mind went there. I don't know how people feel. 861 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:48,680 Speaker 1: I mean, it's not it's you know, it's not like 862 00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:56,560 Speaker 1: the Heat and Slight podcast. It's it's like the Hard 863 00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:58,440 Speaker 1: Knocks video of the dance contest of the guy goes 864 00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:03,480 Speaker 1: running across the room. All right, here we go, Bernard Pollard. 865 00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:10,280 Speaker 1: Let's button down now from around the NFL podcast line 866 00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:15,239 Speaker 1: direct to a haunted mansion in New Jersey. Yes, he 867 00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:18,960 Speaker 1: is a man who once upon a time, single guy, 868 00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:22,279 Speaker 1: a young beat reporter, kid on the rise, and then 869 00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:26,920 Speaker 1: life intruded. Yeah, serious, journal, it was time to get married, 870 00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,279 Speaker 1: and then it was time to get the mortgage, and 871 00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,439 Speaker 1: then it was time to have the kid. And now 872 00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:35,520 Speaker 1: here we are in two thousand and eighteen, Connor Or 873 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:39,560 Speaker 1: with a beautiful, healthy baby girl in the home. And 874 00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,480 Speaker 1: guess what that means. Even though there's a kid in 875 00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:45,640 Speaker 1: the house, connor Or has to get things off his chest. 876 00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,880 Speaker 1: So let's start though, by just saying hello to Connor. 877 00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:51,640 Speaker 1: It's been a while. We had that little mishap. Wher 878 00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,960 Speaker 1: you got escorted out of Lucas Oil Stadium at the Combine. 879 00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:59,640 Speaker 1: So you're you're no longer detained by security there apparently? 880 00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,640 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean I would I would certainly suggest 881 00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:05,600 Speaker 1: that there's at least some sort of a tap a 882 00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:07,960 Speaker 1: phone tap situation going on, But you guys all know 883 00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:11,640 Speaker 1: that working for the league, that's pretty standard. Obviously. Obviously, 884 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,839 Speaker 1: how are you, buddy, because we miss you obviously now 885 00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,480 Speaker 1: that you're over at the mm QB. But your life 886 00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:23,040 Speaker 1: has changed now, Yeah, you know, it's uh, I'm a dad, 887 00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:27,960 Speaker 1: which is uh congratulations. Yeah, you know, everything is good. 888 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,040 Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out now how to be like 889 00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,839 Speaker 1: you know, you want to be like the ultimate dad 890 00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:36,520 Speaker 1: and uh you know that's it's it's it's mind blowing, 891 00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:38,319 Speaker 1: Like you know that she's not old enough yet where 892 00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,600 Speaker 1: I can like go over the top with wild gifts 893 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:42,480 Speaker 1: and stuff. So I have to be like the dad 894 00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:45,640 Speaker 1: who understands how to, uh to to have her talk 895 00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,000 Speaker 1: faster than anyone else or walk fast than anyone else. 896 00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,839 Speaker 1: I'm trying to do that right now. Those alright, So 897 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:52,880 Speaker 1: there you go. That that gives that gives you a 898 00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,560 Speaker 1: basic idea of what where Connor's head is out right now. 899 00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,640 Speaker 1: But as you know, when we have Connor on, we 900 00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:01,120 Speaker 1: we give him a form to get things off his chest. 901 00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,200 Speaker 1: And just because he's a new dad, it doesn't mean 902 00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,239 Speaker 1: there's no longer any issues in his life. In fact, 903 00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:10,920 Speaker 1: it might be the opposite. So with Connor back amongst us, 904 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:14,920 Speaker 1: let us now bring it on back with another edition 905 00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:24,120 Speaker 1: of or you kidding Me? What's Grinding? New Gears? Connor? 906 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,200 Speaker 1: I missed that music. Um, I would say, you know, 907 00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,839 Speaker 1: it's it's the funniest thing to me, Like after after 908 00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,279 Speaker 1: you have a kid. Everyone says, well, I used to 909 00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:35,839 Speaker 1: come over and I have to I have to hold 910 00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:39,120 Speaker 1: the baby, and it's like, why it belongs to me? 911 00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:43,160 Speaker 1: It's not it's not something that you have. So you know, 912 00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:45,880 Speaker 1: why why are you doing this? Hands off the property. 913 00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:54,440 Speaker 1: It's mine. I created it with my wife. So in 914 00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,960 Speaker 1: other words, you don't like the idea that your baby, 915 00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,520 Speaker 1: this beautiful thing that you created with your wife, is 916 00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:03,440 Speaker 1: now type of toy to be passed back and forth. Yeah, 917 00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,080 Speaker 1: it's not like. It's not like when you got an 918 00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:07,520 Speaker 1: Xbox when you're a little and everybody came over and 919 00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,239 Speaker 1: you know, you had multiple controllers. This is like, you know, 920 00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:13,600 Speaker 1: this is one this is one thing that's like only 921 00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,560 Speaker 1: used to a very certain environment. And now you know, 922 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,560 Speaker 1: like distant relatives from from the great Beyond have showed 923 00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:22,560 Speaker 1: up now to to touch this kid, and I haven't 924 00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:25,319 Speaker 1: seen them any years, you know, So that you don't 925 00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:28,080 Speaker 1: like that. You'd rather be more insular. This is a 926 00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:32,480 Speaker 1: special moment, this new family structure. You don't need outsiders 927 00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:36,440 Speaker 1: coming in to encroach on your territory. Yeah, I'm building. 928 00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:40,000 Speaker 1: I'm building a fence front and backyard, and then we're 929 00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:42,919 Speaker 1: just going to kind of just give some certain people 930 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,880 Speaker 1: to code, and then that's my haunted mansion is turning 931 00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:57,279 Speaker 1: into a compound. Anything else grind any years right now 932 00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:04,440 Speaker 1: ascertained that this rant is similar to an episode of Seinfeld, 933 00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,279 Speaker 1: who you famously brought up a segment very fair point 934 00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:10,399 Speaker 1: um as one of the least funny shows ever, this 935 00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:15,880 Speaker 1: very segment ironic. Oh uh, well, if that is a 936 00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:20,240 Speaker 1: similar bit, then I have gotten not I've gotten none funny. 937 00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:23,560 Speaker 1: All I'd say is Connor's I mean the Seinfeld one 938 00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:27,040 Speaker 1: was going over, going over and seeing the baby. Connor, 939 00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,319 Speaker 1: you seem to be anti human contact. You don't want 940 00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,120 Speaker 1: your baby being touched by people that you consider not 941 00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,920 Speaker 1: inner circle. Yeah, you know what the best part of 942 00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:40,600 Speaker 1: it was, right like sush is born, I got to 943 00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,560 Speaker 1: I got to sit in this like in this enclosed 944 00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,759 Speaker 1: space in the hospital. And then when the nurse said 945 00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:49,000 Speaker 1: when when when you have people come over, I'll I'll 946 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,360 Speaker 1: draw the blind and they can point and wave and 947 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,960 Speaker 1: there's like eight inch to plexiglass in between, and that's 948 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,320 Speaker 1: totally perfect. And so I'm just gonna try to do 949 00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:59,680 Speaker 1: a similar setup over here, you know. Uh So it 950 00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,080 Speaker 1: does seem like this is all pointing towards you being 951 00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:04,719 Speaker 1: one of those And I don't mean this in a 952 00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:08,839 Speaker 1: negative way, but a cliche overly protective father of your 953 00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:10,839 Speaker 1: little girl? Is that? Is that where we're heading here? 954 00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:14,239 Speaker 1: You know what? Uh? I would say, yes, I mean 955 00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:16,560 Speaker 1: like ideally like that, But you have to have some 956 00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:19,040 Speaker 1: sort of like you know, every dad that I've run 957 00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:21,120 Speaker 1: into this like that down the road, Like you have 958 00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:24,520 Speaker 1: to have some sort of intimidating sort of outward features. 959 00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:26,600 Speaker 1: You have to look like the guy from like Orange 960 00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,839 Speaker 1: County Choppers in order to do that, because you don't 961 00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,080 Speaker 1: miss with my daughter. But I look like, you know, 962 00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:34,800 Speaker 1: like fat ted Cruise with a beard, And I can't 963 00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,520 Speaker 1: really you know, I can't really feel like, hey, you'll 964 00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:39,360 Speaker 1: pick up. My kids will be like yeah, whatever, you know, 965 00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,879 Speaker 1: and they'll probably pick up, for no one is intimidated 966 00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:51,120 Speaker 1: by Ted crew. But I look, uh, is there anything 967 00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:54,759 Speaker 1: else that you want to say? Were you kidding me? 968 00:49:54,800 --> 00:50:02,720 Speaker 1: I guess if I could? There you go Evelyn Marie 969 00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:11,440 Speaker 1: or whoa emo for short? How about that? Congratulations to 970 00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,000 Speaker 1: you and the wife who did most of the work. 971 00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:18,200 Speaker 1: Let's be honest here, Connor did some work. You know 972 00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:21,080 Speaker 1: what I mean? I was I was a source of 973 00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:24,719 Speaker 1: steady encouragement and uh, and I drove ten miles an 974 00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:26,520 Speaker 1: hour in the lay home with my four ways, So 975 00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:29,840 Speaker 1: that was my contribution to the whole thing. Oh that's sweet. 976 00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:35,399 Speaker 1: Congratulations Connor. You've you've always been the most mature one 977 00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:39,200 Speaker 1: of us. Really makes sense, very nice, leading to my 978 00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:44,040 Speaker 1: inevitable early breaking point right to be like, wow, like 979 00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:47,000 Speaker 1: they're gonna have like the Save the Connor special on 980 00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:50,480 Speaker 1: the Around the NFL podcast. That would be amazing. Just 981 00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,960 Speaker 1: easy on the accelerator with the protective dad bit because 982 00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:57,480 Speaker 1: she will rebel like crazy. And I mean, I don't 983 00:50:57,480 --> 00:50:59,680 Speaker 1: speak from experience, but I've seen a lot of TV movies. 984 00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:05,840 Speaker 1: I'll let my wife know all right that the podcast 985 00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,919 Speaker 1: Gang Way did. All right, Connor, we miss you and uh, 986 00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:12,680 Speaker 1: continued greatness over at s I all right, see you guys. 987 00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:18,080 Speaker 1: There you go, Connor or new Dad. We're all dads, 988 00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,279 Speaker 1: Zephyr West. Just a matter of time. There he hit 989 00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:24,520 Speaker 1: on one thing. Yeah, the I will say the scariest, 990 00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:28,560 Speaker 1: one of the scariest events of life was like when 991 00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:30,560 Speaker 1: Luke and Colton and I'm sure you would agree to 992 00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:33,839 Speaker 1: something they are like two days old. You're putting them 993 00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:35,440 Speaker 1: in the backseat of a car. And then it's like 994 00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,279 Speaker 1: the task is to drive to your house in insane 995 00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,920 Speaker 1: l a traffic and highway nonsense without anything bad happening. 996 00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:45,000 Speaker 1: Well there's that. And also and I don't think you 997 00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:48,040 Speaker 1: dealt with this mark, but uh we did the C 998 00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:51,360 Speaker 1: section route. So you also have a wife that is 999 00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:55,200 Speaker 1: had major surgery essentially, and hitting bumps or anything like 1000 00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:59,360 Speaker 1: that is not only something that would get her upset, 1001 00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:01,719 Speaker 1: it could actually lead to an issue where you have 1002 00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:03,799 Speaker 1: to go back to the hospital. So it is a 1003 00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,359 Speaker 1: highly stressed, a loaded moment of stress. But there's also 1004 00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:10,319 Speaker 1: and I say this and all kidding asidewes, something to 1005 00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,600 Speaker 1: look forward to in life if if you do go 1006 00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:14,560 Speaker 1: down this road, one of the best feelings in the 1007 00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:16,800 Speaker 1: world is the first time you get to the house 1008 00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:24,080 Speaker 1: with your new baby. That's the good stuff. All right. 1009 00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:27,680 Speaker 1: We will be back on Wednesday, and it will be 1010 00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:31,000 Speaker 1: the return every year. It's an annual thing. We need 1011 00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:34,120 Speaker 1: to always check in and make sure it's updated as 1012 00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:40,319 Speaker 1: we enter a new season. The Dalton scale calibrated for UH, 1013 00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:43,719 Speaker 1: so make sure the scientists are gonna have their their 1014 00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:47,400 Speaker 1: pens and their pads out. And uh also you know 1015 00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:49,319 Speaker 1: Mark and I I still view myself as a guy 1016 00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,520 Speaker 1: upstairs in the kitchen hang out with Mark. You're not 1017 00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:55,799 Speaker 1: the only one walking shop and uh and uh. So 1018 00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:59,040 Speaker 1: we will recalibrate the Dalton scale figure out who is 1019 00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:02,680 Speaker 1: the Primaryinni and ridian of NFL quarterbacks if it is 1020 00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:05,239 Speaker 1: still Andy Dalton. So there's a little cliffhanger for you. 1021 00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:07,800 Speaker 1: Until then, this is Dan Hansens signing off for a 1022 00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:11,840 Speaker 1: quiet storm. The mailman, the old boss, Lindsay folked on 1023 00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:20,000 Speaker 1: behind the glass, who are you kidding me? Till Wednesday