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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast can't afford the number switch.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition to the Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hans to say, come to you

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Speaker 1: from a virtual room filled with some heroes, Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Gregg Rosenthal men this number of change of business. While

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get to that in a little bit, um,

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Speaker 1: but first listen, it is we have been doing this

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Speaker 1: long enough that when like a real news story pops

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Speaker 1: up this time of year, we we need to take

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Speaker 1: advantage of it. Milk, milk it because I don't want

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Speaker 1: to talk about Tim Tebow. I don't want to fight

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Speaker 1: with Greg about Teddy Bridgewater. I just want to talk

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Speaker 1: about and when you have the chance to talk a

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Speaker 1: legitimate football news involving a future Hall of Fame wide

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Speaker 1: receiver who is gonna be on the move, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: die right in. Baby, We're gonna do it with help.

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Speaker 1: I was that was your opening, Mark, But we're still

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Speaker 1: working on the chemistry ten years in. You know, sometimes,

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Speaker 1: like I'm watching us on screen here, I forget that

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Speaker 1: I'm even in the show. I'm just watching the screen.

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Speaker 1: So you're right, I completely dropped the ball there. So

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Speaker 1: to dive in on this juicy saga between Julio Jones

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Speaker 1: and the Falcons. We need to bring in the man,

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Speaker 1: the myth, the legend, the guiding compass of NFL network,

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Speaker 1: and also with that little side hustle with the Atlanta Falcons.

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Speaker 1: He won't tell me a salary with the team. That's fine.

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Speaker 1: We moved past that. Steve Weish, what's up, buddy, Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the podcast. I told you it is more

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Speaker 1: than what you're getting paid for doing the Around the

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Speaker 1: NFL podcast, more more than right and more than what

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Speaker 1: Jim Trot and are getting paid for. The one is

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Speaker 1: huddling people. You're giving people time to catch up on

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Speaker 1: the old episodes. You know, that's what it is. I'd

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Speaker 1: say You're timing though, was impeccable. I mean, the Falcons

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Speaker 1: the major NFL story is bubbling up out of there

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Speaker 1: like a volcano. Good timing. Yeah, how about that recover

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Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers? Yeah? Absolutely, And we'll get into Aaron

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Speaker 1: up real quickly. That's been percolating. Julio Jones maybe on

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Speaker 1: the move falcons are cast draft. Julio might not be happy.

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Speaker 1: Steve Wise has been reporting this, uh, letting people know

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Speaker 1: Now and now. Um, Shannon Sharp is the co host

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Speaker 1: of a program called Undisputed on FS one, and um,

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Speaker 1: this is what happened on their Tuesday morning or Monday

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Speaker 1: morning showing really hope the answers here. I got you.

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Speaker 1: Here's your favorite uncle going on brach Lou. You want

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Speaker 1: to go to the cowboy who? Or do you want

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Speaker 1: to stay in Atlanta? Oh? Man, man, there there's a

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Speaker 1: version of hell from me by the way, where it's

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Speaker 1: me having to watch a Skip Bayless UH talk news

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Speaker 1: program that's about cowboys. Uh, speculation at all times. But

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Speaker 1: that's beside the point. Steve as a Capital J journal

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Speaker 1: first of all, let's just say that where do you

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Speaker 1: don't even know Julio Jones. Jones knew he was on television.

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Speaker 1: He was in a car and he's he's getting information

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Speaker 1: up the Shannon shrub. Where did that land for you. Well,

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Speaker 1: first of guys, I mean, you know, we've dealt pro

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Speaker 1: He was just like, Hey, we want our players to

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Speaker 1: why wouldn't you, Why wouldn't you make a move like this.

426
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Speaker 1: They've got all their players coming at like Julio Jones too.

427
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Speaker 1: There seems to be a lot of heat there. I

428
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Speaker 1: guess I can totally ignore the cap thing, but they

429
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Speaker 1: have about half a million dollars in cap space, so creative, Yeah,

430
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Speaker 1: maybe say, Julio, will will extend you two years, right

431
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Speaker 1: and and they and they rework the deal. I mean,

432
00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,160
Speaker 1: all of these things can be done to facilitate NFL trades.

433
00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:07,359
Speaker 1: Seahawks have been known to get real aggressive for veterans.

434
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Speaker 1: That's what I thought to like, mark which team, which

435
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Speaker 1: front offices? They're not afraid to just yeah, they only

436
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Speaker 1: had like two picks this year, so now maybe they

437
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Speaker 1: can start trading. But we're talking a second rounder, liked

438
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Speaker 1: it could be a second and a third or something less.

439
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Speaker 1: They don't need to draft. That never backfires and teams.

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Speaker 1: Michael Holley, by the way, also reported that Jones believes

441
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Speaker 1: that Matt Ryan has lost a little zing on his

442
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Speaker 1: deep ball. You hearing anything about that embedded within the falcon,

443
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Speaker 1: Steve Wish, that's not That's not what I've necessarily have heard.

444
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Speaker 1: Is the uh is the rub is the velocity on

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Speaker 1: that Ryan's passing Look last last time the games. It's

446
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Speaker 1: a fact his deep ball is not as good as

447
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Speaker 1: it was. I think he's only thrown for like five

448
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Speaker 1: thousand yards a year for like however many years. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean, don't play are I think, buddy? I think

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Speaker 1: I think his arm strength is not what it once was.

451
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Speaker 1: I think that's maybe, I mean probably not. But you know, look,

452
00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:10,959
Speaker 1: if you've got guys, you can catch it and go.

453
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Speaker 1: And that's the other thing about the Falcons. I mean,

454
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Speaker 1: you know they've got Calvin Ridley and this dude, Russell Gage.

455
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Speaker 1: I went, I was back watching some of their phone

456
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Speaker 1: from last year. Player. Yeah, he's a pretty darnka player.

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Speaker 1: So it's not like the cupboard is bear if they

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Speaker 1: if they decide to move him. Plus guys, look, if

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Speaker 1: they get a future even a future mid round second

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Speaker 1: and a future mid round third or mid round four,

461
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Speaker 1: now they've got a ham out even if they finish

462
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Speaker 1: around five hundred to start moving up, if they're back

463
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Speaker 1: in the quarterback market in a year two. So I mean,

464
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Speaker 1: all of these things are coming into play with this

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Speaker 1: whole conversation. Steve, You've been very generous with your time today.

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Speaker 1: I know you're a hot commodity on the network side

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Speaker 1: with all this going on, and you're always a great

468
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Speaker 1: friend of the show. So great a friend of the show,

469
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Speaker 1: Steve Um, that it's time to introduce another challenge to

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Speaker 1: the listeners. You did not let us down a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago when we asked for a Colleen Wolf

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Speaker 1: theme song. Now we come to you, the audience again,

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Speaker 1: all the musicians out there, to come up with a

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Speaker 1: Steve Wife's theme song for the Around the NFL podcast.

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Speaker 1: And to two nuggets here. First of all, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: send your submission. It's thirty seconds or less. Do not

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Speaker 1: go a second over thirty or you're done. V a

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Speaker 1: t N podcast at Gmail and Ricky will parse through

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Speaker 1: all the submissions. Now, Steve, I want you to have

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Speaker 1: some creative First of all, how do you feel about this? Oh? No,

481
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Speaker 1: I'm loving it because I know here here's a great part.

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Speaker 1: Because you have such a great English audience. I know

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Speaker 1: they're gonna hit like some banger reggae music. I was

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Speaker 1: gonna say, that's what I'm hoping for, That's what I

485
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Speaker 1: was gonna say. I want you to have some creative

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Speaker 1: control over this. Um and uh is that a direction?

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Speaker 1: We don't want to tell people necessarily what type of

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Speaker 1: music to send in, But at the same time I

489
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Speaker 1: wanted to be a nice match for Steve and his personality.

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Speaker 1: So you maybe a reggae groove, okay, anything else you

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Speaker 1: want to have? That definitely the genre along along the

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Speaker 1: Mr Vegas kind of you know, I don't I don't

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Speaker 1: want any of the of the culture reggae. You're well,

494
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Speaker 1: you're from St. Louis, So maybe something Nelly like or

495
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Speaker 1: where where's your wife from? My wife is from Jamaica.

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Speaker 1: Much more I'm much more, yes, much more in that

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Speaker 1: I haven't been to St. Louis and even though that's

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Speaker 1: my ship's it's been a minute alright, So something in

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Speaker 1: the reggae groove Steve Weistan that genre v A t

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Speaker 1: N podcast at gmail. Send in your submissions and the

501
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Speaker 1: next time we have Steve on the podcast, maybe we'll

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Speaker 1: play some and figure out what the Steve Wisch a

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Speaker 1: t N theme song is. But a bunch of pasty

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Speaker 1: guys from the UK making reggae, what could go wrong?

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Speaker 1: We do have do not sleep on the UK reggae? Hey,

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Speaker 1: that's a knowledgeable, acknowledgeable stuff, right, you know, your favorite

507
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Speaker 1: band back in the day with Squeeze Share Love a little. No,

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Speaker 1: we're calling all of our listeners across the globe. Maybe

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Speaker 1: I have have some Jamaican listeners. Let's let's do this thing.

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Speaker 1: Um all right, Steve, you've said it all. Thank you

511
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Speaker 1: so much and best of luck the iconic Steve. Why yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just thought the the audience did not let us

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Speaker 1: down and um with Colleen's submission. Now, Steve, I think

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Speaker 1: he's earned this. I think this is uh something that

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Speaker 1: is going to really pop. Well, it might get on

516
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Speaker 1: you could get on Patrick Claybourne's radar. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: other friends in the show might definitely have more appearances.

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Speaker 1: That's tough, but maybe he'll get one eventually. I think

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Speaker 1: I think if listeners need any direction, like, is there

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Speaker 1: any other personal things about Steve? I do think of

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Speaker 1: Steve as you call them? Did you call him the

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Speaker 1: conscience of NFL network? That was good? He she does

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Speaker 1: sort of like the president, like the like if there

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Speaker 1: was a class president of NFL network on air people,

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Speaker 1: I feel like Steve would be the pick, like he's

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Speaker 1: sort of he's sort of the guy. Right. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's good. I like that you're giving

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Speaker 1: some cliffs notes here for the audience. But I also

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Speaker 1: like the idea of whoever is putting together this composition,

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Speaker 1: you have to be a listener. You have to understand

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Speaker 1: Steve and his sensibilities and his background and everything, and

532
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Speaker 1: that will take that into account. I mean, I really

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Speaker 1: want to see where people when people think creatively about

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Speaker 1: this um, what comes out. I also don't think you

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Speaker 1: necessarily now want UM. You know it's gonna be Erica's

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Speaker 1: sure to listen to them all, but four hundred reggae

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Speaker 1: based songs. I mean, if you're coming from somewhere else

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Speaker 1: as a musician, or win him over, maybe you win

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Speaker 1: him over with something from left field. Absolutely, and that's

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Speaker 1: what happened with Colleen. I think we went with more

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Speaker 1: of a hip hop theme, which is one of Colleen's

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Speaker 1: favorite genres of music. But we were all over the

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Speaker 1: map and that was fun, all right. And it's not

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Speaker 1: a chore, Ricky, do you you see this as a

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Speaker 1: chore or an honor in a way, really, to to

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Speaker 1: collaborate with the listeners in this way. Yeah, I can't

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Speaker 1: wait to go through it, all right. It's like I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to listen to the first eight entries and

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Speaker 1: just tell you those those were the best that's not true.

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Speaker 1: What if there's seven hundred of them? Will you listen

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Speaker 1: to all seven hundred? What if five hundred of them

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00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 1: are by people who really shouldn't have ever considered music

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Speaker 1: as a hobby. I might not listen to all thirty

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Speaker 1: seconds at that point, but seven of them are marked

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Speaker 1: just sending voice memos to you at like three in

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Speaker 1: the morning. Perfect it might get picked um, honestly, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And if if you don't know anything from the colleen submission,

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Speaker 1: this is the big leagues. We have a lot of

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Speaker 1: talented uh listeners. Do not send in some chinesy chenzy

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Speaker 1: voicemail memo. I want real musicianship here. That's all I ask.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's do some uh, let's some more news,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll say goodbye. Hit it Ricky. Former NFL

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Speaker 1: star Philip Rivers returned to the gridiron tonight, this time

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Speaker 1: calling the shots on the sideline. Retired quarterback now head

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Speaker 1: coach of the St. Michael Catholic High School Cardinals led

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Speaker 1: his team onto the field for spring day matchup at

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Speaker 1: the Alma Bryant Hurricanes. It's gotta be it's gotta be

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Speaker 1: um a mind trip for these kids, because I looked

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Speaker 1: it up. Philip Rivers this year was playing for the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl UM in the tournament of the NFL uh

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Speaker 1: known as the playoffs for the Cults. Played pretty well

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Speaker 1: too in the game, and he walked away at age

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Speaker 1: thirty nine. I looked up over on spot rack dot

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Speaker 1: com his career earnings. He earned a quarter of a

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Speaker 1: billion dollars in salary as a football player over twenty seasons.

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Speaker 1: And now he's the head coach of your high school team.

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Speaker 1: That's wild. I'd be freaking out. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: Brett Farve did the same thing, and I mean these

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Speaker 1: are legends, and you know, maybe the high school player

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00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: of today he was fifteen years old. He didn't watch

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Speaker 1: fifteen years of Philip Rivers. But there's it's not lost

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Speaker 1: on anyone playing football at that age, like the incredible

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Speaker 1: concept that an NFL quarterback is now like in your

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Speaker 1: face at meetings and telling you to take lapse quicker.

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00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 1: And you know, I I would find it highly unusual

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Speaker 1: to reconcile pluses. His son is coming up and is

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00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:40,719
Speaker 1: going to be on the team shortly, I think if

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Speaker 1: he's not yet, And there there's a there's many more

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Speaker 1: to follow, which is why he parked himself there and

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00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: he's he's ready. It's awesome though. That video made me

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Speaker 1: really happy. I just I love Philip Rivers. I love

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Speaker 1: that he said this was his lifelong dream. He said

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Speaker 1: that too when he signed the contract, like with a year,

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Speaker 1: you know, he still had that cult year to go.

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Speaker 1: I believe it. His dad was his high school coach.

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Speaker 1: He said it was his lifeblog dream and he like

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Speaker 1: stuck to it and and he's doing it amazing. I

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Speaker 1: just I just want Philip Rivers to be happy. See,

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Speaker 1: it's not all about the championship. Think of all the

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Speaker 1: good times we had along the way, all the joy

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Speaker 1: that Philip Greg just kep. He just he just keeps

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Speaker 1: going with the point and where we were like in

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Speaker 1: eight minutes into Philip Rivers appreciate. I love it too.

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Speaker 1: I don't have to love it as much as everyone else,

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Speaker 1: but I'm happy for him. He's I just, you know,

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Speaker 1: like I love. I don't know if he's taking a

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Speaker 1: dime from the school. Probably not. He signed a twenty

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Speaker 1: five million dollar contract for one season with the overpay.

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Speaker 1: By the way, he was okay last season, But if

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Speaker 1: Greg's gonna get in his tired points. I'll do the same. Um.

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Speaker 1: I also want to hear um Philip Rivers just talking

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Speaker 1: to the news reporter, because think about it from this perspective,

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00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: because I've been in the I've been in the shoes

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Speaker 1: of this guy, uh covering high school sports. Like you're

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00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: usually talking to he's just like you know, regular Joe

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00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: guys that are in the community and they're the head

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Speaker 1: coach of the football team. Now you're interviewing Philip Rivers.

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Speaker 1: Here's Rivers just talking casually about high school football. I'm

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Speaker 1: just looking forward to seeing the boys compete. Just just

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Speaker 1: another checkpoint as we head into the summer workouts, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not worried about the scoreboard so much as this again,

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Speaker 1: seeing this competes in if we transfer what we've been

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Speaker 1: working on practice to the game setting. I just like

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Speaker 1: that to get out, like I've given that exact done

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Speaker 1: that exact same interview for the Journal News in Westchester

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Speaker 1: a million times and had that same answer, only it's

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers talking back to you. Yeah. Like I I

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Speaker 1: worked for the Ridgefield Press covering the team, and I

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Speaker 1: would call up the coach, coach Guido Myolo on the

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Speaker 1: phone and one week. One week, I planted, not planted,

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Speaker 1: but I talked to the team was really struggling. I

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Speaker 1: talked to like six of the kids were just in

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Speaker 1: my science class and like drop this a bomb and

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Speaker 1: the Ridgefield Press like tearing the team and like a

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Speaker 1: new one. And he came into the lunch from me,

636
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Speaker 1: It's like, never operate that way again. I must read

637
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: every article that you before you princessly that's not how

638
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: this works. But what happens is suddenly Philip Rivers team

639
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: is one in five and that cover buds gonna have

640
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: to deal with that. I learned. I learned a similar

641
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 1: thing early on in my time covering high school or

642
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: it's because you grow up a fan of sports and

643
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: sports writing and for me like reading the sports section

644
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: in the New York Post or whatever, and it's like

645
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: sports are covered a certain way. And I remember I

646
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: covered a high school game where the tight end had

647
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: like a Jackie Smith type moment where he dropped a

648
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: wide open pass in the end zone and I believe

649
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: it costs the Nanuek Golden Knights or whomever it was

650
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 1: the game, and I in my dispatch on the game,

651
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: I noted that the tight end dropped a wide open

652
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: touchdown pass that was kind of the difference in the game,

653
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: and the editor of the paper got a very angry

654
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: phone call from the parent of the player, and the

655
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: head coach also called. They're like, what are you doing? Yeah,

656
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: kids sixteen the bet you know in your defense that

657
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: kid went his career went nowhere. So yeah you saw that. Yeah,

658
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 1: you saw the kernel of the destruction plane. Maybe like

659
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: he read that and he's like, I need to focus

660
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: on being an engineer or something, and maybe he went

661
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: on to do great things helped him. Maybe I thank

662
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 1: you note as an honor. Nanue had Golden Night. Jackie Smith,

663
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: all right, let's get into it. Aaron Rodgers, Hey, how

664
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: about that? He's still on the Packers. He was also

665
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: on Sports Center on Monday. Kenny Maine stalwart there. ESPN

666
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: recently got laid off by the company. Uh, it was

667
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: his last time on Sports Center. I was always a

668
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: big Kenny Maine fan back in the day's. He's a

669
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: prose pro and great at his job. Um So Rogers

670
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: did him a solid and appeared on the final Kenny

671
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: Maine Sports Center talking about the situation. He stressed, my

672
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: issue is not with the kid in that quarterback room.

673
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: Jordan's love. It's with the overall vibe of the Packers organization,

674
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: with Brian gutakanst in charge with you with my situation. Look,

675
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: it's it's never been about uh, you know, it never

676
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: been about the draft pick pick in Jordan. I love Jordan.

677
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: He's a great kid. Um. You know, he had a

678
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: lot of fun to work together. I love coaching staff,

679
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: love my teammates, you know, I love the fan base

680
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: in Green Bay's incredible, incredible sixteen years. It's just kind

681
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 1: of about a philosophy, you know, and and maybe forgetting

682
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: that it is about the people that makes the thing.

683
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: It's about it's about character, it's about culture, it's about

684
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 1: doing what things the right way. You you found this

685
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: a bit strange. Great well, I think he was trying

686
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:28,360
Speaker 1: to answer someone answer these questions without saying much of anything.

687
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: I mean, it went on for a while and parts

688
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: of the interview were great. Kenny Maine was great, and

689
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 1: Rogers is great too, But the part about the Packers,

690
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 1: it's like, I don't know what he was saying. He

691
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: basically was saying, yeah, he loves everyone except for the

692
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: front office. I guess it was yeah, that, But if

693
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: you're got to be so indirect but obvious about it,

694
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: I don't know why not just be direct? Why is

695
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 1: he just like talking around this whole issue And he

696
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 1: went into this whole long thing about culture and the

697
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,399
Speaker 1: people and philosophy, and it's like, well that all those

698
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 1: people you mentioned, they're all still there. It's about the people,

699
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: like the coaches and the teammates, they're they're there. If

700
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 1: it's about those people, I agree with you. I mean,

701
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: I think he's trying to there's a bit of a

702
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,399
Speaker 1: you know, hearts and minds aspect to this, where if

703
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: you're Aaron Rodgers, you're in a town that bleeds football

704
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 1: more than other football towns, and like they at some

705
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 1: point Oregon to those fans are gonna lose their patients

706
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,760
Speaker 1: with the concept of Aaron Rodgers wanting out um, appearing

707
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: to be difficult, appearing to be a devil all that

708
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 1: business that I don't really necessarily think he is that um,

709
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: But he's trying to, you know, not so subtly, but

710
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,879
Speaker 1: in a cryptic way point the arrow back it look

711
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: at it's our front office, it's our general manager. That

712
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 1: created an aura of mistrust between me and the organization.

713
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: It wasn't um the previous GM, and it doesn't chart

714
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: back to them, I don't think. But it's very much

715
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: about the current GM, and like that is enough to

716
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: create a divorce scenario. I mean, it's just to me,

717
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: the longer this drags on, I just find the more

718
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 1: petty it's. And and he even said it in the

719
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:09,879
Speaker 1: main interview that he believes his MVP season in through

720
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,280
Speaker 1: a wrench and everything for the Packers, and that's true,

721
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: that's honestly the key quota. And it's like, you know,

722
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 1: it's it's interesting to me that I think it's a

723
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 1: little bit of a window into Rogers personality that there

724
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: is nothing he could have done more to stick it

725
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: to the Packers for this betrayal in his mind on

726
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: some level than to do what he did on the

727
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: field and be the best player in football and win

728
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: the m v P. So everything else that's followed now,

729
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: which just feels like a little bit of a twisting

730
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 1: of the knife to make it even more uncomfortable for

731
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,360
Speaker 1: Gouda constant and the people that were behind the decision

732
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: to bring in Jordan's love and and and my last

733
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 1: point on this, because I don't want us to dwell

734
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 1: on this, but I also want to hear Greg your

735
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 1: thoughts on it too. Is like he could say, it's

736
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 1: not about Jordan's love, it's not his fault. But it's like,

737
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 1: it's not that different what he's what he's doing to

738
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: what bred Farb did to him once upon a time,

739
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,280
Speaker 1: where you just put the young guy in a really

740
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: tough situation and it's a strange, awkward way to start

741
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 1: his NFL career, and it didn't have to be that way,

742
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 1: and yet here we are. I mean, I totally agree

743
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: with you on that that he can he can say that,

744
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: but it was about the pick. It was it was

745
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 1: probably about not communicating and not feeling like he was,

746
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:19,800
Speaker 1: you know, valued enough to communicate the pick ahead of time.

747
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: But what what I think is, if the reporting is correct,

748
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: and if you piece together some of what Ian Rappaport

749
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,280
Speaker 1: has said in Schefter and then a little more directly

750
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: with Charles Robinson of Yahoo said was that after this

751
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: m v P season, Rogers said, give me a contract extension,

752
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: and when they said no at that point or that

753
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: they didn't like the terms of what they wanted, that

754
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: they just wanted to renegotiate, or they just would guarantee

755
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 1: this year but not move in into the future. That's

756
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 1: where it went def Con five. And if he's so

757
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:54,959
Speaker 1: worried about the pr angle of it all, I would

758
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,359
Speaker 1: just say that because that to me makes sense, Like

759
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: I just won the m v P and then I

760
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: asked for contract extension. Okay, you wanted to move to

761
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: love but at this point now it's clear I'm not

762
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: going anywhere in terms of my level of play. Now

763
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: I want you to commit to me. And if it's

764
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 1: true that the Packers at that point this February or

765
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 1: whenever it was said no not really, you know, you

766
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,359
Speaker 1: don't blame him so much. Just to set that out there,

767
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: if that's true, yeah, I wish he would clarify that

768
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: and elucidate that for the people because it is still

769
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: sort of this thing where it's elongated. It's kind of

770
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: mysterious because we don't have all the reporting on it.

771
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: But I'm completely with you because I think you've got

772
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: a schism here where the other parts of the Fun

773
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: Office probably you are saying, what are we doing here?

774
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 1: Why would we ever part ways with Aaron Rodgers? But

775
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: there's other figures saying we drafted Jordan's love and what

776
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: do you do not play him for three years and

777
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 1: then you have to decide on a fifth year option.

778
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 1: It's like you just have to shock it up. It's

779
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: a completely missed um drafts essentially. Or do we fire

780
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: our general manager who we like just to keep the

781
00:38:56,360 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: franchise star happy. That's of the words say, yeah, But

782
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: I think the problem is that, like that's a weird

783
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: organization that doesn't have like a powerful owner that would

784
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: just come in and clear clear all this up. I

785
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 1: think it's a little bit of a trickier type organization

786
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: with the Mark Murphy angle and your general manager who

787
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: has power went and picked this quarterback. So I don't

788
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: know if if it's quite as simple as I think.

789
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 1: You keep Rodgers above all, but getting there is tricky.

790
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: It's just like they're stuck in it on a different

791
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: path connected to Aaron Rodgers up there in Denver O.

792
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: T As have begun and you know that Drew lock

793
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 1: and Teddy Bridgewater involved because they're trying to win a

794
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: starting quarterback job. In fact, Vic vag y'all plans a

795
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: fifty fifty split of reps all through the summer and

796
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,320
Speaker 1: preseason before he decides which one of these guys is

797
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: his quarterback. Of course, Aaron Rodgers has been connected to

798
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: the broncos Um during this process during his fallout. Rodgers

799
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: is fallout with Green Bay. Luck was asked about it

800
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: this week and he said, he spent so much time

801
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: some interesting Luck quotes. He's kind of he's a bit

802
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: of an interesting guy here. Uh, he makes for a

803
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 1: good copy. Lock said he spent so much time this

804
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 1: offseason working to improve, including consultations of Peyton Manning look out,

805
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,919
Speaker 1: that it led him quote being able to do Being

806
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: able to do that gave me zero time to listen

807
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: to all this stuff. Maybe one day I'll go back

808
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: and read and laugh about all the things that were

809
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: being said that ended up being completely wrong. And then

810
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: and then before I thought to you guys, this last part,

811
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: which was interesting to me as well. Here's another quote

812
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 1: from Luck. Luck. I'd like to think the reason no

813
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,399
Speaker 1: one has said anything to me is because those are

814
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 1: probably the really close people in my life, and they

815
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 1: understand it's not worth their time either. Whatever happens happens.

816
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 1: And if anyone did say anything to me, it was

817
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,760
Speaker 1: zero text back or no callback because they are probably

818
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 1: not even in my tight, really tight circle. And he

819
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:02,879
Speaker 1: added that his father Andy Andy Lock good name, will

820
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: tell him if he has seen a Broncos player on

821
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: social media offering support for Lock. Al Right, a lot

822
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: of information there. That's I know. I luck um why

823
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,879
Speaker 1: Lock has been icing me on my textas summer because

824
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 1: I've just been sending him all these gifts of Aaron

825
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:22,360
Speaker 1: Rodgers doing the uh you know, the state farm belt

826
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: or whatever. You know. I just he never responds. He

827
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: has his dad on social media watch to make sure

828
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: his teammates are saying nice things about him. That's interesting.

829
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: I don't know, well, I think it's I think it's

830
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: too is he is he making he's like forcing those

831
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: players to say nice things. Where he's like, if you

832
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 1: happen to see a player supporting me. Don Miller kind

833
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: of supported Teddy Bridgewater. I noticed. I wonder if that

834
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 1: got on his radar. He was kind of he was like,

835
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: you know, ted Teddy came in here. I just said,

836
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: don't worry about everything else, just play like we got

837
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: you to play, and and he said some things about

838
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: Luck too. But I bet in the in the defensive

839
00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 1: huddle there might be some of that going on, like

840
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: let's let's have a quarterback that if nothing else just

841
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,359
Speaker 1: doesn't turn the ball over and lets us go win

842
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 1: the game. And so that it's a it's an interesting dynamic,

843
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 1: right except every single player on the team would would

844
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,359
Speaker 1: be like absolute green light yes to Aaron Rodgers if

845
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 1: that became a thing. I mean, but I think between

846
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: the two, Teddy offers you more like there's he's got

847
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 1: these players, you know, look at each other differently, and

848
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 1: they's got way more street cred. I mean, Lock is

849
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: just locked in a athletes speak mode right there. All right.

850
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: I never I never believe someone when they're like, I

851
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: didn't I haven't had time to hear any of these

852
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,879
Speaker 1: nonsense things people are saying. It was like, well, how

853
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: long would it really take you to hear that? It

854
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: would take you, like twenty seconds. You don't have seconds.

855
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:42,760
Speaker 1: Like right, I'm gonna go back and then I'm gonna

856
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 1: read all the things people said to you. That was

857
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 1: the moment where I was like, oh, okay, he knows

858
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: exactly who's been saying what about him? And that was

859
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: like that was his little he said a little too much. Then,

860
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe the Broncos are like, we already have

861
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 1: an overly complex, mentally confusing quarterback and Drew lock if

862
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 1: this is how he processes, you know, his daily you know,

863
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 1: getting overly um beguiling Aaron Rodgers in there is probably

864
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: just a little bit too much. But this kind of

865
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 1: this kind of feels like a slightly more pumped up

866
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 1: and just slightly more pumped up version of Mike Shanahan

867
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: back in two thousand eleven. I stake my reputation on

868
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: John Beck and Rex Grossman. It's like a little bit

869
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 1: higher than that Big faggio is in a tough spot here. Yeah,

870
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: one of those guys is going to be a starting

871
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: quarterback most likely the whole the whole fifty fifty reps.

872
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: We're gonna do it all through precos that's that's never

873
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: once worked. That is the official kiss of death. Would

874
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 1: I would respect it more if he was just like

875
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,720
Speaker 1: we're gonna ride with Locke or we're gonna ride with Teddy.

876
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 1: But it's just like you know that that well, you know,

877
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: you know one is gonna start eight games and one's

878
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 1: gonna start, um nine, and we're gonna do it. We're

879
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 1: gonna spend like eight months, you know, breaking down what

880
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: happens between now in August. But they're both gonna play.

881
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: It's one of the great parcels ums of which there

882
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,040
Speaker 1: are dozens and dozens. If you're a young football and

883
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: read about Bill Parcels, the big Tuna. Uh. If you

884
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:07,320
Speaker 1: have two quarterbacks, you don't have any mm hmm. In

885
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,760
Speaker 1: other news, so yes, O t s are kicking off

886
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:15,720
Speaker 1: and some good uh injury recovery news at the game's

887
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: most important position in Dallas, Dak Prescott returned to practice

888
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,359
Speaker 1: on Monday, UH. The first time he's seen this type

889
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: of action since he suffered that nasty compound fracture and

890
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: dislocation of his right ankle against the Giants back in

891
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 1: Week five. So Prescott is all systems go, barring some

892
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: type of setback for a return. And speaking of comeback

893
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: Player of the Year candidate Joe Burrow, this is a

894
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 1: good one. Also, back on the field, he was throwing

895
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: at the Bengals first O t A. He's got a

896
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 1: big Carson Palmer like brace on his knee, but he

897
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: was planting on that surgically repaired knee making throws. This

898
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 1: comes a week after UH it was reported that he

899
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 1: is also all systems go for week one barring setbacks. Yeah,

900
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 1: he's still he said though, that he's three months away,

901
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: he thought from being fully cleared, so doing the math

902
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 1: that is late into the preseason, and so being on

903
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:13,760
Speaker 1: the field. I think Dak was similar, but he doesn't

904
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 1: have the same timeline. It's like the rules that they

905
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 1: have to keep players away. They're not even doing eleven

906
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 1: on elevens now. They're they're making sure people are at

907
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 1: least ten feet away from Joe Burrow. But they're throwing passes,

908
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: and it's all it's all a good sign, and it's

909
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 1: another sign and football is back. Football is back. I mean,

910
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 1: you know he's throwing he's throwing short passes too. I mean,

911
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: it's just like a it's a starting point. But I mean,

912
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: you know, we go back twenty years and if you

913
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: tear your knee up in November, who knows when we

914
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: see you again. It's just all of it's been, you know,

915
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 1: sped up. And he looked really I thought he looked

916
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: nimble in the in the video that I saw. But

917
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 1: they mark the miracle of modern science. Am I right?

918
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: You are right, it is. It's miraculous. It's a good,

919
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 1: great time to be alive. I know this isn't on

920
00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: our news run down, but you know, the otis were starting.

921
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,239
Speaker 1: I did find it interesting that the Bucks are the

922
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: only team that are basically going and lp a thing

923
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: like because that tom Brady's got some deuceeically I'm gonna

924
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 1: have I'm gonna have my own practice, and apparently all

925
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: practicing down in Florida or something, and not one of

926
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: the starters on either side of the ball showed up.

927
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 1: Every other team. Everyone just was like Africana listen. I

928
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 1: initially had this like theory that maybe Tom Brady gets

929
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,800
Speaker 1: on that call um and in another world where everyone

930
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: listened to what Tom Brady to say about not practice

931
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 1: during the off season, that everyone didn't practice because they

932
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: respect Tom Brady so much, and then just the Bucks did,

933
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 1: it would have been like that's next level planning. But

934
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:42,919
Speaker 1: it's completely reversed where everyone is practicing. The Bucks didn't

935
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: show up to work. All right, you're coasting through your

936
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 1: off season. Have a nice time, my my, you know

937
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: you need fire takes this time of year. On football podcast.

938
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: My fire take is the Bucks are done champions. Fatigue

939
00:46:56,840 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: is set in. They won the Ring and they're just

940
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 1: using this as a way to skip, Uh, this very

941
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 1: easy amount of a small amount of work they have

942
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:09,239
Speaker 1: to do before summer vacation. Uh, yeah, we're crew. We

943
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:15,280
Speaker 1: are hurtling. Towards eight and nine, Brady respond that whatever whatever.

944
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 1: That as like a quote board so they can't hear

945
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,320
Speaker 1: the tony your voice and tweeted out from like around

946
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 1: the NFL every single show. That's amount of context stuff. Yeah,

947
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: but Brady would say, probably respond to you being like,

948
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: we're practicing harder down here. You're not allowed to do

949
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 1: all this stuff like I've got uh, you know Guerrero,

950
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: Alex Guerrero running, you know, having these guys do wild

951
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: stuff down here. We don't need the team now, Oh

952
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:46,919
Speaker 1: your maskull's out there, We're doing the real work. Well,

953
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 1: I'd tell him that my job is to see things

954
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:50,880
Speaker 1: through a certain point of view and maybe not include

955
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 1: all the facts. So he's not going to get away

956
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: with that. Uh. Cycling back to Denver real quick, Bradley Chubb.

957
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 1: He had an ankle issue last season. Um, they hope

958
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 1: to avoid surgery, but he did get surgery to remove

959
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 1: a bone spur in his ankle, which is always sounds

960
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: kind of gross because that's a a floating particle of bone.

961
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: Then slightly, you know, a little jar and give it

962
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,399
Speaker 1: to you when you're done. It's gross anyway. So he'll

963
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 1: be in a walking boot for a couple of weeks. Uh,

964
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: nothing to be too concerned about. He should be ready

965
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: for training camp. Uh. What's that sound you, Ricky? I

966
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: hear a sound. It's a I smell smoke. What is

967
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 1: that an alarm or something? Oh? I know what that is.

968
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:44,360
Speaker 1: That's the sound of Dallas Cowboys linebacker Jalen Smith burning. Uh,

969
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 1: one of his deep deep people down the line of

970
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 1: his family. True, when he's long gone. At some point,

971
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 1: the money's gonna run out in the Jalen Smith family

972
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:56,960
Speaker 1: from this lucrative pro career. One generation just lost their

973
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: college money because he's changing to number nine. Uh, and

974
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: he has to pay a six figure some for the switch.

975
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: Sources told Todd Archer of ESPN sod six figures. So

976
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 1: he goes from he's lighting money on fire. Number fifty

977
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: four is now number nine at mid six figure costs.

978
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 1: So what does that mean? That's like five? Is that

979
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 1: what that means? Um? And as we talked about on

980
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 1: this show, and it all just seems insane. To make

981
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 1: the move to number nine, Smith had to buy out

982
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,320
Speaker 1: the current inventory of number fifty four jerseys and T

983
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:36,759
Speaker 1: shirts and T shirts, which follows NFL rules. Uh, he

984
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 1: is all from Archer at ESPN. Had he said now

985
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: that he would change his number two, it would not

986
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: have cost him any money. So if he just would

987
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: have stayed number fifty four this year, he could have

988
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:51,880
Speaker 1: then switched to this number nine and not paid a dime.

989
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, the money's gonna run out. In the

990
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith family. Someone's getting banged here in the biggest

991
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: of all spots. They're not born yet, the never even know.

992
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: It's all because he wanted to be number He's got

993
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 1: a great financial planner. They're gonna be fine. They're gonna

994
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 1: be fine. I'm bummed out. I'm legit bummed out by

995
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 1: this story because I don't think Jalen Smith is going

996
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: to be on the Cowboys next year. I think there's

997
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:19,279
Speaker 1: a chance, and I know he's not thinking this, but

998
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:23,360
Speaker 1: I think I mean next year, that it's gonna be

999
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 1: a short lived number change. Anyways, I think there's a

1000
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 1: chance he's not on the Cowboys this year, which I

1001
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:31,399
Speaker 1: know he's not thinking about he you know, he's had

1002
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: a good career, but there's a legit chance because of um,

1003
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: you know, the the draft that they had and Vanderesh

1004
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:41,840
Speaker 1: and everything like that he could be on the trade

1005
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: block or that he could even get cut. So I

1006
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 1: I after the couple of years that he said, so

1007
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: that that would be like an extra bummer if he

1008
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: paid for all this and then he doesn't even make

1009
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,320
Speaker 1: a team. I would assume that he's not prancing around

1010
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 1: with that mental state though, thinking, of course I probably

1011
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: won't be here, you know, my career is on the

1012
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: down side. But different defensive coordinator could work. Dan Quinn,

1013
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:07,319
Speaker 1: We'll see, might be might be great. That's fair, Mark,

1014
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 1: you got a lot tied up in this, dan quinnin

1015
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: hiring well. I mean I also think, like how many

1016
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:15,239
Speaker 1: Cowboys fans are like kay Jalen Smith, but I have

1017
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:17,879
Speaker 1: like a Tony Romo jersey and now you're number nine,

1018
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:22,880
Speaker 1: Like what are we doing here? Like you're jumping into

1019
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: like the rail. The one player outside of like Ezekiel

1020
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: Elliott that of this current team probably has like a

1021
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:33,279
Speaker 1: ten billion jerseys that people own around town. This is

1022
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: kind of like, you know more like a big picture thing.

1023
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 1: But dan Quinn got hired by the Falcons because he

1024
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 1: was the d C of the Legion of Boom Seahawks.

1025
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 1: Went to Atlanta defense in those last couple of years,

1026
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,879
Speaker 1: couldn't stop a nosebleed. Now he goes to Dallas where

1027
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 1: the talent. Listen, tell me if you disagree, But is

1028
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: it that much better than it was in Atlanta? Uh?

1029
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,320
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna say he's going to be a defensive

1030
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 1: wizard like he was in Attle when he had the

1031
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 1: best defensive roster of the last ten years. Sometimes this

1032
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: assumption that the head coach that gets fired and then

1033
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 1: becomes a d C again gets back to d C magic.

1034
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was like an asp at the

1035
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: highest level. It's also an assumption to assume he's gonna fail.

1036
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 1: So it's like we're just two men with assumptions battling

1037
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: against each other, which tells you it's the middle. But

1038
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 1: that's my logic behind why I'm not saying he's gonna fail.

1039
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,359
Speaker 1: I just sometimes we just say, Okay, now he's gonna

1040
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 1: be fine and he's gonna make a lot better. But

1041
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: I don't I would say that he's he's under a

1042
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: fair amount of pressure in terms of like if he

1043
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 1: fails here, like he'll never be a coordinator again. Probably,

1044
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:41,359
Speaker 1: but like they put their entire draft towards the defense. Um,

1045
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,319
Speaker 1: if those players work out, And it's a bit last

1046
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 1: year's scheme, it was the wrong scheme under Mike Nolan

1047
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 1: for coronavirus time. It was too complex. They were argument.

1048
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 1: They were mentioning that all season long. Um, and Dan

1049
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: Quinn's scheme is completely different than a bunch of players

1050
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,399
Speaker 1: are already saying they love it. So they drafted again.

1051
00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: It was exactly like Jalen Smith, that number twelve, and

1052
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: they signed Keian O'Neil from Quinn's team, uh and gave

1053
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 1: him five million dollars to play that position too. That's

1054
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:09,720
Speaker 1: about That's unfortunate, and I think the disrespect for Tony

1055
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,480
Speaker 1: Romo is unfortunate. I guess maybe you can't retire every

1056
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 1: number and everything, especially the Cowboys, but it does just

1057
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 1: give me one chance to bring up one of my

1058
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Speaker 1: favorite takes, which is somehow, despite being like one of

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Speaker 1: the most famous football players of the last two decades

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00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 1: and on TV every week and incredibly you know, well

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00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: respected as a broadcast, somehow Tony Romo is like incredibly

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00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 1: underrated as a player. I the disrespect I hear, Like

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Speaker 1: Tony Romo was had a Hall of Fame chunk of

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Speaker 1: his career. He didn't go long enough. But it's like people,

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Speaker 1: I really don't think people respect how he was. It

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Speaker 1: was almost like the negative side of being, uh the

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Speaker 1: quarterback of America's team and you had the high profile failures,

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Speaker 1: the injuries of course, the playoff game with the botched snap,

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Speaker 1: and I think that cloud how good he was, Like

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Speaker 1: I not to who cares, but like I thought, Tony

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Speaker 1: Romo his peak was better than Philip Rivers, like or

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Speaker 1: they five seasons that like Matt Ryan for instance, never

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00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 1: had like he there were him at his peak was

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00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 1: just an incredible player. That's I just think there's a

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Speaker 1: bunch of these quarterbacks because you know, I know, it's

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Speaker 1: like you can't talk about if a quarterback wins or loses,

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Speaker 1: Like we love Matthew Stafford's tool set even though they

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Speaker 1: win six games a year. It's like bottom line, I mean,

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Speaker 1: the popular thinking around a quarterback is if Romo had

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Speaker 1: had like two super Bowl runs, even if he had

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Speaker 1: just done what Eli Manning had dug he would be

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00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 1: thought about completely differently. Staffords a good example. It's like,

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Speaker 1: don't bring up and not you didn't Mark, but I've

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Speaker 1: seen it. Don't bring up like Stafford's name when you're

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Speaker 1: talking about Tony Romo. It's like those No but but

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00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:52,479
Speaker 1: Romo doesn't have like Romo just and it's a Cowboys issue.

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00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:54,840
Speaker 1: It's not a Tony Romo thing. But he doesn't have

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00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,360
Speaker 1: those playoff runs. And I just think you're average sports

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Speaker 1: fan like and I don't even look down on their

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00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:03,799
Speaker 1: take to be honest, like Romo was attached to like

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Speaker 1: Dan sends some high concept buffoonery early in his career,

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Speaker 1: and like teams that went south in big games. Um Man,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Man, I don't know. Greg. I think

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Speaker 1: we're in a little different page on Stafford. I think

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Speaker 1: if you put Stafford on those Cowboys teams with those

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Speaker 1: offenses back in the day, would if you know, if

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Speaker 1: you put Tom Brady on the Lions, you know what,

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Speaker 1: A could have soda, But he hasn't had. He just

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Speaker 1: hasn't had remotely a career like like Tony Romo. Did

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Speaker 1: I mean Tony Tony Romo at his best as a

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Speaker 1: top you know three or four, quarterback four or five times,

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Speaker 1: and and a lot of fun to watch too. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't take a look at their numbers. Too interesting

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Speaker 1: comparison there all right. Uh. Finally, in the news little

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Speaker 1: transaction wire tidbit here, the Washington football team released long

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Speaker 1: time starting right tackle Morgan Moses on Thursday. Um and

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Speaker 1: the move saves nearly eight million in salary cap space. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And Moses is a guy who's gonna get work because

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Speaker 1: he's a guy that has started every game for this

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Speaker 1: team since two thousand and fifteen. He just turned thirty.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not the best right tackle in football, Greg, but

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Speaker 1: a guy that is sturdy. Uh. That is good, not great,

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Speaker 1: And there are plenty of bad right tackles in football,

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Speaker 1: so he's gonna get a job pretty quickly. You'd think

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Speaker 1: I was very surprised. I mean, if you trust PFFS numbers,

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00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 1: and I don't think Washington agrees with him. He's one

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00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 1: of the better right tackles in the league for the

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Speaker 1: last last handful of years. I mean, the Jets. There's

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00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 1: a lot of teams that could use the right tackle

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Speaker 1: right Jets a funny georch fans. Fine, I think the

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00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 1: Ravens probably regret giving Alejandra Villainuava eight million dollars. That

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00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: was that was a shocking contract to me that he

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Speaker 1: got that much late into free agency, because if Villainueva

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Speaker 1: gets eight million, Moseses is a better player and some

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Speaker 1: team is probably gonna he's a rare free agent getting

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Speaker 1: cut now that will still get some good money because

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Speaker 1: I think they'll be multiple teams that on him. Well,

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Speaker 1: Washington also released garn Christian their other tackles, so you've

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Speaker 1: got you've got two tackles that weren't there a year ago,

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Speaker 1: Charles Leno and a second rounder. Sam Cosmi is essentially

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Speaker 1: your right tackle right now. So Cosmy, I remember it

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Speaker 1: was like a week ago I was saying, Oh, Washington's

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00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 1: two lines are just so rock solid, and this this

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00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 1: is the Ron Rivera identity, and suddenly you've got at

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Speaker 1: least questions at one of the tackle spots. Well, they

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Speaker 1: must good about the in house options here to make

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Speaker 1: this move, you cause me, I think they must. They

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Speaker 1: must really be high on Cosmi. Speaking of speaking of

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00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: that Cosmi, Sam Cosmism, I'm not going near it. Um.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of wish I had it back when I was

1141
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 1: doing my brief deep dive into teams that made sense

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00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:49,440
Speaker 1: for Julio Jones. I feel like the Charges, if they

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00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: just didn't pick up Mike Williams fifteen million dollar fifty

1144
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: year option last spring, the Julio Jones, they which be

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00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 1: just perfect for them. Keivan Allen and Julio Jones together

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00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 1: and you'd have a ton of cap space they have.

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00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 1: They have a lot still though, when you said that

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00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 1: they have a lot of room that would make sense.

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Speaker 1: I thought that the Moses story was gonna get the

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00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:13,160
Speaker 1: old hands is edit the old hands. It's like we've

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Speaker 1: gone an hour, do we want to finish on Moses.

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00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 1: I think we've brought some good energy, some good analysis

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Speaker 1: to it, so it didn't end up as kind of

1154
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 1: the air coming out of the balloon like I figured.

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00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 1: But I thought it was getting the hands is cut,

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00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: got cutting room floor vibes there for a bit. Potential

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00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 1: had a lot of potential. But then when I did

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Speaker 1: my due diligence ahead of the show, which I always do,

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00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: I saw that this was an accomplished starting right tackle

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Speaker 1: and he is going to be a value add to

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Speaker 1: another team, and that just feels like something we should

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Speaker 1: talk about on this program. We're we're we're information, we're entertainment,

1163
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 1: and we're giving you information now that you can go

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00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 1: back to bars. Uh. If you're you're vaccinated in the

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00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:00,160
Speaker 1: United States, for the most part, you can drop some

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Speaker 1: major Morgan Moses takes and impress all your friends. Absolutely. Finally,

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Speaker 1: in the news, this one via Ricky Hollywood. Who I

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Speaker 1: just I asked her to scour the web all through

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00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: the show, and that's exactly what she does. She's so

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00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 1: plugged in looking for news items. UM the Food Network

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Speaker 1: is paying Guy Fiery eighty million dollars over three years

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00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:23,920
Speaker 1: in the latest deal for the UM Food Guy. What

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00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: would you call him? I guess he's a celebrity chef

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00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:30,760
Speaker 1: type UM at a point six million annually. This is

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00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 1: from Joe Popoliano on Twitter. Fiery would be the fifteenth

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Speaker 1: highest paid player in the NFL, making more than people

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Speaker 1: like Tom Brady, Khalil Macaron Iron Donald and Julio Jones.

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Speaker 1: And let me tell you something before you say, oh,

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00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 1: what a disgrace. That guy is terrible. His food is bad,

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Speaker 1: he's cheesy. My brother Kevin Danger Hands is uh sees

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Speaker 1: Guy Fiery as a hero like he loves that dude.

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Speaker 1: He loves his shows, he loves his energy. Um, Guy Fiery,

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Speaker 1: this is the Kevin d jre Hans is um test

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01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 1: and I put a lot of faith into that. That's

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Speaker 1: all I need to know. I mean, danger Hands is

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01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:11,600
Speaker 1: has you know, a burgeoning singing career based on some

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01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 1: of his social media, but I don't I think it's

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01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:16,760
Speaker 1: Guy fear is an easy target. Um. I like his

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Speaker 1: little Diners, drive Ins and Dives show West his favorite.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's fine. We love to, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: get a little loose, maybe uh eating edible and watch

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Speaker 1: some diners, drive ins and whatever for about hours on

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Speaker 1: end in a row. Right, isn't he worth more than

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01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo to the populace at large? That's like the

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Speaker 1: same price essentially. I mean he's underpaid compared to compared

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01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:47,480
Speaker 1: to like some of these left handed relievers, you know

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Speaker 1: in the Major League Baseball. I'm saying Guy Fieri's earned it.

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Speaker 1: It's a big so we are pro Guy Fiery. It

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Speaker 1: is Connor Or is a huge Fiery fan. Another and

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Speaker 1: by the way, go over all the listeners. Since Mark

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01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:05,440
Speaker 1: mentioned it, Kevin danger Hands has put out a coronavirus

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Speaker 1: ballad called Patient Zero over on YouTube. Check it out,

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01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 1: leave a comment. It's a banger. It's actually very well done. Um.

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Speaker 1: I kind of wish it had come out like a

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01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 1: year earlier, right at that wave of people's paranoia about

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Speaker 1: the lock in thing. But um, he just knocked it

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Speaker 1: out the park. But I can tell you this, that's

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Speaker 1: when I heard the original demo version very early in

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Speaker 1: the pandemic, and he worked on this thing like Freddie

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01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:34,240
Speaker 1: Mercury Works worked on Bohemian Rapsody. He wanted it to

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Speaker 1: be the right sound and the right look for the video.

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Speaker 1: So checking special on YouTube, Uh, and leave a comment

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Speaker 1: if you can. All right, good, good show. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: Steve Wish again v a t N podcast at gmail.

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Speaker 1: Send in your thirty second or less submission, uh for

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Speaker 1: a Steve Weish jingle. He said he was kind of

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Speaker 1: into the Jamaican vibes. Um, so keep that in mind

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Speaker 1: because I'm sure that will wait, uh, potentially heavily, heavily

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Speaker 1: in the competition. But if you go a different path,

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Speaker 1: if you believe, you believe in the quality of your work,

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01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:13,800
Speaker 1: don't be afraid to be different. I mean, look at

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Speaker 1: Queen Bohemian Rhapsody, that that song should not have worked

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Speaker 1: on any level. It was an absurd piece of music,

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01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 1: and now it's a classic of the genre. So just

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01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:24,680
Speaker 1: keep that in mind, you know, be your version of

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Speaker 1: blues traveler. That's what I'd say. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: that means, but I don't quite know what it means either.

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Speaker 1: But does that mean you have to wear a vest

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Speaker 1: with like fifty harmonicas in the pockets? If that's true

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01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 1: to your nature? I mean, I just these singers and

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01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:42,400
Speaker 1: performers out there just better be, you know, authentic, because

1232
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Speaker 1: we can sniff right through anything that's a little phony exactly.

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Speaker 1: Nothing manufactured will be permitted. All right. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: on Thursday with another edition of the Around the NFL podcast.

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Speaker 1: Thank you to everyone for your support. Um until then,

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Speaker 1: this is Dan Hansis signing of Poor Quiet Storm, the

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Speaker 1: Old Boss Steve. Why should Ricky Hollywood behind the virtual

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Speaker 1: glass until Thursday? He's the cough