Speaker 1: The Around the NFL podcast, It is perfectly positioned to
Speaker 1: make their heel turn. Oh, I love that. From the
Speaker 1: Phoenix Convention Center. It's around the NFL Arizona super Bowl
Speaker 1: addition the Big Game. Actually, it was a clock behind
Speaker 1: us as we record this. The Super bowls two days,
Speaker 1: seven hours, two minutes and twenty one seconds away. Now seconds.
Speaker 1: If we take the heel turn, though, what do I do?
Speaker 1: Because I've been the heel the whole time. You guys
Speaker 1: are the bad guys for the next ten years of
Speaker 1: this show. Have you ever watched the baby face he
Speaker 1: turned baby face? But that never works when they whenever
Speaker 1: they one way or the other of the time, when
Speaker 1: you turn the guy face to heel or heel to face,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a desperate move to reinvent the wrestler
Speaker 1: before you took him into some southern territory and he's
Speaker 1: never heard from me. I think that's where Greg sits
Speaker 1: at this point. I think that's what the sound upset
Speaker 1: our entire podcast, that we're at ten on the precipice
Speaker 1: of irrelevance around the NFL. We're right when we're feeling
Speaker 1: our ourselves. Uh, you guys have been feeling yourselves this week,
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm I feel feeling myself. I'm conceded very
Speaker 1: close to the sun, flying high on borrowed wings. What
Speaker 1: what Mark? Now? A little pop culture reference? What I
Speaker 1: just said? It was funny? Yeah, Greg legs wrap. So
Speaker 1: um hey, before we get into things, we have NFL
Speaker 1: honors recap including Hall of Fame, uh inductions or announcements.
Speaker 1: We have some sandwich props or Super Bowl fifty seven
Speaker 1: to share. We have guests, good ones, some of the
Speaker 1: best running backs in football on this show today. How
Speaker 1: about that? How how are we gonna do? You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. How are we going to do? What?
Speaker 1: As interviewers? Yeah, I don't know. Interlock getters. It's pretty
Speaker 1: hit or miss. So it's hopefully it goes well. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: the running games dead, running backs are irrelevant, not today,
Speaker 1: not on this show. Very well done. But more importantly,
Speaker 1: I think that one of the things that people love
Speaker 1: about the show is the human side of it. And
Speaker 1: I think we need to Mark address something very human
Speaker 1: that happened yesterday. We were at a Super Bowl sware
Speaker 1: um and um justin we couldn't help but notice that
Speaker 1: something seemed off with our producer or the grave digger. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I think if you get to know Justin
Speaker 1: in general and Greg used the word yesterday, which I
Speaker 1: think was apt um an unflappable individual on the work scene.
Speaker 1: But then we went out socially with him and um,
Speaker 1: something just seemed off that I would describe him as Jerry.
Speaker 1: I thought at one point maybe he had a bomb
Speaker 1: attached to his body and just didn't want to tell us.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. There was something strange. There was like
Speaker 1: you're waiting for like a wink, like I'm in day injured,
Speaker 1: please help me? Um? And and where are you Justin?
Speaker 1: How are you right now? I feel good? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like this was a bit of
Speaker 1: you guys just maybe reading a little too much into
Speaker 1: me being a little quiet. We're all experts at the
Speaker 1: human conduct. I will say, I'm definitely missing my my
Speaker 1: bay my boo. Yes it does. She's known on this show.
Speaker 1: I mean, Justin, did you get a chance to communicate
Speaker 1: with her after we had we heard an update on that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I went home from our soiree and FaceTime with her
Speaker 1: for about five hours. Really nice night together, just hanging
Speaker 1: out and watched the movie together. Just like on FaceTime,
Speaker 1: she's coming here, right, she'll be here this afternoon. And
Speaker 1: you had a five hour conversation on FaceTime last night.
Speaker 1: It's just like every day away from her is heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: So you know what, you're in love and I I
Speaker 1: applaud you justin thank you. You know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: check my cynicism at the door. I'm happy for you
Speaker 1: as well. Thanks. That's pretty intense, though. I gotta say
Speaker 1: that is young. The five hour thing, respect it, love it, um,
Speaker 1: it's beautiful. How much you guys miss each other. Is
Speaker 1: there a chance that someone's kidnapped a member of your
Speaker 1: family and they told them that you can't tell your
Speaker 1: podcast host. I think there's a chance cook up a
Speaker 1: cover story about something. Something more is happening, And we're
Speaker 1: concerned and we and we love you. I really appreciate
Speaker 1: and there will be better days. Justin like you're concerned
Speaker 1: means a lot to me. And I just appreciate how
Speaker 1: much you want to know if if there was a kidnapping.
Speaker 1: But no, everything's fine, everything's good. And just so people
Speaker 1: don't think that we're raging a holes, we did actually
Speaker 1: text justin after the event, sincere fashion and a sober
Speaker 1: fashion to ask if you were all right? Sober feels strong?
Speaker 1: Sincere It was nice segment. I love you guys, so
Speaker 1: thank you? All right good? I love you too. Butty,
Speaker 1: you've done great work all week, first first super Bowl
Speaker 1: in the big chair. We sort of take it for
Speaker 1: granted because, like Mark said, um, this is a man
Speaker 1: without flaps, unflappable but doing a great job. Two thousand
Speaker 1: people in England. You know it's up to two. Uh No.
Speaker 1: Mark's text last night at eight pm was funny night, Hey, justin,
Speaker 1: we love you. If you're really having a rough evening,
Speaker 1: tomorrow will be new and good. And then I chimed
Speaker 1: in with that you are not alone, and you wrote
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys, heart, everything is good smiley face. And
Speaker 1: that was when he's probably been our two of his
Speaker 1: conversation with his live in girlfriend. But that's the real
Speaker 1: less we care about coming today. I gotta you, gotta bridge.
Speaker 1: How do know if all of our listeners uh love
Speaker 1: the six minute up there here, but our cameraman it's
Speaker 1: our m v P of the week and he's been
Speaker 1: laughing at all the jokes. I'd love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: He has a name. Yeah, I know, I know, but
Speaker 1: Travis Travis. I didn't know it. Remember, and I said
Speaker 1: yesterday percent of our show is for the listener and
Speaker 1: two percent is for us. We're now down, okay, but
Speaker 1: actually four percents for Travis, four ninety four for the listeners,
Speaker 1: for for Travis the cameraman, two for us. Like you
Speaker 1: broke that down accurately, did it? Ad up? Um? Hey,
Speaker 1: all right, let's get into some NFL Honors talk. Let's
Speaker 1: hit the news Tom one seven times. He's on some beasts,
Speaker 1: so maybe Kirk could win. Yeh, since he's been gone.
Speaker 1: First of all, you can really see what Kirk cousin
Speaker 1: cousins wearing many many chains as per the bit uh
Speaker 1: the season singing with the Great Kelly Clarkson at NFL Honors.
Speaker 1: I thought Kelly did a nice job. By the way,
Speaker 1: that's a good job by Kelly Closen. Yeah she did.
Speaker 1: She she leaned into her strength out of a challenge.
Speaker 1: She's a great singing. Good job by huh um and
Speaker 1: uh Cousins. And that was, by the way, a interpretation
Speaker 1: of since You've been gone, not the Kelly Clarkson song
Speaker 1: that you guessed, which was, what, Well, no, it's like,
Speaker 1: please don't forget to dance, uh, when you're dancing, Like,
Speaker 1: but you know, Kirk Cousins just let you know. Um,
Speaker 1: I wasn't so surprised to see that he was adequate
Speaker 1: on stage because there was that footage that came out
Speaker 1: of him at Holland Christian High School where he was
Speaker 1: in a school play and you know it was made
Speaker 1: fun of. But that's another aspect of his god given abilities.
Speaker 1: He's a thespian. Of the of the three NFL players
Speaker 1: who did sing him, Cameron Jordan and Kidd All, I
Speaker 1: think I think Kirk was the most ready for the moment.
Speaker 1: But Kidd get awesome. You know, some hoodspot to his performance.
Speaker 1: That's good. Kiddle loves it. He loves the stage. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get into it. The winners of the major it's
Speaker 1: a major award, uh, two thousand three NFL Honors. And
Speaker 1: by the way, Greggy, we were talking about this while
Speaker 1: it was on in the Hotel Barrowin getting some dinner
Speaker 1: with our producer Jason mcleinman. Um, this is nice. I
Speaker 1: like the NFL Honors feel has come into itself and
Speaker 1: it is nice. That the guy you know. You see,
Speaker 1: all these guys get to go up on stage, they
Speaker 1: get to be dressed up, they give their speeches. I
Speaker 1: guess it's kind of phemeral and silly, but also so
Speaker 1: our real award shows quote unquote, like the Grammys and
Speaker 1: Oscars and all that. Why not, right, I think, uh
Speaker 1: like m v P is a more definitive and uh
Speaker 1: sometimes earned award than some of some of the acting awards,
Speaker 1: where it's like it more of an art form, like
Speaker 1: we can almost definitively say Patrick Mahomes is the best
Speaker 1: player in the league. And I think putting it on
Speaker 1: Thursday night's been a big move. He used to be
Speaker 1: on the weekend then get a little buried. So yes,
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes wins the m v P. He got forty
Speaker 1: eight out of the fifty first place votes. Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: got a first place vote. Josh Allen got a first
Speaker 1: place vote. Hurts came in So the point system they
Speaker 1: have it was Mahomes four ninety, Hurts one three, Alan
Speaker 1: one one. Uh, So there you go. It was a
Speaker 1: runaway win for the Chiefs quarterback, who will attempt to
Speaker 1: win his second Super Bowl on Sunday. Here in Arizona. Um,
Speaker 1: any thoughts on that? Should I just keep rolling through
Speaker 1: the awards here getting to that quickly, especially if he
Speaker 1: were to win like a Super Bowl MVP. That quickly
Speaker 1: is you know, it is worth mentioning. Completely unprecedented in
Speaker 1: the history of the NFL. I mean to have the
Speaker 1: team's success and the m v P success that early
Speaker 1: in his career. For instance, it took Tom Brady eleven
Speaker 1: years to like get get all those awards. But the
Speaker 1: harder part is winning on Sunday. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's gonna do that. We shall see. I like the
Speaker 1: I like the voting that you get to see, like
Speaker 1: who gets votes. Uh, it's a little weird that Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence came in seventh for m v P. But I
Speaker 1: guess that's what I have that far down and it's like,
Speaker 1: come on, Gino Smith got a fifth place vote for it?
Speaker 1: You know we know who cast that mote? We do?
Speaker 1: You would? I mean, I would love it if I
Speaker 1: had a vote. Danny Kellington, Uh, the the uh, the trainer,
Speaker 1: the E M T medical professional who helped with the
Speaker 1: Bill's got a fifth place vote? How about that? Wow? Um,
Speaker 1: that's strange Offensive Player of the Year, although that man
Speaker 1: is a hero. I don't know who should be getting
Speaker 1: a an MVP vote for a play on the Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson h one Offensive Player of the Year. Uh And
Speaker 1: you know what, Greg, I know you've long been down
Speaker 1: Offensive Player of the Year as an award, but it
Speaker 1: does allow a player like Jefferson to be recognized for
Speaker 1: his greatness when otherwise it's a quarterback that's always gonna
Speaker 1: take that big trophy for offensive greatness. So maybe there
Speaker 1: is a lane for the O p. O Y Trophy
Speaker 1: for just make it. I just think make well, why
Speaker 1: not just make quarterbacks ineligible for it? Then they kind
Speaker 1: of are, though, aren't they Definitely they're not ineligible. But
Speaker 1: Homes came in second and Hurts came in third, and
Speaker 1: it wasn't like a blowout voter or anything. So we
Speaker 1: could have had a situation where my home is one bolt.
Speaker 1: I think it should be a non QB award. Can
Speaker 1: you look up the last ten offensive Player of the
Speaker 1: Year awards? Thank you Defensive Player of the Year Nick
Speaker 1: Bosa and that uh was widely expected. Not a ton
Speaker 1: of drama, uh man, big big, big day for my
Speaker 1: team because the Jets win. They sweep Offensive Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year Garrett Wilson and Defensive Rookie of the Year
Speaker 1: Sauce Gardner, not to mention, Darell Reeves goes into the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Jill Cleco finally gets into all the fame.
Speaker 1: Nice day for a fan base otherwise that doesn't get
Speaker 1: a lot of nice days. Um, And I think it's
Speaker 1: interesting with Sauce. I'm very happy. I would have been
Speaker 1: really upset. Garrett Wilson absolutely can have made a case
Speaker 1: for other guys in that category, Um, although he deserved
Speaker 1: it as well. But Sauce I thought was truly special.
Speaker 1: And I think it's fitting Mark Um in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways. I remember on this very podcast in August,
Speaker 1: Um talking about how the way the Beat reporters and
Speaker 1: people close to that team we're talking about Sauce and
Speaker 1: training camp, uh, was the way they talked about Revs,
Speaker 1: Like right away, you knew this guy is different. He's
Speaker 1: going to hit the ground running and be a star.
Speaker 1: And it's fitting to me. On the same night that
Speaker 1: Sauces on the stage winning Rookie of the Year, Revis
Speaker 1: is on that stage getting the Hall of Fame um,
Speaker 1: which he obviously greatly deserved as well. Very nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's symmetry and poetry to that. And you know, there
Speaker 1: is also symmetry to the fact that Darrelle Revis never
Speaker 1: really had a quarterback in New York and like that's
Speaker 1: what needs to be different for that the case right
Speaker 1: now too, and it's it's it says a lot about
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson to win and very deserving. I was on
Speaker 1: the Brock party train, but I mean, I have no
Speaker 1: issue with him winning, and to do it with so
Speaker 1: much quarterback carousel and chaos in New York, it says
Speaker 1: a lot about him, just sort of that the receivers
Speaker 1: that can do that or next level, and he already
Speaker 1: looks like he's gonna be an absolute star for a
Speaker 1: decade to come. So Garrett Wilson won this award because
Speaker 1: they changed the voting procedures. Uh. Ken Walker had more
Speaker 1: first place votes, so in in every year previous he
Speaker 1: would have won the award. And I'm glad they changed
Speaker 1: the voting because Walker had nineteen first place votes. Uh,
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson had eighteen. It was very close. Uh, Brock
Speaker 1: Purdy had a number of first place votes and was
Speaker 1: reasonably close uh for third place too, but Wilson was
Speaker 1: more consistent across the board, made all the ballots, you know,
Speaker 1: had more second place votes, and ended up winning by
Speaker 1: a decent margin because and I think he was the
Speaker 1: better option. I would have had Wilson and olave A
Speaker 1: one too, I would have had a lava over those
Speaker 1: other top two. I think he finished fourth. I know, Uh,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is on his retreat right now. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna go. I'm just gonna try to just let him
Speaker 1: know what's going on. Right now. I'm just gonna knocked
Speaker 1: gently on his door, mis retreat. I gotta tell you something,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm kicking the store in Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: The Jets swept the Rookie of the Year categories Let's go,
Speaker 1: we have a future. We just need you wake up,
Speaker 1: wake up? All right? Feel feels like that if that's
Speaker 1: gonna work, I feel like that would be absolutely counterproductive, right.
Speaker 1: That is like the one he's like, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to New York, get up anyway. Uh, Comeback Player of
Speaker 1: the Year, Gino Smith, another well earned award. Greggy, congratulations
Speaker 1: to you personally on that. The biggest surprise again. We're
Speaker 1: sitting in the hotel bar. We're watching this. Uh the
Speaker 1: sound is off, but we hear, we see, we read
Speaker 1: lips Gino Smith. What a moment, Gino is gonna go
Speaker 1: up there? And Gino famously began the season in such
Speaker 1: an exciting way where he beat Russell Wilson and the
Speaker 1: Broncos and that much hyped uh showdown in Week one,
Speaker 1: and then after the game had the famous quote they
Speaker 1: wrote me off at right back. That's the problem. Right back,
Speaker 1: Let's go and Greggy. I was so excited to hear
Speaker 1: what he had prepared for this and he wasn't there.
Speaker 1: Did we get any type of update on why that
Speaker 1: was the case. I felt like a perfect moment. You
Speaker 1: could argue is the greatest moment in Gino's professional career. Well,
Speaker 1: I would point out the five touchdown and performance at
Speaker 1: the Flag football game last week, where he really was
Speaker 1: probably the m D p uh No. I don't know
Speaker 1: why he wasn't there. He sent out a little tweet
Speaker 1: many hours before, um thanking God, and that was probably
Speaker 1: when he found out they had a Seahawks fan Joel
Speaker 1: McHale and the seat and a fan of the Year
Speaker 1: from the NFL, who was the Seahawks fan, uh give
Speaker 1: the award, so they clearly knew it was gonna be
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, maybe he felt like he
Speaker 1: had his weekend in the sun in Vegas because I
Speaker 1: I know, you guys didn't watch a lot of the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl games. But it did kind of feel like
Speaker 1: Gino was the star of the show. They really made
Speaker 1: a big deal. They even they even asked him after
Speaker 1: he like did the little target practice thing, like so
Speaker 1: you you're right back yet, and he was like, still
Speaker 1: haven't written back, And it was like maybe he felt
Speaker 1: like he checked those boxes. Who knows you've got to
Speaker 1: show up to this, I mean, unless there was something
Speaker 1: going on that, like I mean what it's this is
Speaker 1: the biggest thing that's happened to Gino Smith, and it's
Speaker 1: the biggest thing might ever happen to We have no
Speaker 1: idea if this will this play will continue to no
Speaker 1: show on this to me is an odd move, But
Speaker 1: I don't know why how about this? It could be
Speaker 1: a lot of in the midst of contract negotiations, he
Speaker 1: goes up there with a planned, carefully cultivated speech that
Speaker 1: like tears the house down, that makes him more valuable
Speaker 1: to the Seahawks, like this guy, we kind of got
Speaker 1: a start. It could have been, like you know what,
Speaker 1: the loser of the night is, Gino Smith. Greg, you
Speaker 1: gotta know this is ridiculous. I think him giving that
Speaker 1: speech could have it. You're speaking to so many other
Speaker 1: football players that are wondering what will happen with their
Speaker 1: careers if they're stifled right and now, if they're not
Speaker 1: who the all who they are? And he goes and
Speaker 1: says nothing he knows, but we don't know why. So well,
Speaker 1: maybe we don't know. It could maybe he's uncomfortable with
Speaker 1: all the attention. And AI don't think that he's been
Speaker 1: so outspoken and so like he's been. He loves he's
Speaker 1: loved being on the mike this whole season. He could
Speaker 1: have been the voice of the disenfranchised. It was a
Speaker 1: lost opportunity on that front to help others, to inspire others. Dan,
Speaker 1: we're getting Greg mad. We're gonna stop. Coach of the Year,
Speaker 1: Brian Dable Mark, Now you take your bow. I know
Speaker 1: you that is your boy to well, I not no,
Speaker 1: I actually want thought that Kyle Shanahan should win this.
Speaker 1: But I think that Brian table Coach of the Year
Speaker 1: is we just accept that it is narrative driven, and
Speaker 1: he's more than a narrative. He turned what we think
Speaker 1: about the New York Giants completely around. I think he's
Speaker 1: difference making coach and I think he's totally deserving, and
Speaker 1: I mean what he sort of checks all the boxes
Speaker 1: for it. He does it. I think it is hard
Speaker 1: for like, I mean, what what else do you want
Speaker 1: from coach of the here? It seems like it's never
Speaker 1: really always the Angelo. It's not the best coach necessary.
Speaker 1: It was that made the biggest difference for a team
Speaker 1: in disarray to the playoffs. Shanahan was close. He came.
Speaker 1: He came in second, Peterson. Peterson came in third. Doug,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about this? I feel like you,
Speaker 1: you know, you came close to the a f C
Speaker 1: title game. He's a made a few words, and he's
Speaker 1: very repetitive as well. I feel like Nick Sirianni, though,
Speaker 1: was a pretty big victim of his success. Everyone, once
Speaker 1: you got through Week two or three, thought the Eagles
Speaker 1: were this great team. But they were like the tenth
Speaker 1: most likely team to win the Super Bowl in the
Speaker 1: preseason odds. They were by far the best team, and
Speaker 1: when you look at in season decision making, like during games,
Speaker 1: he's really stood out there too, And he was like
Speaker 1: an afterthought here. He was kind of a stacked category
Speaker 1: this year. I thought, yeah, it wouldn't really go wrong.
Speaker 1: But congratulations to Dable. I think the deable one I
Speaker 1: felt because they a lot of people thought that's a
Speaker 1: four and thirteen team this year. Absolutely, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he's deserving. To me, I would have gone Siria one table,
Speaker 1: all right? Any other thoughts on the big You know,
Speaker 1: I saw our friend Rachel Bannetta was doing the red carpet.
Speaker 1: Did you happen to catch Rachel's song about the third
Speaker 1: Kelsey brother? Well, talk about being in your wheelhouse? This
Speaker 1: is what she what she's excellent at. You got a
Speaker 1: little bit. I think it's a song for all time.
Speaker 1: It's a classic, and there's a big gaming down. I
Speaker 1: got a story you might find interesting, goes a little
Speaker 1: something like this. On the dark side of the desert
Speaker 1: with the super Bowls to be played, someone sweeting in
Speaker 1: the winds to join this big parade. You say it's
Speaker 1: the bull of brothers, but that's just not quite right.
Speaker 1: Someone you don't know about it. Man, there's no as By.
Speaker 1: He's the third Kelsey brother. His name is a fail,
Speaker 1: but he works for a plus A, sells copper wearer,
Speaker 1: and man, he sells it well. He may not have
Speaker 1: the muscle, and he may not have the might. He
Speaker 1: may not be going to the Hall of Fame. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you he's doing all right. Could it be?
Speaker 1: Jo told everyone that he could it be? Because all
Speaker 1: the girls they've loved, well done. Rachel, she is quite talented.
Speaker 1: That Banetta. I mean, she almost annoying. She could be
Speaker 1: singing with Kelly Clarkson. She's you know, she's got the chops.
Speaker 1: She's she's very talented, she's funny, she's a beautiful woman.
Speaker 1: She's got everything. Kind of It's like when I walked
Speaker 1: in on the Kyle Brandt getting a pump in the
Speaker 1: gym yesterday, immediately felt inadequate on a number of levels.
Speaker 1: And he also killed it at NFL Honors. Maybe next
Speaker 1: year we need to may make our imprint on owners
Speaker 1: on some level. She did the great in front of
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson did a good job on that too. Just
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe Kyle and Rachel have skills that we
Speaker 1: don't have I know, it's been a week of us,
Speaker 1: you know, inflating ourselves and suddenly we're polluting close to
Speaker 1: the sun and barred wing. Yeah, you're suggesting that a
Speaker 1: year from now you're gonna be presenting an NFL honors
Speaker 1: like that, you are living in an alternate reality. You
Speaker 1: know what ambition? It bites at the nails of success,
Speaker 1: they say they do before we take a break. Here, Um,
Speaker 1: here the rest of the class of two thousand twenty
Speaker 1: three Hall of him because a defensive dominated class. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know what's kind of cool about this? Now?
Speaker 1: Now we're old enough. It's a lot of reasons. You know,
Speaker 1: getting old is not great in some ways. Some ways
Speaker 1: it is cool. Um, like when these Hall of famers
Speaker 1: now come into um focus and like we remember vividly
Speaker 1: they're playing days. So Ron Day Barber, I mentioned Reeves,
Speaker 1: your boy, Mark, Joe Thomas, Uh left tackle the Browns,
Speaker 1: Zach Thomas, linebacker of the Dolphins, DeMarcus Where great pass
Speaker 1: rusher for the Cowboys, and then Broncos. Uh. Don Corrielle,
Speaker 1: this is where you love. I know West would have
Speaker 1: an amazing, amazing, an innovator as a coach on the
Speaker 1: offensive side of things, and then in the senior class,
Speaker 1: Chuck Howley mentioned Joe Cleco and Ken Riley all gets
Speaker 1: getting nods. Congratulations to all of those men. It's cool.
Speaker 1: And if you get a chance to watch the video
Speaker 1: they I think Steve Weye sent it out of how
Speaker 1: they learn that they are Hall of famers. They're now
Speaker 1: using kind of ex players to do that knock thing
Speaker 1: where they find out that they get it. So it's
Speaker 1: they're not using the big man anymore. No, well, he's
Speaker 1: no longer running the Hall of Fame day David Baker
Speaker 1: and uh so it's like Tayla who also played in
Speaker 1: al Equippa same high school as Darrell Reeves. Respectful knock
Speaker 1: Marcus Ware who to me is one of the best
Speaker 1: pass rushers we've ever seen. I think he had to
Speaker 1: wait a year, which that that's how good the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame is. That shocked me, but it was always
Speaker 1: it was only one year. And um, the Don Corrielle
Speaker 1: thing is great and it was great to hear his
Speaker 1: kids so overwhelmed by it. But it also it's a
Speaker 1: little annoying to me when, like you know, he's he
Speaker 1: died twelve years ago, thirteen years ago, and he was
Speaker 1: someone who's impact was pretty obvious and clear that he
Speaker 1: really changed this league into a passing league. And he
Speaker 1: was up year after year after year. And you mentioned West.
Speaker 1: We did talk about Don Corrielle when he kept getting shot,
Speaker 1: you know, pushed back at this stage. So it is
Speaker 1: great to see him, um make it, but you you
Speaker 1: do sometimes wish Ken Riley also um no longer with
Speaker 1: us that you know, if they were gonna make it,
Speaker 1: you'd love to see him, you know, make it while
Speaker 1: there's still it seems like the barrier for some of
Speaker 1: these coaches. So the bar for them, um is a
Speaker 1: little bit all over the map. And it's changing though.
Speaker 1: That's we're seeing more coaching that's getting in. He took
Speaker 1: he took the Charges to two straight a FC title games,
Speaker 1: and I think one of the reasons West would have
Speaker 1: known about him and made an imprint and early in
Speaker 1: his life was one of those was against the Bengals
Speaker 1: in like frigid, like negative eighteen degree weather, and those Chargers, uh,
Speaker 1: they did not make it through that game. He changed
Speaker 1: the game. And yeah, it used to be something where
Speaker 1: the coach and the contributors were going against the players
Speaker 1: and they could never get over them. Um. But he's
Speaker 1: a man if you look compared to certainly a lot
Speaker 1: of players that that are in the Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: and are deserving. Um. That impacted the sport we see
Speaker 1: today as much. I mean the passage of time, like
Speaker 1: like annoyingly like I it struck me that Joe Thomas
Speaker 1: has not played in five years. I kept thinking it
Speaker 1: was that he had retired much more recently than that.
Speaker 1: He's an interesting one because he was so happy and
Speaker 1: his kids were there and they were just like we
Speaker 1: love you when they opened the door and everything. But
Speaker 1: like Joe Thomas, there was no mystery. He's known since
Speaker 1: since like three years before he retired, whether he wanted
Speaker 1: to think about it or not, that he was going
Speaker 1: into the Hall of Fame and um and Kleco was
Speaker 1: a stud for the Jets. He's the first member of
Speaker 1: the New York Sack Exchange to fame New York Sack
Speaker 1: Exchange to make the Hall of Fame with Gastineau, Marty Lions,
Speaker 1: abdual Salam uh and he made the UH. He was
Speaker 1: All Pro and multiple positions the defensive tackle defensive end
Speaker 1: had twenty and a half sacks in eighty one. I
Speaker 1: think I was the year before sacks became an official statistic,
Speaker 1: which also muddled some of those guys because sacks now
Speaker 1: are such an important stat for certain players in the league.
Speaker 1: Big night for the Jets. And um, now that we're
Speaker 1: eight years out, Um, can you be happy for Darrell Revus?
Speaker 1: And it does get a little lost to the shoffle
Speaker 1: that he was an absolutely integral part of the title
Speaker 1: that the Patriots won here in the Malcolm Butler game
Speaker 1: here eight years ago. Be happy for what? For that
Speaker 1: Revus got his ring, A great player and he was
Speaker 1: people kind of forget that season he changed that defense.
Speaker 1: It was one last kind of great season, uh for revs. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think he was a second team All Pro something
Speaker 1: like that. Terrific season and need to be happy about
Speaker 1: I'm just saying now now that he's you know, just
Speaker 1: for the man the Durell Rivas that he got his
Speaker 1: ring with the paper bygones be bygones. I thought that
Speaker 1: um Rivas, who was a kind of very shrewd negotiator.
Speaker 1: That helps spell the end of his first run with
Speaker 1: the Jets. He landed with the Bucks uninspired short term
Speaker 1: stay there then went to the Patriots, so he chased
Speaker 1: the ring, got the ring, came back to the Jets
Speaker 1: in a big contract and fell off hard. Uh, and
Speaker 1: there are questions about his effort. I didn't like in
Speaker 1: general the end of his career. UM. So no, him
Speaker 1: winning a Super Bowl as kind of a hired gun
Speaker 1: does very little for me personally. The Pats was this
Speaker 1: last great moment, but that was it gets a little
Speaker 1: lost to the trouble. I was like, that was a
Speaker 1: great hired gun. But the gist of your argument is
Speaker 1: that Dan needs to come around and celebrating that. And
Speaker 1: I think that's but I wasn't really expected to do
Speaker 1: like first first team All Pro? How about that? That seasons?
Speaker 1: I do like um though, and Greg who's distancing himself
Speaker 1: as a new England sports fan. Sometimes there's the masshole
Speaker 1: comes out sometimes and that's okay. I don't mind that
Speaker 1: I grew up with a lot of them. Um that's good.
Speaker 1: But I do want to just say, like, fans don't
Speaker 1: get a lot of good things. So if you want
Speaker 1: to come in with your six Super Bowl rings and
Speaker 1: then try to tarnish Reevus, that's great, buddy, have fun
Speaker 1: with that. But I will tarnish and what are you
Speaker 1: talking about. Well, you're trying to say like I really
Speaker 1: mean it, Like, no, I'm not saying he's kind of
Speaker 1: a patriot. I'm saying he's an all time great that
Speaker 1: got to have that that that was a big He
Speaker 1: seems like a good guy and I'm happy. I'm sure
Speaker 1: he was very happy to win. The ring came out
Speaker 1: at sace Field last night. The massive came out when
Speaker 1: we were we Yeah, we were at sace Field side
Speaker 1: of game seven of one. Yeah, that was a tough
Speaker 1: one too. Yes, I have an update on those Offensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Year winners that you asked for fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes ago. Very good. Before we go to break, let's
Speaker 1: check in on this, um. Yeah. Peyton Manning quarterback also
Speaker 1: won m vpeen to Marco Murray running back led the
Speaker 1: NFL and rushing yards and rushing touch. That's when the
Speaker 1: Cowboys like drove him into the ground because they had
Speaker 1: no intention of bringing him back. And then he went
Speaker 1: to the Eagles, and then he went to the Titans,
Speaker 1: where he was second in the NFL and rushing. Two
Speaker 1: years later, uten Cam Newton quarterback and m v P
Speaker 1: sixteen Matt Ryan also won m v P. Seen Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley had like scrimmage yards that year, was a machine.
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes also won m v P. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. Michael Thomas set the receptions record, I think
Speaker 1: or receiving yard set a record, Derrick Henry two thousand
Speaker 1: rushing yards one Cooper Cup. It's trending towards non quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: But three of the last you just want to make
Speaker 1: it official. I mean, that's that's three of the last
Speaker 1: seven years the quarterbacks have gotten it. But each of
Speaker 1: the last three we got justin Jefferson, Cooper Cup, Derrick Henry,
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas. But in that world, then the m v
Speaker 1: P has to be a quarterback. No, no, in this
Speaker 1: In this world, you know, quarterbacks, quarterbacks could get left
Speaker 1: out of the cold. I don't think that will ever happened.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but aren't you to turn your vas argument around?
Speaker 1: But aren't you just now can you say you're happy
Speaker 1: for those players that won that Offensive Player of the
Speaker 1: Year award that they could be celebrated that way. I'm
Speaker 1: happy it's a big man steps forward. All right, let's
Speaker 1: take I'm loyal to football. Let's take a break, and
Speaker 1: we will get to our first guest star running back
Speaker 1: Friday Show. All right, So on the Wednesday show, we
Speaker 1: had big time wide receivers Friday Show, some of the
Speaker 1: best all around running backs in the sport, and joining
Speaker 1: us right now is one of them. He is Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones of the Green Bay Packers. What is up, Aaron?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? How are you doing? Thank you
Speaker 1: all for having me like you did have run one
Speaker 1: running back on Wednesday? Year old buddy Jamal, You know
Speaker 1: you're a you have a lot to live up to
Speaker 1: to match what he brought. Just energy. That is a
Speaker 1: high energy guy right there. I love it, but it's contagious. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's been a big year for you are and you're
Speaker 1: coming off a big year. You had your um over
Speaker 1: yards from scrimmage this season, another big year offensively. You're
Speaker 1: the Walter Peyton Man of the Year nominee. Uh for
Speaker 1: the Packers. That's obviously like a huge thing. Um, where
Speaker 1: you where do you stand right now in terms of
Speaker 1: your feelings about where the Packers are and where you
Speaker 1: are with the team. Uh, I feel good where I'm
Speaker 1: at with the team. Uh, you know, talk to Goody.
Speaker 1: He came out and said, Uh, they want me to
Speaker 1: want me back. Um may restructure or whatever it may be,
Speaker 1: but they want me back there. So, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: to be wanted is a great, a great feeling. And
Speaker 1: then uh, I mean I feel like we have everything
Speaker 1: we need there in the locker room. Uh, I feel
Speaker 1: like we started picking it up later on in the season,
Speaker 1: started putting it, putting it together, and uh showed that
Speaker 1: we were capable and we got the pieces we need. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've been there a while now. It's kind of snuck
Speaker 1: up on me when I looked at your your career
Speaker 1: stats and stuff. You're like stacking big. You know, plus
Speaker 1: this year's plus fift hundred yards for the script year.
Speaker 1: After talking about his Pro Football Reference pages starting to
Speaker 1: look beef, I'm just saying, have you been there? You
Speaker 1: could And I know, like they kind of split up work.
Speaker 1: And we had a friend who used to be on
Speaker 1: our show. Chris Westling was always a huge fan. Ures
Speaker 1: he always wanted more work for Aaron John's, more work
Speaker 1: for Air. But all that's split in. Maybe it's kept
Speaker 1: you fresh, it's kept you healthy. You're more productive than ever.
Speaker 1: You have a chance now stack in those years you
Speaker 1: keep coming back. You could be the Packers all time
Speaker 1: leading rusher after a handful more years. What do you
Speaker 1: think about that? I think the w blessing. I've made
Speaker 1: it up to three this year. I think the top
Speaker 1: two or like eight thousand, um, so I still got
Speaker 1: a little bit, a little bit to go. But uh,
Speaker 1: like you said, that's that is definitely one of my goals.
Speaker 1: If I'm there long enough, I feel like I can
Speaker 1: definitely hit that. I gotta ask you, how do you
Speaker 1: feel about you know, when you go on Twitter or
Speaker 1: check out what's going on in the league and you
Speaker 1: see year old wide receiver Davante Adams trying to recruit
Speaker 1: your current quarterback Aaron Rodgers to Las Vegas annoying, It's crazy.
Speaker 1: He already broke my heart once. Take your quarterback? Ian?
Speaker 1: Do you do you talk with Rogers at this time
Speaker 1: of year and get an idea where he's at. I
Speaker 1: just I just give him, give him his space, and
Speaker 1: I'll let him, let him think. He probably already has
Speaker 1: a lot of people in a year. What are you
Speaker 1: gonna do? Ask him questions, let him go in a
Speaker 1: silent retreat. You can contact him right now. He is
Speaker 1: in the dark. Yeah. Is it like in all series.
Speaker 1: You don't. You don't have to answer this, honestly, but
Speaker 1: it'd be cool if you did. Is it kind of
Speaker 1: like at a certain point, like, uh, every off season
Speaker 1: now is about your quarterback and whether he's playing either
Speaker 1: for the team or playing for another team, or retiring
Speaker 1: or going into the darkness forever. It kind of dominates
Speaker 1: everything around the Packers. It has. Uh yeah, I think
Speaker 1: like the last three years. This is the third year,
Speaker 1: so um, it has. That's a lot of the off
Speaker 1: season talk. But you know, those guys in locker room,
Speaker 1: we're were. We know we can control what we can control.
Speaker 1: Just focus on yourself. Uh, get the off season started
Speaker 1: and going, and uh, you know, control what you can control.
Speaker 1: If he's If he's here, great, we love it. If
Speaker 1: he's not, we'll be sad. You know. Um, well we lose,
Speaker 1: we lose one of our leaders, one of our great
Speaker 1: locker room guys. Um and it's you know, it's hard
Speaker 1: to replay somebody like that. But George, I think if
Speaker 1: does happened, Jordan is definitely ready. Uh. You you played
Speaker 1: this Eagos defense. It's gonna be playing on Sunday. You
Speaker 1: know you had, uh, you had some success against them,
Speaker 1: I would be putting it mildly. And they they they
Speaker 1: struggled with your running game when you kind of look
Speaker 1: at this defense and you look at who the Chiefs
Speaker 1: having and everything, like what did you guys do well?
Speaker 1: And like look to attack in terms of like you
Speaker 1: get getting the ball out of the backfield and in
Speaker 1: the running game, like how how do you you approach
Speaker 1: it against this team? We we kind of looked to
Speaker 1: attack the Delon there Delon a little bit. They had
Speaker 1: some like moving pieces that had guys who are uh
Speaker 1: kind of just getting there when we played him, like Sue,
Speaker 1: Sue was just getting there. Um, I can't remember who
Speaker 1: else Uh they had up front of it and all
Speaker 1: Joseph he was just getting there as well. So um,
Speaker 1: we they wasn't playing as much. So He's like, let's
Speaker 1: let's attack the D line. So I mean I feel
Speaker 1: like that's because may have changed a little bit because
Speaker 1: they have some vests stepping in who played in high
Speaker 1: at a high level, so uh, they may have changed
Speaker 1: a little bit. But just uh that and then matching
Speaker 1: up against the backers getting in space. Uh you know
Speaker 1: we ran some screen that pop big. Uh. They just
Speaker 1: moving me around and allowed me up at three and
Speaker 1: on a broken play, UH hit the scrambled during scored
Speaker 1: a touchdown. So uh and just getting trying to get
Speaker 1: vertical as quick as possible because they have a fast defense.
Speaker 1: Those they have guys who who are swarming um and
Speaker 1: but they're they're always in position for the most point.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they don't quite have an Aaron Jones, but
Speaker 1: you can do the Pacheco for the getting vertical and
Speaker 1: the MacKinnon for the catching that to make it happen.
Speaker 1: I definitely thing. I'm a huge fan of put Checko.
Speaker 1: I got the chance to talk to him uh in
Speaker 1: the preseason. I think it was our last preseason game,
Speaker 1: and I saw how you played, and I just went
Speaker 1: up to him and gave him his props and told him,
Speaker 1: I keep going, put your head down. It'll always it'll
Speaker 1: work out for you to put your head down and
Speaker 1: work um and show up every day and stay consistent.
Speaker 1: And that's I believe that's what he did. Because he's
Speaker 1: he's starting, he's having a great year as a rookie.
Speaker 1: So it makes me happy to see Mark. Can you
Speaker 1: engage uh with Aaron for a moment here, I'm doing
Speaker 1: some math figuring out the all time rushing record and
Speaker 1: how we're gonna get Aaron to the Green Bay Packers
Speaker 1: records while I do the math over here, which I
Speaker 1: struggle with. I once got a thirty nine thirty nine
Speaker 1: on the state mandated math test. I thought you about
Speaker 1: to S A C T. I gotta focus, Uh, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I actually was taking a little bit of look at you,
Speaker 1: you the man, the person, and I think the Packers
Speaker 1: could use two of you. But I realized that you
Speaker 1: have a twin brother named Alvin Jones, And I did
Speaker 1: some studies about twins. Right there, that's a I wonder
Speaker 1: if this applies to your relationship is twins. I read
Speaker 1: that UM, twins start interacting in the womb at fourteen weeks,
Speaker 1: although you wouldn't know if that was the case. But
Speaker 1: if you have U twins invent their own languages that
Speaker 1: no one else, your own words, your own syntax. Um,
Speaker 1: this has nothing to do with you. But I learned
Speaker 1: that Gazelle bunche In actually has a twin sister named
Speaker 1: Patricia Buncheon, So that's weird, Like how about your brother?
Speaker 1: How about your relationship with the right it's a football
Speaker 1: player too, Yes, he's a football player. We played together
Speaker 1: all the way up into college. Then I left, I
Speaker 1: got drafted, and then he went to Baltimore for two
Speaker 1: years and now he's playing in the CFL. But um,
Speaker 1: that a lot of what you said is true. We've
Speaker 1: made up our own language before all of that. Uh,
Speaker 1: you got somewhere somewhere, I can't even remember. We were younger.
Speaker 1: I can't remember. Younger people were like, what are you Sam,
Speaker 1: what are you talking? Don't worry about it. That's wild.
Speaker 1: So you I saw you do the your foundation with
Speaker 1: with your brother, right, and you know you're you're one
Speaker 1: of the three finalists. Um, that's that NFL honors for
Speaker 1: for Man of the Year. So that's next level. That's
Speaker 1: out of the whole league. This is your second year
Speaker 1: I think coming back and doing this, which is I mean,
Speaker 1: that's amazing for such a young, uh player. A lot
Speaker 1: of times that's a player at the end of their career, Like,
Speaker 1: what what is that foundation about? And it's pretty cool. Yes,
Speaker 1: our foundation is geared towards the youth and military families
Speaker 1: and giving back to underserved communities as well. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we feel like the youth is the future. A lot
Speaker 1: of kids are born into unfortunate situations that they didn't
Speaker 1: they didn't ask for, they have no control over. And
Speaker 1: uh so if I could be a resource in our
Speaker 1: community to even the plan feel for them, or or
Speaker 1: maybe an athlete giving them advice or whatever it may be. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, just being that in in my community. I
Speaker 1: wish when I was growing up, I had an athlete,
Speaker 1: a professional athlete, who I could pick their brain. Want
Speaker 1: nothing from them but just to pick their brain and
Speaker 1: um let them know that, Hey, I can do this.
Speaker 1: Al very cool, very cool. Alright, I figured out our target.
Speaker 1: Here is a mod green rob Odgrede kind of went
Speaker 1: under the reddit. I think during the five years, eight
Speaker 1: thousand two yards okay, Aaron Jones right now is five
Speaker 1: thousand two four rushing yards career. That leaves you three thousand,
Speaker 1: thirty eight yards short of the Packers record. If you
Speaker 1: average over the next two years what you did this year,
Speaker 1: which is about eleven hundred, I'm thinking you could break
Speaker 1: the record around October of the season. So we gotta
Speaker 1: get three more years of the Packers. Most likely that
Speaker 1: it's good lucky, that's your number thirty three. You got
Speaker 1: them at the special Aaron Jones hats like, where are
Speaker 1: you know? I don't see those that's like a special one.
Speaker 1: This one we can't with it last year. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then the push was like around the super Bowl last year.
Speaker 1: So one last thing quickly, he's like, what would you
Speaker 1: rather do in a big time game? Would you rather
Speaker 1: run someone over and like take their manhood or make
Speaker 1: them miss and take their manhood and have them like
Speaker 1: at your feet? Why take their manhood? Looks ah, both
Speaker 1: look bad. I guess have you gotten the scepter from
Speaker 1: our colleague Kyle Brand? Have not got so we would
Speaker 1: like to get one of those, and then we can
Speaker 1: focus on making a miss that actually hurts less right,
Speaker 1: not having alright, so you can play a little bit
Speaker 1: longer like that. Aaron Jones. We are big fans of
Speaker 1: you and and best to look like going forward with
Speaker 1: the Packers. Thank you very much for joining us. Yes, sorry,
Speaker 1: thank you. There he goes Aaron Jones. Jones, nice gent,
Speaker 1: good vibe. I liked him. He'll be back, but it
Speaker 1: sounds like there's gonna be a restructured situation there for
Speaker 1: him to make it happen. Well, it sounds driven to
Speaker 1: stay with the Packers. And achieve that record we talked about.
Speaker 1: I was I was surprised, I was even a question.
Speaker 1: But he does have like a twenty million dollar capit
Speaker 1: when you're running back. But he's also coming off arguably
Speaker 1: his best season. I think it was the highest he
Speaker 1: ever at his yards per carry, he's healthy, he's playing everything.
Speaker 1: So that that's one where you you push the money
Speaker 1: a little bit into the future, and uh, I think
Speaker 1: he'll be there at least two years. I liked that
Speaker 1: he was honest about the fact that it is uh,
Speaker 1: not only annoying for us but for Packers players to
Speaker 1: deal with the Aaron Rodgers heightened drama year after year.
Speaker 1: I mean basically sort of said, yeah, it's a bit
Speaker 1: of an annoyance. I wonder if if it if this
Speaker 1: is the end for Aaron Rodgers, who, by the way
Speaker 1: it believes in now day three of his Darkness Retreat,
Speaker 1: um he he might not know that. We heard some
Speaker 1: speculation that this is all uh a mirage Rogers, like
Speaker 1: this was scheduled for a couple of weeks from now,
Speaker 1: not not the Darkness Retreat and not him wrestling with
Speaker 1: retirement in his mind, even if he's likely to come back.
Speaker 1: But the whole idea that he would leave the Packers,
Speaker 1: that the Packers want to keep him in ultimately. But then,
Speaker 1: you know this, it's not a mirrage because we're talking
Speaker 1: about it show after a show. It's a tangible thing
Speaker 1: that we have to deal with verbally. And he's under contract, right,
Speaker 1: Why is he going through the whole rigamarole of telling
Speaker 1: everyone that he needs to disappear for four days to
Speaker 1: think about, Okay, the retirement thing in his own mind,
Speaker 1: that's not a mirage. And who knows, maybe he'll shock
Speaker 1: us with the retirement by him leaving the Packers. We've
Speaker 1: you were with me that we've heard some buzz that
Speaker 1: that's kind of all. I just don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I believe anything with this anymore. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's it is, it's crazy anyway, good conversation with Aaron Jones.
Speaker 1: Let's now, uh talk to another star of the gridiron
Speaker 1: who lines up behind the cort Here we go up next,
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler joining us now another star running back, one
Speaker 1: of the great all around playmakers in football from the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers. Austin Ekeler, Welcome to around the NFL.
Speaker 1: We're welcome back. Yes, I remember the first time you
Speaker 1: were on the show with us. It was remote and
Speaker 1: I was really struck by the logo that you had
Speaker 1: behind you. I think it's your home set up, and
Speaker 1: I just I want to say with Austin Neckler that
Speaker 1: I notice the logos on point I of that you
Speaker 1: have a signature touchdown celebration, the guitar squeal move, which
Speaker 1: is not only memorable, but like kids can easily emulate
Speaker 1: it at the playground. This is all subtle brand building
Speaker 1: and I'm here for this guy. He's onto me absolutely. Man.
Speaker 1: Well thanks for having me back on the show in
Speaker 1: person now. Um, but yeah, you know, there's there's an
Speaker 1: art to right, right putting yourself out there and right
Speaker 1: trying to brand yourself and represent something. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm all about it. Well, Dan's been trying to become
Speaker 1: a hair influencer for many years, um, and I think
Speaker 1: he once got like a free tube of jet Tube.
Speaker 1: I got. I got several palettes of redkin Work hard
Speaker 1: molding paste in two thousand sixteen, so that was cool.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing. It is. It is pretty nice though,
Speaker 1: like you can't really get the full beauty of it. Remotely,
Speaker 1: I can see that though you got the nice little
Speaker 1: sush going there, like the swush J Williams was talking
Speaker 1: about that, there's some silver in there and that's distinguished.
Speaker 1: They say, But enough about me, Austin. I look at
Speaker 1: your your workout videos that you do, and I think, like,
Speaker 1: as a as a small somewhat lazy man myself, like,
Speaker 1: what would you give me, um like if like without
Speaker 1: any actual weights, what's the laziest way like thing that
Speaker 1: I could do personally? Yeah, to get into it. That's yeah,
Speaker 1: that's because that's gonna be a good stepping point for you. Right.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm ever I've it's I've never like
Speaker 1: joined the gym or done that. So I feel like
Speaker 1: always about the gym. It's about staying active, right. You
Speaker 1: want to be able to move when you're seventy years old. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you want to be able to stay active and
Speaker 1: have your joints feeling good. You don't have any problems
Speaker 1: because you sat around all day forever for the last
Speaker 1: you know, all your years. And so for me, the
Speaker 1: most lazy thing that you could probably do that's going
Speaker 1: to keep you active. I mean, would I would say,
Speaker 1: like going on like walks. When I do that, I
Speaker 1: do a lot of running. I do a lot of running.
Speaker 1: But that's yeah, thinking more like you know, to make
Speaker 1: me look a little less um dominutive, you know, jump rope. Okay,
Speaker 1: see that's what it was looking for. Here's another aspect
Speaker 1: to Greg and and to Dan like a number of
Speaker 1: years ago. Um, I attempted to get into all this,
Speaker 1: and I think you were in this in this world too.
Speaker 1: I did Beach Body and was ripped. Yeah. See that's
Speaker 1: so so I was ripped mercilessly show after show for it.
Speaker 1: And that sound drop of plays just tell them that
Speaker 1: they're in the wrong. On the body. There was there
Speaker 1: was talked about a lot that well, there was its
Speaker 1: own sound absolutely there wasn't for like a year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a female spokesperson that we we were wondering
Speaker 1: if Mark was in it for the working out or
Speaker 1: just to be closer to Amber Caliberiz. Hey, we all
Speaker 1: have our own motives. You know. You don't question people
Speaker 1: as long as they're going judgment. No judgment had like
Speaker 1: turned into like a Ponzi scheme or something, you know. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this iss okay, good, good, good, good good you
Speaker 1: played this, uh, this Chiefs team, and you you guys
Speaker 1: have been quite productive offensively against this Chiefs team. So actually,
Speaker 1: like you, maybe more than any running back in football,
Speaker 1: has an experience of knowing what to do and and
Speaker 1: maybe how to attack this Chiefs defense with some success.
Speaker 1: What what would you what would you say to the Eagles, Like,
Speaker 1: you gotta have the ball at the end? Okay, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's what it is. That's what it is. You
Speaker 1: have the ball at the end, right, And so how
Speaker 1: do you control the games offensively? You got run the ball.
Speaker 1: You gotta be able to run the ball. If you
Speaker 1: can run the ball, you control the clock, right, You
Speaker 1: limit possessions that you're gonna give away potentially, and then
Speaker 1: you have a better chance to have the ball at
Speaker 1: the end. And so man, it's it's tough. They're they're
Speaker 1: so sticky, like the Chiefs are so sticky, like they're
Speaker 1: always in it at the end, right, Like we've seen
Speaker 1: it was just seconds on the clock, go down and
Speaker 1: get into field goal range, kick it and win the game. Right,
Speaker 1: So you gotta have the ball at the end. But
Speaker 1: you guys did do that. You did run the ball
Speaker 1: well against that that Sunday. The Sunday Night game was
Speaker 1: I'm sure massively annoying to you. It always is. I
Speaker 1: feel like we every time we play the Chiefs, it
Speaker 1: comes down to the last drive. Like even when we
Speaker 1: played him, you know, Thursday Night Football at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year, it was the last drive for us
Speaker 1: to go down and score. You know, that's right. You
Speaker 1: had your sons at the game, and they're the potential
Speaker 1: Chargers fans, and they were at that that Chiefs they
Speaker 1: were Kelsey walk off and o t That was a
Speaker 1: tough one too. Yeah, yeah, two of those now, man,
Speaker 1: I'm tired of seeing that for sure. Well, and we
Speaker 1: don't need to dwell on the on the Jaguars game either.
Speaker 1: That's that was a tough pill to swallow. I do
Speaker 1: wonder just for you from your angle as a player,
Speaker 1: because the week before, in a relatively meaningless game, you guys,
Speaker 1: you know, starters are in there till the very end,
Speaker 1: and Mike Williams goes down and there was a sort
Speaker 1: of a Reaganesque trickle down effect to all of that.
Speaker 1: In the next week to not have him on the field,
Speaker 1: I mean, in do you were you guys all on
Speaker 1: board with the Brandon Staley esque nature of that that
Speaker 1: he just that's hit the way he attacks week after week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: um man, you know, there's there's so many ways you
Speaker 1: can look at it. Um. For us, you know, we're
Speaker 1: never thinking we're gonna get hurt when we go out there, right,
Speaker 1: So that's not part of the um the thought process
Speaker 1: as a player, but it definitely is a possibility, Like
Speaker 1: you can't be naive, Like you're definitely going out there
Speaker 1: in harm's way if you go out there. And so
Speaker 1: for us, it was in the mentality with with Coach
Speaker 1: where he's like, hey, we're gonna go out there, we're
Speaker 1: gonna play, we're gonna get a rythm go and we're
Speaker 1: gonna go out there and you guys are gonna just play.
Speaker 1: So that's my mindset. I'm going out I'm playing. I'm playing.
Speaker 1: And then for me, we got taken out in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and so I was I was surprised that
Speaker 1: because I don't know we're coming out or what what
Speaker 1: was happening that was communicated. Um, So in our head,
Speaker 1: we were just playing. And then yeah, obviously Mike's ends
Speaker 1: up getting hurt, um, which doesn't help us, right, he's
Speaker 1: one of our bigger playmakers out there, and so it's unfortunate,
Speaker 1: but it's not something that you could be like, I
Speaker 1: don't know. You can go both ways. Were like, sure,
Speaker 1: you don't play anybody, but then you didn't play last
Speaker 1: week and so I don't know. I don't know. For me,
Speaker 1: I play. That's why they coach right, I'm sure I
Speaker 1: show up. What do you want me to do? Coach right?
Speaker 1: You want me to play? You know we want to
Speaker 1: sitting out? Let me know. I um, I'm thinking. As
Speaker 1: we were heading to the Super Bowl, UH this week,
Speaker 1: we said goodbye to some of our co workers are
Speaker 1: production staff, and one of the last things they said
Speaker 1: to me, because we had Justin Herbert, your teammate on
Speaker 1: the show last year, they said, and this was multiple women, said,
Speaker 1: if you see Justin Herbert down there, can you, like,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe put in a word for us or
Speaker 1: get him like our number, which you know is not
Speaker 1: professionally appropriate. But I'm wondering, like, has that happened to
Speaker 1: you a lot? As as a guy who spends a
Speaker 1: lot of time with Herbert that they were like trying
Speaker 1: to use you? Can we use you to get a
Speaker 1: by the way, we apologize for Greg. We had to
Speaker 1: do this, but I'm not out I'm mingling amongst people
Speaker 1: or that, Like I'm in a situation where people are like, hey,
Speaker 1: give this to justin type of thing. I try to
Speaker 1: stay away from people, dirt, especially during the season. Kind
Speaker 1: of live in my own little shell. So no, no,
Speaker 1: no one's asked me that Herbert does seem to have
Speaker 1: a strange pull on the women folk. That is something
Speaker 1: that's a deniable thing. I'm gonna let m let y'all
Speaker 1: observe that one. You know, he's just my teammate in
Speaker 1: there had long hair. But we didn't We didn't call
Speaker 1: these these women out by names, so I know you
Speaker 1: know who you are. Um, you are one of the
Speaker 1: rare players in the sense that you embrace the fantasy community.
Speaker 1: There's an antagonistic relationship between players and fantasy a lot
Speaker 1: of times when you hear these guys get asked about
Speaker 1: it and the the abuse players can take online, which
Speaker 1: is garbage, obviously, but you, in addition to being arguably
Speaker 1: the most productive fantasy player, you love it. You do
Speaker 1: a podcast with our buddy Matt Harmon, like that is
Speaker 1: is this like do you think you'll be in the
Speaker 1: fantasy realm after you're playing days. How do you see this?
Speaker 1: Fantasy is so powerful and the reason our game is
Speaker 1: as strong as it is today is because of the
Speaker 1: sports betting world. In the fantasy world, absolutely there's a
Speaker 1: fan base there, but the thing that took us to
Speaker 1: the next level as far as our you know, exposure
Speaker 1: and things like that and the loyalty is definitely the betting. Right.
Speaker 1: Like I have so many fans, I have so many
Speaker 1: more fans that are fans of because of fantasy or
Speaker 1: sports betting that are instead of charges, right, Like ninety
Speaker 1: percent of time people come up, Hey, you're on my
Speaker 1: fantasy team. I'm an Eagles fan, I'm a Bears fan,
Speaker 1: I'm a this fan that fan, but you're on my
Speaker 1: fantasy team. So thank you. Let's get a picture, right,
Speaker 1: And that's so powerful, right, It's so powerful to be
Speaker 1: able to connect with those, And so I found a
Speaker 1: lot of value within the relationships that I've built in
Speaker 1: the community that I've been putting myself into, like all
Speaker 1: the branding and stuff like that, and so that's why
Speaker 1: I've tapped into the fantasy sports world. And it's it's
Speaker 1: so proud I wish more guys. Would you gotta look
Speaker 1: past the trash because there's a lot of it with
Speaker 1: a lot of people. All I need two more points.
Speaker 1: This out of roundhouse, kicking in the jaw, all this
Speaker 1: random bs, you know, but you get down to it,
Speaker 1: you know, especially for coming off a good season for me,
Speaker 1: it's like, man, these people are really excited to talk
Speaker 1: about you see you want to take a picture. So
Speaker 1: I love it. We we needed an Austin Neckler back
Speaker 1: in the day when I was working at Rhodal World
Speaker 1: to really fully fully embrace it. I don't think we
Speaker 1: have that. How is your your relationship with Matt Harmon
Speaker 1: because we we did work with him for a long
Speaker 1: time and he's like a bit a bit of a diva. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a new guy on the block. You know,
Speaker 1: Liz was there. She crushed it last year. She got
Speaker 1: poached by ESPN, so good for her. You know, my
Speaker 1: Matt came in and you know, um no, I'm just playing.
Speaker 1: It was really good. It was really it was really
Speaker 1: good with Matt. Now we had we had a good time,
Speaker 1: We had a good time, things off each other. We
Speaker 1: went to podcast form, so we rocked it. Again, you
Speaker 1: just connect the dots, the logo, the guitar, celebration, big
Speaker 1: on fantasy and gamble actually gets it forward thinking, yes
Speaker 1: exactly can you actually play guitar? That's my left Yes,
Speaker 1: I have been learning can you play wonder Wall? I
Speaker 1: cannot play wonder Wall? Now here's a guitar, not Austin.
Speaker 1: Before we let you go, what what brings you to
Speaker 1: media row? Yeah, so I've been working with sleep number
Speaker 1: for like five years now, um and actually of the
Speaker 1: league right now any precenter, our guys are on sleep
Speaker 1: number beds um and as you all know, we're all human, right,
Speaker 1: good night's sleep right leads to know good energy, right,
Speaker 1: a good start to the day, right, so you can
Speaker 1: get those walks in. Um, Mark has had a good night.
Speaker 1: I may go purchase one of these. Oh yeah, so
Speaker 1: the the great thing about sleep numbers You can customize
Speaker 1: the bed to you like your your own fitting, like
Speaker 1: you like a harder, you like a softer, you like
Speaker 1: it to adjust like they have cooling, they have eating.
Speaker 1: They all modern craftmatic. I was gonna say, is there
Speaker 1: for Mark? Is there a less nightmares mode? You might
Speaker 1: be working on the psychological part. I'm like, what does
Speaker 1: it all mean? Can you stop those thoughts from happening?
Speaker 1: Just over and over all? Right, Austin Neckler, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. Good luck down the road. Awesome man. He
Speaker 1: does a nice job branding himself. Austin. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: these players don't wait until they're playing careers and to
Speaker 1: figure out what they're gonna do next. He's got like
Speaker 1: four or five significant ventures already unfurling while he's still
Speaker 1: Is that another thing that we should be doing as well,
Speaker 1: not if we're hosting NFL honors next year or or
Speaker 1: to get involved with I don't know n F t
Speaker 1: s or I don't think. I think I think we
Speaker 1: missed that boat. I don't know that ape thing. I
Speaker 1: think that's a problem as well. Uh, he did feel seen,
Speaker 1: though he felt seen by you. I think he did
Speaker 1: think I struck a chord there in a negative way. No,
Speaker 1: I I thought there are some individuals might take it
Speaker 1: that way, But I think he looked at it as
Speaker 1: a compliment, like you see what I'm doing. There's no
Speaker 1: malice to it. I'm just trying to be There's not
Speaker 1: a lot of subtlety to business. Yeah, that's fun. That's
Speaker 1: where he could take offense, but I don't think he uh,
Speaker 1: I don't think he did. You don't have to be
Speaker 1: subtle if you want to be business mind. In addition
Speaker 1: to being a great player, and he puts in the work,
Speaker 1: A lot of people say he's um pound for pound,
Speaker 1: the strongest man in football. You've heard that bandied about
Speaker 1: so well. You know he doesn't get the same endorsement
Speaker 1: deals that Justin. Herbert doesn't others, so he's making his
Speaker 1: own way. Like beach body never never gave him a call.
Speaker 1: I mean thinking a Herbert, he didn't. He wasn't looking
Speaker 1: to help out anybody back in l A. On the
Speaker 1: it's Herbert needs a lot of heldy. It's not Herbert
Speaker 1: who needs help. It's the certain individuals that are back.
Speaker 1: Why why would Austin I wish for these these females
Speaker 1: that they have all the fun that they can have
Speaker 1: with anyone, But it's like, why, why why would Austin
Speaker 1: knuckler burn favors to help anyone in our media group.
Speaker 1: I'll accept it. He is ver immedia. So I wish
Speaker 1: you could have seen Travis face when you made that
Speaker 1: comment about women wanting to have all the fun. You
Speaker 1: answer your own I wish well for them if if
Speaker 1: he does a favor for someone within NFL media. Quid
Speaker 1: pro quote bro right, I think that that would be
Speaker 1: the only angle that you could come from. And quid
Speaker 1: pro do you not meant? This is a no breat
Speaker 1: farv commentary zone on today's episode, everyone's gonna right. He
Speaker 1: could sue us exactly. It's it's happening around our sphere.
Speaker 1: Just be aware of that. It's all around us. I
Speaker 1: will be aware. Are you looking around for some reason?
Speaker 1: But you do have something to share? A take a
Speaker 1: strong take about that situation. Go ahead, mark the floors here,
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Los Angeles, California. UM, don't even don't even
Speaker 1: attempt to set me up on this. He's a gigantic
Speaker 1: human being. What jerseys, Oh, Randy Johnson, And you're right,
Speaker 1: he has been in that gym. He is he's continues
Speaker 1: to Uh, he's a bulky in the right way as
Speaker 1: a bulky man he works out. This has a Friday
Speaker 1: Show feel to it for sure. All right, let's uh,
Speaker 1: let's take one more break and then we'll get to
Speaker 1: some sandwich props. All right, welcome back, Let's get into
Speaker 1: the super Bowl preview. Uh, Sandwich props presented by Draft
Speaker 1: Kings sports Book. Uh are friends over a Draft Kings
Speaker 1: sports Book sent us the following same game Parlay four
Speaker 1: The Big Game. Just this is kind of fun little
Speaker 1: data points for you, specifically, Greg, Well, no, we okay,
Speaker 1: I will listen and then I will comment. Okay, well
Speaker 1: that's why I'm teeing you up on it. Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: over two forty nine and a half passing yards plus
Speaker 1: one fifteen. Mmm. I like the running from the Eagles more,
Speaker 1: you know, even in a big game. Right. Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: over three twenty four and a half passing yards plus
Speaker 1: one eighty. It feels fair. That works, getting a little
Speaker 1: extra juice there with the Eagles over two and a
Speaker 1: half total t d s minus one. I like that
Speaker 1: two and a half t d s by the entire
Speaker 1: team total total. Yeah, absolutely, what's the odds there? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Stuff not touching that just not that you would know.
Speaker 1: But it's just not I'm not interested. Yeah, but um,
Speaker 1: but perhaps some other people are. Always they should be
Speaker 1: important to remember that we have we have a code
Speaker 1: of conduct and we've signed the nfl IS gambling policy
Speaker 1: before every season. So Mark, I thought Mark was like
Speaker 1: scratching a nitch and said, no, no, don't touch that. No,
Speaker 1: just cycle back. That's what I was. I I understand
Speaker 1: the policy anyway. UM, odds and lines are subject to change.
Speaker 1: Will be sure to check out the Draft King sports
Speaker 1: Book app for the latest. Um. All right, let's wait, Dan,
Speaker 1: what are the combined odds for that same game? Parlay?
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means, but it's plus four? Okay,
Speaker 1: so you gotta like attach them all together? Thank you? Greg.
Speaker 1: Al Right, let's get into it. Sandwich Props super Bowl
Speaker 1: fifty seven edition always a integral part of our Super
Speaker 1: Bowl week show where we really kind of put ourselves
Speaker 1: out there with a prediction about Bobby Game and uh,
Speaker 1: Greg Rosen, though, I'd like to start with you, Okay,
Speaker 1: I will start, and it's it's been it's been a
Speaker 1: one season. I feel like you can go back and
Speaker 1: listen to our Thursday preview show for everything we think
Speaker 1: most important in this game. I hope. So I love
Speaker 1: you know, I love the Eagles. I love the high
Speaker 1: scoring game. I love the running game of the Eagles. Um.
Speaker 1: But we're here in the desert right and it's dry.
Speaker 1: I'm just chugging I'm chugging that water day after day.
Speaker 1: My lips are cracking, my skin is cracking like a
Speaker 1: semi nose. It's not great. And maybe it's that's that's
Speaker 1: maybe a symptom of a much more serious issue, and
Speaker 1: you must get medical attention as soon as possible. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it's a full on, but like when it's
Speaker 1: dry out, that happens to some people in their noses
Speaker 1: and it and it can happen. So it could have
Speaker 1: been long week. You came down here for the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and you might open the wallet and it and
Speaker 1: it looks very dry. And that's why I'm just focused,
Speaker 1: not on what's the most interesting thing to pick, but
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking what is the wettest thing to on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I don't care that that roof is closed on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I looked at all the numbers sent to us here
Speaker 1: by Draft Kings, and I looked at Isaiah Pacheco, and
Speaker 1: I looked at that rushing total and it's at forty seven.
Speaker 1: And I looked at that Eagles defense, and I think
Speaker 1: Andy Rene will listen to our preview show and he'll
Speaker 1: know that you gotta run the ball and he's gotta
Speaker 1: know that those pass rashers are coming up the field
Speaker 1: and there's big lanes in the middle, and Pacheco's running
Speaker 1: guys over. And I know that roof maybe closed on Sunday,
Speaker 1: but it don't matter because it's gonna be raiding inside
Speaker 1: a state farm stadium. Let's go. The Rainmaker's coming out
Speaker 1: one last time. This season we've been on fire. Open
Speaker 1: it up and Pour. It's getting easier for you to
Speaker 1: do this, which is both good for the show but
Speaker 1: also stupid, little troubling. What is Greg's next career step?
Speaker 1: Although I think he's hit on an absolute, I absolutely
Speaker 1: think that that's an absurd place for him. For Patico,
Speaker 1: that was the one in my heart that really jumped
Speaker 1: out quite a bit. They do like to pass the
Speaker 1: ball in Kansas. Yeah, I think up for Patico. But
Speaker 1: maybe that's that's maybe what they got. Pataco is the
Speaker 1: hot kind of everyone's hot in the pants over Pacheco
Speaker 1: and him check, everyone's very hot and the pants on Pacheco,
Speaker 1: and this idea that he will be the X factor
Speaker 1: could be. But Patrick Mahomes also there's a chance he
Speaker 1: throws at fifty two times. If that's the case the check,
Speaker 1: it's gonna find it tough to get over that, Sarry,
Speaker 1: what is it? It's pretty good though. It's a good
Speaker 1: I think it's a good rain mound. But just because
Speaker 1: everyone be careful with because for Greg, it's just like
Speaker 1: I'll throw this out, throw that out. For you, it
Speaker 1: might be about whether your kid goes to college. I
Speaker 1: need someone to go check. But I think we're five
Speaker 1: and two on the season, something very strong. And you
Speaker 1: know what, there's a big difference between six and two
Speaker 1: and five and three, so there's a lot riding on
Speaker 1: the rain. Those are unconfirmed stats, by the way, played
Speaker 1: every time we hear them. I'm sure somebody else will.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty I'm actually pretty sure. It's like actually two
Speaker 1: and five no, no, yeah, we started on a three
Speaker 1: game hot street to start the second guy. Um, a
Speaker 1: guy came up to me on the street and it
Speaker 1: looked like you know, you hadn't he's been in the
Speaker 1: street for a while, and he said, yeah, I love
Speaker 1: your show. I can't listen anymore because I followed Greg's
Speaker 1: advice and they turned my phone off, so I can't
Speaker 1: listen to show. Thanks to Greg, I have a bounty
Speaker 1: hunter chasing me down in the middle of Arizona. You
Speaker 1: never think about that. That's s comes great responsibility. I
Speaker 1: mean five five and two he should be. Uh, mine's
Speaker 1: gonna be pretty simple. Um, I'm on record, I'm way
Speaker 1: out there on a on a limb here that uh,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are gonna win handily on Sunday. This is
Speaker 1: a take that has put me in that position where
Speaker 1: it could look very bad. Or conversely the old Sessy
Speaker 1: move where it goes that way and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you look like you know a little thing or two.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna continue to lean in that direction. And
Speaker 1: we know how great that Chiefs are. That eagles pass rushes.
Speaker 1: We talked about it, all the different layers and how
Speaker 1: they can get to that QB with so many studs
Speaker 1: who just rack up pressures and sacks. And we know
Speaker 1: that Patrick Mahomes, even though he's telling everyone he's fine,
Speaker 1: he's not a cent He's not as nimble as he
Speaker 1: is before he got his ankle rolled up on. Um,
Speaker 1: did you know here's a Mahomes stat Uh from NNGS.
Speaker 1: He was sacked for the first time in one and
Speaker 1: twenty eight scrambles in the a f C championship game.
Speaker 1: How is that possible? It went from the a f
Speaker 1: C title game last year to the NFC Title game
Speaker 1: this year. Every time he evaded pressure in the pocket
Speaker 1: or had a roll out of any kind, he was
Speaker 1: never taken down for an entire season. Uh. He also
Speaker 1: has the lowest sack rate seventeen point six percent and
Speaker 1: high success rate thirty five point one percent on extended dropbacks.
Speaker 1: So this man is comfortable in the pocket. You can
Speaker 1: get out of the pocket. You could send all your
Speaker 1: pass rushers at it. He'll find a way. What do
Speaker 1: we think about the Chiefs offensive line? Give me one
Speaker 1: out of ten? Greg you wheready put him eight. Good line,
Speaker 1: very good line, A historically great quarterback of Evadi pressure.
Speaker 1: All this talk about the Eagles passed ros winning this game,
Speaker 1: Mahomes doesn't get sacked Super Bowl Sunday. That's it's not
Speaker 1: in a hanger. I think. Also it lines up with
Speaker 1: I told you about the width of their their schemes.
Speaker 1: There are formations. I went out there with my own
Speaker 1: measuring tape at times. Also told us that son Reddick
Speaker 1: would be the m v P. So that that was
Speaker 1: that was that was, that was Showman Ship where I
Speaker 1: took it in a multiple direction to keep the listener
Speaker 1: on their heels. You're about to do it again. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: but what are we are we taking? Are we saying
Speaker 1: if we're taking you on that? Oh yeah, we never did.
Speaker 1: I'm not taking Gregg's because I totally agree with that.
Speaker 1: This is why you're in last place. You always take everything,
Speaker 1: Just take everything. But I have done that the last
Speaker 1: like fourteen times. And you're that confident I will take it.
Speaker 1: I'll take you up and you'll take you on it.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, I'll take you on yours. That's why
Speaker 1: you were the winner this year. By the way, you
Speaker 1: did a good job. All right, So I love Super
Speaker 1: Bowl Week. Just up goes to my gym. Really yeah,
Speaker 1: speaking not feeling. I would love to see Yeah, you
Speaker 1: next to Babila. Uh and uh it's not out working out?
Speaker 1: Um yeah and four and the sandwich props this year,
Speaker 1: I went twelve and eight. I'm happy and uh, at
Speaker 1: some point we should go over the over unders. We also,
Speaker 1: by the way, we threw it out to the because
Speaker 1: I went undefeated on those over unders. Yeah, that we
Speaker 1: did with Mina Kimes back in that you want to
Speaker 1: do that. Man. You were pretty in on the Houston one,
Speaker 1: even though it was technically Marks Yeah, but you know
Speaker 1: Greg is tracking these by the hours. It's on the
Speaker 1: go get my Lunch website. But we were already long
Speaker 1: Today we can do it another. But it should be
Speaker 1: stated that we did. Remember it was some controversy about
Speaker 1: the Seahawks will have a top five pick in three
Speaker 1: draft and we we agreed to throw it out to
Speaker 1: um Instagram and it was decided. Where did it come down.
Speaker 1: It was pretty one sided that everyone thought you did.
Speaker 1: You did deserve your sandwich. I said, I would stand
Speaker 1: on what the public thought. I think you did. It
Speaker 1: was a bit um, It was a bit vague, but
Speaker 1: you know we we didn't parse the it correctly, not
Speaker 1: in your favor. So you win, all right now, you
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler. This is simple. I have been seeing this, um.
Speaker 1: I've been visualizing this for for weeks, even before I
Speaker 1: knew that Eagles would be even be in this game.
Speaker 1: But if they got here, that the whole Philly special
Speaker 1: business that we've spent years on. UM, I don't need
Speaker 1: to uh, you know, wish me the Philly special thing
Speaker 1: that Chris Matt, Doug Russo special touchdown. First of all,
Speaker 1: they weren't going to score a touchdown anyway like on
Speaker 1: that show was also called it was also called a
Speaker 1: two point conversion. It was a touchdown, well, I don't remember.
Speaker 1: It was a game changing touchdown. UM. And what I
Speaker 1: am telling you right now is going to happen is
Speaker 1: because I think that that is a play that you
Speaker 1: cannot deny. With the statue out front of their home
Speaker 1: stadium is interwoven in the sports history of Philadelphia for
Speaker 1: all time, of course, so I think we all get that.
Speaker 1: The Kelsey brothers um when they had did their show.
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey has said the same that it's hard to
Speaker 1: understand the impact of that play and what it did
Speaker 1: for the Eagles, their franchise, the city, the whole thing.
Speaker 1: And I think that you've got a whole new coaching
Speaker 1: staff here, I got a bunch of new players, and
Speaker 1: it's not the kind of thing where they're gonna look
Speaker 1: on that game and what happened in that game as
Speaker 1: we must do it differently. I think there's gonna be
Speaker 1: something special in this. I had the Eagles winning and
Speaker 1: I said in a Thursday show that I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna win this game um by a very special play.
Speaker 1: Now for this prop bet, I'm I'm gonna go a
Speaker 1: little simpler because I'm always getting bit in the behind
Speaker 1: with my specificity. They are simply going to run the
Speaker 1: Philly Special in this game. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: will be a box job, if it will be a touchdown,
Speaker 1: we'll see. But they're gonna run the Philly Special. It
Speaker 1: will be called that, it will be noted, it will
Speaker 1: be tweeted about a billion times. I tend to believe
Speaker 1: this is outside of the bet that it's going to
Speaker 1: be successful. I think it's gonna be. And I set
Speaker 1: on Thursday run for like a seven yard game near midfield. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean earlier in that game, Tom Brady had something
Speaker 1: that wasn't that far off and had that drastic incompletion
Speaker 1: that was a laughing stock scenario. Well, what if it's
Speaker 1: like a variation or on the Philly Special where the
Speaker 1: updated and make it new and it's not the Philly
Speaker 1: I think they need I think let's I think the
Speaker 1: play call needs to be I mean, you know, like
Speaker 1: the way that you can line certain players up. It's
Speaker 1: there can be very little variations on that, but it's
Speaker 1: got to be Philly, Philly. It's got to be the
Speaker 1: Philly Special. You've got to recognize it as that. Well,
Speaker 1: I will take you on this. I think that's um.
Speaker 1: I think that's a problematic road to go down for
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianna. He's gotta blaze his own path. Doesn't mean
Speaker 1: he can't came up, can't come up with a creative play.
Speaker 1: I was thinking for my prop of like that he's
Speaker 1: gonna have a huge fourth down call in this game
Speaker 1: that changes the game. But I don't he doesn't. There's
Speaker 1: already a statue out in front what you know, if
Speaker 1: it goes poorly either way, I don't like the idea
Speaker 1: of him uh kind of mimicking what Doug Peterson already did.
Speaker 1: So I will take you, well, it's a good thing
Speaker 1: you're not the Chief's defensive court. It. I would hope
Speaker 1: they'd think that it's in the realm of possibility that
Speaker 1: you dial that back. It is it is. It does
Speaker 1: strike me a little bit as like the the Huge
Speaker 1: Hit movie and then they go for the cash Grab
Speaker 1: sequel that's you know, not nearly as special, um the
Speaker 1: original Purge to you know Purge too. Symptom uh corollary
Speaker 1: so let's and also that does feel like that is
Speaker 1: the property of Doug Peterson and Frank Reich and Nick Foles.
Speaker 1: So yes, I don't think that you will get that
Speaker 1: echo now. If they do it, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: very cutee nod to the cognescente Yes, it will and
Speaker 1: to myself, Dan is frozen in place right now, which
Speaker 1: would be cool. I'm all for like cool Twitter stuff
Speaker 1: on Super Bowl Sunday and we'll enjoy it and you'll
Speaker 1: have sandwiches, I really thought. And you could see Mark
Speaker 1: is needing some sandwiches because right now he owes a
Speaker 1: lot of sandwiches this season so many. I thought he
Speaker 1: was gonna say that another play was gonna place it,
Speaker 1: and the helmet you can't. You can't replace it. No,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like, how about that top that in the
Speaker 1: helmet catch? Speaking of the helmet catch, by the way,
Speaker 1: like Kelly Clarkson and Peyton Manning had a little bit
Speaker 1: in the NFL Honors and they I think referred to
Speaker 1: the helmet catch as the most famous play and Super
Speaker 1: Bowl I do not care about that at all. How
Speaker 1: about Peyton was with you? He didn't like you like
Speaker 1: getting that shine, but Kelly knew, Kelly knew, I got
Speaker 1: Kelly Clarkson against me now implicitly on all things beautiful.
Speaker 1: Good work. And that was the Super Bowl Preview Sandwiches
Speaker 1: edition presented by Draft Kings Sports Book. What a week?
Speaker 1: What a week? Not? I hate that play? You like that?
Speaker 1: It's gonna be the gift that keepsger I do. Actually,
Speaker 1: we got a video submission from Nick West, so this
Speaker 1: was funny. Is it acute? And accepted a lock for
Speaker 1: the super Bowl? That's what we He asked if he should,
Speaker 1: and we said we. He said, who you me? It's cute?
Speaker 1: He said, the dude, I love it. It's workman like I.
Speaker 1: The law competition is over. I guess that is what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say. But if we get a chance
Speaker 1: to hear Nick one last time this season fired off, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: Happy super Bowl week to you. There's a few things
Speaker 1: I'd like to discuss today. The first of which is
Speaker 1: Dan give Marcus props only special now is stood the
Speaker 1: test of time. It was a great play when it happened,
Speaker 1: never said at least on par with the helmet catch,
Speaker 1: if not better, give the man as sandwiches onto this
Speaker 1: week the venmo is in the curious Why am I
Speaker 1: not in Arizona right now? You guys have some pull
Speaker 1: with the NFL. You could have gotten me a ticket
Speaker 1: or given up one of your comp tickets. Should bring
Speaker 1: a man in the ratings, beat them. You'd have with
Speaker 1: me right now on Radio row with you, come to
Speaker 1: think of it. Why am I not getting paid again? Anyway?
Speaker 1: That's neither here nor there. I'm here for you guys.
Speaker 1: Just remember that always, even if it's not reciprocated anyway.
Speaker 1: Onto The Eagles will dominate this game on both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball. The defensive and offensive lines are going
Speaker 1: to be too much. They win by ten points, take
Speaker 1: home the Super Bowl trophy. Lock that up. Stunner, a
Speaker 1: guy from the west side of Cincinnati picked against the
Speaker 1: team that beat the Bengals in the n FC title Game.
Speaker 1: I think he believes that a little bit prediction, which
Speaker 1: is a problem for you. But he also confronted you
Speaker 1: on on multiple fronts. I would say, hey, it's not
Speaker 1: a problem for me on any level. Um. I think
Speaker 1: he speaks for the people, he speaks for himself. I
Speaker 1: listened to Chris mad Dog Russo in all matters of
Speaker 1: the heart and mind. I do like the idea that
Speaker 1: he is aware that we have comp tickets for the
Speaker 1: game and that he didn't get one, putting in a
Speaker 1: little word for next year I gave. I gave him
Speaker 1: a comp ticket a year ago. So I think it
Speaker 1: was more pointing at Greg, what are you doing with
Speaker 1: your tickets? And Dan? How about you? The NFL did
Speaker 1: all about you again? Great job, they brought all, They
Speaker 1: brought all the Wesleyan brothers. Eventually the NFL last year.
Speaker 1: What a moment. Uh. Maybe if he would align with
Speaker 1: my thoughts on various topics, he would have gotten a
Speaker 1: ticket this year. But I would kind of sense that
Speaker 1: he was going to betray me in his final dispatch
Speaker 1: of the year. You have you have so many interestshes no? Yeah,
Speaker 1: my my father in law, Watson Abe's son. Uh, he
Speaker 1: wanted this, this Phoenix super Bowl ticket years back. And
Speaker 1: I can't cross that man. He's gonna come rolling in
Speaker 1: hot tomorrow and sorry Nick. It was claimed in about that.
Speaker 1: I think it was like two thousand and nineteen. He
Speaker 1: asked for it. Where would you put we got it done?
Speaker 1: Where would you put your relationship with your Japanese father
Speaker 1: in law is Now I think it's full of incredible respect.
Speaker 1: Uh was it immediately on both sides? No, I've had
Speaker 1: to prove myself again and again. Does he respect your career?
Speaker 1: Now he does that, I can get up. He didn't initial. No,
Speaker 1: I think he's taken care of your confused and you
Speaker 1: know he did Uh ask me how much money I
Speaker 1: made the first time I ever met him? As he
Speaker 1: ever said to you? And when I told him, and
Speaker 1: it wasn't that much? Was that road world? He said,
Speaker 1: that's enough. Did you ever say anything along lines of
Speaker 1: you bring great honor to the family. No, that's like
Speaker 1: what you want. It's the Japanese I've seen that message
Speaker 1: was distinctly absent. Apparently, Well, maybe this will be the weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Watson's son. I think the fact that, yeah, his daughter
Speaker 1: lives on a different continent, that's a tough tough one
Speaker 1: to overcome totally. But yes, all right, let's wrap this up.
Speaker 1: Let's bring this in for a landing. Um, yes, wants
Speaker 1: an obvious son coming in. Uh, Keith Hands is coming in.
Speaker 1: Um we got all friends and family. Yes, thank god, Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean coming in. Holy cripes, imagine she wasn't coming
Speaker 1: in this weekend. He wouldn't to be at the show
Speaker 1: on Sunday. We'd lose him entirely as a human. He
Speaker 1: curled up in a corner. But I'm very happy that
Speaker 1: you've found someone that you're in love with. I believe
Speaker 1: it will stand the test of time, and I can't
Speaker 1: wait to see her. She's a great time and sometimes absence,
Speaker 1: you know, it makes the heart grow fonder. It's only
Speaker 1: been a few days. Yeah, justin like little cat and
Speaker 1: mouse technique here. You know, that's a fair point. Imagine
Speaker 1: how emotional and um electric, how enthralling it would be
Speaker 1: if you didn't see each other or talk to each
Speaker 1: other for five straight hours on FaceTime and then she
Speaker 1: shows up at the hotel. You would have created that
Speaker 1: natural you know, absence, that that need to see you.
Speaker 1: But instead it's a five hour long convent, which I'm
Speaker 1: glad that happened for you. I mean, think about the
Speaker 1: you know, if they didn't on on on a digital realm,
Speaker 1: the Grave Digger, Grave Diggers, Like I'm just gonna pull
Speaker 1: the plug out of the wall and we're just gonna
Speaker 1: start to start over again. I approved like when in
Speaker 1: our four you get to like, oh, what's the un
Speaker 1: been up to this week. I think you know you could.
Speaker 1: You know we're losing. You're starting to not find this amusing,
Speaker 1: and I we're not being amusing. All right, Thank you
Speaker 1: everybody for um checking out all the shows this week
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