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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast plays Calliope on the riverboat Ron.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansis, and I am joined by

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Speaker 1: a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and

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Speaker 1: Greg Rosal. What's up, boys, Hey Dan? Hey us little

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Speaker 1: little struggles getting out of gate? Yeah, I think Greg

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Speaker 1: and I are afraid to speak. We've started the show

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Speaker 1: over three times, and I don't want to be the

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Speaker 1: reason for a fourth. Well, I mean, we had sound

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Speaker 1: issues the first time. Then the conversation went a little

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Speaker 1: sideways very early in the show. Less is upset about it? Right,

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Speaker 1: it's been because sideways. I was just telling you guys,

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Speaker 1: what a calliope. It's it's been a long it's been

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Speaker 1: a long time since we had to restart the show

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Speaker 1: just because we didn't think it was good. Yeah, strange,

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, we need to get you know why?

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Speaker 1: We need to be sharp right now though, because today's

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Speaker 1: episode is a special one in the never ending NFL

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Speaker 1: off season, an off season that will ever end. Is

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Speaker 1: Daddy ever coming back? It's just gonna roll right in.

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Speaker 1: This is the Tony Romo Spectacular episode because on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: the news came down that Tony Romo was gonna retire,

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Speaker 1: uh to take a job with CBS and and leave football,

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Speaker 1: And isn't that crazy? So we're gonna dig into that. Greg.

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Speaker 1: Some people say, hey, you're little, You're good. Daylight to

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Speaker 1: dollars here, But we're gonna be the podcast of record

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Speaker 1: when it comes to this topic. People are gonna look

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Speaker 1: back in in ten years and wonder what was Tony

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Speaker 1: Romo's career like, and they'll listen to this podcast. I

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Speaker 1: like that, and they'll also know when they look back

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Speaker 1: on this podcast that be around. The NFL podcast is

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Speaker 1: not sponsored driven by hund love it what a automobile

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Speaker 1: anymore to that. That's the starting end of it. That's it.

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Speaker 1: That is that's the sponsor show. And and any update

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Speaker 1: a big spot on Monday. Mike Flame I think could

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Speaker 1: not have handled it more gentleman like than he did.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he basically wrote us all an email thanking

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Speaker 1: us for the year we should be thanking him. He

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Speaker 1: sent us multiple products and gifts. Hyundai yet to do

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Speaker 1: that for us well, the Rosenthal family could be looking

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Speaker 1: for a second car. My wife does not have a car,

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Speaker 1: which is tough sledding when you live in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: I think we're I think it's off season. We've kind

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Speaker 1: of set so maybe step your game up. Hey, if

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Speaker 1: you want to be driven the way this podcast is driven,

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Speaker 1: getting their money's worth and we want to restart it

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Speaker 1: for a fourth time. Anyway, this is the Tony Romo

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Speaker 1: Spectacular podcast. We will break down the huge news and

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Speaker 1: how it affects um the entire NFL, and and we

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Speaker 1: look back at Romo's career in Dallas and what it

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Speaker 1: means for other teams, specifically one that also plays in Texas. Uh.

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Speaker 1: So we'll break the we'll break the whole thing down,

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Speaker 1: and we'll have some fun doing it as the podcast

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Speaker 1: of record on this topic. UM and UH, I feel like, maybe, guys,

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Speaker 1: to Romo, and it is about Marshawn Lynch, the retired

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Speaker 1: I think the Tony Romo situation sat out there for

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Speaker 1: Don't bury the lead. What does it mean for Taiwan Jones?

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Speaker 1: This is the Taiwan Jones Spectacular podcast. I think it's listen.

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Speaker 1: the field. This is he's gonna be a total neophyight. Well,

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Speaker 1: the one thing he doesn't have in common with Boomer

428
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Speaker 1: and Tiki is he's likable, or he's more likable, I

429
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Speaker 1: mean are I mean, I guess we'll find out, but

430
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Speaker 1: and I guess you'd never know that a percent going in.

431
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Speaker 1: Although I don't think Tiki Barber even during his playing careers,

432
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Speaker 1: I think at this point in in their situations, everybody

433
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Speaker 1: viewed Boomer and Tiki as just as likable as Tony

434
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Speaker 1: Romo and more breathless words raised it on Boomer size

435
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Speaker 1: and have been was a scene as I think they gave.

436
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Speaker 1: They put him on Good Morning America, Greg, not even

437
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Speaker 1: it was we're gonna put you in front of America,

438
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Speaker 1: not even a station. But it wasn't. It wasn't. I

439
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Speaker 1: I don't think it was because he was likable. I

440
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Speaker 1: think because he had a massive pr campaign. This is

441
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Speaker 1: a guy who dominated the New York Tabloids in the

442
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Speaker 1: front page of the paper for being unlikable, for his

443
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 1: teammates hated him. That was a big part of his

444
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Speaker 1: career was Michael Strahan and him getting after I just

445
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Speaker 1: mean that the listening to Tony Romo in terms of

446
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Speaker 1: how much like he is a likable guy, and listening

447
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Speaker 1: to how seriously he clearly is going to take it

448
00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 1: from step one that this isn't rocket science. You know,

449
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Speaker 1: we we've put Tony Kornheiser in national spots like Joe

450
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,440
Speaker 1: Tisman had this job for years and years and years

451
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Speaker 1: likable one fifth of the job. Yeah, your point is

452
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Speaker 1: taken that the Tiki and Boomer probably had a little

453
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Speaker 1: more ego than Tony Romo, who seems to be is

454
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Speaker 1: down to earth. There's any million dollar quarterback could possibly be.

455
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Speaker 1: All right, now, let's move on to the next and

456
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Speaker 1: poor Phil. I don't even know where Phil lands. You have?

457
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Speaker 1: You have? Uh? What do they? I always get this wrong.

458
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 1: The bird and the beak, The beard and the beard

459
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Speaker 1: and the bird. The beard and the bird, by the way,

460
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Speaker 1: they should be number one Eagles are fascinating. He's a

461
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Speaker 1: fascinating play by play guy. Really, I love fascinating. I

462
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 1: think he honestly should be number one. Somewhere. There's an

463
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Speaker 1: entire bar in Santa Monica which knows exactly how much

464
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Speaker 1: Mark Sessler loves. He's a total pro. I like that team,

465
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Speaker 1: and you're not gonna like drop Phil down to the

466
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Speaker 1: third or fourth string. I'm thinking, so maybe this is

467
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Speaker 1: it for Phil. I will say this, what's the same

468
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Speaker 1: version of what Tony Romo did as a quarterback? You

469
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Speaker 1: may say enough, I don't want to kick the guy

470
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Speaker 1: when he's down, But the Nance Sims team never did

471
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Speaker 1: anything for me. I think Buck and Aikman or a

472
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Speaker 1: far superior team, and and don't get me started in Collinsworth, Uh,

473
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Speaker 1: and now Michael's are the best of them all. Then

474
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Speaker 1: you got Tariko, who does a great job. They it

475
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Speaker 1: was it was the right time, I think, to spruce

476
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Speaker 1: it up, and they're kind of swinging for the fences.

477
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Speaker 1: There are worst game analysts and Phil Simms. I think

478
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Speaker 1: it's fair to critique him. You don't have to treat

479
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Speaker 1: him like a pinata. Though, Yeah, you always felt like

480
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Speaker 1: there was a little too much of like, are we

481
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Speaker 1: watching the Masters? Are we watching uh? The NFL? With

482
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Speaker 1: Nance and that's more nance maybe than Sims, but just

483
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Speaker 1: kind of maybe. I mean, but it was kind of

484
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Speaker 1: a sleepy I can imagine, you know, grandparents enjoying this broadcast.

485
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Speaker 1: So let's have some guy. Let's have someone who I

486
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Speaker 1: love the notion of someone that was just in the game,

487
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 1: was gonna know these players. I know it's the a

488
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Speaker 1: f C for the most part, but he'll be on

489
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Speaker 1: some NFC games too when they're the road team, like

490
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,400
Speaker 1: a little all fresh blood. And you know, let's talk

491
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Speaker 1: winners and losers of this deal, and we've already touched

492
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Speaker 1: on a couple of Phil Simms notable and los. Her Sorry,

493
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:05,439
Speaker 1: but it really sounded like because CBS and Pro Football

494
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Speaker 1: tuck me at this point, they didn't have a plan

495
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: for him publicly, which is a pretty strong indication that

496
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Speaker 1: there probably is no plan for him. But also they're

497
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Speaker 1: just gonna work out. He's been with him for nearly

498
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 1: two decades, and that's how you say goodbye to someone.

499
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a rough situation. He got swept up

500
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Speaker 1: in a tidal way with this. But uh, let's focus

501
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,640
Speaker 1: a little bit now on the the Texans, who, um

502
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Speaker 1: other than Phil Simms are obviously uh the big, big

503
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Speaker 1: loser here because West it seemed like in their decision

504
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Speaker 1: to cut ties with Brock Oswiler and basically leave nobody

505
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 1: but Tom Savage as the presumptive Week one started, it

506
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Speaker 1: looked like they had cleared the deck for Romo and

507
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Speaker 1: now he's not there. Now what that That's a tough

508
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Speaker 1: situation they have. They have their own starter kit for

509
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Speaker 1: the Browns, for the Browns jersey with all the quarterback

510
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Speaker 1: names on it. Yes, Fitzpatrick, Keenum, Mallett, Hoyer, Yates, Weed

511
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Speaker 1: and Oswa Savage. I mean, it's the difference as they

512
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Speaker 1: win about nine games a year's quarterbacks of old. I

513
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 1: mean Bill O'Brien is the fun house mirror version of

514
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Speaker 1: Jeff Fisher. He goes nine and seven every year with

515
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Speaker 1: bad quarterback. It's this team is It's unbelievable how reactive

516
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Speaker 1: they are at that position instead of proactive. You have

517
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Speaker 1: the hard knocks thing, which we keep going back to.

518
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 1: Both those kids can play. The second part of that

519
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: whole diet tribe was and if they get the chance to,

520
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:29,239
Speaker 1: they're gonna show everyone. Bill O'Brien gave Brian Horrier three

521
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Speaker 1: quarters of the season over for that chance so they

522
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,120
Speaker 1: go out, Howyer's a failure. They overpay for us while

523
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Speaker 1: er without ever meeting him, and now because they did that,

524
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: they overcorrect and say we can't overpay for Romo or

525
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Speaker 1: we can't trade for imperiod because we now we're now

526
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Speaker 1: we're passive instead of aggressive, and you're stuck with Tom Savage,

527
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Speaker 1: a guy who is every bit is injury prone as

528
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Speaker 1: Tony Romo, just ten years younger. Well, I don't think

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Speaker 1: that's fair with Savage because you know, it's been a

530
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Speaker 1: couple of minor injuries. I think the Texans hasn't. It's

531
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Speaker 1: been a couple of injuries a couple of times he played.

532
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: I think Tony Romo's injury situation is so significant, and

533
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Speaker 1: it's been four straight times he's been on the field

534
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 1: that he's gotten hurt. That caution from any of the team.

535
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Speaker 1: I can't kill them for that, because we would we

536
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Speaker 1: would be making fun of them, or maybe we wouldn't

537
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: be making fun of them. But the odds were telling

538
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Speaker 1: you that he was just gonna get hurt again. I mean,

539
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Speaker 1: his his injury history is beyond just like it happened

540
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 1: a few times. It happened in two thousand fourteen it happened.

541
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Speaker 1: Two fifty happened too, Then sixty it happened a couple

542
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 1: of times in two thousand fifty like it was happening.

543
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 1: I agree, But here I don't mind them not branding

544
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: over backwards. The flip side of that is John Elway

545
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Speaker 1: going after Peyton Manning when he was coming off a

546
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 1: neck injury where all of us were wondering if he'd

547
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:47,880
Speaker 1: even be able to throw the same way. It's like you,

548
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: you can't kill the Texans if after they they like it.

549
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 1: When I'm saying, when they admit their own mistake though

550
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: with the brock Osweiler moving on from brock Osweader, had

551
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,439
Speaker 1: they and going on and got going after Romo, you

552
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: have to say you did everything you could in one

553
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: off season to correct the position. And now I can't

554
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: give them credit for going halfway and now smiling at

555
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 1: us and telling us that Tom Savage is a perfectly

556
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 1: to find answer under center, don't I don't think I

557
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: think they're us that they have to that. Now they

558
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: have to say they have to look toward the draft,

559
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: and then you look at the I can't let all

560
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: the way off the hook here. I thought both it

561
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 1: was a lack of onions on both Denver and Houston side.

562
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:33,679
Speaker 1: They're both a quarterback away from computing invested. They invested

563
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: a first round pick and pacton Lynch and Trevor Simeon

564
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: can play, but the Savage can play, but Simeon actually can.

565
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,239
Speaker 1: The Texans invested in brock Oswilder, and they knew they

566
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Speaker 1: had to get out of there and try to get

567
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: You're trying to win a Super Bowl here. I'm just

568
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: saying like you had an opportunity if you played aggressively,

569
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Speaker 1: and of course it's a roll of the dice. You

570
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: just talked about it, Greg. To have Tony Romo out

571
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Speaker 1: front with two super Bowl quality defenses in both Houston

572
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: and Denver, and I thought both of these teams should

573
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Speaker 1: have been more aggressive. Now that John Mike Cliss was

574
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: on NFL Network on Tuesday and had some good points

575
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: to John, Elway was intrigued with the idea of Tony

576
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Speaker 1: Romo if he was singlemindedly obsessed with winning the Super Bowl,

577
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: not if he had one foot in CBS, not if

578
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: he was like, uh, I kind of want to play

579
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Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, not the Broncos. Not if he was

580
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: I'd rather be closer to Texas than Denver. There's also

581
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: but so I agree with that Mavor Simeon and Paxton list.

582
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 1: Texans have Tom Savage and no Super Bowls and the

583
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: history of bad decision. John Elway has more rope here

584
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: and we have more reasons to trust and well, and

585
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: he has two good options I think at quarterback, I

586
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: think options. So I hear you on that, But that

587
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: same reasoning to me makes sense for maybe why the

588
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: Rick Smith in the Texas in this particular case didn't

589
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: go after him. Now, I think Rick Smith is totally different.

590
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: I think Rick Smith is a loser here because of

591
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 1: what you just said. His history of not drafting a

592
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: quarterback like this points it out. This is gonna be

593
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: his wealth draft with the Houston Texans. He has yet

594
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: to take a quarterback in the first three rounds. Ever,

595
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: that is absolutely insane. Step. I mean, the Patriots have

596
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: taken two in the first three rounds the last couple

597
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: of years, and then in the Texans haven't even taken

598
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: a swing in it with when they've at their best,

599
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: they had a good couple of seasons at a match up.

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Speaker 1: It's absolutely it's it's been eleven years this will be

601
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: his twelfth draft. He has been there since oh six,

602
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 1: So you can't say that in in eleven straight years,

603
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: everyone took your guy right before you wanted him. This

604
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: is a philosophical choice that you would rather build stronger

605
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: roster at other other positions, which we know by now

606
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 1: simply doesn't work a hundred times. And yet he's still there.

607
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Speaker 1: I when you told me that he's been there that long,

608
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: I had no idea. You know, it's remarkable. We were

609
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 1: talking about the Texans had the brown starting kit, how

610
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: many gms of the Browns had since two thousand six, right,

611
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Speaker 1: and that I'm not saying they're the way they do

612
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 1: it is the way to do it. For one one

613
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 1: team to have seventeen firings and one to have zero,

614
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: they're both wrong. Well, they've always stayed relevant, and I

615
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: think if if Rick Smith should get a credit for

616
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: anything that's hiring head coaches, I think ultimately he's picked

617
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: two pretty good head coaches in in Gary Kubiak and

618
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien that maybe look made the roster look a

619
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: little better than it really was. Rick Smith's careers essentially

620
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 1: as long as Tony Romo's active career true. Yeah, good

621
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: points both came up. It's been a long time. Mark.

622
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: You wrote the Winners and Losers Banger Banger NFL dot com.

623
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: You got on the bang train and you want to

624
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Speaker 1: share another winner. I will. That's that's probably where I

625
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,239
Speaker 1: would want that experience to be coming from. But uh,

626
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: how about this, I mean we touched on it briefly,

627
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: but this year's quarterback prospects, because I think that you

628
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: now are going to see a rush on quarterbacks potentially

629
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: earlier than people thought, because the Texans are a lock

630
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 1: at I think to take a quarterback or to move

631
00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: up to Daniel Jeremiah, who at least when he does

632
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: his mock draft is talking to other people he has

633
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: no quarterbacks going in the first round until the Texans.

634
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: I would that would surprise me. I think that we're

635
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: gonna get more early because this is just what teams

636
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: have done every single year. But he is absolutely right

637
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: that the Texans now have no wiggle room. You can't

638
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: wait till the whatever the fifty ninth pick they have,

639
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: I think, and then the eighty nine. You cannot wait

640
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: that long at this point except you're dealing with Rick Smith,

641
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: so we know what they're gonna do. They're not gonna

642
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: take any quarter Maybe they won't take anyone, but counterpoint,

643
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: they were going to take a quarterback either way, possibly

644
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: because they if you were get in bed with Romo,

645
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: you absolutely know you need to have a plan B

646
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: still or a future. And I wouldn't be surprised if

647
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 1: even if they got Romo, they take a guy in

648
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: the first or second round, and then when you look

649
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: at any other team in the league Romo, whatever happened

650
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: in Romo didn't really affect anybody else because nobody else

651
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: was interes I agree with that, except that I think

652
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: plan I think it's fair to have viewed Tom Savage

653
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: as an okay Plan B. If you had gone out

654
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: and gotten Tony Romo, you don't need to get another rookie.

655
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: On top of that soup, you know that they're in

656
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: the spot you don't want to be in, which is

657
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: everyone knows what you have to do and you have

658
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: to take that position. Just that of desperation. Yeah again,

659
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: pretend you like one of these guys more than you

660
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: actually do about another loser. Mark off your list. So

661
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: many choices, Well we have, we've uh, well how about

662
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: this the prime time football schedule is one that I

663
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: picked because I realized they haven't completely locked it in.

664
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: But I think the Texans would have been an a

665
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: f C that is lacking a lot of compelling teams.

666
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 1: There isn't a lot beyond the Patriots and the Steelers

667
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: and some of the a f C West teams that

668
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: you get the a f C South with the Texans

669
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: and Tony Romo on a bunch of prime time games

670
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 1: early in the year. Last year's early primetime schedule was

671
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: a mess. This would have spiced it up. You have

672
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: to watch those games. I don't care where you live,

673
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: you have to watch the Texans. Now you run from

674
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: the Texans, you don't need to watch them at all.

675
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: So remember the Bengals Texans game in Week sixteen, unbelievable right,

676
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: one of the most boring games of the season, featuring

677
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: and it decided the Titans and Texans. If we if

678
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 1: we want to like look at things with way, how

679
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: it might actually have turned out. If the Texans got

680
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: Romo and then he got hurt by week six it

681
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 1: would just be the Texans getting flexed out of like

682
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: seven Sunday night games. But it probably if you break

683
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: it down, what it will actually mean instead of the

684
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,760
Speaker 1: Texans being on Sunday Night Football two to three times

685
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: and being on Monday Night Football once and being on

686
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football once, we'll probably see the Texans Thursday

687
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 1: night for sure, and then maybe a Monday night game

688
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 1: and maybe maybe if you're a Texas then you're dying

689
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: right now because you were close. If you and if

690
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: you believe in Tony Romo, here as a real great

691
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: option because you know, the rest of the team is

692
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 1: pretty good and offenses in better shape I think now

693
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: than it has been, and if you had Romo in there,

694
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: there was real reason to hope you could contend in

695
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: the a f C. Now you're left kind of scrambling,

696
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: maybe trying to talk yourself into things that you don't

697
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: believe in. Um, all right, west Mar, because that your

698
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 1: big takeaway. By the way, we're gonna second to big time.

699
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: We're doing some winners and losers. Still, we're still doing

700
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 1: winners and losers. No, I have a separate Romo takeaway.

701
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: I mean, it's okay, good. I just want to be

702
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 1: on the same page anymore, winner and loser. The Tony

703
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: Tony Romo redemption story. Mark talked about kind of a

704
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: sliding door situation here where what would have happened if

705
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:19,720
Speaker 1: he had taken the Broncos or the Texans that roster spot,

706
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: and both of those teams he could have gone further

707
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and he's ever gone before. And if

708
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,839
Speaker 1: things sync up super Bowl appearance, who knows well that

709
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 1: that that was gonna be my losers. I mean, Tony

710
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: Romo's the ultimate loser in this unfortunate I mean Antonio Ramiro.

711
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: Romo came into the league six I mean he was.

712
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 1: He was one of the most exciting players in the league,

713
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,720
Speaker 1: one of my one of a lot of people's favorite

714
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: players to watch. The last time he played in the NFL,

715
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 1: the only time he played a full season with this

716
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 1: Cowboys offensive line. He led the league in completion percentage,

717
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 1: in qb R, in quarterback rating, in yards per tempt,

718
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 1: in game winning drives. He was third in the m

719
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: v p UH race. He had his best season, I

720
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: would argue, certainly one of his best seasons of his

721
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: entire career. And that was it. That was his last season.

722
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: Think of what he's been robbed over, not just like

723
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 1: the redemption story with the Broncos, which I agree that

724
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,280
Speaker 1: could have been really cool like the last two years

725
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,839
Speaker 1: with this Cowboys team. I mean Doc was great last year.

726
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 1: I would have taken Tony Romo last year if he

727
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: was healthy over what where Doc was, Like he should

728
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: have been finally winning those playoff games with the Cowboys.

729
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 1: Had a totally different end to his career. Piled up

730
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: some numbers and then I do think he's a Hall

731
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,319
Speaker 1: of Fame type of guy. And he and he got

732
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: robbed by all that because of all these back and

733
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: how many super bowls does he have if he in

734
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: two thousand six just completely changed his identity to Ramiro

735
00:36:52,880 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: one word, Yeah, probably seven super Bowls to football appearances.

736
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 1: By the way, great counterpoint, big winner Tony Romo, because Romo,

737
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: let's say he goes to Houston, Dak Prescott. He's definitely

738
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: a winner. He well, he was already winning. Maybe he

739
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: won that battle if they were seven and nine, like

740
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: this might be Tony Romo's job, and he just to

741
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,280
Speaker 1: know he's a big winner. He's the new Cowboys quarterback.

742
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 1: But Tony Roman was a winner too, if you want

743
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: want to look at it a different way, which is

744
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: he doesn't continue the charade that his body is still

745
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 1: able to play football, which means he doesn't have to

746
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 1: sign with another team, put on a uh like Joe

747
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: name with the with the Rams uniform and then get

748
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,800
Speaker 1: the crap kicked out of him again and get peeled

749
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: off the turf and then end on on that note. Instead,

750
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: he gets to leave with his health, which is so

751
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: he said, he feels great, his body's everything's good, and

752
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: that's good to hear because he's taken a beating and

753
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: he's got his next a new career completely set up.

754
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: You could not ask for a better if you want

755
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: to stay in the public eye and you want to

756
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,240
Speaker 1: stay in football and you don't want to go into coaching,

757
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: there's no better job than the top color gig for

758
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: one of the agent networks. And the Cowboy's exit was

759
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 1: you know, upsetting. I'm shut to him and he'll live

760
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: with regrets over it. But also from a legacy standpoint,

761
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: he got to do that press conference, which maybe there

762
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: will be a movie one day where that's worked into

763
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: it and that and he was showered with praise over that.

764
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 1: That's a good point and to leap kind of leapfrog

765
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,919
Speaker 1: off a year point um Greg that was a great

766
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 1: lament for Tony Romo and what could have been and Tonio.

767
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: But there is a movie to be made here, and

768
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: it's not quite Kurt Warner, who has the best story

769
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: of any athlete in the twenty century, just about. But

770
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:36,879
Speaker 1: an undrafted free agent who comes into America's team, has

771
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 1: a great ten year run, gets this cushy TV gig

772
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:41,919
Speaker 1: and could be doing it for twenty or thirty years.

773
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: I mean, there isn't made for TV movie here. Whether

774
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: he's a winner or a loser, like the Romo that

775
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,919
Speaker 1: wakes up at three in the morning and is either

776
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:53,760
Speaker 1: contemplating regret or thinking about all the stuff that's ahead.

777
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: That's the winner or a loser. He knows whether he

778
00:38:55,600 --> 00:39:00,439
Speaker 1: won or lost. Winner Dak not for the reason you'd say,

779
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 1: But in your article you talk about the Cowboys quarterbacks

780
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 1: Don Meredith, Roger Staalbuck, Troy Eggman, Tony Romo all retire

781
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: early due to injuries and get cushy broadcasting gigs. If

782
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 1: you're the quarterback for America, you're gonna have a cushy

783
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,320
Speaker 1: broadcasting gig. You can maybe he can do women's college basketball,

784
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 1: big time fan. I don't know if you guys that

785
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: doesn't feel I guess you guys him gig. But I

786
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,879
Speaker 1: guess you guys didn't watch the end of the Mississippi

787
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 1: State game. Doc was going wild like the camera was

788
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 1: on him a little too much. Did they win the title?

789
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: By the way, they did not win. How about Jerry

790
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 1: Jones as a winner too, I mean, he keeps getting this.

791
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 1: Not only did this situation work out perfectly, and he

792
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: has Tony Romo singing his praises about what a great

793
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 1: boss he is, but he didn't have to go watch

794
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:46,800
Speaker 1: Tony Romill play for another team. And he has the

795
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: Cowboys brand. I think Boumani Jones uh was the first

796
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 1: one and I saw point this out. He's got the

797
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: Cowboys brand on every national game like the Cowboys are

798
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: just this is the Cowboys. Is NFL back to the

799
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: super Bowl, and that is like going on forever. That's

800
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 1: why the next twenty years, that's another reason why he's

801
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: a winner. You stumble onto Dak Prescott, and if ever

802
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 1: a team stumbled onto a guy they tried to trade

803
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 1: for Paxton Lynch, they tried to trade for Connor Cook,

804
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 1: ended up taking Dak Prescott, and now you've got the

805
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: same competitive advantage that Seahawks had when Russell Wilson was

806
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: on a really minor rookie contract. And you've got half

807
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: your half, your offense is all pro and you have

808
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 1: the chance for stability at quarterback. Not unlike going from

809
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 1: Brett Farve to Aaron Rodgers, from Peyton Manning to Andrew

810
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 1: Luck not saying that these are all equivalent of those players,

811
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 1: but when you have stability for thirty years at that position,

812
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 1: we know Dan what happens when you don't. Yeah, And

813
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 1: that's that's the last piece of the cow Everything looks

814
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 1: great for the Dallas Cowboys, but they got to figure

815
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 1: out where to get over the hump. Now. Then with

816
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: this new core and Tony Romo in the past, let's

817
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: say it's been twenty years since they made the Super Bowl.

818
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: That's the last piece for Jarra in the uh in

819
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 1: the in the twilight of his tenure with the Cowboys.

820
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: They gotta get over the hump. Won't be with Tony Romo.

821
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 1: One big takeaway Mark Sessler before we move on, Well,

822
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: I think I wanted to look back and kind of

823
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: remember when my idea of Tony Romo pivoted entirely. I

824
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 1: I never liked the way that he was this eternal

825
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: scapegoat for everything that happened with the playoff loss against

826
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: Seattle and a lot of other big games where he crumbled.

827
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,280
Speaker 1: But for me, I'll never forget being in Santa Monica

828
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: at a bar watching Week two two thousand eleven when

829
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: he went up against the forty Niners took him down

830
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 1: in overtime with a punctured lung a broken Ribby was

831
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 1: out for most of the third quarter, came back in

832
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: the fourth and into overtime, completed twelve of fifteen passes

833
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: through a seventy seven yard completion to Jesse Holly at

834
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 1: the end that game winning field goal. And it here's

835
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 1: the thing. Finally, after that game, people started to They

836
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: started to catch up with the fact that Tony Romo

837
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: cared about football as much as he people should have

838
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 1: realized he did, and that he was incredibly tough. He

839
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: went on right. He played the next week against the

840
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: red Skins and didn't miss a start the yes the

841
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: rest of the year. I injuries swept away the later

842
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: part of his career, but the guy absolutely cared about

843
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: being the Cowboys quarterback, which is in contrast to some

844
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: of the stuff that happened with Jessica Simpson and the

845
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,320
Speaker 1: vacations and all that business early on where it was

846
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 1: more of a soap opera. There was an extended period

847
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 1: people now completely forget this, but where he was a

848
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 1: durable starting quarterback and you could count on him. It

849
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 1: was just near the end where the body really started

850
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:29,240
Speaker 1: to break down. Nice big takeaway, Mark, It was big West.

851
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 1: It's a shame for football fans that Tony Romo won't

852
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 1: be playing. He will not be a starter in week

853
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 1: one as it as it seems now, Jimmy Garoppolo will

854
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:42,720
Speaker 1: not be a starter in week one. Jake Cutler Colin

855
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: Kaepernick will not be starters in Week one. So four

856
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 1: of the top thirty quarterbacks on this planet will not

857
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 1: be starting in week one, while the likes of Josh McCown,

858
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: Coding Kessler, Tom Savage, Brian Hoyer, Jared Goff, and Mike

859
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: Glennon will be starting in week one. Uh are you

860
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: throw Glennon in there? Teams should be more NFL teams

861
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: should be more bull first of all, and second of all,

862
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,959
Speaker 1: watching bad football stinks. And I don't want to see

863
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: these guys starting in week one when there are better

864
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 1: options you're gonna get some. You're gonna get plenty of

865
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:17,399
Speaker 1: bad quarterbacks Wests. No, we're running from it. I love

866
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,879
Speaker 1: that this offseason has turned UH West into missing Jake

867
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 1: Cutler didn't see that company. That's why you gotta keep

868
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:25,839
Speaker 1: listening to the podcast. Always surprises over the year. Look,

869
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: Jake Cutler has been my I don't know, He's been

870
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: a tomato can to me on this podcast. I've been

871
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,320
Speaker 1: kicking him up and down the street for four years.

872
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 1: But nothing bothers me more than NFL teams just settling

873
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 1: for mediocrity because it's comfortable. You don't see Bill Belichick

874
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: doing that. You don't see John Elway doing that. You've

875
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: given up on Jared Goff, by the way, you can't

876
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,799
Speaker 1: be a top thirty quarterback. I mean, alright, but in

877
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: week one, I don't know. Maybe by the end of

878
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:52,359
Speaker 1: the year, I won't I'll be singing I haven't given

879
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: up on it, and I do. It took like four years,

880
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:56,720
Speaker 1: but it took Josh McCown finally signing with the Jets.

881
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 1: Fore you get up to get up from the town bandwagon. Look,

882
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 1: he's already seven, he can barely walk. Something serious had

883
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:04,919
Speaker 1: to happen, and it was going to the your hated

884
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: all right, My big takeaway, uh is we won't have

885
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 1: Tony Romana kick around anymore. I don't think our group

886
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: by any stretch was part of this. But for years

887
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 1: and years and years and years, Romo was the guy

888
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 1: that people love to hate and unfairly put things on

889
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:27,800
Speaker 1: and call a choke artist and all other things. Uh.

890
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: And now he's gone. And and in the same offseason

891
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: where you know, we just said j Cutler might be

892
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: gone to the other great whipping boy of the NFL.

893
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: So in the same offseason we lose to the people

894
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 1: that people most enjoyed kicking around. Who's gonna fill their void?

895
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:48,320
Speaker 1: Who becomes the number one whipping boy? Uh? In this league,

896
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: whether you want to look at it just from a

897
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,800
Speaker 1: quarterback perspective an entire league, or maybe they're just a

898
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 1: void now and that's less fun. You like to have

899
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: somebody to beat up on. That's sad. Could be bad

900
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: news for Eli Manning late period maybe or maybe one

901
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 1: of these young quarterbacks that West already UH feels distain

902
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: for to have some sort of hell turn earlier in

903
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:09,399
Speaker 1: the year, because I mean, Cutler's was a heel turn

904
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: at one point where he's sort of this is a

905
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: guy that doesn't seem to care as much as the

906
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 1: other people, and maybe one of these guys shows up

907
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: in that kind of way and they take that man.

908
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 1: Cam Newton is is in danger. He's always seemed to

909
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 1: engender a lot of UMU dislike from people. Don't overlook

910
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles with this possibility, Like Bordles, Andy Dalton. Maybe

911
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: he's kind of been a familiar person to pile on,

912
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: but there's not a lot like Matt Stafford. Look at Matt, Hey, Matt,

913
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:39,320
Speaker 1: He's coming off to a couple of his best seasons.

914
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:43,320
Speaker 1: But you know, hey, look out. That's all I'm saying.

915
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 1: I mean, you're prominent quarterback, highly paid. I haven't haven't

916
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: done a lot. No no, no, no, I'm saying that.

917
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: I just keep your head on a swivel. That's what

918
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Oh, you're saying he's gonna be like the

919
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 1: new media whipping boys. Yeah, that's what I'm What do

920
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: you think I'm taking shots at Stafford? I thought you

921
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 1: were saying he was gonna be like sort of a

922
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: black sheep. No no, no, no, okay, Oh maybe he

923
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 1: will if you if you become like a whipping boy

924
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: of the league, you just gotta watch out. I think

925
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: I'm just going through the quarterbacks right now. I don't know.

926
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 1: Kaepernick is too easy a target. Aren't a lot of options? No,

927
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 1: that's what we're kind of missing. What if we just

928
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: don't have a There has to be though, right doesn't

929
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,760
Speaker 1: there have to Society can take out it's it's frustrations,

930
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: And isn't that what football is. It was a way

931
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: for the people to to get out all their frustrations

932
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: in life and try to forget about what's dealing what

933
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: they're dealing with it. But sometimes that comes up and

934
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: you need to kick Tony, like putting all your sins

935
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,240
Speaker 1: on a goat and sending them outside the city walls. Exactly.

936
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford still hanging around and my favorite Romo get Bradford.

937
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:46,360
Speaker 1: My favorite Romo game, uh is the Week five. I

938
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 1: wrote about this yesterday two thousand thirteen. Peyton Manning and

939
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 1: his fifty five touchdowns, the shootout in Geral World where

940
00:46:55,680 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: for four fifty eight minutes, um Tony Romo outplayed the

941
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 1: best quarterback alive in a year where he had at

942
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:06,359
Speaker 1: one point in that game because I watched them yesterday. Uh,

943
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning in the second half had seventeen touchdowns and

944
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 1: zero interceptions on the season. That's how locked in Manning

945
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:16,720
Speaker 1: was that year. And Romo had a I wrote Troy

946
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:19,399
Speaker 1: Aikman meets Joe Namath performance where he threw for over

947
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 1: five yards on just thirty six attempts, five touchdowns, and

948
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,359
Speaker 1: it was like everything you love about Tony Romo made

949
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 1: some amazing acrobatic It was spin moves and making every

950
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: throw you can imagine. And then in a game that was, uh,

951
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 1: he throws a bad interception in his own and the

952
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: first mistake he makes all day and he never sees

953
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 1: the ball again. The Broncos win with a field goal

954
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: at the gun. It was the most Tony Romo game ever.

955
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 1: And it also because Tony Romo was kind of the

956
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 1: you know, we we called him the roor Shart what

957
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 1: was it called test that people saw in that game

958
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: what they wanted to see, and I think that's what

959
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: Tony Romo has been throughout his career. Is that your

960
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:03,360
Speaker 1: big takeaway? No, but it's pretty good. It's it's connected,

961
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:07,879
Speaker 1: which is that he was one of the most entertaining

962
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 1: players in the league since the minute he joined it,

963
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 1: and football is ultimately an entertainment for me, and that's

964
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: why he I'm him retiring makes me realize that he

965
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: really is one of my favorite players of all time

966
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,359
Speaker 1: that I've gotten to watch, uh, you know, over this

967
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: last decade, certainly because he was always willing to go

968
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 1: deep like he he was always willing to go for it.

969
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: And I my takeaway is really that the Cowboys, for

970
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: the most part, let him down. You know, when people

971
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 1: get on Tony Romo, it's like, well he didn't do

972
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 1: this or that. It's like no one's saying he was

973
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 1: Tom Brady or Peyton Manning or one of the top

974
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: three or four quarterbacks. But he was in that group

975
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: right behind him. And when you they had weapons around him,

976
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 1: but they had one defense in his entire run that

977
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 1: ranked in top twelve in points allowed. And I was

978
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:04,359
Speaker 1: looking at this old article I wrote that I don't

979
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: even remember the ten most painful Tony Romo losses, and

980
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:12,399
Speaker 1: they're all the they're all them blowing huge leads, which

981
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 1: is partly on Tony Romo, but it's mostly on a

982
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: lousy defense and Jerry Jones, you know, signing you know,

983
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: picking Bobby Carpenter, Felix Jones in the first rounder, trading

984
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: fer Roy Williams, or signing Ken Hamlin, and in his

985
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:30,839
Speaker 1: best years, I think they really let Tony Romo down

986
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: and people would think of him differently if they had

987
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:35,960
Speaker 1: a better team around him. He wasn't perfect, but he

988
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 1: was more than good enough during the best part of

989
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 1: his career to win a lot more games. A lot

990
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: of his best seasons were when they were eight and

991
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 1: eight and just the rest of the team was junk.

992
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 1: To your point about entertaining entertaining players, I mean, why

993
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 1: don't we watch sports for the thrills? And I think

994
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:54,279
Speaker 1: when you look back and you do rankings of who

995
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 1: was the best at this position or that position, you

996
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: always leave out who was the most underwatch, which is

997
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: not a small factor. When I think about Brett Farve

998
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,359
Speaker 1: until the last few years with Tom Brady, Brett farr

999
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 1: gave me more thrills than every other quarterback combined. That's

1000
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 1: how funny was to watch for. And you were like,

1001
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: I know, younger generations kind of saw the end of

1002
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: Farv and he was sort of like everybody was tired

1003
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 1: of because the retirement stuff and John Madden's effusive praise.

1004
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:25,280
Speaker 1: But in the nineties, there was not a more fun

1005
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: athlete to what well, Michael Jordan. But you're right, but

1006
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:30,319
Speaker 1: when when the Browns moved for those three seasons, I

1007
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: went to the sports bar. I continually mentioned sports bars

1008
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,280
Speaker 1: on this episode. I don't know why, but like week

1009
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 1: after week for one reason, Brett Farve I would watch

1010
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: him over and over and I just sit in front

1011
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:43,439
Speaker 1: of him. Romo's playing style is there's a lot like that.

1012
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 1: Like he he didn't have the arm strength of five,

1013
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:49,239
Speaker 1: but he was really talented. I mean that kind of

1014
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 1: gets overlooked with Romo because he's an undrafted player, but

1015
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 1: he was an exceptionally talented player who pulled off like

1016
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 1: crazy throws all the time. There's also a point to

1017
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:02,239
Speaker 1: be made. As football gets more and more complicated and

1018
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: coaches become more important, not only important, but obsessive, you

1019
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 1: lose some of that improvisation at quarterback, and that's one

1020
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:11,399
Speaker 1: of the most fun parts of the game. He also

1021
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:15,359
Speaker 1: saved the Cowboys after you know they've They're always America's team,

1022
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 1: so they're always in prime time. I mean, we get

1023
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 1: sick of some teams in primetime these days. How about

1024
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: the cowboys in the For the ten fifteen years before

1025
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: Tony Romo arrived, always on national television, always a bore

1026
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 1: with Quincy Carter Hutchinson or even Drew Bledsoe. It's like,

1027
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:32,880
Speaker 1: give me a break. Romo came along. Suddenly they're a

1028
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: lot of fun. I liked when Romo was on our show.

1029
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: Maybe is it Easter Egg said, maybe we could put

1030
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:40,719
Speaker 1: that at the end of this episode when Rome or

1031
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,440
Speaker 1: maybe not, but uh, we'll have to listen to it.

1032
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:46,320
Speaker 1: But when Romo was on the show, I always enjoyed

1033
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:50,760
Speaker 1: that he worked in like this totally canned anecdote about

1034
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 1: his like brother going to the grocery store. It was like,

1035
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:58,400
Speaker 1: does anybody have any memory of this guy? I totally

1036
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 1: do that. He said this story like three like like

1037
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: the way I'm reading off a sheet for an ad. Uh.

1038
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:08,280
Speaker 1: He was reading off the sheet that clearly like somebody

1039
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:10,959
Speaker 1: else had written for him about and he's like, you're right, guys,

1040
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 1: And you know what, it reminds me of my brother

1041
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 1: when he would go to the supermarket. And I remember

1042
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: being just like taking it back, Uh, maybe regrets I

1043
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:22,359
Speaker 1: have us not having a real conversation with Tony Roman.

1044
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:23,839
Speaker 1: But it's not easy on the phone, and that's why

1045
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 1: I usually don't have guests on the show, to be

1046
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: honest with you. I think he did one of about

1047
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: seventy that day and we were just like the next

1048
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 1: we were like number forty six. That wasn't the height

1049
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 1: of the Crownies, right, that was like around that time.

1050
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:41,440
Speaker 1: I'm calling it a crown Yeah, it was because we

1051
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 1: played that and laughed way too hard, like every time

1052
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: we played Uh well, yeah, let's now we have to

1053
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,399
Speaker 1: add to the end of the show. Um, all right.

1054
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 1: By the way, Mark, you've perfected your wardrobe. But what

1055
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: about the stuff not everybody gets to see? You're junk?

1056
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: All right, Greg? What about it? Dan? What is men's Well,

1057
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 1: it's underwear that gets shipped to you. If you're us

1058
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 1: rhetoric I'm reading, I don't even know. I'm gonna jump

1059
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:14,480
Speaker 1: out of the spot contractually. I don't know if anyone's

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00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:16,919
Speaker 1: allowed to talk while I'm talking. Who knows they're getting

1061
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 1: more time. Guess we'll find out. And I also realized

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00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 1: it's ironic Mark to work you into the meandes bit

1063
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 1: when you don't wear and actually do not you. Yeah,

1064
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:30,399
Speaker 1: I've changed. Yep, but the two in Sydney come back

1065
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: to us breaking a little bit of breaking news. Breaking news.

1066
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 1: Mark under Mark wears under pants. I do, and like,

1067
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:40,440
Speaker 1: here's the thing. They shipped us a couple of pairs

1068
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 1: which were fantastic. But mine, my two pairs of Medes

1069
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 1: are still in my car, in the passenger seat, so

1070
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 1: I need to try them on. I had the wife

1071
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 1: wash mine, give them a nice good wash before you

1072
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 1: put them over your privates, in your buttocks. All right,

1073
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: I wore them. How do they feel? I would tell

1074
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 1: you this. I am very particular about underwear. Yea, as

1075
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 1: particular as I am about anything I wear. And they

1076
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: they stack up, they stack up, I'll be wearing them.

1077
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:11,759
Speaker 1: They're in the rotation anyway. What is Meand's just seriously soft,

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00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 1: feel good Andy's delivered right to your door. Meandies are

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00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: designed in l A and made from sustainably sourced micro

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00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:22,280
Speaker 1: model Modal modal a fabric three times softer than cotton,

1081
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 1: Meandi softer than soft lug undis coming in an ever

1082
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 1: changing selection of classic colors, bolt shapes, and adventurous patterns,

1083
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:30,720
Speaker 1: so you can tell your Ondies to your own personal

1084
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: style and guess what what. You can save time and

1085
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 1: money each month with a monthly subscription. And if you're

1086
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:41,880
Speaker 1: not ready for a subscription, that's okay, you can still save.

1087
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 1: That's because means is offering you off your first pair.

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00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:48,839
Speaker 1: Just use our special you are l me Undy's dot

1089
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 1: com slash NFL and get off your first pair. So

1090
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:57,800
Speaker 1: go ahead revamp your underwear drawer. You deserve it. Once again.

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00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 1: That's Meand's dot com slash NFL seventeen me Undies dot

1092
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 1: com slash NFL. I like that it's a local product

1093
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 1: right here in Los Angeles. But again we appreciate that

1094
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:12,720
Speaker 1: they sent us a few pairs. But the next portion,

1095
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 1: the next gift to you know, following the footsteps and

1096
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:17,320
Speaker 1: Mr f how about a tour of the underwear factory

1097
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: right in her own backyard. I mean, that's certainly something

1098
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:26,320
Speaker 1: that could interest some people. I think you should. I

1099
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 1: don't know what else they offer at this point. Great underpants.

1100
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 1: Uh wow, I am. I'm reeling from the marccessor reveal

1101
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: that he's back in the underpants game in a big spot.

1102
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: By the way, I think you said that you felt

1103
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,799
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure once, you know, I told you

1104
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 1: that this is going to be the show people looking

1105
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 1: back on I think this, I think we we delivered. Yeah,

1106
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:50,799
Speaker 1: I think it will hold up in the test of time.

1107
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:52,840
Speaker 1: People want to know what was up with Towny Ramo.

1108
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:56,280
Speaker 1: Check this out and if you didn't like it, so good?

1109
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:00,279
Speaker 1: Is that something that people said, Yeah you did bowl

1110
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 1: in future generations if you want to know what people

1111
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 1: talk like, if someone disagrees with you, you just go sucking.

1112
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 1: That's what That's what everyone said in the uh the

1113
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 1: mid Paper Contemporary din al right, before we go, should

1114
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 1: we call Italie by the way, let's do it, because

1115
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 1: you know, he's the lovable loser of the podcast for

1116
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:29,919
Speaker 1: you know, the Cam Newton situation. I mean the Super

1117
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:32,799
Speaker 1: Bowl with the Panthers and the champagne bottle and and

1118
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:36,480
Speaker 1: then last year UNC lost, you know, horrifically at the

1119
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 1: buzzer to Villanova. But then they got back to the

1120
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:41,279
Speaker 1: title game and they want it. So I think it's

1121
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 1: only fair to give give him a shot now to

1122
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 1: get on the line. Not the only reason why he's

1123
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 1: a lovable loser, you want eviscerted him for his love life.

1124
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:50,800
Speaker 1: I mean that's something that's still a little sensitive. So

1125
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 1: why don't we say, can we call up the newsroom

1126
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:59,360
Speaker 1: and okay, thanks? It just does great work behind the class,

1127
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 1: isn't the kind of him? Kenna? Can I speak with

1128
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:06,320
Speaker 1: Dave Eallye? Please? Stan hansis some ofing around the NFL podcast,

1129
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: I suppose, so hold on second, Kenna, I suppose social

1130
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 1: s David Eoey, Hey, buddy, Hey Dan, how's it going?

1131
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 1: You tell me? I'm I'm flying high man the a

1132
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: A Chapel Hill UH student Dave really heartbreak both when

1133
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 1: he bought the champagne bottle, uh, super Bowl fifty for

1134
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: the Panthers, his beloved Panthers, heartbreak again when Villanova the

1135
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 1: buzzer beater. Heartbreak of course, when the only girl that

1136
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 1: he's ever truly loved decided she would rather be with

1137
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: another man. But on this day, April, what was at

1138
00:57:56,720 --> 00:58:02,960
Speaker 1: fourth or third two seventeen avially finished first? Yeah, and

1139
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 1: and obviously the tar Heels dead. I mean I just was,

1140
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: I was watching them actually was out the final four Saturday.

1141
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 1: So it's been a whirlwind of a few days. And

1142
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 1: that was another kind of riveting victory. Uh. And I

1143
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:18,880
Speaker 1: imagine there were a lot of celebrations both before and

1144
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: after both games, And at this point, I think you

1145
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 1: probably are feeling pretty good about yourself, arn't you. I'm

1146
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 1: feeling good. I'm feeling better today. Yes, yesterday was pretty

1147
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:30,960
Speaker 1: pretty touch and go. Um it was. It was a

1148
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 1: late Monday night. And then to see Tony Romo's news

1149
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 1: at six am, uh the next morning on limited sleep

1150
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 1: was um it was. It was quite the change of emotions.

1151
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 1: Were you even planning to come into work before that?

1152
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:47,800
Speaker 1: Before you saw that? I was definitely not playing on

1153
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: coming in early? Um? I was. It was a fifty

1154
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 1: fifty on whether I wanted to come to the office. Um,

1155
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:54,920
Speaker 1: let's just say I wasn't feeling great when I came

1156
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 1: into work. You're a true pro because you had the

1157
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 1: Romo content cranking, well organized. I salute you kissing up now.

1158
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:08,480
Speaker 1: I really do believe that Eale, like that was a

1159
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 1: La Ravio, magnificent. He showed colors. It's the rare positive

1160
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 1: La rab Yeah, you don't get too many of those.

1161
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 1: I feel like that most need you need a new

1162
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 1: name for that. Yeah, well I'll tell you what really,

1163
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 1: So let's let's let's check the boxes here. You're things

1164
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 1: are going well at the office, you have a you

1165
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 1: have a nice position. You seem to have the respect

1166
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:31,080
Speaker 1: of your colleagues. You are now a champion in terms

1167
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:33,200
Speaker 1: of the teams that you follow with the UNC with

1168
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:36,680
Speaker 1: a big victory. Uh, Cam Newton is gonna come back

1169
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 1: from from being uh coming off a down year and

1170
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: probably really get back in the swing of things. And

1171
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 1: there's a mark. There's only one thing missing now, which

1172
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:49,000
Speaker 1: is that big hole in the center of Dave's heart. Yeah.

1173
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:51,400
Speaker 1: I mean when we tried to call Dave initially, we

1174
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:53,919
Speaker 1: got a you know, does not connect number, And that's

1175
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:57,040
Speaker 1: essentially David's love life as far as we know. We

1176
00:59:57,080 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 1: need more to happen. Uh. And sorry, I'll just I mean,

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01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:05,080
Speaker 1: I'd rather talk basketball, but I'll just say things are

1178
01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 1: going well in that department right now. Who like to

1179
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 1: see some tangent roof of that. But Dan was looking

1180
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 1: for different people other than Tony Romo to kick around.

1181
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:18,000
Speaker 1: Maybe you won't have David Eally to kick around either anymore. Yeah,

1182
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:20,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm happy for Dave, but isn't a little

1183
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:22,640
Speaker 1: bit more fun when things aren't going Dave's way. Let's

1184
01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:25,240
Speaker 1: be honest. I mean, I think it's probably more fun

1185
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:27,880
Speaker 1: for the listeners. But you know maybe it's some some

1186
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 1: good thing to do happen in al Right, good to hear,

1187
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 1: David Eally, things are looking up um for the lead

1188
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:38,800
Speaker 1: desk editor at NFL Media. What what a moment and

1189
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:41,400
Speaker 1: the sun you're having. So we just wanted to give

1190
01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:50,800
Speaker 1: you your fair time here and say congratulations, buddy, I

1191
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 1: appreciate it. You still gotta you gotta work on Debbie still.

1192
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:56,640
Speaker 1: I know, we believe it. I was hurt. I was

1193
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 1: I was hurt when that happened. But I feel like

1194
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:00,800
Speaker 1: Mark systematically set that up. She didn't really want to

1195
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:03,240
Speaker 1: do it, wanted her to do it. Just a side note,

1196
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 1: I will not be appearing in our workplace for the

1197
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 1: next three or four weeks, David. It's my boss. Think

1198
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:09,960
Speaker 1: I should let you know. All right, Dave will be

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01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 1: great talking to you again the next time Carolina wins

1200
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 1: a championship. Alright, there you go say we're equal opportunists

1201
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:21,200
Speaker 1: here that I mean, I think Dave, David deserved that,

1202
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:24,959
Speaker 1: and uh am I a little disappointed that Gonzaga didn't

1203
01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 1: figure out a way to pull that thing out and

1204
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 1: uh send Elie back here with the tails Betune. He

1205
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 1: is like a little bit but I also like the guy.

1206
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 1: So it's like it's your kind of you to well,

1207
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:36,720
Speaker 1: we know your first priority is the podcast you like

1208
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 1: the podcast number one, number one David Eale number two

1209
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 1: podcast is in the trust Tree. All right, we'll be

1210
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:48,680
Speaker 1: back on Thursday. Actually, um, we are doing our first

1211
01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:52,320
Speaker 1: this is big news. Actually we're doing a series of

1212
01:01:53,560 --> 01:01:57,920
Speaker 1: uh shows on tape video video digital. I don't know

1213
01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 1: it's on a real real tape to be on NFL

1214
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:03,120
Speaker 1: dot com. We're gonna stream the show, a video version

1215
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 1: of the show which everyone can watch on NFL dot com.

1216
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:08,440
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be every Thursday, I believe for the

1217
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:10,880
Speaker 1: month of April. Has anybody else plugged in on this?

1218
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:13,480
Speaker 1: That is I think it's an April production. Log on

1219
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:17,000
Speaker 1: your like eight pound laptop or desktop computer to NFL

1220
01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 1: dot com. I believe you can. You can watch it

1221
01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 1: on your phone and really I don't maybe you can.

1222
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: I believe it. It streams at six specific so that

1223
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:27,440
Speaker 1: would be nine Eastern or on your phone. And what

1224
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:29,919
Speaker 1: why is the weight of the laptop matter at all?

1225
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:32,760
Speaker 1: The saying like, oh, this this show applies to people

1226
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 1: that are like home in a den on like a

1227
01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 1: gigantic like desktop computer with a giant box from you

1228
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 1: can watch it on your phone on the subway alright,

1229
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:44,160
Speaker 1: on your Apple TV. You can so many options here

1230
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:48,120
Speaker 1: and there. You're to watch our show on video tomorrow Thursday.

1231
01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 1: So we'll have another show tomorrow. So that's good news

1232
01:02:50,200 --> 01:02:52,800
Speaker 1: if you're a fan of what we do. So let's go.

1233
01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:55,360
Speaker 1: We got stuff to do. More stuff to do today

1234
01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:59,520
Speaker 1: is Dan hands is signing off four Quiet Storm the

1235
01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 1: mailman in Pepper Spray. Talk about that on Thursday, and

1236
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 1: I see it behind the glass. Tell Thursday on the

1237
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:32,919
Speaker 1: phone right now, the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. Yes,

1238
01:03:33,360 --> 01:03:37,120
Speaker 1: the great Tony Romo. Welcome to the Around the NFL podcast. Tony,

1239
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:40,520
Speaker 1: glad to have you. Appreciate thanks for having me. Guys.

1240
01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:42,480
Speaker 1: You know you always no right around this time of

1241
01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:45,200
Speaker 1: your commercials start airing and you see it and then

1242
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:47,160
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I'm gonna have to watch this commercial

1243
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:50,240
Speaker 1: roughly seven million times over the course of the NFL season.

1244
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:53,040
Speaker 1: In the case of these direct TV commercials, it's pretty

1245
01:03:53,040 --> 01:03:56,080
Speaker 1: good though, because they obviously they put some there's some

1246
01:03:56,120 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 1: good production work, some good premises. Tony Romo has a

1247
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:03,400
Speaker 1: great new direct TV commercial for a Sunday Ticket, the

1248
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:05,560
Speaker 1: name of the character, and Tony, you could let us

1249
01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:07,320
Speaker 1: know if you had anything to do with us creatively

1250
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:11,920
Speaker 1: the background, arts and Crafts Tony Romo, the features gems

1251
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:15,120
Speaker 1: like this. I mixed a cupcake and a brownie up

1252
01:04:15,200 --> 01:04:18,120
Speaker 1: calling it a crownie. I mean, that is good stuff.

1253
01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:21,920
Speaker 1: So first of all, Tony, take us through this character

1254
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:23,400
Speaker 1: and had you did you have anything to do with

1255
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:25,240
Speaker 1: coming up with it, and how did you like doing

1256
01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:29,000
Speaker 1: you know, arts and Crafts, Tony Romo. It was great.

1257
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:31,480
Speaker 1: It was definitely a unique experience. I hadn't set in

1258
01:04:31,520 --> 01:04:35,040
Speaker 1: a makeup chair for four hours before, but yeah, it was.

1259
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:38,720
Speaker 1: It was a little different. I think, um, they they

1260
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:41,520
Speaker 1: had the plan for the situation, and obviously I agreed

1261
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 1: to it and then I was in there. Though they

1262
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:46,959
Speaker 1: had a certain way. I think that they they wanted

1263
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:49,920
Speaker 1: me to just to be a little bit less probably

1264
01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:53,760
Speaker 1: than what you saw. But I ended up feeling I

1265
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 1: ended up feeling as though this guy like lives by

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Speaker 1: himself and he's never seen, like, he doesn't interact with

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Speaker 1: even beings very often. I felt like the camera crew

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Speaker 1: in this guy's house and now he's really excited to

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Speaker 1: show but he's a little weirded out by everybody and

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Speaker 1: say he just kind of felt that way when I

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Speaker 1: was on set, So I kind of just took on

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Speaker 1: that roll a little bit and then it kind of

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Speaker 1: made it into what it is, and Arts and Craftsy

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Speaker 1: became a little paranoid Arts and Craftsy. So so you

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Speaker 1: went full method. You're like Robert de Niro. You can

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Speaker 1: create a whole you know, character sketching a story to

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Speaker 1: get you in the mind frame before you go. Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: I'm just like Robert de Niro, like it kind of

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Speaker 1: what it was like. I hear a little Paul Rudd.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure my Academy awards are right around the courting

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Speaker 1: or anything. I would if someone asked me to describe

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Speaker 1: it, it it would be like Bob Vila meets Bob Bross

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Speaker 1: and then just a lot of sadness. It's a good description.

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Speaker 1: Uh that's pretty good. But I and I am excited.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna let you go in a second, Tony that

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Speaker 1: you have. The NFCS is gonna be obviously wide open

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Speaker 1: again this year, but the biggest to me, uh battle

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Speaker 1: right now is Arts and Crafts. Tony Romo and Bad

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Speaker 1: comedian Eli manning on the commercial front, that's a good one.

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Speaker 1: That's fun. Before you guys, let me go. When I

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Speaker 1: was younger, I used to, you know, want to watch

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Speaker 1: our NFC East opponents, and I never had actually, you know,

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Speaker 1: direct TV, NFL Sunday Ticket, and I would literally go

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Speaker 1: there and get excited about our bye weekend or play

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Speaker 1: Thursday game that we're gonna watch Eli, We're gonna watch

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Speaker 1: the Eagles or the Redskins, whoever. And then I get

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Speaker 1: on there and they put on whoever, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be kidding me, And I would be such

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Speaker 1: a match shop again. No, and that was like and

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Speaker 1: it was like, you know what, you got the Sunday

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Speaker 1: Ticket thing. They you can watch every single game, you know,

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Speaker 1: live and then watch every minute of it. It was like,

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Speaker 1: this is crazy. I mean, how does everybody not have,

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Speaker 1: you know, the steal My uncle literally orders the Max

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Speaker 1: Steel and he gets to watch the streams on his phone.

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Speaker 1: He watches it, he goes out to the grocery store

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Speaker 1: and watches it again. Like that's so different than it

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Speaker 1: was five years ago. So I want to thank TV

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Speaker 1: and Sunday Ticket for that. It's made it a lot

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Speaker 1: better for or by weekend. It definitely has. It's a

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Speaker 1: lot different than sports experience. Now Tony Romo, good luck

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Speaker 1: in the upcoming season, and thank you for joining us

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Speaker 1: Onthing Around the NFL podcast