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Speaker 1: NFL Podcast, not Bad one Star. Welcome to another edition
Speaker 1: of the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hantus,
Speaker 1: and I am coming to you from the city filled
Speaker 1: with heroes in bunkers. Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, Greg Roselipal,
Speaker 1: What is up? Boyees? Hey Dan, Hey, let's have live
Speaker 1: Sessler today based on our pre pre show talk Westling too.
Speaker 1: We've got a couple of live wires. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I mean, is anyone else dealing with a home It's
Speaker 1: like a hundred and seventeen degrees in this room that
Speaker 1: I'm in, and I mean getting needs to be a
Speaker 1: quick episode. We need to get in and we need
Speaker 1: to get out. Morson whistles and nonsense. Today you're looking
Speaker 1: a little more Ted Kazinski like as the Beard Grannis. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's it's not gonna get any better.
Speaker 1: There's no improving any of this at this point. I mean,
Speaker 1: I cannot contain the adrenaline pumping through my veins for
Speaker 1: the schedule release. That's why you get alive Westling today,
Speaker 1: we're we are twenty four hours of lay. It is.
Speaker 1: It is the new West of Us until Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: gets Cincinnati back into the postseason. Yeah, it's not only
Speaker 1: are we quarantined and and families stuck together in small spaces.
Speaker 1: Now the heat is rising in southern California, but you
Speaker 1: head over to Santa Monica, Greg in Paradise, So Greg,
Speaker 1: probably another beautiful day for you with the family and quarantine.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's not like the weather is that
Speaker 1: much different here, although it's seven or eight degrees makes
Speaker 1: it makes a nice difference. Yeah, so peaceful though in
Speaker 1: tranquil it's really no one's been sleeping. Um My sun
Speaker 1: Walker has not been sleeping in neither of eye for
Speaker 1: now three days. But that's not unique necessarily to the
Speaker 1: quarantine we've got. We've got again, we've got our we've
Speaker 1: got our struggles. A lot of reading, a couple of days.
Speaker 1: It's too deep of a contra it's too long of
Speaker 1: a conversation. I think where my mind is at. I
Speaker 1: think this quarantine it like it like you know, I
Speaker 1: think when we're just floating along doing our jobs, it's like,
Speaker 1: what what do you know? What's what's the purpose here?
Speaker 1: Maybe I struggle with that a little bit normally, like
Speaker 1: what's the purpose of what we're doing here in this lay?
Speaker 1: But in the quarantine it kind of focuses your purpose.
Speaker 1: You gotta take care of your family, you gotta do
Speaker 1: your stuff, and that gives you a little more me,
Speaker 1: a little more calm. You know. How about that you
Speaker 1: sept Us a photo of you sitting in the sunlight
Speaker 1: on your back porch area with the children playing together,
Speaker 1: A man at peace. Well, I thought the photo was
Speaker 1: funny because I was reading and relaxing and my son,
Speaker 1: you know, Walker basically had Ellis in a total headlock,
Speaker 1: smashing her face into like a concrete ground, with me
Speaker 1: doing like nothing, like two feet away. Did those children
Speaker 1: often grapple with each other? Um in that way? That
Speaker 1: kind of surprised me, Yeah, a little bit. I I
Speaker 1: wrestled with Walker, certainly to try to get the energy out.
Speaker 1: He liked the wrestling. I thought about it a little bit, actually,
Speaker 1: Greg after the show on Monday, like this, for example,
Speaker 1: right now there he is there, He is the boy
Speaker 1: who would be King Walker. He just came into the shot.
Speaker 1: And uh, I think that you are just suited very
Speaker 1: well to the quarantine, Greg, because if Jack burst into
Speaker 1: the garage right now, Luke burst into Mark's little recording enclave,
Speaker 1: we would face anxiety and be worried about what we're
Speaker 1: gonna how we're gonna handle a situation. You you're almost
Speaker 1: like the zen Master. You welcome the child down your lap.
Speaker 1: Sit boy, be a part of this with me. This
Speaker 1: looks like Philip Jackson with Robin on his lap. We're
Speaker 1: talking about wrestling Walker, are you like, what do you
Speaker 1: think about wrestling lately? Okay? See, so I love that.
Speaker 1: That's where I have. I have two of that situation.
Speaker 1: It was a velocit raptor that would send me into
Speaker 1: a seizure of Jack did that on my lap in
Speaker 1: the middle of the podcast. So I just think I think,
Speaker 1: after thinking about it personally Greg after the show Monday,
Speaker 1: that maybe just your the way you're hardwired is kind
Speaker 1: of perfect. For the quarantine and good for you, thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm happy for you. I mean you're also Greg, You're
Speaker 1: a food a noted foodie. I mean you and you
Speaker 1: always seem to be um, you know, gallivanting around town
Speaker 1: going to various eateries. I mean, what is that's been
Speaker 1: taken away from you? Or or are you uh organizing
Speaker 1: four star meals on the home front? This is a
Speaker 1: lot about me. I'm starting to feel uncomfortable. But well
Speaker 1: we did I remember anniversary out on Monday, so we
Speaker 1: did order. Like some of these restaurants are doing these
Speaker 1: sort of family meals where you can you can get
Speaker 1: a pretty fancy one. We did that on Monday. But no,
Speaker 1: for the most part, it's it's home cooked meals. But Emmica,
Speaker 1: you know, she's a Institute of Culinary Education trained chefs,
Speaker 1: so those aren't bad. You know what the pieces are
Speaker 1: in place to succeed. I think on the in Gregg's house,
Speaker 1: can we please the longer Callivanti now I'm not feeling
Speaker 1: now he just calivants through his own house during quarantine.
Speaker 1: No longer feeling, and he's got a trained chef on site,
Speaker 1: all right? Coming up on today's show, Uh, Ricky, Hey, Ricky,
Speaker 1: what's up? You are the resident twenty something of the
Speaker 1: group you know for a little while longer anyway, and um,
Speaker 1: as such, we need to connect with the youth. Now
Speaker 1: that I've turned forty, it is not a good situation
Speaker 1: for our show for white guys in our for a
Speaker 1: middle age, So you need to like help us connect
Speaker 1: with the youth. You do a great job of the
Speaker 1: Social Today's segment come back season, we need you to
Speaker 1: really push that out in the Social Universe Spelling season
Speaker 1: as z N. You need that. Yeah, that's huge forgetting
Speaker 1: this show out there to the audience and letting them
Speaker 1: know that we have not lost touch. Okay, I mean Erico.
Speaker 1: One question is is sec N a bit of a
Speaker 1: tired phrase itself at this point? Are we really on
Speaker 1: the cutting? I mean, it's on its way out, but
Speaker 1: I feel yeah, I feel like we're we're right on
Speaker 1: the cusp where we might be able to get away
Speaker 1: with it. Yeah, it's pretty late. It's it's kind of
Speaker 1: an autumn right now. I feel like, as a phrase,
Speaker 1: it's not as bad as I'm not gonna say. Who.
Speaker 1: I did see a beat writer much older than us
Speaker 1: say that a team's position group was on fleek week
Speaker 1: like the tight end group was on fleek, or you
Speaker 1: have to who it was there, we'll bleep it out.
Speaker 1: Who was it? I'm that s you gotta text us, alright, alright,
Speaker 1: you can bleep it out. It was. Oh no, well
Speaker 1: spent it especially does not fit. It's not that's all right.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna share some players that are coming off
Speaker 1: disappointing nineteen seasons. And I don't I don't know who
Speaker 1: you guys are going with, but I kind of see
Speaker 1: this as less injury related and more just a disappointing
Speaker 1: season one where there were a lot of expectations and
Speaker 1: maybe the person was a little beat up. But I
Speaker 1: hope nobody has somebody that blew out in a c
Speaker 1: L in week one. Uh, this is more people who
Speaker 1: disappointed an hour on the comeback trail. Potentially we all
Speaker 1: on the same page with us. All right, whatever, I gotta,
Speaker 1: I got a lot options. I like come back season.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do some news. Let us start with
Speaker 1: my favorite football team, the New York Jets, who have
Speaker 1: added a running back to their fleet. Their running back
Speaker 1: group is on fleek after Frank Gore, the Inconvenient Truth
Speaker 1: was signed to a one year deal on Tuesday. Obviously
Speaker 1: huge ramifications, Greg, for you and I on this one. Gore,
Speaker 1: the forever veteran, UH was a big has bounced around
Speaker 1: forever Adam Gaze, he played under Gaze in Miami. Gaze
Speaker 1: was loved him. And in this time when Levy on
Speaker 1: Bell is coming off a deeply disappointing season and there's
Speaker 1: been talk that the Jets will like to um maybe
Speaker 1: make it more closer to a committee situation in the backfield,
Speaker 1: Frank Or enters the fray thirty seven years old. UH
Speaker 1: this month, Greg, your thoughts on Frank Gore entering the
Speaker 1: picture for the New York Jets, Well, I immediately thought,
Speaker 1: all your little Frank Gore. You know, how's the locker
Speaker 1: room gonna survive without him? Jokes not so funny? Now?
Speaker 1: Is it Hansas room? He's coming to save the Jets
Speaker 1: locker room? I mean, look, I think it's a It's
Speaker 1: no matter what you think of Frank Gore, it's incredibly
Speaker 1: impressive he's been able to keep getting jobs. I mean,
Speaker 1: thirty seven year old running backs playing well enough that
Speaker 1: people will keep giving them jobs. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: going to change the Jet season. I think I think
Speaker 1: he played like a fine backup last year. I know,
Speaker 1: uh West thinks I'm just being a homer there, but
Speaker 1: I think he's a fine backup. It shows your boy
Speaker 1: Billy Powell's not coming back. He's This is gonna sound
Speaker 1: like I'm ripping on Levy on Bell, but Frank Gore
Speaker 1: had more playmaking ability than Levy on Bell last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the Jet it was the Jets
Speaker 1: have to make sure they come out of this next season.
Speaker 1: Whatever you get of this next season. With Levian Bell
Speaker 1: not being one of the worst free agent signings of
Speaker 1: the past five years, I mean, it's been a total
Speaker 1: I am not knocking. It's not an anti Jets thing.
Speaker 1: It's just he's one of the more disappointing players league.
Speaker 1: Stick a pin in that Levan Bell conversation for a
Speaker 1: little bit later. Right he fits into what where he
Speaker 1: fits into that? For sure? I I want to say
Speaker 1: this Greg very Greg centric, Pazza far I'm loving um.
Speaker 1: Let's just like, let's just go over where we're at
Speaker 1: right now. First, the Jets draft your favorite wide receiver prospect,
Speaker 1: Denzel Mims in this year then they go out and
Speaker 1: sign your favorite player of all time, practically Um, at
Speaker 1: a time where it seemed like his career had reached
Speaker 1: an end. I just want to add one more thing.
Speaker 1: You know, they also need a backup quarterback. Wait a second,
Speaker 1: Ricky and now another edition of sipping on Vena checking
Speaker 1: on Gina. What if bear with me here the Jets
Speaker 1: bring back ge know as their backup to Donald. At
Speaker 1: what point did it just become your favorite team? I
Speaker 1: mean your time of transition yourself with Tom Brady with
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Now, I mean I've got many
Speaker 1: other candidates of fun teams to root for. First of all,
Speaker 1: I don't even want Gino coming back to the Jets.
Speaker 1: They don't deserve him um and Gino deserves better than
Speaker 1: this segment. If this means that they're this segment is
Speaker 1: coming back, I don't. I don't like this segment. This
Speaker 1: it's disrespectful to Gino. I want him on it. He's
Speaker 1: a guy who only goes to play goes with playoff teams.
Speaker 1: And I do worry that Adam Gates has got to
Speaker 1: ruin some of these players. I like, we gotta, we
Speaker 1: gotta close that segment. Close the segment, and that was
Speaker 1: another edition of si N checking on go ahead. I
Speaker 1: mean that that was basically I think it's the same
Speaker 1: thing Jets fans worry about two when when good things
Speaker 1: seem to happen to them, you just worry is out
Speaker 1: of gates gonna is gonna be able to capitalize on this?
Speaker 1: It's fair. He's the one thing for Jets fan and um,
Speaker 1: it's an optimistic offseason that you feel like they might
Speaker 1: be going in the right direction. But the one thing
Speaker 1: for me and millions of other Gang Green supporters is
Speaker 1: is the head coach the right guy? Um? And not
Speaker 1: a lot of positive evidence in year one. I don't,
Speaker 1: for the record, love the Gore signing. I never played
Speaker 1: professional football, or college football, or really high school football,
Speaker 1: so I can't really tell you how important it is
Speaker 1: to have like a badass veteran in the locker room. Um.
Speaker 1: But in terms of who they could have had to
Speaker 1: potentially handcuff with Levy on Bell, I mean I probably
Speaker 1: would have rather had Carlos Hide or a younger back. Um.
Speaker 1: They also, of course have a rookie, uh, Michael p
Speaker 1: Rhyan at of Florida. I want I don't want him
Speaker 1: to be buried on the bench this year because the
Speaker 1: Jets are gonna move on from Levy on Bell next year.
Speaker 1: So that's um, that's my feeling on that. But you know,
Speaker 1: he brings a lot to the locker room. We know
Speaker 1: that he was playing fine. He's a fine backup. It
Speaker 1: makes me wonder a little bit as you're talking. I mean,
Speaker 1: if Bell actually did start out well, would he be
Speaker 1: a guy that if someone gave him a fifth round
Speaker 1: pick for him they would just trade him in Week six?
Speaker 1: You know, in other Jets news, they placed wide receiver
Speaker 1: Quincy and Nona on the reserve pup list with a
Speaker 1: neck injury. And this is a sad story because he
Speaker 1: was the one kind of uh draft hit for John
Speaker 1: Iszi in the late rounds, back the sixth round pick
Speaker 1: who really was developing into a nice player. He's kind
Speaker 1: of a tweener, but in a good way where he
Speaker 1: was really big and quarterbacks couldn't handle him, but he
Speaker 1: was faster than linebackers. He was really developing into a guy.
Speaker 1: But the neck injury wiped out his twenty seventeen season.
Speaker 1: He played well in ten and got a four year contract,
Speaker 1: and then the neck injury again got him in the
Speaker 1: first game last season the Jets, by the way opened
Speaker 1: last season and then lost um C J. Mosley and
Speaker 1: Quincy Una for the year in that first game against
Speaker 1: the Bills. Anyway, so noon with twenty seven years old,
Speaker 1: his career is probably over. And it makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense. Why um, you heard during the ramp up
Speaker 1: through the off season, Uh, Joe Douglas never committing to
Speaker 1: a new one because this was never a good situation
Speaker 1: with the next situation so unfortunate because I think when
Speaker 1: you look at the way all receivers play, he has
Speaker 1: one of the most fearless playing styles, like truly a
Speaker 1: physical wide receiver. Um. And you just wonder, even if
Speaker 1: he gets to play again, will will he be able
Speaker 1: to play with that same style in two thousand one
Speaker 1: or two thousand twenty two whenever he if he does
Speaker 1: come back. I mean, we talked about Denzel Mims. He
Speaker 1: a lot of receivers take a year or two to
Speaker 1: really become what they are. He doesn't really have the
Speaker 1: luxury of that with what they're dealing with at that position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. Although if her if Chris Herndon is kind
Speaker 1: of the forgotten guy feels like he's almost like the
Speaker 1: key Weird the other than Darnal in that office, because
Speaker 1: for a minute, I thought like Chris Hernon might be
Speaker 1: an all pro type of tight end and if he plays,
Speaker 1: if he plays like that, then the receiver group looks
Speaker 1: looks a lot better. Herndon is a guy that people
Speaker 1: close to the team love. They see him as a
Speaker 1: guy that could be a big star. He, of course,
Speaker 1: his entire season was wiped away by injury as well. Uh. Noon,
Speaker 1: by the way, landed a four year, thirty three point
Speaker 1: four million dollar contract extension, played one game on that deal,
Speaker 1: and because Big Mac Mike mccagnan was not very good
Speaker 1: at his job, there's really no injury protection for the Jets,
Speaker 1: so he just carried on the roster for another year
Speaker 1: and all the cap ramifications that go with it. Uh.
Speaker 1: In other news, Marshawn Lynch remember him, yes, vaguely? What
Speaker 1: do you remember about Marshawn Lynch, Mark cecil? I remember
Speaker 1: the story that I'll remember until I die is him
Speaker 1: retiring in the middle of the Super Bowl and West
Speaker 1: having to put down what he was doing and suddenly
Speaker 1: bang out some absurd Marshawn Lynch retirement story while missing
Speaker 1: like the second into third quarter of the biggest sporting
Speaker 1: event we've ever been to the fourth quarter. This was
Speaker 1: San Francisco, this was it was Panthers. That was kind
Speaker 1: of a dud. Anyways, Yeah, I think he did yea well,
Speaker 1: Lynch retired, he came back, He went to the Raiders,
Speaker 1: played there a couple of years, wasn't resigned, disappeared again,
Speaker 1: and then reappeared when Seattle was hit by a ton
Speaker 1: of injuries late last season and didn't do much to
Speaker 1: move the needle, but fell into the end zone a
Speaker 1: few times. Well. According to his agent Doug Hendrickson, he
Speaker 1: has been in talks to rejoin the Eagles. He's now
Speaker 1: thirty four years old. Oh, Seahawks, Sorry, he is now
Speaker 1: thirty four years old. Chris Carson's got a hip issue
Speaker 1: or shot Penny towards a c l uh, So there
Speaker 1: is potentially a window here. They did draft a rookie
Speaker 1: UH in the fourth round d J Dallas. They also
Speaker 1: have Travis Homer in the building. So Lynch, have we
Speaker 1: seen the last of him? Maybe not? Mm? Why why bother?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, that's a weird one. He
Speaker 1: I think he averaged under two yards per carry, you know,
Speaker 1: counting the two playoff games. Just it seems weird. It's
Speaker 1: a good guy to have on speed. Now, I guess
Speaker 1: if if emergency strikes, if Chris Carson is not coming
Speaker 1: off a fractured hip and Kenny's not coming off the
Speaker 1: a c L, I doubt they even mess around with
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch. It does make you wonder about the Seahawks offense.
Speaker 1: So I feel like, just the way there Pete Carroll's
Speaker 1: wired and Schottenheimer's wired, they shouldn't be so run depending.
Speaker 1: But they're never gonna stop running no matter who's back there.
Speaker 1: We saw that with Lynz so he ran a lot
Speaker 1: in the in the playoff game, which they won. Well,
Speaker 1: they'll go eleven and five, I mean with you know
Speaker 1: eleven Raggedy Ann's on that side of the ball. They
Speaker 1: always find a way. I mean, playoff team book it
Speaker 1: it's so hot in this from there's something special about
Speaker 1: Mark right now. The bed's beard has gone next level
Speaker 1: and the heat. So there's a little bit of a
Speaker 1: do do we look special? You know, I'm I am
Speaker 1: openly struggling right now. I just I need we you know,
Speaker 1: we we're meandering NonStop and we need to get here
Speaker 1: and move forward. This might you might enjoy this. Then.
Speaker 1: In other Seahawks news, jadeveon Clowney says he quote loves
Speaker 1: Seattle and isn't ruling out of return. Actually, you know
Speaker 1: what this is for you? Mark Ricky, do you have
Speaker 1: a do you have a match? That story was blasted
Speaker 1: into the sun. Thank you. I have heard enough of
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll or Jendamon Clowney's people or whoever saying that
Speaker 1: these sides could sign a deal and get it done
Speaker 1: and Clowney returns to Seattle. All right, when it happens,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about it. That's it. That's enough. Good leadership,
Speaker 1: thank you. What point? With all due respect to the
Speaker 1: whole operation up there in the stific northwest, and they
Speaker 1: do an excellent job. But you know, there's a there's
Speaker 1: a term. It's called you know, piss or get off
Speaker 1: the pot? Right? That's fair? I think this is unanimous. Listen,
Speaker 1: did I have the quote right? There was no if
Speaker 1: if you're on the pot, you're not going number one.
Speaker 1: I mean to be fair, I thought we I thought
Speaker 1: we deep six this news item, and we're still going
Speaker 1: on about it. Well, yes, that's not necessarily true. Depending
Speaker 1: on gender or some weirdos well subsitters out there, the
Speaker 1: saying would be the alternative to you're right or get
Speaker 1: off the pot. And that's what's happening in the news.
Speaker 1: All right, it's come back season. That's how the kids
Speaker 1: say it too. They hit the Z. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: go around the horn once or twice, depending on how
Speaker 1: long it takes before Mark passes out and has a
Speaker 1: heat stoke. Um, I'm not doing too well either. I
Speaker 1: gotta be honest with you. See a little shine on
Speaker 1: me today. It's getting hot in this non insulated garage.
Speaker 1: Don't worry. It will be June soon in July, and
Speaker 1: we will be we will die in our homes. Do
Speaker 1: you guys remember what it's September is like in southern California.
Speaker 1: It's the hottest month of the year. This has to end.
Speaker 1: We need I know, we don't want to go back
Speaker 1: to the office for some reasons, but this gotta end. Well,
Speaker 1: I gotta get an air condition on here, and it
Speaker 1: could be expensed to Roger. Well, you're out in yeah,
Speaker 1: your garage, to be clear, not in your house. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's troubly. All right, let's get to it. Let's
Speaker 1: come back season. Mark. You're feisty, so before we lose,
Speaker 1: you get us going. Well, yeah, I don't want to
Speaker 1: go injury player, um route, as you suggested, but I'll
Speaker 1: go David Johnson because I think his name overall has
Speaker 1: been um soiled because he was attached to one of
Speaker 1: the worst trades we've seen in years. And you know,
Speaker 1: the overall question is is David Johnson even a shell
Speaker 1: of who he was back in in the in the
Speaker 1: middle of last decade, and it's really been years and
Speaker 1: years since he's been productive, essentially benched last year for
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake, who the Cardinals went and prioritized and brought back,
Speaker 1: and Johnson quickly became overly priced and tradeable, um weirdly
Speaker 1: when you thought they never would be able to. And
Speaker 1: he's he's he's basically a centerpiece in that offense at
Speaker 1: the moment. I mean, they they have moved on from
Speaker 1: certain running backs. I find it interesting that he would
Speaker 1: be pairing with Duke Johnson to some degree, but um,
Speaker 1: I have huge suspicions that David Johnson will be a
Speaker 1: thing at all, that this was a smart move for
Speaker 1: the Texans to make, and he has a lot to prove,
Speaker 1: so we will see. But I liked it would be
Speaker 1: interesting if he um thrived because I think that would
Speaker 1: that would surprise many. M hmm. We're not. You're not
Speaker 1: too confident it's going to be bounced back. So I'm
Speaker 1: not confident, but I would. I don't wish ill on
Speaker 1: the player. I mean, I think he's had a lot
Speaker 1: of bad luck. He had the broken wrist and never
Speaker 1: really the same guy after. The idea here is to
Speaker 1: nominate people who we believe has a have a comeback.
Speaker 1: He's not well. I do think he has a chance
Speaker 1: because he's not buried on the depth chart, he's not
Speaker 1: in where he's he's a better chance than last year
Speaker 1: when the Cardinals said he doesn't fit into what we
Speaker 1: want to do and he essentially his his role diminished.
Speaker 1: The Texans traded for him to use him a lot
Speaker 1: um and so I think the comeback factor is real.
Speaker 1: He was on my list and not for I understand
Speaker 1: you could watch the tape by West. I think you've
Speaker 1: been vocal about this that he didn't look like the
Speaker 1: same guy, and if you really study his career, He's
Speaker 1: only had maybe one just outstanding season. His first season,
Speaker 1: he flashed and he looked like he could could be special.
Speaker 1: But Bill O'Brien, like Mark said, needs this. He needs
Speaker 1: David Johnson to step up. And I'm not gonna get
Speaker 1: back on the Bill O'Brien defense train, but I will
Speaker 1: just say this. In six seasons, there and there's one
Speaker 1: and they went four and twelve. That's when Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: took over like in September and then was doing well
Speaker 1: but then blew out his A C L and they
Speaker 1: went four and twelve. But outside of that season nine
Speaker 1: and seven, nine and seven, nine and seven, eleven and five,
Speaker 1: ten and six, and they've been to the playoffs four times.
Speaker 1: He does have an ability to it seems to get
Speaker 1: the most out of his roster. This is not the
Speaker 1: star studded roster of the league, and I would not
Speaker 1: be surprised if David Johnson has a in a feature
Speaker 1: role ends up putting together a good statistical season. Whether
Speaker 1: or not he's special anymore, UH is something we'll have
Speaker 1: to see. But I think he's gonna get every opportunity,
Speaker 1: which was not the case late in his Arizona tenure. Actually,
Speaker 1: I didn't think he was washed up last year. I
Speaker 1: thought he was playing through a back injury, and that
Speaker 1: explained everything to me. The same thing is is Alvin
Speaker 1: Kamara playing through a high ankle. You just you don't
Speaker 1: expect running backs to do well playing through those kinds
Speaker 1: of injuries. There's there's levels to it, though, and and
Speaker 1: Johnson has just been a while. He hasn't been the
Speaker 1: same guy since his injury, you know, which is now
Speaker 1: a few years. I think Duke Johnson's got to be
Speaker 1: sitting there seeing like, what what do I gotta do?
Speaker 1: I won you a playoff game. He I mean, Duke
Speaker 1: Johnson was the second most valuable player on that offense
Speaker 1: in that playoff game. He was the one making plays
Speaker 1: at the end when they needed to win the game.
Speaker 1: And I do think in the end he'll be a factor,
Speaker 1: just because I guess I have my doubts that that
Speaker 1: David Johnson's gonna be back to his own self. I
Speaker 1: will stick in the running back realm and I'll Since
Speaker 1: Arety hinted at it Levy on Bell, I think last
Speaker 1: year was a bit of a perfect storm of poop
Speaker 1: for Bell, and I agree that he seemed a little
Speaker 1: bit lethargic and did not have explosion. And I just
Speaker 1: wonder how much of that had to do with the
Speaker 1: layoff and if if that is ever gonna come back
Speaker 1: or if it's gone, but I would like to see
Speaker 1: it in a situation where he has more of an opportunity.
Speaker 1: The Jets famously had a almost historically horrendous offensive line that,
Speaker 1: in addition to not having any talent, was completely decimated
Speaker 1: by injuries. So it was really um one of the
Speaker 1: all time bad situations. From a lot of the season
Speaker 1: or a portion of the season, you had quarterback play
Speaker 1: that was, you know, amongst some of the worst quarterback
Speaker 1: play we've seen in years. Uh there, which does a
Speaker 1: running back no favors. So now you have him kind
Speaker 1: of back in the swing of things with a year
Speaker 1: under his belt. You have a I'm not gonna say
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the best offensive line in the league.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see how if these guys can play together,
Speaker 1: but on paper and upgraded offensive line, Sam Donald year three,
Speaker 1: hopefully playing a full season, and uh, I just would
Speaker 1: not be surprised even with people now kind of um
Speaker 1: forecasting doom and gloom because Frank Gore signed and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, now Frank Gore is going to uh
Speaker 1: be the leading rusher or close to it. I don't
Speaker 1: see that either. I still think we're gonna get a
Speaker 1: lot of Bell, who had over three under touches last year,
Speaker 1: and I think we'll get a better Bell. I mean
Speaker 1: it could be worse three point two yards per carry
Speaker 1: last year, which for the amount of workload he had
Speaker 1: was the worst in Jets history. Um. I just would
Speaker 1: not be stunned if we see a much better version
Speaker 1: of him, not elite late Levian Bell of his Steelers heyday,
Speaker 1: but a guy that is better than an average running
Speaker 1: back and the Jets then at least get some return
Speaker 1: on their investment. Am I being an optimistic Jets man,
Speaker 1: of course, But I also don't know if it's possible
Speaker 1: for the guy to go from where he was at
Speaker 1: that point, uh to where he was last year without
Speaker 1: other circumstances coming into play, which I think, like I said,
Speaker 1: a poop storm for Bell. I mean, my one concern
Speaker 1: would be, and you know we mentioned him too, is
Speaker 1: I've just never gotten the sense um that Adam Gaze
Speaker 1: wanted anything to do with this Levan bell Um price
Speaker 1: tag or overall, it's not a sense I mean it's
Speaker 1: but he also gave him like touches, so it's not
Speaker 1: like they then didn't use him maybe. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned the injuries and you're not gonna lose
Speaker 1: Sam Donald too, Mono again and all this other stuff
Speaker 1: that happened, and they just the beginning of their year
Speaker 1: last year was about as disastrous as you could could
Speaker 1: dream up. But Levy on bell Um, Adam Gates just
Speaker 1: to me feels Um tilted towards Machiavellian behavior and if
Speaker 1: he is out on the whole bell thing, that could
Speaker 1: be Um, as Greg likes to say, a fly in
Speaker 1: the ointment. Potentially. Yeah, I didn't know that, but I
Speaker 1: like it. I was so wrong about bell. I thought
Speaker 1: it was a great signing. I didn't think they paid
Speaker 1: too much like I defended it. I just think he,
Speaker 1: for a stretch, is one of the best running backs
Speaker 1: I've I've covered or seen, and I thought you could
Speaker 1: see the instincts were all there, like he was making
Speaker 1: some people miss in tight quarters like he would do,
Speaker 1: and you could see that sort of special ability as
Speaker 1: but then once he would make a miss, it was
Speaker 1: like it would just get tackled two yards later. There
Speaker 1: was no big plays, and that's tricky. I mean, when
Speaker 1: you have three touches and there's no big plays. The
Speaker 1: the offensive line was abysmal, and that's partly why it
Speaker 1: was three point two yards procared. I don't think he
Speaker 1: was that bad. I think he was an average running back.
Speaker 1: He caught sixty six, he was fine, and the old
Speaker 1: line was a lot a lot of it. But if
Speaker 1: you're not making any explosive plays on that many touches,
Speaker 1: I mean, he had his chances where he could have
Speaker 1: taken it to the second or third level, and he
Speaker 1: just couldn't do it like you would. You could see
Speaker 1: almost the mind was working, but the body wasn't. Wasn't there.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that comes back or not. I
Speaker 1: hope it does because I like watching him. When when
Speaker 1: thirty year old balal Pal comes in and looks more
Speaker 1: explosive than the starter, that's a problem. Yeah, well maybe
Speaker 1: maybe don't go bowling in the middle of the year
Speaker 1: when you tell everyone you have us he had the flu.
Speaker 1: I just I mean, but like this bell is he
Speaker 1: is hew plugged in as this guy will find out.
Speaker 1: That's fair. That's a fair question. He had the flu
Speaker 1: and he didn't want to infect any of his teammates, understand,
Speaker 1: so you go to the lanes. I don't get that
Speaker 1: as a as a tonic, but he was just clearing
Speaker 1: his mind. Everything was above board in my opinion, and
Speaker 1: he rolled the two fifty that well, I was looking
Speaker 1: for a guy who has a good bet to bounce back.
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Speaker 1: I thought that was a great Dan like surprise drop
Speaker 1: or something. It was like, no, West is out of
Speaker 1: the show, oh sleeper going for just wow, it is
Speaker 1: getting hotter and hotter in here, all right, go ahead West. Well,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say it. He was a guy who
Speaker 1: was on a Hall of Fame career track and and
Speaker 1: may still be. Khalil Mack Um only had eight point
Speaker 1: five sacks last year. The year before he was in
Speaker 1: the I mean, nobody was in the defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year conversation except Aaron Donald. But if there, if
Speaker 1: it was, and Khalil mack would have been one of
Speaker 1: the guys discussed. Um he was one of the best
Speaker 1: defensive players in the league. And then last year he
Speaker 1: like the second half of the season, he just disappeared
Speaker 1: and Akeem Hicks was injured. Thank Eddie Goldman missed some
Speaker 1: time so he didn't have those big bodies up front
Speaker 1: occupying blockers. Now they bring in Robert Quinn opposite him.
Speaker 1: Um and Quinn looked fantastic last year. I I I
Speaker 1: see Cleio mac bouncing back, especially for a guy. I
Speaker 1: think Dan heard some whispers at the combine. Maybe the
Speaker 1: Bears would look into seeing what he's worth around the league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't say too much other than someone
Speaker 1: high ranking within the team was openly asking if he
Speaker 1: was somebody that you know should be around. That's somebody
Speaker 1: that if that's a player who should be in the
Speaker 1: team's futures in the future. M Yeah, there's there's no
Speaker 1: reason to think that. He mean more team drinks in
Speaker 1: during that conversation that happened, right, I know who you
Speaker 1: were speaking with, And it's one situation where you wouldn't
Speaker 1: need a triple source it because it was the most
Speaker 1: um impeccable source you could one could imagine. Let's leave
Speaker 1: it at that, before it becomes as easy as Wes's
Speaker 1: neighbors right right, Uh, MACKI is on track to be
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer. And I do think like defensive
Speaker 1: lineman or basically non skill players, like they're allowed to
Speaker 1: have down years. I'm saying, like, basically, like when skill
Speaker 1: players have like an eleven hundred yard year when they're
Speaker 1: usually getting yard, people like understand that and they're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: so sometimes guys have bad seasons. It's like that. That
Speaker 1: happens at every position. And yet but I think when
Speaker 1: it's like lineman, it's just like what happened? Is Khalil
Speaker 1: Mack just bad forever? There's no reason or not bad.
Speaker 1: But at a different level, there's no reason to think
Speaker 1: he's anything but one of the best five pass rushers
Speaker 1: in the league. So you see him west as a
Speaker 1: guy that easily could be back in the d P
Speaker 1: o I conversation this year. Absolutely, I see him as
Speaker 1: a guy who among edge rushers, is there anybody better
Speaker 1: who needs them back with a strong year? Is that
Speaker 1: Chicago's only chance? You know that they you expect them
Speaker 1: if they're going to be in playoff contention, they have
Speaker 1: to be dominant on defense like they were in that
Speaker 1: first MAX season for stretches. Yeah, they seem like a
Speaker 1: team that and I don't like this dynamic at all.
Speaker 1: That there were too many games where it's like, unless
Speaker 1: they pull off a pick six in the final ten minutes,
Speaker 1: they're not winning the game. I mean it was like
Speaker 1: they need they've they've needed their defense to produce points. Alright, Greg,
Speaker 1: all right, I like this one. Um. Only two receivers
Speaker 1: in NFL history have gained more yards in there before
Speaker 1: their age twenty three than Juju Smith Schuster. Those two receivers,
Speaker 1: by the way, we're Randy Moss and Josh Gordon. What
Speaker 1: a what a combo there. I feel like people have
Speaker 1: given up on Juju as like a difference making receiver
Speaker 1: a little too Steelers maybe right, including the Steelers maybe,
Speaker 1: as I'm not saying that he's he's Julio Jones exactly.
Speaker 1: And uh maybe last here felt like a bit of
Speaker 1: a bit, a bit of a la reveal that he
Speaker 1: had so much trouble with the double coverage that he
Speaker 1: was getting in missing Antonio Brown. But he also had
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph as his quarterback. He also had Duck Hodges
Speaker 1: as his quarterback. He's a young player who hadn't had
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of adversity, and I think
Speaker 1: what he showed in his couple of seasons to start
Speaker 1: his career makes some a great candidate. Uh for what
Speaker 1: Erica was talking about a little early, Come on, Erica,
Speaker 1: hit it. Let's hear it. Create that d D drama
Speaker 1: vide he d J Dallas, Yeah that was me. Did
Speaker 1: you just do that like while we were doing the
Speaker 1: front half of the show. Wait, you guys are doing
Speaker 1: a show. Well. I also think is in a good spot. Um.
Speaker 1: I think that receiver group in Pittsburgh's pretty good. Uh.
Speaker 1: You add Claypool, who who they think supposedly he's gonna
Speaker 1: start Chase Claypool. We'll see. I mean everyone's high on
Speaker 1: rookies this time of year. He's a six four guy
Speaker 1: that they say blocks as well as Hines Ward. And
Speaker 1: you can go deep. You have James Washington, who led
Speaker 1: their team in receiving last year, who might be their
Speaker 1: fourth receiver now. Deonte Johnson was pretty good as a
Speaker 1: rookie and and suddenly it's kind of back to this
Speaker 1: whole thing where the Steelers have a nice receiver crew
Speaker 1: that takes a little pressure after Juju, I think he
Speaker 1: can be a nice little bounce Pa. I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I think like he There's a metric out there that
Speaker 1: the percentage of catchable passages that went towards Juju's direction
Speaker 1: last season UM compared to the year with Big Ben
Speaker 1: in the in the lineup dropped like ten percentage points.
Speaker 1: I mean, so you know, the the quarterback uh situation
Speaker 1: falling off a cliff had a huge impact on him.
Speaker 1: And I think he's got to be motivated to basically
Speaker 1: turned Antonio Brown into a liar because it was Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown that went on air UM not too long ago
Speaker 1: and squawked endlessly about the fact that Juju is not
Speaker 1: a lead receiver UM and simply you know it made
Speaker 1: his a off of Antonio Brown pulling the top cornerback
Speaker 1: lack Colonels, Farcesler, come back, come back Colinals. Can we
Speaker 1: just come back with box come back Clonals, come back good.
Speaker 1: It's the three minute version of this, son. Are we
Speaker 1: just sitting random buttons now totally off hanging out and
Speaker 1: hanging out right now? I'm with you guys. By the way,
Speaker 1: I don't want to put um, you know, a hex
Speaker 1: on any of these guys. But this, this, this topic
Speaker 1: is a tough one for me because my fantasy team
Speaker 1: was Alvin Kamara first and Juju Smith Schuster second. But Juju,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Like the quarterback, like we said,
Speaker 1: was not there and then for you to then think
Speaker 1: that he's he's peaked or he's not a true number
Speaker 1: one because the Duke Devon or what what was his name,
Speaker 1: Dutch Devil, Duck Hodges Duck Hodges likes and Mason Rudolph
Speaker 1: like these guys, these guys can't play. I mean, we
Speaker 1: we learned that. So you're a fresh start. Now. The
Speaker 1: one caveat I'll add is we'll find out a big
Speaker 1: Ben can still play, yeah, after a year off, but
Speaker 1: that could hold back his ceiling as well, if he's
Speaker 1: even just healthy enough to But I have thought about that,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like the Steelers are the biggest boomer bust.
Speaker 1: See if if Ben Roethlisberger is healthy and plays like
Speaker 1: he did a couple of years ago, it's like they're
Speaker 1: a super Bowl contender. But it would it surprise anyone
Speaker 1: I feel never plays much or plays well again, Like
Speaker 1: he feels like that's possible. A thirty eight year old
Speaker 1: coming off elbow surgery. Normally we would say like that
Speaker 1: kind of guy is done well, you know, we'll have
Speaker 1: to see and currently looks like a troll living under
Speaker 1: a bridge. So no, that would not surprise me. Did
Speaker 1: anyone else find like when you were doing this exercise,
Speaker 1: you could point to almost the entire offense for several teams,
Speaker 1: and the Steelers being one of them, James Conner, but
Speaker 1: the Eagles Carson wentz Um with health receivers and then
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders emerging, uh, and the Browns to me or
Speaker 1: another one where the entire offense could just bounce back.
Speaker 1: I feel like the Steelers for me, rise above everyone
Speaker 1: in terms of you have no idea which way they're
Speaker 1: going as an organization. They could be playing the NFC
Speaker 1: title game. They can go six and ten. To me,
Speaker 1: it's it's really it's really hard. And I think James
Speaker 1: Conner like on that subject, I have whiplash because I
Speaker 1: remember the beginning of the season when all anybody in
Speaker 1: the football Gagna sent. The I had to say was
Speaker 1: that this guy can play. You'll see he's going to
Speaker 1: be a stud. And then he had a really nice
Speaker 1: season and class road to this offseason. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: he can't play, he can't carry the load. And I
Speaker 1: know the Steelers internally were disappointed about last year too,
Speaker 1: but last year was pretty messed up. That whole offense
Speaker 1: got sidetracked by the quarterback injury. I just wonder if
Speaker 1: he is a guy that could be bouncing back, which
Speaker 1: you're not hearing a lot of. But I also argue
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin, I'll let is played instead. Yes, Mark Well,
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say I thought that Mike Tomlin
Speaker 1: was coach of the Year material ten or eleven weeks
Speaker 1: until last year. I know other teams would have gone
Speaker 1: three and thirteen in that situation. I mean, the defense
Speaker 1: is still arguably maybe top two or three in the league. Well,
Speaker 1: while we're on the Steelers, Eric Ebron is another guy
Speaker 1: down year with the Colts last year, signs up the Steelers.
Speaker 1: Big Ben's always liked a big red zone weapon, and
Speaker 1: and Abrons proved to be one of the better red
Speaker 1: zone tight ends in the league over the last couple
Speaker 1: of years. All you want to throw out quick ones
Speaker 1: before we start off, sure, I'll go um back to Chicago,
Speaker 1: and I think the combination of Matt Nagy and Nick
Speaker 1: Foles who who both Um, I thought last year very
Speaker 1: disappointing for both in different ways. Now they're together. I
Speaker 1: like the fact that Nick Foles knows this coaching off
Speaker 1: really well. Offensive coordinator, head coach, quarterback, coach has worked
Speaker 1: with all of them, so you know, it's not like
Speaker 1: you have to learn a new system. Um, it's a
Speaker 1: good fit for Nick Foles. I'm always suspicious of Nick
Speaker 1: Foles when he is named a starter for the entire season.
Speaker 1: Can he get through without another? Um? You know, it's
Speaker 1: one injury after the next. And frankly like was not
Speaker 1: a good quarterback when he played for the Jaguars last year.
Speaker 1: So that both this combination were people not to trust
Speaker 1: there believing well, So none of these guys are coming
Speaker 1: someone that well because that you believe in as a
Speaker 1: comeback Baker Mayfield, Marcus Like, I can't think of anyone
Speaker 1: other than the Browns I'm gonna pick. Let me throw
Speaker 1: one other name out who I do think, who I
Speaker 1: do think could have a comeback season. Who I've also
Speaker 1: flamed on this show recently. Mike McCarthy. Okay, Cowboys coach
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy because him as well. Well, here's what I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of pressure on Mike McCarthy. What
Speaker 1: I was questioning is if the man himself has gone
Speaker 1: through this um incredible personal revolution that we were, you know,
Speaker 1: that has been touted all offseason, that needs a changed person.
Speaker 1: I don't. I believe people can change. I don't know
Speaker 1: if all football coaches can to the same degree. And
Speaker 1: but it would be an incredible disappointment if Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: and the combination of what they have on offense don't
Speaker 1: go to the playoffs. This was an eight and eight
Speaker 1: team last season last year. Uh, what's not to like
Speaker 1: about Mike McCarthy stepping into this role in a NFC
Speaker 1: East that has two very questionable teams in the Giants
Speaker 1: and Redskins right in there. So if they're not a
Speaker 1: wild card team with an extra seventh team added to
Speaker 1: the NFC, UM it would be a I consider a
Speaker 1: massive problem for Mike McCarthy to have to deal with.
Speaker 1: Pr wise, UM, I had Baker Mayfield on my list
Speaker 1: as well. He just makes a ton of sense how
Speaker 1: promising was as a rookie, and the the Browns obviously
Speaker 1: poured a lot of resources and tender love and care
Speaker 1: in trying to get things fixed around him, So now
Speaker 1: he's just gotta do it. And uh, I will throw
Speaker 1: in one more running back, Todd Gurley, who everyone has
Speaker 1: essentially written off, and as I've noted on this podcast,
Speaker 1: the Rams offensive line was kind of crap last year
Speaker 1: and he still found the end zone a ton last year,
Speaker 1: and these professional athletes are are proud dudes. I wonder
Speaker 1: if a fresh start is exactly what what he needs
Speaker 1: in Atlanta in a nice set up there, with a
Speaker 1: good offense around him. Is Todd Gurley ever going to
Speaker 1: be the guy that exploded on the scene? Uh with
Speaker 1: the Rams? Probably not? But can he be a Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl guy total yard, ten touchdown guy this year? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: And to me that would be comeback season. Yeah. He
Speaker 1: was on my list too, And it's not something I
Speaker 1: feel strongly about because there's still so many questions. But
Speaker 1: I thought he did run better around Thanksgiving and into
Speaker 1: December last year. And I don't know, another year removed
Speaker 1: from a nebulus knee injury that we never really figured
Speaker 1: out what it was. I guess it's arthritic now, but
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know. Maybe another year away will help um.
Speaker 1: But but going a little bit deeper, a guy I
Speaker 1: thought was the best running back on the forty Niners
Speaker 1: entering last season. Matt Breeda now with the Dolphins, and
Speaker 1: I think it's a better player than Jordan Howard. So
Speaker 1: if he can stay healthy, which for Matt Brida is
Speaker 1: a huge if because he never stays healthy, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's I think he's over five yards per carry
Speaker 1: for his career. He's a dynamic, playmaking running back when
Speaker 1: he's healthy. Close out, all right, I'm gonna run through
Speaker 1: a the speed round. Maybe we'll get to these topics
Speaker 1: later in the offseason. Mattie Ice with Todd Gurley. You
Speaker 1: know he didn't play that great last year or either.
Speaker 1: I think he can get better. Uh my boy, Phil Rivers,
Speaker 1: I'm just sensing I'm gonna be into the Colts this year. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I'm with the team of westl this year.
Speaker 1: It's the Cults, Bronco Colts. Oh, I'm higher on the Cools. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm into the Heart like your hearts with Denver though, no,
Speaker 1: I think you guys want my heart to be with Denver. Well,
Speaker 1: I consider that news. So I thought you were all
Speaker 1: in on the Broncos. I know you guys did Uh
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh, I think is getting back in the lab.
Speaker 1: He's got some young players. Uh, he's got Cooper cut back.
Speaker 1: I could see Sean McVeigh coming back and looking a
Speaker 1: little smarter this year. But I'm gonna wrap up and
Speaker 1: and be a bit longer and the more surprising deck.
Speaker 1: How about the Jaguars defense, which you look, you lose Shamble,
Speaker 1: but you you look at their front seven and you
Speaker 1: have Josh Allen, who was almost a defensive Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year. You have Unique and Gockway who's back. He
Speaker 1: has no choice. He's playing. He can make more money
Speaker 1: by week three than he's made an his entire career.
Speaker 1: He's not holding out and so they knew that. Um,
Speaker 1: they're okay. In the middle, you get Joe Schober who
Speaker 1: was a pretty good pick up, Miles Jack's coming off
Speaker 1: a bad year. You draft uh, Collevion Chase On like
Speaker 1: that's a that's a nice looking h little front seven
Speaker 1: H for the Jacksonville Jaguars, And I think, I mean
Speaker 1: they were so bad, they were one of the worst
Speaker 1: defensive league. It didn't make any sense. Put a button
Speaker 1: on this by somebody's gotta bring up Cam Newton, and
Speaker 1: I know he doesn't have a team, but if he
Speaker 1: if he's when he signs, I just think there's a
Speaker 1: chance he could not only you know, end up starting games,
Speaker 1: depending depending where he goes. But surprise, a lot of
Speaker 1: people are still just thirty one years old. Hopefully the
Speaker 1: shoulder is right and uh, I'd like to see it,
Speaker 1: but he's got a sign to the team, so it's
Speaker 1: hard to really prognosticate that. But Cam Newton obvious comeback
Speaker 1: Player of the Year candidate, if he ever got the
Speaker 1: opportunity this year, where would you want to see him play?
Speaker 1: If if it was up to Dan Hantis, like you
Speaker 1: most enjoy it. I already know it. Den. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: on board with that. And that defense again in my
Speaker 1: mentions are gonna be attacking me, but you look, he's
Speaker 1: the next savior. Calm down. Cam Newton would make you
Speaker 1: a better team. He'd make the Bears better instantly. I
Speaker 1: know they're tied up in all this money with foals
Speaker 1: who have just touted us a comeback figure. I mean,
Speaker 1: it always mystified me that they didn't just go after
Speaker 1: Cam Newton to begin with. He looked, he looked perfect
Speaker 1: in the Bear's uniform ian he'd fit everything, He'd fit perfectly.
Speaker 1: Got an awesome comeback situation. Your endorsement of nick fools
Speaker 1: last seconds. Well, I'm just I yeah, I'm seeing those
Speaker 1: guys need to come Back's important person in your organization
Speaker 1: is your quarterback. In the second most important person in
Speaker 1: your organization is your back up quarter back. Go get one.
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