Speaker 1: Thursday, September fifth, twenty thirteen, Sports Authority Field at Mile High, Denver, Colorado.
Speaker 1: Lightning might not strike the same place twice, but Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning can strike the enzone seven times. This is the
Speaker 1: Manning Seven. I don't know what that voice was, but
Speaker 1: I love it. That was amazing, The Manning seven. Hello,
Speaker 1: and welcome to Games with Names presented by win Bet.
Speaker 1: I'm Sam Morrel and I'm Julian Edelman, and we are
Speaker 1: on a mission, a search, a journey to find the
Speaker 1: greatest sports games of all time. In today's episode, the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens versus the Denver Broncos on the NFL Kickoff
Speaker 1: Week one, twenty thirteen, we got Peyton Manning. On today,
Speaker 1: we got the sheriff. That's a big get. We got
Speaker 1: my second favorite Manning in the world. Secondly, my second
Speaker 1: favorite also, I guess actually I might even put him third.
Speaker 1: I might go Archie. Damn Archie. My dad loved Archie.
Speaker 1: Archie hasn't come on the show. No, he hasn't give paid.
Speaker 1: But Archie didn't also knock Archie didn't knock me out
Speaker 1: of it. Two ABC Championships, fair enough, you know that's
Speaker 1: but he but he gave birth to someone who did.
Speaker 1: He he did, didn't give birth. That's not how bad
Speaker 1: I'm stupid. It was his seed, it was the seed though,
Speaker 1: it was his seed. But in Hin's site, you know,
Speaker 1: Peyton Maning, he did take Wes Welker. That gave him
Speaker 1: my opportunity. That opened things up for you, open things,
Speaker 1: open things up. First thought, when you think of this game,
Speaker 1: I think Peydon Manning through seven freaking touchdowns in a
Speaker 1: game that's insane, and this set him off to set
Speaker 1: the pace for him to break the single season touchdown
Speaker 1: record fifty five fifty five. I mean, after watching this
Speaker 1: game and seeing the weapons that Peyton Maning had, Julius
Speaker 1: Thomas Wes Welker with his new edition that offseason, you
Speaker 1: know you have Damerius Thomas Eric Decker, who's just like
Speaker 1: have you ever seen Eric Decker? Oh yeah, he's like
Speaker 1: so good looking, he's hot, dude's and he's a wonderful father. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a rad dack. He's a hand pull up a
Speaker 1: picture of Eric Decker. Yeah, dude, you get lost in
Speaker 1: his eyes. I mean he's tall, he's dark, he's handsome,
Speaker 1: he's got a receding hairline. He makes it look good.
Speaker 1: Look at him, Jesus, I like you threw a little
Speaker 1: nag though at the end. He's handsome, he's baldingbody pulls
Speaker 1: it off. He's my boy. He's my boy. He's a
Speaker 1: handsome guy. You're a handsome guy, Julian And I like
Speaker 1: that though. Jeez. I don't know, dude, God God worked
Speaker 1: when he made that one. But back to our reactions,
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, when when you got those kind of weapons? Moreno, God, Well,
Speaker 1: where do you rank this offense all time? I mean
Speaker 1: Peyton had Edrin, James, Marvin Harrison, Reggie, Wayne, Brandon, Stokely,
Speaker 1: Dallas Clark on that Colts team? Where do you rank
Speaker 1: this all time? I mean the Brady twenty two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven, twenty eighteen to one. I mean, you got
Speaker 1: some of these chief teams that everyone keeps putting up there.
Speaker 1: I mean it's hard because you got you got some
Speaker 1: really good offenses out there. And yeah, they did fifty
Speaker 1: five touchdowns. Did they win the Super Bowl this year?
Speaker 1: They did not? I don't know. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: let's just go back. I don't want to talk. We'll
Speaker 1: leave that for the close after we hear from Peyton himself.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Let's go to September fifth, twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: Number one movie, Lee Daniels The Butler. Did you see
Speaker 1: that one? I think? I think I did you know
Speaker 1: this was a Weinstein production movie. I did not see
Speaker 1: that movie. Well, this is it's weird say that movie.
Speaker 1: But I will not cancel this anti cancel whatever. Well
Speaker 1: that season in jail, it's different. That's different than anthe
Speaker 1: We are an anti cancel podcast, but Weinstein's an exception.
Speaker 1: You know, it's weird that it's a Weinstein production and
Speaker 1: it's like a delicate film on race. It's it's literally
Speaker 1: like if you did Jeffrey Epstein presents the Elliott Page
Speaker 1: story or something like what are we doing? Weinstein's come on?
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, go ahead? Number one song Blurred Lines by
Speaker 1: Robin Think. Everyone remembers this, featuring t I and Farroh.
Speaker 1: Everybody's standa hey, I saw him, Emily Woodage kowski Ite,
Speaker 1: Oh my, yeah, they're on the map. Yeah, that put
Speaker 1: her on the map. That put her on the map.
Speaker 1: I just walked by and I saw him. She was
Speaker 1: on what Chanel? Is she doing? Chanel? Now she're doing?
Speaker 1: Is she doing Chanel. We'll get that from Jackie at
Speaker 1: the end. But yeah, that song, it was a it
Speaker 1: was a hitter in thirteen. It was. It's tough because
Speaker 1: it's as date rapey as they come. But man, is
Speaker 1: the beat good? Right? It really? It really tested you
Speaker 1: know you want it? Like do you? I don't know?
Speaker 1: Oh I got it. This is also the year the
Speaker 1: world the word selfie. Oh my god, this is the year.
Speaker 1: Is this the year? What do we do? Because you
Speaker 1: didn't do it. Before you did that, it wasn't a selfie.
Speaker 1: You were just a sad person. Like if you did
Speaker 1: it on like a disposable camera, you were a psycho. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It definitely changed probably rout around this time.
Speaker 1: I remember I meet you ever heard the selfie kid? No,
Speaker 1: he's I met him at like the Grammys or something,
Speaker 1: and like he was notoriously known for like taking selfies
Speaker 1: with people. And I do remember this a little Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're looking at this guy. Yeah we took a selfie.
Speaker 1: Oh me and j T. Whoa, that's like that's a
Speaker 1: good gimmick. In twenty fourteen, now it's like you're third's
Speaker 1: the thing and everyone does it. Thirteen You ever have
Speaker 1: someone trying to take a picture with you, and they
Speaker 1: don't do a selfie. They're like hand it to Somebody're like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? When I came in another thirty
Speaker 1: seconds to this interaction, I I just take the picure.
Speaker 1: Sure you got the phone. It's honestly more personal now, Like,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you rather do a selfie? Like, hey, we were
Speaker 1: close enough to take a selfie? Like, that's what I do.
Speaker 1: If I'm gonna ask someone for a picture, I'm going selfie.
Speaker 1: It's twenty twenty two. You flip up, you hit the
Speaker 1: little button, and we're wam bam. You Just to let
Speaker 1: everyone know, you can press on an iPhone the bottom
Speaker 1: of the left too, and it'll snap the photo. You
Speaker 1: don't have to bring your other hand in to do it.
Speaker 1: You can snap it with your other the left side.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, who doesn't know that? Everyone should know that.
Speaker 1: I see it all the time. Also, you can tell
Speaker 1: if someone's a little arrogant though, if they if they
Speaker 1: swipe up for the photo and it's already on them.
Speaker 1: You're like, you're sending selfie if it's not the other way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I never thought about that. They looked into that. What else, Mom, jeans, Mom,
Speaker 1: jeans are cool? Is that the high cut? Is that
Speaker 1: the high cut? That was like the eighties jeans, the comfy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had the high up up here. They're coming back
Speaker 1: to that. They haven't left, They never left. I see
Speaker 1: him all the time. Mariano pitched in his final game.
Speaker 1: You know what I will say about the Red Sox fans,
Speaker 1: It really kind of surprised me. They gave him a
Speaker 1: standing now. I remember they gave him a standing out
Speaker 1: and I was like, Wow, the Red Sox fans didn't
Speaker 1: expect that. Hey, Man Revere Rivera, Geez Mariano Rivera, Rivera, Rivera,
Speaker 1: Mario Mariano Rivera, Mario Mariano Rivera. You nailed it. Met
Speaker 1: my guy a thousand times too. I apologize. We actually
Speaker 1: had a play name him a thousand times and that's
Speaker 1: how he said his name. Ah, like twice, but it
Speaker 1: sounded better one thousand. Yeah. Uh. We had a play
Speaker 1: that was named after him because you ran a stopper
Speaker 1: on the outside and he was the ultimate stopper or closer.
Speaker 1: The Patriots had to play named after a Yankees great.
Speaker 1: Yeah we did. I mean he was he was a great,
Speaker 1: all time great. He gotta you gotta tip your hat
Speaker 1: to people that have that. He would come in the
Speaker 1: game you play, they play Enter Sandman and you would
Speaker 1: get chills. You knew the game was over. Just the greatest.
Speaker 1: What about this Snowden? Remember Edward Snowden And I say
Speaker 1: the Yeah, that was huge. Movies about the documentary? Uh
Speaker 1: they podcast? Docusees he's still in Russia. Le's he? Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he had to seek asylum he
Speaker 1: we we got to find that out. But he's definitely
Speaker 1: probably if he's in Russia. Probably not a good time
Speaker 1: to be in Russia. Well, he his woman stayed by him.
Speaker 1: This woman like she went to Russia with him. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't I couldn't get a movement to move to
Speaker 1: New York. He got a woman to Russia? Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? He's a closer. He's a closer. He's Mariana. Now, uh,
Speaker 1: when you like, does he have to like be a
Speaker 1: does he have to be scared of his life in Russia?
Speaker 1: For his life like there was the Russian government working
Speaker 1: with him? Maybe or how does that work? I think
Speaker 1: as long as the US government hates and prudence like
Speaker 1: keep him around. Yeah, I'd still be scared. I'd still
Speaker 1: be scared. I want to live there. What we got Jackie? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks like he's been granted permanent residency in Russia
Speaker 1: as of twenty twenty. Permanent rut. That's how you get
Speaker 1: citizenship in Russia. You just piss off our government. That's
Speaker 1: how you do it. Jeez, what were you doing? What
Speaker 1: was thirteen thirteen? It was it thirteen? This was fourteen thirteen.
Speaker 1: What was I doing? I had just come off I
Speaker 1: won a comedy festival in uh Atlanta called the Laughing
Speaker 1: Skull Festival, and that helped me. So I was on
Speaker 1: the road like every week, playing strip mall clubs, headlining
Speaker 1: some shithole rooms. So you want to comp I want
Speaker 1: to camp. There was a lot of there were a
Speaker 1: lot of comedians in it, and I shouldn't have won,
Speaker 1: is the truth? I I that's a true, that's a true,
Speaker 1: that's a true champion, right? It was. They gave it
Speaker 1: to me because I was younger than the other guy.
Speaker 1: This other guy, Tom Simmons, super funny comic, had a
Speaker 1: better I did really well every round to get there,
Speaker 1: but in the final round I think he had a
Speaker 1: better set than me. But they gave it to him.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of like chopped though. You know, you
Speaker 1: have your your appetizer, you have your your maine, and
Speaker 1: your dessert. If the guy that wins the dessert in
Speaker 1: the final two didn't win the appetizer or the main
Speaker 1: but got them over there, are you a chopped head?
Speaker 1: I like Child. I love Child. I used to love
Speaker 1: I used to watch it a lot more. I'm more
Speaker 1: of a guy Fierti grocery games guy. Now that's a
Speaker 1: good one too. I love the Food Network. There's something
Speaker 1: weirdly comforting about watching all these chefs have had like
Speaker 1: tortured lives too. They're like artists. They're like they all
Speaker 1: used to be in like gangs and shit. You see
Speaker 1: them like tat it up. Yeah. I have got a
Speaker 1: lot of chef buddies. Let's just say they know at
Speaker 1: a party, they oh they, I mean, they go as
Speaker 1: hard as anybody. They they are maniacs because you can
Speaker 1: get fucked up while you're cooking. You can, right, well
Speaker 1: they I asked them that, and they go, well, when
Speaker 1: you're in this lifestyle, you're always entertaining people, You're always
Speaker 1: you know, having to cook, and when you're cooking afterwards
Speaker 1: you're drinking and then you know, one thing leads to another.
Speaker 1: I don't know that's what you see them these like
Speaker 1: I think there was this guy, Irone Sanchez, you know,
Speaker 1: he's like one of the main guy and it was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: cooking saved me from going down the wrong path. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, what fucking gang were you in? Would they
Speaker 1: let you walk off to pursue the culinary arts? Is that?
Speaker 1: Is that a normal thing? Are they that supportive? He
Speaker 1: had to get jumped out? Probably he had. He probably
Speaker 1: just cooked him a meal. If you think about these
Speaker 1: tacos were so good. We're giving you a second chance
Speaker 1: at life. That's who you get. Let's get in these teams.
Speaker 1: Twenty thirteen Broncos thirteen and three. I believe one of
Speaker 1: those losses was to us when we came back from
Speaker 1: a twenty four to zero deficit at halftime in the
Speaker 1: Fox Did they knock you out of the playoffs? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they knocked you out of the plaoffs. So in the
Speaker 1: FC Championship they were first in the AFC West coach
Speaker 1: by John Fox, big player coach. I heard heard, uh,
Speaker 1: he used to have a lot of fun. Big wins.
Speaker 1: Week one against Baltimore, the defending Super Bowl Champions thirteen
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. Names clearly Peyton Manning, Damarius Thomas, my dog,
Speaker 1: Julius Thomas, Wes Welker, Eric Decker, Von Miller and Chris
Speaker 1: Harris Weet super Bowl MVP and von Miller too. Von Miller, yeah, stud.
Speaker 1: And then he just got another. He got another Super
Speaker 1: Bowl this last season. He's like thirty five and he's
Speaker 1: just got like another on hundred million dollar deal. I
Speaker 1: played the wrong position. God did not touch me enough
Speaker 1: to be big enough, fast enough, strong enough to tackle
Speaker 1: quarterbacks for a living. God should have touched you more.
Speaker 1: You should have God should have molested you, dude. You
Speaker 1: would have been awesome. They were knocked out of the
Speaker 1: divisional round by the defender, by the Super Bowl Champions AFC.
Speaker 1: Or they were knocked out in the twenty twelve divisional
Speaker 1: round by the Ravens in two overtimes at Mile High.
Speaker 1: It was a little revenge game here, the little revenge game.
Speaker 1: And this was revenge. I mean paydon just torch them
Speaker 1: five touchdowns in the second half. And to give some contexts,
Speaker 1: you know, Peyton, he was out from the Colts, had
Speaker 1: a severe neck injury comes back his first year with Denver,
Speaker 1: new team still has to get used to, you know,
Speaker 1: being a new environment. He was he was a god
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis for a long time. Falls short. They get
Speaker 1: a couple key additions the next year, and that's when
Speaker 1: this year started. In the twenty thirteen NFL kickoff against
Speaker 1: the Ravens, let's get over to the Ravens, who we
Speaker 1: got defending Super Bowl champs. They beat the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers in the Horrorball Bowl. I mean that was the
Speaker 1: Harball the Harbawl. Joe Flacco man, remember blacked out there. Yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: we were like, I was, I remember this because we
Speaker 1: went that was Beyonce, right, that was a Beyonce. It
Speaker 1: could have been Beyonce. But I just remember the Niners
Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl and with Cap and uh
Speaker 1: we lost in the AFC Championship. And I was getting
Speaker 1: so many calls from all my Niners friends like if
Speaker 1: we go, if we go, if you guys go and
Speaker 1: the Niners go, you got to hook me up. And
Speaker 1: you know we didn't go, So damn coach by John Harball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: big Wing, Big wins Week ten Ver Cincinnati Notable Losses
Speaker 1: Week sixteen versus New England, and that was a huge
Speaker 1: win on the road in Baltimore, hostile environment, that place
Speaker 1: is always hard to play. We have Joe Flacco was
Speaker 1: on the team. Is he elite? Is he not elite?
Speaker 1: He won two Super Bowls, got paid, won one Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: He definitely got paid. Justin Tucker arguably one of the
Speaker 1: most clutch kickers in the world. T Rice, remember ray Rice,
Speaker 1: Ray Rice was there. I remember that awful video obviously,
Speaker 1: and I remember wanting to see it because I was like,
Speaker 1: how horrible is this? I was just curious and I
Speaker 1: clicked on it and there was a YouTube ad before
Speaker 1: the videos like someone's making money off this. That's how
Speaker 1: fucked up the world is. Hey, that's what happens when
Speaker 1: you live in a capitalist society. Buddy YouTube, man YouTube
Speaker 1: and Hellodi Nada. He was a beast, t Sizzle, Terrell Suggs.
Speaker 1: But they were lacking. They were lacking old ray Lewis
Speaker 1: and Reed. Yeah, the big two on that Big two. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This team was obviously coming off a Super Bowl win,
Speaker 1: lost a couple of key pieces on defense with Ray
Speaker 1: Lewis retiring and Edred off to Houston. H Joe Flacco.
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco former Colts on this team too. Dallas Clark
Speaker 1: was a tight end and they had Brandon Stokely. Stokely,
Speaker 1: so we Paydon's former boys. This is this is kind
Speaker 1: of that. That was that was a little probably heart
Speaker 1: heartwarming to see those guys on the other side in
Speaker 1: a different uniform. Well he was in a different Uni
Speaker 1: Worm uniform. Things we remember from this game. I mean this,
Speaker 1: it's the seven touchdowns, it's Paydon being like, You're like,
Speaker 1: ship Peydon is still elite, Peydon is still one of
Speaker 1: the guys eyes. Yeah, Peyton came out with the booms
Speaker 1: for you know in twenty twelve, coming off that injury,
Speaker 1: everyone was talking about his arm strength. Comes out this year,
Speaker 1: put in a lot of work. Was that something that
Speaker 1: you guys were talking about in the locker room. You're like,
Speaker 1: it is Peyton does he still have it or what? No,
Speaker 1: you knew you knew that with the severity of what
Speaker 1: the injury he was dealing with, that it was going
Speaker 1: to take him some time. Yeah, but you also know
Speaker 1: with Peyton Manning, he's all about preparation. He's gonna get
Speaker 1: his team in the right play and he's he's gonna
Speaker 1: find a way to compete at a very high level,
Speaker 1: which he did this year by setting the record fifty
Speaker 1: five touchdown passes seven in a game. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: pretty mind bottling to hear these stats, say, mind bottling, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I have to bottle up all my thoughts after
Speaker 1: thinking to be Jack to that one. It's boggling for sure. No,
Speaker 1: it's bottling. I'm bottling all my thoughts up because I
Speaker 1: have so many thoughts I have to bottle them for
Speaker 1: you know what I'm thinking about Peyton Manning over here
Speaker 1: beating us in the the AFC Championship, you know, for
Speaker 1: you know, the first of two consecutive check Can we
Speaker 1: get a check on that? We'll accept it? Except, okay,
Speaker 1: I stand corrected. This is a statement game to start
Speaker 1: the season. What are some things that we've forgotten? You know,
Speaker 1: the lightning delay to start the game, the Ravens having
Speaker 1: a Joe Flacco banner in Mile High Stadium. Why are
Speaker 1: they in? It's so weird. So that they had to
Speaker 1: play because of the Baltimore Orioles having a home game
Speaker 1: on this date, there was some mix up. They share
Speaker 1: a parking lot, so the Ravens had to play in
Speaker 1: Denver a home game. Yeah. I mean that's if I
Speaker 1: just won a super Bowl and we got to start
Speaker 1: the NFL season off on an away game. I would
Speaker 1: have been pissed on a game that should have been
Speaker 1: a home game. Yeah, well it shouldn't have Yeah, bullshit.
Speaker 1: And it's also that altitude focks you up in Denver, right.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's that bad. It annoys me. I
Speaker 1: get allergies. You're more of like a badass jew and
Speaker 1: I'm more of like a Jewish stereotype. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm You're more like I can tough through, and I'm
Speaker 1: more like, ah, my allergies are killing me. You gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta have that David mentality bubbs David. Yeah, David,
Speaker 1: I'm already walking different just doing a podcast with you. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling the how's your neck? Are you able to
Speaker 1: get down there? I'm working on it all right, all right?
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I play through pain too. It's a
Speaker 1: different type of pain, you know. You know, sometimes I
Speaker 1: pap a muscle relaxer to do it. Sometimes I just
Speaker 1: you know, say I can fucking I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I can't do muscle relaxers. Why not. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just get I don't like them, really, I don't
Speaker 1: like them. You put one of those, have a couple
Speaker 1: of glasses of whiskey, you're gonna be feeling nice, my friend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then you just can't you can't even move something.
Speaker 1: Not my style, not my style, my style. And then
Speaker 1: we also the Elvis Dumerville off season facts gate, which
Speaker 1: resulted in him leaving right Denver. Which could you imagine
Speaker 1: if they had Dumerville and von Miller like going on
Speaker 1: with these next couple of years, which I believe the
Speaker 1: agent got fined. What are we doing? Agent? That's when
Speaker 1: you're going to your agent? You fuck me? Yeah, because
Speaker 1: you'd rather be I mean, you'd rather be on this
Speaker 1: Denver team as a Yeah. I mean if you got
Speaker 1: someone like von Miller on the other side, and you
Speaker 1: got Peyton Manning and the weapons that they had, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a complete football team. Yeah. Let's
Speaker 1: get over to the gaming corner presented by win Bet.
Speaker 1: Let's make our prop bet. What do we think? And
Speaker 1: I think, uh, how many times can we compliment Eli
Speaker 1: Manning while talking to Peyton is a good one I'm
Speaker 1: an I'm an Eli Manning guy. When it comes to
Speaker 1: you know, Manning's let's just say that Eli is the man.
Speaker 1: I'm already doing it. I'm getting warmed up. So what's
Speaker 1: our over and under? Then? I think we can hit.
Speaker 1: I think we could hit. So let's say five to five.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be tough. You don't think we could do it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna find out. Will we buckle under the pressure?
Speaker 1: Looking in the eyes of the great Peyton Manning? Oh,
Speaker 1: can we deliver and sing the praises of his brother NonStop?
Speaker 1: Only time will tell, We'll say we will find out
Speaker 1: here on games with names presented by win Bet. But
Speaker 1: all right, before we hear from Peyton, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick little break, and now we are going to welcome
Speaker 1: a man that doesn't need really any introduction. Legend of
Speaker 1: the game, revolutionized the pre snap quarterback play, countless all pros,
Speaker 1: countless Pro Bowls, five time MVP, five time MVP, two
Speaker 1: time Super Bowl champ with two different teams. Pretty insane,
Speaker 1: Pretty crazy. We got Peyton Manning. Thank you for joining us, Bubs. Hey, Julian,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Thanks for not including my record
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. And that bio. I appreciate you leaving
Speaker 1: that part out, but it's great to be on with
Speaker 1: you guys. Peyton, I can't say anything to you. You
Speaker 1: owned me and when you were in Denver and we're
Speaker 1: here to talk about the Peyton seven when you opened
Speaker 1: up the twenty thirteen season with seven touchdown passes against
Speaker 1: the defending Super Bowl champions, which always insane to come
Speaker 1: out firing hot like that. But I gotta open this
Speaker 1: up by just letting everybody know. If you guys can see,
Speaker 1: Peyton texts me. I haven't talked to him. Our booker
Speaker 1: booked us together and everything. I gotta text him thanks
Speaker 1: for coming on. But he sent me a book, literally,
Speaker 1: a book of notes of this game. And I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here thinking like, is this what playing with Peyton would
Speaker 1: have been like? Is that what it would have been like?
Speaker 1: Just get these notes pre game on a Tuesday, going
Speaker 1: into Wednesday practice. Hey, I mean when you can't throw
Speaker 1: very far, when you can't run it all Julian preparations
Speaker 1: where you get an edge. So taking me back to
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, it's quite some time ago. So I had
Speaker 1: to do a little study in pregame scouting report if
Speaker 1: you will. Peyden, if you think you can't throw far,
Speaker 1: you should see me throw a football. It's pretty pathetic.
Speaker 1: You can throw it pretty far. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean Jullians a quarterback as well. He probably has
Speaker 1: the best armor in the group right now. I don't
Speaker 1: know Peyton. I changed the receiver for a reason. Let's
Speaker 1: just say that now. A lot of people don't realize,
Speaker 1: you know, when Peyton left the Colts, we were all
Speaker 1: in fucking shock, like what's gonna happen is is he's hurt?
Speaker 1: And the fact that like a folk hero like Peyton
Speaker 1: Manny wasn't playing in a season like it was fucking
Speaker 1: it was crazy. And then he goes in signs with Denver.
Speaker 1: First year gets knocked out in the divisional round against
Speaker 1: the defending or the Super Bowl champions of that year
Speaker 1: of the Ravens, and then next year goes in gets
Speaker 1: a couple key with Wes Welker. I have a real
Speaker 1: quick question before we get into the game. How much
Speaker 1: is Adam Gates giving you for all the head coaching
Speaker 1: jobs that you've got him. I have not seen any
Speaker 1: residuals yet, but uh uh, Adam was great for me. Uh, yeah, Julian.
Speaker 1: It's funny. A lot of people wondered why I stayed
Speaker 1: uh in the AFC after UH, you know, getting let
Speaker 1: go by the Colts. You know, you're tired of play
Speaker 1: in the Patriots in the playoffs, so you get tired
Speaker 1: to play at Baltimore and Uh, I really feel like
Speaker 1: that was the reason that I've stayed because I was
Speaker 1: an AFC guy. I was familiar with those teams. Sure
Speaker 1: we'd lost to him, but I missed the division. I
Speaker 1: felt like to go to the UNFC, I probably would
Speaker 1: have been out of my comfort zone. So I believe
Speaker 1: it or not, the Patriots and Ravens were a big
Speaker 1: part of probably why I chose Denver to stay in
Speaker 1: the AFC and get into that. Now, when you signed
Speaker 1: with Denver, did you come in with your scheme, your
Speaker 1: system or very collaborative with that, like, hey, how do
Speaker 1: we make you comfortable? Yeah, that's a great point, great question. Uh,
Speaker 1: Denver was extremely collaborative, and you know, I was coming
Speaker 1: off an injury, so I was spending a lot of
Speaker 1: time on my rehab. I think to learn an entirely
Speaker 1: new offense. I'm matrit. An article on Kirk cousins who's learning.
Speaker 1: I want to say, like this third offense in the
Speaker 1: past five years, but it's completely new offense. He said.
Speaker 1: He feels like an eighth grader playing tackle football for
Speaker 1: the first time. That is not a comfortable feeling as
Speaker 1: a quarterback. So for me, Denver basically took my Colt's
Speaker 1: playbook Julian and says, Peyton, we will put in all
Speaker 1: the plays that you like. We'll put in your snapcout.
Speaker 1: We'll call the formations the same way that you called
Speaker 1: them with the Colts, but these are some plays that
Speaker 1: we think will be good for you at this point
Speaker 1: in your career. We'll form a hybrid offense and that
Speaker 1: allowed us to get off to a fast start in
Speaker 1: my first season in twenty twelve. Peyton, know, this is
Speaker 1: like your comeback. You know, it was weird to see
Speaker 1: you not play for you then your back It's like
Speaker 1: your Travolta pulp fiction Payton's back moment. You know, how
Speaker 1: much pain were you? And I've had neck problems where
Speaker 1: the doctor says I can't perform kind of lingus you're
Speaker 1: playing football, you know, I mean, how how much pain
Speaker 1: were you in week to week? Yeah? My pain really
Speaker 1: started in twenty eleven, which forced me to have several
Speaker 1: surgeries which forced me to miss the entire season. My
Speaker 1: pain kind of went away after my surgeries. It was
Speaker 1: just my strength and my weakness. You know. I had
Speaker 1: you know, essentially nerve damage in my right arm and
Speaker 1: right hand, so I just couldn't function the way that
Speaker 1: I used to and I kind of lost my grip.
Speaker 1: I lost really my awareness of my arm in space
Speaker 1: had appropriate reception issues. So listen, I've had this unbelievable
Speaker 1: string of help my entire career, going back to high school,
Speaker 1: college in the NFL. So missing that entire season was tough.
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember I was in a hospital bed
Speaker 1: in California watching the Colts play their opening game against
Speaker 1: the Texans, Carried Collins as the quarterback, and I don't
Speaker 1: cry a lot, but I was emotional. I cried during
Speaker 1: that game because because I wasn't out there the first
Speaker 1: time I had been out there, and so that was tough.
Speaker 1: Uh So to finally get back out of the field,
Speaker 1: albeit with a new team, uh it was a It
Speaker 1: was It was a very satisfying feeling, knowing all that
Speaker 1: I've been through to get back to that point. It's
Speaker 1: weird when you're hurt the psyche that you have as
Speaker 1: an athlete. It's kind of like you want your team
Speaker 1: to do great, but you don't want them to do
Speaker 1: too great. It's kind of like watching someone kiss your
Speaker 1: wife or like, you know, take your wife on a date.
Speaker 1: Some guys are in that. Some guys that's called the cuts,
Speaker 1: it's called the true competitors. Yeah, I mean, I mean that. Look,
Speaker 1: it was a it was a miserable scene and I'm injured,
Speaker 1: I'm not playing, our team is not winning. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it was just it was just a tough year
Speaker 1: all the way around. So twenty twelve couldn't have come
Speaker 1: sooner enough. And you know, got off to the you know,
Speaker 1: a kind of a nude chapter with the Broncos, and
Speaker 1: it goes to show you the competitiveness and and the
Speaker 1: adversity of the ability to overcome adversity that Peyton shows
Speaker 1: throughout his career to literally, I mean, this guy had
Speaker 1: a nerve thing that where he couldn't grip a football.
Speaker 1: I've been on I've been on notice to tell everyone
Speaker 1: that I hate quarterbacks with gloves. He gets the only exception,
Speaker 1: because you know, he could barely probably feel his arm.
Speaker 1: But that that goes to show you the competitor was
Speaker 1: stay in the conference. Fuck Brady, fuck the Ravens. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go out here. I know him, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: beat him. And that's the kind of guy Peyton Manny is.
Speaker 1: Now you're you're jumping into week one and week one,
Speaker 1: especially if you play in the opening night game, which
Speaker 1: this is the opening night game for the Ravens, but
Speaker 1: it took place in Mile High, which is usually kind
Speaker 1: of weird. We saw that. No, they were trying to
Speaker 1: make it somewhat of a home atmosphere. They had the
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco fucking banner on your guys' sideline. You guys
Speaker 1: kind of start slow. There's a lightning storm, there's rain,
Speaker 1: the place is probably electric because you do have the
Speaker 1: defending Super Bowl champs. But after you guys score that
Speaker 1: first touchdown and after you get the adjustments going, because
Speaker 1: this is a game of adjustment, especially week one, you
Speaker 1: got teams that are game planning for fucking six months
Speaker 1: for this game. They got a whole new bunch of
Speaker 1: things that you haven't seen on tape. There's no tape
Speaker 1: to study, Like when did you settle down after that
Speaker 1: first touchdown is when you started seeing things. You started
Speaker 1: letting things lay out. All Right, we do this, We're
Speaker 1: gonna get that. Yeah, I mean, Julia, like you said,
Speaker 1: the beginning of the game was very strange. I mean,
Speaker 1: the fact that Joe Flacco's picture was on mild Eve
Speaker 1: Stadium just tells you this is different, right, And you know,
Speaker 1: going back, I mean, like I said, the Ravens had
Speaker 1: beat us in a playoff game in Denver, a devastating loss.
Speaker 1: They hit this eighty yarder with like a few seconds left.
Speaker 1: They go on to win the super Bowl, like you said,
Speaker 1: And you know, like when you win the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to play your first game at home, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's kind of what you earned. And the
Speaker 1: Orioles didn't want to give up like a home Thursday
Speaker 1: baseball game because they share a parking lot. So nice partners,
Speaker 1: Baltimore Orioles, And they tell the Ravens, sorry, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to go on the road and play your opening
Speaker 1: game as a Super Bowl champion in Denver. So I'm
Speaker 1: sure the Ravens weren't real happy going in. We were
Speaker 1: motivated coming off that loss from the year before. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of emotion. You mentioned the rain delay. You're
Speaker 1: all ready to play all of a sudden, go sit
Speaker 1: in the locker room for forty five minutes. So it
Speaker 1: took us a while to get on track. And you know,
Speaker 1: everybody thinks, oh, you blew the Ravens out that day.
Speaker 1: We were actually down seventeen to fourteen going into the half,
Speaker 1: but we had you had a couple of touchdowns, hit
Speaker 1: Julius Thomas on a couple of touchdowns. We felt like
Speaker 1: we had some momentum going into halftime, and then uh
Speaker 1: came out in the second half. It just uh, I
Speaker 1: mean it was just hard. It was hard to miss.
Speaker 1: Guys looked wide open to me. Uh, the ravage weren't
Speaker 1: missing ray Lewis. Okay, I will say that was significant, right.
Speaker 1: Ray Lewis had retired the season before. Right went out
Speaker 1: in style. Uh that was Look, that's a big that's
Speaker 1: a big void, right. I felt like they were still recovering,
Speaker 1: uh from that loss, and uh, uh will take advantage
Speaker 1: of that. Ed Reid was gone as well. Remember he
Speaker 1: signed with the Jets, and people don't really Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's that is the Ravens at that point, So
Speaker 1: there's no doubt we took advantage of that. I can
Speaker 1: remember playing against the Ravens, and I bet you Peyton's
Speaker 1: got these seaming exact stories and you'd line up in
Speaker 1: a formation in a certain down and distance and fucking
Speaker 1: ray Lewis is calling out the play Like that's the
Speaker 1: kind of guy ray Lewis was. He was listening to
Speaker 1: everything that Peyton was saying. We all know Peyton's pre snaps,
Speaker 1: like theatrics. He's over here, given this that, trying to
Speaker 1: see get the defense to jump out of their disguise.
Speaker 1: Then it becomes a chess match once you lose that
Speaker 1: figure and you have a guy like Peyton Minning who's
Speaker 1: a fucking player coach, Like once they figure it out,
Speaker 1: you knew something crazy was gonna happen. Like yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more. Ray Ray was a quarterback there
Speaker 1: on defense. Then you add it Ry, who never lined
Speaker 1: up in the same place, was gonna do things the
Speaker 1: opposite of what he should do just to use the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Although those guys weren't there, I will say that Ravens
Speaker 1: defense was extremely well coached, well trained because of Ray
Speaker 1: and Ed's presidence you know, the guys filling in for
Speaker 1: them were still strong football players, were very aware, understood
Speaker 1: our offensive game, playing our tendency. So it wasn't like
Speaker 1: it was a cakewalk by any means. But I will
Speaker 1: say I did not mind not seeing number fifty two
Speaker 1: and number twenty in that game. In different now. You
Speaker 1: threw five touchdowns in the second half, that's almost more
Speaker 1: insane than seven in a game. Five and one half
Speaker 1: sounds insane against a well trained defense, against defending Super
Speaker 1: Bowl champion. It was we hit, like I said Thomas
Speaker 1: a couple of times in the first half, we hit
Speaker 1: Welker down there on the goal line in the red zone,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of a place where Wes has sort
Speaker 1: of made his name on these little option routes, the
Speaker 1: same routes that Julian Rayan as well, hard to cover.
Speaker 1: And that was my first game with Wes. Right, we'd
Speaker 1: had offseason training head preseason, but you never really know
Speaker 1: until you get into a game. So the fact that
Speaker 1: he and I hooked up for two touchdowns, if his
Speaker 1: very first game as a Bronco, was a really good feeling.
Speaker 1: And then I want to say, we get caught well
Speaker 1: down the left sideline and then we ended up hitting
Speaker 1: the Marrity Thomas on a go route on the right
Speaker 1: and then this scrubbing My favorite play. It was a
Speaker 1: one yard pass by me. You know, it was a
Speaker 1: screen pass to Demarrius, but we caught the Ravens in
Speaker 1: a blitz and look, I had thrown that wide receiver
Speaker 1: screen before. I had never thrown it to a six ' four,
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty two pound grown man and to
Speaker 1: Maryus bought that ball split the same and it it was gone.
Speaker 1: And he did that tid in our time together. So
Speaker 1: that was pretty cool to witness, even though I didn't
Speaker 1: really do anything on that play besides the one yard pass. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he says he didn't do anything, but he saw the
Speaker 1: tendencies at the defense gave him. He knew it was
Speaker 1: fucking blitz zero. So the best thing to do to
Speaker 1: bleat beat blitz zero is throw the jailbreak screen on
Speaker 1: the outside. It's a matchup, but we also have very
Speaker 1: different definitions of not doing anything. I'll show you not
Speaker 1: doing anything. I'm a lazy man, but yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you bring up Wes Welker. This is an interesting season.
Speaker 1: Wes comes to the Broncos you guys worked together for
Speaker 1: a first season, and that opened up things for Julian
Speaker 1: in New England to kind of do what West did. Ye,
Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you Peyton. Well, I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean you're welcome. I guess, uh, I appreciate yeah, I
Speaker 1: uh yeah. Playing with Wes what was fun because you
Speaker 1: could tell of his knowledge, his understanding of defenses after
Speaker 1: playing with Tom playing of that sophisticated Patriots offense, so
Speaker 1: we were able to kind of pick up on a
Speaker 1: lot of things quickly. We sort of copied the Broncos
Speaker 1: uh uh platebook when I signed Julian. We incorporated a
Speaker 1: lot of the same routes and concepts that you guys
Speaker 1: ran in New England. Hey, Wes, obviously you like this play, right,
Speaker 1: you like Gotti right, go with an option route. We're
Speaker 1: going to put that play in. And so that allowed
Speaker 1: West to play fast, especially in that first game. You know,
Speaker 1: you had so many different players and and and the
Speaker 1: great thing about what you could do is you could
Speaker 1: get the players in the best possible situation for their strengths.
Speaker 1: And you saw that this whole game DT catch and
Speaker 1: run DT down the sideline, you know, Julius Thomas down
Speaker 1: the middle west on his option routes, his pick routes
Speaker 1: in the red area. And that's what a quarterback like
Speaker 1: Peyton can do now after stealing Wes Welker from us,
Speaker 1: which thank you, I appreciate that it gave me my
Speaker 1: opportunity along with Aaron Hernandez drama. You know, when guys
Speaker 1: are leaving, that gives opportunity for he left for a
Speaker 1: different reason. He left for a different reason. But did
Speaker 1: you have kind of like a like a little fist
Speaker 1: pump moment when you go out and you steal Tom's
Speaker 1: favorite receiver and you give him two touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: first game. You know, it's funny like when you throw
Speaker 1: a touchdown in the first game to a new receiver,
Speaker 1: like you sort of think about all the things that
Speaker 1: happened prior to that. I remember being down in Miami.
Speaker 1: I was playing golf with Dan Marino of all people,
Speaker 1: and saying, to day, I got to skip this whole
Speaker 1: and I called Wes Welker and went into full college
Speaker 1: recruiting mode. It right, just like when I was back
Speaker 1: at Tennessee, I felt like I had a good track
Speaker 1: record as a recruiting host. Right, I was a pretty
Speaker 1: good closer, and I went into that mode with Wes Welker.
Speaker 1: It was apart five. Gave me lots of time to
Speaker 1: give him all my cheesy pitch lines and kind of
Speaker 1: kind of sealed the deal. All of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: he becomes the Broncos. We do off season growing together
Speaker 1: at Duke University, off campus, We're hanging out and you know,
Speaker 1: all those things matter, right, Julian. I mean all that
Speaker 1: time you spend together, It's not just on the NFL
Speaker 1: stadium field, right, It's these off season workouts in May
Speaker 1: and June and nobody's around. And to have all that
Speaker 1: hard work be put in in a short period of
Speaker 1: time and to have that payoff in that first game,
Speaker 1: and you know I would end up being kind of
Speaker 1: a record breaking season. That was pretty cool. That makes
Speaker 1: all the hard work work. While to me, what kind
Speaker 1: of pitch are you giving, Wes? I mean, are you
Speaker 1: saying things like Tom doesn't love you like I love you, dude,
Speaker 1: Like he doesn't appreciate you. Yeah? Probably, so I'm afraid
Speaker 1: to you know, you know, eight on on you know
Speaker 1: other people, right, And that's what recruiting is, right, Hey,
Speaker 1: if you go to Georgia. There's no way you're gonna
Speaker 1: get as good an education as you would get at Tennessee. Right,
Speaker 1: so it shouldn't even be shouldn't even be a comparison.
Speaker 1: So let's tell you got people to Tennessee the education, yeah,
Speaker 1: back then nothing else? Uh yeah, Look, I mean you
Speaker 1: pull out all stops a west, We're gonna throw it
Speaker 1: every time. You don't have to block. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna you know, keep the ball outside. We won't
Speaker 1: send you across the middle, right, I mean, everything is
Speaker 1: on the tape man. And you also, let's like you
Speaker 1: got d T, which you know I spend a little
Speaker 1: time with DT. You know, it's horrific what happened to
Speaker 1: our guy. You know, can you can you shine a
Speaker 1: little light on DT? I know you you set up
Speaker 1: a scholarship for uh de Marius? Yeah yeah, Now, I
Speaker 1: mean Julia Haaber is one of my favorite favorite teammates.
Speaker 1: Sweet guy, unbelievably talented, incredibly unselfish, right, put the team
Speaker 1: over self. You know, Look, receivers want the ball, I
Speaker 1: get it. But Marius was different. I mean he took
Speaker 1: pride in the fact that defenses were double covering in
Speaker 1: right We're rolling a safety to his side, and that
Speaker 1: was going to allow Julius Thomas to be wide open, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, de Marius took pride, but he says, hey,
Speaker 1: because of me, they're focused on me, somebody else is
Speaker 1: going to have their day. That is not a normal attitude.
Speaker 1: I mean, was as excited to see my kids after
Speaker 1: the game. Coaches. Kids had this incredible smile, tough, played hurt,
Speaker 1: never complained, never came out of the game. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I missed him every day. We started the scholarship at
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech in his honor. Every year, Julie and Georgia
Speaker 1: Tech is going to give the number eight jersey that
Speaker 1: was what Damarius wore at Georgia Tech on August eighth,
Speaker 1: eight eight of every year he was eighty eight for
Speaker 1: the Broncos. Eight. At Georgia They're gonna give to their
Speaker 1: top player leader senior, the number eighth jersey every year
Speaker 1: on that date. And I think that's a pretty cool
Speaker 1: way to keep his legacy a lot. That's that's awesome.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. I mean, you know, with these kind of antics,
Speaker 1: it makes Peyton slide up in my mating scale of
Speaker 1: who I like more. Well, We got to talk about
Speaker 1: Eli for a second, because I'm a Giants fan. I
Speaker 1: love Eli. What he's done for this city. I mean,
Speaker 1: what he's done for our confidence. We've had some of
Speaker 1: the other franchises in New York. We're dragging a little bit.
Speaker 1: That the Giants won. It made me happy to see
Speaker 1: you cheering for Eli at that first Super Bowl. I
Speaker 1: thought that was really cool. But there's got to be
Speaker 1: some sibling rivalry, especially once Eli got his second You're
Speaker 1: in Denver, was a part of you like, I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta match my brother. Well, look, certainly that was
Speaker 1: the goal every year, and you know, we'd had great
Speaker 1: seasons in Indianapolis and some great regular seats at Denver,
Speaker 1: but just couldn't quite get o the Hawk, you know,
Speaker 1: lost the Super Bowl. And so look extremely proud of Eli,
Speaker 1: the way he you know, handled himself, handled New York.
Speaker 1: You mentioned that Super Bowl. That was one of the
Speaker 1: greatest football experiences for me, and I was in the
Speaker 1: stands watching your brother lead a team in a two
Speaker 1: minute thrill to win a Super Bowl. So it's funny
Speaker 1: you mentioned Eli uh and the Ravens, you know, thinking
Speaker 1: about you know what happened in the past to get
Speaker 1: you to this point. You know, Super Bowl season two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven, Hall of Fine and Dandy. I want
Speaker 1: to say it was two thousand and four, Eli's rookie year.
Speaker 1: They went to Baltimore against Ray Lewis and a kids
Speaker 1: ed reed. Eli tells the story better than that, better
Speaker 1: than him. But two things I remember about that game.
Speaker 1: He had a zero point zero quarterback rating, which is
Speaker 1: actually hard to do because it's not because it's not
Speaker 1: like over for twelve. It's like four for twenty seven
Speaker 1: with three interceptions and twenty one yards like the math
Speaker 1: has to beer. You actually have to have a couple
Speaker 1: of completions to get the zero point zero rating. It's
Speaker 1: hard to do. And also, he said, Julian, you'll appreciate this.
Speaker 1: Eli was up there calling the bike. He's like, no, no,
Speaker 1: he a number fifty nine is the mic and Raves
Speaker 1: going no, no, no, fifty nine is out the mic.
Speaker 1: I'm the bike And Eli said, oh, yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: fifty two is the mic. I mean it's not normal
Speaker 1: for the bike linebacker on the other team to be
Speaker 1: dictating the protection call for the quarterback. So the Ravens
Speaker 1: had a big impact on Eli. I think getting to
Speaker 1: that Super Bowl. Uh you know several years later, well
Speaker 1: you talk about Kerry Collins, the Ravens beat my Giants
Speaker 1: with Kerry Collins. I think it was one and that
Speaker 1: was my first taste of that Ravens d when I
Speaker 1: was like, damn raight Louis two thousand, there's something else.
Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, we have in a tradition. There was
Speaker 1: a pride there. Lord dance thugs, you know, Adelius Thomas,
Speaker 1: H McAllister. I mean, believe me, Peter Bulwer, they were,
Speaker 1: they were specials. They were and uh, it just goes
Speaker 1: to tell you, you know, with all the rough times
Speaker 1: for Eli Manning to you know, he getting called out
Speaker 1: Mike points by the other team, to see him go
Speaker 1: out there and and win two like he did. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's just got a short memory and that's what you
Speaker 1: have to have as an elite quarterback. And he did
Speaker 1: it twice against the Patriot. It made me very happy
Speaker 1: New York about too. And when so you have this offensive,
Speaker 1: even this insane season, throw fifty five touchdowns, you set
Speaker 1: the record, where do you rank this offense? Not just
Speaker 1: for you but all the time because you had insane
Speaker 1: offenses in Indianapolis too. Yeah, I mean, look it was.
Speaker 1: It was you know, people say it's like playing a
Speaker 1: video game. In some ways, it was because we had
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys Welker, Julius Thomas, Eric Decker, uh
Speaker 1: Demarus Dreas and Tammy no show. They love football. They
Speaker 1: loved it. They love to work, they love to practice,
Speaker 1: they love those offseason you know, throwing sessions. And so
Speaker 1: when you have a bunch of guys that just love it,
Speaker 1: that are unselfish, that realize, hey, today might be Decker's day,
Speaker 1: today might be Welfer's day. I mean it just made
Speaker 1: for a fun offense to play in. And we played,
Speaker 1: you know, some teams that we hadn't played a while,
Speaker 1: they didn't really have any idea what was coming. We
Speaker 1: through a ton of touchdowns I think against the old
Speaker 1: NFC East, if you will. So, yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I see you know no Sean here in Denver, I
Speaker 1: see Joel Dreeson and you know, fifty five touchdowns in
Speaker 1: a sixteen game season, right, I mean they've gone to
Speaker 1: seventeen games. They still haven't gotten it. I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: going down. Brady's on a mission to break every record
Speaker 1: that I have, right, I mean, he will. He wants
Speaker 1: to break that fifty five and trust me, right Mahomes,
Speaker 1: I'm sure is going to get there at some point too.
Speaker 1: So most of my records have fallen. That's one that's
Speaker 1: kind of on around, you know, for a little while.
Speaker 1: I mean to tell you how competitive Brady is now.
Speaker 1: He goes out and he gets more retirements than me, right,
Speaker 1: I mean what I mean seriously like you, I mean,
Speaker 1: can't I just have something you know over time? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have two retirements. You know, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: more than Peyton. Yeah, but Peyton he owned us when
Speaker 1: you're in Denver. You owned us when you're in Denver. Okay,
Speaker 1: I get you're trying to be mister humble right now,
Speaker 1: but you became the sheriff in that that orange uniform
Speaker 1: that we all remember in the AFC Championship in thirteen fifteen,
Speaker 1: and we could keep it going, We could keep it going.
Speaker 1: But I have a quick question, Like we talk about
Speaker 1: the pre snap tendencies that you do. Did you jump
Speaker 1: into plays with two plays always or were you straight
Speaker 1: audibling into other plays? Like did you have a check
Speaker 1: with me with a two high look, a one high
Speaker 1: look pass to run or was it? Did that change
Speaker 1: up according to who you're playing, because you're clearly a
Speaker 1: game playing kind of guy. Yeah, Julian, that's how it
Speaker 1: started way back when in Indianapolis. Uh. You know, around
Speaker 1: that two thousand, two thousand and one, Uh, we were
Speaker 1: calling almost three plays in the huddle. We were calling
Speaker 1: a run to the right, run to the left, and
Speaker 1: then an alert to a pass play right. We were
Speaker 1: a one back offense, as you know, you know, when
Speaker 1: a fullback's in there, you can kind of call plays
Speaker 1: and it's called you know, c I alight call it
Speaker 1: and run it right. The fullback's gonna block the extra guy.
Speaker 1: In a what back offense, the defense can have too
Speaker 1: many guys in there and forcing to a bad place.
Speaker 1: We wanted the flexibility, and as we got into the
Speaker 1: no huddle, Uh, Julian, you know, basically I want to
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say its two thousand. We were starting a
Speaker 1: lot of games. We were losing. We were down fourteen
Speaker 1: to nothing, and the coaches said, hey, let's go no puddle,
Speaker 1: let's pick it up. And we started playing well. And
Speaker 1: finally we said, why are we waiting to get down fourteen,
Speaker 1: nothing to go, no huddle, Let's just start the game
Speaker 1: that way. And that's how it began. And at that
Speaker 1: point we stopped doing the three plays and just kind
Speaker 1: of calling one play. And then if I saw something
Speaker 1: that the defense was doing like that all outlets cover zero,
Speaker 1: I had the flexibility to audible to a wide receiver
Speaker 1: screen and get us out of bad plays. What's the
Speaker 1: main thing. It wasn't always trying to get to the
Speaker 1: perfect play, it was getting us out of bad situation.
Speaker 1: And because of that, that two thousand and no huddle
Speaker 1: like type offense. I mean, the last part of my
Speaker 1: like the final four parts four years of my career,
Speaker 1: you're starting to see all this no huddle. Let's get
Speaker 1: to the ball, let's play fast, Let's tire out that
Speaker 1: defensive line. They got too many guys that get the quarterback.
Speaker 1: The faster you could play, the more the quarterback and
Speaker 1: the OC can talk to each other. So there's a
Speaker 1: little advantage with that. You can get lined up, you
Speaker 1: can see what the defense is doing. And he revolutionized that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what Peyton Manning was all about. Getting
Speaker 1: his team in the best play, in the best situation.
Speaker 1: And you know you can argue there's no one better,
Speaker 1: and and you know I have nothing but respect. I
Speaker 1: always bust your goddamn balls because you know, you took
Speaker 1: two from me in the AFC Championship. And but I
Speaker 1: gotta love you because he also took Walker away. So
Speaker 1: you know, I just want to well, I certainly appreciate
Speaker 1: that you Joe, and I agree. You know, uh uh
Speaker 1: play callers right, some are on the sidelines, some are
Speaker 1: up in the there's a big debate, you know, what's
Speaker 1: the better view. There's no doubt that the best view
Speaker 1: of the field is the quarterback on the field. Right.
Speaker 1: He can see everything, you know, if you can give
Speaker 1: him some some some you know, freedom to get you
Speaker 1: out of bad place. Hey, they're finally playing man the
Speaker 1: man let me check to a option route to Edelman
Speaker 1: in the slot, right, I mean press box sideline. Then
Speaker 1: even compare to the view that the quarterback has if
Speaker 1: he can handle that freedom and responsibility, you know. So
Speaker 1: we had Brandon Marshall on here and he said he
Speaker 1: were he didn't play any playoff games, and this is
Speaker 1: games with names, and he's a good friend of mine.
Speaker 1: We were on inside the NFL, which streams on paramount
Speaker 1: plus of course, and so we had to do the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl where he scored four touchdowns and recap that
Speaker 1: for five to five touchdowns four I'm sorry four. And
Speaker 1: he was telling a story that you threw a dart
Speaker 1: route to him in the in the red area and
Speaker 1: he dropped it, and he said, you gave him the
Speaker 1: death stare from one thousand miles away for four minutes
Speaker 1: straight and you didn't throw the ball to him ever. Again,
Speaker 1: is that what to expect from Peyton Manning if you
Speaker 1: drop his ball? I mean the Pro Bowl. It's a
Speaker 1: different type of motivation, right, If you're lucky enough to
Speaker 1: be named the starter. Usually the coaches that I played with,
Speaker 1: a starting quarterback, you can stay in as long as
Speaker 1: you want. When you're ready to come out, you want
Speaker 1: to come out, and the goal is to try to
Speaker 1: throw as many touchdowns as you can so you can
Speaker 1: get the MVP award and win the car. That is
Speaker 1: the goal, right. I remember Rich Gannon was the starter
Speaker 1: my first Pro Bowl. I was the third guy. Rich
Speaker 1: Cannon's like, I'm going down the field three times, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna throw three touchdowns, I'm gonna win the car. I'm
Speaker 1: getting out on the second series, Jeff Fisher put me
Speaker 1: in the game because he wanted me to throw a
Speaker 1: touchdown to Jerry Rice because I like said that week
Speaker 1: could be cool to throw a touchdown to Jerry Rice.
Speaker 1: Rich Cannon was so mad, He's like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I'm not coming out like this. This is my deal.
Speaker 1: So when Marshall dropped that dart route, it was gonna
Speaker 1: be a touchdown and that I thought I needed that
Speaker 1: touchdown to win the car and he dropped it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and basically he cost me a car. Well, recently, Julian
Speaker 1: threw me the bathroom key on our floor and I
Speaker 1: bobbled it and there's been some trust issues since between us.
Speaker 1: So you gotta trust the guy that's catching your balls. Day.
Speaker 1: You gotta trust the guy that's catching your balls. And
Speaker 1: I don't catch your balls, Peyton, that's forgot touch it.
Speaker 1: If you touch it, you gotta catch it. That's the rule. Yeah. No, uh,
Speaker 1: that's my rule of sex too. I don't know what
Speaker 1: that means, but uh, Peyden, Uh, what would do you
Speaker 1: wish you guys played together? I feel like you guys
Speaker 1: could have had a cool I mean, you had Welker
Speaker 1: who kind of did some similar stuff that Julian did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you guys think you could have had a cool connection. Oh? Absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I love you know, just from watching
Speaker 1: from afore, I could tell Julian was a stuard of
Speaker 1: the game. I could tell him it's confidence Tom had
Speaker 1: in him. And so look, I know what that's like.
Speaker 1: You know, Wes Welker, Brandon Stokely is another guy that
Speaker 1: kind of comes to mind. You know, it's the slot receiver,
Speaker 1: fearless across the mill, right. I mean, look, not not
Speaker 1: picking on guys that play outside, but you're in the slot.
Speaker 1: Julian will tell you you got linebackers in there, right,
Speaker 1: You've got ray Lewis the bike linebacker. You got safeties right,
Speaker 1: because you're going down the middle of field. It takes
Speaker 1: a special guy. And uh, and you really got to
Speaker 1: understand defenses, right. You have to understand the difference between
Speaker 1: cover two, cover two, man, cover four, cover eight. Right.
Speaker 1: And then because of you know Brady and you know
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks are trying to confuse the defenses lining up
Speaker 1: and one defense on the snap rotating to a different defense.
Speaker 1: The receiver has to see that on the run. Nobody
Speaker 1: did that better than Julie. Well, you gotta have like
Speaker 1: he said, you guys gotta have the same You gotta
Speaker 1: be on such the same page where what you're doing.
Speaker 1: You know, he wants you to do that, and he's
Speaker 1: got to trust you because that's where it's got to be,
Speaker 1: and that comes through repetition, like he said in the offseason,
Speaker 1: learning guy's body mechanics. But speaking of Tom, last question,
Speaker 1: I've gotten you on my podcast, I've gotten Eli and
Speaker 1: my pad cast. Can you can you put a word
Speaker 1: into Tom to get him to come on my own
Speaker 1: goddamn podcast because I know you guys. I mean I'll try,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, uh, you know getting Uh that's
Speaker 1: a big that's I mean, that's a big ask. I
Speaker 1: mean it's a big ask. I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: it needs to be more than just a kind of
Speaker 1: a simple text joining. I mean, you gotta, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe send him something. You know, what do you send
Speaker 1: a man that has everything? What the fuck else can
Speaker 1: you give him? He's got a model wife, he's got
Speaker 1: seven Super Bowls, two different teams? What do I do? Peyton,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to do this? Tell me about it?
Speaker 1: I write him? He you know, he retires the first
Speaker 1: time I asked for his address, I'm like, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna just text you congrats on this incredible career. I
Speaker 1: write him this, you know, eloquent. It's probably self serving,
Speaker 1: but handwritten letter, cursive writing on my stationary. Mail it
Speaker 1: bottle of wine? Right, mail it, congratulations? What kind of way?
Speaker 1: How expensive a wine? Are we talking? What do you get?
Speaker 1: Tom Brady as a one? I mean a nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: nine bottle? Right, he's I mean a yeah, nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: nine bottle, and he's rook here, No, two thousand, he
Speaker 1: was one hundred and ninety nine. Pick what year was
Speaker 1: he drafted? Thou two thousand thousand, one hundred and ninety nine,
Speaker 1: pick right, two thousand bottle. Anyway, the point is when
Speaker 1: you come back and play, I should get the letter
Speaker 1: back and the wine back. No, oh, Tom, Tom's just
Speaker 1: keeping it right. I mean suppose when he reads the
Speaker 1: letter often just to see the nice things that I
Speaker 1: said about I'm like, if if he expects another letter
Speaker 1: whenever he retires in twenty thirty two, he's mistaken. It's
Speaker 1: like a destination wedding. If it doesn't work out, I
Speaker 1: want my money back for the flight. That's what I say.
Speaker 1: It seems fair. It seems that seemed like too much
Speaker 1: to ask for. I mean, Peyton Manning, you see that
Speaker 1: he called himself the closer with those kind of skill
Speaker 1: sets to be able to give a handwritten cursive letter
Speaker 1: a bottle of wine from the year you were drafted.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he used to close a lot. Thank we
Speaker 1: love it, Giant. This is you might you might slide up, man,
Speaker 1: this might have to be a one A one B
Speaker 1: with the Peyton with the Mannings. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it. But uh, Peyton, thank
Speaker 1: you a bunch for coming on. It's been awesome having you.
Speaker 1: It's been awesome seeing you on TV on your stream.
Speaker 1: Uh with Monday Night football. You're fucking killing it on there.
Speaker 1: Manning cast every commercial that I watch. It's awesome seeing
Speaker 1: you and those two. So uh, you know, I'm sure
Speaker 1: I'll be seeing and you probably when I get home
Speaker 1: and throw on my TV. So I look forward to
Speaker 1: seeing you. Hey, I appreciate it, Julian. Great to be
Speaker 1: all with you guys. Love the idea, I love the show.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me be a part of it. Thanks Bob.
Speaker 1: What's the legacy of this game, just that Peyton still
Speaker 1: got it. I mean he's still got it, and now
Speaker 1: was he still got it. He's still the MVP. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is crazy that he comes out guns blazing like this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is like ELI and the Super Bowl type behavior. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know that just ruined my train of thought. Sam,
Speaker 1: thank you once again. But I am an ELI guy.
Speaker 1: Like I said, when you sit down with it with
Speaker 1: a great like Peyton Maning and you interview him, it
Speaker 1: just reiterates why he was so good. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: anything from the three thousand, five hundred and sixty two
Speaker 1: word fucking essay he sent me before the interview, yes
Speaker 1: d to allow me to have his notes what about
Speaker 1: the game, to the preparation skills that he had, to
Speaker 1: the relationships he had with his teammates. You know that
Speaker 1: that's that's those are the intangibles. Those are the things
Speaker 1: that make great leaders and great leaders, great quarterbacks. And
Speaker 1: and he had he tried to say he didn't have
Speaker 1: an arm. I mean, this guy was playing with like
Speaker 1: fucking broken nerves and nerve damage like most people wouldn't
Speaker 1: even be able to walk. And he's over here playing
Speaker 1: in football games. So fucking just a gritty guy, more
Speaker 1: gritty than I thought he actually, Uh, I think I
Speaker 1: think I put him. Was there ever a knock on
Speaker 1: him for not being gritty? No, I don't think there was.
Speaker 1: But you know, you don't You don't think of Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning as like a greedy You kind of do. But
Speaker 1: you think when someone's such a skill guy, sometimes that
Speaker 1: knocks him down in the grid department. No, you just
Speaker 1: think of when you think of him, you think of
Speaker 1: a big brain. Yeah, you just think of, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: this guy, he's gonna get the team in the right
Speaker 1: plates having a coach on the field. Just like you
Speaker 1: said when we were doing the interview, he goes, Hey,
Speaker 1: the best of you is the guy on the field,
Speaker 1: not the guy in the press box, not the coach
Speaker 1: on the sideline, the guy in the field. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's why he was so goddamn good. Yeah. Will willing
Speaker 1: to riff, Will willing to change, you know, at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage audible audible. Yeah. Other seven touchdown passing
Speaker 1: games we got Drew Brees at my New York Giants. Ugh,
Speaker 1: we'll strike that. Nick Foles twenty thirteen against Nick Foles,
Speaker 1: seven touchdown game. Nick Foles had a very interesting career.
Speaker 1: Goshi Manning, Joe Capp, sid Luckman, Chicago, nineteen forty three.
Speaker 1: First the New York Giants. He's on the wall jew
Speaker 1: and he's a Jew. Yeah, I love it. Put a
Speaker 1: point up for the for the squad, for the tribe.
Speaker 1: Let's settle this prop bets Jack, what we got. We
Speaker 1: set the line at five and a half right at
Speaker 1: the buzzer. Sam got us to six, just like Eli.
Speaker 1: The type of thing Eli would have done in a
Speaker 1: two minute drill. Yeah, we had to escape a few. Uh.
Speaker 1: I threw I threw that lean moments there too. I
Speaker 1: threw that Eli compliment right to Plexico. Now I think
Speaker 1: he more threw it into that team meeting and it
Speaker 1: miraculously came down on a helmet or cover five down
Speaker 1: the sideline in front of people. So Peyton Manning's current records,
Speaker 1: he is the most MVP awards. Aaron Rodgers is one
Speaker 1: behind with four. Do you think he'll catch that or no?
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's it's gonna be tough. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: lost his best target. We're gonna We're gonna see. Isn't
Speaker 1: that crazy? Ye? He re signs and they lose his dude. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you when you put that much money towards the quarterback,
Speaker 1: would you have hard to keep others? That's how it goes.
Speaker 1: Would you have advised him to take less? I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have advised him to do anything. It's about him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know so, But that's not the Patriot way. What
Speaker 1: is the Patriot way? You tell me or the Patriots?
Speaker 1: I can't tell you because that's the Patriot way, not
Speaker 1: telling people anything. Damn. It's like fight club. Is there
Speaker 1: a fight club? I don't not that I know. I
Speaker 1: thought we're just making soap over here, that's what we're doing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I am Julian Edelman, my alter ego. He's my ulter
Speaker 1: comedic ego. When I fight is Edelm. When I do
Speaker 1: a little better, But when I when I tell a
Speaker 1: joke like morell, I just I look around. We got
Speaker 1: what what's the record Manny will hold the longest? Do
Speaker 1: you think it's tough? Because you got these the seventeen
Speaker 1: game season now, so you know you and especially with
Speaker 1: how these offenses are going. Yeah, you know, spread shred.
Speaker 1: There's so many good football players. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: merging unbelievable young quarterbacks in this league. Who could touch it?
Speaker 1: Mahomes Alan who Yeah, Mahomes could get hot, could get hot.
Speaker 1: You just never know because the game's changed. You know,
Speaker 1: what if what is that the Peydon talks about Brady
Speaker 1: touching all of his records? What if Paiden through for
Speaker 1: fifty six? Brady? Why did I say Peyton? Sorry? What
Speaker 1: if Brady through for fifty six? Oh? He's definitely gonna
Speaker 1: go for it. Yeah, he's got to. He wants them all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's lying. Yeah, King of the Jungle. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'm like little baby Mouf or baby Cimbo when he
Speaker 1: just raises me. And we got to get someone photoshop
Speaker 1: that of a Brady holding up a little Julian. It
Speaker 1: was like that picture of you guys, fucking Brady. Can
Speaker 1: we get him on the can we get him on
Speaker 1: the podcast? What's going on here? Most touchdowns by a
Speaker 1: QB receiver duo in NFL history? Manning and Harrison? What's greenk?
Speaker 1: Gronk and Brady? Oh they need ten? Grunk and Brady
Speaker 1: need ten. He's grunking to play this year. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Mann and Harrison they really were They were the connection
Speaker 1: for so many years. Dude, that little back shoulder fade
Speaker 1: that I used to watch them run all the time.
Speaker 1: It was it was nuts. Where does Peyton Manning land
Speaker 1: in the QB hierarchy? I think he's no doubt top
Speaker 1: five And it's like, where do you put him in
Speaker 1: the top five is a question? How about what do
Speaker 1: you think I would put him in? Top three? I
Speaker 1: think I would too. I think I think you gotta
Speaker 1: go Brady one. Is it Montana to? Or what you're
Speaker 1: going Montana to? No question? Right, I don't know Kyler.
Speaker 1: Where do you rank him? Jack? What do you you
Speaker 1: rank him? Three? Jack Manning? Yeah? Four? Jack Dante Culpepper,
Speaker 1: he had a cannon. He also was on the mat
Speaker 1: and cover. I got a wild top five I put
Speaker 1: I think I go three too. He was incredible. He
Speaker 1: revolutionized the game. I mean incredible. Like he said in
Speaker 1: two thousand, he was runn this no huddle, It's getting
Speaker 1: played two minute quick, and that's what all the teams
Speaker 1: are doing now. I can remember putting those same types
Speaker 1: of schemes in NASCAR with the Patriots in like two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine, two thousand and ten, and then we
Speaker 1: got away from it. Because it gets hard. You got
Speaker 1: to everyone on the same page. Everyone's got to be
Speaker 1: smart enough and to have a guy that can get
Speaker 1: everyone on the same page that quick. All the time.
Speaker 1: I mean everyone's saying yo, maha, everyone's saying all that stuff. Everyone's,
Speaker 1: you know, at the line of scrimmage, trying to dick
Speaker 1: around with the defense because that's what Peyton Manning did.
Speaker 1: So this is a good one for you. Where do Demius, Thomas,
Speaker 1: Welker and decker a stack up against all time receiving rooms.
Speaker 1: I mean, they they were good. They were they were
Speaker 1: damn good. I'd have to put they have to be.
Speaker 1: They were probably top three four, top three, top four.
Speaker 1: Got I don't know that. I don't know the order
Speaker 1: I got. I'd have to put on all these films
Speaker 1: to really watch. I mean you got some, I mean,
Speaker 1: greatest show on turf. Tory Hold, Isaac Bruce, Ricky Proll. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know those old seventy Steeler teams. You had Lynn Swan,
Speaker 1: John Stalworth, then Peyton over at freaking the Colts had
Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison, Reggie, Wayne Dallas Clark left off Stokely here too,
Speaker 1: Stokely Dola Gronk and jewels. That's pretty good. Hey man,
Speaker 1: we don't we didn't get you know, we're not in
Speaker 1: that category. But we did win in the in the
Speaker 1: in the PA to two super Bowls. That's you know,
Speaker 1: when it mattered. We don't have the numbers, but you
Speaker 1: know we have the hardware, Rings and things out here.
Speaker 1: Rings and things is the greatest offense of all time.
Speaker 1: It's in the it's in the conversation. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's the best ever. Uh. I think the Rams
Speaker 1: you got to put in that conversation because the running
Speaker 1: back Christ and Marshall Fuck, I mean falk is without Falk,
Speaker 1: I think it's more of a conversation. But Marshall Fawk
Speaker 1: is like unlike anything I've ever seen. He could run
Speaker 1: with receivers. He could he could run her out like
Speaker 1: a receiver. He could run like an inside tackle running
Speaker 1: running back. Yeah. Yeah, I have to go with the
Speaker 1: greatest show on turf or the I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: the Seven Pats, you know, I'm gonna go with the
Speaker 1: Seven Giants. I think Eli and Plax had a great connection.
Speaker 1: Amani Tumor was a great security blanket. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: the thunder and lightning combo of a mad Bradshaw and
Speaker 1: Brandon Jacobs. I think it's it could be any of
Speaker 1: those groups. I personally lean O seven Giants. We all
Speaker 1: have our opinions. We all have our opinions. Sam, Yeah, Jack,
Speaker 1: do we miss anything We hit our prop bet. We
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about Manning's record versus Patriots. He
Speaker 1: was six and eleven all time against Brady, but did
Speaker 1: have the edge in the playoffs three and two. Wow,
Speaker 1: which is a bit surprising. And we mentioned Eli recording
Speaker 1: that zero point zero in which that was true. That
Speaker 1: came in Week fourteen versus Baltimore and he was replaced
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter by Kurt Warner. That was when
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner was with the Giants. Man yep one year.
Speaker 1: We talked about the halftime show of The Hardball Bull
Speaker 1: that was Beyonce joined by Destiny's Child, and we mentioned
Speaker 1: Faxgate a little bit deeper on that. Elvis Dumerville agreed
Speaker 1: to take an eight million dollar contract instead of twelve
Speaker 1: with Denver, so he's taking a pay cut. I hope
Speaker 1: his agent did not commission him on that, because he
Speaker 1: fucked up pretty bad. His agent was running around Miami.
Speaker 1: It was a man. Okay, he was six minutes late
Speaker 1: getting it in and instead the Ravens signed him to
Speaker 1: a five year contract worth thirty five million. His agent
Speaker 1: was fired, as you can imagine, but also fined twenty
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars by the NFLPA and suspended for six months. Yikes.
Speaker 1: He's a loser there, so that sucks. And oh we
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about the scheduling conflict which made
Speaker 1: this game take place in Denver. There was some parking
Speaker 1: issues the MLB Wooden Budge. There was also some religious
Speaker 1: holiday exemptions down the line that the Orioles sighted. But
Speaker 1: in the long run, the Oriols ended up losing four
Speaker 1: to three to the Blue Jays that night. I'm hauling
Speaker 1: the fourth place in the Al East. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's karma, it's just the Orioles. I think that's
Speaker 1: just what happened to the Orioles, but karma two for sure.
Speaker 1: Naming the game, is it the Manning seven? Gotta be
Speaker 1: the Maning seven. I like it because it reminds me
Speaker 1: of the Magnificent Seven too. It's kind of a fun title.
Speaker 1: And then you also have the Brady six that old
Speaker 1: documentary were the six guys that were drafted before Brady.
Speaker 1: That made him cry on that one documentary. And we
Speaker 1: had long hair, long beautiful hair, and you know that
Speaker 1: made me cry when I saw him cry a little. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know fired me up. You're connected, man, Let's score
Speaker 1: it stakes. It's a weak one game, so we got
Speaker 1: to go low on the stakes. Yeah, but it is
Speaker 1: the team that knocked you out. So there's pride at stake.
Speaker 1: There's definitely pride. It's it's it's early in the year.
Speaker 1: You're learning your team. Five to five five five five
Speaker 1: five star power. You got to go pretty high here,
Speaker 1: I think. I mean you got Peyton Manning, Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: you had d T Julius Thomas. This was a year ago.
Speaker 1: We were going even bigger because we lose Ray Lewis
Speaker 1: and Ed Reid's Yeah they weren't there, but that was
Speaker 1: a defending Super Bowl team and you had the elite
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco on there. So Flacco got his ring. Man,
Speaker 1: I have to I'd have to give it to seven
Speaker 1: five seven five seven five gameplay. It's good gameplay because
Speaker 1: we're watching a guy put on a clinic, clinic and
Speaker 1: it started out a little slow. It was I mean,
Speaker 1: they were losing at halftime. The Denver Broncos were losing
Speaker 1: at halftime. So in the ra and the Ravens sniffer
Speaker 1: sniff around a little bit toward the end. So there's
Speaker 1: a little excitement there was. We'll give that a seven
Speaker 1: five to yeah, as in also the name the Brady
Speaker 1: or the Manning seven seven seven, that seems appropriate. Seven.
Speaker 1: So what is this is a six point eight five?
Speaker 1: And there's no bias here because they knocked us out
Speaker 1: of the AFC Championship or anything either. You know, that's
Speaker 1: just how it goes. It goes. You can't win them all.
Speaker 1: You certainly cannot six point eight unless you're ELI, unless
Speaker 1: you're elying the Super Bowl against the Patriots, in which
Speaker 1: case you can win them all. That is once again true, Sam,
Speaker 1: That's once again true. Let's hey, but this was a
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