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Speaker 1: Be Around with the NFL podcast, Espaniol. Welcome to another

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Speaker 1: edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is

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Speaker 1: Dan Hansas in a virtual room filled with some heroes,

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Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler, you know boys. At St. Patrick's Day.

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Speaker 1: It is after seven pm on the West coast, after

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Speaker 1: ten pm back east, and Happy St Patrick's Day to

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Speaker 1: our many Irish listeners and all the Irish American listeners

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Speaker 1: on this side of the pond, including my mom. But St.

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Speaker 1: Patrick's Day also lines up with the first day of

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Speaker 1: March Madness, and uh, that's fun. And usually, uh, this

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Speaker 1: is a situation where I go out to a local

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Speaker 1: tavern and I have a couple of drinks. I'll have

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Speaker 1: a couple of beers, maybe Daddy has a Tito's. I

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Speaker 1: watch college hoops in the sunshine day drinking can't beat it.

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Speaker 1: And yet Deshaun Watson, as his his way, ruined everything.

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Speaker 1: As if we need another reason, um to be annoyed

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Speaker 1: Uh by this man. Yes, um, And he stopped Dan

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Speaker 1: from going to third person and calling himself Daddy in

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Speaker 1: the sun all day. He didn't stop me. He didn't

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Speaker 1: stop good. Okay, that's no. But we waited out the

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Speaker 1: big announcement. It never came, uh, and the latest reporting

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Speaker 1: is that it might not come until the weekend or

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Speaker 1: perhaps after that. But I have a theory about that,

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Speaker 1: by the way, the old you know, the famous Friday

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Speaker 1: bad news dump, that there's a team out there that

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Speaker 1: understands they're gonna get savaged for this, so they're gonna, like,

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Speaker 1: let's say, about five o'clock Eastern tomorrow is when it drops.

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Speaker 1: That's a theory that I'm working under right now. I

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Speaker 1: know they're saying through the weekend, but how about the

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Speaker 1: most epic Friday bad news drop of all time. Don't

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Speaker 1: think that will save them from being savaged. But but

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Speaker 1: I think that your theory, um is it is on

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Speaker 1: point um if anything, they like, a team is going

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Speaker 1: to have to try to minimize this to some degree.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think there's there is so much annoyance

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Speaker 1: or maybe I'm just projecting that he had this whole

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Speaker 1: situation hijacked my day too. By the way, I also,

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Speaker 1: um don't mind going out on St. Patrick's Day and

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Speaker 1: watching basketball and having to beer. It's it's it extends

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Speaker 1: beyond just famously loves the n s to one groaned

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Speaker 1: more from everyone else in the news room enjoying the

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Speaker 1: basketball games than mark that part of it, that that

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Speaker 1: part of it does not exist. But I mean the

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Speaker 1: idea that this entire day was hijacked by this situation,

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Speaker 1: um is appalling to me. Yeah, here's the good news.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to spin it forward. Here, maybe a

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Speaker 1: little luck of the Irish that by waiting it out,

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Speaker 1: we ended up getting another massive trade that we get

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Speaker 1: to talk about. So we told you four shows were

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Speaker 1: coming if we had a reason to do a fourth show,

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Speaker 1: so you might be if you're in a different part

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Speaker 1: of the world, you wake up to this show and

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Speaker 1: that's nice. Or if you're a night owl like Cessler

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Speaker 1: who doesn't sleep. Uh, he's a borderline vampire. Hot vampire,

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Speaker 1: I'll say, but a vampire. You get to enjoy this

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the night. But we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about big news, a massive trade of a superstar wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: the latest with the Cleveland Browns mark, a future Hall

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Speaker 1: of Famer going from Los Angeles to Western New York.

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Speaker 1: Let's get into it. Let's start with the Davante Adams trade.

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Speaker 1: How about that hot vampire mark A little nicet compliment

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Speaker 1: to throw you. Really, that's one of the nicest things

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Speaker 1: that anyone has ever said to me. So I need it.

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Speaker 1: You need it today, buddy, So I'm gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be nice. You know, I want a photoshop either from

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Speaker 1: It is late. I don't know if Randy's gonna be

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, like maybe Mark is the next Twilight guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Pattinson's had his run. Mark, Well, I would say the

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Speaker 1: only if you are very skilled at photoshop. I don't

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Speaker 1: are well your following for mid forties guys. Yeah, like

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Speaker 1: Shabez has been knocking out of the park with his

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Speaker 1: photoshop skills. But no, like Pattinson of course is the

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Speaker 1: new Batman and that movie is apparently very good. I'm

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Speaker 1: that phase of stardom. So we do need a new

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Speaker 1: mattinee Idol for the team set. So maybe it is

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Speaker 1: give you the fangs and then we're gonna do the

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Speaker 1: you know, the irishman speaking st. Patrick's day, the Scorsese

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Speaker 1: movie where they d aged Peshi and De Niro. We're

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Speaker 1: to thirty years A little bit of work, yes, something

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Speaker 1: you know to the Packers have a little bit of

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Speaker 1: work to do to rebuild their wide receiver room. After

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Speaker 1: the stunning I'll go stunning, and I think you guys

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Speaker 1: being sent to the Raiders in exchange for a first

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Speaker 1: so right after that deal goes through, Adams, who was

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Speaker 1: signed a new five year, one forty one point to

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Speaker 1: the highest paid wide out in the league. By the way,

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Speaker 1: that's not even the craziest contract I've heard in the

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Speaker 1: last forty eight hours. We'll get to that in a

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Speaker 1: little bit anyway. A massive deal for Adams, who statistically

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Speaker 1: at age nine, he leaves Aaron Rodgers and Greg he

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Speaker 1: with Derek Carr instead. Bombshells galore here. It's it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: I'm like always looking for the story behind the story,

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Speaker 1: and wow, he's wanting to leave Aaron Rodgers and wants

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Speaker 1: out to me before the show, So that does make sense.

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Speaker 1: bring back Randall Cobb. Amari Rodgers is is sticking around,

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Speaker 1: the numbers are crazy. He's making twenty eight million dollars

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Speaker 1: it's just like it's it's on another planet. Now. None

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Speaker 1: just like incredibly fun offseason that the Raiders have had

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Speaker 1: going on with Baker. Mark. I do always I've known

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00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:55,399
Speaker 1: you for years, well over a decade now, and I

426
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 1: do always use your Twitter as a way to get

427
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,119
Speaker 1: behind those blue eyes. And um, I just want to

428
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 1: share a tweet that you sent. I guess it was yesterday.

429
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 1: My day won't be shaped by you know what. I'm

430
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:13,119
Speaker 1: not capable. I'm not worthy of reading this tweet, but

431
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:19,400
Speaker 1: I do know somebody who is. My day won't be

432
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:26,639
Speaker 1: shaped by Brown's news ever. Again, total x GF material.

433
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:34,359
Speaker 1: Go figure it out for yourself. Keep scorching the earth.

434
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 1: My life is new. I am Zumwalt. Yeah, Jason Zumwalt. Wow. Um,

435
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 1: that was today. That was mere hours ago. This has

436
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:57,400
Speaker 1: been the longest football filled day of my entire life.

437
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 1: I am done with the Cleveland Browns and I'm not

438
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: trying to be a drama queen. I'm not like. I

439
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 1: simply come to this comfortable conclusion and some of my

440
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: tweets are just my way to indicate that that I

441
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 1: am out on this. It's like another tweet from today. Yeah,

442
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:25,679
Speaker 1: I fell for the Browns when I was young. I

443
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 1: am not young anymore. Is that a real tweet? That's amazing, Yes,

444
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 1: that's a real tweet. It's been a long it's been.

445
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,119
Speaker 1: I've been following this team for you know, three and

446
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 1: a half decades, and I honestly think that I have

447
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 1: just come to a comfortable place where I am watching

448
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,400
Speaker 1: them sail off into the distance and I feel totally

449
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 1: at peace with it. It's just not I know, it's like, oh,

450
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 1: I keep it, Oh, you'll be back in week two

451
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 1: when they're one and one, like I'll be here covering football,

452
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 1: but I won't be I won't be the same person.

453
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,919
Speaker 1: Like it's it's changed and I can't explain it. I

454
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 1: just don't need to anymore. I I know you well enough, Mark,

455
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: and I know obviously the history of the Browns and

456
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 1: especially the last five years of the Browns, and at

457
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 1: a much lesser level with Sam Donald, I connect with

458
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,239
Speaker 1: you that you he was identified, he's the guy like

459
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: he was the one that's going to take you out

460
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:29,919
Speaker 1: of the darkness, and now that it's ending like the

461
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: same old, same old, it's just like that. I understand

462
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,160
Speaker 1: that makes it hurt even more. But and I can't.

463
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,959
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this antagonize you. UM, I don't believe you.

464
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 1: You will be back because they are you and you

465
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 1: are them. I think Nick Wesling tweeted at you and

466
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: reply like it's too late that you can't get out,

467
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 1: and that's I think that's right. Unfortunately, the same reason

468
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 1: I'm wearing a jet shirt and they they're about fifty

469
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 1: games under five hundred over the last five years. There's

470
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,640
Speaker 1: no way out. Once you're in, You're in. Time will tell.

471
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: Let's say I do believe you? Wait, can we? Um?

472
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,399
Speaker 1: There's no more tweets right, um to be because I

473
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: think one tweet to me personally described it described the

474
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 1: day more better than any So I'm just going to

475
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 1: read that one hashtag female assassin. Look, I hit my

476
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 1: I hit my wall. When I tweeted that, I just

477
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 1: I hit my wall because it's like, I don't even

478
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 1: know what I'm watching or seeing at this point anymore.

479
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,199
Speaker 1: Put it this way, Greg, if I had not been

480
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: in contact with Jason, if I was in contact with

481
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,640
Speaker 1: Jason after that tweet was sent, I would have that.

482
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 1: But but I do have this, and then we're gonna

483
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: take a break item kind of over it. We'll be

484
00:26:52,640 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 1: right back, all right. We are back a lot to

485
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: get to. Still no news on Deshaun Watson, at least

486
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,360
Speaker 1: where he's playing. For sure, I still predict a nice

487
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 1: Friday four pm Eastern news dump. But for the for

488
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: the here and now on seven thirty on the West coast,

489
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,479
Speaker 1: we know this. The Browns, as we said, are out.

490
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,199
Speaker 1: The Panthers officially informed that they are out of the

491
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 1: trade mix for Deshaun Watson. Seattle previously was ruled out,

492
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: so that leaves it down to two bitter petty NFC

493
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 1: South rivals, the Falcons and the Panthers. The Panthers obviously

494
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:43,359
Speaker 1: have been quarterback purgatory UH for years now. UM Sam

495
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: Donald has not worked out, Teddy Bridgewater didn't work out.

496
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 1: We know the coaching staff there desperately needs an upgraded

497
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: quarterback to stay alive beyond UH, so they need Watson

498
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 1: the Saints, a team perpetually in salary cap hell. Obviously,

499
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 1: Drew Brees gone, Taysom Hill, Jamis Winston mixed results last year,

500
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: and now they have an opportunity to start over. They've

501
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: been clearing cap space like mad uh and they are

502
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 1: both waiting for the decision. It's all kind of gross, obviously,

503
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,719
Speaker 1: but this is where we are in a football place,

504
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 1: both teams begging for the phone to ring and DeShawn

505
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 1: Watson or his agent to say your mind, Yeah, it's gross.

506
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:26,639
Speaker 1: I was sitting in the newsroom today and it was

507
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 1: like different reporters were hearing different things. Like some people

508
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 1: thought Atlanta is the one he grew up. Outside of Atlanta,

509
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,679
Speaker 1: he has this connection to work done who was probably

510
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,719
Speaker 1: in the meeting when he when he met the the Falcons,

511
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: his agent. There's ties there with his players and the

512
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 1: agent and and there's that. And then there's the Saints,

513
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: who reportedly had a second meeting in which the owner

514
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 1: Gayle Benson, was involved. A second meeting would would seem

515
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: to indicate that that would be a step ahead for

516
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: for them, and they're doing it's just crazy that they're

517
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: doing all this begging. Supposedly the trade terms have roughly

518
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: been agreed to, but they might have to work out

519
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: the particulars and that could take some time. But it

520
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 1: is confusing that our our network said it was coming today.

521
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,239
Speaker 1: At one point they said it's it's expected today, it's

522
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: expected imminently, and then they change it to today, and

523
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: now we're looking at the weekend, which UH could support

524
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: your theory Dan about that it that it would would

525
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 1: drop UH. And it's just crazy because I think there's

526
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: huge segments of both fan bases we know, the same

527
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: sence that don't want them. So it's almost like they're

528
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: hoping to lose. Some of the fans are hoping not

529
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: to get them. The fan the team is hoping to win,

530
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be I think, very difficult for the

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Speaker 1: team to thread the needle of like you know, celebrating

532
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: in theory, bringing in this guy who still has an

533
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: answer for all of his civil accusation and still will

534
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 1: be facing that and from everyone that we know who's

535
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: connected in the league is still expecting a suspension, I

536
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: mean lengthy suspension is expected. I mean contrasted to the

537
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: fact that we you know, humorously and UH with a

538
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: sense of enjoyment watched the Russell Wilson opening press conference,

539
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: which was, um, if nothing nothing less than a massive

540
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: celebration for Broncos and Broncos fans. Um. You know, I

541
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: I know some Broncos fans that talked about it being

542
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: one of the best days they've had in years supporting

543
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: that team. How do you even have an opening press

544
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: conference with the Shawn Watson when he finally lands something

545
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,719
Speaker 1: well gotten surprised across every step of the process, how

546
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: the NFL has handled this, how these teams are handling this.

547
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if they have a huge blowout

548
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: press conference either. Whoever this goes with just because just

549
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: like like, honestly, I this talk that these teams want

550
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: to meet Deshaun Watson face to face and the the

551
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: idea that they're gonna be hard, questions asked, Hell no,

552
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: it's the teams are basically genuflecting at the man and saying,

553
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: please come join me. Um. Not basing this on any

554
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 1: inside reporting. Reported that, and he said he's felt the

555
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: love and it's he said to him from his from

556
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: Watson's perspective, that it felt good after this last year

557
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: that all these people are showing him the love. They

558
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: Athletic also reported that they didn't ask uh, they haven't

559
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: spoken to the lawyer of the civil suits at all.

560
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: They haven't doing any investigating on their own on in

561
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: that way. Well and Greg greg on NFL Network today,

562
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: I thought you you stated it perfectly about the whole situation,

563
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: where it's there's this sense that it's let's go and

564
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: press Deshaun Watson and and the Falcons. You know, there

565
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: was a there was a reporting that the Falcons especially

566
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: have embraced Deshaun Watson, have had people come out of

567
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: the organizational woodwork to show him support. So it's exactly

568
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: the opposite of how do we turn around, pivot explain

569
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: this to the large portion of fans that are going

570
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: to not want this result. Um, they're gonna feel, you know,

571
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: not listen to disenfranchised. It is as messy a massive,

572
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: giant trade as the NFL has ever had. I don't

573
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: know how they're going to handle it, but I would

574
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: assume they're going to handle it poorly because this has

575
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: been handled poorly, like a poison over everything from stepe A.

576
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: They're giving up three first round picks. Reportedly that every

577
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: everything that's gone on apparently hasn't changed the trade terms

578
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: at all. So if you're you're an Atlanta Falcons team,

579
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: take a look at that roster and then you give

580
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: away three first round picks and you have Deshaun Watson.

581
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: To me, that is a recipe for disaster, uh and disappointment,

582
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: and certainly in the short term. He was a ball

583
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: boy for the Falcons once upon a time, he was

584
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: a high school star UM at Georgia UM. So there

585
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 1: is some obviously real ties there. Arthur Blank, according to

586
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 1: Adam Schefter of ESPN, is quite fond of the show Watson,

587
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: so there might be that pull. But you're right, I

588
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: feel like that is like if he wants to be

589
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,959
Speaker 1: back where he was with the Texans, trying to do

590
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: it all and and running for his life and taking

591
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: a beating and hanging in the pocket and putting up

592
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: good numbers for a nine and eight team, go ahead

593
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: to Atlanta. The Santis make a lot of more, a

594
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: lot more sense. And if I had a guest, I

595
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: think that's where he ends up. But nobody knows. Nobody knows.

596
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to other news. Western New York

597
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: mentioned it. Von Miller now plays for the Bills. All right, now, Greg,

598
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: you are a this is Greg season. It's Greggy season.

599
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: We all know that, so you're gonna help make sense

600
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: of this to me that von Miller, formerly of the Rams,

601
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: now signed a six year, one and twenty million dollar

602
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: contract with the Bills. This is a soon to be

603
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: thirty three year old defender who appeared to be in

604
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 1: declined before the trade to Los Angeles, and then he

605
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: went off and was a stud in the playoffs. And

606
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: I know Greg that there are dumby years and the

607
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: guaranteed money is only uh so much. But at the

608
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: same time, when you look at all these other deals

609
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: that we're seeing around the league of the last few days,

610
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: we're not seeing six for one twenty. So how did

611
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: Jon Miller get it? Well, they by wanting it to

612
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: be this big number and helping the Bills spread out

613
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,280
Speaker 1: the money because first of all, it's max value one twenty.

614
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 1: I don't know what the base is, but there's a

615
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: lot of incentives in there. It's really two for thirty two,

616
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: Like it's crazy. It took me a while to get

617
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 1: to see the details, but it's thirty two guaranteed. If

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00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: this year didn't go well for instance, it would be

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00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 1: two for thirty two. They'd be on the hook for

620
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: thirty two over two years. It's probably three for fifty three,

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00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 1: which is, you know, almost eighteen million dollars a year

622
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: for von Miller at that age. But also it's basically

623
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: what Chandler Jones made, right, and uh, it's not too

624
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: different from what Harold Landry made. The difference with him

625
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: and Jones, I think is he's probably getting that third

626
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: year unless this season goes really poorly. But it's basically

627
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: three for fifty three, and that is a huge risk,

628
00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: maybe even a bigger risk than the Rams took when

629
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: they get of up two picks for him. The Rams

630
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: certainly don't regret that trade that, but I do think

631
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: they regret losing von Miller. I think they extended pretty

632
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: far to try to keep him well. I think they're

633
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 1: the rams whole offseason plan was obviously no bring everyone back,

634
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: and there oh for one at this point and it doesn't.

635
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like they're bringing Odell Beckham back either,

636
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 1: But we're fine. We'll get into why that, why that

637
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 1: probably won't happen. If you're the Bills, you're hoping that,

638
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: you know, Denver and uh moving on from from von Miller,

639
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: who has essentially become like a hired gun and a

640
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 1: bounty hunter. At this point, Um is going to be

641
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 1: coming to the third team that is in a super

642
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: Bowl window and do what he did for the Rams.

643
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 1: He was They would not have won a super Bowl

644
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 1: without him. I mean, what was it four sacks in

645
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: the postseason? I think five over his final eight games

646
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: in the regular season with Los Angeles. He was a

647
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: perfect fit. They needed pass rushing help in the in

648
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: the biggest way. Um, I think he fits in this.

649
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 1: I trust Sean McDermott as the head coach to get

650
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: the most out of him. I just liked the idea

651
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: and the whole vibe of it. We'll see if he

652
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: how long this lasts for him, because I don't trust

653
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,879
Speaker 1: that he's got five or six years left, but does

654
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: he have one? Like all they need to do is

655
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 1: go win a Super Bowl and they are legit in

656
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: that window. They're not deceiving themselves on that front, and

657
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: so that's when you go add someone like von Miller.

658
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 1: We'll see if it works out. You could you could

659
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 1: feel it the desperation of Buffalo and what I mean

660
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: desperation is a bad thing necessarily, but just we know

661
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 1: how close we are. It's insane that we lost that

662
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 1: game in Kansas City. We are an unbelievably strong team.

663
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: There is no reason why we can't get over the hump.

664
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: If the Rams and Bengals are playing in the Super Bowl,

665
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: we gotta do this. So we're gonna give out this

666
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 1: crazy contract because it's all about the next year or two.

667
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: So I get it. Uh, and I don't, And I

668
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: don't Sagrin von Miller. It seems like a fun football

669
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: journey he's on. He he made a career in a

670
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame career in Denver, want to Ring, had

671
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 1: a highly memorable Super Bowl MVP performance and Super Bowl fifty.

672
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,240
Speaker 1: The Rams trade could not have gone better for both sides.

673
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: And now he's going to be in one of the

674
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: great uh and terms of fan bases and vibes for

675
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 1: a loaded team. Again, he's doing the thing. He's on

676
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 1: the football journey. It's cool. I mean, he could be

677
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: the first. I don't think anyone's ever won three Super

678
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,879
Speaker 1: Bowls with three different teams. Someone could check that for him.

679
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 1: Maybe that's maybe that's wrong, but I don't think that's happen.

680
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: I also love like they they're giving up a lot

681
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:22,359
Speaker 1: and it's it's risky. It is like kind of an

682
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: all in move. But I think if you look at

683
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: it in the context of the other things they've done

684
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: this offseason. Okay, they signed Tim Settle, who's this kind

685
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: of underrated guy from Washington day Kwon Jones, another underrated

686
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: guy from uh Tennessee for low money. Jerry Hughes and

687
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: Mario Addison, who both have been making a lot of money,

688
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: are off the books there. They're free agents, and they

689
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: got a lot of production out of those guys. And

690
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 1: those guys are older than Von Miller. I mean they

691
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,399
Speaker 1: got production out of them, thirty four, thirty five years old.

692
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: I like what they did. They got Roger Saffold, another

693
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,760
Speaker 1: Titans guy, they bright, and they brought back Isaiah mackenzie

694
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: and they cut Cole Beasley today. I like that. So

695
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: it's all these like cheap, smart Billsy type moves, and

696
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 1: they make so many smart, cheap Billsy types move that

697
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: I think you can let yourself splurge a little bit

698
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: with a guy like like von Miller. They'll make it work.

699
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:13,320
Speaker 1: Justin before you jump in, I want to make a rule, um,

700
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: because I know you feel a little self conscious about

701
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: hitting your grave digger drop, but especially in this stream

702
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 1: yard set up, I want you to announce your presence

703
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: with grave digger drop and then the listener knows and

704
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: we know you're about to come in with some heat.

705
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: So why don't you want to try it right now?

706
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 1: What's up, buddy? So one player has won a Super

707
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 1: Bowl with three different teams, Matt Millen, a former linebacker

708
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,280
Speaker 1: with the Raiders, one with the Niners, and one with Washington.

709
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,479
Speaker 1: Certainly not as as a front office figure, that's for sure,

710
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,879
Speaker 1: but what what but an incredible announcer and what an

711
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 1: incredible football life that he hadd to you. Yeah, that

712
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 1: man's he's he's lucky to be alive, the miracle of

713
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,760
Speaker 1: modern science. At think he had a heart replacement surgery.

714
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 1: He was on the ropes there for a while, and

715
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 1: now he's back in the game. Good for Matt mill

716
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm now like kind of rooting for the Bills.

717
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 1: It's taken me this long, but now I feel like

718
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: it's almost like they deserve it. That's not how football

719
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,279
Speaker 1: usually works. But now after last year, for some it

720
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: took me this long for them to win me over.

721
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: I feel like they deserve a Super Bowl. Buff you've

722
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 1: given up the ghost on Belichick ever scaling the heights

723
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 1: of his former greatness. I think it's where I'm just

724
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: like accepting that the Bills are are the Patriots daddy.

725
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 1: I mean they did literally didn't get a stop in

726
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: two straight games. You didn't get a stop at two

727
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:42,439
Speaker 1: straight games. When I asked, that was bad? When I

728
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: when I was connecting with Zumwalt on those Sessler drops,

729
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: I told him, what what the voice we're going for

730
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 1: here is orson Welles in decline. So but you're saying

731
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,320
Speaker 1: you're getting out on the Bill bell check in decline,

732
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 1: just getting behind I'm not. I'm not getting behind the

733
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: well I wouldn't call you all in, Greg. No, I'm

734
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 1: not all in on the Bills either. I just sort

735
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 1: of like appreciate what they've done. It's pretty impressive. I

736
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: think everything Josh Allen is impressive, and it's almost like, Okay,

737
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,400
Speaker 1: it's your they should be rewarded, their fans should be red.

738
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: You're already calling them that New England's daddy, though. I mean,

739
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: I feel like they're the child that beat the dad

740
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: in basketball, and now they got to go do it

741
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 1: over and over. I think it's almost underrated. How completely

742
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: ridiculous and embarrassing those two performances for the Patriots and

743
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: impressive for the Bills. It's there, it's wild. Well, you

744
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 1: two love to ignore the the primetime game that I

745
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,399
Speaker 1: was obsessed with. I guess that just that game didn't count.

746
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: It happen first. You were very passionate about that game,

747
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 1: and we kind of let you off the hook a

748
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: little bit. We didn't want to dwell on that. Let

749
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: me off the hook that the Bills were over after

750
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: that game. As I recall, I had concerns. I was

751
00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: there good, I've been wrong about four things. SAME's e's

752
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: SAME's e's all right, So the Rams lose Von Miller,

753
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: but they gain Allen Robinson. Los Angeles signed the wide

754
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: receiver formerly of the Bears to wait three year, forty

755
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: six and a half million dollar contract. Robinson was one

756
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 1: of the more productive wide receivers in the league over

757
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: the past five or six years, despite playing with a

758
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: bunch of stiffs at quarterback in Chicago. Uh. He kind

759
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: of cratered last year with the rest of the Chicago offense,

760
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: but obviously the Rams see him is a great bounceback candidate.

761
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 1: It might spell the end of Odell Beckham's time in

762
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: Los Angeles after only half the season. But you pair

763
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson with Cooper Cup and healthy Robert Woods and

764
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 1: Greggy that is a nice way to beget a title

765
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: defense on office. Yeah, you're cooking with gas. I love that.

766
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 1: I love that because he's very different or Greece. Yeah,

767
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: grease and gas of the apple here. I would like

768
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:53,839
Speaker 1: I would like to cook with some grease and gas.

769
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll learn how to cook in my older years.

770
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: That would be. That would be he gives them something

771
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: they don't have, which is a red zone vertical threat guy.

772
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: And I guess so to Beckham could have been that guy.

773
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: Robinson's a little more natural of a fit I think

774
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: for that as like a pure vertical receiver. It sounds

775
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: like he dogged it a little bit last year. That

776
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: was the buzz. He kind of just wanted to get

777
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: to the offseason. He didn't come back from his hamstring

778
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 1: and I don't care about that. He's now he's gonna

779
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: be with the Rams. He got fifteen million dollars a

780
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: year guaranteed the first two years. And the thing I

781
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,359
Speaker 1: love is they lost von Miller and then they're just like,

782
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 1: all right, well, who's the next best premier player, because

783
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 1: you know, let's need Famous famously is like, uh f

784
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: the draft picks. He's also like, f that cap cap space.

785
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 1: I got no use for cap space. Cap space is

786
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: the most overrated thing. Ever. Look at the Saints. They've

787
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: somehow opened up a hundred and ten million dollars in

788
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: cap space to possibly fit in Watson and Tehronto Armstead

789
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: and you know, get their books in order, Like cap

790
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,800
Speaker 1: space is stupid. Let's just get the next premier player

791
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: that's available at a at a position that could help us.

792
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 1: And they go get them and they're gonna go be

793
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: contenders again. It reminds me a little bit of the

794
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,840
Speaker 1: wide receiver version of Matthew Stafford. To Dan's point, we

795
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,399
Speaker 1: all know this about Allen Robinson. A bunch of ham

796
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: and eggers have been thrown and passes since he came

797
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: into the league with Jacksonville and then Chicago. It's been

798
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles, Mitch Robinsky, Nick Foles, Andy Dalton and you

799
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: had justin fields last year. But it's like last year

800
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: was a lost year for Robinson. All right, let's take

801
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: a quick break and then we'll finish the news. All right,

802
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: welcome back. Let's wrap this thing up because, um, listen,

803
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:39,800
Speaker 1: the wifey. You know St. Patrick's day ruined by Deshaun

804
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: Watson on some level. However, the wife he made some

805
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: Shepherds pie. Okay, I'm it's sitting on the stove for

806
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,399
Speaker 1: the old user. She's a good cook. I mean, given

807
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 1: like a party in the bathroom right over there. I

808
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: don't know if you hear him. I think he's in

809
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: the bath He went to the bar to watch Indiana.

810
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: It's a big University of Indiana hoops fan. Um, all right,

811
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: let's finish things out. In the NFL network scene and

812
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 1: Rapp Report reports Za Darius Smith will not sign with

813
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: the Ravens. Uh So, that's now happened twice. Randy Gregory

814
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: um jumped away from Dallas to go to Denver, and

815
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 1: now Isa Darius Smith jumps away from the Ravens to

816
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: hop back into the free agency pool. That was a

817
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: four year deal where thirty five million and greggy. There

818
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: seems to be some weirdness around this. Yeah, Mike Garafolo

819
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:32,280
Speaker 1: indicated like he doesn't have another team necessarily, he doesn't

820
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 1: have another offer. The way he was talking about it,

821
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 1: he had some skepticism whether it's a Darius Smith could

822
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,720
Speaker 1: replace this contract. I don't know. It's just a mystery.

823
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: But Mark should enjoy it because he was just saying

824
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: how well run and great things are for the Ravens,

825
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: and these two moves him and Smith and Marcus Williams

826
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 1: is gonna work out so well. This is a little

827
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:54,879
Speaker 1: egg on the Ravens face. They're not too happy about. Yeah,

828
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:56,800
Speaker 1: but see, I don't I have no distaste for the

829
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:02,919
Speaker 1: Ravens anymore. I've unhooked from Okay, now you likes Yeah,

830
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: that's that's part of this. Do your quote unquote quitting

831
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 1: the Browns and you no longer disliked the Ravens. Why

832
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,359
Speaker 1: do I need Why do I need to dislike them?

833
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: At this point, I like I've removed hatred from my

834
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: body in persona. I think it's a very healthy thing myself. Also, now,

835
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 1: you did say earlier in the show you have fifty

836
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 1: seven different different people that you're feeling spiteful for, right,

837
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 1: but it was sixty five at the start of the day,

838
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: so six, all right, I'll leave it there. Um. In

839
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:39,399
Speaker 1: other news, Miles Jack speaking of the Steelers, he heads

840
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh two years sixteen million. Uh, he gets a

841
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: new gig pretty quickly, twenty six years old. He had

842
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:50,760
Speaker 1: some really nice um years with Jacksonville. Of course, remember

843
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 1: speaking of the Patriots, when Miles Jack wasn't down on

844
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: that fumble recovery that would have put jackson on the

845
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: super Bowl, but instead they got robbed by the officials

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Speaker 1: and by the NFL, giving Greggy yet another super Bowl

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Speaker 1: title in the process. Um, but that's in the INCI past.

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Speaker 1: Miles Jack now is no longer a Jaguar, He's a Steeler,

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Speaker 1: and Marcus feels like another move for one of your

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Speaker 1: the teams you used to have an issue with that

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00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: will end up working beautifully, right, wonderful organization. I think

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Speaker 1: quality signing. It's it's Miles. Miles Jack is one of

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Speaker 1: those guys where like when I find out his age

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Speaker 1: these only twenty six, I'm like, what, I feel like

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Speaker 1: we've been covering him for like eight years. But that's

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Speaker 1: not the case. But I think Pittsburgh in a sneaky

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Speaker 1: way because they still had an effective defense Um, they

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00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 1: were junk against the run last year I d v

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Speaker 1: o A wise they were like twenty seven against the run.

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Speaker 1: So Miles Jack helps there. I mean they went and

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Speaker 1: released Joe schobert Um in a directly correlating move. Um.

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Speaker 1: I like it for Pittsburgh. Again, I'm not just saying this,

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Speaker 1: but like the Ravens, when they bring these guys in,

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Speaker 1: they typically seem to work out for the most part.

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Speaker 1: I know that's not always been the case, but um,

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Speaker 1: they're there. It's a good It's a good landing spot

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Speaker 1: from Mels Jack. There was like a two year period

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Speaker 1: where he looked like one of the best young off

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Speaker 1: ball linebackers in the league. I'm not sure what happened,

870
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 1: but he's still young. You would think that's a coaching issue.

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Speaker 1: I kind of love the Steeler's offseason so far. It's

872
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: been really quiet, but James Daniels like tape heads love him.

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Speaker 1: The guard from the Bears. Didn't have to pay him

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Speaker 1: too much. They got a starting center and Mason Cole.

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Speaker 1: I think they had another backup offensive lineman that they added,

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Speaker 1: and then this and Mile Jack. Like quietly some they

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Speaker 1: added players that will be starting and helping them it's

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Speaker 1: a little on Steelers like, but they haven't had to

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Speaker 1: go wild spending a ton of money. All right, Let's

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Speaker 1: move on some notable cuts that went down, Uh in

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Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours. Fletcher Cox and the Eagles

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Speaker 1: have a breakup, but it sounds like they're gonna make up.

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Speaker 1: It's just a salary situation, UH, and they're gonna get

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Speaker 1: a deal that works better for team and player. Lyell

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Speaker 1: Collins and the Cowboys are no more. They tried to

886
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Speaker 1: move him in a trade. They try to move with

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Speaker 1: Mari Cooper found a taker in the Browns try to

888
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Speaker 1: move Collins did not find a taker, which is interesting

889
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Speaker 1: because I was just watching a cut up on Twitter

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Speaker 1: about how he totally bawled out against Nick Bosa in

891
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 1: the playoffs. He's, you know, less than thirty years old.

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Speaker 1: I would take him on the Jets and I trade

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Speaker 1: I'd trade McKay Beckton out of town. But that's just

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Speaker 1: him in my top twenty. Yeah, let's get healthy, above

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Speaker 1: average starting right tackle. Those guys aren't usually well. The

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Speaker 1: Bengals sound interested too, so, Greg you mentioned Cole Beasley

897
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Speaker 1: cut after a disappointing year. Isaiah McKenzie is gonna get

898
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Speaker 1: his shot. That all makes sense. Don't don't sign him Bill,

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Speaker 1: We don't need Cole Beasley. It's just like, come on, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's fair, alright, eight o'clock the light, all right, Chris Godwin,

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00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 1: he was on the franchise tag, but not for too long.

902
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Speaker 1: Gets paid three for sixty? Is that? Where is that

903
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Speaker 1: in the Davante Adams world? It's below it. Certainly it's

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Speaker 1: the exact same that Mike Williams got. And it's good

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Speaker 1: for the Bucks, uh to reward a guy even though

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Speaker 1: he tores a c L there. They're still bold. Dobbin's

907
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Speaker 1: making a lot of small moves where he mosted the

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Speaker 1: running back heads to the Dolphins. I feel like the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins signed forty seven running backs every year. This is

910
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 1: exactly what Kyle Shanahan did when he went to San Francisco.

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00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: He imported players that he knew from Atlanta in previous stops.

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Speaker 1: And Mike McDaniels doing the same thing as we predicted.

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Speaker 1: On the NFL Broadcast. Around the NFL Broadcast Show, which

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Speaker 1: you could check out tomorrow Friday on NFL Network, Gronk says,

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Speaker 1: there is a quote very good chance I'm back with

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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. Should we be surprised? Greg? No, one is

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Speaker 1: um like a worse negotiator than Gronk. Seriously, he could

918
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Speaker 1: have made like a hundred million dollars more than he

919
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Speaker 1: has in his career. I feel bad almost He's making

920
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Speaker 1: plenty of money on the side with other various things. Uh,

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Speaker 1: this one it says resigned Apple signed hearst. Greg helped

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Speaker 1: me out with that one. It might have been a

923
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Speaker 1: copy and paste error there, but that was the Bengals day.

924
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 1: They brought back Eli Apples. I think a nice replacement

925
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Speaker 1: for Zama. And yeah, they're going after Lyle Collins. I

926
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Speaker 1: have a feeling and they'll close that deal. How could

927
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Speaker 1: I forget Eli Apple? Had a nice little Super Bowl

928
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Speaker 1: until the end when it wasn't so nice Anyway. The

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Speaker 1: Jets UH signed another tight end. We're we're in business.

930
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Speaker 1: The Jets signed from the Minnesota Vikings Tyler Conklin, who

931
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Speaker 1: has had a had a nice year with the Vikings

932
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Speaker 1: last year a breakout season. Jacob Johnson leaves New England's

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Speaker 1: sad face from Greggy Yeah, Yakob Johnson, one of Henry

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Speaker 1: Hodgson's International Pathway Program heroes. UH gets a job with

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Speaker 1: Josh mccane's so but I'm gonna miss him. I liked

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Speaker 1: seeing this guy didn't even know how to play football

937
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Speaker 1: when he came in and turned to do a great fullback.

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Speaker 1: And finally Mr Cessler Balhard Nation rejoice. The lines resigned

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Speaker 1: the quarterback, so he stays in the building. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I had a deal with the Lions where they were

941
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Speaker 1: gonna essentially let him go then bring him back just

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Speaker 1: so that we could have fresh content for our newsletter,

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Speaker 1: and they were they were very compliant on that front.

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Speaker 1: That's nice, and that is eight o'clock Delight. You're you're

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Speaker 1: tight end. Tyler Conchland followed me on Twitter last week,

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Speaker 1: so that's that was exciting. That was exciting for me.

947
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Speaker 1: It's always fun when a random uh NFL player follows you.

948
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Speaker 1: I get a little nervous when it happens. Someone did

949
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Speaker 1: that to me recently. And UM followed followed a bunch

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Speaker 1: of us. I think that was the name that usually

951
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Speaker 1: tells me that they're getting close to entering the media

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Speaker 1: for a although I don't know why Sean Payton follows me,

953
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Speaker 1: although he I do think he gave me the coronavirus.

954
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Speaker 1: UM two combines. So maybe that's where we link up.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Maybe he's been trying to get in

956
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Speaker 1: touch with you to apologize. He was patient zero. He

957
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Speaker 1: seems like someone that would go out of his way

958
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Speaker 1: to find someone to apologize for a wrong doing in

959
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Speaker 1: the past. Yes he does. Maybe maybe that's Kevin James. Actually,

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Speaker 1: never mind, that is not all right. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: on television Friday if you catch this in time at

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Speaker 1: three pm Eastern noon Pacific around the NFL broadcast, and

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00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: will give you a nice rundown of the week that was.

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Speaker 1: According to my theory, will we will still not have

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Speaker 1: the Deshaun Watson news for that television show. But maybe

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Speaker 1: I'm wrong, and in which case you will get it

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Speaker 1: on TV on Friday, and it will probably happen in

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Speaker 1: the one hour between when we tape and when they

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Speaker 1: air it. Do we have to do a fifth podcast

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Speaker 1: this week? If Watson signs tomorrow morning, maybe a mini

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Speaker 1: So if we're if we're there, we love you really.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of content pushing it big time and

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Speaker 1: in in um instead of doing our typically our typical

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Speaker 1: end of show close, I will tell you to heed

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Speaker 1: the call. But I do have one last Mark Sessler

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Speaker 1: tweet to share, and again I am not worthy to

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Speaker 1: read this Sessler tweet, but the great Jason Zumwalt noted

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Speaker 1: Cardinals fan is just think late period in deep in decline,

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Speaker 1: even after he's doing the commercials Era orson Welles reading

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Speaker 1: Mark Sesler tweets, thank you to everybody for listening. We'll

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Speaker 1: see you when we see you. Played tennis with the

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Speaker 1: family this evening and totally destroyed them on the court.

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