Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. It's still really be Welcome
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Speaker 1: My name is Dan ANSAs, and I'm joined in a
Speaker 1: city filled with heroes still and bunkers and they ain't
Speaker 1: going nowhere. Mark Sessler, Chris Westling and Greg Rosittal. What
Speaker 1: is up? Boys? Hey? Dan? Hey, everybody t G I
Speaker 1: f am I right, You've never been more right. I
Speaker 1: mean this. If there's been a day where that applies
Speaker 1: and you just feel it from head to toe, it's
Speaker 1: uh this day. I will miss you guys, though, I
Speaker 1: mean the weekend. You're not gonna be too much different
Speaker 1: other than than this show. I will miss this hour
Speaker 1: of normalcy with you guys. Anybody has some big weekend plans.
Speaker 1: I'm on nesting duty, wallpapering and painting the nursery, so
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of hard labor. I got.
Speaker 1: I got seven boxes weighing approximately fo pounds total um
Speaker 1: that make up a bunk bed for the boys. So
Speaker 1: that's my weekend. Gonna fly high. Now, I consider myself
Speaker 1: my children's personal trainer. We call it bodied by g
Speaker 1: so we've got some bike rides, We've got some you know,
Speaker 1: runs around the neighborhood. It's gonna be big. I mean,
Speaker 1: you just told us that parks and trails are cut down.
Speaker 1: My my kids desperately need to move those arms and legs,
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure how that gets accomplished at this
Speaker 1: point other than you know, go get me this, go
Speaker 1: get me that small child, which they're not very amenable to.
Speaker 1: They officially closed the beaches in Los Angeles as of
Speaker 1: Friday afternoon. That's a shot across your bow, it is,
Speaker 1: especially this last week when they took away the parking.
Speaker 1: We've been just walking down kind of like the big
Speaker 1: hill down there, and it's empty. It's been it's been
Speaker 1: a good place to get exercised. Ricky. How about you, Yeah,
Speaker 1: hanging out. I've been reading a really good book. I
Speaker 1: like it'll be nice to just sort of be off
Speaker 1: off the radar. What's the book. It's called A Secret
Speaker 1: History by Donna Tart. Oh. Yeah, great, read that right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I've read that. Yeah, it's really cool. She's
Speaker 1: actually reading the Jessica Simpson memoir. Yeah. I do want
Speaker 1: to read that too, though, Actually I really do. How
Speaker 1: your body's health. Me, my body's health. Yeah, how feels
Speaker 1: like you've been testing it a little bit. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: been it's been bad. I've been putting it through the wringer.
Speaker 1: I think. Um, I woke up feeling hungover this morning
Speaker 1: and I didn't even drink last night, So that's probably
Speaker 1: not a good sign. That's that's curious. Um. This is
Speaker 1: the Friday edition of You Around the NFL podcast. We
Speaker 1: have come to you five days this week, and as
Speaker 1: we promised, today's show will be a collaborative effort between us,
Speaker 1: the heroes, and you the listeners, a mailbag episode of
Speaker 1: the pod. But before that, there is some news. Again. Yes,
Speaker 1: things have slowed slowed down considerably, but there is news
Speaker 1: to hit. So let's start right there. All right, let's
Speaker 1: start with a Little League calendar update. Roger Goodell has
Speaker 1: made it official that the league's Management Council Executive Committee
Speaker 1: as it's called, unanimously decided the draft will move forward
Speaker 1: as planned April to ap will not be in Vegas,
Speaker 1: as we know, but it will be done somehow, I imagine,
Speaker 1: either from NFL network or just somehow video wise. It
Speaker 1: will be beamed that way. But there was a push.
Speaker 1: We talked about it earlier this week that some of
Speaker 1: the gms, or the majority of the GM's felt that,
Speaker 1: given all the obstacles presented by the COVID nineteen outbreak,
Speaker 1: that these teams needed more time to make their decision. Well, rogers,
Speaker 1: keeping things where they are your thoughts, Well, I think
Speaker 1: it sets kind of the timeline for all these teams
Speaker 1: to get their ducks in a row. We still have
Speaker 1: almost a month until the draft. Tom Pella Sero has
Speaker 1: kind of been reporting this all along, and Goodell said
Speaker 1: it was unanimous and unequivocal at least among the Managers,
Speaker 1: Commissioner Executive Committee. Uh, that this is gonna happen and
Speaker 1: teams are just gonna have to deal with not having
Speaker 1: pro days, not having physicals, and base it on the tape,
Speaker 1: which they tell us, you know, over and over is
Speaker 1: the most important part of the equation. I'm curious how
Speaker 1: it's gonna play out as a TV event, but I
Speaker 1: guess I guess this means Wes and in Mark who
Speaker 1: you know, Dan, Uh, it's time to start grinding. I mean,
Speaker 1: get in there on the Murray State Knows tackles and
Speaker 1: be ready for April. I mean, some of us have
Speaker 1: been uh, you know, pouring through Murray State tape since
Speaker 1: the middle of the middle of September, so I don't
Speaker 1: know who you're addressing there. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: like I feel like the minute free agency didn't get
Speaker 1: delayed and the certain people didn't get their way on
Speaker 1: free agency, and the leagues had pushed forward that the
Speaker 1: draft doing the same. I think maybe if you want
Speaker 1: to spend it as a proactive approach, that the hope
Speaker 1: is if a lot of this passes by May or
Speaker 1: you know, late late May or early June, that the
Speaker 1: rest of this calendar just goes as planned versus do
Speaker 1: I think the thing is, you don't want to delay
Speaker 1: week one, week two, week three, but you know the
Speaker 1: boss is spoken. So yeah, after all these years of
Speaker 1: questioning things, I have decided to keep towing the company
Speaker 1: line and keep saying we only have a miniscule percentage
Speaker 1: of the information that the decision makers have totally fine
Speaker 1: with any decision they came up with. Well, but hey,
Speaker 1: I was thinking, just um, how we are in unprecedented
Speaker 1: times where everything is changing and you see it everywhere.
Speaker 1: I'll I'll focus on entertainment, but you could I'm sure
Speaker 1: take it across all spectrums of life. But movies now
Speaker 1: are being moved that we're supposed to come out or
Speaker 1: had just come out when this uh coronavirus hit, and
Speaker 1: the moving being moved straight to on demand TV shows
Speaker 1: like look like the late night shows, how they're just
Speaker 1: doing um um stuff from their homes and it's very
Speaker 1: low fi all of it. News shows used to be
Speaker 1: get everybody in the in the studio and put all
Speaker 1: the makeup on them and put them in their fancy suits.
Speaker 1: I wonder if one of the what comes out of
Speaker 1: this whole, you know, globally life society changing thing is
Speaker 1: could things change in the NFL as well? Could could
Speaker 1: the idea that you wiped out Pro Days and you
Speaker 1: wiped out this and you took the scouts off the road?
Speaker 1: Could it be when life goes back to normal? Hoping
Speaker 1: it does. Uh that things could change across the world
Speaker 1: in a lot of different ways, but even in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Maybe even the way we work, I mean everyone working remotely.
Speaker 1: If it and and we'll we'll be like everybody needs
Speaker 1: to be in the office all the time. I'm curious
Speaker 1: to see what happens after this. Well, I do think
Speaker 1: that part will change for a lot of people. I
Speaker 1: think there will be more working remotely in many different fields.
Speaker 1: But as far as the NFL, I can't imagine that
Speaker 1: they're gonna minimize. I can't imagine they're gonna go more
Speaker 1: spartan with their activities throughout the year. When everything's back
Speaker 1: to normal, I imagine they'll keep ramping it up. They
Speaker 1: gotta get to that twenty five billion mark. Well, certain
Speaker 1: certain teams. I mean, let's say, let's say your beloved,
Speaker 1: former beloved Bengals realized, Wow, we saved x amount of
Speaker 1: dollars by not putting scouts on the road for seven months,
Speaker 1: and we came to the same conclusion anyway, Uh, maybe
Speaker 1: they'll be decisions made on the economical level. I don't
Speaker 1: know well, and the Bengals thrown office that's known as
Speaker 1: the ES. We don't need scouts on the road. I
Speaker 1: do wonder go ahead, and I do wonder if they
Speaker 1: would change any aspects of the draft itself as a
Speaker 1: tell of eyes um event, like how much time they're
Speaker 1: gonna take for each day, each pick, each night, like
Speaker 1: that remains to be seen, and that's something where they
Speaker 1: could get creative I do kind of imagine they're gonna
Speaker 1: be back in Vegas as as long as everything's uh
Speaker 1: fine by then they're gonna want to have the show
Speaker 1: of the guys going on the gondolas or whatever they
Speaker 1: were going to do on the water, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: blow it out bigger than ever. So I think things
Speaker 1: could change, like, especially on the media front, if you
Speaker 1: realize ratings don't rise or fall even though it's four
Speaker 1: or five individuals reporting from four or five different locations
Speaker 1: and the production cost has been slashed down to one
Speaker 1: vote of what it was. But the flip side, when
Speaker 1: you look at certain things that have happened in history
Speaker 1: where everyone was like you know, bunkerd away and not
Speaker 1: able to live normally. That on the other end of that,
Speaker 1: when when things get back to normal, sometimes you suddenly
Speaker 1: have people going, you know, pell mell to the wall
Speaker 1: and like wanting to enjoy society and wanting to re
Speaker 1: enjoy a lot of those things all over again. So
Speaker 1: west is point you mean the NFL might like hit
Speaker 1: put the foot to the pedal coming out of this
Speaker 1: for next year to be bigger than ever. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised if they don't slow down one iota with
Speaker 1: the way they want us to be the biggest thing
Speaker 1: in sports versus allowing them. So let's take a pocketed,
Speaker 1: small approach to society that just doesn't seem to be
Speaker 1: in their d n A. I mean, the NFL got
Speaker 1: lucky that this is all happening in the off season.
Speaker 1: It seems like it's a big um disruption to the NFL,
Speaker 1: and and it is, but compared to every other sport,
Speaker 1: it's kind of nothing. And it was supposed to be
Speaker 1: opening day Major League right, and the timeline of it,
Speaker 1: you know, the season starting in September. We'll see, but
Speaker 1: that that's still a pretty long timeline to where the
Speaker 1: NFL could be in a position where you know, they're
Speaker 1: part of things getting back to normal. Also, does the
Speaker 1: draft need to be three days long? The changes the process.
Speaker 1: I understand if you want to keep Thursday night limited
Speaker 1: to the first round because that's more special. But couldn't
Speaker 1: we hypothetically knock out the rest of the thing on
Speaker 1: Friday given you're you're stripping away all the popping circumstance.
Speaker 1: I don't know, no, no, because you've got Day three
Speaker 1: where you've got you know, guerrillas and manatees and uh,
Speaker 1: porcupines announcing you know, seventh round picks, and it's like,
Speaker 1: it's we don't need this to be necessarily that when
Speaker 1: we return to the norm. I love those talking porcupines
Speaker 1: announcing the Raiders sixth round pick, and Mike Mayos had
Speaker 1: exploding um all right. In other news, Antonio Brown, We've
Speaker 1: already kind of talked about this, but now we have
Speaker 1: it right from the horse's mouth. Bucks coach Bruce Arians
Speaker 1: said the team will not be bringing in free agent
Speaker 1: wide receiver Antonio Brown. Tom Brady has some type of
Speaker 1: deep level obsession with Brown. Um, both with the Patriots,
Speaker 1: where Brown briefly played, and apparently he had he had
Speaker 1: although I don't know where this came from exactly if
Speaker 1: this is actually on record that tom Brady wanted Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown and Tampa as well. But here's an Arians had
Speaker 1: to say. There's no there's no room and probably not
Speaker 1: enough money. It's just not gonna happen here. It's not
Speaker 1: a fit here. Of course, Arians was with Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh and reportedly he didn't see eye to eye
Speaker 1: with the talented but troubled wide receiver. He did say
Speaker 1: he's looking for a pass catching running back. UM, what
Speaker 1: about a Levy on Bell Bruce Arians reunion. Although, if
Speaker 1: he's citing money is an issue, Levan Bell is in
Speaker 1: the upper tier of money earning running backs. But perhaps
Speaker 1: that could be worked out with the New York Football Jets.
Speaker 1: I don't think Arians and Levyan Bell were in Pittsburgh together.
Speaker 1: I think Arians was in Arizona above it. Ah, you're right,
Speaker 1: Bell arrived. Um. As far as Antonio Brown, UM, I
Speaker 1: know I've been pretty vocal about this. UM, it does
Speaker 1: not surprise me that somebody who was in Pittsburgh with
Speaker 1: him does not want him in the locker room. Contrary
Speaker 1: to the conspiracy theories that Antonio Brown's issues are all
Speaker 1: related to Vontes Perfects hit. If you read UM, and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of articles about this about Antonio Brown's
Speaker 1: time in Pittsburgh, the troubles go back years and years, UM,
Speaker 1: to the point where Mike Tomlin, even five, six, seven
Speaker 1: years ago, was making separate rules for one guy versus
Speaker 1: the other fifty two guys, and Bruce Arians was there
Speaker 1: and he saw all that. I like, the Arians is
Speaker 1: so definitive about this, just giving us, you know, making
Speaker 1: it clear that's what you like about Arians like. I
Speaker 1: also found it interesting how he really defended Tom Brady's
Speaker 1: deep ball, uh maybe taking a shot across your bow
Speaker 1: their west, saying he he thinks he throws a great
Speaker 1: deep ball, and that's gonna be a big part of
Speaker 1: their offense, the play action deep ball games, so we
Speaker 1: will see. My biggest problem with Brady is his reduced mobility,
Speaker 1: not his deep ball. And I think you can see
Speaker 1: some of the arm strength uh diminished on sideline throws,
Speaker 1: not necessarily deep ball throws. I like what Greg said.
Speaker 1: I think that it's important for Arians, who is a
Speaker 1: you know, a decided man's man, and it's not to
Speaker 1: not be a wilting flower and just uh, you know,
Speaker 1: cave in and say maybe we'll do whatever Tom Brady wants.
Speaker 1: And I don't think there's any obviously. I think those
Speaker 1: two are thrilled to be working together. And he was
Speaker 1: pretty pretty um he hit it pretty hard that they're
Speaker 1: gonna find that pass catching back in the draft and
Speaker 1: that he considered this draft for remaining holes absolutely critical.
Speaker 1: And you know, I feel like there's also no suddenly
Speaker 1: no pressure on Jason light who should have a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure on him in general, Um, because of this
Speaker 1: Tom Brady thing. But you know you need to come
Speaker 1: out of this with a couple guys that can help
Speaker 1: Brady in this type of offense right away. And so
Speaker 1: Arians says, obviously, what is Tom Brady? You can say,
Speaker 1: I'll talk all you want about his deep ball, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I would see them looking for running back
Speaker 1: that can catch sixty seventy passes that was that would
Speaker 1: help him more than trying to convince us that Tom
Speaker 1: Brady can still throw at sixty yards through the air
Speaker 1: like anyone. I would say, the pressure is maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit off Jason Light because that was one of
Speaker 1: the genius master strokes that we've seen in free agency
Speaker 1: for some time. Absolutely, but like but otherwise it had
Speaker 1: that not happened and they were clinging to James, the
Speaker 1: Winston people would be going nuts, you know, because he
Speaker 1: was Jamis Winston was about to get everybody fired. And
Speaker 1: they made They came to the right decision, and I
Speaker 1: think they needed help, as I've said on this show,
Speaker 1: and um it it came up in the latest Peter
Speaker 1: King Monday Morning Quarterback as he still called that no
Speaker 1: football day in America. I don't know, um Morning Football
Speaker 1: Morning in America that they felt pretty good. The Bucks
Speaker 1: felt pretty good about jams Winson. Now the London game,
Speaker 1: which we talked about, Um, that spooked them with the
Speaker 1: five turn up, the five interceptions in the two picks
Speaker 1: but fumbles, but then he kind of put it himself
Speaker 1: together and entering week six team they were feeling pretty
Speaker 1: good about him. And then when he bombed out in
Speaker 1: those two last weeks, it kind of sealed his fate
Speaker 1: in Tampa. It sounded like, so good on Jason Light
Speaker 1: going on Bruce Arians for not you know, staying the course.
Speaker 1: And now they it seems like they have a uh,
Speaker 1: just a fresh lease on life now with Brady, it's
Speaker 1: all hunky dory. In other news, Michael Brocker's is back
Speaker 1: with the Rams. He signs a three year contract. You
Speaker 1: can make up to thirty one and a half million. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is very similar to the contract he agreed to
Speaker 1: with the Ravens almost two weeks ago. But the Ravens,
Speaker 1: as we talked about on Thursday show, had some issues
Speaker 1: with his physical his ankle specifically, so they backed out
Speaker 1: of the deal and now he comes back to the Rams.
Speaker 1: So you know this is a interesting way for Brockers
Speaker 1: to continue his employment with his team, But that's the
Speaker 1: way it works out sometimes, especially this year Mark with
Speaker 1: the UM lack of ability to go visit the teams
Speaker 1: and whatnot, this was kind of inevitable you'd have some
Speaker 1: of these cases. Yeah, I know, I've been hitting that
Speaker 1: UM maybe overly hard this week UM as a as
Speaker 1: a factor, but it's you know, I find the thing
Speaker 1: I find interesting is that you know he got hurt
Speaker 1: in the in the finale, that why uh, how differently
Speaker 1: certain teams act Because if it's a medical thing, you know,
Speaker 1: the Ravens for some reason red flag not doing this
Speaker 1: deal with someone that I would think would be healthy
Speaker 1: at some point during the like early in the first
Speaker 1: season and be fine, and the Rams say yes. So
Speaker 1: I I'd like to know at some point how the
Speaker 1: two operate and why the Ravens were so much more
Speaker 1: cautious when it's such a big need for their team.
Speaker 1: Tricky spot for the Ravens too, because they had traded
Speaker 1: Chris warmly to the Steelers because they thought they had
Speaker 1: his replacement in Brocker's and now they don't have either.
Speaker 1: I went after and Dominican sue before the Bucks resigned him,
Speaker 1: so that might explain why they went after super. I
Speaker 1: think back to last week, like the middle of last week,
Speaker 1: which now feels like doesn't free agency Frenzy when they
Speaker 1: were still doing that show feel like it was like
Speaker 1: that's how long ago that was? But but I think
Speaker 1: I think back to one segment where I saw them
Speaker 1: ask um, Daniel Jeremiah he does a podcast. No, no,
Speaker 1: he's the draft analyst for NFL network right right now.
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought he did something with one of
Speaker 1: the women from Love Is Buying and something like that
Speaker 1: and something that's okay, And and they asked him who's
Speaker 1: the biggest winner of free agency so far? And he
Speaker 1: said the Ravens, a team he used to work for us.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a little bias there whatever,
Speaker 1: And he talked about, you know, the Calais Campbell Michael
Speaker 1: Brocker's duo in the middle, and that's gonna make all
Speaker 1: the difference. Well, guess what here we are a week later.
Speaker 1: Brocker's isn't even on that team. That analysis makes zero sense. Well,
Speaker 1: that's well, said Greg Well said. Indeed, finally, let's head
Speaker 1: to kick her corner. Excuse me, the kicker club, and
Speaker 1: this one's got me uncomfortable. The Cowboys signed Greg the
Speaker 1: legs Areline, formerly of the Rams, to a three year,
Speaker 1: seven and a half million dollar contract. Um he teams
Speaker 1: Bones the special teams coordinator John Bones Fossil, who joined
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy's staff in Dallas this offseason, and Zirline, after
Speaker 1: a long run with the Rams, joins the big Day.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. I mean, let's just keep it real.
Speaker 1: We got an issue here because Kai for Bath. We
Speaker 1: just talked about it last week he signed a deal
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys. You're gonna tell me that you're gonna,
Speaker 1: You're gonna you're gonna lull Kai four Bath into a
Speaker 1: false sense of security. He goes ten for ten for
Speaker 1: you down the stretch, almost kicks into the damn playoffs.
Speaker 1: You give him a deal, and then a week later
Speaker 1: you signed one of the war well known kickers to
Speaker 1: the league to a saucy money deal. That's a killer move.
Speaker 1: I mean, Kai's Kai, and I get that, but that
Speaker 1: feels personal. I mean, I'm reading this stuff in Dallas like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's a kicking competition. Give me a break. I mean,
Speaker 1: they did Kai dirty. They stuck a knife in his back.
Speaker 1: It's it's Gregg the Leg's jobs. Hi, Kai, come it off?
Speaker 1: Ten for ten. Kai could have probably caught on and
Speaker 1: actually signed with the team that would have given him
Speaker 1: a chance to start. Like Greg said, there's no way
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a fair competition unless Greg the
Speaker 1: Leg gets hurt. I just wonder if they came the
Speaker 1: Cowboys to the same conclusion that you know your initial
Speaker 1: um you know medical staff sources were telling you about
Speaker 1: that this. You know, maybe there's more to it than
Speaker 1: just the going ten for ten is not good enough
Speaker 1: down the stretch of last season the locker room? Is
Speaker 1: he a fit in the locker room? Kai for bro?
Speaker 1: Why did they sign him? Then? I don't, well, because
Speaker 1: who know, I don't an answer to that. They didn't
Speaker 1: know they could get Greg the Leg. What is the
Speaker 1: I gotta find out the four bath money. Hang on
Speaker 1: a second, Well, I don't think there's much guarantees, but
Speaker 1: I do know there's three and a half million of
Speaker 1: guarantees for zerlines. So it really feels like comition. Kai
Speaker 1: should ask for his release. This should be the drama
Speaker 1: that we uh that we are covering all offseason him
Speaker 1: like angling to get out of Dallas. Let him be
Speaker 1: What about Kai to the Patriots. I mean, they certainly
Speaker 1: have a needed kicker. They already cut him last year,
Speaker 1: didn't they. Well, this is a different version of they're
Speaker 1: they're fine about that ten kicks segment of the season.
Speaker 1: He was money West. There was nothing. There was nothing
Speaker 1: tucking inside the upright or just barely grazing over the crossbar.
Speaker 1: It was straight down the middle. Every kick he had
Speaker 1: included a couple of bombs, as I recall, right, like
Speaker 1: I like you described it as tucking it inside the uprights,
Speaker 1: because it's a very Tucker like performance. Ten ten out
Speaker 1: of tend Some might say small sample size, but if
Speaker 1: you extrapolate that over a full sixteen game season, he
Speaker 1: ties Gary Anderson's single season accuracy marked for not missing
Speaker 1: a kick right, and you know he's not blowing it
Speaker 1: h in the NFC title game if he got his chance.
Speaker 1: Uh for the record. According to over the Cap, he
Speaker 1: signed a one million dollar one year deal. If they
Speaker 1: cut him before June one, uh, they do it leaves
Speaker 1: basically nothing in dead money less than a million bucks.
Speaker 1: Do the right I mean, do the right thing. It's
Speaker 1: not it's not how you treat a guy. This guy's
Speaker 1: a veteran. This guy is thirty three years old, he's
Speaker 1: got a family. Give him a chance, and you never
Speaker 1: know what he's capable of. No, guys, guy, man, guys, guy,
Speaker 1: that's what's happening in the news. All right. Why is
Speaker 1: Reggie Bush trending? Let me look into this Reggie Bush.
Speaker 1: We worked with him briefly on our Twitter show. I
Speaker 1: thought we had a pretty good relationship with him. Um,
Speaker 1: he seemed to like it, uh, doing our video show.
Speaker 1: He found us to be funny or at least amusing.
Speaker 1: He bought us all shots at the holiday party, which
Speaker 1: I didn't think was just a hollow gesture. He seemed
Speaker 1: to watch twice two straight holiday events. The night before
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and we ended up in a bar, same bar
Speaker 1: as him in Venice. He bought us shots. Then that
Speaker 1: it again at the holiday party. Now it should be
Speaker 1: said that the Twitter show he kind of just disappeared
Speaker 1: at one point. It never came back. So I just
Speaker 1: want to say that that was disappointing. However, um, the
Speaker 1: reason he is trending show, But that's you know, no,
Speaker 1: But the Twitter show we did through January, right and
Speaker 1: got another Yeah, I think he disappeared and then he
Speaker 1: got a changed company, So there's there is some seed
Speaker 1: of an explanation. He was like, I only want to
Speaker 1: finish out my commitment. Is that okay? Fox? And they're like, no, sorry,
Speaker 1: I can't do the Twitter show. I see us as
Speaker 1: close companions. I don't really see a debate there. I mean,
Speaker 1: every all the evidence points to a very tight relationship. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm happy to report he's not trending because he has
Speaker 1: the coronavirus. It looks like it's just a bunch of
Speaker 1: goons on Twitter talking about who's the best college running
Speaker 1: back in history? So good for them. All right, let's
Speaker 1: open up the mail bag. Let's do it, let's have
Speaker 1: some fun. This one is from our buddy Eric Jensen
Speaker 1: at Eric eighteen, Utah. If you had to pick one player, coach,
Speaker 1: GM NFL personality to spend the coming apocalypse with, who
Speaker 1: would it be? And? Right, boys, I'll start out well,
Speaker 1: immediately eliminated coaches and gms, because I want someone if
Speaker 1: the Apocops is coming, and as fit and um dominant
Speaker 1: physical shape as possible, because you don't know what's gonna
Speaker 1: You don't know what's gonna happen, you might need to help.
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm a person. I'm not looking for any
Speaker 1: drama in my life like adding another person or just
Speaker 1: hanging out with one person. I don't know, sounds problematic.
Speaker 1: So I thought, who's like the most fit and chill
Speaker 1: player I can think of? It's Teddy Bridgewater. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a fine time with Teddy Bridgewater. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be agreeable. You're gonna have a good time.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be at now. He's also his air
Speaker 1: yards per attempt might match his personality. No, he he comes,
Speaker 1: he is, Uh, I know a little bit bit about
Speaker 1: his backs. I mean he comes from a very tough
Speaker 1: background that he over goot. He's got a lot of
Speaker 1: toughness inside of him. He's got a lot of positivity.
Speaker 1: I want someone positive who's been through a lot more
Speaker 1: than I've been through to lead me through the the apocalypse.
Speaker 1: It's good, it's a good one. I I have to
Speaker 1: go with someone that I, um could I spoke with
Speaker 1: in person and I found this individual to be pretty
Speaker 1: captivating and just one second like, yeah, you have like
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater, greg Is Winston Churchill or something I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been through so much that I could never compare.
Speaker 1: He's a football player, he's seven years I'm saying about
Speaker 1: his his background and his upbringing. Um, he has been
Speaker 1: through a lot more than than probably all right, I'll
Speaker 1: do my research. Those skills, those skills could come in handy. Plus,
Speaker 1: I don't know anyone in the NFL or coaches, so
Speaker 1: you're you're flying blind here. Alright. There's that video of
Speaker 1: him dancing down the sideline to where I that he
Speaker 1: had a more personality than I imagined beforehand. So you
Speaker 1: never know. Greg bit of a wild card. Drew Stanton
Speaker 1: was a great dancer on the sideline too. Well. I
Speaker 1: think some of these guys are more fun to hang
Speaker 1: out with than they are playing football. I So the
Speaker 1: person that I spoke with gave me a pretty incredible
Speaker 1: comment about, um, the quarterback on this person's team. This
Speaker 1: is the owner of the Detroit Lions, Martha Firestorm Firestone Ford.
Speaker 1: Who when I'm gonna be hanging out through Uh, you
Speaker 1: know the society is crumbling? Okay, Because I was like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, like John Schnyder, Mike Rabel, like all these
Speaker 1: assumed cool guys who have a lot of responsibilities right
Speaker 1: now and probably are freaking out and not that much
Speaker 1: fun to hang out with because their careers are all
Speaker 1: on fire. I want to pick Ford, who uh. I
Speaker 1: would imagine she lives in a a lavish um, well
Speaker 1: stocked Uh, you know, ultra bunker with like jewel and
Speaker 1: crested walls. Uh. And I just go from huge room
Speaker 1: to huge room with a nice glass of champagne. The
Speaker 1: world can't touch us. And I'm sure she's a delightful
Speaker 1: person to hang out with, big roaring fireplace. I mean,
Speaker 1: what what's not to like just outside of Detroit? No earthquakes?
Speaker 1: What what what about when the people come to like
Speaker 1: take that house and you have to run, Well, that's
Speaker 1: where the friendship been. Then I've gotta you know, then
Speaker 1: I've got to go do what I've gotta do, live
Speaker 1: to see another another day. Please? How about us? Well,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say NFL on corks Lakisha Westling would
Speaker 1: be my choice, you know, if it's an NFL personality,
Speaker 1: but I didn't think you guys would let me get away,
Speaker 1: so it did say slash NFL personality or something that
Speaker 1: would count. But west she is. She listened to every
Speaker 1: show still. Uh, she tries to I don't know if
Speaker 1: she's keeping up. All right, let me let you off
Speaker 1: the hook, exempting your wife. UM, okay, thank you for
Speaker 1: that generous of you. I looked at this the same
Speaker 1: way Greg did. It's like, who can I stand for
Speaker 1: hours at a time? Um? And I came up with
Speaker 1: Chris Long, recently retired pass rusher of the Eagles Rams Patriots.
Speaker 1: A guy whenever he's tweeted out anything, whenever I see
Speaker 1: an interview, whenever he's in Africa digging wells for homeless
Speaker 1: people or climbing Mount kiluman Jar, just seems like a
Speaker 1: cool guy. Um And I'd like to hang out with him.
Speaker 1: So that's what I want to spend the apoca and
Speaker 1: I have to fight off Damnishek. That's true damage I
Speaker 1: can join us. Give me you want to be on
Speaker 1: a deserted island with damnascheck? That's that's a lot. Was
Speaker 1: there a deserted island? This is like you're you're you're
Speaker 1: there spend the coming apocalypse with? So this seems to
Speaker 1: be like the pandemic gets worse, we're gonna need a
Speaker 1: court jester. So Damnishek will be there. Um. I will
Speaker 1: go with Tony Romo. Um, I just mostly because he's
Speaker 1: like a total bro. I feel like we could listen
Speaker 1: to Pearl Jam albums together and talk about the nineties
Speaker 1: and talk about pop culture, and then I just love
Speaker 1: to hear his stories. I bet he has a ton
Speaker 1: of great stories, everyone from Parcels to Jarra, Jessica Simpson,
Speaker 1: Carrie Underwood, my wife, my wife. Here's a story I
Speaker 1: don't know if I shared it on this podcast for
Speaker 1: uh Romo's rookie year at the Cowboys. My wife was
Speaker 1: living in Dallas at the time. I had not met
Speaker 1: her yet, and she lived in the same complex as Romo,
Speaker 1: who lived with a bunch of his buddies. UH and
Speaker 1: Romo came to Emily's condo one night looking for band
Speaker 1: aids true story, and I've always wondered if there was
Speaker 1: more to that story, and Emily has never told me
Speaker 1: anything more. So I figured if I go straight to
Speaker 1: the source, UH couldn't make things, you know, a little
Speaker 1: bit weird on this island. I'm looking at as an
Speaker 1: island for some reason, but I need answers and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get it. I can't believe. I can't believe we've
Speaker 1: come this far in this show. Uh, both your wife
Speaker 1: and Romo had been on our show. Romo's interview did
Speaker 1: not point ahead to the success he'd have um on
Speaker 1: air in general with us. But my wife, my wife
Speaker 1: didn't make up a fictional uncle that she watches direct
Speaker 1: TV with. I'm just saying, how how we never heard
Speaker 1: that story there? There's definitely more going on there. I
Speaker 1: don't I think you've been given about of the narrative.
Speaker 1: I raised this question while we were eating lunch and
Speaker 1: h Amica my wife, so it's Tony Romo too. She
Speaker 1: thought that would be the right choice. She's always been
Speaker 1: ram talking about a guy who once stopped on the
Speaker 1: side of the road to help a stranger with his
Speaker 1: car and didn't want the story to get out there.
Speaker 1: You go, you know, Chris Long mean while, you know,
Speaker 1: he's just gonna tell you about what a hero he
Speaker 1: is the whole time, and it's just gonna be like,
Speaker 1: after a while, it's like, Chris, we get it. You're
Speaker 1: a better man than I. I think we're probably gonna
Speaker 1: be bashing the same people together. That's probably what's gonna happen. Uh,
Speaker 1: what about you, Ricky, do you have an answer to
Speaker 1: that one. Tom Brady, Huh, interesting because he's not He's
Speaker 1: not gonna eat any of my quarantine food. He's just
Speaker 1: gonna have his like avocado ice cream or whatever, so
Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about that. He won't like
Speaker 1: drink any of my wine, like he's any of that.
Speaker 1: And he's chiseled out of marble. So if someone comes
Speaker 1: into my house for some sort of raid, like, I'm
Speaker 1: going to stand behind like seven ft you know, fifty
Speaker 1: two ft Brady. Yeah, that's how big he is. You
Speaker 1: know how this invader doesn't have much foot speed? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: You know Brady to me, and I know he's conventionally attractive, um,
Speaker 1: but he kind of falls under the Tom Cruise cruises
Speaker 1: on my mind right now because of my Jerry McGuire
Speaker 1: late Night Watch on Wednesday. But like Tom Cruise, conventionally
Speaker 1: very attractive, but you never hear women talking about how
Speaker 1: hot they think Tom Cruises. Brady to me is also
Speaker 1: in that kind of scientology cyborg type thing where hot dude.
Speaker 1: But does anybody really like weigh into him? Does that
Speaker 1: Does that connect any doubts with anybody? Yeah for sure,
Speaker 1: but to exactly who we want to know, get Martha
Speaker 1: Ford and Mark are getting hot and everything. This pandemic here,
Speaker 1: and I thought that's where you were going originally, that's
Speaker 1: what brought it, brought it. I think Eric's point, though,
Speaker 1: is that Tom Brady's like Tom Cruise, like quirky habits.
Speaker 1: Would you know, ericauld announced two shows ago that she's
Speaker 1: on the hunt for I mean meat products, meat and
Speaker 1: he would not be taking away from that or your
Speaker 1: largesse of red wine there. And so I think that
Speaker 1: this makes a lot of sense. It's like keep the stockpiled.
Speaker 1: I'm so like just hopeful that now that he's out
Speaker 1: from under Belichick's wing, that like all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: he's going to develop some personality we had no idea
Speaker 1: his intro press conference would indicate otherwise, he's still feeling
Speaker 1: the ropes out, Like I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's great for conversation, but you never know, you
Speaker 1: really don't. Maybe Eric could bring it out of him
Speaker 1: more than like a sixty one year old totally annoying,
Speaker 1: pudgy sportswriter in Tampa. Say, maybe Erica has more resources
Speaker 1: to all out the other side of Tom Brady. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: Next up from Kakar at v k Hack Dan speaking
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Dan, Well, you hate the Bucks now totally
Speaker 1: the opposite. I've never hated Tom Brady, I hate the Patriots,
Speaker 1: and I hate Bill Belichick. In fact, I didn't really
Speaker 1: know that until this all went down, because I'm rooting
Speaker 1: really hard for Tom Brady to thrive in Tampa and
Speaker 1: stick it to all those JABRONI is up in New England,
Speaker 1: so that's more. That feels like more of you're just
Speaker 1: rooting against the Patriots. Yeah, Brady doing well would would
Speaker 1: be good for that. But also, and I actually talked
Speaker 1: about this at length, Greg, you should check it out
Speaker 1: on the Pick six podcast with Will Brinson. That I
Speaker 1: just I still, as you know, it's sticks. It's stuck
Speaker 1: in my cry. I thought the Patriots didn't treat Brady right,
Speaker 1: so I kind of think he It would be nice
Speaker 1: too if he got a little revenge season in twenty
Speaker 1: So I am rooting for Tom Brady. I do not
Speaker 1: hate him or the Bucks. I'll bring the whole family around,
Speaker 1: Will turn it on on the Sons and everyone will listen.
Speaker 1: Little uh. Will is very good, by the way, It's
Speaker 1: an excellent host, and he asks interesting questions. So make
Speaker 1: sure you check out that pod with all his super friends.
Speaker 1: Were the heroes they call each other? Uh, they're they're
Speaker 1: the super friends. Did you know that? Like that? It's
Speaker 1: a nice spinoff, nice spinoff of sen Uh this from
Speaker 1: bro leader at Krusty Breadloaf. Will Greg release the tapes
Speaker 1: now that the world is in crisis? Oh? Greg, that's
Speaker 1: that's fair At a time when people are giving all
Speaker 1: these charitable donations and trying to prop up local industry
Speaker 1: and help out people in need. Never has there been
Speaker 1: a better time to follow through with the Delaware Tapes
Speaker 1: release in exchange for a charitable donation. Come on now,
Speaker 1: but where are these tapes coming? How big? We need
Speaker 1: you help do it? But we need well, you know
Speaker 1: you have the tapes. Just maybe we could I don't
Speaker 1: know the tapes. We could maybe get the band back
Speaker 1: together on zoom or something and you know, play charity
Speaker 1: would be that would be amazing. Are you still friends
Speaker 1: with the guys in Delaware? I don't keep up. We
Speaker 1: don't keep up. I mean we're definitely not like enemies,
Speaker 1: but no, none of us are like lifelong friends. Greg
Speaker 1: continues to lie about the tapes existing. I have been
Speaker 1: contacted by a member of this band who has told
Speaker 1: me the tapes exist. I'm not saying the tapes don't exist.
Speaker 1: They have them. Why don't you get them? I'm not
Speaker 1: on Facebook anymore? Well, I mean, West, I mean for
Speaker 1: this investigation alone, and I know you have issues with Facebook.
Speaker 1: You should have stayed on um and just just to
Speaker 1: pursue this dropped the case. That's problematic, West, when you
Speaker 1: look back on the overall, like Delaware request, that is
Speaker 1: an that isn't that's sort of an under the radar
Speaker 1: footnote that you basically were in contact with someone who
Speaker 1: was going to send you the tapes and you bounced
Speaker 1: off the social media platform. Maybe it's on us that
Speaker 1: we put our faith in a man who identifies himself
Speaker 1: in this video chat as a bar room godfly. All right,
Speaker 1: I think I think we all know if any one
Speaker 1: of the five of us was meant to be a
Speaker 1: private investigator, it was Mark Sessler and would not well, well,
Speaker 1: I I do not have the bandwidth to take it
Speaker 1: on myself, but I'll look into it. If anyone listening
Speaker 1: to this has the tapes, reach out and they will
Speaker 1: get into our possession one way or another. The A
Speaker 1: t N Podcast at Gmail. That's it, right, Ricky, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the A t N Podcast at gmail dot com. If
Speaker 1: you were out there, you're a listener to the show
Speaker 1: and you have the tapes, we will make sure to
Speaker 1: make it worth your while. Please do it for us,
Speaker 1: do it for the kids. Yeah, or like tweet at
Speaker 1: us or something that we'll see probably more often than
Speaker 1: checking that. No, you're that's you're the producer of the show.
Speaker 1: You're checking out every day like we talked about, right,
Speaker 1: come on, Ricky, fan of the show. I love the show.
Speaker 1: I don't have a song. I don't love a submission.
Speaker 1: How tough to hear from the fans of the show that,
Speaker 1: oh my god, you are you know what you know?
Speaker 1: It's also funny. It's like, listen, Erica stars on the
Speaker 1: rise in the company and she's done such a tremendous
Speaker 1: job with getting the audio and the video working so well,
Speaker 1: and and he heads are turning and the bosses are
Speaker 1: reaching out to her, and you could see maybe it's
Speaker 1: starting to lead to some changes and how she viewsed
Speaker 1: this job. Now she doesn't have to check the Gmail anymore.
Speaker 1: Gregg is loving at the quest for these tapes. Dissolved
Speaker 1: into in fighting within for seconds. The investigation couldn't be
Speaker 1: more sideways. I think that it as Mark Sessler would say,
Speaker 1: it's a manufactured geo. Wait, Jay Cutler's trending only to
Speaker 1: make sure he doesn't have corona. Doris Burke tested positive. No, not,
Speaker 1: Doris's great, one of the great NBA analysts out there.
Speaker 1: All right, Um, get well suoned Doris, Derek Gill, and
Speaker 1: Jay Cutler does not have corona. Um at Derek's c
Speaker 1: k x v X. William Belichick or Thomas Brady who
Speaker 1: gets the most wins next season for their respective teams?
Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood? Mm Belichick? How many wins for Belichick? How
Speaker 1: many wins for Brady? Um? Seven for Belichick, six for Brady.
Speaker 1: That's kind of a that's a bit of a hot take, Greg,
Speaker 1: that's a tough one. I want to see what happens
Speaker 1: at the quarterback here, but I will take I will
Speaker 1: take Belichick if forced. All right, I'm gonna set the
Speaker 1: over Undergreg for the Patriots right now at over. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a little higher. Vegas will push it higher
Speaker 1: than people think, So I'm gonna say nine and a half.
Speaker 1: It will not be that high in Vegas, but I'll
Speaker 1: just stay over anyways. I would guess it'd be eight
Speaker 1: and a half eight and a half in Vegas. Here
Speaker 1: comes some rain. Richard at a year with Jurgen. I
Speaker 1: don't know someone's already been bunkering away. I say, as
Speaker 1: a former San Diego fan, is it's socially acceptable to
Speaker 1: bandwagon for the Colts? Hashtag bunker cast. We've hit this before,
Speaker 1: but I think it's important to remind anyone who ever
Speaker 1: finds themselves in this terrible situation. Yes, it's socially acceptable
Speaker 1: to make the move wherever you want. Uh. If a
Speaker 1: team abandons you, you you absolutely are not beholding to
Speaker 1: stick with the team, Like if you're an Oakland fan.
Speaker 1: If you're from Oakland, you don't have to stay a
Speaker 1: Raiders fan. They left you, and you don't have to
Speaker 1: feel any guilt if you want to move on. Anybody
Speaker 1: disagree with that? I don't. I mean I I my
Speaker 1: experience with Cleveland moving uh. I was given assurances fans
Speaker 1: were pretty quickly that the team would be back after
Speaker 1: a long period of time. So I spent three years
Speaker 1: very enjoyably um be being a Brett far fan. When
Speaker 1: those mid nineties, Packers were on fire and Sundays were
Speaker 1: great because you weren't riding that emotional wave the same way.
Speaker 1: And I kind of tapped into maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: of what West experiences. But Chargers fans specifically, I just
Speaker 1: think they were done dirty and the whole situation doesn't
Speaker 1: feel right. So go and follow your heart. I follow
Speaker 1: your heart. It can't come from outside. Fandom is such
Speaker 1: an organic thing. It has to come from totally inside yourself.
Speaker 1: And if the team abandoned you and that you have
Speaker 1: nowhere else to turn, you owe nothing to that team.
Speaker 1: Graham Hackney at G Hackney seventy eight Rights when all
Speaker 1: this is over, this being the COVID nineteen outbreak, Where
Speaker 1: will you choose for your first day trip? Chris Westley
Speaker 1: day trip that implies no flights. You're just going on
Speaker 1: a little road trip. Um doesn't even have to be
Speaker 1: a road trip, you know, anything outside the house in public.
Speaker 1: You could be around people, you could be outside. You know.
Speaker 1: I would like to go see Yosemite again. Beautiful, That's
Speaker 1: what I would like to you know what, I haven't
Speaker 1: been to Tahoe. That beautiful, cool place to go. Greg,
Speaker 1: I didn't think as big as that. I was just thinking, like,
Speaker 1: go downtown on the old train, go to the public
Speaker 1: library with the kids. They love that trip. Go to
Speaker 1: Grand Central Market, which is nice. Maybe go to kay
Speaker 1: Town at night the little day I miss, uh, I
Speaker 1: miss going out to eat. That's I mean, you miss
Speaker 1: a lot of things. But that's a major part of
Speaker 1: your marriage, right Emca the former chef and you, uh foodie,
Speaker 1: both of you love it. That's like your whole thing
Speaker 1: on the weekends any frange, you know, they a good
Speaker 1: thing to do. By the way, everybody uh with all
Speaker 1: these local restaurants, which is a really bad situation. This
Speaker 1: is crazy, like how because it is we're living through
Speaker 1: what both is a health emergency and the economy is
Speaker 1: in major trouble. But take out helps these businesses stay alive.
Speaker 1: So don't feel guilty. You know. Here's the other thing.
Speaker 1: We're not spending any money really, right, I mean, because
Speaker 1: you're not out, you're not spending frivolously because there's not
Speaker 1: really nothing to get money. So go ahead, support the
Speaker 1: local businesses. Everything's open, get some takeout food, and keep
Speaker 1: these places alive because it's gonna be very difficult the
Speaker 1: longer this goes on for local businesses unless you want
Speaker 1: every one of your restaurants around you to be a
Speaker 1: Subway or McDonald's. The cooking process erratic takes the bacteria
Speaker 1: and the delivery drivers will leave it at your door,
Speaker 1: so that doesn't have to be any physical exchange. Just
Speaker 1: wash your hands when you get the food. There's no
Speaker 1: reason not to get take out. As far as I know,
Speaker 1: and I've done quite a bit of research on this,
Speaker 1: what about you, Mark? Mine is similar to Greg's. I
Speaker 1: was I was thinking about this. It's like, do I
Speaker 1: really want to get in the car and drive four
Speaker 1: hours somewhere to uh? I? I don't. I want to
Speaker 1: go everywhere that I've not been able to go during
Speaker 1: this time. And it gave me a bit of appreciation
Speaker 1: because l A is vast and there's like eighty neighborhoods,
Speaker 1: but even where we live, there is a neighborhood and
Speaker 1: there are five or six or seven little restaurants and
Speaker 1: places that we go to kind of religiously, and they
Speaker 1: are not making money right now. But even beyond all that,
Speaker 1: I just want to have a day where I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm dropping like some serious cash and I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: all over the neighborhood and do everything I want to
Speaker 1: do for like eight or nine hours and live the
Speaker 1: way I want to live in Los Angeles and then,
Speaker 1: you know, deal with it on the other side. What
Speaker 1: about that foggy afternoon a couple of years back and
Speaker 1: you uh waltz into the Old Age center? Maybe you know,
Speaker 1: because people are saying that deal with the repercussions later, right,
Speaker 1: those people couldnt have been more excited to have a
Speaker 1: younger person come in and pay attention to them and thought,
Speaker 1: what place right now is a place no one will
Speaker 1: go to because of the anecdotes the number one place
Speaker 1: you should not be going to. That. So when that's cleared,
Speaker 1: when that you know, bill of health is cleared, I
Speaker 1: think it would be nice to go meet with some
Speaker 1: people that probably fought in World War two and you know,
Speaker 1: have some real stories. You know, if we're gonna all
Speaker 1: be passing out accolades here all that, there's that's where
Speaker 1: mind go. I feel like there will be. It would
Speaker 1: be a grand gesture of symbolism as well. Mark, that
Speaker 1: would be would I care about the previous generations when
Speaker 1: we're being told now don't care about them? Well, nonsense,
Speaker 1: they gave birth to the people that gave birth to us. Um,
Speaker 1: I will cases I will call up my good buddy
Speaker 1: Bob uh from the Throwback podcast, and we'll do what
Speaker 1: a tradition that we've uh lost a little bit since
Speaker 1: kids kids entered the picture. But we will get in
Speaker 1: the car, will drive east east of Hollywood and go
Speaker 1: to the old part three, uh, the Swingers Part three.
Speaker 1: Before that, will stop at the local liquor store and
Speaker 1: we'll pick up at twelve pack and we'll just take
Speaker 1: all you need is the pitching wedge and the putter
Speaker 1: because no hole is longer than a hundred and thirty yards,
Speaker 1: I believe. And I'm not even a golfer, but we
Speaker 1: bring along a little uh, a bow speaker, we got
Speaker 1: some bruise. We got four golf clubs and six balls
Speaker 1: because we're gonna lose a couple and we play nine
Speaker 1: holes twice. That's what I'm gonna do. I like that plan.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of fun. Um. I'm probably gonna just
Speaker 1: travel um everywhere, like I love to fight. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I could fly to like West Tahoe for the day,
Speaker 1: or Vegas for the day, or the Grand Canyon for
Speaker 1: the day. Um would love to get out or go
Speaker 1: to a club and give Corona free kisses to everybody.
Speaker 1: Oh look at that. What if they don't want them? Well,
Speaker 1: you gotta ask first West. Something tells me our first
Speaker 1: day back first there's not gonna be like a magical
Speaker 1: day where they're like everyone make out, you know. I
Speaker 1: think it's probably gonna be a pretty like you know,
Speaker 1: slow re entry. No, I think it's like okay at
Speaker 1: Friday five o'clock, like everyone can kiss. Like Tinder is
Speaker 1: back on fire. Yeah, I don't. I feel like that
Speaker 1: website might be struggling right now. And then it's basic
Speaker 1: concept they're putting out marketing ploys like you can face
Speaker 1: time video chat. Most couples are getting to know each
Speaker 1: other over over the internet. Yeah, that's what Tinders for
Speaker 1: getting to know each other. Yeah, this one from Yes
Speaker 1: at Yes. Granted it hasn't come up recently, but his
Speaker 1: Dan's been about Drew Brees managing his image and being
Speaker 1: a bit phony, just a bit or Is Dan not
Speaker 1: the only one who thinks that? I think there are
Speaker 1: people that think that, But I want to throw it
Speaker 1: in these times, uh, these um scary times. I want
Speaker 1: to shout out Drew Brees his wife Brittany, who announced
Speaker 1: Thursday they'll be committing five million dollars to the state
Speaker 1: of Louisiana for relief efforts to fight against the COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen uh pandemic. That is not a small amount of money,
Speaker 1: even for a rich person. Five million. And yes, you're
Speaker 1: gonna say, oh, he just signed a two year, fifty
Speaker 1: million dollar deal. I don't care. Five million is five million,
Speaker 1: and uh if you um, I just think it's highly commendable.
Speaker 1: And and if if other people could do the same,
Speaker 1: they should, but not everybody does. And Drew Brees did so. Yes,
Speaker 1: sometimes he feels very calculating and the nice guy act. Um,
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit of a whiff of is this genuine?
Speaker 1: But that was a genuine act. I think I love
Speaker 1: that he's become such a part of New Orleans. He
Speaker 1: lives right uptown on like a street. Everyone in the
Speaker 1: town knows exactly where he lives. He passed by, um,
Speaker 1: you know, on the truck, on the street car. And
Speaker 1: for whatever grief, Yeah, we've given him the city of
Speaker 1: New Orleans rightly like with him, he'll be a legend
Speaker 1: there Forever, He's been more important than words and five
Speaker 1: million dollars. Absolutely, Greg, you're next. You went to Tulane
Speaker 1: peel off, so you peel off. You know a million?
Speaker 1: That's all peel uh Heath at Heath oh eight two.
Speaker 1: You all do a great job and put out the
Speaker 1: best show Comma for years at NFL Media. Put these
Speaker 1: guys on TV. Enough is enough. I just thought that
Speaker 1: was a good tweet. I just thought that was damned
Speaker 1: solid tweet. Well hopefully uh season Kirk fatool. When the
Speaker 1: heroes break up Oasis style, will Mark Seiler or Chris
Speaker 1: Westling right to tell all history of the pod? I mean,
Speaker 1: we're all writers, so I would think it would be
Speaker 1: utterly remiss if there was a book about this experience
Speaker 1: that all of us were not pitching into. And I
Speaker 1: mean that's not just being diplomatic. It would be absurd
Speaker 1: if just one or two people were tasked with writing
Speaker 1: the entire This should be like a like a oral history,
Speaker 1: if anything, everyone's point of view. It should feel like
Speaker 1: reading podcast. I wanted from just Mark's perspective, taking a
Speaker 1: lot of suddenly in a lot of scores, so many scores,
Speaker 1: I mean I still have room for that. That would
Speaker 1: be the that That's what let's say it was like UM.
Speaker 1: Neil Strauss writes the book, but he interviews UM, all
Speaker 1: the four of us, and then all our producers, and
Speaker 1: then when it's time to do the media, the only
Speaker 1: thing that's uh, we're getting asked about is things that
Speaker 1: Mark said and when he was interviewed. I am not
Speaker 1: I think if anything, my I you know, despite like
Speaker 1: me kind of blowing up on everyone before the show
Speaker 1: for five minutes, I'd like to think I'm attempting to
Speaker 1: grow as a person. It's not happening at the speed
Speaker 1: that I wish UM, But compared to a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, I think I have less hot takes about
Speaker 1: UM the overall experience. But neil Straus, Neil Strauss is
Speaker 1: gonna stir things up a little bit, and he would
Speaker 1: be the perfect person to do this, by the way.
Speaker 1: I mean it would be a you know, some of
Speaker 1: his stuff I liked, enjoyed reading, but it could be
Speaker 1: criticized for being a little outmoded in you can get
Speaker 1: right back into the zeitgeist with this one. If you
Speaker 1: want to read a great UM somewhat trashy UM story
Speaker 1: of UM, a band or anything. The dirt The Real
Speaker 1: Story of Motley Crewe by Neil Strauss is an incredible book.
Speaker 1: I'm not even a Motley Crew fan, but that's that's
Speaker 1: the guy want writing My tell all, the guy that
Speaker 1: really knows how to approach it. So maybe Ricky, can
Speaker 1: you get Neil Strauss on the horn after this? Yeah? Alright,
Speaker 1: have him contact our Gmail um address. That's the way
Speaker 1: to do that with him. Yeah. I just linked it
Speaker 1: to my phone so I'll get it right away. Mark,
Speaker 1: And I saw that question about the book, you know,
Speaker 1: no matter who writes it, the first thing I thought was,
Speaker 1: Dan will have to be a shadowy insider triple sourcing everything.
Speaker 1: I'm mean, if I want to know like the roots
Speaker 1: of anything I got, I gotta go to Dan triple
Speaker 1: sours baby insider um. That would be a great book.
Speaker 1: Tom Stracken at Tom Stracken Edit asked Mark, this one
Speaker 1: is for you, specifically, how much of an edge do
Speaker 1: you give to teams like the Ravens and Niners who
Speaker 1: returned so many starters and coordinators with this disrupted offseason. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to, you know, just play
Speaker 1: the hits here, but uh I do I think I'd
Speaker 1: give those teams an advantage in a totally pristine, n
Speaker 1: uh interrupted offseason. But I you know that I made
Speaker 1: my point on that topic and now and now it's
Speaker 1: time to see when this all what what effect it has.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong. Maybe what you get is you
Speaker 1: get you're gonna get fourteen totally new playoff teams, and
Speaker 1: the Bengal is gonna go fifteen and one in. The
Speaker 1: Ravens are gonna go one in fifteen because they can
Speaker 1: only handle normalcy or they enjoy the disruption. I don't know, Mark,
Speaker 1: I'm with I'm to be first time head coaches at least.
Speaker 1: That's where I'm with you, is that the first time
Speaker 1: head coaches are getting could get banged. So I feel
Speaker 1: like Kevin Stefanski is like a decided edge over John
Speaker 1: Harbor right now. No, I do not Weaver Wire. Weaver
Speaker 1: Wire asks at the Weaver Wire, how do you approach
Speaker 1: studying game film? All? Right? This is I like this question.
Speaker 1: I will start with myself. This best season the first
Speaker 1: time I really ever watched every game and it was
Speaker 1: connected directly to power rankings. For me, it's more just
Speaker 1: watching the game and just seeing every play and uh
Speaker 1: noting things I don't watch the game the same way
Speaker 1: somebody that's in a more advanced state does. So I
Speaker 1: do it more just to be more plugged in on
Speaker 1: the teams. I'm interested how the rest of you approach
Speaker 1: watching the games. Well, maybe we should go in order
Speaker 1: from like your I'm probably the next in line on
Speaker 1: not someone that is checking out what like every defensive
Speaker 1: tackle and left guard are doing what I used to do.
Speaker 1: What I've learned to do is take notes that actually
Speaker 1: matter for me in what I do during the week
Speaker 1: from week one to week two to week three, and
Speaker 1: that's I'll watch a game, I will take a ton
Speaker 1: of notes and then try to elucidate the five or
Speaker 1: six things that really that I learned about each team,
Speaker 1: and that can go into the podcast and into writing.
Speaker 1: And I have to like learn to not take as
Speaker 1: many useless notes because it's so time consuming too. But
Speaker 1: I've tried to watch at least parts of every single
Speaker 1: game every year, and it can get to be a
Speaker 1: grind at the end of the year. And I have
Speaker 1: great admiration when I see like Gregor West with like
Speaker 1: two or three in depth pages of notes. It's like
Speaker 1: it is it is a chore, and you have to
Speaker 1: learn what not to get boggled up in with. For
Speaker 1: me in terms of the information, yeah, I think for me,
Speaker 1: one thing that I write in my notes almost every
Speaker 1: week during the season is that you have to be
Speaker 1: in the right frame of mind and the right mood
Speaker 1: to watch game film. You can easily fall asleep and
Speaker 1: get stuck watching the same plays over and over again.
Speaker 1: You have to get really in the mood to do it.
Speaker 1: To do it well, UM, I sort of do regular
Speaker 1: season one way where I watch UM the condensed You know,
Speaker 1: at the beginning of every year, I try to watch
Speaker 1: the full games, and I never have enough time, so
Speaker 1: I end up doing condensed it anyway. UM, And what
Speaker 1: I look for is traits. You look at, um, for
Speaker 1: running backs, who's making people miss, who's got instant acceleration, explosiveness, agility,
Speaker 1: pass catching ability, who's dusting linebackers off the line of scrimmage?
Speaker 1: Wide receivers? Similarly, you know for every position there are
Speaker 1: traits you look for quarterbacks, arm strength, anticipation, UM. And
Speaker 1: then during the playoffs, I do watch the full game
Speaker 1: and sometimes the all twenty two to get more specifically
Speaker 1: to strengths and weaknesses of the team. But um, for me,
Speaker 1: traits are always gonna be the most important thing to
Speaker 1: look for. Yeah, I take notes too and watch condensed,
Speaker 1: although I'm torn about it because I do wonder would
Speaker 1: I be better off watching four games a week on
Speaker 1: the coach's film than watching every game for our show.
Speaker 1: I guess I've come down on the answers like no,
Speaker 1: because we talk about every team, and it's better to
Speaker 1: be a little more surface on a lot of things
Speaker 1: than have a good in depth knowledge of less things.
Speaker 1: But once we get to the playoffs, like I do
Speaker 1: watch the All twenty two and that's what I watched
Speaker 1: in the off season. If I'm prepping anything, and I
Speaker 1: especially on on deef, on the defensive line or the
Speaker 1: running game, Like, I just feel like you can see
Speaker 1: really everything so much better, which took took a little while.
Speaker 1: I think of just reps doing that, But that's like,
Speaker 1: if you have the time, that feels a lot more
Speaker 1: helpful to me where I get you feel a little
Speaker 1: more confident in making some hotter takes after watching those.
Speaker 1: All right, good answers. Final question from James Stansfield at
Speaker 1: J E. Stansfield. Who have you got lined up to
Speaker 1: cover West's upcoming paternity leave. Love your work, guys, Hint,
Speaker 1: it should be hint, that would be ideal. Erica already
Speaker 1: is part of the show. So it's just you know,
Speaker 1: we would do it the four of us for as
Speaker 1: long as we need to. I haven't given it any
Speaker 1: thought yet, to be quite honest with you, I don't
Speaker 1: even know West. How long do you think you'll be out? Well,
Speaker 1: they have increased our paternity leave, so I have UM
Speaker 1: quite a bit to work with here. But you don't
Speaker 1: have to use it all at once. You can use
Speaker 1: it in UM in segments. So that's one thing to
Speaker 1: think about. But the lockdown is a big factor. I mean,
Speaker 1: even if I'm on paternity leave, I could still take
Speaker 1: an hour to do shows. So, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it remains to be seen how any of this will
Speaker 1: play out. I think we'll see, you know, it's a
Speaker 1: good question. I haven't hadn't thought about that. We're just
Speaker 1: gonna have little Debbion every week. I'm sure we'll see
Speaker 1: a lot of the a lot of the NFL, you know,
Speaker 1: if it's especially during the off season May, June and July,
Speaker 1: that's when we have a lot of guests. Anyhow, So
Speaker 1: I think some of the people we should work in
Speaker 1: some some more new people, but some of the people
Speaker 1: have been so great on the show, like Colleen, it
Speaker 1: will obviously be uh in when she wants to be
Speaker 1: in Clay Bonn and and Steve Weiss and now I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna like forget people, but I think it might
Speaker 1: be also will be an opportunity to get some new
Speaker 1: people in there as well. So yeah, when the time
Speaker 1: comes and to sit down and think about it, we
Speaker 1: will would be great if we're back in the studio
Speaker 1: because it's always better when the person is in the
Speaker 1: studio when you get to really, you know, judge how
Speaker 1: you're hitting it off in terms of chemistry and all that.
Speaker 1: But uh, that's all up in the air. It's weird.
Speaker 1: It seems like a lot of things are up in
Speaker 1: the air right now because it's the off season. When
Speaker 1: the baby is do we had planned to do extensive traveling,
Speaker 1: you know, like taking a month, you know, to go
Speaker 1: to St. Louis and Cincinnati, and you know, our industry,
Speaker 1: you don't get to see your especially when you live
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, you just don't get to see your family.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're gonna take the baby but now who
Speaker 1: knows what traveling will be. We're Bay We're basically the
Speaker 1: employees from Tiger King West, where it's like we don't
Speaker 1: go home for Christmas, we don't go home for we
Speaker 1: don't take days off, we work on our birthday. Our
Speaker 1: life is this sanctuary I still have on my limbs attached.
Speaker 1: There is the one thing that I West, I I
Speaker 1: would just say, don't even get on Twitter when you're
Speaker 1: whenever you miss a show or two and you get
Speaker 1: we've all experienced it and it probably affects each of
Speaker 1: us in different ways, but you get the tweet it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I really like Chris Wesleyan. But Greg Bdard's chemistry with
Speaker 1: the rest of the group was just unmistakable. It's like, great,
Speaker 1: I'm getting like, you know, shoved off the set because
Speaker 1: I had a child, Like, don't that will never happen. West.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get bumped off the off the crew,
Speaker 1: So I appreciate that. Well, now you have you have
Speaker 1: Mark's word and it's solid as oak. Yeah. If we're voting,
Speaker 1: I'm voting keep West. So he has my vote. We
Speaker 1: know who to replace with with Greg bdard. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: thank you everybody that's sent in questions got a bunch
Speaker 1: of them. I think close to a hundred, So that's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Um, you guys are great. Everybody, continue to
Speaker 1: do what you gotta do to hashtag flatten the curve.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. By the way, next week, boys, we'll
Speaker 1: be back and lady um on Monday. Well, we'll figure
Speaker 1: out what our what our schedule is next week, whether
Speaker 1: we're gonna do five days or cut it down to three.
Speaker 1: We're kind of we gotta talk that out still. But
Speaker 1: maybe here's here's something exciting and it's never been more. Uh.
Speaker 1: Time has never been better because multiple people in this
Speaker 1: chat room have gray beards. Uh. Speaking um for myself
Speaker 1: as well, the gray beards are back. My team of
Speaker 1: unattached free agents, many of them over the age of thirty.
Speaker 1: I put together a full roster and that piece will
Speaker 1: be going up on NFL dot com next week and
Speaker 1: we will talk about it, um maybe as soon as Monday,
Speaker 1: uh and break down the whole team. And I do
Speaker 1: I always I value your guys. Has U judgment on
Speaker 1: this when you guys tell me exactly how good or
Speaker 1: bad the team is. So this is a pretty big
Speaker 1: week for me. Coming up. I'm a little nervous, but
Speaker 1: I thought you made like a great movie. Even before
Speaker 1: announcing the team hiring Antonio Gates as a front office consultant,
Speaker 1: he had been a member of the team for so
Speaker 1: long he knows what it takes to be part of
Speaker 1: the gray Beards. It's true. I'm in terms of who's
Speaker 1: been a gray Beard the most at Santonio Gates by
Speaker 1: a mile. Adrian Peterson popped up a couple of years
Speaker 1: in a row because he was lingering on the market.
Speaker 1: But he's he's found a steady home. Um, well you
Speaker 1: don't you have a good development program with the gray Beards.
Speaker 1: Look at Peterson. That's true through the minors and now
Speaker 1: he's getting jobs all over the place. That's true. Um,
Speaker 1: so we will will do that next week and uh
Speaker 1: we'll have fun and um thank you again everybody for
Speaker 1: listening during these frankly crappy times and people that reach
Speaker 1: out to us and say it's nice to have something
Speaker 1: to listen to every day. We'll say it again that
Speaker 1: it's nice to do this. So it's a you know,
Speaker 1: symbiotic is that what it is? Relationship? Yeah, all right,
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