Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL podcast s brates good times. Come on,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansas and I am joined by
Speaker 1: room Feld with heroes Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and Greg Rostal.
Speaker 1: What is up? Boys? That might have been my favorite
Speaker 1: money tag ever. That was awesome. Let's give Dan a
Speaker 1: little credit. He is on vacation from NFL media and
Speaker 1: you are here with us. Are you do you even
Speaker 1: want to be around us on your vacation? Short answer,
Speaker 1: and especially not when I got here and you got
Speaker 1: these you know three DRABRONI show up in suit jackets.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, it's a suit jacket jacket in
Speaker 1: the studio move. Nobody tells the old juser, what are
Speaker 1: you wearing? Why don't you describe it from I'm wearing
Speaker 1: a lumber back jack shirt. You're lucky. I'm even wearing
Speaker 1: a button up. When I came in from home, I
Speaker 1: was gonna wear a T shirt. Then I get in
Speaker 1: here and you pull the rug out from under me
Speaker 1: in an effort to out handsome me. I know you
Speaker 1: guys got a lot of work to do, but this
Speaker 1: is I don't like this at all Chris and I
Speaker 1: were taping NFL Now earlier today, and you know Mark,
Speaker 1: he's just kind of a clothes horse. Mark looks like
Speaker 1: he looks like the r A from Saved by the
Speaker 1: Belvit College line is a joke, I mean basically, And
Speaker 1: if they want to watch the NFL Now video, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be taping a video, that's why I to
Speaker 1: show me. But it's a gray ensemble, ridiculous, low level.
Speaker 1: What what even call this? Like a dad's golf shirt
Speaker 1: or something. You're very upset with Zach right now and
Speaker 1: you're going to write him up. I call it a
Speaker 1: free are you know, you know apparel that you got
Speaker 1: at an NFL event that pretty much describes with a
Speaker 1: sports code on top of it. It's a nice look.
Speaker 1: So anyway, it was a double cross. I have some
Speaker 1: information I can trade you, uh in exchange for your
Speaker 1: forgiveness on this issue. Okay, I'm open. Greg told me
Speaker 1: on the way to NFL Now this morning, did he
Speaker 1: texted his personal hair guy to see if he wasn't
Speaker 1: in there? He got shut down? Oh, it's grown embarrassing. Greg.
Speaker 1: That was that's both unbecoming of you and embarrassing that.
Speaker 1: The guy was like, well, he's not. He's like, aren't
Speaker 1: you a blow the liner number he gave it, he
Speaker 1: was like, if you know, to see if it could
Speaker 1: work out or whoever, if he was at work that day.
Speaker 1: It's not a sneak attack. I told Greg when he
Speaker 1: gave me the information that I appreciate West. You're off
Speaker 1: the hook, thank you. I could care less. This is
Speaker 1: one of those things. It's like making fun of the
Speaker 1: Patriots for winning too many super Bowl It's like thoroughly murky.
Speaker 1: It's a great analogy. It's up there with Reavus as analogy.
Speaker 1: All right. So, yes, this is our Thursday show, the
Speaker 1: Around the NFL Podcast, the award winning Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: We got a big show today. I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: We're going to uh look at look at the O
Speaker 1: T A s, look back at the second wave of
Speaker 1: O T s that went down this week, and each
Speaker 1: give one takeaway that we have. And I believe that
Speaker 1: is what um where we're going to get into with
Speaker 1: is this why the Jackets are on? Is it because
Speaker 1: of this? Is this going on NFL? Now? I think
Speaker 1: we're going to tape actually one of our part of
Speaker 1: oh Okay, I don't know what's happening. I just got here. Um.
Speaker 1: We're also going to hit up the mail bag, which
Speaker 1: we haven't done in a while. So we're gonna see
Speaker 1: what you the listeners have to say to us and
Speaker 1: we will reply, so that will be cool. But before
Speaker 1: any of that, we gotta check in behind the glass
Speaker 1: and t D is not alone, by the way, he's
Speaker 1: also behind the glass. Sully of course, the Great Sean Sullivan,
Speaker 1: and behind t D my brother Kevin danger hands this,
Speaker 1: Let's be honest, Kevin's the only reason you're in. If
Speaker 1: you're on a normal you would not be coming in
Speaker 1: for the show. But you wanted to show your brother. Hey,
Speaker 1: look it's it's the fancy hands is it's it's the
Speaker 1: star hands. Look at what big brothers got going. It's important.
Speaker 1: It was absurd, Uh, it's important, Yeah, to you know.
Speaker 1: I figured Kevin might want to see it, and it
Speaker 1: actually this is all about Kevin. I said, Kevin, do
Speaker 1: you want to see the The podcast is like if
Speaker 1: you would have said no, if he would have said,
Speaker 1: let's go get drunk somewhere, play frisbee or something like that,
Speaker 1: I would have said, all right, let those are your
Speaker 1: two options fee with Yeah, we're gonna play. We're gonna
Speaker 1: throw some frisbee after the show, so forty with you
Speaker 1: to uh, you know, not yet, so maybe maybe we'll
Speaker 1: talk to Kevin at the end of the show. So
Speaker 1: we got Kevin there, t d uh, you know how
Speaker 1: you doing, buddy doing good man? Kevin is having a
Speaker 1: good time. I don't think he's a huge fan of you.
Speaker 1: You know, nicknamed me your own self, though really I
Speaker 1: didn't as I took it out of my hands. And
Speaker 1: and let Lindsay Rhodes decide between Daddy Rich and old Zeuster.
Speaker 1: I think she went with Daddy Rich, but old Zeuser
Speaker 1: is the one that feels right. So yeah, this will
Speaker 1: be the one nickname ever that no one ever calls you.
Speaker 1: I get it a time on social media. Daddy Rich
Speaker 1: couldn't be farther off base, So we have to go
Speaker 1: with you. Guys all look ridiculous. Are the options really? Uh?
Speaker 1: What's your nickname? By the way, today you keep saying
Speaker 1: young Kobe, which is absolutely deplorable, giving myself that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you didn't. And then and then you're trying
Speaker 1: to push something on us earlier this week. It was
Speaker 1: like sporty cheap. That's a real life nickname. That's what
Speaker 1: my family whom I'll be going home to see in
Speaker 1: a couple of days. That's good. I'm happy to hear that.
Speaker 1: But old Zeuser is just as real as young Chief
Speaker 1: or whatever, even more real. I love you, buddy, Listen.
Speaker 1: I don't want to fight with you like you and
Speaker 1: West did the other guy. Is everything cool there? We're good? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we continued that debate, you know, Vogue d Money
Speaker 1: a social media guy and Dave damage check yesterday and uh,
Speaker 1: just kept it's ongoing, all right, that's good. Yeah, dialogues
Speaker 1: good made you award. Just to reminder you, we got
Speaker 1: nominated for the Academy of Podcasts Awards, and uh, please
Speaker 1: send in your suggestions because we need to send him
Speaker 1: a five minute clip of our show. So far, have
Speaker 1: been ginning a lot of Mark Sessler's fifty words description
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys defense, a lot of Mark Sceslor Spies segments. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that list would do well to introduced
Speaker 1: with the show. We weren't correct though either, as funny
Speaker 1: as it was, we want to probably submit something where
Speaker 1: we look like we're you know, knowing what we're talking
Speaker 1: about right now, we couldn't really have been farther off
Speaker 1: base when I say we also liked the idea of
Speaker 1: just let's send in a segment where it's all Mark
Speaker 1: to Mark Sessler show, and now lets suggestion we keep
Speaker 1: getting as Chris Wesley's tribute to Reggie Wayne that which
Speaker 1: is very heart woman and uh, it was very inspiring
Speaker 1: at the time. Well, you'd have to put like the
Speaker 1: Academy Award music when someone dies behind it. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go. We'll start with Adrian Peterson, who big news
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Mike Zimmer, the Vikings coach, made it very
Speaker 1: clear where he stood, uh, in terms of Peterson's situation
Speaker 1: where he hasn't appeared at any offseason workouts so far.
Speaker 1: He said, and he said to the media, listen, Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson can either play for us or not play at all. So, uh,
Speaker 1: that was really cutting through some of the rhetoric that
Speaker 1: was coming through the Peterson camp through back channels in
Speaker 1: the media. And Peterson then responds on Thursday, Um, the
Speaker 1: reason I'm not attending O t S has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with wanting to be traded. It's about securing my
Speaker 1: future with the Vikings. It's business, not personal, and I
Speaker 1: understand that firsthand. Go Vikings, Greg, You've always said this
Speaker 1: is about the money. Is it about the money? I
Speaker 1: loved Well, he just said it's about that. I love
Speaker 1: the fact that Adrian Peterson released the statement that basically
Speaker 1: said West has been wrong for the last four shows.
Speaker 1: It was almost a direct attack on Charles Robinson of
Speaker 1: Yahoo and West. Well, I think that that I don't
Speaker 1: want to be traded. It's about the money. It's a
Speaker 1: slight oversimplification. It's more about the fact that he has
Speaker 1: no leverage. Um. But I I would like to point
Speaker 1: out that you and uh NFL media insider Ian Rappaport
Speaker 1: have read this situation Asian correctly all along and Yahoo
Speaker 1: and Bleacher Report basically got used by Peterson's camp. Well
Speaker 1: hold on, but West. I don't think Wes is wrong
Speaker 1: to point out that Peterson is unhappy with the Vikings
Speaker 1: and if he could be somewhere else, he would be
Speaker 1: somewhere else, but he has he's out of moves. And
Speaker 1: then he went on this Twitter rant today well where
Speaker 1: he unleashed on the on his contract situation. So he
Speaker 1: went on an epic Twitter rant. Mark wrote up the
Speaker 1: piece for Around the NFL just before we came up here,
Speaker 1: and it said I love people who think they know
Speaker 1: it all shaking my head smh as the kids say,
Speaker 1: research how many nfls teams hasn't honored a player's contract
Speaker 1: and learned something question for the people as a contract
Speaker 1: two sided or one okay, great two side? It basically
Speaker 1: goes on and on, and he says, you know, teams
Speaker 1: don't honor their contracts. They cut you if they're not
Speaker 1: any good. And he made it clear he just wants
Speaker 1: a little more. Nothing Adrian Peterson tweeted today was untrue,
Speaker 1: yet it at somehow ended up especially controversial to Mama Boy,
Speaker 1: Suburbia beat writers whoa well, and our Twitter followers because
Speaker 1: we retweeted Peterson and I got the scent. We got
Speaker 1: to see what Peterson is getting in his mentions from
Speaker 1: people responding, and it was some pretty dark stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 1: People have not forgiven Adrian Peterson for uh what he
Speaker 1: did to his son which got him UH in the
Speaker 1: news and taking off the field last year. It feels
Speaker 1: to me like a bit of a weird time for
Speaker 1: him to having to have this. I don't understand he's
Speaker 1: aged thirty, so that he could see this timing wise,
Speaker 1: is his last chance to get a big deal with
Speaker 1: The timing to me is a little weird for this
Speaker 1: to be the time where he's gonna say I'm holding
Speaker 1: out again. He has not played football in a year,
Speaker 1: essentially a year and a half besides one game. I mean,
Speaker 1: why don't you think he would take his thirteen million
Speaker 1: he's making this year or whatever, have a lights out
Speaker 1: year and then use that for leverage. It just seems
Speaker 1: weird that he now he's gonna getting this big contract showdown.
Speaker 1: The timing is off to me, Well, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think I think the point is that that Ian made
Speaker 1: especially was that it's this year's one thing. It's about
Speaker 1: wanting gear inteed money after this year, and he's fighting
Speaker 1: for it. And I think he feels disrespected from the
Speaker 1: Vikings all along, and and now they're actually having practices.
Speaker 1: I think that's why he's speaking, because he's not at
Speaker 1: something he could be at. This is what I thought
Speaker 1: of when I saw the Mike Zimmer quote. It felt
Speaker 1: very Marcel's Wallace to me. In another help That's how
Speaker 1: I felt. That's how I took it. It was basically saying,
Speaker 1: I know, you know what's happening sucks for you right now,
Speaker 1: but come play. It's time to play. But Peterson is
Speaker 1: not gonna go down without a fight. It seems like
Speaker 1: at what West said about the message making sense, and
Speaker 1: he's right. He's complaining that it's crazy how one side
Speaker 1: of the power is in terms of these contracts. I
Speaker 1: never mind a player like going after teams. These teams
Speaker 1: would sell their soul to get one percent better. These
Speaker 1: are the same teams that are hiring you know, Greg
Speaker 1: Hardy right after everything. So if the player wants to
Speaker 1: do the same thing and go after the team, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Just the timing of it is is tough for Peterson.
Speaker 1: But his leverage is that he's the best player on
Speaker 1: the team by far, and he knows it, and the
Speaker 1: Vikings know it, and they desperately want to win and
Speaker 1: go into the new stadium winning. It still wouldn't totally
Speaker 1: stunned me if you got a little extra money next year.
Speaker 1: I realize he's not a very sympathetic figure to most people.
Speaker 1: He is to me. I never liked the way the
Speaker 1: situation was handled last year. He was he was punished,
Speaker 1: he sat, he was punished by the law too, and
Speaker 1: he served that he sat and then they sat again
Speaker 1: because of public pressure and sponsorships. And to me that
Speaker 1: I get why he's upset about that. I don't like
Speaker 1: when people make decisions not based on what they believe
Speaker 1: is right, but based on which which way is the
Speaker 1: winds blowing, And that's what has Peterson miffed, and I
Speaker 1: get that. I think that that's a fair point on
Speaker 1: his end. Moving on to Denver, were some very bad
Speaker 1: news out of o t As for the Broncos. Ryan Claydy,
Speaker 1: their Pro Bowl left tackle and danger of missing the
Speaker 1: entire season after suffering a torn a c L in
Speaker 1: Wednesday's practice. Uh the team website later confirmed uh Ian
Speaker 1: Rap Reports reports, so he's likely out the entire season.
Speaker 1: This is the same Ryan Claydy that missed most of
Speaker 1: the season with an injury and their offense did find west.
Speaker 1: Is this a type of injury that is really going
Speaker 1: to hurt the Broncos or will they recover like they
Speaker 1: did the last time. That's a very good question. I
Speaker 1: think it's fair to point out that they were a
Speaker 1: record breaking offense in two thousand thirteen, as long as
Speaker 1: you also point out that this could be a much
Speaker 1: different situation because they have they could have four new
Speaker 1: starters this year, and offensive lines is all about continuity
Speaker 1: and familiarity with each other and all of in the quarterback,
Speaker 1: in the coaches. So I don't think we can just
Speaker 1: extrapolate the two thousand thirteen success and say they'll be
Speaker 1: fine without Claydy. I think it hurts. But on top
Speaker 1: of it, we're looking at a left tackle spot that
Speaker 1: we we assumed initially that Chris Clark would move into
Speaker 1: the left tackle spot. He played there for a bit
Speaker 1: in two thousand and thirteen. But the way the Broncos
Speaker 1: spoke today was that that competition might be open with
Speaker 1: a key number one and a bunch of other guys
Speaker 1: that wouldn't be starting otherwise that I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning, you can still retire. Um. They have a
Speaker 1: second round pick, tys Embrio, so it's a guy that
Speaker 1: they drafted for this system. It doesn't seem like that
Speaker 1: bad of an option. I mean, second round pick that
Speaker 1: shows they think pretty highly. And they also have a
Speaker 1: third round pick from last year, Michael Scofield. We've seen
Speaker 1: number one overall picks come in and struggle at left
Speaker 1: tackle in the NFL. That's true too, But what I'm
Speaker 1: saying is they have some players with some pedigree at
Speaker 1: that spot and they're changing their systems entirely. So and
Speaker 1: Ryan Claydy, You're not losing the Ryan Claydy from two
Speaker 1: thousand twelve or even earlier in his career when he
Speaker 1: was a two time All Pro. By the time he's
Speaker 1: twenty five. You're losing a guy who last year was
Speaker 1: probably pretty average and is learning a new system. And
Speaker 1: Kubiak wants different sorts of players, So I guess. I mean,
Speaker 1: if there's a silver lining, it's good for them. They
Speaker 1: have some players there and it happened in the middle
Speaker 1: of the summer, so they can go get ready. It
Speaker 1: is funny that the immediate Twitter reaction was like devastating
Speaker 1: loss for the Broncos and pro and like he that
Speaker 1: he has been that guy, But if you look at
Speaker 1: what he did last year, he wasn't last year that guy.
Speaker 1: They paid him. They gave him a fifty million dollar
Speaker 1: contract in two thousand thirteen, and so that has not
Speaker 1: worked that well. He's also had a torn Patel attendant
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and ten. I believe in the
Speaker 1: off season, so he's had a lot of injuries. Probably
Speaker 1: not going to be on their team. It's like trying
Speaker 1: to get Dan into the lineup. How about both Manning
Speaker 1: brothers losing their left tackles this month? Yeah? Outchers. How
Speaker 1: about that Mark? Yeah, it's Sue Jacket. That's what they
Speaker 1: pay hand likes. This look is starting Kevin Danger. You
Speaker 1: want to know why they pay hands is the big box.
Speaker 1: He's not even paying attention. He's looking at his Twitter account.
Speaker 1: That's why, because the hands has brought it all together.
Speaker 1: Your brother be happy. He mentioned Eli and paying Danger
Speaker 1: listening to his first Round the NFL podcast. Really, last
Speaker 1: time I saw Kevin Danger, he was in a leopard
Speaker 1: skin coat at the super Bowl at the bud Light party.
Speaker 1: This guy knows how to get uh. It should be
Speaker 1: noted that he pulled it off to he did. He did.
Speaker 1: The man has style. He was accosted by a flamboyant
Speaker 1: um uh boutique shop employee outside a cafe where you're
Speaker 1: at yesterday. I'm not surprised now. So that's Kevin Danger
Speaker 1: and nutshell follom on Twitter at Kevin Hanss. By the way,
Speaker 1: he's paying me ten dollars. Alright, moving on to the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, Chip Kelly. When he speaks the around the NFL,
Speaker 1: who takes note? I know this because in my research
Speaker 1: before today's show, which I did plenty of, believe you,
Speaker 1: me three posts on Chip Kelly's press conference at Eagles
Speaker 1: headquarters at O. T. A. S. And he hit several
Speaker 1: topics that are worth addressing. Let's start with Lashawn McCoy,
Speaker 1: who created a stir earlier this month when he said
Speaker 1: that Kelly got rid of the Eagles quote unquote good
Speaker 1: black players. When Kelly was asked about this, you can
Speaker 1: imagine he would have a response here it was, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got great respect for the sham um. However, in
Speaker 1: that situation, I think he's wrong. You know, we put
Speaker 1: a lot of time in looking at the characters and
Speaker 1: factors that go into selection and retention of players, and
Speaker 1: color has never been one of them. So as a
Speaker 1: follow up, someone asked, this is the third time someone
Speaker 1: has made this type of common about Kelly. Do you
Speaker 1: worry about the perception? M you start taking perception and
Speaker 1: you've got a long life ahead of you, son, That's
Speaker 1: what it's all about. If you're worried about some other's
Speaker 1: perception of what's going on with you. Then you can
Speaker 1: control one thing. You can troll yourself. And I know
Speaker 1: how we run this organization, it's not run that one.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a little like uh torn right now because
Speaker 1: I actually like Chip Kelly. Well you know, he's the
Speaker 1: genius and he's annoying, but I like how he handles
Speaker 1: the reporters. It's kind of fun listening to answer questions,
Speaker 1: not a root no, And I like him too. And
Speaker 1: actually the other thing that we should point out is
Speaker 1: that he went out of his way to say that
Speaker 1: he called the Shawn McCoy twice and deal with this
Speaker 1: issue and his agent, and that Shady did not call
Speaker 1: him back, and in the in the numbers don't support
Speaker 1: what McCoy said to begin with. Sure, well, I will
Speaker 1: never take anything less Lashawn McCoy says, seriously, again, it
Speaker 1: has not been a good if he had a history
Speaker 1: of that long before this this moment. But but listen,
Speaker 1: just again, if you can, you can attact Helly all
Speaker 1: you want. He went out of his way to solve
Speaker 1: the issue and take it on and McCoy doesn't even
Speaker 1: call him bat. Yeah, that's a bad job by McCoy
Speaker 1: that if it mattered at all to him, that if
Speaker 1: he believed in it at all, he would talk to
Speaker 1: you know, he was just something to say. You know,
Speaker 1: it's especially a bad look is that most NFL locker
Speaker 1: rooms are predominantly black. So when you throw out a
Speaker 1: comment like that, which is a real heat seeker at
Speaker 1: a coach, and then you don't have like the respect
Speaker 1: to to pick up the phone and answer to that charge.
Speaker 1: To me, not a good offseason for Lashaw McCoy. De
Speaker 1: Marco Murray, who is a Black Star Offensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year and got paid by the Eagles, was quick
Speaker 1: to point out today, hey, look around, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of us here, McCoy. I would, uh, he did have
Speaker 1: a bad offseason going to Buffalo, but he did get
Speaker 1: that monster raised in that apology contract. Well, he is
Speaker 1: part of a group of Eagles players. Probably they have
Speaker 1: their own a little group where they say, we got
Speaker 1: Kelly came in and rebooted the machine, and we all
Speaker 1: got jumped out of there, you know, de Sean Jackson
Speaker 1: the rest, but has nothing to do with color. In
Speaker 1: other Chip Kelly news, of course, Tim Tebow was the
Speaker 1: topic of of discussion people wondering if maybe Chip will
Speaker 1: use his genius tools and change his position somehow, But
Speaker 1: Kelly shot that down. He's a quarterback. That's how we're
Speaker 1: looking at Timmy interesting, We're not looking him at him
Speaker 1: at any other position. And then Kelly then kind of
Speaker 1: bought in a little bit on that talk. With the
Speaker 1: Tom House working out and Tebow learning how to throw
Speaker 1: a football. You guys will see him today, watch him throw.
Speaker 1: I think he's improved. He spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: in the last few years in terms of working on
Speaker 1: his game. So Kelly is putting up the front the
Speaker 1: Tebow is an improved passer. I feel like we've heard
Speaker 1: this before, didn't we hear the Tom House refined motion
Speaker 1: story the last time his career peter down. It's a
Speaker 1: trope approving in Denver after the rookie season when he
Speaker 1: didn't play at all, and then he and after he
Speaker 1: played well, they said it was yeah, so we've heard
Speaker 1: it before. Now with that said, I do think he
Speaker 1: has a better chance to make the team than I
Speaker 1: initially did when he signed. Not just because they moved J. J.
Speaker 1: Kinney to wide receiver. That doesn't really matter, but it
Speaker 1: wouldn't totally shock me. If Kelly just wants to prove
Speaker 1: people wrong, put him on the roster as the third
Speaker 1: quarterback and legitimately give him a change. Well, and Matt
Speaker 1: Barkley hasn't shown enough to make that an impossibility. And
Speaker 1: one thing that I think he shot down entirely, which was,
Speaker 1: you know, worth listening to what he basically said that
Speaker 1: with the extra point o, we're gonna use Tebow as
Speaker 1: a two point specialist. That whole business. Kelly went out
Speaker 1: of his way to say that the rule change is
Speaker 1: utter nonsense, that from where the kicks been moved, that
Speaker 1: over the last two years they made nineties six percent
Speaker 1: of them, and that the league did nothing to increase
Speaker 1: the impetitive right to to or two point conversion. So
Speaker 1: it's not a new role for Tim Tebow. Once again,
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly and Dan Hands has agreeing with. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: why I'm starting to warm up to him, because that
Speaker 1: was my offseason narrative. I didn't trust they took a
Speaker 1: half measure, they didn't make the two point easier. So
Speaker 1: these coaches gonna send out the kicker for a thirty
Speaker 1: two yards? Maybe it is you who has the genius
Speaker 1: since it's not just a ship. Here's we're we've seen
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly has his reputation as some eccentric guy and
Speaker 1: a genius. I think what we're seeing he's just his
Speaker 1: common sense. Well, and the whole two point conversion that
Speaker 1: they would sign Tebow just for that reason was always ridiculous.
Speaker 1: There were suggestions when we did a post, you know
Speaker 1: which players are going to be good at the two
Speaker 1: point conversion? Top five players? Oh, you gotta put Tebow
Speaker 1: in there. Well, well, of course you gotta put Tebow
Speaker 1: on that list. Of course you would. The list was
Speaker 1: silly to begin with, Well, the list was silly, but
Speaker 1: then saying, no, you really wouldn't want Tebow as one
Speaker 1: of your type a third string player, right, you would?
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you want Tom Brady? I know he doesn't run,
Speaker 1: but he's like great at football and Tim Tim is
Speaker 1: one of the best short yardage runners in the games.
Speaker 1: On um by the young shifty behind the glass multiple
Speaker 1: the genius drop opportunities lost. There only genius opportunities, but
Speaker 1: are ever and some flowers drops missed. I was getting
Speaker 1: some tweets lest we have some technical issues, so I
Speaker 1: have our drops are on separate boards now, so I
Speaker 1: can't like just anything about that trip home right now?
Speaker 1: Are the chief bad? I am, honestly, but no, we
Speaker 1: have technical issues. I knew I saw email genius sound
Speaker 1: drop young Robert Parrish over not like that. That's uh
Speaker 1: Kevin danger around the glass TD hates me if you
Speaker 1: could feel that? All right? Moving And finally, Chip Kelly
Speaker 1: said that Sam Bradford is on schedule with his rehab,
Speaker 1: but this is not something we're gonna rush him on
Speaker 1: the field. They said, he's on schedule, there's three phases,
Speaker 1: they're moving them forward, but we didn't see him do
Speaker 1: much in O t as this week. Uh. This to me,
Speaker 1: Mark makes a lot of sense after blowing out your
Speaker 1: a cl twice to me, put him on the pup
Speaker 1: list if you have to just make sure when he
Speaker 1: gets back that need doesn't go out again. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's another topic that Kelly showed zero panic on. He said,
Speaker 1: all along, you know, there's plenty of time, and I
Speaker 1: don't think it's an issue unless he's mine missing you
Speaker 1: know a large chunk of training camp, which does seem
Speaker 1: like that's gonna be the case. This is the first
Speaker 1: day where I've thought that there's a significant chance Bradford
Speaker 1: will not be under center in Week one. He's walking
Speaker 1: with a pronounced lamp, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, and
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly confirmed Mark Sanchez's statement from a few weeks
Speaker 1: ago that this is an open competition at quarterback and Bradford.
Speaker 1: The most telling thing that came out from anyone in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia today was he spoke openly that this recovery is
Speaker 1: taking a lot longer than his first recovery, and he
Speaker 1: said that's to be expected. That's what the doctors have
Speaker 1: told me. That the second recovery is harder, and it
Speaker 1: just makes you, well, it reminds you that, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: this isn't gonna be easy. You're just tore your a
Speaker 1: c L two times in two years. There's no guarantee
Speaker 1: of anything. Well, what's the short list of NFL quarterbacks
Speaker 1: that have come back from back to back a c
Speaker 1: L tears on the same knee. Zero, So I don't
Speaker 1: that's one reason when there's all this Bradford hype that
Speaker 1: just plug him into Chips offend and he's a comeback
Speaker 1: Player of the Year and he's gonna tear up the NFC.
Speaker 1: Well wait a minute, but no quarterbacks have done this
Speaker 1: at all. So let's slow, slower, roll a bit on
Speaker 1: this drops. I'm just that you want to get hired
Speaker 1: of no one's ever had the chance. I mean no one. Well,
Speaker 1: there's plenty of people saying, oh, Bradford, you know you'll
Speaker 1: have a good he'll plug into that. But part of
Speaker 1: it is like the first step, and they're really and
Speaker 1: this is what the Eagles are saying. The first step
Speaker 1: is even Kelly said, don't even look beyond if he
Speaker 1: throws at seven on sevens last week, Well stop all
Speaker 1: the hype about what he's gonna do. Thomas Davis has
Speaker 1: probably and in guys like him, probably the best example
Speaker 1: of the guys who have had it happened to them
Speaker 1: three times and have returned to play. But we haven't
Speaker 1: ever seen it at quarterback. Moving on to North Texas,
Speaker 1: where obviously the running back situation in Dallas is a
Speaker 1: major subplot as we approach the new season, Joseph Randall,
Speaker 1: who had some real success and and uh part time
Speaker 1: work last year, had some interesting things to say about
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray and what they were able to do last year.
Speaker 1: Here's the Murray had a good year last year, and
Speaker 1: I got to sit back and watch a lot, he
Speaker 1: said Wednesday via the Dallas Morning News. And I felt
Speaker 1: like there was a lot of meat left on the bone,
Speaker 1: A lot of meat. Do you agree with that? I
Speaker 1: don't even ards offensive Player of the year eight hundred
Speaker 1: yards rushing, you know, fifteen touches and ten fifteen touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I don't think he understood his own uh what it
Speaker 1: metaphor or whatever he was using. I think he just
Speaker 1: met there's opportunity here behind that offense. I think he
Speaker 1: meant he left h he left some yards on the table,
Speaker 1: you know what I thought it meant. And this is
Speaker 1: something I think west End and Mark both were hitting
Speaker 1: on last year. That he went down the end of stretch,
Speaker 1: he was a little worn down and maybe less some
Speaker 1: yards on the field, and Randall saw that his should
Speaker 1: have been getting more touches down the stretch. Well, that's
Speaker 1: not a terrible point to make, Randall. It was really
Speaker 1: good last year. That's I went back to watch him
Speaker 1: for for now segment we did. And he is known
Speaker 1: as a slight guy. For saw the two pounds or
Speaker 1: two or four pounds scientists war he didn't run like
Speaker 1: a skinny running back. I would say one of his
Speaker 1: best like a tackle breaking power, broken ton of tackles
Speaker 1: and made a ton of yards after contact. I would
Speaker 1: say that was one of his best trades. Context is
Speaker 1: important here. How many of those yards were in garbage
Speaker 1: time after demarc almost almost none his hold on I
Speaker 1: have st he has three garbage time garbage time runs
Speaker 1: that without those three runs, he's down to four and
Speaker 1: a half yards per car Go watch. I promise you
Speaker 1: you will. You will like what you see. I've quote
Speaker 1: the stats because I took notes of Joseph Randall, and
Speaker 1: my exact interpretation of his skill set was, this guy's
Speaker 1: a change of pace back. He's only running for these
Speaker 1: yards because Murray has softened them up. Murray has three
Speaker 1: d carries against base defenses last year, which is more
Speaker 1: than any other running back except one had in all downs.
Speaker 1: My favorite Randal runs all all year. It was mostly
Speaker 1: in the first half of the sea. He's in the
Speaker 1: first and second quarter. They were five yard games on
Speaker 1: third and three where he broke a lot of tack
Speaker 1: He had a lot of juice, made a lot of people,
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of lateral agility. I think
Speaker 1: he's a lot more talented than Darren McFadden just like
Speaker 1: eleven PM at a party where two people are just
Speaker 1: going at each other, like Greg took a shot at
Speaker 1: me on NFL Now this morning, and then this guy,
Speaker 1: Pat Thorman at Pat Thorman on Twitter just basically took
Speaker 1: hold Gregg's arguments and swatted them all down. If you
Speaker 1: go watch the Colts game to a lot of his
Speaker 1: best runs, like We're two three yard runs where they
Speaker 1: hit him in the backfield, he gets await, very explosive.
Speaker 1: I have no idea, all right, Jonas Gray would like
Speaker 1: to like to have you watched his game and gets
Speaker 1: the cold to bringing it back to his comments though stupid.
Speaker 1: I don't care what you saw on tape. The bottom
Speaker 1: line is to Marco Murray had more yards after contact.
Speaker 1: Totally stupid. Joseph Randall, keep your mouth close. Nothing about
Speaker 1: what Joseph Randall has done in the NFL indicates that
Speaker 1: he's in especially intelligent. He even bean, I mean you
Speaker 1: got arrested for shop weston perfume. He said it, though.
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray is the guy who's tiring defenses down, and
Speaker 1: then you bring Randall in and that's I think Randall
Speaker 1: will probably have a nice season this year, we will
Speaker 1: have to come on. Joe Randall has four career double
Speaker 1: digit carry games. Do you want to guess his yards
Speaker 1: per carrying average in those four games? I don't think
Speaker 1: you want to. I don't care. You always stay watch
Speaker 1: the tape if you go watching. Alright, alright, wait, we
Speaker 1: can't move on though. Before talking about DeMarco Murray's unfortunate
Speaker 1: response to Joseph Randall. He was trying to take the
Speaker 1: high road, but he said that he that he hopes
Speaker 1: Joseph Randall can taste some of that meat this year.
Speaker 1: Just eat it there. He doesn't mean meat. Um. Hey,
Speaker 1: By the way, that Pat Doorman guy. If his friends
Speaker 1: don't call him thor bad friends, time to get new friends. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like that West is so fired about this that
Speaker 1: he hasn't been this fired up since someone challenged him
Speaker 1: that RG three might not be that good. Wow. Now
Speaker 1: that's just under child that there's a lot that I've
Speaker 1: been wrong once when I make a hundred pieces of
Speaker 1: analysis this every month, there's a lot riding on the
Speaker 1: backfield in Dallas. In this room, West is big on McFadden.
Speaker 1: Greg believes that the next Barry Sanders is in there
Speaker 1: and Joseph and that's about what he was saying on
Speaker 1: NFL Now this morning, and Sizzler and I just get
Speaker 1: to sit back and then actually hasn't had more than
Speaker 1: three point four yards of carry since two thousand and eleven,
Speaker 1: So let's see if he can do it this year. Well,
Speaker 1: hed behind a good offensive line. For the first place,
Speaker 1: we already do have something on the line here. For
Speaker 1: the people keeping track of sandwiches out there, we actually
Speaker 1: are putting two. I'm putting a breakfast burrito. That was
Speaker 1: what Connor wanted. It was him who's breck. He wants
Speaker 1: a breakfast burrito. McFadden versus Randall yards from scrimmage. I
Speaker 1: took that, and then West jumped in, So the breakfast
Speaker 1: not in a Connor jumped in. Can we work? Got
Speaker 1: to move on? Well, I'll say, when it came to
Speaker 1: l A, of all the things that a man from
Speaker 1: the East could find in Los Angeles, nothing excited and
Speaker 1: more than possibly eating a breakfast breeder from the huddle.
Speaker 1: And it's very good the breakfast Angeles dangers. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about it. We'll talk more about the huddle a
Speaker 1: little later in the show. Moving on the tenth season,
Speaker 1: of Hard Knocks is is coming up and the will
Speaker 1: focus on Mark uh an NFL team in here. Yes,
Speaker 1: the Texans will be the team of the groundbreaking documentary series.
Speaker 1: Big moment for the old Zeusser. By the way, Greg
Speaker 1: was in their press release announcing Hard Knocks, HBO used
Speaker 1: one of my quotes NFL dot com content. Really not
Speaker 1: since the people of Draft Day used Mark's glowing reviews
Speaker 1: that didn't well of his film. It was glowing to
Speaker 1: you said it was the greatest football show in history,
Speaker 1: which is true. I have I had screen grabs of
Speaker 1: several of the banner ads that were play estard all
Speaker 1: over the front page. It was Mark Sessler Casa Blanca.
Speaker 1: No wait, I think Gregg is talking about the quote
Speaker 1: that you they didn't give you. They didn't. I thought
Speaker 1: you'd be upset that they didn't mention your name. They
Speaker 1: just said an I'm selfless anyway, So the Texans are
Speaker 1: the team to focus on. Yeah, now the drops are back.
Speaker 1: Uh uh. So we will be writing our reviews, our
Speaker 1: episode recaps again in August. And you know we did
Speaker 1: one one post that I wrote some things to look
Speaker 1: forward to in the season. Um J J Watt up
Speaker 1: close is going to be great. Arian Foster. Foster, he
Speaker 1: of the uh lovely ponderous twitter feed. We get to
Speaker 1: see him up close. I'm a fan, although I'm a
Speaker 1: little I went to check it out when I was
Speaker 1: writing the piece, and it turns out that he's stopped
Speaker 1: writing about science and world peace and is now like
Speaker 1: a big New York Rangers fan and that I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe he's he's lost the town. Only if you could
Speaker 1: be as as spiritual as I am, would you know?
Speaker 1: The world? Thank you, Arian Foster. Though well Mark doesn't
Speaker 1: advertise it like yeah, say that's it, you know Mark,
Speaker 1: though he doesn't have the audience there it is. I
Speaker 1: don't think change if he had an audience didn't Mark
Speaker 1: is like a twenty three year old telling the world
Speaker 1: that he's mastered spirituality. It's like, how about you sit
Speaker 1: down and just make a fit Like first, Dan, I mean,
Speaker 1: I find this is an interesting show for you. Chip
Speaker 1: Kelly and you agree on a lot. Arian Foster and
Speaker 1: you are both Rangers fan. You're kind of a bandwagon
Speaker 1: you the Brady Bunch. Time to change song. Arian Foster
Speaker 1: and myself are in a like a battle to find
Speaker 1: out who's the biggest band Wagon Rangers fan. Is it
Speaker 1: possible that we become tired of J. J. Watt because
Speaker 1: I met the brink where there's a lot of J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt stuff out there. I've noticed that you're at the
Speaker 1: brain of getting tired with just about everybody, well but J. J. Watt.
Speaker 1: J J. Watt could be over the second. I think
Speaker 1: so too. He's one, He's one of the better guys.
Speaker 1: But this show has the potential to do. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna be tired of it. I do
Speaker 1: think Bill O'Brien could come off more likable if you
Speaker 1: like a sarcat He's that sarcastic guy from Boston is gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, cut everyone down a little. I think it
Speaker 1: could be a little more personality. You know what, You
Speaker 1: never want to follow Bill Parcels who want to follow
Speaker 1: Ray Hanley and that, And that's what Bill O'Brien is
Speaker 1: doing by following Mike Smith. So it's kind of hard
Speaker 1: to do worse than the Tavis wearing Mike Smith last year,
Speaker 1: who I don't know. I felt like that contributed to
Speaker 1: getting fired. He was so milk toast on that show.
Speaker 1: So as Teva's I don't know what they are. I
Speaker 1: don't think Greg and uh Mark is took or discussing
Speaker 1: this on NFL now, I have no idea what that is.
Speaker 1: What's a Teva? They're sandals, They're like man, they're like
Speaker 1: Dad's sandals from the nineties. Oh people still wear this, well,
Speaker 1: Mike Smith does. Yeah, all right, and that's what's happening.
Speaker 1: It's real quick because only thirty minutes on news today.
Speaker 1: So back in the day, I used to watch Hard
Speaker 1: Knucks with films produces, so and uh. One thing I
Speaker 1: want to point out that J J. Watt last year
Speaker 1: on the on the who Falcon's Hard Ducks, that was
Speaker 1: probably the best sequence, right, a little two minutes easy
Speaker 1: Jake exactly. That means I felt sound effects was great
Speaker 1: when oh do we have that? What sound effect? Not? No,
Speaker 1: we don't have that one another one, but other than
Speaker 1: I look at Dan Als trying to well, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: that I'm asking for certain productions. Have a great Baylor
Speaker 1: TD does not win podcast m v P this one.
Speaker 1: That's That's what I was asking for you asking for
Speaker 1: a Hard knocks j J. Why sound effect one of
Speaker 1: my monster And then lastly Eric Foster probably one of
Speaker 1: the funnier guys in the league. I did a piece
Speaker 1: with him in Pro Bowl and he was cracking everyone up. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it, and I will not be
Speaker 1: on paternity leave this year as far as I know,
Speaker 1: so I will be writing all the recaps. I look
Speaker 1: forward to it. All Right, So that's what's happening in
Speaker 1: the news. Let's move on. We'll talk real quick. Let's
Speaker 1: get let's get through this. Let's talk about this and
Speaker 1: then get to the mail bag and just being honest,
Speaker 1: let's keep it real. Takeaways from O T A sh
Speaker 1: So this week of O T as things that jumped
Speaker 1: out at you will start with you, Mark Sessler from
Speaker 1: all thirty two teams. What really jumped out? Well, this
Speaker 1: is bad timing because I picked an Eagle's topic and
Speaker 1: I feel like we just did an entire Eagles podcast.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna keep it quick. But one other item
Speaker 1: from that from that pressor today, you know, they challenged him,
Speaker 1: you made all these moves. Everyone's on you, honestly, looking
Speaker 1: at the team you have, is hit any better than
Speaker 1: the team you had last year? And he said, listen,
Speaker 1: it is a thousand percent better. And then he just
Speaker 1: ended it. It's like I kind of think with Chip Kelly,
Speaker 1: and we mentioned it earlier that yes, he is extremely um.
Speaker 1: He dismissive of people that cover the team to a
Speaker 1: point where he's not really respecting other human beings. And
Speaker 1: that's fine. But at the same time I'm kind of
Speaker 1: warming up to him because he's kind of going all in.
Speaker 1: It's like, this is gonna work or it's not, and
Speaker 1: if it doesn't, it could fail miserably. And Kelly's got
Speaker 1: enough confidence and he's not waver from this just to
Speaker 1: say I'm riding it out. We're gonna do it my way.
Speaker 1: And that's not anyone else's way. It's not how he
Speaker 1: Roseman's way. It is me. It works or it doesn't
Speaker 1: is in the basement, now, that's right. I mean he
Speaker 1: doesn't lack for confidence. That's what I like about him.
Speaker 1: It's like, let's see what happens. It makes them interesting,
Speaker 1: that makes you want to find your warming up to him.
Speaker 1: You were ready to put him in the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame two years ago, and I'm with you. I'm a
Speaker 1: huge Chip Kelly fan. Well from a football side, yes,
Speaker 1: from how he's so dismissive to other people. I kind
Speaker 1: of I'm not. I don't find that entertaining like some
Speaker 1: to that one the press conference from a couple of
Speaker 1: months ago. He was a little bit rough, but we
Speaker 1: enjoyed this one better. When someone paves his own way
Speaker 1: in a field and is that outwardly confident, usually there
Speaker 1: there's a reason why they're confident. MM. I have total
Speaker 1: confidence in chip kell Let's see some similarities between his
Speaker 1: own career and Chip Kelly's. I don't think I've ever
Speaker 1: been a paver. I'm not a trail player. Ail. You
Speaker 1: walk the pavement, as I know, man, I did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: once upon a time you had it. Told a story
Speaker 1: today while we were getting makeup for NFL. I just
Speaker 1: had everyone entranced about a woman taking a brick to
Speaker 1: the head on your first day and the Jacob Price
Speaker 1: housing projects of Covington, Kentucky. It was first day. It
Speaker 1: was a tough first day. Dan's looking at the clock
Speaker 1: in his face is mounting. No did she did she survive? Well?
Speaker 1: I think I lost my innocence that day because it
Speaker 1: was a drug deal gone wrong. She was in like
Speaker 1: her late forties or early fifties. Clearly, you know, had
Speaker 1: seen better days. And her son ran away when the
Speaker 1: incident happened. Her son was probably in his early twenties,
Speaker 1: and he didn't even stick up for I mean, it
Speaker 1: was just like, all right, this is the way life
Speaker 1: is in this neighborhood. I gotta get out of here.
Speaker 1: Happy Mother's Day. Sounds like a CIA operation. Very nice. Well,
Speaker 1: I hope she's okay today. Um, all right, your turn West,
Speaker 1: your o t a takeaway? Was that not his takeaway?
Speaker 1: I thought that was his own, you know. I think
Speaker 1: after the draft, the one first round pick that I
Speaker 1: saw panned the most was Philip Dorset to the Colts
Speaker 1: that he wasn't a first round talent, and everything we've
Speaker 1: seen out of Colts practices that he's blowing the doors
Speaker 1: off the place that he's basically a more explosive version
Speaker 1: of t Y Hilton. And for as talented as we
Speaker 1: believe Dante Moncrief is, doors Dorset might pass him as
Speaker 1: a rookie. I mean, this guy is gonna contribute right away.
Speaker 1: I think it was a great pick. Their fourth round safety,
Speaker 1: uh Clayton Gathers, I believe is his name, is already
Speaker 1: playing like their dime linebacker role that dayon but Buchanon
Speaker 1: played for the Cardinals last year. Their third round defensive
Speaker 1: end Henry Anderson was called by multiple Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: analysts as the steal the draft. So they've got a
Speaker 1: pretty interesting first few draft picks here. You're already putting
Speaker 1: Dorset past mine Creef. I I think he has that
Speaker 1: kind of difference making speed that will make they'll they'll
Speaker 1: find a way to use it. It's funny because it
Speaker 1: was Cults teammates number one that didn't like that pick. Well.
Speaker 1: I think t Y Hilton was a little thrown off
Speaker 1: by because he thought he might not get a contract extension.
Speaker 1: But immediately Andrew Lux said this guy is the real
Speaker 1: deal and he's gonna be I think he used the
Speaker 1: word this guy is going to be a stud um.
Speaker 1: One takeaway I had, uh is comes out of Jets
Speaker 1: camp where we learned that Brandon Marshall and Gino Smith
Speaker 1: have been living together in New Jersey for the past month. Uh.
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall, of course came over in a trade. Is
Speaker 1: on his fourth team, has had issues in every clubhouse
Speaker 1: he's been in, and I started to think, oh, this
Speaker 1: might not be good to parent with Gina, But then
Speaker 1: I thought about it. Always starts great with Brandon Marshall
Speaker 1: with a new team. Everybody loves him. There's a honeymoon
Speaker 1: and people say he's you know, uh changes the temperature
Speaker 1: of a room in a good way. And we've said that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so maybe again, get another stroke of genius by Big
Speaker 1: Mac Mike mcagnus, Get Brandon marcell in before it turns sour.
Speaker 1: Make Geno Smith, like Greg has been saying for months
Speaker 1: and all pro well Kennedy and I'll though, I do, like,
Speaker 1: do you know you're right? Brandon Marshall is the modern
Speaker 1: t O who always had a honeymoon season or two,
Speaker 1: but usually about a season and a half, a four
Speaker 1: once hour like that. Where they lived together, it's like permanent.
Speaker 1: It was just he was looking for a place. It's
Speaker 1: like a month or two. It wasn't gonna be. You know,
Speaker 1: they're not getting a condo together. Probably someone's like, you
Speaker 1: do the laundry today. I'll handle this sink load of
Speaker 1: dirty dishes. Why are they still dirty? It's four pm?
Speaker 1: You know, where are we parking the car? There's MultiMate.
Speaker 1: Patrick sees this and it's like, what the hell, man,
Speaker 1: he's got like five kids and a wife. So I
Speaker 1: don't know, Greg. Your takeaway, mine's real quick. I just
Speaker 1: noticed uh a report saying how Brandon Coleman and Shantavius
Speaker 1: Jones not big names in New Orleans, running a lot
Speaker 1: with the Ones. And it's just something I'm gonna keep
Speaker 1: an eye on this year because it's taken the Saints
Speaker 1: forever to start getting some young people into that lineup.
Speaker 1: It's been the same forever and these are players we
Speaker 1: don't know at all, but they're gonna be with the
Speaker 1: first team and that it's a fun offense to watch.
Speaker 1: Those are just maybe Josh Hilton two names to watch.
Speaker 1: I mean, Coleman is six six to thirty something like that.
Speaker 1: That's a big That's a big guyger than Coast. That's
Speaker 1: a big guy. Uh TD, Did you have a take here?
Speaker 1: I just saw it. I am pretty did I miss this? No?
Speaker 1: This is this is an old Hard Knocks take. Oh well,
Speaker 1: I would love to hear it since it's here. Oh no,
Speaker 1: it's already did it? Oh yeah? I am talking with
Speaker 1: keV back here about it if he wants to produce
Speaker 1: the show a little bit danger I'm going to be
Speaker 1: away for three weeks, that's true. What do you got planned.
Speaker 1: By the way, Kevin shirt does say working class hero
Speaker 1: on it, so to see it. Um, I am going
Speaker 1: for my sister's wedding Ningeria Rome in London. Wow, World Traveler,
Speaker 1: where is she getting married? Nineria in Rome? Really? Is
Speaker 1: her husband is like a princess of Nigeria like a
Speaker 1: double destination wedding. It's well, no, we're in Ninderian and
Speaker 1: her husband is too, and uh so the cultural wedding
Speaker 1: is going to be in Legas, which is where I
Speaker 1: grew up to us about seventeen is and then uh
Speaker 1: the white wedding dress wedding is going to be in
Speaker 1: Rome like four days afterwards. I'm upset with a cousin
Speaker 1: of the mine that's getting married in the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine what's going on with your family. It's
Speaker 1: like they have to use their life savings to get
Speaker 1: to these weddings, and it's you know, you gotta do
Speaker 1: it though, alright, And are you thinking about your own
Speaker 1: life now that your sister is getting married? My life
Speaker 1: is right? Well, what it for the most part all
Speaker 1: right for you. I think he's got a girl, you know, TV.
Speaker 1: Glad that's true for one of us. L DR long
Speaker 1: distance relationship. I knew about that in the past, I
Speaker 1: didn't realize that was still true. Good for you? Is
Speaker 1: that still going? Yeah? O good, wonderful, very attractive woman. Um.
Speaker 1: All right, so before we get out here, let's talk
Speaker 1: a little nail bag. We asked your questions. You gave
Speaker 1: us um questions, which is good. That's how it's supposed
Speaker 1: to work. Um. So let's get going. Uh we'll start
Speaker 1: here with Paris or all office? Okay? At LAFAE eight nine,
Speaker 1: can the Seahawks challenge the Bills record of four straight
Speaker 1: Super Bowls? It's it's amazing to imagine that the Bills
Speaker 1: did that. Seahawks are halfway there already. Absolutely why not.
Speaker 1: I think it's them and the Packers clearly ahead of
Speaker 1: everyone else in the NFC right now. It's hard to
Speaker 1: imagine them not being one of the best two or
Speaker 1: three teams single elimination tournament, though the odds go against it.
Speaker 1: But there's no reason to think their defensive the best
Speaker 1: couple in the next few years. They've got that nucleus
Speaker 1: all under long term contracts except for Russell Wilson, and
Speaker 1: he's not going anywhere. It's probably a lot harder to
Speaker 1: do it now than it was when the Bills were,
Speaker 1: you know, absolutely reigning points on people. But like you said,
Speaker 1: they're halfway there. They they're gonna be there this season potentially.
Speaker 1: Want to see what happens after injuries. That could be
Speaker 1: I mean, if Russell Wilson goes down, that could be
Speaker 1: a bottom line. We don't know, we do not have
Speaker 1: all that, but yeah, it's possible. Uh. This is from
Speaker 1: Michael Berry Michael Berry twelve on Twitter. What chance three
Speaker 1: a f C East teams make the playoffs? Mark? Well,
Speaker 1: I think you that's I have a problem with that
Speaker 1: because outside of New England, you're hoping that the quarterback
Speaker 1: situation works out in New York and in Buffalo, and
Speaker 1: you're hoping that Ryan Tannehill can do more than find
Speaker 1: ways for the Dolphins to lose three games they should
Speaker 1: win each year. So, I mean, the a f C
Speaker 1: North did it last season, but that's with with better
Speaker 1: football teams. I would say no answer the question, I'd say, no,
Speaker 1: what chance? What is the chance three teams could make
Speaker 1: I think those four teams are I mean, the Patriots
Speaker 1: aren't improved, but the other three teams are among the
Speaker 1: most improved teams in the NFL. I'd go thirty three.
Speaker 1: I think there's a decent chance. I would be shocked
Speaker 1: if less than two made it. So I'm surprised to
Speaker 1: hear this from West though, because you eliminate teams that
Speaker 1: don't have good quarterbacks right at the gate, and you're
Speaker 1: looking at it. I'm nothing in Matt Castle at football
Speaker 1: Team or Tyrod Taylor. I'm looking at the rest of
Speaker 1: the a f C and who are the superpowers? I mean,
Speaker 1: I fully expect I'd be more surprised if the Colts
Speaker 1: don't make the playoffs than any team in the NFL,
Speaker 1: just because of the division. So they're in. So they're in.
Speaker 1: I don't expect any other NFC to a f C
Speaker 1: South team to win. The Bengals I don't expect to
Speaker 1: be quite as strong because their defense they didn't address
Speaker 1: pass Russia and Vontes has By the way, are you
Speaker 1: the Bengals you may be reconciling anything new on that front. No, no,
Speaker 1: I It probably one of those things where you know
Speaker 1: that there might still be feelings there, but it's a
Speaker 1: good idea not to hop back in bed with each other.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for like in the office like Casino Night. Yes,
Speaker 1: we need that episode needs something needs to come together.
Speaker 1: The sparks that Bengals folder and throws it over the
Speaker 1: side of the ship. Marvin Lewis randomly is at an
Speaker 1: NFL event and and chats up West just it seems
Speaker 1: like a good that helps do it. You always gotta
Speaker 1: look at the out of division schedule though, and this
Speaker 1: looks pretty good for the f C. So you get
Speaker 1: to play the a f C South this year. So
Speaker 1: if you can roll up some wins against the AFC
Speaker 1: South and then you have the NFC East at the NFC,
Speaker 1: which I would take. There's no superpower teams in the
Speaker 1: NFC East. That's a pretty nice looking schedule. It's a
Speaker 1: good point about the lack of quarterbacks. I would expect
Speaker 1: they would be exposed in the first round of the playoff.
Speaker 1: But West and Katie Blackburn on a country tour east
Speaker 1: to west coast, just driving back and forth, getting to
Speaker 1: know each other. How many Daisy and I'm Morgan Freeman.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that parallel. How many people listening
Speaker 1: do you think knows who Katie Blackburn is? Well, how
Speaker 1: about get on your computer and look it up. She
Speaker 1: had blackbird. Um moving on, James Beaty at Beads eight
Speaker 1: nine asks is the huddle which is our office commissary
Speaker 1: If you don't know, a lot like a high school
Speaker 1: cafeteria where you can't sit with the jocks. Um kind
Speaker 1: of Well, we can't sit there anyway because we have
Speaker 1: to get back to our desk. We'll wear machines and
Speaker 1: we create content. But the question I'm assuming if William
Speaker 1: McGinnis or Ladanian, Thomlinson or you know, Heath Evans whatever,
Speaker 1: are sitting having lunch, can you pull up a chair
Speaker 1: and eat your salad with Actually? Could? Well I've never
Speaker 1: seen it. You could, but I never happen. But I
Speaker 1: wouldn't do it with anyone I don't know what not
Speaker 1: because they're William McGinnis or Heath Evans, those guys. If anything,
Speaker 1: they seem more you know, because you all work together.
Speaker 1: It would seem like they would be pretty friendly about it.
Speaker 1: But why would you want to do that? Right, I'm
Speaker 1: not really interested in anything they have to say. Well,
Speaker 1: they've never been bad guys, but I wouldn't. He nailed
Speaker 1: it though, But no, the huddle in general, he's asking,
Speaker 1: is it a large cafeteria setting in general, it's a
Speaker 1: smaller room, it's not well organized, and you didn't sit
Speaker 1: in there and eat lunch anyways. Um, it does bring
Speaker 1: to mind my biggest pet peeve of the office in
Speaker 1: terms of my fellow colleagues. Not you guys. We tend
Speaker 1: to because we're on the same schedule and around the
Speaker 1: NFL guys have to uh satellite workers, which is of
Speaker 1: course Kevin Patrick coming at you and the great Connor
Speaker 1: Ord and his haunted mansions. So we'll usually grab lunch
Speaker 1: together and bring it back and without fail, almost every
Speaker 1: single time, sometimes multiple times, from our walk to the
Speaker 1: to the huddle and back, somebody will go, hey, you
Speaker 1: guys go everywhere together, don't you. It's happened today three
Speaker 1: or four times we mentioned that it doesn't really bother us.
Speaker 1: It comes chubble. Well, you guys spend a lot of time.
Speaker 1: You can't go anywhere with that either. It really rankles you,
Speaker 1: though it drives me crazy. Guys get a lot of
Speaker 1: there they go there, you guys always in the same spot. Well,
Speaker 1: shut up, shut up, get out of my life. I
Speaker 1: think Mark made the point today. Doesn't it depend on
Speaker 1: who the person is, who's saying no, Well, if it's
Speaker 1: someone I just dislike, and there are some people it
Speaker 1: rubs me, especially the wrong. If it's someone I do
Speaker 1: actually like as a person, it's just disappointed. I think
Speaker 1: the point is we are let out of the office
Speaker 1: for maybe seven and a half minutes, and we typically
Speaker 1: all go together. It's the only time in the day
Speaker 1: that we'd you guys really want to sit down in
Speaker 1: the huddle. No one stopping you from sitting down, stopping
Speaker 1: us a year end review. Yeah, the huddle is gonna
Speaker 1: come up. One of the listeners to this podcast, also
Speaker 1: a high level producer at the network, had a common
Speaker 1: for a city, but I like it. He was more creative.
Speaker 1: He said. We reminded him of the Channel whatever news
Speaker 1: team from anchor man is he is the original? I
Speaker 1: do like that is a count alright, Richard is a
Speaker 1: coun sorrybody? Uh? This from and this is actually a
Speaker 1: good point from Dr George Claw at Mad Pick. Who
Speaker 1: will be the first coach to try an ice a
Speaker 1: kicker on a thirty three yard extra point? That could
Speaker 1: happen if you think about it, Why wouldn't it If
Speaker 1: they do it, they do it on field goals from
Speaker 1: the Herm Edwards is no longer in the league. The
Speaker 1: genius might try it, Andy Reid. They should ban icing
Speaker 1: the kickers? Yes, is that hard? They're always talking about
Speaker 1: it making the game faster and more enjoyable for fans.
Speaker 1: The icing the kickers the dumbest thing that any coaches do.
Speaker 1: It just shows if if multiple coaches do something, the
Speaker 1: rest of them we'll just start doing it just because
Speaker 1: I don't have anything to add to it. Moving on
Speaker 1: this from score Center at score Center around the NFL,
Speaker 1: can we expect a Delaware concept album about the flake
Speaker 1: gate and how it's emotionally crippled Greg Um? Of course,
Speaker 1: Delaware is Greg's goth emo group from about the turn
Speaker 1: of the millennium in New England. The turn of the Millennium.
Speaker 1: You couldn't have messed that up more. First of all,
Speaker 1: so that would have been in the early nineties around
Speaker 1: the turn of the wasn't a band in any way
Speaker 1: Emo and deflate gate. People want this to emotionally cripple me.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen. I have some music that you
Speaker 1: could lay behind your lyrics. Of course, the throne of
Speaker 1: Gregg has not been upset by deflate Gate. At all
Speaker 1: from what I from what I've been more upset, But
Speaker 1: I'm not even I mean, I'm annoyed about it that
Speaker 1: we have to cover it. That's the most annoying things.
Speaker 1: Just dropping grapes, small page boys. You know what I've
Speaker 1: got perspective. I hear these clowns in Boston complaining about everything.
Speaker 1: You just won four super Bowls with the greatest coach
Speaker 1: quarterback Commo Ever. Doors of the throne room opening up,
Speaker 1: Golden bits showering down from the ceiling, multiple suns in
Speaker 1: the universe sky above the sun's actually have a human
Speaker 1: face smiling down. Greg lives to a hundred and twenty six.
Speaker 1: So does the entire um Patriots fan base. Go to
Speaker 1: the Entourage opening weekend? Who is seeing Entourage? We had
Speaker 1: this conversation, isn't this movie? Is this going to the
Speaker 1: opening night? Who? Marvel? Maybe I'll hold off come out
Speaker 1: with me. I hold hey, if you're an adult and
Speaker 1: you're going to entrage something to you got a problem.
Speaker 1: I mean, who who is asking for this movie? Who's
Speaker 1: got a word on this? Who's gonna see this movie? Well,
Speaker 1: probably some smart people. From probably the smartest person. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna bomb. I would like to predict if
Speaker 1: some sort of we should have a sandwich on how
Speaker 1: this movie does. It's gonna make over thirty million, and
Speaker 1: I'd put a sandwich on it in the first weekend.
Speaker 1: It's good with the box office. And I would never
Speaker 1: go against Gregg in a box office PROPLEM do that well.
Speaker 1: I've beaten Greg and box office props. He is it
Speaker 1: down to a science though, Yeah, that's what he thinks. Alright,
Speaker 1: Tom Bissett, we got time for a couple more. Does
Speaker 1: anyone think the Raiders have a chance of not being
Speaker 1: bottom of the division this season? No chance. Do they
Speaker 1: have a chance of getting out of the seller so
Speaker 1: they would have to beat the Chiefs or the Charger
Speaker 1: is most likely thinking have to be the Chiefs. I'd
Speaker 1: say no. I think they have a chance of pushing
Speaker 1: the ball pass the forty yard line. This year. It's
Speaker 1: the NFL. They have a chance to come in third place.
Speaker 1: Injuries could change the bottom of the chance there is
Speaker 1: that something goes really wrong with Kansas City in San
Speaker 1: Diego and they win three or four games, and or
Speaker 1: if Derek Carr is good, they can win seven games.
Speaker 1: If he makes a jump. It's not a crazy thing, Taylor.
Speaker 1: Their defense had some moments last year, and they look
Speaker 1: better overall this year. It's not a terrible defense. It
Speaker 1: is a terrible offense, though, until they prove otherwise. All right,
Speaker 1: this from Rohan Sharma at Mr Rohan Sharma. I'll throw
Speaker 1: this one out to you, guys. I don't really have
Speaker 1: a dog in this one. Which historical world leader is
Speaker 1: closest to you in personality? Anybody have somebody that jumps
Speaker 1: out TV to own person or or to anyone else
Speaker 1: as we could, what which historical world leader is closest
Speaker 1: to you and personality? I go Greg, and uh, Margaret Thatcher,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do your own well. I don't know
Speaker 1: any world leader's personality. I liked it. Mark went at
Speaker 1: Greg first. I think that I thought we were supposed
Speaker 1: to I could see, Um, there's shades of Harry Truman
Speaker 1: and Chris Wesley. You don't even know what that makes sense?
Speaker 1: Gumption give him? Hell, Harry, drop the bomb. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: drop the bomb. Listen, it's a strong take to drop.
Speaker 1: You got one for yourself. Historical not quite fictional idea though.
Speaker 1: All right, that's here, President David Palmer, I don't know
Speaker 1: that helped me out as the president from he was assassinated.
Speaker 1: He was shot in the throat. But well, you mean
Speaker 1: personality wise, I was boiler alert. Oh please, I was sorry. Sully,
Speaker 1: guys still watching twenty four. He doesn't want to know
Speaker 1: how it ends. Dan Handis and Millard Fillmore. I don't
Speaker 1: know who that is. Off to look at it, I
Speaker 1: had Mark Sessler and Angela Merkel. No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Who's Angela Markel Chancellor Germany? That was Tony dan'ss maid.
Speaker 1: And who's the Boss's Dan? That's that's Greg. It's tempting
Speaker 1: to come back with a quasi Margaret Thatcher. Now, I
Speaker 1: had that one picked out that was gonna be my
Speaker 1: own choice for myself. It really it meant nothing. I
Speaker 1: don't have no no anything characters. It would be you. Um. Finally,
Speaker 1: this from Indie Sarah, one of our favorite, Sarah Peters.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing if they presented with ten songs and asked
Speaker 1: whether they're from Jock Jams or not, Dan Hansis would win.
Speaker 1: We might have to do a competition. But actually, you
Speaker 1: know what, I don't know if I would know any
Speaker 1: Jock Jams songs that they were all kind of the same.
Speaker 1: It was. I mean, I know some from the commercial
Speaker 1: campaign that was relentless. I had a longtime friends still
Speaker 1: a friend, but in college he used to before we
Speaker 1: went out at night, he would take his boom box
Speaker 1: into the shower and put this jock jam c D
Speaker 1: in the boom box, play it loud, take like a
Speaker 1: thirty minute show hour, and then shave his entire body.
Speaker 1: True story a friend. All right, it's been a great
Speaker 1: just took out his lipstick and crossed out people to
Speaker 1: kill today on the side of his wall. Little girl,
Speaker 1: there you go. All right, So that's it. That's what's
Speaker 1: in the ball bag, and thank you for everyone who
Speaker 1: took part. Did you ever when he got out, you're ever? Like,
Speaker 1: hey man, um, what's up with that thirty minute shower?
Speaker 1: Where you listening to Jack Damson? Shave your whole body?
Speaker 1: That's all the time? Just like general question. It was
Speaker 1: like the most famous thing about him amongst like the
Speaker 1: big group of friends was probably still the most famous
Speaker 1: thing about him. Yeah, yeah, dude, love good man. Um alright, alright,
Speaker 1: fair enough, alright, that's it, Hey t D, what's happening?
Speaker 1: Did we get you anymore before Nigeria. This is it, guys.
Speaker 1: The last meeting on the show for another two three
Speaker 1: weeks and the last podcast m VP. You ready for it?
Speaker 1: You'd luck to your sister, by the way, you nice
Speaker 1: playing Mark, Mark trying to get that boat stuff in
Speaker 1: the box, Mark looking for that elusive first m v P.
Speaker 1: I love Renis and uh Chris Weston kept the real
Speaker 1: with her story about the lady and now it's just
Speaker 1: an absurd because it's already cooked. It's in the books before.
Speaker 1: You don't even care what happens during the show. You
Speaker 1: admit you're not even listening, so you already know you're
Speaker 1: going to pick someone to agitate everyone else, and you'll
Speaker 1: keep once in a while picking Dan so that it
Speaker 1: stays a segment. Everything you said is all I'm saying
Speaker 1: is everyone's wanted except one person so far. Anyone, anyone
Speaker 1: with a mind listening to the show knows that the
Speaker 1: books are cooked on this. She's right. Alright, congratulations west
Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm gonna put that on the mantel um alright,
Speaker 1: and um, thank you. Kevin Danger did he enjoy the show? Alright? Good?
Speaker 1: Kevin Danger and I are gonna go play Frisbee. We
Speaker 1: will be back next week with two shows, Sully behind
Speaker 1: the Glass as a rumor, and we're gonna we're looking
Speaker 1: forward to that. So Dan had the signing off for
Speaker 1: The Sizzler, The Mailman, The Boss t D and Sully
Speaker 1: and Kevin Danger behind the Glass until next week, because
Speaker 1: a year from now, when you're kicking it in the Caribbean,
Speaker 1: you're gonna say to yourself, Marcellus Wallace was right.