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Speaker 1: ow last show in beautiful California before we hop on
Speaker 1: a plane and fly into the tundra. How about that
Speaker 1: frozen tundra that's see, that's Wisconsin, bro that they like.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to like warm up to the idea
Speaker 1: that I'm staring at. Dan Hans is wearing a Dan
Speaker 1: hands this shirt. A picture of himself on the shirt.
Speaker 1: Dan leads. Dan leads the all time using the third
Speaker 1: person standings on this podcast to two. I don't know
Speaker 1: who has to, but so wearing your own T shirt
Speaker 1: makes sense. Now let's clear it up for the audience
Speaker 1: a little bit. This shirt was a gift from a
Speaker 1: really talented illustrator. His name is Electric. Excuse it electric,
Speaker 1: I call him Electric. Alexis Frederick Frost and uh he
Speaker 1: he actually sent us some of his children's books that
Speaker 1: he illustrates. That has since become Jack's favorite book ever.
Speaker 1: Uh so, so check that out. The book is called
Speaker 1: I'm Gonna plug in there if it's gonna come up.
Speaker 1: The book is called Ogres Away Book. Anyway. He also
Speaker 1: drew some you know what do they call these um
Speaker 1: um characterizations caricatures of each of us. Put it on
Speaker 1: a T shirt. Great, Yeah, and I'm shooting something a
Speaker 1: little later today for the our Tuesday Super Bowl show
Speaker 1: video show that will air. Uh. We're taping a Tuesday
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, will air on next Friday, a week from Friday. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know that's part of my costume. Okay, and
Speaker 1: I'm totally cool that i'd wear it anyway, But I
Speaker 1: didn't notice something, uh that nobody's like mentioned it as
Speaker 1: they're like walking. Matt Harmon, for instance, the fantasy guy
Speaker 1: Matt Matt Harmon walked by me kind of his eyes
Speaker 1: dropped down, didn't say anything, which means he's like, as
Speaker 1: he's walking by, he's like, oh, what a dude, he's
Speaker 1: judging you. And I mean it's you know, you're you're
Speaker 1: doing it for a a work mandated video role. It's fine,
Speaker 1: so you should not be judged. But people don't know
Speaker 1: that you're going to be heavily judged by at least
Speaker 1: a few people in the building. That that's Harmon's move.
Speaker 1: He's always just judging us quietly. Um, is that true?
Speaker 1: I don't think that's true. We'll get Maddie in in
Speaker 1: the offseason on the Around the NFL podcast Big Show
Speaker 1: today again, Yes, the last show before we head to
Speaker 1: Minneapolis are super Bowl week. We can say super Bowl
Speaker 1: week again with no punishment. Uh, no trips to the
Speaker 1: NFL media agony Chamber. So we are in the clear.
Speaker 1: Colleen's still in there. Actually it's a little girl. You
Speaker 1: wonder how much he can take. That's I'm concerned that
Speaker 1: maybe we might have taken this too far. Something about
Speaker 1: it from a human resources side feels a little off. Well, no,
Speaker 1: they're the ones that built that place. If I know, Coneen,
Speaker 1: she's just napping in there. Let's hope. So let's hope
Speaker 1: it's not a long nap. Today's show it is super
Speaker 1: Bowl Week once the calendar turns over, and uh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna do a little super Bowl week overs and unders. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is all of us have covered many super bowls now,
Speaker 1: so we kind of know the beats of the week. Uh,
Speaker 1: and we've seen the Patriots more than Jesus Christ. Another
Speaker 1: week of the Patriots. This will be the fifth, get ready,
Speaker 1: the fifth Patriots super Bowl alone that I've covered. Look
Speaker 1: at that, how about that? It's ridicular there two and two.
Speaker 1: So this you've covered five Patriots super Bowl because my
Speaker 1: first one that I covered was the first Giants Patriots
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight two thousand seventh season. You've
Speaker 1: covered five super Bowls for your favorite team. I am
Speaker 1: almost thirty eight years old and my team has never
Speaker 1: played in the Super Bowl in my lifetime. There is
Speaker 1: a difference. We've we've talked about this West and I
Speaker 1: covered Bears Patriots in January of X. By the way,
Speaker 1: so we've got you beat. You guys are out all
Speaker 1: night snowstorms back in the mid eighties. When we finish
Speaker 1: Little Genesis, some snowstorms. All right, Today's show hit the news,
Speaker 1: what's going on around the league. We will also, as
Speaker 1: I said, do the Super Bowl week over under. And
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Kevin patra he is in Orlando. You might
Speaker 1: remember last year they told Connor or hey, buddy, you're
Speaker 1: not going to the super Bowl. We're sending to the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, which led to to the song this song
Speaker 1: A man's band got him mortgage drinks the brown stuff
Speaker 1: that reads up this Bolige beating Manton my not State Ballet.
Speaker 1: Connor Orlando Today. Of course Kevin Patrick doesn't get his
Speaker 1: own song, but he will be on today's show. We're
Speaker 1: gonna see what's going on with k pat and he's
Speaker 1: he drew the better straw here because he's going to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl directly after this after. I don't think
Speaker 1: Connor was super enthused about the idea that he was
Speaker 1: going to the Pro Bowl instead of the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: That you wouldn't pick that combination. Yeah, but both. What
Speaker 1: I like about Patra he's a grumbler. He's going to
Speaker 1: be annoyed that he's gonna have to go to both
Speaker 1: for a full week and all that. So we'll check
Speaker 1: it with him. See what out of all your musical renditions,
Speaker 1: that one is by far my favorite? Oh thank you.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a little I don't want to slight
Speaker 1: Kim d J. But but the Connor Orlando today is
Speaker 1: I don't know, it just strikes me. I really appreciate that. West.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to it. Let's do some news.
Speaker 1: You're going to compete against me, you better be willing
Speaker 1: to give up your life. That was the first episode
Speaker 1: of the Tom versus Time Facebook series Handmade for You. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch it because I'm interest that just like
Speaker 1: behind the scenes of Tom Braid, but calmed down a
Speaker 1: little bit with the histrionics of that, Like I'm willing
Speaker 1: to give up my life? Yeah, I don't know about
Speaker 1: the context of the but Jesus complex anyone, it's like,
Speaker 1: what are you really like bit much giving up? He
Speaker 1: was saying. And I it's a smart point, saying basically,
Speaker 1: everything choose to, everything you choose to do is essentially
Speaker 1: choosing not to do something else in vice versa. And
Speaker 1: he's saying that, you know you gotta you gotta make choices.
Speaker 1: So what's he giving up? Though? Like kids? Life? But
Speaker 1: he know he very quickly likes to show that he
Speaker 1: spends all this time with his kids too. He's he's
Speaker 1: he's he's not completely unbalanced where he's hidden alone. And
Speaker 1: it's a little here's thing. It's a little condescending to
Speaker 1: the other human beings that are pro football quarterbacks. And
Speaker 1: we get it, you're the best, but it's basically putting
Speaker 1: all of them you just don't really understand like I do.
Speaker 1: I'll even leave it just a quarterbacks, but sure the
Speaker 1: rest of us. Very unselfish of him to sacrifice losing
Speaker 1: football games. That's what he's cut out of. And I
Speaker 1: but I don't doubt that he cuts out more of
Speaker 1: his life than all of us or most NFL quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: And and is kind of a has a one dimensional
Speaker 1: life on something. But totally and all in all seriousness,
Speaker 1: I'm asking you what is he really cutting out? He's
Speaker 1: not cutting out a life of luxury where he has
Speaker 1: everything he needs around because a lot of other people,
Speaker 1: how about how about someone working three jobs just to
Speaker 1: put food on the table, they're not doing what they wanted?
Speaker 1: Is something he's cut out of his life? The ability
Speaker 1: to take like an hour just to do whatever you
Speaker 1: want and do nothing. He's cut that out, just like
Speaker 1: certain foods that he would enjoy, he's cut out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think a lot of it is like
Speaker 1: the ability to have free time to use it instead
Speaker 1: of obsessing over being the best football player you could
Speaker 1: possibly be. He's like cutting out fallon SNL. But you
Speaker 1: could dr all that. That's all. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's watching. It was a very boring first episode that
Speaker 1: you can you can skip ahead to episode two. There
Speaker 1: was not much and I love I'll watch, oh watch
Speaker 1: it regardless. I'll definitely be there wasn't much to it. Uh.
Speaker 1: And here's something that's interesting. Cowboys VP Stephen Jones, son
Speaker 1: of Gerald, has not been pulling any punches. Uh. In
Speaker 1: the media when asked about Dez, he was on the
Speaker 1: Hanging with the Boys podcast, which West, I know you
Speaker 1: are a subscriber. It's on Dallas Cowboys dot com. I
Speaker 1: didn't know it was about the Cowboys. Hang with the Boys, bro. Uh.
Speaker 1: He had this to say when asked about Bryant's well
Speaker 1: known sideline. Antics you know, the other thing that uh
Speaker 1: we all see, it's certainly visible to anyone who uh
Speaker 1: watches our games, watches our sideline is Dez is certainly
Speaker 1: a fiery guy, plays with a lot of emotion both
Speaker 1: on and off the field, and uh, sometimes that can
Speaker 1: be a distraction. It can be a distraction for dads,
Speaker 1: it can be a distraction for other teammates. And we
Speaker 1: just have to, uh, you know, really get our hands
Speaker 1: around where when you put all the full body of
Speaker 1: work together, where that's headed. And of course, uh, we
Speaker 1: paid a lot of money. He knows that. He's aware
Speaker 1: of it as anybody when he talked to Jerry and myself,
Speaker 1: and you know, he knows when you get paid that
Speaker 1: kind of money, there's high expectations in terms of the productivity,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, and so those are all things that
Speaker 1: we have to look at as a team. As an
Speaker 1: organization when we uh start to put our team together
Speaker 1: for next year, Mark is des Dunne in Dallas. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean Dez Bryant made it very clear and probably
Speaker 1: what we're emotional locker room comments late in the season
Speaker 1: after the Cowboys season was basically could put say no,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna take I'm great, I'm not gonna take
Speaker 1: a pay cut. And he's got a sixteen point five
Speaker 1: million dollar cap hit, And this to me feels a
Speaker 1: little bit like setting the table to say that we
Speaker 1: understand you aren't the des brian of old. By the way,
Speaker 1: some of the baggage that comes with the des Briant
Speaker 1: experience is still part of what we're dealing with. So
Speaker 1: when we're gonna ask you to take a pay cut,
Speaker 1: it's not coming out of nowhere. At the same time,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Briana want to do it? I I
Speaker 1: how do you pay this guy? The third highest among
Speaker 1: wide receivers going into next season The last time he
Speaker 1: had a thousand yards season. Peyton Manning and Colin Kaepernick
Speaker 1: were good at football in a while, and and it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of annoying because uh and sad because he
Speaker 1: was so fun and explosive, and and he was such
Speaker 1: he had such a great rapport with Tony Romo, and
Speaker 1: it simply hasn't translated. I think it's been a combination
Speaker 1: of two things. The chemistry is not the same with Romo,
Speaker 1: and then dess ability. Maybe through injuries and bumps and
Speaker 1: bruises through the years, they caught up to him. We're
Speaker 1: accepting you into the Scientists Society because a year ago,
Speaker 1: year a half ago, at this time, you went out
Speaker 1: on a limb and said, I don't think death is
Speaker 1: ever going to be the same after that good surgery.
Speaker 1: And I cast a sideways glancer to it you and like,
Speaker 1: where are you getting this is? Is this just zeuser
Speaker 1: intuition here or what? But it turned out to be
Speaker 1: dead on. So I'm the only one not in the
Speaker 1: side it already end. I'm already in I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think Greg agrees with the idea. Come down
Speaker 1: to the lab. It's been getting dusty. There hasn't been
Speaker 1: a lot of work even getting done that there. We
Speaker 1: need to catch up with the offseason coming. I like
Speaker 1: it upstairs, like the kitchen that's right about the steps
Speaker 1: that leads to the base and hanging out there, uh
Speaker 1: in other news. So we'll see that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: big story to tract. By the way, this is the
Speaker 1: thing I can already see. It's already happening. Every time
Speaker 1: Does Bryant speaks or anyone speaks about Dez Bryant, it
Speaker 1: is a post on our website. This is the story
Speaker 1: that no one can unhook themselves from. And this is
Speaker 1: why I don't enjoy this Brian and leading total access.
Speaker 1: Some skill sets don't age well. His might be one
Speaker 1: of those. But you know, part of those comments where
Speaker 1: Steve Steven Jones would asked about it was, you know
Speaker 1: what Jerry thinks of Jones. He loves him like a son.
Speaker 1: He really loves death. So it's almost like Stephen Jones
Speaker 1: is separating him, Like, yeah, dad is just kind of
Speaker 1: emotionally attached. I guess we're gonna have to we might
Speaker 1: have to just keep paying him. Meanwhile, I looked quickly
Speaker 1: at the cap numbers. You know, he's do sixteen and
Speaker 1: a half million cap number, one of the highest cap
Speaker 1: numbers next year eight point nine million for Tony Romo,
Speaker 1: so that that's still hurting them next year. Um, I
Speaker 1: think Stephen and Gerard are playing a little good cop bad.
Speaker 1: I think so too, And I don't think Brian's back.
Speaker 1: I think they're there. I can see them draft. They're
Speaker 1: they're building a little paper file here like we've been
Speaker 1: whispering all off season. In other news, Yes, we will
Speaker 1: be talking with Kevin Patra h. He spoke with leviyan Bell,
Speaker 1: who's at the Pro Bowl in Orlando, and uh, it's
Speaker 1: pretty good talking about insider anyway. He told patra that
Speaker 1: he is confident that a long term deal will get
Speaker 1: done with the Steelers, and there is I guess there's
Speaker 1: been reports that there's some some belief that all this
Speaker 1: talk about he's oh, Leve I'm gonna sit out of here,
Speaker 1: and the Steelers aren't gonna blink that when this when
Speaker 1: everything uh turns over and toward a new season, he'll
Speaker 1: be under contract. Uh And that would probably make sense, right.
Speaker 1: I love the changing of the guard among NFL insiders. Here.
Speaker 1: You've got Peter King on Twitter throwing out speculation that
Speaker 1: Leve Bell is gonna sign with the Raiders. Everybody's assuming
Speaker 1: that because he missed the walkthrough, he's not gonna be
Speaker 1: back with the Steelers. And there's Patrick with boots on
Speaker 1: the the story. He's just changing the whole nature of
Speaker 1: the story. Kevin Patras, although shaping it. You could read
Speaker 1: between the lines and think maybe love Bells realizing, you know,
Speaker 1: the Steelers aren't necessarily gonna give him everything that he wants,
Speaker 1: and he has to kind of throw it out there
Speaker 1: that I want to be, I want to be. He's
Speaker 1: manipulating Kevin Patra. I mean, no one can do that.
Speaker 1: That's true. Never happened, never will happen. Uh. In other news,
Speaker 1: Josh McCown was at NFL Network. Deaker, who's um a
Speaker 1: fine woman behind the scenes here at the NFL Network, uh,
Speaker 1: contacted me on our instant messinging clients like you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta get in say hi to Josh McCown. You
Speaker 1: gotta like I'm good, really, Tara Deaker, Tara our very own.
Speaker 1: Jeremy Bergman from downstairs interviewed him and my first question was,
Speaker 1: is the hair on Josh McCown. I feel like he
Speaker 1: could have been, you know, the seventh or eighth person
Speaker 1: and Madman if they were looking for new characters back
Speaker 1: and then he has an old like feel to him. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: And Bergman said that you know, it was impressive. But
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, I thought he said he could
Speaker 1: have used a little bit of jail, a little products,
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yes he does that, he does does
Speaker 1: He was game, but you know he's showing up. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean his his jaw could be like the fifth
Speaker 1: member of this podcast that things in the force of nature. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So McCown was on our flagship program in NFL Network,
Speaker 1: Total Access, and uh, he wants to keep playing and
Speaker 1: he'd like it to be with the Jets. Here's what
Speaker 1: Josh had to say right now. That's how it's looking
Speaker 1: at this time of the year. I go through the
Speaker 1: conversations with my family and uh, and you know, talk
Speaker 1: with him through that and pray through that, and but
Speaker 1: you know where we're at right now. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: feeling I want to play. So I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: the next few months seeing what happens, and uh, you
Speaker 1: know I'll be ready to go. I'd be rise that
Speaker 1: feeds back with the Jets the more I think about it,
Speaker 1: because I really think the Jets are gonna come out
Speaker 1: of this draft and free agency with a new option
Speaker 1: at quarterback and West. The other the other reason I
Speaker 1: think that is McCown. He played so well before he
Speaker 1: got hurt last year. Why does he want to be
Speaker 1: somebody's just like mentor can't he get a job somewhere? No,
Speaker 1: I think he's a bridge quarterback. I think everyone knows
Speaker 1: he's a bridge quarterback, and nobody here's a market for
Speaker 1: bridge quarterbacks. Yeah, but nobody's should trust Josh McCown to
Speaker 1: play sixteen games. He plays with a reckless playing style.
Speaker 1: He's he's injured quite a bit, as Mark knows from
Speaker 1: the Cleveland days. I see him as a guy who
Speaker 1: makes a ton of sense for the Jets. They have
Speaker 1: so much respect for him. And this is a draft
Speaker 1: where a guy like Baker Mayfield or Josh Allen could
Speaker 1: could definitely fall to number six. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'm Kirk Cousins, if I want to go to the
Speaker 1: Jets or somewhere like that, even if I'm free, there
Speaker 1: are gonna be a lot fewer bridge quarterback opportunities after
Speaker 1: this draft, I think, And unless, unless some of these
Speaker 1: teams look at these quarterbacks and say, and this is possible,
Speaker 1: not ready in year one, So you're gonna get the
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. The Alex Smith. But the Jets, to me,
Speaker 1: I mean, if if they bring back m Account, it
Speaker 1: better be because they've drafted Baker Mayfield as someone who
Speaker 1: they want to rest for a year. We talked on
Speaker 1: this yesterday. There this is these teams, the Jets, the Browns,
Speaker 1: all these QB needy teams, maybe even the Broncos. This
Speaker 1: is your time. You don't have another You can't float
Speaker 1: around with some fill in the blank veteran under center.
Speaker 1: I never put anything past the Jets in terms of
Speaker 1: messing things up, but there seems to be no chance
Speaker 1: they'll just be like, oh Josh, he's our quarterback next year.
Speaker 1: They kind of did that this year. I think they'll
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a young guy or if the rest
Speaker 1: of you know, it actually worked against them, if you
Speaker 1: really want to keep it real, they almost wouldn't need
Speaker 1: played and he played well enough to give them five
Speaker 1: wins when they probably would have been better off winning
Speaker 1: two or three. But he played well enough if if
Speaker 1: like the team around him was great, like they could
Speaker 1: have been a winning team. The keenomsque situation, maybe yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he played. He played that well and they
Speaker 1: have We even mentioned that John Morton got fired. By
Speaker 1: the way that we have not we didn't pick that
Speaker 1: they That makes it less likely to me that they
Speaker 1: would bring mccaun back. Now they promoted Jeremy bank Bates,
Speaker 1: who's been a quarter quarterback. But it is a changing
Speaker 1: of the garden. It was a surprising fire. He used
Speaker 1: thirty eight and I always seven. It's like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: he's not a truth thirty eight because he sat on
Speaker 1: the bench. He is because he's still He's as brittle
Speaker 1: as they come. On some level. There's always something happening
Speaker 1: to him. He's definitely a true thirty eight. We're talking
Speaker 1: about guy who was coaching high school football five years ago.
Speaker 1: Speaking of case, Keenum had such a special year with
Speaker 1: the Vikings. Everything fell apart for that team last Sunday,
Speaker 1: but still Keenum was one of the great stories of
Speaker 1: the year. You would think that would lock him in
Speaker 1: with the Vikings. But slow your roll, Mark, specifically stop
Speaker 1: assuming that Mark stop being I will well, I you
Speaker 1: know you guys are down in your the three of
Speaker 1: you now are all down in the sign to lab
Speaker 1: I'm upstairs throwing darts. So you know, when when Mike
Speaker 1: Zimmer spoke in his end of year press conference. When
Speaker 1: asked if Keenum deserved to be the teams signal caller
Speaker 1: next year, his response was quote, we're going to work
Speaker 1: through the process now. Yes, obvious coach speak, Greg, obvious
Speaker 1: coach speak. But at the same time, don't you think
Speaker 1: Case Kingdom maybe deserves a little bit more than coach
Speaker 1: speaking that spot? What a year he yet? Yes, but
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised based on Zimmer's public comments throughout the season,
Speaker 1: and I'm not surprised based on some not so you know,
Speaker 1: reading between the lines comments from insiders throughout the season
Speaker 1: where they made it clear that Zimmer I don't know
Speaker 1: if I really embraced the idea of Keenum as like
Speaker 1: a long term quarterback, nor should he, right, But and
Speaker 1: he's started to back up his whole career, and just
Speaker 1: because he's not one two b s, it was a
Speaker 1: perfect storm for him with Pat Shermer's coordinator, great wide
Speaker 1: receiver corps, solid offensive line, solid running game. Everything went
Speaker 1: as perfectly as it could for Case Keendom. You can't
Speaker 1: bet twenty million dollars a year on that happening. Again,
Speaker 1: I feel like bad teams and it's not to downplay
Speaker 1: what Keenum did this season. You could overreact to one
Speaker 1: good year on the cusp of a thirty year old,
Speaker 1: you know, quarterback campaign and massively overpay him, and then
Speaker 1: he comes back down to earth with a new coordinator
Speaker 1: and you're stuck with that contract. So we just spent
Speaker 1: last week having the conversation that it's not fair to
Speaker 1: call Case Keenum or put him in the category of
Speaker 1: Nick Foles because Case Keenum has proven this year that
Speaker 1: he's an actual player and a guy that's a major
Speaker 1: reason for their success. I feel like after one loss
Speaker 1: now we're willing to knock him back down. I I
Speaker 1: just think it's because I think it's because we've seen
Speaker 1: this before with a certain quarterback. It's it's in sharp
Speaker 1: contrast to win. Alex Flynnigan from NFL Network interviewed John
Speaker 1: Lynch yesterday about the idea of bringing back Jimmy Garoppolo,
Speaker 1: which is obviously going to happen. And John Lynch, you know,
Speaker 1: he's got a quarterback with a contract situation coming up,
Speaker 1: and there was no hedging the bets. It was like, oh,
Speaker 1: he wants it well, but but they've found a franchise quarterback,
Speaker 1: and from top to bottom, everyone believes it. I think,
Speaker 1: as Gregg pointed out, with Keenum, there isn't a belief
Speaker 1: top to bottom. This is the same GM the drafted
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater and the same coach was there when they
Speaker 1: did it. I mean there are other apple, other you know,
Speaker 1: irons in the fire. It's complicated because other they're All
Speaker 1: you need is one team that wants to pay Case
Speaker 1: Keenum a lot of money the vice market, you would
Speaker 1: think there will be one. I think the Vikings have
Speaker 1: more options than Case Keenum has options, especially when Dave
Speaker 1: Gettuman comes out and says we're keeping Eli manning for
Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen, so you're not following Pat Shermer to
Speaker 1: the Giants. That's one avenue that's closed down. And the
Speaker 1: Vikings have Sam Bradford and Teddy Bridgewater as options too.
Speaker 1: Lindsay question, See if I asked you which player in
Speaker 1: the NFL move the most merchandise in the NFL shop
Speaker 1: in the seventeen season, who would you say it was?
Speaker 1: Who'd you guess? Do you want a hint? No, No,
Speaker 1: just one. It's not Mike Lennon, I'll give you him.
Speaker 1: It's quarterback. I would say Carson Wentz. Wow, for the
Speaker 1: wind Carson. Wentz was the number one merch mover that's
Speaker 1: jerseys and all other articles associated with a player's name
Speaker 1: and likeness, according to NFL Shop data delivered directly to
Speaker 1: the A t N Insider. Yeah, well what the truth?
Speaker 1: Go to the zeus me up, hit me up. There's
Speaker 1: another third person for the scoreboard. It's up to eighties.
Speaker 1: I'm'm literally wearing a shirt with my own Kevin Patrick.
Speaker 1: Wentz was the number one seller that this season, uh,
Speaker 1: spanning September one through January eighteen. Uh. He was not
Speaker 1: the number one mover in terms of who sold in
Speaker 1: the most in the most states. Tommy Boy Brady sold
Speaker 1: in ten states. It was the number one seller all
Speaker 1: six New England states, but also New York, where he
Speaker 1: was the number one seller. I would able to sell
Speaker 1: a jersey and you know, at least one New York
Speaker 1: and like, oh, why how could that happen in New York?
Speaker 1: Look at a map. New York's entire east side borders
Speaker 1: in New England, and it's a bad time for the
Speaker 1: Jets and the Giants. Many all these Patriots fans I
Speaker 1: would have assumed already have a Tom Brady jersey are
Speaker 1: you buying it for your kids? It's like you're into
Speaker 1: the second and third generation of Patriots fans, just bathing
Speaker 1: and glory, So you're buying jerseys for the next wave
Speaker 1: of family members. Not my son, Walker seems to be
Speaker 1: a Patriots fan. He's definitely getting on board. I could
Speaker 1: get him one evil continue not defensive about New York, right,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people don't understand what New York
Speaker 1: really is, how huge it is, and how much of
Speaker 1: it could not be further removed from actually like the
Speaker 1: New York City area anyway. Also, Brady was number one
Speaker 1: in Indiana, Florida, Hawaii, UH in those New England states
Speaker 1: and um Wentz. Wentz was number one uh in states
Speaker 1: ranging from Jersey to Kentucky to North Dakota where he
Speaker 1: played ball I believe in Montana. It was also number
Speaker 1: one in the District of Columbia. President and quarterback are
Speaker 1: the two most important positions in this country. And Wentz
Speaker 1: and Brady had better years than the president. Wow, that's fair.
Speaker 1: And some other surprises this Greg These are for you.
Speaker 1: I know you love these little nugs. Some hot nugs
Speaker 1: for your right here. Alvin Kamara outsild Drew Brees in
Speaker 1: Louisiana number one, Kamara, bad news for you, Mark, Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown number one in Ohio. We're going Camara, not Camara,
Speaker 1: whatever you guys, Antonio Brown number one in Ohio. Mark,
Speaker 1: how about that? I mean, I can't almost play What
Speaker 1: what jersey do you buy? As a Browns fan? I
Speaker 1: thought Myles Garret would have a chance, but the bank
Speaker 1: and it's pretty amazing. CHRISTI Christian McCaffrey beat out Cam
Speaker 1: Newton for number one. Shawn Watson number one in South Carolina.
Speaker 1: The rookies have an inherent edge, I suppose, right, And
Speaker 1: but then Brady doesn't matter. He's in his I mean
Speaker 1: he's He's Tom Brady. He's Tom Brady. It's true anyway.
Speaker 1: So that's that's fun, little merch talk in a big spot.
Speaker 1: And finally, the XFL is back. Remember the XFL. I
Speaker 1: I watched the opening inaugural game of of the XFL
Speaker 1: in New York City when it was awful. It was terrible,
Speaker 1: and about five minutes in you knew that you had
Speaker 1: been sold. But here it was. I think I remember
Speaker 1: where I was one spring of two thousand. I believe
Speaker 1: it was. It will It launched a ninety nine, like announced,
Speaker 1: So I think, yeah, two thousand the following season. But
Speaker 1: here's what's amazing to me. So Vince McMahon, who runs
Speaker 1: w w A, confirmed this just before our show today
Speaker 1: on Thursday, that he will be relaunching the cef L.
Speaker 1: He hopes that the league off the ground by January. Uh.
Speaker 1: My question and this is and we're gonna again off
Speaker 1: to ask Lindsay her thoughts on this. Lindsey a monster
Speaker 1: professional wrestling fan. That was a huge disaster twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: And I know there's a lot of reasons, Um why
Speaker 1: Vince McMahon, like he thought at the end of the nineties,
Speaker 1: why it would work. And I know he's changing up
Speaker 1: the model a little bit. He doesn't want to take
Speaker 1: on the NFL. But I don't care when you're doing
Speaker 1: it in the season you're taking on the NFL. What
Speaker 1: what's gonna change this time compared to last time, Lindsay, Well,
Speaker 1: I didn't really watch it the first time. I was
Speaker 1: like the rest of the world where I watched the
Speaker 1: first one and never cared about it again, right, And
Speaker 1: I mean, the one thing that stood out to me
Speaker 1: in his press conference was that he said he wants
Speaker 1: to make this all about the fans and listen to
Speaker 1: the fans, but he doesn't. He does a horrible job
Speaker 1: with that with w w E. And it's almost like
Speaker 1: he does the exact opposite of what everybody wants in
Speaker 1: w w E. Now he did and he did start
Speaker 1: up a whole company just too franchise to um to
Speaker 1: be able to raise money for this venture, and he
Speaker 1: says that has absolutely nothing to do with w w E.
Speaker 1: So I imagine that's the one thing that will be
Speaker 1: different because they kind of intermixed. Well, they're not yet.
Speaker 1: They're not attached at all this time, right, So that's
Speaker 1: that's the one thing. Well, if he's running it, though,
Speaker 1: that's like saying, well, he said there will be and
Speaker 1: he's running this, so he's attached, I guess, is my point.
Speaker 1: But he said they're the most important thing. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I think I think the way why is it now?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's absurd. A lot of absurd things are
Speaker 1: announced and uh dove into every month of every year.
Speaker 1: So I it's sure it's happening again. But there's this
Speaker 1: is the season where there's a distinct backlash from parts
Speaker 1: of our country against the NFL, and he's talking about, Hey,
Speaker 1: our players are not going to have he said, no
Speaker 1: one with a d U I will be allowed in
Speaker 1: the XFL, No one with X, Y and Z. Everything
Speaker 1: that you can't stand about the NFL. We're going to
Speaker 1: embrace your voice. And it's a pocket of fans and
Speaker 1: it's a rather large pocket part of this country. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's where you're hoping it starts you, you know what.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to piece this together in real time. He's
Speaker 1: also a staunch conservative. He's gonna learn lean into the
Speaker 1: conservative values end of this the people that have been
Speaker 1: turned off by the NFL and the anthem and that's
Speaker 1: where like no thugs with the US, he's gonna he
Speaker 1: wants to play that type of angle and maybe get
Speaker 1: your traction. I don't know from Trump America. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: his power play here. That's definitely one angle. There's a
Speaker 1: second angle that, in my opinion, the NFL um used
Speaker 1: to be the vanguard of changing rules to make the
Speaker 1: product more entertaining up until a few years ago, and
Speaker 1: now the last few years they do not make it
Speaker 1: more entertaining. The catch roll is a major issue, Instant
Speaker 1: replay is a major issue, and one of the Vince
Speaker 1: McMahon's goals is to make a two hour game with
Speaker 1: an easy catch role. And to me, that's that's what
Speaker 1: this league is gonna face plant. It's absolutely gonna But
Speaker 1: the good that can come out of it is forcing
Speaker 1: the NFL to look in the mirror on some of
Speaker 1: its bad roles. Yeah. I think there's always been a
Speaker 1: possibility and maybe even a need for another football league,
Speaker 1: whether it was run by the NFL or not. It
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense that by far the most popular and
Speaker 1: you said, you know, it's a it's a vocal uh
Speaker 1: contingent against the NFL this year. Ultimately it's still dwarfing
Speaker 1: everything else on the television dial, actually by a bigger
Speaker 1: percentage than it ever has because all scripted programming is
Speaker 1: down so much. For something that popular, you would think
Speaker 1: you could have some sort of minor league or developmental
Speaker 1: league or another thing. But I remember when I worked
Speaker 1: at Pro Football Talk, we we spent like two years
Speaker 1: writing about the build up to the UFL. I don't
Speaker 1: know if anyone remembers like the I don't Josh McCown
Speaker 1: played in the Jake Gruden, I believe, was a coach
Speaker 1: in the ufl it's like and then and then it
Speaker 1: got there and no one cared and nothing else happened.
Speaker 1: And listening to McMahon's Prescott Printon, what he said, it's
Speaker 1: very everything is very vague. He really has no plans yet.
Speaker 1: It's like eight cities. That's about all he knows. We're
Speaker 1: we're gonna go listening. He says, we're gonna go listen
Speaker 1: to the fans here what they want, and then figured out.
Speaker 1: I mean, last time, what you forget is that they
Speaker 1: it was Dick Ebersol on NBC that partnered directly to
Speaker 1: put these games on prime time on real television, And
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have that this time around at this
Speaker 1: point at least. But I do like some of the
Speaker 1: stuff they did. It was a massive disaster, but the
Speaker 1: way they opened games, there was no kickoff. It was
Speaker 1: two guys scrambling for the ball immediately. But I mean,
Speaker 1: they tried this stuff right away. And I remember, like
Speaker 1: honestly watching with a bunch of like guys in this
Speaker 1: bar because it was there was a lot of juice around.
Speaker 1: It was around two thousand one a week after you go,
Speaker 1: like eight minutes into the first quarter, we were like oh,
Speaker 1: just went back to our drinks and like it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a mess. Well the whole the hook of it.
Speaker 1: The first time around Tommy Maddox played, it was no,
Speaker 1: this isn't sissy football. It's like, you're gonna get killed.
Speaker 1: No fair catches, you gotta no kickoff, scrabble for the ball.
Speaker 1: I think the first scramble guy blew out his knee.
Speaker 1: I mean, it couldn't have been a bigger dissaster. And
Speaker 1: it's a thirty for thirty. If you're interested in the history,
Speaker 1: if you're a little younger and you don't know what
Speaker 1: the XFL was all about, check it out. Um. Johnny
Speaker 1: Manzel wants to play, he immediately tweeted out, but he
Speaker 1: can't because maybe going once you're in, you can't have
Speaker 1: it too. But I'll say that if you're already why
Speaker 1: that works though, you have to you have to get
Speaker 1: two or three of those glue guys that would make
Speaker 1: us go watching. If Johnny Manzel was in the XFL,
Speaker 1: I would turn on to watch McMahon quickly throughout, like
Speaker 1: this will be a home for Tim Tebow if he
Speaker 1: wants to play, so he knows what he's doing. He's
Speaker 1: trying to. He would also in a heartbeat, bend that
Speaker 1: rule to get Johnny Manzel into the least Vince McMahon
Speaker 1: not known, like is the backbone of integrity. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: I don't know what the rules are. If there is
Speaker 1: an XFL, if it actually happens, I would I would
Speaker 1: bet strongly that Johnny Manzel like Manzel like, how is
Speaker 1: that not happen? He's the m v P gets obvious
Speaker 1: to U I and the way back from like one
Speaker 1: of the games, there's no way he's going to leave
Speaker 1: the league. They might even swipe it. They've got to
Speaker 1: get one of those guys almost for every team, someone
Speaker 1: that we are quarterback that we all remember. That's what
Speaker 1: they should do. They should have Kaepernick each team. Kaepernick
Speaker 1: each team. Well, that's not going to fit with he
Speaker 1: doesn't want anything to do with Kaebern. Now, this league
Speaker 1: exists because for people who don't like the NFL because
Speaker 1: of kaepern He's trying to introduce you to the concept
Speaker 1: of pro wrestling. Right, you're gonna have evil guys. Well,
Speaker 1: nick Mann said, for what it's worth, there will be
Speaker 1: no politics. No, I'm not in getting too politics, and
Speaker 1: I at least we should stand up stick up for
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick here. There's no way Colin Kaepernick would ever
Speaker 1: play in this lead in the first Let's give him
Speaker 1: a little what about like r G three and Ocho
Speaker 1: Sinko like that kind of stuff you get closer with.
Speaker 1: They want to play and they're not going to get
Speaker 1: an NFL role right now. Could draw like six fans
Speaker 1: to a league. So wait, he's got a crazy following
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Nobody's watching like a four something year old
Speaker 1: chant at Sunko fumble balls around a quarterback position. Also
Speaker 1: a domestic violence history, so I guess that would eliminate
Speaker 1: going forward. Um, all right, here we go, moving on.
Speaker 1: That's what's happening in the news. Alright, super Bowl week
Speaker 1: overs and unders. So we're gonna throw out some scenarios.
Speaker 1: Um and uh offer a over under and then we'll
Speaker 1: go around the room. I'll get it going. Mark was
Speaker 1: furiously pointing someone else, start, well, I have an odd
Speaker 1: one that I think would throw the tone of the game.
Speaker 1: I know we've we've played the alright, I know how
Speaker 1: this goes. I think the listener would be like, I've
Speaker 1: got some XFL reading to catch any of these type
Speaker 1: of when we play these games, I know, never to
Speaker 1: start with you because yours will always be a lot different.
Speaker 1: So I we we warm up to Sessler in these scenarios.
Speaker 1: I got you, I got your back, buddy. This is going.
Speaker 1: This part is going into the show. What you just
Speaker 1: I got. I'll throw at a very like straight sort
Speaker 1: of football one Dan does one, you know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of funny, and then you have something that includes the
Speaker 1: end of the world. We did not want to do
Speaker 1: all football. We talked about that also with it right,
Speaker 1: greg Or West straight one Dan, Oh, Dan's a little reverend,
Speaker 1: and then Mark and asteroid hits the earth. You are listen,
Speaker 1: you are you. It was commanded that we don't dip
Speaker 1: entirely into football scenario. Sers we're not. We can say
Speaker 1: super Bowl, but it's not our you know, the only
Speaker 1: option here? All right, here we go, all right, why
Speaker 1: don't we go through our old our all the ways?
Speaker 1: So why don't you gotta go into Greg with something
Speaker 1: very close to the best? All right, I'll I'll start
Speaker 1: over over you know, by the way, we've been doing
Speaker 1: our show too long. Over under Thursday Night. It's not
Speaker 1: a it's not a number thing. Over under Thursday night.
Speaker 1: We know the status of Rob Gronkowski for the game
Speaker 1: by Thursday of next week, Thursday night of Super Bowl week,
Speaker 1: I'll take the we know his status, we we know
Speaker 1: for sure whether he's playing or not. Under would be
Speaker 1: we know before that. I'll take the under. I will too,
Speaker 1: because if he's actively practicing and he's out of the protocol,
Speaker 1: he's playing. So I'll take it's over. Even if he's practicing,
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna list him as questionable a lot of times.
Speaker 1: That protocol goes right up until Friday or Saturday. That's
Speaker 1: why I chose there. I mean then I would go
Speaker 1: over too, because I think the thing we're talking now,
Speaker 1: we're talking the assumption is, oh, it's everyone in the buildings,
Speaker 1: like of course he's playing. Like even if they list
Speaker 1: everyone questions sheet and Tom Kern will have this by
Speaker 1: winds right, So I don't think the Patriots are gonna
Speaker 1: say it, though I'll never say no. We know for
Speaker 1: sure if if if Ian had reported it definitively, that
Speaker 1: would count that. We know, we know. I'm taking the under.
Speaker 1: If you're coming, is it Ian specifically or any any
Speaker 1: letter that we trust, anyone, anyone we trust Kevin Patra.
Speaker 1: I'll take the under. I mean, yeah, and he's playing
Speaker 1: come on, I mean, we hear well, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think we need be an insider. But how many
Speaker 1: players have has Zeuster talked to this year? Patrick's out
Speaker 1: there with boots on the ground many of and I
Speaker 1: talked to people behind the scenes. Concussions are tricky. You
Speaker 1: just don't know like you're either cleared or you're not.
Speaker 1: There's not you can't pudge it. Most guys they'll come
Speaker 1: back after it, right, but but you never know when
Speaker 1: it's gonna strike. Funny, it's tricky for Grant because he
Speaker 1: has such like a low baseline of like he generally
Speaker 1: seems concussed. Anyhow, this is a bit all right. Next one,
Speaker 1: I'll do kind of a straight one too, over under
Speaker 1: here we go. Percentage of Eagles fans against the capacity
Speaker 1: and attendance at US Bank Stadium for Super Bowl fifty two.
Speaker 1: I'll set the over under sixty six point six percent. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll never get this, actually, but it's a fun time
Speaker 1: here we go. I'm just saying, we're never gonna know
Speaker 1: how I was gonna decide fan's gonna eyeball do you yeah,
Speaker 1: sixth and let me just give you a little context.
Speaker 1: I did's a math and nailed it. Sixty seven thousand
Speaker 1: approximately uh at U S Bank Stadium, sixty six point
Speaker 1: six percent would be about forty five k of that
Speaker 1: sixty seven Eagles fans over under thousand Eagles fans in attendance.
Speaker 1: I'm going under because I think you have to remember
Speaker 1: that a lot of fans aren't gonna be fans of
Speaker 1: either the Patriots or the Eagles. That's part of it.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are just going to go to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So I'm gonna go under for that reason.
Speaker 1: I do think there will be more Eagles than Patriots
Speaker 1: by quite a bit. I'll go I'll go under. I
Speaker 1: think that you're not super far off. But there is
Speaker 1: a memory of when they were in Arizona and they
Speaker 1: showed Belichick coming down the tunnel and people went nuts
Speaker 1: and booing him, and I thought, this crowd is so
Speaker 1: heavy Seahawks right now. But then they showed Brady and
Speaker 1: the place exploded, and there's a lot of neutral fans
Speaker 1: in there that loved Tom Brady. We just heard about
Speaker 1: the Jerseys. So I'm going I'm going underbe going way
Speaker 1: way under. I wouldn't even say two thirds Eagles now.
Speaker 1: I would say they'll be more Eagles fans. But it's
Speaker 1: a huge percentage, which is really neither. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: got to be a minimum, which is neither. And the
Speaker 1: Patriots fans have showed up last year. They they certainly
Speaker 1: not that the Falcons are a great fan base, uh
Speaker 1: in terms of having huge numbers, But the Patriots fans
Speaker 1: have showed up, and the Falcons went Falcons fans, and
Speaker 1: it's not their fault went utterly quiet for the final
Speaker 1: third of the game because they were next. The case
Speaker 1: behind it for me is at what point has everyone
Speaker 1: in New England that's wanted to go to a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl gone for you know, if you're gonna make choices,
Speaker 1: if you've already gone once or twice, and if you're
Speaker 1: somebody that loves the Patriots and go to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: you've probably done it by now at least once. Are
Speaker 1: you gonna go to Minneapolis when you're thinking yourself, they'll
Speaker 1: probably be back and I can shoot down to Atlanta
Speaker 1: next year or two years from now when they're back again,
Speaker 1: I'll go see in Miami. I already saw him twice
Speaker 1: in the last twelve years. Meanwhile, the Eagles fans, these
Speaker 1: people are crazy, I mean, Colleen's insane, Like this idea
Speaker 1: that they have this opportunity to win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I feel like they're gonna flood the market. That's that's
Speaker 1: why I think that. And there has been a Patriots
Speaker 1: fan belief. I think with the last two that this
Speaker 1: is the last one, so we better go get to it.
Speaker 1: But now I think that's eroded. Yeah, all right, we're
Speaker 1: getting closer to marks. Don't over sell mine. That's a
Speaker 1: bad way to do it. Inching our way to settler
Speaker 1: over under think pieces on Ernie Adams, whom David Halberstam
Speaker 1: called Belichick's Belichick in a year where his situational football
Speaker 1: and the Patriots go h beat everyone at the final buzzer?
Speaker 1: How many on Ernie Adams or so like? In terms
Speaker 1: of where they would be housed on like any webs
Speaker 1: site anywhere, or like the top twenty football websites. Potentially,
Speaker 1: I would say any national website or Boston Globe, Boston Media,
Speaker 1: or it would this be television featurettes. Has anyone in
Speaker 1: this room ever written Ernie Adams piece? I feel like
Speaker 1: hasn't someone from around the NFL at one point ran
Speaker 1: in Ernie Adams piece. There's a definitive piece written by
Speaker 1: Right Thompson, I believe in two thousand eight or two
Speaker 1: thousand nine. I think Dan Shaughnessy's written about him. And
Speaker 1: in both of these pieces, basically no information comes to
Speaker 1: light because he's that much. He's cloak and dagger, like
Speaker 1: nobody knows what he does. They once put players in
Speaker 1: Boston once put up a picture of him in a
Speaker 1: team meeting with the caption, does anybody know what this
Speaker 1: guy does? You have to give a number though you
Speaker 1: can't just too. He's been Belichick's like type coaching friend
Speaker 1: for decades and decades and decades, and he's almost like
Speaker 1: a special projects and he's been credited with some crazy
Speaker 1: stuff over the years. Also been like yeah, he's also
Speaker 1: been like in his times away from football, like a
Speaker 1: masterful hedge fund manager who just he's a rainmaker who
Speaker 1: makes people. He's the guy a Baltick bounces stuff off
Speaker 1: and it sounds like during the game he does some
Speaker 1: game management. You know, he different different coaches guys, and
Speaker 1: he's one of them. So what are you putting the
Speaker 1: over under at I'm sending it at too. It's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be way over, I think, I I will I
Speaker 1: will go. I'll go over because there's just an insane
Speaker 1: amount of media out there. And again I think it's
Speaker 1: like this, maybe the last time you get a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl thing piece on Ernie Adams probably will just be
Speaker 1: next year, probably be next year. But I'm gonna gonna go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go under just based on just to get
Speaker 1: the Patriots fans all right up. I noticed at the
Speaker 1: NFL dot com planning it's like there's a lot more
Speaker 1: enthusiasm to write about the Eagles. Feels like a lot
Speaker 1: more Eagles content coming because everyone's tired to write about
Speaker 1: the pay Can you write about the paths? And that
Speaker 1: actually to me trends toward writing about Ernie Adams something different. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna write three Ernie Adams. I'm going I'm going, alright, Mark,
Speaker 1: you're up, all right. A lot of I've already heard
Speaker 1: a lot of bitching about the weather from me, but
Speaker 1: from others. To a lot of people, I think there's
Speaker 1: just a general concern about what it is that we're
Speaker 1: flying into. So mine is a weather based one and
Speaker 1: it's the combined tally of how many times the Around
Speaker 1: the NFL podcast crew, the four of Us and Colleen,
Speaker 1: complains about the weather during Super Bowl week in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: This includes nitpicks about dangerously low temperatures, wind chill, wind,
Speaker 1: gus snowfall, piles of snow on the ground, snow fields,
Speaker 1: freezing rain, sleet, stepping in arctic puddles, getting splashed with
Speaker 1: waves of freezing water, the result of passing cars on
Speaker 1: the street. This also includes complaints about slipping on icy stairs,
Speaker 1: slamming one's skull into the godless concrete after a perilous
Speaker 1: fall on the sidewalk, being hit with snowballs by snickering passers,
Speaker 1: by being mocked by children in school busses. Is your
Speaker 1: work papers blow away in the wind. This includes bemoaning
Speaker 1: one's lack of proper footwear, verbally wishing one was tucked
Speaker 1: away in a desert island, bitching about your left foot
Speaker 1: being wet after stepping into a small stream of gushing
Speaker 1: wastewater at the corner of Ginger and Oxygon streets. This
Speaker 1: includes telling everyone around you that you don't believe in
Speaker 1: the scarf is a fashion statement, but wished you would
Speaker 1: actually purchase winter where before flying from Los Angeles, complaining
Speaker 1: about an uber that's outrageously two minutes away and kind
Speaker 1: of doing that thing where it spins around on the street,
Speaker 1: kind of lost on the app while your lips turned
Speaker 1: purple blue in a North American wilderness bitten by temperatures
Speaker 1: just a tad below springtime on Mars, putting the over
Speaker 1: under a well, that just what you just described some
Speaker 1: like a morning with Mark Sessler. That's Tuesday morning. Will
Speaker 1: I be the only one complaining here? And then at
Speaker 1: first I was gonna ask does this count on air?
Speaker 1: But now I realized it's everything. It's everything. I'm not
Speaker 1: on the podcast because we should be. It's no, it's
Speaker 1: when we're walking to and from because we should have
Speaker 1: a rule like not saying the words super Bowl that
Speaker 1: we're not allowed to say any of that even once
Speaker 1: that affects my under by penalty, but speak free off fair.
Speaker 1: It's gonna happen a lot. I'm gonna go over. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go over. I might complain a hundred ten times myself.
Speaker 1: I'm all skinning bones. I get cold. If if a
Speaker 1: breeze blows through his podcast studio, I mean, I famously
Speaker 1: have been called the strong and silent type. So that's true.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep it under you know, you just deal
Speaker 1: with it. And so you guys are being I'm actually
Speaker 1: checking the weather. It might be unseasonably warm. You don't know,
Speaker 1: Let's say it might. Let's see the highs. Oh, the
Speaker 1: high on Monday is fifteen oh five. But here's the
Speaker 1: good news. It's gonna be sunny. I hate sun in
Speaker 1: that weather. These are the highs fifteen thirty three, twelve nine.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a high of nine negatives in here
Speaker 1: for some blows. Yeah there negative, here's one and super
Speaker 1: Bowl Sunday eleven degrees. It is a lot of tunnels
Speaker 1: in and walkway. Are you kidding me? Were already complaining
Speaker 1: over over over. I just want to die. We're staying out.
Speaker 1: We one underrated factor is we're staying out near where
Speaker 1: all the press conferences are, where Radio Row is, the
Speaker 1: Mall of America. We're basically, I'm gonna have a feeling,
Speaker 1: I have a feeling only gonna go between our small
Speaker 1: hotel t J Fridays and this mall, which are all
Speaker 1: within about a hundred feet of each other. So we
Speaker 1: might add, and yet, and yet at the combine, when
Speaker 1: you're only asked to cross one street to get from
Speaker 1: the Indie Downtown Indie Tunnel system connected to our hotel
Speaker 1: and Lucas Oil Stadium, NonStop complaints for that eight seconds
Speaker 1: that it takes to cross the street. NonStop complaining from
Speaker 1: human beings. I need, I need some input from the
Speaker 1: listeners on this one. You have mentioned that it would
Speaker 1: be a good Mark has mentioned that it would be
Speaker 1: a good idea to wear boots or to bring boots.
Speaker 1: I asked someone from Minnesota downstairs Brook or she's from
Speaker 1: north to the Dakotas and Minnesota all the stuff. She said,
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, she went out and she did. She didn't
Speaker 1: she is an l A person. She went out and
Speaker 1: bought a low level pair of boots. I'm doing the
Speaker 1: same nice little boot talk in the pod like a
Speaker 1: total hot foot, like wet shoes. Speaking of it on
Speaker 1: the Ground podcast, speaking of what Greg was referencing, I'll
Speaker 1: throw out another one number of drinks ingested by the
Speaker 1: Around the NFL podcast team, including Kevin Patra Who's gonna
Speaker 1: be with us. As we said from Monday on at
Speaker 1: the t g I Friday's established it connected to our
Speaker 1: hotel where we're staying. I'm not this isn't like, Oh Joe,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a million drinks. No, I want the number.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna set the over under at ninety nine and
Speaker 1: a half for the entire week. Now let me put
Speaker 1: in how did I come to this figure? Greg is
Speaker 1: not gonna throw back a ton of drinks West, This
Speaker 1: is not previous. West is West on the mend diminished capacity.
Speaker 1: I'm putting West kind of in the Greg terrace. Come on,
Speaker 1: that's an outright now, like two or three drinks, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, a night not as insulting. I apologized. I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to be I'll be under that, and um
Speaker 1: here comes the insult. You're gonna you're gonna talked about
Speaker 1: me as some sort of Mark's got nine them. I
Speaker 1: think that you and I will probably be in the
Speaker 1: dim territory that seems incredibly low. I'm gonna go over that.
Speaker 1: Pat tat Patrol will be helped. He'll be helping. This
Speaker 1: one so added up though, and remember this is specifically
Speaker 1: at the t g I. Fridays could be other locations
Speaker 1: where we imbibe, but in the Friday's when planning to time,
Speaker 1: I may go under because you're talking about like at
Speaker 1: least three or four of us having to knock off
Speaker 1: like five plus a night, which I mean for yourself.
Speaker 1: I don't want to spend the whole time at T J. Friday's.
Speaker 1: The mall is right there, and there's a million places
Speaker 1: right there where we're fine, right, well, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: at the Friday's. Greg, I don't understand what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go sit in the food court with the other they got,
Speaker 1: they got, this mall's got everything. This uh, this Friday
Speaker 1: only thing, Friday's the only thing adds like a David
Speaker 1: Lynch layer of complex city to the interesting. I might
Speaker 1: go under two because if it's only Fridays, and also,
Speaker 1: you like, there's at least a ten percent chance that
Speaker 1: we you just don't like that Friday's and decide to
Speaker 1: bag it for the home. But we've done we've done
Speaker 1: some yell research and now it's it's it seems very
Speaker 1: very run of the mill, and it's gonna be just
Speaker 1: like every other Friday's. This could also like vault up
Speaker 1: to a hundred and fifty. It easily could. It could
Speaker 1: we could find it to be. And this is how
Speaker 1: I picture it in my mind as an optimist, like
Speaker 1: it's gonna feel like our cheers. What if you get
Speaker 1: in there and it's, hey, we already are we already
Speaker 1: friends with some waiters and waitresses there are, yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's like it's our place. Yes, I'll have a ninth
Speaker 1: this suddenly you know it's Friday's is getting more free
Speaker 1: pub and Head and Shoulders has all seasons. I'm taking
Speaker 1: over our team to Uh No, I don't have her
Speaker 1: on this just because she's gonna be staying down talent.
Speaker 1: So yeah, she's true talent. So she might at some
Speaker 1: point end up with us, but I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I don't see her. I don't see her going to Fridays.
Speaker 1: But she's she's not gonna with the unwashed masses where
Speaker 1: we are. All right. I had an alcohol and related too,
Speaker 1: but I will I will save it. You know, if
Speaker 1: you want to keep it rolling, I'll I'll package it quickly.
Speaker 1: We don't need to discuss it at length. It's it's
Speaker 1: a little bit of a one team versus the other?
Speaker 1: Are these do you have your little highlights on the text?
Speaker 1: Just on the Mark Show three months away from being canceled,
Speaker 1: the number of alcoholic drinks Dan and Mark consume in
Speaker 1: minus those imbibed by Wes Lindsey, Fulton, Greg NFL Media's
Speaker 1: Mark Brady, a shadowy figure, and Kevin Patra. I'm putting
Speaker 1: the over under at twenty, so that would be what
Speaker 1: Dan and I do minus Yes, the rest who are
Speaker 1: the name The others are Wes Lindsay faulton you, Greg You,
Speaker 1: NFL Media's Mark Brady, and Kevin Patrick. So you add
Speaker 1: it all up like that, I'm gonna go under because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna count on Patra actually beating both of you.
Speaker 1: So then I mean the individual, he's the winner of
Speaker 1: that whole group, and then you have the rest of us.
Speaker 1: We just have to be within twenty of the other one.
Speaker 1: So I like that. I like this one. I'm going on.
Speaker 1: This is running circles around my mind. Yeah, I can't
Speaker 1: even get involved with it. So I just well, all
Speaker 1: you need to know is if you want to win,
Speaker 1: you need to keenness NonStop. Well I'm you win. This
Speaker 1: is why some of these prop bets are are trouble.
Speaker 1: You know, in Vegas you can get some soft lines.
Speaker 1: They like to say, I think something real wise, guys
Speaker 1: are gonna hammer this one and Mark's going to be
Speaker 1: cleaned out? Are we actually betting money? Okay, I'm a
Speaker 1: real wild card here. I think bodies feeling night and day.
Speaker 1: I kept up with Mark the other night at it
Speaker 1: at the at the Whaler. I don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: We finally got to I got to meet uh Pat
Speaker 1: Dardy Rhodo Pat on Twitter, my former Rhoda World and
Speaker 1: then Evan Silva, who I have met before, but it
Speaker 1: was only like the third time. And I tried to
Speaker 1: explain to uh my wife Simone that I was going
Speaker 1: out to meet someone named Rhodo Pat and then it
Speaker 1: wasn't like it took a little bit of explaining, but
Speaker 1: my invite got lost in the mail again. No, I
Speaker 1: believe I told you coming. I got a text remark
Speaker 1: in the uber, oh we're going over to meet up.
Speaker 1: It was all it was. That was when Mark, It
Speaker 1: was all very last minute it was, and then it
Speaker 1: wasn't that wasn't reach out to you Mark, Uh okay,
Speaker 1: Well that was because I saw you on the way
Speaker 1: out as it was me who you were getting lunch.
Speaker 1: You were quickly it was automatically assumed I was. I
Speaker 1: was going to text you, and when I went to
Speaker 1: get lunch that day, Greg was on the phone. I
Speaker 1: was like, he was like, oh yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: West is available. Like I wonder what he's talking about.
Speaker 1: I don't worry about it. Oh No, it wasn't like
Speaker 1: a nice thing to do. I would say it wasn't
Speaker 1: on purpose. It wasn't on purpose, not a purpose. It
Speaker 1: wasn't a thoughtful thing. Interesting, I'll give you that. Not thoughtful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say you probably nailed that. All right, who's next.
Speaker 1: I hope you guys had fun though I was out
Speaker 1: of there. I needed Did you get invited? Lindsay, come on,
Speaker 1: let's be serious. I never invited to anything. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so at least I wasn't totally alone, just on this
Speaker 1: side of the glass. Well, it certainly wasn't a large
Speaker 1: party that you weren't invited to. I didn't invite you,
Speaker 1: by the way, I wasn't really your I appreciated it. Okay,
Speaker 1: it wasn't necessarily like your just everyone's always invited all
Speaker 1: the time. That's what I assumed. I've never invited to anything,
Speaker 1: because you just assume I don't. I'm not gonna go Okay, Greg,
Speaker 1: you're invited to it wasn't it was a forgotten How
Speaker 1: about this, it'st but noted that it's not forgotten. That's
Speaker 1: w Greg. You go ahead. Well it'll really go ahead, friend,
Speaker 1: it will really come back to hot me like in
Speaker 1: seven years the next time I planned something. All right,
Speaker 1: so you planned something once every seven invited. We were
Speaker 1: supposed to go out late night, and then that didn't happen.
Speaker 1: It changed, Greg, I would quickly get to your over
Speaker 1: under you reached out to Mark. Mark I saw on
Speaker 1: the way out and it came up. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not really much of a planner like that.
Speaker 1: I have no no shame. Okay, go ahead. But over
Speaker 1: here I was I was wondering if it was going
Speaker 1: to come up, and you know it, once it came up,
Speaker 1: I figured it might as well. Yeah, but it would
Speaker 1: have all been a matter of time was going to
Speaker 1: come up. It definitely occurred. It definitely occurred to me
Speaker 1: as I like left that eveden and to be clear,
Speaker 1: and I told West because West actually he read the
Speaker 1: tea leaves and he texted me that night and it's like, hey, buddy,
Speaker 1: you're just giving your heads up. You know, sorry that
Speaker 1: you know you didn't really get invited, but give me
Speaker 1: a break. Well, then he should have invited and the
Speaker 1: West this thing as much as anyone. And then I replied,
Speaker 1: I just got turned onto the bus. And then I replied,
Speaker 1: I said, you know, I wasn't gonna. I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: gone anyway, is true, because I had some dad stuff
Speaker 1: to do. But you know, it would have been nice
Speaker 1: to be invited. Yeah, I mean, even if you can't go,
Speaker 1: it would be nice to know that you were seen
Speaker 1: as part of the group. Were you happy to be invited?
Speaker 1: I was. I was excited to meet Evan in Rhodo Path.
Speaker 1: I would have loved to meet them too, or at
Speaker 1: least that the option they delivered on they delivered for
Speaker 1: They asked you about you many times. I will give
Speaker 1: you that they did ask about you, all right? The
Speaker 1: good thing? Yeah, where is? Where is? Sir? It's a
Speaker 1: good thing. I'm not as sensitive as this or else.
Speaker 1: Think of all the things I would hold against you,
Speaker 1: all right, So I'm about a million different things. It's
Speaker 1: a fair point, all right, over under, Greg, you want
Speaker 1: to sounds like a hard pivot to Nick Foles is
Speaker 1: over under interception. I would suggest you wanted to half
Speaker 1: its one and a half turnover, Like, Dan's not the
Speaker 1: only one who's noted things over the years. Want and
Speaker 1: a half turnovers for Nick Foles? That's the question. I
Speaker 1: feel like the show is over in some ways it is.
Speaker 1: I'm in go under one and a half turnovers on
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Sunday, remaining around the NFL podcast left in
Speaker 1: this world because I think he's gonna have a fumble,
Speaker 1: but he's they're gonna recover it. Mark's really trying to
Speaker 1: push remembers members on this podcast by this show next year.
Speaker 1: One and a half over us, um, I will take
Speaker 1: the over. I believe Nick Foles will suck in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I'll save most of my analysis for the
Speaker 1: game for the week. But that's what I feel. Okay,
Speaker 1: one and a half, that's according to Greg turnovers. I'll
Speaker 1: go with yeah, I'll go with over. He's still Nick Foles.
Speaker 1: He's gonna turn into a pumpkin at midnight? Do you Fip,
Speaker 1: do you feel Gregg that he's going to play well again?
Speaker 1: I think he's played well. I think he played well.
Speaker 1: He's playing a much easier defense this week and he
Speaker 1: did last week. Yeah, not quite as easy as the
Speaker 1: Raiders defense, in which he was like over fourteen on
Speaker 1: third downs. That game's ancient history, right, What do you
Speaker 1: got West? Was last week's you got anything else? When? One?
Speaker 1: More over under? Yeah? If you got it all? Right
Speaker 1: over under meetups with podcast fans, m put you on
Speaker 1: the spot. Baby, I'm going one. I'm willing to do.
Speaker 1: I will do. I mean in terms of it, like
Speaker 1: not just like randomly so sweet up like we did
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Yeah, I would go push I say one.
Speaker 1: I would. I would strongly, I would personally it half
Speaker 1: said it half so either yes or no. Right, I'll go.
Speaker 1: Unless you're doing multiple, I'll do it. I'll do three.
Speaker 1: We gotta we gotta get you to Sunday, West, we
Speaker 1: gotta get you to Super Bowl sund but two of
Speaker 1: those day have to come to Fridays. Okay, I have
Speaker 1: to think about this. I will I will do one.
Speaker 1: One sounds good like a one organized one. Well, because
Speaker 1: think it's easier to just to do. We don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of free nights. When would this we would
Speaker 1: have to when would this be we'd have to plan it? Well?
Speaker 1: It was was it Friday? The other time it was Friday.
Speaker 1: We can't write outsource the planning to someone else. Well,
Speaker 1: that's part of the I would say, yeah, in them
Speaker 1: all of America maybe somewhere, how about that that'd be crazy.
Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, it doesn't seem want to Friday's
Speaker 1: is are on cleave. It's are like that at place.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go under because Hands has said We're
Speaker 1: never doing that again after the last that I've gone.
Speaker 1: I did not say that. I did not say that
Speaker 1: was a little overwhelming the first time, but it was
Speaker 1: great to see the fans. And since West put it
Speaker 1: on the spot, Uh yeah, I'm in count me in
Speaker 1: here we go still it, Greg? You did say that, though?
Speaker 1: Why you saying he didn't say that? I love the
Speaker 1: bombs thrown back and you're invited. I mean I was
Speaker 1: pretty much on that side of things. This is all
Speaker 1: the script to Greg hitting out. Now, Greg, are you
Speaker 1: gonna join us or not? It depends which night I
Speaker 1: guess Friday night. Well we don't know what let up
Speaker 1: in the air, but yes, late end of the week
Speaker 1: when your responsibilities are shutting down to some degree. Alright,
Speaker 1: one more Mark, take us home. All right, get us
Speaker 1: this is on the Patriot fan Erica tam Posey front.
Speaker 1: The number of Erica generated justin Timberlake related tweets plus
Speaker 1: the number of times Erica tweets her beloved Amy Schumer
Speaker 1: drinking the giant glass of white wine g Off, plus
Speaker 1: the number of tweets where Erica sends out photos of
Speaker 1: herself and various Patriots gear asking us to pick which
Speaker 1: one we like best, plus the number of tweets where
Speaker 1: tam Posty slams Eagles fans, plus the number of tweets
Speaker 1: where she mentions m a VP. Now, for clarity's sake,
Speaker 1: this over under account begins Monday morning and it concludes
Speaker 1: one hour after the one hour after the super Bowl
Speaker 1: to get her little bragging and if they win and
Speaker 1: all that business or her I outrageous anger. Moreover, these
Speaker 1: are tweets coming from her official work Twitter account at
Speaker 1: tampost the NFL, not that mysterious l a socialite burner
Speaker 1: account she side over under. I'm putting it fifty seven. Well,
Speaker 1: if you follow Eric on Twitter, you know it's crazy.
Speaker 1: And she tweets dozens of times during any Patriot game,
Speaker 1: so the super Bowl unless she's busy, but I misagine
Speaker 1: she will be. Actually now I'm thinking about what what
Speaker 1: she'd probably doing during the game. Maybe she would have
Speaker 1: some type of work to do. But I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say over. I think she's gonna be going nuts
Speaker 1: on Twitter because she's also gonna seize the moment. She
Speaker 1: likes that the show is uh kind of helped to
Speaker 1: build a Erica fan base, and she's gonna lean into
Speaker 1: that on Super Bowl Sunday and go nuts with her
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Speaker 1: get him on the line right now. Last year it
Speaker 1: was Connor or This year it's Kevin Patra in Hawaii. Actually,
Speaker 1: well it's not Hawaii, so let's lose that, Lindsay, Let's
Speaker 1: get some more Lando. I'm thinking like turn of the millennium,
Speaker 1: little new metal. Orlando is known for new metal. This
Speaker 1: feels Florida to me, this is Florida's just a bunch
Speaker 1: of ugly concrete in the middle of the state. Might
Speaker 1: be packed there, Pat, what's up, buddy? Welcome, Hey, go
Speaker 1: on back to the Around the NFL podcast. How you doing, Pal?
Speaker 1: I am doing phenomenal as always. Right now, I'm staring
Speaker 1: outside my hotel window at two girafts mewing on some
Speaker 1: leaves and uh a bowl right off the side deck here.
Speaker 1: So you paid the picture where you are exactly where
Speaker 1: where is your residence? Where you staying? Do you just
Speaker 1: say you're burning some lea eaves? No, no, no, girafts
Speaker 1: are eating milling down. I'm not burning anything, Okay, I
Speaker 1: am at um. I was put up at the Animal
Speaker 1: Kingdom Lodge, didn't night Disney resort, far away from the players.
Speaker 1: You know, I used to be back because Patrick, you've
Speaker 1: covered a bunch of these going back to the Hawaii days,
Speaker 1: in the good old days that actually put you in
Speaker 1: the hotel with the players and you'd be sharing pool
Speaker 1: time and Daker's and talking books with Brown centers. Alex
Speaker 1: Mack he was saying it, yeah, but now they kind
Speaker 1: of they is it because of our humble NFL media? Uh?
Speaker 1: Leaning over the network. What about network talent. They heard
Speaker 1: about my my discussion with Alex Mac last time, and
Speaker 1: they wanted to keep all of that to the minimum.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they don't want any book talk going on.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, I mean James later, the wonderful James
Speaker 1: player from nmfo UM network is up at the Player
Speaker 1: hotel and getting to go to the all the after
Speaker 1: our events. Haven't they put up me out here in
Speaker 1: the boondocks? I'm sure if Gregg had come in my spot,
Speaker 1: he's probably wounding with Jalen Jalen Ramsey. So I'd rather
Speaker 1: be with the drafts that. It actually sounds like a
Speaker 1: pretty good spot. You should have like went in Jane
Speaker 1: Slater's luggage. Just anything can get you into the hotel.
Speaker 1: That sounds creepy. I don't know if that's the policy
Speaker 1: new policy about that sort of thing. Damn. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a good point. keV uh. So what is what has
Speaker 1: been the scene there? I know you so you've been
Speaker 1: covering the practices like take us through if if someone
Speaker 1: has never really known how it works to cover a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, like what are you doing over there? Basically?
Speaker 1: You know, guys are just having fun mostly goofing off.
Speaker 1: I mean the most entertaining thing is Sean Payton hired
Speaker 1: Drew Brees Stunts as ball boys. So you got these
Speaker 1: like three little runts running around like two ft tall,
Speaker 1: around mammoths like uh, you know, Jared Goff and such,
Speaker 1: just switching out the balls. And most of the time
Speaker 1: they're just having fun. You know, they talk about getting
Speaker 1: the terminality, you right, but most of the time the
Speaker 1: players are just messing around with each other, gagging on
Speaker 1: each other, and it only laughs for about forty five
Speaker 1: minutes and then they sign autographs. We talked to him,
Speaker 1: We chat with the players that sort of stuff. It
Speaker 1: seems problematic if like collect Aossemile steam rolls Drew Brees
Speaker 1: six year old son, like that's a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Speaker 1: One would take so today if practice. Actually it's funny
Speaker 1: like two of the kids that got into wrestling match
Speaker 1: you all brothers, do you know, one of the older
Speaker 1: ones like half the other one in the headlock, and
Speaker 1: they start like almost rolling toward towards the players that
Speaker 1: are you know, they're not a antentional They just took
Speaker 1: the snap through the faith back and like Sean Payton
Speaker 1: went in and swooped them back and like yanked them
Speaker 1: backwards before they got ran over. Are there any players
Speaker 1: there like being around these guys that I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's either their physique, like their makeup, or their
Speaker 1: personality that you completely changed your opinion of one of
Speaker 1: these uh so called stars um physique. Johnny Hecker is
Speaker 1: a huge man for a puncher. Bottles we were we
Speaker 1: had the same thing. We were on the field at
Speaker 1: the end of the game, and as he was jogging
Speaker 1: to the tunnel, it was remarkable what a beast he was. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's huge. Andrew Whitworth is another ginormous man along with
Speaker 1: Joe Staley, I mean the offensive lineman and the defensive line.
Speaker 1: We always strike me as because you know, you know,
Speaker 1: you can't tell us from the camera angle, no matter
Speaker 1: you know, tall twenty two regular films, you can't tell
Speaker 1: how ginormous these guys are until human person. So you
Speaker 1: are now going to go You're not actually covering the game.
Speaker 1: You're gonna stop back in Sugartown, Chicago and then hop
Speaker 1: on a plane to get to Minneapolis to do a
Speaker 1: full week of Super Bowl coverage. So this these are
Speaker 1: busy times for Kevin Patrick coming at you. It is.
Speaker 1: It is a busy time. You know. My fiance is
Speaker 1: not happy about it. So what is the big day?
Speaker 1: But that was the time to leave though for a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Is no kids involved, But I know
Speaker 1: I can imagine that you wouldn't be happy. You get
Speaker 1: used to a little Kevin Patrick. You wanted all the time,
Speaker 1: get a taste. You want some more? How about learned
Speaker 1: to win the power struggle struggle with the NFL have
Speaker 1: never one market? Okay, um, all right, So here's the
Speaker 1: good news. Kevin patra is gonna be like I said
Speaker 1: at Super Bowl week, so he's gonna be on our
Speaker 1: Thursday show next week. Umuh, So we're gonna get more
Speaker 1: Patrick our lives and then we could really have a
Speaker 1: chance Kevin to to dig into the situation with Nick
Speaker 1: Shook and and some of the whispers that maybe he's
Speaker 1: been coming for your crown and where you stand, he's
Speaker 1: got the crown. We can do. We can discuss that later.
Speaker 1: One thing about this Pro Bowl. If aanbody's gonna watch
Speaker 1: my ex factor, Pararell Cooper, that's my expector. I think
Speaker 1: he's been working a lot with the offense I think
Speaker 1: that some of the higher profile wide receiver is gonna
Speaker 1: sit out pump returner and scoring touchdown as a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Where else are you getting full x bat? Yeah, the
Speaker 1: best return guy in the league, and UH wants to
Speaker 1: make up for kind of giving away that playoff game.
Speaker 1: Get to the desert as quickly as possible, Kevin Patri
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, buddy, and we will see you.
Speaker 1: And by the way, you're involved with a very important
Speaker 1: t g I Friday related over under UH that we
Speaker 1: will clue you in on what you get to many
Speaker 1: with us. All right, but everybody, all right, there goes Patra.
Speaker 1: Before we get out of here, I want to ask
Speaker 1: another question. You got big plans for the new year? No,
Speaker 1: the new year upcoming down from let's see what happens
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Speaker 1: here's the deal again. No show this Sunday. It's the first,
Speaker 1: uh first time we don't have a Sunday show since
Speaker 1: the first week of September because we will be traveling.
Speaker 1: We will have a Tuesday audio show. We will have
Speaker 1: a late Thursday audio show and a of course the
Speaker 1: big one, the Flagships Sunday uh Super Bowl Sunday Night
Speaker 1: recap show uh in intention, in addition to a video
Speaker 1: only show that will air on Friday on NFL dot com.
Speaker 1: So so much good stuff coming. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 1: Uh and uh, let's let's get let's get things going.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Let's go, let's go to Minnesota. BA
Speaker 1: and hands is signing off for Quiet Storm, the Mailman,
Speaker 1: the Old Boss, Lizzie fault On behind the Glass until Tuesday.