Speaker 1: I knew from before show one. I said, if we
Speaker 1: execute this concept seven hours commercial free football, we can
Speaker 1: go anywhere in the NFL universe anytime we feel like it.
Speaker 1: I said, if we execute this well, this is going
Speaker 1: to be the most popular football show on television. I
Speaker 1: came on the first on camera time I ever came
Speaker 1: on the first episode September two thousand and nine. I said,
Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Red Zone, the channel that we hope
Speaker 1: will change the way you watch football forever.
Speaker 2: Welcome to games with names.
Speaker 1: I'm Julian Edelman, They're Jack.
Speaker 3: And Kyler, and we're on a mission to find the
Speaker 3: greatest game of all time. On today's episode, we are
Speaker 3: covering week seven of the twenty twenty season with NFL
Speaker 3: Red Zone host Scott Hanson. We all know his voice.
Speaker 3: We've all seen his voice. We've all can you see
Speaker 3: a voice? We get into talking what makes the perfect
Speaker 3: witching hour, chaos.
Speaker 2: Stuff that just shouldn't happen.
Speaker 1: I mean fourth quarter keisters, get tight man in a
Speaker 1: fourth quarter sometimes the origin of the octobox.
Speaker 2: I want you to feel how big it is.
Speaker 1: We have eight games of the most highly skilled trained
Speaker 1: athletes on the planet are going at it simultaneously and
Speaker 1: it's all gonna lead to wins and losses at three
Speaker 1: hours from now.
Speaker 3: Big like it's big, and pretty much everything that goes
Speaker 3: on behind the scenes of the NFL Red Zone.
Speaker 1: You know, we had a fire alarm a couple of
Speaker 1: year y'all. Don't leave, dude, A soldier does not leave
Speaker 1: his posts. You can't is a Foxhole guy Foxhole.
Speaker 3: And then we wrap it up with the very special
Speaker 3: Jamison Irish whiskey toast, so you gotta stigure out to
Speaker 3: the very end.
Speaker 1: Let's go Games with Names is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 4: October twenty fifth, twenty twenty Sunday afternoon, NFL Red Zone when.
Speaker 1: Winds become losses and lawsuits become winds. You know what
Speaker 1: time it is. This is the greatest witching hour of
Speaker 1: all time, the Gloats. I have watched this show so
Speaker 1: many times. I really wondered what it would be like
Speaker 1: to sit here and and I didn't know you'd be
Speaker 1: wearing shorts because I did want to see what my
Speaker 1: calf muscles look like next to yours. But I gotta
Speaker 1: flex them. I gotta flex them. That's why I wore
Speaker 1: dark pants with dark socks so that we can put
Speaker 1: those away right there, you got you still got them
Speaker 1: calves on, you know, and run these hills around here.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I've had big calves since I was a little kid. Really, yeah,
Speaker 3: that was a calf kid.
Speaker 1: Does that?
Speaker 2: Does everyone make comments on them when they come on?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Well, okay, no, I don't mean to be made that.
Speaker 1: I make it weird. No, But there's there's a thing.
Speaker 3: People that know football and speed, Yeah, they know that
Speaker 3: the big calve shows that you're not a burner.
Speaker 1: Traditionally not you're your change direction guy. And you could
Speaker 1: stick him in the ground and go anybody. He ain't
Speaker 1: seen no calves on a racehorse, right, you know? I
Speaker 1: bet your you know all the lines. Oh yeah. Dion's
Speaker 1: other one is he used to never come out and
Speaker 1: stretch before a game. Yeah, he said, you ain't never
Speaker 1: seen a cheetah stretch on the savannah.
Speaker 2: He's like cheetah wakes up ready to run.
Speaker 1: I know. The tow took him down the toe to
Speaker 1: the tow took him. That's like the worst. It's bad too.
Speaker 1: Have you ever have you seen how much he's had
Speaker 1: to have to He's got eight toes now, did you
Speaker 1: see argue that was hilarious. Yeah. Did you buy this
Speaker 1: place during your playing days or after I bought this
Speaker 1: eighteen months ago? Oh? Really, yeah, with the idea of
Speaker 1: setting up this type of stuff, or did you have
Speaker 1: a place out here? No? I never had a place here.
Speaker 1: My daughter lived out here and I can't I would
Speaker 1: come in the off season and I ran a play,
Speaker 1: but I was mostly in Boston.
Speaker 2: Really, you still keep a place there.
Speaker 3: I still have my place there. And that's how we
Speaker 3: get a lot of the Patriots. We'll get all the
Speaker 3: people over there.
Speaker 1: Oh really, because I was thinking you flew like some
Speaker 1: of those guys we flew Ernie Adams, Ernie I saw.
Speaker 1: Ernie's the only one, which that's an exclusive interview right there. Yeah, Ernie,
Speaker 1: he didn't say much to anybody, No, but he used
Speaker 1: to not at least it never has Yeah, even you know,
Speaker 1: like when our teammates saw that show, they were amazed
Speaker 1: because Ernie was very quiet. But I would always I
Speaker 1: was there for so long.
Speaker 3: I would see him in the cafeteria doing the same
Speaker 3: thing he did every single day, eating that damn tomato,
Speaker 3: and I go create conversation because I was jokester a
Speaker 3: little bit, you know, so and then me and Ernie
Speaker 3: be and he would give me nuggets like on punters
Speaker 3: or on certain dbs and so like we always had
Speaker 3: a thing because people were intimidated to talk to him
Speaker 3: a for one, and B he didn't put it out
Speaker 3: there that he wanted to be talked to or he
Speaker 3: didn't give that.
Speaker 1: But he's not like that. He's just socially awkward. There's yeah,
Speaker 1: there's probably that too, but in my world, like there
Speaker 1: was like a mystic, mystical mist about him the longest time.
Speaker 1: And well, your interview helped to lift that veil. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's in the later years of his life, career, whatever else,
Speaker 1: but there was always.
Speaker 2: This, oh, there's this guy there at the.
Speaker 1: Poet the Originals. Yeah, nobody really knows like him outside
Speaker 1: of the building apparently, but Bill trusts him implicitly and
Speaker 1: they credit him with a lot of positive things that
Speaker 1: come out of that building and out of that program.
Speaker 3: To put it in perspective, I would say eighty five
Speaker 3: to ninety percent of the people inside the building didn't
Speaker 3: know what he did.
Speaker 1: Wow, you had to.
Speaker 3: Be in a group too, like certain guys like new
Speaker 3: but like the younger players, or when you're a new player.
Speaker 1: Who the fuck is this guy? Yeah? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's how it was. But then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you talk to him. You know everything about every
Speaker 1: damn team and every rule. All right, let's get this.
Speaker 1: Do I go closer, guys or no?
Speaker 2: Atches, you can move Inehay.
Speaker 1: I do project across a room, Julian, Oh, I know
Speaker 1: you're a pro. This is this is your game. I'm
Speaker 1: waiting to see it. Welcome to Games with Names with
Speaker 1: Scott Hansen.
Speaker 3: Today we are looking at week seven of the twenty
Speaker 3: twenty NFL season. Witchy no or in one sentence, why
Speaker 3: did you pick this week?
Speaker 1: Scott? Covid meets crazy Finishes. Remember twenty twenty the COVID year.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna like, if you look at the video,
Speaker 1: you'll see like just dots of fans in the stands
Speaker 1: in the stadiums that were allowed to have fans.
Speaker 2: And I got to ask you what it was like.
Speaker 1: To play in that atmosphere? Awful?
Speaker 2: Foxborough was completely shutting down, righty.
Speaker 1: Certain stadiums in certain states were allowed ten percent capacity,
Speaker 1: twenty percent capacity, whatever. But there was that and this
Speaker 1: one particular witching hour we had ten lead changes in
Speaker 1: four different games in the span of less than sixty
Speaker 1: minutes during the witching hour. And then, by the way,
Speaker 1: can I put you on the record, you are a
Speaker 1: red Zone viewer and a red Zone fan? Oh yourself?
Speaker 1: I mean, I love the shirt you're talking about. I
Speaker 1: have said, no, not me. I've said for years, Julian
Speaker 1: Edelman is the best dressed man in the entire NFL.
Speaker 2: And you didn't let me down with a T shirt.
Speaker 1: Coming from a hairline and a man that could hold
Speaker 1: himself for eighteen hours to call the game. I love.
Speaker 1: That's a I might as well die and go to heaven.
Speaker 1: I hope.
Speaker 2: I do you proud?
Speaker 1: I know. I know I did your proud during your
Speaker 1: playing days, because did you know that you came into
Speaker 1: the NFL the same year NFL Red Zone came into existence.
Speaker 3: I you know what, two thousand and nine. After we
Speaker 3: did the research. I kind of knew that, but I
Speaker 3: didn't know it until we started doing that. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: I was explaining to Kyler and jack At I really
Speaker 3: didn't watch red Zone until I retired. Okay, like you watched,
Speaker 3: you had heard about it, but oh you heard about it?
Speaker 2: If you're playing on Monday night football. What would you
Speaker 2: do on Sunday?
Speaker 1: Sunday? We were, you know, we were We had walkthroughs,
Speaker 1: we had team meetings. You'd be in the room get
Speaker 1: like you'd usually be in like a training room, depending
Speaker 1: if you're on the road or at home, and you'd
Speaker 1: be getting treatment and you they would have the game
Speaker 1: on and they'd have the red zone and you'd watch
Speaker 1: the That was kind of like where I first started
Speaker 1: seeing it, but I didn't really know what it was.
Speaker 1: And then I started doing fantasy like closer than you
Speaker 1: got to. I was like, I gotta get on this
Speaker 1: red zone. And then their boys boy TB twelve, Tom
Speaker 1: Brady loves it, told me for years when he was
Speaker 1: playing and now of course in retirement that he loves
Speaker 1: red zone. He's a junkie. When I but like when
Speaker 1: I first like started really watching it, that's when my
Speaker 1: appreciation and I understood what the infatuation of the red
Speaker 1: zone was because I really wasn't in it.
Speaker 3: Like when I was playing. You'd see it on and
Speaker 3: it'd be cool to see the highlights. You see guys
Speaker 3: that we get the touchdowns, you see certain situations that
Speaker 3: we harp on all day, third down, red area. But like,
Speaker 3: it wasn't until I have my own fantasy squad. I'm
Speaker 3: sitting there and you're glued to your phone and then
Speaker 3: you get instant highlight with your commentary. I was like, Man,
Speaker 3: this guy's a fucking stud a B. This is a
Speaker 3: crazy concept.
Speaker 1: And the dopamine hits you get from when your fantasy
Speaker 1: running back hops in on fourth and goal from the
Speaker 1: one yeah, or conversely, if you get vultured a touchdown,
Speaker 1: one of your guys should be scoring a touchdown and
Speaker 1: goes to the backup full back or something. There is
Speaker 1: nothing like that, and that's what we deliver. People call
Speaker 1: me touchdown Santa Claus.
Speaker 3: Touchdown Santa Claus distributing. You get a touchdown, I call
Speaker 3: you Oprah touchdown, Oh touchdown Oprah Trademark twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Julian Edelman, Is this the greatest we of all time
Speaker 3: that we're about to discuss? Well, I come bearing gifts,
Speaker 3: You come bearing gifts, discuss asta. As soon as we
Speaker 3: decided that we were going to revisit this, I went
Speaker 3: back in my notes, like you guys might go back
Speaker 3: in a you know, in your your game book or
Speaker 3: your you know.
Speaker 1: Wristband or whatever. I went back and I printed out
Speaker 1: a set. These were my NFL Red Zone Week seven,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, October twenty fifth, twenty twenty my notes going
Speaker 1: into the game. Wow, those are my generic notes. Then
Speaker 1: my process, Julian is, I go through every game and
Speaker 1: I pair all of my best stats, facts, figures, quotes,
Speaker 1: injury updates. Every game gets one sheet. That's the early window.
Speaker 1: This is the late window. You all Patriots played in
Speaker 1: the late window. But we're gonna we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: the early window. The fantastic finishes in this early window.
Speaker 1: But go to this sheet right here. Go to this
Speaker 1: one right and I don't know if I'll give this in.
Speaker 1: The cameras can edited this in afterwards. This is the
Speaker 1: cover sheet here, my master sheet that gives me the
Speaker 1: entire lineup of games. I don't know if hold up
Speaker 1: to that three okay, my entire lineup of games. I
Speaker 1: put a little line item through to say I've got
Speaker 1: seven in the early window. I've got four in the
Speaker 1: late window. All the kickoffs, the location, the team records
Speaker 1: coming in.
Speaker 2: Didn't get the line and you got to do your
Speaker 2: own lines.
Speaker 1: If you wait, let me rephrase it. I got to
Speaker 1: do our own line. Yeah, so so seven early, four late,
Speaker 1: and I prepare every game as if it's going to
Speaker 1: be the craziest game of the day. And then that way,
Speaker 1: whenever it ends up happening, whatever game does go crazy
Speaker 1: or whatever, four games go crazy, I'm loaded and I'm
Speaker 1: ready to bring.
Speaker 5: It to you guys.
Speaker 3: You know, and what's up this this preparation, it's kind
Speaker 3: of like a real it's like a game day NFL
Speaker 3: pre kind of, you know. And then as I transitioned
Speaker 3: into doing TV, I kind of have a similar approach
Speaker 3: to it, where I'll go over our matchups for Fox
Speaker 3: that week, and then I'll go over with a group
Speaker 3: and we'll sit and we'll talk over each game, and
Speaker 3: I'll watch that game or a highlight or a condensed
Speaker 3: version of that game, and I'll give off just my
Speaker 3: I'll send voice memois to a group of us and
Speaker 3: I'll just go bad block on this this good, great
Speaker 3: play awesomeness.
Speaker 1: And then we'll go in and we'll look at everything.
Speaker 1: And you do all this preparation for when you get
Speaker 1: onto TV. You don't use any of it but your feed.
Speaker 1: You're subconscious with the knowledge that you can drop at
Speaker 1: a second. Can I give you an analogy to this?
Speaker 1: I love an analogy. Okay, I go back to your
Speaker 1: college days. You had that one class where the professor
Speaker 1: it's the end of the semester and he or she says, okay,
Speaker 1: this is like Monday. The final exam is on Friday.
Speaker 1: It's an essay exam. Here are ten essay questions which
Speaker 1: represent everything that we've studied this semester. Three of them
Speaker 1: are going to be on the final exam. Wow, which
Speaker 1: which do you study anxiety? Right now? Thinking about where
Speaker 1: you probably stood up at that point and said, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a professor, I'm going to the league.
Speaker 2: No, I don't need to. I don't.
Speaker 1: At that point I was like I'm about to be
Speaker 1: a fireman, until I had just studied to be a
Speaker 1: goddamn Anyways. The point being, if you're a diligent student,
Speaker 1: you study everything, and that way other analogy, your tool
Speaker 1: belt is full. If it ends up, you know, if
Speaker 1: you need to use a hammer, a wrench, a screwdriver,
Speaker 1: the pliers, whatever, you're ready for it. And so when
Speaker 1: I study every one of these games like it's going
Speaker 1: to be the absolute biggest game. And then if it's
Speaker 1: thirty five nothing blowout. Didn't say anything about that game.
Speaker 3: That's how it goes. But that's that's the thing about
Speaker 3: preparation and anything. And you watch someone you know, like
Speaker 3: you don't just get up and spit their read zone.
Speaker 3: You put so much time and effort in before that
Speaker 3: seven hour day of performance. Just like when we would
Speaker 3: prepare for a week's game. You put in so much.
Speaker 3: We practice these situations that we a lot of us
Speaker 3: would get mad at, you know, as players, but the
Speaker 3: coaches would put us in these situations and like, we
Speaker 3: never seen this. We haven't seen this for six six years,
Speaker 3: this specific situation, free kick after a fair catch on
Speaker 3: the right, you know, time thing before right, but the
Speaker 3: one time it happens, you know, we were always prepared
Speaker 3: for it, just like you're saying with your.
Speaker 1: We've got an example in week seven, twenty twenty ooh, ooh,
Speaker 1: do you want to give you the specifics here? Let's
Speaker 1: hear it.
Speaker 2: So Lions at Falcons.
Speaker 1: Lions came in at two and three, Falcons came in
Speaker 1: at one and five, right, two, sub five hundred records.
Speaker 1: You think this is not going to be you know whatever,
Speaker 1: There was great players in the game. You know, you
Speaker 1: got Stafford was still there, and then and then Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: So you got two guys who can pitch it around.
Speaker 1: Danny A. Mondola was on the team. There you go
Speaker 1: of the stars there. So it comes down to the wire.
Speaker 1: The Lions have a one point lead. Okay, now this
Speaker 1: is this is all situational Belichick would go, would geek
Speaker 1: out on this. The Lions have a one point lead,
Speaker 1: The Falcons have the ball. The Falcons are driving, and
Speaker 1: it's in the final minute or two minutes of the game.
Speaker 1: The Lions are out of timeouts. So the Falcons need
Speaker 1: any type of a score to win the game. They
Speaker 1: get into the red zone. What are the Lions going
Speaker 1: to want to do at this point? Let him score,
Speaker 1: Let him score a touchdown. Okay, so you got to
Speaker 1: call in the huddle. If you're the Atlanta Falcons, we
Speaker 1: want to drain this thing down to three seconds, call
Speaker 1: our last time out, and kick the game winning field goal.
Speaker 1: We do not need a touchdown. Todd Gurley and Todd Gurley,
Speaker 1: who had had various he tried, yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, but he didn't execute.
Speaker 1: He burst through the line and he wanted to go
Speaker 1: down at the at the one yard line, but you can't.
Speaker 2: He's a four to four guy at his best.
Speaker 1: He burst through the line, and of course they let him,
Speaker 1: and he burst through because they led him. He went
Speaker 1: in from the like the ten yard line down to
Speaker 1: the one and he went He tried to stop and
Speaker 1: he must have crossed the goal line by that much
Speaker 1: with the football. So what is the call in the huddle?
Speaker 1: What did you guys use in the huddle when it
Speaker 1: was I've heard some teams use no moss, like yeah,
Speaker 1: no moss, no more, we do not want to score
Speaker 1: a touchdown. It was a Rolex situation for us, meaning
Speaker 1: meaning time was more important than points. Okay, But there
Speaker 1: wasn't a specific call to say, do not score a
Speaker 1: touchdown called oh okay, that's.
Speaker 3: Time rolex, rolex, rolex, do not score. Time is more
Speaker 3: important than points. So like you would go down and
Speaker 3: we would have we would have had that call on
Speaker 3: a I would say ninety percent of the guys in
Speaker 3: the huddle would know what to do, probably even more
Speaker 3: in just everyone probably would have known. Yeah, but it
Speaker 3: would have been read by the quarterback, who probably got
Speaker 3: a reminder from the offensive coordinator. So there's a lot
Speaker 3: of teamwork that goes into that. Todd tried to do it.
Speaker 3: He just he just didn't execute.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: And the funny thing was earlier in his career when
Speaker 2: he was with the Rounds and.
Speaker 1: He actually he did a different one where he went
Speaker 1: out of bounds, but he went out of bounds too early.
Speaker 2: They weren't in Rolex situation at that time.
Speaker 3: A minute, yes, that's four minute, and he was overthinking
Speaker 3: different that point.
Speaker 2: And yeah, so I love as a player. I love
Speaker 2: girly as a player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'd better be because someone's gonna call you, and yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be like you don't remember the calls. Did
Speaker 1: you ever practice that you as you were obviously a
Speaker 1: wide receiver, but you were a ball carrier at different times,
Speaker 1: and you become a ball carrier catching a pass even
Speaker 1: though if it's Rolex, the running backs probably the only
Speaker 1: one who's handled of the ball. Would you ever practice
Speaker 1: stopping your momentum at the two yard line? Three yard line?
Speaker 3: We probably wouldn't even have to put that player in
Speaker 3: that situation as the play caller. Okay, we probably would
Speaker 3: have just said right tight quarterback, center of the ball
Speaker 3: and so and we all know that Brady wasn't a
Speaker 3: threat to burst into the secondary and now the end zones.
Speaker 2: No, he would, but I love you.
Speaker 1: You know, I love you. But yeah, speed wasn't his game. No,
Speaker 1: but he's actually one of he's probably the greatest quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: sneak quarterback of all time with you and he's had
Speaker 1: over one thousand yards in russiing and he lets us
Speaker 1: know that thousand. Speaking of winty years, if you would
Speaker 1: care to peruse your notes, let's go to the late window.
Speaker 1: So the top pages, Uh, Buccaneers Raiders. Okay, okay, so
Speaker 1: again this is this is like Macro NFL notes. This
Speaker 1: is early window, pack window, this is late window. We
Speaker 1: had four games in the late window. Buccaneers Raiders. That
Speaker 1: was a John Gruden revenge game. We had Chiefs Broncos
Speaker 1: in the AFC West, a Drew live game. Then there's
Speaker 1: this little game the forty nine ers at the page. Yeah, Patriots,
Speaker 1: my first.
Speaker 2: Note there, would you read that to the read that
Speaker 2: to the to the fan.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo returns to New England. Yes, he was the
Speaker 1: second round draft pick in twenty fourteen. He returns to
Speaker 1: New England and then Bill Belichick, I got a note
Speaker 1: on him there. Do you like that? Note?
Speaker 3: Yeah, seven to one with a plus one twenty two
Speaker 3: point differential against qbs that were drafted by or started
Speaker 3: at least one game.
Speaker 1: Another one Belichick used to destroy people quarterbacks who were
Speaker 1: in his program, left his program and then came back
Speaker 1: and played again. So who is that like a testa
Speaker 1: Verty drew bledsoeled Ledso was the one guy who beat him.
Speaker 1: His record was seven and one with a big huge
Speaker 1: point to that first year, that first year after he
Speaker 1: left on opening day. It was it was early in
Speaker 1: the season. It was because we I think we cut
Speaker 1: Lawyer malloy too, So it was lawyer. This is before
Speaker 1: you were on the team. You remember history, but we
Speaker 1: you know, we go over the situation. You got it smart,
Speaker 1: but that that's that's true. Would you care to go
Speaker 1: down to the bottom line on my New England Patriots?
Speaker 1: And again this is I did not doctor this today.
Speaker 1: I had a Julian Shreddelman. Note Edelman needs one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty four yards for ten thousand career all purposes.
Speaker 1: Did you have any idea that was the case you
Speaker 1: needed going into this game? You needed one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty four yards of any type for ten thousand all
Speaker 1: purpose career. Dude, you everyone knows you were a monster.
Speaker 1: Didn't get it one catch? Yeah, you did get it.
Speaker 1: We don't want to probably bring up what actually happened.
Speaker 1: That was my last game, right there is your last
Speaker 1: game in the NFL. Yeah, my last catch against the Niners.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry to bring that. It was all good,
Speaker 1: It was all good. It was a shitty h It
Speaker 1: was a shitty year, shitty year, but that was it
Speaker 1: was cool to Cam Newton was quarterback in the Patriots
Speaker 1: at that point. In order that I'm talking person, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying I'm not saying he was responsible for it.
Speaker 2: I'm just giving the fans a recollection was there. It
Speaker 2: was COVID year.
Speaker 3: You're getting tested like three times, five times a week
Speaker 3: for COVID. It was so hard to interact with your
Speaker 3: teammates in the locker room. It was completely different than
Speaker 3: what you were accustomed to of having community and being
Speaker 3: able to talk and make fun of guys like it
Speaker 3: was football at that point, like it.
Speaker 1: That was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.
Speaker 1: I had said, I gotta get out of it. I
Speaker 1: gotta get out of this, well, I will say this,
Speaker 1: you can credit the NFL. People criticize the NFL for
Speaker 1: for a number of things, you can credit the NFL.
Speaker 1: The NFL was the only sport on the planet that
Speaker 1: did not miss one game during the COVID year of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Not that doubt.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying when you look back that it was
Speaker 3: freaking awesome. I'm just saying, as a twelve year vet,
Speaker 3: yeah that now, that's not the way you want your
Speaker 3: It's just tough for the play, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: How often do you get to swab up the nose
Speaker 3: every day?
Speaker 1: Every day?
Speaker 2: Every day practice Wednesday?
Speaker 1: You're getting even when you had you had to go
Speaker 1: get tested and then come back because you had you
Speaker 1: had to protect the ecosystem. When you look back on it,
Speaker 1: NFL killed it.
Speaker 3: NFL and UFC those are the two sports that you
Speaker 3: look that like, during the whole what you know, that
Speaker 3: hole davigated those waters. They did very they navigated through
Speaker 3: during the thing. Though, when you're a player and you
Speaker 3: bitch about everything, you're like, this fucking sucks, yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: but looking back on it, you're like, man, that that
Speaker 3: was pretty cool.
Speaker 4: I gotta say us from the fan perspective. We needed that,
Speaker 4: we needed without a doubt. Oh my god, Oh that
Speaker 4: was our lifeline.
Speaker 1: When I came on the air, because you remember March
Speaker 1: Madness completely canceled, canceled. NBA would end up going into
Speaker 1: the bubble the next year, but they they were shut down.
Speaker 1: The hockey wasn't gonna start. Everything was shut down. You
Speaker 1: came off of the summer, which is already dry. Uh
Speaker 1: you know sports terrain. When I came on the air
Speaker 1: for that first Red Zone, and I remember I had
Speaker 1: to say everyone's past their COVID test. I used to
Speaker 1: announce at the beginning of Red Zone if any player
Speaker 1: failed as COVID tests an hour before kickoff, and we'd
Speaker 1: get shut down. When I came on, like you just
Speaker 1: felt the weight of our country. We needed to come back.
Speaker 1: And of course then that was after the summer at
Speaker 1: George Floyd too, So it was we needed something to
Speaker 1: bring us together. And NFL football does it unlike just
Speaker 1: about anything else. A man.
Speaker 5: They also had like afternoon Wednesday games to which.
Speaker 1: Well, look at the notes, Look at the notes, go
Speaker 1: back to the main page. I've got written down here. Uh,
Speaker 1: two games usually on the top page here have been rescheduled. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we usually just say how many division games there are?
Speaker 1: How many games between teams with winning records? Right that
Speaker 1: the games to highlight? Here we go, two games have
Speaker 1: been rescheduled. The Week seven, the Steelers at Titans was
Speaker 1: supposed to be played in Week four, and it got
Speaker 1: you know, remember how the games were going to Tuesdays
Speaker 1: and you said Wednesdays and everything. We had two games
Speaker 1: that were rescheduled. We also had a team that had
Speaker 1: their bye week, The Dolphins that year got their bye
Speaker 1: week smashed over the Week seven because it was just bananas.
Speaker 1: But we would up playing football without a doubt. We
Speaker 1: went and played.
Speaker 3: They canceled or they they postponed our game like Tuesdays.
Speaker 3: We played, I think on the Tuesday, the Chiefs game
Speaker 3: supposed to be a Sunday night game or Sunday football.
Speaker 1: We played on Tuesday. We flew out same day and
Speaker 1: played off flight and I was coming. I was swolling
Speaker 1: knees and stuff. I'm sitting here pumping this get it like.
Speaker 1: That's that's what I remember from that year.
Speaker 3: And you know, it was great looking back for not
Speaker 3: just our fans, but just for everyone to have some
Speaker 3: kind of something to look forward to that during that
Speaker 3: time of the you know what was going on, but
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: It was it was tough.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it was tough again. Hopefully never again, never again.
Speaker 1: What do you think? What do you think about what's
Speaker 1: going on right now in the NFL season.
Speaker 5: How before we do this, Scott has a little bit
Speaker 5: of a surprise for you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we'll be right back after this quick break.
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Speaker 2: A couple things. So, Julian, I sat down here and
Speaker 2: you said, nice.
Speaker 1: To meet you. You and I have met before. In fact,
Speaker 1: you and I, Julian, have played football together on the
Speaker 1: same team.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, can you oh you recognize that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So okay. So for those who don't know Buddies.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady has been involved with a charity for years.
Speaker 1: I think he maybe still is. But certainly this was
Speaker 1: June first, twenty twelve. You were young pup, hadn't had
Speaker 1: your first one hundred cat season yet even not yet, No,
Speaker 1: you would not. The next year was your first. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it's because you played with the Hanson Brothers.
Speaker 1: You exploded after playing a charity flag football game.
Speaker 2: So basically it works like this.
Speaker 1: For those who don't know, Brady would with Best Buddies,
Speaker 1: a great charity in the Boston area.
Speaker 2: Give it a Google. It's fantastic.
Speaker 1: With Best Buddies, he would donate his time and bring
Speaker 1: in some of his celebrity friends, some of his some
Speaker 1: of his football friends and teammates, and then some big
Speaker 1: money donors who would pay money to Best Buddies. And
Speaker 1: you would get to play in a charity flag football
Speaker 1: game with Tom Brady as all time quarterback at Harvard
Speaker 1: Stadium right there in Boston. And so when you showed up,
Speaker 1: so my brother, uh former executive over at Fidelity Investments,
Speaker 1: yours truly you know the red zone host. You show
Speaker 1: up and you decide which you get to see, which
Speaker 1: quarter you're playing it because there were so many people
Speaker 1: that wanted to be in it. They would you would
Speaker 1: just play for one quarter and look who we were
Speaker 1: paired with there right at the top of the board,
Speaker 1: young Julian Edelman, future Super Bowl MVP. And little did
Speaker 1: we know that the Hanson brothers and Julian Edelman would
Speaker 1: combine to make some magic.
Speaker 2: Let's go. Do you remember that gamer? Did you play
Speaker 2: in one? You played a couple of you.
Speaker 1: Did not went. I was with thirs for ten years,
Speaker 1: God bless. So it was a fun organization to work with.
Speaker 2: And one other thing about best buddies because they did
Speaker 2: it right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Well there was the bikeathon. There's so
Speaker 3: I did. I rode in the bike I rode the
Speaker 3: rides as well.
Speaker 5: You won it?
Speaker 2: I won one one year, did you really?
Speaker 3: It was only a thirty month because we were in OTA's.
Speaker 3: They wanted to swamp the legs. I bet had to
Speaker 3: when that thing show those people was up, Julis armstrong, uh.
Speaker 2: And then and then there.
Speaker 1: Would always be that's when those Cavs came.
Speaker 6: That.
Speaker 3: Then there would always be at the Kennedy Compound, the
Speaker 3: clam bake, and there would always be the raffle there
Speaker 3: and that was like it was just a really.
Speaker 1: Cool, cool event that did great things for you know,
Speaker 1: a great.
Speaker 2: Group of people.
Speaker 1: Like I said, give it a Google best Buddies worth
Speaker 1: while speaking of the clam bake, so for it would
Speaker 1: take it out to the Kennedy compound.
Speaker 2: The Kennedy family developed Best Buddies.
Speaker 1: You know, it's kinds and Kennedy's yes exact, you have
Speaker 1: the Shrivers and Kenny and so they would have this
Speaker 1: amazing thing for all those who participated, donated and whatnot.
Speaker 2: They would build that huge like tent. You know, think
Speaker 2: like a huge.
Speaker 1: Wedding you know out on a on a grass lawn
Speaker 1: and tiny and drink wedding crashes basically crash go look
Speaker 1: at like the richest East Coast kind of thing you've
Speaker 1: ever seen in your life.
Speaker 2: That's really what So you're going. Your Boy TV twelve
Speaker 2: was you know, the face of it.
Speaker 1: And Tom would get up at one point during you know,
Speaker 1: after the beverages had been flowing, Tom would get up
Speaker 1: and the MC would announce, Tom has got a bag
Speaker 1: of football's here and he's going to autograph a football
Speaker 1: with a sharpie. And if you raise your hand and
Speaker 1: you want a football, You're you're pledging five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: the best buddies. So he had this huge bag of footballer.
Speaker 1: Remember we would do this, so he would autograph a
Speaker 1: football and he would you know, someone would raise their
Speaker 1: hand and he would just pitch it. And he was
Speaker 1: going like this, you know, five feet away, ten feet away, whatever. Well,
Speaker 1: at one point, the crowds, you know, crowd's a little saucy.
Speaker 1: The crowd starts heeling throw it deep, and you got
Speaker 1: like women in sun dresses walking around, and it's kind
Speaker 1: of tight quarters. And Brady starts spinning the football in
Speaker 1: his hand and he's looking, he's looking. I'd like to
Speaker 1: play you a little bit of video and see if
Speaker 1: you might grade what happened at the moment. Let's see
Speaker 1: that this throw it deep? All right?
Speaker 2: We got to he's blinded by the lights, boom back
Speaker 2: of the room.
Speaker 1: Who'd he hit?
Speaker 2: Let's see if he comes closer to the camera. The
Speaker 2: crowd's going nuts.
Speaker 1: Scott, did you get smoked?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: I caught it, dude, that's me, good dad.
Speaker 1: I saw autograph going back. I need to be graded
Speaker 1: from the man who caught more passes from Tom Brady
Speaker 1: than just about anybody on the planet. I need you
Speaker 1: to grade my hands here. My heart was pumping, kid,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. Let me get it all right, kind
Speaker 1: of a whoa one hander?
Speaker 2: Have you been drinking your hand?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, I oh dad, i'd I don't know, you
Speaker 2: know what with.
Speaker 3: The light changes, I know, catching the ball indoors can
Speaker 3: be a little weird. Sometimes I have to give it
Speaker 3: a that's a that's a seven point nine out of ten.
Speaker 2: I will one thought, clip this video and send it
Speaker 2: and that's good.
Speaker 3: And if you ever heard me great a burger or something.
Speaker 3: Seven nine is like I'll go back all day long.
Speaker 3: So like like he'll go back to you for seven nine.
Speaker 2: That made my visit here for you just to give
Speaker 2: me a prop Let me look at it.
Speaker 1: I'm I didn't remember that we did all the best
Speaker 1: buddies and stuff until I saw that right there.
Speaker 2: Those were good days.
Speaker 3: Those were so fun. That's crazy. Yeah, man, he comes
Speaker 3: Look at how prepared. So you know, we come full circle.
Speaker 3: You came into the league the year NFL red Zone
Speaker 3: came into the league. Yeah, we met together and played football.
Speaker 3: I probably had more catches in the second quarter than
Speaker 3: you did. I'm thinking, you know, just I don't know.
Speaker 1: I hit some bombs on that thing. Dude. I had
Speaker 1: a drop. Oh I think I remember that too. I
Speaker 1: had a drop. It was the most the crowd, when
Speaker 1: the crowd, it was the I got mesmerized, Dude, I
Speaker 1: speaking from the millions of people on television when freaking
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is throwing you a ball fifteen yards downfield
Speaker 1: and it's the most. And I played college football the
Speaker 1: most brilliant spiral you've ever seen in like, this is
Speaker 1: the greatest quarterback of all funk right through my hands.
Speaker 1: Oh hit me right here in stride. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I was, I felt this big. I ended up catching
Speaker 1: a like a two point conversion later in the quarter
Speaker 1: or whatnot. So I'm like, Okay. The next year I
Speaker 1: come back to playing it, and you know, Tom's everyone's
Speaker 1: Tom's running for mayor there, so everyone's coming up to him.
Speaker 1: I go up to him, Hey, Tom, great to be
Speaker 1: back another year. He's like, you're gonna catch every pass
Speaker 1: I throw you This time, he one hundred percent remembered
Speaker 1: that some slappy dropped the pass. He threw four hundred
Speaker 1: passes in that charity flag football game. He one percent
Speaker 1: remembered that I dropped the pass Scott Young receiver dropping
Speaker 1: a ball. I've seen guys get shipped out for that.
Speaker 2: I was probably, I was probably, but hey, you were
Speaker 2: back guy.
Speaker 1: He saw something, he saw, he saw fighting you because
Speaker 1: because he saw the clam bake, the clam bake in
Speaker 1: front of the people, in the people, when the lights
Speaker 1: were shining his brightest Scott, you caught that damn ball
Speaker 1: for charity for the kid. Yes, five hundred dollars. Well,
Speaker 1: well spent, well spent. So that was awesome, man, that
Speaker 1: was that was did you That's what I had the
Speaker 1: surprise for. I didn't.
Speaker 2: I told your guys that, Yeah, no, that was for you,
Speaker 2: but I didn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those were such great, great times. You know, Tom,
Speaker 1: what do you think about your career at that time,
Speaker 1: because again, if you go back and look at your stats, yeah,
Speaker 1: you were, you were, you started probably you had played
Speaker 1: three seasons to that point. Was that twenty twelve, twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: so the next year is twenty twe hundred catches, so
Speaker 1: that actually, you know, I was playing behind Woker for
Speaker 1: like three years, yes, and anytime he got hurt, I
Speaker 1: bawled out. So I was confident, and then that twenty
Speaker 1: twelve beginning of that season, I actually beat him out.
Speaker 1: I beat him out and I played the first two
Speaker 1: games and everyone in New England was going crazy like
Speaker 1: why why isn't Welker and why are you playing this
Speaker 1: that olding kid?
Speaker 3: And then I broke my hand against Baltimore and then
Speaker 3: I was out for two weeks, and then I came back,
Speaker 3: and then I scored two touchdowns in that Colts game.
Speaker 3: Then I scored two touchdowns in that New York Thanksgiving game.
Speaker 3: I bought out the butt fumble.
Speaker 1: Yeah game, I had a deep one, and I had
Speaker 1: that one off of special teams, off the kickoff where
Speaker 1: Devin mccorty hit mcnight ok and I caught it out
Speaker 1: of the air and ran it on a kickoff back.
Speaker 3: And then the next I was bawling out. So I
Speaker 3: had three really good games in a row, and then
Speaker 3: I broke my foot and then I was out for
Speaker 3: the season.
Speaker 1: So then at that point I was thinking, like we
Speaker 1: knew who you were. It just you looked I was
Speaker 1: knocking at the door.
Speaker 3: But with Welker there, I would never have worked because
Speaker 3: the trust that Tom had in Welker and he was
Speaker 3: his guy at that time, Like it was hard to
Speaker 3: get through that until he had to, and then once
Speaker 3: Welker left, he had to and then that's when we grew.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know what, during your prime years, I
Speaker 1: see every touchdown in the NFL, right, I see every
Speaker 1: touchdown during your prime years. I don't know what you
Speaker 1: guys called it, like a stick route where you would
Speaker 1: at the goal line, let's say nine yard line and
Speaker 1: in when you would line up wide left. I think
Speaker 1: you did it from the right side too. You'd wind
Speaker 1: a single wide receiver to the left and you would
Speaker 1: stick your corner in and then jab it back out
Speaker 1: and Tom the most accurate.
Speaker 2: Passer anyone's ever seen.
Speaker 1: It was as automatic of touchdown if that play was
Speaker 1: called as like is that almost any play like Priest
Speaker 1: Holmes if you remember Priest Homes inside the five yard line,
Speaker 1: they used to do that toss pitch Will Shields and
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame lineman that they had black. It
Speaker 1: was an automatic touchdown. That play was an automatic touchdown.
Speaker 1: It felt like we had a lot of execution on that.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of good times.
Speaker 2: That was what would you guys call that? You know,
Speaker 2: which play I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: So you would cut. You would push your guy in
Speaker 1: two yards hard, make him break in, and you would
Speaker 1: put your foot in the ground and you had two
Speaker 1: yards of separation. And when there was only one yard.
Speaker 3: There, I think that was like army personnel where put
Speaker 3: me at the X. So I'd bet on the backside
Speaker 3: X and it'd be X returns or spin X return
Speaker 3: so the front side you'd have a deep incut on
Speaker 3: the end line.
Speaker 1: He loved that play too. Back of the end zone.
Speaker 1: He would throw that touch. You see it and everyone
Speaker 1: runs it. So your single guy runs the return route
Speaker 1: and then you have spin, which you have a crosser
Speaker 1: over here, so you're high lowing over here for that spin.
Speaker 1: If that corner comes off and or something comes off there,
Speaker 1: then he's going to hit to that to his backside incut.
Speaker 3: So that's like one of them. A lot of teams
Speaker 3: run it. They doll it up different ways, but it's
Speaker 3: the red area is crazy if you really think about it.
Speaker 3: It's it's the same high lows in all the different
Speaker 3: spots with different routes running them. So you always have
Speaker 3: something low, you have something high, you have something you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. So it's condensed, so the eleven
Speaker 3: on defense, but the way you get to it is different.
Speaker 3: And that was one of my ways to getting to that.
Speaker 1: Man. So you were so money at that. It was fun.
Speaker 1: We got to talk about your playing career.
Speaker 7: Really, just just want to make a note for our
Speaker 7: audience at home. We're talking red zone strategy with mister
Speaker 7: red zone right now.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I love it. I love it. Now.
Speaker 1: You played high school ball in Michigan. I was good.
Speaker 1: I was a good high school player, captain of the team.
Speaker 1: You know, all all conferences, believe it or not, I
Speaker 1: was alignment. I was a center. I waited two thirty five. Fully,
Speaker 1: what do you mean, believe it or not? The center
Speaker 1: is usually one of the smartest guys on the team.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Try and like I could tell through your preparation, like
Speaker 3: you want your center to be a smart guy.
Speaker 1: Well, when you don't have raw talent, you better have
Speaker 1: enthusiasm and intelligence. And I tried to. I tried to
Speaker 1: overprepare everything. So I was a center and I was
Speaker 1: a long snapper. The more you can do right and
Speaker 1: do so, then I after my playing days, I was
Speaker 1: like a Division three talent. Division three schools wanted me
Speaker 1: to come, and I would have played at the Division
Speaker 1: III level. But I knew I wanted to be a
Speaker 1: sports broadcaster when I was in high school, and I said,
Speaker 1: I want to set my mind on this. The NFL
Speaker 1: is not a dream for me playing. So I researched
Speaker 1: who has the best sports broadcasting program in the country. Well, Syracuse,
Speaker 1: Syracuse University even you know that, right, you know Bob Costas,
Speaker 1: Dick Stockton, Marvel in this world? Do you realize that?
Speaker 1: And so many people behind the scenes, there's like there
Speaker 1: in Northwestern, right, Northwestern's excellent. Syracuse, That's what I hear.
Speaker 1: The big sports casting it's it is best. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the gold standard because the Harvard of Sports Casting its yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it is. You just google the list of sportscasters
Speaker 1: that that came out of Syracuse. It's incredible. So I said, okay,
Speaker 1: Bob Costas went there, I want to go there. Division
Speaker 1: one major Division one, yeah, And and so I walked
Speaker 1: on the team. I walked on the team my freshman
Speaker 1: year nineteen eighty nine. That's how old I am. And
Speaker 1: uh made the team because I could snap and they
Speaker 1: were like, look, at let's just keep this walk on
Speaker 1: kid around. He could be our third long snapper, deep
Speaker 1: emergency long snapper. But then I was like, what am
Speaker 1: I going to do besides snap? So I cut weight,
Speaker 1: got down to around two hundred pounds, tried to get
Speaker 1: my speed up, like I could actually break a five
Speaker 1: flat forty oh boy wheels. And I had good hands
Speaker 1: and I was smart. They only need to tell me
Speaker 1: once how to do something, and I had it on lock.
Speaker 1: So I played wide receiver and defensive back at Syracuse
Speaker 1: in the scout team Wow. And I was one of
Speaker 1: those guys that star players used to love to hate
Speaker 1: because I was going one hundred miles an hour Wednesday
Speaker 1: afternoon at two thirty when they're like, yo, chill, bro,
Speaker 1: my quads are just killing me. And I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: coach told me, I gotta get you ready for the game.
Speaker 1: I'm coming after you. That's team guy. He's a glue guy, Baby,
Speaker 1: glue guy. Babe guy, that's a glue guy.
Speaker 2: Now you know who my You know who my strength
Speaker 2: coach was for two years.
Speaker 1: Mike wo chick. Mike Yeah, yeah, isys woe chick is
Speaker 1: how we used to say it.
Speaker 2: It looks did he go to the He went in
Speaker 2: the Cowboys, right.
Speaker 1: He he had more Super Bowl rings and he was
Speaker 1: prior to Brady and Belichick winning their additional ones. Did
Speaker 1: you ever cross over with it?
Speaker 3: I was with white Check for three years. You talk
Speaker 3: on the side, and he made you listen to Johnny
Speaker 3: Cash if you're a rookie. He used to remember that
Speaker 3: in the weight room though you could only listen. The
Speaker 3: rookies had their assigned times that we had to work out,
Speaker 3: and anytime you go in there, it'd be nothing but Johnny.
Speaker 3: We couldn't pick these the radios. Then of that would
Speaker 3: come in he could change it and WASISTI guy's all right.
Speaker 3: He used to eat the craziest breakfasts. Do you remember
Speaker 3: his breakfast?
Speaker 2: Tell me about this. He used to have stories about him.
Speaker 1: But he would have a scramble with everything that was living,
Speaker 1: like any kind of meat in cheese that they had there,
Speaker 1: so it'd be sausage, egg like fifteen eggs, every type
Speaker 1: of cheese, Turkey road dude. And he loved his cigars.
Speaker 1: Did you remember that?
Speaker 2: I saw the pro version of him. So you may
Speaker 2: have been a rookie under for him.
Speaker 1: Tried being a walk on freshman scrub I came up
Speaker 1: to a one day at practice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can you google him?
Speaker 5: He was from west Ford, mass He went to BC.
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Rings Decorator three with Cowboys, so he was
Speaker 1: at Syracuse. The reason he went to New England was
Speaker 1: Dick McPherson was the head coach at Syracuse. McPherson was
Speaker 1: a New England guy and McPherson could have stayed at
Speaker 1: Syracuse and won nine ten games, winning bowl games and
Speaker 1: had the life, but the NFL called. He went and
Speaker 1: became the Patriots coach for only like two years. He
Speaker 1: didn't do well, but the Patriots like No. Ten was
Speaker 1: went to the Patriots stayed in the NFL was successful forever.
Speaker 1: McPherson only lasted a couple few seasons at the Patriots,
Speaker 1: but that's how he took He was the Syracuse strength coach.
Speaker 1: So freshman walk on and I'm mister puppy and enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: You know, hey, a raw rod all this like this,
Speaker 1: and everyone knew because he used to have the freshman
Speaker 1: with a stand up in the first team meeting, say
Speaker 1: who you are, where are you from, and what position
Speaker 1: you played? And then something about you and I said
Speaker 1: you know. I'm Scott Hanson. I'm a walk on lawn
Speaker 1: snapper from Rochester, Michigan, and I came here because Syracuse
Speaker 1: has the greatest sports casting program and I want to
Speaker 1: be the next Bob Costas something like that. And you
Speaker 1: know they boo all the freshmen. Yeah, you'scharge the introductional teas.
Speaker 1: So the next practice I go to the sideline and
Speaker 1: we're running cross fields or whatever, and I ended up
Speaker 1: right next to woe Check and WoT just to stand
Speaker 1: it there like nothing was ever good enough for him
Speaker 1: or whatever.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, let's go, Mike, let's have a day
Speaker 2: to day.
Speaker 1: And he looks at me and he goes, Hanson, you
Speaker 1: can take that Bob Costas act and shove it up
Speaker 1: your ass. That's exactly what he said out the side
Speaker 1: of his mouth. And I'm like, this kid who's trying
Speaker 1: to be friends with everybody. I'm like, that's seventeen eighteen
Speaker 1: year old freshman. I went review. I don't think I
Speaker 1: ever talked to him again for the rest. I was
Speaker 1: so scared of him.
Speaker 2: White Check. He he punk you, He used to punk me.
Speaker 1: He tried.
Speaker 2: Everybody wanted people tough.
Speaker 3: I guess is what He tried to punk me until
Speaker 3: that first offseason came and I said, I to him.
Speaker 1: I didn't stood up to him. I just did. I
Speaker 1: was first and ever he got so what could he say?
Speaker 1: He can't say ship to me?
Speaker 2: Now, let's go, Mike, where are you at?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 1: Where are you at? I love Mike. I used to
Speaker 1: get him cigar. I also got him a bunch of
Speaker 1: cigars too, so he'd get off my ass. Is that
Speaker 1: a rookie thing or just that you move taking care
Speaker 1: of him? He I didn't say anything to him like
Speaker 1: I I just you know he would you know, rookie me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know I wanted him to like me. I was.
Speaker 1: I was very you know kind of I wanted to,
Speaker 1: you know, so like I would do little things like
Speaker 1: I'd go get him cigars and ship and he was
Speaker 1: he was. He was funny kind. Yeah, give him a
Speaker 1: Google if you're a football fan. He's a guy that
Speaker 1: almost nobody knows outside of the NFL, but those people
Speaker 1: who knew him when he was doing I mean the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. He was there for all three of their
Speaker 1: Super Bowls, I believe, and then like you said, three
Speaker 1: with the three with the Patriots, too.
Speaker 2: So, hey, you want to get back.
Speaker 1: To twenty twenty because because we didn't finish the story
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley, Gurley, Okay, so wet we were at here's
Speaker 1: the deal it It could be devastating. So Gurley stops
Speaker 1: at the one. He tried to stop at the one
Speaker 1: yard line, but he had too much momentum going forward. Okay,
Speaker 1: we got the box score here, so he goes in.
Speaker 1: The Falcons score. But then they're only up by six.
Speaker 1: They kicked the regular standard extra point. They were up
Speaker 1: by one. All they needed was a field goal and
Speaker 1: they could have kneeled on it until four seconds left,
Speaker 1: called their last time out, kicked the chip shot center
Speaker 1: of the field, you know field.
Speaker 2: So Stafford gets the ball back with.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much time it was a minute
Speaker 1: or so, goes down the field and on the last
Speaker 1: play of the game, was it Cockinson? Okay, hawk, so
Speaker 1: he must have been a rook year rounder. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: Hockinson scores. He may have been a second year guy.
Speaker 1: Uh scores an eleven yard pass with zeros on the clock.
Speaker 1: Stafford Gurley at Stafford's bad man on the fourth course
Speaker 1: always always, And that's my theory about that's why he's
Speaker 1: different in the whole West Coast systems. Is that right?
Speaker 1: Because because because you look at look at look at no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: look at all the look at all the production by
Speaker 1: all these Kyle Shanahan McVeigh quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: You look at Twa, you look at Brock, you look
Speaker 3: at uh Jordan Love. You look at who's doing well,
Speaker 3: uh Jared Goff. All these quarterbacks, they're amazing from when
Speaker 3: they're playing from ahead. The one outlier, and that system
Speaker 3: is always great because it wants to play from ahead,
Speaker 3: so you could play to the defense and have your
Speaker 3: defense pin back. But it's the one that's the most
Speaker 3: dangerous is the guy. It's the quarterback with the best
Speaker 3: dropback system that played always from behind for fucking twelve
Speaker 3: years whatever however long he was in Detroit.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: That's the outlier of the whole thing. And that's really
Speaker 3: that's the only time that system has won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Now Andy Reid's in that system, but he's the real
Speaker 3: Bill Walsh. West Coast doesn't. He's not in the stretch.
Speaker 3: He rather throw the ball than run the ball. But
Speaker 3: out of all these we talk about this so much
Speaker 3: with the Clint kobi Aks and every all these systems
Speaker 3: have the most production out of that one quarterback, and
Speaker 3: it makes all these quarterack. Derek Carr looks like he's
Speaker 3: the best. This guy's the best. This guy got a
Speaker 3: new life out of this system. Kevin O'Connell and Sam
Speaker 3: Darnold wait until they have to play from behind. That's
Speaker 3: when you know if they're a badass dude. And Matthew
Speaker 3: Stafford had to do his whole career, so he knows
Speaker 3: how to drop back pass.
Speaker 1: So he's the outlier in that whole thing. And he's
Speaker 1: also he's toughest nails. He's got an arm that can
Speaker 1: still to this day, can get it anywhere on the
Speaker 1: field that you need to. He's seen every scenario that
Speaker 1: you can. I believe he is the active leader in
Speaker 1: fourth quarter comebacks. Yeah the album, I mean yeah, every
Speaker 1: for the two reasons he's every foot And it was
Speaker 1: Troy he was behind. Yeah, so they scored with no
Speaker 1: time left, but then they had to kick the extra point.
Speaker 1: The final score we'll go back to the Lions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was twenty three to twenty two, so they had
Speaker 1: to It was twenty two twenty two at.
Speaker 2: Double Zero's on the clock with that little kup.
Speaker 1: Who kicked it?
Speaker 2: They got no, no, no, it was Lions.
Speaker 1: Was it was Lions?
Speaker 2: I think Matt Prater was their kicker. Then, uh, yeah
Speaker 2: it was it was Praterer.
Speaker 1: Uh, they had to kicked it. They got a celebration
Speaker 1: penalty because they scored with double zeno bar. Then they
Speaker 1: got a false start penalty or an illegal formation penalty
Speaker 1: five yards back and or no, no, that it was.
Speaker 1: They kicked it, it went through and the Falcons tried
Speaker 1: to jump the snap, so they got a penalty, and
Speaker 1: so the Lions obviously declined it. But there you go,
Speaker 1: situational football. If Todd Gurley was able just to hold
Speaker 1: his water on the one yard line, you wouldn't have
Speaker 1: had it. Another game that was bananas, unless you want
Speaker 1: to talk about the Detroit Let's we'll get back into
Speaker 1: our Witching Hour. Yeah, we'll be right back after this
Speaker 1: quick break. Let's let's list we have a segment where
Speaker 1: we go back in time.
Speaker 3: That's right, Yeah, around the time of when this Witching
Speaker 3: Hour took place, which was October twenty fifth, twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: and we go over some of the pop culture things.
Speaker 1: Let's go number one movie, come play. Have you ever
Speaker 1: seen that? What never never heard twenty twenty, twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: you've seen it? No, Oh, it's just heard of it.
Speaker 1: Anything that was launched during COVID. Yeah, exactly. It's a
Speaker 1: lost year in our lives. Number one song mood by
Speaker 1: twenty four k Golden featuring Ian New York. You're sure
Speaker 1: if you say so, Snoozer. Tough pop culture time.
Speaker 5: This is a bad time.
Speaker 1: I did so around this time.
Speaker 3: Tenant, The War with Grandpa, hocus Pocus two, which I
Speaker 3: watched out with my daughter.
Speaker 1: The Witches are back. We're all popping a Witching Hour reference, right,
Speaker 1: Witching Hour? There you go, Halloween Tenant, Tennant, Yeah, this
Speaker 1: was weird. That was a weird movie.
Speaker 2: You okay, you're all in. Christopher Nolan can do no
Speaker 2: as soon as we lose this fucking game.
Speaker 1: Chris or it's Scotty. I've been called Chris Hansoon my
Speaker 1: whole life. I know, it's fucking crazy thinking of that.
Speaker 1: Tell me about your screen name on your on your
Speaker 1: check No, I'm the you got the transcripts? Tenant comes out,
Speaker 1: we lose this game to the Niners.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, I'm pissed and I have like three
Speaker 3: people in my ecosystem, my best friend, my girlfriend at
Speaker 3: the time, who was traveling in and out, and anytime
Speaker 3: they would come and we would hang out.
Speaker 2: Before we could hang out, they'd have to.
Speaker 3: Get COVID tested, oh geez, and then they would sit
Speaker 3: in a hotel until we got the results and if
Speaker 3: they were clear, then then they were we were all
Speaker 3: allowed to hang out, okay.
Speaker 1: So you'd watch movies. So I rented out a movie
Speaker 1: theater to watch Tenant because I was frid. I always
Speaker 1: was a huge supporter of JD. Washington, and my girlfriend
Speaker 1: at the time came and I got COVID, And that's
Speaker 1: why this was my last game. I got COVID my
Speaker 1: knee was flaring up. Was that it was that publicly known,
Speaker 1: what I mean, we thought you had an injury, that
Speaker 1: I had an injury going I had an injury in
Speaker 1: this game that was killing me right and that I
Speaker 1: was continually rehabbing. I tore the root of my meniscus,
Speaker 1: so like that was tough. But then I got COVID
Speaker 1: and I I couldn't have any physical therapy for twelve days,
Speaker 1: and my knee blew up so bad that I couldn't
Speaker 1: get it back for to get back in and that's tenant.
Speaker 5: How was the movie?
Speaker 2: I couldn't even understand it, That's what I said. I
Speaker 2: thought you were going to sing the praises of the
Speaker 2: movie because I.
Speaker 1: Sean Avery was in it. It was an optime, both
Speaker 1: time slips and stuff like that. I got to rewatch,
Speaker 1: I got to I supported though Quibi shutting down. I
Speaker 1: remember that, all right, quick? What was I like for
Speaker 1: you in twenty twenty? It was hard that the whole
Speaker 1: that we had to do social distancing. And if you've
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys do this show here and you've
Speaker 1: been in some in and around some television control rooms,
Speaker 1: you are elbow to elbow with people. We had to
Speaker 1: do social distancing at the network, in the studio, everything else. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you how crazy it was. So you know
Speaker 1: who won the Super Bowl that year, which is obviously
Speaker 1: back to February, Tom Brading the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I
Speaker 1: was for a number of years the host and you
Speaker 1: may may remember this in your super Bowls that you
Speaker 1: played in. I was the in stadium host for the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. In other words, if you were one of
Speaker 1: the people that had one of the seventy thousand people
Speaker 1: that got a Super Bowl ticket. When everyone else around
Speaker 1: the world was watching the infinite commercials, they would put
Speaker 1: me up on the big screen and I would get
Speaker 1: some stats facts, maybe do some highlights and stuff in
Speaker 1: the stadium to fill the time. So I did that
Speaker 1: for the for the uh Tom Brady Buccaneers Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: which was played at Raymond James Stadium, which was like
Speaker 1: a quarter only half so only half full, and they
Speaker 1: put cardboard cutouts in the stands next to live human beings.
Speaker 1: They made me this outdoor stadium. They made me wear
Speaker 1: a mask for appearances. They made me wear a mask.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm I'm outdoors. My my camera folks were
Speaker 1: twelve feet over here and twelve feet over here. I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's no human being. No, you go to wear a nest.
Speaker 1: I broadcashed at the super Bowl, but I was mad.
Speaker 1: I'm still mad at crazy. We're like, man, it was wild.
Speaker 1: It was a wild time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was crazy and I don't even my life was
Speaker 1: lost like that. We all we all stayed home. We
Speaker 1: we watched Tiger King and football and football, and then
Speaker 1: when Michael Jordan documentary came out.
Speaker 5: The last day as that and the NFL Draft. That
Speaker 5: was a good one. NFL Draft from the base, Yeah,
Speaker 5: where everyone had cancer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Lakers beat the Heat in the bubble. In
Speaker 3: the bubble, which they still had. They still had a
Speaker 3: parade here in like a makeshift parade. It was not organized,
Speaker 3: but remember they had a parade in Los Angeles. They
Speaker 3: were like they were not gonna stop Laker fans from
Speaker 3: celebrating in the street.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, crazier for a bunch of guys in the league.
Speaker 1: That retired Eli Manning. Wow, a keep to lead, which
Speaker 1: I loved Eli Manning. Hall of Famer or not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's Hall of Fame. Okay, you take down the PAP
Speaker 1: you take I agree, I agree, But that's a debate
Speaker 1: among among media types. It's a debate, I know. But
Speaker 1: he Philip rivers Hall of Famer. Now you see that's
Speaker 1: the argument. Philip had better stats. Eli had better moments
Speaker 1: and championships.
Speaker 3: He had the largest moment, like he literally it was
Speaker 3: David versus Golias to have that win, Dude, greatest I've seen.
Speaker 2: I'm fifty three, you're still a young man. Yeah, I've seen.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 2: You've obviously gone back in the history books. I've gone back.
Speaker 1: The greatest ball team I have ever seen did not
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl because of Eli Manning. That's Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame right there.
Speaker 2: That Patriots team was the greatest day I have ever seen.
Speaker 1: The Bible. You mention the stats aren't good. The stats
Speaker 1: aren't good. But who were talking about. We're talking about David.
Speaker 1: They never have a four thousand season. He said, give
Speaker 1: me one stone.
Speaker 2: That's all I know. I'm putting it right in the forehead.
Speaker 2: And he did. David hit Goliath in the forehead.
Speaker 1: We're told decision and and uh and he hit He
Speaker 1: hit uhr, David Tyree in the in the head with
Speaker 1: the past holding Yeah it Santa.
Speaker 2: Samuel should have I'm sorry, it's true.
Speaker 1: He knows that. I, like I cannot believe. I still
Speaker 1: can't believe that team didn't win the Super Bowl. I'm
Speaker 1: with the greatest team I've ever seen, maybe at any level.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 1: It was gnarly. I remember watching it at Kent State.
Speaker 2: What year were you?
Speaker 1: I was like a sophomore junior, Yeah, I had a
Speaker 1: junie yere. I was like bananas bananas. But the pass
Speaker 1: rush straight hand and company. They did everything head coach
Speaker 1: coach Pearce is part of that team. He was Yep
Speaker 1: that defense straight was in that one straight ye man,
Speaker 1: ye yeah, looking straight. He's the man.
Speaker 3: Antonio Gates retired the Hall of Famer Keikley Hall of Famer,
Speaker 3: Hall of Famer, Kent State Washingtonio Gate.
Speaker 1: That's Frank Kent State School slam dunk hall.
Speaker 2: I think I think he gets how many years? Look,
Speaker 2: he retired early.
Speaker 1: I was on the air, I did the breaking news
Speaker 1: when he shockingly announceds I'm going to say he played
Speaker 1: eight years. He was nine years he was and how
Speaker 1: many twelve to nineteen as a panther. How many Pro Bowls?
Speaker 5: He was eight?
Speaker 1: Seven, seven?
Speaker 2: He was defensive player of the five time defensive rookie year.
Speaker 1: See that's he was the best player at his position
Speaker 1: for more than four years. Talked with that guy. He's
Speaker 1: very smart and next level and like never stumbles over
Speaker 1: his words, like as a crystallized thinker, like he he
Speaker 1: sees things he's read. Flag on me. Really, you don't
Speaker 1: stumble over at one word, the red flag. He might
Speaker 1: be a cyborg.
Speaker 5: That's red flag, key, nothing but green flags.
Speaker 4: Baby, should have thrown a yellow flag on that holding
Speaker 4: of Gronk in the end zone that night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that Monday game, that's that Monday Night football. I
Speaker 1: was there, Bro, fucking bull jumped. Yeah, you watched those
Speaker 1: years in Gronk And what year was twenty? I was
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, the year after the we were talking about, yep,
Speaker 1: the year after the the Yeah, the year if we
Speaker 1: had best buddies. But that Yeah, that was your first
Speaker 1: hundred cats. That's one thousand yard season. That was with
Speaker 1: Cam Newton in the end zone, Rob, you used to
Speaker 1: get mauled, bro, Yeah, he never got any calls. And
Speaker 1: we talk about all the time.
Speaker 3: That's why he did the people's elbow on the one
Speaker 3: guy because he got hell more time in one play.
Speaker 3: He was so mad that he didn't get the holy
Speaker 3: calling people's elbowed Buffalo. I think they threw one if
Speaker 3: I remember the details of that. They threw one earlier
Speaker 3: in the game, maybe even earlier in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 3: and they swallowed the flag.
Speaker 8: I think it was on that exact play they picked out. Yes, yes,
Speaker 8: that plays called panther. It's called panther. Rob go up
Speaker 8: to the middle linebacker, they hit him. You ask one
Speaker 8: hundred neutral football fans p I or not. Ninety nine
Speaker 8: of them are going to say yes, and the other
Speaker 8: one needs an eye test.
Speaker 4: John Brink has even in like a sports science on it.
Speaker 4: The other day they said or not the other day.
Speaker 4: But a couple of days after that play of Grounks
Speaker 4: catch Radius, it was insane.
Speaker 1: It was bad. I still can't get over that the
Speaker 1: d H was announced to both leagues.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 1: Weird? Hated it, hated it, I liked. I like that
Speaker 1: you see the picture hit sometimes. I grew up watching
Speaker 1: the Giants San Francisco Giants, so we saw our pictures.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: When you're a pitcher, pitch clock in baseball, where you're
Speaker 2: at with the pitchclock.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I think it's great for TV, but when you're
Speaker 1: at the game, it sucks because the games fly. You
Speaker 1: want to be I remember as a kid, you'd be
Speaker 1: at the game for three four hours, yeah, praying that
Speaker 1: your mom wouldn't let you go to school the next
Speaker 1: time because it was so late. It was crazy. But
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald retired seventeen season, he was still a player.
Speaker 4: Kyler Murray throwing a Flarry Fitzgerald just seems so weird
Speaker 4: looking back on it, I don't know, it just seems weird.
Speaker 1: Those two generas generated just wild. Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 1: Washington became the Washington Football Team, which I think they
Speaker 1: should be the Washington football team.
Speaker 2: I think that was has he gone on record saying
Speaker 2: this before?
Speaker 1: I thought that was a cool. Look.
Speaker 3: It's like almost like it's so old school that they
Speaker 3: don't even have a team name that because that's one
Speaker 3: of those pivotal organizations that's been around forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean they might change it again though, because
Speaker 1: some people don't like Commanders owner, you know, since the committit. Ye,
Speaker 1: it's like I just like any give and Sunday like.
Speaker 2: When you know, like you can't get team for real
Speaker 2: like the Miamis.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: The only thing I didn't like about Washington Football Team
Speaker 1: w FT is too close to WTF ever bother you
Speaker 1: Like some people would abbreviate it way and I was
Speaker 1: like like it, Yeah, I like, I.
Speaker 3: Won't think about with the fudge team. Now, what's your
Speaker 3: sports Standum? Do you like you growing up? You were
Speaker 3: all Michigan Detroit Lions. I was so I grew up
Speaker 3: in the suburbs of Detroit I grew up.
Speaker 1: If you remember the old Pontiac Silver Dome, which is
Speaker 1: where the Lions used to play. I go back to
Speaker 1: the Billie Simms days. Wow. So before Barry Sanders, we
Speaker 1: lived about fifteen to twenty minutes drive from the Silver
Speaker 1: Dome and my dad used to take me to games.
Speaker 1: And I love the Lions were my team growing up.
Speaker 1: To be honest, the Lions right now they're one of
Speaker 1: thirty two teams like I don't if they if this
Speaker 1: is the year for them and this is the best
Speaker 1: team they've had in years, and they're obvious a contender.
Speaker 1: If they win the Super Bowl, I will be thrilled,
Speaker 1: But I'll be thrilled for all of my high school
Speaker 1: buddies who still live and die with the Lions like me.
Speaker 1: I don't have you know, Honolulu Blue and Silver Pompons
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I love it that a team
Speaker 1: that has been traditionally bad for decades is back contention
Speaker 1: and maybe on top. But the team that had my
Speaker 1: heart Syracuse Football because I played for four years there,
Speaker 1: But the Michigan Wolverines. I grew up going to the
Speaker 1: Big House Julian my first ever football game. Maybe besides
Speaker 1: like a high school game. My first ever going to
Speaker 1: a game was walking into the Big House. My dad
Speaker 1: taking me to ann Arbor and I would go. I
Speaker 1: went to the stadium and you've ever been inside that Stateum,
Speaker 1: you've seen it on TV. There's no levels to it.
Speaker 1: It is one level. It starts at Row one and
Speaker 1: goes to Row one hundred and thirty or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: There's no tears, no levels. You walk in. It's like
Speaker 1: the Colisseum, the biggest stadium in the country. And then
Speaker 1: when I would go to other stadiums, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: they don't have a stadium that's one hundred thousand.
Speaker 2: This only holds seventy five thousand.
Speaker 1: People got here. So the Wolverines had my heart since
Speaker 1: I was like a little boy. I watched Jim Harbaugh
Speaker 1: as a player in college. I watched him quarterback Michigan.
Speaker 1: That's how far I go back. So I still I
Speaker 1: still love Michigan football. And then Detroit across the board Tigers.
Speaker 1: I was at the nineteen eighty four Tigers clinching the
Speaker 1: World Series game. You weren't even on Earth then, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Kurt Gibson upper deck home run to clinch it. Against
Speaker 1: the San Diego Padres nineteen eighty four. Bless you boys.
Speaker 5: What are your thoughts on Coney Island hot Dogs?
Speaker 1: Yeah so Coney Yeah, so you've got different branches. There's
Speaker 1: a whole subset you would need to go on. American.
Speaker 5: Yes, we just had Kee and Michael Keon. He's a
Speaker 5: Detroit out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet you he was awesome. We gotta get
Speaker 1: we gotta get Scott on the text.
Speaker 5: Chain the Detroit Falls.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'd been honored.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we could talk.
Speaker 1: You talk about the celebrity text chain for the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs. Okay, who else would go on the the
Speaker 1: Detroit got kid rock you Gottaeff Daniels, Jeff, We're just talking.
Speaker 1: Should be on?
Speaker 2: Okay, should be on?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Eminem okay, jacculars. Let's let's set the stage for
Speaker 1: this this king down.
Speaker 4: So usually we go team Verse team this. We're gonna
Speaker 4: take it a little bit like we did with Laired Hamilton.
Speaker 4: As you viewers at home, they remember we did Layered
Speaker 4: versus the Wave. Yes, the big waves get compared to
Speaker 4: Laired all the time.
Speaker 1: By the way, he's got so much he's got testosterone
Speaker 1: pheromones and did he say that permones that just make
Speaker 1: girls go crazy or something justating. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4: So in this one, we're gonna do Red Zone, not
Speaker 4: really versus Week seven, but red Zone in Week seven
Speaker 4: are going to be treated like our Team one and
Speaker 4: Team two. So first Red Zone, as you know, hosted
Speaker 4: by our main man, Scott Hanson, the Sunday Shirp. He
Speaker 4: guides us through every Sunday airs seven hours commercial free,
Speaker 4: one pm Eastern to eight pm Eastern. There was also
Speaker 4: the Direct TV version, yes, the Coke to Pepsi if
Speaker 4: you will, which still crosses people up. Yeah, you know
Speaker 4: that whole story. Yeah, tell us what's the story?
Speaker 1: Okay, Sunday Ticket, right, which is the package that you
Speaker 1: buy now, is through YouTube TV. But if you want
Speaker 1: to watch, if you're a New England Patriots fan who
Speaker 1: lives in Los Angeles, you got to watch the Rams
Speaker 1: games or the Chargers games on local TV. So you
Speaker 1: buy Sunday Ticket of course to watch all the the
Speaker 1: if you want to see every snap of the Patriots game.
Speaker 1: So DirectTV had an exclusive contract. They used to pay
Speaker 1: the NFL one billion a year for the exclusivity to
Speaker 1: have Sunday Ticket, and then you had to get direct
Speaker 1: TV was the only way you could get Sunday ticket,
Speaker 1: so it was their business model. Well, they started, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what year. I think it was two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven. Maybe they started a thing called the Red
Speaker 1: Zone Channel, which was basically the same show and touchdown,
Speaker 1: whip around show and everything. And Andrew Siciliano, another Syracuse grade,
Speaker 1: he hosted that. So the NFL. When the NFL decided
Speaker 1: they wanted to start NFL Red Zone, it was because
Speaker 1: it was business driven. The cable companies were saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we don't want to take NFL Network and put it
Speaker 1: on basic cable because you guys don't have any games.
Speaker 1: This is before Thursday Night football. They said, give us
Speaker 1: like Comcast or Time Warner. The big cable companies said
Speaker 1: give us Sunday ticket and we can sell that to
Speaker 1: our customers. And they said, boys and girls, Direct TV
Speaker 1: pays us one bill with a B for the exclusivity
Speaker 1: of that. So they had this tension. So Steve Bornstein,
Speaker 1: who was a long Hall of Fame television executive, sports
Speaker 1: TV executive, he ran, He ran ESPN in the nineties,
Speaker 1: he founded NFL Network. When the NFL owners decided they
Speaker 1: wanted it. He was president of NFL Network at the time,
Speaker 1: and he said, tell you what to Comcast, Time Warner
Speaker 1: and all these cable companies. We're not going to give
Speaker 1: you Sunday ticket. But what if we develop a channel
Speaker 1: that will not show you every snap of every game,
Speaker 1: but show you every touchdown from every game, every great
Speaker 1: moment of every game, every pivotal you know, everything that's
Speaker 1: that's crucial. We'll do it commercial free. Will give this
Speaker 1: to you. You can sell this to your customers in
Speaker 1: lieu of Sunday ticket, but you got to take NFL
Speaker 1: Network and put it on your basic cable, which just
Speaker 1: prints money from the subscription fee. And in two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine, two or three of the big cable company said,
Speaker 1: if you do it, we'll do it. That's how NFL
Speaker 1: Red Zone became, and I got named the original host,
Speaker 1: but DirecTV was doing theirs. So some people still think
Speaker 1: that Andrew Ciciliano hosts Red Zone. So which one's pepsi
Speaker 1: and which one's coke.
Speaker 2: That's for the that's for the consumer to decide.
Speaker 1: I will say this.
Speaker 2: I will say this, the Red Zone channel, the Red
Speaker 2: Zone Channel doesn't exist anymore. So yeah, I'm just saying,
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, if you like a cola, there's
Speaker 2: only one choice right now, the official I'm just saying.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 1: I love Andrew. The folks at direct TV. They did
Speaker 1: an awesome job with it. It's like business is business,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, you got a new businesses business big.
Speaker 1: There were people on a much higher pay grade than
Speaker 1: you and I that were making those calls. But I'm
Speaker 1: still thankful that that I get to be the touchdown baby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you did you guys.
Speaker 4: Ever talk like while you're on these parallel paths, Like,
Speaker 4: do you guys ever talk or compare anythings?
Speaker 1: You know, He's the only other person on the planet
Speaker 1: who really knows what it is like. And and I
Speaker 1: love Andrew as a broadcaster. He's he's doing the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns games right now this season. He got the radio
Speaker 1: job for the Cleveland Browns. We would text each other
Speaker 1: every once in a while. When when I was up
Speaker 1: for the hosting role for NFL Red Zone, I called
Speaker 1: him and just said hey, Andrew, because we knew each
Speaker 1: other from Syracuse and I called him, I said, hey,
Speaker 1: what are some of the things that I might want
Speaker 1: to think about? And everything is you can imagine like
Speaker 1: being thrust into seven hours no commercials. There's not only
Speaker 1: no football show like it, there's no television show like
Speaker 1: NFL Red Zone where it's a single voice ad libbed
Speaker 1: for seven straight hours. And he was gracious and gave
Speaker 1: me some thoughts and whatnot. But there was also the
Speaker 1: tension I suppose between you know it, you could respect
Speaker 1: another wide receiver's game, but you thought you were the
Speaker 1: best wide receiver when you were at the peak of
Speaker 1: your powers, right, yeah, so it, Yeah, there's a respect, Oh,
Speaker 1: definitely respect. But if it if it was like his
Speaker 1: face off, if Tom Brady needed someone to catch something,
Speaker 1: you were the only man he should look at. On
Speaker 1: Scott saying, so if the NFL needed something to perform
Speaker 1: at the highest level, I was like, I'll rip the
Speaker 1: cover off the ball, put me, put me in coach.
Speaker 1: Look at Scott a little dog.
Speaker 2: I was a scrub football player.
Speaker 1: No. I decided that with when I got into my career,
Speaker 1: no one was going to outwork me, no one was
Speaker 1: out going to out hustle me, and I was going
Speaker 1: to find a way to be the best that I
Speaker 1: could possibly be.
Speaker 2: And that's the truth.
Speaker 1: That's the way I would recommend anybody should approach whatever
Speaker 1: their walk of life is, save it. Heck, yes, take
Speaker 1: us through how you got the job?
Speaker 2: How do you get this?
Speaker 1: How do you how do you interview? For okay, the
Speaker 1: red zone? Like that's crazy? So what like?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: I was at the time two thousand, summer of two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine, when the world had yet the NFL
Speaker 1: world had yet to be changed by the presence of
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman on an NFL field. I had heard that
Speaker 1: we were starting I had heard that, you know, in
Speaker 1: the hallways of NFL Network, that we were starting this,
Speaker 1: you know, NFL Red Zone. And I was a roving
Speaker 1: reporter at the time, so they used to send me
Speaker 1: to interview guys at games or practices and do like
Speaker 1: stand ups on the sideline and that type of thing.
Speaker 1: But I knew I wanted to be in studio. I like,
Speaker 1: as a wide receiver, you know what your best routes are,
Speaker 1: you know what your best approach, you can do them all.
Speaker 1: And I feel like I can do live reports, I
Speaker 1: can do interviews. I could, but put me in as
Speaker 1: an anchor, as a man who is the studio host
Speaker 1: that is overseeing everything. That's where I want to be.
Speaker 1: So I called the powers that be at the network.
Speaker 1: I said, is it true we're starting this NFL Red Zone?
Speaker 1: They said yep. I said, who you got to host it?
Speaker 1: They said, well, we're looking at a few people. I said,
Speaker 1: is my name on the list? They said, yeah, your
Speaker 1: name is on the list. And I said, what do
Speaker 1: I got to do? I want this because I will
Speaker 1: crush it if you guys put I called it and
Speaker 1: they said, well, we got to do an audition. Now
Speaker 1: you need to know that an audition for television typically
Speaker 1: is ten to fifteen minutes long. They put you up
Speaker 1: on the set, they mike you up, They want to
Speaker 1: see how you look, how you sound when you're looking
Speaker 1: into the camera. They maybe bring another co host up
Speaker 1: to see if you can handle some cross talk between
Speaker 1: the two of you.
Speaker 2: But that's it, right.
Speaker 1: But because seven hours commercial free football stamina is part
Speaker 1: of the game, the audition for NFL Red Zone, it's
Speaker 1: not fifteen minutes. It was five hours, long hours, five
Speaker 1: hour This was like in June of two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1: They took eight random games from the previous season. They
Speaker 1: put them, they queued them all up to the kickoff
Speaker 1: of the game. They hit play simultaneously on eight different
Speaker 1: games and said talk broadcasted. Jesus it was it was intimidate, dude.
Speaker 1: I flopped sweat. I had a suit on. I flopped
Speaker 1: sweated right through the suit. I was trying to keep up.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, because I didn't have like I didn't
Speaker 1: have rosters and stuff in front of me, because it
Speaker 1: was it was previous games. It wasn't like it was
Speaker 1: live in the moment. You had no live stats from
Speaker 1: the internet or anything else like that. So we went
Speaker 1: for the five hours. At the end, I remember thinking
Speaker 1: I either got this job or I just embarrassed myself.
Speaker 2: As bad as I could ever be embarrassed. I had
Speaker 2: no idea what in between the two.
Speaker 1: A few weeks later, maybe about two three weeks later,
Speaker 1: I get a call from the executive producer at NFL
Speaker 1: Network and he said, Scott, just want to let you
Speaker 1: know we want to offer you the hosting role of NFL.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, Eric, that's awesome, I said, I said,
Speaker 1: so you watch the five hour audition, he said, Scott.
Speaker 1: I watched the first ten minutes of it, and I
Speaker 1: knew you were my guy, And I was like, oh, thanks,
Speaker 1: that's great. And in my mind, I'm thinking, why in
Speaker 1: the you have me do five hours ruin a perfectly
Speaker 1: good suit and all of this. The suit I sweated
Speaker 1: right through it. I didn't ruin it, but I.
Speaker 2: Mean, yes, of course it took Wait how far are
Speaker 2: we in? It took him this long to bring up
Speaker 2: the pee?
Speaker 1: That's what this long? You know we had a fire
Speaker 1: alarm a couple of year. You'll don't leave, dude. A
Speaker 1: soldier does not leave his post. You can't.
Speaker 2: He is a Foxhole guy Foxhole.
Speaker 5: Do you know who else auditioned?
Speaker 2: I do you know what I do know? Do you
Speaker 2: know the name Paul Burmeister?
Speaker 1: He is?
Speaker 2: He is a sportscaster at NBC Sports.
Speaker 1: Paul. He did notre Dame games for a while. He's done.
Speaker 1: He's a great uh like Swiss army knife broadcaster. Burmeister
Speaker 1: used to be in anchor at NFL Network at the time.
Speaker 1: I'm ninety percent sure he did and the other ones.
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, I don't. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: need to find that out now. Worried about the competition,
Speaker 1: it's it's exactly. I worry about what I can control. Really,
Speaker 1: what you can control Kyler what I'm saying, and'll be
Speaker 1: counting other people's pennies. When when a new season would begin,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this, When a new season would
Speaker 1: begin and there was undoubtedly you know, one or two
Speaker 1: new faces in and around the wide receiver room, how
Speaker 1: how much are you checking them out in the first
Speaker 1: few drills and routes and everything else. I saw everything
Speaker 1: before they even got on the field. You you were,
Speaker 1: you were, you were watching their college to watch he
Speaker 1: come up in my room. Give it to me, tell
Speaker 1: me you gotta, I gotta, I gotta know what you're about.
Speaker 1: So any draft pick, any free agent sign, you were
Speaker 1: looking at him? Yeah, watch, and this is when you're
Speaker 1: already a star, or this is when you're.
Speaker 3: Up and coming, when I was up and conning, You're
Speaker 3: you're looking just because you wanted to see who you
Speaker 3: got to be better? Then yeah, and then at the
Speaker 3: other you know, by the you know, when it transitioned
Speaker 3: to I knew I was gonna be there, It was
Speaker 3: more of like, who can help us?
Speaker 1: What's his strengths? What are the things I can help
Speaker 1: him with? Are you the reason that every single Foxborough
Speaker 1: faithful thinks the next time they get a not tall,
Speaker 1: white wide receiver. He's going to be one hundred catches
Speaker 1: and a thousand yards because Welker was there, and then
Speaker 1: you came, and then they think, okay, well Chris Hogan
Speaker 1: is gonna be the next Pro Bowl wide receiver.
Speaker 2: And who else did they have?
Speaker 1: Just roll out of the guy with a certain body
Speaker 1: type and a certain pig mentation.
Speaker 2: That looks like he could be nice.
Speaker 1: We're doue.
Speaker 2: There's no weird.
Speaker 1: We're new. There's got to be another one, you know.
Speaker 1: Coop's a little hurt right now.
Speaker 3: There's always there's a feelings getting a little older up there.
Speaker 1: There's always go back to let's let's circle back to
Speaker 1: to the late window packet. Let's go back to that
Speaker 1: Patriots game. The Patriots note Patriots forty nine. Look at
Speaker 1: my bottom right fact Tooy Welker SF coach. So I
Speaker 1: just had written. Now, hey, by the way, Wes Welker
Speaker 1: retired me.
Speaker 2: Did you remember that he was at that game?
Speaker 1: Well? You didn't.
Speaker 2: He's he's been a position coach. I know, yeah, Dolphins, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I knew he did. I knew maybe like after, but
Speaker 1: I didn't remember until now until I just saw that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he retired me. Yeah, and these are the type of
Speaker 1: things that I put in my visit, I put in
Speaker 1: my I mean, these are great little anetopes. And you
Speaker 1: know what, sometimes I get mad sometimes of I have
Speaker 1: a really good one and it doesn't the situation doesn't
Speaker 1: call for it. And I'm like, like, if you knew
Speaker 1: you had a play that was a touchdown and for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, you didn't get to it on the play sheet,
Speaker 1: you gotta be a little hacked off. Yeah, you are,
Speaker 1: but then you get to save it for the next time. Okay,
Speaker 1: I suppose unless you thought, unless you thought it was
Speaker 1: only against the Ravens, we could score a touchdown on
Speaker 1: this because they play this a certain way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but there's gonna, there's gonna there's always gonna be
Speaker 3: another situation where you know, you play against you know,
Speaker 3: another Ryan who has that Ravens system, that you're gonna
Speaker 3: have that second look eventually against that specific situation. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, you never as long as you got the win,
Speaker 3: you were never mad that of course you didn't call
Speaker 3: a play or a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Play. Yeah, you sit back, but you're like you would
Speaker 1: go and remind the guy, you know, the play caller,
Speaker 1: Tom Hey, we didn't. We didn't.
Speaker 3: We didn't cover this one. So hey back pocket, Yeah
Speaker 3: that's back to school. Yeah, what makes for a great
Speaker 3: Red Zone production? Ooh, because I saw the early raps
Speaker 3: at the beginning. It was just like three of you
Speaker 3: guys right that were doing it at the very very beginning. Well,
Speaker 3: you may have only seen a few of them.
Speaker 1: Like I know, how big is the team? About thirty
Speaker 1: people give or take in the twenties up to thirty.
Speaker 1: Isn't always thirty? When it started getting big Now, it
Speaker 1: started getting bigger when we started making money. When it
Speaker 1: was proven that whoa, this is a big, big money maker,
Speaker 1: we got some more resources. To answer your question. You
Speaker 1: know how I grade things, I do it two ways.
Speaker 1: Live in the moment, because you gotta understand, i am
Speaker 1: standing up for most of the show, and I'm standing
Speaker 1: in front of a wall of monitors.
Speaker 2: So I see what you see at home. I've got
Speaker 2: a whole monitor.
Speaker 1: It's called the program monitor, meaning this is what the
Speaker 1: Football World and Red Zone is broadcast all over the world,
Speaker 1: every continent and every country with an Internet signal can
Speaker 1: get it. So I see what everyone sees at home.
Speaker 1: But I also get to see what you don't see.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm taking mental notes of Okay, we didn't
Speaker 1: show that, we did show that, we didn't show that,
Speaker 1: and if we blend it together, it's like shuffling a
Speaker 1: deck of cards. If you don't know what you're doing,
Speaker 1: they can go flying all over the place and it
Speaker 1: can be ugly. But if it's smooth and it's tight,
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh man, this happened.
Speaker 2: This happened.
Speaker 1: This happened in real time, and our audience saw it
Speaker 1: within fifteen seconds of each other. Ah, dude, that jacks
Speaker 1: me up. That is awesome. You got someone in your ear?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, Like there's constant stimulation in my ear
Speaker 1: for seven straight hours. I hear the announcers of the
Speaker 1: games that are at the games, and then I hear
Speaker 1: my I can hear my producer, my director, my coordinating producer.
Speaker 1: Other people can talk to me. They try and limit
Speaker 1: how many people are talking to me because I've got
Speaker 1: to be speaking the whole time. Yeah, it's wild. And
Speaker 1: when I pop that ear piece, I have to balance
Speaker 1: myself on that desk that you see there because it's
Speaker 1: my equilibrium is off because it's been I'm going to
Speaker 1: go deafen this year. At some point, you.
Speaker 5: Don't change it up.
Speaker 1: You don't go because I ever ear pieces every other show.
Speaker 1: You know, Scott, I got it. I got a couple
Speaker 1: of your pieces.
Speaker 2: You got your molds, you got your molds, molds.
Speaker 1: You know. We only do an hour, but it's not seven.
Speaker 1: That's like that's like a Jedi getting a lightsaber. It's yours.
Speaker 2: You know, it's your particular.
Speaker 1: Do you get ear wax problems because of it?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's different ways of cleaning them and stuff like
Speaker 1: that paper clip? Undo a paper clip if you I
Speaker 1: mean before the show that.
Speaker 3: But I swear ever since I started putting things in
Speaker 3: my ear, like ear pieces, I make more wax or something,
Speaker 3: so I my ears, I get. I've never had problems
Speaker 3: in my ears until I started putting ship in them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's not Yeah, it's not natural to do that,
Speaker 2: but it's my ear gets.
Speaker 1: Plugged every once in a while. I got to go
Speaker 1: to see my doctor. Dude, you should act shout out Schnittman,
Speaker 1: always cleaning my damn ear. Schnit Man.
Speaker 2: Is he taking new patients? Maybe I should go.
Speaker 1: He's a great ear here, guys down on Beverly Hills.
Speaker 1: Go check him out book put them on the text thread.
Speaker 1: I will will. Yeah. So anyways, I do every other
Speaker 1: show in my right ear because I'm like, well, I
Speaker 1: might as well balance out how I'm going deaf this
Speaker 1: year for seven hours.
Speaker 2: But whatever, I'm no hero. I'm no hero, Jillian.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's a sacrifice on my body for your entertainment,
Speaker 1: for your enjoyment. You entertain a lot, Jackie. Let's let's
Speaker 1: get into these games. So we we talked a lot
Speaker 1: earlier about the witch.
Speaker 5: I need I need to ask you about the octobox. Yeah,
Speaker 5: just tell me about how did you get it?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 1: Did you come up with it? And here here it is.
Speaker 1: The reason was this. I knew from before show one.
Speaker 1: I said, if we execute this concept seven hours commercial
Speaker 1: free football, we can go anywhere in the NFL universe
Speaker 1: anytime we feel like it. I said, if we execute this, well,
Speaker 1: this is going to be the most popular football show
Speaker 1: on television. I knew that in my head. And that's
Speaker 1: not revisionist history, I'm telling you. In fact, I called
Speaker 1: it out. I don't know if you have the clip
Speaker 1: on YouTube or not. I don't know. Me I like that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, No, this was not revision, it's history. I
Speaker 2: was saying it in the moment.
Speaker 1: So I came on the first on camera time I
Speaker 1: ever came on the first episode September two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1: I said, welcome to NFL Red Zone, the channel that
Speaker 1: we hope will change the way you watch football forever.
Speaker 1: And if you did, I was, I was. That may
Speaker 1: have seemed like bomb basted me. It seemed like I
Speaker 1: was Babe Ruth pointing out to center field before the
Speaker 1: wind up. But I felt that way, and there's not
Speaker 1: a day that goes by when someone doesn't tell me.
Speaker 1: So with that in mind, I said, I need, I
Speaker 1: need to come up with something that gives the fans,
Speaker 1: not just like we're a remote control. Some people describe
Speaker 1: it as it's as if you're watching TV with God
Speaker 1: and he's holding the remote control. It's blasphemous, but you
Speaker 1: understand the point. Sure, we always know, we always know
Speaker 1: where to go to and when to go. I thought
Speaker 1: that was a fact. Yeah it Lord, thank you for
Speaker 1: the Red Zone. So when we were starting it, I'm like,
Speaker 1: we got to have like some type of a if
Speaker 1: it's a big game. I like making things feel big,
Speaker 1: and I want you to feel like Red Zone when
Speaker 1: it's Sunday at one o'clock Eastern or ten am Pacific
Speaker 1: and you're sitting down, you got your snacks, your beverages,
Speaker 1: your fantasy lineup is set, and you want a rock
Speaker 1: and roll with Uncle Scott for seven straight hours.
Speaker 2: I want you to make it. I want you to
Speaker 2: feel how big it is.
Speaker 1: We have eight games of the highly most highly skilled
Speaker 1: trained athletes on the planet are going at it simultaneously
Speaker 1: and it's all gonna lead to wins and losses at
Speaker 1: three hours from now.
Speaker 2: Big like it's big.
Speaker 1: So when you go to a big game, when you
Speaker 1: played on Monday night football, the first thing before the
Speaker 1: kickoff ever happened. If you watch it on TV, what
Speaker 1: do they do?
Speaker 5: They do that.
Speaker 1: They have their open and we have that, but they
Speaker 1: show the first visual live from the stadium is the
Speaker 1: blimp shot. Right, every big game is a blimp shot.
Speaker 1: Good years, it's you go over the top, you know,
Speaker 1: M and T Banks Stadium sight of today's Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 1: New England Patriots.
Speaker 2: To show it big.
Speaker 1: You can't see anything individually there necessarily, but it just
Speaker 1: gives that feel and the announcer gets that growl in
Speaker 1: his voice and stuff. So I said, we need to
Speaker 1: come up with NFL red zones version of the blimp shot,
Speaker 1: an overarching big picture view. And I said, guys, why
Speaker 1: don't we just take if we've got eight games, why
Speaker 1: don't we just take eight games divided into eight boxes
Speaker 1: and put them on there just to show for ten seconds,
Speaker 1: show people we're watching everything, and you're going to see
Speaker 1: every individual thing in here, but we've got it covered
Speaker 1: like a blimp shot. Psychologically, it gives you that that feel, right,
Speaker 1: So I said, do it this, and I came up
Speaker 1: with It's not that I came up with the term box,
Speaker 1: double box, triple box. Those were television industry terms for years,
Speaker 1: but no one really used it. The octoper on on TV,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, why not. People can understand if
Speaker 1: we call it. If we call it a double box.
Speaker 1: Back in the nineties, we used to call two screens
Speaker 1: in television. We would call it a double box, but
Speaker 1: the anchor would never say that. I said through that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna call it what it is. Let's
Speaker 1: go double box right now, Let's go quad box, Ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. The octobox eight games kicking off across the
Speaker 1: National Football League three Division games in Atlanta, in New England,
Speaker 1: and in Miami, you know. And then of course the
Speaker 1: next catchphrase the seven hours of commercial free football start now.
Speaker 1: And I did that to make it my Chris Berman
Speaker 1: back back back, back, back, back gone. You know, he
Speaker 1: could go all the way, as like, I got to
Speaker 1: come up with my own catchphrase so that quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I want to be indispensable on the show to think that.
Speaker 1: I don't want anyone, you know, in certain corner offices
Speaker 1: to think, you know, let's get rid of handsome. And
Speaker 1: it was, you know, go, So I put my own
Speaker 1: twist on it. But Octobox was a creation based on
Speaker 1: my site, The logical view of a of a blimp
Speaker 1: shot for an individual. Uncle Scott, Uncle Scottie, and my
Speaker 1: nephew Tyler Hanson, freshman at Boston College, is watching this
Speaker 1: right we.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, dude, he's turning it around. That guy's that
Speaker 2: guy wins.
Speaker 1: He's a good I saw, you know what. I saw
Speaker 1: that episode and and I saw that he wouldn't go
Speaker 1: a couple of places because he's still representing a program.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't go a couple of places that you wanted.
Speaker 1: Him to go. He's not gonna go at Pope to
Speaker 1: send him some money. Money, baby, lord, you gotta use
Speaker 1: what you gotta use right, pay the dues or you lose.
Speaker 2: So was that your Is that your your?
Speaker 1: Yeah? That was your octobox, your red zone schematic question. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then the Witching hours the other one that people
Speaker 1: want to know about. Should we get right into it?
Speaker 2: He was choice.
Speaker 1: Over here. Let sco high level real quick.
Speaker 4: So in week seven Scott mentioned this earlier. We got
Speaker 4: seven games in the early window, some notable ones. Pittsburgh, Tennessee.
Speaker 4: Big Ben comes in there undefeated, into Nashville, throws three picks,
Speaker 4: still escapes with a win. Steve Steve o missed that
Speaker 4: forty five yard they would have tied.
Speaker 6: It.
Speaker 5: Hated to see that. That's Goskowski on the Titans.
Speaker 1: That you're wild.
Speaker 2: Wow, God, that's right. That's when they were the New
Speaker 2: England Titans.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The Patriots Butler Malcolm Butler, Gryan obviously for.
Speaker 4: Ablel Wollen Rabes, Aaron Rodgers went out there and threw
Speaker 4: four touchdowns. The Monte Adams one hundred ninety six yards,
Speaker 4: receiving two Tuddies in a Packers in Houston rolling thirty
Speaker 4: five twenty.
Speaker 1: We got a couple of witching hours in this this
Speaker 1: early slate. We'll get to those later.
Speaker 4: H there was a classic Owen six or Owen seven
Speaker 4: Jets matchup against Buffalo that was Arnold versus Allen.
Speaker 1: Uh Alan ranfs.
Speaker 2: Yet scored a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Good job job ru for three oh seven. Josh was bawling.
Speaker 1: Then we moved into the late window. We got four
Speaker 1: games here.
Speaker 4: That was the Niners Pats game we spoke about earlier,
Speaker 4: the worst home loss of the Belichick era, thirty three
Speaker 4: to six. Hated to see that Jimmy g versus Cam
Speaker 4: That was a wild one. Brady down there in Tampa,
Speaker 4: they rolled New Orleans, or I mean, excuse me, they
Speaker 4: rolled Vegas.
Speaker 1: You thought New Orleans because it's Derek Carr. I did,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, there is a lot of my mind's
Speaker 1: going crazy over here.
Speaker 4: And then we had rookie Justin Herbert versus Gardner Minshew
Speaker 4: and a Jacksonville versus La clash eight offensive tds in
Speaker 4: this one.
Speaker 1: I hope you had the over, uh.
Speaker 4: And then the game that got flexed to Sunday night
Speaker 4: ended up being kind of one of the craziest Seattle
Speaker 4: at Arizona.
Speaker 1: An overtime thriller. The DK.
Speaker 5: Was that the Buddha Baker like random down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that was when he had a sick would
Speaker 1: have been a game winning touched on it in overtime,
Speaker 1: called back with a holding hold on the screen. Third
Speaker 1: and ten. Kyler had three hundred and sixty passing yards
Speaker 1: and he had sixty seven rushing yards in that overtime win. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Russ had three hundred and eighty nine yards passing incredible
Speaker 1: eighty eight. Yeah, one of our wildest games of the day.
Speaker 1: That was that was Sunday night football. And then we
Speaker 1: move into the Witching hour. Oh yeah, we touched on
Speaker 1: it earlier. Now, can we get we move in, Ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, it's the witching hour when wins become losses
Speaker 1: and losses become wins. Buckle up. I'm told. I am
Speaker 1: told that there are text threads around the world that
Speaker 1: say they alert each other. Scott just called it the
Speaker 1: witching hour, just like just in other words, if you're
Speaker 1: doing laundry on Sunday, you're walking around the house and
Speaker 1: you've got it on in the background since your butt down.
Speaker 1: It's time to pay full attention. Uncles. And I'm not
Speaker 1: talking Uncle Sam. We're talking about Uncle Scott. It's like coming.
Speaker 1: It's like when that that amber alert comes to your
Speaker 1: phone and it's vibrating. Yeah right, well, earthquake, hurricane, we
Speaker 1: went to amber out. Sorry, you tell me when it
Speaker 1: never delivers because it always was. It always Oh what
Speaker 1: determines it actually witchy? Now? Well what I what I
Speaker 1: kind of thought was when you get to the time
Speaker 1: when we call it, we don't. There's not a like
Speaker 1: a oh it's wristwatch this time, this time, it's a
Speaker 1: feel we we I'm always looking the other thing I
Speaker 1: have the benefit of in the studio. I have the
Speaker 1: scoreboard up. We have one macro. We put it up
Speaker 1: on TV every once in a while, like I'll say,
Speaker 1: eight games going on across the league, and you'll see
Speaker 1: the scores. Every one of those scores is tapped into
Speaker 1: the computerized into the actual scoreboard at Foxborough. It's it's
Speaker 1: synchronized there, so I see real time exactly. You know
Speaker 1: where where it is when we get if we have
Speaker 1: an eight game early window, when three of them or
Speaker 1: four of them hit the fourth quarter, end of the
Speaker 1: third I'm like, guys, we better call it the Witching
Speaker 1: Hour here in a second, because you're gonna get you know,
Speaker 1: a fourth quarter will take forty five minutes to sixty
Speaker 1: minutes to play, and some of the other games are
Speaker 1: still in the third quarter. And it just it's by
Speaker 1: a feel. You just do it by feel. It's always
Speaker 1: when about half of the games are getting to the
Speaker 1: end of the third quarter. Yea. And of course it
Speaker 1: depends on how many incomplete passes there are, how many injuries,
Speaker 1: how many flags. Some games go faster than others, of course,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's a feel. There's never like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: you know, three oh five, it's time to call it
Speaker 1: the Witching hour. Well, what makes it a great witching hour? Chaos?
Speaker 1: Chaos Like it's it's when it's a silly little catchphrase,
Speaker 1: when wins become losses, losses become wins when I call
Speaker 1: it the Witching hour. This Sunday, I'm telling you take
Speaker 1: a screenshot of your television when I call it, because
Speaker 1: it'll the scoreboard will be up there, it'll change, and
Speaker 1: you take a screenshot at the end of it, and
Speaker 1: you watch the bananas stuff, and it's like it's stuff
Speaker 1: that just shouldn't happen. I mean, fourth quarter keisters get
Speaker 1: tight man in a fourth quarter sometimes. Now, did you
Speaker 1: ever think calling it wizard hour? Like a wizard Well,
Speaker 1: the Witching Hour is like a colloquialism in the English language.
Speaker 1: So it's like, although probably has some demonic and it
Speaker 1: probably has some demonic connotations which I don't want to,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, but like it's witching hours, like the bizarre,
Speaker 1: the weird stuff, the wild stuff, the unexpected happens, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, that kind of has a ring pin
Speaker 1: does By the way, other people claim that they that
Speaker 1: I stole it from them. Do you know Mike Francessa
Speaker 1: Do you know that name? So, Mike Francessa is U
Speaker 1: in New York, famous long time mom sports probably that too, Gems.
Speaker 2: He was he was the BOOKI in uncut Gems, famous
Speaker 2: sports talk.
Speaker 1: Radio host okay in New York for years, and he's
Speaker 1: doesn't have his fastball, I don't think anymore. But anyway,
Speaker 1: he when when I started calling it the Witching Hour,
Speaker 1: and everyone started, you know, saying, oh, Scott Hansen in
Speaker 1: the Witching Hour and red Zone is the greatest, he
Speaker 1: went on a thing on his show, and it was like, ah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you didn't. I can't do it, francessa. But he's got big,
Speaker 1: thick New York asset, right, you know, he thinks he
Speaker 1: knows everything.
Speaker 2: He's like, I used to call it.
Speaker 1: He used to work like as a behind the scenes
Speaker 1: guy on NFL Today Back with Brent Musburger and Jimmy
Speaker 1: the Greek.
Speaker 2: If you ever heard that, Jimmy, it was before your time.
Speaker 2: But but you guys might know.
Speaker 1: He says. They used to call it the Witching Hour,
Speaker 1: not on television, which that's why I'm I'm exempt from
Speaker 1: it because I never heard any sports guy say it before.
Speaker 1: I'm not denying that they may have called it that,
Speaker 1: but they called it that behind the scenes when they
Speaker 1: weren't on the air and they were just watching the
Speaker 1: games in the studio like you do, right, you do
Speaker 1: the pregame and whatnot, and you just watch the games,
Speaker 1: he says, during that portion when their MIC's were off
Speaker 1: and everything, they used to be like, oh, it's it's
Speaker 1: the Witching Hour, you know. That's how Frances sounds and so,
Speaker 1: which is fine. I don't I don't debate that, but
Speaker 1: don't act like I stole it, like I was supposed
Speaker 1: to know. You and your buddies used to call it that. Look,
Speaker 1: they just didn't like, they didn't it's success, Melcrow, you
Speaker 1: know this one. Success has a million mothers and failure
Speaker 1: is an orphan yep wise And so yeah, do you
Speaker 1: remember your first because I didn't call it that from
Speaker 1: week got week one, I'm pretty sure I think we
Speaker 1: did the octobox from week one. I used to just say,
Speaker 1: you know, this time, when it's the end of the
Speaker 1: third quarter, these games get bananas and it's so much fun,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, it happens in a sixty minutes of
Speaker 1: riskwatch time. I'm like, this is the greatest hour in
Speaker 1: sports television. It used to be like when you have
Speaker 1: March Madness, the first day of March Madness, and they
Speaker 1: used to synchronize all the tip offs. They don't, they
Speaker 1: stagger him now, But when they used to synchronize our games,
Speaker 1: you could get three buzzer beaters within two minutes and
Speaker 1: it was awesome and that would have been a candidate
Speaker 1: for like the best hour in sports TV. And some
Speaker 1: people think whatever, maybe the you know, the final three
Speaker 1: holes of the Masters in a Tiger versus phill situation
Speaker 1: might be the best hour in sports TV. Well, we've
Speaker 1: got it every single week. I don't need a championship
Speaker 1: necessarily to be one in that moment.
Speaker 2: It's every single week.
Speaker 1: You can guarantee you can set your wristwatch by it
Speaker 1: that the NFL's early window sure will deliver jaw dropping
Speaker 1: moments and you don't know where, you don't know which game,
Speaker 1: you don't know which players, but you know it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So it was probably a couple few years in the
Speaker 1: NFL Red Zones existence that I said, let me, let's
Speaker 1: call it the Witching Hour. And then our coordinating producer
Speaker 1: Alan Flowers Flow shout out to my guy Flow. He'd
Speaker 1: surprised me one day with that graphic. He didn't tell
Speaker 1: me he had the doll doll like the Undertaker, like
Speaker 1: the noise and whatnot. And now that it's October they
Speaker 1: put a witch's cackle in there and October yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, right, So who makes the call that it's
Speaker 1: actual witching out? Like I said, we we talk when
Speaker 1: my microphone is clipped. I'll say, hey, guys, you know
Speaker 1: we got two games in the fourth quarter. They'll say
Speaker 1: it's an eight game early window. We got two in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. If we get one or two more
Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter, we need to call it the witches.
Speaker 1: And you're muted talking to I'm muted talking.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anytime you don't hear me talking, you can assume that
Speaker 1: I am having conversations talking with Yes, it's like coach
Speaker 1: to quarterback communication system. Yeah, like it cuts off at times,
Speaker 1: but you could you could go except ours of course
Speaker 1: is two ways more of the head coach with all
Speaker 1: the coordinators. Oh, that's probably a better Yeah, because the
Speaker 1: head coach has override. He can override everyone. He can
Speaker 1: talk on certain one. I met you.
Speaker 2: People don't know that. Explain that to people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the head coach can talk to every single
Speaker 3: coach can hit a button, but not every coach can
Speaker 3: talk to the head coach.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: There's there's certain channels that they have. They'll have like
Speaker 1: a secret channel and like they'll hit and now you
Speaker 1: were emergency QB. I was so you practiced with the
Speaker 1: green dot every once in a while. No, but you
Speaker 1: you obviously fished at some point if you had to
Speaker 1: go in. Huh, you must have tried it at least
Speaker 1: once yeah, the year would into you in case you
Speaker 1: had to go in when Jimmy g got hurt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Kobett came in and Jacoby Brissette broke his thumb.
Speaker 1: Yes, that week four I practiced with the green dot.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you've heard.
Speaker 1: It, I've heard, yeah, but it cuts off at fifteen. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: although do you know something about that? That's at least
Speaker 1: unless they changed it when that first system was developed.
Speaker 1: I talked to someone that's not automated. There's literally a
Speaker 1: human being pressing and they're supposed to take their finger
Speaker 1: off a button and it's like a neutral, supposedly neutral
Speaker 1: person up in the press box. Now, they probably have
Speaker 1: automated it, but I guarantee when I was a roving
Speaker 1: reporter sixteen seventeen years ago, I spoke to the guy
Speaker 1: who did it at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm the guy. I have all up my whole job.
Speaker 1: The whole game is this.
Speaker 2: I pressed the.
Speaker 1: Button down, which means that it can hear O see
Speaker 1: two quarterback is live and I just watched the play
Speaker 1: clock and when it gets down to fifteen, I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to take my finger off and I'm like.
Speaker 2: Well, bro, every once in a while, you must.
Speaker 1: You must either you know that guy's not what's to
Speaker 1: say that guy's not a he lives in Tampa, he's
Speaker 1: not a Buccaneers.
Speaker 2: Really, like, I want to give why because you think
Speaker 2: like Kevin O'Connor.
Speaker 3: Remember he was calling plays for Dobbs, like telling him
Speaker 3: where to go while he was playing and stuff.
Speaker 1: I gotta think it's automated now, but I know for
Speaker 1: a fact that it was, at least in that stadium
Speaker 1: in that time, it was a It was a finger
Speaker 1: button from a neutral human being. Wow, what of them? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, can you describe your perfect like design, your perfect
Speaker 7: witching hour?
Speaker 1: Every game's in contention? Yes, eight games, eight games a
Speaker 1: full octobox worth October eight games and all eight one
Speaker 1: possession games because you know you'll have a thirty five
Speaker 1: to ten game in the fourth quarter. And what we
Speaker 1: say offline is, hey, the Patriots game is touchdown only,
Speaker 1: Like it's a twenty five point difference between the teams
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. We know who's going to win
Speaker 1: that game. But if the Patriots score another touchdown, will
Speaker 1: will show that. But it's touchdown only if their first
Speaker 1: and goal from the eight. We're not cutting to that
Speaker 1: game right now. If they score a touchdown, will show
Speaker 1: it afterwards, but it's not critical to see it live.
Speaker 1: The game's thirty five to ten, So a perfect witching hour.
Speaker 1: Eight games going on across the National Football League, all
Speaker 1: eight of them one possession games eight points or less,
Speaker 1: and all eight of them with less than five minutes
Speaker 1: left to go. Bring it and bring it, bring it
Speaker 1: and then and then I want each team to score.
Speaker 2: I'm rooting for the team with.
Speaker 1: The football overs. We want over over over if you're fine,
Speaker 1: but just touchdown, and then this quarterback answers with a touchdown,
Speaker 1: and then this quarterback answers with a touchdown.
Speaker 2: And maybe somebody maybe a block pun in there. They
Speaker 2: throw a block pun in there.
Speaker 3: Throw it a special team like, hey, Scott, we just
Speaker 3: had a block punt there.
Speaker 1: Touchdown. Well, so you're talking to a I told you
Speaker 1: I was a long snapper in college special teams. All
Speaker 1: the iterations of special teams, I try to I tried
Speaker 1: to stay up on everything.
Speaker 2: We had a drop kick on sidekick. How rare is
Speaker 2: that a drop kick on side kick?
Speaker 1: And I sat in the safety that didn't land in
Speaker 1: the correct landing zone, including a muff recovered for a touchdown,
Speaker 1: which is extremely rare because you can't you can't advance
Speaker 1: a muff. It has to go in the end zone.
Speaker 1: You have to cover it. But if you muff a
Speaker 1: punt to get it into the end zone, either someone
Speaker 1: needs to kick it or you're fielding that sucker inside
Speaker 1: the five yard line, which is usually unless it's a
Speaker 1: gray area punt, meaning meaning if if it's a plus
Speaker 1: fifty punt, the coverage team.
Speaker 2: They might be able to catch it themselves.
Speaker 3: I housed a ninety four yard return because it was
Speaker 3: a gray area punt where they were play their own territory.
Speaker 3: But it's close enough where they could get it there
Speaker 3: to like that inside the five.
Speaker 1: But if the cushion's big enough, oh, I see, if
Speaker 1: the gunners haven't gotten yet where they're in your territory, interesting,
Speaker 1: you're never gonna have an opportunity unless they really overrun you.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: But if it's a gray area peat, which is like
Speaker 3: you're forty yep, the other team's forty. You know, that's
Speaker 3: when you get those potential take from the five.
Speaker 1: But you had better be right. You're the only human
Speaker 1: being in the stadium who could make that call. You
Speaker 1: get the only one. Yeah, did you ever you ever
Speaker 1: get a little over aggressive? And Bill had words with
Speaker 1: I didn't fair catcher like four years No, but I
Speaker 1: mean over aggressive, meaning not not fair catching. You know
Speaker 1: when you should have and you got blasted, that's on you.
Speaker 1: But fair catch where you got blasted inside the five
Speaker 1: yard line and Bill ripped you a new one. I got. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did it once. Because he doesn't care if you
Speaker 1: if you don't fair catching, you get tackled at the
Speaker 1: twenty two smacked by the gunner. Yeap that he doesn't
Speaker 1: care about that as long as you hold out of
Speaker 1: the football. But he does care if you start the
Speaker 1: offense of the five yard line.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that also gets taken away. I housed one. Okay,
Speaker 3: from the six you get you get some capital. I
Speaker 3: get capital, you know what I mean? So after that,
Speaker 3: you get greenlight. It's kind of like the little stud
Speaker 3: those calves get up and down. That that that fast
Speaker 3: up and down. It's kind of like when you were
Speaker 3: in little league and you were the one kid who
Speaker 3: could steal bases without a signal.
Speaker 2: Oh, like, do you Julia, do you Keith Krushane.
Speaker 1: All right, p is my little coach jack this thing
Speaker 1: with the witching hour ten lead changes.
Speaker 4: Uh, we go to Sincy for this game the crazy
Speaker 4: one five lead changes alone. So that's doing a lot
Speaker 4: of the heavy lifting for these these witching hour lead changes.
Speaker 1: Baker making a fourth quarter touch down fourth quarter of
Speaker 1: the Browns Bengals game. Look at the fourth quarter scoring.
Speaker 1: I bet you the Browns they're they're wishing they used
Speaker 1: to they had that right now.
Speaker 4: Since he goes up thirty four to thirty one with
Speaker 4: a minute and eight seconds left, that's plenty of time
Speaker 4: for Baker to go five plays, seventy five yards just
Speaker 4: fifty five seconds, finds down to Bean Peoples Jones for
Speaker 4: the game winner, classic Baker Cleveland moment. Then down in Atlanta,
Speaker 4: we talked about that game a little bit, the infamous
Speaker 4: Todd Gurley accidental and.
Speaker 1: It was a ten yard run. It wasn't like he
Speaker 1: ranged from the three to into the end. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: had ten yards to be like, dude, throttle it down.
Speaker 1: You can see him think about it in the run,
Speaker 1: where're like He's like, oh shit, I gotta get down.
Speaker 4: The photo is just hilarious of him laying slightly over
Speaker 4: the goal line and all the Lions players putting their
Speaker 4: hands up like he's scored, licking it.
Speaker 1: I remember we walked that.
Speaker 3: We watched that this year right after this happened, because
Speaker 3: Bill would always take situations from the scross the league
Speaker 3: just to coach it, you know, like, hey, guys, this
Speaker 3: is why we call this situation because this can happen.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: It's it's about winning the game, not winning the stats, ayman.
Speaker 4: And just to set the situation up for the viewers
Speaker 4: at home, Atlanta was trailing sixteen to fourteen with about
Speaker 4: a minute eight seconds left. Just got to ice the game,
Speaker 4: as Scott mentioned earlier, just got to get down to
Speaker 4: the one get your kicker enough time Detroit only on
Speaker 4: one time out left. Yeah, so you're good there, but
Speaker 4: he gets in there. Unfortunately, then they go for two,
Speaker 4: get the two point conversion. Go from trailing sixteen to
Speaker 4: fourteen to now up twenty two. That dan Quinn, twenty
Speaker 4: two to sixteen.
Speaker 1: Sorry, uh I think so.
Speaker 3: I hope we don't see that this year at the Commanders,
Speaker 3: I know, hope because they're getting some leads now, dude,
Speaker 3: they're getting leads and come on, there Quinn.
Speaker 1: He said he learned from his experience. Full yeah right,
Speaker 1: he learned from his experience. Don't make the same mistake twice.
Speaker 4: But Alla Baker Stafford only needs a minute in four
Speaker 4: seconds to go down the field.
Speaker 1: Big play to Dola, big play to Kenny Galladay, and
Speaker 1: awesome walk off the Hockins. Yeah, second year hockey.
Speaker 2: Who's a Viking.
Speaker 1: Now, it's crazy that he went in division. He should
Speaker 1: be coming back from injury soon too. The next couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. That was a shame that his a cl
Speaker 1: love watching him was a cl It was a knee.
Speaker 1: I don't know al it was late last year. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then the last star of our witching hour down
Speaker 4: there in New Orleans, one of those classic Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 4: Drew Brees gloves. That was a twenty seven to twenty
Speaker 4: four win. Will let's field go with seventeen. Who is
Speaker 4: the quarterback for the Panthers? It was Teddy Bridgewater And
Speaker 4: who is the quarterback for the Saints, Drew Brees. Yeah, Breeze,
Speaker 4: Breeze was still there one of those.
Speaker 1: By the way, we have a still photo of Breeze
Speaker 1: on a quarterback sneak over the team. I love doing that. No,
Speaker 1: he that was his move. But TB twelve was the greatest.
Speaker 1: What what made him so good at it? Brady was
Speaker 1: I mean obviously basically gifted. I mean he's a tall guy.
Speaker 1: You could say that he's got some strength, but he
Speaker 1: just knew exactly where the soft spot was gonna be
Speaker 1: because he would read if he would go submarine, he
Speaker 1: would go over the top, he would go left, he
Speaker 1: would go right. I think it was a team thing
Speaker 1: with with all our centers, with Andrew's store, Conley, sure,
Speaker 1: all our guards like they they knew they had a
Speaker 1: great formula.
Speaker 3: Where like I remember Scarniko always us to say, when
Speaker 3: our quarterbacks in the jaws death, that's what he used
Speaker 3: to call the quarterback sneak.
Speaker 1: The jaws of death, you fucking guys better protect him.
Speaker 1: Like it was it was all be moving forward. You
Speaker 1: gotta move forward.
Speaker 3: And he would always just sit with the gap and
Speaker 3: it was like, uh, he had free reign to do
Speaker 3: it at any time.
Speaker 2: Okay, So like tap on the butter or whatever first sound.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's a lot of those as well. Where
Speaker 1: are you at on uh on, push push, brotherly shoves,
Speaker 1: learn how to stop? Amen. We got he's gotta learn
Speaker 1: to stop it. You can't take that playout, yep, especially
Speaker 1: because no one else in the league runs it as
Speaker 1: effectively as they do. If everyone was doing it, it's like, okay, wait,
Speaker 1: the game is getting out of control here, we might
Speaker 1: need to tighten this down.
Speaker 2: No, they do it special, and.
Speaker 1: They've been stopped. They have been they have been stopped.
Speaker 1: They got a couple of neat counters off of it too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: some of those they got the guys little.
Speaker 2: Cross, a little little wing hand off, whatever.
Speaker 1: You call it.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's that's football. Yeah, keep going, Jack, Okay, yep.
Speaker 1: Oh. And then finally down there in New Orleans, we
Speaker 1: talked about a seven a field goal from will Us
Speaker 1: with seventeen seven sixteen left in the game would prove
Speaker 1: to be the game winner twenty seven to twenty four,
Speaker 1: but Joey's sly lined up for a sixty five yarder
Speaker 1: just over two minutes left. Joe Joey midleg. But you
Speaker 1: had a big one last week against San Francois.
Speaker 2: He had a sixty three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sixty three, which was the old NFL record. How
Speaker 1: crazy is the kicking off topic right now? Dude? It
Speaker 1: is it's solos fifty five plus more. They're more accurate
Speaker 1: than they are. They get heady with the the forties
Speaker 1: to the fifty twos. I've got it over here. I'm
Speaker 1: sure I've got I mean the fifty fifty plus yarders,
Speaker 1: like literally, I like I said anything. Going into last week,
Speaker 1: we had Kayimi fairbarn was six of seven from fifty plus.
Speaker 1: Brandon Aubrey was five of five from fifty plus, including
Speaker 1: a sixty five yarder that he hit. I think Aubrey's
Speaker 1: best kicker in the game. I think he's passed justin
Speaker 1: just season hickups. He's got a couple of bees right now, yep, yep.
Speaker 1: But I mean they're insane, these guys arters.
Speaker 5: It's like even the college guys are like knocking home.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of good college kickers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, that's what happens. And you got img yeah
Speaker 1: right down there training. These kids are twelve years old
Speaker 1: pro kickers. Like, that's good living. You can if you
Speaker 1: can last in the league twelve to fifteen years as
Speaker 1: a kicker, that's good living. It's good living.
Speaker 4: It is right now.
Speaker 1: They make what's the highest guy make probably like six
Speaker 1: mil seven million. Yeah, I think Bucker signed a contract
Speaker 1: in the off season and is the highest paid kicker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, Jackie, yep, you wanted to run through this aftermath. Yes,
Speaker 1: our witching Hour teams will focus on those guys. Cleveland
Speaker 1: would make the playoffs at eleven and five.
Speaker 4: Cincinnati would finished four and eleven in burrows rookie season.
Speaker 1: New Orleans were going to win the NFC South at
Speaker 1: twelve and four, but we all know who came out
Speaker 1: of that division and won the Super Bowl. The Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. Carolina would finish five and eleven, as would Detroit.
Speaker 1: The Washington football team won the NFC East at seven
Speaker 1: and nine, baby first time winning that division since twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: and as we mentioned earlier, Tom and Gronk would win
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl down there in Tampa in their home stadium.
Speaker 1: Chief for I was, yeah, I was, Now who out
Speaker 1: of that this week of red Zone, out of all
Speaker 1: the players that we've seen on different teams, who's surprised
Speaker 1: you the most? Now? Baker Mayfield. Baker Mayfield because the
Speaker 1: Browns are in what appears to be quarterback wasteland, and
Speaker 1: Baker is Baker's one of the highest rated passers through
Speaker 1: the first month of the season. He showed flashes of it,
Speaker 1: even when he went briflashes when he went to Carolina
Speaker 1: and then he went to the Rams and now with
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, but he's found a home there. He signed
Speaker 1: a three year on hundred million dollar contract this last
Speaker 1: offseason or whatever. He's got two stud wide receivers they're
Speaker 1: forced to be reckoned with and he's playing good football.
Speaker 1: And then the folks in Cleveland have got to watch
Speaker 1: that on red Zone every Sunday. And Baker just threw
Speaker 1: another three touchdown game. Boy, if we could only get
Speaker 1: a guy like this, I would say he probably is.
Speaker 1: He's the most surprising. Why did you have a candidate?
Speaker 3: No, it was just crazy to think about, you know,
Speaker 3: watching the Cleveland Browns watch Baker Mayfield in a buccaneer's
Speaker 3: uniform right when they were probably saying, man, we see
Speaker 3: him on commercials so much in our uniform at that time,
Speaker 3: he was an Attie commercial.
Speaker 1: He was.
Speaker 3: You know, it's been awesome to watch him reboot his
Speaker 3: career and find a landing spot. And and and you
Speaker 3: saw in this specific game.
Speaker 1: I remember we watched these games earlier, and he's it's
Speaker 1: the same bake that we're watching right now. Competitive making
Speaker 1: to play on that third down. Yeah, sloppy for a
Speaker 1: little while, he gets a little loose, But like when
Speaker 1: it comes to Nut cutting time, the guy he the
Speaker 1: moment doesn't look too big for him. Every even if
Speaker 1: the moment is too big for him, he loves doing it.
Speaker 1: He loves I want to be the guy at that moment.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, it does. And and the whole thing
Speaker 1: between him and Brady, I think has been funny. That
Speaker 1: was weird, That was fun. And Brady broadcasted that game
Speaker 1: on side I know, I know you hear what he said,
Speaker 1: Baker Brady said, and then building afterwards, Yeah, but Brady
Speaker 1: said on air, he goes, you know, if I if
Speaker 1: I wanted to have fun, I'd bring my kids to
Speaker 1: Disneyland or something like that. And then he said, I
Speaker 1: think it's more stressful not having rings. Then that's what
Speaker 1: he said.
Speaker 5: Then Bill jumped into what did Bill say?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 5: Bill says the same like winning is fun?
Speaker 2: I said something about Tom.
Speaker 1: Did you see that?
Speaker 2: Tom and I had a little thing at the beginning
Speaker 2: of the season.
Speaker 1: Did you guys see this? No, this is the first
Speaker 1: time I'm addressing it. Podcast or a show. By the way,
Speaker 1: I love Tom. He's my single favorite football player. I
Speaker 1: should expect greatness and he's he is the goat, and
Speaker 1: goat is way overused Michigan Michigan quarterback and whatnot, and
Speaker 1: and and Tom he loves NFL red zone and whenever
Speaker 1: we see each other we dap each other up and stuff.
Speaker 1: So his first game broadcasting Week one, uh, Cowboys at
Speaker 1: Browns and Brandon Aubrey the kicker we mentioned earlier, they
Speaker 1: were going to let him.
Speaker 2: Try a seventy yard seventy right.
Speaker 1: The NFL record is sixtysides penalty and it did right,
Speaker 1: and they almost thought, oh, let's give him a seventy
Speaker 1: five anyway, but seventy yard they were gonna line up,
Speaker 1: and Kevin Burkhardt, his broadcast part on Fox, was like
Speaker 1: this is crazy and whatnot. And Tom was kind of
Speaker 1: more like even keeled, like he was like, well, you
Speaker 1: better make sure that you have a return man back there,
Speaker 1: you know, for the Browns, so that if he misses short,
Speaker 1: they can return it out of there. We had to
Speaker 1: cut to a different game because they had called time
Speaker 1: out before the kick, So I said, oh, man, Tom's
Speaker 1: got to get more excited than that. That's going to
Speaker 1: be a seventy yard field goal. That's all I said.
Speaker 1: And if Tom was sitting here, I would have said, Hey, Tom,
Speaker 1: get a little excited about this, right. Unfortunately, I opened
Speaker 1: by me saying that I opened myself up to be
Speaker 1: the poster boy for all these basement keyboard warriors that
Speaker 1: said Tom sucks as a broadcaster after one week, so
Speaker 1: the New York Post, the New York Times, I believe
Speaker 1: every website that covers there's like Scott Hansen thinks Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's not and you can just by me saying, Oh Tom,
Speaker 1: you got to get excited like that. And I was
Speaker 1: so disappointed. The media is going to do what the
Speaker 1: media is going to do. I was so disappointed because
Speaker 1: I did not want Tom to think I dis respected him.
Speaker 1: So I put a an apology out on Twitter because
Speaker 1: I said my comment in public, and I just said
Speaker 1: I miscalculated as to how they would use me saying
Speaker 1: something about Tom in his first game. The dude's excellent
Speaker 1: at whatever he puts his mind to. He's going to
Speaker 1: be excellent at broadcasting, and he's gotten better each week,
Speaker 1: by the way. But I allowed myself to be thrust
Speaker 1: into that point, and Tom saw it and he replied
Speaker 1: to it. He said, all good. He called himself a rookie,
Speaker 1: which was very self deprecated. He knows that, and he does.
Speaker 1: But I just wanted to say that because I didn't
Speaker 1: want I want the public to know that, like it's
Speaker 1: you're gonna judge someone doing something.
Speaker 2: What we do is hard. You've learned that in the
Speaker 2: years that you've now been involved here. What we do
Speaker 2: is hard.
Speaker 1: And Tom knows more football than than ninety nine point
Speaker 1: nine nine percent of the people that have ever walked
Speaker 1: the face of the earth, and yet knowing it and
Speaker 1: being able to disseminate it in twenty second snippets in
Speaker 1: between this in circumstances in an environment I've never released.
Speaker 1: It's hard. It's gonna take a little while. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: just wanted to put that out there. Thank you for
Speaker 1: letting problem, no problem and whatnot. But because I'm like,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be great at it, and and
Speaker 1: I love the guy. If people don't understand, they think
Speaker 1: Tom Brady thinks if Tom Brady was sitting right here,
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, he knows you, and he
Speaker 1: knows me a little bit but you know, you guys
Speaker 1: are buddies, like he's actually for being a megastar, he's
Speaker 1: about as unaffected as a megastar can be. And I've
Speaker 1: been around some big Hollywood types that do think that
Speaker 1: they're the greatest thing walking the earth. Tom knows he's
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, but he's he's he's a dude. He's a
Speaker 1: good guy. But he also knows he's a first time
Speaker 1: broadcast in this world. Yes, and he knows that yes,
Speaker 1: and and you know that's why he probably didn't pop back,
Speaker 1: because he understands that he's not going to be the
Speaker 1: same person week one that he's going to be in
Speaker 1: week eighteen. Yep. Because he's got so he's.
Speaker 3: Learning as he goes, and you know, he's a normal dude.
Speaker 3: That is kind of dorky. I've said that like three
Speaker 3: times on like four podcasts, but it's the truth. He's
Speaker 3: and you feel that because he's so human and he's
Speaker 3: so humble. Humble, Yeah, around he is people, Yes, he is.
Speaker 3: He's got an aura. Yeah, Jackie. Legacy of this bad Boy.
Speaker 1: I think, uh, the legacy is one of the craziest
Speaker 1: witching hours of all time. Ten lead changes is in
Speaker 1: the most I don't.
Speaker 2: We won't count him like that.
Speaker 1: We probably should think we needed we need to count
Speaker 1: Thank you for someone out there in the comments section.
Speaker 1: We need for you to go over all these witching hours.
Speaker 1: We count every touchdown, though by the end of the
Speaker 1: season you usually see the thousand touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, we at the end of everyplay. I watched that.
Speaker 2: Why I like watching that too.
Speaker 1: That's a touchdown montage because then you for like broadcasting. Yep,
Speaker 1: it's always good. I watch all the highlights and I
Speaker 1: watch every touchdown, so then you can pull from when
Speaker 1: I'm talking about that touchdown. Fans love it.
Speaker 3: I love when you guys throw out your stats too,
Speaker 3: because I steal some stats from you.
Speaker 1: I steal a couple of stats from Sky. You gotta
Speaker 1: steal from the best, maybe you know.
Speaker 4: And then one last one, scut we we're such football
Speaker 4: guys here in the nuthouse. Yeah, and you are like
Speaker 4: in the you know, the god tier pantheon. Not to
Speaker 4: sound trite or cliche here, but can you dickstribe what
Speaker 4: football means to you?
Speaker 1: Sure? Sure? Football is the greatest sport on the planet.
Speaker 1: For a few different reasons, I hosted the Olympics this summer.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys saw that. I hosted
Speaker 1: Gold Zone for the Paris Olympics. Watched it. As it
Speaker 1: relates to football, the strongest athletes on the planet pound
Speaker 1: for pound are Olympic powerlifters. I would venture to say
Speaker 1: the next strongest group of athletes on the planet are
Speaker 1: NFL lineman defensive offensive lineman. The fastest athletes on the
Speaker 1: planet are Olympic sprinters that specialize in one thing, running
Speaker 1: one hundred meters in shorts and a tank top straight
Speaker 1: down a thing. I would venture to say the next
Speaker 1: fastest group of athletes on the planet are the fastest
Speaker 1: NFL wide receivers and defensive backs. And you could go
Speaker 1: down the list highest jumpers right, Oh, okay, you know
Speaker 1: you know, Olympic jumpers or NBA player. Give me a
Speaker 1: forty eight inch vertical leap from some insane wide receiver.
Speaker 1: The athleticism is off the charts, and the teamwork that
Speaker 1: it takes to put together at the NFL level with
Speaker 1: the margins being this small. Life is competition. Life's going
Speaker 1: to try and stop you from doing stuff that you
Speaker 1: want to do. And the NFL is the highest level
Speaker 1: of a group of incredibly talented men and incredibly talented
Speaker 1: men who have coordinated with brilliant coaches to do one
Speaker 1: thing over sixty minutes, and let's find out who comes
Speaker 1: out on top. Man, that's freaking delicious. Besides that, playing
Speaker 1: the game of football formed my personality. The toughness, the dedication,
Speaker 1: the teamwork, the sacrifice, the stick to would have missed.
Speaker 1: You've got to have to be a football player at
Speaker 1: any level. You know this. And maybe I'm preaching right now.
Speaker 2: I mean it, Jewels, I mean it. Football has.
Speaker 1: It shapes character, it shapes human beings, and it transcends
Speaker 1: just wins loss on a scoreboard or a witching hour
Speaker 1: or whatever else. And I love I love the game.
Speaker 1: That's what football. Let's go. I'm gonna put my head
Speaker 1: through goddamn up, this is your house. Don't don't do
Speaker 1: that any leftovers, Jackie leftovers.
Speaker 5: I got a question for you. Yeah, how much do
Speaker 5: wives hate you? Because my wife certainly hates.
Speaker 1: Okay, No, there are First of all, there are many, many, beautiful,
Speaker 1: wonderful female football fans who love NFL red zone as
Speaker 1: much a check the numbers. However, However, there are a
Speaker 1: sub segment of society that I affectionately refer to as
Speaker 1: red Zone widows. We do not have a husband seven
Speaker 1: straight for everything. I mean, I talk for a living
Speaker 1: freaking good. You're freaking good red Zone widows. And I
Speaker 1: did an autograph signing one time. So people are lining up,
Speaker 1: you know, we're doing autograph signing, and this old guy
Speaker 1: comes up. He had to be in his seventies something
Speaker 1: like that, and he's like, hey, Scott, I love Red Zone.
Speaker 1: You know it's a great way to watch.
Speaker 5: Oh thank you.
Speaker 1: Okay, your name's John to John Scott Hansen. And this
Speaker 1: woman comes from back of the line and she looks
Speaker 1: about seventy something years old and she gets up next
Speaker 1: to this guy and she's like wondering what her husband's doing.
Speaker 1: And she looks down at she looks at me. She
Speaker 1: looks at the picture that I'm signing of me, and
Speaker 1: she looks at my name and she goes, oh is
Speaker 1: that him? And I'm like, you, miss, must be a
Speaker 1: Red Zone widow. And he started laughing in front of them.
Speaker 1: Betty Hell wait switching hour. So yes, there is that,
Speaker 1: But like I said, there are there are couples that
Speaker 1: red Zone together, stay together, and there are there are
Speaker 1: husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends. We need a reality
Speaker 1: TV show, The Red Zone, Red Zone Relationship Counseling. I
Speaker 1: love it. We might be onto something here, strife at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the octobox and by the end of
Speaker 1: the Witching Hour NFL web Zone Zone he's thought about
Speaker 1: this this Hey, if it makes dollars.
Speaker 2: It makes sense?
Speaker 1: Yes, oh man, guess we'll be right back after this
Speaker 1: quick break.
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Speaker 1: let's go. Let's name this game. What is this? What
Speaker 1: do we got?
Speaker 2: So we got a name?
Speaker 1: And score?
Speaker 3: The witchy know dude, yep? So we name the game.
Speaker 3: Score the game presented by Jamison. Is this the greatest
Speaker 3: game of all time? Let's score it. What's the name
Speaker 3: of the game?
Speaker 1: Is it the Witching Week? The greatest Witching Hour of
Speaker 1: all time? The witchiest Witching Hour, the g double h
Speaker 1: oh switching out.
Speaker 2: Quote quote. I think this is the quote week.
Speaker 1: I like quote. Let's we're going with the gua. Let's
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 3: This is your great Okay, give it the quote the quote?
Speaker 3: Is this the greatest game of all time? Let's score it?
Speaker 3: Presented by Jamison Steaks zero to ten. The stakes of
Speaker 3: this week's Week seven.
Speaker 1: I would give that your favorite score a seven point nine,
Speaker 1: O seven point nine maybe even I mean whatever that's
Speaker 1: you said. My catch was so look, it's not playoff time.
Speaker 1: My favorite episode of the year usually is either Week
Speaker 1: one when we're back just feels so good and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of crazy shit that happened because you don't
Speaker 1: know guys don't don't know each other. That's I I agree,
Speaker 1: or Week eighteen want to be Week seventeen because every
Speaker 1: everything's being clinched, everything from the last Wild Cars seating
Speaker 1: as being you know, this team's gonna not play their starters,
Speaker 1: this team is you even have the number one pick
Speaker 1: in the draft, could switch hands during the witching hour,
Speaker 1: you know, with the and the team's on the back half.
Speaker 1: So this week Week seven didn't have the highest stakes
Speaker 1: of all time.
Speaker 7: I want to throw in Week seventeen now into their
Speaker 7: hat in the ring, just because it's Fantasy Football championship.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good point, second to last week of
Speaker 1: the year Fantasy Football Championships. That's that's usually huge as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll give it a seven. Yeah, I think that's probably wise.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that Yeah, Oh yeah, no, that's yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I could. I probably should have run with I just
Speaker 1: wanted to demonstrate that I was listening to Julian earlier
Speaker 1: in the podcast when he said seven points like uncle,
Speaker 1: star power star power of ten decimals, Okay, a lot
Speaker 1: of stars. We had Burt uh literally the entire yeah
Speaker 1: Baker when he was a brown nine I mean Matt
Speaker 1: Ryant there was because my guy Jewels got hurt in
Speaker 1: this game. I gotta give it a nine point five
Speaker 1: and it would have been a ten, but it was
Speaker 1: your last game, and I gotta I gotta knock that
Speaker 1: week down because because we did not see you after that,
Speaker 1: I'm still bitter about it, although thankful to be with
Speaker 1: you now.
Speaker 3: Man's very hurtful. Guy, I'm gonna go with a six
Speaker 3: to explain that. Well, there's a lot of stars right here,
Speaker 3: but it is week seven. I want to see the
Speaker 3: stars when they're doing like astronomical Okay, conversation nah, but
Speaker 3: it's still. Yes, the star is not a real the
Speaker 3: star is just it's it's like a super nova. Still,
Speaker 3: it's just being born. The star a star is Has
Speaker 3: anyone ever tried to convince you star is born in.
Speaker 1: The playoffs in the later weeks that has anyone tried
Speaker 1: to convince you after you scored it, because let me
Speaker 1: just say who we had in here? We had uh
Speaker 1: and these guys all through for more than three hundred
Speaker 1: yards passing. Joe Burrow went for four hundred yards and
Speaker 1: three touchdowns. Russell Wilson to rations on the bench. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady heard of him. He's calling games. Uh, here were
Speaker 1: the three hundred yard passers. You're gonna laugh at a couple, Uh,
Speaker 1: Tyler Murray Carson wentz through for three bay there's a
Speaker 1: I think there's a call of duty dropping soon Car
Speaker 1: went with Philadelphia. Don't even know where he's at with
Speaker 1: Philadelphia at the time. Justin Herbert Young young pop through seven. Uh,
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford who we discussed dog Matt Ryan in with
Speaker 1: Mariachi CBS, Deshaun Watson when he used to know how
Speaker 1: to play football through for three hundred and nine yards
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns, and then and then young Josh Allen did.
Speaker 1: There is a lot of stars.
Speaker 7: So Jack did seven point five, I did eight point one,
Speaker 7: solid solid. It's literally everyone, but there is a there
Speaker 7: is a magnifier in big moments.
Speaker 5: I agree with that.
Speaker 3: I think it magnifies and then also star power. We've
Speaker 3: done Super Bowls wen historic crazy where you got Whitney
Speaker 3: Houston doing.
Speaker 2: That adds to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean, that makes sense
Speaker 1: right now? We got like we got Pop Worner at
Speaker 1: the time, I think was the halftime act of the
Speaker 1: Browns Bengals game that you guys don't even know who.
Speaker 7: I think you're talking more about stars per capita, and
Speaker 7: I think because all the games are at times the
Speaker 7: stars is.
Speaker 1: It's not as concentrated as Okay, yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: get on board with a constellation of stars. The game play. Now,
Speaker 1: this is where you make up okay, well duh, this
Speaker 1: is where you make up your point because if you
Speaker 1: grade one game, if you grade whatever, any of the
Speaker 1: Patriots Super Bowl wins, especially the.
Speaker 2: Tight ones that you guys had most of the all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I got to give it a gotta give
Speaker 1: it a nine point nine, just because you always gotta
Speaker 1: be a room for improvement. But nine point nine the
Speaker 1: lead changes. The insanity that we see is stellar. I
Speaker 1: mean view that it's a nine.
Speaker 2: Okay, wow, how often does he give a nine?
Speaker 1: Not often? Yeah, very standard, it's standard for Championship game
Speaker 1: for stakes for me, Kyler and I lowballed at seven
Speaker 1: point zero seven point I think, I think judges, I mean, hold,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: The game we talked about the most ended from like
Speaker 7: lack of situational awareness.
Speaker 5: That's not great gameplay, that's just not knowing when to
Speaker 5: go down.
Speaker 1: But but okay, but gameplay from a fan, from a
Speaker 1: viewers pursuit what I'm doing, Okay, entertainments fair, I think
Speaker 1: that's fair. Yeah, the tightness of the game. In fact
Speaker 1: that the t Higgins Cincinnati Bengals touchdout three Browns had
Speaker 1: the worst tackling on that play. That it was like whatever,
Speaker 1: but it was great TV. It was great, great TV.
Speaker 1: I agree with that Kai guy. You see he just
Speaker 1: don't don't he gets crabby sometimes watch out for him.
Speaker 7: Now we got to score the name of the game,
Speaker 7: the quote the Greatest Witching Hour time.
Speaker 2: It's a great game. That's a great name.
Speaker 1: That is a great name. Uh.
Speaker 2: I'll give it a nine nine point zero solid.
Speaker 1: I'll give it am like way over grading it because
Speaker 1: I'm involved with all of it.
Speaker 2: So that's why I go yeah, eight one eight one.
Speaker 1: So so jacko.
Speaker 5: This is before we knew the name.
Speaker 1: We got to rescore. Yeah, I gotta bump this numbers
Speaker 1: way up. These are these are rookie numbers.
Speaker 7: So I'm gonna I love Greatest Witching Hour of all time.
Speaker 7: I actually might go crazy nine point one for me,
Speaker 7: I go eight point one.
Speaker 1: I love it. Where is it? All?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: Let's let's do the magic math and see where it
Speaker 1: stands long calculating calculating, Yeah, greatest six Let's see point
Speaker 1: where he stacks up against the rest of the games.
Speaker 5: Seven point six eight.
Speaker 7: It puts us at uh thirty thirty fourth between the
Speaker 7: Can't Wait Game twenty eleven AFC Division Round Jets versus Patriots,
Speaker 7: who did with Rich Eisen and a tunaball just below
Speaker 7: the tunabl Jet's Patriots in nineteen ninety seven?
Speaker 5: Which we did.
Speaker 2: It Falcon's Patriots number one. What happened in that game?
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's just a little engine that. That's
Speaker 1: a good list there, gentlemen.
Speaker 2: That is a good list, man, Scott, did we miss anything?
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Bro, we covered everything.
Speaker 1: Man, you are awesome. You got anything to plug red zone?
Speaker 1: Everyone go watching. I think people have heard of it,
Speaker 1: believe it or not. There are still some people who
Speaker 1: hit me up on on on Twitter, on x or
Speaker 1: or Instagram saying I watched Red Zone for the first
Speaker 1: time today. You know that means another viewer, growth, industry,
Speaker 1: growth in industry.
Speaker 3: So you got Hey, Scott, I learned so much from
Speaker 3: here this this interview, not only of how cool of
Speaker 3: a guy you are and how you take your craft.
Speaker 3: You put a lot of time into it, but for
Speaker 3: me as a broadcaster in my field, like just watching
Speaker 3: your all your preparation, like I've learned a lot just
Speaker 3: that I'm gonna take going forward preparing for my shows
Speaker 3: when I have to do, you know, Fox Kickoff in
Speaker 3: the morning or even my show's here. You're a real
Speaker 3: standout dude. You work your tail off. You've been doing
Speaker 3: it since the beginning. We appreciate you coming in the nuthouse.
Speaker 3: This has been so fun because a lot of people
Speaker 3: ask for you, you know, and in the comment sections
Speaker 3: in our in our our ore. We we have a
Speaker 3: hotline and we have emails and all this stuff. People
Speaker 3: are like, you gotta get Scott on, You gotta get
Speaker 3: Scott on. And it's been such an awesome experience to
Speaker 3: have you here. Man, I appreciate you coming in. Well,
Speaker 3: you're one hundred percent welcome. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: I told you I watched this show, yes, you know,
Speaker 1: coming in and I was like, what would it be
Speaker 1: like to sit there next to big caves?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 1: And it was a great experience. And no fire alarm
Speaker 1: went off, ter no fire alarm maybe. Thank you, Scott,
Speaker 1: you got it man, that was an awesome show. He's
Speaker 1: got energy.
Speaker 4: One of our few guests that has come with materials,
Speaker 4: came prepared.
Speaker 5: Who were the materials guys, Scott piol.
Speaker 1: Scott Pioli, Adams, Scott Hansen. Scott Hanson also brought like
Speaker 1: the Holy Trinity as well too.
Speaker 5: He like pulled me like when you first got here,
Speaker 5: like pulled me aside. I want to surprise you. As
Speaker 5: I got some stuff, I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 5: what could this possibly be?
Speaker 2: My guy was on it.
Speaker 1: He absolutely incredible.
Speaker 3: He's you could tell he's he's probably like all out
Speaker 3: gun ho at workplace, like all right, guys.
Speaker 1: Let's go, we got this. But he's he's he's fucking good.
Speaker 5: In dialed dialed in.
Speaker 4: I wanted to tell him I didn't want to glaze
Speaker 4: him up too hard, though, like he could have been
Speaker 4: a patriot with that mindset.
Speaker 6: Could have been you could have been hey, long snapper,
Speaker 6: Hey the more you can, more you can do baby.
Speaker 1: He was. He was dropping the patriotisms. He's patriotism.
Speaker 7: The funny thing we didn't really he always talks about
Speaker 7: like peeing. It's a conversation that's on every time he doesn't.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, we didn't really touch it too too much.
Speaker 7: But the funny thing is as soon as he soon
Speaker 7: as the show route, literally everyone ran into the bathroom.
Speaker 1: I had to pee the first ten minutes. Oh my
Speaker 1: god doing it. I was.
Speaker 2: Half the time.
Speaker 1: I was thinking of a joke away out where I
Speaker 1: could be like, hey man, mind if I go use
Speaker 1: the bathroom, bro, But I was thinking like, this guy
Speaker 1: doesn't piss for seven hours, and I can't even not
Speaker 1: pee for the first ten minutes of the fucking thing.
Speaker 1: So I held that whole I Scott hansened that whole episode. Dude, say,
Speaker 1: my eyes were turning yellow halfway through, like it was insane.
Speaker 1: I was topic changing up my fucking yes. Bro. I
Speaker 1: was like, I thought, you're just adjusting the piece. No, dude,
Speaker 1: I was trying to put I was trying to clinch
Speaker 1: the piece. I was clinching.
Speaker 4: Bro, we gotta come up with maybe in the future
Speaker 4: a high sign for we gotta go pee like some sort.
Speaker 3: Of like or we could just get out. We got
Speaker 3: to dial our routine, like fucking Scott, get them on deck.
Speaker 5: We were very dehydrated yesterday. That's because we played golf.
Speaker 1: That's true. Oh my god. He'd strugg central.
Speaker 4: I literally like, fight through fatigue tough for eighteen baby,
Speaker 4: but holy smokes, that was tough.
Speaker 1: I've never been that hot in my life. It was
Speaker 1: hot hot in October.
Speaker 4: You thought it was gonna be I thought I was like, Oh,
Speaker 4: I got my wind shirt. I came out with a
Speaker 4: wind shirt on, like I thought it'd be a little breezy.
Speaker 4: Holy smokes, was I wrong?
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: I still pay the still brought fifty on the front nine.
Speaker 4: You hit him, hit him, hit him, still posted putting
Speaker 4: up scores. We're driving fairways hitting. I think it was
Speaker 4: like fourteen of eighteen fairways.
Speaker 1: Short but straight. Can't be mad at that.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know what, Jack knows his game?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 4: You know they say Sabrina Carpenter short and sweet. Jack's
Speaker 4: golf game short. Straight there, that's right, baby, salesmen around
Speaker 4: the green we gotta be and you're hey, your guys
Speaker 4: games are looking great.
Speaker 1: I mean they're always consistent. No, I don't know. You
Speaker 1: guys were bombing them, you know, I was thinking halfway
Speaker 1: through this episode two.
Speaker 4: Scott's dad must have loved him on road trips as
Speaker 4: a kid, ever asking us pull over and go pee.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but he's also never stopped talking.
Speaker 1: Hey dad, what is that? Can we up there? I
Speaker 1: won't pay my dad broad trips with Frank sound awesome.
Speaker 1: Mom used to make me sit in the front sometimes.
Speaker 1: Shut me up. You and Jason going at it? Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I told you? What story? Did I tell who? Yeah?
Speaker 5: That's coming up, all right, you guys, it's already out.
Speaker 1: It's already out.
Speaker 4: I think yeah, because I was like, oh, yeah, Nikki.
Speaker 4: I think she thought I was talking about her. But
Speaker 4: you're nicky Jason, ma'am.
Speaker 5: Well, awesome.
Speaker 1: It's time for a toast, guys, whether you're celebrating, commemorating,
Speaker 1: or just kicking back, it's always better to have a
Speaker 1: glass of jamison irish whiskey. Yeah, you can't pour me
Speaker 1: some jamison without making a nice toe. I got your brother, so.
Speaker 5: We're gonna do a little bit of a toast segment here.
Speaker 1: Oh hey, show the show the camera. My just fire merch.
Speaker 1: I'm rocking.
Speaker 4: He's the Jack Lepper Kahn, Johnny James, Johnny Jamison here,
Speaker 4: perfect irishman.
Speaker 1: Last name couldn't be any more Irish. That's right, baby.
Speaker 7: But before we go into this segment and actually do
Speaker 7: this toast, I want to say what Jameson is doing
Speaker 7: about trying to like unofficially get an NFL international game
Speaker 7: to Dublin.
Speaker 1: It's crazy that it's not there. Play college games?
Speaker 5: Yeah, college games? Is that is that?
Speaker 3: I know we shouldn't talk about this in this but
Speaker 3: is that like England Ireland MS always trying to keep
Speaker 3: us down their politics in that maybe I didn't even
Speaker 3: think of that way.
Speaker 2: Scottish over there doing some I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm still I gotta get caught up through a show
Speaker 3: when I get like, you know, I learned monarch through Crowns.
Speaker 3: So if there's a show with like Scottish iron and
Speaker 3: that other stuff, I'll be dialed up.
Speaker 1: But until then, I don't I don't understand the beef,
Speaker 1: or maybe it could be the beef you should beef.
Speaker 7: Dairy Girls is awesome on Netflix, super fucking funny. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it's like three seasons, like six episodes. It's super hilarious.
Speaker 1: Further Ado, I propose a toast. Yeah, this goddamn game
Speaker 1: that we love, that we literally talk about, that we
Speaker 1: dream about to a land of people that we think
Speaker 1: is very very green over there. But little do they
Speaker 1: know they grown football football to football on Ireland.
Speaker 5: And then we're actually gonna do.
Speaker 1: Man, it's so good with it. Taste your lips, tastes
Speaker 1: so good with it. Touch your lips, Frank tak Jack,
Speaker 1: what are you?
Speaker 5: What's your toast?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 4: Okay, toast we do a little own one. Okay, Anyways,
Speaker 4: I propose the toast boys. Got three here Monday night
Speaker 4: football doubleheaders. Let's keep them going all season. They make
Speaker 4: the worst day of the week kind of like the
Speaker 4: best day of the.
Speaker 1: Week two on Monday Night. It's such a nice little surprise.
Speaker 4: And another toast to the guy that updates athletes IMDb
Speaker 4: pages for the big games they play in as if
Speaker 4: they were credits in a movie, like Danny Am and
Speaker 4: Dola playing on Thursday Night football as self, or maybe
Speaker 4: Danny Amandola being a participant in Super Bowl fifty one
Speaker 4: as New England Patriots wide receiver, and uh he was
Speaker 4: in thirteen episodes of NFL on CBS.
Speaker 1: Shout out to that Ballers.
Speaker 4: He's also an episode of Ballers, Ballers, and he's adding
Speaker 4: to it with Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 1: Seem with the Stars. But I just love that guy.
Speaker 4: Who's who's updating those those pages as if it was, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, as if he was an actor and this
Speaker 4: was his uh, his.
Speaker 1: His resume. Yeah, I like that guy. Shout out to
Speaker 1: that guy. And lastly to my man Will Levis.
Speaker 4: We had pocket passers, we got mobile quarterbacks, we got
Speaker 4: gun slingers, but he's our first meme quarterback. He's a
Speaker 4: gift that keeps on giving week in and week out.
Speaker 4: He out does himself.
Speaker 1: Here's to you, Will, Here's to you Will, mayonnaise and all.
Speaker 5: Do you want to go? Where shall I go?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep it short and sweet.
Speaker 1: I love it. I'm gonna keep it short and sweet.
Speaker 1: Even he even played just the tip over there with
Speaker 1: it just a tip Tason, Teason, gotta get one out
Speaker 1: for Dola. He's on Dancing with the Stars. Damn right, baby,
Speaker 1: springing guy. I never seen them dance to day in
Speaker 1: his life.
Speaker 3: Now he's over here like goddamn Patrick Swayze and dirty
Speaker 3: dancing out there doing the fox trot, the meranguo, the tango,
Speaker 3: whatever the fucking is he's doing it. He did a backflip.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, he need a backflip off the stage.
Speaker 3: Where the fuck did this knee strength come from? The
Speaker 3: guy could barely one routes. Now he's Patrick Swayze. So
Speaker 3: this one is the Danny to Danny, go vote we
Speaker 3: love you.
Speaker 7: You can vote ten times, really and often. Da Daniel
Speaker 7: put the text on the screen.
Speaker 1: Damn Daniel, where's your final?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 1: What's your toest?
Speaker 5: Kyler got some obscure sports things that we never touched.
Speaker 1: A toast. Oh my god, I just saved. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: talk about what catches the all time. I'm raw dogging
Speaker 1: cup with no freaking paper talent there, almost dropped, snagged
Speaker 1: it with my hook look at the under thing. Snagged
Speaker 1: it with the hook on the bottom so it didn't
Speaker 1: get all over this beautiful suede couch. And there's a
Speaker 1: lot of dip spit in here. Hook could be the
Speaker 1: catch of my life. Back to your toast, Kyler, so.
Speaker 7: I want to give a shout out to some obscure
Speaker 7: sports that we don't cover here, games with names. Professional
Speaker 7: cycling specifically, my guy, Teddy Pragatca has one of the
Speaker 7: most incredible seasons in professional cycling history. He won the
Speaker 7: gered Italia, won seven stages or six stages, killed it.
Speaker 7: He won the Tour de France, won another six stages,
Speaker 7: could have won seven, but won six.
Speaker 1: Wait, so what does that mean if you win six
Speaker 1: or seven?
Speaker 7: So the Grand Tours, there's it's a one race, but
Speaker 7: there's twenty one days, so they do twenty one stage
Speaker 7: or twenty stages, and so there's twenty races inside the
Speaker 7: one race. So he won the individual race six times
Speaker 7: inside of the big race. So did he win the
Speaker 7: big race? He won the big race by a lot,
Speaker 7: and he won six individual stages in that the gered Italia,
Speaker 7: which is highly regarded as the second best professional cycling race.
Speaker 1: So is that like winning against like say, say you
Speaker 1: were playing the Jets, we beat them into Division one,
Speaker 1: it's like two points in the but but then we
Speaker 1: maybe have a tie breaker and something I don't know.
Speaker 7: No, it's like, uh, winning the Gerada tal is like
Speaker 7: winning like the PG eight like the PGA Championship, right, okay, yeah,
Speaker 7: it's a major.
Speaker 5: It's like there's three majors. It's one of the majors.
Speaker 5: Highly regarded the second.
Speaker 7: He also did the exact same thing for the Twitter
Speaker 7: France when his third toward France of his career one
Speaker 7: six stages.
Speaker 5: Absolutely killed it.
Speaker 7: And then to top it off, he also just won
Speaker 7: World Championships the individual one day race. So Teddy Pragatcha,
Speaker 7: my guy absolutely killing it. Incredible season. He probably could
Speaker 7: have won the Did you just.
Speaker 1: See that guy on Instagram? Walker? He's walking the whole world?
Speaker 1: What this reminded me of.
Speaker 3: He's walking there's like one way you can walk from
Speaker 3: Asia and then he swam across the fifty yards or
Speaker 3: the fifty miles to Russia. Oh okay, he went from
Speaker 3: South America, started up, then went all the way up
Speaker 3: to it like he's walking the world.
Speaker 1: It's been twenty years or something.
Speaker 3: I gotta look this guys the same category as these
Speaker 3: bicycle guys, Guys that just have the heart to just
Speaker 3: travel land.
Speaker 1: I love that just has got to do.
Speaker 5: But this guy's doing like a fas faster these guys.
Speaker 1: Slovenian, right, but could you imagine that that would be
Speaker 1: a bike race that I want to watch if they
Speaker 1: have to bike race all the way. Somehow they build.
Speaker 5: Like a boat adventure racing type stuff, like they gotta.
Speaker 3: Go from always South America all the way up to
Speaker 3: North America Alaska, and you somehow they build like a
Speaker 3: bridge that it's like you could easily have somewhere in China.
Speaker 3: Make this where like it just puts a road so
Speaker 3: that it would be like a boat, but they have
Speaker 3: to they have to ride on the boat. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: but it's putting the track down while while they're going.
Speaker 3: So they could do the fifty miles to Russia, and
Speaker 3: then when you get to Russia, you can do all
Speaker 3: of Asia and you can hop over to like northern
Speaker 3: Africa and get down in there like Saudi and stuff.
Speaker 3: And they got to go all the way, Like that
Speaker 3: is a race you want to watch.
Speaker 1: I'm all about that. That's like alligators they might get
Speaker 1: eating or something, or or a lion in the Fari
Speaker 1: death defying stuff.
Speaker 3: There's gotta be some like ain't nobody watching people just
Speaker 3: ride bikes?
Speaker 5: I watch it, missus stitche.
Speaker 1: I mean I have actually tried to watch it because
Speaker 1: you know we.
Speaker 5: Don't need I'll have like a forty five minute diet.
Speaker 1: This is on your toast. By the way, how's your toast?
Speaker 7: So just shout out Tedy. Insane Year won the zero,
Speaker 7: won the tour, won the world championship. Won's a monument.
Speaker 7: There's some more races left. Insane Year killing it. One
Speaker 7: of the best cyclists ever and he's like a fun,
Speaker 7: cool guy that likes to fucking compete.
Speaker 5: So shout out to Teddy.
Speaker 1: Shout out day dude, don't let me rain on your parade.
Speaker 1: It's good. That's a good ship. Let's see you do
Speaker 1: it with some lions chasing you or hippo hippos go
Speaker 1: like thirty two miles an hour. I learned all these
Speaker 1: crazy facts with my kid.
Speaker 5: I love MoU dang.
Speaker 1: Huh Moudang, I love mudang. What's moudang? The hip?
Speaker 5: Like the baby hippo?
Speaker 1: Who?
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