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Speaker 1: NFL podcast is taking for two. Welcome to another edition
Speaker 1: of the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansis.
Speaker 1: I've joined in a room filled with heroes, Colleen Woolf,
Speaker 1: Chris Westling and Greg girls with all what is up?
Speaker 1: Boys and girls, men and women. I'm back, you are back.
Speaker 1: It feels so good. It's so good to have you
Speaker 1: here in the Sessler chair. History is its very, very
Speaker 1: rich here, It's incredibly rich between Connie and the a
Speaker 1: t N Podcastami, what where is that? Miami? And sure enough,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's pretty good. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's because you're back on the show for the
Speaker 1: first time in a while after another successful season on
Speaker 1: NFL Network for Colleen doing numerous big things, finally doing
Speaker 1: this thing. But Mark Sessler not here today with a
Speaker 1: mysterious ailment that we'll get into I'm sure on Thursday
Speaker 1: when he returns. So the chair is all yours. It's weird,
Speaker 1: it's coincidental. It is all of a sudden Sessler wakes
Speaker 1: up with an ailment and I got a free spot.
Speaker 1: I like that Wolf howel though even work workshopping that like,
Speaker 1: that's something I will later regret. I'm sure. Mark also
Speaker 1: not here the day after. We got a several texts
Speaker 1: about his excitement over Kevin Stefanski physically, So another thing.
Speaker 1: You read into it if you want. Then we're gonna
Speaker 1: get to that a little later in the show because
Speaker 1: it all got directed directly to Stefanski himself. Mark Suessler's
Speaker 1: thoughts about um the new Brown's head coaches, physical looks.
Speaker 1: You're shaking your head away. It's it's just hard to
Speaker 1: be Mark Sessler, the emotional roller coaster that that that
Speaker 1: guy lives with on a daily basis, to try to
Speaker 1: convince himself and the rest of us that he wasn't
Speaker 1: interested in the Browns. A few days ago and wanted
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels and then to get a series of texts
Speaker 1: comparing his new coach to George Clooney and how sexy
Speaker 1: he is. It's just it's mind boggling. Then again, I
Speaker 1: mean he could be in a world where his thoughts
Speaker 1: about the Clooney Stafancy comparison don't get immediately relayed to
Speaker 1: Stefanski on National. We've made it a long way. That
Speaker 1: is a sign of for sure. Um alright, so what
Speaker 1: do we got coming up today? Connie is with us
Speaker 1: and we're gonna do a segment where we take out
Speaker 1: our crystal balls, taking out the old CBS, and we're
Speaker 1: going to look into the off season ahead for each
Speaker 1: of the eliminated teams from the playoffs. There we're up
Speaker 1: to eight now, and uh make predictions what people will
Speaker 1: be talking about, what the team's plan to dress to
Speaker 1: keep from being eliminated next year. So since there's four
Speaker 1: of us, we each took two. Connie, you know, because
Speaker 1: she's a pro. Yesterday reached out said go and broke,
Speaker 1: buy and hype. But I know what I like, just
Speaker 1: got the credit swipe, coalhead, turn up chase of stereo
Speaker 1: dorse spinning it Oh my God, make it and now,
Speaker 1: please God get stop. You You've picked the lot. You
Speaker 1: guys need to find a new producer. You you picked
Speaker 1: your own two teams, including your favorite Eagles. So I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to uh your predictions there. Um. But before that,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do a little bit of news. Let's get
Speaker 1: caught up. I got enough on my plate right now
Speaker 1: to worry about trying to get these Browns back to
Speaker 1: where we want to be. I'm not gonna compare myself
Speaker 1: to any uh actors. I mean, he wasn't thrilled. And
Speaker 1: we'll get to that at the end of news. But
Speaker 1: before we do that, let's hit the rest of the news.
Speaker 1: And we love talking broadcasting and the comings and goings
Speaker 1: and the our feelings about various people in the booth
Speaker 1: calling these NFL games. Well, the number one guy in
Speaker 1: the game right now is Tony Romo. And there's a
Speaker 1: report out there and I don't know about the source,
Speaker 1: and so I just want to put that out there, Uh,
Speaker 1: Front Office Sports Michael McCarthy. And I'm not saying he's
Speaker 1: not around. He's been. This is my coal. He's been
Speaker 1: in the mix as a media reporter. I believe for
Speaker 1: some bigger enterities for a long time. Maybe today back
Speaker 1: there you go. Uh, ESPN is preparing an offer for
Speaker 1: Tony Romo that would make the current CBS UH color
Speaker 1: analysts the highest paid sportscaster in TV history. The multi
Speaker 1: year deal would pay between ten and fourteen million annually.
Speaker 1: UH McCarthy reports he Romo is a free agent, Connie.
Speaker 1: He is uh a FEMA in this industry. Let's face it.
Speaker 1: In terms of guys that landed and made an instant
Speaker 1: impact and had everyone talking in universal praise, it's Tony Romo,
Speaker 1: Which tells you why a guy that his last deal
Speaker 1: that he signed CBS was reportedly three years, four million
Speaker 1: annually and he has a chance to almost triple that.
Speaker 1: Is ESPN making a sound investment. If this is indeed
Speaker 1: what's going on right now, it feels like a desperate
Speaker 1: move for them, but also one I like because listen,
Speaker 1: pay Tony Romo. He deserves all the money that he
Speaker 1: can get right now. The only thing that would make
Speaker 1: me really sad about this is that we wouldn't get
Speaker 1: to see Tony Romo in the CBS blazer anymore with
Speaker 1: the big CBS logo on it. And also I'd be
Speaker 1: really sad that if he wasn't with Jim Nance anymore.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's part of they make each other better.
Speaker 1: I think, the two of them, and I don't know
Speaker 1: who who ESPN would put with him in the booth,
Speaker 1: right Nance. I would imagine it will be a big
Speaker 1: reason for Tony Romo to stay if he chooses to.
Speaker 1: I mean, the the you know, just very existence of
Speaker 1: this report suggests, you know, it's negotiating time. Colleen's a
Speaker 1: big wick. She knows how it works. You know, you
Speaker 1: get some interest from elsewhere. You got your little sparrows
Speaker 1: drawing about that leverage. Yeah, you're dropping little bread crumbs
Speaker 1: to us. Yeah, McCarthy, you know their pressure and CBS
Speaker 1: to fork over the money. I'm a little bivalent on
Speaker 1: this one. I feel like ESPN could ruin him. There
Speaker 1: will be contrived to like embrace debate takes in the
Speaker 1: middle of the broadcast. They'll be overproduced. We'll have to
Speaker 1: have hot takes from Romo instead of what he's good at.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but maybe he'll make Monday night football
Speaker 1: watchable again, so that would be good. Schedule is not
Speaker 1: as good, I guess I'll believe this one when I
Speaker 1: see it, You've had some you had some insider info, Dan, No,
Speaker 1: it sounds like it's a thing that could happen. Hearing
Speaker 1: from someone that's a little plugged in on this that
Speaker 1: CBS will have the chance to to match it. But
Speaker 1: this is this could really this is in the air,
Speaker 1: and I'm of two minds on it. Um, for what
Speaker 1: you just said, Colleen, the games if he indeed, even
Speaker 1: if he's Monday Night Football, which I assume that's where
Speaker 1: this would all be heading. But um, the games are
Speaker 1: not as good as the top Sunday CBS A f
Speaker 1: C games typically. But Greg, you made the good point that, yeah,
Speaker 1: I I watched Monday Night Football every week. It's like
Speaker 1: a standalone game, whereas if it's Sunday afternoon, there's a
Speaker 1: billion different games going on. I don't see Romo every week,
Speaker 1: so selfishly like, that's the game, kids, I don't mind
Speaker 1: a little extra Roman. CBS gets three playoff games, ESPN
Speaker 1: only gets one, and CBS is in the mix for
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl too, And yes, you live them, you
Speaker 1: lose them for the super Bowl. It is great on
Speaker 1: the Super And I have sympathy for Joe Tessator and Bogger,
Speaker 1: who look like they are in trouble here. But it
Speaker 1: is also a reminder to Greg's point of what a
Speaker 1: big platform and stage it is, and people zone in
Speaker 1: on these primetime games in a way they don't on CBS,
Speaker 1: which is also part of the reason you might want
Speaker 1: to be calling these games. So it is the rating
Speaker 1: are like way bigger on CBS. Also, they took a
Speaker 1: chance on him and put him as a rookie in
Speaker 1: the number one chair and took Phil Simms out. How
Speaker 1: about a little loyalty from Romo? What do you give me?
Speaker 1: Give me a break? I think they take a chance
Speaker 1: on They're a capitalist enterprise that's trying to squeeze every
Speaker 1: employee to make every dollar. They hit on it, so
Speaker 1: he's gotta do it. Could could have put him in
Speaker 1: the fourth chair or the eighth chair. They put him
Speaker 1: in the number one share right away they were that
Speaker 1: is prescient and they should be rewarded for it. Wow,
Speaker 1: they'll they'll be uh. I think if he could pick
Speaker 1: his partner then follow the money. Greg likes rap. I
Speaker 1: feel like what you just said, what was the comment
Speaker 1: you made capitalist empire and enterprise. That's a great album title.
Speaker 1: For your first rap album. I think you'd do good.
Speaker 1: Just just for context, John Gruden earned over six million
Speaker 1: a year from ESPN to call on Monday Night Football
Speaker 1: in the early nineties. It's like almost thirty years ago now. Uh,
Speaker 1: John Madden made eight million a year. Dang, that's a
Speaker 1: lot of Johnny Madden in the early nineties. That brought
Speaker 1: up a stat I saw that at the time, John
Speaker 1: Madden made more than every player in the NFL, which
Speaker 1: is amazing to think about. And that's why Tony Roma's
Speaker 1: worth it too. I mean, if Andy Dawton's making sixteen
Speaker 1: or seventeen, why not give Roma for right. I mean,
Speaker 1: that would be more than he ever made bass salary
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys. If ESPN believes it has a problem
Speaker 1: with their Monday night telecast, that is the ultimate problem solver.
Speaker 1: That's like le Broncos signing Peyton Manning in free agency.
Speaker 1: Problem solved. All right, Let's move on coaching moves. A
Speaker 1: lot of guys moving around, UH, teams building up their staffs,
Speaker 1: making changes. Let's start with the Los Angeles Rams. This
Speaker 1: one Greg a little under the radar here because Wade
Speaker 1: Phillips he goes out the door. Um, after it was
Speaker 1: a three or four seasons. The three seasons with the
Speaker 1: team did a really nice job, but they decided to
Speaker 1: go in a different directions direction and the Rams have
Speaker 1: named outside linebackers coach Brandon Staley as phillips replacement as
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator. Uh, he's just thirty four years old
Speaker 1: and kind of an unknown. So Phillips, perhaps the most
Speaker 1: well known defensive coordination in the league, is replaced by
Speaker 1: one of the least well knows right, he was the
Speaker 1: outside linebackers coach under Vic Fangio with the Bears as
Speaker 1: recently as three years ago. He was an assistant at
Speaker 1: John Carroll University. So I mean this is a media
Speaker 1: are rise John Carroll University, he was at James Madison,
Speaker 1: he was he was a coordinator at John Carroll and McVeigh.
Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting just bring up that he's
Speaker 1: he is taking a big swing here and some people
Speaker 1: think it's sort of like a defensive version of McVeigh.
Speaker 1: Everywhere he's gone, everyone's just thought this guy is a
Speaker 1: future superstar and that he showed up and he impressed
Speaker 1: McVeigh in the Rams so much in the interview process
Speaker 1: that they just thought maybe maybe he was their idea
Speaker 1: all along. They had heard some good things that we
Speaker 1: have to hire this guy, even though you know he's
Speaker 1: only run defenses, like I said, at John Carroll James Madison,
Speaker 1: and now he's had a couple of years as a
Speaker 1: position coach. I trust John mcveigh's judgment, though, don't sleep
Speaker 1: on John Carroll University as a coaching hotbeds with Miami
Speaker 1: of Ohio as like the cradle of coaches in the
Speaker 1: NFL uh correction. He's thirty seven, not thirty four. Thirty
Speaker 1: four year old. Thirty four is the age of the
Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator of the Rams, Kevin oh An, All
Speaker 1: former camp arm quarterback. He has just one year of
Speaker 1: coordinating experience, um and he now takes a role that
Speaker 1: was not even that didn't exist previously under Sean McVeigh
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. Seems like he you wanted to beef up.
Speaker 1: Maybe his staff have another voice. People thought maybe McVeigh
Speaker 1: was doing too much. But also it gives him a
Speaker 1: chance to hire a guy he coached with in Washington
Speaker 1: and is supposed to be a rising star. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he ended up as a camp fire. And
Speaker 1: but he was the first guy that people got mad
Speaker 1: at the Patriots for trying to replace Tom Brady with
Speaker 1: not really replaced. But they used the third round pick
Speaker 1: on Kevin O'Connell back in the day, wasted while you
Speaker 1: wasted a pick on Kevin O'Connell, we got gave him
Speaker 1: somemall weapons. Tore me deserves it. This was on Rams
Speaker 1: fans Radar Keisha asked me, like a month ago, should
Speaker 1: the Rams have an offensive coordinator? People were asking people
Speaker 1: had asked the question. Now it's been answered, Yes, they do.
Speaker 1: The Bears make a move at O c and that's
Speaker 1: a good one. We're happy that he's a Bill Laser
Speaker 1: shut him off. Oh man, you haven't heard that drop
Speaker 1: in a while, because Billy Laser is out of the
Speaker 1: league in twenty nineteen after serving as the Cincinnati coordinator
Speaker 1: um in seventeen and eighteen. Uh and now he's back.
Speaker 1: He's with the Bears. And and perhaps I don't know,
Speaker 1: it feels like a tricky job to take on West
Speaker 1: because there's so much uncertainty. If they actually do go
Speaker 1: ahead and give Mitchell Robinsky another try, you're kind of
Speaker 1: tied to a guy that seems like a bust. But
Speaker 1: it could go the other direction. Maybe there's another quarterback
Speaker 1: that materializes in you're the hero that saved them from
Speaker 1: last like a Dalton type figure. This feels like a
Speaker 1: throwback to a more innocent time on our podcast. Bill
Speaker 1: Laser was a major part of our podcast for years,
Speaker 1: and what just because of his last name, what I
Speaker 1: remember he started out under Chip Kelly in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And then the first thing I thought of was before
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill landed with the Titans, his work came under
Speaker 1: Bill Laser, with him throwing short passes, get the ball
Speaker 1: out quickly, and maybe that's sort of a solution for Trabinsky.
Speaker 1: Let's try to minimize the damage he can do by
Speaker 1: getting it out of his hands quickly. I kind of
Speaker 1: like the idea of Andy Dalton going to the Bears,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure Bears fans do not like that idea
Speaker 1: at all. You know, since he's gonna go with Joe Burrow,
Speaker 1: so hey, why not have a trip? Why not make
Speaker 1: a deal here and relieve like seventeen million dollars in
Speaker 1: salary cap space for the Bengals go over to Chicago,
Speaker 1: and then you put a little heat on Trabinsky and
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some heat on Trabisky hot, But can
Speaker 1: I just point out that when Andy Dalton has been
Speaker 1: surrounded by good talent, and the Bears do have some
Speaker 1: pretty good talent, he's won. When he was surrounded by
Speaker 1: Bill Laser, he won. Trabinsky was surrounded by good talent
Speaker 1: and did not win this year. And the thing I
Speaker 1: like about Laser, not just you know, the sound effects,
Speaker 1: it's really good is according to Google images, he's never
Speaker 1: been seen without wrap around sunglasses on. So I like that.
Speaker 1: You know, they just make sure he covered which one
Speaker 1: of those things this year one of the things you
Speaker 1: attached to your sunglasses and you can just wear it
Speaker 1: as like a necklace. Are you sixty seven years old?
Speaker 1: And my final bit of insight and analysis is that,
Speaker 1: like west Is said, and it's why he is the
Speaker 1: primary ridiant of NFL quarterbacks, you surround Andy Dalton with
Speaker 1: better talent and you know what, that right arm turns
Speaker 1: into a laser. It's perfect. Moving on, John d Filippo's
Speaker 1: gone in Jacksonville. It's funny how these coordinators go from
Speaker 1: the hot guy in the market to cold as ice,
Speaker 1: foreigner style. Because d Filippo is the guy that everybody
Speaker 1: was into I think Cessa was way into d Flippos
Speaker 1: had like a long form on him one year. Um
Speaker 1: and uh it was. It was presented as a mutual
Speaker 1: party in the ways, but it appears that Jacksonville is
Speaker 1: looking for a fresh start there, um, Colleen. Some people
Speaker 1: may be a little surprised that, uh that when Gardner
Speaker 1: Means was on the field, that offense was proficient, but
Speaker 1: apparently that wasn't enough to save I feel like, in
Speaker 1: a way, somebody had to take the fall for Minshew
Speaker 1: out performing Nick Foles after they paid him all that money.
Speaker 1: And because d Filippo was the quarterbacks coach with Nick
Speaker 1: Foles when the Eagles won the Super Bowl in that
Speaker 1: year that he looked really good and Carson Wentz was,
Speaker 1: you know, having that m v P like season before
Speaker 1: he got hurt. It just didn't translate. So I feel
Speaker 1: like that was he was kind of the fall guy.
Speaker 1: Another tricky gig there, Greg, because Doug Marone, speaking of
Speaker 1: hot seats, I mean, he was somehow able to save
Speaker 1: his job this year. But results equal no results equal
Speaker 1: firing next year, and then usually the coach gets swept
Speaker 1: out too. But you know, still good gig pays well.
Speaker 1: Maybe lined up in Cleveland. I mean, they'd they've had
Speaker 1: I think Maron's had what four different or three different coordinators.
Speaker 1: They had Greg Olsen back in the day. Maybe that
Speaker 1: was under the last coach, but Nathaniel Hackett. D Filippo,
Speaker 1: I'm always a little like depressed, and I see that
Speaker 1: it says mutually agreed to part ways like it. It
Speaker 1: makes me sad because they're like trying to do d
Speaker 1: Filippo a favorite, like they're trying not to hurt his
Speaker 1: career more than necessary. But it almost like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it almost points it out even more sad, like we're
Speaker 1: trying not to hurt you, buddy, professionals. Doug Peterson fires
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. Yeah, yea. What if d Filippo and Nick
Speaker 1: Foles end up in Philadelphia because after he had another
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz injury, people think they should have a better
Speaker 1: back up there. I don't hate it, and it feels
Speaker 1: like something that could definitely happen in Philadelphia. One final
Speaker 1: bit of news, the Vikings fired defensive coordinator George Edwards.
Speaker 1: He had been there since two thousand and fourteen. Uh
Speaker 1: So they're looking for a fresh spark on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball now with Kevin Stefanski, who yes,
Speaker 1: we will get to in a moment taking on the
Speaker 1: haunted chair in Cleveland. Uh, Mike Simmer has got a
Speaker 1: lot of work to do. He's gotta find a new
Speaker 1: O C and D C. Well, I think they're talking
Speaker 1: about the next DC is going to be Mike Zimmer's son,
Speaker 1: who had been the linebackers coach, and I think Edwards
Speaker 1: contract was expiring then they just decided they weren't bringing
Speaker 1: him back. It feels like nepotism. It does feel like
Speaker 1: because damn Connie speaking well, not nepotism, but your father
Speaker 1: is on Instagram, which is this is what develop Speaking
Speaker 1: of nepotism, there has been a lot of talk. You know,
Speaker 1: it's tough for people to get on NFL network and
Speaker 1: no there's Ed Wolfe does every other week. I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy, this guy is on more than when Willia
Speaker 1: McGuinness on this podcast. Two is like easy easy e
Speaker 1: d W. I mean, this guy has no idea who
Speaker 1: he apparently hasn't He has no credentials, um talking football.
Speaker 1: He doesn't even follow the sport. He helped me make
Speaker 1: my pick a couple of weeks wonderful man. And he
Speaker 1: said slam dunk Eagles, which is my favorite moment probably ever.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Does he is a great man? Yeah? Not
Speaker 1: a fan of n w A. Does he dislike Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers because the ed Wolf does does Ed Wolf justlike
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers as much as Keith Hansas dislikes Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't think that anybody could
Speaker 1: write it would surprise me if ed Wolfe has a
Speaker 1: strong opinion on Aaron Rodgers. Yeah. I don't think he does.
Speaker 1: And my mom is more of the person that has
Speaker 1: the hot takes. You guys heard what she thinks of
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll. And so that was a rough playoff game
Speaker 1: for the Wolf family. Here was here was some a
Speaker 1: few texts I got from my dad's Sunday night. Rogers
Speaker 1: got lucky, Hawks could not stop anyone on third down.
Speaker 1: And then I replied, he made two huge throws when
Speaker 1: he needed it. Agreed I was not rooting for him,
Speaker 1: wrote he wrote, I told you that I don't like
Speaker 1: his face and attitude. He face, No way, I don't
Speaker 1: like that guy's face. Let's take it's a take uh
Speaker 1: in retirement news throwing touchdown tos and here come the
Speaker 1: Chargers onto the field. One career touchdown catches that was
Speaker 1: the most time NFL tight end all time. Antonio Gates
Speaker 1: calls it a career. The eight time Pro bowler who
Speaker 1: last played in eighteen, made his retirement official on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: The thirty nine year old. This one hurts because he
Speaker 1: you always tracked this stuff, at least I do pro
Speaker 1: athletes born in the same year as you. He's an
Speaker 1: eighty baby, when when they start retiring due to old age,
Speaker 1: and now he's like, you know, he's older. He's basically
Speaker 1: the last. He's the last of the eighties. So this one,
Speaker 1: this one hits me a little bit. Gates is the
Speaker 1: Charger's career leader in receptions, receiving yards, and touchdown catches.
Speaker 1: He finished with a hundred and sixteen. Uh this West,
Speaker 1: this is a Hall of famer we're talking about, right.
Speaker 1: I think he's he's a definite Hall of Famer. And
Speaker 1: I know this will upset Cowboys fans, but for most
Speaker 1: of his career was a better receiving tight end than
Speaker 1: Jason went Maybe not a better all around tight end,
Speaker 1: but he was right there with Tony Gonzalez going for
Speaker 1: the first team All pros early this century, and I
Speaker 1: think the legacy that I think of is jointly with
Speaker 1: Tony Gonzalez. He caused everyone to look for the basket,
Speaker 1: the power forward playing tight end, and and Gonzalez was
Speaker 1: a pretty good role playing power forward on some cow teams.
Speaker 1: But Antonio Gates was a star basketball player averaging twenty
Speaker 1: points a game and dragon Kent State I didn't Final four,
Speaker 1: I think reminded me of that. He Uh, he was
Speaker 1: much better than Jason Witten at their respective peaks. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no question I don't care about like all around game,
Speaker 1: and Tonio Gates was better than Tony Gonzalez that at
Speaker 1: their respective I'm not saying necessarily he had a better career,
Speaker 1: but when he was at his oh Ford it was
Speaker 1: about oh Ford o sex Apex. He was as good
Speaker 1: a tight end as there's ever been, and he was
Speaker 1: first Team All Pro all three of those years, while
Speaker 1: those other two guys were in the middle of their prime.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that's it's a strong take. He's
Speaker 1: one of the great like receivers at any position and
Speaker 1: of the odds, and even though he didn't play in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. I feel like I never actually thought this
Speaker 1: day would come. He was waiting for that phone to ring.
Speaker 1: I would imagine this year as well. Rivers, Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: and Gates combined for eighty nine touchdowns, the most in
Speaker 1: NFL history by a tight end quarterback tandem. There's always
Speaker 1: a what if around uh those Chargers teams, because like
Speaker 1: we're saying, Gates was an unbelievable difference maker, stretched the field,
Speaker 1: kill you in the red zone type tight end. And
Speaker 1: he had La Danian Tomlinson, who is arguably the best
Speaker 1: running back in the last twenty five years at his peak,
Speaker 1: and a young Phil Rivers, and they had some of
Speaker 1: those huge regular scenes. They never were able to put
Speaker 1: it all together. And then um with Gates, his feet
Speaker 1: started barking at him and he had those issues, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Thominson got old. But yeah, an incredible career.
Speaker 1: I think his first ballot to me, I mean, when
Speaker 1: I think of the best tight ends that I've watched
Speaker 1: and watching football, Gates will always be one of the
Speaker 1: guys that possed my mind first, right some big I
Speaker 1: saw some big playoff per Cormon's is and losses against
Speaker 1: the Jets at Gates, which you speaks. There was a
Speaker 1: lot of Chargers playoff losses where Antonio Gates went eight
Speaker 1: three eighty with a touchdown and it was all for
Speaker 1: not Uh Connie news for you. The Eagles will be
Speaker 1: featured on the new season of All or Nothing, the
Speaker 1: Amazon NFL Films joint. It's kind of like uh hard
Speaker 1: Knocks if you blew it up over an entire season.
Speaker 1: And Greg, this is one thing we you and I
Speaker 1: have talked about it, like we talked about it every year.
Speaker 1: We're always trying to figure out when these things should
Speaker 1: be rolled out. One year they rolled it out like
Speaker 1: as training camp was beginning, it was like what are
Speaker 1: you doing. One year they rolled it out the week
Speaker 1: of the NFL Draft, and it's like no, no, no, no no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you gotta put it. Put it somewhere where it can
Speaker 1: actually Yeah, how about the week after the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: which is where it rolls out. This year, I'll be
Speaker 1: watching it and it's a good I think it's a
Speaker 1: good season, a good team. It's all luck with All
Speaker 1: or Nothing because they're they're embedded with these teams before
Speaker 1: the season begins, and you just hope it's an interesting
Speaker 1: one and with all the injuries and their rise in December,
Speaker 1: and then of course the playoffs and seeing how it
Speaker 1: went down potentially with Carson Wentz and the head injury,
Speaker 1: although I mean I would imagine they might be careful
Speaker 1: about that. Um, I'll be watching, I know you will
Speaker 1: kind of. Yeah, there's there's so many storylines for them,
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of It's almost like Hard Knocks too,
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of what we will end up
Speaker 1: seeing and what ends up ultimately just kind of being
Speaker 1: left in the in the edit bay because there are
Speaker 1: so many different things. Think about the Orlando Scandric drama
Speaker 1: that happened earlier in the season with Malcolm Jenk Malcolm
Speaker 1: Jenkins and like the whole locker room splitting apart and
Speaker 1: that whole thing. And then yeah, you have all of
Speaker 1: these practice squad guys stepping up and Josh McCown I'm
Speaker 1: sure he's going to have obviously a huge part of it.
Speaker 1: With the playoffs. I mean, you have these guys that
Speaker 1: stepped up and push them ultimately into the playoffs. So
Speaker 1: it's just these teams, they don't volunteer for it, they
Speaker 1: get picked by the league, and so it's just the
Speaker 1: Eagles president Don Smolenski was talking about how it's like
Speaker 1: the schedule, it is what it is. You just deal
Speaker 1: with it. You make the best of it. And then
Speaker 1: he the last time he was talking about it, he
Speaker 1: was like, it's just like us being on the road
Speaker 1: for three straight weeks in October. So that's what he
Speaker 1: equated it too. So I'm interested to see how much
Speaker 1: we actually get to see, right like the Cowboys year
Speaker 1: because Jerry Jones just you don't care, He's gonna he's
Speaker 1: gonna let all the info get out there, at least
Speaker 1: a lot of it. I think was their best all
Speaker 1: or nothing season because he didn't seem to be too
Speaker 1: worried about making himself look great. It seems good inside
Speaker 1: info UM and other news. I just want to hit
Speaker 1: on this quickly. I don't care so much that Chad
Speaker 1: Johnson um is looking to catch on with an XFL
Speaker 1: team as a kicker. I just want to go on
Speaker 1: record while I can on this podcast that I cannot
Speaker 1: believe this XFL thing is happening. Is I mean, Vince
Speaker 1: McMahon already tried this once about twenty years ago, and
Speaker 1: it was a colossal failure. Other than the camera above
Speaker 1: the field. That was a cool little development which was
Speaker 1: taken by the NFL. And then we Since then, the
Speaker 1: Arena Football League folded. Okay, last year with NFL support,
Speaker 1: the Alliance of American Football a F folded after eight games.
Speaker 1: And that's when they were presenting themselves as a feeder
Speaker 1: system to the NFL and the NFL even they were like,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll air some of your games. I don't
Speaker 1: think they paid the a F a F for it,
Speaker 1: but they said, well, air uh some of your games,
Speaker 1: um and that postgame show coverage I believe. And then
Speaker 1: the NFL signed a bunch of those players too, And
Speaker 1: it's like the meteor, it's coming right at you, Vince, XFL.
Speaker 1: There's no way that's gonna work. Is anybody think this
Speaker 1: is gonna work? I'm gonna west the softball fans if
Speaker 1: this league's around in three years. I can't wait till
Speaker 1: the combine. When you grill Evan Silva and the Rotor
Speaker 1: World guys about how breathlessly they're going to cover the
Speaker 1: XFL this year, I would never do that. Evan Evans
Speaker 1: too smart to cover the XFL. I can tell you that, um,
Speaker 1: when moment when you brought up the A F A
Speaker 1: at st now most the Silva wrote a world just
Speaker 1: covering uh the A F and I made a joke
Speaker 1: and three makes well. I get why. I don't get
Speaker 1: why the XFL and is leaning so hard into you know,
Speaker 1: we're renegades, Like we've got Connor Cook. First of all,
Speaker 1: don't you don't lead with Connor Cook. They had a
Speaker 1: national ad and it like mentioned, and it started with
Speaker 1: Connor Cook. I was at that playoff game. It was
Speaker 1: a rough one. Um. I think a minor league professional
Speaker 1: football can work and would be super helpful and almost
Speaker 1: necessary for the idea of professional football totally in the
Speaker 1: United States and North America wherever. I don't think this
Speaker 1: is it, but I do want it, so I do
Speaker 1: want them to keep trying it. Who the first are
Speaker 1: excited to see it, to just see how it goes.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense that to either you're gonna
Speaker 1: make two million dollars over a four year contract or
Speaker 1: basically you make nothing, and that's like professional football. There's
Speaker 1: like there should be some sort of in between where
Speaker 1: like people are working on their football skills and making
Speaker 1: you know, whatever, a living way. I could not agree
Speaker 1: more the NFL has long needed a developmental league. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean I have to pay attention into that between
Speaker 1: February and July. I'm not watching football games. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Players slip through the cracks. I do believe that a
Speaker 1: lot of players probably slipped through the cracks and would
Speaker 1: have great NFL careers if if there was like a
Speaker 1: minor league. One thing working tell me, people don't get
Speaker 1: better when they're years old. Happens in every other sport.
Speaker 1: If you're practicing every day, you're gonna get better at anything.
Speaker 1: I feel like there will be plenty of moments that
Speaker 1: we can watch that will be entertaining, even if they
Speaker 1: are unintentionally so. What one thing that the NFL hasn't
Speaker 1: improved upon the last ten years is extending the NFL
Speaker 1: season and what people look forward to, what people watch,
Speaker 1: and that works against these type of leaves because now
Speaker 1: because of the popularity of the combine and the draft
Speaker 1: and free agency, really things don't And then even voluntary camps,
Speaker 1: which people are way plugged into many camps before things
Speaker 1: go dark in June, uh, that doesn't leave a big window.
Speaker 1: People are still focused on the NFL throughout the spring
Speaker 1: and that's when these leagues just I mean, it seems
Speaker 1: logical that it's not gonna work. I mean, Vince has
Speaker 1: a plenty of money. I'm saying he'll be he'll be
Speaker 1: able to survive this. But fool you once? Right? What
Speaker 1: is that? Fool me once? I can't get fooled again?
Speaker 1: All right? Uh. Finally, Kevin Stefanski was introduced as the
Speaker 1: latest head coach of the Cleveland Browns. Uh. He did
Speaker 1: the press conference. I watched some of it. There was
Speaker 1: nothing really that jumped out. Uh in the press conference,
Speaker 1: as as Newsworthy, was no Joe Judge um unveiling from
Speaker 1: the Giants. But afterward Andrew Ceciliano of NFL Network got
Speaker 1: a one on one with Stefanski, who was asked by
Speaker 1: Siciliano his thoughts on a Mark Sessler tweet in which
Speaker 1: posted by Mark on Monday, uh, pointing out his feeling
Speaker 1: that Stefanski is a dead ringer for Hollywood star George Clooney.
Speaker 1: And here was the coach's response our Mark Sessler, Kevin,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, who is a Browns fan much like I
Speaker 1: was as a kid as well. Put up on Twitter
Speaker 1: yesterday a beard did George Clooney say that you bear
Speaker 1: or resemblance. Has anyone ever called you Clooney? Not until
Speaker 1: just this moment? And how do you feel about that?
Speaker 1: I got enough on my plate right now to worry
Speaker 1: about trying to get these Browns back to where we
Speaker 1: want to be. I'm not gonna compare myself to any
Speaker 1: uh actors John Peter John, I think I need to be.
Speaker 1: I need to get a list of guys and then
Speaker 1: make sure that we're okay with that. But if it's
Speaker 1: George Clooney, that that's what you guys say, God bless you. Okay,
Speaker 1: it was Mark Sessler, I'm gonna paint it on himy
Speaker 1: I missed, well, not so much. Backchecking is just like
Speaker 1: taking out a big shovel of dirt. And poor Settler's
Speaker 1: not even here right now. So both times, not not
Speaker 1: a broadcast, they're not here. Well. The thing I noticed immediately,
Speaker 1: and this this had nothing to do with Andrew Um,
Speaker 1: was it's probably a bad sign during an interview when
Speaker 1: the head coach name checks his PR director and looks
Speaker 1: at looks off the camera, then looks over to the
Speaker 1: PR director whose name is Peter John. That was what
Speaker 1: he just said there, and that to me was, let's
Speaker 1: end this thing, Wow said, I don't think it's because
Speaker 1: of the question necessarily. It was just a it was
Speaker 1: a really long interview, and that was the end of
Speaker 1: Sessler's not wrong. Okay, I'm with Sessler's all right speaking.
Speaker 1: He does bear up and it's not like it's a
Speaker 1: nice thing. So maybe you should take it as a
Speaker 1: compliments to Fancy. Well, I was gonna say, and I
Speaker 1: will come to Mark's defense on this as well, since
Speaker 1: Mark isn't here. Uh hey, keV, well, this also is
Speaker 1: a shot at market. Gets confusing because he's the head
Speaker 1: coach of Browns. Hey, keV, lighten up a little bit.
Speaker 1: You just got hired as a head coach. This is
Speaker 1: the live stream you have, you achieved you your press
Speaker 1: conference was like forty five minutes ago. You're a NFL
Speaker 1: network talking about the future and you get asked the
Speaker 1: playful question. I have some fun with it. Just have
Speaker 1: a little fun a little bit. That was an opening listening.
Speaker 1: You know, you need to be the head coach of
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. A sense of humor. Oh does this
Speaker 1: mean it's not for them? I feel like Freddy Kittens
Speaker 1: probably had the best sense of humor of any Browns.
Speaker 1: It's not only a sense of humor. You need a
Speaker 1: lot of things, but you have to be able to
Speaker 1: laugh at life, is what I'm saying. Anyway, That's what's
Speaker 1: happening in the news. West, something I have as wild,
Speaker 1: but it is. You know, that's pretty cool. It is cool,
Speaker 1: and it really is. It does show, uh, you know
Speaker 1: how far we've come, at least in the eyes of
Speaker 1: Andrew Siciliana. Finally he respects us, he knows our names.
Speaker 1: That's good. West. We have a read to do connected
Speaker 1: to an event for the podcast coming up in a
Speaker 1: week or so, So I want you to read that please.
Speaker 1: You just gotta throw it out handed. Hey, y'all, what's
Speaker 1: the difference between Tybee Island and our Miami improv show?
Speaker 1: What the hell? Everything? I didn't write this by the name,
Speaker 1: but we will be in Miami talking Titans forty Niners
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl? Oops? Did I just predict the future?
Speaker 1: Whoever your team is, come hang out with us in Miami.
Speaker 1: Tickets are going faster than when I used to deliver
Speaker 1: Christmas cards on my mail route and little kids were
Speaker 1: outside waving for cash from Grandma. Any who, five tickets
Speaker 1: now the whole I'm guessing that was a Ricky Hollywood production.
Speaker 1: I don't right that this was not me, trust me. Wow,
Speaker 1: that was cool. Miami Improv show guys, tickets. What are
Speaker 1: you going to come? I want to come? Okay? Cool?
Speaker 1: Heard it here first, Colleen Warrant. I'm checking, signing autographs
Speaker 1: and taking selfies. It's what on our Twitter around the
Speaker 1: NFL Twitter account. It is? It is at the top.
Speaker 1: Is that jinned? It's pinned on the Twitter account. H
Speaker 1: January thirty, Thursday, see us Live. We're gonna have a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. All right, let's get into it. It
Speaker 1: is time to take out our crystal ball. The crystal
Speaker 1: ball comes out. Do we all have our own? Or
Speaker 1: do we are we passing around a ball or do
Speaker 1: we each have our own? I think there's should be
Speaker 1: one special crystal ball ball, right and you look into it.
Speaker 1: This feels like snow globe music. Just feels like somebody
Speaker 1: could cheat if they bring their own crystal ball in here.
Speaker 1: Yes and approved official. This is like the Edward Scissor
Speaker 1: Hands snow falling. I feel like we're in like a
Speaker 1: forest of some or there's like fairies. Now we go
Speaker 1: through each of the eight teams and like, shut up,
Speaker 1: what is next? What will happen? I was just I
Speaker 1: was just talking about the league year extends well beyond
Speaker 1: the super Bowl with combined regency draft. What are we
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about about these teams that have been
Speaker 1: ousted from the playoffs so far, there's eight of them.
Speaker 1: Kind of, get us go and pick a team. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with the Ravens here. So after mark
Speaker 1: Ingram and Mark with a c return from another international
Speaker 1: getaway together, I think I see is that Marky's Brown
Speaker 1: rolling up with his cousin and Tonio to the Ravens facility. No,
Speaker 1: it's not, it's not. I don't want today. I gotta
Speaker 1: go to the eye doctor. It's one of my New
Speaker 1: Year's resolutions. But they do need another wide receiver. That
Speaker 1: was obvious in the playoffs. There was a lot of
Speaker 1: draw they couldn't get separation. That's going to be a situation.
Speaker 1: And I do see a big push to address the
Speaker 1: pass rush in the off season as well, because after
Speaker 1: losing their top two guys last year, they did a
Speaker 1: good job manufacturing pressure. They blitzed more than any other
Speaker 1: team out there, but their top guy, Matthew Judan. He's
Speaker 1: about to hit free agency, so they need if he does,
Speaker 1: they need at least two more guys if they don't
Speaker 1: resign him, so they need a wide receiver and a
Speaker 1: pass rusher. That's what I see they're in. They're in
Speaker 1: a nice situation. It's really not that bad for them yet.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know they were cousins. Really, really, Hollywood,
Speaker 1: I think they're in an amazing position. I know it's terrible.
Speaker 1: It's terrible. The loss they had, it's terrible. Who but
Speaker 1: who knows you might have They might have lost to
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Anyways, I think that was that was that
Speaker 1: was very strong possibility either way. It's painful. But they
Speaker 1: turned over their entire defense last year, they changed their
Speaker 1: entire offensive system last year. They were in all sorts
Speaker 1: of cap problems last year. This next year, they've got
Speaker 1: all the cap room they should need. They've got a
Speaker 1: bunch of draft picks, compensatory picks coming back, and yeah,
Speaker 1: you need some pass rush and maybe some interior alignment.
Speaker 1: But they're in about as good as situation with Lamar
Speaker 1: on a rookie contract and a lot of their offense
Speaker 1: on rookie contracts, Mark Andrews both tackles like they are
Speaker 1: in a nice spot to push to be aggressive. Get
Speaker 1: a veteran wide receiver, I think would be something that
Speaker 1: they would do too. Do you think there's any chance
Speaker 1: the Bengals would let a J. Green hit the market? Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Bengal seemed like an operation to me that would
Speaker 1: place the franchise tag on a J. Green. It seems
Speaker 1: like he might be more likely now, especially with this
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow kid um coming off another incredible performance and
Speaker 1: he seems to be the number one pick going to Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: that they might treat it Green more like a Larry
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald guy, but have him in the building, play out
Speaker 1: the rest of whatever is left of his prime and
Speaker 1: having you know, somebody the kid can count on. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of common DNA between the Arizona Cardinals organization
Speaker 1: and Bengals as far as the way they run things
Speaker 1: in the way that you're saying then might go for
Speaker 1: him potentially, I think that that would make sense to
Speaker 1: me that they need a bigger receiver, final piece to
Speaker 1: the offense. It's been their m oh they've never drafted
Speaker 1: receiver as well. It looks like they drafted a good one,
Speaker 1: and Marquis Brown DaCosta did, but they've always signed free
Speaker 1: agent receivers well Derek Mason and Steve Smith and and
Speaker 1: Gwan Bold. And also what's more likely, playing our old
Speaker 1: famous game, that Lamar Jackson is a one thousand yard
Speaker 1: rusher every year and this is just who he is
Speaker 1: and I'm not doubting him at this stage he's an
Speaker 1: amazing player, or that this is one of those insanely
Speaker 1: special years. And in reality, you're gonna need probably more
Speaker 1: from your passing game because you're not gonna run for
Speaker 1: two thousand yards every year. Unless this is just the
Speaker 1: beginning of a new era. It does feel like maybe
Speaker 1: the eight ends are great and Brown was a major
Speaker 1: hit in the draft, but god that it agree. That's
Speaker 1: a nice fit. Yeah, they just need somebody like a
Speaker 1: good route runner, like a veteran presence, just to have
Speaker 1: these young guys sort of developed. But also, by the way,
Speaker 1: the crystal ball is also showing me a lot of
Speaker 1: really angry Titans fans are giving you a hard time,
Speaker 1: very angry bunch. As it turns out. Listen, I pick
Speaker 1: against teams every week, and I think it was the
Speaker 1: way you put it. It was on a good morning
Speaker 1: football it was. And let me just say this, I
Speaker 1: almost picked the Titans. I was like on the fence
Speaker 1: there and it was like, all right, So I thanked
Speaker 1: the Titans for their service in dispatching your team, Greg Patriots. Um,
Speaker 1: I said, America, thanks you for your service. And then
Speaker 1: the guys started clapping, and so I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll just continue this bit. So I said, your service
Speaker 1: is no longer needed and enjoy the off season. And
Speaker 1: it's no. I mean, listen, I say disrespectful things every
Speaker 1: week on various shows, and I usually don't get an
Speaker 1: angry army of people that are now like threatening me.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of like I got. I got somebody
Speaker 1: telling me that I set women back in broadcasting twenty
Speaker 1: years and I was like, damn, I don't even know
Speaker 1: I had that much power. That's that's crazy. A lot
Speaker 1: of low i Q type things. So listen, I graduated
Speaker 1: Magnat Gublade almost drop the headset. Listen. I just didn't
Speaker 1: think the Titans fans were going to be the sensitive.
Speaker 1: And if anything, you're welcome for some bulletin board material.
Speaker 1: It does you know, you don't deserve that and clean
Speaker 1: it up, Titans fans. I know it's not all of you.
Speaker 1: I also took heat from a well known columnist down there,
Speaker 1: Paul Kaharsky, who got all cranky because of his order
Speaker 1: from the Tennessee and uh interviewed me about the whole
Speaker 1: Titoons thing and there and Caharsky was not about it.
Speaker 1: He saw it as a sign of the decline of journalism.
Speaker 1: And uh, there's some we come on. We are never
Speaker 1: allowed to analyze the Titans again on this podcast because
Speaker 1: we've never been in their locker room. Got be in
Speaker 1: the locker room. You don't know anything about it. I
Speaker 1: don't need these national media types with their shiny cars
Speaker 1: coming down to my place. The Titans are really fun
Speaker 1: this year. They're we've been we've been into. I don't
Speaker 1: think it was too crazy to pick against the greatest
Speaker 1: regular season team, uh, of the last decade, you know,
Speaker 1: to pick the Baltimore and always let me remind other
Speaker 1: Titans fans again. Uh, And I feel like I have
Speaker 1: to do this on a weekly basis every time your
Speaker 1: team wins a playoff game, and my mentions is, are
Speaker 1: they still the Titoons? No? And then they haven't been
Speaker 1: the Titoons since you got rid of the bump quarterback
Speaker 1: that you thought it was a superstar for five years.
Speaker 1: You know I'm not. I suggested that they they bench
Speaker 1: Mariota on Thursday Night Football, and I got crushed by everybody.
Speaker 1: I've actually it's funny. I've actually thought you haven't deserved enough,
Speaker 1: gotten enough credit for the Titans turnaround this season. So
Speaker 1: you're welcome everybody out there and tighten up. So you
Speaker 1: Titans fans, you came to where I was. I didn't
Speaker 1: have to come to you. You're on my corner. Fans
Speaker 1: fans in general. Who cares if somebody picks against your team.
Speaker 1: It's just a game. You enjoy this. This is incredible.
Speaker 1: This is incredible run by a really fun team, and
Speaker 1: I think we all enjoy watching the Titan And I
Speaker 1: would love Ryan Tannehill to play a Super Bowl in
Speaker 1: Miami in front of like the Dolphins fans, right in
Speaker 1: the Dolphins backyard. That is something that I've been talking
Speaker 1: about Miami. I would love it all right. Up next
Speaker 1: is Chris Wesley. I'm looking into my crystal ball for
Speaker 1: the Vikings and to borrow a day in HANDSS phrase
Speaker 1: It's a tough sitch here for for the Vikings, Lovastion,
Speaker 1: tough situation when you they remind me so much of
Speaker 1: the Alex Smith cheese. You're just good enough to get
Speaker 1: beat early in the playoffs all the time, because you're
Speaker 1: not good enough to go far in the playoffs and
Speaker 1: you're formerly your formula isn't working. You've got a team
Speaker 1: that is most of the team has been there together
Speaker 1: with Mike Zimmer for like six years now, and it's
Speaker 1: not good enough. So what do you do when you've
Speaker 1: got thirty year olds on defense? Everson Griffin, Lynvaal, Joseph
Speaker 1: Xavier Roads all have salary cap figures twelve million or more,
Speaker 1: thirty year olds on offense like Riley Reid, Kyle Rudolph
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins making big money. You're not getting any younger.
Speaker 1: What do you do with this roster? And I think
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some tough cuts this year, Mike Zimmer said,
Speaker 1: you know, when I look at the roster at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it ends up being a young
Speaker 1: man's game. I could see Xavier Roads being gone. He's
Speaker 1: definitely gone. Season have changed for the Vikings. I think
Speaker 1: I don't know if they'll blow it up and start over,
Speaker 1: But I think they're gonna have to make some tough
Speaker 1: cuts they need if you're gonna go with this formula
Speaker 1: where it's play action passing based on the run, and
Speaker 1: as soon as you can't run the ball, your entire
Speaker 1: offense collapse because your quarterback checks down instead of letting
Speaker 1: his receivers go for a contested catch. Ever, that formula,
Speaker 1: it proved this year, does not work because every time
Speaker 1: they faced a good defense got shut down. They only
Speaker 1: beat bad, bad defenses. They're they're higher over the salary
Speaker 1: captain any team in the NFL, Lynn bel Joseph, maybe Rudolph.
Speaker 1: The bigger issue is their best player in the secondary,
Speaker 1: Anthony Harris is a free agent, Trey Waynes and Mackenzie
Speaker 1: Alexander who also play in their secondary of free agents,
Speaker 1: so it's like they got a lot of spots to
Speaker 1: just fill. And that's kind of what Zimmer does is
Speaker 1: is the defensive backfield, and it's gonna be a big turnover.
Speaker 1: I think I wonder too, like if that weirdness between
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins and Stefon Diggs ever really went away, that
Speaker 1: that was that was a storyline. At one point during
Speaker 1: the year, I could see Diggs getting traded and he
Speaker 1: feels very tradeable if they wanted to, and it could
Speaker 1: get a lot for Stefon Diggs in his prime. And
Speaker 1: I remember that Thursday night game we did the Vikings
Speaker 1: one and we had Kirk Cousins and Stefon Diggs on
Speaker 1: the set, and it was like a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: after that whole controversy and there was still like residual weirdness.
Speaker 1: I remember that. I watched that, Yeah, and it was
Speaker 1: they like should have been they were very they were
Speaker 1: they were very they should have been very happy after
Speaker 1: a big win, and they were just like, yeah, we've
Speaker 1: moved on past that, and it was just weird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you get rid of Diggs instead of Cousins. Um, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't get rid of either. It just seems totally counterproductive
Speaker 1: to get rid of either of your best players. And
Speaker 1: uh there, I'd have no interest in getting rid of Diggs.
Speaker 1: But the way Zimmers talked about Diggs over the last
Speaker 1: three or four years, there's been a lot of dramas.
Speaker 1: It just wouldn't shock me if that's something they looked into.
Speaker 1: And I see that Crystal ball second last, because I
Speaker 1: see somebody else in the Vikings future. Yes, there it
Speaker 1: is Kirk Cousins, very quietly entering a contract here. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: three year, fully guaranteed contracts signed before the season. He
Speaker 1: will make damn almost thirty million this year, which is,
Speaker 1: according to over the cap dot com, fifteen and a
Speaker 1: half percent of their entire cap right now. And they
Speaker 1: will have to decide what to do and is that
Speaker 1: his storyline? And they want a lame duck quarterback? Uh
Speaker 1: in in the summer. I think it will be once
Speaker 1: the free agency dies down, then it's like, sorry, you're
Speaker 1: gonna extend Kirker not Yeah, what I mean if you
Speaker 1: said to two years ago when he signed, Hey, after
Speaker 1: his first two seasons, he's gonna have a passer rating
Speaker 1: of about one oh five, you would be blown away.
Speaker 1: If there was an idea that maybe he's part of
Speaker 1: the problem there. But he has been part of the problem. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's move on to another team eliminated. I will go
Speaker 1: with the Seattle Seahawks. All right. Let me look into
Speaker 1: this ball. I say it's cloudy. Oh, it's beautiful, light shimmering.
Speaker 1: Uh there it is the Legion of Boom remember that.
Speaker 1: Now this is the Legion of Bust. It must okay,
Speaker 1: got you? Uh No, I want to talk about the defense,
Speaker 1: all right. It was nice, it was It was a
Speaker 1: nice little season on Seahawks corner. I enjoyed it, but
Speaker 1: this was this is a limited team this year. Uh,
Speaker 1: and a lot of that problem was the defense. And
Speaker 1: looking ahead, that's what this offseason is going to be about.
Speaker 1: I think they like what they have obviously, um at quarterback,
Speaker 1: they like running back when healthy, they have pieces. I
Speaker 1: think they're into a wide receiver. They found something in
Speaker 1: metcalf Lock. It's a nice guy. Uh. They even uh
Speaker 1: you know, even a tight end will dis lee before
Speaker 1: he got hurt. Was a revelation. I think their line
Speaker 1: is not something that's there's gonna be a major overhaul
Speaker 1: on the offensive end, But in defense they have a
Speaker 1: lot to do. Pete Carroll hinted in his end of
Speaker 1: season press conver is that they could be looking to
Speaker 1: make a scheme shift, but personnel wise, they gotta get
Speaker 1: better and they have to get better in the secondary.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Legion of Bus, Trey Flowers just got
Speaker 1: it was like a yeah, it was a horror show.
Speaker 1: The music though it's like intermission at the Nutcrack, the
Speaker 1: terrorized by Davante Adams. Not all his fault, but uh.
Speaker 1: And then they struggled to get to the quarterback, which
Speaker 1: leads us to Jadavian Clowney speaking of big decisions to make.
Speaker 1: He is a free agent. He's out there saying I
Speaker 1: want to play for a contender. I like it here
Speaker 1: in Seattle, Pete Carroll wants him back, but are you
Speaker 1: gonna pay him superstar money? Um to be uh? The
Speaker 1: anchor of of that front Front seven with Bobby Wagner,
Speaker 1: Big decision for Johnny Schneider. I I've I've enjoyed this
Speaker 1: continuing um Seahawks Twitter and Seahawks fan trend of what
Speaker 1: is Pete Carroll really doing for us? Not like I'm
Speaker 1: enjoying their um Are they okay boomerang him, misery or
Speaker 1: any thing. It's more that I just think it's an
Speaker 1: interesting question, you know they're at which they are asking,
Speaker 1: are they is he holding Russell Wilson back while not
Speaker 1: really bringing much to the table on defense, which for
Speaker 1: the last three years I think you could argue that
Speaker 1: he would point not an insignificant stretch in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Mark where here he would point out again that you
Speaker 1: never miss an opportunity to come after peak. You say that,
Speaker 1: but you don't. I liked him when he was coaching,
Speaker 1: skeptical about everything about him. I loved him all throughout.
Speaker 1: I couldn't have been more impressed. Like when he took
Speaker 1: over the Seahawks, he coached the greatest defense of the
Speaker 1: last forty years, I would say, But now that it's
Speaker 1: not there anymore, I don't like that. I don't like
Speaker 1: by running too much on first and second down, by
Speaker 1: having Brian Schottenheimer be is I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you like to see Russell Wilson in one of
Speaker 1: these open, wide open offense. I'd like to see him
Speaker 1: have more time. I think Wilson is going to get
Speaker 1: double digit wins with no matter what coach you put
Speaker 1: in Seattle. But I still sort of my point, and
Speaker 1: I still feel like Pete Carroll's valuable for the infrastructure
Speaker 1: he has in place there. I think they're lucky to
Speaker 1: have Pete Carroll there. But I understand why you it's
Speaker 1: been a while now since they've really seriously contended for
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, that maybe it's time to freshen things
Speaker 1: up behind the scenes. But to me, the Schottenheimer jumps
Speaker 1: out you wouldn't rarely get rid of. You would never
Speaker 1: get rid of Carroll. But their defense, which you mentioned,
Speaker 1: has its issues. Clowney drawn Reads, a free agent, ziggiansa
Speaker 1: who didn't do anything. Quittin Jefferson, who is maybe their
Speaker 1: best pass rusher this year, is also a free agent.
Speaker 1: I mean they if Chris carrs go a shod Penny
Speaker 1: stayed healthy, I don't think we'd even be having this conversation. Alright, Greg, Alright,
Speaker 1: I'm looking into the future, and I'm looking into Buffalo.
Speaker 1: The Great Northeast, that's what they call it. It's the
Speaker 1: Empire State waiting for the music they and I see
Speaker 1: in the Crystal Ball. You know it's a joke. Legion
Speaker 1: a bust, that's a joke. That's a good I see
Speaker 1: a lot of people picking the Buffalo Bills to go
Speaker 1: very far in the two thousand and twenties season. After
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott have some funness offseason, they
Speaker 1: pushed their chips into the table. They've built up this
Speaker 1: roster pretty nicely. They've got all sorts of cap room
Speaker 1: and not a lot of huge pressing needs unless you
Speaker 1: ignore that quarterback. Uh, and you can get a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: you can get an interior alignment, you can get some
Speaker 1: players for your front seven, which I think you definitely need.
Speaker 1: And I think they showed it last season. They're not
Speaker 1: going to be afraid. They know this is all on
Speaker 1: a limited timeline, and I think they are gonna be
Speaker 1: among the most aggressive teams in free You know your
Speaker 1: line unless you ignore that quarterback. Well, I'm not into it.
Speaker 1: I'm not into the Josh Allen experience in Bill's Mafia.
Speaker 1: I could you know there. I could see that in
Speaker 1: the Crystal Ball out of Bill's Mafia. Just you're coming
Speaker 1: after anyone that comes, you know, criticizes Josh Allen or
Speaker 1: questions him. But I think I think they're in a
Speaker 1: great spot in terms of just like getting that offseason buzz.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm still I think I said it after the
Speaker 1: season ended. Bills Mafia doesn't want to hear this either,
Speaker 1: But this is Mitch Drobiskie all over again. The team
Speaker 1: that had the rookie that flashed, uh, quarterback that flashed.
Speaker 1: Second year, the team made the jump and made the
Speaker 1: playoffs and now third year, there's gonna be higher expectations.
Speaker 1: Does Josh Allen have what it takes? And and I
Speaker 1: guess one of the things I would look to do
Speaker 1: if I were the Bills is if this is really
Speaker 1: our big year to see if we're totally in on Allen,
Speaker 1: let's give him the best possible weapons around him, uh,
Speaker 1: to make it happen. I would like to see them
Speaker 1: be active whether this is supposed to be a great
Speaker 1: wide receiver draft. Uh, maybe they bring in another guy
Speaker 1: with John Brown. I don't know, dude. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, decent names on the free agent market.
Speaker 1: They have more cap space than they're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to spend. They have ninety million dollars in cap space
Speaker 1: and they don't and they have a lot of players
Speaker 1: coming back they don't. They don't have a lot of
Speaker 1: like big issues to solve. So whether it's you know,
Speaker 1: a Yanni Kingkway or Leonard Williams like, but do pre upfront?
Speaker 1: They certainly could use a pass rush or whether it's
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders or Robbie and you know whatever it is, Like,
Speaker 1: I could just see the Bills going in hard playoffs.
Speaker 1: They're committed to Josh Allen and so they're gonna try
Speaker 1: to and they know he has limitations, so they're going
Speaker 1: to try to make the team around him as amazing
Speaker 1: as it could be. And they've kind of set themselves
Speaker 1: up in a nice, steady way. It's a better postseason
Speaker 1: with the Bills, and it's way more exciting, it's way
Speaker 1: more fun. And who knows what's going on in the
Speaker 1: a f C East now, So yeah, this is their time.
Speaker 1: If they're going to do something, then step up. Now
Speaker 1: you'll see if that philosophy works. So the idea of
Speaker 1: build up around the quarterback to try to hide his limitations,
Speaker 1: does that ultimately work in our league? I mean, and
Speaker 1: we just reached the point where we're ever going to
Speaker 1: let quarterbacks develop. I'm not saying he's a bus to me,
Speaker 1: He's he's gonna be. He's somewhere closer to the to
Speaker 1: the Dalts in scale, but just getting there in a
Speaker 1: in a strange way. And I worry that that's his
Speaker 1: kind of you know, destiny. But they had a great
Speaker 1: free agency last year. I mean, they get signed John Brown,
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, and Mitch Morris who all ended up being
Speaker 1: you know, a minus type signings for them, and I
Speaker 1: just think they'll continue if we've seen flashes too of
Speaker 1: of him. And the Bills play really well obviously this
Speaker 1: entire season. That that game on Thanksgiving against the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: staff against the Texans, my god. Yeah, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, like when they hit the two minute
Speaker 1: warning in that playoff game against the Texans, it was
Speaker 1: just like Josh Allen was like on a bender. I
Speaker 1: felt like he was just out of control. I see
Speaker 1: where you're coming down with the Trabinsky comparison. And this
Speaker 1: team feasted on an easy schedule. They lost when they
Speaker 1: played against good teams. For the most part, I could
Speaker 1: see them being a much much better team next year
Speaker 1: and having a similar record, or even a worse record,
Speaker 1: just because of the schedule in the way randomness works
Speaker 1: in the NFL. All right, let's go one time, one
Speaker 1: more time around the horn the Eggles. Okay, So Dan
Speaker 1: wanted me to do like a real look ahead to
Speaker 1: the offseason. Um, so be like serious here. So, based
Speaker 1: on everything I know about the Eagles in Philadelphia, this
Speaker 1: is the most real thing I could think of. Nelson
Speaker 1: agalors drops will inspire more heroes to catch more babies
Speaker 1: from more burning buildings across the city of Philadelphia, thereby
Speaker 1: saving more lives and prompting Mayor Jim Kenny to recognize
Speaker 1: Delson Agalore with a key to the city for his organic,
Speaker 1: grassroots humanitarian effort. Then he let him walk in free agency.
Speaker 1: Have you not already have the key to this the city?
Speaker 1: And catch a baby in a spot? Right, Well, he
Speaker 1: helps the guy the unlike a guy catch the baby
Speaker 1: the baby. No, it was all about the guy caught
Speaker 1: the baby from the burning and then yeah, he caught
Speaker 1: it unlike a galore because dropping then he and he
Speaker 1: made the common about algorithm. You know, it's been a
Speaker 1: long season and some of these stories they just kind
Speaker 1: of melt into right, But that is to say that
Speaker 1: this team desperately needs an infusion of young talent. There
Speaker 1: were just so many injuries this year. There were so
Speaker 1: many times that they looked so sluggish. I almost thought
Speaker 1: that Josh McCown was going to get out there and
Speaker 1: start catching passes. At one point, they had so many
Speaker 1: guys from the practice squad out there. They had tight
Speaker 1: ends running wide receiver routes all Sean Jeffrey, I mean
Speaker 1: he might miss the beginning of the season with that
Speaker 1: Liz Frank injury. How much can you actually rely on
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson at this point? I mean, I guess the
Speaker 1: silver lining of this entire season is that you found
Speaker 1: guys like Greg Ward to play in the slot and
Speaker 1: Boston Scott who can give you what he gave you
Speaker 1: this year. But they still need to see what they
Speaker 1: have in in j j. Arthago Whiteside, who was taken
Speaker 1: like before DK Metcalf. Really so this is this is
Speaker 1: a team that really needs speed and youth at the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position and across the point. I feel like
Speaker 1: it would be a mistake if they took the tact
Speaker 1: or took the viewpoint of let's just get healthy and
Speaker 1: things will be better, because I don't know if the
Speaker 1: offense is good enough even when they had their guys there,
Speaker 1: and they're I think, thankfully for Eagles fans, the last
Speaker 1: team I think that would go that route. They are.
Speaker 1: They are thrilled that for the first time in a
Speaker 1: couple of years, they're not, you know, dealing with kind
Speaker 1: of cap issues. They traded away all their picks for
Speaker 1: a few years. Now they've got their picks back again,
Speaker 1: like they how he's ready to party. I think I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna go wild. I mean, he he loved.
Speaker 1: They love trading, they love being active. They're getting rid
Speaker 1: of a lot of their older players. McLeod as a
Speaker 1: free agent, Jason Peters is the free agent, Aglar, Ronald Darby,
Speaker 1: Jalen Mills, Vinny Curry, Timmy Journegan, Jordan Howard is a
Speaker 1: lot of guys. So you're gonna have to fill in
Speaker 1: some some gaps along with injured players coming back. But
Speaker 1: I think they're ready. They're excited to do that. Uh West,
Speaker 1: I'm looking into the Saints crystal ball and what I
Speaker 1: see is we're gonna run it back. We know we
Speaker 1: were right there with the forty Niners. Is the best
Speaker 1: team in the NFC all year, and especially in December.
Speaker 1: We didn't play well against the Vikings, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: run it back. We're gonna resign Breeze, we might even
Speaker 1: resign Bridgewater too, and we're gonna bring back restrictive free
Speaker 1: agent Taysom Hill and use him more on offense to
Speaker 1: compensate for Drew Brees his limitations which were apparent in
Speaker 1: the Vikings game. I think that they will probably use
Speaker 1: their draft picks to get a legitimate number two receiver
Speaker 1: or go free agency there. But they're they're going to
Speaker 1: upgrade at number two receiver. I think Andrew's Pete, they're
Speaker 1: starting left guard, has been banged up and not very
Speaker 1: good lately. Free agent he might be gone, and maybe
Speaker 1: they'll upgrade the interior there, which was a problem in
Speaker 1: the playoff game against the Vikings. But I think they
Speaker 1: bring the defense back. That makes sense to me. And
Speaker 1: how sick do you think they the Saints were watching
Speaker 1: the Vikings get just taken apart the Niners. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just think if they don't want to take anything
Speaker 1: away from Minnesota, because that was a nice job by
Speaker 1: them going on the road and winning that game. But
Speaker 1: it just made me think, you know, they Minnesota's seven
Speaker 1: first first downs this past weekend. If the Saints got
Speaker 1: nine more cracks against the Vikings, they would win a
Speaker 1: large majority of those games. If you at a ten games,
Speaker 1: I bet they win eight or nine. Did you see
Speaker 1: Cam Jordan's tweet afterwards? He after the Vikings loss, he
Speaker 1: sent out this tweet and it's just him and he's
Speaker 1: barely in the frame, but he's got a huge grinch
Speaker 1: like smile on his face, and he's just pointing to
Speaker 1: an open seat on the couch, like his hand is like,
Speaker 1: come join me on the couch. Saints going down, and
Speaker 1: this is all I agree. I kind of feel they
Speaker 1: were gonna do the same thing West, which is not
Speaker 1: go crazy here. Um, the Saints getting eliminated by the
Speaker 1: Vikings was a bigger shock to me than the Ravens
Speaker 1: getting knocked out. But really, I just I still can't
Speaker 1: believe the Saints went one and done in the wild
Speaker 1: card round. I can't believe it. There were such an
Speaker 1: a team. You really think Teddy Bridgewater, um, we'll resign
Speaker 1: there that I saw one of the beat writers or
Speaker 1: somebody in New Orleans that was his prediction that he's
Speaker 1: got he loves the city, He's found a home there.
Speaker 1: He he loves the team, They like him as the backup.
Speaker 1: You never know when Breeze's arm is just going to
Speaker 1: reach the point where right now it's a thirty yard arm.
Speaker 1: What happens if it's a twenty yard arm. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: you also don't know, Yeah, what starting jobs could be
Speaker 1: out there for him, especially in a year where Rivers,
Speaker 1: Tannehill Breeze in theory but Brady. I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks available Jamis maybe that are ahead of
Speaker 1: Teddy probably in the line. All right, I will take
Speaker 1: the ball from us, and good job handling it. Thank you,
Speaker 1: very smooth. Oh I knew that was the Texans. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: this one. It was very foggy in Houston. A nice
Speaker 1: job Astros by the way, clowns, cheating clowns, cheating clowns,
Speaker 1: your stained forever um. All playoff losses are not created equal,
Speaker 1: and the one that the Texans suffered on on on
Speaker 1: Sunday was just grizzly. I mean, twenty four nothing, lose
Speaker 1: fifty one to thirty one, and I think it would
Speaker 1: it was the type of earthquake that rattled the foundation,
Speaker 1: maybe behind the scenes in Houston. Because Bill O'Brien is
Speaker 1: not a popular guy. People don't seem to like Phill O'Brien.
Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about in this podcast studio where
Speaker 1: we've had a lot of conversations about him. Uh. But
Speaker 1: I wonder they've been very loyal and they've stayed with
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien, and with good reason because he's delivered results,
Speaker 1: at least in the regular season. But I wonder if
Speaker 1: this makes his seat a little hotter um, just the
Speaker 1: nature of that loss that Wow, look how far behind
Speaker 1: we actually are. And and remember, uh, this was a
Speaker 1: all in year for the Texans, who really um try
Speaker 1: to make this a championship season in a very aggressive way.
Speaker 1: And you look ahead to what they have here. They
Speaker 1: have no first round pick in April as part of
Speaker 1: the Tunsil Stills trade, and they have no first or
Speaker 1: second round pick in one so building up this roster
Speaker 1: is not going to be something they can do is
Speaker 1: easily through the draft. So they're a bit of a
Speaker 1: tough spot. And this is this is the price, Greg,
Speaker 1: that you pay when you go all in and you
Speaker 1: don't go all the way right with a team that
Speaker 1: never made sense as a Super Bowl contender. But also,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't believe in all in. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's like a thing. I I think
Speaker 1: teams are all in every year or else they're doing
Speaker 1: it wrong. And you can you can approach it in
Speaker 1: different ways. And some teams, you know, kind of really
Speaker 1: don't worry about the future as much. But they've got
Speaker 1: they've got like a lot of teams, they've got more
Speaker 1: cap space than they can spend on. So if O'Brien
Speaker 1: has taken the tack that like I'm spending it on
Speaker 1: these trades, and like they they have said, what are
Speaker 1: they gonna do with all this cap space? Every team
Speaker 1: has too much cap space and there's only gonna be
Speaker 1: so many free agents out there. They have to resign
Speaker 1: what DJ reader. But for the most part, they have
Speaker 1: most of their team back. I think their offense actually
Speaker 1: is young and good, and they'll be in the mix.
Speaker 1: There'll be another Bill O'Brien. Like tenants, I'll throw one
Speaker 1: one personnel will fuller with the all the leg injuries,
Speaker 1: and O'Brien even expressed um real frustration and disappointment after
Speaker 1: the final groin injury, uh making, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: saying like it's hard to really count on this guy
Speaker 1: because you just can't stay on the field. I'll throw it.
Speaker 1: There are a terrible defense. I mean, that's my takeaway
Speaker 1: is that everything about their defense almost needs to be
Speaker 1: improved upon. And he said Romeo Cornell is gonna be back,
Speaker 1: or that's the plan. We'll see if that happens. Sometimes
Speaker 1: these guys change their mind. Doug Peterson said mikecro was
Speaker 1: gonna be back and fired him literally the next day.
Speaker 1: So terrible. Right now, the hell have a pickle to
Speaker 1: be in where you can't trust will Fuller to be there,
Speaker 1: but when he's not there, you can't trust your offense
Speaker 1: to square how good this offense really if if will
Speaker 1: Fuller disappears and they go on the tank? May I mean, well,
Speaker 1: he brought up Robbie Anderson again, he makes he makes
Speaker 1: sense there, Potentially everyone wants pieces about him. Come on,
Speaker 1: you'd rather much other will Fuller than Robbie Anderson. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's like what happens when Robbie Anderson gets arrested
Speaker 1: and you can't have him in a play where you
Speaker 1: need your draft pick to be fair to that? What
Speaker 1: your question before? Dan? I mean they need some draft
Speaker 1: because they need defense. I mean they their front seven.
Speaker 1: You have a lot of money and merciless who they
Speaker 1: just get more money to and why? And that's fine.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're like a part of the problem,
Speaker 1: but they need more. All right, close us out, Greg
Speaker 1: all right, I was gonna do this whole thing where
Speaker 1: I didn't even talk about Tom Brady, but now that
Speaker 1: feels like a cop out. The Patriots can't avoid it, man,
Speaker 1: because we're gonna be talking about him every day. But
Speaker 1: I'm looking into my crystal ball and I see a
Speaker 1: Patriots team that couldn't be any more different six months
Speaker 1: from now, except for a quarterback. I think Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: blows up this roster because it's a perfect time to
Speaker 1: do it. Devin mccordy, Joe Tuny, Kyle Vannoy, Jamie Collins,
Speaker 1: Matthew Slater, all free agents, Patrick Chung, Stephen Guskowski, maybe
Speaker 1: even Dante out Tower as cop as cap cuts Um.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what the plan is after that,
Speaker 1: because I'm not Bill Belichick, but I think this is
Speaker 1: just like a blider, It's like a logical Uh, it's
Speaker 1: a logical time to make a big time turnover. Christendom
Speaker 1: the Greig's dramatic conclusion, but ultimately Tom Brady and the
Speaker 1: Patriots being more to each other than he would mean
Speaker 1: to any other team, Tom Brady vice president, with Joe
Speaker 1: Biden leading the ticket neither, I don't think time's on
Speaker 1: that side of the aisle that might be a problem
Speaker 1: based on his hatwear Um. Yeah, I agree. I think
Speaker 1: Brady's back, and I think you nailed this one. I
Speaker 1: think he's in this one. I don't think how. I
Speaker 1: don't think anyone could. I don't think Tom Brady or
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, no at all. Right now, this is the
Speaker 1: start I think of a new like they're not going
Speaker 1: to bring back much of the like the same team
Speaker 1: and think it's gonna work better then wasn't. It made
Speaker 1: very clear over the course of the second half of
Speaker 1: the season that they needed to improve, uh this roster.
Speaker 1: Sure on offense, I mean not on defense. Is the
Speaker 1: best defense Bill Belichick as coach since that defense as
Speaker 1: good as as it was, kind of obviously in the
Speaker 1: first half it was talked about defense. I was a
Speaker 1: great defense. It was better than then three defenses they
Speaker 1: won their Super Bowls with. So the defense, you know,
Speaker 1: was not your name. Some pretty big guys on the
Speaker 1: defense that could go out the door. And I think
Speaker 1: because because of their age, maybe mccordy's back, but mccordy,
Speaker 1: van noy Collins, like that's a chung maybe high tower.
Speaker 1: They're not all gonna be back. This is an old team.
Speaker 1: It just feels so weird to think about Tom Brady
Speaker 1: potentially wearing a different uniform. I can't imagine. But but
Speaker 1: this year's it's been such a long, uh you know,
Speaker 1: stretch to get to this point, and there's so many
Speaker 1: factors involved that it's it's really hard to figure out.
Speaker 1: Because I think Belichick would would be totally fine just
Speaker 1: moving on. I kind of just want to know because
Speaker 1: it's sort of already exhausting. Yeah, I I kind of
Speaker 1: I wear I think Belichick is probably ready to move
Speaker 1: on and Tom Brady will kind of have to eat
Speaker 1: the poop, as you say, Dan to come back. Um,
Speaker 1: but I think he just might because what you know,
Speaker 1: does he really want to go play somewhere? I don't
Speaker 1: know how much Tom Brady gets paid. Also, if if
Speaker 1: it doesn't, no matter where he goes. But if the
Speaker 1: it does, he you know, is he making less than
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins makes him up? I mean, to be fair,
Speaker 1: he's made less than Kirk Cousins has made for the
Speaker 1: last five years and then included an m v P aord.
Speaker 1: But he might be looking for to make good now,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a complicated issue. You're right, all right,
Speaker 1: good stuff, Connie. I mean, it's so good to have
Speaker 1: you back. It was this is great, and this is
Speaker 1: day five of not drinking very I feel like a
Speaker 1: different person day five. And also you're cutting out major
Speaker 1: aspects of your diet as well. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: went a little wild during the holidays, and I realized
Speaker 1: that it was time to really rain things back in
Speaker 1: for like, I've never in my life restricted myself for
Speaker 1: many things. You're going for it. This is the first time,
Speaker 1: and I hate it. What do you miss the most? Beer?
Speaker 1: I p a s a nice in a nice like
Speaker 1: cold frosted glass. I'm just a filly girl. And cookies.
Speaker 1: You're dry. January started in mid January. Yeah, because I
Speaker 1: got my birthday. I got a lot of this stuff
Speaker 1: going on. I don't Yeah, these parameters don't need to
Speaker 1: be like written in ink anyway, right, So I I
Speaker 1: did like to not one did two straights. It hasn't
Speaker 1: been five consecutive days. You're doing what I'm doing. It's
Speaker 1: a moist January, not a dry January. Really like that word,
Speaker 1: but moist. Yeah, you know, a moist January. Well, it's
Speaker 1: like there's a few days on the calendar that I'm
Speaker 1: gonna making exceptions for, but the other days, like I'm
Speaker 1: mostly dry. Like there was one day where I had
Speaker 1: a beer and chips in guacamole and a piece of bread.
Speaker 1: So that day was kind of ruined. But beyond that,
Speaker 1: I still don't understand dry January. Somebody's gonna have to
Speaker 1: explain to me how it works, because I've seen a
Speaker 1: lot of people do it on Tybee and then they
Speaker 1: the other eleven months of the year, they just go
Speaker 1: back to being lushes. Football is the only good thing
Speaker 1: about January. Yeah, I'm only doing this because every because
Speaker 1: just Colleen's birthday. All right, Well, thank you, Connie, you around.
Speaker 1: The NFL broadcast returns and it's the finale of the trilogy,
Speaker 1: a NFL Network trilogy on Friday at six pm Eastern,
Speaker 1: three pm Pacific, and then it re air's early Saturday,
Speaker 1: and uh so make sure you check it out, um,
Speaker 1: because we're having fun doing it. And Connie, where can
Speaker 1: we see you. I'll be back tomorrow on Total Access,
Speaker 1: filling in, filling yes, and then Good Morning Football Weekend
Speaker 1: on Saturday, and then I'll be in Kansas City on
Speaker 1: Sunday for Game Day morning. Look at you, yeah, superstar,
Speaker 1: getting the miles in, getting that quap to, getting that working.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go Ricky, where are you gonna be
Speaker 1: right here, cranking, keeping Connie Box, the mailman. The old
Speaker 1: Boss was behind the glass