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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast, Should try Intermittent fasting. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast,

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Speaker 1: presented by Into It Quick Books. My name is Dan,

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Speaker 1: and this coming to you from a room filled with heroes,

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Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and Greg Roosevelt. What is up? Please? Hey? Dan?

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Speaker 1: Interment besting. I f people speak highly of it. They

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Speaker 1: didn't kind of a tough sitch for the old juicie

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Speaker 1: old giving up a whole meal and all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: I struggle with it. I gotta be honest with you. Well,

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Speaker 1: we know Greg would never do that. He's on a

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Speaker 1: firm time schedule for eating. I mean, we only have

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Speaker 1: so many days left, so many meals left. We're just

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Speaker 1: gonna miss him. Gets to be two and Greg starts twitching.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't peg Greg as as needing it either. It's

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Speaker 1: it's a late It's a weight loss and health management

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Speaker 1: scenario of rom extremely balanced and health thing. Love you though,

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Speaker 1: you know what was that? Mar? Here we go? I

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Speaker 1: could we all could? Hey, that's the season? What do

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Speaker 1: we call its? Body quest? Season? Body Quest? Absolutely, we're

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Speaker 1: all on the body Quest. What do we got coming up?

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Speaker 1: Already involved in it? Signed up for gym membership. Gym membership,

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Speaker 1: nice um West. You have a baby on the way,

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Speaker 1: and you have softball season coming, which I know you know.

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Speaker 1: I hope that you'll be a part of Got to

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Speaker 1: get the bob right, got to get the bod tight.

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Speaker 1: All of this is true. Yes, I I do. I

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Speaker 1: have some work to do in the bod tightening department. Greg,

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Speaker 1: You're deeper into your forties now. If you want to

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Speaker 1: continue to do your runs, you just got I am

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Speaker 1: looking to mix it up because I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you've heard about this. Runs are the most boring thing

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Speaker 1: I've ever made, and not good for you. The pounding

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Speaker 1: You can go to a track with a you know,

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Speaker 1: a more sponge of it. Too much of it's bad.

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Speaker 1: A couple of things. We're obviously we are back, well

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Speaker 1: not obviously. I mean there's nothing as a listener that

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Speaker 1: you could tell the difference. We are back from Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: We're in Los Angeles and it was a great time

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Speaker 1: of the combine. I thought I got the vibe and

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Speaker 1: Mark you and I went out with some UH colleagues

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday night before we flew out on Thursday, and

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Speaker 1: without again putting anybody's name out there. The coaches are flying,

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Speaker 1: People were out and looking to get at it. I

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Speaker 1: that this is the coach's favorite week of the year,

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Speaker 1: is that Indie week? Well at the owners meetings, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure this is enjoyable for them too, but they

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Speaker 1: It was one combine I don't really remember one like

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Speaker 1: this where afterwards we were on a text thread, UH

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Speaker 1: multiple investigative text of our own and what we all

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Speaker 1: to unpack it all. It was pretty dense with um

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Speaker 1: way for my man. And then Mark lands his hand

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Speaker 1: then Sean Payton swings his head up and then looks

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Speaker 1: coaches give Mark that look. Well, listen, you only have

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Speaker 1: um Greg, you were out with some other friends West.

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Speaker 1: You just can't expect back to back, back to backs now.

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Speaker 1: and throughout Combine Week brought some reports. ESPN's Jeff Darlington,

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Speaker 1: our former colleague, comes to mind that I think Darlington's

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Speaker 1: how about some news you're about Carl Terrible. Why would

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, he just couldn't have taken eat him

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Speaker 1: because it's very funny. Somehow that show is still incredible.

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Speaker 1: now it's two full weeks of just kind of build up,

426
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Speaker 1: and especially because there's no cb A, I think teams

427
00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,040
Speaker 1: are just kind of waiting to see what happens with that.

428
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Speaker 1: From another angle, could have done, you know, with a

429
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Speaker 1: with a lower level of news to discuss and kind

430
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,679
Speaker 1: of you know, scurring around to figure out what to

431
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,879
Speaker 1: do with the extra Phillentine could have done two shows.

432
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Speaker 1: Could have been at the Sea today or the and

433
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,840
Speaker 1: I'll throw this out of here again. We talked about before,

434
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Speaker 1: why not have the draft next week and then free

435
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:40,280
Speaker 1: agency and then just does or just to freegency the

436
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,120
Speaker 1: week after. Well, that goes against building you know, they

437
00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 1: want to own the whole calendar. If anything, I think

438
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:51,040
Speaker 1: they'd push the draft back further. It isn't just NBA

439
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:56,119
Speaker 1: fans always want their free agency and draft flipped because

440
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Speaker 1: they go the way that you're suggesting, where the draft

441
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Speaker 1: is before freeency? Where is thatfl fans often want to

442
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,920
Speaker 1: flip the other way. So maybe just people just aren't

443
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:05,959
Speaker 1: going to be happy no matter NBA heads, They just

444
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,159
Speaker 1: they will not shut up. There was oh, there is

445
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,440
Speaker 1: no off season in the NBA. Look how they're owning

446
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:15,359
Speaker 1: the sports world. It's all right, Colmdamn, nobody's watching your games?

447
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 1: WHOA have you seen their ratings? They do have a

448
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:22,560
Speaker 1: long season, well followed immediately by the drafting free agency.

449
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: They do have like just a long calendar. Let's work

450
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,760
Speaker 1: being developing a regular season of any meaning at all.

451
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,119
Speaker 1: We have a the NBA is struggling on that. We

452
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:34,359
Speaker 1: have an Anchor Acorman style street fight scheduled with the starters,

453
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,359
Speaker 1: those guys from the NBA. They're just gonna like, whoever wins,

454
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 1: you know, will decide what's better. And then we have

455
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 1: to start. Are we suddenly covering the NBA? If we

456
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Speaker 1: if we were to thoroughly beat them down and remove

457
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Speaker 1: to the point where they couldn't function anywhere? I mean,

458
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Speaker 1: what are we? Or didn't it sounds just like a

459
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Speaker 1: lot more work. And that's not what I was thinking. Okay, No,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't like a like an invasion thing like where

461
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Speaker 1: we would take over the whole. No, that's not what

462
00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 1: I say. Just in an old school fight. Okay, Tony Romo,

463
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 1: that's the big Domino. Forget about all that other stuff.

464
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 1: He is staying at CBS and he is making some loot.

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Speaker 1: That's good works. Give me the loot. Dough green Backs,

466
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:29,240
Speaker 1: green Backs, Sawbucks, womp them scratch. I don't even get Sawbucks.

467
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Speaker 1: I'm sure someone will tweet me. I looked it up

468
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Speaker 1: in a dictionary and this is what it means. Is

469
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Speaker 1: that your Greg voice. No, it's just like you know,

470
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 1: it's like whenever you had any open questions, you're gonna

471
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Speaker 1: get like people, people tweeting. It's just figured out what's

472
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Speaker 1: like the annoying voice, and it's not. It's not it's

473
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Speaker 1: not aimed at Greg at all. Yeah, cvsn't Tony Romo

474
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Speaker 1: have agreed to a multi year contract worth approximately, wait

475
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Speaker 1: for it, seventeen million dollars per season. Rap Sheep reported

476
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 1: A bunch of other people had it, including The New

477
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: York Post, which was first to report the news. The deal, Okay,

478
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Speaker 1: a couple of things. First of all, it like triples

479
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Speaker 1: his previous salary. It is more money than I think

480
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Speaker 1: he ever made any time as a player. I think

481
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 1: he averaged nine million a year in his time with

482
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Now he's making seventeen. The the thing that

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Speaker 1: you could in terms of a comparison point. Similar situation

484
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Speaker 1: with John Madden back in ninety three when he signed

485
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Speaker 1: with Fox and he was making more than any player

486
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Speaker 1: in the league. That's not Romo here, but seventeen million

487
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 1: is astronomical and it will have fall out on that

488
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Speaker 1: entire industry. You'd imagine, you know, Troy Aikman is probably

489
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Speaker 1: gonna be looking for some money now, Like if Troy,

490
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Speaker 1: what's Troy Aikman making right now? Seven million a year?

491
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Speaker 1: Six million year? Is Tony Romo? I don't think it's

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Speaker 1: eleven million dollars better than Troy Aikman West, He's in

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Speaker 1: a category by himself. You are, You're worth. You're worth

494
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Speaker 1: what people are the markets willing to pay you. That's well,

495
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Speaker 1: that's that's for sure. And I've read, I've read a

496
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Speaker 1: lot about this, just because the whole thing has been

497
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Speaker 1: interesting to me. And one of the things that worked

498
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Speaker 1: out for him beautifully timing wise, was first of all,

499
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Speaker 1: the brevity of the previous contract and then the fact

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Speaker 1: that they are you know, they have the rights negotiations

501
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 1: coming up for the network, uh to decide who's going

502
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Speaker 1: to cover NFL games, and CBS is a broadcast network,

503
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 1: as anybody that's following media knows, and just you know,

504
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: if you're alive, the broadcast is no longer king broadcast channels.

505
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 1: They don't have the the carry and the wealth they

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Speaker 1: used to have compared to some of these Cable and

507
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Speaker 1: Netflix and Disney and all that stuff. And what CBS

508
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Speaker 1: does here is they make an investment saying, listen, we

509
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Speaker 1: might not be the powerhouse we used to be in

510
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Speaker 1: terms of UH as a network, but we have Tony Romo.

511
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Speaker 1: So the the deal goes through three years at the minimum,

512
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Speaker 1: and then the right steal comes and if they do

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Speaker 1: re up and CBS keeps football, it ends up lasting

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Speaker 1: I believe ten years in total, at which point I

515
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: don't know, seventeen times ten million. I mean, I don't

516
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Speaker 1: know if it's a bargain, but it's fine, it's not.

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00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: It's more worth it. Well that's true too. But like

518
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Speaker 1: if if you found out that um Tom Selleck was

519
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 1: making you know, five six million dollars a year on

520
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 1: blue Bloods on CBS, people would be like, oh, yeah,

521
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,440
Speaker 1: that makes sense for selling people love blue Bloods. Yeah,

522
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: it's like it's the number one show on TV by fire.

523
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 1: Blue Bloods is buried, you know. It's like if you

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00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:40,239
Speaker 1: wouldn't you wouldn't. Well, I think they season Seven's what

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00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: I'm saying my point is CBS to where you know

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Speaker 1: football Dorset. It's the number one show, so you your

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Speaker 1: number one actor. There's even like a half of one

528
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Speaker 1: percent scenario where CBS doesn't get football though, and then

529
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Speaker 1: we have lost Tony Romo to essentially like two or

530
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Speaker 1: three months of golf a year. That would be probably thematic.

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Speaker 1: Friends actors made what a million in episode? You're telling

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Speaker 1: me Romo is not worth a million of game. I'm

533
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 1: not arguing with you. Michael Thomas is arguing with you know,

534
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 1: and my what did Michael Thomas? Michael Thomas basically said

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Speaker 1: nobody who's calling the game should make more than anybody

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00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: who's playing the games, to which I would say, give

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00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 1: me a break. You're chasing a bag of wind around

538
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: the park. Why can't a guy talking about you chasing

539
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: a bag of went around around the park make as

540
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 1: much money as you whatever the market will bear. Is

541
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 1: what happened, Like, what are we doing? What? None of

542
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 1: you are brain surgeons. The person announcing the game has

543
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,199
Speaker 1: the ability to take a very dull, boring game and

544
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 1: add some life and interest to it. That's not so

545
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: there's only one Romo, there's another fifty players probably that

546
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: are making between what Romo makes and whatever the number

547
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: two guy makes. So it's not like that there's a lot.

548
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,479
Speaker 1: You know, Mikey Thomas, come back to us. Are you

549
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 1: paying attention to the most lucrative route for a post

550
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: playing career it's going into the booth or going to

551
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: a studio and being an analyst. Tony Romo just reset

552
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: the entire market. Wait, when you should be celebrating the

553
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: man when he's forty. Michael Thomas won't feel this way,

554
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: Greg Old mark Ingram was on our coverom. I mean,

555
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: it's like they're planning their post careers. There was this

556
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: one report from Andrew Marchan at The New York Post

557
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: that before signing Romo to the full deal, CBS offered

558
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: Peyton manning Romo's job. Have you sitting this? CBS did

559
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: that preemptively that they were concerned that they weren't gonna

560
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: get it or have to pay too much because of

561
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: the stuff you're talking about money wise that I'm not

562
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: from New York Post, so they thought he might leave

563
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: for ESPN. If he left, they needed to have somebody

564
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: because the number two guy, and we love him, the

565
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: bird and the Beard, but Dan founds he's not He's

566
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: not bringing what Romo brings, So they would have had

567
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: to find someone to make a splash to again make

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00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: them enticing come re uptime. Yes, people have to be

569
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: happy about this. Yeah, if you're a Monday night football too,

570
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: and you're part of that production you have, it is

571
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: discons is disquieting and you know not that this would

572
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: become as a huch shocked. There were some issues with

573
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: that production, we know, but that you know your own

574
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: company is just went all out to try to get

575
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Speaker 1: someone other than you to headline your show. It's just

576
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: not a great feeling in any job, industry, any relationship.

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00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: I can't imagine why you'd want that. Did you say

578
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Speaker 1: you think ESPN is happy about this? No, I'm seeing

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Speaker 1: some people that working currently that maybe are thinking they

580
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Speaker 1: would have incumbents will yeah, at to have the job

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Speaker 1: that job. Yeah, and yet well, you know, like Mark saying,

582
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Speaker 1: that's a tough situation though, tough sitch because now they

583
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: know you actively were trying to replace them, Like at

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Speaker 1: what point, well, at least, but they'd have to know

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Speaker 1: that anyone would be going up to Tony Romos in

586
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 1: a Bruce arean situation where they're like openly, you know,

587
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 1: talking trash about Jamis Winston. Y're talking about other people.

588
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: But we're all we've documented this almost weekly on the

589
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Speaker 1: show since the end of the season. We're all very

590
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 1: happy that Tony is at CBS. You stayed together for

591
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Speaker 1: the kids and you stay with your your boy, Jimmy Nance.

592
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: Good news for a ball I'm happy for jim was

593
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: one of the biggest winners. Jim Nance finally catches a

594
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: break everything at Vineyard Vines to celebrate Tony Romo's extension. Um, oh,

595
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: this is I just want to hit on this quickly

596
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: just because it's it's funny to me and it does.

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00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: Everyone take everything with a grain of salt when you

598
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: hit all these reports about where people could be going,

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00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 1: who's talking to who, where someone's likely to land, and

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Speaker 1: free agency, because we're still a bit off, how we

601
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: how long until free agency kicks off? Three weeks, two

602
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: week weeks, it's a lot of time that's forever in

603
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Speaker 1: football terms. So yesterday, good example, Jack Conklin, former first

604
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 1: round pick right tackle of the Titans. He's hitting the

605
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Speaker 1: market and Mike Florio p FT reported that Conklin is

606
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Speaker 1: expected to sign with the Jets. The Jets obviously a

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Speaker 1: team that he didn't say expected to be fair to

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Speaker 1: uh to world, this is happening now with like a

609
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Speaker 1: game of you know, telephone, and they wrote he's expected.

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00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: They just he said that he had one source that

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Speaker 1: one team expected that thought, uh, you know, Conklin was

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Speaker 1: going to the Jets. Okay, So Florio had a source

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Speaker 1: saying one team thought Conklind was going to New York.

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00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: That sits out there for about three or four hours.

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00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: He gets aggregated across the land. Everyone now assuming that

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Speaker 1: Conklin's locked in as the Jets right tackle as they

617
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: begin their rebuild there. And then ESPN is Adam Schefter

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Speaker 1: um at about yeah, about two and a half hours

619
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Speaker 1: later reports that impending free agent alright tackle Jack Conklin

620
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Speaker 1: is not expected to sign with the Jets, and not

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Speaker 1: only is he So we had the Florio kind of

622
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: report that said he was going to sign with the Jets,

623
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Speaker 1: said one NFL team has been informed that Conklind planned

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Speaker 1: to sign with the Jets. Jefters wasn't just like, actually

625
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: Conklin's market is still fluid, that nobody know. It was

626
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Speaker 1: actually the report that Conklind has gonna have many suitors,

627
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: but the Jets are not on his list. Yeah, that's

628
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: I read that yesterday. So it was like the exact

629
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Speaker 1: opposite spectrum and it all happened within three hours. Grain

630
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Speaker 1: of salt, keep that in mind, keep your head on

631
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Speaker 1: a swivel. He is not expected to land with the

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Speaker 1: offensive line needed Jets. That's what was in Schefter's tweet.

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Speaker 1: I mean that feels like also when you're at that

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Speaker 1: last day of the combine and I know you can

635
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Speaker 1: just text everyone no problem, but there was a lot

636
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: of information passing to and fro, just because all these

637
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Speaker 1: people were sort of in the same room and corridors.

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Speaker 1: Some wild stuff, and especially at night eightning Dan, I

639
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: think we heard some people say some things that were

640
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: slightly jaw dropping, but you can't go do anything with it.

641
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: But Schefter, I think he is doing a good job

642
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 1: covering bases, you know what I mean, Like, if you're

643
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Speaker 1: Conklin's agent, you cannot have that out there now, no

644
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Speaker 1: matter what, whether he signs with the Jets or not.

645
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Speaker 1: And of course whoever that is doesn't want it out

646
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Speaker 1: there anyways because they want to see what It's still

647
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: too early for that even if the expectation I'm saying,

648
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Speaker 1: if if you're getting really excited about the conflint last Sonna,

649
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,719
Speaker 1: don't don't get to this. It's like, I want that

650
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Speaker 1: B minus guard for fifteen million dollars a year. He

651
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: was a great right tackle last year. I I did

652
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: some deep dive. He's he's a very good Yeah, he's

653
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: a very good pass blocker or a very good run blocker,

654
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: but not a very good pass blocker. That's what they said.

655
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 1: Pf s big mistake by the Titans not giving him

656
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: a fifth year option, which basically has no risk to it.

657
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: And uh but he he came off an a c

658
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Speaker 1: L injury and didn't play well in two eighteen. Lukewarm take,

659
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 1: and then you know more than we do. Let's be honest.

660
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 1: Let my lukewarm take, which I don't won't think matters

661
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: anymore because they're changing the fifth year option quite a bit.

662
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,240
Speaker 1: Is that every single player that's ever shown a pulse

663
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Speaker 1: to just get the fifth year option, because because it's

664
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Speaker 1: not guaranteed anyways, you might as well just do. I

665
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:51,879
Speaker 1: feel like three out of four guys, or maybe four

666
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: out of five guys get it right. Some are just

667
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 1: such depressing. You don't do that, I said, if you've

668
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: shown a pulse, Conclin was a pro bowler, is rookie

669
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Speaker 1: year he you know, it's a great example your boy

670
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: David and Joeku where it looks like he could go

671
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: either way. Probably will, but he's a perfect example. He

672
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: has shown something, but really not much anybody right, and

673
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: it's it's fair to say that maybe the regime three

674
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: regimes ago, which was only about three and a half

675
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 1: years ago, might have felt differently, but he probably never

676
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 1: knows how anyone feels about him. How could you? Uh. Finally,

677
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: in the news, Tom Brady and his boy Julian Edelman,

678
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: We're with Jimmy Fallon, the talk show host at a

679
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 1: Syracuse North Carolina basketball game over the weekend, and we

680
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: had a viral clip mark, why don't you set this

681
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 1: up because I think Ricky has some sound as well.

682
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: Take us through the process. Well it's it's you know,

683
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 1: sideline courtside seats, and you've got, uh, Julian Edelman, who

684
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,760
Speaker 1: looked to me to be roughly suddenly seventeen years older

685
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,399
Speaker 1: than the last time I saw him, with to his left,

686
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: Jimmy fall On into his right much closer to the

687
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 1: camera tom Brady, and you'll hear Edelman basically when they

688
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: kind of cut to these guys saying, you know, he's staying,

689
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,720
Speaker 1: he's staying something along those coming back, coming back and

690
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 1: and and you really like you need to go seek

691
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 1: this out online too, because the look in the awkward

692
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,479
Speaker 1: set in looks on Tom Brady's face over the next

693
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 1: like ten twelve seconds is uh, it is. And there

694
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: was a lot of you know, even in some articles

695
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: that set out there for twenty four hours, people trying

696
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 1: to figure out what he actually said. An NFL network

697
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 1: came to the conclusion that what Tom Brady said at

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Speaker 1: the end of all this, which initially was meant to

699
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: be negative, like he's not or whatever he said, he's

700
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: got it, like Edelman's got the news, but not in

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00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 1: a way that would make you think if you're a

702
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: Patriots fan, Greggy watched it would make you feel comfortable

703
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: it have Yeah, likes to listen to it, But I

704
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 1: think it's the visual you have to look at two.

705
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: He's coming back, He's coming back. He's got it. So Edelman,

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00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 1: he's coming back, He's coming back. Some random guy to

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00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: Brady goes what did you tell be him? Who's the

708
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: Syracuse coaches? He still there? Yes, he has been there

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Speaker 1: Forrady goes, Brady goes, he's got it. It sounds like

710
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 1: what some people said he said he's not as he's

711
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: not coming. He did say he's got They isolate the

712
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: and the NFL network guys did a good job like

713
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: boosting up his audio isolating it. It's like almost like

714
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: they led the show with this, and it was great

715
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: because the facial expression is very much I interpreted it

716
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: more as just why you know, I'm I'm on TV.

717
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 1: I'm aware of it. I Am trying to have no reaction,

718
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: but there's no way to have no and it's just

719
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: like like a grin that with his teeth beard and

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00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 1: Edelman's reaction was funnier because it was definitely the Tom

721
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: Brady is the Alpha and their relationship reaction and like, oh,

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Speaker 1: did I go too far pushing the guy who's like

723
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: made my career in a little sheepish he like he

724
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:57,720
Speaker 1: like crosses his arms just for Christmas. And Jimmy Fallon

725
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: typically knows what he's gonna be saying left and he

726
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 1: just had no idea what to do with the moment either.

727
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: So it's it's a nice bushel of awkwardness. I like

728
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: this intrigue. Maybe that's rare among Patriots fans. You're you're

729
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,720
Speaker 1: legitimately playing with house money. Even if this goes terribly

730
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 1: some ways, it's all fun for you and on. I

731
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: would rather Tom Brady, and maybe we can talk about

732
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: this with Tom Curran, who's coming up. But I'd rather

733
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Speaker 1: have Tom Brady struggle in another uniform than struggle with

734
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Speaker 1: the Patriots. All right, I just don't want to see that.

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00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: Let's that is a good way to get into it. Now,

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Speaker 1: Let's get him on the phone. Mr Tom Current, Tom

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00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,879
Speaker 1: are you there, come right here? Yes, I am there.

738
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: He is, Tom Curran, Tom Dan hands is here. Um.

739
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 1: Whenever we talk about Tom Brady or the Patriots in general.

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00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: You know, Greg's our right hand right hand man when

741
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: it comes to New England stuff, and he will cite

742
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: your name more than anyone else as a quote unquote

743
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: person he trusts to know the situation. And in these

744
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 1: times we need you, Tom Curran, to give us the

745
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: on the Tom Brady situation. We just finished breaking it

746
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 1: down the Bruder film style, the Syracuse game. Um, where

747
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: are we at right, now, give us a little insight,

748
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: please help us. Well, let's start right there because we

749
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: now have enhanced aut y. Are you guys good with

750
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 1: the studio? It was beautiful, okay, So it's just a

751
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: question about Beeheim and he said, uh, he's got it

752
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: or whatever. So we're good on now, all right, we'll

753
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: move on from that. So you're saying he was definitely

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00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 1: responding to the Beeheim question and the depths there he

755
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 1: gave to Julian. We're not going to read into that.

756
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 1: The death Stary gave to Julian was the kind of

757
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:43,359
Speaker 1: death stare you give you a little brother when you say,

758
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: you know what, all right, I'll go to the game

759
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: with you. It'll be good for your brand. Let's go

760
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: have some um and then you play it along and

761
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: the camera comes over and the little brother can't help himself.

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00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: He does something that makes me say, you know, I

763
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: knew that you would do something that I regretted, and

764
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,319
Speaker 1: Is did and that's not what I was looking for.

765
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 1: So that's why I thought. Brady said, let's not as in,

766
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Speaker 1: let's not here. I got that. And by the way,

767
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: so far even and Tom, you and I haven't really

768
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: had a chance to to really speak at length together.

769
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: We're not buddies yet, but you've already cleared up a

770
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 1: major situation. So Greg scouting of you is spot on

771
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: through about ninety seconds. I mean, Tom and I go

772
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: way back. We we worked at multiple places together, and

773
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: anyone that's followed the Tom Brady's career they know Tom

774
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: Curran has been inextricably linked to him ever since Tom current.

775
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: It was a strategic move. He wouldn't say this, but

776
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: early on in the Bledsoe Brady time together, he had

777
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 1: called Drew Bledsoe a hood ornament. In print in the

778
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,760
Speaker 1: Boston Herald, he would call him Robert Craft's hood ornament,

779
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: a thing he put on his car to distract all

780
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: the Patriots fans, his contract from everything going on. And

781
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: Tom planted his flag in a in a sixth round

782
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: pick out of Michigan before anyone else did. And these

783
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 1: players they remember these things. I mean, I'm telling you

784
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,359
Speaker 1: if you watched that training camp in two thousand and one,

785
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: what you would have seen, if you were watching mostly

786
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: would have been inescapable to you too. The skinny kid

787
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: looked way better than the statue from Washington State. You've

788
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: also go ahead. It was an intervention that formed that

789
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: Bilba check well to this day say thank god because

790
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,240
Speaker 1: I was about a week from bench in him. Anyway,

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00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: you've also contributed one of my favorite words to lexicon

792
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 1: of this podcast. Greg tells us that when he says

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00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: somebody's honking, oh, that's a Tom Current original. I think

794
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,919
Speaker 1: I grabbed that from the Globe, but I actually think

795
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,479
Speaker 1: Worrio credited me for coining Swiss army knife. I can't

796
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 1: imagine that that can't be true. That's nice. I can't

797
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: imagine that I was. He might have heard it from

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00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: me first. But you know how it is up there

799
00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:02,760
Speaker 1: in West Virginia. It's things washing shore there late. Um

800
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 1: So I go way back with Greg and the great

801
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: thing about covering this team, and this is where this

802
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: coverage is different, is there are nuances to covering this team.

803
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,399
Speaker 1: It's hard to get in with individual people, it's hard

804
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: to build the trust, and it's hard to cover this

805
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:22,360
Speaker 1: team from afar. There are much There are many folks around,

806
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: people who get very exercised when they get on the

807
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: phone and start talking to folks. And I try and

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00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: divide and take out a little bit of the stuff

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00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 1: that I think is emotional. Hm, the people around Tom

810
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 1: or around the team or around ownership might say, like,

811
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: right right now, what do you think is emotional? That's

812
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: maybe getting out there because this last week we reached

813
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 1: and I'm sure it'll get even crazier, but we kind

814
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:55,799
Speaker 1: of reached peak Brady speculation, especially on ESPN with their

815
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: old friend, you know, Jeff Darlington's saying he'd be shocked

816
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,839
Speaker 1: if Brady was back there. And I get along great

817
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: with Jeff, and Jeff is very well plugged in. I

818
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: believe with everything Brady right now. I just have seen

819
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:11,879
Speaker 1: this movie too many times here in New England, where

820
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 1: you think something is absolutely, positively definitely gonna happen, and

821
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,240
Speaker 1: you get to a point where you walk a plank

822
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: and it's hard to come back. I wouldn't be stunned

823
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 1: if Tom Brady came back. Nikissario's back, Josh McDaniels came back,

824
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 1: Beyond Branched came back, Jamie Collins came back. There is

825
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: a pitch and I wrote this today that will be

826
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 1: made to Tom Brady, and it's not going to necessarily

827
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:39,799
Speaker 1: revolve around We're gonna get to this player and this

828
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 1: player and this player in this player, and we're gonna

829
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:43,760
Speaker 1: pay you this much money and we're going to commit

830
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: to you for this long. The pitch is really going

831
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:49,320
Speaker 1: to consist of, in my estimation, from what I understand,

832
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Where is it going to be better?

833
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 1: Where are they going to understand what it's like? With

834
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: two minutes left, we're down for and we need to

835
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: manage it. Do these guys know of situational things? Do

836
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 1: they know what you expected? Even at the same verbi

837
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: each nerosense? Are you going to coach the coaches to

838
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,919
Speaker 1: coach the players? Because those are all the things, Tom,

839
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 1: that you're gonna encounter out there. It's gonna be very

840
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:14,839
Speaker 1: frustrating for you at But can they have a conversation

841
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 1: with him like that? I mean, is that that? Is

842
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: that how you would play that conversation? I mean, I

843
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:21,839
Speaker 1: feel like I don't got to be the first thing

844
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 1: i'd say when he's you get there? Yeah, I don't

845
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: think that's the first thing I say? Is what are

846
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: you thinking about? I think it's a Look, there were

847
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:31,359
Speaker 1: some mistakes we made, as you know, Tom, Um, there's

848
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: things that didn't work out, there's injuries that arose. That's

849
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: all in the past. I think it makes sense forward.

850
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: I think it makes sense to pitch the competitive advantage

851
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 1: of staying in an environment that knows him so well

852
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 1: and vice versa versus, you know, shifting gears to a

853
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: lesser team that you find out half these NFL teams

854
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 1: are running away, that would be completely unacceptable to Tom Brady.

855
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: But do you think that Belichick and Robert Kraft are

856
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: on the same page when it comes to the future

857
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,399
Speaker 1: of Tom Brady the desire to even have that conversation

858
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: and do whatever it takes to keep him uh from

859
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 1: getting out of the building. Yes, And I reported that,

860
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 1: you know in the story that I wrote today that

861
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and the Patriots and the coaching staff is

862
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: very committed to trying to convince Tom Brady to stay in.

863
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: Do they make a two year commitment? I mean, had

864
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: they done the Drew Brees contract last year, we wouldn't

865
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:27,720
Speaker 1: be here now, two years, fifty million dollars, damn done,

866
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be sitting here. They resisted the two years.

867
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:33,399
Speaker 1: They said, we want to go year to year. That's

868
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: not what Brady wanted. That's why he asked for and

869
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 1: was given the opportunity to not be franchised because Robert

870
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:41,839
Speaker 1: Craft didn't want Brady to come back against his will.

871
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 1: He didn't want him to feel tethered. He didn't think

872
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 1: that was productive. So that's why we are where we are.

873
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: But Robert Craft also understands that he is running a risk,

874
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: but he does want him, embold and Belichick to do

875
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:56,479
Speaker 1: what he's always done, which is run the football side

876
00:45:56,480 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: of things. The notion that Robert Craft interview named on

877
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo isn't accurate. It crew legs, it, crew wings it,

878
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 1: crew tentacles and it's run wild. It didn't happen, and

879
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 1: I've been told that directly by Craft that it's a

880
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 1: bleeping lie. I didn't do that, and I believe them.

881
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: I see so much of what you're saying about the

882
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 1: benefits of staying in New England, and I really don't

883
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: want to see him go somewhere else and failed because

884
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:27,799
Speaker 1: the coaching infrastructure isn't there and the players aren't there.

885
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,280
Speaker 1: But what about the idea. There are very few athletes

886
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 1: in history I'm thinking, like Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan's

887
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: on the level of Tom Brady's career where there are

888
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,320
Speaker 1: multiple peaks once you think he's done. He just keeps

889
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: peeking and peeking and peaking. There are only a handful

890
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: of guys in the history of sports like that. What

891
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: about the idea of Tom Brady creating a new challenge

892
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: for himself, because there's no challenge left that exists. But

893
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 1: the difference with those guys is they were either an

894
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 1: individual sports or team sports, in which it was much

895
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,919
Speaker 1: small dollar for Tom to orchestrate that in a different place.

896
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: To win part of culture on a fifty three or

897
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:07,760
Speaker 1: sixty man roster, when you get through all the people

898
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:09,760
Speaker 1: who come in and out and on a coaching staff,

899
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: is much more difficult to do. That's why to me,

900
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 1: Tennessee makes the most sense, because there's a culture in place,

901
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 1: and there's he's pre sold in terms of what Mike

902
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: Grabel will say, just listen to him and just watch

903
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: what he does, and this is what we want. So

904
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,399
Speaker 1: I think that's an advantage. But I think it's much

905
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 1: harder for him to do that. But I do think

906
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:35,479
Speaker 1: that he's enthused by that in and for a large

907
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: part of he'd go to the line and say, what

908
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: am I gonna do on this play? I don't know

909
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: if he's going to be in the right spot. I

910
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna be in the right spot.

911
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 1: I have no tight end. As as far as last year,

912
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to happen over there at

913
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: left tackle. I'm probably gonna end up having to throw

914
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,400
Speaker 1: this ball away. And he did that a league leading

915
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: by a large amount five times. He didn't want to

916
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: go through that again this year. I was amazed. Part

917
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 1: of the story, you know, the Syracuse game that we

918
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 1: didn't even mention, which is that he was facetiming with

919
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: with raybel rabel at In in Indianapolis certainly did not

920
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,880
Speaker 1: hesitate to talk about Brady, to talk about his friendship,

921
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: to talk about how many challenges he thought Brady presented

922
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: as a playoff opponent, Like if if he's trying to

923
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 1: use that as a negotiating thing with Ryan Tannehill, I

924
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 1: mean to me, it's working and and they're like FaceTime

925
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: and these are forty something your old men. First of all,

926
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 1: do you guys does anyone FaceTime with with other men?

927
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: Like I don't like all the time. I'd rather not

928
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:36,280
Speaker 1: discuss my private life. I'm just saying, who facetimes except

929
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 1: for like with their kids? Or their wife. I didn't know.

930
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 1: That's the thing. The fact that he's facetiming with Rabel

931
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: on a random February day with Julian Edelman, that seems significant.

932
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:49,760
Speaker 1: I don't know. They live a different life than we do, fellas,

933
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 1: they live different right, But I do think one thing

934
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: that you mentioned there, in terms of the campering and

935
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 1: the notion that Mike Rabel is doing a lot of eyebrows,

936
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: one up my unders standing as the Patriots are quote

937
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 1: in a story I wrote recently, not going to be

938
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 1: quote super vigilant about the tampering for two reasons. One,

939
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: they don't feel their competition with other teams is financially based.

940
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: They're selling situation, not a paycheck. Even though Tom Brady

941
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 1: doesn't want to get nickel and dimed again because he

942
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: feels he has been. They're more about what's the situation

943
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: that you have here as opposed to other places. Secondarily,

944
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: when they sit down with him to eventually talk about money,

945
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: they don't want him to be of a mind that

946
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:33,799
Speaker 1: I don't know what's out there yet. I have no

947
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: idea what's going to go on. I need to go

948
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: to free agency to find these things out. So there

949
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 1: is an advantage to that. So while I think that

950
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: it does raise eyebrows, I've been told the Patriots are

951
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: not going to be chasing tampering charges all over the planet, alright.

952
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 1: Percent chance. By the way, I find that our employer

953
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 1: is often selling a situation versus a paycheck as well,

954
00:49:54,840 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 1: So I can understand very often part in the storm

955
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: percent chance that Tom is wearing not Tom current Tom

956
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:08,759
Speaker 1: Brady is wearing a different uniform week one. Oh, you're

957
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: gonna love to see answer. All right, Well still, I mean,

958
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:17,400
Speaker 1: and I guess my my last question Tom for you is,

959
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 1: since you have had, you know, a level headed viewpoint

960
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: on this, I think we all think and uh, are

961
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 1: you at all surprised where it is right now compared

962
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 1: to where you thought it would have been, let's say,

963
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,839
Speaker 1: in October when there started to be some percolation about

964
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:35,440
Speaker 1: his struggles and his contract was up. Are you surprised

965
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:37,280
Speaker 1: that where we're here right now, where it feels fifty

966
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 1: fifty and you're getting these reports out there, or is

967
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:43,240
Speaker 1: this something you kind of saw coming? It was always

968
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:45,879
Speaker 1: gonna be a little um messy this time of year

969
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:48,800
Speaker 1: with the contract coming up. No, I knew it was

970
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 1: gonna look exactly like this, probably actually worse because in

971
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:55,839
Speaker 1: August and late July before they were able to get

972
00:50:55,840 --> 00:51:00,360
Speaker 1: the contract done, um, you know, Brady expected a longer amendment.

973
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:04,439
Speaker 1: When he didn't get it, he really and the folks

974
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 1: around him were like, okay, you know what funds fun.

975
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: But now we have no players around him. He's gonna

976
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 1: go out there. Things aren't gonna look good. And then

977
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:15,239
Speaker 1: when the Antonio Brown situation came and went, I don't

978
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:16,839
Speaker 1: think Brady was psyched about it. I really don't think

979
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick was psyched about the way that went down either.

980
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 1: That became further agitation for Brady, and the season bore

981
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: it out. He ended up taking the brunt of the

982
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: blame for well, he's slipped and he's forty two, you know,

983
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 1: and so many of those games. Yeah, he he did

984
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: show less pocket poison patience than in past years, but

985
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,720
Speaker 1: the arm strength there, the pocket mobility is still there.

986
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 1: I don't think I've seen a physical dip from him.

987
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: So most people, if you asked ten people, I think

988
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,319
Speaker 1: that nine would say, yeah, he's slipping. I think that

989
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:55,879
Speaker 1: as that season wore on, he wasn't that psyched about that.

990
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 1: That he had to bear the brunt of it, and

991
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 1: he had to stand there and you could see that

992
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 1: in his face. So I kind of felt that it

993
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:03,879
Speaker 1: was going to trend this way um the whole time.

994
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 1: What fascinates me is when push comes to shove over

995
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: the next ten days, fifteen days, whether the Patriots will

996
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: be able to exert upon him and convince him that, look,

997
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 1: this is the best place for you. It always has been,

998
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 1: it always will be. We want you here. Do you

999
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 1: really think his pocket mobility hasn't slipped at all? Pocket mobility? No,

1000
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:32,840
Speaker 1: he is using to me his ability to elude the rush. Duckers,

1001
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 1: shoulders move around people. Yeah, Like I think it's significantly

1002
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: Ted Carris in front of him instead of David Andrews

1003
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:45,760
Speaker 1: who had Marshall Newhouse for a chunk of the season

1004
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 1: instead of trend round Um. Jack Mason didn't have as

1005
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: good as season. It was a circus. Yeah. I think

1006
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: I think Brady Brady could be getting motivation from his

1007
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,439
Speaker 1: his old pal Tom Curran, because a lot of people

1008
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 1: in Tom Curran spot, Uh, he's got his radio show,

1009
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,839
Speaker 1: he's got his TV show. It's like they give up

1010
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 1: the writing part of it. We we've seen it with

1011
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 1: our careers. Our writing is dropped off, but Curran's out there,

1012
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:17,360
Speaker 1: He's still spinning gems. I'm just telling you want to

1013
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:23,239
Speaker 1: read about Tom's great you get a Christmas card from

1014
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 1: Tom Brady? No, okay, no, you could read Tom's latest column,

1015
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:31,839
Speaker 1: the one that he's referenced on this show today at

1016
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: NBC Sports Boston dot com slast Patriots, Patriots, and you

1017
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: could also follow him on Twitter. Tom E Curran, uh

1018
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 1: see U R R A. And I just did I

1019
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: don't know, I fell through the cracks. I didn't. I

1020
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:45,839
Speaker 1: didn't have a follow. Now I bang a follow now, Tom,

1021
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:47,239
Speaker 1: that's up to you. If you want to fall back

1022
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 1: the old user, that's your call totally. But this is

1023
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:54,800
Speaker 1: the real offseason drama we're tracking. The old user is

1024
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: Dan Hansis. Do you want to start FaceTime and on

1025
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 1: the regular? Absolutely? Tom, thanks for joining us and bringing

1026
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: some clarity to a unclear situation. All right, well, thankfully

1027
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:11,240
Speaker 1: having me, guys, thank you, thank you. All right, there

1028
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:14,439
Speaker 1: he goes great. You know, sometimes you have a guest

1029
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,480
Speaker 1: on for the first time and you get you immediately

1030
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 1: since they you know, get along with our style of

1031
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 1: you know, our game. A little mirth, a little fun,

1032
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: some analysis in there. Tom E. Kern, he's a he's

1033
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:31,160
Speaker 1: a legitimately funny guy. Like there's a lot of sports

1034
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 1: writers that think they're that try to be funny. I

1035
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:37,840
Speaker 1: can be guilty of this as well. But but in

1036
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: the room, Tom Kern, I'm saying, yeah, if if he's

1037
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: if he's at a table of people, he's he's gonna

1038
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 1: be He's gonna be on in it. Um. Okay, good stuff, guys,

1039
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:53,800
Speaker 1: good show. Two more shows this week. We'll have a

1040
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 1: Wednesday program where we are efforting that's a that's a

1041
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 1: corpo term. We're efforting to have someone to talk a

1042
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 1: little combine, uh and get a little breakdown from what

1043
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: happened in Indie this past week. And then remember Friday,

1044
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: and I think I locked her in on the show,

1045
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: but there's no way Colleen remembers that. By now, we

1046
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: will have the we will name the Connie Fox theme song.

1047
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,839
Speaker 1: If Colleen is in the house and available on the show.

1048
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:24,759
Speaker 1: We will have our top five finalists and then we

1049
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:27,440
Speaker 1: will select it. We have to actually, Ricky Hollywood, we

1050
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:29,719
Speaker 1: have to kind of get on this and figure out

1051
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 1: the whole voting process and which songs formally are the

1052
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 1: five finalists. We gotta do some leg work ahead of

1053
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 1: Friday's show to do this, right. I'm just thinking about this.

1054
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 1: It's been so long since we heard some we might

1055
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Speaker 1: have to go to six. I mean we might have

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Speaker 1: to just like break a ruler to alright. A couple

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Speaker 1: of those early ones were gems. Absolutely, Mark, Absolutely, you

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Speaker 1: want to be the last heard. I think we we

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Speaker 1: We went out with a bang with that one song

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Speaker 1: that everyone's tweeting about, and then those early ones, some

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Speaker 1: of them a plug just forgotten. So you gotta we

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Speaker 1: won't forget that just correctly. In fact, well, how about

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Speaker 1: what I'm out when we really listened to the ones

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Speaker 1: that we saw as finalists. Potentially we'll listen to the

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Speaker 1: latest ones first. So the last one we hear is

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Speaker 1: the first one we heard. It's gonna be hard for

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Speaker 1: Greg to maintain the energy he can for that last one.

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Speaker 1: Never seen him so happy, And at first I think

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Speaker 1: even I was saying that that wouldn't have been a finalist.

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Speaker 1: But since it's not, let's listen to it again and again.

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Speaker 1: But I think ultimately that's uh, that's telling us something

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Speaker 1: about this song that it to be part of that. Oh,

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Speaker 1: now I see your game. You want to get that

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Speaker 1: in as the sixth finalist. Even though it has a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a dig at the face it also

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Speaker 1: has it was more a praiseworthy of Colleen. Right, all

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Speaker 1: due respect to Gonzo, A part of it was that

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Speaker 1: he would be cast aside in an NFL player would

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Speaker 1: then marry Connie. I think, yeah, it was a cast

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Speaker 1: system scenario where Gonzo was being viewed as not really

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Speaker 1: worthy of what Colleen has flowered into its bed. I

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Speaker 1: don't agree with it was fun word play that happens,

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00:57:04,239 --> 00:57:05,799
Speaker 1: but it's all it is a little funny to me

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00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 1: that remember you you got on your horse and you

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Speaker 1: were like, how dare that? One man say so a

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Speaker 1: joke of Colleen's expense and his song uh from the

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Speaker 1: first round of songs, and then this guy he is

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Speaker 1: causing trouble within Colleen's family structure, and you're like, it's cool, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Colleen's the starry consistency that even Gonzo knows

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Speaker 1: that well. I mean, you're you're making declarative statements about

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Speaker 1: someone else's family. Again, I did ask Colleen if Gonzo

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Speaker 1: is aware of this competition. She said he has no idea,

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Speaker 1: which is kind of funny the more you think about it,

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00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 1: because John is in so many of these songs. Better

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00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 1: for him not to know what's happening, I would I

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Speaker 1: would suggest, all right, let's go. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: me Around the NFL Podcast presented by Into It Quick Books,

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Speaker 1: official sponsor of the NFL. Stan Hands is signing off

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Speaker 1: for Quiet Storm, the Maleman, the Old Boss, Hollywood behind

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Speaker 1: the Glass, and thank you again to Tom all Right

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Speaker 1: for joining us do when they Hey, what's coming on? Guys? Hey,

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Speaker 1: guys Time