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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL podcast has had enough of the

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Speaker 1: off season. Welcome to another edition of the Around the

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Speaker 1: Unbolt Podcast. My name is Dan Hansers and I am

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Speaker 1: joined in a conference room build with some heroes. Chris

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Speaker 1: Wesley right across from me. Hey, Dan, you hear that? Yes,

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Speaker 1: you hear that? What is it? I hear something like

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Speaker 1: a miss? I see a shadowy figure. It's not a

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Speaker 1: league figure. She mysterious scrounging slender good good physical sight specimen.

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Speaker 1: How you doing, guys, Mark, Welcome back to Welcome back,

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Speaker 1: Mark you, thank you. I have to say that I

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Speaker 1: think I cracked the code on how to schedule summer vacation,

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Speaker 1: and I will literally be doing this next year and

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Speaker 1: every year after that I'm employed. Here is uh. You

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Speaker 1: have to sandwich your to backload your vacation and sandwich

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Speaker 1: it around the July fourth week because it was my

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Speaker 1: intention to be in here that week of shows and

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Speaker 1: to be plugging away. But then the week previous, when

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Speaker 1: I was somewhere on the East coast, you guys recorded

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Speaker 1: the July fourth episode, so I simply had no responsibilities

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Speaker 1: at all that week and it turned into this epic

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Speaker 1: works stay away. So you were here this we're piecing

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Speaker 1: some of this together now in real time. Uh. West,

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Speaker 1: And I so you were here that July fourth week

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Speaker 1: quote unquote working, I mean I was here working is

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Speaker 1: I know you when you're on vacation, don't expect it

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Speaker 1: this show and amongst the audience that perhaps you'd finally

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Speaker 1: I mean I pondered all the possibilities because suddenly, and

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Speaker 1: But I wanted just to say that it's it's great

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Speaker 1: for all of us. I predict we felt the same

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Speaker 1: But um, I now and I Matt demon has life

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Speaker 1: the NFL podcast. A lot to get to. It is

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Speaker 1: still the quiet season, but things are starting to percolate. Now.

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Speaker 1: side too good. Who goes to the place. Well, one

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00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,920
Speaker 1: idea is that they put all this protection in for

429
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,959
Speaker 1: certain players and including of course quarterbacks. What if they

430
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 1: are exempt from the sit for two games, but you

431
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,200
Speaker 1: know other players that are in you know, more high

432
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,719
Speaker 1: risk positions put it that way, would be eligible for

433
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:47,920
Speaker 1: such a thing. I mean, it just seems a little

434
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,439
Speaker 1: just see, you know what, everything's perfect the way it is.

435
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,119
Speaker 1: It's it's sixteen games is perfect. I know it's not

436
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,920
Speaker 1: as it doesn't make as much money, but it just

437
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:01,200
Speaker 1: works and it's worked since nineteen seventy seven or whatever,

438
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:03,880
Speaker 1: and there's no reason to mess with it when he's

439
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,679
Speaker 1: starting the schedule. By the way, are we suddenly starting

440
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 1: the regular season in August or are we going to

441
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 1: going to go deep into February? Give me a break

442
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 1: on that front. You guys know, because this has been

443
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,600
Speaker 1: reported for at least six or seven years, there is

444
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 1: a plan to have billion in revenue by what the

445
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 1: year um one of those somewhere in the twenties they

446
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,399
Speaker 1: want in revenue. I want the exact years before you

447
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:34,159
Speaker 1: going with your touchet anyway, Like growing it internationally and

448
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: growing it through more games are the two ways to

449
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 1: get I'll give the final word because it's a great

450
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 1: one from d Smith. If a coal miner is willing

451
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 1: to spend more time in the hole, that is correct. Terminology.

452
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,399
Speaker 1: We use that whole time back in. Does it likely

453
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 1: result in more money? Yeah? Is that a good thing

454
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,919
Speaker 1: for him as a person? Probably not. That's the question

455
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 1: nobody confronts. It's easy to say it's more money, but

456
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 1: is it good for us? The answers can we think

457
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 1: about the coal miner? Can we stop comparing millionaires to

458
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: coal miners? Please? I mean it's just a humble request.

459
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 1: Please stop comparing coal miners to millionaires. Moving on retirements,

460
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 1: It's retirement season. Players inside there, quentin hanging up the cleats.

461
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,920
Speaker 1: Derek Morgan's one of them. The linebacker told ESPN he's

462
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 1: retiring at the age of thirty. My purpose in life

463
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 1: is bigger than the game, Morgan said, amongst other things.

464
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 1: The nineteen the number sixteen overall pick out of Georgia Tech,

465
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,479
Speaker 1: Morgan spent his entire career with the Tytoons, compiling three

466
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: five tackles, forty four and a half sacks, twenty six

467
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 1: past defended five force fumbles, sixth all time in sacks

468
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 1: and Titans Oilers franchise history. Um The linebacker rooms three

469
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 1: games in eighteen due to shoulder and knee injuries. He

470
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,199
Speaker 1: was a free agent and he walks away. A starting

471
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 1: pass rusher with zero point five sacks on the entire season,

472
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: did not get any interest on the open market. Time

473
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 1: to walk away. Sometimes you get retired, Sometimes the NFL

474
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 1: retires you. But this guy seems like a bright guy

475
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,159
Speaker 1: who's got a lot of prospects. A hit him more

476
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: trouble for the Cincinnati Bengal's offensive line, Clint Bowling has

477
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 1: called at a career. The team announced Monday fourth round

478
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 1: pick out a Georgia in the two thousand eleven draft.

479
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: He started one and twelve of his a hundred and

480
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 1: fourteen appearances for the Bengals. Uh a rock for that

481
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 1: team on their line. Uh started for them last year,

482
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,360
Speaker 1: but he dealt with and Mark, I'd love to hear

483
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 1: your thoughts on this. You've dealt with, unfortunately some issues

484
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 1: of blood clotting, and we talked about that on the show.

485
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 1: If not, we'll take this. We have no we have,

486
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 1: we have, You've had some plots come out, yeah anyway, Um,

487
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 1: Marissa Cotta Pelli of at Bengals Marissa Uh said after

488
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: speaking with Clint Bowling today, he indicated a blood clot

489
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 1: in his right leg was discovered after the season ended.

490
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,080
Speaker 1: He met with a number of specialists this offseason, but

491
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,240
Speaker 1: decided it was ultimately about his family. Said he's excited

492
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 1: to chase around his daughters this fall. Go ahead, Mark,

493
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 1: I mean to me, the only thing that confuses me

494
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: a bit is that I've been hospitalized three times for

495
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: blood clot issues reverse humble Bragg. I guess that is

496
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: I am bragging about that on some level, I'm not.

497
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 1: It was, Yeah, like the two of the times is

498
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,879
Speaker 1: because I was not on medication, and if you're on

499
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,719
Speaker 1: blood thinners, you essentially cannot get a blood clot So

500
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:32,479
Speaker 1: I don't know if the issue would be if this

501
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 1: is the primary reason he's retiring, is that you can't

502
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: play on blood thinners. I guess that could be dangerous also.

503
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: But when I read that, it kind of threw me

504
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: because it's something that a lot of people deal with

505
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 1: and continue to work. But they work in offices. They

506
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 1: don't get smashed by defensive tackles necessarily. And as you

507
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: remember two thousand nineteen first round pick for Cincinnati Jonah

508
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 1: Williams toward the laborum and his shoulder. He's also out

509
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,880
Speaker 1: for the season, so you know there's there is there's

510
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: a sneaky level of optimism around your former love West

511
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: the Bengals. That was Zach Taylor. There. Perhaps they can

512
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 1: turn things around and start going in a more successful,

513
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: maybe a more exciting direction, except that it's a franchise

514
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: with no distinct interest in winning. Well, that's a problem.

515
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 1: But the if you don't have anybody to protect the

516
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: quarterback into block for the running backs, Uh, it's gonna

517
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 1: be a tough go. We'll see what they can do. Well.

518
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 1: I think at various points in this offseason you've heard

519
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 1: Mark greg and myself say the Bengals might be better

520
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 1: than people think they are. That has slowed to a

521
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: halt and skidded to a fiery crash, with their offensive

522
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 1: line being even worse than it was last year. Well,

523
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what you know. That's why I held back.

524
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 1: That's why to hear measured, measured response, I just said,

525
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: Tom Brady sucks. Now. That's all I said. Um, all

526
00:28:55,720 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: right and uh. In suspension news, Richie Incognito suspended two

527
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: games for violating the personal conduct Policy. Uh. That goes

528
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: back to an April incident at an Arizona funeral home.

529
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: I will not get into the details here, but if

530
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: you want to hear some bizarre stuff and again makes

531
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: you wonder, uh what the Raiders were thinking perhaps bringing

532
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: this man in their building. But I guess he can

533
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: block giant men trying to kill the quarterback. Uh, so

534
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: you give him a shot. But he has suspended two games,

535
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: also suspended. Uh my boy, Chris Herndon, a very promising

536
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: tight end for the Jets, a guy that really flashed

537
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: as a two year old rookie last year. He is

538
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: suspended four games free d U I. I was a

539
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,719
Speaker 1: little surprised when I saw four games. Usually it's not

540
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: that heavy, but then I read about some of the

541
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: details of the d w I. It was not pretty.

542
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: It involved an accident that injured other people, and he

543
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: was very drunk at the time of the accident according

544
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: to the local police. So, Chris Herndon, I really like

545
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 1: you as a player, but get your head on straight, son.

546
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: It's it's kind of the worst situation if you're Sam

547
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: darn to roll into a pretty rough early season schedule

548
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: without your tight end. I just would want my second

549
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: year quarter to grow with that very promising titan. They'll

550
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: be back week five. I think the one thing about

551
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: the NFL that confuses me the most is how many

552
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: chances Richie Incognito gets to play in the league. You

553
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: said it, I mean he may. We don't need to

554
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: get into that incident, but it is a colorful incident,

555
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 1: and he finds ways to get suspended and punished in

556
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: in to a degree of variety that few other players

557
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: have well put. Finally, in the news this under a

558
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: headline from Pro Football Talk, Would Mike Rabel cut his

559
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: generals off to win a super Bowl? Play it? Ricky?

560
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? Been married twenty years? Yeah? Probably You've got

561
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: three as a player. Guess will be married for twenty years?

562
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: One day, would you if you need If you came

563
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: home holding a bag of ice and Jen was like,

564
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: oh honey, would you do like I thought you already

565
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: got fixed. We're gonna win a seer roll, She'd be

566
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: like all right? Would she be upset? She'd probably on board.

567
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: She would be like, do you want me to do it?

568
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 1: You wanna do it now? Mike Rabel a student of

569
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: the Al Bundy School of Comedy. He was a guest

570
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 1: on a podcast hosted by Titans left tackle Teller Luan

571
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: and former Titans linebacker Will Compton, And You heard that

572
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: whole exchange. Uh, yes, he rabel won three super Bowls

573
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: with the Pats, but he'd give it all up. He's say,

574
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: Sionara to the manhood West, if it meant winning a

575
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: title for the Titoons, well, let me known to you.

576
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: Maybe there are teams who already asked that question during

577
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: the combine. It's such like a nineties like um, married

578
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: guy things that is like, hey, I don't need it

579
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: no more. Hey I've been married a long time. That

580
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 1: thing is useless to me at this point. Am I

581
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: right right over here like in this or well that's

582
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: a sort and this scenario is he this age when

583
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: this procedure happens and he suddenly becomes like magically a

584
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: better player. I don't know. The whole thing makes way.

585
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: So he's saying he would love to um win another

586
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: super Bowl in exchange, he would give up this very

587
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: valuable part of his body no more. But it's is

588
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: he would be this age, what team would need him?

589
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: No genitals? He would give up his genitals to be

590
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: the head coach champion of the Titans. From a coaching

591
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I think it's a it's

592
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: a heavy sacrifice. To make. I don't. I don't think

593
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: that nothing seems that important. It's a materialistic Take my wife, please,

594
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: that's what's happening in the news. All right, let's see,

595
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: let's get into it. Boys, stop messing around. I enjoying it. Mark,

596
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: you feel you feel back in the flow. It's enjoy

597
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: I mean we are in a very strange I don't.

598
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: Every couple of minutes I look up and there's like

599
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: a corporate workers staring at us from one of their desktops.

600
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: Computer here sound. I don't know that's that part of

601
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: it's awkward. But this is my look. By the way,

602
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: I'm now a shock jocks wearing. It's like glasses with

603
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: the bows Bluetooth technology. I mean, if we weren't concerned

604
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: about our employment here before, it's starting to head into

605
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: that territory. Let's get into it. Fearless predictions for October

606
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen. We each we'll go around. We'll go

607
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 1: around the horn twice. Here throwing out some fearless predictions

608
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: we have for the new season three weeks six, Mark,

609
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: would you like to get us gone. Let's have some fun, alright,

610
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: So one thing that does concern me, um that I'm

611
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: noticing that's picking up too much steam this summer. Is

612
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: the hype around my Browns and unnaturally just concerned in

613
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 1: general about the other shoe dropping and dropping with a vengeance.

614
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:12,280
Speaker 1: But October fifteen would kick off essentially Cleveland's bye week,

615
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: and I am predicting that at that time, and I'm

616
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: not trying to be a downer here or play some

617
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,240
Speaker 1: sort of psychological warfare with anyone, that they are going

618
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: to be a two and four team with the media

619
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: turning on them extremely violently. They open with the Titans, Jets, Rams, Ravens, Niners,

620
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: and Seahawks. I predict they will beat the Titans and

621
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 1: forty Niners and lose out the rest of that opening

622
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 1: six games, Slate people will be asking, what is up

623
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: with Cleveland's offense, What's up with Cleveland's secondary? What is

624
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: up with Miles Garrett, Will Baker Mayfield survived? Behind this line?

625
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: Is Steve Wilkes? The wrong fit for this defense is

626
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: Freddie Kitchens completely underwater? Should we be concerned that Odell

627
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: Beckham this time around used a big lighter to set

628
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,959
Speaker 1: a kicking net on fire along the sideline after drop

629
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: be a would be game winning touchdown pass and that

630
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: awful Week two loss to the Jets. What happened to

631
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 1: the field good vibes of last season? Can we trust

632
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: the Haslems to not blow up the machine again? Does

633
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: this entire season hinge on Cleveland returning from the bye

634
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,760
Speaker 1: and knocking off the New England Patriots in New England?

635
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: You left out Todd clashing with the head coach. You

636
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: left that one that might be the spark that sets

637
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 1: it all off, and that has already happened according to

638
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: some reports. So you your preamble included something about not

639
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: playing psychological games here. Well, I have noted that it

640
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: is not psychological warfare, so you have to believe me

641
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 1: on that. But I do think that schedule Titans win

642
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: win a loss, who knows, and I think they're gonna

643
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: that's a kind of a team Cleveland that's gonna take

644
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: time to Jael or you know. I'm not sure that's

645
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: gonna happen in training camp. The Jets game freaks me out,

646
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: just because it's all this energy between us and the

647
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: show about it I see going. It's gonna be rough. Uh,

648
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: the Rams is very rough. I think the Ravens could

649
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 1: win that division. The forty Niners. I think it's in

650
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: San Francisco and then the Seahawks. What's the other way here?

651
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: You got the Titans at home. Come on, Mario is

652
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,280
Speaker 1: gonna throw for a hundred twelve yards? Not if Mike Rabel,

653
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: you know, it goes through with his plan here. I

654
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: mean it's concerning evidence at Jets. The Jets are no powerhouse.

655
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: Come on, they are going I just think that the

656
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: Cleveland is losing that game because it's too much remembered

657
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,919
Speaker 1: from last year. I think there's gonna be a flip

658
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: up there, all right, home home to the Rams like that,

659
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: but not as hard as if you were on the

660
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:45,720
Speaker 1: West coast at Ravens. Tough game, very tough game at Niners.

661
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: You know the big bell bottom is that scary to

662
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: go into San France. That's the other win I gave them.

663
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: And uh, Seattle at home, which is will be top.

664
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 1: But again you're in your building. You play well there. Now,

665
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: I would say if I were to continue the prediction,

666
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: but I think they're going to round into shape. But

667
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:00,879
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be rough start, and we're

668
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 1: all we're the media. This is a scenario where if

669
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 1: they if they struggle early. It is going to be

670
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: absolutely rough and tumble ugly for the way the media

671
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: is going to treat Cleveland there because they've already acted

672
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: like they've won three Super Bowls. They won seven games

673
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: last year as a personal affront to the national media.

674
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 1: If Cleveland doesn't back up all of the you know,

675
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 1: puff pieces and praise, they're gonna take it personally. West Europe.

676
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: We spent the whole winter making our little jokes sports

677
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: writers did. Oh, then everybody gonna hire the next Sean McVeigh,

678
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: all these offensive gurus. You could be twenty eight years

679
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: old and get a job. That was the offseason conversation.

680
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:48,280
Speaker 1: The October discussion is gonna be we need an ancient

681
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. We need a master defensive mind. Because the

682
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: best minds in the game are Bill Belichick, Vic Fongio,

683
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 1: Who's who's the guy from the Ravens, um Mink, Martindale,

684
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,919
Speaker 1: all these old dudes, bum Phillips, Mike Zimmer and they're

685
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 1: the best defense and people are gonna be son of

686
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 1: son of Bumps. Instead of praising all these offensive young minds,

687
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: people are gonna be asking, why do you have to

688
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: be ancient to run a good defense in the NFL.

689
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: Do you think it's because some of these offensive minds,

690
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 1: for instance, the Bengals new coach, some of these guys

691
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: are gonna struggle through weeks? Think it's because Vick Fongio

692
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: is gonna blow the door off people with with Bradley

693
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: Chubb and Von Miller and a guy like Shelby Harris

694
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,240
Speaker 1: who was lights out down the street for the Broncos,

695
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be returning to like Super Bowl fifty

696
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: form on that because you carrying the torch for Denver. Again,

697
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 1: I just like Vic Foio and their quarterback. Well, I

698
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 1: think the quarterback is way better than other people think

699
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: you is. So yes, wonderful. All right, that's a good

700
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 1: one week six in the books two thousand nineteen. Anybody

701
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: else have any other thoughts about that? So you you're saying,

702
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 1: where where's where's the young dogs? Where's I'm saying it's

703
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 1: an inherently um Experience matters way more on defense than

704
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: it does on offense. On offense, you are creative, You

705
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: are bringing the action to the defense. The defense is

706
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: responding to what the offense is doing. And I think

707
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 1: experience really helps because you've seen it all you've been around.

708
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: You can take different bits from your past, and it's

709
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: contingent on the young, new new faces on offense succeeding,

710
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 1: and that is a that is an unknown at this point.

711
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: Take take Fongio himself, who you know was great and

712
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: for with the forty nine when he was there, But

713
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: last year, what did he spend all the last year

714
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 1: doing in practice going against Matt Naggie, who's got the

715
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 1: Andy Reid offense. Matt Naggie's own offense was impressive, Like

716
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: he's one of these bright young minds, and I think

717
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: Foggio has been defending against that for a while. I'll

718
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: throw it out there. Um, you know, a few weeks

719
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: back on this podcast, earlier in the summer, I throughout

720
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 1: the possibility at that Patrick Mahomes might not ever reach

721
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,360
Speaker 1: the heights of what he did in his first year starting,

722
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: and I drew the Marino's eight four season as a

723
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,399
Speaker 1: parallel that Marino was a Hall of Fame grade even

724
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: after eight four, but never reach the same heights. And

725
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: now I'm thinking about it more and I'm like, why

726
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: would I even want to put that out there. I'm

727
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: gonna go the other way on top of the Tom

728
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 1: Brady stuff, You're going down this appod No, I'm gonna

729
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: go the other way because why would I even because

730
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 1: then you know how you know how we are, this

731
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:33,760
Speaker 1: is what we do for a living. So if Mahomes

732
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 1: was struggling a little bit, I'd be like, oh, yeah, no,

733
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: but yet that I'm not gonna get on that on

734
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: that corner. Instead, I'm gonna say by week six through

735
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: week six, Mahomes will again be pacing the league in

736
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:53,800
Speaker 1: nearly every relevant quarterback statistical category, be the heavy early

737
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: favorite for m v P, and essentially be the guy

738
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: that tour the league upon art last year. And strangely,

739
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: and I say this, I don't know if this is

740
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 1: more just in our studio or in my head or what.

741
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 1: It's almost like Mahomes isn't getting enough love for what

742
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: he accomplished last year, which was remarkable. And remember, this

743
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,959
Speaker 1: guy was probably playing in the Super Bowl last year.

744
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: If his defense is crumby Kansas City defense could get

745
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: a stop, the guy doesn't even get a chance to

746
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: get on the field. And the overtime of the af

747
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: C Title Game because Tom Brady, former superstar, marched right

748
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: down the field and got it done. So I'm just

749
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 1: gonna say that Mahomes is gonna be out of his

750
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,240
Speaker 1: mind again this year, put up stats that are gonna

751
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 1: approach what he did last year, even surpassed. Because he

752
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: is that once in a generation guy. We were due

753
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: for the next like mind blowing athlete in the NFL,

754
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 1: transcendent Michael Jordan's type. Guy, it is Patrick Mahomes. I'm

755
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: getting behind it. He'll be tearing the league apart again

756
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: by the middle of October. I can't believe all that well,

757
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: said Wilson. I can't believe he said. He almost doesn't

758
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: get enough credit. Like people act like he invented the

759
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: the the left handed past that Brett Farve already did.

760
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: They act like nobody's ever thrown it as far, like

761
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:14,280
Speaker 1: outside of a stadium or whatever. Patrick Mahomes did not invent,

762
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:19,479
Speaker 1: like the scrambling play where he has to no one's

763
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: done that in the NFL at that he did not

764
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:26,800
Speaker 1: give him that. Here's here's the story. UM nineteen seventy

765
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: seven NFL Skills competition in Hawaii. All these quarterbacks are there.

766
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: Um Pastorini just throws it twenty yards further than Terry Bradshaw.

767
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 1: Dan Pastorini is the Oiler's quarterback at the time. They're

768
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: back at the hotel drinking a bunch of these quarterbacks

769
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: and Billy Kilmer Dare's Pastorini to throw a football up

770
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: four stories of the hotel. Pastorini takes it out and

771
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: throws it ten stories and here's here's the punch. Here's

772
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 1: the punch. Line Unitas says, yeah, but as the receiver

773
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 1: was on the fifth lore. So you know, you could

774
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: anybody could throw the ball and people have had strong

775
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: arms before. And it was reported that Mahomes threw the

776
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: ball out of the stadium and Arrowhead recently. That also

777
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: was not that. Do you remember back in the day,

778
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: remember the aerobee, the frisbee, the it's it's still around,

779
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: it's the like the orange ring that does has no sentence.

780
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 1: And they threw that thing out of Giants Stadium. Someone

781
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 1: later threw it across Niagara Falls. I mean, so you know,

782
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: and whe did you get that person? It got nothing.

783
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: I don't even know who it was who did it? Second?

784
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: And heck of an advertisement for that product that well,

785
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: I had one of those, and you could literally throw

786
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,799
Speaker 1: it across like we had we had you could throw

787
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: it through a neighbor's yard to the neighbor beyond the

788
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,359
Speaker 1: six neighbors if you had the arm. When I was um,

789
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 1: a kid, a teenager. UM, you know the way it

790
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 1: is with the season tickets package, where they basically rope

791
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: fans into buying to home preseason games at price of

792
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: a regular season game. So when my dad at his job,

793
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: the only Jets tickets that would be floating around a

794
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: lot were either games in December when they were already

795
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:09,439
Speaker 1: buried in the standings, or those two priests in home games.

796
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 1: So we went to a home game every year just

797
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,359
Speaker 1: about because some guy would be offloading the tickets in

798
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: August and uh always halftime, it didn't matter what year

799
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: it was through two thousand three, any preseason game and

800
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,720
Speaker 1: went to it's the dude throwing the frisbee eight yards

801
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:25,919
Speaker 1: and the dog catching him. They just ran that thing back.

802
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:27,399
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the same dog or what,

803
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 1: but yeah, you could fling that it might have been

804
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,319
Speaker 1: the same. Phrase is eternally entertaining, though that's part of

805
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: the reason dogs. Um. All right, so mahomes tears it up.

806
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: Let's go one more time around the horn, because I

807
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 1: could be the guy that says he's coming down to earth.

808
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: And I was that guy about thirty five days ago.

809
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 1: I appreciate your about face. I don't want to be

810
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 1: that guy. I want to be the guy that says,

811
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: this guy is gonna do things that's gonna rewrite the

812
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: history books. I'm on that train. But you dump that

813
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: negative energy off you, thank you might not be a positive.

814
00:44:57,680 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 1: And then once the Jets actually become a contender, if

815
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 1: they become a contender, then I will wish ill upon

816
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and the rest of the Kansas City Chiefs.

817
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: But right now I'm in that sweet spot where I

818
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 1: can be all positive. So you're a better person than Mark,

819
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 1: who just like voice voice the Browns problems into existence

820
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: with his Now I liked what he did there. That

821
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: was beautiful reverse. I'm struggling which with which direction to

822
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 1: go because I have one that is extremely negative and

823
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 1: one that is I've got a negative one too, I'm

824
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: gonna go negative. One head coach will be fired by

825
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: week six due and I have been thinking about this

826
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: for weeks. This is this is happening. One head coach

827
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 1: will be fired by week six due to a wild

828
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 1: scandal that grips the league early in the season and

829
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: becomes a national and ultimately an international news story. Trump

830
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 1: will weigh in on the topic. No, this is this

831
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,439
Speaker 1: is a prediction that by week six, it is after

832
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,799
Speaker 1: the week's six slate of games, that this will essentially

833
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 1: this scandal will eat up huge amounts of real estate

834
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 1: on our podcast. Asked on our Twitter show. If that happens,

835
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 1: it'll make bounty Gate look like a chorus trip to

836
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:09,919
Speaker 1: Action Park. Remember that place? It was very dangerous Action Park.

837
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 1: I think that this is going to end where the

838
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: owner of this team will be forced due to overwhelming

839
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: public pressure to pull the plug after week six action

840
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: to get rid of this coach when the owner necessarily

841
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: does not want to do it, but he has to.

842
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: It's all guesswork. I mean, what we're throwing out is

843
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 1: no different than yours, but yours is just kind of

844
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 1: predicting something with No, there's there's not a team that's

845
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: a little because because it's gonna be so negative that

846
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: if I I initially is there something in your head?

847
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,400
Speaker 1: Initially pinpointed someone and then I thought that's a little

848
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: aggress talking about it is north of Ohio? No is

849
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: he west of the Rockies. No, can you get to

850
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: his stadium? Off? No more quest does have a female?

851
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:07,240
Speaker 1: No more questions? All right, I hope that doesn't happen.

852
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,720
Speaker 1: It just sounds. It sounds not only bad for that guy,

853
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: and maybe he'll deserve it under whatever the circumstances are,

854
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: but bad for us. It's bad you. We were here

855
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 1: when bounty gate broke and I'll never forget he's gonna

856
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:21,839
Speaker 1: hate this. But David really, who was early in his role,

857
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 1: basically told me this is a non issue. This is

858
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 1: going to blow over pretty quickly. And it turned into

859
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,319
Speaker 1: a mushroom, into an a total disaster. You just heard

860
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 1: him worse than that girl basically judgment and said it

861
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:37,760
Speaker 1: was He has developed an incredible judge b of news

862
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:41,360
Speaker 1: since since. I would second that he's very good at

863
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 1: deciding what's news and I and for the record, I

864
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 1: will take you up on that sandwich problem. Okay, um

865
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 1: all right, West one more. I feel bad because um,

866
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: I criticized this man's ability to play quarterback for a while.

867
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: He proved me wrong. Eli man, all right, let's get

868
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: into it. And I really like him as a person

869
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 1: and as a player. But my fearless prediction is that

870
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 1: Nick Fools will still be seeking his first win in

871
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: a Jaguars uniform. Let me take a look at the

872
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: check worse schedule that is, well, I can tell you

873
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 1: what the schedule is. They have the Chiefs at home. Okay,

874
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:23,839
Speaker 1: tough game, but winnable. Tough game, and they don't have

875
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: really the weapons to keep up with Kansas City. If

876
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:29,760
Speaker 1: if the Chiefs can score more than twenty at Houston

877
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: at the Texans game number two home versus the Titans,

878
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,920
Speaker 1: cupcake layup. Titans, to me are one of the ten

879
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: strongest rosters in the NFL. At the Broncos, we know

880
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: what you think about them. Yes, well, nobody's being the Broncos.

881
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: That's a that's right there, Carolina Panthers and the revamped

882
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:57,720
Speaker 1: front seven to that's home versus the Saints, not a gimme.

883
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: I like their next game though, right, That's why this works.

884
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 1: They travel to Cincinnati to face the punchless BEng and

885
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 1: then they start to get their sea legs. And then

886
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 1: they trounced the Jets in week eight, and I see

887
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 1: that coming. That's why I've hearned him back by then. Well,

888
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: and that's a big difference Uh. I don't know. The

889
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: way the NFL, the schedule makers, they're really good and

890
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 1: that they seem to have almost like a seer likability

891
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: to make sure teams stay above water. Most teams. So,

892
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: for instance, using the Jaguars as an example, could they

893
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: trip up at home against the Chiefs in Week one? Yes?

894
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 1: Could they go to Houston and lose? Absolutely, But then

895
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 1: then the schedule God was like, hey, let's give you

896
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: the Titans at home. You're gonna needs You're gonna need it.

897
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 1: The Titans will have a win already, so they could

898
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:47,360
Speaker 1: deal with the loss and everybody's gonna be one and

899
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 1: two and be fine going into the Titans own the

900
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: Jaguars late. I'd have to look that up. I think

901
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 1: even when the Jaguars had their really good season, that

902
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 1: Titans were beating them. Um, all right, Yeah, their last

903
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 1: head to head mat uch up a thirty to nine

904
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:06,479
Speaker 1: Titans win. Was that when uh uh, when Dark Henry

905
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:08,360
Speaker 1: ran for like a thousand yards in the game, is

906
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: that that particularly? I feel like he ran for a

907
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 1: thousand yards in the entire second half of the season.

908
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,240
Speaker 1: To answer your question, at least their last three games

909
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 1: that Tennessee Titans have prevailed. So two low scoring affairs

910
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 1: nine six back in September last year, fifteen ten on

911
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve this season before. Well, I have respect

912
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: for the Jaguars defense, and I respect for fools, but

913
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:30,919
Speaker 1: I really their offensive line as a mess or wide

914
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,760
Speaker 1: receiver corps a mess. They're running back didn't try last season,

915
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 1: So I mean, I don't know. Um, all right, I'll

916
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: wrap it up with a little bit more negativity. Unfortunately, Um,

917
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 1: you guys know, just like I wasn't on board with

918
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:47,719
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati bandwagon, I am not all here for the

919
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:52,640
Speaker 1: Jimmy G as a stud carnival. Just I'm sitting out

920
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: that merry go around until I see him do it.

921
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: And now he's coming off of catastrophic the injury and

922
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 1: all that not a great thing. Um, So I'm gonna

923
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 1: throw this out there by week six. And you have

924
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:07,439
Speaker 1: to understand this isn't all on Jimmy G. It's also

925
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: about what's going on around the San Francisco forty Niners,

926
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:16,280
Speaker 1: an organization that, despite a brain trust reboot, has found

927
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:19,879
Speaker 1: very little success in the John Lynch Kyle Shanahan era,

928
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 1: to the point where if they get off to a

929
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 1: slow start in twenty nineteen heads could roll. I don't.

930
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 1: I think Shanahan probably safe through the season, but Lynch

931
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 1: is gonna need answers. They're gonna need to put up

932
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:35,800
Speaker 1: a season where they are competing for a playoff spot,

933
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 1: uh come December, and they can't afford to fall too

934
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 1: far back in the standings. So what if Jimmy g

935
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:45,239
Speaker 1: isn't playing well because he wasn't playing that well before

936
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: he got hurt last year and now he's gonna be

937
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:49,319
Speaker 1: rusty and he's oh damn near thirty years old and

938
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 1: still hasn't really played a lot at the NFL level.

939
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: What if he gets off to a slow start and

940
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: the Niners are seeing their season slip away, and oh,

941
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:59,280
Speaker 1: we have this guy, and I know he's getting ready,

942
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 1: he's fixing and to use a Texan term for a

943
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: camp battle um with C. J. Beathard. But Nick Mullins

944
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 1: moved that team on offense last year. They kind of

945
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 1: rallied around him. He was a nobody who showed up

946
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:14,279
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. And while not a perfect quarterback, he

947
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: turned the ball over too much. And maybe he doesn't

948
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: have all the trades you look for, not the biggest

949
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 1: arm and and whatnot. But he moved that team. He

950
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 1: showed a lot of promise in his audition last year.

951
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: Would they be perhaps tempted to turn it over to

952
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: the kid if Jimmy Gan the Niners got off to

953
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: another slow start in twenty nineteen, that's a fearless prediction

954
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:39,960
Speaker 1: that they just might. I would struggle to see that

955
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: happening early on. They have three games, then they have

956
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:48,720
Speaker 1: a buy and you're talking about someone that's making twenty

957
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: million next year and million plus over the next three year.

958
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,879
Speaker 1: So the only thing is if it went real, real, rough,

959
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 1: it could be part of the master plan where by

960
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 1: trade deadline they have shipped Jimmy g back to the

961
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 1: Patriots and the Patriots get them for less than they

962
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:07,400
Speaker 1: sold him and they have that quarterback in place for

963
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: the next five years to be careful. Wait, I don't

964
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 1: want that. But if you look at their schedule at Bucks,

965
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: and I know West Bruce arians is at some country

966
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: club right now, he's not even thinking about football. But

967
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 1: turned the team over to Left which some people believe

968
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 1: that the Bucks are going to be frisky this year,

969
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:23,360
Speaker 1: and it's it's a They start with two road games,

970
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:27,880
Speaker 1: which is not easy schedule. Makers at Bucks at Bengles,

971
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 1: but two road games and then home to Steelers by

972
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 1: and then home to Browns, who even if they do

973
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 1: get off to a slow start, Mark, I think they're

974
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 1: gonna start piecing it together by the time he gets October.

975
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 1: And I've already told you that San Francisco was winning

976
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: that game. I know I disagree. I've seen enough out

977
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: of Garoppolo to be more optimistic than Dan, but it's

978
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:49,399
Speaker 1: worth noting that he is now what twenty eight years old,

979
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 1: He'll be twenty eight in November, and his entire career

980
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 1: is nothing but small sample sizes. We don't really know

981
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 1: what he is yet. And that last game the week

982
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:01,239
Speaker 1: six game at Los Angeles. So if you stumble in

983
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 1: those opening road games and then have trouble the Steelers

984
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:07,720
Speaker 1: and Browns, then you're going to the coliseum. The Rams

985
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 1: need to do some business ear or I mean the

986
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:11,840
Speaker 1: nothers need to do some business early in the season.

987
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:13,919
Speaker 1: And they got a quarterback who's gonna be knocking off rust.

988
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: Just keep an eye on it. That's all fair enough.

989
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:19,400
Speaker 1: And I like Jimmy d too. I want him to

990
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,440
Speaker 1: do well, Like I don't want to make it seem like,

991
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,760
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for Jimmy G's career to go up in flames,

992
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:26,839
Speaker 1: but it's worth throwing out there that maybe he's not

993
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 1: the stone cold lock franchise savior that we've perhaps positioned

994
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 1: him in. Is it possible, Chris Westling, that Jimmy G's

995
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: last five games of the season is the new Geno

996
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:41,280
Speaker 1: Smith's last two games of the two thousand fourteen season.

997
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 1: I it's possible. I think it's much more likely that

998
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: people are making too much of a deal out of

999
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:47,760
Speaker 1: struggling for two and a half games at the beginning

1000
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:50,399
Speaker 1: of last year. I get that, but, like I said,

1001
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: his entire career a small sample sizes, So let's see

1002
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:55,839
Speaker 1: what happens with sixteen games. Nice guy to talk to him.

1003
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 1: After that ridiculous Super Bowl win by the Pats, when

1004
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 1: the uh Seahawks through at the goal line, what were

1005
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 1: they doing there? We've been over that a few times,

1006
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: but west and I actually after the Combine flew from

1007
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 1: Indianapolis on a rather infamous flight. We were not sitting

1008
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: near to Meg, thankfully, But was that in this conference room?

1009
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: The discussion afterwards, there were there were some discussions he

1010
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 1: couldn't have been nicer though we talked him a couple

1011
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,360
Speaker 1: of times. In fact, when leaving l a X taking

1012
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:26,400
Speaker 1: a taxi home, I saw him again. He's like you again,

1013
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: Like we ran into him like three or four times

1014
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: on this trip. That was before he was drafted. You

1015
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 1: were still hoping he'd be the Browns quarterback. I was, uh,

1016
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 1: there you go. It might not have been a coincidence

1017
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 1: that he kept running into you. Um, are you saying

1018
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 1: that perhaps Mark put himself in position for such encounters,

1019
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 1: some low level stoking potential. There's a thin line between

1020
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 1: stalker and intrepid reporter, very thin. And I crossed, I

1021
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 1: mean I crossed into both territories on that trip. I

1022
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:57,239
Speaker 1: was talking. We were at the bar the tavern after

1023
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: Stopball last week talking to our star wort stop um

1024
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: masculine guy. But we kind of stumbled into a conversation

1025
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 1: where he discussed despite being a straight man, the men

1026
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 1: that you know, he would ponder some thoughts in the

1027
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 1: other direction. And he shocked me by just throwing out

1028
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 1: Jimmy g is head and shoulders, the number one guy. Yeah.

1029
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 1: He he was quite adamant that Tom Brady is not

1030
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 1: in Jimmy. Jimmy G's class. That was a hot conversation

1031
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 1: four years ago. Tom Brady is aging rapidly according to

1032
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:38,759
Speaker 1: uh time. Um, all right, so yeah, no matter what

1033
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: happens that Jimmy G's gonna be fine. What do you think, Ricky? Yeah,

1034
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 1: he's okay. Do you miss you miss Jimmy G being

1035
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:49,360
Speaker 1: a Patriot? Because wasn't he as a Patriots say in

1036
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:52,319
Speaker 1: the Ultimate Security Blanket? Also, it felt great having him

1037
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 1: back there. Um, but I think it's gonna come fall circle.

1038
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 1: For all of a sudden, there's gonna be this crazy

1039
00:56:56,719 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: trade where we're gonna get like George Kittle or something. Wow,

1040
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 1: because we traded Jimmy G out of nowhere. You've been

1041
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 1: hanging out with Keisha to you're getting George Kittle in

1042
00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 1: reverse for that trade. Because everyone was like, what why

1043
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:12,720
Speaker 1: did Jimmy G go to the forty niners out of nowhere?

1044
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 1: Like this big deal? How could be Kittle for like

1045
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 1: a fourth rounder going back to New England. So you're

1046
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 1: saying this, this is more premeditated as opposed to like karma,

1047
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:25,000
Speaker 1: just like deciding to no, no, no, no, this is

1048
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 1: like a Shannahan knows us now, well, it's a you

1049
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: and God knows, you could use that. That's the best

1050
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: prediction we've heard all day. So so there was like

1051
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 1: a wink wink, nudge nudge part of the Garoppolo trade

1052
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 1: at the time. Yeah, come on, we you know, scratch

1053
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: your back all scratch yours later. You know, I haven't

1054
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 1: seen a lot of scratching for San Francisco so far.

1055
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 1: That's back to the original point. I don't know. I mean,

1056
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: when you're one in ten and you win five straight

1057
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 1: games to end the season, I'm not going to put

1058
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 1: you in Canton. I know. That's that's where everybody's at

1059
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: with this guy. Well exactly. So that's that's good. That's

1060
00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 1: why Belichick got rid of him. Mark's a good kid.

1061
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I I understand that you are. Yeah, okay,

1062
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 1: all right, We'll be back on Thursday. I hope that

1063
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 1: works out for you, Reggie Um with another edition of

1064
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: the pod. Uh and then after that are we are?

1065
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 1: We doing three shows next week? So it's this is

1066
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:24,919
Speaker 1: that seems that's sobering. Um, But we love our job.

1067
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: It's just shocking because the sum the quote unquote summer

1068
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 1: for us while everyone's enjoying, you know, late July. So oh,

1069
00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:33,479
Speaker 1: we got another month of summer, going to the beach,

1070
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 1: hanging out with friends. Really, our summer is truncated or

1071
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: shifted from May through kind of mid July, so it

1072
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 1: ends very quickly while everybody else is still just like

1073
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 1: right in the middle of it all. But don't don't

1074
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 1: cry for us, Argentina and I know you. We've been

1075
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 1: too busy having fun. We haven't had a chance to

1076
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:57,000
Speaker 1: enjoy our summer. Well somehow we we just push on.

1077
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 1: Don't like it should be a time for relaxation. And

1078
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:02,920
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm tired because of my Yeah, just

1079
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 1: wait to have kids. I'm all right, and I'll need

1080
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:09,439
Speaker 1: I need this thing no more. Hey, my wife don't

1081
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 1: need it. I will need it, all right. That's it.

1082
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 1: Don't have to sign up Jesus, uh sign up for

1083
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 1: the Mailman, Uh, the Quiet Storm and Ricky Hollywood behind

1084
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 1: the Glass till third Day