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Speaker 1: Dan Hands in the studio, filled with some heroes, Greg Rostal,

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Speaker 1: Mark Sessler. Took a week off, Marky, we recharged the batteries.

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Speaker 1: Now we're back. How you feel. I don't feel recharged

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Speaker 1: in the classic sense, but um I I do appreciate

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Speaker 1: what happened over the past week in many ways. WHOA

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Speaker 1: I found it. I needed to kick off my off

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Speaker 1: he's done since ever. He's usually a little annoyed to

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Speaker 1: the chair wide eyed. One thing, we're in the Chris

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Speaker 1: here because there's an element of fascination. Nobody cares now

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Speaker 1: they're just walking right by. This is just that's fine.

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Speaker 1: You want the attention, Yes, I do. Hey, listen, if

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Speaker 1: the way, I have a guess. Aaron Rodgers was on

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Speaker 1: his uh Pancha Karma twelve day cleanse? Did you do

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Speaker 1: Is it a conversation that you would have a Justin

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Speaker 1: Graver about something I don't like? What is? No? I mean?

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Speaker 1: I just like, it's just simply not fair. Greg, you

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Speaker 1: NFL Network today. Uh. And there were some jokes. Jason Kleman,

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Speaker 1: friend was an attempt to connect the dots there. I

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Speaker 1: Oh it's Connie Fox's music. Oh, it's Connie Fox's music.

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Speaker 1: that that vote should count a little extra. Greg. For

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Speaker 1: Do you have no blue pens in your house? No?

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Speaker 1: think you nailed. Dan. You need to just go out

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Speaker 1: you've been a homeowner. You've done, You've done some masculine

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Speaker 1: consume g a butter until you evacuate at both ends.

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Speaker 1: this ky one day of laxative therapy, and four three

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Speaker 1: number five many days of enemas man he number six

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Speaker 1: yoga and meditation throughout. So this is what Mark did

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Speaker 1: for the last of all days. And he looks like

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Speaker 1: he he was doing this during NFL Honors, by the way,

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Speaker 1: he talked about the fact that when he was up

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Speaker 1: would have watched it. I'm just like, how like his

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Speaker 1: twelve straight days. There's an action potential, you know. It

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Speaker 1: is interesting though, because you talk about how everything with

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Speaker 1: him is calculated, and he's very intentful with the way

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Speaker 1: that he posts things, and he knows that he's going

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Speaker 1: on McAfee. It's like it's like Russell Wilson tries to

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Speaker 1: do that stuff and Aaron Rodgers actually don't. He's good

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Speaker 1: at it. Yeah, he's good at it. But since we

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Speaker 1: probably are going to return to the Packers, I am

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Speaker 1: really interested just in like what's going to happen these

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Speaker 1: next three weeks. It's pretty complicated. They are fifty three

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Speaker 1: million dollars over the cap, and you can figure it

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Speaker 1: out with three structures. But that's kind of why they

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Speaker 1: have to sign Rogers long term and I Adams that

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Speaker 1: will lower that number mvs. Valda Scantling is a free agent,

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Speaker 1: Rasul Douglas is a free agent. Devandre Campbell is a

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Speaker 1: free agent. I think they make cut guys like Zadarius Smith,

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Speaker 1: Preston Smith, and Mason Crosby. Like good Unst is going

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Speaker 1: to be earning his money. He does have a lot

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Speaker 1: to handle in the next month. And since you mentioned calculating,

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Speaker 1: before we move on Bob McGinn, we all love Bob McGinn,

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Speaker 1: a longtime Packers writer, Um wrote this week that Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers has for years played a careful, calculating game. This

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Speaker 1: is on the field, understanding that the number of interceptions

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Speaker 1: plays as disproportionate nonsensical role in the passer rating formula.

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Speaker 1: Bad interceptions are well bad than there are interceptions that

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Speaker 1: are cost of doing business for unselfish competitive stats immune

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks battling to make plays and lead comebacks until the

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Speaker 1: bitter end. When a quarterback, especially one with a powerful,

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Speaker 1: usually accurate arm like Rogers, deliberately minimize his chances to

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Speaker 1: deliver a big play for fear of an interception, that's

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Speaker 1: pretty that's withering criticism right there from Bob McGinn. Uh. Also,

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Speaker 1: that is the back to back reigning m v P.

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Speaker 1: So well, Bob McGinn has a notebook and it's on fire.

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Speaker 1: So he's a little different than the people I was critiqued.

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Speaker 1: I think he's I think he's getting some of that

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Speaker 1: idea though from people that Rogers plays with two not

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Speaker 1: that I think it's an unfair criticism essentially, but I

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Speaker 1: think it was a huge factor in the playoff game,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's where that's kind he was. He

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Speaker 1: was very careful to not take chances in that playoffs.

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Speaker 1: All right up, all right, um, okay, let's let's stay

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Speaker 1: with the quarterbacks. James Palmer had to report our guy,

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Speaker 1: James Palmer, we all love him. I like it when

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Speaker 1: he's breaking the news, and he broke the news last

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Speaker 1: week while we were all in our bunkers that the

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers have done a significant amount of homework into acquiring

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, which is the type of offseason little nugget

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Speaker 1: drop that I just love because there is something delicious

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Speaker 1: here about Tampa who does not feel like they should

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Speaker 1: bit of a story story as you draft pick they

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Speaker 1: took last year, give up everything for Russell Wilson, and

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Speaker 1: that makes the Buck season in NFL season a lot

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Speaker 1: more exciting. So I just hope there's some real fire

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Speaker 1: there to that smoke. They also, I mean, he was

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Speaker 1: They seem like hell bent on number one. If you're

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Speaker 1: bringing Bruce arians back. You're not wheeling out like an

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Speaker 1: unknown rookie or second year player or someone else. I

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Speaker 1: think it's like they want, they feel like they still

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Speaker 1: have they have cap issues. They're gonna have to look

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Speaker 1: at a couple of contracts too, but they still are

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Speaker 1: in that super Bowl window, and so it's like you

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Speaker 1: simply take Russell or Tom Brady and replace them with

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. I think the problem is is that during

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Speaker 1: super Bowl Week, Russell Wilson, for his discontent a year ago,

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Speaker 1: does not seem to be in that place personally. And

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Speaker 1: like he said that his relationship and you have to

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Speaker 1: with Pete Carroll's as good as it's ever been. And

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Speaker 1: I think the Seahawks have zero interest in parting with

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson unless it was you know, we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: this and completely restart the organization. They don't just have that.

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Speaker 1: They don't have vibe to me right now. But maybe

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Speaker 1: the Bucks are that team that just give up like

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Speaker 1: three first round draft picks and some I don't have

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Speaker 1: players too that the Seahawks could use, like a pass rusher.

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Speaker 1: They have like a deep roster and a lot of

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Speaker 1: different spots. They could give up one of their zillion

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Speaker 1: tight ends as well. I think what Seattle actually wants

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Speaker 1: to do is an X factor of the whole offseason,

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Speaker 1: because I don't think Russell Wilson's public comments mean anything.

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Speaker 1: I put a lot more into Ian Rappidport and other

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Speaker 1: insiders report that behind the scenes they want to investigate

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Speaker 1: what's out there this offseason and that would be fun.

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Speaker 1: And they want Aaron Rodgers too. And since we're on

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Speaker 1: the subject of the Bucks and Bruce Arians, I'll dump

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Speaker 1: out of the notebook the story from former nfl A

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Speaker 1: lineman Rich Ornberger, who has a deep connection with Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady and others, and UH put it out there on

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Speaker 1: Twitter that Burger there was heat between between Arians and

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Speaker 1: UH and some of the UH and this is from Orneberger, Um,

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Speaker 1: some of the heat came from Arians maybe not working

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Speaker 1: Byron left Witch, and there were the two men felt undermined.

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Speaker 1: There was tension, and then Arians came out and said

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Speaker 1: the report was quote such a bolt it pisces me

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Speaker 1: off and noted that left which could corroborate this too,

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Speaker 1: and then p F T H called out online a Q. Shipley,

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Speaker 1: who is you know, a former player and a Buck

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Speaker 1: staff member, as the source of this without knowing it,

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Speaker 1: I mean, without knowing it was or not. They basically said,

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Speaker 1: if you connect the dots, it was probably a Q. Shipley,

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Speaker 1: who is you know, close to Arians and all this

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Speaker 1: other business that came out with us, but you know,

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Speaker 1: simply could have been on Shipley is close to Arians,

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Speaker 1: he's on the Bucks staff, and so it's like they

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Speaker 1: they p f T did not say this is the source.

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Speaker 1: They were trying to publicly figure out where who might

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Speaker 1: have spoken this. Well, my guy Ornburger, what a great

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Speaker 1: offensive line name that is, backed it up and said

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Speaker 1: he's he's um, he stands behind it, per multiple impregnable.

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Speaker 1: That's not the only thing that he had to back

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Speaker 1: up this week too, because he's the one who came

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Speaker 1: wife or his fiance, Brittany Matthews and games but then

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Speaker 1: not be true. So Ornberger kind of was setting up

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Speaker 1: report on Brady, who's, by the way coming back. And

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear anything else from anyone about

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Speaker 1: this when it happens, because I called it even before

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Speaker 1: he retired. This man is not retiring from football. Maybe

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Speaker 1: he's not playing this year, but he'll be on some

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Speaker 1: one's team next year. Absolutely, has anybody disagree at this clip,

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Speaker 1: I certainly am wavering, but I don't. I definitely don't

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Speaker 1: have if and when he does, the fact that he

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Speaker 1: decided to get out of Dodge after tweears of Tampa,

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Speaker 1: you can start to connect some dots. I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: rain Burger is correct, but impregnable? Is that what he said?

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's pretty good to give. That is the

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Speaker 1: adjective of your source. Yeah, I mean the Niners have

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Speaker 1: been floated around as as a target or landing spot

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Speaker 1: for Brady as well because it's his hometown, childhood team.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we'll see, all right, let's take a break

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Speaker 1: and we'll get to Mr Sessler's notebook next. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: Mark You're your notebook item is so important that it

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Speaker 1: gets some corporal branding time for news and notes presented

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Speaker 1: for by up work, where you can build a team

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Speaker 1: To Mark celer, I mean when you're going forth, you're

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Speaker 1: already operating. It's like the d block of the segments.

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Speaker 1: So I I had my notebook resembled yours in many ways.

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Speaker 1: You want you want some about this? Yeah, snakes to you.

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Speaker 1: You get to do two in a row. So how

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Speaker 1: do you feel like good about that? Well, now we're

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Speaker 1: operating on equitable terrorist. Aaron Rodgers is on Pat mcavie show.

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Speaker 1: Do they put him right off the top of the

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Speaker 1: show or they wait an hour to build the audience.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's how this is this. I don't

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Speaker 1: think the dynamic is the same here that the audience

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Speaker 1: is waiting for me to go. I don't think that's

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Speaker 1: the whole point. That thirty second button, where's Mark? Where rosenthought? Alright,

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Speaker 1: it's zero evidence of that. Like you're on the PK

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Speaker 1: cleanse Mark, I'll give you something that I find totally disingenuous.

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Speaker 1: Unless this organization has decided to totally veer off a cliff. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The is so cleansed right now, and I love no

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Speaker 1: I'm so annoyed by this because who's buying this this

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Speaker 1: wind coming from Kevin Colbert Steelers saying that, look at

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Speaker 1: we are perfectly comfortable with the idea of Mason Rudolph

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Speaker 1: at today, at the season started today in quotes shooting

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Speaker 1: the head, uh that Mason Rudolph, who has been five

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Speaker 1: four and one as a starter, would be we'd be

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Speaker 1: comfortable with our is our week one guy that we're

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Speaker 1: not necessarily going to sell the house for other explosive options.

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Speaker 1: And it is the athletics Mark Coboli, who also has

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Speaker 1: kind of been pounding this drum over and over saying

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Speaker 1: that the Steelers do not intend to be one of

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Speaker 1: these players, for Russell Wilson, for Deshaun Watson fill in

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Speaker 1: the blank. So I don't I think number one, it

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Speaker 1: could be that they're not going after one of those dudes,

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Speaker 1: but the idea and he's you know, they said, well,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna add quarterbacks, but not like guys that are

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Speaker 1: real competition, Like you cannot tell me that Mike Tomlin,

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Speaker 1: for a mobile quarterback, a multiple tool quarterback, is gonna

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Speaker 1: sit back and say we're gonna spend a season after

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Speaker 1: we just dealt with a zombie Ben Roethlisberger a year

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Speaker 1: ago and hang around with Mason Rudolph and see how

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Speaker 1: that gets us in a division with Joe Burrow and

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. We've been doing this, man factured, Joe, thank you.

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Speaker 1: We've been doing this for a long time, right Mark.

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Speaker 1: I think if you want to kind of peel back

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Speaker 1: a layer here is a kind of a kiss of

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Speaker 1: death for a front office figure at this time of

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Speaker 1: the year to say, like we feel comfortable with so

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Speaker 1: and so, that almost always means that guy's cook. I

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Speaker 1: just don't buy it at bubbling up. So it's like

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Speaker 1: Kevin Colbert said, no plans to sell out to get

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger's replacement. But at the same time, if you're

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Speaker 1: falling the Senior Bowl and this pre draft process, which

638
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: is already cooking, the Steelers are heavily involved right now

639
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: and scouting the quarterback backs out there. So maybe they're

640
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Speaker 1: not gonna go and try to trade their the farm

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Speaker 1: to get some player out there, like a Deshaun Watson

642
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Speaker 1: or whoever you want to throw in there, but they're

643
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Speaker 1: probably gonna draft somebody, right Yeah, well, I mean they

644
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: at this point they kind of have to like saying Rudolph.

645
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: At this point, um would be the number one quarterback.

646
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Speaker 1: The only option really is like what else? That's it? Like,

647
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: don't have any other options? And Rudolf, I guess has

648
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: the most experience there because it's like he's the only

649
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Speaker 1: guy there right now. Right Like Washington could say that

650
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: Taylor Heinach is their quarterback today, the Saints could say

651
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill is the only thing that told me was

652
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Speaker 1: like they had a press conference, you know, and they

653
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: had to answer the question, and I think it gets

654
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Speaker 1: to their internal thinking that they probably will bring in

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Speaker 1: Adalton or a Brissette or a cam or a Teddy

656
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Speaker 1: if he gets cheap enough, Like what about Jimmy g Right,

657
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 1: there's a million of these guys. Actually, when I was

658
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 1: doing the free agent list, man, there's a lot of

659
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks available, Tyrod Trabisky, you want to throw Mariota

660
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: in there, There's there's a lot that are available, like

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Speaker 1: of that one B level, and those guys are all

662
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 1: probably a little bit better than Mason Rudolph. So they're

663
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Speaker 1: kind of in this spot where it's like we're not

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Speaker 1: gonna go big fish hunt team. Maybe we'll look for

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Speaker 1: a rookie. If we get stuck with taking like a

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Speaker 1: one B option that winds up beating out Rudolph, then fine,

667
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Speaker 1: we're not gonna spend crazy this. First of all, get

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Speaker 1: Dayne Haskins out of my building. Bye. They already they're

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Speaker 1: picking up in is. You know, well, this is what

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Speaker 1: I Then I would sign your boy Teddy Bridgewater, who's

671
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Speaker 1: a free agent. And I would imagine if I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: at this point, despite your longtime love, it's starting, he's

673
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: starting to He's a rich man's gino Smith that I

674
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:15,800
Speaker 1: think at some point his price tag is gonna have

675
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Speaker 1: to come down for If you want a guy throws

676
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:21,439
Speaker 1: eighteen touchdowns and seven interceptions in fourteen games, yeah he's

677
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: your guy. But I'm saying, if you bring in a

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Speaker 1: nice veteran option like Teddy as a bridge guy and

679
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: then draft somebody in the first round, then I now

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Speaker 1: we're talking. Okay, that's what I think. I just think

681
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Speaker 1: based on the way they're talking, they might see Mason

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Speaker 1: Rudolph as in a similar tier of Teddy Bridgewater and

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Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater. If I had to get I hope they

684
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 1: will still be making more than ten million dollars a

685
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Speaker 1: year next year. The one issue if he's gonna make

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Speaker 1: twenty anymore, but I think he will be near the

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Speaker 1: top of this pile of the free agents, which kind

688
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Speaker 1: of make an in between amount of money. Pittsburgh also

689
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Speaker 1: sits at number twenty in the draft, and so if

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Speaker 1: if they not, we're not going to swing for the fences,

691
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Speaker 1: means you're going to trade up. Guys like Kenny Pickett,

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Speaker 1: who went to pitt who would be a nice story

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Speaker 1: for the Steelers won't be there. You've got the Panthers

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Speaker 1: at number six, the Texans who have to find a

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Speaker 1: new quarterback unless they're married to Davis Mills at number three.

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Speaker 1: So I don't arter sit there. They'll sit there. They

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00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 1: sat and waited for Roethlisberger, which was risky at the time.

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Speaker 1: I remember that was a big conversation and they were

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Speaker 1: rewarded there weren't. There aren't six quarterbacks in this draft.

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Speaker 1: I could. I could definitely see them trading up from

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Speaker 1: twenty to ten or so. I could totally. That's what

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying. I think that they the whole like,

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00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 1: we're sitting back and we're chill with Mason Rudolph, Like, like,

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Speaker 1: go ahead and do what the Ravens, Bengals and Browns

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00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: want you to do and see how that works out.

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00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: Maybe dock Hodges is the future Ducks. I forgot about him.

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00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,280
Speaker 1: Remember Mason Rudolf, I mean, if nothing else, he averaged

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Speaker 1: more quarters per start than any quarterback in the league

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Speaker 1: last year. One start, five quarters of action. Pretty good, nice,

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Speaker 1: nice looking sixteen sixteen tie against the Lions. What a time?

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Speaker 1: That was? Like my least favorite game pass experience of

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Speaker 1: you know we're getting deeper into the notebook here. Some

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Speaker 1: of these you know they're not all dumping baby, but

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Speaker 1: this is notebook on notebook. Um. I like this because

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Speaker 1: it's like, you know that this is the kind of

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Speaker 1: thing where m rhoda world. What's it now called ESPN

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Speaker 1: to recognize the new name, it's all right, well, well

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Speaker 1: we don't recognize it, but because we like Josh Norris

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Speaker 1: and the whole gang there. Josh Norris hasn't worked there

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Speaker 1: in over a year. He's that underdog. Yeah, we gotta

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Speaker 1: give him Josh some respect. Pat Dhardy, because we love Rhoto,

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Speaker 1: Pat NBC Sports Edge, New World, Rhodo World, but we

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Speaker 1: call it Rhodo World, alright. So so anyways, so this

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Speaker 1: is the kind of thing that Rhodo World would be

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Speaker 1: very clear to point out to the reader, like this reporter,

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Speaker 1: just like Brain of Salt. Please but jud Zelgat, who

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Speaker 1: did for a long time work for the Minneapolis Star Tribute,

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Speaker 1: now works for Score. North Um reported Monday that the

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Speaker 1: Panthers have called the Vikings about about a possible trade

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Speaker 1: for Kirk Cousins. Then, well, I believe today though this

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Speaker 1: happened on the Pat McAfee show that Rapp Reports said,

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any truth to that Panther's item.

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00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: But I do wonder in general on the Kirk Cousins scenario,

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Speaker 1: like a would a team come calling for a guy

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00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 1: that's gonna cost thirty five million, has one more year

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Speaker 1: on his contract when Kevin O'Connell's in Minnesota with no

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00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: other answer if they gave him away. I don't see

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00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: that happening. It's just I kind of thought that Cousins

743
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,359
Speaker 1: could be movable at one point, and they, maybe under

744
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: Zimmer would want to move him like that thing was

745
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 1: just getting ugly. But now he feels more cemented in

746
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:42,879
Speaker 1: for the next year, just because what other option is there? Yeah, Carolina, man,

747
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: they are just so thirsty for a quarterback right now too.

748
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: I mean, they're gonna they're gonna call everybody and anybody.

749
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 1: But the fact that they botched the Donald deal so

750
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: bad and everybody knew it when they paid him so

751
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 1: much upfront without any type of evidence on the field,

752
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: and they try to get Matthew Stafford and got rebut

753
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 1: done that right, And there were the reports about the

754
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: fact that they were trying to get to Shaun Watson

755
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: at some point too, and then that didn't work out.

756
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:09,319
Speaker 1: They obviously tried out Teddy that didn't work out either.

757
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: So I don't know what they're gonna do, but matt

758
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: Rule needs a quarterback to save his job next season. Right.

759
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:20,720
Speaker 1: Ian made it clear in his mind that the Vikings

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00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: aren't interested in trading him that he I don't know

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00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: if he doubted that the Panthers actually did call. I'm

762
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: wondering why that, Like, who is benefiting from that news

763
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: getting out there? I don't know, Maybe Kirk Cousins. I

764
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: suppose that if he wanted to sign a contract. Kevin

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00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 1: O'Connell there, you know, their new head coach worked with

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00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: him in Washington, so they are very familiar with each other.

767
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 1: And he was pretty set during his press conference that

768
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins was his guy. But he did live at

769
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: live a little like, well he is on the roster

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00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,479
Speaker 1: with an answer, he said, he's anticipating that he would

771
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 1: be like, that's an interesting word to They're open minded

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Speaker 1: on it. Right, if someone really came for Kirk and

773
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: that that contract and they could save that much, probably

774
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: would help the Vikings a long term, unless you think

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins has a Super Bowl running him, which I think.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think we're pretty well established on

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Speaker 1: the Kirk Cousins. Just this is Matthew Stafford like part

778
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Speaker 1: two here, No, I don't know. I mean, I'm just

779
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Speaker 1: what do we say about Matthew Stafford two months ago? Well,

780
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: he said he was what he was in Detroit and

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00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: he's that guy's I think most people would would agree

782
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: that Matthew Stafford is a better option at quarterback than

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. I mean, Kirk Cousins gets lamb based it

784
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: too much. I get that, and you look at the

785
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,879
Speaker 1: stats and the numbers, but there's something about the experience that's,

786
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 1: you know, he's gonna his little cut out plexiglass thing

787
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 1: all last season. It's just not, you know, not a

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Speaker 1: bridge bild. I don't know if Kirk Cousins takes the

789
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: Rams down the field in the last five minutes of

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Speaker 1: that Super I don't think they're in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, let's say he had to do that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he really they melt Tampa in

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Speaker 1: that scenario. I think that's the whole Cousins. I mean,

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Speaker 1: their careers are similar be Cousins, if anything. You know,

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Speaker 1: Cousins maybe individually you know, more Pro Bowls that that

796
00:40:57,800 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 1: sort of thing, But I think league wide you would

797
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:03,919
Speaker 1: have always rated Stafford above Cousins were you replacing him, though,

798
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: who's going to be for the first time coach? Exactly?

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Speaker 1: Does does Kirk Cousins talk about having those dark spaces

800
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,919
Speaker 1: he needs to go to? No, he does not. Matt.

801
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: The one thing you learn more about Matthew Stafford in

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Speaker 1: l A. Was that the Matthew Stafford, the person, the

803
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: fire inside of him, was a little different. I don't

804
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Speaker 1: get that with Kirk Cousins on any levels and Matthew Stafford,

805
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 1: because we're gonna come back to him. Uh, Greg, you're

806
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: up next, all right, let's um, let's go to the Saints.

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00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 1: I found it very interesting, uh as I was looking

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Speaker 1: through my note notebook here that Pete Carmichael, who was

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Speaker 1: widely reported to have turned down the Saints offensive coordinator job,

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00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: was eventually convinced into taking it after Jay Gruden uh

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Speaker 1: interviewed for the job. And it continues this theme with

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00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 1: the Saints, which I find really interesting that they're just

813
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: trying to bring everything back. They're they're almost bringing back

814
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: the team and the coaching staff as if Sean Payton's

815
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: gonna change his mind, and they wanted all set up

816
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Speaker 1: for him when he gets back. Our friend Mark Adam

817
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 1: uh At at the Saints Twitter podcast, you know, he

818
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,359
Speaker 1: they were reporting on this car Michael thing that like, look,

819
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: he wanted to take a step back, and and that

820
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: was widely reported out there. And yet they've they've basically

821
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: brought back their entire coaching staff, even guys like Doug

822
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: Morone who were there before are now there again. And

823
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: it's almost like everyone just wants to keep their jobs

824
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 1: there and so they don't want to bring in anyone

825
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 1: from the outside that could possibly disrupt them keeping their

826
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Speaker 1: jobs and they want to keep this, you know, money

827
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Speaker 1: trained essentially on the tracks, and that might include Michael Thomas,

828
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Speaker 1: and that part makes sense to me. Catherine Terrell Uh

829
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: noted that almost every statement out of the Saints UH

830
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: is very positive about Mike Thomas, knowing that they're probably

831
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Speaker 1: not gonna be able to trade him or anything like that,

832
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: and that they fully expect him to be back, that

833
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: their best chance to have a legitimate team this year

834
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: is with Michael Thomas. And I just don't know if

835
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,040
Speaker 1: that's like the best way to run an organization. And

836
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: then everyone is just trying to stay the exact same

837
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Speaker 1: and retain their jobs, Like, isn't this a time where

838
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 1: they should be changing a little bit? I don't know.

839
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Speaker 1: So is that what they end up doing with the quarterback?

840
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: Did they bring back Jamie? That's Jamie's coming back? I

841
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,919
Speaker 1: mean Carmichael. Maybe something was going on Carmichael's life where

842
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: he didn't want this role or something. It was strange

843
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: because Greg we talked about it before the Super Bowl, like, well,

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Speaker 1: he's been there since like the Nixon administration, and he

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Speaker 1: seemed like the obvious guy for the o C. The

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Speaker 1: one year that he played that role, he didn't, I

847
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 1: mean when exclusively when when Peyton wasn't there, they they

848
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 1: were successful. So it's like he seemed like the perfect

849
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 1: person for it. But then you're interviewing Jake Gruden and

850
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 1: then naming him the guy who didn't really want the

851
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: job the Giants. It's the seven snasher? What's going on there?

852
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: Something I go back to Jamis Winston, that was a

853
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,919
Speaker 1: number one overall draft pick that did not work out

854
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: across five years. Well this is the yeah, that would

855
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Speaker 1: be wild? All right, who's up? I think you are?

856
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 1: I think I'm up? Okay, I'm up? What you got left? Exciting?

857
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: Brian Flor's got a job? How about that? How about that? Now?

858
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: I think the ultimate test in this Flora situation, who,

859
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: as we all know, has an active UH lawsuit against

860
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 1: the NFL three teams um citing racial discrimination and faulty practices,

861
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: and he gets a job as a senior defensive assistant

862
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 1: with the Steelers. And that's cool. And he's gonna be

863
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:37,720
Speaker 1: working under Mike Tomlin, another black coach. That's cool. And

864
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 1: the question to me though here Connie, is does he

865
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: actually get a head coaching job? So this is good,

866
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,399
Speaker 1: This is I guess you could call progress because Colin

867
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 1: Kaepernick never even got back into the league as a backup.

868
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: I'm wondering and time will telling this if Flores gets

869
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: another job as a head coach. But I think it

870
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: was a nice olive branch um, not necessarily from the NFL,

871
00:44:56,040 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 1: but from the coaches and the league in certain and

872
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 1: another from another perspective that he is now back in

873
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 1: football and won't be out of football entirely after that

874
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: lawsuit was filed, right because I'm sure he was thinking

875
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: that he might not have another shot to get another

876
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 1: job at all in any capacity in the NFL. It's

877
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: not surprising one bit that he landed in Pittsburgh with

878
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:21,760
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin. Um. I still have a lot of doubts

879
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: though that he's going to land a head coaching gig

880
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 1: in the NFL going forward. I think that it's a

881
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: great fit there in Pittsburgh with him and Tomlin and

882
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 1: Harrell Austin as well. I think it will be able

883
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 1: to do really fun things with that defense. But going forward,

884
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 1: I think that Brian Flores has a tough road to

885
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 1: to get through to become a head coach. This is

886
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: a huge step though, and it's like, I think you've

887
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 1: got to get it's, you know, through the machinations of

888
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 1: staff changes if he gets back in Pittsburgh to a

889
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 1: coordinator level at some point, because I don't think anyone

890
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 1: it's like we all kind of say, we all get

891
00:45:57,640 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: that he's a really good coach. I mean, what he

892
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 1: did with Miami was is extremely impressive. There's all this

893
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:03,879
Speaker 1: other stuff that was going on. It's like I see

894
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:06,919
Speaker 1: it a little differently than some of the Kaepernick stuff

895
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: because I don't think it's like galvanizing um like a

896
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 1: sector of the public that like is conflating it with

897
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: political stuff. At the same time, this is very clearly

898
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:20,439
Speaker 1: a legitimate complaint by Brian Flores that I think the

899
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: difference I would like to see there are more coaches

900
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 1: that feel the way that he feels, but they're not

901
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: putting their name on the line. He's sort of hanging

902
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: out there by himself and the Steelers of all organizations

903
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 1: said you've got a place with us, Like the Rooney

904
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: rule is not working, but the Rooney's like in action,

905
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,399
Speaker 1: did something here to change that? Right? And if if

906
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 1: this lawsuit didn't happen and Flora you have told me

907
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 1: before the off season this is flores role for actually

908
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 1: wouldn't been that surprising. You know, this is what happens

909
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: sometimes to not get one of the nine open jobs,

910
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have been shocking. No. I mean, if maybe

911
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 1: it's like fifty fifty would have gotten one, he wouldn't.

912
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 1: Sometimes they don't get back right away that Peterson won

913
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl, didn't give and these are the types

914
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 1: of jobs that they often take. The difference is this

915
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: lawsuits ongoing, and so that that's the bigger story. He

916
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 1: his attorney said that they are waiting for the NFL

917
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 1: to essentially ask them for the evidence that he has

918
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: against Dolphins owner Stephen Ross in terms of uh intentionally

919
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: trying to lose games and the accusations that they put

920
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: in the lawsuit that he was offered a hundred thousand

921
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:27,240
Speaker 1: dollars to do that. And you know, Roger Goodell pointedly

922
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 1: at that press conference at the Super Bowl, said that, look,

923
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:35,839
Speaker 1: owners can vote other owners out, and to me, that

924
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:39,280
Speaker 1: is one thing I'm gonna be tracking this this season

925
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,319
Speaker 1: because he still has a chance, Brian Flores to be

926
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: the first coach to ever fire an owner. Essentially. I

927
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: mean he got fired by by Stephen Ross and that's

928
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 1: part of the lawsuit going back and like that's that's

929
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: not any anytime soon. That would be the ultimate vengeance, Oh,

930
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 1: big time. The the vengeance scale would be off the charts.

931
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 1: It's a twelve out of ten. Connie, you're okay, let

932
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 1: me page through the notebook. Yeah, alright here Carson Wentz,

933
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 1: what's the deal? So the Colts be writer? One of them,

934
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 1: Zach Kiefer, who's awesome. You guys should follow him. He

935
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:20,240
Speaker 1: said that he thinks Wentz is obviously gonna get traded

936
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,840
Speaker 1: or straight cut before um or during free agency. He

937
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,919
Speaker 1: said that in light of some conversations over the last

938
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 1: six or seven days, it's my full expectation that he's

939
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:33,280
Speaker 1: moved by the end of this free agency period. Whether

940
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:35,839
Speaker 1: that's a cut or a trade remains to be seen.

941
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: I think this is a when situation, not an if situation.

942
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: I think the decision has been made. So yesterday, which

943
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:48,720
Speaker 1: was Monday, since we're recording on Tuesday. Uh huh, marked

944
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 1: the one year anniversary of the trade that the Eagles

945
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: made with the Cults for Carson Wentz, and I get

946
00:48:56,200 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: the sense that ownership is not thrilled with the Wentz

947
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:04,720
Speaker 1: experience and that this whole reunion between him and Frank

948
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 1: Reich just did not go as they had planned. We

949
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: know that Jim rcay tweeted back on January you can

950
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:15,719
Speaker 1: see clear as day in the final eight NFL team playoffs,

951
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:19,280
Speaker 1: you need a quarterback and offense who can score thirty

952
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 1: or more in regulation and a defense that can hold

953
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 1: an opponent under thirty exclamation point. So there was the

954
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 1: epic collapse to close out the Sea, He's like, I'm

955
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 1: going to throw in this defense line to really throw

956
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: him off the side, right. But the way that they

957
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: finished out the year was a massive disappointment. They started

958
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:43,360
Speaker 1: the season with Carson Wentz hurt and just this is

959
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 1: a very quarterback friendly offense with the offensive line that

960
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: they have and Jonathan Taylor there, so you would think

961
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 1: that he was set up to really succeed. But I

962
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: don't even know who the upgrade would be that is

963
00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 1: an excellent tease by the Tiny Box. For Thursday's podcast, uh,

964
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 1: we will have zach Key for himself. Keifer will be

965
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 1: on to discuss Carson Wentz and the Colts quarterback conundrum,

966
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: because it's fascinating I think about this Guy's good to

967
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 1: have different branding for the program. What if we kind

968
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: of go through the shows the next six weeks or so,

969
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 1: we call it the flash Point Figures of the NFL,

970
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:32,359
Speaker 1: and maybe flashpoint Figures colon Carson Wentz, we hit him

971
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:35,839
Speaker 1: and their situation this week, maybe hits something different every week.

972
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: I told you Dan was a showman, and like he

973
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: came up with that on the fly while we were

974
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: doing the show. And last point figures, what do you

975
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 1: think maybe that we can workshout the name flashy man.

976
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 1: But anyway, let's let's stick a pin in that conversation.

977
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 1: But it's very good that you brought that up. Plug

978
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: All right now, I'm up. Next, we need to get

979
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: one of the great women connected to be around the

980
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: NFL podcast and we've been blessed in that department over

981
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 1: the years. First it live appearance on the show. She

982
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 1: is the great Alexandra Better known as Frags. She works.

983
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: She's a key figure on the network side and also

984
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:19,359
Speaker 1: one of the great voice artists of our generation. What's up,

985
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:23,799
Speaker 1: Free Eggs? That was quite the intro. Now. I went

986
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 1: up to Frags in the newsroom and I said, you

987
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: are the voice famously of La Ravio magnifico, which, if

988
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: you're not aware of what that is, that's when someone

989
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: says or does something that without even realizing it, that

990
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 1: person is telling you so much about them And um, Frags,

991
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 1: this one that I'm about to share with with the

992
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:47,879
Speaker 1: group is such an on point example that we needed

993
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,480
Speaker 1: to get you in here live to do it, and

994
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Kind of came up to you in

995
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 1: the newsroom and you didn't come up to me. You

996
00:51:54,400 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 1: ran into my chair and like slipped underneath me, thing

997
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: it is the off season though, that's a good sign. Yeah,

998
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 1: she would be free to come here. Yeah, right, I can't.

999
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 1: Just to make it clear to the audience, I came

1000
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 1: and I sat in Frag's chair while her backward turn

1001
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: and then she turned around. I was there. That's a

1002
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 1: real he said, she said, because her description was markedly different.

1003
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: I'm not used to being live normally I get to

1004
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 1: rehearse these things. That's good though. But you know, we

1005
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 1: we talked about what the cadence would be, So let's

1006
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:28,439
Speaker 1: let's let's try it, Ricky, since we're doing live, break

1007
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 1: out the harp and and you just lay give us

1008
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: one and not gonna call for it a couple of

1009
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,839
Speaker 1: times maybe, but here's the first one. Wait for the harp.

1010
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:46,399
Speaker 1: I feel magnifico. Frad Stafford at the Los Angeles Rams

1011
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 1: Victory Parade. He's on stage the photographer and listen. We

1012
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: can get into the photographer's backstory later if you want.

1013
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:59,480
Speaker 1: Kelly Smiley, Um, she is on the stage. She takes

1014
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 1: a false step backwards. She falls off the stage. It

1015
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 1: turns out that she fractured a spine, broke her two cameras.

1016
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford, who was feeling no pain, was right in

1017
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: front of the woman as she stepped back and fell.

1018
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 1: He does a one eight turn, walks away, arms up

1019
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 1: like I'm not dealing with this right now. Kelly Stafford

1020
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 1: rolls up real quick. How is this woman that just

1021
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:25,800
Speaker 1: fell off the stage? I think that is a big

1022
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 1: time hit it. What do you think? Fred Stafford with

1023
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 1: a walk away in a big spot Mark the video was,

1024
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 1: I mean, the video was what the video was. It

1025
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:38,760
Speaker 1: just did not look good. It's like he he saw

1026
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:41,800
Speaker 1: what happened. I mean, he didn't probably comprehend the end result,

1027
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: but he saw the woman fall off the stage and

1028
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:46,760
Speaker 1: he basically turned and bolted. It just it was it.

1029
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 1: It went viral for that reason. I would say, you know,

1030
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:51,719
Speaker 1: in the end result, they are pain for all her

1031
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 1: medical bills and her cameras. It's like, that's all like

1032
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:58,839
Speaker 1: pr I know, I understand, I understand if it played

1033
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 1: a role. Trust me, do you why why are you

1034
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 1: not supposed? Why you're not allowed? And why shouldn't you

1035
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: ever drive a car under the influence of alcohol because

1036
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: your decision making is impaired. So that is the only

1037
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: thing I have to No, not I'm not but here

1038
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:16,919
Speaker 1: he actually, here's where I I totally disagree. Is that

1039
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 1: in that that's that thing happened. It was a very

1040
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: regrettable moment. It's good that she was kind of representing

1041
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:26,880
Speaker 1: the two of them she got and that she covered.

1042
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,839
Speaker 1: I think if this hadn't become a story, if there

1043
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:32,839
Speaker 1: was no video of it, that they would have found

1044
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:34,840
Speaker 1: out exactly what would have happened. And they would have

1045
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 1: taken care of it quietly, and they, the Rams and

1046
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: Stafford would have paid for all the medical events because

1047
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: that's what that's what good people do and that and

1048
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: that would have been the story. So so to me,

1049
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 1: that's like, you don't need to pile on. I'm sure

1050
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 1: he feels, hey, I'm not piling on to me, just

1051
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:52,719
Speaker 1: like that would happen. That would have happened, whether there's

1052
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 1: a video or not, is my point. It's in that

1053
00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 1: zone of the law reveal. I mean, it's just I

1054
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 1: think it brought out our minds initially. I like it

1055
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 1: that he was over the legal limit for sure and

1056
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 1: loose and you're not making the same decisions. Greg. What

1057
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:12,719
Speaker 1: you're saying obviously makes sense, But ultimately the final decider

1058
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 1: has to be Frag's herself coming in with her own

1059
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:18,400
Speaker 1: analysis on the frad Stafford walk away. Oh I was

1060
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:21,320
Speaker 1: not told I had to give it. Oh. Um, listen,

1061
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 1: We've all we've all been feeling the way Matt Stafford felt,

1062
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:28,879
Speaker 1: and I probably would have reacted the same exact way.

1063
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 1: It was very shocking, and I don't totally understand why

1064
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:36,719
Speaker 1: it's his fault that someone fell off the stage. By

1065
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:39,480
Speaker 1: the construction teams. It's not his fault. It's just not

1066
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 1: an ultimately, it is his fault though that he's even

1067
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 1: if if you're putting the drink on it, it's like,

1068
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 1: that's still your fault ultimately, because and you see the

1069
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 1: video of that, if you're a marat Stafford and you're like,

1070
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 1: oh my god. Because to be clear, I'm not giving

1071
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 1: him a pass at all. I know no matter how

1072
00:55:57,160 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 1: intoxicated I was, I would be running. You just wave

1073
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 1: security overway. I got arrested in high school because I

1074
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:07,960
Speaker 1: was like helping the girl whose house it was who

1075
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: threw the party I was. She was throwing up and

1076
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:12,720
Speaker 1: I was like holding her hair back and got arrested.

1077
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: I was helping her. That doesn't seem I got arrested

1078
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:17,479
Speaker 1: from mail fraud in high school, and I also felt

1079
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 1: innocent of the of it. Was it enjoyable to argue

1080
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:23,439
Speaker 1: with Greg and the rest of us freg's It was fantastic. Well,

1081
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:25,920
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you for having me, Dan. Welcome to

1082
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:28,400
Speaker 1: her to come sit at my desk anytime we can.

1083
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:30,920
Speaker 1: I get break me off a piece of that brisket,

1084
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 1: Jake brisket, break me off a piece of that Jake

1085
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:38,479
Speaker 1: Brisket Brisket, Yeah, can we just hand the whole show

1086
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:40,440
Speaker 1: over to you? At this point, he's going to be

1087
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 1: like and say, right now, he's going to be a

1088
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:45,800
Speaker 1: free agent, so we could definitely have some Jake Brisket

1089
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:49,719
Speaker 1: continent crazy. Oh yeah, give us one of those. What

1090
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 1: was it? Mark? You're so crazy? Mark, You're so crazy?

1091
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: I'm good, what a talent. I'm out of here. Frag's Yeah,

1092
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:04,280
Speaker 1: Sark's going to be about that legend. What a surprise.

1093
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:05,840
Speaker 1: She's gonna be a little upset with me that I

1094
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 1: put her on the spot there, I could tell. But

1095
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 1: we've been working together for a long time, all of us. So,

1096
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: so do you get a pass? I hope, So, I

1097
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:17,479
Speaker 1: hope I do. All right, let's move on. Oh let's

1098
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:20,080
Speaker 1: I don't want to double dip here, but I've been told,

1099
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 1: for production reasons, we need to hit this one next,

1100
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:28,440
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go twice here. Apologies this situation. Check

1101
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 1: this out. I know you guys probably saw this, but

1102
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 1: I want to touch on it. A huge flock of

1103
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 1: birds that suddenly plunged to the ground in Mexico. It

1104
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 1: happened earlier this month. We want to warn you. The

1105
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 1: video you're about to see is graphic. The video is

1106
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 1: chilling too. It shows the yellow headed blackbirds suddenly fall

1107
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:48,919
Speaker 1: from the sky. What many of them died, others did

1108
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:52,480
Speaker 1: fly away, and the reason behind their rapid plunge remains unclear,

1109
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 1: but some experts say that blackbirds may have been trying

1110
00:57:55,120 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 1: to escape a predatory birds swooping in from above. Wow. Yeah, alright,

1111
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,480
Speaker 1: well apparently you have not seen that. Connie, like the

1112
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: other person, heard of this really okay, well terrify, Yeah,

1113
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 1: that happened in Mexico, and just we don't need to,

1114
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 1: you know, dive deep here. But I have a I'll

1115
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:18,880
Speaker 1: put a sandwich on it. Perhaps that this is the

1116
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 1: sign of the next huge thing for humanity that we're

1117
00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 1: dealing with. That that uh like an m not Night's

1118
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 1: Shamalan type of way this is. There's gonna be other

1119
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:30,960
Speaker 1: unexplained things. They're gonna start happening over the next six months,

1120
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:34,080
Speaker 1: and it's going to become one of the major talking points.

1121
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: I won't I won't take you because I totally agree

1122
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 1: with you. It's like, Hey, we've tweated the earth like

1123
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 1: utter crap and garbage endlessly since we've arrived and suddenly

1124
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 1: nature is starting to rebel right the animals. They're gonna

1125
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 1: be getting some revenge they're coming from, well, the birds.

1126
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a death dive for probably hundreds

1127
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:55,919
Speaker 1: of them. So I don't know what revenge they're getting there.

1128
00:58:56,080 --> 00:58:57,440
Speaker 1: They got a bit of a raw deal. I mean,

1129
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to go down this rab a hole.

1130
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: I need to find out more. Like I'm gonna need

1131
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:05,240
Speaker 1: like bird experts on this case because I've become I've

1132
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: been starting to watch birds. I'm eighty years old, and

1133
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:13,320
Speaker 1: I don't on the branch my sunburst now include a

1134
00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:21,000
Speaker 1: cup of tea bird watching. Um. That is jarring all

1135
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 1: right anyway, So if you guys want to take me

1136
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 1: up on that. Wait, that's what is this? This is

1137
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 1: a sandwich. It's a sign of some type of global reckoning,

1138
00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 1: humanity reckoning. Okay, So I don't like that at all,

1139
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:35,439
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna leave it open ended for the next

1140
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:38,400
Speaker 1: two years. So well, I'll take you again. I want

1141
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: to root for you. Know that not happening. Um, but

1142
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:45,800
Speaker 1: I think you could put sandwiches separately on Connie becoming

1143
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 1: an ornithologist. Yeah, maybe it was maybe the birds were

1144
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 1: experiencing Havana syndrome. Um. I don't know if you guys

1145
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 1: are dialed in on this, but high level national security

1146
00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:02,440
Speaker 1: officers have been stricken with explained illnesses on the White

1147
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 1: House grounds also internationally a k a. Havanna syndrome. It's

1148
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 1: something Mark that you should dial in on it. I will,

1149
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,040
Speaker 1: I mean stuff belting. I don't know why we just

1150
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 1: would continue just to drive around and like go to

1151
01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:15,320
Speaker 1: subway and eat all the food we want, have a

1152
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:18,240
Speaker 1: nice time. Interesting. He always brings it back to food

1153
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 1: in no just like, well, no, if you don't think

1154
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:22,520
Speaker 1: that the way that we produce food in general is

1155
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:24,880
Speaker 1: quite disturbing to the earth and too many people and

1156
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 1: it could be better. I think Subway, which is an

1157
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:34,520
Speaker 1: NFL sponsor. Here we go right with some of the

1158
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 1: best high quality is low low to vegetables. Do we

1159
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 1: still do they still have the r G three like

1160
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 1: roast beef touchdown. Walker made me made me go to

1161
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 1: something like this is how advertising actually works. Like he

1162
01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 1: just is obsessed with the subway ads he loves and

1163
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:55,560
Speaker 1: all the other thing and they made me go to subway.

1164
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:57,480
Speaker 1: So that was the first time in about twenty years

1165
01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 1: and it's pretty much the same. I would say, unbe

1166
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:03,800
Speaker 1: elevitfl sandwiches over there, those sandwich artists, you just can't

1167
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 1: be there. Great operation strike everything I've said previously. Let's

1168
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 1: take a break and we'll be back. All right, we're back,

1169
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 1: We're past Where are we that? How much time do

1170
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:17,080
Speaker 1: we have left, Ricky? We are at forty seven minutes, right,

1171
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 1: So it's time to truly now empty out the notebook.

1172
01:01:20,240 --> 01:01:22,040
Speaker 1: So let's speed things up a little bit and try

1173
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: to get around the horn a couple of times each. Greggy,

1174
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:28,400
Speaker 1: all right, Uh, I'll do a quick one. Since we're

1175
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 1: talking rams in that parade in Stafford. Reason I went.

1176
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:34,760
Speaker 1: I went with my kids. I took them out of

1177
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:37,480
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't go to school until like afternoon.

1178
01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:40,440
Speaker 1: They were quite tardy that day. I figured this doesn't happen,

1179
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 1: uh too often. Ellis got to be at the game,

1180
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:47,040
Speaker 1: and that was like amazing. She she gotta ti eyed

1181
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 1: when the rams one, So she's like really attached. And

1182
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 1: and the reason I bring it up here more it's

1183
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:55,680
Speaker 1: like it was a delightful experience. And I saw after

1184
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 1: the fact l A was taking a lot of grief

1185
01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:00,640
Speaker 1: of like like shots of empty stre eats or something.

1186
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 1: It's like, I think, first of all, those are taken

1187
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 1: before the parade. I don't know, it's not it's I

1188
01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:08,360
Speaker 1: was a reporter, boots on the ground. I was in

1189
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:12,320
Speaker 1: a packed train in public transportation going down full of

1190
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 1: a pretty young but diverse group of Rams fan and

1191
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: where we were it was like totally packed. Now, granted,

1192
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 1: is it going to be packed as much as almost

1193
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:23,160
Speaker 1: any other NFL city. No, And it's obvious for why

1194
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 1: those reasons for that word, But I don't know. It's like,

1195
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 1: why at this point in human history do we have

1196
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:31,360
Speaker 1: to reign on other people having a good time if

1197
01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:34,000
Speaker 1: it makes them happy. And all I'm saying is it

1198
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 1: was packed to the point where my kids were sort

1199
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:38,880
Speaker 1: of freaked out and frightened by how packed it was,

1200
01:02:39,120 --> 01:02:41,120
Speaker 1: you know, like that was almost like an issue. There

1201
01:02:41,200 --> 01:02:45,000
Speaker 1: was too many people there, uh for for us, But

1202
01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 1: it was really nice little afternoon. I worry what your

1203
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 1: kids would be like if you took him down the

1204
01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 1: Canyon of Heroes. If the Knicks wanna, it's a lot

1205
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:56,000
Speaker 1: there's people behind pushing up on you, you know, when

1206
01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:58,000
Speaker 1: you're trying to get a luck. Cooper Cups going by

1207
01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:01,640
Speaker 1: and whatnot. That's good experience parade. I went to one

1208
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:04,440
Speaker 1: victory parade the nineties, six Yankees, and I was like,

1209
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 1: all right, how I did this right? I don't really

1210
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 1: I don't quite get the appeal. But it's like it's

1211
01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:13,040
Speaker 1: for kids, I think, right, Like the all they wanted

1212
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 1: was the confetti to be the confetti cannons, and those

1213
01:03:16,240 --> 01:03:19,400
Speaker 1: were happening and that that's all they needed. In Philadelphia,

1214
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:22,480
Speaker 1: they put Chris Go on the poles. Yeah, grease poles.

1215
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:24,920
Speaker 1: I was one of the things. I like that maneuver

1216
01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 1: that was back on. They still climbed, Oh yeah, still up.

1217
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 1: There's a basically it's like a competition every year in

1218
01:03:31,960 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 1: the Italian market where people have to climb a grease

1219
01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 1: pole in the Italian meets over here. Yeah, did you

1220
01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:44,080
Speaker 1: see the Hollywood sign? How they put Brand's house? So

1221
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:46,800
Speaker 1: that didn't work? That does that does not work for

1222
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:49,000
Speaker 1: me at any level. Just stay away. Well it would

1223
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:50,760
Speaker 1: have worked if it looked good, but it was the city.

1224
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:53,040
Speaker 1: The city put it up, and it looked like a

1225
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 1: bunch of amateurs in a windstorm putting it up. With

1226
01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:58,320
Speaker 1: what happens the city filled with like people that work

1227
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:01,360
Speaker 1: on movie sets in prop departments. Right, how about the

1228
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 1: game like six? Technically, you know adequate set designers to

1229
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:07,120
Speaker 1: do something that gets the old Bart SIPs and at

1230
01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:11,240
Speaker 1: least you tried birthday cake, Giff, the execution was off Alright.

1231
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:14,560
Speaker 1: I would look at the Giants for one minute because

1232
01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:16,439
Speaker 1: you know, while we were all off on Super Bowl

1233
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:19,120
Speaker 1: week GM, Joe Shane their new GM. You know they

1234
01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:20,840
Speaker 1: have Brian Dable there and it's like, do you want

1235
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:23,000
Speaker 1: to hit the ground running and surround Daniel Jones with

1236
01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:25,200
Speaker 1: a ton of talent? But they have met Dave Gettleman

1237
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:28,440
Speaker 1: left them in cap hell and there are whispers now

1238
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:30,240
Speaker 1: or just con you know, trying to figure out what

1239
01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:32,080
Speaker 1: they do to get out of the twelve million over?

1240
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 1: Is it possible you've trade Sae Kwon Barkley at this point?

1241
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:37,120
Speaker 1: Who could save you seven point two? I know who.

1242
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:39,200
Speaker 1: I don't know who's trading for him, but there could

1243
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:42,080
Speaker 1: be someone out there. But James Bradberry is probably a

1244
01:04:42,080 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: cap hit. He's he's he's gonna be He's earns twenty

1245
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:48,440
Speaker 1: one point nine million. Blake Martinez has a fourteen million

1246
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 1: dollar capit. That seems insane to me. Kenny Golladay. He

1247
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:53,480
Speaker 1: makes twenty one million over the next three years. I

1248
01:04:53,520 --> 01:04:56,160
Speaker 1: just wonder if the Giants, even though you want to

1249
01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:59,200
Speaker 1: set day ball up as well as you can, is

1250
01:04:59,240 --> 01:05:01,919
Speaker 1: there like a raw uster gutting of some sort coming here,

1251
01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:04,640
Speaker 1: because I think a they totally envisioned a different team

1252
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:07,280
Speaker 1: than Gettleman left behind, which was a failed team. And

1253
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:09,080
Speaker 1: it might be a tough year or two for Dable.

1254
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:10,920
Speaker 1: It's not just for hitting the ground with Josh Allen

1255
01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 1: in year three. Well, I keep thinking about Mitch Drabinsky

1256
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:15,800
Speaker 1: and this is I can't believe this the second time

1257
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:18,760
Speaker 1: and bring him up, and I keep thinking about whether

1258
01:05:18,840 --> 01:05:21,440
Speaker 1: or not he's going to end up with Brian Dable

1259
01:05:21,520 --> 01:05:25,080
Speaker 1: and the Giants as like a competition piece for Daniel Jones,

1260
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:28,240
Speaker 1: because he only signed that one year deal in Buffalo

1261
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:29,720
Speaker 1: and he came out and said that I'm in a

1262
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:32,400
Speaker 1: confidence space right now. He's ready to be a starting

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Speaker 1: quarterback again. There are people in the league who know

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01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:40,000
Speaker 1: things who think Mitch Robinsky could still be a functional

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01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:43,040
Speaker 1: NFL player if he gets into the right setup and

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Speaker 1: has an opportunity. Yeah, that would that would be the

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01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:49,720
Speaker 1: setup Dable who's been with him. I look at their roster,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think they're like crazy far away. They're

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01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:54,480
Speaker 1: not the Texans. I think Daniel Jones will have a

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01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:56,479
Speaker 1: better spot if it's a good coaching staff. I don't

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01:05:56,480 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 1: see that many like logical cut candidates like Blake Martinez.

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01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:03,240
Speaker 1: You get rid of Blake Martinez if you wanted, you

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01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 1: could get rid of Kyle Rudolph. Certainly seven point five

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01:06:06,920 --> 01:06:10,080
Speaker 1: million dollars. Otherwise, I kind of like that they have

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01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 1: enough people around him. They just need to get an offense.

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01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:14,840
Speaker 1: I also think, I know he didn't look great last year,

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01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:17,120
Speaker 1: but that team was such garbage. Se Quon Barkley I

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01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:19,480
Speaker 1: think could be somebody who has a bounce back right

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Speaker 1: Why I can't imagine it would be worth getting rid of,

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01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:25,960
Speaker 1: Like whatever you would get back for Sakewan Barkley couldn't

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01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:29,760
Speaker 1: be worth it. Just what would it be just a

1282
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 1: new look version of the team, because se Juan Barkley

1283
01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:35,240
Speaker 1: is also, let's be honest, entirely frustrating as a player

1284
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:37,520
Speaker 1: for the past coup he's been. He's do seven million

1285
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:40,160
Speaker 1: just a lot for running back, but it's not that much.

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01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:42,120
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd, maybe he is the guy that could They

1287
01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:45,160
Speaker 1: Also they have to create capram Son, Kyle Rudolph. That's

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01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:48,240
Speaker 1: I agree, he's got like he he is worth more

1289
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:50,720
Speaker 1: than Sae Kwan Barkley right now, and so Sterling Shepherd

1290
01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:54,080
Speaker 1: Martinez is worth double. So that's a new coaching staff.

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01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:56,480
Speaker 1: You might just Sterling Shepherd. We've always liked him, but

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01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:58,440
Speaker 1: he can't stay healthy. Feels like a guy to move

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01:06:58,440 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 1: on from the Barkley. It's like, and if you're gonna stay,

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01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:03,280
Speaker 1: stay the course with Daniel Jones here and give him

1295
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:05,360
Speaker 1: one more chance because he was in a bad set up,

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01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:06,880
Speaker 1: I think you should do the same with Barkley. And

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01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:09,600
Speaker 1: see what they mentioned him specifically to Dave that they

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01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 1: wanted to see Jones and Barkley, and those were the

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01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:15,960
Speaker 1: two that they mentioned with the right support the coaching

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01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 1: staff at least, I think there it's such an obvious

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01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:20,080
Speaker 1: new coach comment. But I just I don't know. I

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01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 1: just I don't have to be all buy in that

1303
01:07:21,880 --> 01:07:24,040
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones and sa Kwan Barkley are gonna combine to

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01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:28,800
Speaker 1: play more than twenty games next. We're not saying that necessarily. UM.

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01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting how the NFL handled two

1306
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:38,600
Speaker 1: more you know, regrettable stories about how they mistreat women.

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01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:41,800
Speaker 1: Over the last week. It's crazy that the Washington football

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01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:46,160
Speaker 1: team is under investigation again, not just by Congress, which

1309
01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:48,640
Speaker 1: was a thing that happened right after UH the season,

1310
01:07:48,640 --> 01:07:52,400
Speaker 1: but by the NFL with an independent investigation Mary Joe

1311
01:07:52,400 --> 01:07:54,960
Speaker 1: Wright White, who the last time she was involved in

1312
01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:59,160
Speaker 1: an investigation, there was a change in ownership UH in Carolina,

1313
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:03,080
Speaker 1: and so this Washington story, which if you weren't tracking it,

1314
01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:05,280
Speaker 1: kind of popped back up because there was new allegations

1315
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:08,480
Speaker 1: that were part of that congressional hearing, and the NFL

1316
01:08:08,720 --> 01:08:11,320
Speaker 1: is taking a different tack than they did UH last

1317
01:08:11,360 --> 01:08:13,960
Speaker 1: time around when they weren't the ones in charge of

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01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:19,120
Speaker 1: the investigation Washington was, and that there was no public

1319
01:08:19,479 --> 01:08:21,519
Speaker 1: release of the report that came out of that. This

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01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:24,080
Speaker 1: time they say there will be, so that that is

1321
01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:26,719
Speaker 1: a difference. And I, as someone who just like watches

1322
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:30,600
Speaker 1: the ownership situations like I, I find that interesting that

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01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:33,360
Speaker 1: they're taking a different tact here and they're definitely taking

1324
01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:36,360
Speaker 1: a different tech than they are with the Cowboys who

1325
01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:42,080
Speaker 1: um were accused by former cheerleaders there. They're head PR

1326
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:44,080
Speaker 1: guy who is one of the most powerful and well

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01:08:44,160 --> 01:08:47,360
Speaker 1: known uh PR guys in the history of the NFL.

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01:08:47,400 --> 01:08:50,000
Speaker 1: I would say Rich Dalrymple over the last twenty six

1329
01:08:50,080 --> 01:08:55,120
Speaker 1: years of taping cheerleaders with his cell phone while they

1330
01:08:55,120 --> 01:08:57,479
Speaker 1: were changing. The crazy part is it was six years

1331
01:08:57,479 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 1: ago and that there was a pay to these women ultimately,

1332
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:04,360
Speaker 1: and the NFL says they are not going to look

1333
01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:07,160
Speaker 1: into it at all. But it is a crazy story

1334
01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 1: if you read the entire one by Don Vanada, because

1335
01:09:10,280 --> 01:09:13,400
Speaker 1: it goes to the very top of covering up, uh,

1336
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:18,439
Speaker 1: some pretty brutal accusations and there is money that's already

1337
01:09:18,479 --> 01:09:23,000
Speaker 1: changed hands here, including you know, violating Jerry Jones's own daughter,

1338
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:27,720
Speaker 1: who's uh, you know, vice president of the organization. Is

1339
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:30,200
Speaker 1: some dark stuff. So if you want to feel cynical

1340
01:09:30,320 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 1: about the world, the fact that this was buried for

1341
01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 1: six years and then Dalrymple retires three weeks ago, and

1342
01:09:36,560 --> 01:09:39,439
Speaker 1: it just spoke so loudly to me that they didn't

1343
01:09:39,439 --> 01:09:42,160
Speaker 1: recognize that at all. The Cowboys didn't make a statement,

1344
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:44,360
Speaker 1: they didn't say a word. This is this is If

1345
01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:47,360
Speaker 1: you've ever seen Jerry Jones on camera, Rich Dalrympo is

1346
01:09:47,439 --> 01:09:48,640
Speaker 1: right next to him. If you've ever been to a

1347
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:51,320
Speaker 1: Cowboys practice, he's right next to him when he left

1348
01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:56,719
Speaker 1: after twenty six years, he he is the cleaner though

1349
01:09:56,800 --> 01:09:59,840
Speaker 1: he is the Michael Clayton of that team, and they

1350
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:01,960
Speaker 1: say a word when he left. They said, that has

1351
01:10:02,040 --> 01:10:04,479
Speaker 1: nothing to do with this incident that happens six years

1352
01:10:04,479 --> 01:10:06,800
Speaker 1: ago and millions of dollars change hands. And I don't know,

1353
01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:10,920
Speaker 1: it's disappointed some like dark NFL. But the NFL handled

1354
01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:13,439
Speaker 1: those two stories differently. That shows you a little change. Sorry,

1355
01:10:13,479 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 1: But like it is notable that ownership is under fire

1356
01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:19,800
Speaker 1: as an overall group right now. There's no question about that.

1357
01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:22,760
Speaker 1: It takes twenty four thirty one owners to vote someone out.

1358
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:25,120
Speaker 1: And you wonder with Daniel Snyder if we could get

1359
01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:28,479
Speaker 1: be getting closer and closer. Don't hold your breath. I

1360
01:10:28,479 --> 01:10:31,160
Speaker 1: don't want to be cynical about it, but we'll see. Yeah,

1361
01:10:32,080 --> 01:10:36,439
Speaker 1: depressing state of affairs. Uh, not to change the tone

1362
01:10:36,439 --> 01:10:40,240
Speaker 1: too much, but it is to two two right now?

1363
01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:43,840
Speaker 1: WHOA we make a wish? What do we do? Make

1364
01:10:43,840 --> 01:10:47,680
Speaker 1: a wish? Everybody? Sorry, I have been looking into a

1365
01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:49,920
Speaker 1: lot of astrology stuff with this. I was in the

1366
01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:53,840
Speaker 1: middle of making my wish. It was bowing our heads

1367
01:10:53,840 --> 01:10:56,680
Speaker 1: in silence to make a wish. Except for Gregg. It's

1368
01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:59,080
Speaker 1: like I'm not no, my eyes were closed. There's a

1369
01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:01,640
Speaker 1: lot perculate about this day that they say to me

1370
01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:04,559
Speaker 1: to make sure your house is clean, because you don't

1371
01:11:04,640 --> 01:11:07,240
Speaker 1: because of all the cosmic which I don't necessarily believe

1372
01:11:07,240 --> 01:11:09,800
Speaker 1: in all that, like your proverbial house or you're you're

1373
01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:13,200
Speaker 1: like physical house, like space, have your space between today.

1374
01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:17,120
Speaker 1: They say, don't start any major arguments today because it's

1375
01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:19,920
Speaker 1: a mirror, because it's two two two to two, that

1376
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:22,080
Speaker 1: if you start like an argument, it could come back

1377
01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:25,439
Speaker 1: to you this following year. And something about the mirrors,

1378
01:11:25,439 --> 01:11:27,519
Speaker 1: which I don't really know anything about it or believe,

1379
01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:29,760
Speaker 1: but some stuff people are saying. It's just like be

1380
01:11:30,120 --> 01:11:32,200
Speaker 1: just kind of be on your good behavior today. Don't

1381
01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:37,440
Speaker 1: start any arguments or making your life decisions. But positivity

1382
01:11:37,479 --> 01:11:39,360
Speaker 1: is going to be good because you wanted to reflect back.

1383
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:41,479
Speaker 1: I'm gonna drive straight home and go to bed right.

1384
01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:46,000
Speaker 1: Definitely not gonna like talk back to this plumber whatever

1385
01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:49,639
Speaker 1: you say, go yeah, hey, what's up pipes over here?

1386
01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:53,360
Speaker 1: On the subject of the Washington football team, some teams

1387
01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:55,720
Speaker 1: just cannot get things right. I was thinking about this

1388
01:11:55,760 --> 01:11:57,680
Speaker 1: mark with your Browns. Remember the Browns used to be

1389
01:11:57,680 --> 01:11:59,880
Speaker 1: that team for like seven straight years when we did

1390
01:11:59,880 --> 01:12:03,200
Speaker 1: this show straight years. But yes, right, But in the

1391
01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:05,200
Speaker 1: our of the show, it was like whenever a team

1392
01:12:05,240 --> 01:12:08,080
Speaker 1: did something like that was stupid or messed up, was like, oh, yeah,

1393
01:12:08,080 --> 01:12:10,599
Speaker 1: the Browns doing the Browns. That's not really the Browns anymore.

1394
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:12,559
Speaker 1: They might have been disappointing this year, but they're not

1395
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:15,639
Speaker 1: the subject of these stories anymore. Washington football team puts

1396
01:12:15,640 --> 01:12:20,519
Speaker 1: out their new team Crest, and they mislabel at the bottom.

1397
01:12:20,560 --> 01:12:23,679
Speaker 1: They have the years their five titles since nine seven

1398
01:12:23,720 --> 01:12:27,559
Speaker 1: through one, but they actually put the year the title

1399
01:12:27,680 --> 01:12:29,760
Speaker 1: was one, not the season it was one. And so

1400
01:12:29,880 --> 01:12:33,320
Speaker 1: even though Mark Rippon led the Washington team to the

1401
01:12:34,320 --> 01:12:37,120
Speaker 1: one Super Bowl, they had nineteen ninety two on the crest.

1402
01:12:37,360 --> 01:12:40,240
Speaker 1: We can't make these mistakes, folks. We gotta you want

1403
01:12:40,240 --> 01:12:42,240
Speaker 1: to clean a house, clean your house? How does that

1404
01:12:42,320 --> 01:12:45,360
Speaker 1: get past the obvious focus groups? That also, by the way,

1405
01:12:45,479 --> 01:12:48,040
Speaker 1: is one of the talking about journals and notebooks. The

1406
01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:51,360
Speaker 1: thing that has always annoyed me about football is that

1407
01:12:51,479 --> 01:12:54,240
Speaker 1: you have to talk about team Max won the Super

1408
01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:56,439
Speaker 1: Bowl and so so and so year, but it's not

1409
01:12:56,479 --> 01:12:58,400
Speaker 1: the year you're thinking. Trying to explain that the kids

1410
01:12:58,520 --> 01:13:00,120
Speaker 1: or to other people that don't follow up. But it

1411
01:13:00,200 --> 01:13:01,800
Speaker 1: doesn't make anything. You know, I was annoyed by it

1412
01:13:01,840 --> 01:13:03,880
Speaker 1: as a kid, though, so it's even worse. And I'll

1413
01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:05,519
Speaker 1: say this, I know what you're saying that it could

1414
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:08,840
Speaker 1: be frustrating the NBA season. They have no choice, really,

1415
01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:12,479
Speaker 1: they go, Okay, let's say I don't know who's who's

1416
01:13:12,520 --> 01:13:15,160
Speaker 1: the Sixers your team. Let's say the Sixers win the

1417
01:13:15,280 --> 01:13:19,360
Speaker 1: championship in June. They are the two thousand one hyphen

1418
01:13:20,080 --> 01:13:23,800
Speaker 1: NBA champions. That's too much, So just give me the

1419
01:13:23,840 --> 01:13:25,880
Speaker 1: year where the season began and the bulk of it

1420
01:13:25,920 --> 01:13:28,599
Speaker 1: took place. Anyway, you can't get this wrong. They got

1421
01:13:28,640 --> 01:13:30,200
Speaker 1: it wrong on the crest and got killed by their

1422
01:13:30,200 --> 01:13:33,360
Speaker 1: fan base. So they officially announced the correction to their

1423
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:36,600
Speaker 1: logo and then redid the altar the logo that's the

1424
01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:41,120
Speaker 1: Washington But that before nobody in the building. I mean,

1425
01:13:41,400 --> 01:13:45,800
Speaker 1: did you see this Sean Taylor retirement Jersey? Uh? They Uh.

1426
01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:48,040
Speaker 1: The worst thing about this, though, I feel like, is

1427
01:13:48,200 --> 01:13:50,320
Speaker 1: in the in the correction. And yes, they listened to

1428
01:13:50,400 --> 01:13:52,920
Speaker 1: their fans and changed it. They said, we've now corrected

1429
01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:55,920
Speaker 1: it and put all the years in which all the

1430
01:13:55,920 --> 01:14:02,240
Speaker 1: scenes in which we won the super Bowl. Just clean

1431
01:14:02,479 --> 01:14:09,000
Speaker 1: it up here together. They've won three super Bowls two eight, seven,

1432
01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:12,240
Speaker 1: nine one. They won an NFL championship forty two. Why

1433
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:16,920
Speaker 1: are we serving as a copy editor for you? Speaking

1434
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:18,679
Speaker 1: a copy editor, I don't need the one thing, Aaron

1435
01:14:18,760 --> 01:14:21,360
Speaker 1: Rodgers Instagram post. I don't need him signing off telling

1436
01:14:21,360 --> 01:14:23,639
Speaker 1: me to read a book. I don't need it. That's

1437
01:14:23,640 --> 01:14:26,719
Speaker 1: where he goes to intellectual. Yeah, it's it's part attitude

1438
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:29,280
Speaker 1: speaking of the NBI. Did get Blood in the Garden

1439
01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:32,759
Speaker 1: the new Nick's nineties book. I can't wait to Johnny

1440
01:14:32,760 --> 01:14:35,320
Speaker 1: about that. Maybe he'll have me on the SI weekly podcast.

1441
01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:38,040
Speaker 1: That would be great. You know what you should? Uh,

1442
01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:41,280
Speaker 1: you guys should listen to that. It's a great podcast. Yeah,

1443
01:14:41,360 --> 01:14:45,960
Speaker 1: make sure it's like natural is very not. You also

1444
01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:48,519
Speaker 1: didn't force it on it. You should do they consider it. Yeah,

1445
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:51,559
Speaker 1: it's an option to say that I'm the one that

1446
01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:54,360
Speaker 1: actually surfaced it. So john Here's this will be like, well,

1447
01:14:54,439 --> 01:14:57,800
Speaker 1: Dan had to bring it up before you plugged it. No, no,

1448
01:14:57,880 --> 01:15:02,799
Speaker 1: Dan gets more credit. Danny's two things. You're you're already

1449
01:15:02,920 --> 01:15:05,439
Speaker 1: starting issues and arguments. It's going to come right back

1450
01:15:05,439 --> 01:15:07,479
Speaker 1: at you that's true. I listened to the post Super

1451
01:15:07,479 --> 01:15:09,479
Speaker 1: Bowl one. It was good with Greg Bishop talking about

1452
01:15:09,479 --> 01:15:10,960
Speaker 1: that there was a lot going It wasn't the whole

1453
01:15:11,040 --> 01:15:16,400
Speaker 1: Kabo story and yes, oh okay, great, so all right,

1454
01:15:16,439 --> 01:15:19,120
Speaker 1: let's speed it up here we go. All right, Uh,

1455
01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:21,680
Speaker 1: Jervis Landry would like to stay with the Browns, but

1456
01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:25,160
Speaker 1: he can help win a championship elsewhere if need be.

1457
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:28,439
Speaker 1: So we also found out that he played through a

1458
01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:31,599
Speaker 1: significant injury last season. It was a career worst year

1459
01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:34,880
Speaker 1: for him. That would explain a lot. He sprained his

1460
01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:37,840
Speaker 1: knee back in Week two, but he's never missed a

1461
01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:40,240
Speaker 1: game before last season. So I feel like there were

1462
01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:43,040
Speaker 1: some narratives going around that like, oh, he's just like

1463
01:15:43,120 --> 01:15:45,360
Speaker 1: kind of hurt. Things are lingering. That's not the case

1464
01:15:45,479 --> 01:15:49,360
Speaker 1: at all. But also take into account that he didn't

1465
01:15:49,360 --> 01:15:54,320
Speaker 1: do any media avails through the team after Odell was released,

1466
01:15:54,400 --> 01:15:58,080
Speaker 1: and he just watched his really good friend O'Dell win

1467
01:15:58,160 --> 01:16:01,599
Speaker 1: a championship. So, um, just throwing that out there, I'd

1468
01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:04,040
Speaker 1: say it's like thirty five chance he stays. And that's

1469
01:16:04,080 --> 01:16:06,120
Speaker 1: if the you know, he doesn't want to do this

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Speaker 1: is like taking a pay cut. He's well, that's what

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Speaker 1: that report. I love when they have these things because

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Speaker 1: he alluded to it enough that essentially they asked him

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01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:15,559
Speaker 1: to take a pay cut. I mean, you can read

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01:16:15,600 --> 01:16:18,400
Speaker 1: between the lines. They started that conversation and then he

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01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:21,519
Speaker 1: sort of was okay. But like that wide receiver room,

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01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:25,519
Speaker 1: if you take Jarvis out of there, Donovan, People's Jones,

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01:16:25,720 --> 01:16:29,120
Speaker 1: Anthony Schwartz, and Rashad Higgins, who's set to be an

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01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:32,559
Speaker 1: unrestricted free agent. He's due fourteen million dollar based salary.

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01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:37,200
Speaker 1: His cap numbers sixteen million, So it is a lot

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01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:40,040
Speaker 1: for Jarvis Landry. So I'm not surprised they are trying

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01:16:40,080 --> 01:16:42,280
Speaker 1: to figure it out in terms of a restructure. But

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01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:44,479
Speaker 1: I also wouldn't if I was Jarvis Landry, I wouldn't

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01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:47,320
Speaker 1: mind being a free agent next Thursdays around the NFL

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01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:53,400
Speaker 1: podcast Flashpoint figures, Cole and Jarvis Lander nailed it. That's it. Well,

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01:16:53,439 --> 01:16:58,000
Speaker 1: maybe Baker Smith on to talk about Baker will be

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01:16:58,000 --> 01:17:01,080
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis next Thursday. Don't know if will the flash

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01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:04,320
Speaker 1: the Flashpoint series be able to carry on in a

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01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:06,680
Speaker 1: remote setting. That's that's up for debate. But we're on

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01:17:06,720 --> 01:17:09,040
Speaker 1: the flash we'd be under the flash Point focus at

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01:17:09,040 --> 01:17:12,720
Speaker 1: that point. Can we pull that off. Flashpoint focus. That's

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01:17:12,760 --> 01:17:17,080
Speaker 1: better than figures. Let me write that down, Greg, what

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01:17:17,120 --> 01:17:19,439
Speaker 1: do you think about this seg idea? A little mom

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01:17:19,479 --> 01:17:24,120
Speaker 1: on it. You're so little quiet. Greg's good, it's good.

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01:17:24,360 --> 01:17:26,840
Speaker 1: I think figures. There was something about figures I didn't like.

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01:17:26,880 --> 01:17:31,000
Speaker 1: So he's already Focus is good? All right? Up next,

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Speaker 1: This XFL thing is interesting to me. The NFL and

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01:17:34,600 --> 01:17:37,679
Speaker 1: the XFL have reached a partnership agreement that will focus

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01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:41,639
Speaker 1: on creating innovation programs and protecting the health of players.

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01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:43,840
Speaker 1: The XFL announced Monday. I thought it was a little

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01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:45,280
Speaker 1: even though I love it, because I do think he

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01:17:45,360 --> 01:17:47,720
Speaker 1: is a treasure. When the Rock came out before the

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01:17:47,760 --> 01:17:51,040
Speaker 1: Super Bowl started, uh last Sunday and did the hype

1503
01:17:51,080 --> 01:17:53,880
Speaker 1: speech and the crowd went bonkers, and you know, he's

1504
01:17:53,880 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 1: got charisma for days. But he's also one of the

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01:17:56,080 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 1: owners of the XFL. Now, after vinc cman h when

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01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:02,840
Speaker 1: declared bankruptcy or whatever happened with it, he sold it

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01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:05,519
Speaker 1: to a group that included the Rocks. Like, why would

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01:18:05,560 --> 01:18:10,280
Speaker 1: the NFL do this with a hypothetical guy that's competition. No,

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01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:13,479
Speaker 1: this is a joint partnership on some level. It's they're

1510
01:18:13,479 --> 01:18:16,320
Speaker 1: not gonna share players, but they're gonna do things that

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01:18:16,360 --> 01:18:17,760
Speaker 1: the NFL used to be able to do with the

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01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:22,080
Speaker 1: NFL europe League, which was test out various things, uh right,

1513
01:18:22,120 --> 01:18:25,439
Speaker 1: from playing service to different rule tweaks, uh to like

1514
01:18:25,479 --> 01:18:27,960
Speaker 1: they're saying with safety elements to try to make the

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01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:30,680
Speaker 1: game safer for the players. And this is going to

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01:18:30,760 --> 01:18:33,920
Speaker 1: serve as a way to help the NFL product as

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01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:36,560
Speaker 1: well as give the XFL some pop, I imagine. I

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01:18:36,600 --> 01:18:39,000
Speaker 1: don't know what the television deal is, but maybe they

1519
01:18:39,080 --> 01:18:41,960
Speaker 1: end up these games end up on NFL Network this spring.

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01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:45,240
Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll see. I like the whole idea

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01:18:45,240 --> 01:18:47,200
Speaker 1: of trying out new rules there. We could use some

1522
01:18:47,240 --> 01:18:49,600
Speaker 1: new r greg keep it wrong. Uh. The Rams have

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01:18:49,680 --> 01:18:53,040
Speaker 1: a new offensive coordinator, so it's just like a small

1524
01:18:53,080 --> 01:18:55,320
Speaker 1: item in the in the notebook. But considering that, but

1525
01:18:55,600 --> 01:18:58,360
Speaker 1: that guarantees that Liam Cohen will be a head coach

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01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:00,640
Speaker 1: in the NFL at some point. We should get to

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01:19:00,680 --> 01:19:04,240
Speaker 1: know Liam Cohen's name. He was a Kentucky offensive coordinator,

1528
01:19:04,240 --> 01:19:08,160
Speaker 1: but he was with the Rams before as a assistant,

1529
01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:12,280
Speaker 1: so McVeigh knows him well. And there were reports before

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01:19:12,320 --> 01:19:15,120
Speaker 1: the offseason even started that McVeigh wanted to bring him

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01:19:15,120 --> 01:19:17,559
Speaker 1: back to run the offense. So I don't know much

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01:19:17,600 --> 01:19:20,360
Speaker 1: about Liam Cohen, although Kentucky UH they scored a lot

1533
01:19:20,439 --> 01:19:23,519
Speaker 1: of points people. I do remember the spice rack was

1534
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:27,600
Speaker 1: in love with the Kentucky UH college football program this

1535
01:19:27,680 --> 01:19:29,320
Speaker 1: year and I think made some I know who some

1536
01:19:29,360 --> 01:19:31,439
Speaker 1: good money. Iraq isn't in love with me around the

1537
01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:35,479
Speaker 1: NFL podcast because he sent a vaguely threatening text us

1538
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:38,640
Speaker 1: right when the Bengals won the conference championship that he

1539
01:19:38,720 --> 01:19:41,600
Speaker 1: better be on the show to the super Bowl, and

1540
01:19:41,600 --> 01:19:45,960
Speaker 1: it happened. So that is a bit of a something

1541
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:49,320
Speaker 1: to watch, uh like watch her back, Like literally, I'll

1542
01:19:49,360 --> 01:19:52,120
Speaker 1: monitor that heavily. Mark you, pepper Mill. I thought it

1543
01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:55,880
Speaker 1: was interesting that the combine, by the way, is coronavirus.

1544
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:58,840
Speaker 1: Just essentially the NFL just said coronavirters doesn't exist anymore.

1545
01:19:58,840 --> 01:20:00,599
Speaker 1: We don't understand that. Like there were is this idea

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01:20:00,640 --> 01:20:02,240
Speaker 1: that you know, the combined players were gonna have to

1547
01:20:02,240 --> 01:20:06,000
Speaker 1: be bubbled. The players basically started saying, um uh, we

1548
01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:08,120
Speaker 1: might threaten to sit out workouts. We're not gonna do

1549
01:20:08,160 --> 01:20:09,920
Speaker 1: everything you want us to do. You're not paying us

1550
01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:11,680
Speaker 1: to go there. By the way, I mean eventually we

1551
01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:14,000
Speaker 1: get paid. But then they quickly turned around and said

1552
01:20:14,080 --> 01:20:17,479
Speaker 1: we're on bubbling you. Basically was like the NFL went

1553
01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:19,559
Speaker 1: to all the prospects and everybody connected to the event.

1554
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:22,240
Speaker 1: Hey guys, hey guys, are still the coronavirus. We've got

1555
01:20:22,320 --> 01:20:23,840
Speaker 1: to make sure we bubble up, make safe. And that

1556
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:27,280
Speaker 1: was like, no, we will literally not go to your combine. Alright, alright,

1557
01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:31,040
Speaker 1: you're right, there's no problem. According to Phil Wesseley in

1558
01:20:31,040 --> 01:20:34,960
Speaker 1: Indianapolis has been on that train for months. So you know,

1559
01:20:35,400 --> 01:20:37,880
Speaker 1: if the city at large is acting a certain way,

1560
01:20:38,120 --> 01:20:41,439
Speaker 1: I think we're we've we're seeing that right back to you, baby,

1561
01:20:41,560 --> 01:20:43,799
Speaker 1: I don't know if I have any other good ones. Um.

1562
01:20:43,840 --> 01:20:45,880
Speaker 1: I was interested to see that Daniel Hunter, who's a

1563
01:20:45,920 --> 01:20:48,320
Speaker 1: really good player, might not be back with the Vikings.

1564
01:20:48,360 --> 01:20:50,920
Speaker 1: It's very surprising to me. But they're changing defensive schemes.

1565
01:20:50,920 --> 01:20:54,040
Speaker 1: So that's that's a notable cut to possibly watch for

1566
01:20:54,160 --> 01:20:55,760
Speaker 1: because he would be in my top five of the

1567
01:20:55,760 --> 01:20:59,960
Speaker 1: free agents if he gets out there. Uh yeah. Deshaun Watson,

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01:21:00,040 --> 01:21:03,439
Speaker 1: by the way, still on the Texans. His proceeds, the

1569
01:21:03,520 --> 01:21:08,160
Speaker 1: legal proceedings, uh that those are moving forward, but again

1570
01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:11,040
Speaker 1: at a pace that's not necessarily lined up with the NFL,

1571
01:21:11,560 --> 01:21:14,280
Speaker 1: and we're now heading into a new league year and

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01:21:14,320 --> 01:21:17,240
Speaker 1: there's a there's a chance here that Deshaun Watson would

1573
01:21:17,280 --> 01:21:18,760
Speaker 1: not play again this year, and then it would be

1574
01:21:18,760 --> 01:21:20,920
Speaker 1: thirty five million dollars at the Texans are, oh guy

1575
01:21:20,960 --> 01:21:23,040
Speaker 1: who hasn't played in over a year, in two years.

1576
01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:25,559
Speaker 1: A lot of stuff going on right now with this

1577
01:21:26,120 --> 01:21:28,559
Speaker 1: uh And there was a report from the Athletic Jeff

1578
01:21:28,560 --> 01:21:31,360
Speaker 1: how the Texans don't plan to lesson they're asking price

1579
01:21:31,400 --> 01:21:34,479
Speaker 1: for Watson, which has been five to seven assets, including

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01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:38,519
Speaker 1: three first round picks. Uh. So keep your eye on

1581
01:21:38,560 --> 01:21:42,240
Speaker 1: the story. Obviously, I believe he's going to start being

1582
01:21:42,240 --> 01:21:44,240
Speaker 1: a part of these depositions where he's gonna have to

1583
01:21:44,280 --> 01:21:47,360
Speaker 1: speak on the conduct that led to the allegations of something.

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01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:51,400
Speaker 1: So that is all happening at a time when the

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01:21:51,439 --> 01:21:53,680
Speaker 1: Texans are desperate. You would imagine now to get out

1586
01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:57,200
Speaker 1: from under Watson and recoup assets in exchange for him,

1587
01:21:57,240 --> 01:22:00,120
Speaker 1: but that can't happen until the legal sites resolved. That

1588
01:22:00,280 --> 01:22:06,080
Speaker 1: continues to be a story. And as we approach March Connie,

1589
01:22:06,080 --> 01:22:10,559
Speaker 1: we're running out of time. Blah blah blah, A lot

1590
01:22:10,640 --> 01:22:13,719
Speaker 1: less than you think, So go ahead, Okay. DK Metcalf

1591
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:17,679
Speaker 1: is training for the Olympics. He's currently in a boot though,

1592
01:22:18,040 --> 01:22:22,840
Speaker 1: but next offseason it's on what event track? So he

1593
01:22:22,880 --> 01:22:25,120
Speaker 1: wants to be a sprinter in the Olympics. And who

1594
01:22:25,120 --> 01:22:27,479
Speaker 1: doesn't want to be in the Olympics After watching the Olympics, like,

1595
01:22:27,520 --> 01:22:31,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go be for shooting and skiing in the biathlon. Zero,

1596
01:22:32,640 --> 01:22:37,519
Speaker 1: there we go. That's the old skeins spilled the old

1597
01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:41,559
Speaker 1: ski and shoot. Close out with Colleen Wolfe, who's said

1598
01:22:41,560 --> 01:22:44,920
Speaker 1: it all. Connie, what do you got going on? You're

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01:22:44,960 --> 01:22:48,200
Speaker 1: gonna be on the Around the broadcast on Friday. I'm excited.

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01:22:48,960 --> 01:22:51,200
Speaker 1: This is great because I've never done it in studio

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01:22:51,280 --> 01:22:53,479
Speaker 1: with you guys. The broadcast. How exciting. You'll be right

1602
01:22:53,520 --> 01:22:56,360
Speaker 1: here in the Chris Westling podcast studio. Greg, you will

1603
01:22:56,400 --> 01:22:59,960
Speaker 1: be out of town. We will We'll wear a rib

1604
01:23:00,040 --> 01:23:03,519
Speaker 1: been a black ribbon on our looks appropriate. Yeah, you

1605
01:23:03,560 --> 01:23:06,040
Speaker 1: could wear, Colleen, you can wear my members only jacket.

1606
01:23:06,120 --> 01:23:08,320
Speaker 1: I will be here for Thursday's podcast. We do have

1607
01:23:08,320 --> 01:23:12,000
Speaker 1: another one of those, course, because the flashback focus is

1608
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:17,960
Speaker 1: that what we said? No last point, Yeah, we killed

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01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:22,040
Speaker 1: figures out of there. Last point Focus Colon Carson Wentz

1610
01:23:22,280 --> 01:23:24,519
Speaker 1: coming up this. I like the idea, but some it

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01:23:24,640 --> 01:23:26,640
Speaker 1: sounds like one of those you know how they've kind

1612
01:23:26,640 --> 01:23:29,559
Speaker 1: of run out of names for football articles and it

1613
01:23:29,720 --> 01:23:33,680
Speaker 1: just sounds like names sort of Yeah, well that's what

1614
01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:36,320
Speaker 1: happened when sportswriting dies, like the aren't a lot of

1615
01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:39,599
Speaker 1: new ideas? Can we Greg, Can we hang the members

1616
01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:43,599
Speaker 1: only jacket in the studio for the Friday television show? Yeah?

1617
01:23:43,680 --> 01:23:45,800
Speaker 1: I think that would be a funny bit. We don't

1618
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:48,920
Speaker 1: anyone listening now will get the joke, and otherwise don't

1619
01:23:49,120 --> 01:23:54,000
Speaker 1: refer to it right, otherwise, don't mention it at all

1620
01:23:54,520 --> 01:23:57,240
Speaker 1: those shows that we would pitch to Jason Kleman and

1621
01:23:57,320 --> 01:24:00,080
Speaker 1: Jason brooksby the production team behind the TV show and

1622
01:24:00,080 --> 01:24:05,479
Speaker 1: they're like, uh yeah, let's circle back on that next week.

1623
01:24:05,479 --> 01:24:08,000
Speaker 1: Come back to then we'll come back and we forget that. Okay,

1624
01:24:08,240 --> 01:24:11,920
Speaker 1: you hate all right? Did um? So, Connie, you've said

1625
01:24:11,920 --> 01:24:14,519
Speaker 1: it all. Thank you again for joining us, Thank you,

1626
01:24:14,720 --> 01:24:19,040
Speaker 1: thanks for having me, Ricky, thank you for all your

1627
01:24:19,080 --> 01:24:22,320
Speaker 1: work and soldiering through what's been imagine a very difficult show.

1628
01:24:22,560 --> 01:24:25,680
Speaker 1: It's been great. You guys are great. Good Mark, you

1629
01:24:25,760 --> 01:24:29,120
Speaker 1: have a fire in your belly only can come from

1630
01:24:30,080 --> 01:24:32,600
Speaker 1: the evacuation from both ends. And I thank you, but

1631
01:24:32,640 --> 01:24:34,840
Speaker 1: I think that's well said. That's well said. There's nothing

1632
01:24:34,840 --> 01:24:38,719
Speaker 1: else in the belly, just the fire, empty, totally charred.

1633
01:24:39,080 --> 01:24:42,719
Speaker 1: All right, we'll be back Thursday. Uh flast Point Focus.

1634
01:24:43,120 --> 01:24:46,320
Speaker 1: Hit us up on Twitter or maybe on the reddit

1635
01:24:46,400 --> 01:24:47,960
Speaker 1: or whatever, and let us know if you have a

1636
01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:50,920
Speaker 1: better name for the series are offseasons. Don't bother me

1637
01:24:50,960 --> 01:24:54,240
Speaker 1: with it, but well, certainly at Mark Cesler on Twitter.

1638
01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:57,840
Speaker 1: He will be our point man here, So hit up Mark.

1639
01:24:58,560 --> 01:25:02,840
Speaker 1: That's amazing, disaster. Yeah, still doesn't understand how it works,

1640
01:25:03,400 --> 01:25:09,599
Speaker 1: how he's getting into a nightmare. Still crazy. All right,

1641
01:25:09,880 --> 01:25:16,200
Speaker 1: that's it. Let's go until Thursday. Um, get ready, Last

1642
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:21,960
Speaker 1: Point Focus series Launchest TV show Friday, Saturday, combine and

1643
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:25,320
Speaker 1: indies Monday. We're rolling. Keep the call.