Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast is feeling supersonic.
Speaker 2: Give me Jen and Tonic. Hey there it is. Welcome
Speaker 2: all right to the Around the NFL Podcast from Londin.
Speaker 2: I'm Dan Hansis and I'm joined by the heroes, the
Speaker 2: old Boss, Greg Rosenthal.
Speaker 3: More of that.
Speaker 2: Please thank you throughout the show, sirs and the Quiet
Speaker 2: Star and Mark Sisler, Uh.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: This is a night long celebration of all things Mark.
Speaker 2: That was like, what what is it? What a football hooligans?
Speaker 4: Sound? That chance? Elevant to it?
Speaker 2: Mark, Happy birthday?
Speaker 4: You turned some age, some age this week, some age.
Speaker 2: This beautiful man.
Speaker 4: I ignore the number, but I embrace it too.
Speaker 2: I'm with you. Listen. It's so great to be here.
Speaker 2: This is our as a group, fifth trip to London,
Speaker 2: and it is I don't know, I feel like it
Speaker 2: gets it gets a little bigger every year. And the
Speaker 2: vibe I see you, mister Joe Nama, the jersey.
Speaker 3: It's always one of them and Gregor.
Speaker 2: We got the three games and we're going to be
Speaker 2: at Baltimore, Tennessee and that's so exciting. It's it's so
Speaker 2: great to be here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're we're we're back working with Sky, so if
Speaker 3: you're at the game, you know, just yell at us
Speaker 3: and make us seem like a big deal. It really
Speaker 3: bothered Maury s Jones Drew a couple of years ago,
Speaker 3: killed them killed when we were brought up on the
Speaker 3: big screen and they introduced mauryast Jones Drew and it
Speaker 3: was polite applause and then Dan and I come in
Speaker 3: there and in the place went crazy. So so please
Speaker 3: please look us up and I'm excited. If you're not
Speaker 3: going to the game, we'll be on Sky.
Speaker 2: I got the exact words were, I won the rushing title.
Speaker 4: And we appeared on Sky today, Dan and I on
Speaker 4: Sky Sports News. Yes, I don't know if you if
Speaker 4: you've listened to the show for a while. A couple
Speaker 4: of years ago, Dan and I had our first appearance
Speaker 4: on that was more like Sky News. It was like
Speaker 4: it was pretty hard, little rough, and we got like
Speaker 4: four straight questions about Colin Kaepernick and our official stance
Speaker 4: on Colin Kaepernick. It was just like it's like.
Speaker 2: Do you stand with Callan Kopanach? Are you against him
Speaker 2: like the rest of the National Football League. Then we
Speaker 2: we get back to where our staging area was sure
Speaker 2: of course, like where's Wes and Greg? Yeah? And there
Speaker 2: they are being interviewed by Hannah will Ray Hannah will Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they're kicking back and relaxing and talking about fantasy football, like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, I think Derrick Henry is a great value.
Speaker 2: And sitting at Mark and I looked like guys that
Speaker 2: came home from war and saw too much.
Speaker 4: You're like they have like the like the beautiful British
Speaker 4: like suns streaming in on them, and Dan and I
Speaker 4: are like sweating, like we've got armpit stains. We're just
Speaker 4: a hot mess.
Speaker 2: So it still sticks with us. Congratulations Greg, everything going
Speaker 2: your way?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I was. I was back with Hannah
Speaker 3: today on her huddle. I guess just the women like me.
Speaker 2: There enough. Well, we've talked about him many times. Greg
Speaker 2: was quite the cocksmen.
Speaker 4: Uh is high school years and uh the most high
Speaker 4: school happened.
Speaker 2: And listen, there are many many, many, many, many, many
Speaker 2: many many men here for those that are struggling in
Speaker 2: the waves of the opposite sex or whatever, like do
Speaker 2: you have any advice from your nineteen ninety seven So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, if you're if you're sure in scrawnie, don't
Speaker 3: be aware of that, just like believe you're bigger.
Speaker 2: There's the lesson. Okay, let's talk about Ravens Titans real quick,
Speaker 2: because who's going to the game on Sunday?
Speaker 3: Person who does yeuted Delaware out appreciate you?
Speaker 2: Where are the types? We want the tapes? You want
Speaker 2: to talk a little bit about this game.
Speaker 4: That's why we're here. I meant, what do you think?
Speaker 4: I just like cannot believe the so on NFL Plus.
Speaker 4: We broke down Ravens Steelers about twenty five minutes, went
Speaker 4: through all the plays, and I mean I grew up
Speaker 4: not enjoying either one of these teams for very obvious reasons.
Speaker 4: But I almost like it was the first time that
Speaker 4: Ravens fans I kind of almost felt that for them
Speaker 4: a bit because that game what seer your memory? It
Speaker 4: was just like your expose.
Speaker 2: You loved it.
Speaker 4: I kind of loved it, but like, but I'm loving it.
Speaker 4: Then the Steelers winning, so it's like there's no win here.
Speaker 4: But I mean you you have to like dive into
Speaker 4: the archives to find a Ravens game littered with that
Speaker 4: many gaffes errors and like Lamar Jackson playing well, but
Speaker 4: his wide receiver is just I don't know how many
Speaker 4: acid tabs were handed out to that group of players
Speaker 4: before the game that it's like they it had you know,
Speaker 4: they were in effect in the bloodstream.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I am a Lamar believer, as you guys know.
Speaker 3: I'm part of the we know, Lamar General of the
Speaker 3: lam Armie, very like Bonaparte here in little Napoleon complex.
Speaker 3: But I like to look at the positive. I like,
Speaker 3: there's why open receivers for the Ravens now and you're
Speaker 3: going up against the Titans team that's bad against the pass.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Mike Rabel like talks defense, but his defenses are pretty mediocre.
Speaker 3: Year after year. We got Odell Beckham, we got for
Speaker 3: Shad Baban, who hasn't done anything. I feel like they
Speaker 3: do and it's a really strong defense. You would think, Oh,
Speaker 3: the Titans are the team that's better at stopping the run. No,
Speaker 3: it's the Ravens. So I'm looking forward to this game.
Speaker 3: I'm wondering, like, are there a lot of Ravens and
Speaker 3: or Titans fans here? Okay, wait, where are the Ravens fans? Like?
Speaker 2: Did you almost die on Sunday? That was one of
Speaker 2: the shiest losses. And I'm a Jets fan that that
Speaker 2: was one of the worst losses I've ever seen, like
Speaker 2: out on television. So like, I think that's what's so
Speaker 2: interesting about this game because they both kind of need it.
Speaker 2: So the Titans, they are two and four, two and three,
Speaker 2: two and three, they six games, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4: That much have been a prophecy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, math is an issue state mandated top stitch. And
Speaker 2: while the Ravens will survive, win or lose on Sunday,
Speaker 2: it is you know, coming off the type of bloss
Speaker 2: it was, and again the fact that you guys are alive,
Speaker 2: that's good stuff. Like they kind of needed to just
Speaker 2: get their kind of swagger back a little bit. So
Speaker 2: it's two teams that really kind of need a w
Speaker 2: this weekend.
Speaker 3: And the Titans just feel like this show that's peaked
Speaker 3: and has been on the air for a really long time,
Speaker 3: and you're like, like, oh, Frazier is still on, Like like.
Speaker 2: They're they're introducing the like the red haired boy, that's
Speaker 2: the orphan that showed up at the front step just
Speaker 2: for comedies.
Speaker 3: And I like them, but it's like, oh, Kevin Byern
Speaker 3: and Mike Griebel and Derrick Henry, all the guys that
Speaker 3: you used to love when they were the one seed.
Speaker 3: But there's just diminishing returns here. That's it. I think
Speaker 3: before the season I had them winning this division, which
Speaker 3: means they need to get some w's.
Speaker 4: And I'm caught in a major tough stitch. I do
Speaker 4: I have to ask a couple of Ravens fans. I mean,
Speaker 4: it was even literally last week that I went, you know,
Speaker 4: out to an event with some people and meta race.
Speaker 2: What well, who talks like that?
Speaker 3: I don't know, so it is it.
Speaker 4: I went, I literally went to a baseball game, a
Speaker 4: baseball playoff game, and it was with a hardcore Steelers
Speaker 4: fan who I like knows is football. And then like
Speaker 4: the comment came up when we talked about the Ravens
Speaker 4: and the win over the Ravens and there's a boon
Speaker 4: for a Steelers team that was lost at sea and
Speaker 4: you know, oh, well, we know that the Ravens were
Speaker 4: once the Cleveland Browns. And this was a person of
Speaker 4: a certain age that would was alive when that happened.
Speaker 4: No knowledge that was the Cleveland Browns. And this is
Speaker 4: how many times you've been out with me when I
Speaker 4: when I run into this type of Ravens fan, it's like,
Speaker 4: please know the history of where your team came from,
Speaker 4: or I'm gonna leave. I'm just gonna water. That guy's dead, right, No, no, no,
Speaker 4: I I just realized, like, oh, that happened like thirty
Speaker 4: five thousand years ago, and some people don't care.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you listen to the show long enough, you know
Speaker 3: there is a dark Sessler.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, well let's see you see.
Speaker 3: You get you get the sunny version. But sometimes there
Speaker 3: is like a point in the night where the roller
Speaker 3: coaster is going up, up, up, up, and then it
Speaker 3: starts going down, and that's where Dark Sessler arrives.
Speaker 4: That's after the show.
Speaker 3: If you happen to be unlucky enough to reveal that
Speaker 3: you didn't know that the Ravens were ones the Cleveland Browns, Yeah.
Speaker 4: You are in trouble.
Speaker 3: You are in deep trouble.
Speaker 2: I do think that's a great for like kind of
Speaker 2: counterculture programming Sessler after Dark.
Speaker 4: You see, it's better than a Frasier reboot, which is happening.
Speaker 2: La we do you need it? Nobody asked for it,
Speaker 2: and yet here it is Greggy as captain of the
Speaker 2: LAMARMI uh, do you think there's any way to lose
Speaker 2: this game or where you sat on this one?
Speaker 3: Ah, I've thought a lot about this game, and I
Speaker 3: want to tell you a little story.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah.
Speaker 3: The lam Armie has been around for years and we've
Speaker 3: been waiting and we've been looking, and we've been saying
Speaker 3: all we need is the right person to lead this,
Speaker 3: like let's quit it with the college running style. And
Speaker 3: then our guy, Captain Todd Monkan arrived.
Speaker 4: What are we doing?
Speaker 2: Balls for dramatic effect?
Speaker 4: You're trying, Greg, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I want to tell you another story.
Speaker 2: Another wait, that was the close of the story.
Speaker 3: There's two stories. They connect, all right, take two and
Speaker 3: actually they connect, Okay, pausing it helps the comedic effect.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 2: Failed it.
Speaker 3: There was a government a few years back and they
Speaker 3: didn't like the bigger group of countries that they were
Speaker 3: connected to. They wanted to escape that group. And in
Speaker 3: the years after that, times were tough and there wasn't
Speaker 3: as many pounds as they call it instead of euros
Speaker 3: hanging around. And then one Sunday they went to Tottenham Stadium.
Speaker 3: The hot Toddy and all the little Sylvia's and all
Speaker 3: the little Ollie's looked up into the sky and it
Speaker 3: was supposed to be a sunny day. But then the
Speaker 3: clouds started rolling in and the rain decided to come
Speaker 3: and it started raining.
Speaker 2: All over time from Hotspur.
Speaker 3: Stadium and the rain Maker gave all the money to
Speaker 3: the boys and girls.
Speaker 2: To the rain.
Speaker 3: The rainmaker, let's go.
Speaker 2: Yeah it did. And it's important Mark that we again responsibility.
Speaker 2: The rain maker last nime, he you know, took out
Speaker 2: you know, he did the forecast. He said the Patriots
Speaker 2: were gonna take care of business, right, and then little
Speaker 2: Susie buck to Susie didn't get braces nope. Uh. And
Speaker 2: you know that house they wanted to do, the addition
Speaker 2: of the house didn't get finished.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: There's children that are using outhouses. There's no more toilets.
Speaker 2: Like what at what point? What stops this? Man?
Speaker 4: I don't well, I don't know why you trust if
Speaker 4: you you know, have money of your own. I'm just
Speaker 4: looking at the fashion selection, the the whole the ensemble
Speaker 4: is questionable. Greg. You know, there's some accountability that this
Speaker 4: is needed on your part here. I mean, there are
Speaker 4: people that no longer believe in the Easter Bunny because
Speaker 4: nothing shows up on Easter morning. There's no funds. Santa
Speaker 4: claus Is xt out.
Speaker 3: I shout out to Erica Tamposi. Are great for her
Speaker 3: producer Ricky Hollywood. You know she's a she's a close
Speaker 3: a close friend of me, of mine and I at
Speaker 3: this point where she really didn't like me. She chose
Speaker 3: this as the graphics for The rain Maker. But to
Speaker 3: answer your question, Mark, I'd like to look back on
Speaker 3: the last three years of The rain Maker and look
Speaker 3: at the consistent success and all the coins falling from
Speaker 3: the sky that little Ali. You just have to have faith.
Speaker 4: We don't have time to fact check it so that
Speaker 4: we were we always go down this alley with you.
Speaker 2: Don't think you're work for it anymore? After what happened,
Speaker 2: Patriots all right, shout? Should we move on anything else?
Speaker 3: Mark?
Speaker 4: I would I want to throw out one sandwich bet
Speaker 4: that I feel. I feel strong it's a prop.
Speaker 3: We actually are gonna maybe put this out as an
Speaker 3: actual podcast. So y's a sandwich prop. Sandwich props. We
Speaker 3: are not going to any of the casinos in the UK.
Speaker 4: I will call it what I wish, but I would
Speaker 4: tell you like I you know, I know you're thinking, oh,
Speaker 4: look like an animal is gonna bite someone on the forehead, like,
Speaker 4: I'm not going down that road with this one. Okay,
Speaker 4: all right, what do we got? This is hardcore football.
Speaker 4: So back on September twenty six, twenty twenty one, all right,
Speaker 4: with the Detroit Lions as the opponent in the Baltimore
Speaker 4: Ravens facing them, someone that we love on the show
Speaker 4: achieved the longest field goal in NFL history sixty six yards. Still, okay,
Speaker 4: of course he did. That won't be the longest field
Speaker 4: goal come Sunday night. That will not. This is my
Speaker 4: sports lock of the week. So you just take it
Speaker 4: from there, and you say, I will not even challenge
Speaker 4: you because I know it's going to happen.
Speaker 3: One of my favorite things about Mark is that he
Speaker 3: loves to listen to AM radio in the United States,
Speaker 3: which is mostly programming to men over seventy three years old, alright,
Speaker 3: and he loves to listen to the sports lock of
Speaker 3: the week guys, talking as you're coming into once in
Speaker 3: a while. I love this. I mean for it to
Speaker 3: happen outdoors here would be bold. I'm going to take
Speaker 3: you up on it just cause I love sandwiches.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's that's definitely a take. It's supposed to
Speaker 2: get a little chilly this weekend.
Speaker 4: It's inclement weather. That's what makes it all the more courageous.
Speaker 4: I actually I did not say it could be. It
Speaker 4: could be one of two kickers, all right.
Speaker 2: Did it? I said? Damn it?
Speaker 3: Live from the Shaw Theater in London, England, It's time
Speaker 3: for everybody's favorite game show.
Speaker 2: What more likely? Yes, giving up by the way, that Eric,
Speaker 2: our producer, that was very good voiceover work. Given up
Speaker 2: for Eric. He's not awesome work. Rap rabbits and with
Speaker 2: the magnic thumb. You guys should see it.
Speaker 3: And it was thirty minutes ago. We're not last minute
Speaker 3: doing these things at all, all right, So.
Speaker 2: What's more likely? Those that have listened to the show
Speaker 2: for many years. No, it is a war wars for
Speaker 2: us because it allows us to throw out two possibilities
Speaker 2: within the universe.
Speaker 4: We're the only show that has ever produced a segment
Speaker 4: like this.
Speaker 2: Sell it, Sessler, I love it.
Speaker 3: Although we have noticed certain segments on our show popping
Speaker 3: up on other programming. It's part edit out of the
Speaker 3: podcast we're released.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this show, by the way, will be posted to
Speaker 2: the world, which we don't typically do. So even if
Speaker 2: it's not funny the jokes or the comments, just give
Speaker 2: us a little pop. That's all we ask. That's all
Speaker 2: we ask.
Speaker 3: Also, we're incredibly insecured. It makes us feel better temporarily,
Speaker 3: and you have to keep refilling over and over and over.
Speaker 2: But then the whole remains, and it's a hole that
Speaker 2: cannot be filled. All right, So what's more likely, Greggy?
Speaker 2: Why don't you get us going?
Speaker 3: I want to fast forward a little bit. Let's go
Speaker 3: to the day after the wild card round has ended
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four. It's a little bit in the future.
Speaker 3: At that point in time, Bill Belichick is still the
Speaker 3: coach of the New England Patriots.
Speaker 2: WHOA what does that mean? What are the sounds meaning?
Speaker 6: He go?
Speaker 3: Of course I be a head coach.
Speaker 2: Either game on Monday.
Speaker 3: Or a team from the NFC South is still alive
Speaker 3: in the playoffs. Are we gonna do better than that?
Speaker 2: We're gonna be on the world. Let's go. That's good?
Speaker 2: All right? Bill still has a job where the Falcons
Speaker 2: get to the second round.
Speaker 3: Any NFC South team is still alive in the Division
Speaker 3: around playoffs? Correct, Okay, all right?
Speaker 4: I I have some things to say about Belichick in
Speaker 4: a minute myself, but which.
Speaker 3: I thought we went over this.
Speaker 4: We attempted to cross plan for about twelve minutes before
Speaker 4: the show, and I maybe was not I was shut
Speaker 4: down at that point now listening, But I think in
Speaker 4: an NFC South team, winning a playoff game is not impossible.
Speaker 4: They're weird, they're kind of sexy. The Falcons can hurt
Speaker 4: you in a number of ways. They can hurt themselves.
Speaker 3: Which which team do you guys think would be the
Speaker 3: most likely NFC South Falcons.
Speaker 2: That's curious, that's part of I think to say it's
Speaker 2: probably no, all right, because their defense is very good.
Speaker 2: We've seen that, and I think that especially will continue
Speaker 2: to help them during this regular season where they're it's
Speaker 2: pretty soft schedule for both all these teams. And then
Speaker 2: you know, I like Derek Carr more than others, so
Speaker 2: and I think if with Alba Kamara there, if they
Speaker 2: get Chris Alave more involved than Michael Thomas Day is healthy,
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna be the best team coming out
Speaker 2: of there. And then you get a home game and
Speaker 2: then the Superdome, maybe you win with but I think
Speaker 2: it's more likely that Beljick stays I think that even
Speaker 2: it feels very and that's why, you know, when we'll
Speaker 2: talk about it a little bit later. Flashpoint Focus is
Speaker 2: the most pression of all programs on the podcast in
Speaker 2: the podcast world, because we're ahead of the story always.
Speaker 2: It's obviously a big story that the Patriots are struggling
Speaker 2: the way they are, but I also think they are
Speaker 2: more likely unless there's a real clash behind the scenes,
Speaker 2: which is possible, that they would go, let's say four
Speaker 2: and thirteen and then kick the quarterback out and let
Speaker 2: Bill start over with a quarterback. I just think, even
Speaker 2: though Kraft said it in the media before the season started,
Speaker 2: I'd think Kraft wants Bill to be on the sideline
Speaker 2: when he set break Schul's record. I think he wants to.
Speaker 4: Give him but that could take three years with the
Speaker 4: team they have right now.
Speaker 2: Well you never know though the NFL, the way teams
Speaker 2: quickly rebuild. I just think it's I don't think he's gone.
Speaker 2: I think he'll survive this year, but.
Speaker 4: Think things can get so dark though. It's like, I mean,
Speaker 4: what's happened over the last two weeks, like it has
Speaker 4: us talking about and on our Flashpoint Focus series, which
Speaker 4: if you go look at the athletic Like days later,
Speaker 4: there's like eight features talking about what we talked about
Speaker 4: four days earlier. So just a little nod to us,
Speaker 4: But it could get so dark that maybe the whole
Speaker 4: relationship just crumbles. Although I just picked the NFC South
Speaker 4: team winning, so I'll just stop talking now.
Speaker 3: I think it's the NFC South team because you figure
Speaker 3: what that's like not to be you know, boring analytical
Speaker 3: Greg here, But what have they got a forty percent
Speaker 3: chance and they're gonna have a home game in the
Speaker 3: playoffs no matter who they're playing. Maybe they're playing the
Speaker 3: Seahawks or something like that. They're slight underdogs. I see
Speaker 3: you twelve. We can't initially, what is up with the
Speaker 3: UK Saints fans. There's weirdly a lot of UK science fans.
Speaker 3: There's actually a UK Saints podcast, which I'm just surprised
Speaker 3: there's enough people to score them. That's amazing, Like, congrats,
Speaker 3: check it out.
Speaker 2: I mean the person that hosts the UK Saints podcast
Speaker 2: are you here? Are you now that podcast? Plugging that
Speaker 2: in the building, Then we'll plug it, GREGGI.
Speaker 3: I actually, if I had to guess, I would go
Speaker 3: Falcons slightly over Saints and Bucks, although I feel like
Speaker 3: it's way closer to one third chance for all three
Speaker 3: that I feel like the Falcons upside is the highest
Speaker 3: where they actually could be a really good team. But
Speaker 3: the Patriots setting your showing out to me, if they
Speaker 3: go five and twelve, they he gone like four and
Speaker 3: thirty he gone like they said that going into this season.
Speaker 3: They've lost the last two games by seventy two to three.
Speaker 3: How much darker can it get? We've got this more week.
Speaker 2: He's not every coach like you're kind of using like
Speaker 2: this against what other coaches would get them fired. This
Speaker 2: guy he's been to like nine super Bowls or that's
Speaker 2: how I would feel.
Speaker 3: But I am not Robert all right, how about this
Speaker 3: and have a lot of the ego and want to
Speaker 3: make the Hall of Fame and show who's in charge.
Speaker 2: I think he's gone. If that's what it's about, that's gross.
Speaker 2: I guess just giving them so much? How about this?
Speaker 2: Speaking of the Saints. Former Saints head coach involved with
Speaker 2: this one. So here we go. The Miami Dolphins. Any
Speaker 2: Dolphins fins you the Miami Dolphins finish with the most
Speaker 2: yards in NFL history or Sean Payton goes full Urban
Speaker 2: Meyer and doesn't see a second year in Ded Brook
Speaker 2: whoa all right on the count of three, one two, three,
Speaker 2: all right, Well, well do.
Speaker 3: You know leading the league in yardage after five weeks
Speaker 3: that was the goal of the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I told Greg on the Monday Show that I understand
Speaker 2: now there's a kinship. There's some times of invisible straand
Speaker 2: that ties Greg to Mike McDaniel, And I think we
Speaker 2: should all listen very closely to Greg and he talks
Speaker 2: about McDaniel because he understands McDaniel in a way none
Speaker 2: of us can't.
Speaker 3: That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me. I
Speaker 3: think it's Mike McDaniel on these Dolphins keeping it going.
Speaker 3: It's a little hard to imagine because the stats are
Speaker 3: so inflated early in the season, the weather gets bad,
Speaker 3: they'll have to go to Buffalo, YadA, YadA. But the
Speaker 3: other option includes Sean Payton, who pretty much has all
Speaker 3: of the national media like on his payroll. I consider
Speaker 3: like no one plays like still though.
Speaker 2: No, maybe not.
Speaker 3: He he knows how to play the media game, and
Speaker 3: he gets the most favorable coverage possible. And weirdly, I've
Speaker 3: learned over the years that actually matters. He got this
Speaker 3: ownership group even though he was the third pick for
Speaker 3: the job, which he doesn't like to bring up. They
Speaker 3: wanted to make O'Ryan's, they wanted dan Qui. He somehow
Speaker 3: gave got like the biggest contract in the entire NFL.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of guaranteed money. They don't want to
Speaker 3: look like dummies. So he'd staying, no matter what, all right,
Speaker 3: who's next?
Speaker 4: I will go? So I do ranch into something that
Speaker 4: you mentioned, but it's a little bit different here a
Speaker 4: dog biting thing. No, no, no, we're not doing that.
Speaker 2: So did you say a bite on the forehead?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well anywhere with the angle forehead would be tough
Speaker 4: to uh. Not a lot of fleshy skin there, all right,
Speaker 4: defying the laws of medical science. Aaron Rodgers fulfills his
Speaker 4: quest to return this season. He talked about it, marching
Speaker 4: into Foxborough on January seventh, handing the ball off to
Speaker 4: Bresee Hall twenty seven times and completing fifteen of seventeen passes,
Speaker 4: with a ninety eight yard touchdown strike to Garrett Wilson
Speaker 4: in the final fifteen seconds of regulation. The other one
Speaker 4: hold on with a fiery middle finger aimed at the
Speaker 4: football gods. The Jets squeak in as the AFC's seventh
Speaker 4: playoff team and usher in the firing of Bill Belichick.
Speaker 4: All right, that'd be a rough end.
Speaker 2: Or you have me intrigued, right.
Speaker 4: Or the Jets pee their pants to a six win campaign,
Speaker 4: but hold on, the Patriots look like a team on
Speaker 4: a psilocybin mono diet, farting out three lowly victories. Belichick
Speaker 4: resigns before Kraft can dump them. Smart Woody Johnson gets
Speaker 4: crazy and fires his entire coaching staff and in comes Belichick,
Speaker 4: fueled by anger and hatred and revenge, to become the
Speaker 4: Jets head coach with a super Bowl level defense and
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers is his quarterback come next September.
Speaker 2: There is nothing, There is nothing and no one in
Speaker 2: the world that hates anything more than Bill Belichick. Bill
Speaker 2: Belichick hates the New York Jets.
Speaker 4: I hear you up till now.
Speaker 2: Now. There is something twisted in perverse about him going
Speaker 2: back to the Jets where he was the DC years
Speaker 2: ago and saving them, and almost in a way that's
Speaker 2: kind of burying the Jets by saying, like the only
Speaker 2: way you were ever going to be saved is by
Speaker 2: me eat it and maybe he resigns again immediately after
Speaker 2: and sticks it to us. But I just think that
Speaker 2: is an impossible scenario, if anything, and I think so
Speaker 2: he doesn't like to admit to it the birthday boy.
Speaker 2: But the scenario that really is saucy is Belichick getting
Speaker 2: fired by the Pats and going back to the Browns.
Speaker 2: And I know you think about it a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know the mark.
Speaker 3: If you need a couple of minutes.
Speaker 4: I could take a few minutes, like I you know,
Speaker 4: I just like you, Greg. I read like all the
Speaker 4: Belichick you know, biographies and all the publications about him,
Speaker 4: wrote to him when I was young. Others got that
Speaker 4: on my on my resume. But he hes all he
Speaker 4: talked about over and over was ownership is the most
Speaker 4: important thing. So Whatody Johnson stands out as a bit eccentric.
Speaker 4: But the Haslims, I mean, they're lucky that they didn't
Speaker 4: that they escaped like an FBI bo. So I don't know,
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to tell you what we know.
Speaker 3: I do got to hand it to you, that was
Speaker 3: an amazing what's more likely just like sometimes you got
Speaker 3: to give it up. There's no joke to it. I
Speaker 3: will answer that.
Speaker 4: When you don't sleep for twenty two hours straight, things sort.
Speaker 2: Too greatness erupts from you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I will go with the first option
Speaker 3: because I'm I'm with Dan. And when Bill Belichick got
Speaker 3: the job, Woody Johnson was the Jets owner and he
Speaker 3: infamously was quoted in one of those books saying I'm
Speaker 3: not working for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he kind of cluses to the dune.
Speaker 3: I also want to know what a mono scillo cybe
Speaker 3: diet is.
Speaker 2: Well, you got diet.
Speaker 3: We've got two pretty clear days here before Sunday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you can there's a lot of options. A
Speaker 4: mono diet is where you would you know, some people,
Speaker 4: you know, we live in LA. You'd eat like maybe
Speaker 4: a type of fruit for like ten days. Right, But
Speaker 4: if it were psilocybin and combine it with mind all
Speaker 4: during drugs, yeah, or just that like you you go
Speaker 4: other places?
Speaker 2: All right, last one, last one be? And I literally
Speaker 2: can't answer that question. I just don't think there's any scenariore.
Speaker 2: Either happens under any world. So I what's working?
Speaker 3: And if Belichick went back to the Jets, he would suck.
Speaker 3: It would be like a reverse Revus where Revis had
Speaker 3: to come to the Patriots.
Speaker 2: Probably all right, the San Francisco forty nine ers, A
Speaker 2: forty nine ers fans.
Speaker 3: Of the House, Okay, we hear you.
Speaker 2: They go seventeen and zero this year in the regular season.
Speaker 2: Or we getisode number two of our favorite podcast, hit It.
Speaker 2: What's Up?
Speaker 7: It's Nate Burlesson and they gave your man my very
Speaker 7: own podcast.
Speaker 2: I'm calling it The Process with Nate Burlesson.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk about greatness on this show.
Speaker 2: You don't really have to answer.
Speaker 3: That one, but I really want everyone just thank you
Speaker 3: for laughing at that. For the rest of my life
Speaker 3: being here tonight, That's what I will remember.
Speaker 2: Thank you, all right, Heny Jason.
Speaker 8: And now we take you inside the mind of Dan
Speaker 8: Campbell an internal monologue.
Speaker 6: Meat Man, I tell you what I just love, ripping
Speaker 6: the flesh of an animal and noting on the bone
Speaker 6: like a lion. I'm built for this.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 6: Our defense is primed. The HGH I gave Jared Goff
Speaker 6: is working. Everything is perfect, except we lost those NFL
Speaker 6: podcast Bozo's all I wanted, All I ever wanted was
Speaker 6: to be the first team in history to be the
Speaker 6: team of atl for two straight seasons.
Speaker 3: We're built for this, but they gave.
Speaker 5: Up on me.
Speaker 6: Hell Mark was barely on board last year. Dan so
Speaker 6: sad about the Jets. He can't even see what's right
Speaker 6: in front of him.
Speaker 3: Greg's cool, Maybe it's not too late.
Speaker 6: I'm just a man, stay and in front of a
Speaker 6: podcast asking it to love them.
Speaker 3: They can hear this, right, Well done, sir.
Speaker 2: All right, it's time now we talked about it. It
Speaker 2: is a important segment that we have. By we, I
Speaker 2: mean Mark and I have cultivated co creators. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean segative producers.
Speaker 3: I mean associe a producer. You guys said last night.
Speaker 2: What do we say, assistant to the best boy?
Speaker 4: It was our best grip I think it was, or
Speaker 4: junior grip.
Speaker 2: He was junior to the junior grip. Anyway, that's not important.
Speaker 2: What is important.
Speaker 3: It's time I literally came up with the guests that
Speaker 3: you guys have been bragging about seeing into the future.
Speaker 2: Okay, see that you're never gonna get promoted. And with
Speaker 2: that type of that's not a good culture. It's not
Speaker 2: a good company, you know what. Sean McVay with the
Speaker 2: culture fit, Like we're starting to think should we trade
Speaker 2: you for a twenty twenty nine seventh round pick. You
Speaker 2: don't want to. We think you have about all right, anyway,
Speaker 2: it is exactly what you know. It is hit. It
Speaker 2: is last point focus, where we get ahead of a
Speaker 2: story and tell you what everyone will be talking about
Speaker 2: down the line. And yes, we had a flashpoint focus
Speaker 2: about the Patriots about I don't know, two weeks ago,
Speaker 2: and now every publication that covers pro football is all
Speaker 2: about the Patriots. Other examples include.
Speaker 4: Mark, you know, we were at the combine and we
Speaker 4: were just sort of talking about the concept of this
Speaker 4: is a while ago, what would happen to Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 4: who seemed cemented as Cleveland's quarterback? Like all right, you're
Speaker 4: cemented to, but like about a ma'am about a fortnight later.
Speaker 3: Just that you're here and that you're a woman, you
Speaker 3: can scream out as much as you want.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to come on the stage.
Speaker 4: We had Baker Mayfield. I mean, we just it's been
Speaker 4: such a series story. I mean, it's just I mean,
Speaker 4: it's uh, Dan, you and I created something very special.
Speaker 2: You and I we did. We did Mark.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you guys could give out awards, you would
Speaker 3: give them to yourselves for this segment repeatedly.
Speaker 2: All right, So here here is what we're gonna.
Speaker 3: Where is that Stitcher Award?
Speaker 2: By that? I don't know, I'm still looking for it.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna kind of fast
Speaker 2: forward two months from tonight, so that would be December twelve,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, and we're gonna look at this as
Speaker 2: a like a pre production meeting what will be around
Speaker 2: the NFL's next flashpoint focus. I'll get this one going.
Speaker 2: I was I have to admit, uh, and Mark you
Speaker 2: were you were pressing on this yourself. Sure, yeah, Dallas boys,
Speaker 2: that was a hideous egg laid in primetime against the Niners.
Speaker 2: And I understand that the Niners are a superpower right
Speaker 2: now and there not to be messed with. And you
Speaker 2: maybe shouldn't take too much out of a team going
Speaker 2: up to their house and getting stumped. However, I'll get
Speaker 2: to that. However, I look ahead and what I think
Speaker 2: is gonna happen two months from tonight, and this is
Speaker 2: pretty while on December eleventh, which will be the day before,
Speaker 2: by my man, they they will play the Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 2: who are another superpower, and I think they will lose
Speaker 2: that game, and I believe it will lead to a
Speaker 2: lot of hysteria. And I believe it will lead to
Speaker 2: a lot of hysteria because the Dallas Cowboys at that point,
Speaker 2: this one, I'm not sure they're either gonna be six
Speaker 2: and seven or seven and six. Either way, it's not
Speaker 2: gonna be what people were expecting or what the people
Speaker 2: meaning you well, I mean everybody I thought. I feel
Speaker 2: like a lot of us thought they were going to
Speaker 2: be successful in this regular season. And this is where
Speaker 2: it becomes a story because at that point when people
Speaker 2: are kind of like, what's going on with Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 2: as he said, is Dak Prescott the long term future
Speaker 2: at quarterback? Here's their schedule after we do our flashpoint
Speaker 2: focus on the show, twelve seventeen, do you guys do
Speaker 2: seventeen twelve? Oh you all right? All right? Seventeen twelve.
Speaker 2: I need to get home at Buffalo Christmas Eve twenty
Speaker 2: four to twelve at Miami thirty one twelve New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3: And that just doesn't even sound like a day. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: You know what I wrote the can someone look up
Speaker 2: on their phone who they're playing on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 3: Jeez?
Speaker 2: So I wrote down Denver here, they're not playing Detroit.
Speaker 2: They're playing Detroit. Okay, that is a murderer's row. And
Speaker 2: if they are in a bad position or a vulnerable
Speaker 2: position going into that stretch of games, and I think
Speaker 2: they will be, that's gonna be a big story.
Speaker 3: I agree, And it's gonna be tough for Zaddy Nation
Speaker 3: because no one's gonna be more in the crosshairs than
Speaker 3: you boy who got rid of Kellen Moore and maybe
Speaker 3: at that point is looking at a very productive Chargers offense.
Speaker 3: Everyone was excited all off season that the whole point
Speaker 3: was like Dak won't throw as many interceptions anymore, but
Speaker 3: all the rest of our offensive numbers are gonna go
Speaker 3: through the floor and we're gonna struggle. Like that's not
Speaker 3: an exciting way to run offense, or reminds me a
Speaker 3: little bit of Aaron Rodgers and the Packers. I can
Speaker 3: see this happening, and I can see it dominating our January.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna voiced my suspicions about the Cowboys for
Speaker 4: a while and an about like McCarthy. I know he
Speaker 4: went away for a year, he had this like epiphany
Speaker 4: where he started watching offensive tape from teams other than
Speaker 4: his own team and realize, like, whoa, there's other ways
Speaker 4: to attack defenses. So it's been a nice story. I
Speaker 4: think the story is gonna get very ugly very soon.
Speaker 4: And what owner comes out publicly more than Jerry Jones say,
Speaker 4: of course I support my coach. Of course I support
Speaker 4: my quarterback. It's like we were saying it too much here.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be on two fronts. I think
Speaker 2: internally there's gonna be externally as well, but internally a
Speaker 2: ton of heat on McCarthy, who's been there for a
Speaker 2: few years. Externally and I'm talking about us, we'll do
Speaker 2: it artfully, but everywhere else, all the dumb talking head
Speaker 2: shows will be going nuts about DAK and you're gonna
Speaker 2: get You're gonna be getting it on two different levels.
Speaker 2: And the people that are like, who's sick of the
Speaker 2: cowboys being talked about all the time, here's the other part,
Speaker 2: And I like, I'm not hoping this happens, but yes,
Speaker 2: they will be even if they are six and seven
Speaker 2: or seven six, they'll be the biggest story in the NFL.
Speaker 3: If it gets to this bore, I do not want
Speaker 3: this to happen. I want them to coast along at
Speaker 3: this like wild card level where they don't get as
Speaker 3: much attention, because if you were there for the Quincy
Speaker 3: Carter years they got that much attention, then it sounds rrib.
Speaker 4: I mean, even to go lose a wild card game.
Speaker 4: I think your scenario of utter chaos unfolding is very possible.
Speaker 3: But if McCarthy was on the ropes and if the
Speaker 3: Patriots were struggling, now that is something I can absolutely
Speaker 3: see following in the path of his format.
Speaker 2: Well, chick doesn't like Bill Parcells much either. I know
Speaker 2: what you're saying, But what do you want to follow
Speaker 2: his pacess? Maybe? All right, Greg, how about you flash
Speaker 2: by focus fidget all right? Fastest is a big chance
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 3: By the way, pretend you know it's it's December twelfth.
Speaker 3: We're coming off Thursday Night football. Pat Steelers Al Michael's
Speaker 3: sounding visibly bored in the middle of the third quarter
Speaker 3: as Kenny Pickett and Mac Jones have combined for a
Speaker 3: one point two yards per attempt in a game that
Speaker 3: doesn't matter. Coming up next week, Chargers Raiders eight and
Speaker 3: O'Connell's seventh start for a team heat seeking the number
Speaker 3: one overall draft pick. We got a Rams scenes game
Speaker 3: that I hope is good just because I'm taking my
Speaker 3: family there and it's around Christmas time. Then we cap
Speaker 3: it all off final week of the season with Jets,
Speaker 3: Browns the Misery Bull. At this point in the proceedings,
Speaker 3: they actually just pre record Kirk kurb Street's analysis of
Speaker 3: the program. It's also coming on the heels of a
Speaker 3: Chief sixty four to twenty win in Week six.
Speaker 2: That was great.
Speaker 3: Remember that more Steelers a Panthers Bears matchup more Jets
Speaker 3: on Black Friday, making one of our most hallowed holidays,
Speaker 3: and you know, a deal with the devil. We are
Speaker 3: going to be looking ahead and the rest of the
Speaker 3: league is going to be talking about do we even
Speaker 3: need a Thursday night football with this sort of sleep?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the NFL we need our money, so we're
Speaker 2: gonna Thursday night football is not going away. But how
Speaker 2: annoyed will you guys be if al Michaels falls asleep
Speaker 2: in the booth and it's like nine to thirty pm
Speaker 2: his time, and it's like four thirty am for.
Speaker 4: You guys disrespectful.
Speaker 2: That just feels like, come on, al, it's like the least.
Speaker 4: You could do, Greg, I previous. I appreciate the argument,
Speaker 4: of the thrust of your argument, but you are the
Speaker 4: only person I've ever met that was openly a couple
Speaker 4: of years ago, openly pitching and lobbying for football, primetime
Speaker 4: football every night of the week, which I think you
Speaker 4: know that's not.
Speaker 2: A joke, that's not an exaggeration.
Speaker 4: No, this was a pitch.
Speaker 3: It was two games a night, but they weren't on
Speaker 3: at the same time for the entire season. And if
Speaker 3: you do the math, it actually works out you can
Speaker 3: work the bye weeks. Now that I have kids, I'm
Speaker 3: less into that idea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't heard it recently, but your kids were
Speaker 4: alive when you were floating.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I barely paid attention the first few years. This
Speaker 3: is one of those conversations. You know, it's not going anywhere.
Speaker 3: The money is good. You know, we had we're gonna
Speaker 3: be doing a seven minute T and F recap of
Speaker 3: Panthers Bears after week ten, so we need to get
Speaker 3: our listens in.
Speaker 4: Find me a bow and arrow.
Speaker 3: It's more just it's more just a conversation of what
Speaker 3: can we do to solve it? Can we replace Al? Like,
Speaker 3: how can we help Thursday nightful?
Speaker 2: You know, I root for Al the time, and they
Speaker 2: actually made a concerted effort to make this schedule better.
Speaker 2: But you can't you don't know what it's gonna be
Speaker 2: until the team start playing Mark close it out.
Speaker 4: I think by December twelfth that a team that already
Speaker 4: has been set on fire, and not in a good way,
Speaker 4: the Carolina Panthers. I want to look back a couple
Speaker 4: months too.
Speaker 2: Wow, there's a good way to be set on fire.
Speaker 4: Well, I guess you could. There's a it's a it's
Speaker 4: a turn of phrase. Things could be positive, but I
Speaker 4: would I guess in this reality it is December something.
Speaker 4: So I'm looking back to this past week where I
Speaker 4: thought some very compelling, strange comments came from Frank Reich
Speaker 4: in a press conference where you don't get a lot
Speaker 4: of this. The owner is the boss. You just say,
Speaker 4: it's so wonderful to work for set owner, no matter
Speaker 4: what the relationship is. And David Tepper has his hands
Speaker 4: in the cookie jar apparently multiple times a week, with
Speaker 4: like Greg was my boss and he was a really
Speaker 4: great boss. Like, but no matter what happened with Greg,
Speaker 4: we did not have like behind closed doors meetings that
Speaker 4: sort of like threw you into a psychological blender.
Speaker 3: I know you guys talked about me, well no, I mean,
Speaker 3: and probably vice it was.
Speaker 4: I mean, but look at we're here now. I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't think Frank Reich and David Tepper are going
Speaker 4: to be here now come the end of the season.
Speaker 4: This is maybe a bit of a hot take, and
Speaker 4: I don't think it's going to be I had this
Speaker 4: weird feeling that it's not going to be David Tepper
Speaker 4: forcing Frank Reike out. David Tepper, by all accounts, picked
Speaker 4: the quarterback, the number one pick that's not working. The
Speaker 4: demeanor of Frank Reich in that press conference was a
Speaker 4: man with some weight on him. And I mean, Frank
Speaker 4: Reich's about as respected as it gets league wide, and
Speaker 4: I think what he was trying to tell us between
Speaker 4: the lines was this is not a healthy situation. And
Speaker 4: if Frank Reich looks at his entire career, I'm not
Speaker 4: saying that he'll be fired. I really think that we're
Speaker 4: going to be flash pointing. A couple days before Frank
Speaker 4: Reich walks away from the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2: You could also simply say he.
Speaker 4: Would just say, I down very nice.
Speaker 2: All right, stay right there, working class.
Speaker 1: And now we take you inside the mind of Taylor's
Speaker 1: swift and internal monologue.
Speaker 5: Newsflash, I don't waste my time worrying about what others
Speaker 5: think about me or anyone in my circle. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's absurd to me people saying this thing with Travis
Speaker 5: is some sort of publicity stunt. Come on, guys, I'm
Speaker 5: Taylor Swift. Travis is everything a girl could ask for.
Speaker 5: And while we're at it, his brother Jason is the sweetest.
Speaker 5: Do you know what he did? He came over and
Speaker 5: chopped down that dead tree in the backyard unannounced. So cute.
Speaker 5: I like that Travis looks like a cop hanging out
Speaker 5: at the Blue Oyster Bar. I do, but I also
Speaker 5: keep thinking about Jason's big, super manly beard. I just
Speaker 5: want to grab it, Travis says, abs. But there's something
Speaker 5: about Jason's cuddly round belly and wild, untamed eyebrows that
Speaker 5: make me feel this thing inside. I like Travis. I
Speaker 5: like him a lot, I.
Speaker 4: Did, I do, but.
Speaker 5: I can't stop thinking about that big cute bear of
Speaker 5: a brother. What's a girl to do?
Speaker 2: Wow, that's tricky. That is tricky. You know what view
Speaker 2: I view that Kelsey Brothers podcast as a threat and
Speaker 2: a competitor. So I am all four. Yeah, that tearing
Speaker 2: them asunder.
Speaker 3: Never say that Mark Sessler doesn't have rains.
Speaker 4: That was incredibuk. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how
Speaker 4: I was tailor swift.
Speaker 2: But that's how you pulled it off. Well, man, friend,
Speaker 2: all right, move on here by bye by? All right,
Speaker 2: here we go, Mark, you are fifty and in love
Speaker 2: with Jason Kelce, And may I say I've known this
Speaker 2: man for twelve years. He is looking sexy for fifty.
Speaker 3: Didn't that show those little bracelets when you were a
Speaker 3: forty five? And I did?
Speaker 6: You?
Speaker 2: All right? All right, So I just want to say,
Speaker 2: let's well, get into a little conversation here. I know,
Speaker 2: turning fifty, it's probably in terms of mentally there's a
Speaker 2: lot of things going on, and there's this idea that
Speaker 2: now that I'm fifty, what do I have to offer anymore?
Speaker 2: Is it basically a wrap on me? And like, is
Speaker 2: it basically I had my opportunity to make an imprint?
Speaker 2: Now it's just like counting down the days. Still it's
Speaker 2: all over.
Speaker 3: Don't look at it that way, all right, thank you,
Speaker 3: because I was just I would be crazy to look
Speaker 3: at it like that.
Speaker 4: You're inside my head.
Speaker 2: I was sitting on the plane and I'm thinking, like,
Speaker 2: it doesn't have to be that way, because it's all
Speaker 2: a matter where your your head's at. So I did
Speaker 2: some kind of kind of brainstorming, like who are some
Speaker 2: people after their fiftieth birthday who had a like a
Speaker 2: meaningful contribution to society. Okay, so this is what I
Speaker 2: came came up with, if you could, Jason, and this
Speaker 2: is important, so please Mark, let me take a look. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Number one, that's Winston Churchill. I don't like at that one.
Speaker 3: Wrong tough crowd.
Speaker 2: I thought he helped. I don't know, and I thought
Speaker 2: that was an easy one. But like Margaret Thatcher, So
Speaker 2: all right, all right Churchill, big job, clutch, big spot
Speaker 2: w W two. Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 3: There is that at fifty one years old, looking great.
Speaker 2: There is fifty one? All right? Another one, This one
Speaker 2: was easy for me. Hit it.
Speaker 7: Gene Shallett. Now you guys don't know who Gene Shallat is.
Speaker 7: I know that you don't know who Gene Shallat is.
Speaker 7: He was an American movie critic like twenty seven years ago.
Speaker 7: But I thought it would be funny for us on
Speaker 7: the stage, So just give us that.
Speaker 4: I think he's like thirty six there strangely, just remark
Speaker 4: it's worth it.
Speaker 2: And here's another.
Speaker 4: One that's the trajectory. That's a triplet.
Speaker 2: Carl Sanders tasty fried chicken from the head of KFC
Speaker 2: and like, just to be totally honest, like that was
Speaker 2: all I could come up with.
Speaker 4: Hey you tried. I mean, that's a hard exit left
Speaker 4: for me if that's what's coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 2: So with that said as a pivot point, first of all,
Speaker 2: never give up. Also, why don't why don't we throw
Speaker 2: out some figures in the NFL that have aged like
Speaker 2: fine wine, like a Churchill, like a shallot It, like
Speaker 2: a Sanders. Yeah, Mark, we.
Speaker 4: Were cabbing around. I don't know what's going on with
Speaker 4: the cab drivers here, but we nearly killed four bikers
Speaker 4: on the way.
Speaker 2: But like that guy was legitimately psychotic.
Speaker 4: I kind of appreciate him because he's like, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: get you there on time. But like they were multiple
Speaker 4: near deaths. But we were discussing this in the back
Speaker 4: of the cab, you know, We're sitting facing each other,
Speaker 4: and I was like, it came right to my mind.
Speaker 4: I mean, I want to take a look at someone
Speaker 4: that I thought was like one of the most uber
Speaker 4: nerds around and uh, you know, let's just say, you know, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: this this is Andy Dalton. When it was like I
Speaker 4: was a relatively high draft pick, made good money. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he put like, I mean, are are you gonna sink
Speaker 4: even like a dime or a or a two pence
Speaker 4: into like your looks here and it's like you just
Speaker 4: sort of like a floating ginger. You don't have a
Speaker 4: lot of direction. The Bengals reflected that, but then suddenly
Speaker 4: he's like, I'm done with the old Bengals thing. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's what's going on here? It's like a Nordic warrior.
Speaker 4: I mean this he literally he got am I am
Speaker 4: I wrong here about five hundred and twelve times hotter.
Speaker 2: We're very comfortable with our sexuality on this stage. But yes,
Speaker 2: he does look like someone that's coming over on a ship,
Speaker 2: and everybody get the out because that's going to do
Speaker 2: some damage.
Speaker 3: Right When when he was Young, mostly known as the
Speaker 3: progenitor of the Dalton Scale, of course, made by a
Speaker 3: great friend, Chris Wesseling, and he was he was the
Speaker 3: median of all quarterbacks. Now he's on a team with
Speaker 3: the number one overall draft pick, and he's the best
Speaker 3: quarterback on the team by far. He was replaced by
Speaker 3: a guy making thirty five million dollars and he's better
Speaker 3: than anyone on the Saints roster too.
Speaker 2: Well. By the way, next time I see Bill Gavin,
Speaker 2: I'm telling him to get this haircut. All right, how
Speaker 2: about you, Gregy?
Speaker 3: Okay, I wanted to think about our trajectory because, unlike Dan,
Speaker 3: I do think you have a lot more years to
Speaker 3: give a lot of.
Speaker 2: Right, I'm just saying that hours of research and I came.
Speaker 3: It was just it was just kind of in the subtext.
Speaker 3: And you've often said to me, and I take this
Speaker 3: as a compliment, like, Greg, You're gonna be doing this forever.
Speaker 3: You just football, whatever happens to this podcast or life.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna keep trying to get after. But I
Speaker 3: think in your heart of hearts, you love football that
Speaker 3: much too. And I think someday we're gonna be eighty
Speaker 3: four years old, much like Buck's assistant coach Tom Moore.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, and we're still gonna be going through the
Speaker 3: grind of the season. Uh.
Speaker 2: This is such a Greg poll.
Speaker 3: By the way, Peyton Manning, you know, the greatest statistical
Speaker 3: quarterback throughout his whole era, the one who everyone thought
Speaker 3: was Tom Brady his whole career until Tom Moore left
Speaker 3: him under this guy. Baker Mayfield now playing his best
Speaker 3: football under this guy, and he loves it and he's
Speaker 3: still getting after it. His wife of thirty seven years says,
Speaker 3: Tom is absolutely delivering.
Speaker 2: Tom Moore, that's good. That's something to aspire to. Mine
Speaker 2: is all right. Mine's complicated in this personally and psychologically.
Speaker 2: It is the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, Pete Carroll.
Speaker 2: Tell you a little story about Pete Carroll. Guys, settled
Speaker 2: down right.
Speaker 3: We heard you hit the bar pretty hard before the
Speaker 3: the you know, the showrunners here were saying, could you
Speaker 3: please do this again? They've never sold more before a show.
Speaker 2: Beautiful hooligans. So we have Pete Carroll here, and many
Speaker 2: people don't know this because first of all, was a
Speaker 2: million years ago, and secondly, it was a blank and
Speaker 2: you missed it, but he started his head coach career.
Speaker 2: After a successful run as the DC of the forty
Speaker 2: nine ers, the Jets hired him and he was a
Speaker 2: rookie head coach in nineteen ninety three and things started
Speaker 2: very well. They didn't end so well. In fact, he
Speaker 2: was the head coach on the sideline when the fake
Speaker 2: spike occurred with Dan Morito in nineteen ninety four, and
Speaker 2: that led to a five game losing streak. He got fired.
Speaker 2: But the point of the story is my mom, Debbie.
Speaker 2: She was all about Pete Carroll back in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2: She thought he was the dreamiest man alive. And now
Speaker 2: every time he comes up on TV and my mom
Speaker 2: is in the area, she continues Mark to mention that
Speaker 2: Pete Carroll is a silver fox. And it's really tough
Speaker 2: for me because I struggled to well, you have a dad.
Speaker 2: How much does my mom think about Pete Carroll? Where
Speaker 2: does Keith land on this? Yeah, the whole thing. It
Speaker 2: makes me uncomfortable. But I have to give the man
Speaker 2: credit that the fact that he is the oldest coach
Speaker 2: in the NFL and still moves with grace and speed
Speaker 2: and he chomps on that gun, which means his teeth
Speaker 2: are natural. Give it up for Pete Carroll.
Speaker 4: Oh, a much better example than the Kentucky Fried Chicken guy.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is life energy, and he's bringing something
Speaker 4: to the tape.
Speaker 3: How old were you Dan when you realize your mom
Speaker 3: was a sexual being?
Speaker 2: I think that was my awakening and it was very difficult,
Speaker 2: very difficult, GREGGI all right with that. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: get a chair. Your moms are sexual beings too. Heal it.
Speaker 1: And now we take you inside the mind of Brock
Speaker 1: Perdie an internal monologue.
Speaker 2: I am so sick and tired of people not giving
Speaker 2: me the damn respect that I deserve. I'm the little
Speaker 2: boy who has been giving all these wonderful toys, and
Speaker 2: the whole world is patting me on the head wall
Speaker 2: I play under the tree. Well, thank you for the
Speaker 2: blessings Father Christmas. Well, guess what you're the little boy?
Speaker 2: I'm a man. Can't people see that I'm special, that
Speaker 2: I'm not a product of a system, That I am
Speaker 2: the system?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 2: Don't people even know what time it is? Does Brock
Speaker 2: need to go out there and tell the people what
Speaker 2: time it really is?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell you what time it is before me?
Speaker 2: Two quick things. The one thing missing from these trips
Speaker 2: is Chris and you guys have done been so important
Speaker 2: to us from the very beginning when we lost him
Speaker 2: and even when he was sick and helping us kind
Speaker 2: of process losing Wes and moving on as a show.
Speaker 2: And the reason we're still here and doing the show
Speaker 2: is in large part because of you guys. Thanks for
Speaker 2: hanging around. Thank you, and more importantly, give it up
Speaker 2: for Chris Wesson.
Speaker 3: It's very cool. We'll play that for Keish. Like right
Speaker 3: before we came out, we were texting with Lakeisha and
Speaker 3: she sent the message to me yesterday to talking about
Speaker 3: London and just how that first trip here he had
Speaker 3: already overcome cancer one time, and that trip and meeting
Speaker 3: literally some of the people in this audience and interacting
Speaker 3: at the stadium and doing our live show and listening
Speaker 3: to some of the music actually that you guys heard,
Speaker 3: it's the same playlist that we played out, made him
Speaker 3: realize in a way that he hadn't I think in
Speaker 3: a profound way that actually we probably don't really understand
Speaker 3: because he had been through so much, how much he
Speaker 3: had accomplished in his life, and what a special, like
Speaker 3: really cool thing it is that we had this, and
Speaker 3: we had no idea that we could come across to
Speaker 3: London and have this sort of connection that was bigger
Speaker 3: than football. And for him, who was like grew up
Speaker 3: just loving the game more than almost anything out, I
Speaker 3: think it was beyondwards. So it meant a lot to
Speaker 3: him and and I love that about him, and coming
Speaker 3: here makes me think of him quite a bit.
Speaker 4: And there was no greater person to go to, you know,
Speaker 4: a typical London pub with and Wes absolutely get a
Speaker 4: few beers in and you get a different west.
Speaker 2: So he was built for this city and we miss him.
Speaker 2: We miss him every day. And before we signed off
Speaker 2: for good again, this guy, well for tonight, this guy again.
Speaker 2: He celebrated a birthday and it's it is a milestone
Speaker 2: birthday and it's it's wonderful that you've been in our
Speaker 2: lives for so long and will continue to be in
Speaker 2: our lives. And it's a big one mark. So how
Speaker 2: about one more time and let's bring out a little
Speaker 2: tree for our body. Let's say it one more time
Speaker 2: on three one two three.
Speaker 3: Happy birthday? Two you, Happy birthday? Do you? Happy birthday?
Speaker 2: Dear sest dog, Happy birthday.
Speaker 3: Do you thank you?
Speaker 4: You have to actually eat it, Mark, I will eat
Speaker 4: it in time.
Speaker 3: I'll carry it off with me.
Speaker 4: It's no, there's no utensils.
Speaker 3: Than thank you.
Speaker 2: Everybody, thank you, you preceive the call, thank you,