Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast not allowed and only fans
Speaker 1: due to a Welcome to another edition of the Around
Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hants. I come
Speaker 1: to you from a virtual room filled with some heroes.
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, Oh yeah, she's back with the promise that
Speaker 1: she didn't have to do any homework to be on
Speaker 1: today's show. It is the immortal Connie Fox, Colleen Wolf.
Speaker 1: Are you knowing, Ganny? I'm great. This is way better
Speaker 1: than last time. Though I still have the splint on
Speaker 1: my finger so it's really difficult to type. And the
Speaker 1: landscapers just showed up to mow the lawn, so the
Speaker 1: dogs are freaking out. But other than that, like, we're good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the sound has got some issues. You might be the
Speaker 1: first guest we actually kick off during the show. I mean,
Speaker 1: and I know you did homework anyways, he said, you
Speaker 1: know you you you just find homework to do, so
Speaker 1: I think it's something that you like to do. Well, listen,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna kick me off like you don't have to,
Speaker 1: I'll just leave if you want, I'll pull you. Probably
Speaker 1: not being paid for today's program, important to keep that
Speaker 1: in mind, Connie. So it is it is indeed a
Speaker 1: fractured finger from the past from Kurt Warner. Did you
Speaker 1: get anything beyond a cursory like l O L whoops?
Speaker 1: A tweet from Warner or even a sliding into the
Speaker 1: d M is not good enough. It's got to be
Speaker 1: a phone call and even an offer to help out
Speaker 1: in some way financially or otherwise take us through it.
Speaker 1: He texted me and said, hey, at least it's a
Speaker 1: good story. So I have to wear a split now
Speaker 1: for six to eight weeks, which means I'll be doing
Speaker 1: Thursday night football with a splint on my finger, and
Speaker 1: part of me, part of me is considering, like maybe
Speaker 1: I should just take this off and have a crooked
Speaker 1: finger the rest of my life. It would be like
Speaker 1: a hook pinky basically, Um, so I don't, but this
Speaker 1: is really embarrassing and they're gonna give me so much
Speaker 1: heat for it. And also I keep jamming it on
Speaker 1: things because it's just like unwieldy. A little bit a
Speaker 1: short term pain though of wearing it in the embarrassment
Speaker 1: versus the long term pain, which is Baldy getting asked
Speaker 1: about his fingers every single hit that he's ever done
Speaker 1: on any television network. Ever, including every single time. It's
Speaker 1: very annoying. And also yeah, just say Baldi is a
Speaker 1: good sport about it. And he's also a giant man
Speaker 1: offensive lineman retired like it's part of his whole stick,
Speaker 1: Like you're a TV presenter, you're you can't have a
Speaker 1: hook on the end of your hand. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's it is something that has crossed my mind. But
Speaker 1: every time I go to the doctor that I have
Speaker 1: to fill out these forms and answer all these questions,
Speaker 1: and they're like, is this a work related injury? Did
Speaker 1: this happen at the workplace? And I'm like, I mean
Speaker 1: it did technically, but there I was gonna say. I'm
Speaker 1: not a litigious man, but I think in terms of
Speaker 1: just getting your name out there, like the Nirvana baby
Speaker 1: from the never Mind album Little Naked Baby swimming towards
Speaker 1: the dollar bill on the hook just sued the band
Speaker 1: um for I don't know what child pornography, sexual exploitation,
Speaker 1: I think, right, yeah, like is that there's no way
Speaker 1: you launching a lawsuit against Kurt Warner in the NFL
Speaker 1: is worse than that. So I don't know. Just think
Speaker 1: about it, like it's in your pocket. It's in your
Speaker 1: pocket in the next negotiate if you need, will you
Speaker 1: guys represent me? Sure? I was in law for one year,
Speaker 1: two years. I think law Greg will be your lawyer
Speaker 1: and I would be in the front row of that
Speaker 1: courtroom for every day of the trial. Yes, Connie's here,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. This is a bunker cast. Uh. We have
Speaker 1: the Fantasy the Fantasy Extravaganza How to Have the Perfect
Speaker 1: Draft on Wednesday, and that is an evergreen type show
Speaker 1: obviously through the draft season, um, barring injuries, and then
Speaker 1: it becomes completely out of date, but for now it's
Speaker 1: still very good, so make sure you check that out. Um.
Speaker 1: And today we'll be just catching up on the news
Speaker 1: since uh, Wednesday show was pretty self contained in fantasy world.
Speaker 1: And just before we get to the news, just a
Speaker 1: quick update on Mark, because I know everybody loves Mark
Speaker 1: and marksman out of the picture. He is on the mend.
Speaker 1: He's dealing with As I said, he has the blood
Speaker 1: clots that are kind of a issue that pop up
Speaker 1: every every once and again and unfortunately kind of knocked
Speaker 1: him out of action. But I talked to him yesterday.
Speaker 1: He's getting better and he's planning to be back next week.
Speaker 1: So that is the Mark Sessler update. And I could
Speaker 1: tell you he is thankful for all the well wishes
Speaker 1: he's received during his absence. Mark, I know he and
Speaker 1: he will listen. I mean I I and I think
Speaker 1: he did listen to Monday's show. So uh. He was
Speaker 1: a big fan of Arif Hassan thought that was a nice,
Speaker 1: nice voice. All right, let's do some news. I being
Speaker 1: a maniac, he wanted his own normo, even though Irabu
Speaker 1: was a far lesser picture. You got scammed. All right,
Speaker 1: that's a little inside baseball. But we have a we
Speaker 1: have a texture. We have a text chain, uh for
Speaker 1: I think it's a t N bastardos uh and we're
Speaker 1: all on it. And I also have a parallel text
Speaker 1: chain that is with a bunch of Yankees fans. And
Speaker 1: I was talking about a picture from Yankees past to
Speaker 1: Decie Arrabu, and um, I accidentally sent it to the
Speaker 1: wrong chain. I sent it to the a t N
Speaker 1: chain And then Erica, you have some type of series
Speaker 1: thing that led to a funny dictation of it. So
Speaker 1: it's I have my series set to an Irish brogue
Speaker 1: so it will read me text messages and broke. I
Speaker 1: don't know why I did that, but it just sounds
Speaker 1: a little bit more interesting. And when it read your
Speaker 1: text in the broke, it's just like it really, I think,
Speaker 1: just hit a little different. It was nicer. Did you
Speaker 1: just answer a phone call in the middle of this,
Speaker 1: Dan did? I'm sorry, I'm gonna go pick I'm on
Speaker 1: my way to pick up the kids too, so my
Speaker 1: Mike is all messed up, Like I know, I enjoyed that.
Speaker 1: I have a wait, there's a get us out of
Speaker 1: the bunkers. Hello, Hey, what's up? Man? Hey, how's it
Speaker 1: going now? Calling to let you know that I'm on
Speaker 1: my way to night, will be there closer to that
Speaker 1: eleven mark. Alright, good, that's good. That puts me on
Speaker 1: a tight deadline work wise, but that means I have
Speaker 1: to be done by eleven o'clock. Thank you, No worries.
Speaker 1: I'll make sure I'm already all right. Great, Thanks man?
Speaker 1: Are you getting turf? Is that what's happening? I'm doing
Speaker 1: some work in the backyard, I mean Victor. Speaking of Litigius,
Speaker 1: you know, we're using him without asking and he you know,
Speaker 1: if he if he doesn't want his name and his
Speaker 1: and his company being mentioned here. He could get us
Speaker 1: in court. I hope he's a listener. All right, let's
Speaker 1: let's get to it. I do like that you have
Speaker 1: a lilting Irish Brogue dictation device on your phone. It
Speaker 1: just recommended for Colleen Wolf. All right, let's get to it.
Speaker 1: Starting with the Jacksonville's Jaguars. Who oh, what a brave
Speaker 1: maneuver by head coach and team architect Urban Meyer, who
Speaker 1: said that Trevor Lawrence will be indeed his starting quarterback
Speaker 1: in week one. This comes after a summer of madness
Speaker 1: in which urban Meyer kept the door open uh in
Speaker 1: the mock competition with Gardner. Meanshow, here's what Meyer had
Speaker 1: to say about his decision. We wanted him to earn it,
Speaker 1: as we do with every position we felt he has.
Speaker 1: After the last nice performance was um, it was good.
Speaker 1: Obviously not great with me. You know, we gonna run
Speaker 1: the ball very well. But but I kind of my
Speaker 1: mind had that as after the second preseason that we
Speaker 1: kind of have to to get someone ready to play
Speaker 1: in three weeks. I think the Jaguars are doomed. Greg Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm still welcoming everyone to my corner
Speaker 1: of Rooty against Urban Meyer. For the most part, I've
Speaker 1: been doing it all summer, was was here early, and
Speaker 1: so far, I'm feeling pretty good about this stance. I
Speaker 1: feel bad because I want Trevor Lawrence to be good.
Speaker 1: He seems like like a really nice soul and a
Speaker 1: very fun player to watch, and I do worry that
Speaker 1: he's entering a doomed situation. I went back and forth
Speaker 1: with with an unnamed NFL insider about like, well, actually,
Speaker 1: Trevor's like kind of stunk at practice and that's why
Speaker 1: they were splitting the reps. And I'm like, Okay, well
Speaker 1: if he's if he's been stinking at practice, that's all
Speaker 1: the more reason why he needs more reps. You know
Speaker 1: who's been eve the worst than Trevor Lawrence in these
Speaker 1: preseason games, Gardner minshew, So get the get the dude ready.
Speaker 1: This was all silly, and I just don't want them
Speaker 1: to ruin, uh, Trevor Lawrence. With Darryl Bevel and this
Speaker 1: Jaguars offensive line, I think people might be overreacting a
Speaker 1: little bit much, but not to the Urban Meyer sideline demeanor.
Speaker 1: Like I think he's gonna have a really hard time here.
Speaker 1: Even if they overachieve, and like when six seven games,
Speaker 1: he just seems like he's so tightly wound. I don't
Speaker 1: know how that's going to transfer to his young quarterback.
Speaker 1: This is a team that lost fifteen straight games to
Speaker 1: finish last season. This is not a quick fix, not
Speaker 1: a quick thing that they can turn around. This is
Speaker 1: a long term project. And both urban Meyer and Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence are so used to always winning and always being
Speaker 1: with successful programs, So I'm really interested to see how
Speaker 1: they react to losing, because it's inevitable. Um, I mean,
Speaker 1: even the even the first string offense when you look
Speaker 1: at the way that they performed in the preseason, three
Speaker 1: total points in the first half of both of those games.
Speaker 1: So it's not like this team even looks like they're
Speaker 1: going to make any type of jump. But I'm really
Speaker 1: excited for Week one because it's Jags Texans, and I
Speaker 1: think that's going to be real exciting. I mean, you
Speaker 1: couldn't have a better way to set the table, uh,
Speaker 1: if you're urban Meyer against the worst team in football
Speaker 1: most likely, and or or you could look at it
Speaker 1: the other way, which is all right, that's a bad
Speaker 1: al and at best, I feel like, I think you're
Speaker 1: taking too far. I think you've officially now taken it
Speaker 1: too far. You don't think in the NFL, where there's
Speaker 1: not much separation between these teams in general, that that's
Speaker 1: a coin flip game. That's absolutely a coin flip game.
Speaker 1: So if you lose that game, that doesn't feel good
Speaker 1: as is. I don't think like the Jaguars should be
Speaker 1: eighteen point favorites or anything like that, but I am wary.
Speaker 1: There is the Urban Meyer pylon, and I am a
Speaker 1: part of it because I just doomed them at the
Speaker 1: beginning of this conversation. But there are some there are
Speaker 1: some signs here that this could go sideways. But it's
Speaker 1: still also um for the Jaguars a time and their
Speaker 1: fans of great optimism maybe not so much around these parts. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's it's worth pointing out they were missing three of
Speaker 1: their starting offensive lineman, their best three, you know, for
Speaker 1: both of those preseason games. And they are back on
Speaker 1: the field now. You know, one was held out healthy
Speaker 1: and the others are back at practice, and that's huge.
Speaker 1: We strive to balance on this podcast and there that's huge.
Speaker 1: But I I questioned this coaching staff from minute one,
Speaker 1: not just Bevel, but the defensive coordinator. And I just
Speaker 1: think it could be a learning process with Urban Meyer
Speaker 1: got and um CBS sports is Pete Prisco reports some
Speaker 1: Jaguars players aren't thrilled about head coach Urban myers coaching
Speaker 1: style and practice tactics. And speaking of the Jaguars, they
Speaker 1: placed first round pick Trivis a t N on injured reserve. Oh,
Speaker 1: she strikes again, that Harlot, Liz Liz Frank Frank, I
Speaker 1: hate her the true which Liz Frank strikes again. It's
Speaker 1: a serious foot injury. There was hope that it would
Speaker 1: be a less severe sprain, but it's a tear, sir,
Speaker 1: a dream necessary and twenty two years old. His rookie
Speaker 1: season wiped out as he's moved injured reserve, making ineligible
Speaker 1: to return. Colleen. This this just sucks. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is Trevor Lawrence is still locked and loaded at number
Speaker 1: one overall. But a t N was the other part
Speaker 1: of this offense that everyone was excited about. And it's
Speaker 1: good news for I guess James Robinson fantasy owners, but
Speaker 1: everybody else bad. Yeah, it's and you know, I feel
Speaker 1: like I came out in this podcast and really just
Speaker 1: maybe I'm not being fair to Jags fans at this point,
Speaker 1: but this is really tough to swallow for them. And honestly,
Speaker 1: this pick, though, kind of surprised me when it happened
Speaker 1: because it was their second first round pick and they
Speaker 1: already had James Robinson, and I know that Urban Meyer
Speaker 1: wanted to use him at wide receiver and do some
Speaker 1: type of like Percy Harvin situation like he had before
Speaker 1: because he was so explosive e t N. But Urban
Speaker 1: was I think really upset and he even said that
Speaker 1: they didn't get Cadarius Tony in the draft, the wide
Speaker 1: receiver that the Giants got, and so E t N
Speaker 1: kind of found it kind of felt like a panic
Speaker 1: move a little bit for me. And this this is
Speaker 1: awful for him just as a player to lose his
Speaker 1: rookie season. UM. But James Robinson, it'll be it'll be
Speaker 1: good for him at the running back spot. He broke
Speaker 1: the record for undrafted rookies with over like fourteen hundred
Speaker 1: yards from scrimmage last year. He was really good. He
Speaker 1: was a real surprise. UM. But it's it's a bummer
Speaker 1: for the offense in general because having E. T N
Speaker 1: out there would have maybe made things easier for Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence and this offense as a whole to make this
Speaker 1: ball move right. E t N to me, is the
Speaker 1: perfect like way to look at urban Meyer's struggles so far.
Speaker 1: It's not his fault. E t N has never been
Speaker 1: hurt in his life, seriously, So it's it's terrible luck.
Speaker 1: And as Dan mentioned, if you get put on I
Speaker 1: R after all the cuts, which are next Tuesday, they've
Speaker 1: changed the schedule, then you can be on short term
Speaker 1: I R and come back in three weeks. But this
Speaker 1: this means you're out for the season. Not only did
Speaker 1: they draft E. T N, he was and as a
Speaker 1: third string runner right now because they took Carlos Hyde,
Speaker 1: Irban Meyer's old buddy from Ohio State, and it's you know,
Speaker 1: and it's like, I don't know, he was your third
Speaker 1: string runner and the whole like receiver thing which you
Speaker 1: mentioned at the top. They like asked Darryl Bevil about that,
Speaker 1: and they're like he was just like, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: the NFL. He's a running back. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: they put him out there for about three practices and
Speaker 1: it's like, of course he can't compete with actual slot
Speaker 1: receivers as a true receiver doesn't mean you can't split
Speaker 1: him out, and that they weren't going to use him,
Speaker 1: and that he might have a good career. Who knows,
Speaker 1: but it was just a strange pick and I feel
Speaker 1: I feel bad for him. You missed that rookie year.
Speaker 1: I don't think it will affect their team much. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're running games, should be fine with Robinson and Hyde.
Speaker 1: In other running back news, we touched on it briefly
Speaker 1: in the Fantasy Extravaganza, but we'll hit on it again here.
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle on the move from the New England Patriots
Speaker 1: to the Los Angeles Rams. The former first round pick
Speaker 1: taken one pick before Lamar Jackson in has been essential
Speaker 1: Los Angeles in exchange for conditional UH picks in tw
Speaker 1: only two fifth and sixth round conditional picks. And this
Speaker 1: is something Greg that we were kind of edging toward.
Speaker 1: It felt like all through the summer, once cam Akers
Speaker 1: went down with the Achilles hair, that the Rams were
Speaker 1: going to get a veteran presence in that backfield. It's
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle, are you a little surprised that the Pats
Speaker 1: pulled the plug on Michelle as a former first round
Speaker 1: pick Damian Harrison Harris broke out last year, but he's
Speaker 1: been a guy that struggled to stay on the field.
Speaker 1: You take away some depth there as well. No, because
Speaker 1: he's because um, they're so deep at running back. They
Speaker 1: really like Romandre Stevenson was who was a fourth round pick.
Speaker 1: They have this guy j J. Taylor the second time
Speaker 1: he's been on the team, undrafted guy from last year.
Speaker 1: He's like five ft three. He's my hero, and they're
Speaker 1: not picking up his option either. You know, they have
Speaker 1: they have James White. Uh, they just have a lot
Speaker 1: of bodies and Michelle's looked like really good in the preseason,
Speaker 1: supposedly had a good camp, so I think it could
Speaker 1: be a win win. They actually changed the trade terms
Speaker 1: since the time we trained we did the Fantasy Spectacular.
Speaker 1: The NX was like, no, you're not Fantasy extravagance. You're
Speaker 1: not allowed to trade conditional compens and tory picks. The
Speaker 1: Rams and the Patriots were told by the NFL you can't.
Speaker 1: So the trade is officially a fourth round pick and
Speaker 1: the sixth round pick, which seems a little better for
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Maybe they had they had some leverage here
Speaker 1: after the league was like not what you guys in
Speaker 1: the NFL, I don't know. It was very common. When
Speaker 1: I read the whole thing, it was complicated because basically
Speaker 1: the Rams were counting on getting this conditional pick that
Speaker 1: they would give to the Patriots, but they didn't have
Speaker 1: it yet because you know, the formula hasn't been said
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Is like, now you can't do that. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, they're getting two picks for Michelle, which
Speaker 1: is fine, but let's not overreact. I mean, these are
Speaker 1: still two picks of guys who will be likely to
Speaker 1: make the Patriots team whenever they take. Let's calm down.
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle, I would not be surprised has a very
Speaker 1: good year for the Rams and is a factor because
Speaker 1: it's a it's a run friendly team. Well, they just
Speaker 1: really needed someone to spell Darryl Henderson there and Matt
Speaker 1: Stafford he's never had a running game, and then he
Speaker 1: finally comes to l A and cam Akers goes down,
Speaker 1: which is such unfortunate timing. So I think bringing in
Speaker 1: Sony made a lot of sense. That he compliments Darrell
Speaker 1: Henderson really well, and it also obviously makes sense for
Speaker 1: the Patriots too. We could have told you. I feel
Speaker 1: like even a month ago you could see that this
Speaker 1: was going to happen. I was kind of surprised that
Speaker 1: it didn't happen sooner. Um, but when it did go down,
Speaker 1: it just like it just makes sense for both teams. Well,
Speaker 1: it's because less Need and Sean McVeigh were both there
Speaker 1: in the stadium along with Dan Hansis for one of
Speaker 1: Dan's favorite games of all time, thirteen to three, the
Speaker 1: greatest Patriots super Bowl victory of all time, Sony Michelle
Speaker 1: starting running back and you know, finishing a great postseason run.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I were a man of extreme wealth,
Speaker 1: I would have given a refund to every fan in
Speaker 1: that building, including Patriots fans. Fans loved it. You just
Speaker 1: get used to good competitive super bowls now. Um so
Speaker 1: when a real stink or hitch you in the face
Speaker 1: like a hard molly wop, it's like everyone does, how
Speaker 1: come football is not how it used to be back
Speaker 1: when men played. It's like there's there's super bowls, uh
Speaker 1: three through you know, seventeen for you right there. How
Speaker 1: about I'll use your own like extreme psychology that you
Speaker 1: try to pull all the time that says more about
Speaker 1: you than it says about me. You always bring up
Speaker 1: that game and how bad it was, and you know,
Speaker 1: people complain about it. It is my favorite. It is
Speaker 1: my favorite Patriots super Bowl though other than the first one,
Speaker 1: though it really is. It really was such a Greg
Speaker 1: take but um and other Patriots news. Mac Jones has
Speaker 1: had all week to work with the first team. Cam
Speaker 1: Newton is now back as of Thursday with the team
Speaker 1: after his COVID mix up. It was labeled a misunderstanding
Speaker 1: lad to him missing multiple practices. Uh. Mac Jones gets
Speaker 1: five hundred plus practice reps. It was reported by NBC
Speaker 1: Sports Boston and Tom Curran, friend of the show, had
Speaker 1: this quote, Connie, there's no on field reason for Cam
Speaker 1: Newton to ever take a meaningful regular season snap for
Speaker 1: the Patriots, while mac Jones is upright and able and
Speaker 1: thankfully Connie. Bill parcels also, I'm excuse me Bill Belichick,
Speaker 1: as he's known to do very open with the media
Speaker 1: on the situation. Let's hear what Bill had to say. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't really have anything to add. Dan. You release
Speaker 1: a statement. I think that covered as thoroughly as as
Speaker 1: we can without you know, getting into a you know,
Speaker 1: a lengthy things. So let's leave it at that. What
Speaker 1: does that mean? I don't know. We're referring to Cam
Speaker 1: Newton's situation. Uh, Connie, Uh, do you think it is
Speaker 1: gonna be Mac Jones's job? And if it is, do
Speaker 1: you think it's because of what happened with Cam Newton
Speaker 1: and Covid? Well? Now, now, if Tom Curran's saying that
Speaker 1: it's going to be uh Mac, then I believe Tom
Speaker 1: should be right. So, but but if they're leaning, If
Speaker 1: Tom is leaning that way, and now it feels like
Speaker 1: everything is going in that direction, I've kind of changed
Speaker 1: my mind on it because I originally thought that Cam
Speaker 1: for sure would start the season. I don't know, Am
Speaker 1: I am? I drinking the kool aid? Now at this point?
Speaker 1: Is that? Are you guys feeling that it's going to
Speaker 1: be Mac? No? I I match exactly what you said
Speaker 1: that I really thought it was going to be Cam.
Speaker 1: That Mac Jones has probably exceeded expectations. And I do
Speaker 1: believe Tom that anyone that's watched practice every day comes
Speaker 1: away thinking Mac Jones is already better and watching the
Speaker 1: preseason games, you know, as much as I love Cam
Speaker 1: and and want that like, I believe it because Mac
Speaker 1: Jones looks impressive. I also want to point out the
Speaker 1: history here. Tom Current had one of the best calls
Speaker 1: in sportswriter history. I'll never forget it. I think he
Speaker 1: was at the Providence Journal at the time. He was
Speaker 1: calling for Tom Brady before two one. Drew Bledsoe was literally, uh,
Speaker 1: the highest paid quarterback in the NFL at the time,
Speaker 1: and Tom was calling him a hood ornament that Robert
Speaker 1: Kraft was putting on the front of his car, that contract,
Speaker 1: and he said Tom Brady was absolutely better and and
Speaker 1: what should have won that job to start two thousand one,
Speaker 1: And it's like and it was like Tom Brady's boy
Speaker 1: for the rest of his career for that and so
Speaker 1: I don't know that that sort of context matters to me.
Speaker 1: Here he's I'm sure, I bet he's right, And I'm
Speaker 1: starting to think it will be Mac Jones week one.
Speaker 1: I am wondering though, too, uh Like, as someone who's
Speaker 1: slightly dyslexic, this quarterback competition has been a problem for
Speaker 1: me because Mac and Cam are the same spelled back.
Speaker 1: Where's is that an anagram? Or like, can someone can
Speaker 1: one of the listeners tell me what that is, because
Speaker 1: an antagram, I think is when you can rearrange all
Speaker 1: of the letters. But I feel like there's probably a
Speaker 1: more specific or is that the one that sounds I
Speaker 1: don't know. Somebody clear this up for us. Palindrome is
Speaker 1: a word, phrase or sequence that reads the same backward
Speaker 1: as forward. Okay, great, amazing, Thanks Dan. I should have
Speaker 1: just texted you about this. Should have hit me up.
Speaker 1: Any any palindrome related to Dan Hansas shout out. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Paul Rudd. In other news and other quarterback news, Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater won the dever Broncos starting quarterback John We talked
Speaker 1: about this little bit on Wednesday, but I wanted to
Speaker 1: hear from Vic Foggio and then Greg could do his
Speaker 1: little hype dance again, including a ridiculous treat that he
Speaker 1: said that we can talk about. Let's listen to Vic FOA.
Speaker 1: There'sn't a lot of separation. You know. They both guys
Speaker 1: have good camps um, they both played well, both had
Speaker 1: their down moments, both had their good moments. It was
Speaker 1: good overall for both of them. We just made this decision.
Speaker 1: We think it's for the best for the team right
Speaker 1: now forward. But we have two good quarterbacks, two quarterbacks
Speaker 1: that we can win with, and unfortunately you can't play
Speaker 1: with all. Right, So here's the Greg Rosenthal weets sent
Speaker 1: out yesterday. Was it last night? Greg? No? Right right
Speaker 1: when I had right when the Teddy news happened, and
Speaker 1: right when it happened soon after, I will remember who
Speaker 1: jumped off the bandwagon. When Teddy is starting a divisional
Speaker 1: round game in January, do you want to put good
Speaker 1: Sir A Sangwich on it? I mean, not on them
Speaker 1: making the divisional round? You know what the odds right now,
Speaker 1: because I's still gonna you know, I still believe it,
Speaker 1: but I'm not taking I'm not taking these bad odds.
Speaker 1: Like give me that's like a five to one odds
Speaker 1: right now. You send out that tweet and then if
Speaker 1: I ask you to back it up with a sandwich
Speaker 1: wager and you won't take the sandwich wager. We don't
Speaker 1: even trade the damn sandwiches, I s. And how much conviction,
Speaker 1: How much conviction can you really have in that tweet
Speaker 1: other than like a look at every everyone, even the
Speaker 1: people who usually like Teddy Bridgewater jumped so far off
Speaker 1: the bandwagon by the end of last year and into
Speaker 1: this year. I I truly believe this is a great team.
Speaker 1: And uh, I think they're a super Bowl team if
Speaker 1: they had Aaron Rodgers. But I think they're a playoff
Speaker 1: team with with Teddy Bridgewater. Now, then they gotta win
Speaker 1: a game. You gotta win a game. Might have to
Speaker 1: be a road game with Kansas City and that division,
Speaker 1: so that that that could be tough. But I think
Speaker 1: they can get there. I think. I know. I didn't
Speaker 1: say a home game, just starting a divisional round game.
Speaker 1: Come on, take the sandwich, come on, get behind it,
Speaker 1: do it. Peer pressure now? Yeah, Now, I I love
Speaker 1: hearing Greg talk about Teddy like just you have a
Speaker 1: different toll about you today. Yeah, like you when you
Speaker 1: talk about Teddy. It's just you have a twinkle in
Speaker 1: your eyes. Greg. It's good to be a fan. You know.
Speaker 1: I need. I need that in my life, just an
Speaker 1: adult rated fandom. Let's ride these Broncos this this year.
Speaker 1: Al right, Oh please please make that a drop Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewaters former teammate and Carolin. Remember Teddy Bridgewater was in
Speaker 1: Carolina last year. Wasn't good enough, so they got rid
Speaker 1: of him. Uh he is now um in Denver. But
Speaker 1: Robby Anderson still with the Panthers, and Robbie Anderson's signed
Speaker 1: a very team friendly deal in free agency last year
Speaker 1: and then outperformed that contract and good on the Carolina Panthers,
Speaker 1: who went back to the table with Robbie and pounded
Speaker 1: out a two year, twenty nine and a half million
Speaker 1: contract extension. So he was entering the final year of
Speaker 1: his deal. Now he's got some more security, a little
Speaker 1: more money, and Uh, I always liked Robbie Anderson, and
Speaker 1: I've liked almost everything Joe Douglas has done as GM
Speaker 1: of the Jets, but I never really understood why he
Speaker 1: wasn't more aggressive in trying to keep Anderson in the
Speaker 1: building in Floren Park. The Jets have moved on at
Speaker 1: wide receiver and they're in a good place now. But
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson is a good receiver and he's got some swag.
Speaker 1: I like the way he carries himself, and he's a playmaker.
Speaker 1: Uh is a nice move I thought by the Panthers.
Speaker 1: I love it. Undrafted out of Temple, Robbie Anderson was
Speaker 1: It's kind of like it's a win for everyone in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia who's ever been counted out, So that's everyone in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia basically, but I liked that. Okay, she did the
Speaker 1: who Counted You Out? I once had a boss tell
Speaker 1: me I wasn't memorable enough to be on TV or
Speaker 1: on like camera for anything before, Like I've yeah, I've been.
Speaker 1: But I like that Matt Rule and Robbie Anderson have
Speaker 1: that history together from Temple, and Robbie and Sam Donald
Speaker 1: have the history together from you know, the Jets, And
Speaker 1: it's kind of like when even when you look at
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson's touchdown catches, half of them came from Sam Donald.
Speaker 1: So they all have this like nice little thing going
Speaker 1: on together, and I like that. I like that they're
Speaker 1: keeping it going. Yeah, and d J Moore is locked
Speaker 1: in next year fifth year option Christian McCaffrey's there a
Speaker 1: lot of defensive talent. I like Matt Rule. It's like,
Speaker 1: you need an offensive line in a quarterback. That's that's
Speaker 1: what this season is about to see if if they
Speaker 1: have a quarterback. I don't think they have an offensive
Speaker 1: line yet, which could be a problem. A little call
Speaker 1: back to the Fantasy Extravaganza, Greg, who would you rather
Speaker 1: have on your fantasy team in Robbie Anderson or d
Speaker 1: J Moore. Mm hmm is it a wash? It's pretty close. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean more just because like he's a little more
Speaker 1: consistent week to week, but in terms of just more receptions,
Speaker 1: but no, not a big difference. I'd rather have Robby
Speaker 1: Anderson on my team, though, I think, you know, on
Speaker 1: a real team. I have to be honest with you, Greg,
Speaker 1: I was a little I was like crossing my fingers
Speaker 1: when the big fish, Evan Silva got all in on
Speaker 1: Sam Donald as a sleeper. I was hoping the gloves
Speaker 1: are gonna come off and you guys are gonna start sparring.
Speaker 1: It didn't quite happen, but I do like that you
Speaker 1: guys are at opposite ends of the spectrum with Sam
Speaker 1: Donald and to see how that all plays out and
Speaker 1: I get to sit it out. Basically getting out of
Speaker 1: the Donald game is really I think, um taking um
Speaker 1: stress levels off me that I didn't need on it
Speaker 1: for your health. Yeah, that's the way to put it.
Speaker 1: I couldn't figure out how to say it. Thank you, Connie.
Speaker 1: All Right, the Tennessee Titans will be without Ryan Tannehill
Speaker 1: um for a little bit. Potentially he was placed on
Speaker 1: the reserve COVID list. Um he was vaccinated. Um. He
Speaker 1: did speak out to down a Hill earlier heading into
Speaker 1: training camp, saying that he felt he was being put
Speaker 1: upon him uh, the need to be vaccinated. So he
Speaker 1: had said earlier in camp that he was in the
Speaker 1: process of being vaccinated. UM. And if that is the case,
Speaker 1: if he got the JB, that means he'll be back
Speaker 1: rather quickly if he's not showing symptoms. And in other
Speaker 1: COVID news, Uh, Greg, a lot of like stuff going
Speaker 1: on with the Bills. I was on check Show the
Speaker 1: Minus three podcast this week. It was great catching up
Speaker 1: with Dave Damnaschick and Eddie Spaghetti and Um, he had
Speaker 1: thrown out a theory that some of this COVID stuff
Speaker 1: and they've had a lot of issues there with close
Speaker 1: contact and obviously Cole Beasley very outspoken. Um, is that
Speaker 1: maybe the fly in the ointment when you try to
Speaker 1: figure out any way the Bills don't thrive and cruise
Speaker 1: to a division title. Do you think COVID is an
Speaker 1: actual issue that could shipwrecked that team potentially? No, not
Speaker 1: them versus any other team. They're they're over vaccinated. Almost
Speaker 1: every team is at this point. It is. It's really
Speaker 1: the exception not the rule. The players like Beasley and
Speaker 1: and Isaiah Mackenzie, who both talked about getting fined players
Speaker 1: across the league. We're fined fourteen thousand dollars and five
Speaker 1: dollars for not wearing their masks. And the big news
Speaker 1: here is that if they are fine, if they violate
Speaker 1: that again, then they're suspended. Then they can be suspended
Speaker 1: all those twenty five players. So it's not just called Beasley,
Speaker 1: it's it's players all around the league are kind of unnoticed.
Speaker 1: And I think all this COVID stuff is just a
Speaker 1: reminder there's no magical difference between right now in week three.
Speaker 1: So if if Ryan Tannehills having a breakthrough case of
Speaker 1: COVID now and is out five days now, like stuff
Speaker 1: like this is gonna keep happening. It's like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: if you like any any school system, at at least
Speaker 1: l A like where they're testing all the kids at school,
Speaker 1: You're not every single class is going to have one
Speaker 1: or two kids that have COVID at this point, and
Speaker 1: so like even the NFL is just being careful as
Speaker 1: careful as they came. I don't know, It's just it's
Speaker 1: just gonna keep popping up, like I think that's what this,
Speaker 1: Tannehill and all the code. There's a bunch of other
Speaker 1: starters that are on COVID list right now, Harold Landry,
Speaker 1: you know, all around the league. Part of me was
Speaker 1: really optimistic that things would be quieter with COVID this year,
Speaker 1: and now it's obviously not the case at all. But
Speaker 1: it's almost like teams are playing football and they're playing
Speaker 1: COVID like every like we all are at this point,
Speaker 1: and it's quieter, but it's not. It's still gonna get
Speaker 1: in the way, um for sure. How could I mean,
Speaker 1: unless like somehow everyone starts. I don't even know if
Speaker 1: there's a way to be you know, to to avoid it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean if they I know that
Speaker 1: the Titans started their their protocols changed, so they're requiring
Speaker 1: masking all indoors now, regardless of vaccination status. So maybe
Speaker 1: there is some type of competitive advantage for teams that
Speaker 1: have really strict protocols, and we'll see if that maybe
Speaker 1: pays off. But it's all it's almost like this is
Speaker 1: a whole experiment that nobody really knows what's going to
Speaker 1: happen from it hasn't this been so much fun? Has
Speaker 1: in this these last eight team lets? Hasn't it just
Speaker 1: been so great? Oh? It's the gift that keeps on
Speaker 1: giving up on giving Matt Naggy to Bears fans. Because
Speaker 1: Andy Dawn will indeed start Week one against the Rams,
Speaker 1: and and Andy Dalton will not play in the preseason
Speaker 1: finale um because of it. Instead will be Justin Fields
Speaker 1: who will start the team's final preseason game against the Titans,
Speaker 1: and he'll be playing with the backups. Gregg, where do
Speaker 1: you come down on all this? How you feel about it?
Speaker 1: I know Fields hasn't litt in it. He hasn't lit
Speaker 1: it up here in the preseason. Are you feeling a
Speaker 1: little more comfortable about the Bears decision making here not
Speaker 1: to rush Fields? Or does this seems silly to you?
Speaker 1: It's silly. I I thought Fields looked better compared to
Speaker 1: his box score, more than any of the rookie quarterbacks
Speaker 1: last week. I thought he played quite well if you
Speaker 1: if you really watch snap to snap. The problem that
Speaker 1: both him and Andy Dalton have faced, supposedly in practice
Speaker 1: and in the preseason is that their offensive line can't
Speaker 1: block anyone. You can make different arguments which which guy
Speaker 1: do you want back there in that situation? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think there's actually an argument that you'd rather have
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton in that situation because he gets the ball
Speaker 1: out quicker. That's justin fields as biggest bugaboo. But I
Speaker 1: think it's a problem. It's it's a big problem for
Speaker 1: either one of them. Fields just to me looks good
Speaker 1: enough that I just wanted to just just play him.
Speaker 1: He's going to be playing by week two or three,
Speaker 1: So why I messed around? This is the problem with
Speaker 1: so many teams that have rookie quarterbacks or young inexperienced
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that they usually don't have good offensive lines because
Speaker 1: they're usually teams that are rebuilding. And we mentioned at
Speaker 1: the top of the show with Trevor Lawrence. We saw
Speaker 1: it last year with Joe Burrow. That's the situation now
Speaker 1: in Chicago, and I don't I don't know how rookies
Speaker 1: can progress when they don't have time, especially when the
Speaker 1: game is so much faster in the NFL. It's a
Speaker 1: really tough spot for a lot of the young quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: And it's really a rare, lucky situation for a rookie
Speaker 1: to come in to a team that has a decent
Speaker 1: offensive line. But this has been the plan for the
Speaker 1: Bears the whole time. They haven't wavered. Dalton played the
Speaker 1: most preseason drives among projected starting quarterbacks the entire you know, preseason,
Speaker 1: so you could tell that he's just like, this's what
Speaker 1: we're doing. The fields hasn't played with the starters at all.
Speaker 1: That part of it seems weird to me, not just
Speaker 1: in the games, but in practice, like they're not even
Speaker 1: giving him a chance. It's like, why not, because he's
Speaker 1: gonna be playing with those guys eventually. It's just playing.
Speaker 1: He's also running a ton more than he did in college.
Speaker 1: He looks so good as a runner. Do you think
Speaker 1: Matt Naggie just thinks that he has a better shot
Speaker 1: of keeping his job if they play Andy Dalton. No,
Speaker 1: maybe it's like this loyalty thing. I think he. I
Speaker 1: think he thinks that and Dalton is gonna better than
Speaker 1: people think, And I think he feels some sort of
Speaker 1: strange loyalty and and that he made a decision and
Speaker 1: he's just gonna stick to it even if he changes
Speaker 1: it after two weeks, which feels like where it's gonna go. Well,
Speaker 1: it's Charlie win right like that, that's over everything, and
Speaker 1: whether or not us on the outside or Bears fans
Speaker 1: that are screaming and booing Andy Dalton in preseason games
Speaker 1: see it like Naggi has his opinion. He's the guy
Speaker 1: in the big chair, and he thinks that Dalton is
Speaker 1: the guy right now and it might be proven proven
Speaker 1: to be a mistake. But guess what Bears fans if
Speaker 1: if he's messed up on this and it turns out
Speaker 1: Justin Fields is awesome, probably will help toward getting this
Speaker 1: guy out of town if you don't like him anyway,
Speaker 1: it Fields canna play. It's all gonna work out, you know,
Speaker 1: it just might be temporary. I think just as like
Speaker 1: a football fan, I think all of us are a
Speaker 1: little bummed out about Sunday Night Football Week one because
Speaker 1: you wanted to have Justin Fields playing against the Rams
Speaker 1: here in Hollywood Park. But that's life. You never we'll
Speaker 1: be we'll be taping a podcast and they'll be a
Speaker 1: live football game, you know, like a hundred yards away.
Speaker 1: If it's something we're in the studio, that is pretty wild.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I keep picturing like Matt Naggie
Speaker 1: and Andy Dalton doing some type of Blood Brothers packed
Speaker 1: like in in the Hangover, like they go they go
Speaker 1: out and they I don't know, it just feels like
Speaker 1: so weird this situation in general. I was just imagining
Speaker 1: suddenly thinking about that Sunday night. What if the Rams,
Speaker 1: you know, they're always looking for extra pop, you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're pretty friendly. What if they built like a
Speaker 1: a temporary podcast studio that could like be above the
Speaker 1: field as the game is being played, Like we're we're
Speaker 1: like a hundred feet up that don't like that stadium,
Speaker 1: it's too dangerous, Like we're in the middle of the
Speaker 1: scoreboard or something like that, and they're just like, oh,
Speaker 1: up there, they're taping the around the NFL podcast and
Speaker 1: where high tension wires. How about the like the the
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins plexiglass cube that he's gonna in this season.
Speaker 1: Put us in that make it sound proof, of course,
Speaker 1: but makes poke poke some holes in that make sure
Speaker 1: we don't suffocate, and then you just slide us on
Speaker 1: the high tension wire right over midfield. Yeah. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga, even you guys could just be suspended, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe it could be during the pregame. If
Speaker 1: you don't want us to be like interrupting, that could
Speaker 1: be okay, Or during halftime, you'd like turn our the
Speaker 1: volume up so everyone can hear the podcast. You know,
Speaker 1: we could where all the Lady Gaga Diamond Cat suits
Speaker 1: from the Super Bowl performance and then we just we
Speaker 1: just jump off and then there's a sudden smash cut
Speaker 1: to like a uh finally in the news. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: the International Series is back for the NFL. There are
Speaker 1: two games in London, my New York Jets against the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons and the Miami Dolphins at the Jacksonville's Jaguars
Speaker 1: October and October seventeenth, respectively at Tottenham Hotspur Stay Um
Speaker 1: tickets one on sale this week, and I've been told
Speaker 1: by a reliable source in this realm that there were
Speaker 1: sixty people uh in the waiting room when the tickets
Speaker 1: went on sale. Almost everything gobbled up immediately. But if
Speaker 1: you were interested in going to see one of the
Speaker 1: London games, head over to NFL dot com or NFL
Speaker 1: dot com slash UK slash London hyphen Games and there
Speaker 1: might be some tickets still available. But that's that's great.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing. Um. Those stadiums are always filled,
Speaker 1: and we've been lucky enough to go twice now and
Speaker 1: we're hoping to go again in October. Um, those stadiums
Speaker 1: are always filled and it's always a great environment, and
Speaker 1: it will be again this year. Right, I've seen crowds
Speaker 1: there that are better than some Super Bowl crowds, not
Speaker 1: that it's not an exaggeration. What time does that kick
Speaker 1: off West Coast? Is that like one of the sixth
Speaker 1: I'm doing the pregame show for that, so I think
Speaker 1: I have to get into the studio at like four
Speaker 1: am or something, so tune in everybody to thirty in London.
Speaker 1: So I guess he has six thirty on the Left Coast,
Speaker 1: and I think they tickets might actually all be gone now,
Speaker 1: but it's worth checking out, Um, if you are looking
Speaker 1: to go and you haven't invested in that yet. Before
Speaker 1: we go, that's what's happening in the news, and we
Speaker 1: are trying to get there. We're trying to get there
Speaker 1: to London. We were trying to clear some hurdles, but
Speaker 1: it's certainly it's it's in play before we go. I
Speaker 1: wanted to share something from Hard Knocks this week, Um
Speaker 1: and Ricky, why don't we play it out? Um? Play
Speaker 1: it out this way? Um, deep thoughts with Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: and I have for some reason, I think, Connie, that
Speaker 1: you will relate to uh this extended monologue. No, that's different.
Speaker 1: That would be very rude for me to say that. Dude,
Speaker 1: that is not what I'm referring to. No, you didn't
Speaker 1: wear under armour to school when you were a teenager,
Speaker 1: to quote Tuck in the Chub, Nope did not. Getting
Speaker 1: this is different? Um, I think you might relate to it.
Speaker 1: Here is deep thoughts with Dak Prescott. Hit it ricky.
Speaker 1: When I was younger, I used to be scared of
Speaker 1: people in costumes, anybody in a costume. I'm talking decently
Speaker 1: old too, like middle school. I wasn't sure. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just had ahead. I used to think that would
Speaker 1: be the best way to injure or hurt somebody if
Speaker 1: you wanted to. You think that's that person in the costume.
Speaker 1: You don't know who that is. He's up to something.
Speaker 1: That's why I never did anything haunted. I used to
Speaker 1: tell my mom that's the perfect place to kill somebody.
Speaker 1: Why would I do that? I told her that she understood.
Speaker 1: Never made me. Y'all think it's a fake chainsaw. You
Speaker 1: don't know one of them crazy. Just put a blade
Speaker 1: on that one day. That's bit is stupid until next week.
Speaker 1: Hit the call