Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen, but let's be honest,
Speaker 1: mostly just gentlemen. Um, it's my honor and privilege to
Speaker 1: introduce for good friends of mine, four heroes of yours,
Speaker 1: as well as their effervescent producer, Ricky Hollywood over there now,
Speaker 1: just before we get started, this show is going to
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Speaker 1: so let's make sure that we show all their fans
Speaker 1: back in the US how passionate you are about the show.
Speaker 1: Make as much noise as you possibly can. Now, the
Speaker 1: show normally starts with Matt Money Smith Um doing an intro.
Speaker 1: Money couldn't make it with us today, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give it a go. I'll see how how I do.
Speaker 1: The Around the NFL podcast is buying points for everyone
Speaker 1: in this room after the show. I specifically noted in
Speaker 1: the script that I wanted to give you a hug,
Speaker 1: but hell, everybody, what's up? To be more specific, Dan
Speaker 1: spind drinks for everyone. Welcome to another edition of the
Speaker 1: Around the NFL podcast. My name very good. My name
Speaker 1: is Dan Hansons. I'm joined in the room filled with heroes,
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Chris Westling and Greg Rosen all what's up? Boys?
Speaker 1: What's up? Boys? Hi? Diane? Wait, did you just do
Speaker 1: the west boys? My impression of you guys doing an
Speaker 1: impression of me? Spot on? How's everybody doing? That's fun?
Speaker 1: This is cool? How about that? You guys are the
Speaker 1: lucky few that got tickets within two minutes of it
Speaker 1: going on sale. Where are the women right here? Oh? Hi?
Speaker 1: There we go there? Yeah, I see a woman there.
Speaker 1: That means we're wow, we are going through the roof.
Speaker 1: We have whoa, we have words of eleven women here.
Speaker 1: That is up roughly ninety nine point four percent from
Speaker 1: last year. Things are going well. And the woman that's
Speaker 1: so important to our show. I know, Henry Mentioner, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna say it again, Ricky, Hi, I know. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna even ask if you have a mic because
Speaker 1: I know you have a mike because that was the
Speaker 1: first mike testing exactly exactly, so we are is our everything? Okay? Boys?
Speaker 1: Do you want to sit down? Let's sit down? Sure,
Speaker 1: let's do that. Now, see how this is precariously set
Speaker 1: up just a bit concerning. I'm trying to fair o.
Speaker 1: Why with an industrial light machine here next you'll find
Speaker 1: that out a couple of segments away. Mark, you'll find sea.
Speaker 1: All right. So here we are in London again and
Speaker 1: it's so exciting to be here. Thank you everybody that
Speaker 1: came in. And uh, what have what have I been
Speaker 1: our big takeaways so far this week our second journey
Speaker 1: here to England. Well, I think we have to start
Speaker 1: with the lead story right now. The protests preventing us
Speaker 1: from getting inside and outside of our hotel. We uh,
Speaker 1: we managed to look into staying in the same hotel
Speaker 1: as the governmental Gas and Oil conference. Good timing, Good timing.
Speaker 1: The only corporation less popular than the NFL as a corporation. Yes,
Speaker 1: and oh, by the way, I should mention the bar
Speaker 1: is there. And I don't have to tell you guys.
Speaker 1: Your listeners to the Around the NFL podcast, you can
Speaker 1: get booze throughout the show. We want him to be
Speaker 1: offended if you get up uh multiple times. But yeah,
Speaker 1: not only do we are we dealing with that uh
Speaker 1: and the traffic that it's caused, although it's a beautiful
Speaker 1: city and we're enjoying it a lot of times spent
Speaker 1: in cabs. We're dealing with Ricky. We're dealing with the
Speaker 1: ghost situation, which I'm it's it's an issue, and and
Speaker 1: we did work. We we there it is. I figured
Speaker 1: it out. If you listen to a show earlier this week,
Speaker 1: sounds like Connor's mansion. It turns out that there is
Speaker 1: a hospital that existed hundreds of years ago. And when
Speaker 1: a hospit it is open in the twelve and the
Speaker 1: fourteen hundreds, it's all about just getting the ooze out
Speaker 1: and then you die. Whatever, crack the skull open, get
Speaker 1: the ooze out and then wait. So their ghosts and
Speaker 1: then there are environmentalists after us. So it's been tricky.
Speaker 1: It's been tricky. It's been tough. I really like how
Speaker 1: much we've blown out the budget here for the special effect.
Speaker 1: I've found a company, and I mean I generally side
Speaker 1: with big oil, and when it comes to the climate,
Speaker 1: I've got another twenty or thirty years to operate here
Speaker 1: on the earth. I'll be fine. You know they're listening.
Speaker 1: I don't get what the big issue is, to be honest, though,
Speaker 1: you know they're listening right now. Um, so we're really
Speaker 1: excited to be here, and today's show is gonna be
Speaker 1: a good one. It's not you know, usually and Greg
Speaker 1: and I have talked about this privately because many private conversations. UM,
Speaker 1: usually a live podcast sucks in terms of like the
Speaker 1: listening experience for people that aren't in attendance. But we're
Speaker 1: going to change all the rules today. Maybe wait then
Speaker 1: you were definitely talking about West and I no, not
Speaker 1: just us, and in general, we we want to give
Speaker 1: you a representative show to what we do when we
Speaker 1: typically have a podcast. So we have I have a
Speaker 1: whole rundown here if things we're gonna get to and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of fun. But let's start because it
Speaker 1: makes sense with the big game coming up on Sunday. Mark,
Speaker 1: you there's a new nickname Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium. Fine Spurs Stadium.
Speaker 1: I heard that's okay, never Tottenham Stadium and never ever
Speaker 1: Wembley Stadium. I learned the hard way Neil Reynolds, so
Speaker 1: I saw, yeah, he buried me over that. Um, but
Speaker 1: what is the name that you you're working with? Mark?
Speaker 1: Right now? To house, Toddy House, Totti House, and it's
Speaker 1: you know, everyone I've checked with they've said, this is official,
Speaker 1: this works. I haven't I have another one. Let me know.
Speaker 1: I'm the big top. How about that. Is that doing
Speaker 1: anything for anybody? No? Okay, Toddy House, It is very
Speaker 1: serious show there last night for game pass subscribers, and
Speaker 1: it was with a huge superstar of sport that plays
Speaker 1: for Tottenham that absolutely none of us had an idea
Speaker 1: who he is. And now I forget his name, Kyle
Speaker 1: Eric Dire Eric did you say Kyle not Eric Dyre fans.
Speaker 1: He seemed like a perfectly fine bloke, big Eagles fan,
Speaker 1: big Eagles fan. Uh So, yeah, with the game coming up,
Speaker 1: Panthers against the Bucks, why don't we get going with
Speaker 1: just talking about who's going to the game on Sunday?
Speaker 1: That's exciting, that's fun. Hopefully the driving rainstorm lets up
Speaker 1: by then, Mark West, what are we looking for? Uh?
Speaker 1: In this game? What are you most interested to see? Well,
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey is playing as well as any running back
Speaker 1: in the NFL and getting better every week. He's putting
Speaker 1: on moves that you don't see anyone putting on linebackers.
Speaker 1: It to credit to how already has worked. But they're
Speaker 1: also going up against a Buccaneers defense did pretty much
Speaker 1: down the Panthers the last time they played, and a
Speaker 1: Buccaneers defense that Greg Rosenthal will be happy to tell
Speaker 1: you ranks number one in football outsiders, run defense, d
Speaker 1: v o A, every other type of I think we're
Speaker 1: the two that like football here. Uh. I like that,
Speaker 1: uh that coaches for both teams I feel like do
Speaker 1: their best work or they sometimes like it. When things
Speaker 1: are taken away. You can tell NORV Turner is having
Speaker 1: about as much fun as NORV Turner can possibly have
Speaker 1: as a human, running plays for Kyle Allen and Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey and doing everything possible with Curtis Samuel in the
Speaker 1: running game. And so that's gonna be tough, I think
Speaker 1: for the Bucks to deal with. But Bowls is similar
Speaker 1: because they have no talent at all in their back seven.
Speaker 1: They really don't have any pass rushing. Coach called them
Speaker 1: soft they and they are and they because of that.
Speaker 1: If you just like watching Kama Kaze defensive football, Todd
Speaker 1: Bowls is gonna go crazy on Sunday and send six
Speaker 1: or seven guys at Kyle Allen every play. I mean,
Speaker 1: all I can think about is the edge of this
Speaker 1: chair is half an inch from causing a massive head
Speaker 1: wound to myself. But does the show continue of one
Speaker 1: of us falls? I mean, how does that work? Should
Speaker 1: we work out the logistics? If you fall, it does
Speaker 1: and if I do, I think we'll be all right.
Speaker 1: But that guy look over here looks like he's a
Speaker 1: great T shirt. I think he becomes the new Mark
Speaker 1: Sessler perfect. Can you stand up a lot of a
Speaker 1: room that someone someone made a T shirt with all
Speaker 1: of us on it? Um. Some people say they want
Speaker 1: to see Christian McCaffrey live. I get that. I mean
Speaker 1: he's a premier athlete. I want to see the Jamis
Speaker 1: Winston melt factor, which can range from you know, negative
Speaker 1: one plus one hunter. We don't know what kind of
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston we're going to get, and just the idea
Speaker 1: and seeing that with my own eyes that excites you
Speaker 1: with glasses on, it will be exciting. That's necessary. I
Speaker 1: saw Jamis Winston jerseys at the the Pro Shop and
Speaker 1: because nobody it's basically where I was going. My my
Speaker 1: daughter likes the Bucks. It's one of one of her
Speaker 1: favorite teams, and I thought about getting her a Jamis
Speaker 1: Winston jury and it just feels like a mixed message
Speaker 1: in two thousand nineteen to buy it. Yeah, that's one
Speaker 1: way you put it on a hold. And it's been many,
Speaker 1: many years now, Jamis Winson, let's keep it on a
Speaker 1: hold at this point, maybe Mike Evans is the way
Speaker 1: to go on this um. This seems like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a close game, because it was a close game
Speaker 1: last time, and Kyle Allen, for as excited as we
Speaker 1: got him and Danny Dimes both came out of the
Speaker 1: gate and that week at the same time and blew
Speaker 1: the doors off. He could probably stand to have a
Speaker 1: better game this week. And I don't imagine it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I think that that he could struggle against Todd Bowls,
Speaker 1: the revitalized Todd Bowls, uh, and the Bucks defense. I
Speaker 1: mean Todd he just came and he said, it's a
Speaker 1: new day. I'm putting everything behind me. Let's pick this game.
Speaker 1: Rative Yeah, you give up thirty points every game. Narrative
Speaker 1: is essentially, we all watched Bucks Panthers one together on
Speaker 1: the back of Chris's house or which is a beautiful
Speaker 1: place days ago, and uh, I you know we were
Speaker 1: getting a little bit loose that night. You were yelling
Speaker 1: Todd bulls at the top of your lungs every three minutes.
Speaker 1: And since then, I'm on Mark. Greg's love of football
Speaker 1: knows no bounds because there's no one else in the
Speaker 1: world that was screaming Todd Bowles at the top of
Speaker 1: their lungs on that night. So let's pick it Mark,
Speaker 1: you first, I'm gonna go twenty two to twenty Panthers
Speaker 1: in overtime. Mario Addison's safety of Jamis Winston ouch Panthers
Speaker 1: Bucks three Jamis throws three pick six three. Dang, Why
Speaker 1: you gotta be like that? With West always wish casting
Speaker 1: against Jamis Winston, you can always count on it often.
Speaker 1: What do you got it? What do you got? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a you know what, I'm gonna counteract West's
Speaker 1: negativity and say Jamis Winson is the greatest game of
Speaker 1: his pro career. Five touchdown passes, narry an interception, and
Speaker 1: the Bucks roll thirty five. Just want to point out
Speaker 1: that Panthers fans call it positivity, all right. And finally,
Speaker 1: Greg ros all, I look at the right side of
Speaker 1: the Bucks offensive line and in general that their injuries
Speaker 1: that they have. You know, they're they're missing a couple
Speaker 1: of guys. They got a broken leg at right guard.
Speaker 1: I believe they're missing their right tackle. But to me,
Speaker 1: there's only one doctor and only one prescription that can
Speaker 1: solve this case. It's dr Rainmaker. If you think it's
Speaker 1: raining right now in London, wait until the dollar bills
Speaker 1: raining all over Touch Stadium on Sunday, when the Bucks
Speaker 1: drop a hammer and cover against the panther Desperus, there
Speaker 1: comes Kitty was supposed to thank you for the le Katie, Katie,
Speaker 1: Katy you you guys would have loved, because we kind
Speaker 1: of do have what would be called production meetings, pre
Speaker 1: production meetings. You would have loved to know how hard
Speaker 1: it was for us to convince Gregg to bring back
Speaker 1: the Rainmaker. It was like it was like trying to
Speaker 1: talk Tom York into playing Creep again. He was like,
Speaker 1: oh no, no, it's it ran its course. I don't
Speaker 1: connect with that anymore. And we're like playing the I
Speaker 1: had to make deals involving future children, all right, So
Speaker 1: there you go. That is the preview of the game
Speaker 1: at Toddy House or the top either way, you just
Speaker 1: whatever you choose. All right, Ricky, how are you doing
Speaker 1: over there? Doing good? That was terrible dancing by Greg,
Speaker 1: but I mean it was non dancing. I thought Katie
Speaker 1: was going to do a little singing and putting, Greg, Greg,
Speaker 1: we have eleven female listeners. Now, crap, I did it? You?
Speaker 1: You fuel me. It gives me fire. It's not just
Speaker 1: all men that look exactly the same anymore. Greg. Anyway, Ricky,
Speaker 1: what's going on over there? We got anything cooking? Hey?
Speaker 1: Our sound guy's name is Simba. How cool is that?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's I'm doing great. I don't know what
Speaker 1: you guys are doing up there, but I'm hanging out.
Speaker 1: I think you're going to give us like a note
Speaker 1: about the sound, but you just want to tell him
Speaker 1: his name? How you guys sound like dumb as always?
Speaker 1: So you've totally detached from the production eight or nine
Speaker 1: minutes in. Well, as you can see, I just sent
Speaker 1: Katie up there to dance with an umbrella, so I'm
Speaker 1: clearly involved. Well, we have a mailbag segment to hit, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we do. I got great. I was trying to see
Speaker 1: it up but I had to be pretty directed. Oh
Speaker 1: are we doing that right now? All right? I mean
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be a jerk, but are you
Speaker 1: You don't have to try it, okay? Um? So I
Speaker 1: love you all right? So you guys, I tweeted out
Speaker 1: on a secret burner account that only has the most
Speaker 1: die heart of a ten fans. Damn, don't follow it,
Speaker 1: then you're not that cool. But it's cool that you're here.
Speaker 1: So I'll just read a couple of these. Okay at
Speaker 1: a ten fan boy. You guys all make fun of
Speaker 1: Draft Day, but name a better football movie. It's remember
Speaker 1: the Titans, hands down? Interesting? Blind Side? Okay, blind Side
Speaker 1: a terrible option that well one of the sentimental garbage.
Speaker 1: Who was help me out? Who was? Who was the
Speaker 1: real life player? Michael Ure? Okay, Michael Or when the
Speaker 1: Ravens and Niners played in the Super Bowl, Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: five or so years ago, he got hit with an
Speaker 1: atomic wave. Because at the Super Bowl, these guys have
Speaker 1: to go through the media availability over and over and
Speaker 1: over again, and imagine being Michael Or. We're all ninety
Speaker 1: percent of the people covering the game know nothing about football,
Speaker 1: so he's going to be asked about the blind Side
Speaker 1: over and over. By the last media availability, anyone that
Speaker 1: even asked him about blind Side got the depths stare.
Speaker 1: And I'll always remember that. As for the movie, I
Speaker 1: I shamefully have not seen it. Sandra Bullock, vehicles really
Speaker 1: since love posting number nine have gotten from I've seen it,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't call it the best football movie ever. Sorry,
Speaker 1: person way back then, This does feel like a good
Speaker 1: time to check back in with you. Mark. Now Draft
Speaker 1: Days come out, yes, seven years ago, almost now, and
Speaker 1: at the time you called it, of course famously full
Speaker 1: of heart from start to finish. Now has that's the
Speaker 1: test of time? You know. I learned something, a very
Speaker 1: valuable human lesson. That is, when you are, probably for
Speaker 1: the only time in your life, asked for a movie
Speaker 1: review of a real film, don't while at your parents
Speaker 1: house on a vacation in April off of three glass
Speaker 1: as a wine submit your review. It will come back
Speaker 1: to haunt you. And I don't even remember Draft Day
Speaker 1: at this point. It's like it was fine. The thing
Speaker 1: that really jumps out to me about Draft Day and
Speaker 1: I the question all we want to talk about is
Speaker 1: Draft Day. It's the only move we ever along. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, is that? And again we have many female
Speaker 1: listeners now. But Jennifer Garner played a capologist in the film,
Speaker 1: and I thought, like, I didn't really play to me.
Speaker 1: She didn't seem to be available in that way. But
Speaker 1: if you are, if you're a completist, and we'll move
Speaker 1: We will move on. But there is an NFL dot
Speaker 1: com uh column somewhere on the internet that features Dan
Speaker 1: and I going back and forth, and I think it
Speaker 1: would unmask some of Dan's views as well that need
Speaker 1: a little bit more exposure to. My general view was
Speaker 1: it's fine, alright, alright, Seahawks guy, we have another one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got a couple here, so let's move along. Hare
Speaker 1: boys at Seahawks guys. Nice says, Hey, hey, Dan, if
Speaker 1: you had to coach the Jets and could only make
Speaker 1: one trade move or hire, what would you do? Jets
Speaker 1: suck ha ha. That guy's that Um. If I can
Speaker 1: make one move, I would probably get Bill Belichick back.
Speaker 1: That counts all right. We lost him once and it
Speaker 1: was a convoluted trade. The Jet guy, he gets it.
Speaker 1: What do you think Belichick? That would be get somebody
Speaker 1: that could change the culture. Good luck with your new
Speaker 1: franchise player, Antonio Brown. There there is no there is
Speaker 1: no sadder clap. There's no sadder clap in all of sports.
Speaker 1: Then the Jets fan clapping wishing that Bill Belichick would
Speaker 1: come back to them. Yeah, The question said, Dan, if
Speaker 1: you had to coach the Jets, so you'd fire yourself
Speaker 1: after well, yeah, you know we'll be coming. Hold is
Speaker 1: the one day coach of the Jets to turn the
Speaker 1: team around. It would be memorable to be named the
Speaker 1: Jets coach and then announced that I was firing myself
Speaker 1: to acquire a Bill Belal hero. I feel like I
Speaker 1: would go a good pop with the fan base. That's
Speaker 1: a good idea, okay. At Baker Mayfield is my dad, Mark.
Speaker 1: I'd give up my entire family and extended family if
Speaker 1: it meant the Browns would win a Super Bowl, except
Speaker 1: my aunt Bertha, She's the best. Would you give up
Speaker 1: the A t N podcast and all you've built together
Speaker 1: for the win? Oh? Wow? You know what, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what sports is vicarious. They can handle their own business.
Speaker 1: I'm not leaving this crew. I love this sentimental Mark
Speaker 1: we've had the last couple of days. It was his
Speaker 1: birthday yesterday and I Sissler ragingly old at this point,
Speaker 1: West West, do we believe that answer? Yes? All right,
Speaker 1: all right? At Jason cross West you're annoying, af and
Speaker 1: super confrontational, and your and your take about security lanyards
Speaker 1: almost made me drive a cliff my car off a
Speaker 1: cliff with anger. But you know more about football than anyone.
Speaker 1: So what makes you so obsessed with the Cowboys? Am
Speaker 1: I missing something? Good question? Obsession is strong? Okay. I
Speaker 1: just look at their team and they clearly have the
Speaker 1: strongest roster in the NFL, so I enjoy watching them strongest. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's almost weird how these these Twitter questions are like
Speaker 1: giving voice to some of Erica's big frustrated and that
Speaker 1: she's saving me for last. Let's see what's next. Um,
Speaker 1: this one just pops up. That's at Eliza Mooney. I
Speaker 1: don't know who that is. Sounds real. Greg's voice is
Speaker 1: so annoying. I stopped listening to the podcast six years ago.
Speaker 1: I did too. I cannot listen to our podcast primarily
Speaker 1: because of my voice. Yeah boys, all right, thank you
Speaker 1: very much, Ricky, Ricky, not even in the form of
Speaker 1: a question, just the statement. All right. Now, it's time
Speaker 1: for a new SEG called Interrogation Room, where I take
Speaker 1: a hero and I put him under the spotlight. First up,
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, follow me son and sounds serious. I don't
Speaker 1: like new things. How you doing, Greg, I'm doing I
Speaker 1: have been doing great. This is a little worrisome. Sweating
Speaker 1: the spotlight is enormous for the podcast people listening. It's
Speaker 1: very dark. Now, I get it really went all out. Greg.
Speaker 1: Do you like football? I do you like your favorite team?
Speaker 1: Don't you? I do? England Patriots six and oh huh,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. They've played better. But yeah, it's been
Speaker 1: an easy schedule. It's funny, funny you bring that up,
Speaker 1: because there are some of us that don't root for
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots that sometimes find it odd the
Speaker 1: way things tend to work out with the Patriots suspicious.
Speaker 1: And I would I would call attention to the schedule
Speaker 1: so far this season. Let's go through it, would you mind? Greg?
Speaker 1: Home to the Steelers, who pee down their leg at
Speaker 1: the thought of going to Foxborough, let alone on Sunday
Speaker 1: Night football to open the season. That seems convenient, convenient.
Speaker 1: You forgot how you said that would be such a
Speaker 1: great game right before it happened. Shut up, Greg. At
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, possibly the worst team in NFL history. Week two,
Speaker 1: Nice way to get off to a nice start. Let's
Speaker 1: hear it for Henry Hodson again home against the Jets,
Speaker 1: who in the previous week lost their quarterback to the
Speaker 1: kissing disease and the backup quarterback to an unnecessarily violent
Speaker 1: hit from Miles Garrett and quite necessary. Nice time to
Speaker 1: catch the Jets A. I mean most times are a
Speaker 1: nice time to get the Jets. But yes, it was good.
Speaker 1: You're a funny guy, alren't you? Greg? You make the
Speaker 1: people laugh. That makes you feel good, right, the bills
Speaker 1: on the road, it's fine, it's fine. The job at
Speaker 1: Redskins zombie Jake Ruden a day from being fired out
Speaker 1: of a cannon, out of a cannon, Na, your reports
Speaker 1: aren't true about how they didn't practice. I don't know
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. Finally, just last night, and who
Speaker 1: stayed up to watch the Thursday night football game? Is
Speaker 1: that what you? What do you guys do? Do you
Speaker 1: watch it live or do you watch it the next day?
Speaker 1: Or do you not watch it? I would say about
Speaker 1: the crowd stayed up, that is you are very that's
Speaker 1: highly commendable. Um home to the Giants on a short
Speaker 1: week in prime time against Danny Dimes and a cleshed
Speaker 1: collection of Red Cross volunteers at wide receiver, tighten running back. Greg,
Speaker 1: I mean they they had the greatest patriot killer of
Speaker 1: their lifetime on the sideline. They didn't use them. That
Speaker 1: is their fault so far only before I let you go, Greg,
Speaker 1: does that seem suspicious at all? That that's the way
Speaker 1: the schedule for the defending Super Bowl champion was historically
Speaker 1: easy for almost half the season. Now, well, Dan, we've
Speaker 1: gone through this, I would say three times a year
Speaker 1: ever since we started the podcast. So how the schedule
Speaker 1: works is the division's rotate. So the a f C
Speaker 1: East plays the NFC East this year. It's all determined
Speaker 1: ahead of time. The Jets have the same schedule, Oh
Speaker 1: do they, Greg, Because I haven't been playing that schedule anyway.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna tell me the schedule quote unquote tightens up.
Speaker 1: But what the schedule makers bestowed upon you in week
Speaker 1: seven sev oh a home date against the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: just in case any loose ends needed tidying. Joke, it's
Speaker 1: a little fishy. Get out of the chair, get out
Speaker 1: of the interrogation. Sure that is. Yeah. By the way,
Speaker 1: I hadn't absolutely total confidence that Greg could handle an
Speaker 1: interrogation chair because Greg Rosenthal is probably the man that
Speaker 1: would be least phased by anything in the world. Right, Like,
Speaker 1: how would how would you ever phase Greg, It's almost impossible.
Speaker 1: I would welcome and interrogation. It feels like it'd be
Speaker 1: like a fun way to feel a little more alive.
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, it's a little creepy, Greg, but uh,
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying. And there was a question
Speaker 1: put to us before the show was something about Greg
Speaker 1: freaking out at a concert and it was impossible to
Speaker 1: imagine Greg freaking out in front of anyone. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is very hard. All right. Now, next up one
Speaker 1: of our favorite segments. One we like to call every
Speaker 1: want to take a guess? All right, what's more likely?
Speaker 1: And since we have an audience of thousands listeners to
Speaker 1: the podcast, nay, we are at net Worth right now,
Speaker 1: one trunk. When I say it, When I say it,
Speaker 1: you guys, give it all, give it all you got.
Speaker 1: Now let's time for another game. Up beautiful. We love
Speaker 1: you guys so much. Mark, get us going well, Actually
Speaker 1: it's going to be Weston according to our schedule. Marcus
Speaker 1: not involved with an initial question on this segments. All
Speaker 1: rights is up in a game we like to call Chris,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna need your help at the end.
Speaker 1: Here the Browns or Jets overtake the Patriots in the
Speaker 1: a f C before Tom Brady retires, or Mark wins
Speaker 1: his sandwich prop that Trent Richardson plays another snap in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Greg, I've never heard of what's more likely
Speaker 1: involving a sandwich prop. This is like next level stuff here,
Speaker 1: all right, Tom Brady. So it's just they have to
Speaker 1: finish ahead of him in one season, just one season.
Speaker 1: They have the season than the Patriots before Tom Brady retired. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm always you know, voicing the optimistic tone to these
Speaker 1: Jets and Browns fans that on a long enough timeline
Speaker 1: you will win, not just be better than for six years, sure,
Speaker 1: but I'm saying more like thirty year, you know timeline.
Speaker 1: So that's probably how long Tom Brady will be playing.
Speaker 1: I don't think Trent's coming back. That's more likely. Mark.
Speaker 1: I watched Tom Brady for the first half last night
Speaker 1: before fading into a deep sleep that had me convinced
Speaker 1: he does not play after this season. Oh yeah, you
Speaker 1: guys couldn't have seen the excitement on Dan and Mark's face.
Speaker 1: So when they saw there this morning and have their
Speaker 1: oh tom Brady's old kind no no, and you say
Speaker 1: a game where he had get Gregg rowled up. He
Speaker 1: started coming at me with next gen stats and all
Speaker 1: this other business. And Brandon Bolden in the you know,
Speaker 1: five ft nine white receiver that had thirty five yards
Speaker 1: in the second. I'm going Browns or Jets topping the
Speaker 1: Brady phenomenon before Trent Richardson. I don't think Trent. I
Speaker 1: think Trent Richardson is like in a studio somewhere doing
Speaker 1: oil painting. I don't think he has anything to do
Speaker 1: with football at this point. So it's Jets a Browns?
Speaker 1: All right? You're not gonna answer, well, I my hope
Speaker 1: is obviously Jets are Browns and Trent Richardson he's off
Speaker 1: the radar. Now. You used to get Rhoda World updates.
Speaker 1: Wasn't he leading the A, A F and touchdown? He
Speaker 1: was leading in touchdowns when he was averaging like negative
Speaker 1: seven point three yards per carry. So I don't think
Speaker 1: that's going to transfer well over to the highest level
Speaker 1: of American football in the universe. So I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: he gone. All right? Is Greg rosal Um two scenarios here?
Speaker 1: For are you see? Now? I realized they say it
Speaker 1: after we talk Kyle Shanahan returns to the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: this year and avenges all the wrongs that occurred in
Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty one when he was the coordinator of
Speaker 1: the Falcons. Or Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson returned to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and avenge all the wrongs that happened
Speaker 1: to them in Super Bowl. For I cannot think of
Speaker 1: a team that I believe in more right now than
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. This is an NFC West room here.
Speaker 1: Who I catering towards or not catering the Seahawks? To me,
Speaker 1: they are the team that not enough people are talking about.
Speaker 1: I understand that Russell Wilson's getting the m v P buzz.
Speaker 1: There's no one in the league they couldn't beat. And
Speaker 1: I would love to see them go back play the
Speaker 1: Patriots again and get down to that final drive and
Speaker 1: change that history the way that other teams have had
Speaker 1: a chance when they go back a second time. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go Seattle too, And I will say that that
Speaker 1: there are two teams in our years covering the NFL
Speaker 1: that absolutely deserve an opportunity at revenge, and it's the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. After any Falcons fans they're all dead at
Speaker 1: this point. The last guy ended it four days ago. Um,
Speaker 1: sadly the window is closed for the Falcons that maybe
Speaker 1: it gets reopened at the end of Matt Ryan's prime.
Speaker 1: So they're out. The Seahawks are the other team, and
Speaker 1: I would love to see that again because I think
Speaker 1: that is a ghost that haunts obviously Wilson, Pete Carroll,
Speaker 1: and I just think it'd be a great game. I
Speaker 1: think that would be an amazing super I never want
Speaker 1: to see the Patriots in the Super Bowl again, but
Speaker 1: if it's gonna happen again, give me Seahawks rematch. I
Speaker 1: am just realizing that my wife, who I'm consistently losing
Speaker 1: points with, is a Niners fan and had to watch
Speaker 1: that Ravens Niners game in person. Sa'll deal with that
Speaker 1: when I returned home and she listens to every show.
Speaker 1: We Love you. Such a tough question. I've changed my
Speaker 1: mind about ten times since you asked it. Um. I
Speaker 1: love the forty Niners roster in their way they're playing.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be the forty Niner. But oh, but I'll
Speaker 1: trust the quarterback for Seattle more and I trust the
Speaker 1: experience that the quarterback head coach Combo, and if you
Speaker 1: throw Bobby Wagner and kJ right in there, some guys
Speaker 1: on deep experience counts for so much in the playoffs
Speaker 1: for the NFL, I trust Seattle more, even though I
Speaker 1: think San fran has the better roster. Well, Greg just
Speaker 1: asked the question so you could answer it. So go ahead.
Speaker 1: But it's rare that we ask it and all three
Speaker 1: get it wrong. That forty Niners, gentleman knows the answer.
Speaker 1: You go ahead tell us why. I mean that was enough.
Speaker 1: I think they're just more talented. I don't think the
Speaker 1: the numbers that say they are the best team in
Speaker 1: the league are that flukey to me. They defensive line
Speaker 1: is amazing, the running game is amazing. Do you feel
Speaker 1: about the way the quarterback has been playing? He's fine,
Speaker 1: Jimmy G. Is not what you told me yesterday, Jimmy G.
Speaker 1: Jimmy G is kind of the sticking point that you
Speaker 1: worry will be a problem getting deep into a playoff run.
Speaker 1: But we've seen some surprising quarterbacks win the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: or make it to the super Bowl, And I really
Speaker 1: think the coaching advantage and just the pure talent level
Speaker 1: is there. All right, fans, all right, good sad guys,
Speaker 1: good seg thanks to your help. All right, it's time
Speaker 1: to go back to the interrogation room with Christopher Westling.
Speaker 1: What is that it was? It was like kind of
Speaker 1: for jokes and giggles when I was there, but this
Speaker 1: is for real. Take a seat, Chris. It was unrequited. Hey, Chris, Hi, Dan,
Speaker 1: you put a high value on family, was? I said, hope?
Speaker 1: So I've got a big one come from the west
Speaker 1: side of Cincinnati, correct, Oh, I do, indeed, tell me
Speaker 1: a little bit about Tell the audience a little bit
Speaker 1: about the dossier about the Bengals familying me. Well, the
Speaker 1: dossier the paperwork, Christopher. I compiled a case against the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals in the nineties the way most fans should win.
Speaker 1: The ownership acts worse than any ownership in the history
Speaker 1: of pro sports. So I have a dossier where I underline,
Speaker 1: highlight an annotated all of the things that my owner
Speaker 1: wronged me, all the ways he wronged me in my city,
Speaker 1: beyond the Bengals into conning a city into building a
Speaker 1: stadium to fill his pockets. And that was the formal
Speaker 1: paperwork you'd file to leave the team as a van
Speaker 1: I did it made me feel better. West thought this
Speaker 1: was gonna be about Joe Flacco, by the way, not
Speaker 1: a not a lie, he wrote out. He wrote out
Speaker 1: notes preparing for it to be Joe fla I'm very
Speaker 1: confident in one Joe Flacco is going to be the topic.
Speaker 1: So anyway, you quit the Bengals, and you know, we
Speaker 1: respect your decision. There it doesn't matter. But in reality, Chris,
Speaker 1: despite the fact that you say you're what was it
Speaker 1: football agnostic? I believe that was an agentive you guys
Speaker 1: put on me. I think it was more that I
Speaker 1: was a free agent. Isn't it true that you've been
Speaker 1: a Patriots fan for the last two decades? Really? All right,
Speaker 1: stop throwing things, guys, stopped therewing things place. I respect
Speaker 1: smart football teams who play interesting games. So yes, I've
Speaker 1: been a fan the way they built their roster and
Speaker 1: play football. You carried that water, didn't you, Chris, up
Speaker 1: and down the hill until something happened, until Greg's decision
Speaker 1: to sign Antonio Brown. Greg greg and Belichick went to
Speaker 1: a whold out volcano in the middle of the Pacific
Speaker 1: Ocean and hatched the plan to bring evil into their
Speaker 1: locker room. Erica is there too. Erica was against it
Speaker 1: from the start. So you're out on the on the
Speaker 1: Patriots down. They're dead, all right. So here's the question.
Speaker 1: If you are now a free agent in a world,
Speaker 1: could you really tell me, Mr family Man, that the
Speaker 1: Bengals could never capture your heart again, not under that ownership. Interesting?
Speaker 1: Oh one last thing, Chris, mm hmm? What is this?
Speaker 1: What is this? Dan? One more thing, Mr Westling, who
Speaker 1: knows what I was going to ask him about. What
Speaker 1: are you looking at right now? On the on the
Speaker 1: screen behind you? It's a multicolored map of the United
Speaker 1: States of America, Mark Sessler. This map has been distributed
Speaker 1: by the US Census Bureau. You want to tell the
Speaker 1: audience a little bit about what they do, I will
Speaker 1: give you my definition. Go ahead. They basically go state
Speaker 1: by state, region by region, very defined regions county population,
Speaker 1: from village to town to city, state to it. That
Speaker 1: that helps allocate where money goes. And it's very important
Speaker 1: to know if more money should be giving, for instance,
Speaker 1: to the Great Lakes region or the Southwest or the southeast.
Speaker 1: So the Great Lakes Region also known as the Midwest.
Speaker 1: Nice little grouping West is from it. He's from Ohio
Speaker 1: right here from people that obviously not from the United States.
Speaker 1: Below it, you see this TM that means Tennessee clearly
Speaker 1: labeled southeast West. Who are you to play god and
Speaker 1: say that you get to take Tennessee to the Midwest?
Speaker 1: Getting ugly? Now? Well, you see, I wish I loved
Speaker 1: anything in Lion, which as much as you guys love
Speaker 1: lines drawn on a map for political reasons, got it up.
Speaker 1: Come on out of the heroine in chief Seattle. We
Speaker 1: see things more like climate and topography and lands that
Speaker 1: were here hundreds of thousands of years ago. And if
Speaker 1: you look in a northeast corner where from where football
Speaker 1: started in america's pretty close to pit Spurgs, Cincinnati, Nashville, Indianapolis, St. Louis.
Speaker 1: The mad West from Nashville agrees with you in the fall,
Speaker 1: you're out of the integration chair, sir king, Thank you West,
Speaker 1: Thank you West. By the way, not into lines on
Speaker 1: a map, has like in his draft folder on Twitter,
Speaker 1: which I looked down. Breaking news. You're lucky, that's breaking news.
Speaker 1: This just came out. The Denver Broncos signed fullback Andy
Speaker 1: Janovic to a three year, five point seven million dollar deal.
Speaker 1: Joto a lot of fans. Mark, you're in depth breakdown
Speaker 1: of his abilities. Huge signing for the Broncos. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is someone that it's been a very milk toast, stale,
Speaker 1: unwatchable offense for the most part, where the quarterback, who
Speaker 1: I'm not convinced wants to be there. This signing changes that.
Speaker 1: Anybody got something else there? I think he handled a
Speaker 1: bit well. All right, when you've got a blocker like that,
Speaker 1: you gotta keep Flacco upright. It's a good signing. What's
Speaker 1: going on? Ricky in the mail bag? Got anything else? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Let me look here at Dan's hair really sucks. Okay.
Speaker 1: These Twitter handles, I know. I've tried to pick the
Speaker 1: best ones I cut too that you should have seen
Speaker 1: the ones I can't read. It's crazy, Um, Dan, I
Speaker 1: mean this is for Greg. Sorry? Greg, really knocking this
Speaker 1: one out of the park there, Ricky, she's a real performer, folks.
Speaker 1: She is going to walk out of the room if
Speaker 1: you don't shut up. Greg, you have like ten different
Speaker 1: favorite teams? Can you just pick one? Or the Patriots
Speaker 1: are my favorite team? But like Wes, oh wait they
Speaker 1: just tweeted again? Then act like it again? What about
Speaker 1: they're the only one that that stops my heart, that
Speaker 1: makes me go up and down. But it is more enjoyable.
Speaker 1: And I tell my kids this, and maybe they're gonna,
Speaker 1: uh not learn how to be a normal person. If
Speaker 1: you're watching a sporting event, pick one of the two
Speaker 1: teams to root for. It makes it more fun. There
Speaker 1: is no such thing as sports without rooting for one
Speaker 1: of the two teams. Greg, your daughter is becoming a
Speaker 1: Bucks fan. I would start to go to work on
Speaker 1: this board. I also told them when you score, let
Speaker 1: everyone know it, which I thought was a funny thing
Speaker 1: to say when they were four or five, and now
Speaker 1: seeing them acted out as children is horrifying. Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 1: What do you mean by that? I don't celebrate like
Speaker 1: celebrate in aye, let the opponent know who scored. You scored? Alright,
Speaker 1: one more real quick? Alright at official Lakisha Westling asks West,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with your hair? You just defended our West.
Speaker 1: This is this is a true story. I lived on
Speaker 1: an island and the only barber on the island moved
Speaker 1: to the next island, and instead of driving over there,
Speaker 1: I just started to I just decided I would start
Speaker 1: shaving my head and it never grew back in and
Speaker 1: he looks damn good. Thank you that that is a
Speaker 1: cancer survivor who looks better than all of us. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you West. Show them your ass. It's incredible, right, Lakisha.
Speaker 1: It's a great hiding. It's also one of seven thousand
Speaker 1: stories West has that begins with I used to live
Speaker 1: on an island. Stan. You definitely do not believe that
Speaker 1: you were not the best looking guy of the forest.
Speaker 1: Who do you think is Mark? I think it is, Yeah,
Speaker 1: who's the best fluctuates from season to season? But Greg
Speaker 1: with the beard right now, it's been a seal. He's
Speaker 1: rising up the board, swarthy in a sexy way. You
Speaker 1: just choked on his water. It's so mad anybody but Greig.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on Sandwich prop time. Now we
Speaker 1: do sandwich props, as listeners know, before the season starts,
Speaker 1: um before free agency. But we're just gonna do one
Speaker 1: here at one each and last time we did this
Speaker 1: in a live setting at London. Mark hit the prop
Speaker 1: of all props um at my expense, which I've really
Speaker 1: never forgiven him for when he predicted that Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: would enter for the first time as a rookie against
Speaker 1: the Jets, and I'm gonna act like it's not burned
Speaker 1: into my mind, but it is and wipe away a
Speaker 1: two score deficit, lead the Browns to a comeback win
Speaker 1: and essentially end the Jet season. Uh, that was pretty good.
Speaker 1: I hate you for it, but that you really did it.
Speaker 1: You you hit a home run. Well the crystal ball
Speaker 1: did not see what has happened over the past month plus,
Speaker 1: which has been a psychological disaster. Well that's fair. So
Speaker 1: let's go through, uh some quick sandwich props that we
Speaker 1: will they can check out by the end of the season.
Speaker 1: And I'll get this one going, all right, And this
Speaker 1: one a classic old Zuser form. It It just shows
Speaker 1: an ability to take chances, to take risks, to be
Speaker 1: a hero. Since the Drew Brees will be in the
Speaker 1: m D P race, will well, I mean they got hurt.
Speaker 1: I will accurately predict ten out of twelve playoff teams
Speaker 1: right now, right now, all right here, they all take
Speaker 1: you up on it. It's an onion hanger. Patriots, Ravens,
Speaker 1: Texans Chiefs. That was tough. It's gonna get harder, trust me,
Speaker 1: Bills Colts. That's the a f C now gets tough, Cowboys,
Speaker 1: Packers always Packer spins, Saints very nice, very nice, sir,
Speaker 1: see that man out, he's yeah, see how Eagles and
Speaker 1: this was tough, Rams and the notable snubs. Just to
Speaker 1: help you guys out. This man is very upset. Chargers
Speaker 1: in the a f C, Lions, Bears, Vikings and yes,
Speaker 1: the undefeated forty Niners. Take me up on it. Ten
Speaker 1: out of twelve. Yes, I felt more confident before I
Speaker 1: saw those names. I think you've chosen well, and I think,
Speaker 1: especially in the FC, there's not gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of surprise teams. I like Patriots, Ravens, Texans, Chiefs, Bills
Speaker 1: pretty strongly. But I will take you up on principle
Speaker 1: because uh, I know and and dr Rainmaker knows. Taking
Speaker 1: the field is always a smart bat. That's true. Greg
Speaker 1: always comes by logic. But I leaned towards Mark's side
Speaker 1: that the agent of chaos is going to make an
Speaker 1: appearance and injuries are gonna make these teams way different
Speaker 1: than they are now. I think that clearly there will
Speaker 1: be three different teams. In the Bears fan was so upset.
Speaker 1: I think I just realized because they didn't even make
Speaker 1: your snubs. That's how down you are on Mitchel. That
Speaker 1: was an oversight, and I will since you called it
Speaker 1: out my notes, I will add them right now. What
Speaker 1: about you, Mark Seiler, Well, I know that you and
Speaker 1: I we like to go at each other like a
Speaker 1: pair of like toxic unicorns. It's a bit of a yeah,
Speaker 1: Liam and Nol scenario. Yeah. At times, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you something you just crafted abut beutiful sandwich prop right there.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm gonna take you up. But I think
Speaker 1: you might have nailed it too. I I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: you up because that's that's the only way that I
Speaker 1: ever win these That's how you play the game. But
Speaker 1: well done, all right, thank you, buddy. I just want
Speaker 1: to say briefly what a joy it is to do
Speaker 1: a podcast with Mark. And earlier today I saw written
Speaker 1: down on the back of a note card the words
Speaker 1: toxic unicorns. It just it's gonna happen with toxic unicorns.
Speaker 1: And now I know I don't write these things down.
Speaker 1: That's how it works. It's not always how it works.
Speaker 1: This is like the Wizard of Oz when they I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I wanted Greg to share that I thought
Speaker 1: it was delightful. I had no idea. That's how it works, baby, Greg,
Speaker 1: you're up. We're in the podcast business, and business is booming. O.
Speaker 1: My mine is simple. There's been a lot of talk
Speaker 1: about Cam Newton and Nick Foles not getting their jobs back.
Speaker 1: I will put a sandwich on that. Nick Foles and
Speaker 1: Cam Newton will both be starting for their teams. And
Speaker 1: to make it a little more interesting, I'll make it
Speaker 1: specific and say week fifteen, they'll they'll both be starting
Speaker 1: exactly in week fifteen, or by week they will be
Speaker 1: starting in week fifteen. If just coming back seemed a
Speaker 1: little too easy. So Nick Foles will get his job
Speaker 1: back and he'll keep it through week fifteen, and Cam
Speaker 1: Newton will get his job back and keep it and
Speaker 1: stay healthy through week I like it. It's a good question.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you because I don't think Cam Newton's
Speaker 1: getting his job back this year. Actually, I don't think
Speaker 1: Nick Foles is getting his job back either. It's been
Speaker 1: a lot of that. I'll take you up because I
Speaker 1: don't know where are you factoring injuries into this? That's
Speaker 1: that's the risk, Okay, Well, outside of an injury, no
Speaker 1: one is pulling Gardner Minshew out of that lineup. He
Speaker 1: continues to play the way he has the team finally
Speaker 1: has their fan base totally riled up for all the
Speaker 1: right reasons. And I like Nick Foles a lot, but
Speaker 1: that is how you turn the volume down on that situation.
Speaker 1: It should be noted that the same Jaguars fan base
Speaker 1: believed in Blake Bortles once upon a time. Not this way.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm picking on that. That's a long time away,
Speaker 1: and he's a rookie quarterback and they might wanna make
Speaker 1: they might not be doing too well by the middle
Speaker 1: of December. They burned me for one sandwich. The right
Speaker 1: play is to take you up on it, But I
Speaker 1: think both those guys get the jobs back. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of money involved and they also I'm not writing
Speaker 1: off either guy, and I'm not totally sold on either
Speaker 1: of the guys playing in front of him right now.
Speaker 1: So no, I will not take you up West Chris Wesley,
Speaker 1: short and sweet. The Baltimore Ravens will not win the
Speaker 1: a f C. North. I'll take you up on that.
Speaker 1: I think the Browns are the clear threat. I know
Speaker 1: you believe the Steelers have a chance, and it's not
Speaker 1: the craziest thing in the world. But I think the
Speaker 1: Ravens are an organization that will figure out what's wrong
Speaker 1: defensively as the season goes on, and I think they
Speaker 1: have enough offensively to be better than anyone else in
Speaker 1: the division. I'll take you no one else has attached. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: I have the I have the Ravens winning the division.
Speaker 1: So I got you on it. So let's roll Mark
Speaker 1: Finally you alright, So this has been something that's been
Speaker 1: on my mind. I'm glad we're doing another round of
Speaker 1: sandwich props because I wish I had. I wish I
Speaker 1: had figured this out beforehand. Between now and Super Bowl
Speaker 1: fifty four, at least one NFL player will miss a
Speaker 1: game or more due to a run in with an animal.
Speaker 1: Now I will save him for last. To be clear,
Speaker 1: this could range from a simple house pet to a
Speaker 1: beast of the field to an agitated wing creature. To
Speaker 1: be fair to you, because this is probably the most probable,
Speaker 1: I'm eliminating insects. Real living animal insects don't count. Don't count.
Speaker 1: What's a beast of the field exactly like a deer,
Speaker 1: an angry deer or something but I'll give you a
Speaker 1: few examples. Just it could be for in stints, uh
Speaker 1: not limited to this, so don't call it it's not.
Speaker 1: It could be one of these. A surprise dog bite
Speaker 1: that triggers ricketts uh bad stuff with a jellyfish falling
Speaker 1: off a horse near the town house, a player has
Speaker 1: purchased for his not talked about twenty two year old
Speaker 1: side piece. A possessed bird pecking at a player, or
Speaker 1: perhaps an NFL player being smothered by a vaguely psychotic
Speaker 1: gang of beefy squirrels grown thick off processed foods left
Speaker 1: in an abandoned flophouse on the edge of town. What's
Speaker 1: something like this? And all? And we may not get
Speaker 1: the full story right away, but it will be clear
Speaker 1: that a player has missed a game because of a
Speaker 1: run in with an animal. Take it or leave it?
Speaker 1: After last year, I can't take you. Yeah, your abilities
Speaker 1: to look into the future, I just can't take it.
Speaker 1: I think you're onto something and it probably involves a
Speaker 1: bear in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. I'm worried about the deer situation
Speaker 1: to the southeast. Like I I know I won't actually
Speaker 1: get a physical sandwich, but we do keep score on
Speaker 1: go get my lunch, So I will take you up
Speaker 1: on that, just for that first Oh, I'm definitely taking
Speaker 1: him up. Yeah, all right, for the last time. We
Speaker 1: head back to the interrogation room. Mark Sessler, take a seat. Hello, friend, Heyden,
Speaker 1: you know he just came up. Your boy Gardner minshew
Speaker 1: the second. Okay, you like him, don't you. I like
Speaker 1: him a lot, you really like him, almost like him
Speaker 1: more than my own team's quarterback. Right now, tell us
Speaker 1: why you like Gardnerments beyond the facial hair and all that.
Speaker 1: Tell us why I think he is the kind of
Speaker 1: person that makes an NFL season that even by week
Speaker 1: six could have some tedious issues much more exciting. By
Speaker 1: the way, look at where the edge of that table is.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. He is quite fun,
Speaker 1: you know, is there a reality or maybe you rather
Speaker 1: have a Gardnerment show over? Yea boy Baker Mayfield, because
Speaker 1: let me let me go on. Tell us the truth.
Speaker 1: Mark Baker Mayfield has never been a natural fit as
Speaker 1: a hero for you. Hasn't his swagger, his arrogance, his
Speaker 1: chronic need for attention. All of these things have always
Speaker 1: made your blood. They've made your blood Boil as both
Speaker 1: an NFL fan, as a reporter, as a person, not
Speaker 1: as a reporter. These are clearly your issues with Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 1: and I'm done that you're projecting. What if I told
Speaker 1: you Garden Minshew could be a brown What if I
Speaker 1: told you that the sixth round pick from nowhere, you
Speaker 1: who rose up as a savior of the people, a
Speaker 1: man of the people, a humble warrior, worked hard, earned
Speaker 1: an opportunity, made the most of it all by staying
Speaker 1: true allmall. Staying true to who he was sounds like
Speaker 1: a lot like someone I know, you know what. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at him. His name is Mark Anthony Sessla Anthony.
Speaker 1: I see right through you. You would love to be
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew. I would love to be him. Yes, so
Speaker 1: admit you'd rather have Gardner Minshew, not Baker Mayfield, the
Speaker 1: guy that is antithesis of everything you like about pro sports.
Speaker 1: Not bending on this because someone's gonna tweet out some
Speaker 1: section of this video and I'm gonna have Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: on me if this gets out. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: right now. Let me tell you something. I would not
Speaker 1: trade Minshew for Baker Mayfield. I would trade a low
Speaker 1: level defensive player line Minshew and Baker Mayfield up in
Speaker 1: the same backfield. You're running wildcat, you're running two quarterback offense.
Speaker 1: You don't know what's going to happen. That's the way
Speaker 1: of the future. Fair enough called innovation. Permission permissions across
Speaker 1: exam in the witness I've always wanted to say that
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a courtroom but a
Speaker 1: cross exam. So come on, good cop, bad cop. Uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: by the way, this is what it was actually like
Speaker 1: when Gregg was our boss. That's same size standing up
Speaker 1: as Marcus sitting now. Mark how many meals have you
Speaker 1: eaten today? Mark? How many meals have you eaten this week?
Speaker 1: Next question? Mark? Do you like food? This is a
Speaker 1: separate Have you ever eaten food? Have you ever thought
Speaker 1: that your lack of food is maybe contributing to your
Speaker 1: annoyance with football teams and football players and humanity? I
Speaker 1: rest my case. You're out of the chair. Hold on,
Speaker 1: this is such a Greg thing I have never in
Speaker 1: my life. You know, when you travel with someone you
Speaker 1: get to know real well Greg like you know he
Speaker 1: has some robotic qualities. Eats three meals a day at
Speaker 1: the exact same time every single day and goes to
Speaker 1: the gym at the exacts It seems like a weird thing.
Speaker 1: I want zeuser in that chair, hit in the chair. Whatever. Ow,
Speaker 1: we're just freestylet please, what was not scripted? Is your
Speaker 1: favorite type of frog? Uh? The American bullfrog is my
Speaker 1: favorite type of frock? All right? Thank you? All right,
Speaker 1: we're getting close to the end here. And by the way,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a Q and ah, So if you
Speaker 1: have something you want to ask us, um, you will
Speaker 1: have an opportunity in a few minutes. But it's been
Speaker 1: such a fun, exciting evening so far. This feels like
Speaker 1: Mark a good time to maybe calm things down a
Speaker 1: little bit, just a bit, and get everybody and maybe
Speaker 1: a different head space into a unified space. I think. Okay, Mark,
Speaker 1: take it away with one of your world famous meditation
Speaker 1: and I want everyone close your eyes to follow you.
Speaker 1: Now it's time to take a deep breath in and
Speaker 1: as you breathe out, simply close your eyes as you
Speaker 1: begin to take flight to that timeless space within where
Speaker 1: you find yourself in a garden by the sea. You
Speaker 1: are alone, but you don't feel alone because towards you silence.
Speaker 1: Along the garden path comes a hot tank Volkswagen Jetta.
Speaker 1: It stops before you. The back door opens without even
Speaker 1: thinking about it. If you climb in and the driver
Speaker 1: she turns around and you recognize her face. It is
Speaker 1: Queen Elizabeth, the second two point oh Mark's and my
Speaker 1: dreams right now, smiling at you and nodding to the
Speaker 1: seat beside you, where a plump orange kitten sits nestled
Speaker 1: in a ball. You pet the kitty. It's fur is
Speaker 1: soft and warm. The little kitty purrs and climbs into
Speaker 1: your lap, looking up into your eyes with a big yawn.
Speaker 1: Come closer, says the kitty cat. Come smell my breath. Gross,
Speaker 1: you think to yourself, but for some reason, you draw
Speaker 1: closer to the kitty cat's cute little orange face. How
Speaker 1: does it smell? The cat asks, my kitty breath? Does
Speaker 1: it smell appealing? Queen Elizabeth begins to cackle hysterically and
Speaker 1: punches the gas and everything goes yellow and white as
Speaker 1: you awakened to find West and Gregg wearing nothing but
Speaker 1: overalls and spreading fancy feast chicken and tuna flavored wet
Speaker 1: cat food all over your body with big wooden spoons,
Speaker 1: meditation totally over. Mark Sassler. They call him the Quiet Storm.
Speaker 1: I was raised without any religion, and when Mark takes
Speaker 1: us on these I go with him, and I think
Speaker 1: it's the it's the closest i've I've come to thank
Speaker 1: you for taking that chance. When I think about how
Speaker 1: all the ways the podcast can one day end, it
Speaker 1: could one of them could be Mark starting a cult
Speaker 1: and wearing red nikes with like a thousand other people
Speaker 1: on a commune and being the leader that they follow
Speaker 1: into the spaceship. That's west in my mind. All right, before,
Speaker 1: before we wrap things up, how about a little Q
Speaker 1: and A from you guys over here for you guys, Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you again. If everybody coming and uh yes, ask
Speaker 1: away and the bar is open, Oh they know, I
Speaker 1: know our listeners, Keisha, can I get a drink? I
Speaker 1: have to pick somebody. I mean, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: do It's one reason Westcott Lamar Jackson right there. Number eight, Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: So the Shadowy League figures have given you the power
Speaker 1: um for one season. You can choose a set of
Speaker 1: divisions northeast southwest, one for each of you. Don't don't
Speaker 1: start up setting West here, But you can swap a
Speaker 1: team in the in the a f C and the NFC.
Speaker 1: Who do you switch on one? This feels like a
Speaker 1: Greg question. It's a great one. It hurts my brain.
Speaker 1: I've got one for you. You You know. I always thought
Speaker 1: it jarring when the Seahawks that I were up with,
Speaker 1: we're in the a f C and a very different
Speaker 1: type of team than they are today, went to the NFC.
Speaker 1: It's just like I was young enough where I was like,
Speaker 1: what's happening here? This is destabilizing. I like to put
Speaker 1: him back into the a f C and see what happens.
Speaker 1: Patriots take a dirt nap and Russell Wilson, Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: fighting for the a f C West. Yeah, with Tom
Speaker 1: Brady using a walker, I like that. I know fans
Speaker 1: of tradition in the a f C East wouldn't like this,
Speaker 1: but I've always thought would be cool to have a
Speaker 1: Northeast division, get the Dolphins out of there and bring
Speaker 1: in the Giants. Both New York teams, Buffalo and New
Speaker 1: England have at it. It's a terrible all right, who's next? Uh?
Speaker 1: This gentleman right here? I can't move that fast. Hey, dog,
Speaker 1: longtime listener, first time cooler. Um, good friend of mine
Speaker 1: couldn't make it to note and he asked told me
Speaker 1: to ask this question. Um, you will, and rankins that
Speaker 1: you did it. And he says, not mad enough to
Speaker 1: be here to tell me that his decision on jet
Speaker 1: should be no Wheen in number two. So how do
Speaker 1: you defend that? And to the rest of the GUL,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. Uh, thank you, yes, thank you
Speaker 1: for the question. Yeah, I just think of being a
Speaker 1: Jets fan. The number one thing that really annoys me
Speaker 1: is when somebody says, to anyone that's under the age
Speaker 1: of sixty, well you got you have Joe Namith, you
Speaker 1: had Super Bowl three. No, nobody that I know in
Speaker 1: my life other than my father had Joe Namath and
Speaker 1: Super Bowl three. And all my life, all I've known
Speaker 1: is heartache and suffering, and also the worst type of suffering,
Speaker 1: which is embarrassing suffering. Things that get people like but bumbles,
Speaker 1: like stuff like that, motto like things like that that
Speaker 1: don't happen to other teams, they happen to the Jets.
Speaker 1: They invent ways to break your heart and this season
Speaker 1: has been a perfect example. Um, so have to be
Speaker 1: a sucker for punishment. I think they've earned their spot.
Speaker 1: People could say, well, they have a Super Bowl. I
Speaker 1: just disagree with that fundamentally because once you hit fifty years,
Speaker 1: half a century, Uh, there's a whole generation of people
Speaker 1: that know nothing but misery. Here's another angle when you
Speaker 1: work for NFL dot com and you go to a
Speaker 1: higher up and suggest the idea of pain rankings and
Speaker 1: they say, yes, you control how that operates. And Dan
Speaker 1: did a nice job with that. Thank you, Mark. Who's next? Uh? Dan?
Speaker 1: I'm currently dealing with the little CE. So West, how
Speaker 1: do you think Dan coaked with the little C? And
Speaker 1: how is he still here today? Relevant for those who
Speaker 1: may not know, the little C is the common cold.
Speaker 1: I call it the double C. West had the big
Speaker 1: Sea cancer, which oh yeah, I mean way to battle,
Speaker 1: but the little C is the one that doesn't get
Speaker 1: the respect, and especially when your podcast host can be
Speaker 1: debilitated and go ahead, West, Well, I would say the
Speaker 1: difference between Dan's experience in mind was that he he
Speaker 1: had more sniffles and Dan talked about his more. I
Speaker 1: mean that's the thing about the little sea and Dan
Speaker 1: is you you hear a lot about it. It isn't
Speaker 1: It is quite amazing. It is, yeah, an indictment of
Speaker 1: myself that you've heard more about my cold than West
Speaker 1: talked about his cancer. Ricky, I want you to you
Speaker 1: pick people. It's too hard for me to pick here. Yes,
Speaker 1: well I gotta shut out. Got a female here in
Speaker 1: an a T N shirt that is beatat Betty. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna come over here. Serious. I never understand what the
Speaker 1: hell you're saying, so this will be funny. Um. Before
Speaker 1: I asked my question, I think we should send Happy
Speaker 1: Bathy tomorrow. Oh great, alright, not three one two three,
Speaker 1: Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday, dear,
Speaker 1: where day to thank you, thank you, and many more.
Speaker 1: By the way, in the middle of that joyful interpretation,
Speaker 1: Erica have leaned to my ear and said, singing to
Speaker 1: the fucking Mike Mark, did you ever imagine in any
Speaker 1: world as you turn? I won't say what you're turning,
Speaker 1: because I want to remain your friend. That a room
Speaker 1: full of men and a few women that you don't know,
Speaker 1: women in London, in London, well you know your children
Speaker 1: are half a world that I lived in Surrey for
Speaker 1: a little bit. If you didn't know, it's not that surprising.
Speaker 1: Were just by the way common cold references to Mark
Speaker 1: reminding people that he grew up in Surrey. Pretty close,
Speaker 1: pretty close? All right? Who else? Oh did you ask
Speaker 1: your question? Oh no, that feels kind of like you're
Speaker 1: kind of questioning yeah, because it was kind of like,
Speaker 1: then we sing happy birthday, Mark, We granted you your
Speaker 1: ultimate wish, and now we must move on. You're you're
Speaker 1: kind of like the guy who, when Dan put up
Speaker 1: tickets for the show, responded, but it got the date wrong.
Speaker 1: That poor guy, and unfortunately we told him he got
Speaker 1: it where we gonnata. I gotta eat the poop on
Speaker 1: that because he got banged because I was careless. So
Speaker 1: I want to give him a shout out right now
Speaker 1: because he was cool about His name is Joel Dowson. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's a great listener. And I also want to shout
Speaker 1: out who won? Jim Armshaw? Are you here, Jim? That'd
Speaker 1: be weird? Wait you here? Congratulations, he got he got
Speaker 1: the trivia answer to get the tickets. I doesn't want
Speaker 1: to tell you that the five minutes where that was
Speaker 1: unfolding in real time, where Dan had too through a
Speaker 1: series of d m s tell one person, uh in
Speaker 1: the next person, Yes, was super Jo the back of
Speaker 1: the cab. We were We were in a cabin, Dan
Speaker 1: was This is the worst possible way that this could
Speaker 1: possibly happen. This is what I was trying to avoid.
Speaker 1: All I could think was my wonderful mother back home
Speaker 1: in the States, her thing that she said to me,
Speaker 1: no good deed goes unpunished. All right, go ahead and
Speaker 1: ask your question. It's about me, Okay, job with that
Speaker 1: the question, Um, what's more likely? Dun releases the un
Speaker 1: released episodes of the for a Back podcast. Oh. Greg
Speaker 1: releases the tapes? What are the tapes again? West? Do
Speaker 1: you recall Greg was the front man for an emo
Speaker 1: prog rock band called Delaware in the mid nineties when
Speaker 1: Greg like not emo or not prog rock. And you
Speaker 1: guys don't know this about Greg. When he was like
Speaker 1: fifteen years old, he had these huge trap muscles. He
Speaker 1: was he looked like this intimidating anthlete for the world.
Speaker 1: I met a lot of people in college that when
Speaker 1: met me, they said, you look so much bigger in
Speaker 1: the Freshman look book, which is not even a thing
Speaker 1: that exists anymore. Greg did this weird thing where he
Speaker 1: started doing steroids in high school and then only worked
Speaker 1: out his traps like a really questionable decision. I also
Speaker 1: had a badass you know, parted down the middle of
Speaker 1: black hair dyes. It was like a punk rock style.
Speaker 1: But no, and it is true because we laid it out.
Speaker 1: We want to hear you as the lead singer of Delaware,
Speaker 1: and we put it out there that it would be
Speaker 1: a major charity. Uh donation would be made if you ever,
Speaker 1: if you ever released them? Are you going to play
Speaker 1: them today for the audience? Well, I've got a surprise
Speaker 1: for all of you. Welcome the founding members of Delaware.
Speaker 1: One of them. I got another question happen hey japs
Speaker 1: um A two PARTA Where is West's toaster right now?
Speaker 1: And is there an appliance that could bring the game back.
Speaker 1: It's funny you asked, because when we were trying to
Speaker 1: figure out the trivia question for the tickets, that one
Speaker 1: came up. Where is West his toast? Here? It physically
Speaker 1: sits in my bottom destroy at work where it stays
Speaker 1: since damnit check beat Greg to win the toaster and
Speaker 1: and Dave never came to collect it, so it still
Speaker 1: sits there with some Reggie Wing quote on it for
Speaker 1: some reasons, so surprising he didn't come fetch it because
Speaker 1: you can make a piece of toast with all thirty
Speaker 1: two Insignia's burnt onto it. I don't know. And a
Speaker 1: common question we get is what happened to Win West's
Speaker 1: toaster the game? And people seem to think that Greg
Speaker 1: killed the bit because Greg likes to kill things that
Speaker 1: we love. But in truth, West lost the desire, the drive,
Speaker 1: and I'm hoping one day it comes back and we
Speaker 1: could return uh to some great challenges on the show.
Speaker 1: But that's up to Chris. Basically, if you make it
Speaker 1: to your fiftieth birthday and we're still doing this podcast,
Speaker 1: look if if Rainmaker can come back, the toaster can
Speaker 1: come I like it, all right, We'll take it. We'll
Speaker 1: take more. Dan Tier left A yea, thank you. Um,
Speaker 1: So my question is more than a NFL basic question
Speaker 1: rather than your jokes. All of this guy's all business,
Speaker 1: serious jokes. Um. All of the talk about Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 1: getting traded from the Giants, potentially, why is there no
Speaker 1: talk of Josh Norman getting traded from the tanking Ridskins
Speaker 1: Because Josh Norman is not good at football. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's struggling. I think I actually put together a
Speaker 1: trade canidates list and put him on it. And if
Speaker 1: anyone would just take his contract, I think they would
Speaker 1: happily give him away. I could see it happening. Gregg,
Speaker 1: that is your reader, now, you know what? And then
Speaker 1: and I talked about come on, that was the best
Speaker 1: one of the night. I'm with you, Mark, I've talked Jo.
Speaker 1: I've been upset about Jalen Ramsey the way he's handled
Speaker 1: this situation. And I would imagine, you know, Antonio Brown,
Speaker 1: the best wide receiver in the league, arguable, Yeah, really,
Speaker 1: what what is going on on? He's out of football
Speaker 1: because he was a jerk? And Jalen Ramsey, who certainly
Speaker 1: hasn't done anything close to what Brown did or what
Speaker 1: Brown's dealing with. But I would just wonder Jalen Ramsey,
Speaker 1: is he a guy who's trying to get paid and
Speaker 1: trying to do you want to give a Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 1: a massive contracts seeing the way he's handling the end
Speaker 1: of his career in Jacksonville, I don't. I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: do you believe people change? Yes, people change, But that's
Speaker 1: a big risk to hope he does. Alright, a couple more.
Speaker 1: This one's for Mark. How many wins do you Adam
Speaker 1: Gates's Cleveland Brown's get next season? Oh my god? Question
Speaker 1: and done with it. It's funny because it's true. We
Speaker 1: got a standing room only question back here. I don't
Speaker 1: even get Yeah, nobody cares, guys, so so we obviously
Speaker 1: want a team in London. Um. So my question is this,
Speaker 1: if you were going to annoy one fan base in
Speaker 1: the US by stealing their team and taking it to London,
Speaker 1: which fan base would you piss off? The Jacks? The
Speaker 1: Jacks seemed like the easy answer, the jack They don't
Speaker 1: have much history. Their owner clearly wants to do it.
Speaker 1: If they lose enough, I think he would. He would
Speaker 1: enjoy that. I could think of a team that could
Speaker 1: learn a lesson through a move. Your little Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 1: Send them and I send them on a new train.
Speaker 1: Not the chunnel thing, but you just send them under
Speaker 1: the Atlantic Ocean. Let's see if they even arrived in England.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's fair and I love it, But you
Speaker 1: do forget or people forget the the Balts. City of
Speaker 1: Baltimore lost the Colts are killing me with this truck.
Speaker 1: Eighteen Wheelers showed up in the middle of the night
Speaker 1: and they emptied out the team facility and moved to Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: It does not excuse what been with Cleveland. That was
Speaker 1: a disgrace. But how about we don't move any team
Speaker 1: and find a way to make it worth work with
Speaker 1: an expansion team or even add two teams to keep
Speaker 1: it everything average. None of this ripping the hearts out
Speaker 1: of fan bases like we saw in San Diego. Why
Speaker 1: do the Chargers need to stay in Los Angeles? The
Speaker 1: Chargers do not need to stay in Los Angeles. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: They can come to London. No he wants them here either.
Speaker 1: But we got another one back here. Weigh in the back,
Speaker 1: all right, you see me, you see me? Do see you?
Speaker 1: Got it? Thank you? Here we go. Hello Harries, Um.
Speaker 1: You've had guests on the pod obviously. I just wondered
Speaker 1: if anyone right now or historic who you would love
Speaker 1: to have on the pod just to ask any particular question.
Speaker 1: You're sort of top guests through the history of the league.
Speaker 1: I mean outside of having Ricky on for like a
Speaker 1: full episode. Just into the wonderment. Little Debbie we've had her. Yes,
Speaker 1: how you're saying anyone not not like the best guests
Speaker 1: we've ever had, because that not be Greg Hardy two fourteen,
Speaker 1: episode two twelve. How about I'll throw him out there
Speaker 1: because we were talking about him recently. Brett Farve, Yes,
Speaker 1: Brett far would be great. I think that the thing is, though,
Speaker 1: that you have to guarantee they would be interesting. Because
Speaker 1: it's a podcast. You're not gonna be seeing them, You're
Speaker 1: only gonna be hearing them. And I'm sorry, but athletes
Speaker 1: tend not to be that interesting. I would probably pick
Speaker 1: Henry it is. We love Henry Hotching, vice president of international.
Speaker 1: He told me he actually threatened me when I got
Speaker 1: off the plane. Every time you address my name, you
Speaker 1: add vice president of International, NFL Media and her him.
Speaker 1: Last question, last question? Alright, alright, Ricky loves she's drunk
Speaker 1: with power. Right now, you got half of that, right question. Yes,
Speaker 1: what does it gonna be worse? Pulling its seam that
Speaker 1: is trying really hard to be dreadful and is dreadful
Speaker 1: like the Miami Dolphins, or supporting it seam actually is
Speaker 1: trying to be good but is dreadful like the New
Speaker 1: York chance the shoe drops. Um, screw you, good sir. Uh.
Speaker 1: It sucks. It's terrible, and I hope things get better
Speaker 1: now that our quarterback Sam Donald is back in the lineup.
Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to the game. All right, everybody,
Speaker 1: It's been an incredible honor to be here with you guys.
Speaker 1: It's we said it last year, We've said it on
Speaker 1: the podcast, but we'll say it again that of all
Speaker 1: the incredible things that have come to us through this podcast,
Speaker 1: the thing that has shocked us the most and it's
Speaker 1: been the most rewarding, has been you guys. The overseas
Speaker 1: audience that took us in vouch for us, pumped us up,
Speaker 1: and we're out here if it's not for you guys,
Speaker 1: So we love you so much and your support and
Speaker 1: they're fine, they're fine. And Greg, because he has the
Speaker 1: Vanity Project with jessel Nick, he is making a lot
Speaker 1: of money, so Mark'll he'll be handling the tab at
Speaker 1: the bar from now until midda. Either Greg or jessel
Speaker 1: Nick will cover it one or the other. Actually no,
Speaker 1: you have to pay for it, but it's uh. The
Speaker 1: bar is open until midnight. You could chill here. We'll
Speaker 1: be around if you want to talk, take pictures, do
Speaker 1: whatever you want. Thank you so much for coming. You