WEBVTT - 2017 Dalton Scale 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:06.000 The Around the NFL Podcast. Wayme's t D for the 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:09.959 Move the Sticks Podcast. Welcome back to another edition of 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.080 the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansis 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.000 and I'm joined by room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:24.240 Chris Westling and Greg Roseatal. What's up boys? Ow, it's Thursday? 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:28.680 T G I G. I mean t something like something 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.960 like that. What's up? What's up? Everybody? West back in 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.320 the chair? Good to see again, buddy, good to be back. 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:36.720 How are things going? How about a little Chris Westling 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.240 health update? Maybe we have to cook up a sound 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:42.680 drop for happen for now, just the straight up last update. 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:45.720 I am. I am really looking forward to your cancer drop. Yeah, 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:50.680 it's coming, It's coming. I started chemo and radiation this week. 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.880 Radiation is ten minutes a day every Monday through Friday. 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:57.200 Chemo is once a week. I feel good. The medicines 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.440 are in. The technology is so good now that they 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:03.160 really nausea is not much a factor. I think once 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.200 they ramp up the treatments, I'll start to feel more 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:08.520 more fatigue. But they want me to exercise as much 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.600 as possible. I'll be playing softball with the shield tonight 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:15.119 and I feel good, I feel strong. Everything's going well, 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.720 and the paramore has been by my side, taking notes, 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.920 asking all the questions, recording all the doctors. Meeting has 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.280 been a big been a big support system for me. 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:28.120 Here comes the broad. He's been an m v P. 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.600 I mean, and you're I mean, you're feeling good enough 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:32.920 that you know you had the treatment on Tuesday. You 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.840 were back in the office on a very slow O 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.960 t a Wednesday yesterday. At one point I think because 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:42.840 of the news that was coming in, you were just like, 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:44.840 I picked the right time a year to get cancer. 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.720 Oh yeah, yeah, there's nothing going on. It's part of 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.920 my new my new favorite genre. West makes jokes about cancer. 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.840 Once you're yeah, I mean it sucks, um, I I 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.640 assumed to be diagnosed with cancer. But the one positive 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.400 of it is you can start just up and out, 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.800 ramping up your cancer bits and you could say whatever 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:05.360 you want as you do. You have it well, I 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.440 like playing the cancer card. That's that's been fun for me, 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.880 you know, get out of a few things. Yeah, it's 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.120 been all right. You were saying, the radiation, the little 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.840 ten minute treatments that sometimes you just sit back and 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.960 relax and yeah, I put my arm behind my head 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.000 because the radiation is going right into my chest. And 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.040 they play a little Bob Marley for ten minutes and 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:27.640 I space out and I'm out of there. You sent 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:29.360 out a photo and Greg got a good comment on 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:34.359 Facebook basically that you, underneath line back getting the treatment 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.560 underneath blankets looked more manly than most any of us 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.880 would ever look it. Just you still somehow looked like 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.800 a gigantic, amazing man. I was speaking for myself essentially there, 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.440 but checked out. Wait, so let me just Le'm gonna 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:50.040 picture it. So you're laying back, arms above your head, 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:56.080 tucked behind uh right behind your ears. I like it, 0:02:54.600 --> 0:03:01.239 all right, appropriate time for that. So there's the West update, 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:03.440 and he's playing center field for the Shield today. We 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:07.640 need to win two straight losses. Um. I I took 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:11.360 the wife to a band of horses concert last Thursday, 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.520 and uh, you know, I left Greg and charge and 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:18.480 you know a sloppy loss. Wow, First of all, that's 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:22.000 not even accurate. West was our acting manager, and West 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:26.720 made a beautiful uh shoe string sliding catch out there 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:33.600 in center field. Keep deflecting Donald job game, losing streak. 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:39.680 Everyone is involved. Cabs we gotta we gotta this. It 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.440 was this time last year, by the way that I 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.800 tried to put it on me. I suspended David Eally 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.760 uh for skipping out of a game to watch Game 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.840 one of the NBA Finals, which starts tonight. Uh. And 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.360 I do have to say if there is not a win, 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.680 if we do not win tonight and we lose our 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:59.480 third game in the row, there will be consequences people 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.440 on the roster. I like it. I gotta shake things up. 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.440 I was four for four last week's skip. Well, I'm 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.960 gonna be I'm gonna be watching everyone very closely. Put 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.120 it that way. We do have a good luck charm today, 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.880 Mama Wesley and flying in from Cincinnati just before game time. 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.360 A little bit of pressure on you. Definitely a little 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.440 bit of pressure. When my dad came to a game 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.960 a few weeks ago and it was like my third 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.040 and fat and uh. I was, you know, focusing on 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:25.760 the picture and then all of a sudden, I here 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.719 come on, Danny rappit and I was I was like 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.960 thrown back as an eleven year old and the Little League. 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:36.279 Uh so maybe your mom will be drinking wine coolers 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.600 and you know, yet tending up. Well, yeah, that's how 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.120 I remember her at my games, drinking Bartles and James 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.400 and and hanging out with the loud moms. We'll be 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:44.880 in the stands with so I'll make sure she has 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.159 a drink in hand. At very good we got the 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.680 uh uh erstwhile GM as well. So we're flying here. 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.799 Uh big show today, you know it's a big show. 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:58.400 We're bringing back the Dalton scale. Whoa oho, the Dalton 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:03.800 scaleen uh, in which we decide who is west what 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.360 who is because I don't understand primary radiant of quarterbacks. 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.080 If any Dalton is right in the middle, that means 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.880 if your quarterback is ranked ahead of him, you've got 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.440 a franchise quarterback. You're set. If your quarterback is ranked 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:18.960 behind him, you need an answer, you need a solution. 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:20.840 We do this every year. This is the third year 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:24.000 we've done it. Um Andy Dalton was the face of 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:29.000 mediocrity or that that middle gray area for for many years. 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:33.320 Last year we had collectively decided Alex Smith was the 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:35.719 more fitting person there. So we'll figure out who is 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.280 in that spot, that primar ridian spot, and then we'll 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.480 figure out who's around that spot, who's above Who's Who's 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.520 Who's a franchise quarterback? That's the question. That is the key, 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.479 and that's what all teams are looking for, uh, is 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.520 a franchise quarterback. So all gms will be tuned in 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.840 very closely to this podcast. I'm sure. Also, we're gonna 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.159 do uh some news, so we're gonna have some fun 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.680 and uh. Before we get going, I want to say 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:00.719 hi to Sully behind the glass us. What's up, bud 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:06.359 Hi Fellers are you today? Colors doing well? What is 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.039 uh you? You did a great job in the first show, 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:13.520 appreciate it taking over in your Dan Campbell role for Sydney. 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:18.000 And now Dan Campbell won his first game if you remember, Yeah, 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.680 it was all bro hugs and um, you know, puffing 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.159 out their chest and being all proud of themselves. And 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.040 that Dolphins team then went in the tank. If you recall, 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.680 Dan didn't come back. So you're looking to avoid that fate, 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:31.880 Oh certainly, yeah, yeah, we want to keep those bro 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.920 hugs going. Already drawing the parallel to Dan Campbell. If 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.440 that's what Dan Campbell did with the Dolphins, between that 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.520 coach and and Sully, that seems very ominous that it's 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.400 all down him for Sully, I mean Sally Wood. Sally 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.640 would do so well to be looking like Dan Campbell. 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:52.120 I'm just by the way, wearing wearing a podcast park 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.520 of Today, one that we all own, but ours are 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:58.640 adorned with the around the NFL logo. His move the sticks. 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.560 I was only given one. I was only given one 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.200 quarters up. It's a bit of an allegiance issue that 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:08.880 we're working through. But I'm putting Sully's professionalism above all, 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.000 so I'm not I'm not going to be ignored. Let's 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.360 do some news. Fine me, waiter man, fine me, water 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:21.840 everything to me. It's Tack McKinley, of course, the star 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.640 of the first round of the NFL draft when he 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:29.800 brought a picture frame poster of his deceased grandmother after 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.600 being drafted overall by the Falcons. Made some more news 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:37.000 today which I enjoyed. Uh. He posted on Instagram a 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.800 video dancing and celebrating the fact that he just went 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.480 from being dirt porter a millionaire. I like this guy. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.200 Like this Tach mckill. I hope he can play as 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:48.720 much as he entertains, uh in his rookie campaign. We'll say, now, 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:54.000 let's talk some news and We'll start with a big trade. Oh, 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.840 it's a trade and it's the it's the most depressing 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.320 kind of trade. A trade between the Jets and the 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:04.880 Browns um as the two teams swap um. You know, 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.440 I don't know what's a nice way to call these 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:14.000 these two players to Marry O'Davis and Calvin Pryor underachiever 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.920 one is an underachiever prior former first round pick to 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.360 Mario Davis is kind of just a guy at most 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.720 the linebackers. So you saw the rare one for one 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:28.360 trade with Calvin Pryor going to the Browns uh and 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.800 tomorrow Davis, who was a former Jet coming back to 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:35.240 New York. Uh. The browns Uh later confirmed the trade agreement. 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:39.000 And because Sashy Brown loves for people to know what 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.559 Sashy Brown thinks about things, uh, there was a missive 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:49.640 sent out by Mr. Brown. Calvin is a young, experienced 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.400 safety that has upside. We are pleased to be able 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.440 to add him to our defensive back room, and just 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:57.920 like every player we acquire, we expect him to come 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.360 in with a hard working mindset, ready to compete to 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.560 Mario is a guy that we developed the utmost respect 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.000 for in his time with our team, not only as 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.959 a professional but also as a person. We appreciate all 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.240 he did for our organization in his time in Cleveland. 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:19.800 Sashi went to Harvard. I believe so, Sashi, it's safety 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:25.160 who has upside, not safety that has wrote it. I 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:29.640 don't know. Can I just say something, you know, keep talking. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.599 Calvin Pryor is terrible. I'm just gonna be honest with 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.240 to use a bad player a year ago at this time, 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.000 it should be pointed out you were very high on him, 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:41.280 he was going to be very good. I just want 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.719 to point that out not true. We we got into 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.840 a little thing that you you said that you had 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.280 some high you hired high Calvin Brack. I also got 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:53.480 publicly roasted by Calvin Pryor on Twitter for suggesting that 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.440 he wasn't quite a superstar at that stage of the season. 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.560 He had a bad year and then he has a 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.920 promising year, and then he was, uh, the worst safety 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.600 on a team with terrible safeties last year. You could 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:06.880 check the check the tape. Uh. And I just want 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.480 to make the point that some of the talking like, uh, 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.600 the Browns are making another Patriots move taking somebody's old 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:16.160 first round have fun with Calvin Pryoris, who is saying 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.880 I read that in multiple places where I mean honestly 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.360 that I think this trade is exactly how we've It's 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.440 two it's two teams struggling to build a roster. No 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.480 one is praising the Browns for getting a safety that 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.840 the Jets don't want, and no one's praising the Jets 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.600 for getting a linebacker back that they didn't even try 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:39.240 to resign. Say, it's a non issue move, it's not 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.480 a big deal. Both teams had a need at the position. 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.319 The Browns need safeties. They'll give him a shot. It 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.200 was not guaranteed to make the roster. And also, if 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.199 we're gonna spend all this time on Sashy Brown and 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.880 I'll go work with I'll work for Sully next time. 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.920 But Mike mccagnet, who was a Glory who was a 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.199 Glory boy about a year ago, has sunk this team 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.880 into the ground. He has He has a lot more 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.000 to answer for than Sashy Brown, who has helped a 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.800 crew massive amount of draft picks. Amazing that amazing one 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:11.080 and fifteen season mark. Yes, he's doing amazing worker. You 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.280 can say that, but honestly, you don't the Browns have 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.600 done a nice job. You're turning this into like a 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.599 Brown's verse Jets. I was, I was certain. I was 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.760 just pointing out that the Browns are getting a bum 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:24.079 and the Jets getting a bum back as well, the 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.480 multiple ways the friend there you go, doesn't Mark? Is 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:31.000 there any chance that the Browns Greg Williams sees Calvin 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.280 Pryor is his new Mark Barron where he'll he'll be 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.280 playing that hybrid linebacker safety rule. I saw. I saw 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.920 that also, but I don't see that being true until 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.480 Calvin Pryor proves anything on the field. I just think 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.480 it's a low stakes trade. Right. They are very thin 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.560 at linebacker now, but Davis didn't quite fit. They're very 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:51.439 thin as safety. The best way I would categorize this 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.360 trade is if it happened on the fifth day of 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.920 free agency or the third day of the draft, it 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.520 would have not made our podcast. It would have not 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.839 been big enough news to make our podcast because those 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:09.880 were busy times. Now you knows it's Brown's Jets and 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.880 and now I got I'm not it's what we got 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:17.600 here on June. Well, no, continue on. It's just like 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.840 if you you put all this pre production into selling 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:21.800 the Browns down the river. The Jets are no pretty 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.800 picture either. I mean, like Mike mccagnet has a lot 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:28.760 to answer for what I'm the guy. I'm coming for 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:32.760 your corner, buddy, I'm a coming for you. I am 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.440 the lowest guy in the totem pole. Now I'm excited 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.960 about it. Not Yes, we're scamming for Sam. Baby can't 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.320 have that too. So it's not like I'm saying, Oh, Mike, 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:46.719 can't I'm coming, baby. You can't have that too from you. 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.480 You have you have to suffer through it to get it. 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.079 I'm coming is not going to just get handed to you. 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.040 Dan in May and June West has never been happier 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.800 with his decision to not root for an NFL Who's 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:01.520 Who's thirty one and who's thirty two? Uh? Moving on, 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.640 all right, very listen. I should have seen that coming, 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.120 but I didn't. And I apologize, Mark. My GM had 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.160 a horrible year two. Your GM is getting a lot 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:16.840 of accolades. That's all right, now, you know what I'm not. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.080 I have nothing else to say on the matter. Moving on, 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:23.920 Matt Jones, WHOA what a swift fall from Matt Jones Uh, 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.520 the running back who has once seen is maybe the 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:30.679 future guy on the Redskins in the backfield. Mike Silver 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.199 reported Thursday that Jones has been told by coach j 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.840 Gruten that Gruten that he's now the team's number five 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:40.040 running back. UM motivating at least part of the man's 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.319 decision to stay away from O t As. Uh. Let's 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.640 see who else is on that list of running backs? 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.440 Rob Kelly, Uh, someone's gonna help me with this one. 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:54.200 Samash Perene might be their Week one starter. Chris Thompson, 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:59.280 Mac Brown uh and Keith Marshall. And speaking of Rob Kelly, 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.920 known by many as fat Rob Kelly, he has done 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.960 some work cutting his body fat from eighteen percent totent 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:11.199 this offseason. A nice little offseason trope there. Uh. Kelly 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.640 says he feels more explosive, explosive, faster, blah blah blah. 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:18.560 Wes Matt Jones, Are you surprised how far he's fallen 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.240 in this time? No, I'm not. I know Greg is, 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.640 but I am not surprised, And I'm not surprised that 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.640 Rob Kelly feels the need to lose some weight and 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.880 uh he feels somaj Peeren on his on his back 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.000 because the last six games of last season, Rob Kelly 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.760 averaged less than three point three yards per carry. Their 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.960 running game, which looks strong at mid season, faltered down 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.560 the stretch. Somaja p Ryan's basically a more athletic version 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.760 of Rob Kelly, like when we did when I did 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:48.800 that projected Starter series, I put him as the starter 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.400 just because I think they they send a message drafting him. 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.920 I'm surprised about Matt Jones because it is worth mentioning 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.520 he averaged four point six yards per carry last year 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.880 in carries, he broke a lot of tackles. Uh, you know, 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.720 he's averaged fourteen yards per catch in his career. He's 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:05.840 made place. He's just fumbled a lot. He didn't fumble 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.000 a lot last year, really, but he did in a 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.440 couple of key spots twice in one game, and they 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.600 never looked back. I think it's a personal thing, and 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.200 it's also a reminder that coaches lie through their teeth. 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.120 Because Jay Gruden, the first time he didn't show up 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.360 to O t A s acted surprised, and the reporting 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:26.000 since and and other whispers I've heard are that that 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.840 was a total fabrication that he had met with Jay 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.040 Gruden before that, and they both knew exactly what was 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.640 gonna happen, and he got the you know, idea that 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.720 he basically wasn't part of the picture, and he decided 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:40.120 must screw that. Cut me and other running back news. 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:44.080 The Awakening is awake once more. Let's call it awakening 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:48.280 five point oh. Christen Michael has signed with the Indianapolis Colts. 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.640 Michael who spent last season with the Seahawks, he finishes 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.560 the team's leading rusher, uh and then a short stint 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.360 with the Packers that didn't ultimately work out. Now he 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.120 lands with the Colts. West. You wrote about this, you 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.760 believe that if Kristen Michael is going to get a 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:05.800 job on the first day of June, he led it 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:07.480 in a pretty good spot. I think this was the 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.240 best possible scenario for him. A backfield that desperately needs 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:15.360 speed and playmaking ability with Frank Gore who had basically 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.840 fewer big plays than any starting running back in the NFL, 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.360 their backup running back Robert Turbin is one of the 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.320 slowest backups in the NFL. They do have Marlon Mack, 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.040 who's a rookie, but maybe they don't want to put 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.240 all their marbles in that bank. So Kristin Michael is 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:29.720 going to get a chance, I think, to make this 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:33.360 team and to have a pretty significant role. We've been 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.040 down this road forty to fifty times at this point 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.680 with Kristen Michael, and he's been in good situations before 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.040 where they've given him prime opportunities to prove that he 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.840 can be a week to week starter. And it refuses 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.720 to click anywhere. And it must be his ability. It 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.400 must be stu ability to retain the playbook and other 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.200 stuff and other stuff as well. It's not just his 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.480 athletic ability. Well, he miss mental errors, he misreads holes 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.520 at the line of scrimmage, and he's not an asset 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:01.760 in the passing game. That said, it's on tape in September. 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.080 In early October last year, he ran better than any 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.280 Seattle running back. I West. You know, I I feel 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.080 that you were an excellent writer and you did a 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.760 very good job on this piece on NFL dot Com. 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.760 But I will take issue with your final paragraph. After 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:18.159 watching the Seahawks, Packers, Cowboys, and Redskins failed to unleash 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.800 Michael's athletic explosiveness over the past few seasons. How about 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:25.639 Kristin Michael accountability. He failed those teams and failed they 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:27.280 gave him a shot. He just can't seem to stick 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.920 around anywhere. But part of the equation is coaching and development, 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.640 so you think he has yet to find I think 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.680 right staff to to bring it out of him at 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.480 this point. I think he was ultimately scapegoated in Seattle 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.680 last year. Did any running back with that offensive line 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.159 they had early in the season and Russell Wilson not 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.560 a threat to run on a high ankle spring, no 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.760 running back was gonna do well. He was scapegoaded and 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:50.919 no running back really did better than him in Seattle 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.160 the rest of the something's going on though, that didn't 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.520 work with the Packers, and uh, I mean, he's got 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.240 a shot here. But I'm surprised personally that Chris Ballard 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:00.239 and I think he just had so much to do 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.280 on his wish list this year. I think if he 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.560 had all the draft picks and the money of the world, 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.280 he would have done a more to upgrade the spot 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.360 next to Gore, because I think they like having Gore, 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.280 but I think the less Gore for them probably the 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.639 more effects. I also don't know particularly know if I 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.760 trust Chuck Bagano's staff over that of the Seahawks or 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.520 the Cowboys or the Packers. Moving on, you know, I 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:25.280 have to say this about offensive lineman NFL offensive lineman. 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:27.760 If you had to pick who you wanted to be 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.760 if you were an NFL player, maybe wouldn't pick those 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.119 guys because they're kind of the grunts. They're the big dudes. 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.560 They I'm sure they do well with with the ladies, 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.640 but maybe it's it's more fun to be a saucy 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.199 quarterback or running back or wide receiver. But I'll tell 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.040 you what, all right, great, by the way, what are 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.040 you looking for? But I was picking something up. Continue 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:50.640 on at least ones to show something like this happening 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.920 on over there every every show. But offensive lineman. Those 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:56.879 guys have fun. I feel like if I wanted to, 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.960 uh go out for a day out or a night out, 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:01.760 I'd probably go out with a lineman. And I bring 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:06.280 this up because the Tennessee Titans offensive line has started 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.600 a tradition I don't know how plugged. And you guys 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:12.159 are in the Stanley Cup Finals. Not very big Predators 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:14.639 fan right here, the Preads. The Preds are in the 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.040 in the Finals against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Right now they're 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.119 down to oh and things aren't looking good. But the 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.639 Titans linemen have started a tradition where they all go 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:25.000 to the game together. They were matching jerseys. Um, they 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:29.760 hoist uh fresh fresh catfish in their bare hands and 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:32.600 then slug giant beers and pour the beers down the 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:36.080 gullets of the dead catfish and the wholk they put 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:37.879 the put them on the jumbo trown and the crowd 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:44.000 goes nuts. That's pretty fun. I mean stupid is there too? Yeah, 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.480 that's the star right next to him. He's doing You'll 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:50.080 notice he's very quarterbacks and all these basics. He's standing 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:54.159 there smiling. Uh. And just because it was down the beer. No, 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:56.159 I have not seen him chugging any of the videos 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.520 that I've seen. Game three in Nashville on Saturday night, 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:01.880 you know it's to go off, and I tell her Luan, 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.000 who is a Pro Bowl tackle of course for Tennessee, 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:07.679 and he's the ringleader all of all this. Uh. He 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:11.720 gave an interview uh to the local Nashville station and 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:13.520 talked about it a little bit. Let's here, Well, I 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:15.600 knew I wanted you the catfish. I started about two 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:18.000 weeks before the new catfish was the thing. I didn't 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:21.199 even know that until the playoffs actually start, and um, 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:23.879 we get there, I have my catfish. I mean, the 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:25.960 boys are talking. I'm like, I'm gonna crank a beer. 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:28.080 After I was like, where, why don't we all just 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:30.159 drink a beer? It's all crank a beer together, Like 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.640 all right, so I'm the plan. Let's hold the catfish up, 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.760 wait for the crowd to enjoy it, slam the catfish down, 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.840 and then all of us cheers and just cranking. And uh, 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:42.320 I think it was just good old fashioned fun, just 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:46.040 a not to noodling. Do you know what noodling is 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:50.119 in Tennessee? Sally probably knows what new Yeah, you go, 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.119 you're going, uh, you're you're looking for catfish and there 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:55.520 are bodes and you're like to kick your hands and 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:58.960 the actually the like the muddy hut of a catfish 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:01.520 underwater and I happen out with your hand and you 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:03.680 could people like lose fingers and stuff. But oh yeah, 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:05.520